PENSION: Philip Ringsdorph; 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/ *********************************************************************** (Declaration of July 28, 1832) State of New York} }Ss.: Columbia County } On this 28th day of July 1832 personally appeared before the Justices of the Justices Court of the City of Hudson , County aforesaid, in open Court, now sitting, Philip Ringsdorph, of Taghkanic in said County, aged eighty three 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 7th 1832. That he was born in Germany in Europe, was only four weeks old, as he was informed, when he embarked for this Country, & that he has always lived in Taghkanic aforesaid. That in the year 1776 he was called out in the militia Company of Capt. Rockefeller of East Camp, now Germantown. Samuel Ten Broeck was Major, but he has forgotten the Colonel's name. First marched to Albany. Thence to Schenctady. Thence to Balltown. Thence to Saratoga. Here he stayed two months, & was discharged on the coming in of regular troops. In about a year after he was ordered out again in a Company of Capt. Patrie, Regiment commanded by Major Ten Broeck. This Deponent drove a team with baggage for the Regiment. Marched first to Fort Edward, & while there he was ordered with his team to bring American stores from Lake George to Fort Edward & destroy what they could not save from the eneny. Several men were killed by Burgoyne's advance before they retreated. They retreated first to Fort Miller & there he was discharged after an absence three months. Soon afterwards he was ordered out under Capt. Rockefeller to go to Stillwater first(?) before the taking of Burgoyne, & after the surrender he was discharged. He was out a month at this time before said discharge. This deponent further says, that on recollection & on inquiry by the Court, that in the year 1775 or 76 he was ordered out in the Company of said Capt Rockefeller on an alarm raised by the ******** of Johnson with the Indians. That he marched to Johnstown. When the heard that the Indians were gone, & he returned home after an absence of two weeks. And this applicant further declares that he has no documentary evidence, that he has no living witness of his said service other than that of Major Samuel Ten Broeck, and Capt. Ten Broeck, whose Company belonged to the same Regiment. That he hereby relinquishes all claim to any pension except the present; that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State. His /s/ Philip X Ringstorph mark Subscribed & sworn to this Day & year aforesaid. /s/ Hiram Wilbur, Clerk (Note: The "Capt. Patrie" he refers to in his first tour in 1777 was Conradt Patrie, who apparently was put in charge of the drivers & guards of the wagons that were drafted from the Livingston Manor Militia in 1777 to serve with the Continental Army opposing Burgoyne's invasion. As indicated, he then served another tour in Capt. Diel Rockefeller's Company. His name is not in the Rockefeller payroll of the men who marched on Sept. 15th. So he must have been with the balance of the men in the Regiment who marched to the Army on Sept. 21st, Memoirs of William Smith, ed. by Sabine, Vol. II, pp. 210 - 211. This places him at the Second Battle of Saratoga, but not the First.) ____________________________________________________________ State of New York} }Ss.: Columbia County } On this 28th day of July 1832 personally appeared before me, one of the Justices of the Justices Court of the City of Hudson, out of Court, Leonard Ten Broeck, a resident of Clermont in said County, now Livingston (sic.), aged 79 years, who being duly sworn, says that in the Revolutionary War he was a Capt. of a Company in the Regiment commanded by Major Samuel Ten Broeck. That the above named Capt. Rockefeller commanded a Company in the same Regiment. & that he recollects distinctly that the above named applicant Philip Ringstorph was a soldier in said Rockefeller's Company: that the said Philip was out in the Militia service in said company in the year 1776 on an expedition to Saratoga as much as two months: and again in the year 1777, that said Philip was out on the expedition to Fort Edward & Stillwater as much as nine months; that he is well acquainted with said Philip, & has no doubt that he served more than he has stated, & further saith not. /s/ Leonard Ten Broeck Subscribed & sworn the day & year aforesaid before me. J.W. Fairfield, Justice aforesaid ____________________________________________________________ Columbia County } }Ss.: Town of Livingston} Samuel Ten Broeck of Livingston in said County , being duly sworn before me Charles Robison, one of the Justices of the Peace of said Town and County, and says that he is well acquainted with Philip Ringdorph, and that, to the best of his recollection, the said Philip was out on two ************ in the service of the Revolutionary years with him (then a Major). The first was to go in pursuit of Sir John Johnson 1n 1776. Went as far as Scnenactdy where information was received that Johnson was out of reach. Tarried there until next day when he then received orders from Gen. Schuyler to scour the woods north of Ballstown and went and performed the service, and went from there to Saratoga and remained there some time. From thence discharged. The second ************ was to Fort Edward where they were encamped a considerable length of time in 1777, and that the length of time Philip Ringsdorph served he does not recollect. And says that as to the veracity of Philip Ringstorph he considered him**** *** ******** ** to be believed. /s/ Samuel Ten Broeck Sworn to before me at Livingston the 28th day Of July 1832. /s/ Charles Robison, J. Peace.