Morrison's Pensions
Pension Application for William Glasier
S13675
State of New York
Washington County SS
On this first
day of June 1820 personally appeared in open court (vizt) the Court of Common
Pleas of the said County of Washington being a Court of Record. William
Glazier aged Sixty Eight years, a resident in the Town of Hartford in the
said County of Washington who first being duly sworn according to law doth on
his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows. He
served in the Massachusetts Regiment Commanded by Colonel Ichabod Alden in Captain
Benjamin Harrens Company during three years and that he made his original declaration
to obtain his certificate for his pension on the sixth day of May 1818 and obtained
his certificate the number of which is 13.675 and he has drawn his pension up
to the fourth day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift,
sale or in any manner disposed of any property or any part thereof
with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions
of an Act of Congress entitled an Act to provide for certain persons engaged
in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary was
passed on the 18th day of March 1919 and that I have not nor has any person
in trust for me any property or securities other than what is contained in
the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. [part missing] occupation
is farming and I am a day laborer and beside I have no ?
(Signed with his mark) William Glazier
Schedule
A Schedule
of the Estate of William Glazier late a private in the Army of the Revolution
and a Pensioner of the United States.
Real Estate
I have none. Income I have none but the pension from my country.
My Personal
Estate (exclusive of any necessary clothing and Bedding) consists of one pine
table, one pine cupboard, three pine pails, one small churn, one poor pine chest,
five chairs, one linen wheel, one woolen wheel, one small ? kettle, one tea kettle,
one spices, one ?, one earthen tea pot, seven earthen plates, four earthen bowls,
one earthen milk pan?, three knives, three forks, four spoons, one ? shovel,
one ?, debts due by me twenty four dollars and ninety seven cents. I have
one cow. My family consists of my wife, Noccner? Aged fifty five years,
sick and infirm and has been under doctors care for fifteen years, unable to
work, my daughter Louisa aged fifteen years who dies my housework, my son Henry
aged Thirteen years who from his youth is unable to do much. I am myself
aged sixty eight years and afflicted with a rupture in the groin which disqual[
record ends here]
To the Surrogate of the County of Washington
The petition
of Henry Glasier of the town of Hebron County of Washington respectively sheweth
That one William Glasier then an inhabitant of the town of Hebron -in the county
of Washington died in the town of Hebron at his Residence on or about the 26th
day of June last that at the time oi his death he Was an inhabitant of the county
of Washington that he left Lucena Glasier his widow and Archibald, Submit Blowen & Lovisa,
Henry^ Glasier your Petitioner - his children him surviving and left
no will as far as your petitioner has heard, or been able to discover, that
in the opinion of your petitioner the whole of the personal property left
by the said William Glasier will not amount in value to more than One hundred.
Your petitioner prays that letters of administration may be grante by the
Surrogate according to law - That your petitioner is a Son of the said deceased
HENRY GLASIER
December 9th 1830
County of Washington )
Surrogate Court )
On this
ninth day of December 1830 personally appeared before me the subscriber in
open court, Henry Glasier the above named petitioner, and made oath that
the facts contained in said petition were true
Subscribed & sworn before ) HENRY
GLASIER
me the day and year aforesaid)
SAML STANDISH JR.
Surrogate