PENSION: Peter Plass; Clermont, 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/ *********************************************************************** (1818 Declaration) State of New York - County of Columbia Ss. On the sixteenth day May in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred & eighteen before me William Wilson, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Columbia, personally appeared Peter Plass, aged sixty seven years, who being by me duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain obtain the provisions made by the late act of Congress entitled An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land & Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War - viz. That the said Peter Plass enlisted in the Regular Army in the year 1776 (sic.) & served for three years in the New York Line in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Wisenfelt - The names of his Captain he has forgotten but says the Company in which he did duty was commanded by Lieutenant Huffenburgh (VanHowenburgh)- That he continued to serve in the same Corps (Regiment) in the service of the United States Three years & upwards - That he was regularly discharged from the service, but which discharge is lost - That he was in different engagements at or near Saratoga and was present at the Capture of General Burgoyne - That he is now in reduced circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support. His Peter X Plass mark Sworn to & subscribed before me the day and year aforesaid - /s/ W. Wilson I William Wilson, Judge aforesaid, do hereby verify that I am satisfied that the aforesaid Peter pass did serve in the Revolutionary Army as aforesaid - That he is a poor man & stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support & is of the age stated - And that I have known him for upwards of Thirty Years. /s/ W. Wilson I, Samuel Ten Broeck - formerly a Brigadier General in the Militia of the State of New York - do under my oath say that I have known Peter Plass, named in the foregoing affidavits for upwards of Fifty Years - That I do believe he served in the United States Army for three years or more - That he is an American Born & is now a very poor man - /s/ Samuel Ten Broeck Sworn before me The day & year before mentioned. /s/ W. Wilson (Certification by Clerk omitted.) State of New York} Columbia County } John Van DeBogart of the Town of ****** County & State aforesaid, being duly sworn, says that he is acquainted with Peter Plass who is now applying for a pension. That he knew him in the service of the United States from the year 1777 till 1780. That the same Peter Plass served with him in Col. Henry B. Livingston's Regt. ***** *** ****** ***** and Capt. Pearsee's Company about two years during that term. And the Deponent further saith that he has no interest in the application of the said Peter Plass for a pension - and further saith not - His John X Van De Bogart mark Sworn & subscribed before me this 17 day of Dec. A D 1819 /s/ Adam ******* of the Justices of the Peace of Columbia County. _____________________________________________________________ (1820 Declaration) State of New York} }Ss.: Columbia County } On the eighth day of June 1820 in Open Court, being the court of Common Pleas of the County of Columbia, a court of record, personally appeared Peter Plass, aged sixty nine years, residing in Clermont in Said County & State, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 and the 1st of May 1820. That the said Peter Plass enlisted for the term of three years in the year 1776 he believes, in the Spring of the year, in the State of New York in Colonel Wisenfel's regiment, as it was called, in a Company at that time commanded by Lieutenant *************** in the line of the State of New York on the continental establishment. That he continued to serve in the same ****** until sometime in the year 1779 and until the said term of enlistment had expired when he was honorably discharged at Morristown in the State of New Jersey, according to his best recollection. That he was in all the engagements near Saratoga and was present and assisted at the Capture of Burgoyne. And that he has no further evidence of his serving except the affidavits of George Ducker and John Vandebogart (John Van der Bogart) herewith forwarded to the Department of War with my original application. And in furtherance of the act of the 1st of May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with the intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war, passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or security contrary or debts due me. Nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me submitted. That he has no property real or personal except what is exempted by law & that he has not so much property as that Law allows to poor debtors. First that by occupation he is a laborer & has never learned a trade. That he is now so old & infirm as to be unable to labor for subsistence. That the family of Deponent consists of himself & a wife and one son named Henry Plass who has fits and is wholly unable to support himself. There is also living with him a girl of about seven years of age named Lany Huffman who is supported by the town. And the sole dependence of this deponent & his family for support is upon private charity and the sum of fifty six cents per week paid to him by the Town of Clermont for the support of said Lany Huffman. The wife of this Deponent is wholly unable to contribute to the support of the family. His /s/ Peter X Plass mark Sworn to & declared before me in open court the 8th Day of June 1820 before me. /s/ John C. Miller, Chief Justice of said Court. ____________________________________________________________ (NOTE: The Muster Roll of the 4th NY Regiment of the Continental Line in Fernows New York in the Revolution at p. 212 shows that Peter Plass Served in the 3rd Company from May 9. 1777 to his discharge on Nov. 2, 1780, with an absence of about six months From June 1, 1778. It also shows that John Van der Bogart Served in the Same Company from May 2, 1777 to May 2, 1780. Peter Plass lived in Clermont which was a part then of Livingston Manor, the territory of Col. Livingston's 10th Albany Militia Regiment. Apparently he was not the only Peter Plass living in the area. The Payroll of Capt. diel Rockefeller of the 10th Albany Militia Regiment shows a Peter Plass marched with Captain Rockefeller to join the Continental Army facing Burgoyne on Sept. 15, 1777. The Payroll also shows a Peter M. Plass served May 10 to May 18, 1777 in Rockefeller's Company during the Tory disturbances in Dutchess, Livingston Manor and Claverack. This places two men named Peter Plass at the Battles of Saratoga on Sept. 19, 1777 and Oct. 7, 1777, one in the 4th NY Regiment of the Continental Line and a second in the 10th Albany Militia Regiment.)