Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44,889, Daniel Gunsalus, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Gunsalus Daniel
S. 44,889
CONTENTS

11.936 R New-York.
Daniel Gunsalus
of Mammaking in the state of N. York who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Dubois of the N. York line, for the term of 3 years - 1777.
Inscribed on the Roll of New-York at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 13 th of April 1810 -
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 th of June 1819 and sent to Wm. A. Thompson, Esq. Thompson, Sullivan Co. N. York
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 - 10 \frac{15.4}{30.3} 05. 83 Semi-annual all'ce ending 4 th Sept: 1819 - 40. 00
$1133.83
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued He died Feb. 4 - 1832 A.B.
Sullivan County
Specification sent to Wm. A. Thompson Esq. 23 Sep 1820. New-York Copy of the 2 nd Resolution and the affidavits in relation to same, sent to Wm. A. Thompson Esq. Sept. 25, 1820.

Daniel Gensalus Daniel Gensalus, private, Sullivan County, N.Y. 3 years in col o . Lewis Dubois's reg t . N.Y. line.
13 th April, 1818.
Not found record.
See the within deposition.
Admitted
Ann A: Thompson, judge Thompson, Sullivan County, New-York.

W. States ~ Daniel Gouder }
oath so then Papers a off for Pension
Prosecution barred by Statute limitation

State of New York Sullivan County } ss
On this thirteenth day of April 1818 before me Wm A Thompson first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Sullivan County Personally appears Daniel Gunsales aged 60 years Resident in the Town of Mamakating in Sullivan County, and who is personally known to me of who being by me first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late Act of Congress, entitled an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War That he the sd. Daniel Gunsales enlisted for three years at Fort Montgomery in the State of New York on or about the Month of June 1777 into the Company commanded by Capt. Alexander Steward, in Col. Lewis Detlois's in the New York Line Regiment, and that he continued to serve in sd. Company in sd. Regiment in the Service of the United States until the Spring of the Year 1780, when he was Discharged from sd. Regiment at West Point - That this Detachment was employed for the most part of the time of the "three Years", in erecting the Fortifications at West Point, That Lieutenant Michael Conolly was the officer that enlisted the Deponent. sd. Conolly was in sd. Stewards. That the Deponent enlisted for three years - That this Deponents discharge has been lost for more than 30 years - and that he is in Reduced Circumstances, and stands need of the assistance of his Country for support and that he has no other means now in his power of his sd. Service
Sworn to and Declared before me the day and year aforesaid
Daniel Gunsales
Wm A Thompson first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Sullivan County

Note of New York } Sullivan & County } 80
Copy
On the 14 th day of June 1820 personally appeared in Open Court in the Court of Common Pleas held within and for the County of Sullivan in the State of New York the same being a Court of Record, Daniel Guasalas aged 62 years resident in the Town of Mamakating in said County of Sullivan who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his Oath Declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows that on or about the 1 st of May 1777 he listed into Capt. Steward's Com py in 6 th Lewis Debris Regiment in the New York line and served there and served three years and that on the 13 th day of April 1818 he made his original Declaration to obtain his pension before William Thompson pres d Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the  Sullivan County, and that he has received his pension from that of 8 dollars per month and the Member of the Conference for his Pension is 119.36 Dated the 15 th of June 1818 and that I have not since that time do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 and I have not since that time by Gift sale or in any manner Disposed of any property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it, or to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval services of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18 th day of March 1818, and that I have not nor has any person on trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed and the I do hereby certify that my real & personal Estate is contained in the following schedule viz Real Estate an undivided Right to three acres of Wild Land in the 25 th division of Ministerial Patent Title Dohertyfull - Personal Estate One Cow one hog 5 sheep my Wife has a Right of Dower to the place on which I live consisting of a house & Garden 1/3 of 62 acres of Wild Land Daniel Guasalas

Debts Due to me Daniel Gonsalus Henry Newkind 40 Dol Deniston Brownson 5. Dol Thos. Merten - 5-
Debts Due from me Daniel Gonsalus Jacob Bunning 10 Dol Benj Dickenson 8. Dol Daniel Brash - 4 Dol Daniel Gonsalus -
and the P. Daniel Gonsalus further saith that his family consists of a Wife and two Children his wife name Sarah aged 50 years is very weakly & unable to labour only part of the time of 2 Children viz Elizabeth Ten years old in good health, Priscilla 8 years old in good health and the Declarant (say) the P. Daniel is very infirm and unable to labour and his occupation through life has been a Husbandman or Farmer and the Deponent further saith not Daniel Gonsalus sworn on oath about the 14. day of June 1820 With Thompson Pitt Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Sullivan County.
State of New York Sullivan County ss: I John P Jones Clerk of Sullivan County Do hereby Certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thereto annexed are truly Copied from the Record of the Court of Common Pleas for said County - and I do further Certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is twenty six Dollars - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this Eleventh day of August A.D. 1820  Wm S. Atk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Sullivan.

Rev. and 1812 War Section.
September 23, 1936
Leona Leach Columbia City Ind
Madam:
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 44889, it appears that Daniel Gunsalus enlisted at Fort Montgomery, New York in the spring of 1777 and served three years as a private in Captain Alexander Stewart's Company, Colonel Lewis DuBois' New York Regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 13, 1818, while a resident of Mamakating, Sullivan County, New York, aged sixty years.
In 1820, soldier stated that his wife, Sarah, was fifty years old, and children- Elizabeth, agndytans old, and Priscilla, eight years old.
He died February 4, 1832. There is no further data on file as to family.
Respectfully,
E. W. MORGAN Acting Commissioner.
I did not say anything about suspension - as he was restored to the Rolls. and no where in the "books" does it show that he was struck off the Rolls.
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State of } He doth remembred that on the tw- New York } enty Day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty five personally appeared before me Daniel Wheeler of the town of Mamakating in the county of Sullivan and state aforesaid and saith that he was acquainted with Daniel Gussales of the town of Mamakating in the county of Sullivan and state aforesaid and the said Daniel Wheeler saith that he was acquainted with the said Daniel Gussales during the revolutionary war and that he never knew him to be in the way at any time what- soever and the said Daniel Wheeler saith that if the said Daniel Gussales had been an inter- ested soldier in the revolutionary war he should have known it as witness my hand and seal
Sworn this the 20 January 1825 before me Andrew Hutton Commissioner Daniel Wheeler Attes
Elijah T. Pury
do further that Samuel Wheeler of the town of Lansdown Pike county and state of Pennsylvania confirms with the above testimony of Daniel Wheeler as witness my hand and seal Sworn this the 20 January 1825 before me Andrew Hutton Commissioner Samuel Wheeler Attes

Will Purvis
Hon d James Barbour Secretary of War Washington City D. C.

Blooming Grove Aug. 2 nd 1826-
Hon J Barbour Sir
Inclard I send affidavits to procure the removal of the suspension of Daniel Gensalus pension in pursuance of Mr Edwads letter to me of June 20 th last - Sickness has prevented an earlier answer - In that letter I am informed that if Noara Master, Helms, Newkirk & Oliver recd retract their assertions the suspension would be removed - and that although their testimony may be supported by some inconsistent and rash their evidence could not be rejected unless it be proved that they are not credible witnesses - On the state of the case as presented by the affidavits herewith sent I must beg the favor of a few remarks which I presume you will indulge -
The affidavits of Master, Helms and Newkirk herewith sent shew that Gensalus may have served for years for ought they know & that their former affidavits had been made to speak a language or meaning very different from what they intended. The conclusion must be irresistible that the officer taking them or his employer must have misbehaved or used unfair means - I have not seen Mr Noara who lives a considerable distance from me and cannot believe that you will think it important as his affidavit merely negatives any knowledge of his service without shewing any special reason why he should know it if rendered - Mr Oliver you will observe by my afft declines or rather neglects to make any further afft on the subject It is impossible to compel him so to do & to offer any particular inducements would be improper - your

however have his statement as made to me - In which he admits that he ever knew of some service by General Salas & knew not how much he might have served otherwise - This is no doubt in effect a retraction of his former assertions & the whole shows him to be a very weak or wicked man - It would be hard indeed if General Salas should be deprived of the provision made for him by an act taken behind his back and have no way provided for a reexamination of the deponent under oath and that deponent not liable for perjury for stating false hood in such act which, if my impressions are correct, is the fact in this case as I know of no law that renders false swearing in such a case perjury - In this I may be mistaken as I am not particularly conversant with the provisions of Congress in such a case - But without such Congressional provision there can be no doubt -
The assertion that General Salas admitted that he had no right to a pension when the circumstances under which it was made (if made at all) are taken into view, shows that he was rather asserting his right than denying it - For it appears to have been made in a tentative way to Oliver in consequence of his pretensions to the contrary of his claims -
I have never supposed that in consequence of the inconsistency & rashness apparent on the face of the affidavits taken before Fulton that they should be "rejected" by your department that is "incompetent" as the law expresses it -

cert that they should be considered incredible observing the distinction between competency & credibility of testimony - I also herewith include an a ff t of E Sears Esq although I pre- sume you have one from him of much the same purport and one made by Col W m Faulkner both of which I sent to your department last summer or fall expressly and affirmatively contradicting the a ff ts of Helms & others - This was made & mislaid at the time which caused me to be made & sent to you then -
I cannot but presume that you will now be enabled to remove the suspension without doubt as to the propriety of it - and cannot but regret the unnecessary trouble which has been made for your department & various individuals by the intrigues of one man in my vicinity - your communication in reply will be thankfully rec d by
your Obed Serv t A d D i mmick
Hon J Barbour -

State of N.Y. be it remembered that on the twentieth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty five personally appeared before me John Newhook of the Town of Mamakating in the county of Sullivan and state aforesaid and saith that he was acquainted with Daniel Gunsales in the Town of Mamakating in the county of Sullivan and state aforesaid and the said John Newhook saith that he was acquainted with the said Daniel Gunsales before the re- volutionary war and that the said Daniel Gunsales never served in the war but about three days un- -der him in the militia and the said John Newhook saith that the said Daniel Gunsales never served in the revolutionary war in the company of Captain Stewards in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven and in the regiment of Colonel Dubo- -se and also the said John Newhook saith that the said Daniel Gunsales never was enlisted in no company in the revolutionary war whoever as witness my hand and seal Sworn this the 20 January 1825 John Newhook before me Nathan Gornishauer
Attest Elijah D. Perry Nathan Gornishauer 18 3/4

Ebenezer Sears aft -
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State of New York Sullivan County ss - Be it known that on the twenty fourth day of May A D 1825 - personally appeared before me Henry Newkirk a Commissioner to take affidavits to be read in courts of record & re d Jonathan Leas of the town of Mamakating in said County to me known to be the person described in and who executed the foregoing affidavit that he was serving as orderly sergeant in the army of the revolution in the year 1777 at Fort Montgomery & Fort Clinton in said state that while in such service he well knew Daniel Gunsalus who is now living in said town & county and that he the said Daniel Gunsalus was then serving as a private soldier in the said army at said Fort Montgomery in the regiment of the New York line on the continental establishment commanded by Colonel Levee DuBois and as this deponent believes in the company commanded by Captain Alexander Stewart that said Daniel served at that place within this deponent's knowledge about six months when this deponent was taken a prisoner at the taking of Fort Mont- gomery & was then taken as such prisoner to the City of New York & was detained as such prisoner above one year - That after the taking of said Fort this deponent & the said Daniel were separated - That the

The said regiment in which said Daniel served was one of five regiments raised as the quota of said state and the soldiers therein were enlisted according to the best of this deponent's recollection and knowledge to serve for three years or during the war - That this deponent was well acquainted with Captain William Crops in his life time now deceased and that he was a man of strict veracity and truth and respectable in his general character and he who this deponent knows served as captain in said war and that said Captain Crops in his life time informed this deponent that said Daniel General served faithfully as a soldier in said war during a large part of said war within his knowledge, all which statement by him, this deponent verily believes to be true -
known to this 24 th day of May A.D. 1825 before me Henry Newkirk Commissioner
I Henry Newkirk one of the commissioners of the County of Sullivan and State of New York do certify that

Elizathan Sears in the foregoing affidavit & deposition named appeared before me this 24 th May 1825 and signed & made oath to the same and I do also certify that said Elizathan Sears is a man well known to me and is a man of strict veracity & truth and has been honored with many offices of respectability & trust within the period of twenty years last past -
Henry Durdick Commissioner

STATE OF NEW-YORK, } ss. SULLIVAN COUNTY.
I, JAMES LOCKWOOD, Clerk of the county of Sullivan, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That, Alpheus Dimmick whose name is subscribed to the Certificate, of the three annexed affidavits
First Judge of the Court of Com. Pleas
and endorsed thereon, was, on the day of the date of the said Certificate, a COMMISSIONER in and for the County aforesaid, dwelling in the said County, commissioned and sworn and duly authorized by law to take the proof and acknowledgment of Deeds and discharges of Mortgages &c.  for the And further, that I am acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Commissioner  Judge , and verily believe that the signature of A. Dimmick subscribed to the said Certificate, is the proper hand- writing of the said Commissioner  Judge
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said County, the Twenty ninth — day of July — 182 6
James Lockwood

Subscribed County State of New York Jacob Masten being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is the same Jacob Masten who before made affidavit before Andrew Footton as to the service of Daniel Grenadier in the revolutionary war - That he is informed that by said affidavit he is made to say that said Daniel never served as a soldier in said war nor was enlisted therein or words to that effect - This deponent saith that such was not his intention or understanding of said affidavit when made That all this dep- onent intended to say or swear was that this deponent did not know of his own knowledge that said Daniel served in said war but that he might have been enlisted & served for years for aught this deponent knows Sworn to & subscribed this 27 th day of June 1826 before me William First Judge Jacob Masten

122-00042 Sullivan County State of New York Daniel Helms having duly sworn saith that he is the same Daniel Helms who before made oath before Andrew Sutton as to the services of Daniel Gundersen in the revolution war - That he is informed that by said affidavit he is made to say & swear that said Daniel never served nor was enlisted in said war or words to that effect - This deponent saith that there was no other understanding of said affidavit when made that all this deponent intended to say or swear, was, that this deponent did not know of his own knowledge that said Daniel served in said war but that he might have served therein for years for ought he knows
Sworn to subscribed this 27 th June AD 1826 before me J. Dimmick First Judge Daniel Helms

Sullivan County ss Be it known that on the 8 th day of July A D 1826 personally appeared before me John Newkirk to me known and being duly sworn de- poseth and saith that he is the same John Newkirk who made oath or affidavit before Andrew Fulton on or about the 20 th day of January A D 1825 relative to the service of Daniel Gursalus in the revolutionary war wherein it appears that this deponent is represented as swear- ing that said Daniel never served nor enlisted in the regiment commanded by Col Du Bois or in any other regiment or company except three days under this deponent - This deponent saith that he does not know of his own knowled- ge but said Daniel might have served in said war for months or years but this deponent has no knowledge of such service and had believed supposed such was the purport & meaning of his former affidavit
John Newkirk subscribed & sworn to this 8 th day of July A D 1826 before me Simon Smith First Judge of of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Sullivan

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Sullivan. Country Book 200 on 1811 9 B
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State of NY be it known that on the Tues- day or the 1 st = the 1 st day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun- dred and twenty five personally appeared be- fore me Abraham Roosa of the Town of Mam- akating in the County of Sullivan and State aforesaid and saith that he was acquainted with Daniel Gursols of the Town of Mamakating in the County of Sullivan and State aforesaid and the said Abraham Roosa saith that he was acquainted with the said Daniel Gursols before the revolutionary war and that he he never knew him to be in any company whatever as an intitled soldier in the re- volutionary war as witness my hand and Seal
Sworn this the 20 th January 1825 before me Andrew Fulton Commissioner
Letter Jacob A. Roosa

David Gonzalez Calif. state
11.936
June 1819.

State of New York Sullivan County ) ss
I, John Marshall of the Town of Mamakating in the County being duly sworn according to Law. Upon the Oath saith that he is well acquainted and a near Neighbour to Daniel Gumsalus of said Town and that he personally knows that the Daniel is a very poor man and possess d of very little property of any kind that the sd Daniel is unable to do but little labour of any kind, that he is a cripple and has not got the Use of his Arm and in consequence of his bodily infirmity as well as his poverty the Town of Mamakating has granted him some Assistance to maintain his Family, that the sd Daniel could not support subsist at present without the aid of Public or private Charity -
John H Marshall
Sworn this 8 th day of August 1820 before me Wm Thompson Just Judge of Sullivan County

State of New York } Sullivan County }
Henry Newkirk Esq. of the Town of Mamakating in sd County being sworn according to law upon his oath saith that he is well acquainted Daniel Gunsalus of the Town of Mamakating and personally knows that the said Daniel is a very poor man and has but little property of any kind and that he had a fit of sickness some years ago which left him very feeble and that since that he appears not to have the use of his limbs and is a cripple, and that in consequence the Town of Mamakating has for the some years past granted him some assistance to maintain his family, that the Deponent believes that the sd Daniel could live without private charity or some assistance from the Town, the Deponent says that he is one of the Town officers of sd Mamakating Sworn the 8 day of August 1820 before me Wm Thompson Henry Newkirk Just Judge of all County
I do certify that the above are credible witnesses! and from my personal knowledge the sd Gunsalus is a very infirm man Wm Thompson

State of N.Y. be it remembered that on the nineteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty five Thomas Oliver in the Town of Wallkill in the County of Orange and State aforesaid and saith that he was acquainted with Daniel Gurnales in the Town of Mamakating in the County of Sullivan and State aforesaid and the said Oliver saith that he was acquainted with the said Daniel Gurnales before the revolutionary war and that the said Daniel Gurnales never served in the revolutionary war in the Company of Captain Stewards in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven and in Gurnals Duboises regiment and that the said Daniel Gurnales never was in no other company during the revolutionary war and that the said Daniel Gurnales told said Oliver that he never was intended to perform as witness my hand and seal
Sworn this the Nineteenth Day of January 1825
Thomas Oliver
Andrew Norton Commissioner
Elijah T. Pury

Thos. Wilson March 21. 1828
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A. Dunnick Esq.
Bloomington
Sullivan Co.
Care of Mr. Dempsey.
to to,

A. Dunnick Esq.
New York March 21 st 1826.
Sir
In regard to the case of Mr. Gonzalez, it rests exclusively with the War Department, whether again his name shall be inscribed on the Pension Roll - It was struck off as evidence, very difficult for the Department to resist. It can be reinstated only on application - I did consider that the evidence against him for perjury was sufficient to place him on trial, had not the Statute of Limitations barred the finding of an indictment - There is therefore no prosecution of any kind now pending against him in my office.
With great respect Yours & Sir
Rob. D. Morton

State of New York Sullivan County ss William A Thompson of said County being duly sworn says that he has for many years been acquainted with Colonel William Faulkner of Orange County in said State and his repu- tation & character; That according to the same he the said William Faulkner is a man of strict truth and veracity & entitled to the fullest confidence in what he says as a witness - That this deponent has also for many years been well acquainted with Elkanah Lear of Sullivan County and knows that said Lear has during that time been reputed to be a man of truth and veracity and has been held several offices of trust and profit such as Sheriff of the County and member of our State legislature legislature &c and that according to public understanding & reports said Faulkner & Lear were at the taking of Fort Montgomery in the revolutionary war and said Lear endured much hardship as a prisoner confined in the sugar house & prison ship in New York and further the deponent saith
Wm A Thompson
Sworn before me August 11 th 1825
J. C. F. [unclear] a Com to perform certain duties of a Judge of the Supreme Court

I certify that the within named William A Thompson late first judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Ulster County & afterwards of Sullivan County for many years is a credible witness and entitled to full belief & confidence
Dated Nov. 1 st 1825
[Handwritten signature: W. A. Thompson]

State of New York
Sullivan County ss: I John P Jones Clerk of said County do hereby Certify that Peter F Hurn Esquire before whom the within affidavit was taken, was at the time of the taking the same a Commissioner authorized to perform
Certain duties of a Judge of the Supreme Court this by virtue of said Office duly authorized to take such affidavit - And that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Peter F Hurn & verily believe the signature "P F Hurn" to the oath of said affidavit to be the proper hand writing and usual signature the said Peter F Hurn -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my Office the first day of November A.D. 1825
John P Jones Clerk

Bloomingburgh Sullivan Co. N. York July 25. 1825
Hon Sir
I inclose to you the affidavits of Col. Wm Faulkner & Maj. Elkanah Sears with accompanying certificates & afft of Character &c in hopes of satisfying you that the information lodged with you tending to shew that Daniel Gens- alus did not serve in the revolutionary war is false - Will you have the goodness to advise me with all convenient speed whether this testimony is not satisfactory I presume he can give more of the same nature - But it will be attended with some expense as the witnesses live at a considerable distance - It will be remarked that the scope of the testimony against his claim is that he did not serve at Fort Montgomery nor in Col DuBois, regiment - This is most positively contradicted by as credible men as our country affords - Beside the opposing testimony is inconsistent & awfully rash on the face of it - They swear deceptively to things that from their very nature they could not know - Mr Prase is the only prudent man among them and the others could not know any thing more than he has stated - The truth is, as I believe the General was stationed much of the time in the neighborhood of his residence & was consequently often at home which perhaps is

same excuse for a belief that of what they pretended to know - I wish to know if you will be willing to furnish the original affidavits as it is intended to proceed against those persons for the oaths they have taken to gratify the wishes of a fiend on earth -
Yours Obediently -
Hon Secretary of war } A. Dimmick

Sullivan County ss Jonathan Sears being duly sworn deposeth & saith that he is & has been for many years well ac- quainted with Daniel Gurnalus of the town of Mamakating & County of Sullivan and that he the said Daniel Gurnalus served as a regular soldier in Captain Alexander Stewarts Company in the regiment commanded by Colonel Lewis Dubois at the time & place of taking of Fort Montgomery in the year 1777 during the revolutionary war That said Daniel served within this deponents knowledge according to the best of his recollection before the taking of said fort & at said fort six months or upwards as such soldier That said regiment was one of five regiments raised as the quota of this state as this deponent understood and that the men enlisted therein were enlisted to serve for three years or during the war as this deponent was also informed & believes to be true. That this deponent was serving as orderly sergeant at the taking of said fort by the enemy and will remember that said Daniel was then there serving as a foraging and that this deponent being then taken prisoner was taken to New York and there confined for a long time in the sugar house & prison ship and was thereby separated from said Daniel. That this deponent has been often informed by one William

Crops none declared and who served as Captain in said war that said Daniel Gurnals served regularly as a soldier in said war during his enlistment which this deponent believes to be true as he the said William Crops was a man of strict truth & veracity & of unimpeachable character as this deponent believes being well acquainted with him -
Sworn to & subscribed this 13 th day of July 1825 before me
Jonathan Sears
Henry Newkirk
Commissioner to take affidavits &c
Sullivan County ss I Henry Newkirk before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken do certify that the above named Jonathan Sears is a man of truth and veracity & a credible witness that said deponent has been for many years past held many offices of trust and importance such as member of our State Legislature and Sheriff of our County etc etc Dated July 13 th 1825
Henry Newkirk
Sullivan County Clerk's Office
I John D Jones Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Henry Newkirk Esqr before whom the above acknowledgment was taken was at the time of the date of the same duly authorized to take such a acknowledgment - And also that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Henry Newkirk and verily believe the signature "Henry Newkirk" to be his proper hand writing - In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this 18 th day of July 1825
J. D. Jones

13-122-00055 State of New York Orange County ss William Faulkner of said County being duly sworn deponeth and saith. That he served as a Captain in in the revolutionary war at Fort Montgomery in said state at the time said fort was taken by the enemy - That Daniel Gurnham now of Manhattan & County of Sullivan was there and there serving as a soldier in Colonel Dubois, regiment - How long he served this deponent does not know as this deponent did not belong to the same regiment - That this deponent ever understood and believes it to be true that the soldiers in said regiment were enlisted for three years or during the war - as witness my hand this 28 th June 1825
William Faulkner
Sworn to and above acknowledged before me
John Brown is a commissioner in and for the county of Orange ss
I certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Colonel William Faulkner who has made oath to the foregoing affidavit and do believe him to be a man of strict truth and veracity and that he is a man of good general character and reputation.
Dated June 28 th 1825. John Brown Jr.

State of New York } Orange County } Asa Dunning Clerk of the county of Orange Do hereby certify that John Brown Junior whose name is subscribed to the within Cer- tificate to the affidavit above was on the day & date of the same a Commissioner in & for the County of Orange dwelling in said county commis- -sioned & sworn & duly authorized by Law to act as such Commissioner And further that I am acquainted with the Hand writing of said Commissioner & truly believe the Signature of John Brown Jr. subscribed to the within Cer- tificate & before whom the within affidavit was taken are the proper hand writing of said Commissioner In testi- mony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County the ninth day of July 1825
Asa Dunning Clk per Sewis Dunning Deputy

Wm Faulkners a/p

State of New York Sullivan County ss David Hunter of the town of Mamakating County and State aforesaid being duly sworn deponeth and saith that he is about forty — years of age and has been from ten to twenty years or upwards well last part well acquainted with Colonel William Faulkner who made oath to one of the annexed affidavits & with Elathan Sears the deponent named in the other affidavit hereto annexed. and also with one Samuel Miller who, as this deponent is informed and believes to be true, made oath to the service of Daniel Gamaliel in the revolutionary war — And this deponent saith that the said William Faulkner has ever within according to the best of his knowledge and belief sustained & supported a character totally unimpeachable for truth and veracity and for morality generally — That he has been for many years a very efficient & much respected member of the Church where he lives — That the said Elathan Sears has been placed in several offices of trust & responsibility such as member of our State Legislature and lately Sheriff of our County and various other stations and according to the information given this deponent and the general & universal current and belief of all his neighbors & acquaintances so far as this deponent

has learned the same he the said Elrathan did much service in the revolutionary war and was in the prisonship as stated in his affidavit and that he the said Elrathan is a man of truth and veracity & credible witness as this deponent believes to be true - And this deponent also saith that Samuel Miller aforesaid was as this deponent has ever understood a reg- ular soldier in said war and is a man of truth and veracity and credible witness as this deponent verily believes to be true -
Sworn to this 25 th July 1825 before me
David Hunter
Henry Newkirk Commissioner
I certify that the above named David Hunter is & has been for about fourteen years a respectable merchant in the town of Wamphatine in Sullivan County and has always supported & now supports a good character for truth and veracity
Henry Newkirk

State of Pa be it known that on the twenty fifth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Twenty five personally appeared before me Jacob Master of the town of Mamakating in the county of Sullivan and state aforesaid and swears and saith that he was acquainted with Daniel Gunsales in the town of Mamakating in the county of Sullivan and state aforesaid and the said Jacob Master saith that he was acquainted with the said Daniel Gunsales before the revolutionary war and that the said Daniel Gunsales never served in the revolutionary war in the company of Captain Stewards in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven and in General Dubours regiments and that the said Daniel Gunsales never was in no other company during the revolutionary war except about three days that he served under Captain New York company in the militia and that the said Daniel Gunsales never was in the revolutionary war in no way whatever except above stated as witness my hand and seal
Sworn this the 20 January 1825 Jacob Master Before me Andrew Sutton Commissioners Attest
John New York Elijah T. Perry H. W. H. H.

Daniel Gunsalus. 25 D Simms Bloomington Rec 13 June 1828 (Sept 1828) James Secretary Washington City
Bloomington June 13 1826

Bloomingburgh N.Y. March 22 d 1826
Sir
I regret the necessity of addressing you again on the case of Daniel Gonsales a revolutionary soldier who was suspended as a pensioner in your office as per your letter bearing date 2 d May 1825 - In this communication it is said that "the payment of his pension was to be stop't until he should prove have shewn by satisfactory testimony that the information therein mentioned was incorrect" - He has been before  before a tribunal before which he might be permitted to shew that that information was incorrect for nearly a year but has not been able to accomplish it - By your letter of 25 th Oct 1825 I am informed "that as the subject was then before the District Court of the United States the Secretary of War could not with propriety direct any other proceedings to be had at present" - In answer to another inquiry made at your office since on behalf of Gonsales in consequence of information that no proceedings were likely to be had in the District Court of U.S. I am informed by your letter of 31 st Jany 1826 "That the case of Daniel Gonsales was still pending in the U States Court at New York and that your department could take no steps whatever in the matter until a decision should take place that this department has performed its duty and cannot be justly censured for any delay" - I inclose herewith a letter from Mr. Lilliston U.S. District Atty at NY in answer to mine concerning & soliciting an inquiry. - By so doing I hope I shall not be considered as censuring your department for delay and do certainly regret the necessity of

troubling your department so frequently in behalf of a single individual - Mr Tillotson suggests that no bill or indictment could be found in consequence of of being barred by statute of limitations? - But I want to ask if Mr Gannalun may not be indicted for every oath taken since on drawing his money wherein he swears that "he is justly entitled to a pension" &c Besides if it was out lawed that fact could be no bar to the finding of an indictment - But it might be to the conviction if he should plead it - But I very much apprehend that he would never consider such a plea necessary - as therefore there is no suit pendable in U S Court I must again ask the liberty of calling your attention to the afft's he and of asking what course Mr Gannalun can take to shew that he is an injured man if such be the fact - Very respectfully yours J Dimmick
P.S. June 7 th 1826
The above was penned at the date But delayed, as I expected to visit Washington personally before this, but family sickness preventing at present I would respectfully beg your attention to Mr Gannalun's case with as little delay as your official duties will permit -
Hon J Barker
Secretary of War -
your obed t Servt
J Dimmick

New-York.
Daniel Gunsalus, Private, Revo. army.
Placed on Roll under act March 18. 1818 on 15 June 1819. Cont d : & Susp d 2 d May 1825. See letters of that date to Pension & Agents; - also 3 d June 1825 to A. Dimmick; - 2 d August 1825 to R. Tillotson - & 20 August 1825; - and to A. Dimmick 25 Oct. 1825; - to Dimmick & Tillotson 14 June 1825; and June 20, 1825 to A. Dimmick.

State of New York Sullivan County ss Alpheus Dimmick being duly sworn deposes and saith That on or about the 26 th day of July instant he called on Thomas Oliver known to him & who represented himself to him this deponent as the same person who sometime since made an affidavit before Andrew Fulton touching the service of Daniel Gersalus in the revolutionary war. That said deponent requested of said Thomas to make an affidavit explanatory of what he inter- ded by the affidavit so made as first aforesaid & whether he intended to say there- by that he said Thomas knew that said Daniel did not serve at all in the revolutionary war & under what circumstances said Daniel had ever admit- ed or said to him that he was not entitled to a pension. That said Thomas replied in substance that he did not know that said Daniel did not serve in Col DuBois, regiment in the year 1777 nor but what he did serve some at fort Montgomery and stated that he believed he knew of his serving eight days. That he did not know but said Daniel was present at the taking of said fort as he said Thomas was not there at that time but that he thought said Daniel did not serve in said war - and more particularly because he did not do duty on training days in the company of militia to which he said Thomas belonged as said Daniel on such occasions was absent. - That he met with said Daniel one day when said Daniel was endeavoring to procure the necessary testimony to entitle him to a pension at a public house or inn (as this deponent understood) when said Thomas asked said Daniel where he had been or was going a few days before when he passed his (said Thomas) house. That he told said Daniel he

he knew where he had been that he had been to get an affidavit or proof of his services in the revolu- tionary war. To which said Daniel replied "Ah I am not entitled to a pension or words of that import - That he, and said Daniel had held conversation before this this deponent understood as to the service of said Daniel & his being enti- tled to a pension in which conversation said Thomas had expressed an opinion that said Daniel was not entitled to a pension - That he had no doubt but said Daniel at the time of meeting said Daniel when he used the above expression had an affidavit or proof of service in his pocket -
And this deponent saith that said Thomas declined or rather neglected to make any affidavit explanatory or contradictory to his so former affidavit first mentioned this deponent not feeling it his duty to insist upon such affidavit and therefore left him finding that he appeared rather unwilling to make any further affi- avit of any kind on the subject - And this deponent saith that he has been for fourteen or fifteen years or more - That he is old & infirm and quite deaf acquainted with the said Thomas Oliver, that he is old & infirm & quite deaf or hard of hearing and that it is very difficult to make him understand any difference between saying that he never knew of an events taking said Daniel's service & that "he never did serve" or to comprehend clearly any questions put to him on the subject or get any intelligent or direct answers from him -

STATE OF NEW-YORK, } ss. SULLIVAN COUNTY.
I, JAMES LOCKWOOD, Clerk of the county of Sullivan, DO HEREBY CERTIFY. That, Charles Bogle whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of the annexed affidavit
and endorsed thereon, was, on the day of the date of the said Certificate, a Notary Public  Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, dwelling in the said County, commissioned and sworn and duly authorized by law to take the proof and acknowledgment of Deeds and discharges of Mortgages, &c.  in said affidavit And further, that I am acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Commissioner  Justice and verily believe that the signature of C Bogle J P subscribed to the said Certificate, is the proper hand- writing of the said Commissioner  Justice .
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said County, the Twenty ninth day of July 1826.
James Lockwood

And this deponent further saith that the affidavits of Daniel Helm Jacob Marten & Shady Newpink taken before me this deponent & herewith transmitted or intended so to be were distinctly read over and explained to said deponents respectively before taking the same and that said deponents made the same freely & without any undue influence from considerations of favor or fear according to the best of this deponents knowledge and belief - and this deponent saith that he has been as counsel & otherwise intimately acquainted with a very severe dispute & litigation between said Daniel Gumsalus and one David Munn who procured said affidavits made to disprove said Daniel's service, to be taken to deprive him of his pension; and that this deponent has no doubt & verily believes that the same were procured by said David Munn with no other motives than those of malice and revenge and to compell or scare the said Daniel Gumsalus to settle the matters in dispute between them on favorable terms to said David and that said David Munn is a man whose character is bad and very bad -
Suborn to this 29 day of July 1826 before me } O Badle Jp
A Dimmick

Suspension removed. See letters to Agent & A. Dimmick, Esq. of Bloomingburgh N. Y. Aug 25 August 26. 1826
(September 1819)

pens etc
This envelope, with its enclosures, was received from R. Tillotson, on the 1 st of August 1825, and the de- claration of which the within is a copy, as requested in his letter to him, on the 2 nd of Aug: 1825
at the request of Mr. Tillotson of the 18 th Aug. 1825 - the copy of the declaration above men- tioned, and all the affidavits on which the pension was stop t , were sent to Mr. Tillotson, on the 20 th Aug: 1825 -
Rec d 1 Augt. 1825

State of New York } Sullivan County }
I John B. Jones Clerk of the County of Sullivan and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County Do hereby certify that William A Thompson on within named and before whom the annexed affidavits were taken was at the time of taking the same (and still is) duly commissioned and sworn as first Judge of said, and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Wm A Thompson and verily believe the Certificates to the annexed Affidavits to be his own proper hand writing and signature In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court

State of New York } Sullivan County } ss
I Wm A Thompson Just Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Sullivan County Do Certify that it appears to my Satisfaction that the P. Daniel Gussalus did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in P. Daniel's Declaration against the Common Enemy. and I Do further certify that the P. Daniel Gussalus now is & has been personally known to me for the last 25 years. and that he is in Reduced and very indigent Circumstances, and I believe he has no other property except a cow & some hogs that for the last 6 or 7 years he has been able able to do but little labour - altho' he made his Declaration on the 13 th of Ap r 1818 he has not been able to bring forward his two W tnes to support his Declaration until this time and I now transmit the proceedings and Testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the War Department pursuant to the Direction of the aforementioned act of Congress Dated at Thompson in Sullivan County the 24 th of April 1819
Wm A. Thompson

State of New York Sullivan County
Samuel Miller of the Town of Wallkill in Orange County. Aged 58 years who is personally known to me, who being duly sworn according to Law maketh oath and saith that he is personally well acquainted with Daniel Gansalles of the Town of Monticello in the County of Sullivan and have known him ever since the 1777, and that knows that said Daniel was listed in the year 1777 in Capt Alexander Stewards Company in Col. Lewis Debois Regiment, that the Deponent frequently saw said Daniel Gansalles as a Soldier in said Debois Regiment for at least three years and at that time of during the term of said Daniel Gansalles service as a Soldier the Deponent understood that he was a three years man - the Deponent further saith that the said Daniel is the same person that served for three years in Col. Debois Regiment - the Deponent believes it was in the Spring of 1777 that said Daniel enlisted in Capt Stewards Company in the New York line
Samuel Miller
I sworn this 10 th day of April 1819 before me
Wm A Thompson Just-Judge of the Court of Common Pleas Sullivan County
This Witness draws a Pension as a Soldier in the New York line

State of New York, Sullivan County
Jacob Clearwater of the Town of Mammakating in the County of Sullivan aged 63 years, who is personally known to me who being Duly sworn according to Law make oath and saith that he is personally well acquainted with Daniel Gensales of s d Mammakating and has known him ever since the year 1777. at which s d last mentioned time this Deponent was a Soldier at Fort Montgomery on the North River in a Company in which s d Gensales was serving a Soldier in the Nine Months Service - and this Deponent was personally knowing that s d Gensales listed, as a Soldier at s d Montgomery sometime in the Spring of 1777 into a Company commanded by Capt Alexander Steward in Col d Lewis Dabois d Regiment for the term of three Years - and that this Deponent personally knows that s d Daniel Gensales was in s d Company for nearly three Years as he frequ- -ently saw s d Daniel in s d Company on Service. This Deponent further saith that he has lived in the same Town with the s d Daniel Gensales, since the Revolutionary, and that s d Daniel is very poor and has no Estate Real or personal property except a barn and some hogs & sheep
Sworn this 24 th day of April 1819 Jacob Clearwater Mark before me Wm J Thompson first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Sullivan County
The above Deponent is a German or Dutchman and does not write his name. He is a man of good Moral Character

From Robert Tilton, New York.
Dated 18 Aug: 1825-
J. S. Edwards Esq
Miss. Office
Wm. Dept.
Recd 20 Aug: 1825-

New York. August. 18 th 1820 1
J. d. Edwards Esq
Sir
Your letter of the 2 nd inst t enclosing me the copy on file in your Department of Daniel Gonzales Declaration sworn before the court of Com m Pleas of the county of Sullivan on the 14 th June 1820. was duly rec d . The affidavits for arrears on which the pension of the pensioner was stopped, as also the certified copy of his original Declaration forwarded in my last letter, are returned, and you will do me the favor to furnish me with them as early as your convenience will permit.
With great Respect I remain Sir &c. R. d. Linsley

A. Edwards Esq,
Pension Office

Crew York July 27 th 1820
Dear Sir
In reference to the papers forwarded. You will per- ceive the copy of an original affidavit on file in the War Department. I furnished from the Department to a person by the name of David Munn who has placed the same in my hands. As means are now to be taken to present the prisoner as guilty of perjury in taking the oath, it will become necessary as part of the evidence to place the original in the hands of the Grand Jury - With that view I must request the favor to be furnished with the original papers to be returned when no longer wanted. The enclosed certified copies belong to Mr Munn - He therefore wishes them ret. d with the originals. —
With great respect Yours & Sir R.B. Morton
J. Edwards Esq War Dept 2

War Department,
Pension Office,
8 th Nov r 1823.
Sir,
I herewith return your affidavit as to the credibility of William Faulkner and Nathaniel Sears, which, I presume, was forwarded to this Department by you, and have to request that you will make known the object for which it was transmitted.
I am, respectfully,
Yr. Obt. Servt.
J. L. Edwards
Thompson Nov r 14. 1825-
Dear Sir
In answer to the above Request, I have to say that the enclosed affidavit was taken at the instance of Daniel Guasdal, whose pension I understand is suspended in consequence of a number of affidavits that have been sent to the War office stating that Guasdal had never served as a Revolutionary Soldier - he stated to me that he had taken the evidence of Major Sears and Col n Wm. Faulkner & sent them to the Office of the Secretary of War to rebutt the Evidence that was taken & had been the means of suspending his Pension and wished to prove by my affidavit the Character & standing of his two Witnesses, which at his request I enclosed to the Office and now return the same for his benefit.
I am Dear Sir your Obedient!
Wm. A. Thompson
Wm. A. Thompson Esq r
Monticello, N. Y.
J. L. Edwards Esq r
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P. S.
I have no doubt myself, but that the Depositions that was sent to the war office to suspend Gensales Pension was obtained by improper means, and that the Deposition was read to the Witnesses, different from what it was written as some of the Witnesses have Publicly declared that they never swore to the facts set forth in the Copies that was forwarded to Mr Dimick - Gensales has always sustained the Character of an honest man - and it is the public Opinion that he is entitled to his Pension - It would be a gratification to the Public, if the Secretary of War would Direct that the Depositions should be taken over again before the Court of common pleas and that the District Attorney for the County should cross Examine the Evidence, on both sides & send the result to the war office, to find out if possible, where the fraud lies, - at all events it could do injury & possibly an honest man may come to his rights -
Wm A Thompson

Rec? June 19. 1826
Daniel Gonsalves Robert Tilton Esq. New Bedford Massachusetts Washington
18/11/26
12/4

New York. June 17 th 1826.
J. L. Schuonds Esq
Sir
I return the papers of relating to the case of Daniel Gonzalez. a pensioner. - The grounds on which he was discharged was technical, and did not relate to the merits. Now for the facts are, as stated by his accuser, the Depart- ment is equally competent with myself to decide
With great respect
I remain Sir & Sir
Rob. Paterson

Daniel Gunnalus New York Rose
(France)
Re: Sept 30. 1825
R. Tillotson New York
RECEIVED
Mr. & Mrs. John Barham
Secretary of War Washington

RE
2 k
James Barham
Secretary of War
Washington

New York. April 26 th 1825
Mr. H. 42. 4
J. Barbour Sec y of War Sir
I am requested to forward to your De- partment the inclosed papers relative to a fraud committed under the piracy law of the United States
With great respect
I remain Sir &c.
Rob. Watson

Rev. War
Aug 2, 1926
Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.
Will you please give the Revolutionary War record of Daniel Gunsalis who enlisted in Ulster Co., N.Y. Was he ever pensioned? He probably went to Ply- mouth, Ohio, from New York.

112_00001 If your records state the dates of birth and death I would like those too.
Thanking you in advance I am
Very Truly,
Leona Leech.

1926-Sept. 23-Head to Second Check-airy
44889 INVALID.
Rev.
File No. 44889
Daniel Gussalus
Rev. Rev. War.
Act: 18 th March 1818
Index:—Vol. 3 , Page 209
[Arrangement of 1870.]