Court of Common Pleas
June Term

On the 15th day of June 1820 personally appeared in open court (being a court of record for said county having (..?..) and empowered to hear, try, and determine according to law all actions real, personal, or mixed arising in said county and keeping a record of this proceedings) Johannes Reinhart aged 60 years resident in Berne in said county who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows in Cpt. Henry Debout's company of Infantry Col. Peter Gansvoert's Regiment of the (fifth?) line that the date of his original declaration was the 7th of May 1818 and was the number of his Pension Certificate 3598.

And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United State on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled an Act to Provide for certain (..?..) in the land and naval service of the United State in the Revolutionary War (..?..) the 18th day of March 1818 and I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property (…?…) or debts due to me or have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto amended and by me subscribed.

Schedule of my whole estate and income consists of 88 acres of leased land but no title for it neither lease or deed the said land being subject to the annual rent of 10 bushels wheat and days riding with a team and four fat fowls and holding by the proprietor of the land as security for the payment of five hundred dollars back rent now due on said premises. The land tilled and improved by my son who has a family and a part of the proceeds allowed me toward the support of myself and family which consists of a wife who is infirm, a daughter 34 years of age who has been an invalid from her infancy and unable to perform any labors. A son fourteen and a granddaughter age 5 who has lost her mother. I am unable to labor on the farm being (lame?) in both shoulders but occasionally work in the loom. My personal property consists of 3 cows, one bull, two (..?) cattle 2 years old with two at one year old, two calves, two sheep, three small hogs and four pigs. One loom and implements for weaving and 6 chairs and (…?…) four mixed (……?……) two iron pots, one iron griddle and (……?……) 3 knives, 3 forks, 6 spoons one pewter basin, 2 earthen plates. One equal half part of a two horse wagon, a part of a six horse (…?…) for farming (…?..) one table, one chest, 3 hoes, one chain (……?…..)few articles of old furniture, and one (..?..) yoke of horses. The whole debt I am owing exclusive of rents due as aforesaid amount to one hundred fifty five dollars and the whole (…?…) and accounts have come to the amount of fifty eight dollars and 74 cents.

(Signed) Johannes Reinhart
Sworn to and declared in open court the 15th day of June 1820 before (..?..) Williams, Deputy Clerk
I Henry Truax, clerk of the court of common pleas in and for the county of Albany do hereby certify that the forgoing oath and the schedule therein annexed are truly copied from the records of said court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is one hundred twenty dollars and five cents.
In testimony whereof I have herein set my hand and affixed the seal of said court on this 15th day of June 1820

(signed) Henry Truax, Clerk

Carol Clemens has also provided photocopies of other Johannes Rienhart military records.

Pension Petition

Pension Information

Mathias Reinhart Pension Petition (brother of Johannes Reinhart)