PENSION: Benjamin Race; Copake, Columbia co., NY Submitted by Donald. E. Lampson, Apr. 27, 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/ *********************************************************************** State of New York} Columbia County }Ss. City of Hudson } On the tenth day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in Open Court before the justice of the Justices Court in and for the city of Hudson now sitting & being a Court of Record having a Clerk & Seal, Benjamin Race now a resident of the Town of Copake in the County of Columbia and State of New York, aged eighty years last April, 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 seventh one thousand eight hundred and thirty two. That he entered the service of the United States under the following officers & served as herein stated. First, in the spring of seventeen hundred and seventy five. There was an alarm that the enemy were about to make an attack upon the City of Scknectedy and while deponent lived in what was then called the Town of Livingston Manor , the Militia were called out, and deponent entered the Company Commanded by Capt. Kline as a private. This Company was in the Regiment commanded by Col. Livingston. Samuel Ten Broeck was Major and Robert Van Rensselear General. Deponent marched with this Company of Capt. Kline to Schenectady. While there the Indians made their appearance at Dueanesbush and deponent was one who were ordered to that place to repell them. Deponent remained at Duanesburg and Schenectady about two months. The Company was then discharged and returned home. In the year seventeen hundred seventy six deponent again volunteered and marched in the Company commanded by Captain Kline to Half Moon Point & Stillwater, remained at those two places three months, this year. The next year, 1777, early in Mar., according to the best of his recollection, he volunteered in the Company of Capt. Kline and by him was appointed a Corporal of said Company, marched to Albany & from there to Fort Edward, continued then and at Lake George for three months. Then returned home with the Company. ******* ******** five days there was an alarm ****** Captain Kline's Company again volunteered and deponent again entered his Company as a Corporal and marched to Fort Edward and from there to Bennington. Arrived there four days after the Battle between the British Troops under Col. Baum and the Americans under Genl. Stark. From Bennington deponent marched with the American Troops to Fort Edward. Deponent was discharged at Fort Edward and went home. It was late ****** Fall before he got home. This last tour deponent says he was out all of five months, making the whole time deponent was out this year Eight months. Deponent says he was at Fort Edward when Burgoyne surrendered Deponent further says that in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six, in the Fall of the year, he marched as a private in the Company commanded by Captain Elliot to Fishkill. Remained there about two months. While there helped to build the Barracks. Deponent says during the War he was many different times after the Tories ***** ** being out with Capt. Elliot at sometime two weeks. This was at the time Capt. Conyn was taken. At another time he was out with Capt. Robertson three or four weeks. In answer to the Interrogatories put to him deponent **** ****** ***** says he was born in April seventeen hundred & fifty two in the Town of Livingston Manor, now Town of Ancram in said County of Columbia and State of New York. Deponent has no record of his age that he can now find. Deponent resided when he was called into service in said town of Livingston Manor, now called Copake in said County of Columbia, which is the adjoining town to Ancram and within one or two miles of where deponent was born. Deponent also says he entered the Service as a volunteer, never went as a substitute for any person. Deponent can not now recollect the names of any of the Regular Officers. Van Rensselear was the General. Livingston was the Colonel, and Samuel Ten Broeck was the Major. Deponent has no recollection of ever having any written discharge. Deponent never had a ***** ********. Deponent is acquainted with John A. Decker, Adam ****** & ******* ****** who are his neighbors , and he thinks they will certify as to deponents character for truth & then testify of his services as a soldier of the revolution. And this deponent further declares that he knows of no living witnesses of his said Service except Wilhelmus Turner, who went with deponent in Capt. Kline's Company in the year 1777 when Burgoyne was taken and Androus A. Race, who was with deponent at Fishkill about two months and at the north, Half Moon Point & Stillwater. Deponent has no documentary testimony. That he hereby relinquishes all claims to any pension or annuity except the present. Deponent's name is not pension rolls of the agency of any State. his /s/ Benjamin X Race mark Sworn to and subscribed the Day and year aforesaid. /s/ Hiram Wilbur, Clerk (Certifications ommitted.) _____________________________________________________________ State of New York} Columbia County }Ss.: City of Hudson } 21st day of December in the year 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Justice of the Justice's Court in and for the City of Hudson in said County of Columbia and State aforesaid, which Court is now sitting, Benjamin Race, a resident of the town of Copake in said County of Columbia, being duly sworn again ****** says he is the identical Benjamin Race who did on the tenth day of August last make the foregoing declaration before the above mentioned court in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the United States passed on the seventh day of June 1832, and the said Benjamin Race doth now upon his oath (affirmed?) make the following additional declaration in order the more fully, definitely & explicitly to satisfy the War Department of his said service in the Revolutionary War and answer to the fifth Interrogatory and the Ninth Interrogatory in the brief from the War Department, deponent says. That he was, according to the best of his recollection, the first part of the month of May 1775 that he was first called out in Capt. Kline's Company as stated in his declaration, and that he was in the service this tour two months and in the fore part of July he was discharged at Albany & returned home. That it was as near as he can recollect in the month of June 1776 that he took the second tour in in Capt. Kline's Company & went to Half Moon & Stillwater & remained in in service this tour three months, and in the month and in the month of September of the same year he was discharged at Stillwater, returned home. He further says that the next tour was in the month of March 1777, & he believes the first part of March of this year. He went in Capt. Kline's Company and at this time he was a Corporal in that Company. Marched to Albany and Fort Edward as is stated in his declaration. There he remained in service this tour three months and was then in the month of June of same year discharged at Fort Edward, and returned home. Deponent further says that shortly after he got home, and he thinks the last of June, in 1777 he went again in Capt. Kline's company as stated in his declaration, and he was discharged the very last of November. That he was out this tour five months & was discharged at Half Moon . Deponent further says that the service at Fishkill as mentioned in his declaration ****** his memory at the time he made the declaration until after the other services were taken down. That it was about the first of October of 1776 that he went to Fishkill and was discharges the first of December, having served there two months. That he was out after Tories at least six weeks. Deponent says that he is very infirm and ********. Never goes from home. That there is no clergyman, nor has there been for many years from within eight or ten miles from where deponent resides.That there is no one clergyman with whom deponent is acquainted who can testify for him or give any *********. That by reason of his old age and great infirmity & consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the exact day he was discharged or entered the service, but he is positive he was out as above stated& that he served in service of the United States during the Revolution more than sixteen and a half months. his /s/ Benjamin X Race mark Certification of the foregoing by the Clerk of the Court omitted.)