Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23266, Peter C Hogeboom, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Hogeboom, Peter C.
S. 23266
CONTENTS

Sp. Report
24.446
New York
Peter C. Hoogeboom, decd. Columbians in the State of New York who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Hoogeboom of the regt. commanded by Col. Vannuyt. in the U.S. time for 19 mos.
died 2 March 1833.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 13 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 day of Decr. 1833 and sent to J. M. Cagg Pnsnt
Arrears to the 4th of - - - - - Semi-ant. allowance ending - - - - -
amt due from Scotland 31 1/2 $126.44 on day of death
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk, Book C Vol. 4 Page 111
Witness at death Sally Hoogeboom Daughter

21 1851 Thurs N.Y. Oct 5 - }
Paid 25
The Hon. ble John P. Van Klief
Washington City

Thurs Oct. 5 th 1833.
Honble John D. Van Renss
Dear Sir
Last winter my oldest Brother Peter had his papers made out by a Mr. McKeag of Hudson for the purpose of procuring a pension for his services in the Revolutionary War. among other services which the papers state, he performed was, guarding your Father's House , who then as I always understood acted as Deputy Com ry purchaser and had a great deal of money of the public in his house of military stores for the use of Army. The papers made out for my Brother were considered satisfactory and sufficient to obtain the pension. After those papers were forwarded to the proper officer in the War Department at Washington, my Brother died. Yesterday I was at Hudson and enquired of Mr. McKeag whether the papers sent to Washington had been considered satisfactory to obtain the pension; he stated  that that he had received a communication from James L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions at Washington that the proof was not exactly satisfactory so far as to prove that your Father acted in the capacity above stated, for the Army , and that

additional testimony had been procured and sent to Washington to supply that deficiency - I then stated to Mr. McRagg that I believed you was a year or two younger than myself, still I supposed from your intimacy with your Father's business and papers, your recollection on that subject would make you more satisfactorily to state to Mr. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions that your Father actually acted in that capacity - Mr. McRagg who is a very worthy Man, requested me to ask the favor of you in behalf of the heirs of my deceased Brother, to call on Mr. Edwards and state what your recollection is on the subject, which I promised to do. your compliance will oblige the heirs of my Brother as well as Mr. McRagg, who I understand has made some advances to my Brother at the time the first papers were made out - I believe that Jacob Cuyler of Albany, who long since died, was the Commissary under whom your Father acted. -
Mr. Hoffman and family I believe are all well With the expressions of great respect your Bro: fr.
Wm T. Hogeboom

Affidavit in behalf of Peter C Hazelboom
J. M. Clegg, agent
The absence of Adam Hazelboom for 16 years is deemed a sufficient ground to assume that he is dead
Adam 19. mo. 30. d.
Feb 3. 33.
Cutler to Sally Lamp- man from 4 mar. 31. to 2 mar '33.

State of New York Columbia County ss
On the 11 th day of November 1833 personally appeared before me the undersigned justice of the Justice court in the City of Hudson in the County & State aforesaid Richard C Hogeboom of the Town of Stuyvesant in the County & State aforesaid not to me well known who being first duly sworn according to Law deposes & says that he is the Brother of Peter C Hogeboom deceased, who was an applicant for a pension that the said Peter C Hogeboom is now dead that he died on the 2 nd day of March 1833 at the town of Stuyvesant aforesaid, and was buried from the House of said Richard C Hogeboom when he was brought soon after his death that the said Peter C Hogeboom no widow but left one daughter, Sally, Now the wife of Nicholas Sampson, living in this vicinity that he also had a son named Adam Hogeboom who left this part of the country Sixteen years since and has not never returned neither is it known where it he is or whether he is living or not as he has not been heard from for many years and when last heard from was in Indiana Territory since which his friends have not heard as far as they are present has been able to learn whether he be living or not sworn & subscribed the day & year first above mentioned before me James McCagg Justice of the Peace.
The words No widow & but inserted before the Sixteen years of the above affidavit by me James McCagg Justice of the Peace

State of New York Columbia County ss
I hereby certify that Richard Hogaboom who has subscribed & sworn to the within affidavit is a credible witness & his statement is entitled to the fullest credence
J. M c Clusky Just of Peace
I John D. Parkin Clerk of the Justices Court in the City of Hudson do hereby certify that Isaac M c Clusky before whom the foregoing affidavit was presented to be sworn to who has subscribed the above certificate was at the time one of the Justices of the Justices Court in the City of Hudson that I am well acquainted with his hand writing & do verily believe his name signed to the same to be his own proper signature in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 11 th day of Nov 1833
J. M c Clusky Just of Peace

22887
Peter C. Hogeboom Columbia Co. New York
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Admitted Private 19 months
McBagg - Present Hudson N. York

WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
May 31 1833
Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: { ). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
A Statement, showing the Service of Peter C. Hogeboom Columbia Co. N. York
   Period when the service was rendered Duration of the claimant's service Rank of the claimant. Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served. Names and Rank of the General and Field officers. Battles in which the applicant was engaged. Country through which he marched. Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period. Evidence by which the declaration is supported.   Years. Months. Days.     June 1777 6 for. Capt. Hogeboom Col Van Ness N.Y. 69 Claverack Columbia Co. N.Y. Living Witness.   Dec 1777 3 " " "   April 1778 6 " " "   Dec " 3 " " "   Octr. 1780 1 " " "   1 7  
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
 1. The Regular Troops.  2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.  3. Persons employed in the Naval service.  4. Indian Spies. 
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of } ss. County of }
On this _____ day of _____ personally appeared (a) before A. B. a resident (b) of _____ in the county of _____ and State, Territory or District of _____ aged (c) _____ 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 provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) _____, with _____ and served in the _____ (e) regiment of the _____ line, under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. [This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of _____
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
A. B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I _____ of the Court of _____ do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of _____ for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this day of _____ &c.
If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the _____ and C. D. residing in (the same) _____ hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with _____, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be _____ 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 and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
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 applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B.
who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the _____ and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the _____ and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, _____ Clerk of the Court of _____ do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of _____ for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this _____ day of _____ &c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person

will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County, in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
 1. Where and in what year were you born?  2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?  3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?  4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?  5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.  6. { To a Soldier. } Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it? { To an Officer. } Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?  7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution. 
The Court will see that he answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons -one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify, to the character and standing of other persons, giving such certificates.
The traditional evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, 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. 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 that 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 shown 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.
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he 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.
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 papers 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.
Proof of Service.
[j] 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 claimant's 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.
[k] The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note [j] applies to continental troops only.
[l] This traditional evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[m] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[n] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
R. Acuna llk

State of New York Columbia County ss
On this nineteenth day of February 1833 personally appeared in open court before the Justices of the Infer- ior Court now sitting Peter Hogeboom a Resident of the Town of Stuyvesant in the County and State aforesaid aged Sixty Nine Years & Eleven months who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the follow- ing declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
That he was born in the then Town of Claverack (now Ghent) in the County and State aforesaid and in which place he resided during all the Revolu- tionary War, that he was born on the 14 th of March 1763 that the record of his age is in his Family Bible.
That he first entered the service in the militia in the month of June 1777 as a private under the command of Capt. Cornelius Hogeboom Lieutenant Dillon & Ensign Jackson that the company to which he was attached was placed as a Guard to Guard Government monies and Government property left at the House of Colonel Peter Van Riper who was Commissary of Purchases and who had generally large quantities of Publick Money & Provisions at the establishment kept by said Commissary of Purchases in the Town of Claverack that said com- pany was kept on Guard at the said

Establishment and on Scouting the - Immediate night to  to until about the first of December 1777 when they were Discharged he thinks verbally.
Term of Service
Six Months as per words and this applicant further says that during the Summer and fall while the said Company of which he was a Member was on duty as aforesaid the Militia Generally from that Sec- tion of the Country were at the north and west doing duty and that the Company to which he was attached was left solely for the purpose as he then understood of Guarding the Establishment of the Commissary of Purchases. that the Company was a part of the Regiment of Col. Col. Peter Van Ness.
Further says that in the winter of 1777 + 1778 he was ordered by said Col Peter Van Ness on the special duty of conveying Flour to Albany Poughkeepsie and other places that he was - Confidentially Entrusted with large quantities of Monies which was paid him in the Stated Bills. and taken by this applicant from Albany to Glencoe aforesaid to the said Commissary of Purchases that he was actively and arduously - engaged in the aforesaid Service from the middle of Dec 1777 until the latter part of March 1778

Term Three Months as private - - - - -
In the month of April 1778 was again ordered out in the aforesaid Company under the Command of Captain Peter Vosburgh, Major James Lieutenant Elias Doolittle & Ensign William Jackson was again placed on an old guard at the where the Company of Par- chase held his quarters and remained on such guard until the month of October 1778. when we were again in discharge & Ver Valley.
Term Six Months as priv.
In the winter of 1778 & 1779 was again in the Continental Army of the Government under the Command of the aforesaid Colonel Peter Van Nis in Carrying Stores & Prisons Moving from Albany Service Com- menced in the month of December & Ends in March 1779.
Term Three Months as private
And this Applicant further says that he was again called into the Service as he believes in the month of October 1780 under the aforesaid officers and marched from Claverack as foresaid to Fort Hunter on the Mohawk River thence to Fort Plain - where they had a skirmish with the Indians under the Command of Brant and Second Lieutenant Doolittle.

and some others were wounded in the March to Fort Harker and the Battle Lake saw the Army then who escaped in their Boats thence we marched by the same route and was discharged at the Town of Clatsack in the Month of November 1780 that he had no written discharge
From one month's prior and he further says that there was not at any time during his service any Con- tinental Regiment or Militia Station where he was that he was well acquainted with Capt Peter S. Vorangt Capt David Van Nip Capt Peter Hendrick and Capt Harrison Vorangt of the Continental Line that since the Revolutionary War he has lived in the Towns of Clatsack Hendrick & Stuyvesant all in the County of Columbia. that he has no Documentary Evidence and the only living witness that he can procure are John C Hogboom & Richd C Hogboom who has affidavit an unto him that he would refer the Department to the Honable Martin Van Buren Vice President - Elect the Hon Jno P Van Buren who he is positive will recollect altho Young at the time. that his father was Commissary of Purchases and also that there was a guard kept there also to Medad Butler Esq - one of the Judges of the County Court to Alan A Van Buren Esq. Joseph D Monell Esq Clerk of the County

that he has not been able to obtain the Certificate of a clergyman in as much as the clergyman who offi- ciates in the Town of Haysboro' where he resides has been settled there - but a few months and he begs leave to add that although I cannot specify the time and place where he served all the time yet he can safely say that he has served the United States during the Revolu- tionary war more than Two Years he claims a Pension for Nineteen Months Service as a private
And he humbly relinquishes Every Claim to a Pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Book of the agency of any state
Sworn & subscribed the day & Year first above mentioned
J. Parker - W. G.
Peter B. Hogeboom

Washington County Pa I Jacob Maul of the Town of Shippensburg in the County of State aforesaid hereby certify that I am Seventy two years of age that during the Revolutionary War I Resided in the Town of Shippensburg a distance of two half miles of the Residence of Capt. Horatio Hanson. in the years 1778 or 1780 I was at the House of a Mr. Fox where I met the Mother of Peter C. Haggboom. She was complaining that her son Peter who was then very young and weak of a cough in use with in the service I am well acquainted with Peter C. Haggboom and have no doubt he served in the States I was in the same Regiment with him in the service
Good more
Sworn & Subscribed this 19th Day of June 1833 J. Sparker Clk

information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. Peter L. Hogeboom
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     June 1777 6 mos. Pvt. * Cornelius Hogeboom master Peter Van Kess N.Y.   Dec. 1777 3 mos. " Peter Van Kess   Apr. 1778 6 mos. " Cornelius Hogeboom   1778 & 1779 3 mos. " Peter Van Kess   Oct. 1780 1 mo. " Cornelius Hogeboom Peter Van Kess   was discharged at Saratoga   * Soldier's father  
Battles engaged in, with Indians at Ft. Plain
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Claverack N.Y.
Date of application for pension, July 19 1833. His ch. was ab.
Residence at date of application, Stuyvesant Columbia Co. N.Y.
Age at date of application, born at Claverack afterwards moved to Columbia Co. N.Y. called Mar. 2, 1769
Remarks: Died Mar. 5 1833 at Stuyvesant N.Y.
Left us widow, but one daughter, Sally wife of Nicholas Vanforn and a son Adam who disappeared in 1817. In 1833 had not been heard from for many years. When last heard from was in Indiana.
Very respectfully,

Revolution
23266 INVALID.
1908 June 20, Hist. Soc. Kittie S. Burr. V.P.M. 1908 July 2 Kittie S. Burr, no other Peter Hagaborn than that furnished above.
File No. 23 266
Peter C. Hagaborn
Rev War
Act: June 7 th 89 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 190
[Arrangement of 1870.]

43704 INVALID.
Reorg
File No. 43704 Peter Bogeboom Rev. Rev. Rev.
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 232
[Arrangement of 1870.]

23266
New York
Peter Hoogeboom,
(Lt private N.Y. (See Peter C - file N o 23.266)
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 22 d of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st of Oct 1818. and sent to Jas. Malbary Esq. Hoy, New York.
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818. 4 mo. 13 / 30 35.47 semi-ann. all'ee ending 4 th Mar 1819. 48.00
$83.47
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Rev. Pen. of the estate

New York Revol=
Peter C. Hogeboom Adm D
See letter to
J. M. Gagg Brent 8 Oct r 1833.
let. to same 6 Nov: 1833
Act 7. June 1832

Payable on the 1 st of March & 1 st of Sept. in each year at the Branch Bank U.S. City of New York.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Rev d Claim.
I CERTIFY, That in conformity with the Law of the UNITED STATES, of the 18 th of March, 1818.
Peter Hoogeboom, — late a private — in the Army of the Revolution,
is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the New York Agency, at the rate of — eight — dollars cents per month, to commence on the twent y second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
GIVEN at the WAR OFFICE of the UNITED STATES, this twent y first — day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War.

Application of Peter H. Hogboom
McEaggert Hudson
2 4 22 4 4 20 4

State of New York Washington County
I Richard C. Hoag being a Resident of the Town of Stuyvesant in the County of State aforesaid hereby certify that I am Sixty Eight Years & Two Months of age that I am the brother of Peter C Hoagboom who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing and annexed application. That that I will know that the said Peter C Hoagboom did render Service in the Revolutionary War that Colonel Peter Van Riper was Commanding of P'keepsie that I frequently saw my brother and Friend at the quarters of the said Colonel Van Riper during the Years of 1777 1778. and 1779. I know that the company to which he belonged was stationed on such guard I have frequently seen my Brother and others of the Guard driving Cattle to Albany I also will Remember that (as I believe in the Fall of 1780) my brother Peter C Hoagboom went to the north on an alarm and was absent one month or more that he was in the Regiment of Col Van Riper and under Genl Robert Van Rensselaer I may be mistaken as to some of the dates but as to the General Facts am not mistaken our Father was one of the most active Whigs at the time and his Sons were generally well and I may say Compted

to do military duty as soon as they were large enough to handle a musket. And the fact is strongly impressed on my mind altho' I cannot relate all the particu- lars that Peter who was the eldest was kept on continual duty - Summer and winter in the Summer on guard in the winter carrying stores and as I then understood - bringing money to the Canisay of your house Sworn & subscribed Richard C. Hoagboom on this 19 th day of February 1853 J. Parker clk
I Mead Butts a Resident of the Town of Stuyvesant in the County of Columbia hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Peter C. Hoagboom who has subscribed and Sworn to the foregoing declaration that I believe him Sixty Nine Years & Ele- ven months of age that he is a Resi- dent & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a sol- dier of the Revolution & that I con- cur in that opinion Sworn & subscribed on this the day & Year above mentioned - J. Parker clk

John C Hogoboom of the Town of Sheshe in the county of Columbia and State of New York aged sixty four years and ten months being duly sworn deposeth and says that he will remember that his brother Peter C Hogoboom served as a private soldier in the Revolutionary war in a company of militia commanded by Cornelius Hogoboom the father of the said Peter C Hogoboom and this deponent but does not at this distant period recollect how long such service was. This deponent will remember that at one time the said Peter went with the company commanded by the said Cornelius Hogoboom in pursuit of the Indians to the northwest of Albany who had been burning and destroying houses and other buildings and property and murdering the inhabitants but cannot now distinctly recollect in what year, nor whether the said Peter C Hogoboom was in pursuit of the enemy at other times, still he has been told and believes to be true that he was so. This deponent also recollects that Peter van Klief who resided within one mile of the place where the said Peter C Hogoboom then resided was a commissary or assistant commissary purchaser of military stores and other articles for the use of the army, and it was then stated that the said Peter van Klief had large sums of money and other valuable property belonging to the public and that those who were then liable to do military duty in the vicinity were ordered to guard and protect that property by keeping guard in the night time for fear it might be destroyed or robbed by the Tories then residing in that vicinity, and that many

persons who were inimical to the cause of the Revolution than did order than a committed many depredations on the property of those who were denominated whigs, and this deponent has understood that the said Peter C Hoogboom was then frequently at the dwelling of the said Peter Van Klief for the purpose of guarding and protecting the said public property. and this deponent further says there were also frequent other military duties to be performed in the vicinity where the said Cornelius Hoogboom and his family resided. Some of these were to pursue and apprehend the internal enemies of the revolution who had been robbing and plundering the friends of the revolution and committing other depredations. and this deponent believes that the said Peter C Hoogboom was directed by the said Cornelius Hoogboom to aid in apprehending those enemies. This deponent further says that during part of the revolutionary war he was sent to school by his father to Hartford in the State of Connecticut as he believes in the year 1780 & 1781 during which time he thinks the said Peter C Hoogboom probably did in the capacity of a private soldier perform other military duties but cannot with any degree of certainty state how long the time of the whole of the military service of the said Peter C Hoogboom was during the said Revolutionary war but he has reason to believe it was several months but whether more or less than six

months he cannot say - but as the said Cornelius Hoogboom was a zealous ad- -vocate and an active supporter of the revolution, he believes the said Peter C Hoogboom by directions of his father did perform military duty for some time before he arrived at the age of sixteen and therefore the time of his service may have considerably exceeded six months.
Sworn & subscribed the 19th day of July 1833
Starker Clk

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatory prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant Peter C Hogboom was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states and the Court for the Certifies that John C Hogboom who has signed the preceding Certificate has for many years been President of one of our Banks High Sheriff of the County of Columbia - and Judge of the County Court - that he is a man of high standing - that M ed ad Bat ler who has also signed is the Father of Benjamin F Butten Esqr at Albany that he is a man of high standing at present one of the Judges of the County Court for that Richard B Hogboom & Jacob Moul who have also sub are respectable men and that the Statements of all are entitled to the fullest Credit Isaac M c Clurg Wm R Macy } Justices

I John D Parker Clerk of the Justice Court in the City of Hudson hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Peter C Hageboom for a new trial
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 19th day of July 1833
J D Parker clk

Dear Sir,
On the 11th day of June 1852, I finally appeared before the... [faded handwritten text continues with a long narrative, possibly a legal or historical account, mentioning names like 'John May' and 'William Woodson' and events like 'the Revolutionary War']

State of New York Columbia County ss
I Stephen J Hogboom of the Town of Ghent in the County and State aforesaid aged Sixty Nine Years do depose and say My residence is about one & a half Miles from the the place where Colonel Peter Van Nis Resided during the time of the Revolutionary war & at that time Resided in the same where I now do place it was then the Town of Schoharie I well Remember that said Peter Van Nis was Commissary of Purchases for Government and that there was a Regular Government Guard Stationed at that Place I also know that Cornelius Hogboom the Father of Peter & Hogboom was one of the Captains of said Guard. and altho I cannot state Positively still I Verily believe I have seen said Peter & Hogboom on said Guard. I also think I Recollect that said Peter & Ho- gboom went one Year to the North My Father & Cornelius Hogboom were Brothers Stephen J Hogboom Second subscribed this 14 th day of Jan 1833 before me M c Leag Jr Puer
I certify that the above named Stephen J Hogboom is a man of truth & veracity His statements entitled to the fullest Credit Isaac M c Leag Jr Puer

State of New York Columbia County } I Joseph D. Morell Clerk of the said County do certify that Isaac M c Leay Esquire before whom the Affidavits of John Holsapple and Stephen Hoogeboom pur- port to have been sworn, was at the date of the same a Justice of the Inferior Court in and for the City of Hudson - And that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said Affidavits to be his proper hand writing and signature.
Witness My hand and Seal of Office This 19 th day of June 1833
J. D. Morell
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James L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

I have very little knowledge or recollection of the Transactions to which the enclosed relates. — I was very young at the time they occurred. — I remember well, however, that my Father, who then commanded a Regiment of Volunteer Militia, acted also as Assistant or Deputy Commissary General under his friend Jacob Cuyler of Albany; and made extensive purchases &c. for the Army. — He frequently had valuable public property under his care. — His Regiment was often ordered to the frontiers: and attended particularly at the siege & capture of Burgoyne. — The part of the Country where we resided, about 20 or 30 miles below Albany was much infested & distracted by Banditti called Tories, Robbers &c. and my father's house was frequently regularly guarded against them; and more especially when he had marched with his Troops towards the frontiers. — I know Peter Hoogeboom was the Son of Capt. Cornelius Hoogeboom who commanded a Company in my Father's Regiment, living within a mile of my Father's house; and I can think I saw the young man there among the Guard assigned to that duty. I feel generally confident; but can state no particulars. — As to any confidential services &c. I know nothing of them. — My impression is strong that at the period alluded to, Peter Hoogeboom was more than fourteen Years old. —
Washington Oct r 21. 1833 —
John P. Van Klief

RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by L. D. L.
Claim No. _____
Certificate No. _____
Claimant _____
Soldier Peter Hoogaboom
Service _____
Additional Service Reer War
No. _____ claim, State records _____, 190____
No claim, combination records _____, 190____
REMARKS:
No claim as above, except Invt # 23266 which was furnished K S Burr June 20 and 21st

Inv. 23266
KITTIE S. BURR,
DEALER IN
Strictly Fresh Eggs and Fancy Poultry,
Pure Bred S. C. White Leghorns a Specialty.
Wayne Co., Williamson, N. Y., June 23, 1908.
V. Warner.
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.,
Dear Sir:- Yours of 20th of June containing War Record of Peter C. Hogeboom was received to-day for which we thank you, but as his record does not agree with facts we know in regard to our great-great-grandfather we think he must belong to another family or branch. We are very anxious indeed to get some information in regard to this ancestor and therefore we respectfully request you to ascertain if there is

another Peter Hogaboorn on the Revolutionary pension list. We are told that he was wounded in the leg in the battle of Saratoga, the wound finally becoming a fever sore necessitating the amputation of the leg. It is thought that he was born in or near Schenectady and died in Port Jackson, in the town of Florida, Montgomery Co., N.Y. He had a large family of children. We are especially desirous of learning his wife's maiden name with date and place of marriage, if possible, and as full information in regard to him as we can get. If you can find any Hogaboorn whose record corresponds somewhat with the above, we will consider it a great favor if you will send us his full record. Very respectfully, Kittie S. Burr.

KITTIE S. BURR,
DEALER IN
Strictly Fresh Eggs and Fancy Poultry,
Pure Bred S. C. White Leghorns a Specialty.
Williamson, N. Y., June 12, 1908. Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:-
My great, great grandfather, Peter Hogaborn, was a pensioner of the Revolutionary War, having his leg badly wounded in the battle of Saratoga. We are very anxious to learn when and where he was born, also, when and where he was married and to whom, and the names of his parents. If the records of the War Department contain any or all of the above desired information, we will consider it a great favor, if you will kindly send it to us in the enclosed stamped and addressed envelope. Awaiting

an early reply, I am, Very truly yours, Kittie S. Burr.
P.S. Would also like to know- when and where Peter Hogaboom enlisted in the army, and when and where he was discharged.
K.S.B.

Record Division.
July 8, 1908.
Mrs. Kittie S. Burr, Williamson, Wayne County, N. Y.
Madam:
In reply to your letter dated the 25" and received the 25" ultimo, you are advised that the Revolutionary War pension records fail to afford any information in regard to any Peter Hagaboom other than that furnished you June 20, 1908.
This Bureau is unable to identify a claim for Revolutionary War pension unless the full name of the soldier is stated.
Very respectfully,
Acting Commissioner.