Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 45257, Elisha Bennett, Navy
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(3-1776)
service   number
Navy  Bennett, Elisha  S.45257
New York residence and Agency

This Envelope Includes Final Payment Voucher H.G. Received from GAO
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7108
New York
Elisha Bennett
of Columbia County in the state of New York who was a 2nd mate in the ship Trumbull commanded by Capt. Saltonstall of the Navy line for the term of Twelve Months
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence the 6th of Ap'l 1818
Certificate of Pension issued 5th of March 1819 and sent to Judge Van Ness [illegible]
Arrears to 4th of Mar: 1819. $87.73
Semi-anl. all's ending 4th Sept. 1819.   48 --
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$135.73

Continued
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
Columbia County

Notif sent to Hon. Jas Strong H Rep
Dec'r 29. 1820
Died Nov 23, 1821
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Elisha Bennet
Cap 77 One year
Ship Trumbull - Capt Saltonstall
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State of New York, County of Columbia ss:
Elisha Bennet being duly sworn says that he is a resident citizen of the United States of America, that he now resides and for the last thirty years has resided in the town of Kinderhook, County and State aforesaid - He further says that he served in the Naval Service of the United States, during the war of the revolution, from the seventh day of January one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven, till the thirteenth day of February one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight, being a period of thirteen months and six days - That he thus served aboard the ship Trumbull Dudley Saltonstall commander in the capacity of second mate - that he had enlisted for the period of twelve months, but was detained on board one month and six days beyond the term of his enlistment by [illegible] - That at the time he left the ship he received a regular discharge, which together with other papers, was left in the City of Philadelphia in the year 1795 in the hands of Ignatius Waterman, for the purpose of obtaining from
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the government the arrears of pay due to the said Elisha Bennet at the time he left the service, and for which he at that time had petitioned Congress - That he has not since received his said discharge from the said Ignatius Waterman, who now resides as he understands in the State of Ohio, but he presumes that it went with his petition into the hands of the Clerk of the House of Representatives, That at the time he the said Elisha Bennet received his said discharge, there was due to him for wages the sum of one hundred and twenty six dollars, for which he petitioned Congress as aforesaid, but which was not allowed him being barred as he understood by the Statute of limitations - that he the said Elisha Bennet has it not now in his power to offer other or further evidence in support of the facts above stated - that he is upwards eighty five years of age, and that he has not the means or the ability to make search after any officers or men who served on board the said ship Trumbull with him, who were chiefly from the State of Connecticut, nor does he know whether any of them are still living -
Elisha Bennet
Signed & sworn to before this 6th day of April 1818
W. P. Van Ness Distr. Judge NY S. District
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Elisha Bennet
This man is inscribed on the pension roll His certificate is dated 6th April 1818 and numbered 7108