PENSION: Adam Clum; Clermont, Columbia co., NY Submitted by Donald E. Lampson, Apr. 23, 2001, dlampson@earthlink.net ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES(tm) NOTICE: All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US Copyright Laws and Regulations. In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. They may be used by non-commercial entities so long as all notices and submitter information is included. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit. Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** State of New York} }Ss. Columbia County } On this 26th day of December A.D. 1833, personally appeared before the Justices of the Justices Court of the City of Hudson in said County in open Court now sitting, Adam Clum a resident of the Town of Clermont in said County aged 78 years of age, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That in the year 1776, he thinks in May, he was ordered out in a Company of Capt. Teal Rockefeller & marched to Albany & was there one half a month, & was then discharged. This was in the Regiment of Col. Peter R. Livingston & Major Sam'l Ten Broeck. Again about the 15th of November 1776 he volunteered in the Company of Capt. Joseph Allen of the same Regiment & went to Fishkill where he was in service two months till the middle of January of 1777, when he was discharged. Only one Company of said Regiment went to Fishkill at this time. Again about the first of June 1777 he was ordered to the North in the Company of said Capt. Rockefeller in the Regiment aforesaid, marched to Fort Edward and was on the retreat before Burgoyne, & was in the first battle with him at Stillwater, but returned home being discharged , before the Surrender being in service at this time four months at least. (See NOTE below for his corrected version of time of this tour.) Again in November of 1777 he was ****** under an order, as he understood, of Genl. Putnam to a **** in conducting some prisoners from Red Hook to Hartford in Connecticut. These were some of the British soldiers taken prisoner from those coming up the River to Burgoyne at the time Esopus was burned. This Applicant was absent on this service one half of a month. There was a guard of Regular troops with him, but the commanding officer's name he cannot recollect. Again in the Fall of 1779, about the first of October he thinks, he was ordered out in the Company of Capt .Philip Smith & marched to Albany, thence on to Saratoga & Balltown. They were ******** at Saratoga till the middle of November when he was discharged having served one and a half months. And this Applicant further says that about the first of May of the year 1778 he was ordered out in the Company of Capt. Rockefeller aforesaid to serve as a guard in said County of Columbia against the Tories which infested the County. That he served in said Company of Guards till the first of September in the same year., being four months. A part of this time Capt. Philip Smith had command of the Guards & which was a regular ******* corps acting under the direction of the Colonel of the Regiment. And this Applicant says that through the whole of his said service ammounted to 12 &1/2 months for which he claims a pension, & that he hereby renounces all claim to any pension or annuity except the present, & that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State. And he further says that he was born in Clearmont aforsaid, & has always resided there before & since the Revolution, except for 4 years at Germantown. That the only record of his age is the family Bible which records his birth at Oct. 5th 1755. That he was once drafted into service, & volunteered at all other times. That the names of the officers whom he can recollect are Col. Peter R. Livingston, Major Sam'l Ten Broeck, Capts. Rockefeller, Smith, Allen, Lieutenants Adam Shuts, of Smith's Company. That he never had any written discharge & therefore has no documentary evidence. That his neighbors who can testify to his character for truth & veracity and their belief in his Revolutionary services are Adam Ryfenburg, **** John Rady, James Broadhead, , & Edward Livingston former Lieut. Governor of this State. /s/ Adam Clum Sworn & subscribed the Day & year aforesaid. /s/ (Signature illegible.) Columbia, Ss. Adam Ryfenburg of Germantown in said County being duly sworn says he is now Eighty two years of age, & that he is a pensioner under the act of June 7th 1832. That he is well acquainted with Adam Clum the above named applicant & has been from boyhood. That in the year 1776 this deponent was in Service in Capt. Rockefeller's Company one half month to Albany, & said Clum was with him in same Company. That in the same year he thinks said Clum was with this deponent at Fishkill 2 months from the middle of Nov. till the middle of January following, both being in Capt. Joseph Allen's Company. That he knows that said Clum was up at Fort Edward in 1777 & gone all summer, & was absent & said to be in service at several other times, & he has no doubt said Clum has served more time than he has stated in his above declaration. That he was always a good & ready soldier, & he recollects said Clum was serving among the Guard during the Spring and Summer of 1778. His /s/ Adam X Ryfenburg Mark Subscribed & sworn to The day & year aforesaid. /s/ (Signature illegible) Columbia County Ss. Genl. Samuel Ten Broeck of the Town of Livingston In said County being duly sworn says he is now Eighty eight years of age, & is a pensioner under the act of June 7th 1832. That he was a Major in the Regiment of Col. Peter R. Livingston aforesaid. That he has known Adam Clum the above named Applicant from his, Clum's, boy hood, & he knows that Said Clum was in service during the Revolution. That said Clum belonged to the Company of Capt. Rockefeller, who belonged to said Regiment, while said Clum resided in Germantown. And this deponent further says that his Regiment was on duty at one time as far as as Albany for two weeks, & to the best of his recollection said Clum was there as he states , but what year he cannot state positively, & in 1777 the Regiment was at Fort Edward & was there at the North for upwards of 4 months , & the Company of Capt. Rockefeller was there, & from facts & circumstances mentioned by Clum, said Clum must have been there also. And this deponent says there was in his Regiment a Capt. Captain Joseph Allen or Allet. That Detachments were frequently sent from his Regiment to Fishkill, & he has no doubt that Clum served in his Company as he states. And this deponent further says that regular embodied Corps of Guards were organized to protect the inhabitants from the incursions of the Tories who were under a British officer called (Husten?, Hudsen?). That these guards were organized & kept on duty by order of the Superior Officers & the Committees of Safety for the County. That in '77 & '78 such guards were almost constantly on duty, & were for one time to time relieved by other companies, & he has no doubt said Clum served in said guards as he states. And this Deponent says that in the fall of 1779 his Regiment was on service north as far as Saratoga & were there about one & a half months scouring the woods, & he recollects that said Clum was there that time, & cut down a large tree for the Regiment to cross a certain creek. And this deponent further says that he knows that (missions?) were sent at different times to Hartford , but cannot say at what times or who went with them, but does not doubt that Clum served as he states. /s/ Samuel Ten Broeck Subscribed & sworn to The day & year aforesaid. /s/ J. D. Parker, Clerk And the said Court hereby declares their opinion after the investigation of the matter, & after getting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier as he states. And The said Court further certifies that it appears to them that Adam Ryfenburg & Samuel Ten Broeck, who have sworn to the preceeding affidavits, are credible persons & their Statements entitled to credit. I John D. Parker Clerk of the Justices Court aforesaid do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Adam Clum for a pension. Witness my hand & seal of office This 2nd day Jany. 1834. /s/ J. D. Parker, Clerk State of New York } }Ss. County of Columbia} William Snyder of Germantown in said County being duly sworn deposeth & says that he is well acquainted with Adam Clum. That said Clum was in the Army of the Revolution as a soldier with this deponent at the Town of Fishkill, also at the North, at the taking of Burgoyne in 1777, and was in service there & on the retreat, and also at Stillwater, in all four months or more. Said Clum was also at Fishkill two months or more as a soldier in actual service. His Wm. X Snyder Mark Subscribed & sworn to the ** day of July 1834 before me. /s/ Wm Overbaugh Justice Peace State of New York } }Ss. Columbia County } Adam Ryfenburg being duly sworn says that, in his affidavit made Dec. 26th 1833 in favor of Adam Clum he intended to state ********* that said Clum was in actual service as a soldier with this deponent at Fishkill in the Fall & Winter of 1776 two months in the Company of Captain Joseph Allen, and further says none. His Adam X Ryfenburg Mark Subscribed & sworn this ** day of January 1834 before me. /s/ Wm Overbaugh Justice of the Peace in & For Columbia County. State of New York } }Ss. County of Columbia} Henry Dick of Germantown in said County being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with Adam Clum and has been since the Revolutionary war. That this deponent knowing the service done by Clum during the revolutionary war in standing Guard in said Town of Germantown from the spring till fall, full four months, under Captain Rockefeller & Captain Smith in the year 1776. /s/ Henry Dick Subscribed & sworn the 4th day of June 1834 before me. /s/ Wm Overbaugh Justice of the Peace For Columbia County. (Note: Clum Appears to be confused in this Declaration. The Judge may well have misunderstood him with respect to his service in 1777 in meeting Burgoyne's Invasion. There may well have been a language difficulty. Most of the men in this Regiment spoke German or Dutch. Apparently some of the men of the 10th Albany were engaged in the First Battle of Saratoga while others were engaged in the Second Battle but not the First. Some were present but actually engaged in the Second one. In any event, in his sworn statement in Captain Diel Rockefeller's pension file he explicitly states: "That again in August of 1777 this deponent was to Fort Edward in service in said Company **** Capt. Diel Rockefeller **** **** commanded **** ****, in service at *******full six weeks before they had returned home & then immediately after returning about the first of September they were ordered out again to oppose Burgoyne & were in service until after the surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga, that the said Capt. Rockefeller being in Command all this time as Captain thereof for at least six weeks more making three months in the year 1777." - See: Diel Rockefeller Rev War Pension. The only apparent error in this statement is that the other pension files and other documents indicate that the men with Capt. Rockefeller marched to Fort Edward as a part of a detachment from the Regiment of 200 men. Apart of them were sent home for harvest and were called back in September. The two periods of service in 1777 is consistent with other pension files and various other public documents and with the Memoirs of William Smith, edited by Sabine. The open question is whether he was one of those also actually engaged in the Second Battle of Saratoga or was merely present.)