Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 264, Abimelech Arnold, New York R.I.
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New York
Arnold, Abimelech
R.264
R.J.
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Abimelech, Arnold
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State of New York
Otsego County

On this 14th day of March in the year 1833 personally appeared before His Honor Sherman Page one of the Judges of the County Courts in of for the County of Otsego and State of New York being Courts of Record- Abimelech Arnold a resident of the Town of Unadilla in the County of Otsego and State of New York, aged seventy years and four months who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the Benefit of the Act of Congress passed the 7th of June 1832~
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as herein stated - to write that he engaged at Glassester now Burrells Vill in the state of Rhoad Island on the 18th of May in the year 1777 as a substitute for Caleb Bartlett for the sum of two months and that he went from Glassester as aforsaid with the other recruits under the command of Lieutenant Mann to Providence in the State of Rhoad Island and was there Mustered by General Spencer and ...ammunition of and was sent into the Regiment Commanded by Colonel Cornwell and marched to ... and was stationed there with said Regiment to guard the shores of saif Warwick Neck until the said two months had expired and he was discharged and that said Regiment remained their- and that then about the 1st of July 1777 he again engaged as a a Substitute for Elisha Bartlett in the Company Commanded by Captain May and joined the same Regiment Commanded by Colonel Cornwell and was