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The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb *********************************************************************** Pension file of Garret Van Fleet File No. S14759 Page 1 8963 New York Garret Van Fleet of Cayuga Co in the State of New York who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Jones of the Regmt commanded by Col. Mahan on the N. J. ma line for 10 mo 1 day Inscribed on the roll of New York at the rate of 33 Dollars 44 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831 Certificate of Pension issued 2 day of May 1833 and sent to A Gould Auburn Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $66.38 Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. 16.72 Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7 1832 Recorded by W. L. Williams CLERK Book E Vol. 4 Page 34 Page 2 STATE of NEW YORK, Cayuga County, ss. On this25th day of September A. D. 1832 personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Cayuga and the State of New York, now setting, Garret Van Fleet a resident of Owasco in the County of Cayuga and State of New York, aged 76 years, who first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832: That he entered the service under the following named officers, and served as herein stated: That in the month of April 1776 then being a resident of the township of Readingtown in the County of Hunterdon and State of New Jersey he entered the service of the United States as a volunteer in the Company commanded by Captain Thomas Jones and Lieutenant Henry Carkoff in the Regiment commanded by Col John Mahelm and Major Sidney Barry as he believes he marched with said company to Spanktown and from there to Amboy, from there with part of said regiment he crossed to Staten Island where he remained about three weeks and was employed in building a fort during said term, from there he returned to Amboy where he continued until the expiration of five weeks from the time of entering said service where he was discharged and returned home. He further declared that from the month of July AD 1776 to the month of December following he was in said service in different companies for a term of four months, that the two first months he was stationed at Amboy, during the first of said months he served in the company of Captain Joseph Hankinson and the last of said two months he served in the company of Captain Benjamin Allager. that during the two last of said months he was stationed at Elisabethtown, one month under Captain John Stilwell and the other under Captain Rineheart, that he was part of the time under Colonel John Mahelm and the rest of the time under Colonel Joseph Beavus, that his Lieut Cols names were John Timbrook and Abraham Bunnel. He further declares that in the month of January AD 1777 he was again called Page 3 into said service in case of alarm in the company of militia commanded by Captain John Regison and Lieut Edward Willimoth in Col John Taylors Regiment that he marched with said company to Dykenses Mills from there to BonBrook on the Raritan River, thence he returned to Dykenses Mills where he was discharged having served a time of two weeks, that he returned home and continued a few days and again entered said service in the same company and Regiment and was stationed on the Raritan River as a guard for a time of two weeks. He further declares that on the fifteenth or sixteenth of June AD 1777 he again entered said service in the company of Militia commanded by Capt Moses Esty in Col Taylor's Regiment, that marched first to the forks of Raritan River where he continued about one week, from there about five miles below, from thence to Piscataway and joined the detatachment under General Head. from there to Bonumtown to attack a small British fort, from thence to Raritan River and from thence he returned home having served two weeks or more. He further declares that in the Month of August AD 1777 he again entered said service in the company of militia commanded by Captain John Stilwell in the Regiment commanded by Col Tyler as he believes, that he marched with said company to Elizabethtown where he was stationed and continued to serve a time of three month, that he served part of the time under Captain Richards and part of the time under Col Joseph Beavers, he further says that during the aforesaid four months service from the month of July to the month of December AD 1776 he served two of said months as a substitute for his father Page 4 and also part of the time during the said three months service. that the militia were called out in monthly tours one half one month and the other half the next, and that when it came his fathers turn to go out in said service he went as his substitute, he further states that after the close of his first monthly tour in the fall of 1777 he returned home, and whilst at home he was called upon to enter said service for a few days in guarding a company of refugees who had been taken prisoners, and were then at the Dykenses Mills, that he returned with said prisoners to the "white horse" and from thence to Trenton Prison, from thence he was employed in guarding a number of ammunition wagons from Trenton to Springfield by way of Princeton Millstone Court House and Elizabethtown, from Springfield he returned home having served a time of two weeks or more, he further states that soon after his return home he again entered service and served a time of two months as above mentioned he further says that he never recieved a regular written discharge from said service Page 5 and that he has no other documentary proof of said services than the accompanying That whilst in said service he saw and knew the following named officers to writ Gen Washington, Lord Sterling, Gen Rud otlius He hereby relinquishes all claim to pensions except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any State or Territory- Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid Ashel Fitch Judge Garret Van Fleet