REV WAR PENSION, TEWALT SWARTS, STARKEY, YATES CO., NY Copyright (c) 1999 by Susan Austin(susanaustin@hotmail.com). ************************************************************************ USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ************************************************************************ Rev. War Pension Application of Tewalt Swarts: ----------------------------------------------------- State of New York September 28, 1832 Yates County On the 28th day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open court before the power of the court of common pleas of the said County of Yates now sitting Tewalt Swarts a resident of the Town of Starkey in the County of Yates aged seventy seven years and upwards who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832. That he was born in Morris County in the State of New Jersey. That some time in the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven he believes he enlisted in a Brigade of Na_y and commanded by one Jonathan Pitney who was connected with the Army and with a waggon and four horses which belonged to his father, he ______ training for the American Army carrying supplies from ----burg and ---evends on ___ ____ Rivers to Morristown to Hacketstown and other places and in the service he continued a year and two months according to his present recollection and beliefs. Then after the above service he thinks he was drafted for one month and done duty for ____ ____at Elizabethtown under Captain Holbert whose Christian name is not remembered, one Joloinoy Midough was the Lieutenant, after this performed a month's service under Captain Prim at Stringfield--once he was drafted and called out for a month at Spotswood but did not stay this month out before being discharged, on another occasion he was called out to go against the Indians on the Delaware River but were finally discharged before reaching the river, and on different occasions was called out for ___ ___disc. again in a few days and his duty __ __his every claim is _______ to a pension annuity exc___/ ___/excecute and he declares that his name is not on this pension roll of any agency in any State--- Sworn to subscribed this I his 28 day September I Tewalt [(signed)< X >] Swarts 1832 I mark T. J. Nevins. Dep. Clerk I ------------------------------------------------------ We, Caleb Fulkerson + Baltes Swarts, residing in the town of Starkey in the County Yates do ____ make the ___ day and each is ___ that he is well acquainted with the afore named Tewalt Swarts, that he is a man of truth, and whose character is in all respects irreproachable and that said Baltes says that the said Tewalt Swarts is his Brother, that he knows that he the said Tewalt was engaged in the Revolutionary War in the waggon or baggage department but cannot say for what length of time. Sworn + Subscribed this I (signed) Caleb Fulkerson 28th day Sept 1832 I T. J. Nevins- Dep. Clerk I his Baltes (signed) < B > Swarts mark --------------------------------------------------- Brief in the case of Tewalt Swarattz (not dated) County of Yates in the State of New York Declaration before the court He is aged 77 Enlisted in 1777 for 1 year and 1 month service as a waggoneer under Gen. Pitney. Drafted for 1 month as a private under Capt. J. Holbert. Drafted for 1 month under Capt. Prim. Engaged in no battles. Entered the service in Morris Co., NJ. Statement supported by sworn witnesses. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? not connected as the regulations require. (signed) Dyer Castor, examining clerk ----------------------------------------------------- State of New York I S.S. County of Yates I On this 7th day of January 1852 before me a justice of the peace, duly authorized by law to administer oaths in and for the County and State aforesaid personally appeared Peter Sworts of Starkey, Yates County New York who being duly sworn declares and ___ that he is the son of Tevalt Sworts ___ deceased, the identical person who served in the Revolutionary War as a teamster. That the said Tevalt Sworts - died on the 8th day of July 1850 leaving no widow and following surviving children only viz. - Peter Sworts. That sometime during the life of Tevalt Sworts it is believed that he applied to the Pension Office at Wawshington under act 7 June 1832 and that he filed the proper proofs therein to Entitle him to the same, and, and that his claim was suspended or rejected and that ___ asks that the proofs in said office may be examined and the said pensions may now be granted the surviving child of said Tevalt Sworts. Sworn and subscribed before me I (signed) this 7th day of January 1852 I Peter Sworts James Holms I Justice of the Peace I ------------------------------------------------------ No notation that this pension was ever granted. Tewalt Swarts moved to Bennett's Settlement in 1811. ref: Hist. of Yates County. Sworts Family Lineage 7/15/80 Tewalt Swarts (name changed to Sworts in later years) was the son of Daniel Swarts and was born in Hamburg, New Jersey in the year 1755. His wife was Elizabeth Corselius born 1754 in New York City. ------------------------------------------------------ Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots: Volume 4 SWARTZ Tewalt Hillside Cem, Dundee, Yates Co NY 69 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ AIS New Jersey Census Index Year Surname Given County State Page Township/ Record Database ID# Name (s) Other Info. Type 1782 SWART TEWALT Middlesex NJ 010 S Amboy MARTax List NJ Early ID# NJS1a3061001 Census Index