Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 28,143, for Garret Peck, New York

SERVICE
New York.
Peck, Garrett
NUMBER _____
S. 28. 143
CONTENTS

New York.
Garret Peck, Private C o Capt Sharp N y regt Revy War U. S. Army.
Inscribed on the New York roll, at $2, and increased to $3 20 / 100 , per month, by law 24 th April 1826. —
Formal pension certificate issued 17 th June 1824, and sent to Isaac McCombs, at Troy, N.Y. —

28143
INVALID.
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File No. 28143
Ser. 143
Pa. N.Y. Regt.
Act: .....
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 319
[Arrangement of 1870.]

State of New-York, Application for a new certificate Tunpkins County ss.
On this 20 th day of May 1824 before me the subscriber a justice of the Peace for the County of New- York personally appeared Garret Peck who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Sharp in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Henry K. Van Rensselaer in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary war, there agree- ably to a law of the United States passed April 22 nd 1786 his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of New-York as an invalid in fact and that he became disabled in the service of the United States in consequence of a wound in his face which occasioned the loss of his eye on the 18 th day of October 1782, that he received a certificate on those facts from Abraham New- brook and Peter Gansevoort Jr. that upon the principles of said act of Congress the said Garret Peck was entitled to the pay of two dol- lars per month which certificate was about fifteen or sixteen years ago de- livered to D. Wilson Jr. Esq. of Troy in said County who made out his papers to send to the pension Office at New-York as it was then said to be necessary to send the orig- inal, that the said certificate was so out as he was informed and believes that he has not seen the said cer- tificate since that time, that a copy of the said certificate was at that time retained, that by means of that copy of said certificate he has
1824 upon Isaac M. Combs Justice Peace

ever since that time obtained his pension half yearly except the last half year and for the last five or six years to the amount of nineteen dollars and twenty cents every six months that he has sent to the pension office in the City of New-York and has received information therefrom that the said certificate is not in that office, and that the same must have been either sent to the City of Washington or is lost, and that he this deponent does not know where the said certificate now is and further says not
Sworn to subscribed this 20th day of May 1824 before me
Garret Peck
Isaac L. Conine Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above Garret Peck is a credible person J. M. Conine Justice Peace
State of New-York, } New-York County } ss
I certify that Isaac McConihe whose name is subscribed to the above deposition was on the 20th day of May 1824 and on the 4th day of June A.D. 1824 a Justice of the Peace of the said County duly commissioned and sworn, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe the signature thereof to be in his proper hand writing. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this 4th day of June 1824.
Isaac L. Conine Deputy Clerk

"We the subscribers Abraham Tenbrook and Peter Gansevoort Jrs. do certify that upon examination in pursuance to the law entitled An Act making provisions for officers, sol- -diers and seamen who have been disabled in the service of the United States passed April the 22 d 1786 we do further find that Garret Peck residing in New York aged twenty seven years but a private in Capt. Sharp's Company in the regiment of militia commanded by Col. Henry H. Van Rensselaer and claiming relief under the act of Congress recited in said law as an Invalid in fact and that he became disabled in the service of the United States in consequence of a wound in his face which occasioned the loss of his eye on the 18 th day of October 1782 and as further certify that upon the principles of said act of Congress the said Garret Peck is entitled to the sum of two Dollars per month from the fourth day of to the fourth day of "
State of New York ss: Garret Peck being duly sworn says that the foregoing is a copy of the document on which he has received his pension as is mentioned in the annexed deposition and further that he is the identical Garret Peck mentioned described therein further says not. — Garret Peck Sworn this 1 st day of June 1824 before me Isaac H. Conkling Justice Peace

Mr Edwards
Hawaii
For journal certificate
Recd 10 June 1824
La Horne
State of Nat Washington City
1824

War Department, Pension Office.
J. C. Calhoun
Isaac M'Conihe, Esq.
Troy,
New York. —

Shore N.Y. April 1824.
Sir
Sir I have only to say that the copy is taken from the copy now in which for several years has been in my possession for which he had recd his pension what the original was or why he had recd $19.20 per year I cannot say Wm J. McConville Hon J. C. Calhoun
New York.
Shore
James McConville Esq.
War Department, Pension Office J. C. Calhoun