Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13,912, for Ichabod Meeker, Connecticut
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(8 - 1776)
SERVICE Conn, New York
Meeker, Ichabod
NUMBER S.13.912
carded
CONTENTS
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3921
New York
Ichabod Meeker
Tioga in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by
Captain White of the regt. commanded by Col. Demon in the New York [illegible] for 21 months-
Conn. and N.Y.
Records completed. Oct.8.06
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 70 dollars per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2nd day of Jany 1833 and sent J. Robinson Elmira.
Arrears to 4th of Sep. 1832 $105
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4th 33  35 $140
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Geo. C. Stiles Clerk
Book D Vol. 5 Page 126
Date of death not [illegible]
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1st Brief
No 10708.
Ichabod Meeker.
16.
5th Dec 1832
P 120
James Robinson Elmira
Tioga Co. NY
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No 10708
Brief in the case of Ichabod Meeker of Catherine County of Tioga in the State of New York.
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? In Open Court.
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 82 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period. 
May In 1776 
Spring 1777
November of 1780
Duration of Service.
9 months
3 months
6 months
3 months
Rank. As a private
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Gen. Templer, Capt White, [illegible], Lieut [illegible], Col. J. Dimon, Lieut [illegible].
5. In what battles was he engaged?
Battle of Tourfield
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Ballston Saratoga County. N. York
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? By traditionary Evidence.
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
They appear to be in due form
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
James Ord Examining Clerk.
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Ichabod Meeker
Declaration
10,708
admitted
21 mo private
direct to the case of James Robinson Elmira agent
Tioga County 
[illegible]
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nine months to go to the Northward and
marched to Stillwater and from there to
Queensborough, then took boats and went
to Ticonderoga and then marched by land
to Crown Point and then went in boats to Lake Champlain and waited for provisions a few days and then went to the Isle of Noix and staid there some time under the command of Gen. Schuyler. This officer took a party of the Troops and went to St. Johns and having nothing but a small guns could not take the fort and returned to the Isle of Noix and that night had a number of balls shot through his musket. The next morning morning went on board of a barge with six men and went off; Gen Montgomery then took command and the army went by water to St. Johns and laid siege to the fort and while there a party volunteered and went to Shamblee(Chambly) and took it and conducted the prisoners to St Johns and then he joined his company again and then went to Longgale(Longueuil) near Montreal and staid there some time until the British sallied out of the Fort and undertook to cross the river then we being only one company marched to prevent their crossing and took one Indian and two white men prisoners and the friendly Indians took the Indian prisoner to the Isle of Noix and burnt him as was said at the time; and some time in January went to Shamblee(Chambly) fort when
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he term of the first enlistment expired and this
deponent enlisted again under the same officers for three months and continued there in the service until the three months expired and then returned home to Ballston making one year and seven days in those two enlistments, staid at home till August 1776 and then [illegible] into the State of Connecticut and in the spring of May he enlisted under Lieutenant Isaac Burr of the Town and County of Fairfield in the State last aforesaid for six months. Lyman Jennings was Sergeant and went to Black Rock Fort or Battery and remained there until the term of six months expired and then returned home. His last mentioned service was under the command of Col. Jonathan Dimon 1779 was called out on a short expedition to Fairfield where Fairfield was burnt and was in the battle at that place at the time.
In the Summer of 1780 enlisted under Lieutenant Nathan Seely and the same Col last before mentioned for three months to guard the coast along the sound to prevent the British and tories from landing there.  Served
out that term. he has no documentary
evidence of his said services and that he knows of no living witness whose testimony
he can procure who can testify to them. And in answer to the several interrogatories put to him
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by the Court he says that he was born in the town and County of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut on the first day of August 1750 has a record of his age at home in his family Bible which he took when young from his parents believes it correct.  When he first entered the service he lived at Ballston Saratoga County and State of New York. At the close of the Revolutionary War he lived at Fairfield in the State of Connecticut and lived there a short time then lived in the town of Milton Saratoga County & State of New York where he lived till the year 1800 then lived in Catherine, Tioga County where he has lived to the present time. in all his service as aforesaid he was a volunteer. Gen.  Montgomery and Gen. Schuyler were with the troops where he served. never received any written discharge. He would refer to Amos Bonney, Esquire, Joseph L. Darling, Esquire, Samuel Winton, Esq, all his neighbours are well acquainted with his reputation for truth and veracity and who can testify to their belief in the truth of the foregoing
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declaration that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and declares that his
name is not on the pension roll of the
agency of any state.
Sworn & subscribed the day and year
aforesaid.
Ichabod Meeker
Green M. Tuthill Clk
I Elias Beardslee a Clergyman residing in the Town of Catherine County of Tioga and State of New York and Abiud Lattin of the same
place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Ichabod Meeker who has
subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be eighty
two years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn & subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Elias Beagle
Green M. Tuthill Clk
Abiud Lattin
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March 29, 1938
BA J/EEL
Ichabod Meeker S.13912
Georgia D. Kimmons
R. R. 1
Bowling Green, Ohio
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Ichabod Meeker, pension claim No.13912.
The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, S.13912, based upon the service
in that war of Ichabod Meeker.
Ichabod Meeker was born August 1, 1780, in Fairfield County, Connecticut. The names of his parents are not shown.
While residing at Ballston, Saratoga County, New York, Ichabod Meeker enlisted in May, 1775, for nine months served as a private in Captain White's New York Company, went on an expedition to Canada, was at the siege of St. John Fort, at Chamblee and at Montreal, and after the term of his enlistment had expired reenlisted and served three months are under same captain. In August, 1776, he went to Connecticut, where he enlisted in the spring of 1777, and served six months under Lieutenant Isaac Burr and Colonel Jonathan Dimon in the Connecticut troops: in 1779, when Fairfield was burned, he went to that
town and was in the engagement there: he enlisted in the summer of 1780, and served three months as a guard to the sea coast
in Captain Nathan Seeley's Company under Colonel Jonathan Dimon in the Connecticut troops.
After the war, he lived in Fairfield County, and in Milton, New York in 1800, moved to Catharine, Tioga County, New York,
where he was living when he was allowed pension on his application executed September 6, 1832.
There are no data as to soldier's family.

There was a Capt. White in one of the late regiments in service early.
Could not find an Isaac Burr.
Found Capt. Seeley Col Dimon
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In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, Ichabod Meeker
(S.13912), you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data:
Icabod Meeker
Certificate No. 3921
Issued January 2, 1833
Rate $70.00 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
New York Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator.
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13912
INVALID.
13, 912
Ichabod Meeker
Priv Rev War
Act: June 7, 1832
Index: Vol. 1, Page 254
Arrangement of 1870
1938 March 29 list to Georgia D. Kimmons
EL
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Re. S. Pension Claim 13912
Veteran's Administration
Washington D.C.
Rt. 1
Bowling Green Ohio
March 2 1938.
Kindly send me record of Ichabod Meeker, Rev. S. under claim 13912.
Serviced from Conn. and New York.
Family details if any are desired.
Very Truly
Georgia D Kimmons
Justice of the Peace
Rt 1
Bowling Green Ohio
Received Mar 3, 1938