Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W.16203, John Buys, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
New York.
Dugys, John Deah
Mr 16203.
CONTENTS

New York - 1865.
Leach Brey
widow of John Brey who died on the 3 d April 1821 of Westchester in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Cutting of the Reg't commanded by Col. [unintelligible] in the New York line for 20 men in the
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 66 Dollars 66 Cents, per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 day of March 1838, and sent to Hon. A. [unintelligible] Pension
Amount to the 4 th of [unintelligible] - $ 466.62 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 th [unintelligible] 33.33
499.95
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the
Recorded by R. [unintelligible] Clerk Book A - Vol. 2 Page 104

John Paulding
In the matter of the application of Leah Burns under act of July 4 th 1836

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the third section of the act of Congress of the fourth of July 1836
State of New York County of Westchester ss
On this fourteenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven personally appeared before the undersigned Aaron Tarte one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County (the said Court being a Court of record) Leah Buys a resident of the town of Greenburgh in the said County aged eighty six years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4. 1836
That she is the widow of John Buys who was a sergeant in the war of the revolution and served as such in the militia of the said County: that she can state of her own knowledge that the said John Buys was a good deal in the service of the United States during the said war but she cannot set forth the particulars of said service further than that to the best of her information and belief the said John Buys served in Captain William Dutcher's company at Fort Independence and in the companies of Capt. Sylvester Hecker and Capt. Daniel Williams on the lines in said County, but for the particulars of said service and the proof thereof she refers to the affidavits hereto annexed.

She further declares that she was married to the said John Buys in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy in what month she does not now recollect, at the town of Greenburgh in said County — by the Reverend Mr Pitzma — and that her husband the aforesaid John Buys died on ————— the third ————— day of April ————— in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty one and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Sworn to and subscribed this 14 th day of December 1837 before me
The word "thirty one" interlined before sworn to —
Aaron York, one of the Judges of the County Court.
Leah her X Buys mark
I do hereby certify that I am of the opinion that the above named Leah Buys cannot from bodily infirmity attend a court of record in this county to make her declaration in open court Dated December 14 th 1837.
Aaron York one of the Judges of the County Court.

State of New York County of Westchester ss. Samuel Youngs of the town of Greenburgh in said County being duly sworn on his oath saith that in the summer of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy five he became acquainted with John Buys who was then a sergeant in Captain William Dutcher's uniform company of militia of the said County; that said Dutcher's Company was enlisted from a Regiment of militia then commanded by Colonel Joseph Drake afterwards commanded by Lieutenant Col James Hammond: that the said Dutcher's company was raised by an order from the provincial Congress but under the direction of the Committee of safety of said County: that the said Deponent well recollects that the said Company was called out and continued three weeks in service in disarming the Tories in said County in the early part of the summer of the year seventeen hundred and seventy five: that in the early part of the summer of the year seventeen hundred and seventy six the said Captain Dutcher's company was ordered to march to Fort Independence in the said County, that the Deponent saw the said John Buys several times during that summer while he was stationed at Fort Independence: that a few days before the battle at White Plain in the fall of the year seventeen hundred and seventy six the Deponent was at the quar- ters of the said Captain Dutcher and then saw the said John Buys still in the service in said Compa- ny: that he afterwards saw him in said Company while it was on its march from White Plains to North- Castle and also while at Peekskill in the fall of the same year the day before the time he enlisted for expired that the period for which he enlisted for was he thinks five months or six months

And the Deponent further saith that in the fall of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six — by an order of the Committee of safety of said County a company of about one hundred men was raised for actual service and put under the command of Captain Gilbert Acker and stationed on the lines in said County, at several military posts established for the defence of the Country, that the said John Buys was belonged to the said company raised as aforesaid and served in the same for the term of six months commencing in the month of November one thousand seven hundred and seventy six and ending in the month of May one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven: that about two hundred men was then raised from the militia Regiments in the said County for the term of three months and put under the command of the said Lieut Colonel James Hammond and Major Strong who established their head quarters at the house of Joseph Youngs the father of this Deponent, that the said Capt Gilbert Acker commanded the company raised in the vicinity of Larystown in said County, that the said John Buys was a sergeant in said company and served out said term of three months, that at the expiration of that term another regiment of Levies was raised from the Counties of Dutchess and Westchester consisting of about four or five hundred men for the term of four months and put under the command of Col Suddington and the said Lieut Col James Hammond who established their head quarters at the house of the said Joseph Youngs, that the said Captain Gilbert Acker again commanded the company raised from said Hammonds Regiment and that the said John Buys was again a sergeant in that company and served and served out the whole of that term: that the term of service of the said Suddingtons Regiment expired

Some time in the month of November 1777. when the american lines in said County was left wholly to be defended by the militia of said Hammonds Regiment; that about one half of that Regiment was again called into the service and put under the command of the militia officers of said Regiment: that the said John Buys was in that service for the period of six months commencing in the month of November 1777 and ending in the month of May 1778, when another Regiment of levies was raised from the Counties of Westchester and Dutchess for the term of nine months and put under the Command of Col Morris Graham who in the latter part of April or the first of May 1778 established his head quarters at the house of said Youngs, that the said Captain Gilbert Becker again Commanded the company raised from said Hammonds Regiment as a part of said Levies and that the said John Buys was again a sergeant in said Becker company and served as such during that term. And the Deponent further saith that the said John Buys again entered the said service some time in the month of May 1779 in the company of militia Commanded by George Bomb in the Regiment Commanded by Lieutenant Colonel James Hammond and continued in said service on the lines in said County until the expiration of one year then next ensuing and was then honorably discharged that he served during that term as a sergeant. And the Deponent further saith that the name of the said John Buys was sometime spelted Boyce and some times Buys but he cannot state by which he was enrolled. And the Deponent further saith that the said John Buys was married to the Leah now his widow in the year seventeen hundred and seventy according to the record of the Dutch Church and that the said John Buys died several years

ago, and that the said Leach has remained a widow ever since that period.
Sworn to & subscribed
this 22 nd day of January
1838 before me
Aaron Tarko
one of the Justices of the County of West. Chester
Sam l Youngs
Mr. Brey

State of New York Westchester County as Abraham Requa of the Town of York Town in the said County being duly sworn saith that at the commencement of the Revolutionary War he lived with his Father about two Miles Northwardly from Tarry Town on the east Side of Hudsons River in said County that in the beginning of the year 1776 he enlisted in an Independent Company commanded by Capt William Butcher. That John Brigs was then a Sergeant in said Company that in the be- ginning of the Summer of 1776 the said Company was Marched to Fort Independence near Kings Bridge in the said County and was there employed in building that Fort That the said Capt Butchers Company continued on that Station until a few days before the Battle at the White Plains when that Fort was evacuated and the said Company being then annexed to Col Thomas's Reg t Marched with with that Reg t to the White Plains That after that they were Marched to North Castle and from thence to Peks Kill That a short time after their arrival at Peks Kill the time for which the said Butchers Company had enlisted expired and the said Company was discharged. That the Deponent cannot state with certainty the time of that Ser- vice but to the best of his knowledge it was Six months That after Gen l Washington with his Army had crossed the Hudson  North River and marched into New Jersey The Weis- Inhabitants who resided in the Neighborhood of Tarry Town and the house of Joseph Youngs were left to defend themselves against the plundering parties of the British Refugees That about one hundred men of Col Mannands Reg t of Militia who resided in that Neighborhood were ordered out and put under the command of Capt Sylvester Acker and Stati- oned at the House of Peter and Cornelius Van Arsdall on the Saw Mill River Road about about fourteen Miles North of Fort Independence then occupied by British Troops That John Brigs was a Sergeant in that Company and continued to serve as a Sergeant in said Company from sometime in the Month of November 1776 until about the first of May 1777 That about two hundred Men were then raised from the Militia of said County for the term of three months and put under the command of the said Col Mannands and Major Strong That the said Capt Acker command the Company raised in the Neighborhood of Tarry Town That the said John Brigs was a Sergeant in said Acker's Company and served the said three months That immedia- ately after the expiration of that term another Regiment of Service were raised from the Counties of Dutches and Westchester consisting of about four or five hundred Men for the term of four  three months and put under the command of Col Seddington and the said Col Mannands That the said Capt Acker again commanded a Company in that Regiment and in the Vicinity of Tarry Town That the said John Brigs was a Sergeant in said Acker's Company and served the said four months as such That said Seddington held his head quarters at the house of the said Joseph Youngs. That the American lines had previously been estab- lished from Tarry Town easterly the way of the house of said Joseph Youngs to the Cannon's cut line That said Col Seddington continued his head quarters at the house of the said Joseph Youngs until about the fifth day of October 1777 when about one thou- sand British Troops on their way to attack Fort Montgomery landed at Tarry Town and moved from thence to the quarters of Col Seddington at the house of the said

Joseph Youngs Suddington situated in the northern part of said County of West Chester and continued about Bromfield until after the British Troops evacuated Fort Moutgomery that he then again took possession of his former quar- ters at the house of the said Joseph Youngs and continued there until the time for which his men were enlisted expired. When a part of the said Col d Hammonds Reg t was again ordered out and put under the command of the officers of said Hammonds Regiment and Stationed on the said American lines until some time in the Month of May 1778 that the said John Bloys and the Defendant were in that Ser- vice and did duty as a Sergeant. When a Reg t of Levies arrived on those lines under the command of Col d Morris Graham that the said Col d Acker again commanded a company in that Reg t raised in the Neighborhood of Gary Town that said Levies were raised for nine Months. That the Defendant and the said John Bloys both enlisted in said Acker's company in said Col d Graham's Reg t . That the said John Bloys was a Sergeant in said company that during the Summer of 1778 while said Graham's Regiment was in camp with Washington's Army all the Men of said Gra- ham's Reg t excepting about Eighty enlisted into the Continental Regiments or as Teamsters to Washington's Army and that those who remained was put under the command of Capt d Samuel Williams of said Reg t who took up his quarters at the house of the said Joseph Youngs and contin- ued on that Station until on the night of the twenty fourth day of December 1778 when the said Capt d Williams was attacked at his quarters by a superior Number of British Refugees commanded by Major Mould who storm- ed the house captured the said Capt d Williams and some of his Men. That the said John Bloys was on that Night Sergeant of the guard that after the House was taken the said John Bloys S t Van Wart and the De- fendant made their escape that on the twenty fifth day of Dec r 1778 the said S t Abraham Van Wart John Bloys and the Defendant with several others of the said Soldiers who had escaped arrived at their for- mer quarters and as the time for which they enlisted would expire on the last day of Dec r the said S t Abraham Van Wart discharged the whole of them. That about half of said Col d Hammonds Reg t was again ordered out and in a great measure protected the Wif h Inhabitants who resided on and near those lines until some time in January 1779 when Col d Aaron Burr took the command on that Station with about four hundred contin- ental Troops that his Headquarters was at the House of the said Joseph Youngs. That the Defendant and some others of said Hammonds Reg t was put under the command of a Sergeant Peacock and continued in Service under Col d Burr during his command on those lines that in the Month of April 1779 Major W m Hull relieved said Col d Burr and that the said John Bloys was in that Service at least then under Major Hull who

held his headquarters at the house of the said Joseph Young until some time in the Month of May in that year. After which time the Deponent does not recollect of being much of the services of the John Boag during remaining part of the said War. That the Deponent always considered the said John a Soldier of the first respectability. That when in Service according to the best of the Deponents recollection the said John always served as a Sergeant in the Company to which he belonged. That the said Major Hill retired from those lines in the latter part of May 1779
Sworn and Subscribed this twentieth day of September 1837 before me
Abraham Regula
Sam d M c Intosh Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above Deponent Abraham Regula is well known to me and that I know him to be a Man of good character and that his testimony is entitled to full credence
Sam d M c Intosh Justice of the Peace
State of New York Westchester County ss. I John H. Smith Clerk of the said County Do hereby certify. That Samuel Marks before whom the foregoing Affidavit of Abraham Regula purports to have been taken was on the day of taking the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County duly Commissioned & sworn. And further that the foregoing signature to the said Certificate of Character is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County this 26 th day of September 1837
John H. Smith Clerk

"Seventeen hundred and seventy seven Schenebly hsc Street New York Johannes Buys & m Lea Stoem"
I William Brown Clerk of the Dutch reformed Church of Philipsburgh do here- by certify that the above is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows "1778."
Wm Brown Clk of Con.
State of New York County of Westchester ss I, William Brown above named depose and say that I hold the office of Clerk of the Dutch reformed Church of Philipsburgh in the County of West- chester aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of marriages kept in said Church with the exception above named as certified by me. And I further depose and say that the records of births in said Church con- tains a record of the birth of Thomas, son of Johannis Buys and Lea his wife on the twenty first day of December seventeen hun- dred and seventy one Sworn to and subscribed Wm Brown Clk of Con. this 28 th day of December 1837 before me. Peter Clark Justice of the Peace

State of New York } Westchester County ss }
Personally appeared before me John Paulding of the Town of Mount Pleasant in said County and being duly sworn saith that he will be eighty three years of age in the latter part of this present Month. That he has been acquainted with John Brays late of Tarrytown since about the commencement of the Revolutionary War.
That the Deponent has been a Member of the Dutch Reformed Church about thirty years that the said John Brays and Leah his Wife were Members of that Church before the Deponent and were always looked upon as eminently Moral and religious Persons and lived together as man Wife until the death of the said John Brays That the said John Brays and Leah his wife ever since the Revolutionary War has always always lived near the residence of the Deponent and that he never heard the legitimacy of their Marriage doubted in any manner that he knoweth said John Brays was in the American Service in the Revolutionary but for what time the Deponent cannot say but that he is very sure that if they the said John and Leah had not been lawfully Married they would never have been admitted as members of the Dutch Church. and this Marriage must have been known by the Minister.
Subscribed and sworn this 18 th day of January 1838
John Paulding Mark
John Paulding Jr Justice of the peace
I certify that I am well acquainted with the Deponent John Paulding that he is my Uncle and this Testimony is entitled to full credit and belief
John Paulding Jr. Justice of the peace

WIDOW, &c.
File No. 16203
Leah Bangs widow of John Bangs Pri. Rev. War
Act July 4th 86
Index: Vol. A , Page 104
[Arrangement of 1870.]

3368
Leah Bays
Application for a pen- sion under act of 4th July 1836
6vot p 8-31.16.5
5mo. 75
3. - 77.
pri. on rolls & then fine grade of sen t disallowed Adm d
20mo pri
$66.66
No deduction
For A. Ward present

State of New York
County of Westchester ss.
I John H. Smith Clerk of the said County Do here by certify, That Aaron Vank before whom the annexed Affidavits of Isaac Bangs and Samuel Young was taken was on the day of the date of taking the same a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County, and that Peter Clark before whom the affidavit of William Brown was taken and John Paulding Jr before whom the affidavit of John Paulding was taken and here annexed were at the time of taking the same Justices of the Peace in and for the said County, and that the said Aaron Vank, Peter Clark and John Paulding Jr were severally commissioned & sworn and duly authorized to take the same And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Aaron Vank, Peter Clark & John Paulding Jr and verily believe the foregoing signatures to the saids & certificates of Character purporting to be theirs are genuine.
In testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County the second day of February in the Year of our Lord AD 1838.
John H. Smith Clerk