Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16184, Caleb Bentley, New York
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(8-1776)             (File Folder)

Service

New York
Bentley, Caleb
Mary

Number
W1618.4
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(8 - 1776)      (File Folder)
SERVICE
New York

Bentley, Caleb
Mary
NUMBER
W. 1618.4
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Let to Hon C. Ellis
6th March 1844

8011
New York
Mary Bentley
widow of Caleb Bentley
who was a pensioner under the Act of
and who died on the 2nd March 1828
of Chemung Co in the State of New York
who was a Captain in the _______________
commanded by Captain _______________ of the
Regiment commanded by Col Schuyler in
the New York 16 line for six

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany~~
at the rate of 120. Dollars ____Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 day of March, 1836

Certificate of Pension issued the 13th
day of January 1844 and sent to Hon
C. Ellis - House of Representatives
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Total amount,   $600.00

[Act July 7, 1938.]

Recorded by F. L. Gramm  Clerk,
Book D. Vol 1 Page 14
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State of New York Chemung County Js On the 29th day of August 1838 personally appeared before Guy Hulett Esq. one of the Judges of the County courts of the said County of Chemung, Mary Bentley of the Town County
& State aforesaid aged Seventy eight years and upwards who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed July 7th
1838 entitled: An act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows."
That she is the widow of Caleb Bentley who was a captain of the fifth Company of foot (militia) in the Sixth Regiment in the County
of Albany whereof Stephen J Schuyler was Colonel, appointed by the Provincial Congress of the Colony of New York on the 20th of Febr
1776 as will appear by the Commission annexed, and who was afterwards reappointed a Captain in the same Regiment by the Council of Appointment of the State of New York on the 28th of May 1778 as will appear by the certificate of the Secretary of State, annexed: That from information derived from her husband & others, and certain pay rolls found among the papers left by him at his decease it
appears that he was in service as a Captain in the 4th Regiment commanded by Col Cornelius Humfrey in Gen Scott's Brigade of
New York levies raised the 23d of June 1776 & stationed at Fort Constitution; that he remained at Fort Constitution during
that season, and as she has always understood until he was ordered to the Northern part of the State in the following year 1777, when the invasion of Burgoyne took place. The rolls &
memorandum annexed shew apart of his service at Fort Constitution. In the following 
year he was in the Battle at Bennington and was in service when Gen Burgoyne surrendered. That she has applied at the office of the Secretary of State & Comptroller of New York for evidence of Captain Bentley's services, but has been informed that the payrolls, receipts etc on file in the offices of the Secretary & Comptroller have been transmitted to the Pension Office at Washington. She has no other documentary evidence of her husband's services than the papers annexed, and after much enquiry she cannot learn that any persons are now living by whom she can prove the service of
her said husband; but has no doubt that the papers