Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16,501, for William Patten, New Hampshire
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(3-1776)

SERVICE                                                             NUMBER
  N.H.           Patten, William                        S. 16,501

                                                                        carded

CONTENTS
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1129
New Hampshire
William Patten
of Rockingham in the State of N H who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain  [blank] of the regt commanded by Col. Reed {Reid} in the NH line for 7 May 18 De from 1780

Inscribed on the Roll of NH at the rate of 31 Dollars 99 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 27th day of October 1832 and sent Josiah Houghton  South Deerfield NH

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832                              $47.98
Semi=annl. allowance ending 4 [illegible]33      15.99
                                                                        ---------
                                                                          $63.97

                                     {Revolutionary Claim,  }
                                     {Act June 7, 1832,        }

Recorded by J H McBlair  Clerk,
Book D, Bol. 17  Page 176.
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3430
Wm. Patten
Private
 7 mo and 18 day
N. C. E.
on Roll Capt Whittier Co, Col Nichal's Regt
enlisted 6 July 1780--disch 26 Oct 1780--3 mos. and 18 ds.
On Roll of enlistments for the town of Candia 6 months

Adm'  [Admitted]
J L E

To Josiah Houghton
     South Deerfield
                 N H
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3430
BRIEF in the case of Wm. Patten of Candia Rockingham Cy [county] in the State of N,Hampshire
(Act  7 June 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?   Open Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? ------
3. How old is he?  69
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed,

Period.      |        Duration of Service.        |             Rank.    |  Names of General and Field 
                  |                                               |                         | Officers under whom he served                                                              
                 |    Years,  Months,   Days.       |      As a              |    Gen.
In 1780     |  ---          3            ---            |    {private           | Col. Nicholls state Troops
July to       |                                              |                           |
October    |                                              |                            |
1781         |    ---         6           ----          |       "                   | Col Geo Reed--  (served
June to Dec |                                           |                            |  a party there six months on
                 |                                              |                            | detached Service in a Continental
                 |                                              |                            | Company)

5. In what battles was he engaged?  none mentioned
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Candia
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary evidence--living witnesses
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication?  and if so, in what respect?
  No clergyman's certificate but other respectable evidence

I Certify that the forgoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.        
                                      W. C. Easton  
                                                   Examining Clerk.
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Sworn         State of New Hampshire.
                 County of Rockingham  SS.

  On this eighth day of August AD 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature now sitting in Exeter within and for the county of Rockingham in said State William Patten a resident of Candia in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire aged sixty nine years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832:
     That he enlisted as a private soldier in said Candia in the month of July 1780 under Captain Benjamin Whicher [Whittier] in Colonel Nichalls New Hampshire Regiment of State Troops and Revolutionary army for three month and marched from Chester in said county of Rockingham to West Point, New.York State.  That he served out his said term of enlistment as a faithful soldier at and near West Point in said company and Regiment and was honourably discharged verbally and returned to said Candia the last of October in the same year:
     That he enlisted as a private soldier in the army of the United States in the month of June 1781 at Candia in said County of Rockingham for six months and served in the second Regiment of the Continental Line under the following named officers: (The Brigade was then or had been commanded by General Enoch Poor)  Colonel George Reed and Captain Moses Dublin.  That he was ordered to join and did join the army at White Plains, New.York  that after remaining at White Plains a few weeks he marched up North river to Peeks Kill [Peekskill] and from thence to Fishkill New York, and while there in the month of August or September the same year, he was detached from said company and served in a company in the Continental service commanded by Captain Allen and marched from said Fishkill below said White Plains on to the line betwixt our Army and the British.  that he there remained untill the expiration of his enlistment and served out his time as a faithful soldier and was honourable discharged and returned home to said Candia in the month of December following.  He received a discharge but the same is lost

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said discharge proved useful to him on his
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and the British.  That he there remained untill the expiration of his enlistment and served out his time as a faithful soldier and was honourably discharged and returned home to said Candia in the month of December following.  He received a discharge but the same is lost  said discharge proved useful to him on his return [end of duplicate sentences]
from the army as on presenting it at Hartford Connecticut the Commissary there dealt out to him his ration--he does not know that any person now living can testify as to his service  after he was detached as aforesaid, but he beleive his name is in the war department
     That he was born in Chester in said County of Rockingham the 6th day of September AD 1762, has no record of his age.  That he has no documentary evidence to prove any part of his services in the army.  He lived in Candia aforesaid when he enlisted and has lived there ever since the Revolutionary War--and now lives in said Candia.  That he would name Andrew Moore Benjamin Pilsbury John Lane  John Moore Jr and William Duncan as persons to whom he is know in his present neighbourhood and who can testify as  to his character for veracity and their belief of his service as a solider of the Revolution.

    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.   
                                                         Willam Patten

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid

     
   We Benjamin Pilsbury and Andrew Moore both residing in said Candia hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Patten who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration.  That we beleive him to be sixty nine years of age  that he is reputed and beleived in the neighbourhood where he resides to be a solider of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
                    Benjn Pilsbury
                    Andrew Moore

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
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 And the within named Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the within named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states.  And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Benjamin Pilsbury and Andrew Moore who signed the within certificate are resident in said Candia and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.

     I, Peter Chadwick Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the State of New Hampshire within and for the County of Rockingham in said State do hereby verify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Court in the matter of the application of [here another name is crossed out] William Patten for a pension.

     In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this eighth day of August AD 1832.
                     P Chadwick  Clerk of the Court Rockingham
                                County
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Nathan Brown of Candia in the County of Rockingham and State of New-Hampshire aged seventy two years the 28th day of September last past, hereby testify and declare that I enlisted as a private soldier in said Candia in the month of July in the year 1780 under Captain Benjamin Whicher [Whittier] in Colonel Nicholls' New Hampshire Regiment, in the State Troops' service and Revolutionary army for three months and marched from Chester in said County to West Point in New York,  and I served out my said term of enlistment at and near said West Point in said Company and Regiment and returned to said Candia the last of October in the Same year.
     I further testify and declare that William Patten now of said Candia, and now present enlisted into said company and Regiment at the same time I did and served as a private soldier for said term of three months the whole time for which we enlisted, and he served as a faithful soldier and was honourably discharged and came home to said Candia with me.
                                 Nathan Brown

Deerfield  July 30, 1832
                    State of New Hampshire.
County of Rockingham SS.  Deerfield July 30, 1932.
Then personally appearing the abovenamed Nathan Brown made solemn oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is just and true
                       Before me  Josiah Houghton Jus. Peace

   I hereby verify that the above named deponent is personally known to me and is a credible witness and full credit is due to his statement     Josiah Houghton  Justice of the Peace.
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I Theophilus Lovering of Raymond in the County of Rockingham and State of New-Hampshire a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States aged seventy three years the 3d day of January last past, hereby testify and declare that I was a Sergent in the month of June in the year 1781 under Captain William Rowell in Colonel George Reed's Regiment and in General Enoch Poor's New-Hampshire Brigade in the Continental service and Revolutionary Army and said Brigade was then stationed at White Plains in the State of New York; after remaining at said White PLains a few weeks said Company and Brigade marched to Peekskill in said State of New-York, after remaining at said Peekskill a few weeks said company and Brigade marched to Fishkill in said State of New-York which was in August or September the same year
     I further testify and declare that William Patten now of Candia in said County of Rockingham and now present joined said Regiment at said White Plains in said month of June 1781 under Captain Moses Dustin as a private soldier for six months; that he remained in said Company and Regiment while at said White-Plains and marched in said Dustin's Company and Col. Reed's Regiment from that place to said Peekskill and from Peekskill to Said Fishkill and at said Fishkill said Patten was detached from Captain Dustin's Company and ordered to march on the line.  I beleive it was about three months from the time that said Patten joined the Army to the time he was detached as aforesaid and during said period of time he served as a faithful soldier
     That immediately after the American Revolution
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I had conversation with said Patten and he named Regt he served out his time with which he joined the Army to serve and was honourably discharged.
    I further testify and declare that I have been well acquainted with said Patten from the time he joined the Army to the present time and that he is a credible witness and that his statement is entitled to full credit.  He has ever had the reputation of having served out said time of six months in the said year 1781 and the same has never been denied or disputed
     August 6, 1832.    Theo's Lowering

                   State of New-Hampshire
County of Rockingham SS.  Deerfield Aug 6, 1832
Then personally appearing the above named Theophilus Lovering made solemn oath [3 words crossed out] that the above deposition by him subscribed is just and true--
                             Before me  Josiah Houghton  Justice Peace

I hereby certify that The above named deponent is personally known to me and is a credible witness and that full reliance can be place in his statement
             Josiah Houghton   Jus. Peace
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                                            [handwritten:  Record]

                           New York.
                          June 6, 1923.

Bureau of Pensions,
Interior Department,
Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sirs:

     Will you kindly send record of William PatTee , a private in the New Hampshire militia  pensioned under the Act of June 7th, 1832.  His name was placed on the roll October 27, 1832.
     Thanking you for this information, I am,
                                      Very truly yours,
                                       Alexander Lyons.

[Here handwritten: 
Rockingham Co. N.H list
Pattee (last letter is underlined)
  Error]

Address c/o Lord & Taylor,
       39th St. and Fifth Ave.
                New York City.        

                                                         [Round black inked stamp]

                                                                illegible
                                                                  JUN
                                                          U       7      S.
                                                                 1923
                                                              OFFICE
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I Moses Turner of Candia in the County of Rockingham and State of New-Hampshire a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States aged seventy seven years hereby testify and declare that I am well acquainted with William Patten now of said Candia and now present and have been well and intimately acquainted with him since the year 1782, and beleive said Patten is of the age he represents to wit sixty nine years of age last November--During all said period of time said Patten has been reputed and beleived in his neighbourhood as a Revolutionary Solider--And during said time I have always lived within a mile and an half of him and have never heard it disputed--but on the contrary said Patten's neighbours all concur in the opinion--In the year 1818 I heard said Patten say that he had served as a private soldier in the Revolutionary army nine months but it was at two periods of time and therefore by the Law then passed he could not obtain a pension--
     Said Patten's character for truth and veracity is unimpeachable--                    
                                                                                  his
                                                                     Moses     X   Turner
                                                                                 mark
Witness Josiah Houghton
Deerfield July 31, 1932.
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          State of New-Hampshire.
County of Rockingham SS.  Deerfield.  July 31, 1832.
Then personally appearing the within named Moses Turner made Solemn oath that the within deposition by him subscribed is just and true
     Before me    Josiah Houghton    Jus. Peace

I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the within named deponent Moses Turner and he is a credible witness and full credit is due to his statement
                                Josiah Houghton   Justice Peace
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I Benjamin Smith of Candia in the county of Rockingham and State of New-Hampshire aged sixty four years the 6th day of January last past, testify and declare that I was well acquainted with William Pattern in the year 1776 then and now a resident and an inhabitant of said Candia and I have always since been well and intimately acquainted with said Patten having been since said year 1776 one of his nearest neighbours, living within half a mile--I beleive said Patten from the acquaintance I have had with him is of the age he represents to wit sixty nine years old last November and that he is reputed and beleived in the neighbourhood where he and I live to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that the aforesaid neighbourhood concur therein.
  I recollect that said Patten returned ( from the Army as he then said) from New York in December in the year 1781, Said Patten and David Bagley then of said Candia but now deceased returned from the Revolutionary army about the same time, and I heard said Patten and Bagley frequently converse together about their being in the army together immediately after, and learned from them at that time that both enlisted into the Continental army as Private soldiers for six months, that they had served out their term of enlistment in New-York  that they had been to Peekskill  White Plains and in New York--and I have never had any reason to dispute their statements, and I have never heard
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any fact by them stated dispurted.  It was beleived by all that said Patten did serve as a private soldier six months in the Revolutionary army during the year 1781.
      I further testify and declare that said Pattens [word crossed out]  character for truth and veracity is good and such is his character wherever he is known.

Deerfield  July 31, 1832     Benjamin Smith

 State of New-Hampshire
County of Rockingham SS.  Deerfield July 31, 1832

Then personally appearing the above named Benjamin Smith made solemn oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is just and true
                          Before me  Josiah Houghton  Jus. Peace

I hereby certify that the above named Benjamin Smith is personally known to me and is a credible witness and full credit is due to his statement.
                                Josiah Houghton   Justice Peace.
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State of New-Hampshire
County of Rockingham ss.  I hereby certify that Josiah Houghton Esquire before whom the annexed depositions were taken is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County of Rockingham in said State and that full faith and credit is to be given to his attestations and that I beleive the signatures to be in the proper handwriting of said Houghton.
     In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Superior Court of Judicature of said State this eighth day of August 1832.

     P Chadwick, Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature of the State of New-Hampshire

[A paper seal was affixed to the lower left]
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Rev. War Section                                 [Handwritten] MMHF

 
July 24, 1823

Alexander Lyons
39th St. & 5th Ave. % Lord & Taylor
New York City.

Sir:
     I have to advise you that the Revolutionary War soldier of Rockingham County, New Hampshire, a Private in the New Hampshire Militia who was placed on the pension roll Oct. 27, 1832, was named William Patten. [Last letter of surname is underlined] 
     The name william Pattee [last letter of surname is underlined] on the printed list of 1835 is a typographical error.
                                    Respectfully,
   
 
                                   Commissioner.
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16,501
INVALID.
File No. 16,501
William Patten
Pri  Rev War

Act June 7th 32
Index:--Vol. 1, Pagge 290

[Arrangement of 1870.]

[On right hand page, handwritten vertically]

1932- July 23--Alexander Lyons advised name on 1838 list,--
an error. MNHL