Morrison's Pensions
Pension Application for Nicholas Casler
S.12424
State of New York
County of Montgomery
On the 19th
day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty-two
personally appeared in open court before the Judges of Court of Common Pleas
of the said county now sitting Nicholas Casler, a resident of the Town of Minden
in the County & State aforesaid aged sixty-eight on the fifth day of March
last. When 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 June7th 1832.
That he
entered the service of the United States under the following named officers
served as hereafter stated.
That he
enlisted in the City of Schenectady in the County of Schenectady under Captain
Guy Young, Lieutenant Christopher Peake. The latter part of March 1782 for
nine months that after the company was raised it was mustered and marched up
the Mohawk River where they joined a regiment commanded by Colo. Marinus Willett
where they were kept on duty and sent out to guard the inhabitants at Fort
Clyde, Fort Keysor, Fort Windecker and Fort Plank. And in the fall marched
to Fort Dayton in the County of Herkimer where they remained on duty until
the latter part of December when they were marched to Fort Plain when they
were discharged on the last day of December of that year and that he has no
documentary evidence of his services.
That he
was born in the [County] of Herkimer & State aforesaid in the year 1765. That
he has no record of his age.
That he
has lived in the City of Schenectady & County of Schenectady & State
aforesaid when he enlisted & entered the service as above mentioned.
That he
resided in Schenectady until about two years after the war when he moved to
Minden in the County of Montgomery and State aforesaid where he has since continued
to live and now lives.
That he
entered the service by enlistment as above stated.
That he
cannot state the names of officers with troops Continental & Militia Regiments
or the general circumstances of his services other than as he has above stated
the same.
And that
he never received a written discharge from the service.
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.
Sworn and
subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
(his mark) Nicholas Casler
Geo. D. Ferguson, Clerk.
Letter in pension folder
September 24, 1930
Alice Casler [? Illegible last name]
Fort Plain, New York
Dear Madam:
You are
advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim
S.12424, that Nicholas Casler was born March 5, 1765 in Herkimer, New York.
While a
resident of Schenectady, Schenectady County, New York, he enlisted the latter
part of March, 1782, and served as a private in Captain Guy Young’s Company,
Colonel Marinus Willett’s New York Regiment until the last day of December,
1782.
He was allowed
pension on his application executed September 19, 1832, while a resident of
Minden, Montgomery County, New York, where he had moved two years after the
war.
He died
February 25, 1843.
There are
no family data.
Very truly
yours, N. W. Morgan
Acting Commissioner