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
Captains 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 dont recollect that they had any ensign. His
Colonels 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. Dont recollect that he had
any ensign Thinks his Colonel was Colonel Dubois dont 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. Dont 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
Colonels 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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