Morrison's Pensions
Pension Application for Jeremiah Loucks
W.20512
State of New York
Schoharie County SS
On this
fourth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty
three personally appeared in open court before the Honorable the court of common
pleas of the county of Schohaire and State of New York now sitting Jeremiah Loucks
a resident of the town of Middleburgh in the said County of Schoharie aged seventy
years 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 7th 1832.
That he resided
in that part of the State of New York now the Town of Middleburgh in the county
of Schoharie from the commencement until the close of the Revolutionary War. That
he was enrolled as a private soldier in the Militia in the State of New York
as early as the first day of May in the year 1779. That the Regiment & company
in which he was enrolled at the time of his enrollment was commanded by the following
named officers, Colonel Peter Vrooman, Lieutenant Col. Peter Zelie; Majors Thomas
Eckerson & Joseph Becker and Captain George Richtmyer. That he does
not recollect the names of the other officers. That he belonged to the
same Militia Regiment & company until the first day of May in the year 1783. That
the said Regiment & company were commanded by the above named officers during
that time. That from the said first day of May in the year 1779 until the
first day of May in the year 1783 he was very frequently on duty in the service
of the United States for short periods of from one day to one month at a time. That
he does not recollect the number of different times he was on duty. That
he was during most of those periods under the immediate command of the same officers
of the Regiments or company to which he belonged but which officer had the command
each time he cannot tell. That he does not recollect the exact time he
entered the service each or any of those periods nor the time when he left the
same nor how long he was engaged on duty each time. That he was not drafted,
a volunteer or substitute any of the above periods to his knowledge. That
he was ordered into the service by some officer of his company or Regiment and
entered the service in obedience to such order. That he marched from the
Middle Fort as near as he can recollect on the latter part the summer of the
year 1781 to the Little Lake at the head of the Delaware River. That he
was in a battle at this place under Captains Hazen & Hale with the Tories & Indians. That
he was in the Middle Fort in Schoharie when Schoharie burnt in the year 1780. That
he was frequently engaged in the Middle & Upper Forts in Schoharie on garrison
duty. That he was several times on duty into those parts of the State of
New York now the Counties of Green and Delaware. That he cannot tell when
he was engaged on duty each time. That a small part of riflemen under
Colonel Butler lay at Schoharie a short time after he commenced doing duty. And
the said Jeremiah Loucks saith that he is positive that he was engaged on duty
in the service of the United States as a private soldier from the said first
day of May in the year 1779 until the first day of May in the year 1783, at different
periods in the whole amounting to at least two years.
That he has
no documentary evidence of his services above set forth. That he never
received a written discharge from the service. That he has no record of
his age.
That he was
born in the Town of West Camp in the County of Ulster in the State of New York
where he resided eight years when he moved to that next of the State of New York
now the town of Middleburgh in the County of Schoharie where he has since resided.
He hereby
relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the persons
and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
(Signed) Jeremiah Loucks
Sworn to and
Subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court John Gebhard Jr. Clerk
We John Garrison
a Clergyman residing in the Town of Middleburgh in the County of Schoharie in
the State of new York and Freeman Stanton residing in the said Town of Middleburgh
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jeremiah Loucks who has sworn & subscribed
to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy years of age. That
he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been
a Soldier of the Revolution in that we concur in that opinion.
John Garrisson
Freeman Stanton.
And the said
court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and
after ??? the interrogations prescribed by the War Department. That the
above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And
the court further certifies that it appears to them that John Garretson who has
signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman. [The record ends here.]
State of New York
Schoharie County SS
On this
twenty ninth day of October, 1839, personally appeared before the Judges of
the Court of Oyer and Terminer, held in & for said county, Magdalene Loucks,
a resident of the Town of Middleburgh in said county aged seventy three years,
who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath make the following
declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act
of Congress, passed July 7, 1839, entitled “An act granting half pay
and pensions to certain widows”: That she is the widow of Jeremiah Loucks,
who was a private soldier in the Revolutionary War at various periods in each
year from the spring of 1779, to the fall of the year 1782; that he belonged
to Capt. Richtmyer’s Company in Col. Vroomans Regiment. That he
entered the service each time at the (now) town of Middleburgh in the county
of Schoharie, that the service chiefly consisted in Scouting, Keeping Garrison
and going out on alarms in and about the adjoining towns and sometimes out
of the county. She thinks he was sometimes commanded by Capt. Richtmyer
and sometimes by subalterns. She is unable to specify the number of times
he was called into the service, each year and she is also unable to state the
duration of each tour of service and the names of the officers who commanded
each time. That her husband the aforesaid Jeremiah Loucks applied for
a pension and died without obtaining it.
She further
declares that she was married to the said Jeremiah Loucks the 14th of September
in the year seventeen hundred and eighty two, and that her husband died the
aforesaid Jeremiah Loucks died on the 19th day of June 1834. That she
was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, that is to say, she
has no distinct recollection of his having been called into the service after
their marriage but the marriage took place previous to the first of January,
seventeen hundred and ninety four viz at the time above stated.
(Signed with her mark) Magdalene Loucks
Sworn and
subscribed on the day and year above written in open court before me, Wm.
M. Holton, Clerk of Schoharie County.
State of New York
Schoharie County SS
I George
A. Lintner, pastor of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church of the town and county
of Schoharie and state aforesaid do certify that on an examination of the register
of marriages of said church. I find therein recorded the marriage of
Jeremiah Laux and Magdalena Bellinger in these words, “Anno. Seventeen
hundred and eighty two den fourteen sep. Jeremiah Loux and Magdalene Bellinger” and
further that the above extract is a true copy of the record with the exception
of the date which is expanded on the record in four legible figured as follows, “Anno.
1782, deu? 14 Sep. Jeremias Laux and Madgalena Bellinger.”
I George
A. Lintner above named do despose and say that I am pastor of the church above
named and that the foregoing is a true extract from the record of said church
with the exception above mentioned as certified by me. (Signed) G. A.
Lintner
Subscribed
and Sworn this 13th day of November 1839 before me. David Mills, Justice of
the power?
I certify
that at the end of the name Magdalina in the 16 and 18th lines above there
was an error? before sworn to which made the names “Magdalena” as
it should be to agree with the record. David Milles, Justice of the
Power?