PENSION: Jacob Pulver (Polver); Taghkanic, 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} Columbia County }Ss. City of Hudson } On the 25th day of July 1820 personally appeared in open court being a court of record called the Mayors Court held in and for the City of Hudson Jacob Pulver of the Town of Taghkanic in the County aforesaid, aged Sixty Six years, a shoemaker by trade, infirm and unable to labour, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 and the 1st of May 1820, that he the said Jacob Pulver enlisted for the term of during the War, he believes early in the month of April 1777 in the State of New York in the Company commanded by Captain Peter Van Rensselear in the Regiment commanded by Colonel James Livingston in the Line of the State of New York on the Continental establishment. That he continued to serve in said corps until about the month July 1778 when he was conditionally discharged from the Service at German Flatts in the State of New York, he having hired James as a substitute to whom he paid two hundred and fifty dollars, and who was accepted, but on condition that I should return to the regiment in case said Banks should desert and not serve out the term. But I was never required to rejoin the regiment, and I have always understood and believe that Banks served out the term as a faithful soldier. He has now no other evidence in his power of his services except for the affidavits of Zacheriah Haltzsapple, John Pulver and Nicholas Sharts Junior, and William Halenbeek, and, in furtherance of the Act of the first 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 I have not since that time by gift or sale in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with the intent thereby 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 and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war, passed on 18th day of march 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property, securities, contracts or debts due to me , nor I have any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, and by me transcribed. /s/ Jacob Pulver Sworn to and declared on this 25 day of July 1820 before me. /s/ J. D. Monell, Recorder Real Estate none and have had none for near twenty years Personal property as follows One cow $12 1 shovel & tongs 1-50 Three sheep 3 3 kettles 1 tea **** } 6 old chairs 2 1 Griddle small pot } 1 table 2 & some other articles of } 5 1 pine chest 1 little value. } 5 table spoons } 6 tea spoons } 1 6 cups & saucers } 1 (illegible) 2 23 $29.50 My family consists of myself aged 66 years ----Wife_______ aged 63 - Do. My two daughters aged 18 years each. I have had fourteen daughters. Both myself and Wife are feable, and could not subsist ourselves but for the assistance of my two daughters and my neighbors. /s/ Jacob Pulver (Various Court Certifications and sworn statements omitted, except for those of Zachariah Haltzapple and Nicholas Sharts Junior below. ) State of New York } County of Columbia }Ss. City of Hudson } Zachariah Haltzapple of the Town of Claverack in the County of Columbia aforesaid being duly sworn doth depose and say - That he was in the same Company in which the aforesaid Jacob Pulver served; that he well knows Jacob Pulver and believes that he served more than nine months before his discharge as aforesaid. He also says that he is a pensioner, but has no interest in the application of said Jacob And further sayth not. his /s/ Zachariah X Haltzapple mark Sworn this 25th day of July 1820 before me /s/ John Talman, Mayor. City of Hudson} Ss. Nicholas Sharts Junior of the Town of Hillsdale - in the County of Columbia being duly sworn doth depose and say - That he enlisted at the same time and place & in the same Company with the said Jacob Pulver and was discharged from the army nearly at the same time. He also having furnished a substitute, and further that he has no doubt that the said Jacob Pulver was in the service as aforesaid more than nine months, to wit, ten months. his /s/ Nicholas X Sharts mark Sworn this 25th day of July 1820- before me /s/ John Talman, Mayor [Note: This pension file evidences a Jacob Pulver served in Capt. Peter Van Rensselear's Company of Col. James Livingston's NY Regiment of the Continental Line from April 1777 to July 1778. The Muster Roll of that Company in Fernow, at pp. 236-7, lists Jacob Pulver as Fifer, Zachariah Holsapple as Sergt., and Nicholas Sheets (Sharts) as a Private. This Regiment was at Saratoga, the Muster Roll covers the time the Battles of Saratoga. The Regiment was known as Col. Livingston's 1st Canadian Regiment of the Continental Line (credited to NY), and also Col. Livingston's NY Additional Continental Battalion of the Continental line. It appears from Fernow, New York In The Revolution, at p. 450 that Jacob Pulver also served as Sergeant in Captain Houseread's Company in the 10th Albany Militia Regiment (Livingston Manor). It probably is the same person. His prior service in the Continental Line obviously make him a candidate for Sergeants rank in the militia. His service in the militia was immaterial to his application under the 1818 and 1820 Acts for a pension. So it was not necessary to mention it. The name Jacob Polver appears in Roberts, New York In The Revolution at p. 118 as an enlisted man in the 10th Albany Militia Regiment. The name Jacob Pulver appears in Roberts at p. 232 on the Land Bounty Rights List for the 10th Albany Militia Regiment. It is likely that he also was in the 10th Albany Militia Regiment prior to his enlistment as a Continental is April 1777 because of his age. His pension file indicates that he was approximately twenty three years old at the time.]