Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 10,556, Daniel Delong, New York

SERVICE
New York
DeLong Daniel
NUMBER
S. 10556
carded
CONTENTS
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8743
New York
Daniel Belong
German in the State of New York was a private in the Company commanded Captain Wright of the Regt. commanded Col. Gansworth in the N. Y. (na for 15 mos.
scribed on the Roll of New York the rate of 57 Dollars 00 Cents per annum commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of Ap 1833 and sent to Dank Files Cincinnati
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $100.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending Sept. " - 25.00 $125.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk Book 6 Vol. 4 Page 17

Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7 th 1832 -
State of New York
County of Chenango
ss. On this twenty fourth day of August in the year of our Lord, 1832, personally appeared before Zechariah Reed Esq. - one of the Judges of the court of common pleas, in and for the county of Chenango aforesaid, at Pitcher - in said county, Daniel DeLong , a resident of the town of German in said county, aged seventy one 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 -
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated -
That he was born at Fishkill, in the State of New York, in the year, 1761 - that he has no record of his age or birth - That he is unable personally to attend court to make this declaration, by reason of bodily infirmity -
That he voluntarily enlisted at Stillwater, his home then being with his father at Half Moon, now Waterford, about the middle of winter, as he believes and as near as he can recollect, in the year, 1776, for nine months or one year and he forgets which, he served nine months , under said enlistment, in the company of Capt. Joseph Wright - Lieut. Holt Durham -
He went with his said company, early in the spring, and joined the regiment of Lieut. Col. Peter Gansevoort, at Fort George - Recollects Capt. Fink & Capt. McBracken, were officers, of other companies, of said Regiment - His business here, at Fort George, was common duty, and to boat provisions down the Lake to Ticonderoga Landing - While here he & others, volunteered on a scouting party to find Indians - It was a Lieut. command - He continued here till late in the fall of the same year, perhaps, it was, till December - thinks it was - recollects the snow was quite deep, and the regiment, and he with it, then marched to Saratoga, and was there discharged - He thinks he received a written one, but from whom he forgets, and it is lost - There was another regiment at Fort George in company with his - but other companies came and went away, several times, he thinks,

during the season - Under the foregoing enlistment he served nine months and he thinks some over, but how much he cannot say -
In the month of August or September, 1777, he again volunteered and entered the company of Capt. Elias Stumberg - Lieut. or Ensign, Charles Hoffman - Joined said company at Half-moon, (now Watervliet) and marched to, or near Stillwater, and there joined a Regiment - He cannot recollect the name of the field officers of the regiment - Not long after getting there he and the regiment he was in, and other troops were engaged in the battle of Brandywine, as it was called, at Brandywine Creek; this battle was between the militia and the main of Gen. Howe's army - Our regiment came up to the engagement some before noon, others had been engaged at an earlier hour, and we fought till night - In the course of the day I saw Gen. Schuyler, with his aid, as it was said, ride up towards the enemy, and I saw an indian rise from a log or tree, and he shot said aid; upon which Gen. Schuyler turned his horse & rode back, and I saw no more of him, that day -
The battle began in the morning with other troops who were nearer the enemy than our Regiment; and they retreating down upon us, we engaged as aforesaid - We were in retreat, and fighting till night - when we marched to Saratoga - from Saratoga he marched in retreat with his regiment & others to Half-moon, and was there dismissed - He thinks he was in said service this tour two or three months - He received no written discharge this time - it was by parole -
That he was afterwards a volunteer, under the command of Lieut. Vanderkarr, with several others; he thinks, about 100 men, under said officer - They went from Half-moon to Old Schoharie, guarding the frontier against the indians - This tour was for four months, which he served out in said company, and was then, dismissed & went home - The whole company, was made up of parts of several different companies - He went in the spring as soon as the ground was bare, & returned about the last of July - He cannot tell the year -
That he afterwards, volunteered and went to West Point and did duty there for a five months - he cannot remember which - He cannot remember the year, nor under what officers

he served - but he knows he was there and did the service - He received no written discharge as he remembers or believes, except at the end of his first term -
That he has no documentary proof of his services - that he does not now know any person he can procure to testify to the same - who was personally with him or knowing to them -
That he is known to Ebenezer Wakely and Timothy Stanley - in his present neighborhood, who can testify in regard to his character for veracity, and as to their belief of his services as a soldier in the revolution -
That after the revolutionary war, he lived a short time with his father's family, and about, at Halfmoon - then went to Poughkeepsie and lived perhaps three years - then returned to Halfmoon and resided again 5 or 6, years - then to Fort Plain and lived there not far from 12 years - then removed to Oxford in Chenango County aforesaid, and has ever since lived most of the time said county - that he has lived in German where he now resides 12 years, and as much as 10 or 20 years in said county -
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 -
Sworn to, and subscribed the day and year aforesaid -
Daniel Delong
His Read Judge Chenango Common Pleas We Ebenezer Wakely, residing in the town of Pitcher - in the county of Chenango aforesaid, Timothy Stanley, residing in German - hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Daniel Delong, who has subscribed sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be, 71 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 -
Sworn and subscribed the day & year aforesaid -
His Read Judge Chenango Common Pleas Ebenezer Wakely Timothy Stanley

State of New York County of Chenango
Eph. personally appeared before me the undersigned, a justice of the peace of the town of Pitcher in for said county, Daniel DeLong, who being duly sworn, deposes 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 nine months , I served as a private soldier in the year, 1776; For two months , I served as a private soldier, in the year, 1777; and for such service, I claim a pension - I also served, after the above, for four months, in one year, at one tour, at Old Schoharie, guarding the frontiers against the Indians - And in a different year, I served four months at West Point, during the revolutionary war - I cannot tell the particular years of the two last mentioned tours of service - nor can I remember the name of an officer under whom I served at West Point - I suppose I could remember them, were I to hear another mention their names, but I cannot say - I did the service I know - The latter service, at West Point, was the same year that Major Andre was executed, I believe - I was not there at the same time of his execution - It was after - and it may have been the following year after - on this subject I am not positive - It was not later than the following year - I submit to the War Department whether I am entitled to a pension for said service -
The reason of my not procuring the evidence of a cler. - some one was sent away, several times, as usual.

And I then
gymn, before the Judge, when I made my declaration, as to his belief of my age, and the general belief in my neighborhood relative to my revolutionary services, was, that there was no clergyman in my neighborhood or vicinity with whom I was acquainted or who had any knowledge of my services to my knowledge or belief - I therefore procured the evidence of two old acquaintances, supposing and believing the same would be satisfactory.
Daniel DeLong
Sworn to, and subscribed this 24th day of January 1835, before me - And I certify that I am acquainted with said deponent & that he is a person of credibility and truth - Elihu Thomson Justice
State of New York
County of Chenango
ss. Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the peace of the town of Pittsfield in and for said county of Chenango, Sarah Miles of Cincinnati in the county of Clinton, who being duly sworn, deponeth & saith, that the declaration or affidavit of the above named Daniel DeLong, made before Hazebriah Read Esq. a judge of Chenango Court of Common Pleas, and which is hereto annexed, is in the hand writing of this deponent - that the same was drawn as dictated by said Daniel DeLong - that deponent saw the same subscribed and sworn to, as therein is set forth and appears - that deponent afterwards sent the same to the War Department & the same have been returned to him for amendment - that deponent knows said DeLong well, and fully believes the statement he has made above, and in his declaration the substantially correct - that said DeLong is to the knowledge of deponent, in his neighborhood and vicinity, considered a person of truth and veracity - and that deponent has for several years past occasionally heard said DeLong speak of his revolutionary services - and that said DeLong did several years ago apply to deponent to assist him in the procuring of a pension under former Acts of Congress - that said deponent then

wrote in behalf of said DeLong to the place where it was understood Capt. Wright and Lieut. Durham resided or had resided - these were the officers under whom said DeLong served his first tour - Deponent received information in reply that they were dead -
Deponent made other diligent inquiry in behalf of said applicant, as he directed, but could hear of none of his old comrades in arms and the subject was abandoned under former laws of Congress - Deponent has often heard persons express the opinion that said DeLong ought to receive a pension - and thinks the belief very general in the neighborhood where he resides that he was a soldier of the revolution and served as he states - and further saith he not -
Barak Niles
Deponent hereby subscribed this 24th day of January 1833, before me - and I certify that I am well acquainted with the deponent and that he is a person of credibility & truth
Eliza H. Norton Jn. Justice
...was another regiment at Fort George in company with his - but other companies came and went away, several times, he thinks,

State of New York
Albany County ss - I, Aaron N. Pike Clerk of said County do certify that Jeremiah Read before whom the within and foregoing proceedings in the matter of the application of Daniel Delong for a pension purport to have been had - before whom the declaration of the said Delong and the affidavits of Ebenezer Wakely and Timothy Stanley purport to have been sworn was at the date of the same one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County & that I am acquainted with his hand writing and really believe his name subscribed to the said declaration and the said affidavits and to the opinion to be his proper hand writing and signature - I also certify that Elijah Newton before whom the foregoing and within supplemental affidavit of the said Daniel Delong and the within and foregoing affidavit of Barak Miles purport to have been sworn was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and really believe his name subscribed to the said affidavits to be his proper hand writing and signature -
Witness my hand and seal of office this 25th day of January 1833 - P.B. Middle Dep Clerk
9395 Daniel Delong
admitted 15 mo. Private

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No. 10,556.
Daniel Delong
Brn Bdw. War.
Act: June 7 1832
Index:—Vol. A , Page 98
[Arrangement of 1870.]