Morrison's Pensions
Pension Application for John Satterly or Satterley
(Donated by Rose Crosier)
W.18996
State of New York
Montgomery County SS.
On this
14th day of April 1842 personally appeared before the undersigned a Judge of
Montgomery County, Ira Satterley who being duly sworn doth depose and swear
that he is the son of John & Hannah Satterlee, that is father the said
John Satterlee died on the 13th day of February 1829 and that is mother the
said Hannah Satterlee ever since that time has remained his widow. That
the reason why an application has not been made before this present time for
a pension for his mother is that the business was put into the hands of Giles
F. Gates of Schenectady NY who could not find proof sufficient to establish
the claim & abandoned the prosecution of it some two years ago, after
which this deponent applied to Benjamin Cowell of Rhode Island who he has reason
to believe has succeeded in obtaining documentary evidence sufficient to establish
the accompanying proof both as to the marriage & service of his father
in the Revolutionary War and thereupon his mother makes this her application
at this time.
(signed) Ira Satterley
Sworn and
subscribed before me on this 14th day of April 1842
Stephen
Yates, Judge of Montgomery County Courts. I certify that the above named
Ira Satterlee is a man of truth and veracity & his statements are entitled
to credit.
(signed) Stephen Yates, Judge of Montgomery County Courts.
State of New York
Montgomery County SS.
On this
14 day of April 1842 personally appeared before the undersigned a Judge of
the Court of Common Pleas of the said county, Hannah Satterly a resident of
the Town of Canajoharie in the County of Montgomery and State of New York,
aged eighty-nine 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 4th 1836.
That she
is the widow of John Satterly who was at the commencement of the war of the
Revolution a corporal in the militia company of Captain Abel Tanner in Colonel
George Thurstin Regiment that to the best of her recollection her husband the
said John Satterly in the spring of 1776 entered the service of the United
States under the above named officers and marched to Stonington in Connecticut
and before he returned to his place of residence he enlisted into the Continental
Army under Captain McGregor and continued to serve in said army until the close
of the war that from the time he left his farm in 1776 until his return when
the war ended his whole time was employed in the services of his country having
his farm unoccupied neither a plow or picke or syckel was used during his absence;
that she has reason to believe information of her said husband that he was
at Rhode Island under Gen. Sullivan and also at New London when General Arnold
stormed Fort Griswold.
She further
declares that she was married to the said John Satterly on the 17th day of
July 1775 twenty seventh day of July seventeen hundred and seventy-five. That
her husband the aforesaid John Satterly died on the 13th day of February 1829,
and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully
appear by reference to proof hereto annexed.
(her mark) Hannah Satterly
Subscribed
and sworn before me this 14th day of April 1842. Stephen Yates, Judge
of Montgomery County Courts.
Letter included with the application.
May 8, 1934
Mrs. C. R. Baker
571 Broad Street
Oneida, New York
Dear Madam:
Reference
is made to your request for the Revolutionary War record of John Satterlee
who died in 1829 or 1830.
The data
which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, W. 18966,
based on the military service of John Satterley or Satterly.
He was born
in Hopkinton, Rhode Island. The date of his birth and names of his parents
were not given.
While a
resident of Hopkinton, Washington County, Rhode Island, he enlisted in the
spring of 1776 as a corporal in Captain Abel Tanner’s company in Colonel
George Thurston’s Rhode Island regiment and on April 27, 1777, he re-enlisted
as private in Captain McGregor’s company in Colonel John Durkee’s
Connecticut regiment and served until April 27, 1780.
From Hopkinton,
Rhode Island, he moved to Saratoga County, New York, and from there to Washington
County, New York.
He died
February 13, 1829.
This soldier
married July 27, 1775, in Hopkinton, Rhode Island, Hannah Hyde.
She was
allowed pension on her application executed April 14, 1842, at which time she
was living in Canajoharie, Montgomery County, New York, aged eighty-nine years. In
1843 she was living at Fort Plain Montgomery County, New York.
They had
children, but the only name given was that of a son, Ira, who referred to his
brothers.
In 1842
the soldier’s sister, Amy Lamphier was living at Hopkinton, Rhode Island,
aged Ninety years and upwards and she stated that she had two or three children
at the time her brother married Hannah Hyde.
No charge
is made for furnishing this information.
Very truly
yours,
A.D. Hiller
Assistant
to Administrator
Hannah Satterly, Widow of John Satterly who died on the 13th February 1829 at Liberty in the State of New York, was a private in the company commanded by Captain McGregor of the Regt commanded by Col. Durkee in the Connecticut line for 2 years. Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 80 Dollars per annum to commence the 4th day of March 1831.