PENSION: Maj. Samuel TenBroeck; Livingston, 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 State of New York} }Ss. Columbia County } On this 23rd day of July 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Justices of the Justices of the City of Hudson, County & State aforesaid Samuel Ten Broeck a resident of the Town of Livingston in said County, aged eighty six years, who , being duly sworn according to Law, makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress as per June 7th , 1832. That he was born in the Town of Claremont in said County, then Albany County, in --- 1745. That in the month of January 1776 he received a Commission of Major in the Militia of the state of New York which he held until the close of the War, when he was advanced regularly until he reached the rank of Brigadier General which he held until he was seventy years of age. Peter R. Livingston was Colonel in his regiment, but this applicant held the command. In 1776 he marched to Schenectady & there received orders from General Schuyler to --- the woods north of Schenectady & to east on to Saratoga. After about a month the Regiment was discharged & he returned home. In 1777 he again was ordered out to Fort Edward in the approach of Burgoyne. He marched --- Schaghticoke Landing, thence to Van Schaicks Island, thence to Bemis Heights or Stillwater. His Regiment on the day of the Battle then went out to reinforce, but the enemy retreated before he came up. He then crossed the River on a floating Bridge, & passed on to (Schuyler Mills?) & remained till Burgoyne surrendered, when his regiment was discharged. He thinks that during the two years he was in actual service with his troops ten full months - And that he was in all times in readiness for the service, & thinks he was during the war in actual service in his own County against the Tories, & elsewhere, a full term of two years or upwards. And he further declares that he has lost or cannot find his --- ---, & he has no documentary testimony, that he hereby relinquishes all claim to any ---- except the present, & his name is not on the pension roll of any State, that he has no person to testify to his services, except his Brother Leonard, whose affidavit is hereto annexed. /s/ Samuel Ten Broeck Subscribed and sworn to This Day and year as aforesaid. /s/ Hiram Wilbur, Clerk. State of New York } }Ss. Columbia County } On the day & year as aforesaid before the Court of Justices personally appeared in open court Leonard Ten Broeck, a resident of Livingston aforesaid and says that in the years 1776 & 77 he was Capt. under the said Applicant & knows by being always with him, that he, the said Samuel, was at Schenectady, Saratoga, Fort Edward, & such other places & in such other services as he, the said Samuel, has above testified to, & further saith not. /s/ Leonard Ten Broeck Subscribed & sworn to this Day as aforesaid, /s/ Hiram Wilbur, Clerk. [Affidavits and certifications of good character and veracity omitted.] (NOTE: For more details of Major Ten Broeck's service see his statements in the pension files of other veterans of Col. Livingston's Militia Regiment. In particular, see the file of his brother Capt. Leonard Ten Broeck.)