Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 749, Archibald Bennet, Penn.
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Service                                   Number

Penn.     Bennet, Archibald     R749
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The State of Indiana
County of Decatur

On this thirteenth day of November in the year 1837 personally appeared in open court before the probate court of and for the said county of Decatur in the state aforesaid, now sitting (the said court being a court of record and as such constituted by the laws of said state) Archibald Bennet, a resident of Salt Creek Township in the said county of Decatur and state aforesaid, aged seventy-five years on the twelfth day of January next, 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 June 7th 1832.  That he was drafted and entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.

That he was drafted and entered the service of the United States on or about the first day of March in the year 1778 at Washington County and state of Pennsylvania under Captain William McFarland and Lieutenant Samuel Hardesty and marched from said Washington County (where he then resided) under said officers to Fort Wheeling in the state of Virginia and on the Ohio River; that he was stationed  at Fort Wheeling under said officers to guard the frontier and prevent the incursion of the Indians there hostile to the United States.

That he continued and remained at said Fort at least two months engaged in such service and on or about the sixth day of July in the year 1778 he marched under said officers back to Washington County, Pennsylvania and was there (on Ten Mile Creek in said county of Washington) discharged from service.  He received no written discharge.  That the distance he marched from the place where he was drafted to Fort Wheeling is at least
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That during said tour of duty he served at least two months.

That he was drafted and entered the service of the United States on the first day of March in the year of 1179 at Washington County and state of Pennsylvania under Captain Mc Mahon, Lieutenant James Mitchell and Ensign Biggs and marched under said officers to Grave Creek on the Ohio River, about 12 miles below Fort Wheeling in the state of Virginia; that he was stationed at Grave Creek under said officers for the purpose of protecting the frontier settlements from the incursion of the Indians then hostile to the United States.

That he remained and continued so stationed under said officers at Grave Creek for the space of at least eight months; that during the time he was at Grave Creek he assisted in building several houses and cabins to live in and protect themselves against the enemy.  That under said officers he made frequent excursions both up and down the Ohio River from Grave Creek in pursuit of the Indians and had during such excursions several skirmishes with the Indians.  That he was discharged from service at Grave Creek on or about the tenth day of November in the year 1779 and returned home to Washington County, Pennsylvania. That the distance he marched from said Washington County to said Grave Creek is at least fifty miles.  That he received no written discharge.

That in marching from Washington County where he entered the service aforesaid he passed up Ten Mile Creek to the head thereof , thence on to Wheeling Creek, thence twelve miles down said creek, thence through dark wilderness about 12 miles, to Grave Creek where he was stationed as aforesaid.  That at the time of his said first tour of service at Fort Wheeling there was no other company of men at said Fort, but the company in which he served under the command of Captain McFarland aforesaid and at the time he served at Grave Creek there was no other company there except the one under Captain Mc Mahon aforesaid.
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That he has no documentary evidence of his said service and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service.  And that in the two foregoing tours of service he was engaged in the service of the United States at least ten months.

That he was born on the 12th day of January in the year 1763 at the mouth of Antietam Creek in the state of Maryland; that he has no record of his age; that his age was recorded in a Bible of his father which is now in the possession of this declarant but from age and use the said record has been torn or work out and lost; that he knows his age from having seen the aforesaid record and from having heard his father frequently say that he, this declarant, was born on the day and year aforesaid.

That at about six years of age he removed with his father to the county of Washington, Pennsylvania and resided in said county of Washington about fourteen years during which time he performed the aforesaid military service.  Sometime in the year 1793 he removed to Mason County, Kentucky at which place he resided about fifty-one years.  And that in the year 1834 he removed to Salt Creek Township, Decatur County, state of Indiana where he now resides. 

That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
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is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in the opinion.
Signed:  John Ford, Abraham Derry

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states.  And the court further certifies that it appears to them that John Ford, who has signed the preceding certificate, a clergyman residing in said township of Salt Creek, Decatur County, Indiana and Abraham Derry, who has also signed the same, is a resident in the said township of Salt Creek and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.  
Signed: A. C. Mc Coy
Sole judge of the said court

I, Henry H. Talbott, clerk of the probate court in and for the said county of Decatur and state of Indiana, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Archibald Bennet for a pension.  

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 13th day of November in the year 1837.
Signed:  Henry H. Talbott, Clk.
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Ex'r INVALID
749

Archibald Bennet

P.O. _______
Service: ______
Enlisted: _______
Discharged: _______

Application filed: _____

Alleges: ________
Re-enlisted: ______

Attorney: ______
P.O. ________
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Archibald Bennet
Indiana

Rejected

See Letter 35th
Nov 37 A. Davidson

749
did not serve
six months by order of
competent authority
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Greensburgh                                 Free
Nov 14 - 1837

War Department
          Pension Office
       Washington, D.C.


Nov. 27.

Ind'a.
Act 1832

Archibald Bennett
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Greensburgh, In.
Nov 13th 1837

The Department is requested to direct any communication on the subject of this application to me at Greensburgh Decatur County, Indiana to the care of Andrew Davidson.

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