Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39961, Benony Bates, R.I.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
R.I.

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Bates, Benony

NUMBER
S.39961
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4,235
Pennsylvania
Benony Bates
[illegible] Olney, Corporal
[Connecticut line] crossed out
'75 - 7 years
Rhode Island line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of PA
at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 15th of May 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued 4th of Nov 1818 and sent to the care of Rick Peter Esq. Philadelphia, Pa.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1818. [calculation] $27.18
Semi-anl. [illegible] ending 4th Mar 1819 $48
$77.18
Revolutionary Claim
Act 18th March, 1818
Rhode Island
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Correct
For G. Caldwell Esq.
Philada
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Bates, Benony
S39961

DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, ss. 
On this fifteenth day of May A. D. 1818, before me, Richard Peters, Judge of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Pennsylvania District, personally appeared Benony Bates of State of Rhoad land who being duly sworn deposes and declares, that during the War of the Revolution he served against the common enemy as a Corporal in the army on the Continental Establishment that on the fourteenth day of May ^1775. Providence in the state of Rhode Island he enlisted as a Corporal in Captain William Humphreys Company of Colonel Jerry Oney's Regiment attached to General James Brigade of the Connecticut line that he was in the first engagement between the Americans and British was in the battle of Whiteplain Springfield Redbank Monmouth, and at the [illegible] of Yorktown and that he was in the service of the United States during the Revolutionary war altogether in the service of years and months and 15 days and that he was discharged at Saratoga some time after the peace of 1783 by the said Colonel Oney 

That by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for support, that he never has received, or been allowed any Pension by the laws of the United States--that he is a resident citizen of the United States, and that his discharge has been lost and that he resides in the County of Philadelphia and State of Penn 
Benony Bates
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Sworn and Subscribed this 15th day of May A.D. 1818, before me} Richard Peters

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Correct by roll
Green’s Regimt
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39961

INVALID.
Revy

File No. 39,961
Benony Bates
Corp Rev War

Act: 18th March 18"
Index: -- Vol. 3, Page 83

[Arrangement of 1870]