Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22,712, William Cuthbert, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Cuthbert, William
S 22,712
CONTENTS

5278
New York
William Guthbert
of Genesee Co in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Rouse of the Regt. commanded by Col Hopkins in the New York line for 10 months, —
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 30 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 day of Feby 1833 and sent to Mrs. P. Tracy H. Ropke,
Arrears to 14th of Sept 1832 — $49.99 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Mar '33 16.66 $66.66
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by G. Bromwell Clerk, Book D Vol. 5 Page 158.

The Cathedral of New York
advised
Rev. J. L. Tracy

BRIEF in the case of  Wm Bathbert of the  of  Yonkers in the State of  New York  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 87 - July 1. 1832  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     Feb 1797 4 Infantry Gen. G. T. Schuyler   Aug 1797 3 Infantry Capt. Howe Col. H. Schuyler   Spring 1798 1 Major Gen. G. T. Schuyler   1799 1 Gen. Gates   1 Capt. Phipps Col. D. Skinner   1 Brig. Gen. H. H. Husted   10  
 5. In what battles was he engaged?  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Saratoga Co NY  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Mr. Sittonay  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Defective 
Papers not attached as required  I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
J. Mahony Examining Clerk.  July 22 1833

William Cuthbert
Declaration -
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Direct to H. W. Sofer Esq.
Bataia, Genesee County, N.Y.
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In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this fifteenth day of October 1832.
Timothy Titch Clerk

Declaration of William Guthbert, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7-1832.
State of New York
Dutchess County ss.
On this fifteenth day of October eighteen hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, now sitting in the town of Patten in and for the county of Dutchess in the State of New York, being a court of Record and having a seal, William Guthbert, aged eighty seven years on the 1 st July 1832, 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 7-1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
That on or about the last of February 1777 while he was residing in Saratoga, Saratoga County N.Y. he went to Albany, and enlisted in the New State Militia for nine months as an artificer under Capt. Garnet Fisher and in a corps commanded by Gen. Philip Schuyler - that on the 1 st March 1777 he started from Albany and went to Ponderoga and remained there about four months and then came home on a furlough and did not return again to Ponderoga, as the Post was evacuated before his furlough expired. That he there took his family and moved to Dutchess County, in a place called Nine Partners and as soon as he got a house for his family, he enlisted for eight months in the New York State Militia as a soldier under Capt. John Rouse and as he thinks in the fore part of August 1777 - that Grahams and Stephens were Colonels - that at this time the whole country was in alarm - that he marched directly to Albany and arrived the next day after the news of the Battle of Bennington arrived - that he there went to Van Schaick's Island, and thence soon after to Bemis Heights and remained under arms near a log fence all of one day and the next day was ordered into Gen. Glover's Brigade and on that day the battle began where applicant was stationed on the day previous - that he was not in the battle. after the battle, the Regiment

to which he belonged was ordered to go to a Ridge, which had a hollow on both sides and remain there with a bough in our hands, as we expected an attack - while there no attack was made upon a piece of cannon which was taken and retaken three times - that Gen. Gates commanded the Americans - that Burgoyne retreated and an army crossed over Fisher's Creek - that he was out during all this campaign, until after Burgoyne was taken, when he was verbally dismissed on or about the last of October and he went home. - That he served at this last period three months.
That in the Spring of 1778, while he was still residing at Nine Partners in Dutchess County N. Y. he was drafted and served one month under Capt. Rife in Col. Hopkins's Regiment. Graham was a Col. or Lieut. Col. and was stationed all the time at West Point - was verbally dismissed and went home.
That he remained at home a short time when he was drafted again and served another month at West Point under Capt. Hadduck and Lieutenant Smith - That he was out for so short a period and was only a guard he did not become acquainted with any of the Field or Continental Officers - and that he cannot recollect the precise time when he served these two terms except that it was in the Spring -
That in the Spring of 1779 he was drafted again and served one month under Capt. Husted and Lieut. Smith at Esopus near Kingston - when he was verbally discharged and went home. - That he was a guard at Esopus for a short time  his special - That he never received any discharge and has no documentary evidence of his service and knows of no person living by whom he can prove them. That he was born in Old Providence, Rhode Island on the 1 st July 1745 - that he has no record of his age at present but that he had a Bible on which was a record, and which is now destroyed - that he moved from Nine Partners, in Dutchess County soon after the war, to Pittstown, in Rensselaer County, New York, and resided there about twenty years - then lived in Manlius, Onondaga Co. N. Y. about 6 years - in Pittstown aforesaid again about 7 years in Bloomfield, Ontario Co. N. Y. same time, a few years - then in Pittstown

again, and that he has resided with his children in different places and at different times in the State of New York, and for so many different periods that it is impossible for him to recollect all of them, that he has resided in Bance in the County of Orleans, formerly County of Genesee and in Pembroke, Genesee County, N.Y. Seven or eight years. — That Moses Holmes and Samuel B. Cuthbert, reside in his neighborhood, are acquainted with him, and can testify as to his character for truth and veracity and their belief in his services as a soldier of the Revolution. That there is no clergyman residing in his neighborhood, sufficiently acquainted with him whose testimony he can procure. —
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and declares that his name, is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State. —
Subscribed & sworn to the day & year aforesaid in open court
Timothy Fitch Clerk
William Cuthbert
We, Moses Holmes and Samuel B. Cuthbert, residents of the town of Pembroke, in the County of Genesee and State of New York, hereby certify, that we are acquainted with William Cuthbert who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be eighty seven years of age; that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion. —
Subscribed & sworn to the day & year aforesaid in open court
Timothy Fitch Clerk
Moses Holmes. Samuel B. Cuthbert

And the said Court do hereby fully declare their opinion after investigating the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department. That the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and that he served as he states. And the said Court further certify that it appears to them that Moses Hildreth and Samuel P. Cuthbert residing in the town of Tunkle in said County who have signed the foregoing Certificate, are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Isaac Dyer Robert Dyer William Mitchell
I, Timothy Fitch, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Clinton in the State of New York, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of William Cuthbert for a pension. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this fifteenth day of October 1832.
Timothy Fitch Clerk
William Cuthbert
Declaration
183352
Given Under Direct to H.M. Secretary Pensions, Clinton County, N.Y.
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File No. 22,712
William Southber
Rev Rev War
Act: June 7 th 82 nd
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 98
[Arrangement of 1870.]