Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22730, Philip Dehaish, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Dehaish, Philip
S. 22730
Deharsh
" Daharsh
CONTENTS

Rep. —
Philip Schuchert, in Delaware resided in the State of New York was a Private in the Co. commanded by Captain Miller of the Reg. commanded by Col. Harper in the N. York for 14 mo. 28 days.
Enrolled on the Roll of Albany, N.Y. at the rate of 49 Dollars 66 Cents per mensem, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831, and ending 1 st April 1832, when he died.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 th day of May 1832 and sent to G. H. Hales, Esq. Albany, N.Y.
Issued to the 4th of March, allowance ending
{ Revolutionary War Act June 7, 1832 and 2 nd Sect. 14. Signed by D. H. Wood 8 th Vol. 4. Page 18.
Payable to Philip, Isaac and George Schuchert of Eveline Christman, on children.

State of New York County of Madison Es.
Be it Known, that on the second — day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas — in & for said County, Philip DeKosh or DeHost and Isaac DeKosh or DeHost of the town of Sullivan in said County, and they being respectively duly sworn, do depose and say, or make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed 7 th June 1832, granting pensions to soldiers and officers who performed service in the war of the revolution, & in certain cases to the children of such officers or soldiers in their behalf pursuant to the provisions of the law in such cases made.
These Declarants, do further declare depose and say, that he the said Philip will be sixty-eight years of age on the 4 th day of June next, having been born as he was informed by his parents & believes to be true, on the 4 th day of June in the year One thousand seven hundred and seventy nine eighty (1789) and he the aforesaid Isaac deposeth and saith, that he was fifty-three years of age on the eighth day of August last (1846). That they the said Philip and Isaac are children of Philip DeKosh , who was a soldier in the war of the revolution and served as herein after stated. That the other children left by said Philip last named are as follows, Eveline Christman now aged sixty five years & upwards, who resides in said town of Sullivan, and Jacob DeKosh who is now about sixty-two — years of age & resides in the town of Lewiston in the County of Niagara N.Y. That said Philip DeKosh the father of these Declarants

departed this life on the first day of April one thou- -sand eight hundred & thirty-two (1 st April 1832) leaving no widow him surviving, but the children herein before named who are all over twenty-one years of age, to wit of the ages aforesaid, & who are still alive - viz - the Declarants, Philip & Isaac, & Jacob De Kosh & Eveline Christman . That their father the said Philip De Kosh died at the time aforesaid, in the seventy-sixth year of his age, having been born on the 21 st day of March one thousand seven hundred & fifty-six, and he died in the village of Catterango in said town of Sullivan N.Y.
The said Philip De Kosh, on account of whose revolutionary services, and in whose behalf a pension is hereby asserted & claimed, resided at the period of the said war in the town of Ephratah in the now County of Montgomery in said State. Some- time in the year 1801, he moved to said town of Sullivan where he lived till the day of his death, continuously except for one year when he resided in the town of Penter in the County of Cayuga N.Y.
These Declarants have repeatedly & in detail heard their father the said Philip De Kosh recount his services in the war of the revolution to themselves & other members of his family as well as to others - and they remem- ber his mentioning the names of many soldiers who served with him, of whom they can now call to mind the following among others Samuel Boyle, John Eigenbrodt, Andrew Finn, George Hawk, Daniel Hart, John Holtzer William Kern, Baltzer Smith - said Holtzer was an uncle of Declarants - Baltzer Bridenbigin - Fred o Hoofnagle, Fred o Colman, Nick o . Christman, Nick o & Wm o Karns - Nison, David Keps, Fred o Stig, David Sun George Horn Cocks, Cornelius Van Camp, John Keps, George Shell, Christian Plapper & many others. And these Declarants further say that they well and distinctly remember to have heard their father say, that in the first year of

the revolutionary war (in 1775) He served for nine months pursuant to enlistment in the Company of Captain Christopher P. Yates , and he served in this engagement at Montreal & St. Johns  Ticonderoga & Quebec . He afterwards enlisted & served for three years in the Company of Captain Trink - after this he enlisted in the Company of Garret Putman - from which company, as their father expressed it, he was chosen out to serve under Captain Samuel Woodworth .
He was in the battle of Oriskana in 1777, in the Battle of Monmouth , in the battle of Furberick in Schoharie under or with Captain McKeen , who was killed in that battle. He was also in the Battle at Stillwater , and was on duty at Fort Stanwix , Fort Plain , Fort Herkimer , Stone Arabia , at Unadilla & many other places we cannot now call to mind. and some of the other officers under & with him he served besides those named, they recollect Col: Willet & Col: Malcom & Wiersevelt & Groen Van Schaick .
Sworn before me in Philip DeKosh open court as aforesaid - Isaac DeKosh this 2 o February 1847  Note - "seventy-nine" & "montreal & St. Johns" interlined before execution of the foregoing declaration  Scott Sloan Clerk Court
And the said Court , after an investigation of the matter, declare their opinion, that the aforesaid Philip DeKosh the father of the aforesaid Declarants, did serve in the war of the revolution as is in said declaration stated - that he died on the 1 st day of April one thousand eight hundred & thirty-two leaving the following named children him surviving & who still survive - viz - Philip DeKosh , Isaac DeKosh , Jacob DeKosh & Lucina Christman , and that they are all of them respectively over twenty-one years of age. and the said court doth accordingly

hereby certify to the same.
By the Court.
Scott Sloan Clerk
I Scott Sloan Clerk of said County do hereby certify, that the foregoing are the original proceedings in the matter of the application of the children of Philip DeKosh deceased in behalf of said deceased for a pension, made before me in said Court.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court at Morrisville in said County, the day and year first above written.
Scott Sloan Clerk
I Friend Barnard of the town of Sullivan in said County of Madison in said State of New-York a Judge of the County Courts in and for said County, do hereby certify, that for the last twenty-six years, I have resided within four miles of the residence of the aforementioned Philip DeKosh reputed to have served in the war of the revolution, and whose sons Philip & Isaac have sworn to the Declaration hereto annexed. That I was well acquainted with said Philip DeKosh & his family - that they the said Philip & Isaac the aforesaid Declarants are esteemed as men of truth & veracity & that their statements are entitled to the fullest credit.
Friend Barnard
one of the judges of Madison County Courts

Revolution
22 7/30
INVALID.
File No. 22,730
Philip Dechaish
Pis Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32 nd
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 103
[Arrangement of 1870.]

37480
Philip De Waak New York
At 6 G. H. States Apts 6.47
Ad 7/15/82

37.480
Philip Dettosh dec d N.Y.
Act 7. June 32 & 2 nd Sect n act of 4 July 36 roll 76 - 6.12 ds mitigate 8.16 ds
$ 49.66
to 1 st ap l 1832 when he died -
To Philip Isaac & Jacob Dettosh & Eveline Christ man only child
H. J. Yates Esq r Albany N.Y.

In the matter of of Philip DeKock act of 7 th June 1832 New Orleans
Letter of Solicitor
17712 at the 10th of previous session 17712 at the 10th of previous session

Albany, March 11 th 1847
Col. J. L. Edwards Comm te of Pensions.
Sir.
The claim herewith presented, is under the act of 7 th June 1832, in behalf of Philip De Kosh . (or DeKars).
Philip De Kosh died 1 st April 1832 . Accordingly the claim asserted is for such a stipend as may be adjudged due, from the 4 th March 1831, to the 1 st April 1832; and the claim is asserted by 20 th the sons Philip & Isaac in the name of all the children. The sons & daughters, are named
 Eveline Christman  Philip De Kosh  Isaac De Kosh &  Jacob De Kosh 
The children gave me the following account of their father's services, which I have embodied in their Declaration - In 1775 under Capt. Chris o P. Yates at St. Johns, St. Johns & Gm d - (1777) at Battles of Oriskana & Stillwater (in Aug t & October) say 2 " (1779) at Battle of Turlochickoharie &c - and in 3 " (1780) at Fort Plain &c under Capt Putnam & Col. Willett 12 " also under Major Andrew Rink for 3 years - 23 m s .
I have examined such Rolls as were accessible to me in regard to the service of De Kosh under Rink, but can find nothing of it. I ought to have given in the Declaration their own words, which were, that their father "served

in the 3 year service under Pink". Now Andrew Pink (in the commencement of the war & for several years a Captain on the Continental establishment) was during the last three years of the war a Major & Inspector of Light Infantry under Col. Willett, and the Comptroller's Records so far as they are extant show that Philip DeHosk did serve during those years under Col. Willett. The best proof that it is morally possible to adduce at this late day, is offered viz. the traditional account of service preserved in the family of deceased which is confirmed by the certificate of one of the Judges of the Court, before whom the declaration was taken. The Certificate of that Court which investigated the matter and by the merest chance the affidavit of Nicholas Christman, who has since he took his affidavit departed this life. Said Christman testifies to his personal knowledge of the service of DeHosk in 1775 & 1776 in Capt. Christopher P. Yates Company at Montreal &c.
On reference to the Roll of Capt. Christopher P. Yates which I recently deposited in your office, you will see that Philip DeHosk enlisted into that Company on the 19 th day July 1775, showing a service of 5 mos & 12 days in that year, or up to the 1 st January 1776. He then volunteered & served for one month (January 1776) in the same Company, which will fix his service in that early period of the war at 6 mos & 12 days. If he enlisted in Capt. Pink's Company after that your Rolls may show or in what companies he did

serve for the remainder of 1776, & in the years 1777 & 1778 at the Battles of Oriskana, Stillwater & Monmouth New Jersey. I have no means of ascertaining. The Comptroller's Records show service in 1779, 1780 & 1782, but not in 1781 & 1783, in which years it is believed he served under Col. Willett, whose Rolls here are imperfect. Judging from the amount paid him as per Comptroller's certificate, or on the supposition that that amount is a criterion of the length of his service in 1779, 1780 & 1782, he served in the years last named over eight months. This certificate (N o 4) constitutes all the proof the Albany Records afford of De- Witt's services. My Roll of Capt. Yates & the Doc- ument N o 2, which I now send herewith, show documentarily six months & 12 days services in addi- tion to that in 1779 &c. As to DeWitt's other services I must depend upon the Records at Washington -
I am your ob t Servt B. F. Weeks.

[N o 14-1847] In the matter re
of
Philip De Kosh deceased
Application for a pension under the act of 7 th June 1832.
Pending.
C. H. H. H. C. H. H. H. Sol r

Albany, April 24 th 1847.
Sir.
I have received your favor of the 6 th inst., in the Case of Philip DeHosh (or DeHars) deceased (to whose Children about one year's Pension is due under the act of 7 th June 1832.)
It has been shown, that he belonged to the military beat of Capt. Miller; and that his associate soldiers under Capt. Putman were from the same & adjoining beats in Tryon County the run of Cases examined by your Department must have repeatedly shown. These facts taken in connection with the peculiarity of the name of the Applicant, afford strong circumstantial evidence that the Philip DeHosh on the Comptroller's Books, designated as belonging to the Companies of Miller and Putman, is the identical man with, (and can be none other, than) the Philip DeHosh on account of whose services a pension is now claimed.
This testimony, if not satisfactory, is the best I can adduce after much trouble time spent & expense in seeking for it, and it is all that it is morally possible after the lapse of seventy years since the events referred to have occurred, for me or any body else to adduce. That I obtained the testimony of Christman as to DeHosh's service in 1775 in Canada, was next to a miracle - Christman died a month or two after he had given this testimony. Henry Rightmyer of Madison County & Shaw of Jefferson County , (after diligent search to ascertain the fact) I came to the conclusion are the only persons now living, who belonged to Putman's Company . I have consulted them as to their knowledge of DeHosh's services in said Company, but they cannot swear for him because they served in Putman's Company in a different year from the one in which DeHosh served in said Company.

I beg, that the claim of Deedstock may be again examined; and as I have adduced the best evidence possible of the services alleged to have been performed, & which are set forth in the traditional account given by the children of the Deceased, that a liberal stipend may be awarded, & such stipend will be just and equitable in the opinion of
Your Oble Servt
G. F. W. H. S.
Col. J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions.

Nicholas Christman Affidavit
20.90. 5730 256- 8.16-
26.66 176 28.42

State of New York } ss Fulton County } ss Be it known that that on the 14 th day of November 1845 personally came before the undersigned a justice of the peace in and for the said County Nicholas Christman who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and swear that he is Eighty nine years of age and is a pensioner of the United States under the act of 18 th March 1818. That he was well acquainted with Philip Scherick during the Revolutionary war, and before and after the said war, that he this deponent and the said Philip Scherick resided in the district known as Palatine district in the then county of Tryon - that they enlisted together into Captain Christopher Yates Company in Col Gansworts Regiment and marched with said Company to the province of Canada by the way of Lake George and Champlain to St Johns and from thence to Chambly and Montreal, that they enlisted into said Company in the year 1775 and the term of enlistment was for nine months that the said Philip Scherick served the full term of his enlistment and was discharged at Montreal. And as this deponent believes returned to his home in Palatine leaving this deponent who enlisted a second time into the same Company then under the command of Captain Lendy etc - and this deponent further swears that he was also well acquainted with the said Philip Scherick after the said Revolutionary war that he married and raised a family that he removed to the western part of the state and there died as this deponent has been credibly informed and which he believes
Subscribed and sworn the day and year above mentioned before me Thomas R. Benedict Justice
Nicholas by Christman Mark
I hereby certify that the above deponent is a man of truth and veracity that I have known him for the last thirty years and that his faculties remain good and unimpaired as far as respects memory and reason
Thomas R. Benedict Justice

State of New York } Fulton County Clerk's office }
I certify that Thomas R. Benedict the person before whom the affidavit of Christopher Gotman purports to have been taken and whose name is subscribed to the jurat of the said affidavit, and to the certificate following the said affidavit was at the time of taking the same and at the date thereof a justice of the peace in and for said County, and duly authorized to take the same, and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said justice and verily believe that that his name subscribed to the said jurat & certificate is his genuine signature.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of said County this 11th day of February AD 1847.
Stephen Wait Clerk
In the matter of the application for a pension made in behalf of Philip De Kosh deceased. Aff r of Mich l Christman No 3.

Philip De Stooch
Comptroller's certificate
No 4.

In pursuance of a law passed the 27th of April, 1784, entitled "An act for the settlement of the pay of the Levies and Militia, for their service in the late War, and for other purposes therein mentioned," the following certificates have been issued, bearing interest at five per cent per annum, viz :
   19 th Aug t . 1779. Philip Dechaish Corps t £ 4 6 -13   31 st Dec r . Do Philip Dechaish Do o 1 1 6   31 st July 1780 Philip Dechaish Priv. 5 4 10 2/3   30 th Nov Do Do o Do o 10 13 4   31 st Dec. 1782 Do o Do o 1 8 5     22 14 2  
STATE OF NEW-YORK,
COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, Albany, 11 th Jan. — 1847.
I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Book No. 1. & 4. — now remaining in this office, and that the service for which the certificates above named were issued, were performed under the following officers, viz :
   First—under Capt. Henry Miller in Col. Jacob Clark Reg't.   Second " " Do o " " Do o "   Third " " Garret Putman " " John Harper "   Fourth " " Do o " " Do o "   Fifth " " Henry Miller " " Peter Wagoner "   Sixth " " " " "   Seventh " " " " "   Eighth " " " " "   Ninth " " " " "   Tenth " " " " "   Eleventh " " " " "   Twelfth " " " " "  
Philip Phelps Disch d Compt t
44 11 55 2 57 28

Payment to be made at Albany by J. M. Colcoy Agent for paying pension- ers, in the Agency of
New York
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book E. ? Vol- ume 4 Page by
N. A. Wood Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 2 d section of the Act of July 4. 1836, Philip Dechaish, Isaac Dechaish, Jacob Dechaish and Eveline Christman only living children of Philip Dechaish, (or Decharsh) dec d . who was a Private in the N. York Line, are entitled to receive pay at the rate of $49. \frac{66}{100} per annum from 4 th March 1831 to the 1 st April 1832 the day of the death of the said Philip Dechaish.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 19 th . day of May one thousand eight hundred and forty-Seven
Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. }
Commissioner of Pensions.
Duplicate.