Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23,583, Adam Bellinger, New York.

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Bellinger, Adam Lena G.
No. 2 3,583
CONTENTS

5027 John Nash Adams John Billingsley Adams Adams
N.Y. who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 30 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848 July 1 April 1848
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th day of Dec r 1848 and sent to
Hon H.S. Walbridge House of Reps
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 9, 1848, Page 16 Vol. 1

11287
Lena G. Bellingham
N.Y.
Act July 7 th 38
Memo 1786
July 4 th 84
A.
L G
Bradford Co. Orisk Seneca Co.

Declaration
KS
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 28th July, 1840, entitled an act to increase the pension of certain widows of soldiers of the Revolution, I do hereby make the following declaration before me, personally known to me to be the person described in and who is the person entitled to the benefits of said Act.
State of New York County of Albany ss. On this 9th day of July 1840 personally appeared Lena G. Bellingr, known to me to be the person described in and who is the person entitled to the benefits of said Act, and acknowledged that she is the widow of the late Adam Bellingr, who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, and who was at the time of his death entitled to a pension from the United States for services rendered during said war. She further states that she was married to said Adam Bellingr near Little Falls, on the Mohawk River, in the year 1806, and that he died on the 22nd day of September, 1822, at the age of 82 years. She also states that she was at the time of his death 40 years of age, and that she has been since his death a resident of the County of Albany, State of New York. She further states that she is not entitled to any other pension from the United States, and that the facts stated in her application are true to the best of her knowledge, information and belief.
Yours Affectionately Lena G. Bellingr
Lena G. Bellingr mark
I certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original now on file in my office, and that the same has been compared with the original and found to be a true and correct copy.
Lena G. Bellingr is a respectable person, and that the facts stated in her application are true to the best of her knowledge, information and belief, and that she is not entitled to any other pension from the United States.
James Wilson Judge
State of New York
No. 3.
County of Albany ss. Personally appeared Lena G. Bellingr, known to me to be the person described in and who is the person entitled to the benefits of said Act, and acknowledged that she is the widow of the late Adam Bellingr, who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, and who was at the time of his death entitled to a pension from the United States for services rendered during said war. She further states that she was married to said Adam Bellingr near Little Falls, on the Mohawk River, in the year 1806, and that he died on the 22nd day of September, 1822, at the age of 82 years. She also states that she was at the time of his death 40 years of age, and that she has been since his death a resident of the County of Albany, State of New York. She further states that she is not entitled to any other pension from the United States, and that the facts stated in her application are true to the best of her knowledge, information and belief.

over during the War of the Revolution, and that he served in that War as a Soldier; that he died in the Fall in September 1822, eighteen hundred and twenty two, leaving as his widow the said
Lena G. Bellinger who still remains her widow - Subscribed and sworn before me The 9 day of July - 1844
Ann Eve + Bellinger
Danus Gilson S.P.
I certify that the within and above named Ann Eve Garter is a respectable person -
No 3.
Danus Gilson S.P.
State of New York
County of Orleans S.S. Personally appeared before the subscriber a sister of the place in and for said County Jacob Bellinger of Shelby in said County aged sixty nine years after being sworn according to law, deposeth and saith, that widow
Lena G. Bellinger, who is applying for a pension, as the widow of Adam Bellinger, is the deponent's mother; and that the said Adam Bellinger was the deponent's father; and that the deponent is the sixth child of his said father and mother; that he has from a child been informed and believed, that his said father had been engaged in the War of the Revolution; this deponent can well recollect, that his eldest sister sister was a grown woman when he was a little child; that his said father died in the Fall of 1822, eighteen hundred and twenty two, leaving as his widow the said widow Lena G. Bellinger who still remains a widow.
Lena G. Bellinger
Subscribed and sworn before me The 9 day of July - 1844
Danus Gilson S.P.
I certify that the above named Jacob Bellinger is a respectable person -
Danus Gilson S.P.
State of New York S.S.
County of Orleans S.S. Personally appeared before the subscriber a sister of the place in and for said County, Nicholas Smith of Shelby in said County, aged sixty one years, after being sworn according to law, deposeth and saith, that he has for forty seven years been acquainted with widow
Lena G.
Bellinger, and her late husband Adam Bellinger late a Soldier in the War of the Revolution, on whose account she is applying for a pension; that she is the identical person who was the wife of the said Adam Bellinger, at the time of acquaintance of this deponent; that this deponent resided for several months in the family of the said parties, when he was fourteen years of age; that the said parties had as the legal fruit of their marriage at that time, three children, two of whom were evidently then children at and from that time, and from their size from his own and from his age at the time of residence in the family of the said parties, and from a comparison of his age and the eldest child of the said parties; that the eldest child

of the said John fifty two or fifty three years of age and might not be then alive younger than this deponent, but this deponent was then heard the said Adam Bellinger talk of services served in the War of the Revolution, from his first engagement with him up to the date of his death, and that this deponent has reason to believe and does confidently believe that the said Adam Bellinger served in the War of the Revolution and that he was the identical person and soldier who served in the War of the Revolution under that name, that the said Adam Bellinger died in the fall of 1822 eighty four years of age having two children as his widow the said Lena E. Bellinger who still remains my widow.
Subscribed and sworn before me This 9 day of July 1844
C. S. [Signature]
James Gilson J.P.
I certify that Nicholas Smith who executed the foregoing deposition is a respectable person -
James Gilson J.P.
State of New York
vs.
County of Ulster ss. Personally appeared before the Subscriber a sister of the plaintiff in and for said County, Daniel Timmerman, to me known to be the person described in and who executed the foregoing deposition, and acknowledged that he executed the same as his free act and deed.
said to be Lena E. Bellinger and her late husband Adam Bellinger who was a soldier in the War of the Revolution, and with the family of the said parties, and now over since that time continued his residence in Ulster County. That the said official for a session the said Lena E. Bellinger is the identical person who was the wife of the said Adam Bellinger and that her acquaintance of this deponent and more than fifty years since that he was constantly well acquainted with their family with the children of the said parties and from all recollection that the eldest child a daughter to wit was out probably years younger than this deponent. He grew up with or near them, and from this fact and in consequence he is at a loss as to the exact date, only that he has heard from a very old man the said Adam Bellinger in a talk of his services  or at least once  the Revolution  the Revolution  as a soldier  as a soldier  and of his  and of his  services  services when he almost perished with him was reported to have that the said Adam Bellinger was the identical person and soldier who served in the War of the Revolution and that he died in the fall of 1822 eighty four years of age and twenty two children as his widow the said Lena E. Bellinger who still remains my widow.
Subscribed and sworn before me This 9 day of July 1844
Daniel Timmerman
James Gilson J.P.
I certify that the above named Daniel Timmerman is a respectable person -
James Gilson J.P.
Note the words, said to be, above the seventh line from the top in Daniel Timmerman's deposition and the words, probably, above the fourteenth line from the top and the words, or at least once, above the sixteenth line from the top and the words, was reported to have, above the nineteenth line from the top and the words, or about that time, above the twenty fourth line from the top were all added interline before signing. Truly July 8th 1844.
James Gilson J.P.

State of New York Seneca County, Clerk's Office } ss. I, Elijah Dana Clerk of said County Do hereby Certify that James Gilson, Esquire before whom the within & foregoing Depositions & oaths purport to have been made & taken, & whose name is subscribed to the within & foregoing Certificates of marriage & also to the Certificate or note of intermarriage or connection, was at the date of said Deposition, Oaths & Cer- tificates a Judge of the County Courts of said County of Seneca, & also a Justice of the Peace in & for said County, duly Commissioned & sworn, as such Judge & duly sworn & sworn as such Justice, that his term of Office as such judge commenced on the 18 th day of April 1843, and will expire in five years from that date, that his term of office as such Justice commenced on the 12 th day of April 1843 & will expire on the 31 st day of December 1844, & that I am well acquainted with the hand wri- ting & signature of the said James Gilson, and verily believe that the signa- ture subscribed to said Depositions & Certificates, are his genuine signatures.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed my Official Seal at Albany in said County this 6 th day of August. A.D. 1844
E. Dana Clerk
25
Adad Gory Esq.
Chas
Seneca Co.
A.
July 4th
Memo 1786
Act July 7
N.Y.
1788
Seneca Co. Bellevue
11537

✓ 11.287
Lena G Bellinger &c widow of Adam,
MS
Acct July 1838.
Married 1781
Husband died 1822
Adm o of Mrs. private $30 per annum Comg 4 March 1834
Acct
38
43844
48, endg 5 April
1848. Payable to Robert Garter, Adm o for the benefit of Ann Garter,
Elizabeth Hall
Catharine Wetherwax &
Christiana Wetherwax
only surviving children
Now H. S. Walbridge
Prof R.
Albany

State of New York } County of Orleans } ss The County Judge and Surrogate of the said county of State at a Surrogate Court held in my office in in said County on the 8 th day of December 1851. I do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence was then exhibited to said court that Lena G Bellinger (widow of Adam Bellinger deceased) who had made application for a pension from the state of New York, died a widow on the first day of April 1848 eighteen hundred and forty eight, leaving at her death the following named children her surviving and who still survive, being her only children her surviving and that each of them is over the age of twenty one years, to wit - Ann Garter, Elizabeth Hall, Christiana Wetherwax Catharine Wetherwax. I further certify that Robert Garter of Shelby Orleans County in the right of his wife Ann Garter above named as one of the children has been appointed administrator of the estate of the said Lena G Bellinger & that he is duly qualified to act as such, and further that he has appointed Arad Doy of Onondaga New York his agent and attorney to manage his claim
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official Seal, this 8 th day of December 1851
H. R. Curtis County Judge of Orleans Co N. Y. acting as Surrogate

Feb 45
E.
9/25
Arad Soy Ovid Sumner Co.
5.

State of New York County of Dutchess
ss. February 20 th 1895
Augustus Brunsme one of the acting judges of the county courts of said County, do hereby certify that I have examined an old book of the record of Marriages & Baptisms, said to have been kept by Rev Abraham Rosecrantz Grandfather of Abraham S Rosecrantz of Little Falls in said County, and said book is now in my presence - Said book is a manuscript book bound in parchment - And I certify that I am fully satisfied of the fact of the genuineness of the said book as being what it purports to be, a record of Marriages & Baptisms, the old book which was kept by the Rev Abraham Rosecrantz - That in said book is the record of the follow- ing marriage. viz. "1786. 31 st October Adam Bellinga and Lena J. Kinnerson" and that said record has every appearance of having been made and entered at the time of the date of said marriage as there entered - Augustus Brunsme one of the judges of the County Courts of Dutchess County

December 19, 1935
Adam Bellinger-W.23538 BA-J/AWF
Mr. Leslie A. Frye 44 South Main Street Gloversville, New York.
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Adam Bellinger, pension claim, W. 23538.
The data furnished herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, W. 23538, based upon the service of Adam Bellinger in the Revolutionary War.
The date and place of birth of this soldier are not given, nor are the names of his parents stated.
While a resident of Herkimer County, New York, on the Mohawk River, Adam Bellinger was in the boating service, no dates of this service given. He served from sometime in 1778 or 1779 as private at various times in the New York Troops under Captains Jacob Diffendorf, Peter Suits, Joseph House, Colonels Samuel Clyde and Peter Waggoner, was in the battle of Johnstown and on the "Mohawk frontier" to protect the inhabitants, continued in the service until the close of the war.
Adam Bellinger married, October 31, 1786 near Little Falls on the Mohawk River, Lena G. Zimmerman. They were married at her father's house (names of her parents not given), by the Reverend Abraham Rosecrantz of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church.
Adam Bellinger died in September, 1822 or 1823

in Shelby, Orleans County, New York.
His widow, Lena G. Bellinger, was allowed pension on her application executed July 9, 1844, at which time she was seventy-seven years of age and living in Shelby, New York. She died April 1, 1848 in Orleans County, New York.
Their eldest child, Betsey, was born about the year 1790; their fifth child, Ann Eve, was born about the year 1798, she in 1844 was living in Shelby, New York, then signed "Ann Eve Garter"; their eighth child, Jacob, was thirty-nine years of age in 1844, then a resident of Shelby, New York.
The following children survived their mother: Ann Garter, Elizabeth Hall, Christiana Wetherwax, and Catharine Wetherwax.
Robert Garter of Shelby, New York, husband of the above named Ann Garter, was in 1851 appointed administrator of the estate of the widow, Lena G. Bellinger.
There are no further data in this claim concerning their children.
Margaret Reid or Reed, sister of the widow, Lena G. Bellinger, was eighty years of age in 1844 and living in Wales, Erie County, New York. Nancy Eve Petrie, the soldier's sister, was eighty years old in 1848, then living in Herkimer County, New York.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

Aug. 29. 1905 History to Jennie B. French, Chicago, Ill.
1905, Oct 4- Mrs. French advised No further data. Morse.
1906 July 13- Hist to Mary E. Gill c
1915 Feb. 12. Hist. to Mrs. Edna M. Harwood
1923 March 28 Hist. to Mrs. C. B. A. Burkhardt. awt. See letter in class
William Feeter or Vetter - S. 13013.
1935- Dec. 18- Hist. to Leslie A. French
Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 23588
Jenna A. Bellinger
wid. of
Adam Bellinger
Phila. Pa. Mar.
Act Feb 2 nd 1848.
Index: Vol A , Page 551
[Arrangement of 1870.]

9.127 New York Albany Mrs. G. Bellinger decd widow of Adahm who was a private in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 30 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th day of Dec r 1851 and sent to
Hen H. S. Walbridge House of Reps
[Acts of March 3, 1843, & June 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 2 Page 261

11.232
New York Albany Lena G. Billinger decd widow of Adam Billinger who died in the year 1822 of Orleans in the State of N. Y. who was a Private in the Comp y commanded by Captain  of the Regt commanded by Col  in the Revolution war for 9 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 30 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th day of December 1837 and sent to Hon A. S. Walbridge Arrears to the 4th of House of Reps Semi-annual allowance ending
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act July 7, 1838. }
Recorded by  Vol  Page 531 Book 

11-287,
Lena G. Bellinger
14 N.Y.
Suspended Let. to Arad Joy Nov. 1. '44 " Do do Jan'y. 22. '45 " Do do April 21. '45 (let to Hon. E. Blackman Oct - 14. '48 Let. to Ira H. Packard. Oct. 26/49 Hon. D. Wilmot 3rd H. 1850 Act July 7 38

State of New York, } Herkimer County, ss. }
I, ERWIN A. MUNSON, Clerk of the County of Herkimer, do certify that Augustus Brandes Esquire, whose name is sub- scribed to the certificate of the proof or acknowledgement of the annexed instru- ment in writing and endorsed thereon, was at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgement a Judge of the Dist. County Courts 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 be- lieve 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.
February 24, 1845
E. A. Munson Clerk "

THE SPACE ABOVE IS RESERVED FOR POSTMARK.
POSTAL CARD.
THE SPACE BELOW IS FOR THE ADDRESS ONLY.
Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

Carthage Ill. July 2 1909.
Sir,
Can you tell me if Adam Ballinger received a pension from serving in the Revolutionary war. if so can you give me the date of his birth and when he died and where he was born.
Respectfully Mrs. Mary E. Gill

O. W. AND N. DIVISION.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
July 7, 1906.
Searched by Gill
Original No. _____
Certificate No. _____
Claimant, _____
Soldier, Adam Ballinger
Service, _____ Rev. War.
Remarks: No U.W. Inv. or Wid. No U.W. Rej.
Try to Wid. 23,583.
_____ Chief of Division.

Lend G Bellinger, widow of Adam Bellinger an applicant from N.Y. under law of 1838, the marriage is admitted, proof of the identity of the soldier was required, & furnished, but a pension refused

The affidavit of Frederick Meyer, in the case of Lena G. Bellinger, widow of Adam Bellinger, is not satisfactory to identify her husband with the soldier bearing his name
Dec 14 '48 to whom the several pay certificates, as exhibited by the records in the Comptroller's Office at New-York were issued. This witness did not, agreeably to his own declaration serve under any of the Officers named in the Comptroller's certificate. The testimony of those who were with Bellinger will be required to establish this claim.

1847. Her husband's age and his character as a revolutionary soldier should be clearly established. The date of her death
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widow's pension, we cannot allow the claim of Mary Wooster at the rate of $96 per Ann. the same that her husband received under the Act of 18th March, 1818.
Mary Wooster's certificate is herewith, returned.
I have the honor to be Sir, Very respectfully,

Pension Office, July 3 d 1850.
Sir:
The claim of Lena G. Bellenger, widow of Adam Bellenger, under Act 7 th July 1838, has been allowed by the Secretary of the Interior, for nine months service as a private, but before certificate of pension can be issued, she should make a declaration under Act 2 d February 1848.
I have the honor to be, Very Respectfully, Your Ob dt Serv t
J. S. Edwars

St. Joseph Co. St. of Michigan October 17 th 1849
James L. Edwards Esq
Sir I wish to make some inquiries concerning an application for a pension by Lena Bellinger as a widow of Adam Bellinger deceased
Said papers were made out to S. M. Drury of Canandaigua St. of N. York the first time as near as I can learn in 1846, but miscarried from some cause; they were referred by said Drury. The papers were then renewed in the fall of 1847 or Spring of 1848 and money furnished by said Drury to pay expenses since then they have not been able to obtain any information as to the result of said papers and it is supposed by the parties concerned that said Drury has drawn the money on the same
If that is the case I wish you to inform me as soon as convenient also the amount drawn by said Drury and when. If you will do me the favor to answer the above inquiries it will confer a great favor on the unfortunate and afflicted
Your Most obed Servt
Ira F. Packard
Wam
James L. Edwards
Com of Pensions Home Department D.C.
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was of the Revolution that this deponent saw him in actual service
H. Estlin Esq. At the Office of
I Her Majesty's Clerk of the County Court at Bristol that John Green whose name is subscribed to the annexed affidavit and Certificate the of Sedgwick Mayor and Mary Ann Peter was at the time of taking such affidavit and the signing of said Certificate a justice of the Peace in and for said County dwelling in said County and duly sworn and qualified as such justice and that I am well acquainted with his handwriting and I only believe that the signature thereto attached is his genuine signature.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court at the Minor B's 20 day of November A.D. 1845.
Her Majesty's Clerk
ESTLIN

State of New York }
County of Herkimm } ss
Godonick Mozer after being duly sworn deposes & says that he is Eighty nine years of age & a pensioner of the United States that during the war of the Revolution this deponent was personally acquainted with Adam Bellinger the late husband of Linda E. Bellinger (herself an applicant for a pension) that this deponent is personally knowing to the fact of the said Adam Bellinger having served in the war of the Revolution that this deponent saw him in actual service & knows that the said Adam Bellinger was a resident during the Revolution, of the Military beat of Col. Collyde & Col. Waggoner & that this deponent was well well acquainted with the people generally at that time & that he knew of no other person of the name of Adam Bellinger than the person above named & that he must have performed any & all service in that Military beat under the name of Adam Bellinger.
Subscribed & sworn before me
this 7 th day of November 1848 }
John Green Justice of the Peace
his Godonick X Mozer mark
John Green Justice
I certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Godonick Mozer, that he is a highly respectable person of apparent sound mind & good memory as to past events & good intellect but is unable to write his name having never learned to write.
John Green Justice of the Peace

State of New York County of Herkimer } fs
Nancy Eve Petrie whom I certify is a respectable person after being duly sworn according to law deposes and says that the late Adam Bellinger the late husband of Lind. G. Bellinger (herself an applicant for a pension) was this deponants brother that this deponent is eighty years of age that she recollects that her said brother Adam Bellinger did serve in the war of the Revolution that this deppent well recollects of his leaving home to join the Army & of his absence from home from time to time whilst in the Army & in the Revolutionary Service & of the joy it brought the family on his returning home from the Army from time to time as he did. That this deponant knew of no other Adam Bellinger in all that section of country at that time & that he must have performed all the service in his name performed by any person from that section of country & that the said Adam Bellinger resided within the Military beat of Col. Collyde & Col. Waggorn
Nov 148
Subscribed & sworn before me this 21 st day of October 1848 }
In Nancy Eve } Petrie mark
John Green Justice of the peace
Moses Tabor
John Green Justice
I certify that the above named Nancy Eve Petrie is of sound mind & of apparent good memory & of intelligent intellect & seems familiar with & to remember accurately Revolution-ary events that she cannot write her name having never learned to write
John Green Justice of the peace
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Revolutionary
Power.
Lena Bellinger
suspended Jan Adams 48
New York
set 11
filed 16 July 1952
by P. E. Hassler

POWER OF ATTORNEY
For ascertaining whether any increase or arrears of Pension are due the Widow or heirs of Revolutionary Pensioners, &c.*
STATE OF New York
COUNTY OF Orleans
L. Simmerman Ann Garter
} a justice of the Peace
Be it known that before me
personally appeared
aged 52 years, who being duly cautioned and
then sworn in due form of law, states that she is the daughter of Adam Bellenger
who was a Revolutionary Soldier in the State of New York
and that he died on the 27 th day of Sept 1823 and that my mother, named
Yanq died on the 1 st day of Apr 1848 and that they were
married on the  day of in the year 1782 and that they were residents of Herkimer
in the State of New York and that they resided there about 30 years, and that
they resided in Orleans County at their death and that furthermore I BY THESE
PRESENTS, constitutes, appoints, and fully empowers and authorizes, irrevocably and with powers of substitution, F. E. HASSLER, of Washington city, D. C., as my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name and stead, to examine into, to prosecute, to demand, and to receive from the U. S. Government and State officers my rights in all and in any manner of claim for increase or arrears of Pension or Land, that may be due me as Heir of Adam Bellenger who died leaving the same undrawn, as in right of law I may be entitled.
In witness whereof, she has on this 11 th day of Sept 1852, hereunto signed my name, and affixed my seal.
Ann Garter
Witness: L. Simmerman Witness: O. S. Garter
Signed, sealed, acknowledged, and sworn to before me: and I further certify, that Ann Garter has always by the community been known as the daughter of Adam Bellenger
Dated on this 11 th day of September 1852.
Louis Simmerman J. P.
61 of ... COUNTY of ... } to wit:
I hereby certify, That ... Esq., before whom the foregoing affidavits and acknowledgment were made, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature above written is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the ... County Court , this 10 th day of Sept one thousand eight hundred and 52
C. M. ... Clerk.
* If a Widow applies, state "the date of marriage, and date of death of her husband." † State under what act pensioned, or when pension commenced, if a pensioner—and amount of pension.

State of New York
Herkimer County ss. Abraham G. Rosecrantz of the town of Little Falls in said county being duly sworn said that he is aged sixty years & has always resided in said town and that he is the only son of George Rosecrantz Esq. late of said town & county deceased and is grand son of the Reverend Abraham Rosecrantz minister of the Dutch Reformed Protestant Dutch church of that vicinity before during & after the the Revolutionary war until his death according to the current testimony of deponents parents & the inhabitants of this section of the country. That deponents father died in December 1838 and shortly before his death he gave to deponent to keep a book of records of marriages & baptisms made as he said by deponents said grandfather as such minister, which in this deponents father then so often upon told deponent had been entrusted to him by his said father and which book of records deponent remembers from his earliest recollection to have seen in his fathers house & always spoken of as the records of marriages & baptisms of deponents grandfather & believed to be so and the only book of his records saved from destruction in said war. That in said book of records is entered in the same hand writing of other parts of the same book of records of marriages baptisms in the words & figures following in a a a a a "1786-31" October Adam Bellinger and Lena G. Tim- ="merman" That this is the whole of the said record as to the marriage of these persons. That next after this entry on the same page are four marriages entered of the 28 th of November of that year & next previous is entered on same page one marriage on the 21 st September & two on the 19 th of September of that year all in the same handwriting and which this deponent always understood was informed as deponent believes this is the proper handwriting of deponents said grandfather - other entries of other marriages precede & succeed the above in

fair regular order and the whole of said book of records bears intrinsic evidence of the truth of what is therein written, Deponent saith that his said father was in his life time for many years a justice of the peace & judge of the court of common Pleas of said county of Herkimer and a member of the house of the Assembly and of the Senate of the Legislature of the State of New York at different periods & further saith not.
Abraham G. Rosecrantz
June 14/46
B.
State of New York Herkimer County, ss. I being one of the justices of the peace in & for the County of Herkimer aforesaid do certify that on this fifteenth day of June 1846 personally came before me Abraham G. Rosecrantz to me well known to be the person described in & who signed the foregoing deposition, & being by me duly sworn did depose & say that the facts stated in the said deposition are true of his own knowledge except those stated on information & belief & as to those parts he believes the believes them to be true & that said Abraham is a man of truth & his statements entitled to belief.
Henry Thompson Justice of the peace
State of New York } Herkimer County }
I certify that Henry Thompson Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken before me was on the day of the date thereof a justice of the peace in & for said County duly elected & qualified & that I am well acquainted with his handwriting & firmly believe his signature genuine - In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said County, July 23 d 1846.
Erwin A. Munn Clerk

State of New York
Eric Carantip personally appeared before the Subscriber a justice of the peace in and for said County Margaret Reed of Paris in said County aged eighty years & upwards, after being duly sworn according to law deposed to & saith that she was well acquainted with Adam Billinger before, during & after the revolutionary war that he lived during the revolution in the town that is now called Manheim, Herkimer County in this State, that she well remembers of his having served in the army of the United States in the said war at different times, that she remembers of having heard him say that rather than stand a draft he would volunteer that he went from home at differ- ent times with the avowed purpose of joining the United States army & troops that were stationed to protect the western frontier, that on his return and at other times she remembers of having heard him con- verse with others who were in the war, about serving in said war & that her memory does not enable her to give any particular date of his leaving home to join the army or any officers that he served under, that on the 31 st of October 1846 - Seventeen hundred eighty five the said Adam Billinger was married to her sister younger than her- self - Lena G. Zimmerman, by the Rev. Abraham Rosecrantz that she was present at the wedding at her sister's house and saw them married, that some years after this they removed to the town of Shells in Orleans County New York where Mr. Billinger died in 1822 & where his widow, my sister as above still lives
Subscribed & sworn before me this 22 day of July 1844 Eben Virgil. Justice of the Peace
Margaret his X Mark Reed
I certify that the above named Margaret Reed is a respectable person Eben Virgil. S.P.

State of New York Erie County ss
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I Manly Colton Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Elon Virgil Ezra whose name is subscribed to the within Certificate and Affidavit was at the time of subscribing the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly Elected and sworn and acting as
such, And further that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and am firmly believe his signatures affixed thereto to be his genuine Signatures
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said County and the Court of Common Pleas and set my hand this second day of August 1844 Manly Colton Clerk

Know all men by these presents That I Mrs Ann Bellinger Garter, of Shelby of the County of Orleans State of New York, for and in consideration of
do hereby make constitute, and appoint, S r Blanchard True & Washington City D C and Peter Saxe of Yates County & State aforesaid my true and lawful Attorneys, for me and in my name to examine all papers filed in any Department or Office of Government, upon which a Revolutionary Pension was granted to Lana G. Bellinger on account of the Revolutionary services of Adam Bellinger - and to obtain, by all lawful means, any and all additional amounts that may be due from the United States to said Lana G. or Adam Bellinger by virtue of said services, as in the Company of Capt t in the Regiment of _____ and in the
line of the forces of _____ And for good & sufficient reasons I do hereby Revoke & Cancel any & all other Powers of Attorney & authority which I may at any former time have given to any person or persons for the above specified purposes; and I do hereby vest the same irrevocably in my said Attorneys - said S r Blanchard True & Peter Saxe
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 19 th day of November in the year A.D. 1853
In presence of Isaac Bates W m H. Carpenter
Ann Bellinger Garter

State of New York } ss County of Orleans }
On this 21 st day of November in the year A.D 1853 personally appeared before me Darius M. ... a Justice of the peace in & for the County aforesaid duly authorized by law to administer oaths & take acknowledgments in & for the County aforesaid Mrs. Ann Bellinger Galt the subscriber to the within and acknowledged the within Power of Attorney to be her free act & deed for the purposes therein mentioned; & made oath in due form of law that she is personally interested as an heir
STATE OF NEW YORK, } ss. I hereby Certify that D. H. Dole Esq., own to ORLEANS COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE, } before whom the annexed instrument was proved or acknowledged, was at the date of same a Justice of the peace in and for said County, duly authorized to take the same; and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe that his signature subscribed to said Certificate of proof or acknowledgment to be genuine. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed my Official Seal, at Albion, this 23 day of Nov 1853 Dan H Dole Clerk.
Instrument - for a new Deed acknowledged Nov 2. 1848 - James Lewis admitted
Anna G. Bellinger = per Verity G Adam Power of Attorney By Ann Bellinger Her atty
LO 3 29a agreed in this way

State of New York } ss County of Orleans }
On this 21 st day of November in the year A.D. 1853 personally appeared before me Darius M. ... A Justice of the peace in & for the County aforesaid duly authorized by law to administer oaths & take acknowledgments in & for the County aforesaid Mrs. Anna Bellinger Gaster the subscriber to the within and acknowledged the within Power of Attorney to be her free act & deed for the purposes therein mentioned; & made oath in due form of law that she is personally interested as an heir (being a daughter) in said claim of Lana G. & Adam Bellinger And I further certify that she is personally known to me to be the identical individual represented D. W. Cook
Justice of the peace
Approved - for a new Deed - Jan. 2, 1848 - Jan. Lewis admitted
Lana G. Bellinger = per Cook of Adam Power of Attorney by Anna Bellinger Gaster
LO 3 28 1853 Spent in this are

Secretary of the Interior - care of Lena G. Bellinger,
Rev. Pension
1 - 23,583

Department of the Interior June 29 th 1850.
Sir
I herewith return to you the papers relating to the case of Lena G. Bellinger and am of opinion that the Claimant should be allowed a pension for the service of Adam Bellinger as indicated by the certificate of the Comptroller of New York
I remain
very respectfully
Your Ob t Serv t
T. Emory
J. L. Edwards Esq c
Commissioner of Pensions

Brief in the case of Sara Belkinger decd, widow of Adam, late of Orleans County and State of New York act 7 Feb 1838/40
Claim, ("original," or "for increase." )
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditional, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Record Proof of service & marriage.
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Name and residence of Agent. Wm W. Woodbridge Worth
S. Cole Examining Clerk.

Wallin

Department of the Interior June 29. 1850.
Sir,
I herewith return to you the papers relating to the case of Lena J. Bellinger, and am of opinion that the claimant should be allowed a pension for the service of Adam Bellinger as indicated by the certificate of the Comptroller of New York.
I remain very respectfully Your obedt. Servant Signed J. Ewing
J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions

March 3 rd 1845.
Adal ter case
Lena G. Bellinger
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Hon. J. L. Edwards Canal Pension Washington D. C.

Ovid Feb 26th 45
Dear Sir
I beg leave respectfully to enclose proof of the marriage of Lund G Bellinger, what more if anything is wanted in this case, I know not why the proof is not genuine. Respectfully
Your Most Ob t Serv t Abad Joy
Hon J L Edwards, Counl. of Pension Washington

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House of Representatives
Washington Jan'y 2 nd '48
Sir
I am informed I am lead to judge that in the case of Lund & Bellinger of New York, where can you reported upon Dec 14 - possibly you may not at the time have examined the 3 or 4 affidavits on file in that case, as you mention but one - It would seem that you required proof that Adam Bellinger his late husband was a resident within the beat of Col Clyde & Col Waggoner; I apprehend if you examine the 3 or 4 affidavits on file, you will admit at once, that good and sufficient proof of that fact has been made & filed, & that if you apply your own rule ("to require from the applicants positive proof of service from a temporary survivor, would, after the lapse of so many years, be to deprive many of them of the benefit of the law") you will unhesitatingly admit the justice of the claim & grant the poor widow a pension
at the request of Mr Joy
Yrs
J. B. Rome
E. S. Edwards Esq

Jan 21-45
John L. Edwards Camp of Purvis Washington A.C.

Ovid Jan. 15 th 1845
Dear Sir
May I be allowed respectfully to inform you that I mailed to you on the 20 th Aug t . further proof in the case of Lund G Bellingun, widow of Adam Bellingun, the proof then mailed, helps establish her Marriage & the identity of her Service, pardon me for referring you to this proof, as I heard you had not it before you, when you reported on her case to me under date of Nov 1 st last -
I ask you respectfully that in case the proof including Margaret Reed's deposition above referred to, does not establish the case, to please mail to me the deposition & certificate of marriage under oath of Abner G. Rosecrants, that I may get it duly authenticated, if you so require it - I ask no pension, if it is not justly due, but I believe it is justly due
Respectfully Yours Mont O. Lord Admiral
Hon J L Edwards Comm. of Pensions Washington D. C.

11287 Aug 23 rd 44.
NY July 7, 1838 Lena G. Balenyn
I John J. L. Edwards Coun. of Pres Washington D. C.

Ovid Augt 19th 1844
Hon W. L. Edwards
Court of Pensions
Dear Sir
I beg leave to inclose a pension application for Linda G Bellinger, with proof of B - also the Comptroller's certificate of the Service of Adam Bellinger - I never take the responsibility of stating that I know any cert from the Compt. referring to the person in question, but I may be allowed to suppose that in this case it does refer to her late husband's service, of that you are the judge, if she has before made application, she has greatly deceived me, for she declares she has not
I Am Respectfully Your Most Obt Servt Abra Loy

Aug 1844
D.
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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:
  1 st Dec. 1779 Adam Belling Join £ 1 17 4   5 th Dec. do do do 3 5 9   1 st Nov. 1780 do do 7 14 8   29 th Dec. do do do 3 18 3   31 st Dec. 1782 do do 7 11 0   24 0 0 
STATE OF NEW-YORK, COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, Albany, Augt 16 th —1844.
I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Book No. 3 & 4 — 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 Diffendorf in Col. Sam l Blyde Regt.   Second " " Joseph House " " " do "   Third " " Jacob Defendorf " " " do "   Fourth " " Joseph House " " " do "   Fifth " " Peter Nuts " " " Peter Waggoner "   Sixth " " " " " "   Seventh " " " " " "   Eighth " " " " " "   Ninth " " " " " "   Tenth " " " " " " 
Philip Thompson Ex Comptroller

369 Chicago Ave Chicago - Sept 28. 1905-
United States Commissioner of Pensions -
Dear Sir.
In the History of Waukegan County. page 51 I find the following - "Names of officers of the 4 th battalion - organized Aug 26 - 1875 -
Adams Bellinger 2 nd lieu - tenant 1 st Company - 5 th "

Company Peter Bellinger Captain." 731
on page 175, New York in the Revolution, I find - "lieutenant Adam Bellinger 2 nd regt Tryon County" -
and among the list of Pensioners and applicants for Pensions - The name of Peter Bellinger -
Will you kindly give me history or certificate of service of these two

soldiers - among the Rangers - I find "Tryon County Militia Rangers" Adam Bellinger -
Vol X Muster Rolls Pay Rolls, Certificates of Pay - Demands for Pay &c. in the Tryon County Militia - 1 st Regiment to 4 th Regiment - inclusive - Associated Exempts. Will yield valuable in- formation. Thanking you in advance for your Courtesy in answer- ing & hoping for a favorable - "soon" response believe me yours sincerely Jennie Bowen French -
Adams
Mrs W. H. French 369 Chicago Ave Chicago -
Ill -

OH. 369 Chicago Ave R Chicago Aug 7-1905
Commissioner of Pensions.
Dear Sir.
I find in the History of Waukesha Co - names of officers of the 4 th Battalion - organized Aug 26. 1775 with Adam Bellingr - 2 nd lieutenant 1 st Company - 5 th company Peter Bellingr, Captain.

Can you tell me where the battalion was organ- ized or anything about these two men?
In the event of your being unable to do so will you kindly tell me who to write to?
Thanking you in advance for your Courtesy believe me yours sincerely
Jennie Bowen French

Rev. War Section.
March 28, 1923.
Mrs. Carlie G. Allison Burkhart, Fowlerville, R. F. D. 3, Michigan. c/o Ervin Zwinok.
Madam;
You are herewith furnished the history of the only Adam Bellinger found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.
In the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 33538, Lena G. Bellinger, widow of Adam Bellinger, stated that her husband resided at Stone Arabia at enlistment, and served from 1778 or 1779 to the close of the War as a private under Captains Jacob Diffendorf, Joseph House and Peter Suits, Colonels Samuel Clyde and Peter Waggoner, New York troops, and was in the battle of Johnstown. He died in September 1822 or 1823.
Soldier married near Little Falls, New York, October 31, 1786, Lena G. Zimmerman, she was allowed pension on her application executed July 9, 1844, while a resident of Shel-

by, Orleans County, New York, aged seventy seven years. She died April 1, 1848.
There were several children, only names stated- Betsey, the oldest; Jacob aged 39 in 1844; Ann Eve, born 1798, married Robert Garter; Elisabeth Hall; Christiana Wetherwax; Catherine Wetherwax.
The only surviving children in 1851 were, Ann Eve Garter, Elisabeth Hall, Christiana Wetherwax and Cath- erine Wetherwax.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

COPY.
L.K.H.
July 14, 1906.
Mrs. Mary E. Gill, Carthage, Illinois.
Madam:-
In reply to your communication dated the 2nd instant, received the 5th, you are advised that in the papers in claim, Widow's File, #23,583, Lena G. Bellinger, widow of Adam Bellinger, stated that her husband resided at Stone Arabia, at enlistment and served from 1778 or 1779, to the close of the war as a Private under Captains Jacob Diffendorf, Joseph House and Peter Suits, Colonels Samuel Glyde and Peter Waggoner, Infantry New York troops, and was in the battle of Johnstown.
He married near Little Falls, New York, October 31, 1786, Lena G. Zimmerman, and died in September 1822; 23 date of his birth not shown.
His widow was allowed pension on an application executed July 9, 1844, at which time she was a resident of Shelby, Orleans county, New York, and seventy-seven years of age. She died April 1, 1848.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

Rej. #731. letter in that file, Peter P. Bellinger
She stated that her husband resided at Stone Arabia at enlistment and served as a Private from 1778 or 1779 to the close of the war under Captains Jacob Diffendorf, Joseph House and Peter Quits; Colonels Samuel Clyde and Peter Waggoner--and was in the battle of Johnstown. The claim was allowed for his service of nine months in the New York troops.
Soldier married near Little Falls, New York, October 31, 1786, Lena G. Zimmerman.
He died in September, 1822, and she died April 1, 1848.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Jennie Brown French, 369 Chicago Ave., Chicago, Ills.
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Lena G. Bellinger, widow of Adam Bellinger, applied for pension July 9, 1844, at which time she was a resident of Shelby, Orleans county, New York, and seventy-seven years of age.

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✓ Revolutionary War Pension #W-23583, Adam Bellinger, N. Y. Militia.
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Will you kindly advise me the Revolutionary War service record of Adam Bellinger as shown in the above mentioned pension record?
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Streator Club
Streator, Ill., Feb. 8, 1915.
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
I would like to inquire if Adam Bellinger of Tryon County, New York state, who was in the Revolutionary war and also War of 1812, received a pension from either war.
I am trying to establish the date of his birth and death, and that I might get some information from your records. If you have the date of his birth or death I would be very much pleased if you would send it to me or what other information you may have. If he died before his wife did she receive the pension and what was her name.
If he received a pension to what town was it sent.
Yours truly,
Mrs. Edna M. Harwood.
304 S. Monroe Street.
H. 23593 admiral of the fleet + formerly Tryon Co. NY