Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12376, Zachariah Bush, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Bush, Zachariah
S. 12376
CONTENTS
carded

2691 New York
Zachariah Bush of Burlington in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain G Brinkerhoof of the Regt commanded by Col A Brinkerhoof in the New York - line for 10 1/2 months
Enscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 35 Dollars — Cents per annum, commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 4 th day of Decem- ber 1832 — and sent to H Sill Burlington Otsego Co N.Y.
Arrears to 14th of Sept 1832 — $ 52.50 Penzant. allowance ending 4 Mar '33 17.50 $ 70.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Jno Cromwell Clerk, Book D Vol. 5 Page 69
In testimony whereof the said H Sill has hereunto set his hand and seal the 14th day of December 1832
Died Jan'y 1834. Spent to that day -

Declaration of Zachariah Bush
11/17/34.
admitted
18 1/2 months private
35 $

Declaration , In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7. 1832.
State of New York } County of Otsego ss
On this tenth day of August 1832. personally appeared before James L. Walworth Esq. a Judge of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Otsego aforesaid
Zachariah Bush a resident of the town of Burlington in the county of Otsego and State of New York aged Ninety four years, 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.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated
1 st . He resided at Fishkill in the State of New York in the time of the Revolutionary war. That in the fall of the year 1776 in the alarm after the Battle of White Plains he was called out in Captain George Brinkerhoof's Company in Colonel Abraham Brinkerhoof's regiment of New York State Militia and Marched to the Barracks at Fishkill and remained there
10 days } on guard about 10 days and was dismissed again in the same fall
he was called out on an alarm (when the British shipping were expected up the North River) under the same officers to Fishkill to guard
4 wks } the stores he served at this time about 4 weeks and was discharged or dismissed. He was called out the third time to Fishkill in
December of the same year under the same officers on an another alarm and served about two weeks & was dismissed -
2 wks } He does not recollect of being any continental officers at Fishkill
1, 22 during these terms of service but thinks that the militia officers
had command there. About two weeks before the British took Fort Montgomery he was called out one week on a general alarm
1 wk } under the same officers as before to go to West Chester and again
- 9 a little before Fort Montgomery was taken he was called out
on an alarm & was marched to Patskill from thence to Esopus (when the British burnt Esopus) thence back to Fishkill
6 wks } he served at this time six weeks under the same officers as before.
1 day During said war-time not recollected, he served one day under
Capt George Brinkerhoof in pursuing and searching for the Tories that Robbed Judge John Jay's House (since Governor Jay) we took one of them by the name of Jenkins who was trying to escape we shot him through the head and took him & with 30 lb weight of silver plate and 3 silver hilted swords 2 pair of Pistols & 2 powder horns we found, and broke up their den in the highlands, and the others made their escape, and we restored the plate
1 day to Judge Jay. Also one day under the same officer in

in pursuing the Tories that hung Gerrit Storm an old blind man who was rich, in order to rob him, they were routed before they had finished their work and the old man was cut down and his life saved - Also two days under the 3/4 2 days same Captain in taking Jake Smith and Isaac Washburn two Notorious Tories who were condemned to be hung in Poughkeepsie, and afterwards Pardoned. In the month of March 1777 before Poughkeepsie was burnt by the British and when Colonel Willet commanded there He was ordered out by Colonel Abraham Brinkerhoof as a Patrol in Captain George Brinkerhoof's company of Militia in which he was a Sergeant in this as he was also in all the aforesaid service and he served as a patrol under his said Captain in watching for the Tories and British Spies which infested the country, and plundered and continued in the service as a Patrol in the country about Poughkeepsie and Fishkill and in the Highlands for the term of at least six months and this was before the 1/2 6 mos. before mentioned term of six weeks at the Burning of Esopus while in this patrol service he saw General Washington at Hopewell and also at Fishkill and he also saw General Arnold at Fishkill when he came down from the northern army after this 6 months Patrol service had expired he was on guard then at the time but he cannot particularize the service -
survivors -21
He volunteered at the request of General Stryker at the time not recollecting under Captain Horton and Captain Brinkerhoof to go to Woodstock in the State of New York as one of a guard of 30 to guard 70 Tories who were prisoners and sent there to be imprisoned and he was in this service about one month and it was performed and it was performed about the time of the Battle of White Plains - That he has no documentary evidence, and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his service.
1 mo. Total 10 1/2 mos
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Before me Gerrit his Mark Barnard his Mark of Otsego County Courts

State of New York County of Otsego
On this fifth day of October 1832 personally appeared before James C. Walworth Esquire a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid Zachariah Bush a resident of the town of Burlington in said County aged 74 years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in addition to his former declaration made on the 10 th August 1832 in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. That he never kept any record of his service in the Army in the Revolutionary War and that he has no documents to refer to, to refresh or to correct his memory as to dates or the length of time he served. That in his declaration of August aforesaid, he stated the terms of his service as near as his recollection served him, and in each term in which he could not recollect the exact length of time he was in the service he has not therein over-stated the time he did serve, (but if there is any inaccuracy it is in stating the times less than they actually were) He says positively that all the time he was actually in the service as set forth in his said declaration added together does exceed ten and an half months, and he does fully believe that if he could remember all the time he was in the service it would exceed one year but he claims for 10 1/2 months service only, as he cannot distinctly recollect so as to describe any more and that he has since making his said declaration of August reconsidered each and every one of the terms of service therein set forth and he does now positively say that he did serve the full length of time in each and every one of the the said terms of service therein stated.
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid Zachariah his Bush Mark Before me I arrest J. Walworth in presence of Otsego Common Pleas

We John Jackson residing in the town of Burlington in the County of Otsego & State of New York and John Z. Bush residing in the same place and James L. Weeks and Robert T. Weeks both residing in the town of Otsego in the County of Otsego aforesaid hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Zachariah Bush who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration; that we believe him to be Ninety four years of age; that he is respected and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Before me
John G. Jackson
James L. Weeks
John Z.
his mark Bush
Judge of Otsego County Court
James L. Weeks
Robert T. Weeks
And the said Judge does hereby declare his 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 said Judge further certifies, that it appears to him that John Jackson and John Z. Bush are residents in the town of Burlington and that James L. Weeks and Robert T. Weeks are residents in the adjoining town of Otsego in the same neighbourhood and they are all credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit and further that the said applicant labours under a Bodily infirmity and is unable to attend his Open Court
James L. Weeks as Judge of Otsego County Court

State of New York Otsego County §. I Horace Lathrop Clerk of the said County do certify that James C. Walworth before whom the preceding affidavits purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in said County that I am acquainted with his hand writing & verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavits to be his proper hand writing signature Witness my hand seal of Office this 13 th day of August 1832 —
Horace Lathrop By Thos. K. Cory Deputy

Whereas I, John Z. Bush am a Son of Zachariah Bush late of the County of Otsego deceased, who was a pensioner of the United States under Act of Congress of July 7 th 1832, at the rate of $35. per Annum, allowed him for his services in the war of the Revolution, which said pension was suspended about the year 1834, and whereas I am advised that said pension ought not to have been suspended, and should be restored. Now therefore I do hereby constitute and appoint Virial Lucer Esq. of the city of Washington my true and lawful attorney, and agent to present and prosecute my claim to a restoration of said pension up to the day of my said Father's death, and I do hereby make this power of attorney irrevocable during one year from this date. Witness my hands, and seal at Hartwick this eleventh day of December A.D. 1851 —
Executed in presence of Francis Smith R. B. Simack
his John Z. Bush Mark
State of New York
Otsego County Ss. On this eleventh day of December A.D. 1851 before me the subscriber a justice of the peace in and for said county personally appeared John Z. Bush above named, and to me known and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be his act and deed.
R. B. Simack justice
State of New York
Otsego County Ss. John Z. Bush of the Town of Hartwick in said county being duly sworn according to law, doth depose that he is a son of Zachariah Bush named in the foregoing power of attorney, and that he is directly interested in the claim and application about to be made for a restoration of the pension of his Father, the said Zachariah Bush deceased.
Sworn and subscribed before me the 11 th day of December 1851
his John Z. Bush Mark
R. B. Simack justice

State of Ne-York. OTSEGO COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE.
I, SAMUEL NORTH, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify, that } R B Dimock Esquire, was, on the 11 th day of Deer 1857 a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Otsego, duly authorized to act as such, and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice, and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and official seal of the said County, at Cooperstown, this 19 th day of Deer 1857 Samuel North CLERK.

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March 13, 1924
Mrs. T. L. Chiasson Neponset, Ill.
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 12376 it appears that Zachariah Bush , while a resident of Fishkill, New York, enlisted in the fall of 1776 and served at various times, ten and one half months in all, as a Sergeant under Captains George Brinkerhoff and Horton and Colonel Abraham Brinkerhoff in the New York Troops. He was at the burning of Esopus.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 10, 1832 while living in Burlington, Otsego County, New York aged ninety-four years. He died January 1, 1834 in Otsego County, New York.
The name of his wife is not stated. His son John Z. was a resident of Hartwick, Otsego County, New York in 1851.
Respectfully,
Do not pay any attention to suspension of this pension at this place after took place credit. + did soldiers credit. + did not question fact - he served of service. & his length of service was exception what the military did in Rev War

Rev War
12376 INVALID.
1924. Mch. 13 - Hist. to Mr. J. L. Chiasson - MMXV.
No. 12,376
Zachariah French Pri Rev War
Act: June 7th 82
Index: Vol. 4 Page 52
[Arrangement of 1870.]

To what time was Zachariah Bush private a pensioner under act of 7. June '32 at the rate of 35$ p. an m paid at the New York Agency?
E. W. C. P.
W. Randall
Since 1 st July 1834, & since to the day no 2 nd year after 1834

Washington Dec 29 1857
Sir
Enclosed herewith is a Power of Attorney from John Z Bush son of Zachariah Bush dec'd who was a surseus under the act of June 7. 1832. It is alleged by the son that his father's surseus was unjustly and without sufficient cause suspended in 1834.
An opportunity of examining the papers in this case is requested.
Respectfully
Your Obt servt Vern Luce
J. E. Hunt Esq. Comm te Pensions

Zachariah Bush NY 5 '52
J. E. Hunt (Esq) Comm n - Pensions
Ex y V. Luce Jan. 2 d 1852

No answer.
Pensioner dead paid up to the day of his death.
James L. [?] Commission of [?] New York [?] City of New York
1185
15th Oct 1895

Mech s & Farmer's Bank Albany Pension Agency June 10. 1835.
Samuel L. Edwards Esquire, Commissioner of Pensions,
Sir, In reply to your letter of the 5 th inst. instructing us to suspend payment of the pension of Zachariah Bush of Burlington, I have to state that his name is not found on our Books -
I am, Sir, very Respectfully Yours ob t Serv t
Thos M c Clusky

War Department Pension Office
June 5. 1835
Sir
On reviewing the papers upon which your claim to a pension under the act of 1832 was admitted, it appears that a part of the service alleged in your declaration was inad- vertently allowed. It is stated that in 1777 you served six months in Capt Brinkhoff's company Col Brinkhoff's regiment - By a pay roll of that company it would appear that you served but thirty one days - The Militia were called out occasionally only for short terms. If you were in actual service beyond the time indicated by the roll referred to before it is in order to have the duration of it allowed , each term should be distinctly spe- cified as well as the names of the officers

In the meantime the payment of your pension is suspended
Lachariah Bush
June 5. 1835
G. C.
Adm. No. 22 Page 87
W. Lachariah Bush Burlington N. Y.

May 17, 1934
to W. G. Gil Esg #
cc
Recd. vol 35 page 81

Warblept Pension H May 34
Sir
I return you herewith the certificates of Zachariah Bush & Eber Harrington and refer you to the accompanying printed regula- -tions as to the course to be pursued in order to draw the the amt of pension due them respectively at their death
A. T. Grew
Henry Billings Burlington

Napoleon, Illinois February 7, 1924.
U. S. Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir —
Will you please give me any information possible in regard to the record of Zacharia Bush in the Revolutionary war. Was he a Pensioner?
My records give that he served as a Sergeant in a detachment of Dunkenshopps Reg. N. Y. Militia of Dutches County, his home being in Ithaca N. Y. having come there from Westfield Mass. Any information you can give me in regard to this matter will be greatly appreciated.

Thanking you for kindness, and awaiting an early reply, I am,
Very truly yours Mrs. J. L. Ohlsson Neponset, Illinois.