{"content":[{"text":"While a resident of New Canaan, New York, serving in Captain Bostwick’s \n company and Colonel Whiting’s New York regiment, he was selected in the spring of \n 1776 to act as guard of the mills and stores at that place, and this term of enlistment \n was for six months as private. During the summer of 1777, he served at various \n times, amounting to two months in all, as private in captain Bostwick’s New York \n company. From May 1779 he served five months as private in Captain Noble’s \n company, Colonel Vrooman’s New York regiment. From October, 1779 he served three \n months in Captain Kinne’s company in colonel Platt’s or McKinstry’s New York \n regiment. \n After the Revolution he lived in New York State, and about 1810 he moved to \n Unadilla, Otsego County, New York. \n He was allowed pension on his application executed October 15, 1832, at which \n time he was living in Unadilla, New York. \n The soldier died May 22, 1837. \n He married December 22, 1785 in Canaan, Columbia County, New York, Anna \n Halliday. \n She was allowed pension on her application executed May 5, 1841. \n In December, 1842 she stated that she was eighty years of age and was a \n resident of Guilford, Chenango County, New York. \n The widow Anna died February 11, 1845 and was survived by the following \n children: \n David W., who was living in Unadilla, New York in 1849. \n Nancy Darling \n Polly Benedict \n Josiah \n Welthy Chamberlain \n John \n Lucinda Sliter","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.090835,"width":0.765018,"height":0.522637}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}