Morrison's Pensions
Pension Application for Mattherw DeGarmo or De Garnio
S.2359
State of New York
County of Schenectada
On the 20th
day of June 1839, personally appeared before me the undersigned, one of the
Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Schenectada,
Mathew DeGarmo of the Town of Northumberland in the County of Saratoga, aged
seventy nine years and being duly sworn doth declare and say in order to obtain
the benefit of the provisions of the Act of Congress passed 7 June 1832, that
he was born in the city of Albany in said state, but has no record of his birth
that during the Revolutionary War or after its commencement he resided in the
County and town of Schenectada and was enrolled in the company of militia commanded
by Captain Jelles Fonda in the Regiment Colonel Abraham Wemple and he at times
served in the company of Militia in Said Regiment commanded by Captain Jesse
Van Slyck.
Early in
the spring of the year 1777, being the same year in which the British under
Burgoyne surrendered at Stillwater this declarent was duly enlisted into the
company of Batteaumen commanded by Captain Tunis Fisher and served therein
transporting stores from Albany to Saratoga, Lake George and other places during
the said year until said company was discharged late in the fall, making in
all a service of not less than ten months.
In the month
of January 1778 he enlisted again in the department of the Quarter Master General
at Saratoga under the immediate charge of Colonel Christopher Yates Deputy
Quarter Master General for the Northern Department of the United States of
America and served for the term of five months at Saratoga and places adjacent. And
this declarant thinks that the subordinate officers under who he served in
this department were Jacob Vrooman and Nicholas Veeder.
In the fall
of the year 1778 he this declarant engaged in an expedition up the Mohawk River
with a detachment of like militia from said regiment and served in this time
for the term of five or six days.
In the fall
of 1779 he marched with a detachment to Fort Hunter and other places west along
the valley of the Mohawk under the command of Captain Ahasures Marselus for
the like short term of five or six day. He served with a like detachment
in pursuit of the noted Tory Joseph Bitteys at the neighborhood of the Helderburgh
for a scouting party to Saratoga.
When he
this deponent lived at Schenectada as aforesaid he engaged in an expedition
to the Upper Fort of Schoharie for the term of one month under the command
of Capt. Walter B. Vrooman and George Passage Sergeant Major for said one month
he served on his own account and in his own behalf and two weeks for one Garret
Van Schaick, said last named tour of two weeks and performed two weeks after
the first named tour of one month to wit in the fall of the year 1779.
An this
declarant also testifying that during the last two years of said war he served
at Saratoga under Captain Jabez Gage in several short tours to Fort Edward
and other places, which he is now unable to particularize.
And this
declarant further says that during the said War of the Revolution he was acquainted
with the following named officers besides those already mentioned, viz. Captains
Wasson, Vrooman, Oothout and many others of the Schenectada and Albany Militia
and also with Captain Peters, Peck, Vernon and other of the Batteauman, Carpenters?
and etc.
(Signed) Matthew DeGarmo
Subscribed and Sworn this 25th day of June 1839 before me the said Judge. John
Silus Judge.
Letter included in the pension file.
February 5, 1932.
Susan DeGarmo Hayner
Stillwater, New York
Dear Madam:
Reference
is made to your letter relative to Matthew DeGarmo, a soldier of the Revolutionary
War.
The data
furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in pension claim S.23599
based on the service of Matthew DeGarmo in that war and is the record of the
only soldier of that name found on the Revolutionary War records of this office.
Mathew De’Garmo
or Matthew DeGarmo, was born in Albany, new York, date of his birth and names
of his parents not shown. It is stated that the Dutch for Matthew is
Tawes or Tewes.
While a
resident of Schenectady, Schenectady County, New York, he enlisted after the “commencement
of the Revolution”, dates not given, and served in Captains Jellis Fonda’s
and Jesse VanSlyck’s Companies, Colonel Abraham Wempel’s New York
Regiment; he enlisted about January 1, 1777 or in the spring of 1777, and served
about ten months or one year under Captain Tunis Fisher in the bateaux service,
transporting stores from Albany to Saratoga and Lake George; from January 1778,
he served five months under deputy Quartermaster General, Christopher Yates,
and in the fall of that year, was on a tour of about six days to the Mohawk
River; in the fall , 1779, he was on a tour of six days under Captain Ahasures
Marselus to Fort Hunter, was on a scouting expedition to Saratoga and served
one month in Captain Walter B. Broman’s Company, Colonel Duboys’ New
York Regiment; during the last two years of the war, he served on several short
tours under Captain Jabez Gage, no details of these services given.
He was allowed
pension on his application executed June 25, 1839, while a resident of Northumberland,
Saratoga County, New York. He was then seventy-nine years of age. He
resided in said Northumberland in 1844.
It is not
stated that the soldier was married.
In order
to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of the
person paid, and possibly the date of death of the above named soldier, you
should apply to the Records Division, General Accounting Office, Washington,
D.C. citing all of the following data: Mathew DeGarmo, certificate #32152,
issued June 8, 1844, rate $34.55 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, act of
June 7, 1832, New York Agency.
Very truly yours,
A.D. Hiller,
Assistant to Administrator