Morrison's Pensions
Pension Application for Jacob H. Walrath, (1) Corporal
R11093 and R11904
State of New York
Montgomery County
On this
eighth day of November A.D. 1842 personally appeared before Hon Stephen Yates
a judge of Montgomery County Courts of the degree [?] of the Counsellor in
the supreme court Jacob H. Walrath, a resident of the Town of St. Johnsville
County of Montgomery and state aforesaid aged eighty four years on the 17th
day of November last past who first being 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
entered the service of the United States in the spring of 1776 and served first
under Captain John Breadbeck in Col. Jacob Klock’s (2) Regiment and General
Herkimer’s Brigade two months and a half at Stone Arabia and Oswagatchie.
That in
the next campaign 1777 he served under the same officers as above stated
as a corporal in the militia in the said Capt Bradbecks company and was stationed
in Fall Hill and German Flatts until the month of August of said year when
he was ordered to march to the relief of Fort Stanwix that he marched by
the way of the Mohawk River and Herkimer to Oriskany at which latter place
a battle was fought between the militia under General Herkimer and a large
party of British and Indians and that he was wounded in the right shoulder
in said Battle of Oriskany by a musket ball which was not extracted until several
years afterwards and that he served during this campaign three months.
That the
next service rendered by him as corporal in the militia under Capt Bradbeck
was at Palatine and Johnstown the length of time he served during this campaign
of 1778 was one month and a half. That in the next campaign he served
he thinks under Capt Van Slyke (3)about one month at Stone Arabia and that
he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of but one person living
at this time whose testimony he can procure and who was also in the same
battle in which he was wounded and who can testify to some of his services
and whose affidavit is hereunto annexed.
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 and he further testifies that the first interrogatory mentioned in
the form that he was born in Palatine district then (Tryon county) now Montgomery
county New York on the 17th day of November 1758 To The second he testifies
that he had a record of his age until recently but that it is now lost or
destroyed.
To the Third
that when called into service he was living at the place where he was born
as above stated and that he has since the Revolutionary War lived in the
same county Montgomery and lives now in the Town of St. Johnsville in the county
aforesaid. 4th That he was called into service as a volunteer or went when
ordered by his officers to the 5th he answers in the beginning as to the
names of the officers to this 6th he testifies that he never received a discharge
from service to the 7th the names of some persons to whom I am known in my
present neighborhood and who can testify as to my character for truth and
veracity and he belief of my services as a soldier of the Revolution are named
in the following certificate.
(Signed) Jacob H. Walrath
State of New York
Montgomery County
Subscribed & Sworn
before me this 8th day of November 1842.
Stephen Yates, Judge of Montgomery County Court or the degree[?] of Counsellors
in the Supreme Court.
United States of America
Territory of Wisconsin
Racine County
On this
twenty-first day of June A.D. 1847, personally appeared before the undersigned
one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county. Jacob H. Walrath
a resident of the Town of Raymond in said county and territory aged ninety-one
years 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
27, 1832.
That he
entered the service of the United States under the following named officers
and served as herein stated. That on or about the fifteenth day of June
in the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred and seventy seven he entered the
service of the state of New York as a corporal in the company of Captain John
Breadbake, which said company was attached to Colonel Jacob Klock Regiment. This
declarant further states, that he was in the Battle of Oriskany on the sixth
day of August A.D. 1777. And that he was wounded in said engagement by
a musket ball which entered his right shoulder.
Which wound
disabled this declarant from the service during the war and that he has been
disabled even since in consequence of said wound. This declarant further
states that when he entered the service he resided in the town of Palatine
in the County of Montgomery and State of New York and that he was drafted and
that while he was in the service he marched through to Fort Stanwix and Oriskany
and that he remained in the service from the term of his draft until the time
of said Battle of Oriskany was fought and that he then left the service for
the reasons above disclosed.
This declarant
further states, that he now applies for a pension for the sole purpose of obtaining
the necessary means of support and that he should have made application before
now if had not heretofore had the means of maintaining himself that he has
lost his property and by reason of age is unable to support himself that he
has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony
he can procure who can testify to his service. He hereby relinquishes
every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares
that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency of any state or territory.
This declarant
further states that by reason of old age and consequent loss of memory he cannot
state the term of his service any more definitely than he has herein stated
and that by reason of infirmity his is unable to go before the district judge
of this district for the purpose of making this declaration sworn and subscribed
fore here the day and year aforesaid.
(Signed) Jacob H. Walrath.
Letter
in Pension Folder.
Marion Brown Gruening
119 N. 34th Street
Omaha, Nebraska
February 20, 1929
Madam:
I advise
you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim R.11093, it appears
that Jacob W. Walrath was born in 1756 or November 17, 1758 in Palatine District
(then Tryon County later Montgomery County), New York.
He applied
for pension November 8, 1842, at which time he was a resident of St. Johnsville,
Montgomery County, New York, and alleged that he enlisted in the spring of
1776 and served two and one-half months as a private in Captain John Bradbick’s
or Breadbake’s Company, Colonel Jacob Klock’s New York Regiment;
and that he enlisted in 1777 served three months as a corporal under the same
officers and was in the battle of Oriskany where he was wounded in his right
shoulder by a musket ball; and that in 1778 he enlisted and served one and
one-half months as a corporal in Captain John Bradbick’s Company, Colonel
Jacob Klock’s New York Regiment and that he later served one month under
Captain Van Slyke, no dates or details of service given.
His claim
was not allowed as he failed to furnish proof of service as required by the
pension laws.
He remained
in Palatine, New York, until 1845, then moved to the State of Illinois. In
1847 he was living in Raymond, Racine County, Wisconsin.
There are
no data concerning his family.
The Revolutionary
war records of this bureau fail to afford any information in regard to Nicholas
Walrath, all spelling searched.
Respectfully,
Winfield Scott, Commissioner.
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