Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22674, William Carr, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York.
Carr William
S. 22.674
CONTENTS

Let to L. Jenkins, July 1. 1835.
Let. to L. Jenkins, Apr. 5, 1838.
A. Markland Jan'y 21 1857 - Same April 23, 1857 -
New York 28.784
William Carr
of Ontario Co in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company comm. by Captain Viochus of the Reg't comm by Col Van Schantz the New York line for 15 months 25 days
Inscribed on the Roll of New York the rate of 52 Dollars 77 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 th day of June 1834 and sent to R. M. Bayly Geneva N. York
Arrears to the 4th of March '34 $158.31 Semi-ant. allowance ending Sept. 4 '34 26.38
$184.69
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Saml H. Page Clerk Book 8 Vol. 4 Page 131

6868. In the matter of the Application of William Carr for a Pension
Militia
R. M. Bayly
Rolls of artificers
Wm Carr - enr. ? 17 Feb 77 for the war. — in Roe's comp. g. I must be a different one.
Van Schaick's regt.
Wm Carr enlisted in Capt. Vanhook's comp. 19 March '77 - dis. ? 10 July '77 - joined Jan'y '78 & discharged 19 Mar. '80 - also a different one.
Passed.
At my hand and seal of office, this twenty-eighth day of August A. D. 1832.
Charles Crane

Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in the City and County of Albany, State of New York, William Carr of the Village of Peneoas, County of Ontario, and State aforesaid, who being duly sworn, deposith and saith, That, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For one year and two months, I served as Sergeant, in Col. Van Schaick's N. York Regiment, in the Company of Capt. John Viseker: For over three months I served as a Militiaman, under General Van Rensselaer, in the Company Commanded by Capt. Dennisou: For over four years I served in the Continental Armory, at Albany, as a forger under Philip Van Rensselaer who was Superintendent under Quarter Master Morgan Lewis; during which time I was liable to be called into service in the Army at any time, and was so called out, several times, and did serve; And for such service I claim a Pension.
In answer to the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department
No 1. I was born in the Town of Providence, State of Rhode Island, in the year of our Lord 1750, on the 15 th day of May. No 2. The record of my age I have often seen at my Brother's, in Granville, Washington County, State of New York, but do not know where it now is, nor whether my Brother is living or not. No 3. When called into service I was living in the City of Albany, County of Albany, State of New York; and since the Revolutionary War I lived in Albany, to the best of my memory Ten Years, in Herkimer County Thirty two years, in Peneoas Seven Years, and have now been in Albany over five months - all in the State of New York. No 5. Major Gansevoort Commanded the Regiment to which I was attached, in Canada, after Major Gansevoort returned, Capt. Viseker took the Command. I can name General Montgomery Col. Campbell, Col. Greene Capt. Chesman, Capt. McCracken

Capt. Yates, Capt. (afterwards Genl) Morgan & Capt. Hendricks as Conspicuous Officers in the Army at Paeback. I cannot remember to Number the Regiments
No 6. I received my discharge from Lieutenant Joseph Fitch, at Albany, which has since been lost.
I would further state, that during the time I served in the Conti- nental Army, when Called upon to do Militia duty I served under Capt. Dennison's orders, but the exact time I cannot remember. and likewise under Capt. Lansing of Col. Schuyler's Regiment of Militia.
I further state, that the reason why this Amendment to the former declaration is not made in the County of Out- ario, is. That I left Genesee last November, and it would be very difficult for me return at present, owing to infi- rmity of body, in consequence of Advanced age, That I resided with My Daughter in Genesee, and am now residing with My Son, S. T. Carr, in Albany
Given this 13 th day of April 1833 in open Court, before us, —
William Carr
Gerrit L. Doox Samuel Jenkins Lorenzo Jones { Justices of the Justices Court of the City of Albany }
I certify that the above named William Carr this day appeared in open Court, before the above named Justices, and made oath in due form of Law, to the truth of the facts set forth in the above declaration or affidavit, by him subscribed — In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the said Court I subscribed my name this 13 th day of April 1833 —
John G. Watson Clerk.

State of New York Ontario County ss.
On this Twenty seventh day of August 1832 personally appeared in Open Court, before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas now sitting, William Carr a resident of the Village of Geneva in said County and State aged Eighty two years, who being first duly sworn ac- cording to law, doth on his oath make the following declara- tion, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as here- in stated viz: that in April 1775, at the City of Albany, where he then resided he enlisted in Captain John Schuyler's Company in Colonel Van Schaick's 2 d New York Regiment for six months, was appointed recruiting sergeant at Albany, and continued in the service and performed the duty of Sergeant for fourteen months, until he was discharged at Albany the 23 d day of June 1776 by Lieutenant Joseph Fitch; two or three weeks after his en- listment the company marched to Fort George and then joined the Regiment under command of Lieut. Col. Yates, was sta- tioned at Fort George and Ticonderoga all summer & until Montgomery arrived and took the command of the troops in that quarter, marched with the army to St. Johns under command of Genl. Montgomery, remained at and near that post until it was surrendered to the Ame- rican arms on the 3 d day of November, and then proceeded to La Prairie and Montreal, and by the Three Rivers to Quebec, arrived at Quebec the first of December, was in Montgo- mery's division when he stormed Quebec and was killed on the morning of the 31 st of December 1775; after being re-

16 pulsed in that attack He retired with the Army to a place Three miles below Quebec where they continued during the Winter, was Stationed on the Island of Orleans during a part of May under command of Colonel Warner where he performed the duty of the Commissary who was sick; in the latter part of May was sent with a party of about Twenty under command of Lieut. Pitch to St. Johns for the purpose of securing the Boats and after accomplishing that object, they were ordered and made the best of their way to Albany when they soon arrived and was discharged as before stated on the 23 rd day of June 1776 after Fourteen Months service as a Ser- geant; In the year 1777 in the Spring he was ordered out with the Militia under command of Genl. Henry Van Rens- selaer, marched to the lines at Pownall, Lansingburgh to assist in taking a party of One Hundred and Eighty British and Tories commanded by Palmatier, was then in service about Three Weeks, and was ordered out under the direction of the Committee of Safety of which John Barday was chair- man, was the same year on duty as a guard to protect the City of Albany from the British and Tories, as it was appre- hended it would be fired, was in paid service not less than One Month — That in 1780 the year that Colonel Brown was killed at Stony Arabia, in the fall of the year about October he was ordered out with the Militia in Captain Lansing Company, in Col. Schuyler's Regiment under command of General Robert Van Rensselaer of Claverick, went up the Mohawk to Ellis Flats; there had an en- gagement with the Indians and British under Sir John John- ston, after the engagement went in pursuit of them through the Woods towards Unadilla, and was gone from camp be- tween three and four days, returned to Albany and there dismissed, was in the service between Twenty and thirty days, shortly afterwards same fall was 14

ordered out in the same company, went to the North to Saratoga, and near to Fort Edward, remained in service until after the British returned across Lake Champlain, was dismissed at Albany, after being in service about three weeks: That in 1777 a short time previous to Burgoyne's Surrender he went into the continental Army at Albany at the request of Quarter Master General Morgan Lewis, as a forger and continued in that service until the establishment was broken up, with the exception of the Militia service above stated: That he has no documentary evidence of his services and knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his services. That in 1818 he received an affidavit from Captain Vischer and forwarded to the War Department and afterwards one from Mr. Wendel both of which are lost, and since then both Vischer and Wendel have died.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. in open Court
William Carr
We, Eliakim Phelps a clergyman residing in Geneva Ontario County and James M. Tilden residing in the same place hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with William Carr who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be eighty two years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. in open Court
Eliakim Phelps J. M. Tilden

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Elisha Phelps — who has signed the preceding certificate resides in the village of Geneva, and is a Clergyman, and that James M. Tillman who has also signed the same is a resident in the said village — and are both credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, Charles Crane -- Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of William Carr for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office, this twenty-eighth day of August A. D. 1832.
Charles Crane
5 Com. K. 9.

App d to memo d of Pensions William Carr 84 1832 ad
A. H. Markland

Whereas William Carr formerly of the City of Albany in the State of New York now deceased was a Pensioner of the United States and died about Eighteen years ago leaving no widow but leaving two children of whom the undersigned Mary Tillman was one and is now the only surviving And whereas it is understood that the said William Carr was entitled to a larger annual allowance of pension than he received in his life time and that the said Mary Tillman and the legal representatives of the other child of said William Carr are entitled to any increase of pension to which her said Father was entitled at the time of his decease which occurred about eighteen years ago Now therefore I the said Mary Tillman (above named) do hereby constitute and appoint Lemuel Jenkins of the City of Albany in the State of New York and A. H. Markland of the City of Washington D.C. or either of them my true and lawful attorneys for me and in my name and behalf to prosecute the said claim for an increase of said William Carr's pension before the proper Department of the United States and obtain a certificate therefor hereby authorizing them or either of them to do such acts and things in my name as may be legal and proper in the prosecution of said claim and hereby ratifying and confirming whatever they may lawfully do in the premises. Witness my hand and seal this Eleventh day of December A.D. 1856 This power of attorney to be irrevocable for two years from date Sealed and delivered in the presence of Elisha Chase Mary Tillman
William Tillman

State of Michigan } County of Wayne Ss On this Eleventh day of December A.D. 1856 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid appeared Mary Tillman to me well known and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be her act and deed And I certify that I have no interest whatever in the claim referred to in said Power and am not concerned in its prosecution
Elisha Chase
Justice of the Peace Wayne County Mich-
State of Michigan } County of Wayne Ss Mary Tillman of the City of Detroit being duly sworn deposes that the facts stated in the preamble to the above Power of Attorney executed by her are true according to the best of her knowledge information and belief Given to and subscribed this 11 th day of December 1856
Mary Tillman
before me
Elisha Chase
Justice of the Peace
Wayne County Mich-

STATE OF MICHIGAN, } COUNTY OF WAYNE.
ss. I. E. HAWLEY, JR., Clerk of said County of Wayne,
DO HEREBY CERTIFY, that
Elisha  John Justice of the Peace duly Elected
whose name is subscribed
to the Certificate or proof of acknowledgment of the annexed Instrument, and therein written, was, at the time of taking such
in and for said County,
and qualified, and duly authorized to take the
same: AND FURTHER, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of such
and verily believe that the signature to the
said Certificate or proof of acknowledgment is genuine: I FURTHER CERTIFY, that
said Instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the Laws of this
State.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of
said County, at Detroit, this Twelfth day of December A. D. 185 6
E. Hawley Jr. Clerk P. J. Patchin Secy Clerk.

Revolutions
22 674 INVALID.
File No. 22,674
William Carr
Pris Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32 nd
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 61
[Arrangement of 1870.]

New York
Revo. 1!
W m Carr Suspended
let. to R m Bayley
8 Aug t 1833.
let to Misses Carr
& Frederburgh May 7.
1834 let to do May 29 1834.
Declaration of 1819 enclosed
A. G. Y. Lansing see let May 29.
Act. 7 June 32

NY. June 30.
James J. Schuch Commissaire of Police New Department City of Washington
RECEIVED

Albany June 27 th 1835.
Clarence L. Edwards Esquire Commissioner of Pensions,
Sir, I have received your letter of the 20 th inst. in reply to mine respecting the application of William Carr for an increase of his pension. On reading Mr. Carr your letter, & conversing with him, it appears to me there must be some mistake in regard to his case - Carr states that he enlisted in Capt. Visscher's Company for 8 months, but actually served about 14 months - If this be true, then Hogeboom's affidavits must be substantially correct, though he is doubtless mistaken as to the period of his enlistment - You state that his affidavit refers to 12 months service &c. "which has never been apated before by the Claimant" - Whether you refer to the rank in which he served, or the period, or to the fact of his having served at all in Visscher's Company, does not distinctly appear - Again - You mention that "the Claimant by his own showing, reached 14 years in that year" - Whether the word "years" is written by mistake for months , or you refer to Carr's age at that time, I am unable to determine - If the latter, there must be a mistake as to the fact, because he informs me he was born in the year 1750, which would make him 25 years old in 1775 - Mr. Carr also informs me that though

He served as a Sergeant in Visscher's Company, he does not claim to have received an appointment by warrant , as such - He also states that he never served in the Orange County Militia & is confident he never made any such claim -
Allow me to ask the favor of an explanation in regard to the expressions in your letter, above referred to, and also respecting the supposed claim for services rendered in the Orange County Militia - From Carr's statements I am induced to believe there must be some mistake as to the person referred to in your letter - The William Carr for whom I act, is on the Books of the Albany Agency, at the rate of $52 77 / 100 per annum - He was formerly a resident of Ontario County, but now resides in this City -
I am, Sir, with great respect
Your obed. Servt.
General Jen Kings.

12.23 23 12.23 1-20 21 15.25
25 Aug 18 June
explanatory aff. Wm Carr 184
100 22
James S. Church Esquire
Commissioner of Patents War Department. Washington
FREE

Geneva Ontario County N.Y. Nov. 16. 1833
Sir
I herewith enclose you William Gann's affidavit explanatory of his declaration & am hope it will meet a favourable decision
Respectfully
Your Affec. Servt RMR Bayly
J. H. Edwards Esqre

State of New York } Albany Co. } ss
Be it known That before me Philip Van Ingen a Notary Public in the County aforesaid personally appeared Benjamin Mileon and Joseph Wilson of said County and made oath in due form of law, that they are well ac- -quainted with William Carr of Geneva, in the County of Ontario in the State aforesaid, and know that said Carr (William Carr) was employed in the United States Armory in the City of Albany during the Revolutionary War from the year 1776 or 1777 and continued in said employment for some years and that they were in the habit of seeing said William Carr going to and returning from his work, being in the employment of the United States during that time. — That they always understood and are perfectly satisfied that the said William Carr was a soldier in the said Revolutionary War previous to his being in the armory and was with the army at Quebec.
In witness whereof I the said Notary have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office this fourteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred & thirty one P. Van Ingen Notary Public

State of New York Albany County - § 8. Be it known that on this 4 th day of June 1835 before the Subscriber a Commission of Deeds the of said County, came John Hoogeboom of Greenbush in the County of Rensselaer, who being only then, according to law, deposed as follows, to wit - I am seventy seven years of age & upwards - I am well acquainted with William Carr who is now present - I knew him during the Revolutionary War - He formerly resided in Geneva, Onondaga County, but now resides in Albany - I was in the service of the United States with said Carr, in the years 1775 & 1776. We both belonged to the Company commanded by Captain John Vischer, in Col. Gosen Van Schaick's Regiment - our Company officers besides Capt. Vischer, were 1 st Lieutenant Benjamin Evans, 2 d Lieut. Joseph Fitch & Guy Young Ensign - We were on duty at Fort George - From there we went to Tienderga, to Lake au Claire, to St. Johns, and we were both present at the siege of St. Johns, under Genl. Montgomery - From St. Johns we march with our Company & Regiment to Montreal, and from there to Quebec, still under the command of Genl. Montgomery. We arrived at Quebec about some time in the month of No- -vember 1775 - and we were with the Army, doing duty in said Company at the time Genl. Montgomery was killed, which was on the last day of December 1775 - After his death Genl. Arnold took the command, until some time in March follow- -ing, when Genl. Wooster arrived and took the command of the American Army - The said Carr & myself served a year & upwards in the same Company - I served as a private & he served as a Sergeant, during the whole or a greater part of the time, and was recognized by the Commissioned officers of the Company as a Sergeant - According to the best of my recollection & belief, the said Carr served in the capacity of

a Sergeant in said Company, during the time I was with him in said Company, which was a year & upwards as near as I can now recollect - I do not recollect of his serving as a private during that time - we returned to this State in the month of May 1776 - John Hogeboom I am and subscribed this 4 th day of June 1835 Samuel Jenkins Com t of Deeds -
I Certify that the above named John Hogeboom is a credible Witness - Albany June 4. 1835 - L. Jenkins Com t of Deeds -
State of New York Albany County ss } I Gerard A. Ten Eyck clerk of the said county do hereby certify that Samuel Jenkins before whom the preceding affidavit was sub- scribed and sworn was on the day of the date of the same one of the commissioners of Deeds for in and for the said county. And that his signature to the said affidavit and the certificate of the cred- ibility of the Witness is genuine -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said county this 16 th day of June 1835.
G. A. Ten Eyck Clerk

Wm Carr
Hon
James L Edwards
Commissioner of Revenue New Department Washington D.C.
Hon G. G. Loring

James L Edwards Esq
My Dear Sir
I return you the deposition of William Cassa with a certificate of Captain Vipshur's credibility as your request - If I am not much mistaken Captain Vipshur died many years since.
I am very respectfully Your obed Serv t
J. W. Lanning
Washington 23 May 1834

Feb
James L. Edwards Esq. Commission of Pensions War Department Washington City
William Carr

Albany June 10 th 1834
James J. Edwards Esqr.
Dear Sir — On the receipt of your last we wrote to Mr Carr stating the objections to his receiving a Pension as Sergeant, as conveyed in your favor to us; — and he now wishes us to say, as his agent, that for want of proper testimony he cannot, nor does not, expect a Pension in any other capacity but as a Private Soldier. — In regard to the time of his enlistment, he can only state from memory, — and that is now failing him fast — Should the testimony already presented be deemed by you sufficient to entitle to the pay of a private Soldier, please write us
We remain Your
Oblt. Servants
James J. Edwards Esqr.
Carr & Vandenberg

Recd proof (On Cart.)
in name of Edwards Esq.
FREE
Pension Office
Washington City.

Dr. Lief.
Little Falls - Fulton Co. 24 th Nov. 1835
Inverness you will receive in addition to my other papers the aff d of Joseph & Benjamin Wilson after an examination of my papers be pleased to direct to me at the Drugist Store of Lewis & Friedenburgh State Street Albany.
Yours &c
William Carr
J. L. Edwards Esq. }

Apr. 5
James J. [unclear] [unclear] Commissary General Quarters City of Washington.

Meets. & Garrison Banks Albany March 31. 1838.
Sir,
Mr. William Carr of this City, a Pensioner under the act of June 7. 1832, wishes me to write to you to inquire whether there are any papers on file in your Office, respecting his claim for a pension under the act of March 18. 1818. - He states that such papers were forwarded to you in the year 1818, by James Van Duzee Esq. and that subsequently they were in the hands of the Hon.ble. Garick H. Lansing - but for what purpose he does not fully explain -
He requests as a particular favor that you will inform me what you may know respecting these papers, & whether there was any action upon a disposition made of them in your Office - I am, Sir,
With great respect
Yr. ob. Servt. J. Jenkins
James L. Edwards Esq. Comt. of Pensions

Wm Carr My friend
A. H. Mackland

Washington City March 26 1857
Hon George Belknap Comm d of Pensions
In reply to your letter of the 21 st Jany 1857, I have to say that as attorny for the daughter of William Roe of NY 1852 ad, I claim an increase of the pension allowed him on the ground of his having served as an Artillerist during the war of the revolution. You will find by reference to the rolls in your office that William Roe entered as an artillerist in Feb 1777 in Roe's Company. You will also find that in a short time after you will find that he (Roe) is omitted as a Captain and that a man Shepherd appears to have been promoted to the grade of Capt. You will also find that there was in his Company a man named William Shepherd, the rolls therefore confirm the statement of McLean as to his service as an Art llry , he is identified as the man by the unimpeached testimony of Benj & Joseph Wilson who made their affidavits more than a year before the passage of the act of 1832, his allegations are sustained by record & parole. I ask an allowance
Yours truly A. W. Markland

June 19.
Mr.
James L. Edwards Esq. Commissaire of Customs New Bedford City of Washington
Very truly

Albany June 18 th 1835.
James L. Edwards Esq r , Commissioner of Pensions,
Sir, At the request of Mr. William Carr, a Pensioner under the act of June 7. 1832, I enclose an affidavit of John Hoyeborn, stating the fact that Carr served in the same Company with himself for more than one year. Mr. Carr's object is to obtain an increase of his pension on the ground of his services as a noncommissioned Officer. It is hoped the evidence adduced will be deemed sufficient to entitle him to it, altho' he is unable to prove that he held a Warrant as Sergeant in the Company in which he served. Be pleased to communicate to me the result of his application.
I am, Sir, With great respect
Your ob td Serv t . Lemuel Jenkins.

add l evidence for Wm Carr.
New York.
May. 26. 1834.
Miss J. G. Colbury Esq. Commission of Honoring New Department Washington

Albany May 23 d 1834
James L. Edwards Esq.
Dr. Sir - Immediately on the receipt of your favor of the 8 th inst. we wrote to William Carr, at Geneva, and made known to him the difficulties existing in regard to his application at the Pension office, and how we received the within additional testimony, which we hasten to forward to you. - We would observe, that if he has made any mistakes in regard to dates, we have not the least doubt but they are made from loss of memory in consequence of extreme age. - If you think proper, we can procure any amount of testimony in favor of his veracity, and Moral Standing in society, in this place, as well as in Geneva.
We remain, Sir, Yours Obt & Humb le Servts.
Carr & Vandenburg
James L. Edwards Esq.

State of New York } Ontario County ss.
Before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace of said County personally appeared William Carr, of the village of Geneva in said County and made Oath in due form of Law, that in 1777 early in the Spring, in March or April, at the request of Quarter Master Genl Morgan Lewis, he went to work in the Continental Armory at Albany, and continued there until the establishment was broken up, which was about five years; that during that time he was considered as not being subject to Militia duty, except under a general alarm, when all the workmen had to turn out, and when he performed the several tours of duty as set forth in his former declaration; That the armory was under the superintendence of Philip Van Rensselaer as deputy Quarter Master under Genl. Lewis, and that one William Shepherd an Englishman, the principal or head workman, and had immediate charge of the workmen; and that during the time he was there a part of the workmen were sent to West Point in charge of Abraham B. Lansing; That he entered on said service to remain as long as the Armory continued in operation, as a private workman, and was employed with one other hand in forging.
William Carr

State of New York Ontario County ss.
On this nineteenth day of Novem- ber 1833, personally appeared William Gare to me well known, who subscribed and made Oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration —
Eurotas Hastings, J.P.
State of New York Ontario County ss. }
I certify that Eurotas Hastings, whose name is subscribed to the above certificate, was, at the date thereof, a justice of the Peace in and for said county; and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe the said signature to be his proper act and deed.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and the seal of said County at my Office in Canandaigua, this fourteenth day of November A. D. 1833.
F. J. B. Crome, Def. Clerk, of said County.

I William Carr of the Town of Herkimer in the County of Herkimer and State of New York, Do according to the Act of the Congress of the United States of America entitled, "An act to provide for Certain Persons engaged in the Land Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," make the following declaration under Oath, that is to say; I do solemnly declare, that I am a Resident Citizen of the United States, to wit, in the Town, County & State aforesaid; & that by reason of my reduced Circumstances in life, I am in need of Assistance from my Country for Support. — I do further declare, that I was a private in the War of the Revolution, & that I served as such in the said War of the Revolution against the Common Enemy. — That I belonged to the Company Commanded by Captain John Vipscher in Colonel Goose Van Schaick's Regiment and in the line of the State of New York — And I do further declare, that I entered the Service in the Month of April in the year One thousand Seven hundred & Seventy five, and served in said Company for one year and two months. — That I was with the Army under General Montgomery when he fell before the walls of Quebec, and that I was discharged from the Service at the expiration of my Enlistment — And I do further declare that I hereby Relinquish all Claim to every and any pension heretofore allowed me by the Laws of the United States, or of any individual State. Witness my hand this 20 July 1818. —
Witness-
Gerret M. Lansing
William Carr
I John Vipscher, the Person mentioned in the foregoing declaration of William Carr, do solemnly swear & declare that the facts stated in the said foregoing declaration, relating to the enlistment and service of the said William Carr in the Company Commanded by me in the late Revolutionary War against the Common Enemy, are true — and I further declare, that the said William Carr was a brave & faithful soldier. —
Sworn & subscribed this 20 th July 1818. before me Gerret M. Lansing Judge Court place Albany County
John Vipscher
State of New York County of Albany
Be it remembered, that on the twentieth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred & Eighteen, at the City of Albany in the County of Albany & State of New York, before me Gerret M. Lansing Esquire one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Albany, duly appointed, qualified & sworn (the same Court being one of the Courts of Record of the said State) personally came & appeared the before named Applicant William Carr who resides in the Town, County & State mentioned in the above declaration, & in my presence subscribed the same declaration; and also then & there, he was duly sworn to the truth of the facts contained & set forth in the said declaration; And it appearing to my satisfaction as well from the said declaration under Oath as from the foregoing Affidavit of John Vipscher, taken before me, and such other evidence as was in the power of the said applicant to produce, that the said applicant served in the Revolutionary War as aforesaid against the Common Enemy, and that the declaration aforesaid under Oath of the said applicant is in all other respects true, and that he is in need of Assistance from his Country for Support, I do therefore Certify & transmit the testimony

testimony in the Case, and the proceedings had thereon to the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War (according to the requisitions of the act of Congress in that Case made. —
Given under my hand & seal at the City of Albany in the State of New York this 20 th July 1818. —
Gerrit Manning
George Merchant, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Albany, Do hereby Certify, that Gerrit Manning is one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Albany, duly appointed qualified and sworn; And that his signature to the foregoing Certificate is of his own proper hand writing. —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name, and Affixed the seal of the said Court of Common Pleas of the said County, at the City of Albany the 21 st July 1818.
George Merchant Clerk
William Carr N. York.
did not serve nine months under one period of enlistment. The claim is therefore rejected.
John Visscher the Witness above named was at the time of the taking his deposition known to me as a credible Witness — and this certificate is made upon a reference to me from the War Department with that object. — Washington 29 th May 1854
Gerrit Manning

New York Oct. 2 o
11 Jany. 1839.
Hon. Lewis Cass Secretary of War Pension Office Washington D.C.

Albany Jan 4. 4. 1834
Sir.
The affidavit in favor of Mr. Prime, which was improperly attached has been taken off. The applicants services previous to the receipt of his commission in arms entitle him only to the pay of a sergeant. Be it so, Be pleased to put him on the Role for what he is entitled to and transmit me the Certificate at this place, instead of Springfield.
Respectfully Yours
William Baker
Hon Secy of War Dec 4. 1834

State of New York } Gs: Ontario County }
William Carr of Geneva in the County of Ontario and State of New York being duly sworn deposes and says that he is an applicant for a pension from the United States for services rendered in the Revolutionary War as a continental soldier - that his first application for such pension was made under the advice & direction of James Van Ingen Esquire of the City of Albany counsellor at law and that said Van Ingen made out for this deponent the papers by which such application was made; that after said Van Ingen had prepared the said papers this deponent on reading or on hearing them read over discovered that they alleged that this deponent had served fourteen months in the years seventeen hundred & seventy five & seventeen hundred and seventy six in Col. Van Schaicks regiment as a private , and this deponent thereupon mentioned to said Van Ingen that he this deponent had served during that period as a sergeant and not as a private; and that said Van Ingen then replied to this deponent that the Act of Congress under which the application was made mentioned referred to two classes of persons only to wit commissioned officers and privates, and that under that act, non commissioned officers and privates were so far as their applications for pensions were concerned one and the same thing; and this deponent in consequence of the advice of said Van Ingen that he this deponent was correctly described in such application as a private, consented to let the papers remain unaltered in this respect: And this deponent further says that when this deponent made his second application, Richard M. Bayley of Geneva aforesaid under whose advice and direction the application was made and who drafted & prepared the papers therefor advised this deponent that it was proper for him to state that the services aforesaid were rendered by him as a sergeant if the fact was so, and in consequence thereof the papers were so expressed. And this deponent further says that during the fourteen months above mentioned

he did serve as a sergeant in Captain John Vischer's company in Colonel Van Schaick's Regiment; that this deponent never had any warrant as a sergeant but is listed as such and acted as such during the period aforesaid that in seventeen hundred & seventy five this deponent accompanied the regiment aforesaid in the expedition against Quebec under the command of General Montgomery and that on the evening of the arrival of the army upon the plains of Abraham this deponent acting as sergeant posted the first picket guard of the American Army upon those plains.
And this deponent further says that the time during which this deponent was employed in the armory at Albany as stated in his former application formed no part of the period during which this deponent claims to have served in the militia as stated in his former application - that it is in the fall of 1776 and after this deponent had returned from Quebec he was ordered out as a militia man in Hendrick Van Rensselaer's Brigade sent on an expedition into the woods between Albany & Hoosick & was gone about twenty days. That in 1777 this deponent went into the Continental Armory at Albany and remained there till the fall of 1780: and this deponent further says that at the time when he made his former application he was under the impression that he remained in said armory until 1782 but that since upon further reflection and comparison of the period when he left the armory with the date of some other events he believes that he was mistaken in saying that he remained there until 1782 and believes that he left the armory in 1780 as above stated. And this deponent further says that after he left the armory as above set forth and as this deponent believes in the fall of 1780, this deponent was ordered out as a militia man in William Hunt's company and accompanied the expedition under the command of Major General Robert Van Rensselaer of Claverick up the Mohawk river against the British & Indians under Sir John Johnston.

upon which expedition was gone twenty days or upwards that after this deponent returned from the expedition last mentioned and as this deponent believes in the same fall he was ordered out as a militia man and was sent in Captain Jacob Lantings Company in Colonel Cuyler Regiment upon the expedition to Saratoga Fort Miller and Fort Edward at the time of the expected attack by the British upon Fort Edward; and that this deponent was absent on such expedition about twenty days as near as he can recollect.
And this deponent further says that he has no means of proving to the commissioners of pensions by documents that the armory at Albany in which he served as aforesaid was a continental establishment or that the persons there employed as armouers were a continental corps, but he says that many of the persons employed there were continental soldiers and that he has been often informed and believes that orders had been given by the commander in chief of the continental army to take from the ranks of the army any soldier competent to serve in said armory, for that duty; that the persons employed there and this deponent among the rest drew rations from the Quarter Master Generals department of the northern division of the continental army, by the orders and under the direction as this deponent believes of Deputy Quarter Master General Morgan Lewis, and in the same manner as every soldier of the continental army. And this deponent further says that the arms repaired and manufactured at said armory were for the use of the continental army and this deponent at that time understood and believed and now believes that the said armory was carried on under and by the authority of Congress or of the commander in chief of the continental army and that it formed a part of the military establishment of the continental Congress.
Subscribed & sworn before me 17 th May 1834
William Carr
Eurotas Hastings J.P.
On this 17 th day of May 1834 William Carr to me per-

sonally known and known to me to be the person referred to in who signed the foregoing affidavit, appeared before me and subscribed the said affidavit and made oath that the facts therein stated were true to the best of his knowledge & belief: And I further certify that I am well acquainted with the said William Scott and believe him to be a man of good moral character and a man of truth and veracity.
Eurotas Hastings Jr.
State of New-York, Ontario County ss.
I, Charles Crane, Clerk of said County, hereby certify that Eurotas Hastings whose name is subscribed to the preceding certificates; was at the date thereof a Justice of the peace in and for the said County, and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe the said signatures to be his proper act and deed.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this nineteenth day of May A.D. 1834.
Charles Crane.