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- The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries
by Martha Joanna Lamb , Pond, Nathan Gillett , 1832-, John Austin Stevens
Publication date 1877
Contribution to the history of
WESTCHESTER CO., N. Y. The Original enlistment papers of a troop of Col. Emmerick's dragoons, enlisted in Westchester County, in 1778 and 1779, were recently shown me by a gentleman resident in that County, to whom they belonged. They are fifty in number, in perfect preservation, printed on a single page of foolscap size, the blanks filled up by the enlisting officer, and are all signed by the respective men; a minority only making their marks. Immediately following is the certificate of the Justice of the Peace, before whom the enlistment was signed, and the oath of fidelity taken, who in almost every instance was David Oakley a well known old Westchester name.
The following is a perfect copy of one of the papers, the italics denoting the blanks in the original filled up in writing. " I Gilbert Lounsbury, of the County of Westchester in New York Gavernmenty aged 25 years, by trade a carpenter, declare that I am a true and lawful subject to his Majesty King George the Third, and that I have no Rupture, nor ever was troubled with Fits; that I am not disabled by lameness or otherwise, and that I have voluntarily inlisted myself to serve his Majesty King Ceorge the Third, as a Private Dragoon during the present Rebellion or Disturbance in America, in a corps of Provincial Chasseurs, whereof Andreas Emmerick Esq,, is
Lt, Col, Commander, and that I have received the enlisting moneys I agreed for.
Witness my Hand this 10 Day of May,
1877. Gilbert J.ounsbury."
" This is to certify that tlie above-named Gilbert Lounsbury came before me, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Westchester, and declared he had voluntarily inlisted himself to serve his Majesty King George the Third, in the above mentioned Corps of Provincial Chasseurs, and doth acknowledge to have heard read unto him the Second and Sixth Sections of the Articles of War, against Mutiny and Desertion, and took the oath of Fidelity mentioned in the Articles of War.
Sworn before me, this first Day of August, 1778.
David Oakley, Justice."
Of the fifty in the annexed list,thirty-four are those of Westchester men, and they are so familiar at this day, that they read like the jury lists published in the Whiteplains paper now. There is no county in the Union where the old people have stuck to their old homes more closely than in Westchester, and as every family had members on each side in the Revolution, and in many cases on both sides alternately, this fact is not at all singular. As to their occupations they were "husbandmen " and mechanics, the former slightly the more numerous, and their ages varied from seventeen to forty.
There were in the troop, one New York City man, one Long Islander from Queens County, one man from Fairfield, now Bridgeport, in Connecticut, two Pennsylvanians, two Jerseymen, six natives of " Old England," which term was universally used in, and before the Revolution to distinguish Englishmen born in England, from those born in America, for both were " Englishmen,'* of course, in fact and in law. And there was also one trooper described as "of the Empire of Germany."
The list of the troop is carefully made from the original documents. It is very interesting, and strikingly illustrative of the famous "Neutral Ground" of history, romance, and song. The commander of the troop was Captain Benjamin Ogden, many of the enlistment papers bearing his name endorsed upon them.
Natives of Westchester:
Shubal Kniffin, John Brown, Philip Hunt, Jacob Van Tassel, Anthony Beatlebum, Gilbert Lounsbury, Benjamin Golden, Stephen Smith, William Akerly, John Baisley, James Simmons, Jesse Purdy, David Lyons, Reuben Akerly, Robert Crooker, Joseph McKeel, Shubal Merrit, Gilbert Deane, Stephen Sherwood, Caleb Griffin,
William Davenport, Thomas Bird, Abraham Brundige, Thomas Briggs, John Vail, Joseph Sutton, Nehemiah Marshall, Abraham Akerly, Thomas Green, Samuel Cornell, Benjamin Castin, Gilbert Dickinson, John Anderson, Joshua Taylor.
New York City
Jacob Chappell
Queens County
Charles Justice.
Connecticut
Ephraim Seely of Fairfield.
Pennsylvania
William McCarley of Chester County. Jasper Leesley of Phil
New Jersey
Gershom Hilyard of Somerset,
Jeremiah Hemsted of Middlesex
"Old Englandy"
John Hamilton of Cumberland, Richard Rogers of Chester, John Ambler of Yorkshire, John Foster of Staffordshire, John Ellis of Suffolk.
Germany Gotfried Fehr.
-Guy of Scarsdale
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- http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/msscfa/sc3616.htm
Emmerich?s Chasseurs
Certificates of Enlishment and Oaths of Fidelity, 1778-1779
SC3616
Quantity: 1 box (ca. 0.25 cubic ft.)
Access: Open to research
Acquisition: Purchase, Henkels, 1925
Processed By: Vicki Weiss, Librarian, Manuscripts and Special Collections, February 2013
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Title Certificates of enlistment and oaths of fidelity, 1778-1779 Author Emmerich's Chasseurs.
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This collection consists of printed forms signed by men joining the battalion (corps) of chasseurs under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Andreas Emmerich. All the documents are dated either 1778 or 1779; nearly three-fourths are dated between May and July of 1778.
Folder Item Enlistee?s Name, Age, Trade
2 19 Dickinson, Gilbert, 36, husbandman (Queens County). Note at bottom signed by Emmerick: The above Gilbert Dickinson is to serve in Capt?n. Benj?n. Ogden?s company.
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- The Babbitt family history,1643-1900
by Browne, William Bradford, 1875-
Publication date 1912
p 151
In Committee of the Convention of the State of New York appointed for enquiring into, detecting & defeating all Conspiracies which may be formed in the said State against the Liberties of America.
Fishkill
Oct 20 1776
Whereas this Committee did on the 17th Inst resolve that te following Persons, Inhabitants of South East and Frederick Preceincts in the County of Dutchess, should forthwith be disarm'd apprehended and secured, to witt, Uriah Townsend, Ebenezer Rider, Charles Cullen*, Barne Hatfield, Uriah Wright, Joseph Hitchcock, Eli Crosby, Dr Daniel Bull*, Charles Theal, and Gilbert Dickeson, Daniel Babbitt*, Daniel Brundage, Jeremiah Birch Jr, Moses Fowler, David Nash, Samuel Jowner, William Merritt, Thomas Carl*.
Ordered that Col Ludington do forthwith apprehend and bring before this Committee the above mentioend Persons, and that he secure the Papers of such whose Names are marked with an Asterisk in order that the same be examined by this Committee.
Ordered that Capt Clarke detach Lieut Haight with a Party of 15 Men, to repair to Coll Luddington and to follow such ordered as they may received from him.
Signed by Order of the Committee
Wm Duer Chairman
The foregoing is a copy of order of arrest issued by Wm Duer, Chairman of Committees on Conspiracies, of the "Provincial Congress the State of New York" to Col Henry Ludington.
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- Gilbert Dickeson
in the American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI)
Name: Gilbert Dickeson
Birth Date: 1740
Birthplace: New York,
Volume: 43
Page Number: 342
Biographical Info: Loyalist
Reference: Babbitt fam. hist. by Will. Bradford Browne. Taunton, Ms, 1912. (760p.):151
Godfrey Memorial Library, comp.. American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 1999.
Original data: Godfrey Memorial Library. American Genealogical-Biographical Index. Middletown, CT, USA: Godfrey Memorial Library.
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