Morrison's Pensions
Pension Application for John S. Kasselman, Private
S.10934
State of New York
Montgomery County
On this
ninth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
thirty two personally appeared before Aaron Haring first Judge of the Court
of Common Pleas of the County of Montgomery and State of New York John S. Kasselman,
a resident of the Town of Johnstown in the County and State of New York aforesaid,
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 7, 1832.
That he
entered the service of the United States under the following named officers
and served as herein stated.
Your applicant
says that in November in the year 1777 he was drafted as a Militia Man in the
Company of Captain John Breadbig,(1) entered upon duty in the spring following
of 1778 (2) and served at the following places, the times when he went out and
when discharged, this applicant does not recollect. The first time
he went to a place now called St. Johnsville, Montgomery County does not
recollect how long he was out at this time.
The second
time he was drafted as a waggoner in Sullivan’s expedition (3) and was
out five or six weeks. He also served a term at Fort Plank now in Minden,
Montgomery County, and the length of time he was out at this time he does not
recollect. In Fort Clide (4) he served five or six weeks and also served two
months at a place then called Remensnider’s Bush. And also served
two months in Fort Dayton situate in Herkimer and then in the County of Tryon
as was Remen Snyder’s Bush at that time in Tryon, but now Oppenheim, Montgomery
County. And also, another term at Fort Herkimer for four or five weeks. And
also served on month and a half at Dillenburgh, (5) situate at that time
in Tryon and now Montgomery County. Your applicant says that he served three
different winters during the Revolutionary War in carrying provisions and
implements of war from Albany to Fort Stanwicks, a month or five weeks each
winter.
Your applicant
says that he served at Fort House at that time Tryon County and now in Oppenheim
about one month. (This is now in the Town of St. Johnsville. When Fulton
and Montgomery Counties split, part of Oppenheim to the south was in Montgomery
County.)
(Part of next
line is missing) months, in the year 1781 (6) and that he went out sometime in
the months of April or May and served the full term of nine months under Captain
Lawrence Gross, this company was attached to Colonel Marinus Willett’s
Regiment and that they went to Herkimer and then to the battle Called Turlough,
Sharon, (7) Schoharie County.
In the year
1779 I served or this applicant served at Fort Keyser, then in Tryon County
since Palatine, Montgomery County and served at this fort in all about three
or four months. Your applicant says that he was out during the Revolution on
scouts and alarms at different and divers times also and above the number so
herein before specified. Your applicant says that at this time he was called
into the service, he resided at now Palatine, Montgomery County.
Your applicant says that he was born at Palatine aforesaid in the year seventeen
hundred and sixty two and has no record of his age.
Your applicant
says that he was acquainted with the following regular officers, Colonels
Gansevoort, Willett, Capt Andrew Finck. (8) Your applicant says that he is
acquainted with the following persons residing in his neighborhood who can
testify as to his character for truth and veracity and their belief of his
services as an officer of the Revolution. David Zeilly, George Walter, Peter
Wormwood. Your applicant says that he has the documentary evidence. And your
applicant says that 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. Your applicant says that he was in the Turlough
Battle and has served during the whole time he was out at least two year and
nine months.
And this
applicant says that Captain Hess was his Captain one time when stationed at
now Herkimer. George Klock, (9) Colonel. That Capt. Breadbake and Lieutenant
Zeilly were his officers most of the time and that at one time a Lieutenant
Finch was his officer. That most of the time nearly all of the beginning of
the service in Col. George Klock (He must mean Col. Jacob Klock) of the latter
part of the time under Col. Peter Waggoner and as to the rest of his officers
he is unable to relate except that Jellis Fonda was his Adjutant for awhile
of which was for the nine months service and at the frequency of calls for
service for several years and this great distant period when performed and
the alarms and I was daily changes of command and the constant shifts of tours
renders it now out of his power to name all his officers.
John S. Kasselman (signed by him)
Montgomery
County. On this twentieth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand
and eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared before the Judges of
the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County now sitting at Johnstown in
said County, David I. Zeiley a resident of Palatine in the County aforesaid,
aged sixty two years and upwards, who doth depose and say that John S. Casselman
the above named applicant for a pension, lived with John Zeiley his father,
to learn the art of farming, about the beginning of the Revolutionary War and
until the end of this war and that during the time the said Casselman lived
with Zeiley in the year 1778, the said Casselman entered the service of the
United States as a Militia Man and served at different times during two years,
he does not know at what time of the year 1778 he entered the service at this
time he was under Capt. Bredbig of the Regiment Commanded by Col. Jacob Klock.
This deponent
further says that the said Casselman returned to his father’s house
several times during the two years and that in the year 1781 he was again
drafted for nine months and he served out that time.
Deponents
says that he knows that the above named applicant was engaged in the Battle
at Tourlock in the County then called Tryon now called Schoharie, also in the
Battle at Johnstown(10)in Montgomery County
This deponent
further says that in the year 1782 the said Casselman was in the service
of the United States at different times, but how long he does not recollect.
And this deponent says that the said John S. Cassleman died in the year 1832
on the twentieth day of August and he was present at his funeral, and that
said Casselman was a man of truth and veracity and that he was reputed to be
a man of truth and veracity in the neighborhood where he the said Casselman
resided.
And this deponent further says that the said John died leaving five children
by the names of John F. Casselman, Jonas Casselman, two sons, Maria, the wife
of John F. Dockstater, Nancy wife of Lodewick Beck and his unmarried daughter
Betsey.
And this
deponent says that these are all the children that the said John left and he
further says that they are all more than twenty one years of age and upwards
and this deponent further says that he died having no widow and further this
deponent says not.
David I. Zeiley (signed by him)
Sworn & Subscribed
in open court the day & year aforesaid. Geo. D. Ferguson, Clerk
End
Notes for John S. Kasselman
By James F. Morrison