Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 9985, for Jacob Parks, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Parks, Jacob
S. 9985-
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CONTENTS
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Lira An R. D. Davis 6th April 1841
New York 28. 721
Jacob Parkes
Dutcheffs 6 in the State of New York who was a P te Ser t in the Company commanded by Captain Woodard of the Reg t . commanded by Col. Schenck in the New York for 3 mos Private 8 " 15 dys Sergeant
Enscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 52 Dollars 50 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 th day of May 1834 and sent to A. J. Travers Poughkeepsie
Arrears to the 4th of March '34 $157.50 Pension allowance ending Sept 4 '34 - 26.25
$183.75
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Sam l H. Page Clerk Book 80 Vol. 4 Page 115

Jacob Parks
31.048
adm a 3 mo pri 8 mo 15 ds sergeant
H. Stevens Daugherty
62

State of New York
Dutchess County ss: On this fifteenth day of February in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty four personally appeared before Albro Atkins one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Dutchess County the  De Witt Parks a resident of the Town of Dover in the County of Dutchess and State of New York aged seventy seven years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 That he entered in the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated that he was born in the Town of Pawlings in the County of Dutchess on the sixth day of March 1757 that he has no record of his age that he was living in the Town of Pawlings aforesaid when called into service and has lived there since the Revolutionary war up until the Town in which he now resides was detached from Pawlings and called Dover. That since up until this time he has lived in the Town of Dover; That in the latter part of the fall or fore part of the winter of 1775 he enlisted as a serjeant for seven months voluntarily in Captain Phineas Woodlands Company Mark Williams & Comfort Shaw Lieutenants & Gideon Custerhout Ensign in the Regiment of New York State Troops commanded by Col Schenck that he joined his company at Pawlings and marched to Kingsbridge and joined his Regiment under Col. Schenck and the Troops under General Lee that he remained at Kingsbridge

and the city of New York doing duty as a serjeant in his company and Regiment until the term of seven months for which he enlisted expired & that he then returned home just before the battle on Long Island in 1776 that he was discharged from the service by his captain verbally. That in 1777 he was drafted as a common soldier in the summer in Captain William Pearce company of Militia Benjamin Elliott Lieutenant and in Col. Graham's Regiment for no particular period & went to Fishkill and served one month and was verbally discharged & returned home that in the month of October 1777 he was again drafted as a common soldier in William Pearce company Lieutenant Benjamin Elliott Colonel Graham's Regiment and marched to Hoppers Point below Fishkill on the Hudson River and remained and done duty one month and was verbally discharged by his captain Pearce that in the latter part of the year 1777 or in the fore part of the year 1778 he volunteered as a private soldier in Captain James Martin's company -any colonels name forgotten Gen. Scott and marched to Voluntine's heights and remained there two months & did duty & was then verbally dischar- ged. That in 1777 or 1778 the year he will not say positive he enlisted as a second serjeant in Captain Pearce company and went to Peekskill & joined Colonel Fields Regiment and done duty in said company & Regiment one & a half months and was verbally discharged that he belonged to the Picket guard at Kings Ferry

under Major Britton Paine and the Troops were under General Putnam that he knew in the Service General Putnam General Sec. Gen Scott. Col Schenck. Col Graham & Colonel John Field and other Officers That he has no documentary evidence of his service as a soldier of the Revolution and that he knows no persons other than those whom affidavits are attached by whom he can prove his services as a soldier of the Revolution. That by means of his old age and infirmity he can not safely leave home to attend court. That for the last three months he has been sick & that he is so now & that is the reason of his procuring the attendance of Judge at his house that he is known in his present neighborhood to Leonard Vincent a Magistrate & to Thomas Stevens and to Henry Ward and others who can testify to his character for truth and veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution He hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State
Sworn to & Subscribed Jacob Darks the 15 th Day of February 1834
Albert Dinsmore one of the Judges of the County Court for said County

State of New York Dutchess County, Isaac Jones of the Town of Kent in the County of Dutchess and State of New York being duly sworn says that he is a pensioner of the United States that he is acquainted with Jacob Parks who hath made the above pension application that he knows that the said Jacob Parks enlisted as a sergeant and done duty as such for seven months in the years 1775 & 1776 in Captain Phineas Woodards Company and Col. Schenck Regiment at New York and Kings Bridge that this deponent was in the same service during the term of seven months aforesaid he further says the Troops at New York and Kings Bridge were under the Command of General Lee - further says not
Sworn & subscribed this 15 th day of February 1834
Isaac Jones
Alvin Skinner
State of New York
Dutchess County, Thomas Stephens being duly sworn deposes and says that he is a resident of the Town of Dover in the County of Dutchess of the age Seventy Eight Years, that he is acquainted with Jacob Parks who hath made the above application for a pension that he knows that he knows that said Parks served as a soldier

in the year 1777 at two distinct periods under Captain William Pearce in Col. Graham's Regiment Captain William Pearce in Col. Fields Regiment This deponent was in the same service with him most of the time and has no doubt but that said Parks served as he states - he further says that the character for the of Jacob Parks for truth and veracity is good and his statement is entitled to credit -
Subscribed Sworn this 17 th day of February 1834 Thomas X Stephens mark Albro Albin The Leon Vincent Henry Ward
residing in the Town of Dover in the County of Delaware hereby testify that we are well ac- quainted with Jacob Parks who hath subs- cribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy seven years of age and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and we concur in that opinion - Leon Vincent Henry Ward
Sworn and Subscribed the 15 th Feb. 1834 before me
Albro Albin

I Albro Aikin one of the judges of the court of Common Pleas of the County of Butcher do hereby Certify that in my opinion Jacob Parks who has made the above application for a pension is by reason of sickness and bodily infirmity unable to attend court & therefore have taken his exami- nation personally at his own residence, that I am personally acquainted with said Parks and his character for truth & veracity is good and I further certify that it is reported and believed in the neighborhood where he resides that he has been a soldier of the Revo- lution & I concur in that opinion and I further certify that it satisfactorily appears to me that Isaac Jones, Thomas Stephens , Henry Ward & Leonard Vincent whose affidavits are above subscribed & sworn to before me are credible persons and their statements are all entitled to credit & do hereby declare my opinion after the inves- tigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories presented by the War Depart- ment that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states.
Albro Aikin

STATE OF NEW-YORK, County of Dutchess,
ss. I, HENRY J. TRAPER, Clerk of
the County of Dutchess, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That Albion Smith Esq. before whom the annexed declaration examinations and certificate were made and sworn to and whose name is subscribed to the same was at the time of certifying the same a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas being a Court of record having a Clerk, and Seal.
in and for the County aforesaid, dwelling in the said County, commissioned and sworn and duly authorized to take the same
And Further, That I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Judge and verily believe that the signature to the said proceedings are genuine .
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said county, the eighteenth - day of February A. D. 1834
Henry J. Traper Clerk
...age in the name of the Lord

Rev. Mr.
9985 INVALID.
File No. 9985
Jacob Pankos Sergt. Purnan
Act: June 1 st 1832
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 288
[Arrangement of 1870.]

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Com. of Pensions.
Sir
Please send me the memo to the inquiries of the enclosed letter - so that I may forward them to Mr Campbell - and return me Campbell's letter.
Yrs &c
Richard D. Webb
House of Reps
12 March 1844