DECLARATION

 

State of New York

County of Albany

 

       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 United States, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated:

        That he was enrolled in the militia in the year 1776 in Capt. William Winne’s Company in Col. Henry Quackenbush’s Regiment in the Brigade whereof Abraham Ten Broeck Esquire was Brigadier General - That his first service was on a tour to Saratoga, together with the Albany Regiment under the command of Col. Jacob Lansing Junr. and remained there for at least three or four weeks, and until he was discharged – that in the year 1777 this declarer hired to go on the 30th, April with five others of Captain Winne’s men to go as Substitutes for classes to march to Fort Edward under the command of Captain Henry Oathout and after remaining there four weeks he was discharged and returned home – The same year he went to Saratoga at the time General Burgoyne and his army came down from the northward and continued in service with the army until he capitulated and until the declarer was discharged and returned home, but he never received a written discharge on any occasion.  That in the course of the Revolutionary War he has been in service for a period of no less than eighteen months.

        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 the agency of any state.

Sworn and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid

J. G. Wasson – Clerk                                               John D. Winne

 

 

County of Albany

        Before the Justice Court of the City of Albany.  In open Court personally appeared before me Isaac Van Wie of the Town of Bethlehem aged Seventy Seven year on the 14th of June last, who is to this court well known as a person of strict truth and veracity who being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that he is well and intimately acquainted with John D. Winne who hath subscribed and sworn to the within declaration and hath know him for sixty year last part and who having resided within five miles of each other - that he this Deponent hath heard the declaration of the said John D. Winne as written on the other side read, and the he doth verily believe from what he himself knows of his own knowledge and from the information of other, that the fact therein detailed are true in all the particulars.

Sworn and Subscribed to the 20th Sept. 1832

John G. Wasson – Clerk                                  Isaac Van Wie

 

 

 

State of New York

City and County of Albany

        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. Henry Oathout’s Company as stated in my original declaration as a Sergeant and Clerk to the Captain – In the same year 1777 I was called out in the Company of Militia commanded by Capt. William Winne and went with said Company under his command first to Fort Edward and afterwards joined the Army at Saratoga then under the command as I understood and believe of Genl. Schuyler – I think it was in the month of May or June, that I went to Fort Edward and Saratoga as above stated – I recollect that it was before harvest – I was in the service as a private in said Company commanded by Capt. William Winne, from that time until after the capture of Burgoyne’s army in October 1777 when I was discharged.

        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

 

 

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