Eckert
Stephen Eckert
New York
S45362
State of New York Ulster County ?: On the 13th day of June A.D. 1827 personally appeared in open Court to wit in the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County in the State of New York being a Court of Record which proceeds according to the Course of the Common law with an unlimited discretion in point of amount and which Court keeps a Record of its proceedings, Stephen Eckert aged Eighty two years and about eight months residing in the town of Shawangunk in the County of Ulster and State aforesaid who being sworn according to law on his oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the eighteenth of March 1818. And of the first of May 1820, to wit I the said Stephen Eckert do declare and depose that my age and residence is above correctly stated that some time in the month of May in the year 1776 at the town of New Paltz in the County aforesaid I the said Stephen Eckert enlisted a private soldier in the Company commanded by Captain Isaac Belknap in the Regiment commanded by Col. Lewis Dubois in the New York line of Continental Rangers in the war of the Revolution for the term of during the war and that I the said Stephen Eckert Continued to serve as a common soldier in the said Corps until on or about the 13 day of June 1777, at which time I was discharged from the service in the town of Newburgh then Ulster but now Orange County and that all the soldiers in said commanded by the said Isaac Belknap was discharged at the same time that shortly thereafter I the said Stephen Eckert enlisted. I served in the same company Commanded by the said Isaac Belknap in Fishkill in the County of Dutchess until about three months previous to my discharge when the said Company was removed to Newburgh aforesaid at which place I continued to serve as a private soldier until I was discharged as above stated that I at the time of my discharge received a written discharge which I am now unable to find the same being lost or destroyed that my name is not on the roll of any state except New York and that I hereby relinquish every claim whatsoever to a pension except the present and that the following are the reasons for not making earlier application for a pension because I several years ago made application to one Beverly Kain an attorney at law to procure my pension who has as I have been informed never taken proper steps to procure the same but has neglected to give me the necessary information in what manner to proceed to procure the same and that I have and since the 18th day of March 1818, at which time I was a resident of the United States and that I have not since that time by quit sale or in any other manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to ? ? as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons are aged in the land and never Service of the United States in the Revolutionary war ? in the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any persons in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribe that since the 18th day of March 1818, the following changes have been made in my property. I have sold one Cow since ? and no other material change in my property whatsoever to the best of my knowledge
