PENSION: ANDREW (ANDRIES) GARDENER; Livingston Manor, 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/ *********************************************************************** (Note: This is an 1818 application on the grounds if indigence and is based on his service in the 2nd & 4th NY Regiments of the Continental Line. He probably is the same Andrew Gardner who is in the Land Bounty List of the 10th Albany Militia Regiment in Comptroller Robert's work. An Andries Gardiner is in the 1779 Livingston Manor Tax List.) _____________________________________________________________ (1818 Application on the grounds of indigence) Columbia County } }Ss.: State of New York} Andrew Gardener being duly sworn says - That in the month of July nineteen hundred and seventy eight he enlisted as a soldier in the continental army of the United States in the regiment of Colonel Dubois in the company commanded by Capt. Henry Dubois. He joined the Army at White Plains in the same month in which he enlisted. He *********** of an assignment which took place some time afterwards he was placed in the Regiment No. 2 of the New York line. He was present at the ***** of Yorktown and Capture of Cornwallis - and served in the army of the revolution about five years - and in the month of June seventeen hundred and eighty three received his discharge - which he has since lost - The Regiment to which he belonged was disbanded at ****** Hill in the County of Orange in this State - And further this deponent states that he is upwards of sixty of age - is in great indigence - & ******* by his poverty to apply for relief. And further saith not. His /s/ Andries X Gardener Mark Sworn before me This 8th day of April 1818 - /s/ W. P. Van Ness _____________________________________________________________ (1823 Application) State of New York Supreme Court On this eleventh day of January 1823 personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record for the said State, Andrew Gardenier, aged sixty six years & upwards, resident in the town of Kinderhook in the County of Columbia in the said State, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows: he enlisted in the month of July in the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy eight in the Company commanded by Captain Henry Dubois in the regiment commanded by Colonel Louis Dubois in the New York line - in consequence of an arrangement which took place about two years later he was transferred to the second regiment in the New York line - That he enlisted to serve during the war. - That he served about five years & until he was discharged at Snakehill in the County of Orange in this State. That he made a declaration in writing upon his oath in pursuance of the act of Congress providing certain persons who served in the land and naval service of the United States during the Revolutionary War 18th March 1818, on the eight day of April 1818. And the said Andrew Gardenier there & then took ******** the following oath, to wit: I Andrew Gardiner do solemly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March 1818; & that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with any intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States during the revolutionary war, passed bon the 18th day of March 1818; & that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or security, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedules hereto annexed & by me subscribed, to wit, one suit of clothes not worth more than one or two dollars. I have formerly worked at shoemaking, but am now wholly unable to do any kind of work. I have no family residing with me, & have but one child, a daughter about eighteen years old. His /s/ Andrew X Gardenier mark I, Francis Bloodgood, Clerk of the Supreme Court ********* of the people of the State of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing oath & schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the word of the said Court; & further certify that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedules is not more than one or two dollars. In testimony whereas I have hereto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court on this Eighteenth day of January 1823. /s/ Fr. Bloodgood, Clerk Sup. Court of the State Of New York. _____________________________________________________________ State of New York} }Ss.: Albany County } John Cornelius of the Town of Kinderhook being duly sworn saith that he was personally acquainted with Andrew Gardenier while in the service of the United States during Revolutionary War. That the deponent knew him in the service in the year 1779in Genl. Sullivan's expedition against the Western Indians, suffering together with this deponent and many others the privations & hardships of that campaign. That the said Andrew belonged to Col. Dubois' Regiment, but who commanded the Company this deponent does not recollect. That this deponent well remembers that the said Andrew continued in service as above stated until the close of the War in 1783. Frequently saw him doing duty during the time and was sometimes on duty with him when the Regiments lay together. That the said Andrew was enlisted for during the War - and served through until the Peace - And further that said Andrew is at this time in very indigent circumstances, aged and infirm and incapable of laboring for his subsistence. - And this deponent has been informed and verily believes that he has already received assistance from the town in which he lives will require more until assisted some other way. /s/ John Cornelius Sworn & subscribed this 5th day of Nov. 1818 before me. /s/ John G. Watson, Justice Peace. (Note: John Cornelius served in both the 2nd NY and 5th NY.) _____________________________________________________________ State of New York} }Ss.: Albany County } Gilbert Gardenier being duly sworn saith that Andrew Gardiner who hath subscribed the foregoing declaration on oath is the brother of this deponent. That this deponent recollects of the said Andrew being in the service of the United States in Col. Dubois' regiment in the year 1779 at Fort Stanwix. That this deponent had been in the service during two years previous to the time Andrew enlisted. That after he enlisted they both belonged to the same Brigade but not to the same Regiment. That the said Andrew continued in the service of the United States against the common enemy until the month of June 1783 making about four years service. That in consequence of a new arrangement of the troops the said Andrew was, some time before the close of the war, placed in Col. Cortland's Regiment being the 2nd New York Regiment, to which regiment said Andrew belonged when he was discharged. And further that the said Andrew is in reduced circumstances and actually poor and has already received some assistance from the town in which he lives toward his support, being in addition to his advanced age lame and very infirm so as to be incapable of labor for his livelihood and with out any other means *** - and further saith not. His /s/ Gilbert X Gardenier mark Sworn to before me This 4th day of Nov. 1818. /s/ John *******, Justice Peace (Note: Muster Rolls show that Gilbert Gardenier served in the 1st NY of the Continental Line.)