Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42367, for Army Sperry, Connecticut
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Conn     Sperry, Army   S42367
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14,813 R
New York
Army Sperry
Marbletown in the state of New York who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Webb of the Connecticut, for the term of six years.
[both sides of document torn - some words illegible]
scribed on the roll of New York 
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence
the 14th of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 6th of Sept 1819 and sent to D. Brodhead [illegible two words]
Kingston New York 
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1819    $125.70
Semi-anl. all'ce ending March 1820    48.00
15 months  18/31   4/30        $173.70

{Revolutionary claim,      }
{Act 18th March, 1818    }
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Notification sent Charles Tappen [the rest is faded and hard to read]
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Army Sperry N.Y. date March 18, 1818, 
to what time paid?
Pay Officer
Sept 26, '18
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Army Sperry

has drawn pension [faded words]
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State of New York   Ulster County
On this fifth day of July in the year 1820 before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas held at the Courn House in Kingston in and for the County of Ulster in the State of New York being a Court of Record of the said County with unlimited jurisdiction proceeding according to the course of the Common Law and having a clerk and seal in open court personally appeared Army Sperry of the Town of Marbletown in the County of Ulster and state aforesaid where he now resides aged about 62 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that before the revolutionary war he resided in the State of Connecticut that he then enlisted in that war in the Regt of Coll Herman Smith in the Company of Capt John Thatcher and remained in the same for six months at the expiration of which time as perhaps about two or three months afterwards he enlisted in the Regt of Coll. Samuel B. Webb in the company of Capt Joseph Walker and served in the same nearly six years and until the expiration of the time for which he had enlisted and in the year one thousand eight hundred nineteen - forwarded evidence of the  said service as of some part thereof to the war office at Washington.
And the said Army Sperry doth further on his oath declare that in the month ofMay in the year 1818
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he made oath of his said services as aforesaid  in the said war and has been subsequently enrolled as a pensioner of the United States under the Act  entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed 18th March 1818 and hath thereupon drawn a pension accordingly on the production of his certificate where upon the said Army Sperry in open court now has made the following oath to wit - I, Army Sperry, do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner whatever disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of contgress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed on the 18th day of March 1818.  And that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property in securities [illegible] or debts, due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.  
The subscriber has no real estate - his personal estate consists of the following items - to with
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one hand saw worth about 14 shillings, one hoe worth about 7 shillings, one half inch auger worth two shillings, two gun blets [belts] worth one shilling.  
I have no debts or income due to me except about $40 due me and that $40 very precarious and uncertain and I owe about $35.  
I am a single man having no family after years quite infirm having been nearly one half the time been confined by [illegible] and not able to do much work.  I consider myself in [illegible] circumstances and to need and by services and losses in the revolutionary war to have deserved this assistance of my Country of my necessary wearing apparel is excepted in the above investory.  
Army Sperry
Sworn to and declared on the sixth day of July in the year 1820 in open court before me 
Lucas [illegible]
first judge of the said court
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I Christopher Tappen Junior Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Ulster in the State of New York do certifiy that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereunto annexed are truly copied from the originals on file in the  office of said Clerks.   And that it is the opinion of said court that Army Sperry is dependent on the aid of his Country for support and that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is nothing.  Witness my hand and the seal of said court. 
Ch. Tappen Junior
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Army Sperry

Actual
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State of New York
Ulster County 
On this fourteenth day of May 1818 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for Ulster County personnally appears Army Sperry aged 61 years resident in Marbletown in the said County of Ulster who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war"  That he the said Army Sperry enlisted in New Haven in the State of Connecticut on the 14th day of April 1777 for during the war in the company commander by Captain Joseph Walker Colonel Webb's Regiment or ninth Connecticut Regiment, that he continues to serve in the said corps or in the service of the United States until the Glore of the war when he was discharged from service at Westpoint in the State of New York that he was in the Battles of Rhode Island , Springfield, New Jersey and in several skirmishes that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need for assistance of his Country for support and trust he has no other evidence now in his lower [?] of his fair services.
Army Sperry [signature]
Sworn to and declared before
me the day and year aforesaid 
Abm Hoffiman
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I Abraham Hoffman Judge and aforesaid do certifiy that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Army Sperry did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceeding declaration against the common enemy, and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War, therefor wit to the directions of the aforementioned Act of Congress - Dated 14th May 1818 
Abm Hoffman

State of New York Ulster County [illegible] office
I certify that the above named Abraham Hoffman is qualified as above states, and that the above signature is his own handwriting with which I am well acquainted.  Witness the  seal of the above described court of which I am clerk.   C. W. Tappen Junior

Army Sperry Private
[illegible] L. B. Webb's 

14th April 1777 to the above of the war.
14th May 1818 - 
Service Admittee but
This Judge's certificate of reduced circumstances of applicant's wantings
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Wefeel Brodhead one of the judges of the court of Common Pleas of Ulster County do certifiy that I am well acqainted with Army Sperry a soldier in the war of the revolution that the said Army Sperry is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of assistance from his Country for support.  
Dated 8th July 1819

Wefeel Brodhead

Ulster County Clerk's office:  The above named Wefeel Brodhead is duly qualified as one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster and his name above signed in his own hand writing witness the seal of the court above mentioned of which I am clerk - 
dated 30th July 1819
CW. Tappan, Junior
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42367
INVALID
Ray [ hand written]

File No.  42367
Army Sperry
Priv Rev War

Act: 18 March 18
Index:  Vol. 3, Pae 403

[Arrangementof 1870.]
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Honble [Honorable]
John C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington City
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Kingston, N.Y. 
John C. Calhoun, Esq.   31st July 1819

Inclosed [Enclosed] are ten declarations made by persons applying for pensions under the Act of March 1818.  Some of the certificates of reduced circumstances are made by a different officier from the one before where the original declaration was made, that is owning to the circumstance of one or more officers not being at present in commission, and Mr. Urendorf 
 the other being at present in the State of Kentucky - when more papers are acted on have the goodness to forward the certificates of pensions to me.  
I am Sir
your old friend
D. Brodhead Jr
5 new cases taken out.
J.L.