Pension Application

Morrison's Pensions

Pension Application for John Frymire (Frymier, Freymire, Freemyer)

R.3802
State of New York
Schoharie County. SS
            On this fifth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three personally appeared before me Marion Judd one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Schoharie in the State of New York, John Freymire aged eighty nine 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 7th 1832.
            That he was born & has always resided in that part of the State of New York now the County of Schoharie. That by reason of old age & the consequence loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his services, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below & in the following grades.
            For two years he served as a private in the service of the United States between the commencement of the Revolutionary War & the first day of January in the year 1780 under the following named officer. Colonel Peter Vrooman Lieutenant Colonel Peter Zelie, Majors Thomas Eckerson & Joseph Becker, Captain Jacob Hager, Lieutenant Cornelius Feak & Ensign Peter Sivars.
            For six months He served as a private in the United States between the first day of January in the year 1780 & the close of the Revolutionary War under the following named officers Colonel Peter Vrooman, Lieutenant Colonel Peter Zelie, Majors Thomas Eckerson & Joseph Becker Captain George Richtmyer & Lieutenant John Billings Jr. for which he claims a pension. That he has a record of his age in his family Bible in his possession.
            That he has no documentary evidence of his services above set forth. 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.
(Signed with his mark) John Frymire
            Sworn to & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid before me, Marvin Judd, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Schoharie in the State of New York.
            We George A. Lintner, a Clergyman residing in the Town of Schoharie in the County of Schoharie in the State of New York & Joseph Bouck residing in the Town of Fulton in the said County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Freymire who has sworn to & subscribed the above declaration that we believe him to be Eighty nine years of age, that he is respected & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion. G.A. Lintner, Joseph Bouck
            Sworn to & subscribed the day & years aforesaid before me. Marvin Judd, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Schoharie in the State of New York.

Letter included in the Pension Application folder.
July 27, 1939
Mr. E. L. Freemire
Heron Lake
Minnesota
Dear Sir:
            Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Johannes Freemyer of Schoharie County, New York.
            The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in claim for pension, R.3802, based upon the military service of John Frymire in the Revolutionary War. The surname is shown, also, Frymier, Freymire and Freemyer.
            John Frymire was born and reared in Schoharie County, New York. The date of his birth and names of parents are not given.
            John Frymire applied for pension June 5, 1833, at which time he was eighty-nine years of age and a resident of Schoharie County, New York. He alleged that he served from early in the Revolution as a private at various times in Captain Jacob Hager’s Company, Colonel Peter Vrooman’s New Yorkregiment, until January 1, 1780, and from then until the close of the war at various times in Captain George Richtmyer’s company, in Colonel Peter Vrooman’s regiment, length of entire service two years and six months.
            The claim for pension was not allowed as proof of the alleged service was not furnished in accordance with the requirements of the pension law.
In 1853 John “Freemyer” (as he signed), son of the soldier, John Frymire, was living in Breakabeen, Schoharie County, New York. He stated that he was the “legal heir” of the soldier.
            The papers on file in this claim contain no further discernible family data.
Very truly yours. [no name] Acting Executive Assistant to the Administrator.