PENSION APPLICATION
Following is the official pension record for Henrick LaRue.
Henry La Rue of Oneonto aged … Born Bergen Co., NJ. Oct 7, 1755 and resided there until about 10 years of age, when father moved to Warwick, Orange Co., NY and resided there during Revolutionary war and until his death. Henry entered service there as a volunteer on last day of June or July 1st in Company of Peter Bertholf in Col. John Haythorn’s Regt. Heard of independence being declared while at the fort. About half of the Company was discharged as there were twice as many men as were needed, Henry LaRue being of the number. …… In Feb. joined Capt. Andrew Miller’s Company and went to West Point. Worked on the Fort until taken ill and dischrged. … In 1778 – fall- served six weeks at Tappan in Captain David Ambler’s Company and in 1779 joined Capt. John Minthorn’s Company as a volunteer. ….. and estimated his entire service at not less than two years.
In 1788 he removed to the town of Young in Province of Upper Canada and remained until 1806, when he removed to Otsego County, NY where he still lives.
signed by Henry La Rue
Found in the Emojene D. Champine document Jacques Le Reux, the French Huguenot and his Descendants.
Stumbling on to this appli ation left me in doubt as to whether Hensrick really was a Loyalists. There are only minor reference to him being a Loyalists although his children did apply for land as Loyalists. However, I recently found the following statement from an interview with H.L. LaRue (the son of Nathaniel Hart Powers and Rebecca LaRue).
His maternal grandmother LaRue, of French ancesotry, fought for the King of the day and had his property confiscated for his pains. [Found in Pioneers of Old Ontario by W.L. Smith, 1923.]