Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1,908, Anthony Cherdovoyne, New York

SERVICE
New York.
Cherdovoyne, Anthony
NUMBER
R. 1908
CONTENTS
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REJECTED
1908
P. O. _____
Anthony Cherdovoyne
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

near Jersey Action Cherdoyne rejected
(c) Hon S. Fowler 26 July 1835
1908

32.563
Anthony DeLuca
Application for Patent
May 1895
AS 1834
Lord Agt. to the Hon. and Right Hon. J. P. Collins Esq.

State of New Jersey County of Sussex ss. on this twelfth  thirteenth day of August in the year of our Lord One thou- sand eight hundred and thirty three personally appeared before the Judges of the Supreme Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Sussex Anthony Cherdroyne resident of the township of Hardyston in the said County of Sussex aged seventy two years who being first duly sworn ac- cording to law, doth upon his oath make the follow- ing declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the pecuniary provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7 1832
That he was born in the City of New York September 23 A.D. 1760 that the record of his age was contained in an old family Bible which is now worn out and gone - that he has no other record of his age That he resided in the City of New York until his fifteen- th year when he volunteered and entered the service of the United States as Drummer in the Militia in the year 1775 in the early part of the season and about the time General Gage first went to Boston and Lexing- ton - He was under Ensign John Burger, Captain John Clawson and Major Stockholm - The Company to which he was attached was first engaged in fortifying the ships in the City and in constructing the Bunker hill fort at "Bayside Mount" and remained in the City on va- rious duties, standing guard, patrolling &c for nearly or quite two years and until some time after the battle on Long Island when his Company was ordered by General Washington to leave the City - Soon after this, but the precise time when he cannot say, he was dismissed and went to Newton in the said County of Sussex and thence came to Hardyston a- fter which he has remained until the present time -

During his continuance in the service he not only acted as a Trummer but assisted in the several duties which the circumstances of the country and the defence of the Station required and among other things assisted in removing Cannon Balls and other articles from the Kings stores to the upper part of the City and recollects the circumstance of the British Vessels Asia & Phoenix lying in the East and North rivers and firing upon the City - and of their going up the Hudson when it was said they burnt the town of Esopus - He was also present at the hanging of one of General Washington's Life Guards as it was said for bribing the cook to poison the General - He also remembers that during his service Capt. Thomas Woolverton & Lieut. Abijah Hopkins & their company were stationed in the City. I went over to Long Island a few days previously to the battle at that place -
Also Genl. Putnam & Mr. Douglass were there & Col. Lashin & Col. Morgan with his regiments of Riflemen.
He cannot now by reason of old age & consequent loss of memory state the precise period nor length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served eighteen months at least.
He is not acquainted with any clergyman in his neighbourhood who can testify to his service or character but that Joseph Heath Edgell and Joseph E. Edmell Esqrs and Benjamin D. Merrill -
are well acquainted with this declarant & can testify as to his character for veracity his age &c.
He has no documentary evidence of his service & knows of no person living who can testify give evidence of it.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Anthony Chordassey
Sworn to & subscribed the

at my year first above written to wit the 26 th August A.D. 1853 in open court Jos. G. Miller
✓ Benjamin Hamilton being duly sworn according to law & Joseph Sharp being conscientiously compelled of taking an oath on my solemn affirmation, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Anthony Chedcoine who has sworn to & subscribed the foregoing declaration and that we believed him to be three seventy years of age; that he is reputed & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion.
Affirmed Sworn to & Subscribed in open court the day & year first above written
Joseph Sharp Benj m Hamilton
Jos. G. Miller Eliab L. Hommedieu
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories presented 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 Benjamin Hamilton and Joseph Sharp who signed the preceding certificate have long resided in the neighbourhood of the said applicant, and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit. And the court further certifies that they are satisfied that no clergyman acquainted with the said applicant can be procured to certify to his reputed services.

but that the foregoing certificate is as satisfactory as the certificate of a clergyman would be. The word "there" in the preceding certificate was misread before insertion - and the word "afternoon" written in the margin.
Jos. G. Miller Judge
I Joseph E. Edsall Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Middlesex do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Anthony Cherdraine for a pension.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of my Office at New Haven this thirty first day of December in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty four J. E. Edsall Clk
AD 1834
32.563 Anthony Cherdraine
Application for Pension
6 Aug 1835