Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16721, Conley Jacob, New York

SERVICE
New York
Conley, Jacob
NUMBER
S 16721
CONTENTS
carded

24969 New York
Jacob Conley of Schenectady in the State of New York who was a Private in the Comp y commanded by Captain Lansing of the Reg t commanded by Col Graham in the N York line for 12 months & 20 days
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 42 Dollars 20 Cents per annum to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of Mar 1834 and sent Hon G Cramer ATR.
Arrears to the 14th of Mar '34 — $121.60 Sem-ant. allowance ending 4 Sep '34 21.10 $147.70
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Geo. Brownell Clerk
Book E Vol. 4 Page 130

In the 29842 matter of the application of Jacob Conley for a pension -
Admitted Private 12 mo 20 day
Hon W. Cramer
Cramer H.R.
G. H. Bates Agent Schenectady N.Y.
State of New York County of Schenectady Do certify that William Mann before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at the time of the same one of the judges of the court of common pleas in and for the said county, and that I am ac- quainted with his handwriting and readily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit and certificate of admissibility to be his proper hand writing and signature. Witness my hand and seal of office this 12th day of October 1833 - John Schenck for Clerk -

State of New York County of Schenectady ss
On this 24 th day of January 1834, personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County Jacob Conley a resident of the City of Schenectady in said County aged sixty nine 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 7 th 1832
He was born in the town of Niskayuna in the (then County of Albany now) County of Schenectady aforesaid on the eleventh day of June 1764 - There is no record of his age as far as he has been able to ascertain
When called into the service of the United States in the army of the revolution, he was living at a place called the Bough above Troy in the (then) County of Albany - since the revolutionary war he has lived at Helderberg in the town of Waterloot in said County of Albany, from thence he moved to the City of Schenectady - from thence to Montgomery County in the town of Broadalbin - thence about the year 1812 he moved to Warrenton in the County of St. Lawrence when there he volunteered against the British under one Captain Wright, and took a part in the first skirmish that occurred in the last war on that frontier - from thence he moved to the town of Macena in said County of St. Lawrence where now resides in said City of Schenectady
In the middle of June or July 1780 he enlisted at the city of Albany in Captain Jacob D. Lansing's Company of State Troops, he believes in Colonel Graham's Regiment

Jacob Hochtrafer and James Bloodgood were Lieutenants in said Company. After being mustered at Albany aforesaid he marched to the Highlands and performed garrison duty with the troops stationed there to wit at Westpoint, also at Haverstraw, Tappan and Clarkstown. He thence marched to Albany - thence to Schoharie at the middle fort in that place. Here one Major Woolsey had the command. He took a part in the battle at this place against the enemy under Sir John Johnson, and followed them to a place above fort Herkimer where Col. Brown was killed - thence he marched to Schenectady where he received his discharge but not in writing having served out the full term of his enlistment viz three months, and at
3.20
least twenty days in addition thereto. He enlisted again the month of March 1781 in Captain Peter Ellsworth's Company of State Troops under
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Lieutenant-Colonel Willett for the term of nine months. His other Company officers were Hendries and Shaw Lieutenants. The place of this enlistment was Albany - thence he marched to Schenectady - thence to Herkimer, and performed garrison duty at fort Plain, fort Hows near East Canada Creek & at fort Waldradt - engaged in the expedition against Pops & Butler and received his discharge at Fort Plain after serving in full his said term of nine months. He was in the battle of Johnstown so called while in this engagement of nine months. His said Captain Ellsworth was killed more than a month previous to the battle of Johnstown aforesaid, and the command of said Company then devolved on Lieutenant Hendries or Henderson aforesaid.
and he claims a pension and for the aforesaid service of fifteen months & twenty days

THE FOLLOWING are the names of some of the regular officers whom he knew, or who were with the troops where he served, and such continental and militia regiments or companies with which he served, or as he can recollect, viz: Adjutant Bellio H. Fonda Colonel Dubois , General Malcolm , Major Lansing , General Van Rensselaer & Colonel Willett & other officers herein before named He never received any written discharge from the service.
He has no _____ documentary evidence, and knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service except those whose depositions are hereto annexed
The following are the names of persons to whom he is known in his present neighborhood, and who can testify as to his character for veracity, and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution, to wit Daniel Felthouse & Nicholas Van Valkenburgh
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.
Subscribed and sworn to the } day and year first aforesaid } in open court
John S. Vrooman
Clerk.
Jacob X Conley his mark
We Daniel Felthouse residing in the city of Schenectady in the county of Schenectady aforesaid, and Nicholas Van Valkenburgh residing in the town of Rotterdam in said county do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jacob Conley who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be sixty nine 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.
Subscribed and sworn the } day and year aforesaid }
in open court
Clerk.
D. Felthouse Nicholas X Van Valkenburgh his mark
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 Daniel Felthouse who has signed the preceding certificate is a _____ resident in the city of Schenectady in said county and that Nicholas Van Valkenburgh who has also signed the same, is a resident in the town of Rotterdam in said county and are both _____ credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I John S. Vrooman Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the county of Schenectady do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jacob Conley for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this twenty fourth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty- four
John S. Vrooman Clerk.

State of New York Montgomery County } ss
Abraham Van Arnam of Broadalbin in said County aged seventy one years being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is well acquainted with Jacob Conley and was acquainted with him in the Revolutionary war - that the said Jacob Conley entered the service of the United States at Albany in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty and to the best of this deponents recollection on the seventeenth day of July in that year. That this deponent and the said Jacob Conley at that time both served in Capt. Jacob S. Lansing's Company - that after being mustered at Albany they went down to Fishkill, West point, Tappan and Clarkstown, and returned to Albany, and from thence went to Schoharie - that they had entered the service at this time for three months which expired on the seventeenth day of October 1780, but they continued in the service in the same Company after that time and went on an expedition to the west as far as Fort Herkimer or beyond and then returned & were finally discharged at Schenectady some where about the middle of November 1780 as near as this deponent can recollect - and that the time which the said Jacob Conley served under the said Capt. Jacob S. Lansing was to the best of this deponents recollection three months and two or three weeks and that said service was performed in the year 1780 as above stated - and further this deponent saith not.
Sworn & subscribed before me, This 30 th day of December, 1833.
Abraham Van Arnam
Allen Bunn Justice of the Peace
I certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Abraham Van Arnam and that he is a credible witness.
Allen Bunn Justice

State of New York Montgomery County, ss. Clerk's Office!
George D. Ferguson, Clerk of the County of Montgomery aforesaid, do hereby Certify that Allen Burn, Esq. before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn was on the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in & for the County aforesaid: and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing & hereby believe that his name subscribed to the said affidavit is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County this 11th February 1834.
Geo: D. Ferguson
Character of the...

State of New York Albany County ss. Abraham C. Traz of the Town of Graftonland in said county aged 71 years who being duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say that he is well acquainted with Jacob Conley, and well acquainted with him in the revolutionary war, and knows that the said Jacob Conley was in the service of the Revolution for nine months. ————— In Captain Peter Elsworth's company in Colonel Willetts regiment and according to the best of this deponent's recollection it was in the year 1781 it was the year the battle was fought at Johnstown now County of Montgomery and State aforesaid that this deponent was in the same company and Reg- iment with the said Jacob Conley, that they both entered the service at the City and County of Albany and State of New York in Capt. Peter Elsworth's company in Colonel Willetts Regiment, and according to the best of his recoll- ection it was as early as the middle of March 1781 that they entered said service and that they both contin- ued in the service in said company and Regiment, from that time till as late as the middle of December of the year when they were both discharged at Fort Plain now in the County of Montgomery and State of New York — that this deponent and the said Jacob Conley were both in the battle at Johnstown aforesaid, that Capt. Elsworth was killed a month or two before the battle at Johnstown, and that one Hendricks he believes took the command of the company after Elsworth got killed
sworn & subscribed to the 30 th Nov r 1833
Col D. Agshury Justice of the Peace
Abraham C. Traz

I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the within named Abraham C. Turner and that he is a credible witness John D. Ogslbury Justice
City & County of Albany Clerks Office.
ss.
I hereunto Affix my hand and seal to certify that the foregoing Affidavit purports to have been sworn to before me on the day of the date of the same one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County and that his name subscribed to the said Affidavit is his proper hand writing and signature and also that his name subscribed to the certificate of credibility is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my name and affixed the Seal of the said County this 27 th January A.D. 1834.
C. A. Van Dyke Clerk

State of New York Schoharie County } ss
Martin Brannell of the town and county of Schoharie, aged eighty years who being duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say, that he is well acquainted with Jacob Canley, and was well acquainted with him in the revolutionary War, and knows that the said Jacob Canley was in the service of the Revolution for nine month lacking nine or ten days, in Captain Peter Eldsworth's company, in Colonel Willett's regiment, and according to the best of this deponent's recollection, it was in the year 1781, it was the year the battle was fought at Johnstown now county of Montgomery and State aforesaid. That this deponent was in the same company and regiment with the said Jacob Canley, that they both entered the service at the city and county of Albany and State of New York in Captain Peter Eldsworth's company, in Colonel Willett's regiment, and according to the best of his recollection it was as early as the 25th of day of March 1781, that they entered said service and that they both continued in the service in said company and regiment, from that time till as late as the middle of December of the same year, when they were both discharged at Fort Plain now in the county of Montgomery  Schoharie , in the State of New York, about ten days before the nine months had expired. That this deponent and the said Jacob Canley were both in the battle at Johnstown aforesaid. That Captain Eldsworth was killed a month or two before the battle at Johnstown, and that one Hendricks he thinks took the command of the company after Eldsworth got killed.
Martin Brannell
Sworn and subscribed
the 7th day of November
1833
W. Mann a Judge Schoharie county
N.B. The name "Schoharie" was erased and the name "Montgomery" substituted.
I certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Martin Brannell and that he is a credible witness
W. Mann a Judge Schoharie county court
copying from the original manuscript No. 10-10-1833

State of New York
County of Schoharie p. I John Gebhard Jr. Clerk of the said county Do certify that William Mann before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at the time of the same one of the judges of the court of common pleas in and for the said county, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit and certificate of credibility to be his proper hand writing and signature. Witness my hand and seal of Office this 7th day of November 1833.
John Gebhard Jr. Clerk
29842 In the matter of the application of Jacob Conley for a pension -
Admitted
Private 12 mo 20 day
Hon. W. Mann
Cramer H.R.
Col. J. H. W. Agent
Schenectady N.Y.

16. 721 INVALID.
File No. 16,721
Jacob Conley Ex Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32
Index:—Vol. 1 st , Page 439
[Arrangement of 1870.]