Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22,707, John Cruver, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Cruver, John
S. 22707
Bonnie P.
CONTENTS

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Cruver, John
S. 22,707
Bonnie P.
CONTENTS
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New York 31,393
John Gruver
of Orange Co. in the State of N. York
who was a Pr. of Inf. 8  Wagoner } in the Company commanded by Captain Johnson of the Regt, commanded by Col. McClary in the N.Y. mil.
  time for 3 months 24 days Pr. Inf.  10.44    time for 12 " Wagoner  40.00     $ 50.44  
Enscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 50 Dollars 44 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26. day of April 1838 and sent to H. Armstrong Newburgh, N.Y.
Arrears to the 4th of March '38 353.08
Pemi=ant. allowance ending 4. Sep. " 25.22
$ 378.30
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk.
book E. 2 - Vol. 4 Page 12

30607 Pension Papers of John Grinnell
Grant B. Martin Attorney Bloomington Sullivan County State of New York

State of New York
Orange County } ss On this twelfth day February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four I personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Orange now sitting as a Court of record John Cruniver a resident now of the Town of Crawford in said County of Orange and State of New York aged about seventy 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. That in the fore part of the year 1777 he entered the service of the United States as a Soldier of the militia, as a minute man, that he then resided in the Town of Hanover in Ulster County but which is now the Town of Crawford in Orange County. That he served one fortnight at Fort Montgomery on the Hudson River That — Gillespie was his Major the officers of the Company he does not now recollect
That in the fall of the same year he served again another fortnight as a minute man at Fort Montgomery aforesaid and was there at the taking of the Fort by the British forces, but he escaped in the night and was not taken a prisoner that during this time — Johnson was his Captain the other officers of his company he does not now recollect Col. McClancy was that time Colonel of the ridgement to which he belonged —
That during the same fall he served again a fortnight at Mudners Creek at the head of

1. 12 the Highlands on the Hudson. as a minute man on what was then termed "fatigue duty" that at this time he cannot recollect any of the officers names
That in the month of March in the year 1778 he was again in the service as a minute man for about ten days at West Point on the Hudson river That his officers names at this time not recollected.
That during the same year he was called into service again a fortnight at Mamakating in the then County of Ulster now Sullivan as a minute man and was engaged in defending the inhabitants from the invasions of the Indians it being a frontier place names of his officers not now recollected.
16 That in the month of September in the same year he served again a fortnight as a minute man at Mamakating aforesaid in guarding the inhabitants from the invasions of the Indians that Joseph Crawford at this time was his Lieutenant but the other officers he cannot now recollect
12 That in the month of February in the year 1779, he enlisted into the Company of which Timothy Sullivan was Captain and Andrew Taylor was Colonel, for one year and was first ordered to rendezvous in the same month at Newburgh in Orange County on the Hudson river and that from thence he was transferred across the Hudson river to Fishkill in Dutchess County and was attached to the waggon service that he was sent up the river toward Albany for the purpose of collecting horses and obtaining those that had been idle during the

winter for the purpose of recruiting, that he returned with the horses to Fishkill aforesaid, that he was engaged during the year in conveying provisions to the American Army which during that time lay at  Reckill Poughkeepsie and along the Hudson River, That he served during the above term of one year as enlisted as aforesaid, in the waggon department, and was discharged at Fishkill aforesaid in the latter part of the month of February in the year 1780. That he received a written discharge from an officer whose name he cannot now recollect, and that his discharge has since been lost.
That in the Spring of the year 1780 he was again called into the service in the militia as a minute man and served a fortnight at Nanamaking aforesaid under Lieutenant Joseph Crawford his other officers names not now recollected
That during all the terms of service above mentioned this deponent resided in the then Town of Haverberg Ulster County, now the Town of Crawford Orange Sullivan County, and unless upon duty this deponent lived at that place
That this deponent was in no battles during the times of his service except the battle at Fort Montgomery above mentioned, and that he can recollect the names of no other officers than those above mentioned.
That this deponent knows of no person but James McHenry who can testify to his services and he only in part. That his neighbours among whom are William Elder and John Carpenter who knows that in the neighbourhood where this deponent lives that he is

reputed to have been a soldier in the revolutionary war and served as above stated
That there are no clergymen near him who is acquainted with his reputed service
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 any the agency of any state
Sworn to and subscribed } his the day and year aforesaid } John X Bruner in open court Mark
Asa Dunning Clerk
We William Elder and John Carpenter both of the Town of Crawford and County of Orange hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Bruner who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and that we believe him to be seventy four years of age. That he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opin- ion -
Sworn and subscribed
William Elder John Carpenter
the day and year aforesaid
in open court before Asa Dunning Clerk
In answer to the First interrogatory Deponent answers that he was born in the state of Pennsylvania but in what Town or County or what year this Deponent cannot state as he does not remember of ever hearing his parents mention or tell to him the name or time . In answer to the second Interroga- tory answers that he has not nor has never seen any record of his age
In answer to the third Interrogatory says. That

he resided in the then Town of Hancouer and County of Ulster, but now Town of Crawford & County of Orange when called into service And that he now lives in the same place In Answer to fourth Interrogatory says that he was drafted into the service or was by requisition required to serve in all the terms except the one above mentioned And at that term he enlisted
That he can state the names of no other officer except those above mentioned except by reputation
In answer to the sixth interrogatory says that he received no discharge except for the term of one year of his enlistment and that his said discharge has since been lost
In Answer to the second  seventh Interrogatory He says that William Elder and John A Carpenter are his neighbours and who can testify to his character for truth and veracity And belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution
Sworn & Subscribed
in Open Court this
12th day of February 1834
Before me A. D. Dunning Clerk
John his  mark  mark Brown
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 certify that William Elder and John A Carpenter who have signed the foregoing certificate and who reside at or near the

village of Bloomingburgh in the county of Sullivan And State of New York are cred- -ible persons and that their Statement is enti- tled to credit
I Asa Dunning Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Orange do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of John Varnes for a Pension
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand And Seal of office this Sixth day of March 1831 Asa Dunning Clerk

State of New York
Sullivan County ss. Personally appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the peace in & for said County John Bruner of the Town of Crawford Orange County who being first duly sworn doth depose & say that in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1834. Make the following supplemental affidavit. This deponent says that he did enlist into a regular Corps of Waggoneers under the Command of Captain Andrew Taylor Timothy Sullivan who commanded a regular Corps of Waggoneers in the month of February in the year 1879 and was employed constantly & faithfully during said time as such Teamster or Waggoneer aforesaid That this deponent always understood that the said Corps were regularly embodied according to Law, but this deponent never saw any act of Congress Authorizing the raising of said Corps but he was enlisted by Captain Timothy Sullivan aforesaid expressly for said service. That said Corps were constantly engaged in the United States Service in conveying provisions to the American Army during the term of one year aforesaid as is stated in his first declaration hereto annexed That the reason of this deponent's statement in said declaration that he entered as a soldier aforesaid was that he believed the the same term "Soldier" applied to both Teamsters & soldiers in the Army. That this deponent was expressly enlisted for the Waggoneer Service. And served faithfully therein for the term of one year and was regularly discharged in writing by his Captain aforesaid that said discharge specified his service as a Teamster. That this deponent was discharged at Fishkill in the latter part of the month of February 1880 at Fishkill aforesaid That said Corps to which this deponent belonged were employed in the winter with sledges in conveying provisions for the purpose aforesaid

That the said Corps were compelled to carry Arms to defend their Waggons from the British and Tories that the said Corps was constantly employed during said year and in as constant service as were the regular soldiers in the Continental Army. That this deponent once visited his friends whilst in said service by permission of a furlough from his commanding officer & remained one week and then returned to the Corps aforesaid. That this deponent can produce written testimony that the Affidavit of James McKeney has to annexed and that this deponent cannot say upon his oath that said Corps was regularly formed or enlisted under a special act of Congress because he never saw any such act but this deponent well knows that he enlisted for one year & served the same in a regular embodied Corps whose term was constantly engaged & faithfully served and that he was regularly discharged at the end of his term of service and unless he can be allowed a pension upon this proof he must be totally without any as to those who knew his service are all dead or reside in places unknown to this deponent except said McKeney but this deponent believes he would never have been enlisted in said Corps if the same had been unauthorized by Law or useful to the American Service. That the same was faithfully employed in obtaining provisions for the American Army. And that this deponent's service was hard and laborious. And that he was not enlisted as a hired labourer or teamster for his Captain but expressly for the public service of the United States that there were other officers who had a charge or superintendence of said Corps but their names or rank this deponent cannot now remember by reason of his age.

and copy of memorandum. Sworn & subscribed before me this 9 th day of June 1884
his John X Brewer mark
Grant B Mann Justice of the Peace
I the Justice before whom the within affidavit was taken & sworn to do certify that I am well acquainted with John Brewer who made & subscribed the within affidavit and know him to be a man of truth & veracity & his statement entitled to credit.
Grant B Mann Justice of the Peace

Resolution
22.707
INVALID.
ew
File No. 22,707
John Crouwer
Pres Rev Me
Act: June 7 th 1894
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 85
[Arrangement of 1870.]

State of New York
Sullivan County ss John Gruver who made and subscribed a declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. Being duly sworn by me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, makes the following supplementary affidavit. That he entered the service of the United States as a Continental Leamster And as this Deponent believes a Corps regularly authorized and embodied at Newburgh about the First of February 1779 as this Deponent now believes but that he is an old man And that his memory is infirm and uncertain but he now believes that it was the Spring of the year one year after Fort Montgomery was Captured by the British Army. that he enlisted And served the full term of one year as before stated That Timothy Sullivan was Captain of the Company to which this Deponent belonged And one James McNausen was Commissary or Assistant Commissary. That the term of service aforesaid was faithfully served, And this Deponent discharged. That the service may have been in a later year but this Deponent cannot state by reason of his loss of memory the precise year And has no data by which he can refresh his recollection, That he cannot swear positively by reason of old age and loss of memory as to the precise year in which he served but he will remember he served one year in a regularly embodied corps of Leamsters as a Leamster For which I claim a pension
Subscribed & sworn before me this 3 day of July 1834 Grant B. Allen Justice of the Peace
his John Gruver mark

STATE OF NEW-YORK,  SULLIVAN COUNTY, } ss.
I, WILLIAM E. CADY, Clerk of the County of Sullivan, Do hereby Certify, That Grant B. Marvin Esq whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of the acknowledgment of the annexed Instrument _____ and endorsed thereon, was on the day of the date of the said Certificate, a Justice _____ in and for said County of Sullivan, dwelling in the said County, Commissioned and sworn, not duly authorized by law, to take the proof and acknowledgment of Deeds and Discharges of Mortgages, &c. And further, that I am acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Justice of the Peace _____ and verily believe that the signature of Grant B. Marvin — subscribed to the said Certificate, is the proper hand-writing of the said Justice —
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand, and af- fixed the Seal of the said County, this Twelfth _____ day of September — 1836
William E. Cady, CLERK.
Handwritten notes on the right margin: 1. Grant B. Marvin 2. Justice of the Peace 3. Sullivan County 4. State of New York 5. Excelesior 6. Liberty 7. Justice 8. Eagle 9. Shield 10. Banner 11. Seal 12. Certificate 13. Instrument 14. Deeds 15. Mortgages 16. Discharges

State of New York
Sullivan County ss personally appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the peace in & for said County James McKeny of the Town of Shawangunk County of Sullivan. Master to me personally known who being by me first duly sworn deposes & says. That he was eighty six years of age the eighteenth day of June last past. That he was a soldier in the Revolutionary Army. That he knew the John Crumer before named that he knew him before during & ever since the revolutionary war. That this deponent and said Crumer entered the service of the United States at Newburgh in Orange County in the month of February or March in the year 1779, as near as this deponent can now recollect. That they enlisted into a Company of Continental Light Artillery under the Command of Captain Timothy Sullivan and commenced their service immediately for one year. That James McKensen was a Commissary or Assistant Commissary. That Andrew Taylor was a Colonel of a regiment to which this deponent & said Crumer came provision to. That this deponent was engaged in Dutchess & Orange Counties in collecting provisions & necessaries for the American Army. That they served faithfully the term of one year aforesaid. That said Corps were constantly & regularly engaged in the service aforesaid for the term of one year & were regularly discharged in writing in the month of February or March in the year 1780. That this deponent knows said Crumer served faithfully the term of one year aforesaid. And said Corps in which they served are regularly kept together & constantly employed in the service of the United States for one year aforesaid and thus received written at Fishkill discharges from  the . That he always understood that the Corps to which this deponent & said Crumer belonged were a regularly embodied Corps of Continental

teamsters, and that the deponent knows said crimes to be a man of truth & veracity & they were his mates during the services aforesaid, and the deponent now receives a pension -
Subscribed & sworn before me this 9 th day of June 1834 - Grant B Mann Justice of the Peace
his James X McKeny mark
I the justice who took & subscribed the afore- said Affidavit do certify that I am acquaint- ed with James McKeny & know him to be a man of truth & veracity & his statement entit- led to credit
Grant B Mann Justice of the Peace
Sullivan County
Clerk's Office ss. I, Jesse M. Foster Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Grant B. Mann Esq: before whom the foregoing Affidavits purports to have been sworn and also who subscribing the preceding Certificate was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County - And that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and truly believe that signature subscribed to the said Affidavits & Certificate is his & genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal of Office this 10 th day of June 1834.
Jesse M. Foster CLK

New York
Sohn Krauer
Revoy
Suspended
Let to Ydon
C. Bodle June 19 '34
do. to O. Beatty 25 June 1835-
+ 22 Sept. 1836 - do. to same
Oct. 4. 1836 -
same Oct. 22 1836
Act 7 June '32

B. 479
John Cuneo

State of New-York } Sullivan County } ss
Be it known that James Macka- ny a Resident of the Town of Shawangunk County of Ulster and State aforesaid aged Eighty Six Years old, personally appeared before me James Sevens A Justice of the peace in and for Said County of Sullivan, and made oath in due form of law, that in the Year, 1779 this deponent was in the Service of the United States in the wagon department in Capt. Southerland Company Col. Taylor Regt. Mr. Marstan Q.M. That John Gruver now a Resident of the Town of Crawford Orange County State aforesaid, was doing the duty of a Soldier in Said Company and Regt. aforesaid, for one Year or more, that this deponent was well acquainted with the Said John, and has in Said Service, and has been acquainted with Said John ever since - - and that this deponent knows the Said John to be the Same man that rendered Said Service for the term a bove Stated, that this deponent was in the Same Company the Same Regt during the Service of the Said John
Sworn and Subscribed
October 17. 1836
before me
James Sevens Justice of the peace
his James Mackany mark

30607 John Cruser
Admiral
Leant Wagoner 12 mo Private of Infantry 3 " 4 days 21  15. 44
As of Apr 20. 1854
H. Armstrong Esq. Newburgh Chatham N.Y. Present.
Hen C Boile Henry A. S. G. B. Morrow Esq. Bloomingburg Superintendent New York

WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
April 20 '34
Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: { ). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
A Statement, shewing the Service of John Curtis
   Period when the service was rendered. Duration of the claimant's service. Rank of the claimant. Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served. Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service. Proof by which the declaration is supported.   Years. Months. Days.      
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
JAMES L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.
No claim for pension service can be allowed unless performed under an enlistment in a Corps of Continental Troops organized under a Special act of Congress

REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks, in Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in the law:
 1. The Regular Troops.  2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.  3. Persons employed in the Naval Service.  4. Indian Spies. 
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of } m. County of }
On this day of personally appeared a , before A. B. a resident ( b ) of in the county of and State, Territory or District of aged ( c ) 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 provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year ( d ) with and served in the ( e ) regiment of the time, under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers, the time he left the service, (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank, and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service, the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. [This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim ( f ) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
A. B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion ( g ) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I of the Court of do hereby certify ( h ) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office ( i ) this day of &c.
If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note ( j ) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
( k ) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the and C. D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be years of age; that he is 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 the days and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
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 who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, Clerk of the Court of do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this day of &c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then produce, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, ( l ) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his

alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (a) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
 1. Where and in what year were you born?  2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?  3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?  4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?  5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services. 
6. { To a Soldier. { Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it? { To an Officer. { Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
 7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution. 
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons—one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
The traditional evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the inquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served, otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. If a man where the applicant cannot be pensioned of the Revolutionary War, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades—For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____ and for such service I claim a pension."
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the petitioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months , is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the years, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served, the duration of each term of engagement, the particular place or places where the service was performed, and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has an obverse or impression by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
Proof of Service.
[j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The witnesses who are required to give this proof must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the claimant as shown by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note [j] applies to continental troops only.
[k] This traditional evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.

Oct 2nd
Miss Lew Laff Sanitary of War City Washington
Wurtsboro N.Y. Sept-27-
B464
Sept 30, 1836
Pembani office.
See diary M. Bruner

Phillips Port. Sept. 27. 1836
Sir
On my return I called on the agent for some instructions, as to the power of attorney for Mr. Ivory, and he informs me that that he could not pay on the Invalid claim, under which Mr. Ivory applied, and that I should write to you and have the mistake corrected.
In the case of John Brown, his papers and proof of service is in the department, if upon examination they cannot be found, please to inform me and Obeying - your obed. Servt.
Thaddeus Brady
John L. Calf
Please direct to Phillips Port.
Sullivan County
New York