Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 5333, Aaron Depuy, Penn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn.
Depuy, Aaron
S. 5333
CONTENTS
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34. 161. Pennsylvania
Aaron Depuy
of Monroe Co. in the State of Pennsylvania who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Schoonover of the regt commanded by Col Stroud in the Penn a militia time for six months.
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 20 Dollars — Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 th day of July 1837 — and sent to H. Broadhead jr. Easton.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1837 $120. — Semi-annual allowance ending 4th Sep 37 10. —
$130. —
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by A. M. Allison Clerk Book E. 2 Vol. 5 Page 15

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania County of Monroe ss
On this Sixteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred and thirty-Seven, personally appeared in the open Court of Common Pleas of said County, Before the Hon: David Scott President and Jacob Brunn and John T Beez associate Judges of the said Court. Aaron Depuy a Resident of Smithfield Township in said County aged near Seventy-Seven 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 the 7 th 1832 - That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named Officers and Served as herein stated - In the month of June 1779 he was drafted as a militia man under Captain Schoonover and marched from his place of residence in Smithfield Township near where he now resides to Fort Penn as it was then called (now Stroudsburg) and was Stationed at that fort; which was under the Command of Col Jacob Stroud , until to protect the inhabitants who were assembled there and in the neighborhood from the Indians, Upon this occasion a man who resided in the neighborhood by the name of Soladay, was burned out and one of his children scalped. He had remained the said Fort and the neighborhood until the Two months for which he was drafted had expired and was then discharged, went home and remained home until 1780 in the month of November when he was again drafted and called out for Two months under Captain Henry Shoemaker and marched under his Command from his residence which was on the Delaware in the Township aforesaid across the Country to a place called Fort Allen on the Lehigh River about thirty miles from its junction with the Delaware. He was Stationed at this place to protect the inhabitants of the neighborhood, a settlement called "Stranden hiet" from the Indians and remained so until the Two months for which he was drafted had expired and was then discharged, came home and remained home until until the next Spring in the month of April when he was again called out for Two months and marched from his place of residence aforesaid under Capt Patrick Campbell up the Delaware River about thirty miles to a place called San Eittens Fort and was Stationed there to protect the inhabitants of the neighborhood from the Indians and remained so until the Two months for which he was drafted had expired and was then discharged, and came home and remained there until a short time he thinks until the latter part of July 1781 when he again went over to Fort Penn aforesaid and there at the instance of Col Stroud he enlisted as a minute man during the remainder of the war. Fort Penn was the great Place of rendezvous for a large section of Country, and was about

Four miles from the Delaware Water Gap - He served as a minute man during the remainder of the war - He was not the whole time in actual service, but he always had himself in readiness to go in a minutes warning - During this time he was out in various scouting parties about the neighborhood, sometimes a week at a time, sometimes a month - When the people of the neighborhood and in the Fort seemed to be in no immediate danger, he would go home a short time which was about seven miles off - He cannot recollect the exact time he was in actual service as a minute man at Fort Penn and the neighborhood, but he thinks it was about more than half the time from the time he enlisted until peace was declared, to be certain he only swears to one year, which he solemnly avers he did serve - He has no documentary evidence and knows of no person who can testify to his service except Daniel Sabar whose affidavit is herewith annexed - 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 (or if any only on that of the agency of Pennsylvania) Sworn and subscribed May the 16 th 1837 in open Court Aaron Depuy Gideon Burditz Not
Adam Brutzman & Benjamin B. Burk being duly sworn according to law do depose and say that they are well acquainted with Aaron Depuy, who has sworn and subscribed the foregoing declaration that they are his neighbors and have known him for forty years and upwards that they believe him to be near the age of seventy-seven, that he has always been respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides and in which he is the oldest inhabitant to have been a soldier of the Revolution, that they never heard it doubted and that they concur without hesitation in that opinion Sworn and subscribed in open Court this 16 th day of May, A.D. 1837 Adam Brutzman B. Burk Gideon Burditz Not

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 Aaron Depuy was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states, and the Court further Certifies that it appears to them that Adam Brutzman & Benjamin & Burh Engers who have signed the foregoing affidavit are neighbors of the said applicant and are men of credibility and their statements entitled to credit and belief and that they speak without hesitation as to their belief
David Scott
Isaac Brown
Geo. H. Bell
I Gideon Burritt Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Monroe County, do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Aaron Depuy for a Pension
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court at Stroudsburg this 16th day of May A.D. 1837
Gideon Burritt " " Proth

Rev. and 1812 War Section.
Ans
Ans
December 11, 1925
Mrs. Charles Newton 7 Esther St Pittston, Pa.
Madam:
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 5333, it appears that Aaron Depuy , while residing at Smithfield Township, then in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, enlisted and served as a private in the Pennsylvania Troops, as follows-
From in June 1779, two months in Captain Schoonover's Company, Colonel Jacob Stroud's Regiment.
From in November 1780, two months in Captain Henry Shoemaker's Company.
From in April 1781, two months in Captain Patrick Campbell's Company.
From in July 1781 to close of War as Minute Man

in Colonel Jacob Stroud's Regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed May 18, 1837, while a resident of said Smithfield Township, aged seventy-seven years.
In 1836, he had sons-in-law, but their names and those of soldier's wife and children are not stated.
The above noted Aaron Depuy is the only soldier of that name found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau, all spellings of that name searched.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania } County of Monroe ss. }
On this Twenty ninth day of June A.D. 1837. Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County Aaron Defry who being duly sworn according to Law says that the reasons he did not apply for a Pen- sion under the provisions of the act of Congress of 1832, before the last May Term of the Court of the said County are, first that he was not informed of the passage of the said act until about two years after its passage and of its particular provisions until about three years ago That if he had of known all about it, his bodily infirmity and old age together with the distance to wit. Thirty Miles which he resided from Easton the seat of Justice of Northampton County at which place alone he could get some person to draw up his papers should have prevented him. That said County of Monroe was erected out of parts of Northampton and Pike, taking in that part of Northampton in which he resided in 1836. and organized for Judicial purposes in December 1836. at which time he had a sore foot which confined him to his home about two months. That when he became well to wit in May last when the weather was fair he made the application aforesaid
Sworn and subscribed to before me June 29. 1837
John Murch Justice of the peace
Aaron Defry
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania } Monroe County ss. }
I Gideon Bunnit Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas for said County, do hereby certify that John Murch Esq. before whom the above affidavit was taken is and was at the time of taking thereof an Acting Justice of the Peace for said County duly Commissioned and qualified to act. and that full faith and credit are due his official acts as such, & also the signature of the said Justice is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Stroudsburg this Twenty ninth day of June Anno Domini 1837.
G. Bunnit Protho J. H. Harris Clerk

Pa - Oct 1832
May 22
James L Edwards Esq
Commr of Pensions
Washington City
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at least the name in has been dis

Easton Penn a May 18 th 1837
James L Edmonds Esq Dr Sir.
Enclosed you will find the declaration re of Samuel Deputy, made in order to obtain a Pension, which I pray you to examine - I have known the old man from my infancy and believe him to be entitled to the provisions of the act of 32.
I duly received your Letter of the 8 th Inst upon the subject of the application of Frederick Cagle - He never in- formed me that he had made an application in 1833 which had been rejected or I should not have pursued his claim - Upon the whole (if he did make the application and statements which you allege) I acknowledge that he practiced a deception upon me -
Truly your Friend
W m Breakhead Jr

No 34,087.
Aaron Sepuz Pennsylvania
admitted for six months Pr. $20.
R. Broadhead Jr. Easton Pa.

Aaron Sapy Pennsylvania
Suspended
See letter of June '37
R. Broadhead Jr.

July 5 th .
Pa. Adolph
Oct 1832
Harriet Lefevre
James L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
[Handwritten mark]

Easton June 1. 1837
James L Edwards Esqr
I duly received your Letter of the 8 th ult, informing me that the papers in the Case of Aaron Depuy had been examined and filed with the Suspended Cause - that he should give a Satisfactory Reason under oath for not having made an earlier application, and that his Services as a minute man could not be allowed.
I sent him your Letter and this day received the enclosed affidavit upon the subject of the delay of his application. I can add that I know the facts which he sets forth to be true with the exception of his knowledge upon the subject of the passage of the act of 1832. He lived as he states in the upper part of this (Northampton) County previous to the creation of Monroe Co, which is a pretty rough and secluded place. I was spoken to by one of his Sons in Law upon the subject of getting him a Pension about one year ago, and he stated the difficulty of getting the old man and his wife to Easton and I advised him to wait until the new County was organized - He now lives within a few miles of the County seat - If any further proof of the reasons of the delay should be wanting it can be furnished -
He does not (if I recollect the terms of his declaration) claim Compensation for the whole time which he was a minute man, but only so long as he was in actual Service as such - This as Service I think comes within the meaning of the act, and has been allowed to other Soldiers whose claims were Services were similar and at the same place.
Truly & Respectfully Yours &c
W. Brouhead Jr

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Aaron Depuy a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     June 1779 2 mos Pvt Schoonover Jacob Shroud Pa   Nov 1780 2 " " Henry Shoemaker   Apr 1781 2 " " Patrick Campbell   July 1781 close of war Ensign Munroe Jacob Shroud  
Battles engaged in, _____
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Smithfield Twp then in Northampton Co Pa
Date of application for pension, May 16, 1837 His claim was al.
Residence at date of application, Smithfield Twp Monroe Co Pa
Age at date of application, nearly 77 yrs
Remarks: In 1836 he had sons-in-law but their names and  those of soldier's wife & children are not stated
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

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May 17, 1929.
Acting Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
cash - 15 cents FINANCE DIVISION BOOK-KEEPER'S DESK MAY 17 1929 BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Sir:
Please furnish me photostatic copy of one page from Revolutionary War pension claim of Aaron Depuy, Pennsylv- vania Troops, S. 5333, uncertified.
Salisbury affid. 57- June 29- 1837
Respectfully,
Mrs Mary Jane Boyd Embassador Willard Hotel Holt Room 718 Los Angeles Washington D. C. Cal-
Received payment 15¢ May 17, 1929
Ada M. Young
Rev.&1812 Wars Section.

CAMP 104
PATRIOTIC ORDER OF AMERICANS
PITTSTON PA. 11/4/25-
Department of Interior, Bureau of Pensions. Washington. D.C.
Gentlemen;—
Have you any service record of Aaron De Pui of Warren Co. N.J., or Northampton Co., 1780- Stroudsburg. There were two Aarons the second spelled his Depue, aged 18. 1780-1781. Father & son. Under Col Shroud, and Cap. Shoemaker, also
John Staples, born in London, England served in the Continental Army as a Sargent. Enlisted in 1777 in the Artillery under Cap Brown & Col. Chas. Harrison Virginia And Maryland Artillery. And oblige
Mrs. Chas. Newton. 7 Esther St., Pittston, Pa.

Rev. 1870
5333
INVALID.
No. 5333
Jason Depay Pr. Rev War
Act: June 14 1832
Ex:—Vol. M , Page 92
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1920 Aug. 23 Heir. to Dora B. Trailey 1477 M. Park Av. Buffalo, N.Y. and (see her letter in sur. bgt. 10652 g Abraham Depuy, war 1872.) 1925 Dec. 11 Heir. to Mrs. Chas Newton Curts 1929 May 21. Photo delivered in person to Mrs. Mary G. Goyd. Fin. lib. ntf'd. 9 N.Y.

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania County of Monroe ss
Before me the Subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in and for the Said County on this fifteenth day of May (AD 1837) Personally appeared Daniel Labar a Revolutionary Soldier (whom I hereby Certify to be a man of high Standing and Respectability and his Statements entitled to full Credit and belief) who being duly Sworn according to Law says That he is well acquainted with Aaron Depuy Esqr. and and has known him about Sixty years, that they have been neighbours nearly all this time. That he well recollects seeing him in the Summer of 1779 at a place Called Fort Penn about four miles from the Delaware Water Gap in the Capacity of a militia man, the fort was Commanded by Col Jacob Stroud. That he also well recollects seeing him in the Company of Capt Henry Shoemaker which it was said had just returned from the Lehigh River above the Water Gap Lehigh, he saw him get his discharge at Fort Penn in the last month of January 1780. The Deponent also acted in the Capacity of a militia man at the same fort and as a minute man. That when he was out in a Scouting party the next Spring in the neighborhood of Fort Penn he met the said Aaron Depuy and others who said they were just returning from Van Epps Fort which was up the Delaware. That shortly after this the Deponent and the said Depuy both enlisted as minute men at Fort Penn to serve the remainder of the war, they both signed their names in a Book at the instance of Col Stroud, that after this they were not together all the time but he frequently saw him out in the said Depuy out in Scouting parties and in the Fort. That the said Depuy was out oftener and stayed longer than the Deponent because he lived nearer the Fort. He was always called a good & brave Soldier.
Sworn and Subscribed
Before me the day & year above written
J. Starbuck S.P.
Daniel Labar

Commonwealth of Penn a Monroe County ss.
I Gideon Barratt, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County do hereby certify that Franklin Starbuck Esq. before whom the within Affidavit was made & taken was at the time thereof and still is an acting Justice of the peace in and for the said County duly Commissioned and qualified so to act and that full faith and credit an evenness of right ought to be given to all his official acts as such and that his signature thereunto set is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court at Stroudsburg the sixteenth day of May Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven.
Gideon Barratt. Proth. By Harrisbolt