PENSION: Patrick McFall; Claverack, 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 the Eighth day of August 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Justices of the Justices Court in the City of Hudson in the County And State aforesaid now sitting Patrick McFall, a Resident of the Town of Claverack in the County & State aforesaid, aged Seventy Two years, 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 he entered the Service of the United States in the Militia of the State of New York in the Town of Livingston in said County under Capt. John Shaver, Major Samuel Ten Broeck, Col. Henry Livingston, but Livingston did not go first. Marched to Saratoga by way of Albany and remained there about six Weeks. Again went from Town of Livingston under Capt. Shaver, Lieutenant Shirts. Thinks the Company to which he was attached was the only one ordered from the town where he then resided. Thinks there were no field went with them. Was first under the Command of Colonel Schuyler when they arrived at Stillwater and remained there two months. It was in the State of New York. Does not recollect the year. Went again he thinks the same Fall under the same officers to Schenectady and remained there three weeks. Went again under Capt. Shaver from the Town of Livingston in the County aforesaid and marched to Albany in Albany County and remained in the Barracks there waiting to be ordered farther on about three & a half weeks and was then sent back, this the Year following the Service at Schnectady. Went again under Capt. Shaver in the Fall of the year and marched to Ballstown and remained there one month being daily drilled by his officers. At the end of the month he returned home. After this service this deponant was **** ***** *** to Fishkill and was about four days out each time. Was also out as night watch and Tory hunts. That he was Corporal in the Service all the time he was in the Service. Does not remember any Continental Regiments with whom he served. That his memory is extremely bad and has no doubt but he served a much longer time than he is stated, but he has no documentary evidence, and that he knows of no living witnesses by whom he can prove his service. Thus he would refer for the department for evidence of his character for truth & veracity to John J. Miller (?)Esq. First & Judge of the County Court in the County of Columbia, to Nathaniel Rawly and John Phillips. Hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any state. /s/ Patrick McFall Sworn & subscribed the day & year first Above ****** /s/ Hiram Wilbur, Clerk To the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, he answers: He was born in Livingston Manor on the 6th day of May 1760. The record of his age is his family Bible at his home. When called into the service lived in Livingston Manor in the County of Columbia. He since lived in the Town of Claverack in the City of Hudson and since for the last twenty years in the Town of Claverack in which Town he now resides in. He was sometimes drafted but generally went ******* as a Volunteer. Cannot now state the names of any Continental officers with whom he served. The general circumstances of his service, as stated above, he was marched about from place to place & engaged in hunting the Tories and Indians from place to place. Never received a written discharge. Would refer the Department to John J. Miller Esq., first Judge of the County Court, to James Phillips & to Mathew Rawly. /s/ Patrick McFall Sworn to and Subscribed The day and year aforesaid. /s/ Hiram Wilbur, Clerk. Opinion of Court, Certifications of veracity by James Phillips & Nathaniel Rawly, and Clerk's Certification omitted.) (Note: Although he was unable to provide dates and years, he was granted a pension on October 27, 1832. It appears that this was before the War Department started to nit pick most of the pension applications.) Patrick McFall Pension File.