Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13613, for Barak Keith, Connecticut
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Conn.

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Keith, Barak

NUMBER
S. 13613

carded

CONTENTS
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946
New York   14011

Barak Keith
of Onondaga Co in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Buell of the regt. commanded by Col. Durgen [Durkee] on the Ct Ma line for 6 mo

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 20 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 6 day of May 1833 and sent to
A Smith  Manlius

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $40.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. 10.00
$50.00

{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk,
Book E. Vol. 4 Page 23

June 20th. 1833
wrote to the agent at New York, to pay the balance due, to the widow - see letter of the above date -
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Rev War

13.613
INVALID.

File No. 13.613
Barak Keith
Priv. Rev. War

Act: June 7th 1832
Index:-Vol. 1, Page 203
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Barak Keith
12.946
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832.
State of New York
County of Onandaga Ss. On this eleventh day of September 1832 personally appeared before Daniel Moseley Esquire Vice Chancellor of the seventh circuit of the State of New York at a Court of Chancery now sitting at Onandaga in said County, in open Court, Barak Keith, a resident of Pompey in said County aged seventy years, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832: That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the month of July 1779 at Killingly Connecticut with Major John Ripley a recruiting officer at Windham, that he marched from Windham to Robertson's farm in the highlands near West Point in the State of New York where he joined Captain John Buell's Company in Colonel John Durqee's [Durkee's] Regiment of Connecticut troops, and served in said company and Regiment for the Period of six months being the town of his enlistment that the Regiment was stationed a while at Robertson's farm, then at Peekskill, thence to Stoney Point, and marched from there to winter quarters at Morristown in New Jersey, where his term of service expired in January 1780, that on the 8th January 1780 he left Morristown in company with Captain Buell and other soldiers whose term of service expired in all over one hundred in number & went on to Danbury Connecticut where the said Captain Buell gave this applicant a written discharge his pay, and three days provisions, that the said discharge not being considered of any use, was laid about the house where this applicant then resided and was never seen by him after that winter, that at the time of his enlistment he resided at Killingly county of Windham state of Connecticut.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or an annuity except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State
Barak Keith
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid "Daniel Moseley Vice Chancellor &c." first written on an Erasure
Daniel Moseley
Circuit Judge & Vice Chancellor
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states Daniel Moseley Vice Chancellor
I Daniel T. Moseley Deputy Clerk of the Court of Chancery of the seventh Circuit of the State of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Barak Keith for a Pension
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and the seal of the said Court this eleventh day of September 1832.

Daniel T. Moseley
Deputy Clerk

I certify that "Daniel Moseley" &c at the beginning of the within declaration was written on an erasure and interlined before sworn to and that there was an Erasure and interlineation in the Clerk's Certificate
Daniel Moseley
V. Chancellor
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12.946
Barak Keith
Onondaga Co N York
Rolls
Aug 16 '79 to Jan 15 '80
6 mos.

Admitted.
6 mo Private.

a Smith
Manlius
N.Y.
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BRIEF in the case of Barack Keith
[?]. of Onandago [Onondaga] in the State of N York
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? open Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3. How old is he? 70 years-

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period. | Duration of Service. | Rank. | Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
| Years, Months, Days. | As a | Gen.
July In 1779 - | 6 | Private | Capt. Buell Col. Durqee [Durkee]
[illegible] ["1780" crossed out] | | |

5. In what battles was he engaged? none

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Killingly Cont.

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? [illegible] declaration

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

Richard Cutts
Examining Clerk.
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addl. evidence in Barack Keiths case.
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I Moses Bixby of Webster in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age and engaged according to law do testify and say, that I am now 67 years old, & that I am well acquainted with Barak Keith of Thompson in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut now residing as I am informed in Pompey State of New York and that at sd. Thompson during the Revolutionary war, he enlisted with me or was drafted - as a private soldier in Capt John H. Buel's Company in Col. John Durqee's [Durkee's] Regt. in the month of June AD 1779. on a tour of duty of Eight months, we went to the north River opposite West Point & was then marched into the Jersies, to a place called Bear Skin Ridge five miles from Morris Town [Morristown] & helped build the Barracks there and was discharged in Jany. 1780.
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said Barek Keith was a soldier with me during said 8 months of duty & was, with me discharged - as aforesaid.
Moses Bixby

State of Connecticut
Windham County Ss. Thompson August 29" 1832 then personally appeared Moses Bixby signer of the above deposition and made solemn oath to the truth of the same
Before me Simon Davis Justice of the Peace

And I do further Certify that I am well acquainted with Moses Bixby the signer of the above deposition, & that his character is such that full faith & credit is due to his attestation
Simon Davis Justice of the peace

I Armin Bolles Clerk of the County Court within and for the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that Simon Davis Esquire, before whom the foregoing affidavit was made, is duly entitled as a Justice of the Peace in and for said Windham County, that the foregoing signatures of his name are in his hand writing, and that full faith and credit ought to be given to his acts as such -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Brooklyn in said County this 4th day of September A.D. 1832
Armin Bolles Clerk