Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23,153, Matthew Carpenter, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York.
Carpenter, Matthew
8 23.153
CONTENTS

New York, 24.790
Matthew Carpenter
of Tioga in the State of New York who was a priv. of Drag. in the Comp'ty. commanded by Captain Woodhull of the Reg't commanded by Col. Woodhull in the N.Y. troops line for 2 years.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York, at the rate of 100 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7th day of March '34. and sent to Hon. E. Howells Secy of Rep't. War.
Arrears to the 4th of March, '34, $ 300.00 Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 Sept. '34 50.00 $ 350.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, { Act June 7, 1832 }
Recorded by Ele. Brown , Clerk. Book E, Vol. 4 Page 130

10,528. Matthew Carpenter Declaration Admitted Private Dredge 2 years Rev Robert Nov 21 st 1872 Gurdon Mass
Direct to the son of James Robinson Agent
Elmira, Tioga Co New York Hon E Howland Home Rep N.Y.

At a Court of Common Pleas held at the Court House in the Village of Elmira in and for the County of Tioga in the State of New York commencing on the fourth day of September 1832 Present — Hon Grant B. Baldwin First Judge Darius Bentey Joseph L Darling John N Dike & Elijah Shoemaker Esquires Judges
State of New York
Frioa County ss } On this 4 th day of September 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Judges aforesaid being a Court of record because made so by the Constitution and laws of the State, having hereunder a Clerk and Seal, now sitting Matthew Carpenter a resident of the Town of Emma in the County of Frioa and State of New York aged Seventy three years the twenty sixth day of the present month who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832.

The nature of the service was to act as express, spies, videttes and guards, and when necessary, as scouting parties - Each member of the Company found his own horse, arms, equipments and forage and was allowed one dollar per day for his services and subsistence - he continued in the service in the same Company till the summer of 1783 when the Company were all discharged by Capt Woodhull before named - During the said service the region of Country through which he passed and to which his operations were confined extended from the City of New York to Albany and along the frontier of Ulster and Orange Counties to the Delaware River - he was in the neighborhood of the City of New York soon after  when it was surrendered to the Enemy in September '76 - he was at the Battle of White Plains shortly after - he was at Esopus with Gen. Clinton when it was burnt in October '77 he was at Fort Washington when it was taken by the Enemy in November '76 - he was present at the taking and detention of the spy from the Enemy at New York on his way to Gen. Burgoyne at the Northward in '77 and saw the process and operation of obtaining from his body the "Silver ball" as it was called containing his instructions after he had swallowed it - he was at the taking of Stoney Point by Gen. Wayne in July 1779 - He has no documentary evidence of his said services but can prove them by Charles B. Buel

and in answer to the several interrogatories put to him by the Court he says that he was born in the town of New Cornwall in the County of Orange and State of New York on the 26th day of September in the year 1759 - that he has no record of his age but has obtained his knowledge of it from the tradition of the family believing that his name was originally inserted in the family Bible of his parents with the correct date of his birth and he distinctly recollects his age at the time of entering the service as before stated - that at the time he entered the service he lived at the place of his nativity - After the close of the Revolutionary War he continued to live there till the month of March 1793 when he settled at his present residence in Columbia where he has lived for the space of thirty nine years past - that he entered the service as a volunteer - that he was acquainted with Gen Clinton - Gen Sullivan  Col. Ralston  Col. Austin  Col. Hough  Col. H. H. H.  of Orange  Col. H. H. H.  in the  Col. H. H. H. and with General Washington - That he never received any other discharge than a verbal one from Capt Woodhull - That he would refer to his honor the first Judge of this Court to William Maxwell Esquire, Col. Selah Matthews and Captain B. H. H. as sayre all of Columbia aforesaid as persons who are acquainted with his reputation for truth and veracity and who can testify to their belief in the truth of the foregoing declaration - That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity save to the present and declares that his

name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State —
Sworn to & subscribed } Mr. Matthew Carpenter the day & year aforesaid } Green M. Tuttle clk
We Simon N. Jones & Bliggymann residing in South port and Thomas H. Cox well of Clinton, —
Hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Matthew Carpenter who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be nearly seventy three years of age; that he is generally reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion — Sworn and subscribed } Simon N. Jones the day and year aforesaid } Th. Maxwell Green M. Tuttle clk
State of New York } Tioga County ss } Elias Bartlett of Clinton in the said County of Tioga and State of New York aged seventy two years and upwards being duly sworn according to Law doth depose and say that in the spring of the year 1777 he this deponent enlisted into a Company of Light Horse in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary and commanded by Capt. Elias Woodhull and under the General orders of Governor George Clinton and

served as a private in the same Company till the summer of the year 1783; and this deponent further saith that Matthew Car- penter who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration was also a Private in the same Company with this deponent during all that period of time from 1777 to 1783 and faithfully performed the duties of a private of said Company during that term and was honorably dismissed the service at the close of the war; and this deponent further saith that the general nature of the service of said Company was patrolling, serving as express in conveying informa- tion and dispatches from one field officer to another - as spies and reconnoitering parties and some times as guards and sentinels - that the duties performed by the said Company were various according to the circumstances requiring them; and further that this deponent hath been intimately acquainted with the said Matthew Carpenter from the close of the Revolutionary war to the present time - Elenezer Scott sworn & subscribed - this 5 th day of Sept 1832 before me - Green M. Tuttle, Clerk.

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the Court further Certifies that it appears to them that Senion R. Jones who has signed the preceding Certificate is a clergyman resident in the Town of Southport and that Thomas Masswell who has well who has also signed the same is a Resident in Clinira and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit And the Court further Certifies that Ebenezer Bartlett whose Affidavit is appended to the foregoing declaration is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to full credit.
J. B. B. at dawn
First Jury
I Green M. Tuttle Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Matthew Carpenter for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 18th day of Sept r 1832.
Green M. Tuttle

In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Matthew Carpenter a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his ( or his widow's ) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau.
8.23.153
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Enlisted in the Spring 1776 & served monthly tours at various times until Fall 1778 3 1/2 years Private Jonathan Trumbull Jesse Woodhull N.Y.   Ebenezer Woodhull co. of Light Horse        
Battles engaged in, White Plains, Ft. Washington, Stony Point.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, New Cornwall, Orange Co. N.Y.
Date of application for pension, Sept. 4, 1832.
Residence at date of application, Elmira, Tioga Co. N.Y. from Mch. 1793.
Age at date of application, born Sept. 26, 1759 at New Cornwall, Orange Co. N.Y.
Remarks: he died about 1839. son Vincent M. Carpenter alive in 1851 - no other family data.
Respectfully,
Charles A. [unclear] for his uncle Charles Howell
Commissioner.

Revolution
1916 Mch. 30. Hist. to Chas. D. Metzger
23153 INVALID.
File No. 23,153
Matthew Carpenter
Res Rev War
Act: June 7 th 89
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 61
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Matthew Carpenter P.O. Box 32 New York
Carpenter
Ex by Mr. Wade Dec 11 - 1857

State of New York
Tompkins County ss
Vincent M Carpenter of lawful age, - being
first duly sworn according to law I depose that he is a son of the late Matthew Carpenter, who was a resident of Channing County N.Y. and a pensioner of the United States at the rate of $100 per annum, who died about the year 1839, and that H. B. Wade of Rose N.Y. is authorized and requested to investigate the claim to an increase of pension to which it is believed deponents said father was justly entitled,
Vincent M Carpenter
Sworn and subscribed before me this 22 nd day of Sept 1851
by Vincent M Carpenter
who I certify is a credible person
Chas B Drown J.P.
Tompkins County

1851 State of New-York.
Tompkins County Clerk's Office.
ss.
I, HORACE MACK, Clerk of said County, and also Clerk of the Courts in and for said County, do hereby certify, that Caleb B. Drake Esquire, before whom the preceding deposition was subscribed and sworn, and whose name appears to the Jurat thereto, was at the date of the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly elected, sworn, and authorized to act as such, and to take the same; and further, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of such Justice and verily believe that the signature to the preceding Jurat is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said County and Courts, at Ithaca, this Twenty Second day of September 1851.
H Mack Clerk.
Matthews Pons Owen
Benjamin
Ex by [unclear] [unclear]

Matthew Carpenter's Specification of services in the Rev. War

State of New York } Frioza County ss } Matthew Carpenter of Elmina in said County an applicant for a Pension under the Act of the 7 th of June 1832 being duly sworn deponeth and saith that being informed that it is required of him to state more specifically his services than he has in his original declaration or his amendment thereto he proceeds to give in detail such services as he can now remember and which were performed under the command of the same officers named in his said declaration; but this deponent wishes it expressly understood by the Department that for want of a distinct recollection he cannot narrate in detail even two thirds of the actual services which he performed during the Revolutionary War; and the length of such tours as he now sets forth he believes to be short of the time actually spent in their performance with the exception of the tour under the second head
According to his best recollection
 1. the first tour of his service was in the spring or fore part of the summer of the year '76 when he with a detachment of the Company were ordered to the west side of the Hudson River at the places then called Tappan and Wicwack - The British Vessels were at the same time lying in the River opposite those places - We remained here for one month and an half at least when we were relieved by the remainder of the Company and we returned home about the middle of June. or July We were then in 
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State of New York } Tioga County ss } Matthew Carpenter of Elmina in said County an applicant for a Pension under the Act of the 7 th of June 1832 being duly sworn deponeth and saith that being informed that it is required of him to state more specifically his services than he has in his original declaration or his amendment thereto he proceeds to give in detail such services as he can now remember and which were performed under the command of the same officers named in his said declaration; but this deponent wishes it expressly understood by the Department that for want of a distinct recollection he cannot narrate in detail even two thirds of the actual services which he performed during the Revolutionary War; and the length of such tours as he now sets forth he believes to be short of the time actually spent in their performance with the exception of the tour under the second head
According to his best recollection
 1. the first tour of his service was in the spring or forepart of the summer of the year '76 when he saith a detachment of the Company were ordered to the west side of the Hudson River at the places then called Tappan and Nyack - The British Vessels were at the same time lying in the River opposite those places - We remained here for one month and an half at least when we were relieved by the remainder of the Company and we returned home about the middle of June. or July We were then in 
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conjunction with the Militia of the County immediately ordered to surround the Sunnyside Mountain in which 60 or 70 Tories had made an encampment we succeeded in taking them - They had to be well guarded till they were tried, the deponent was two weeks at least in this service. This latter service should have been stated as having taken place previous to going to Pappan
2. About the first of August in this year (1776) we received orders to join the Army at Kingsbridge on the lines near the City of New York where we were encamped for a short time; but on account of the more easy procuring forage for our Horses were ordered into Westchester County and mainly employed as guards, scouts and spies - This expedition lasted three months and 17 days and we returned home about the last of November. Shortly after this the main body of our Company were detached and ordered to the Hudson River at a place called Smith's Clove and employed as guards and scouts; and while here received information by express that Gen. Washington had recrossed the Delaware and taken the Hessians - deponent was in this last mentioned service three weeks at least.
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In the course of the following winter (1777) our Company were ordered to search the County for Tories - was one month at least in the expedition - took many of them and confined them in Jail at Goshen - This service must have been performed between the middle of January and the last of February.
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In the Spring of this year (577) deponent with a Part of the Company were ordered to West Point - Deponent was one month in the expedition - was employed as guard and Scout and occasionally in labor upon the Post - In the Course of the summer Deponent was in another expedition of one month to the same place and the same kind of service which must have terminated about the first of August.
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Our Company were then ordered out by Detachments in four successive Quarters to the relief of Fort Montgomery - Deponent performed his two regular tours for himself and two tours as a substitute for his Uncle Charles Bower. Deponent was in this service without any interruption till the taking of this Fortress by the Enemy which he thinks was on the 7th of October; After which event such of our Company as were then on duty at this Post were ordered to encamp at New Windsor, two miles below Newburg where the Militia and such of the regular Troops who had escaped capture at the taking of the Fort also rendezvoused. We were then all ordered up the River for Esopus and when within three or four miles of it saw the Enemy set fire to the Town - We were then ordered to the Town of Hurley five miles back from the River where we encamped - George Clinton was along in this expedition.
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10.2 and Commanded. While at this last named place Taylor the spy was arrested who swallowed a silver bullet containing his instructions - he was here tried and hung - deponent got home the fore part of November having been three months in this fifth division of his service including the time he served as substitute for his uncle before named.
6. About this time or the beginning of the year 78 Claudius Smith a noted Tory leader was taken prisoner on Long Island by Major Brush and was brought to Orange County for trial which had been the principal scene of his murders and pillage - a detachment of our company were ordered to Newburg to guard the prisoner to Goshen Jail deponent was of the detach'd party and continued in the service till the said Smith was tried and hung which under this head amounted to one month at least.
7. During the months of February and March of this year, 78 a detachment of our company were ordered to reach the County for Tories who threatened revenge for the execution of Smith - succeeded in making prisoners of many and confined them in Jail in this service he was one month at least for himself and as a substitute for his uncle before named.

8. In the summer of this year (578) the Militia under Gen. Hothorn were defeated by the Indians on the frontier of Orange County at a Place call'd Reshethon - As many of our Company as could be spared for this service were detached to keep in check the Enemy after this defeat. deponent was of this detached party and was march'd to the frontier Reconnoitring and scouting for the enemy - was one month at least in the expedition but is unable to give the date of it any further than he thinks it must have taken place between the first of July and the month of September deponent was call'd out in a second expedition of the same kind and to the same region in the fall of this year of one month at least.
9. In the months of January and February in the year 579 our Company were ordered on guard in the towns of Cornwall Newburg and Goshen - deponent was half the time on duty in those two months making one months service - his place being supplied by relief guards the other half of the time.
10. About the first of May in this year (579) such of our Company whose horses were fit for service were ordered

# was two weeks more in guarding the Prison from Stoney Point into New Jersey
to the vicinity of Stoney Point 40 miles up the River from New York - deponent was in the expedition - were encamped in a valley - were employ'd as guards and scouts and sometimes on capre- understood that arrangements were making to retake this position from the Enemy which was finally effected by Gen. Wayne in the night of the 15 th of July to the best of his recollection - deponent was two months at least in this expedition and returned home. #
11. In the fall of this year (579) a detachment of our Company were ordered to the Minisink Country - deponent was of the Party - A few Companies of the Foot were in the expedition and we were absent on this tour of service one month and an half at least before we returned home.
12. During the first three months in the year 1780 our Company alternated as guards scouts and capre - this deponent took his regular tour of duty which would make one month and an half of service; but to keep within bounds will say one month only
13. In the course of the summer of this year (580) deponent was on two detached expeditions to West Point and as he verily believes of at least one month each - he remembers being busily employed in the Public service through the spring and summer of this

year but cannot sufficiently recollect the particular kind of service except the two before named terms under this head —
The deponent here closes his narrative of services in the Revolutionary War which he believes in the aggregate amounts to twenty three months and Eleven days as a Private in the light Horse or Dragoons — That he continued in the same kind of service till the disbandment of the army in '83 and as honestly thinks that from the spring of '76 to the fall of '83 he served half of the time or three and an half years as that he served any part of it — and the reason why he remembers his services more distinctly in the fore part of the Revolution is because he then received good pay while towards the last it was in a depreciated currency, very little better than nothing — all which is respectfully submitted.
Nathan Carpenter
Sworn & subscribed this 25 th day of November 1833 before me —
Wm Dunn J.P.

State of New York } Tioga County } I Green M. Tuthill
Clerk of the said County do hereby certify that William Dunn Esquire before whom the within declaration was sworn to and subscribed
was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said County - that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and know his signature affixed to said declaration to be genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed my Seal of Office This 26 th day of November 1833
Green M. Tuthill Clerk

Matthew Carpenter Bay Tasmania.
Wm E Howells AR

Elmira Feby - 10, 1834
Sir,
You will doubtless recollect that when I was at the Pension Office in the forepart of November last the case of Gen. Matthew Carpenter was considered and decided upon this condition that he furnish a specified and particular statement of his services.
Immediately on my return home this specification of service was made out, duly authenticated and sent to you by mail, since which I have heard nothing from the Office on the subject. From the foregoing brief view of the case I had good reason to have expected a certificate long ere this; but I must conclude the papers have been mislaid - It would oblige this old soldier to have a decision as soon as the course of business will will permit -
I am, Sir, very respectfully Your obt. servant James Robinson
James L. Edwards Esquire Comm ee of Pensions

Elmira Nov. 26, 1833
Sir,
In conformity with your decision in this case made when I was in the City I herewith enclose a detail of the services of this applicant. It will be observed that the two weeks mentioned in the margin of the 10 th head are not included in the aggregate of twenty three months and 11 days.
This old soldier would feel much obliged if Mr. Edwards could make an immediate decision in the case and have his certificate forwarded.
I would ask for information if any one can draw up to the 4 th September last after ninety days have elapsed from that period; or whether in such case they must wait till the 4 th March next.
I am, Sir
Very respectfully your obt. Servt.
James Robinson
J. L. Edwards Esq r Comm. of Pensions

State of Virginia } Floyd County } ss
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Floyd Mathew Carpenter who being duly sworn deponeth and saith, in addition to and explanation of his Declaration hereto annexed that the Militia Company to which this deponent belonged, previous to his joining the Light Horse Company, was commanded by Capt. Jonathan Tuttle in the Regiment of Col. Jesse Woodfull Nathanial Shroy was the first Major and Zachariah Dubois was the second Major. That the  most of Captain Elmer Woodfull's Company of Light Horse were enlisted volunteers from the aforesaid Regiment of Militia. That when this Company were organized in 1776 they were wholly exempt from liability to do duty either voluntarily or by draft in the foot; and with this exception every able bodied Militia Man had to take a part in the service either by draft or as a volunteer. That this deponent never, to his recollection, saw the Officers' Commissions of the said Light Horse Company but verily believes they were all duly Commissioned as such and were so generally reputed to be at the time and exercised the Command and performed the duties of their regals which they could not have done had they not been duly Commissioned for that purpose. That although we were under the Military Authority and Command of Governor George Clinton

from whom our Order issued in the first instance yet did our Company receive our Order immediately from Captain Woodhall - he from Col. Woodhall to whose Regiment the said Company of Light Horse was attached and from which Regiment it was mostly formed in the first place. This deponent recollects one instance in particular - In the season of 1877 Orders were issued in the Channel aforesaid for a certain portion of this Regiment to repair to a certain point to assist in digging the intrenchments laying the foundations and erecting the superstructure of that Post - the proportion called for was furnished as well from this Company of light horse as from the rest of the Regiment and were ordered on to the spot this, deponent among the rest, all acting under the highest military authority in the State.
And this deponent further states that there was a regular Muster Roll kept of the said Company and the Roll daily called when on duty and we never considered our enlisting into and forming this volunteer Company as in any way exempting us from liability to the Court Marshal of that Regiment for any breach of Military duty. As to his giving a detailed account of each tour and its precise length during the seven years he served in that Company this deponent says his recollection of the events of that period is not sufficiently distinct to enable him to do it in the order in which they occurred; there is but one tour the length of which he

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distinctly remembers and that was in the first year of his service in 1776 when he was on the lines near the City of New York. On that occasion he was in the field and under Command just 101 days; but he never kept any regular Quorum thereafter. It was always his honest impression and decided belief, and now is, that he was in field and Garrison service one half the time for seven years and the other half in readiness to attend to sudden alarms which were frequent during the whole period; but he is certain and positive that he served not less than two years as a Private and than two years as a Private and for such service he claims a Pension.
Sworn & subscribed } this 15 th day of Jan'y. } 1833 before me — }
Matth s Carpenter
Hirano Gray J.P.
State of New York } Tioga County } — }
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Matthew Carpenter who has subscribed and sworn to the above affidavit and that he is a credible and reputable witness
Hirano Gray

State of New York Tioga County ss Personaly appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Tioga Ebenezer Bartlett who being duly sworn, Deposeth and saith in addition to the testimony of this deponent given on the fifth of September last in the matter of the application of Matthew Carpenter for a pension that he verily believes the officers of the Light Horse Company in which this deponent and the said Matthew Carpenter served in the Revolutionary War were all duly Commissioned as such that they exercised the Command assigned to their respective ranks which was uniformly recognized by the field officers of the Regiment to which this said Company was attached; that all the Military orders and authority to the said Company issued in the first instance from Governor George Clinton to Col. Lefe Woodhull who Commanded the said Regiment all which was so generally understood and reputed at the time. That this deponent cannot now recollect each tour of service in the field or Garrison performed by said Company or its precise length; but it is his best impression and belief that they were in actual service in field and Garrison one half of the time while this deponent belonged to it which was upwards of six years; and the other half of the time they had to attend to the frequent Calls and Alarms to defend the Inhabitants and their property from the Tories and Indians; And this opinion as to the proportion of the time as aforesaid is founded on the distinct recollection that it was so understood by the Company at the time the service was performed.

And this deponent further saith that he, verily believes that the said Company of Light Horse in which Matthew Carpenter was a Private was under as high Military Authority and Command as that of any other Militia Company in the state. Sworn & subscribed this 21 st day of January 1883 before me — {
Elmer Bartlett
W. Maxwell Justice of the peace Troy County N.Y.
I hereby certify that I have been long acquainted with Elmer Bartlett who has subscribed and sworn to the above affidavit and that he is a Credible and Reputable witness —
W. Maxwell Justice of the peace Troy Co. N.Y.
State of New York } Troy County } personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Troy Elmer Sayre a resident of the Town of Elmina in said County who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is aged Seventy two years and upwards - has resided in Elmina aforesaid forty one years - In the year 1875 he lived in the Town of Bloomingrove then Town of Cornwall in the County of Orange in the State of New York - he knew Matthew Carpenter at that time as a private in Capt. Elmer Woodhull's Company of Light Horse and was well acquainted with all the officers of said Company a brother of this deponent was first Lieutenant and he thinks all the officers were duly Commissioned.

They were so reputed to be and recognized as such at the time and he has no doubt of the genuine military character of the Company that he believes the services of that Company were as essential to the cause of the Revolution as those of any other company within his knowledge and he was in the service a number of tours himself. That the said Matthew Carpenter was in the service in that Company, he thinks from the Spring of 1776 to the close of the war that he has been intimately acquainted with him down to the present time and knows him to be the identical person whose declaration is hereto annexed - that he cannot say positively what proportion of time the said Company were in the field whether one half the time or more or less but from the best of his recollection they were almost constantly engaged in the service either by detachments abroad or keeping guard at home. That Col. Lefe Woodhull commanded the Militia Regiment to which this Company was attached with whom, (the said Col,) he was well acquainted and it was understood at the time that the General Orders issued from Gov. George Clinton sworn and subscribed } this 29 day of Jany 1833 } before me —
Henry S. Jayne
SP Loukhung JP

At a Council of Appointment held at Poughkeepsie on Tuesday the 18 th day of August 1798.
Present
His Excellency George Clinton President
The Hon ble { John Morin Scott Abraham Yates Junr. Jesse Woodhull } Esq rs Members
Resolved that Ebenezer Woodhull Esquire be Captain of the Company of Light Horse in Colonel Woodhulls Regiment of Militia in the County of Orange - that James Sayre be First Lieutenant, William Beard Second Lieutenant and Samuel Seely Cornet of the said Company!
State of New York Secretarys Office
Certify the preceding to be a true Extract from the Minutes of the Council of Appointment of this State and that the above named officers were Commissioned according to their respective appointments but no record was made of their commissions. It was not customary to record Military Commissions.
Given under my hand and the Seal of this Office at the City of Albany the Seventh day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.
Arch d Campbell Dep Secretary

I hereby Certify that I have been well acquainted with Ebenezer Saye who has subscribed and sworn to the above affidavit before me since my earliest recollection, that he has always been a neighbor of mine, and that I know of no man, whose character stands higher for truth, and veracity and moral honesty than his.
State of New York Tioga County ss.
Stoddard C.
I Green M. Fathell Clerk of the said County of Tioga do hereby Certify that Siram Gray, William Mastick and Stoddard C. Esquires before whom the foregoing affidavit was subscribed and sworn and by whom the Certificates of Credibility were executed were on the day of their dates respectively Justices of the Peace in and for the said County - that I am well acquainted with their hand writing and know their signatures respectively to be genuine. And I further Certify that the annexed Certified Copy of the State Record was attached hereto previous to my affixing my seal -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 30th day of Jan'y. 1833 -
Green M Fathell

Rev Sec
Were pensions granted the following named soldiers of the Revolution:
Matthew Carpenter
b. 1759 in Orange County, New York - d. 1839 at Reely Creek, New York. m. Catherine Matthews.
Elijah Jones
b. before 1752, in Connecticut - d after 1798, in Southport, New York m. Hannah Raymond, at Norwalk, Conn.
In 1776 was a private in Captain Jonathan Brewster's Company - Colonel Huntington's Regiment of Connecticut

Troops. Also served in Captain Ozias Marvin's Company of Coast Guard.
Mrs. Charles V. Metzger 362 West Gray Street Elmira - New York.