Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.

State of New York

Tioga County

        On this 24th day of August in the year of our Lord on thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared before me John R. Drake a judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Tioga aforesaid Richard Pangburn a resident of the town of Owego in the county and state aforesaid aged Eighty Three years on the 22 day of last May who being first 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, 7, 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated – His Captains name was Cornelius Sanford, who lived in Albany in the State of New York.  His Lieutenant name was Peter Becker, or Henry Becker, he does not recollect which – One was Lieutenant the other was Ensign.  They both lived in Schoharie in the state aforesaid.  He does not recollect who his Colonel or his Major was nor his adjutant.  His General was General Schuyler.  He lived at the time he enlisted about 12 or 14 miles west from Albany – The place was called Nisket-haugh – it is now called Bethlehem – He enlisted for three month.  It was at the first beginning of the war, but he does not recollect the year – It was in the month of May, but does not recollect the day of the month – He was stationed at first in the barracks at Albany – He staid there a short time while the company was collecting together and from there the company was marched to Saratoga Landing.  There he remained with the Lieutenant and ensign and fourteen others of the company and the captain with the rest of the Company went on to Ticonderoga – While he was at Saratoga Landing he and the others were employed in the transporting of military stores in the Bateaux from Stillwater on the Hudson River up to Saratoga Landing, and from Saratoga Landing by land around the falls, and there again in Batteaux up the river to Fort Miller – Among the articles they transported was a large chain in separate pieces – Two links and a swivel of the chain were as much as two, by running a handspike through the link could conveniently carry on board of the bateaux.  He remained there employed till the expiration of his three months -   There his lieutenant gave him permission to go home.  The Captain was not there again while he stayed – And when he left, the Lieutenant gave him no written orders, he gave the Sergeant Joseph Salisbury a signature for the benefit of all of them – Salisbury and the men all came away together – He was in no sic during these months – But troops were going on north frequently during the time.  Thinks some Jersey troops or Pennsylvania troops went on by during that time.  They went on to Ticonderoga or beyond to join General Schuyler who was in that quarter at the time.  He states that General Montgomery was killed away off in that quarter and his wife came back, and that he carried his wife down in a bateau from Saratoga Landing to Stillwater on her return and he further states that after he returned home from his three month enlistment aforesaid, he was drafted and entered the service under the following named officers – His Captain’s name was William Winnes or Winne. – The Captain lived at Jericho about 14 or 15 miles below Albany near the Hudson River.  His Lieutenant name was Jeremiah or Jerry Hogan, and live somewhere near the Captain – don’t recollect that they had any ensign.  His Colonel’s name was Quackenboss or Quackenbush – does not recollect his Christian name – does not recollect any of the other first officers except General Tenbroeck, and his christen name he does not recollect. – After they were drafted the Company marched to Saratoga and there he was engaged in procuring stone and timber to build a barracks.  This place was some miles below Saratoga Landing.  He does not recollect the year in which he was drafted nor the month.  He recollects that it was warm weather at the time and thinks it was the same season that he was dismissed from his three month enlistment before mentioned.  He does not recollect when he was discharged, but it was before the weather came on, and he estimated the time that he was stationed at the last mentioned station about six weeks.  There were other militias stationed there at the time from along the Hudson River.  One long row of framed barracks was built while he was there.  There was no barracks there when he first went there with the company and there had been nothing done towards building there.  When they finished the barrack they all came away.   He does not recollect any other Colonel there but Colonel Quackenbush and thinks all the troops were all under his command.  He lived when he was drafted in the same place where he first enlisted.  He was discharged at Saratoga after the barracks were finished.  He marched through Albany and Half Moon and Stillwater in going on to Saratoga – General Tenbroeck sometime came there while they were building the barracks.  General Tenbroeck lived in Albany.  He further states that some two or three years after they built the barrack at Saratoga - He was drafted again and entered the service under the following named officers.  His Captains name was John Van Wie, and his Lieutenants name Mathias or Mattris Flansburgh.  Don’t recollect that he had any ensign – Thinks his Colonel was Colonel Dubois – don’t recollect his Christian name.  The company collected at the Middle Fort, Old Schoharie, in the State of New York.  Here he remained about 4 – 5 weeks and then he had a man to take his place.  Don’t recollect his name – he was a stranger – There were a good many other troops there besides the company the he belonged to.  The captain accepted his substitute and discharged him.  This was in the summer but he does not know what year.  It was before General Burgoyne was taken but he does not recollect how long before.  General Schuyler at this time was away to the north.  He has seen General Schuyler.  The General lived a little out of Albany. About three quarters of a mile.  He also has a house at Saratoga, where they built the barracks – And he further states that after this he was again drafted and entered the service under the following named officers, to wit, Captain Philip Luke and Lieutenant Peter Winnes or Winder, and thinks his ensigns name was John Winne.  His Colonel’s name was Quackenbush the same one under whom he served at the building of barracks at Saratoga. – His General was General Schuyler.  After he was drafted the company was assembled at Albany and marched from there through Half Moon, Stillwater, Saratoga and Fort Miller to Fort Edward.  – There they joined General Schuyler.  He knew at Fort Edward Col. Van Rensselaer.  He went out on a scout with him once in the woods.  He thinks he was stationed there eight or nine weeks – but does not recollect the exact time.  There were a great many troops at Fort Edward at the time.  There were some from New England there and some from down the Hudson and other places – He does not recollect what year this was in, but he recollects that it was in the fall of the year. - And that it was the same fall that Burgoyne was taken, and a little before that event.  While at Fort Edward Colonel Van Rensselaer went out with a scout in which he was a soldier.  That they remained out in the woods all night and the next day they discovered from a high ground that the barracks and board houses put up for temporary shelter for the troops were all torn down.  They also saw from the same place a movement among the troops at Fort Edward.  On discovering this Van Rensselaer marched his scouting party directly to Fort Edward where they found most of the troops gone down the river.  His party immediately embarked onboard of a raft constructed of board and timber which they found already made and set off down the river to Snooks Kill and there the troops landed.  He remained here about a day and was there sent home sick.

While he was at Snooks Kill the enemy entered Fort Edward.  General Schuyler and the army went on to Saratoga as he understood, and not many weeks after this he heard of the taking of Burgoyne.  He does not recollect what month it was when he left, but thinks it was in the fall.  He thinks it must have been early in the fall as there were green leaves on the trees in the wood when he went out in the scout with Van Rensselaer and in going down the river he recollects that the water was warm.  And he further states that after his he was not in the service except in some irregular excursion against the Tories who committed depravations upon the county a few miles out of Albany – and he further states that he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whom testimony he can procure who can testify to his service.  That he never had any written discharge.  That he has a family record of ages and in which his name appears – But he does not recollect the year of his birth – The record he has left at home about three mile from Owego where he now is – He was born in the Month of May the 22nd day – He was born in the town of Woodbridge in the State of New Jersey.  He does not recollect the County – He was living at Nisket-haugh (now Bethlehem) in the county of Albany and the State of New York at the time he first entered the service and continued to reside there till after the Revolutionary War and soon after that war he removed to Cobleskill in Schoharie County State of New York and lived there about 8 year and then moved into the town of Schenectady in Schenectady county, New York and lived there about twenty years and then he moved into the town of Owego where he now lives.  He knows in the town Mason Webster, Ira Puffer, Ephraim Wood Esq., Ezra Fergusson and others.  He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any other state.

Sworn and Subscribed this

24th day of August 1832                                                          Richard Pangburn (his mark)

John Drake – Judge

Tioga Court of Pleas

State of New York

 

State of New York

Tioga County

Benjamin Howe and Ephraim Wood being duly sworn do severally depose and say that they reside in the Town of Owego in the county and state aforesaid and that they are well acquainted with Richard Pangburn who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration.  That they believe him to be eighty three years of and upwards and is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that they concur in that opinion

Subscribed and Sworn

This 24th day of August                          Ephraim Wood and Benjamin Howe

1832 before me

John R. Drake – Judge

Tioga Court of Pleas – New York

 

Transcribed by Charles F. Luke
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