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DRAFT: REVOLUTIONARY WARwick

UNDER CONSTRUCTION: An overview of selected places associated with the late Colonial and Revolutionary War eras by S. Gardner, Town of Warwick Historian

CONTINENTAL ARMY VETERANS

Most of Warwick's Founding Veterans were in Hathorn's militia, which had short enlistment periods.  However, some men who did not have family dependent on their regular presence joined the Continental Army, with its longer enlistment terms.  Some men would go back and forth between the Continental Line and Militia, during this very long war.  These are the Continental Line veterans of Warwick that we have been able to identify. (extracted by S. Gardner, 2025).

Name

Document; Notes

Source

Babcock, James

Pension application. Age about 11, ran away 1766 from Philip Burroughs (indentured servant) Drummer. Battle of White Plains.  Wounded at Battle of Monmouth. Served until peace declared. Also served in Hathorn’s militia regiment, Battle of Minisink.

Pension R 341

Bower, Joel

Pension application.  Carpenter apprentice. Worked on Chevaux de frise under Capt. Samuel Chard, master carpenter. 5th Battalion.  Battle of Ft. Montgomery. Battle of Monmouth. Also Hathorn’s militia regiment.

Pension S 29,020

Benjamin, Daniel

Pension application.  Enlisted 1774, Capt. John Wisner, Sr., Col. Nicoll’s NY Regiment. Then under Col. Malcom’s Additional Continental Regiment.  Also Hathorn’s regiment.

Pension S 34,028

Decker, Andrew

Pension application. Capt. Van Renssalaer’s Co., Col. Livingston’s 1st Canadian Regiment of the Continental Line. Enlisted May 1777 while living in Warwick.

Pension R 2,833

Decker, Christopher

Pension application. New York Line, 2nd Regiment, Col. Cortland, 1778. Capt. Rosencrans, Capt. Vanderburgh. Health compromised by dragging boats of Sullivans expedition upstream in Susquehanna, 1779. Impoverished.

Pension S 43,496

Foght, John Morris

Pension application. Lived in NYC in 1775 when ship Asia bombarded the city. In Battle for New York, Battle of White Plains.  In NY Line under Col. Baldwin, then after 1780 was Lieut. Baldwin’s Regiment of Artificers. Then lived in Warwick for a few decades, returned to NYC. Deacon in Warwick Baptist church.

Pension S 46,382

Hall, James

Pension application. Col. Van Schaick’s Regiment,1st NY Regiment, 1777.  Interment was at Mapes Corners, Town of Goshen, then moved to New Windsor Cantonment.  In Battle of Long Island, Ft. Montgomery (inscription on stone.)

S 44,894

Ketchum, Nathaniel

Pension application. 1st NY Regiment, Col. Alexander McDougal, 5 months. Battle for New York, then Hathorn’s militia.

Pension W 20,210

Ketchum, Samuel.

Pension Application. Served 9 months in Marvin’s Co., New York 4th Regiment, Continental Line. 

Pension S 42,762

Knapp, John

Pension application.  In NYC when Independence declared. Resided near Chester. Enlisted June 1776, NY Line, Col. Samuel Drake.  Paymasters Guard. With army when marched from Kings Bridge to White Plains. Then Peekskill, Haverstraw, Under Minthorn/Haythorn in Spring 1777, Ft. Montgomery, Murderers Creek, Battle of Minisink.

Pension S 23, 292 transcribed in: So Many Brave Men by M. Hendrickson, p.422+

Knapp, Caleb

(Sugar Loaf)

Pension application. 1777, 2nd NY Infantry. Home near Sugar Loaf.  Battle of Monmouth; Battle of Trenton; Battle of Brandywine; Battle of Saratoga, at Taking of Burgoyne

Pension W 21,369

Miller, James

Pension application. 1776, 3rd NY Regiment, then 2nd NY.  Col. Ritzema, Cortland. Battles of White Plains, Trenton, Saratoga.  Resided Warwick 1819 when applied.

Pension W 19,881; prion No. 12,930.

Reed, Garrett

Pension application. 3rd NY Regiment, 1775. James Clinton. Fort Orange under Montgomery, then invasion of Canada, Quebec.   6 months.  Then Hathorn’s Reg’t & NY Levies under Nichols. Battle of NY, White Plains.

Pension S 14,257.

Sayer, Nathan

Pension application. Lived in Warwick when Revolution started, 1775. John Wisner (Sr.).  Ft. Constitution, under Col. Isaac Nichols.  The Hathorn’s regiment. Burned his commission while going to family at Elizabethtown NJ, so wouldn’t be taken as a spy.

S 17,075. Transcription from Theodore M. Banta Sayre Family.

Wisner, David

Pension application. Enlisted Dec. 1775 Capt. John Wisner, Srs. Company. Not attached to a regiment. Marched to Ft. Constitution to guard.  Then Hathorn’s regiment.

S 24,683; W 6549

Wisner, John, Sr.

Captain in French & Indian War. Capt. of Continental Line adjunct company, 1775, building fortifications at Ft. Constitution. Battle for New York. Court martialed in 1776 for withdrawing prior to issued orders at Montresor Island failed operation. Saved the lives of 80 men.

Pension applications of men who served under him & other documents.

Wood, Alexander

(Florida)

Pension application. Enlisted Feb. 1776. Capt. Denton, Ritzema’s regiment, NY Line. Taken prisoner. Battle of White Plains, taken prisoner about Dec. 13 (1777?)

S 40,099

Wood, Daniel, Dr.

(Florida)

Pension Application.  Enlisted 1776, militia surgeon.  Then appointed 1st Lieut., Col. Wm. Malcolm’s Additional Continental Regiment.

W 18,382