Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16,852, Nicholas Bort, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Port, Nicholas or Barth.
No. 16,852.
Sophrona
CONTENTS

N. York 4371
p. see letter
Sophrona Bort, dec d who was widow of Nicholas Bort, or Barth. dec d ,
who died on the 17. May, 1824.
of Madison Co. in the State of N. York
who was a Lieutenant in the company commanded
by Captain _____ of the regt. commanded
by Col. Willet N.Y. the N. York
line for 9 months & 11 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany
at the rate of 126 Dollars 10. — Cents
per annum, to commence on the 14th day of
March, 1831. Paid 21 st Nov r . 1836, when
she died.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 th day of June,
1846 and sent to Hon.
Am. Hough, Chair of Representatives.
Arrears to the 14th of
Semi-annual allowance ending
Payable to Nancy Colby, George Bort,
John Bort, Henry Bort, Nicholas N. Bort,
Christern Bort, & Barnhart Bort,
children of said Sophrona Bort, dec d .
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the }
Recorded by L. Brown Clerk, Book C. Vol. 1. Page 107,

6610
Sophrona Bart. dec d
NY.
Act. 4 July '36-
Married before the Revolution.
Husb. died 1824
Consol. California 9th Dec 1824
Act 4 th July 1836.

No. 6610 Michael Bart Declaration
Sophrona Bart, decd.
July 4. 1836

State of New York
In Madison County ss. On this 17 th day of June 1845 before the Judges of the County of Common Pleas of said County a open court. The same being a court of record personally appeared Nicholas M. Bort aged Fifty Six Years who being first duly sworn did on his oath depose and say that he is the administrator sole of Sophronia Bort who was the widow of Nicholas Bort sometimes called Barth. That he makes this declaration in order to receive the pension to which the said Sophronia Bort was entitled at the time of her death for the Revolutionary services of her husband the said Nicholas Bort who was in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary war. and served as a Lieutenant and also as adjutant as this deponent was always informed and believes true. This deponent recollects of having seen the Commission and also the Uniform Book of his father the said Nicholas Bort but does not know what has become of them. That a part of his services he thinks was rendered Col. Clyde and he thinks he served also under Col. Willett. That the marriage of the said Nicholas Bort & Sophronia Bort whose maiden name was Sophronia Myers took place before the Revolutionary as the deponent was always informed and believes true. That this deponent's father the said Nicholas Bort in his life time kept a family record in which he had in his own hand writing in the German language the record of his marriage. That this deponent saw the said record and that according to the said record of which this deponent

took a manuscript - it appears that his father, the said Nicholas Root was born in 1741. and his mother the said Sophia one was born in 1751. and their marriage took place in 1767. That the said family record was sent to some other papers by the deponent to a man in Fort City in France to the Department some time last fall since which the deponent has not seen them. But the deponent has been informed by a communication that no papers have been received at the pension office - That his father the said Nicholas Root died sometime or twenty years ago leaving the said Sophia one his widow in New Jersey. That the said Sophia one remained his widow and died in the county of Madison in the month of November in the year 1836 - That his father the said Nicholas Root in his life time received a pension for services rendered by him in the service in the Revolution war. That at the time of his death there was due him about one year and two months pension. which his widow claimed to have and had papers prepared and sent but was informed the papers were incorrect or defective and she did not receive the money. and which seems to be the deponent's also claiming as administrator as aforesaid.
That this deponent does not recollect all the offices names under which the said Nicholas Root served. Nor can he state all the various capacities in which he served. but the service was mostly in the Mohawk valley and about Johnstown. in the state of New York.
very sorry

That this claim is made under the act of July 4. 1836. and that the arrears of pension due to his father being for about fourteen months is also claimed. The corner of the family Record herein before referred to is so mutilated that it can- not be ascertained precisely what the date of the birth of Nicholas Bort above named father of this deponent was. But deponent supplied the date from some other circumstance -
Sworn. Nicholas Bort Sworn and Subscribed in open Court this 17 th day of June. 1845. V. H. C. Albin, Dep. Clk Mudg. Co. S

FAMILY RECORD.
BIRTHS.
Caty Bort was Born Nov. 18 th 1799
Jacob Bort was Born July 4 th 1801
Henry Bort was Born March 17 th 1803
Polly Bort was Born Feb. 18 th 1805
Betsy Bort was Born Jan. 30 th 1807
Barbary Bort was Born Dec. 18 th 1808
John Bort Jr was Born Nov. 25 th 1810
BIRTHS.
Margaret Bort was Born August 30 th 1812
David G. Bort was Born June 10, 1814.
Comd. Bort was Born April 15, 1816
W. M. Bort was Born August 28, 1820.
Alanson Bort was Born Oct. 2 nd 1822.
Henry E. Bort was Born August 15, 1826
Chauncy Bort was Born Dec 19 th 1830
John Bort was Born February 8 th 1831

Ms. A. 9. 2. 20. 135
FAMILY RECORD.
MARRIAGES.
MARRIAGES.
John N o Bort & Jemima Bort was married January 14 th 1799

state of New York. Herkimer County ss. on the 26 th day of Dec. 1845. came before me John Bort to me known, and being duly sworn says that the record hereto annexed is his family record taken from his bible and that said record was commenced more than 30 years ago and is correct and true, and that his own named date of his birth is at the bottom of said record, and that it was taken from his father's record that was kept of his family which record is now lost, that he has often seen his father's family record and that his own age and date of his birth is a true transcript of the original as kept by his father in regard to his own name and date of his birth, and that he is a son of & Sophia Lieut. Nicholas Bort deceased as he believes, and that he was brought up in his father's family until he was twenty one years of age - and that his sister Catharine & Nancy, & his brother George were older than this deponent, and that his brothers Solomon, Nicolas, Henry, Christian & Barnet, and his sisters Margaret & Betsey & Barbary were younger than this de- ponent - and that he this deponent remembers that his father Nicolas was in the service of the Revolution as a lieutenant and also recollects his uniform, sword, & spear, and that he also recollects being in fort Willet, when his father was brought there from the battle of Johnstown wounded in the breast, and that he recollects of his mother, himself, and the other children leaving the house on the approach of the Indians and Tories, and hiding in the brush, when his father was at fort Plank with the army - and has heard his parents and some of the old soldiers say that his father was engaged in the service of the Revolution the most of the time from its commencement to its close - and has heard Henry Seber a revolutionary soldier say that he was present when this deponent's father was wounded and that he fought res-  in a sitting posture & unable to stand, olutely after he was wounded, and this deponent believes from what he can recollect and from what his father and old neighbors have told him, that his father lost his farm in consequence of his service in the war, and the loss he sustained in the depreciation of continental money - And also that the residence of this deponent's father and family was in the Valley of the Mohawk River, where it was indispensable the most rigid exertions should be used to guard the country from the Indians and Tories and that he believes his father exerted himself to the utmost of his ability in the service of his country during the Revolution, all which this deponent believes to be true - } John Bort subscribed and sworn before me this 26 th day of Dec. 1845. Micahiah Bandiot Justice of the Peace 

STATE OF NEW-YORK, } ss. Herkimer County, }
I certify that Micahiah Benedict Esq. whose name is subscribed to the Great of the County of Herkimer was, on the day of the date of his affidavit as Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly elected and qualified. And that I am well acquainted with his hand-writing, and verily believe his signature to said Great genuine.
Witness my hand and official seal.
January 3 d 1846
E. A. Danson Clerk

Anne Mayers N. 3 rd Aspirants

State of New York
Onondaga County ss
Came before me Anne Meyers and she being duly sworn, deponeth and saith, that she was ninety seven years of age in December last past, that she was the wife of the late Henry Meyers deceased, that he was a brother to Saphrona Meyers, afterward Bort the wife of Nicholas Bort, who acted as a Lieutenant and also as an adjutant in the United States army, as a part of the Militia of the state of New York, was acquainted with the said Saphrona before she was married, and also after her marriage to the said Nicholas Bort, that she does not remember the date of the year in which they were married, but that it was before the revolutionary war, and that Minister Gross who then officiated as such at Fort Plain married them, or Minister Rosecrance, cannot recollect which of the two and that she Anne Meyers married Henry Meyers after the marriage of Nicholas and Saphrona and lived in the same house with them until after the said Nicholas and Saphrona had two children and that they lived together as husband and wife and raised a family of children which were eleven that they both lived to old age but that she does not now remember the date of the year of their decease but that the said Nicholas died several years before the said Saphrona that the said Nicholas and Saphrona at her first acquaintance with them lived in that part of the state of New York, now known as Montgomery County, that knew the said Nicholas and Saphrona after they removed to Onondaga County, that said Nicholas died in Onondaga County town of Onondaga, and that both had lived seven years with their son Henry Bort, that after the decease of Nicholas, Saphrona moved with her son Henry back to Madison County and there died, and that she had signed and sworn to similar affidavit in August last past, but said, to be last and further more this deponent saith not.
Her
Anne Meyers

of New York, now known as Montgomery County, that knew the said Nicholas and Saphrona after they removed to Onon- daga County, that said Nicholas died in Onondaga County town of Onondaga, and that both had lived seven years with their son Henry Bort, that after the decease of Nicholas, Saphrona moved with her son Henry back to Madison County and there died, and that she had signed and sworn to similar affidavit in August last past, but said, to be last and further more that deponent saith not
Anna her  X Meyers mark
Subscribed and sworn
this 27 th day of February 1845 before me Henry J. Storer Justice of the Peace
I here certify that I have known Anna Meyers for several years and believe her to be at this time of sound mind and memory and of good character for truth and veracity
Henry J. Storer
Mexico February 27-1845
Justice of the Peace of the above said County

This 24 th day of February 1845 before me Henry J. Storer Justice of the Peace
I here certify that I have known Anna Meyers for several years and believe her to be at this time of sound mind and memory and of good character for
State of New-York, } ss. OSWEGO COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE, }
I, H. Darius Freeman Esq., Clerk of the County of Oswego, do hereby certify, that Henry J. Storer Esq. whose name is subscribed to the Transcript of Judgement  affidavit & Certificate hereto annexed, was, at the date of said Judgement  affidavit & Certificate , a Justice of the Peace, in and for said county—that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of said Justice, and believe that the signature to said Transcript  affidavit & Certificate is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said County, this 14 th day of April A. D. 1845
H. D. Freeman Esq. (Clk Absent)
Anna Meyers A. D. 1845

Nicholas Bort,
W. F. 16852, New York.
these are on one paper
An order to Lieut. Barth, to proceed with the Guard to Riemer Snider's Bush and deliver flour and salt to S. Master of Col. Klock's regt., signed Saml Clyde, Col., dated Fort Plank, Sept. 21, 1879; and an
order to Lieut. Barth to get horse or horses to carry provisions to Riemer Snider's Bush for the men on duty, signed John Pickerd L.H. of Col. Clyde's regt., dated Sept. 21, 1879. I have been removed from this case to be forwarded to the War Department. J.M.H. Mar. 17, 1911.
J.M.H. Mar. 17, 1911.

674 S. Oliver Burges dec? N. Y. Set Hon. Jno. D. Sleeper June 2. 46
Act 4 th . July 1836.

the H. C. Pam
J. L. Edwards
Washington
MS. A. 9. 2. 15

Hastings, Oneago 6 th
I, Nicholas Bratt, was born, in the year of Our Lord, 1778. & am the son of Nicholas & Saphronia Bratt, nee Smith, & as I am the agent of the Heirs of Saphronia Bratt, in applying for pension due her, see fit to make this delineation to the Hon. J. L. Edwards Com d on pension. That I frequently heard my Father & Mother say as well as many of their associates in the war say & I still believe it to be true, that Father served before he had a Commission & especially after he re- ceived his first Com d untill he was wounded on Johnson Pratt, which was a continual service & that Father's compl- aint was that he had not received credit for services done more than that done under Col d Clyde & in 1812, he added Evidence of additional services to that of the Record in the Sec y of the state by Col d Clyde or in Clyde's Regiment & that evidence went to Washington I believe as Father then & at that time lived with me & my Bro r Henry Bratt in Madison Co y N.Y. state, I therefore had a chance to know something about it, & if that evidence is not to be found, at Washington in the Archives of our United States, I fear they may have been consumed in 1814 when the British entered Washington, & I here say that as agent for those Heirs, I have made all diligent search for record & Commissioned officers of the revolution, & have gathered all I can find as Father's associates in the War are mostly gone by death, & as he received Ensign Com d in 1790. & was afterwards raised to Lieut. for such he was when he was wounded & of course while he was laid up with his wound it is evident he was & should be considered in service so it appeared by his testimony in 1812, when Congress added Eleven Dollars & half to his pension per month , now you will perceive as I stated before in my last communication that according to evidence before your Hon or that if you only take his service from 1780 to the close of the war would make no less than three years considering his disability with his wound further more as I find in the rule your Hon or has adopted
to allow that

to allow us traditional evidence to which I cited you in my last communication I think we have proven clearly the service of three years by my Father perhaps however I do not understand I shall therefore submit to your Honor for respect all Retires without, parcelly subscribed and sworn before me this 11 th Day of May 1846
Nicholas Burt
Henry H. Storer Justice of the Peace of the town of Hastings Oswego County This may certify that that I have been personally acquainted with the above named Nicholas Burt for the last four or five years past and believe him to be of a sane mind and of good moral character for truth and veracity Hastings May 11 th 1846
Henry H. Storer J.P.
P.S. you will find the office of H. H. Storer J.P. certified in an affidavit now in your office by the Clerk of this Co.

Mr. W. J.
Haugh.
M. C.
Washington

Hastings June 2 nd 1886
Dear Sir
I have the honor again to acknowledge the Obligation to you & I think shall ever feel, for the interest you exhibit & the respect you pay me in assisting me with my application to the Hon. J. L. Edwards Com r I gave him notice in my communication that you were requested & authorized by me to search in the archives at Washington & I hope you will be so good as to look & see if you can find any where the proof addressed by my Father Lieut. Nicholas Burt, in 1842. when his pension was increased, if you should find any, present them in legal form to the Com r on pension, but if not which I fear you will not for I fear they were concerned in 1844 when the British burned down our Capital, then in that case please certify the Com r that no such record can be found if you will look over my communication to the Com r accompanying a record of Events & then you will perceive my object of having search made there for proof addressed in 1842, my last communication to the Com r through you with copy from the Sec y of the State probable was too late as it had not arrived before the Com r & you had Mailed this requisition for me, so you will exercise your Judgment & present it or not, but you may think as I do that it be as well to present to the Com r the Copy of the Sec y of the State I hope Sir I shall have the opportunity to see you satisfied for your trouble I hope you will pass my argument in this my last declaration as to the benefit of the rule adopted in the pension. Look on page 125 of 2 nd Sec y name my thanks for well
May God Bless you
Nicholas Burt

Washington June 9. 1846
Hon. J. S. Edwards
Comm. Pensions
Dear Sir
I have the honor to transmit to you herewith certain papers received from Rev. M c Bort bearing upon his application for certain pensions. You will perceive from the note addressed to me he desires me to search the records & papers in your office for the evidence of his services in the Revolutionary war, which were furnished by him upon which his pension was granted under the act of 1818. and which I suppose he claims should be received by you as evidence of such services upon his application for a pension in behalf of his Mother, but as it would not be convenient & perhaps not proper for me to attempt the examination, I would ask of you to refer to such papers & to return such evidence in the case now before you. I can see no reason why such evidence is not entirely proper. it is in accordance with the act which has passed the 14. of Sept. at the present Session making such records or files evidence in such cases. which was doubtless included because you had before referred to them such evidence whether it will pass the Senate or not I don't know, but the custom if it passes the House, ought to have some weight in favor of the rule. Under all the circumstances & proofs I hope the result of the application

May be satisfactory to the Clericals, if consistent a full pension may be granted.
You will perceive there are two applications, one for the widow's pension & the other for a benefit due the husband at the time of his demise.
I am Sir with esteem
Your Most obedt Servt
and O.Bt Servt
Wm. J. Hough

Hartings January 10 th 1856
Dear Sir
I feel under obligation to you & will you receive my thanks, for your kindness therein me in presenting my papers to the Hon. J. L. Edwards Com- missioner and pension, & for your communication in com- pany with him, informing me of what is wanting if I understand the Com r he wants a family record over 20 years Old, which will give the date of the Birth of a Child of Nicholas & Saphronia Burt, before the services of the revolution closed, I here send two fami- ly records, I think, satisfactory on that point if my former proof was not, I wish Sir you would go into the pension office for me, & have the Com r give you the privilege to see my former proof, I sent him by you. & you will find that I have proved my Father's fam- ily record in existence two years ago, but since last, with other papers, in my proof there you will find the record described & attached to, in addition to that, the affidavit of Mrs. Anna Myers & Mr. Murphy all goes to establish the fact of their Marriage, in my communi- cation to the Com r accompany this you will perceive as I state that I think their Marriage & Cohabitation is as clearly set forth, as can be expected at this late date, but Sir if you & the Com r should think otherwise, I hope you will indulge me in letting me know what is wanting & I will still trace to comply & meet the demand, if it can be done, but I cannot conjecture what more may be required, I hope Sir you will act for me before his Honorable the Com r , investigation, & Sir as you have some knowledge of my standing in society & the character I bore for a number of years past, in Madison Co., from which I trust I do not deviate, & the character of my Father family or any part of them have never to my knowledge been censured or charged

for immorality, or love deceit, these remarks I make in view of the impressions that has been practiced on the Pension Department, which has thrown the Com ee on his guard as I think he should be, & if you think it necessary to acquaint his Hon the Com ee of this fact & it is thought expedient & needfull, he might send me & would bring you proofs or you may refer & call on the Hon ble Joshua A. Spencer of Utica, & the Hon ble Sylvester Dexter at Canastota or the firm of J. B. D. D. D. Process at that place, Stephen Chapman Esq r Blackwell, W m Fren the Sheriff of Madison Co y or some other men of consequence with whom I have associated for many years past Sir I hope you will take pains to get a hearing as soon as may be, & let me know the result, the family records after the Com ee has used them to his satisfaction, I hope you will send them back to me as I pledged myself they should come back if possible to their owners, for they are a choice relic to them
farewell my g d Bless you
I remain your Obed t Nicholas A. Burt The Hon ble W m J. Haugh

Hastings N.Y. May 14 th
Miss Mary J. Hough, M.L.E. Washington

Sophrona Bort, dec d who was wid ow of Nicholas Bort, or Barth, dec d .
Lieutenant 9 months & 11 days
$126:10 - $ per per ann. to commence March 31 st terminate 21 Nov. 1836 when she died, to be paid to her children Nancy Colby, George Bort, John Bort, Henry Bort, Nicholas A. Bort, Christern Bort & Barnhart Bort.
married before 1775 husband died May 17. 1824 widow died 21 Nov. 1836
Albany Roll act 4 July 36.
Leest; to the Hon. Wm. Haugh House of Rep s

Washington Jan'y 22. 1846
Hon. J. L. Edwards Comr. of Pensions
Dear Sir
In Nov. last I had the honor of presenting for your consideration the pension papers of Nicholas M. Beck administrator of Sophia Beck dec d as well for a col. also on the pension Certificate of her late husband as an invalid pension, as for a pension to her mother and altho' it was proven by the papers that the family record was lost & could not be produced, yet by your order which you communicated to me 1 st Dec r last the production of that record was required, thereupon I transmitted to Rev. Mr. Beck the affidavit and have just rec d from him additional proofs, which I herewith transmit to you, you will perceive that the family record is not produced nor can it be, but its existence & contents are clearly proved by the papers already before you, and the additional papers which I now send you, are strongly corroborative of the former proofs and of themselves sufficiently prove that the Father of the applicant was engaged in the service of his country in the revolutionary war, his marriage to Sophia Beck the Mother of the applicant, their cohabitation & the birth of several children before the close of the war. This is all, & more than the family record would prove if produced, and

is the highest class or character of evidence which now exists, and altogether is incompetent in any Court of law or equity and I venture to say abundantly insufficient to carry conviction to the mind of both Court & Jury in any Court of law, so that is all that is or should be required in the present circumstances.
The objection that the family record should be produced because it is evidence of a higher character, is without foundation in reason, when it is satisfactorily proven to be lost. It is true if in existence it should be produced because of its character, but when lost its production is an impossibility & other satisfactory proof is competent, if of the highest character in existence, and I trust you will find the proof in the present case. This proof cannot be rejected because the family record is of higher character, for that document which is of lower character cannot be produced when it is in existence of higher character.
May I draw your early attention to this case and if you shall still require the production of the lost record, please communicate your decision & the ground of it in writing - I am Sir with esteem
Yours Respectfully and Obt Servt.
W. J. Hough

Thos. J. L. Edwards
Cannonball
in Dakota,
Washington
Healing June 2 nd , 1896.

Hastings June 2 nd , 1856.
Sir, I have the honor once more to address you on the application I have made to your honor for a pension in behalf of the children of Sophrona Burt, your last requisition I think, I have complied with, & I here forward you a certificate of a Court of Record of Orange Co. I trust to your satisfaction, & what remains, seems to be done on my part in order to obtain a certificate, I know not, but as I have said before, I will take to comply with all your requisitions to get what I think is our due. a few days before I received your last communication, I mailed for your department a copy of record from the Sec y of the State certifying that there were no farther record to be found in the Sec y office of any service done by Lieut. Burt, only that you have, which was under Col. Clyde & that there is no record of Black, or Hiltel & the presumption is that we have no access to any record of the service, I have proven to your honor, rendered under those above named officers, & with that certificate from the Sec y I also sent you my declaration sworn to before a Magistrate, & which my friend the Hon. Mr. Haugh may not have presented to you as your requisition was then on the way here, & now as we can have no access to farther record & the Sec y of the State says, that the proof made by Lieut. N. Burt of additional service or service ever & above that found done under Col. Clyde in, 1812, by which his pension as an invalid was increased & added Eleven Dollars and fifty Cts Month that this testimony went to Washington & if that cannot be found with you there, then the presumption is they were consumed in 1814 when the British consumed much of our record I shall request my friend Haugh, to make one more search for these record in the department at Washington, & in form your honor of the result, & it strikes me still more forcible that as we can have no access to farther record, that we are entitled to the benefit of the rule adopted by your honor & laid down in a book of the pension laws now in force

in 1812, when the Act concerned the  act of our record I shall request my friend Haugh, to make one more search for these records in the Department at Washington, & in form your honor of the result, & it strikes me still more forcible that as we can have no access to further records, that we are entitled to the benefit of the rule adopted by your honor & laid down in a book of the pension laws now in force
printed by order of Congress in 1835. please turn to page 124. N o 95; & section 2 nd & as we have proven in the neighborhood of some fair years, we will now reduce it down to three years. It cannot be short of that, & if I understand the Law if we prove two years or more service rendered by Lieut. Burt. we are entitled to full pay whilst. Sophia and lived the Wid- ow of A. Burt but if short of two years in proportion & as proof is before your honor that Lieut. A. Burt died in May 17 th 1824, & his widow died on the 21 st day of November 1836. would make twelve years six Months & four days, for which your honor please we claim full pay by the benefit of the above Act, but if still your honor decide that we shall be confined exclusively to the record proof, then in that case we would be entitled to the proportionable pay for the above 12 years six Months & four days, I trust your Honor will make us out a Certificate as your Judgments will dictate on one of the two above mentioned points, & forward the same through my friend Haugh, to me
far well my God Bless you Nicholas A Burt

Hon. J. L. B. P. Commissioner on Annuities Washington

Hastings March 5 th 1846
Dear Sir
I here forward give a copy of record from the Pen- sion office to the services rendered by Lieut. A. Burt in the revolution, the reason of this delay is as the Hon. Mr. Skelton, a Member of assembly from the 6 th now at Albany, tells me he called on the Secy of state, & found no record there, he then called on the Comptroller & he gave him this copy, & you will perceive Sir that the record is not full as I have proved to your Hon. that Lieut. Burt did duty under Col. Willet & Block, it is evident that Willet commanded in Johnstown Battle when Burt was wounded Lieut. Burt my Father, allways complained he had not received pay enough, for his services, & that the record of his pension will shew your Hon. if you will take the trouble to examine them, for I presume you have access to, in your Cabinet at Washington, his certificate was made out in the City of Albany, on the 27 th day of October 1796 signed by, Abraham Ten Brook & D. K. Schuyler, & this was made under a mistake, not allowing him enough, as it gave him but two dollars per Month, furthermore you will find that in 1812, the mistake was corrected & he from that time to his death, was allowed thirteen & half per Month which clearly shews the copy of record is wanting as to the length & burden of his service, I therefore sub- mit & trust your honor will perceive the propriety & Equity in addition to the copy of record of his services, to give full weight to the proof adduced in my former affidavit already before you, which shews he served in the neigh- borhood of five years, I could have multiplied historical & traditional circumstances of his zeal & ambition against the Tories & Indians, in the Mohawk River valley So much so he neglected his farm had to sell it, took Continental Money & lost that. It depreciated it appears on record the One Hundred Lb. & twenty three pence received as a remuneration for his services, were whilst he served under Col. S. Clyde, & here you will detect the error the services rendered under Col. Willet & Block this Record gives him no credit, & we also claim for these services a credit in addition to the Record specified for certainly Col. Block commanded in what is sometimes

which clearly shows the Col: of Recd is wanting as to the length & burden of his service, I therefore sub- mit & trust your honor will perceive the propriety & Equity in addition to the burden of record of his services, to give full weight to the proof adduced in my former affidavit already before you, which shows he served in the neigh- borhood of five years, I could have multiplied historical & traditional circumstances of his zeal & ambition against the Tories & Indians, in the Mohawk River valley So much so he neglected his farm had to sell it, took Continental Money & lost that. It depreciated it appears on record the One Hundred Lb: & twenty three pence received as a remuneration for his services, none whilst he served under Col: S: O'Flyd, & here you will detect the error, the services rendered under Col: Willet & Cook this Recd gives him no Credit, & we also claim for those services a Credit in addition to the Recd specified for certainly Col: Cook Commanded in what is sometimes called Schoharie Battle, in which we proved Father was Engaged, & Col: Willet was in Johnstown Battle in which Lieut: Best was wounded & if you take the One Hundred Lb: as a criterion as the length of service, it was only under Sars: O'Flyd as Col: then by turning to record of the increase of his pension as an invalid, in 1812, & find the Eleven & half dollars to be the increase, added to the two dollars per month this increase must be for services rendered not under Col: O'Flyd but by the authority proven in those affidavits before you, & you will clearly perceive that as they allowed pension in proportion to the services & the ability produced, that it was satisfactory proven to Congress in 1812, as the pension was then increased, when Lieut: Best associate in the service, many of them were living & testified to the services above & that Recd must be Evidence of those services & I confidently & cheerfully submit to your Honor, the above broken & scattered thoughts if you will pardon me for the intrusion on your clemency, trusting you will give him Credit for all his services & make us out a Certificate & forward it to me thro' ugh my friend the Hon: Mr: Haugh M: C: as soon as may be, so as well may you Bless you
I remain yours Obedient H: S: L: Edward Col: Nicholas Kort

Gen. Wirt Glenn Washington

Hastings May 11 th 1946
Dear
Sir please to overlook my intrusion so frequently on your patience as I am aware the many calls & press of business that crowd upon you must be burdensome yet if it is not too late I wish you would present the accompanying papers such as the copy of the act of this state & my declaration which is known to before. Henry Peterson I. D. to the Hon. J. S. Edwards Comr that is if you think they will be any help & it should not be too late & let me know the result
Farewell may God bless you
Hon. Wm. J. Haugh
Nicholas Albert

to (a) Sophia Bart.
Aug 4, 1836.
Sumnerston To Mrs. J. Edwards Esq. Washington
How.
W. J. Hough H. Rep

To the Hon ble James L Edwards Commissioner of pension Sir
as administrator on the property of Saphronia Bort, Deceased late widow of Lieut. Nicholas Bort, sometimes called Borth, deceased, I forward unto you for your act as B o on pension, this package of papers by my friend the Hon ble W m I Haugh, a member of Congress of the twenty third Congressional District, in the state of New York, in both of which I have a resident, these papers you will perceive are in the form of affidavits and declarations, setting forth the claim of the said Saphronia Bort, on your Hon ble to award her a pension, due her under the act, of July fourth, 1840, & you will further perceive that as I have passed over two years service, indeed in the neighborhood of five years by Lieut. N. Bort will entitle us the service of full pay what ever that was per month for a Lieut s wages, you will best know what ever that wages was in the revolutionary war, on service, & for your convenience you will find the affidavits & declarations numbered, & their bearing, N o 1 st & 2 nd go to show the length and burden of services performed by Lieut. N. Bort in his life time, in the revolutionary war, & where they were performed, you will observe, that I avoided all lengthy descriptions describing circumstances, I presumed Sir you did not wish to be burdened with any historical account of the revolution, as you are well acquainted with that, but simple facts, to be proven before you in relation to his services which I think I have done N o 3 rd in connection with N o 4 th & 5 th as well as N o 1 st & 2 nd will prove to your Hon ble that she whose name had been Saphronia Myles or Mayer, as it was originally, became the wife of the said N. Bort, & that she became so before the said revolutionary services done by the said Bort, & that the said Lieut. Bort husband of said Saphronia, died in the neighborhood of Eleven years before said Saphronia, & that said Saphronia remained the widow of said N. Bort, until she died in November 21 st day 1846 N o 6 th is my Certificate of a surrogate court of Madison Co. in which you will perceive I am legally authorized to act on the premises as I do, N o 7 th you will find to be an old Warrant, issued by Col l Elye in the time that some of the above services, performed, ordering Lieut. N. Bort to contain duties

referred to & specified in affidavit, N. 1 st corroborating with that testimony your honor will remember that in my communication to you in the Month of March last past, I gave you notice that I had made out papers & as I had left them with S. Ford Esq. & I could not find those papers, he said he had forwarded them last in your answer dated 5 th of April last past, to me informing me there were no such papers received in your office. The season part took it upon me to take new dispositions but the family record referred to in N o 4 th & 5 th which was in my father N. Bort's own hand writing in the original German stile, where was men- tioned names, their Births both of Father & Mother, with the date of their Marriage, & the several Births of Eliza Bort in, is with the last papers, also my letter of administration, is gone with them, for this reason I thought it proper to have proven to you that those papers had existed, you will find this proof in N o 4 th , 5 th & 6 th I trust sir your honor will please that if anything should be wanting on the premises that I do not now conceive you will preserve these papers & will be so good as to communicate to me, or my friend Mr. Haugh that he may apprise me have to remedy the deficiency if any there be, though I do not apprehend anything, & as to the pension due my father N. Bort for fourteen Months of his last life, that he lived you will find proof also in N o 4 th & 5 th all of which I submit with full confidence to your Honorable decision far well
May God Bless you & yours
Date of Hastings October 29 th 1845
I am yours Obedient Nicholas Bort Administrator

Hastings January 9 th 1856 Dear Sir
If your Honor please, I would inform you that according to your request in your communication sent me by my friend, the Hon ble Mr o Haugh, dated 1 st of December last, I forward you here by my above mentioned friend, two family records; you will please to perceive that as I have proven by two affidavits, all ready in your possession, that my father's family record, which is in the German Language, it was lost within two years past, & Sir those now enclosed the one belonging to John Burt, son of Lieut o N. Burt, & Saphronia his wife shows his birth, before the services closed, though I admit the record is rather in an awkward style, the date of his own birth being at the bottom, yet it will appear evident to you as well as me, that it was put there as long ago as he states, which is a great deal, the cause of this I have not learned, only I attribute it to the Dutch sent & had his record & affidavit forwarded to me as we live ninety Miles apart, & as my sisters Cathy & Nancy are dead, & have left no record, & George my brother though living, but has no record of his birth, & these three with Mr o John whose record I now send, were the only children & besides if all were living, could remember any thing about the war; I had a brother by the name of Solomon, born before the close of the service, but he has died some years since, & left no record of his birth, the remainder of the children, born of my parents, Nicholas & Saphronia, was since the revolution, though several of them are dead, our record would not answer the purpose, hence I called an Judge, Dunderberg, whose affidavit you will find attached to his own family record you will perceive Sir, that he knew part of my father's family of children both in the War & since, so that in view of the testimony of Mr o Anna Mayers & other testimony now

before you, I think Sir the Marriage of Lieut. Nicholas & Saphronia Bort, is as clearly set forth as could be set expected so many years after it occurred, if however your Honor does not conceive proof sufficient, will still please let me know by my friend Haugh, what is wanting & I will try to comply, in relation to the services rendered by my father in the war. I trust you will perceive that living in that part of the Mohawk valley where they were annoyed by the Indians & Tories & my father being zeal- ous & active was in actual services the most part during the war so much so that he neglected his farm got in- volved, had to sell it, took Continental Money, & that depreciated & he lost the whole, I have none in my poss- ession a thirty dollar Note, of that Money received of my fath- er, I could here enlarge on the services of my father & relate many anecdotes of his gallantry & Zeal which I understand from my parents & their associates in the war, & believe to be true, but forbear lest I weary your Honor, I repose confidence in your wisdom, that you will give him a liberal Credit, for all the services rendered you will remember by looking to my first application that there is one year & two Months Pension due on my father's account as an invalid pensioner, which I trust you perceive we claim, & if your Honor concludes to make us a Certe- ficate which I trust you will. It will save me time & expense to have the certificate made to me as adminis- trator, on the property of Saphronia Bort deceased, for which I have taken letters of administration of the surrogate of Madison County, whose Certificate you have in your Office, & for which I have given Bonds of secu- rity of Six Thousand Dollars, for my faithfull perform- ance as Administrator.
for well may you Bless you & yours the Hon. J. P. I am yours Obedient
J. L. Edwards
Nicholas Bort

D. S. Sir please look at John Borth, Family record, on the opposite side, & you will see the date of his Marriage which is corroborative of the date of his birth. I trust my friend the H. M. Hough will call on you & present those now enclosed papers

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 4 th . July, 1836, Sophrona Bort, deceased, late of New York, and widow of Nicholas Bort, or Barth, who was a Lieutenant in the Revolution, was entitled to a pension at the rate of one hundred and twenty-six dollars and ten cents per annum; and the said Sophrona Bort having died on the 21 st of November, 1836, the amount due is payable from the 4 th of March, 1831, to the time of her death, to Nancy Colby, George Bort, John Bort, Henry Bort, Nicholas N. Bort, Christen Bort and Barnhart Bort, children of said Sophrona Bort, deceased.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this — 20 th — day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six.
Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. §
Commissioner of Pensions.

11 Secretary's Office
Albany April 24, 1846
Sir,
Search has been made at the Comptrollers Office in compliance with the request contained in the enclosed letter but nothing could be found in relation to the services of Nicholas Port or Porth in addition in addition to what was furnished in the first Certificate issued from the said office
There is nothing in this office showing what services were performed by either officers or soldiers It is all to be found on the pay rolls in the Comptrollers Office (I mean as far as relates to Militia & Levies) We have the names of the officers and the dates of their appointments, but not the names of the men who served under them.
It does not appear that Port (or Bard as he is named on the Minutes of the Council of appointment) was appointed an officer in any other regiment except as ensign in the Regiment of Militia in Tryon County on the 4th March 1880 whereof Samuel Campbell was Colonel & Samuel Clyde First Colonel If he served at any time under under Hook or Willet he might have been detained for such service yet belong still to Col. Campbell or Clyde Regiment
N.B. There were no papers sent to this office in 182 when Port's pension was increased - It was the Congress of the U.S. that increased the pension and the papers no doubt sent to Washington
Yours respectfully
Arch d Campbell Dept Sec y Hts

In pursuance of a law passed the 27th of April, 1784, entitled "An act for the settlement of the pay of the Levies and Militia, for their services in the late War, and for other purposes therein mentioned," the following certificates have been issued, bearing interest at five per cent. per annum, viz:
  26 th Dec. 1779. Nich s Barte Vinc £21 16 11   1 st Nov. 1780. Nich s Bort Do 53 12 6   10 th July 1782 Do Do 24 12 6   100 1 11   2   200   300   1200   125.12   9 mo 11 Ds Lent 
STATE OF NEW-YORK, COMPROLLER'S OFFICE, Albany, 24 th Feby. 1846.
I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Book No. 3. now remaining in this office, and that the service for which the certificates above named were issued, were performed under the following officers, viz:
  First—under Capt. Jacob Diefendorf in Col. Sam l Glyde Regt.   Second " " Do " " Do "   Third " " Do " " Do "   Fourth " " " " "   Fifth " " " " "   Sixth " " " " "   Seventh " " " " "   Eighth " " " " "   Ninth " " " " "   Tenth " " " " "   Eleventh " " " " "   Twelfth " " " " " 
Philip Phelps Dept. Comp t

No. 17
Affidavit of Henry Murphy

Montgomery County, Pa. Henry Murphy being duly sworn says, I am 82 years old, and was in the Revolutionary service more or less during five years. I was acquainted with Nicholas Barth (now spelled Borl) from the year 1779 to the close of the war - I know he was a Lieutenant under Captain Jacob Dieffendorff - in Col. Clyde's Regiment I went in company with him to Fort Stanwix - and was then under arms doing duty - I saw him in the service more or less during the war, he acted as an officer. I know he at one time had the command of Fort Plank, as we lay there several days.
In the year 1780 my impression is that Lieutenant Barth (or Borl) was engaged in the skirmish at Nolock. - In the year 1781, my impression is, that he was in the Durlock Battle - I know he was at the Johnstown Battle, and he was wounded there, and I was also wounded there, and we were both brought from Johnstown to Fort Plain or near there when we separated - Mr Barth and myself lived in that portion of the Mohawk Valley which was constantly thronged with Tories and Indians and were very frequently called out to prevent their depredations - I have been acquainted with Lieutenant Barth, as I have before stated, and also with his wife who was a daughter of one Myers her name was Sephrona Myers, which was originally spelled Moyer, after the act for the relief of Invalids was passed - Lieutenant Barth and myself went to Albany together, and were then examined, and both of us received our certificates, through which we drew what is called, the Invalid pension - I made an affidavit of substantially the same subject matter, something over a year ago, which is said to be lost - I reside in the Town of Minden, in the County aforesaid

and have resided in the same town since very last and removed from Warren County to this place and previous to my residing in Warren County I resided in the Town of Mendon Subscribed and sworn to this 16 th day of October 1843 before me, and I certify that I know the person making this affidavit to be a man of truth.
Henry Murphy
James W Hamilton
Justice of the peace
Said County of Montgomery

of truth, James W Hamilton
STATE OF NEW-YORK, Montgomery County Clerk's Office. } ss.
I, CHESTER S. BRUMLEY, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify that James W Hamilton Esq whose name is subscribed to the annexed Deed & Certificate was at the time of the date thereof a Justice of the peace of said county; and further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of such Justice and verily believe that the signature to the said Deed & Certificate is genuine:
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said county, the Eighteenth day of October 1845
C. Brumley CLERK.

Certificate of birth
Walter L. Edwards
born in
Washington

State of New York
Oswego County ss: Nicholas N. Bort of Hastings, Oswego County and Henry Bort of Senoy Madison County being severally duly sworn in open Court being the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Oswego at the time herein though say, & each for himself says that they were well acquainted with Sophrona Bort the widow of Lieut. Nicholas Borth (or Bort) who was in the revolutionary services were the parents of these deponents. That said Sophrona died at said Town of Senoy Madison County on the 21 st day of November 1836. That they were there at the time and assisted at or attended her funeral. That said Sophrona left seven children her surviving, now living whose names are as follows viz: Nancy Colby of Cattaraugus County, George Bort of Cicero Onondaga County, John Bort of German Flatts Herkimer County, Henry Bort one of these deponents Nicholas N Bort the other of these deponents, Christian Bort & Barmhart Bort both of Erie Pennsylvania
Subscribed & sworn to before me in open court this 1 st day of June 1846
J. D. Freeman Sup Ct (Clerk Absent)
Nicholas Bort Henry Bort
Nicholas Bort Henry Bort

And the said Court being the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Onondaga at the Court House in the Village of Onondaga do hereby certify and declare That Satisfactory Evidence has been adduced to said Court & remains of record before the Judges of said Court, That Sophrona Bort Widow of Lieut. Nicholas Bort, a Bort who was in the Revolutionary Service, died at Senoye in the County of Madison in said State on the 21 st day of November 1836 and that she left seven Children her surviving now living whose names are as follows viz: Nancy Colby, George Bort, John Bort, Henry Bort, Nicholas M Bort, Eliza Bort Bort & Barnhart A Bort -
I, John Carpenter Clerk of the said Court of Common Pleas in & for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Nicholas M Bort Administrator of Sophrona Bort for a pension under the act of Congress of 1836 -
In testimony whereof I have here- unto set my hand & seal of office this 1 st day of June 1846
John Carpenter Clerk By H. D. Freeman & P (Clerk Absent)

I Phillipe Braun do certify that I am in the age of eighty two years, & that I was well acquainted with Lieut. Nicholas Bort in the revolutionary war, & since untill he N. Bort died in Onondaga Co. in the year of 1825 or 1826, and that the said Lieut. N. Bort did service in said war, & that I was in Johns Town Battle where the said Lieut. also was, and he was wounded in said Battle, and that he also was in the Battle called Onondaga or sometimes called Herkimer Battle, and that the said Lieut. Bort from my knowledge and what I heard them, he and his wife Sophronia and others say, and I do believe, to be correct, the said Lieut. N. Bort lived in that part at the Mohawk River then called Canajoharry some times and also Montgomery where the Tories and Indians made frequent Excursions, and often so that the said Lieut. N. Bort, as an officer being feeling warm in defence of his bleeding Country, was continually on the alert guarding against the Tories and Indians frequently had to leave his wife and Children to shift for themselves, and he take his equipment such as a small gun hung by a strap, sword and spontoons, making his man and be gone, for the space of four or  many weeks, he was kept on the alert, moreover the Maiden name of Lieut. N. Bort's wife was Sophronia Myers and she had something like Eleven years after the death of her husband, N. Bort, and that they raised a family of Eleven Children & they both died with their son Henry Bort, now of Madison Co. in the Town of Lisle, further this Dependent saith not Oct 13th 1845
Signed in the presence of Isaiah N. Willcox
Philip his Braun mark
This is to certify I am acquainted with Phillipe Braun the above witness, and recommend his character to be good for truth and veracity Isaiah N. Willcox Justice

By Hoback County ss
On the thirteenth day of Oct r in the year 1845 Personally appeared before me Isaiah M c Willcox a justice of the peace of the said county, Philip Baum and being duly sworn by me made the within deposition and acknowledged the same before me to be true. Isaiah M c Willcox justice

State of New York, } Herkimer County, ss. }
I, ERWIN A. MUNSON, Clerk of the County of Herkimer, do certify that Isaiah N. Willcox Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the proof or acknowledgement of the annexed instrument in writing and endorsed thereon, was at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgement a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, dwelling in the said county, and duly authorized to take the same; and that I am well acquainted with his hand-writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said certificate to be his genuine signature.
In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said county.
October 18. 1845
E. A. Munson Clerk
The above is a copy of the foregoing certificate of proof in the cause 1845

No 6th
Calif. 1/2 Linnunlaulusta

State of Kentucky
Madison County, ss
James W. Kyre
I do hereby certify that at a session of the said Court held before me at Moreauville in said County on the seventeenth day of June 1845 - It was proved by the addition of testimony satisfactory to said Court that Nicholas Port alias Nicholas Barth was a pensioner of the United States, that he died in the County of Frankfort in said State on the fourteenth day of May in the Year 1824 That he left a widow his surviving named Sophronia Port who died in the town of Senoia in the said County of Madison - on the twenty fifth day of November 1836 And I further certify that Nicholas Port is appointed Administrator sole of the said Sophronia Port duly qualified in every respect to act in that Capacity -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this fourteenth day of June 1845 -
James W. Kyre surrogate

W. 4th
Henry Beck off Quail
Says he was at President Persse's - much hand been state, note and and rolls Iowa and Rev. - May be 15th '28

Lab of Records 3 Madison County, Pa. Henry Bert of Lenox in said County aged sixty three years being duly sworn deposes and says that he is a son of Nicholas Bert and Sophronia Bert, who were sometimes called Barth in the German language. That this deponent resided with his parents, and they with him until his parents died. That his father in his lifetime received a pension from the United States for a service rendered in the Revolutionary war. That his father said Nicholas Bert served in the Revolutionary war as a Lieutenant and had a Lieutenant's Commission, and as this deponent was also always with him served as a adjutant. That his father in his lifetime kept in his own hand written in the German language a family record in which he recorded their marriage, births, &c. That according to said record and which record was at all times used and referred to as the family record and by which it appeared that the marriage of his father and mother took place in the year 1767. That his father usually wrote his name in the German language Nicholas Barth. That at the time of his father's death there was due him for arrears of pension about four teen months pay. That after his death his widow the said Sophronia Bert had papers prepared and sent to draw the said arrears, and owing to some defect in the papers as alleged she did not draw the money. That his mother the said Sophronia Bert died on the 21 st day

November 1836. — That the said family record was in the possession of this deponent some time last fall when he handed the same to his brother Nicholas Bort, administrator of the said Sophia's estate, who took the same forward with other papers to the pension office since which this deponent has not seen it.
That this deponent heard father in his life time speak of service in the Revolutionary war. He spoke of the several Engagements in which he had been present, of Col. Clyde, Col. Wallis, Capt. Cleveland, also of Col. Black, and of the officers.
That his father the said Nicholas Bort died on the seventeenth day of May in the year 1824.
That he has seen his father, Lieutenant, commissary and his uniform, sword & epaulettes, that he has heard his father say that he was for two or three years, mostly engaged in his country, service and could not attend to his farming business, and his farm run down and he was compelled to sell it and that he has heard his mother say the same, and that a certain portion of said family record, relating to father's birth is missing.
Subscribed & sworn to this 17 th June 1825 before me, William E. Fiske, Justice of the Peace.
I certify that I am well acquainted with Henry Bort and that his character for truth and veracity is good.
William E. Fiske J.P.

State of New York Madison County Clerk's Office } I Zadock T. Puelly clerk of said county do hereby certify that William E Fish Esq whose name is subscribed to the annexed affidavit & certificate was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in said county duly elected and qualified and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe the signature of said Justice to each of the said affidavit & certificate is genuine Given under my hand and the seal of said County this 17 th day of June 1845 Z. T. Puelly Clerk

State of New York Oswego County ss }
Rudolph Brundorf of Hastings in the said county being duly sworn before Henry F. Storer a justice of the peace in and for the said county deposes and says that the annexed is his family record and is correct and true, and that his own name and date of his birth in said record , was taken from his Father's family record, and that the annex- ed record was made more than 24 years ago. Deponent further says that he recollects to- wards the close of the revolutionary war the family of Nicholas Bort who was reported to be an officer and was very active at that time in the service of his country, was also acquainted with Sophrona Bort (wife of said Nicholas Bort,) who was a daughter of Solomon Moyer sometimes called Myer, was also well acquainted with Catharine Bort and George Bort the two oldest children of the said Nicholas and Sophrona Bort, and will recollects going to school with them during the war, Catharine was older than this deponent and George some younger, was well acquainted with the family after the war, and went to school with the children and recollects that John Bort then went to school, Deponent is a son of Jacob Brundorf who was a Captain and thinks Nicholas Bort was a Lieutenant under his Father as it was then said, Deponent and said Bort resided in the Mohawk valley when they were much troubled with Tories and in- dians and deponent will recollects that said Nicholas Bort was in the service most of the

time for the last 4 years of the war and was then informed and believes that he was in the most part of the time from the commencement of the war, the families of Nicholas Bort and Jacob Diep- endorf (Father of Respondent) were very intimate during the war and part of the time resided together in Fort Plank (so called,) and lived near each other several years after the war and were always very intimate the and further this deponent says not subscribed and sworn this 7 th day of January 1846
Rudolph Berendorf
Henry D. Storer Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that I have been acquainted with the above named Rudolph Berendorf for a number of years and that he is of a sound mind & his character for truth and veracity is good
Henry D. Storer Justice of the Peace
State of New York Oswego County Clerk's Office I, John Campen, Clerk of the County of Oswego & Clerk of the County Court herein do hereby certify that Henry D. Storer Esq. whose name is subscribed to the above Certificate & Subpoena affidavit was at the date of said Certificate & Subpoena a Justice of the Peace in & for said County, dwelling in said County & duly elected & qualified to act as such. And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice & truly believe his signatures to said Subpoena & Certificate are genuine.
Witness my hand & the seal of said County this 8 th day of January 1846
John Campen Clerk

Elizabeth Devendorf was born the 1 st day of November in the year of our Lord 1795
Margaret Devendorf was born the 7 th day of August in the year of our Lord 1777
A Son was born the 25 th day of September in the year of our Lord 1771 and depart- ed this life the next day
Peter Devendorf was born the 22 nd day of December in the year of our Lord 1766
Rudolph Devendorf was born the 7 th day of Mar- ch in the year of our Lord 1772 and married Barbara Thumb 30 th day of Dec in the year of our Lord 1793 Barbara Devendorf wife of Rudolph Deve- ndorf was born the 11 th day of February in the year of our Lord 1774.
Joseph Devendorf was born the 21 st day of February in the year 1683
Katharine Devendorf was born the 12 th day of June in the year of our Lord 1805
Chauncey Devendorf was born the 27 th day of October in the year of our Lord 1807
Harvey Devendorf was born the 16 th day of January in the year of our Lord 1811
Due on the 20 th day of August 1824 Harriet Devendorf was born the 21 st day of May in the year of our Lord 1812
Barbara Devendorf was born the 6 th day of July in the year of our Lord 1811
Mary Devendorf was born the 21 st day of March in the year of our Lord 1817
Lewis Devendorf was born the 26 th day of January in the year of our Lord 1812

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 16852
Sophrona Best Widow of Nicholas Best Lieut Genl War
Act: July 4 th 36
Index:—Vol. a , Page 74
[Arrangement of 1870.]