DECLARATION
State of
On the first day of August 1832,
personally appeared in open court, before me the Justice Court of the City of
Albany now sitting John D. Winne a resident of the Town of Bethlehem in the
County of Albany and state of New York aged, on the 9th of October
next, Seventy Three years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on
his oat, 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
That he was enrolled
in the militia in the year 1776 in Capt. William Winne’s Company in Col.
Sworn and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid
J. G. Wasson – Clerk John
D. Winne
Before the Justice
Court of the City of
Sworn and Subscribed to
John G. Wasson – Clerk Isaac
Van Wie
State of
City and
Personally appeared
this 16th day of May 1833 before me Gerrit L. Dow the undersigned
Justice of the Peace in and for the said City and County John D. Winne of the
Town of Bethlehem in said County and applicant for a Pension under the act of
Congress of June 7th, 1832 who being duly sworn doth depose and say
that by reasons of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear
positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best
of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned before and in
the following grades: In the year 1776
for not less than four weeks – I served as a private in Captain William Winne’s
Company as mentioned in my original declaration – In the year 1777 for not less
than three weeks and I believe four weeks – I served in Capt.
I was in said service
according to the best of my recollection as last above stated for a period not
less than five months, as a private – In the (year) 1778 I was ordered out in
the Company of Militia commanded by Capt. William Winne and went to Schoharie
and was stationed at the Upper Fort, so called – I was in service on that
occasion as a private, not less than four weeks – I was there discharged and
returned home to my residence in Bethlehem.
I afterwards served in
the company of Militia commanded by Capt. John Van Wie – I think it was in the
year 1779 – It was in the year in which Schoharie was burnt by the British and
Indians and Johnston and Brandt – I went with said Company Schoharie – It was
in the fall, I think in the month of October – I served on that occasion as a
private for more than three weeks and was then discharged, and returned home –
The militia stationed at Schoharie at that time were commanded by Col Volkert
Veeder and Lieut. Col Barent Staats and the company to which I belonged was
under their command.
I was also frequently
called out as a Militiaman or private at other times during the Revolutionary
War and served as such in the Company commanded by Capt. Wm. Winne, in which I
was regularly enrolled in the county of Albany, but am not able to state the
different periods that I served as last mentioned, but am confident that they
amounted in the whole to not less than
ten month, beside the periods above particularly specified making in the whole
a period of not less than eighteen month and one week, and for such services I
claim a pension.
Sworn and Subscribed this
John D. Winne
16th day of May 1833 before me
Gerrit L. Dow – Justice Peace
Transcribed by Charles F. Luke