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Detail, Ten Eyck Red coat, c.1770s.
Paragraph from Petition of Andreas Ten Eyck 1797:
Your Excellency's Petitioner has much impaired his constitution, and met with great losses during the War for which he has not received any compensation his sons likewise were in New York during the War and had been much harassed by the Rebels; Your Excellency's Petitioner therefore Humbly Pray's (sic) that Your Excellency will graciously please to Grant unto him and each of his sons Andrew and Henry twelve Hundred acres of land each in the Township of Clifton and Your Excellency's Petitioner as is duty bound will ever Pray.
Andres TenEick , St. Armand 7th October 1797
From a knowledge of the Character Loyalty Sufferings and hope of the above petitioner Andw. Teneick we Humbly beg leave to recommend him to His Excellency General Prescott and Council as a Man Worthy of the Bounty of Government in the waste Lands of The Crown.
Given under our hands at Missiskoui Bay this 16th October 1797
Nath. Coffin, Calv
Paragraph from Petition of Andreas Ten Eyck 1797:
Your Excellency's Petitioner has much impaired his constitution, and met with great losses during the War for which he has not received any compensation his sons likewise were in New York during the War and had been much harassed by the Rebels; Your Excellency's Petitioner therefore Humbly Pray's (sic) that Your Excellency will graciously please to Grant unto him and each of his sons Andrew and Henry twelve Hundred acres of land each in the Township of Clifton and Your Excellency's Petitioner as is duty bound will ever Pray.
Andres TenEick , St. Armand 7th October 1797
From a knowledge of the Character Loyalty Sufferings and hope of the above petitioner Andw. Teneick we Humbly beg leave to recommend him to His Excellency General Prescott and Council as a Man Worthy of the Bounty of Government in the waste Lands of The Crown.
Given under our hands at Missiskoui Bay this 16th October 1797
Nath. Coffin, Calv