Jonas Orser's application dated Aug., 1832, states that he was then a resident of ML Pleasant, and aged 88 years. In the years 1776-7 and up to the first part of 1778, when he rec'd his commission as Captain, he was a Lieut, in the Co. commanded by Capt. Abraham Ladieu ; in the month of July, 1776, at Tarrytown; was called out at various times, in the years 1776, '77 and '78. Commissioned by Gov. Geo. Clinton, June 26, 1778 ; commission on file with his application for pension. Jonas Orser was elected Overseer of the Poor of the Manor in April, 1779 . Elizabeth, wife of Capt. Jonas Orser died in 1826, aged 77 years, as is recorded on her memorial stone in the old Dutch Churchyard. He died July 7, 1834.

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'erson'al Rem iniscences.

The following sketch of Ensign Stephen Sherwood of Capt. Israel Honeywell's Company, is furnished by his great-grandson, Mr. James II. Sherwood of Rock City Falls, Saratoga Co. :

"My great-great-grandfather' was Thomas Shearwood (or .Sherwood.) His son Stephen, (Ensign Stephen Sherwood) was my greatgrandfather. He was born 1740, and died 1S33: I don't know jnst

where my ancestors lived at the time of the Revolution, but near Tarrytown. They moved, from there about the same time as Rt. Isaac Van Wart and settled in same neighborhood, atPittstown, Rensselaer County, N. Y. When the Revolutionary war broke out my great-grandfather and his family fled from their home on a farm and saw the British burn tire buildings and wheat-stacks for which he had worked so hard. He was an intimate friend of one Acker, a noted Rifleman. This Acker was so expert that for the sport of it, would shoot the caps from a British officer's head, or a button from his coat: He became a terror to the