PENSION: John Holsapple; Ghent, Columbia co., NY submitted by Donald E. Lampson (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 20th day of September 1832 personally appeared before the Justicies of the Justices Court of the City of Hudson, County aforesaid, in open Court now sitting, John Holsapple, a resident of the Town of Gent in said County, aged Seventy five years, who being 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 7, 1832. That he was born in the town of Claverack in said County in October of the year 1757. That the only record of his age is the Church Record where he was baptized. That he resided in Claverack till the war of the Revolution commenced. That in the month of April 1776 he served two weeks in a Company commanded by Jeremiah Miller (Muller) . They were detached on an alarm to the west side of the Hudson River & on scout till the expiration of said two weeks. That 1777, about the first of June, he volunteered in the Company of Capt. Jacob Phillips & Regiment of Col. Robert Van Rensselaer. They marched through Albany to Fort Edward, Fort George, Fort Ann (Anne), etc., & was on service there till the first of July, when he was duly discharged after service of one month. And on reflection he declares that during the month of October 1776 he volunteered in the Company of Capt. Abraham Fonda. He went with the detachment to secure some prisoners at Nine Partners, so called, in Dutchess County. - They took 100 prisoners & marched with them for Exeter in the State of New Hampshire. This applicant marched ** ****** **** *** *** Springfield Massachusetts & was there discharged after a service of one month about the first of November of the same year. Again about the first of October of the year 1777 he volunteered in the Company of Capt. Peter Fonda & Regiment of Colonel Pratt. They were marched to Fishkill & quartered there, & he was discharged about the first of November of that year having served one month. Again in the spring & summer of the year 1778 he served in the Company of Capt. Jacob Phillips one month in his qwn County - but by *** ** of old age & consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the particular time. Again About the middle of September of 1780 he volunteered in the last mentioned Company & Regiment of Col. Rob't. Rensselaer & marched to Schnectady where he lay 1 month and was discharged. - _____________________________________________________________ Note: Apparently in October 1777 he was sent to serve with the Associated Exempts of the Militia in Dutchess County at the time of the invasion up thr Hudson by the British from NY City. Zephaniah Platt is listed as the Colonel of the Dutchess Associated Exempts in Comptroller Roberts' New York in the Revolution as Colony and State. That list also contains the name Peter A. Fonda. Peter A. Fonda is also listed by Comptroller Roberts as a Lieutenant in Col. Robert Van Rensselaer's 8th Albany Militia Regiment of Claverack.)