Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16,534, Jacob I Clute, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Clute, Jacob J. or Jacob J. Mary
N. 16,534
CONTENTS

7.3d.
459
Albany New York
Mary Clute of Montgomery in the State of N.Y.
who was a in the  commanded by Captain of the  commanded by in the time for widow of Jacob J. Clute dec d late Pirate in the Revo- lution N.Y.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 32 Dollars 32 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831 A.D. p o to 4 Sept '35 to be deducted.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 day of Feb 1837 and Secy Navy U.S. J. Bove H oo of Rep d
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1836 $177.76 Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 Mar '37 16.16 $193.92
{ Revolutionary Claim, } Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by klh  Adams Clerk, Book 2 Vol. 1 . Page 128

24.705 New York
Jacob P. Glute
Montgomery, in the State of New York who was a Private in the Camp commanded by Captain Schuyler of the Regt. commanded by Col. Nickols — in the New York line for 9 Mos. & 21 days.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 32 Dollars 32 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 day of Feb. 1834 and by the G. H. Hall Schuylkill.
Arrears to the 4th of Sep. '33 $80.80 Semi-ann. allowance ending Apr. '34 16.16
$96.96
{ Revolutionary Claim, Recd June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Book E, Vol. II, Page 130 Clerk,
231 32
4 4 11 16 16 80.80

In the matter of the application of Jacob J. Clute for a pension } Supplemental affi- davit
And the said Jacob J. Clute being further duly sworn doth depose and say, that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but accor- ding to the best of his recollection he ser- ved not less than the periods mentioned be- low in the following grades: to wit-
He is a private pursuant to a regular enlistment in a Company of artif- icers commanded by Captain Jacob Van Dusen, in a Regiment whereof Major Hale or Day was Commandant. This Deponent enlisted & served in said Company at Ticon- deroga & Skeneateborough from the early part of the year 1777 until the month of August then next following after Gen- eral Burgoyne had invested the fortress at Ticonderoga aforesaid, to wit for a term of at least four months and 4/12 eleven and a half
He served as a private in Captain Henry Ostrom's Company of Militia in the

Regiment Commanded by Colonel Francis Nichols in the month of January 1778 with a Detachment of soldiers under Command of General Schuyler, at John- stown, on the occasion of Sir John Johnson Surrendering himself & his dependants pris- oners of war, for a term not less than 14 fourteen days. Under the same offi- cers, he marched to and performed garri- son duty with the American forces stationed the year last named, at Lake George, for a term not less than one month . Under the same officers he engaged in expedition to Saratoga where he remained discharging garrison duty for a term of 15 at least half a month - thence he was ordered up the Mohawk river to Schu- nerstadt where he performed garrison duty for a short time & then marched to Rensse- laer's manor the place of his residence having been under arms since he left Saratoga as aforesaid for a term exceeding - 12 twelve days.
As a private in the year 1778, this de- ponent under the same officers served with the drafted militia at the middle and upper forts of Schoharie, performing garrison duty at those forts - for the term of 1 - one month as a substitute for his brother

John, and for a term not less than 2.20 Eighty days on his own account.
Under the same officers as a private in said militia Company he performed garrison duty at Fort Hunter for at -10 least ten days .
As a private in said mi- litia Company and under the same offi- cers he performed garrison duty at Forts Paris & Herkimer for a term exceeding 15 fifteen days _____ days
In the expedition against the enemy under Sir Johnson in the year 1780, as a private in said militia Com- pany, this deponent performed military duty in the garrison & in the field for a 75 term not less than twenty five days
This deponent also served as an Indian spy on many occasions the particular periods of which he cannot recollect at the Helderbergs and other places, and also with scouting parties in pursuit of Tories for a period in the 2- whole exceeding two months -
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This deponent cannot recollect or specify any other services other

than those before enumerated, and his memory does not serve him suf- ficiently well to give a more full account of the periods grades and terms of service by him rendered in said war than he has done in this affidavit.
And for the aforesaid period of more than fourteen  months actual and active service as a private soldier in the garrison & in the field, this de- ponent claims a pension - and this depo- nent further saith that for the time during which said service was performed he was not engaged in any civil pur- suit -
Subscribed Sworn - Jacob B. Kluck This 26 th Day of September 1833, before me - M c Cluskey J. O.
And for the aforesaid period of more than fourteen months actual and active service as a private soldier in the garrison & in the field, this deponent claims a pension - and this deponent further saith that for the time during which said service was performed he was not engaged in any civil pursuit -

State of New York, Montgomery County. ss.
I, George D. Ferguson, clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County, do hereby certify that John Cumming, before whom the foregoing annexed Supplemental declaration of Jacob Glute purports to have been sworn, was on the date thereof a Justice of the Peace of the said County; And that I am well acquainted with his handwriting and verily believe that his name subscribed to the said Supplemental declaration is Genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 26th September 1833.
Geo: D. Ferguson.

12/4/65 Montg ry Co. Court.
In the matter of the application of Jacob J. Clute for a pension.
Proceedings v.
$1.00
N o 9:
To the care of Giles H. Yates Schenectady N.Y.

State of New York County of Montgomery } ss.
On this Nineteenth Day of September in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in aforesaid County now sitting, Jacob I. Clute , a resident of the town of Glen in said County, aged Eighty 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.
He was born on the fourteenth Day of March in the year 1752. The record of his age is in the Register Kept by the Reformed Dutch Church in the City of Albany. The place of his birth is Scenectady  Rensselaer Manor in the County of Albany in said State. He lived there when he entered service in the army of the revolution. He has lived since the revolutionary war in the town of Glen (formerly Charlton) in the County of Montgomery where he has resided more than forty years. Snow renders—
He was called into service in the Spring of the year 1775. He was then enrolled in the Company of Captain Peter Schuyler, in the Regiment of Militia commanded by Colonel Francis Nichols. He served under said Captain Schuyler about one year, when said Captain being promoted to the rank of Major, the command of his Company was given to Henry Ostrom. With the exception of the time he served in the Company of Captain Jacob Van Dusen, as herein after specified, he served in said Company of Captain Henry Ostrom from the year 1776 till the end of the war!
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His other Company & Field Officers whom he recollects were as follows, Jacob Weaver Lieutenant Peter Schuyler Jr., Ensign. Colonel Francis Nichols had the command of said Regiment no longer than the year 1777, when Philip Schuyler was appointed to that station & served as such till the end of the war.
In the month of January 1776, he served with the detachment of soldiers under General Schuyler, on the occasion of Sir John Johnson surrendering himself and his tenants prisoners of war. He did military duty for one month with the American troops encamped this year at Lake George. His next expedition was to Saratoga, where he remained more than half a month; there he was ordered up the Mohawk river to Schenectady where he remained a short time and then returned home. In the early part of the year 1777, he enlisted in the Company of Captain Jacob Van Dusen; which Company with several others was under the Command of Major Hay or Hale of the New-York line at Ticonderoga & Keenesborough, and was employed at those fortresses with artificers in building boats & erecting fortifications. He was between four & five months at Ticonderoga aforesaid; to wit, until (he believes) in the month of July 1777 General Burgoyne invested that fortress, and it was evacuated by the American army. In the fall of the year 1777 when General Burgoyne & his army surrendered, he was ordered out, but was detained home by sickness. In the years following, he was with the drafted Militia at Schoharie at both the middle & upper forts. He served nearly thru months at these forts on his own account, and one month as a

Substitute for his brother John Glute. He has performed garrison duty at Fort Hunter about half a month. He has also been on duty at Forts Paris & Herkimer. He was in the expedition against the British forces under Sir John Johnson after they had devastated Coughnawaga and other settlements on the banks of the Mohawk. He marched in this expedition as far as Fort Herkimer, and was out about one month. He was in the battle at Canajoharie when in pursuit of Sir Johnson, he thinks in the year 1780. On several occasions he served on scouting parties, & as an Indian spy. He had command of a scouting party when stationed at Schoharie. It is impossible for him to specify all the different terms of his service, as he was sometimes out only a few days at a time. He was sometimes called upon as often as twice a week to the Helderbergh, and other places infested by the Tories. He was often out with small detachments of militia to guard places in the vicinity of the town where he lived, which were constantly exposed to attacks from the enemy. He honestly believes that the different terms of his service when added together will exceed a period of two years.
The following are such Regiments as he recollects, and the names of some of the Regular Officers whom he knew, or who were with the troops where he served, besides those herein before mentioned: viz. General Van Rensselaer & his Regiment, General Gansevoort, Colonel Willett & his Regiment, Colonel Goosen Van Schaick, & the Companies under his command &c.

He never received any written discharge from the service, and believes no such discharges were given to any of the members of his Regiment.
The following are the names of persons to whom he is known in his present neighbourhood, and who can testify as to his character for veracity, and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution: to wit the Rev. Abraham Van Horn, John Van D Van Pelt -
He has no documentary evidence but can produce the testimony of witnesses who can testify to his services.
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 fact of J. C. Adams Day & year first aforesaid - {
Geo: D. Ferguson Clerk

Montgomery County ss-
On the day & year aforesaid, personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County now sitting, John Ostrom of the town of Glen in said County, who being duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say, that he is the eldest son of Captain Henry Ostrom referred to in the preceding declaration signed by Jacob S. Clute, that he this deponent has been well acquainted with said Jacob S. Clute since the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy five - that this deponent made out the muster Rolls of his father's Company, and knows that the name of said Jacob S. Clute was on said rolls - that this deponent when he arrived at the age of sixteen, to wit, in the year 1780. was enrolled in said Company, & knows that said Jacob served in said Company from the year 1775 aforesaid till the end of said war - this deponent was out with said Jacob in several campaigns to wit, in the year 1780, when Caughnawaga & other settlements in the valley of the Mohawk were destroyed by the enemy, and when the Command of General Van Rensselaer, when they pursued the British troops under Sir J. Johnson in the fall of the year last named - this deponent was also with said Jacob in the year 1781 in service as aforesaid under Colonel Willett when Major

Ross and Walter Butler made their incursion into the then County of Tryon & were compelled to retreat; he was also with him at Schoharie Saratoga & Beavertown & other places in said declaration mentioned & knows that said Jacob S. Gluts faith- fully discharged his duties as a member of said Company, whenever his services were required.
Subscribed & sworn the } day & year aforesaid. } John Ostrom Geo: D. Ferguson Clerk 20

County of Montgomery ss.
On the day and year aforesaid personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County Tunis Ostrander of the town of Root in said County, who being duly sworn according to law, doth Depose and say, that he is well acquainted with Jacob S. Clute who has signed the foregoing declaration, and has been well acquainted with him since the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, this Deponent has personal knowledge of the services of said Jacob S. Clute during the whole of the revolutionary war, except for part of the year 1777, when said Jacob alleges in his said declaration that he served at Ticonderoga & Skeneateborough, this Deponent was with said Jacob in most of the expeditions in said declaration set forth, and is certified that he served at the places, in the manner & for the period in said declaration mentioned, and that he discharged all his military duties during said war with the utmost fidelity -
Tunis Ostrander
Subscribed & Sworn the } day & year aforesaid - } Geo: D. Ferguson, Clerk

We Abraham Van Horn a clergyman residing in the town of Johnstown — in said County of Montgomery and John D. Van Patten a resident of the town of Glen — also of said County, do hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Jacob Fute — who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration: that we believe him to be eighty — years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighbor- hood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Abraham Van Horn P.D. M.
Subscribed and sworn to his J. D. Van Patten mark the day & year aforesaid — Geo: D. Ferguson. Clerk
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the in- vestigation 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 Abraham Van Horn by whom the preceding certificate has been subscribed and sworn to is a clergyman resident in the town of Johnstown aforesaid —

And further that John D. Van Patten - who also signed said Certificate is a resident of the town of Glen  aforesaid - that they are both credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
A. B. F.
Geo: D. Ferguson Clerk of said Court, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Jacob I. Clute for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this twentieth day of September, one thousand Eight hundred and thirty-two.
Geo: D. Ferguson
And the said Court do direct me as their Clerk to organize to further certify that John Ostrom who has signed the preceding affidavit is a resident of the town of Glen & that David Ostrander who has also signed a preceding Certificate is a resident of the town of Root: And that the said Ostrom & Ostrander appeared in Open Court at the last September term thereof & respectively affirmed to the said Certificate to which their names are subscribed: And that the said Ostrom & Ostrander are personally known to said Court & that they both are credible persons, & that their statement is entitled to credit. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand seal of office this 22 d May 1833.
Geo: D. Ferguson, Clerk

County of Schenectady } ss
Simon A. Groot of the City of Schenectady in said County, being duly sworn and examined doth depose and say, that he is well acquainted with Jacob S. Clute of the town of Glen in the County of Montgomery in said State, an applicant for a pension under the act of 7 th June 1832, the same person referred to & described in the preceding declaration of said Jacob S. Clute - that this Deponent well knew said Jacob S. Clute in the time of the revolutionary war - and has personal knowledge of his services for the term of at least seven months in the Company of Captain Jacob Van Dusen, which Company with several others were under the command of Major Hale of the New York line at Fienderoga & Skeenesborough, and were employed at those posts during the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven in erecting fortifications & building Cannon carriages & boats & other vessels for the use of the American army - that this Deponent served with said Jacob S. Clute in said Company for said term of seven months & longer - this Deponent further saith that he saw said Jacob S. Clute serve at Fort George, but has not personal knowledge of any of the other military services of said Jacob S. Clute in said war, & further saith not
Subscribed & sworn this 30 th } Simon A. Groot August 1832, before me }
John Worden Justice

I, John Worden the Justice of the Peace afore- said before whom the foregoing deposition of Simon A. Groot has been taken do hereby cer- tify that I am well acquainted with said Simon A. Groot, and know him to be a man of the credibility and that his statement is entitled to the fullest credit. Witness my hand the day & year last aforesaid.
John Worden Justice
State of New York } County of Schenectady } ss.
I, John S. Vroom- man Clerk of said County, do hereby cer- tify, that John Worden before whom the pre- ceding affidavit of Judge Simon A. Groot was sworn, & by whom the preceding certificate is signed, was on the day of the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, and that his signature to the same is genuine - Witness my hand & seal of Office this sixth day of September One thousand eight hundred & thirty-two.
John S. Vrooman Clerk.

12 4 65 Montg o Co: Court
In the matter of the application of Jacob J. Clute for a pension.
Proceedings v.
$1-00
N o 9:
To the care of Giles F. Yates
Schenectady N.Y.

State of New York Montgomery County
On this 23 day of January 1837 personally appeared before John Hand a judge of the Mont- gomery County Courts. Mary Glute a resident of Glen in the county of Montgomery and State of New York aged 75 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of congress passed July 4. 1836: That she is the widow of Jacob Glute who was a private in the Revolutionary Army: She further declares that she was married to the said Jacob Glute on or about the tenth day of March in the year seven hundred and seventy eight, that her husband the aforesaid Jacob Glute died on the 22 day November 1835 and that she has remained a widow ever since as will more fully appear by reference to the proof herunto annexed
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me John Hand a judge of the Montgomery County Courts His Mary X Glute Mark
I further certify that I am personally acquainted with Mary Glute who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration and know her to be a creditable person and that the statements by her made in said affidavit or declaration are entitled to full credit - and that she made her mark in subscribing said declaration by reason of bodily infirmary John Hand a judge of the Montgomery County Courts

State of New York Montgomery County } ss
John Oederkirk aged ninety one years and upwards being duly sworn testifies that he was well acquainted with Jacob Clute deceased the husband of Mary Clute the same person referred to and described in the annexed documents as an applicant for a pension under the act of the 4 th of July 1836. That in the month of March 1778 (does not recollect the day of the month) this deponent was present at the marriage of the said Jacob Clute to the said Mary. That in his presence the ceremony was performed by the Reverend Barnet Vrooman and that he knows that they lived together as man and wife until the death of the said Jacob Clute and that the said Mary has remained his widow ever since (the words with and the word " said " intoned before sworn to)
Sworn to & Subscribed John X Oederkirk This 23 rd day of January 1837. before me
John Hand a Judge of the Montgomery County Courts.
I further certify that I am acquainted with the said John Oederkirk who has sworn to the above affidavits & know him to be a credible person - and that the statements made in said affidavit are entitled to full credit. John Hand a Judge of the Montgomery County Courts.

I further certify that the within named John Underkirk has made his mark in subscribing the within affidavit by reason of bodily infirmity John H and a Judge and the attesting clause made before sworn to as noted within - of the Montgomery County Courts
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Jacob J. Clute of the State of New York, who was a Private in the Revolutionary Army is entitled to receive Thirty Two dollars and Thirty Two cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States this 8 day of February one thousand eight hundred and thirty- Four
Lewis Cass Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. }
J. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions.

Payments to be made at New York by First Natl. Bk. Agent for paying Pension- ers, in the Agency of
New York
Recorded in the Pension Of- fice, in Book E Vol. II, Page 138 by J. O. [unclear] Clerk.

State of New York County of Montgomery } ss.
I John H and a Judge of the County Courts of the County above named do hereby declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter and after examining the declaration, affidavit and documents hereto annexed. That Jacob Clute named in said declaration & affidavit was a private in the Revolutionary Army and a pensioner of the United States previous to his death and that Mary Clute, the applicant who has made said declaration is the widow of said Jacob Clute - and has been lawfully married to said Jacob Clute and as mentioned in said declaration - and that he died at the time mentioned in said declaration and that she has remained his widow ever since - and I further certify that the said Mary Clute was unable to attend any of the County Courts of record - at the time of making said declaration by reason of bodily infirmity
John H and a Judge of the Montgomery County Courts

State of New York Montgomery Co. County Clerks Office
3 rd p. I Richard W. Leushney Deputy Clerk of the County of Montgomery Do certify that John Ward Esqr whose name is subscribed to the depts of the affidavits made by Mary Clute and John Onderkirk was at the date of the same a Judge of the County Courts in and for said County and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe that the signatures to the depts of the said affidavits and also the certificates accompanying the same are genuine In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal this 25 th day of January 1837 R. W. Leushney Dep Clerk
1120 Widow Clute Pension Declaration
M c Bovee
Admitted Private ques d 21 dms
H r M c Bovee H r R

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 165-34
Mary White Wid. of Jacob White Prio Rev War
Act: June 7 th /32
Index:—Vol. a , Page 131
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Jacob J. Clute act 32. N.Y. when last paid? hkk. a.
To the 11 Sep 1838
2/4

No. 12.465 Jacob S. Klute
Admitted Prior to 9. Mo & 21 days
Service as an Artificer Attributed
G. F. Yates Schenectady N.Y.

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Jacob S. Glute which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? yes VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes
And certify that John Cumming Esq. before whom the supplemented affidavit is taken with a justice of the peace seal on the ribbon - Lucia

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? yes XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? XIV. † If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? yes If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? yes  No all the witnesses are not certified credible Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? yes XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? yes XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? yes XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? yes
 EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection 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 pensioner 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 they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; 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 shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
QUERE XIV.  Proof of Service.
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 claimants 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 magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI.  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 paper 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.
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, 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.
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