Van Natter Family - Isaac Vannatter - Revolutionary War Records - page 6

           This applicant has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person he can procure, who he can certify to his service.

          1. That he was born at Stastsberg in the County of Dutchess and State of Newyork in the month of February 1757, as he calculated his age.

2. That he has no record of his age.

          3. That he resided in Stastsberg aforesaid when he was called into service. and continued to reside there during the war. That he then removed to the Nine partners in Dutchess County aforesaid where he resided twenty five years. That he then removed to "Johnstown in the County of Montgomery and state of New York and resided there eight years, from thence he removed to Salisbury in the County of Herkimer where he has a nd since resided.

          4. That he was called into service by being drafted at each tour of service above specified, unit as above stated, and in that tour of duty he went as a substitute for Stephanus Frelick with whom he was then living.

          5. That [General Lieutenant] he can not recollect what General commanded when they were marched down to [Glings] bridge. and Fort Independance[but Sol Graham was [?][?].That Coloniel [?], now Rensselaer's Regiment and Colonel Livingston's Regiment were in the battle of Stillwater and General Schuyler was there. and that he recollects no other officers or troops in the regular service that served with this Regiment to which he was attached. That he was of West Point at two different tours of service and was whilst there engaged in erecting fortifications and bomb proofs. [and] That he was was marched to Fish Kill and stationed there to watch the movements of the enemy on the Hudson River. That he was marched to and present at the battle of Stillwater. That he was marched in another tour to Kings Bridge and Fort Independance which the Americans attempted to storm but did not succeed. And he was also marched far down the Delaware River in pursuit of the Indians.

          6.  That he never received a written discharge exception when dismissed after the [?] of General Burgoyne and that the written discharge he then received has since been lost and he cannot find it.

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