Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 14210, for Samuel Potter, Massachusetts
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SERVICE | [blank] | NUMBER 

Mass.  |    Potter, Samuel   |  S. 14210
R.I.         

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Albany 14,129
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Samuel Potter
of Albany Co. in the State of N York
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Ingraham of the regt commanded
by [blank]  in the Mafs. [star symbol]
line for 6 months & 11 days
[star symbol] Dec. 4, 1906.
Mass/ and  R. S. Records completed. jS
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Inscribed on the Roll of Albany
at the rate of 21 Dollars 21 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March 1840
Reduced from $80.  hodeducatiove
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Certificate of Pension issued the 22. day of June
1840 and sent to A. Marks
Esqr Durham, N. York
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Arrears to the 4th of [crossed out] March 1840 $10.60
                                                                            $10.60
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                                                                             $31.20
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Semi-annual allowance ending [faded] Sefe .. 

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.} 
Recorded by D. Brown      Clerk,
Book E. 2. Vol. 4 Page 55,

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Reduced from $80 per annum
see letters Oct. 15, 1840 to A.
Marks & P. Agt.
same Feb: 26. 1844,
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13.243
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2 years be
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80 $ 

Direct all communication
in relation to this claim
[to] w  J. VB. Moore
Renpelainville
New York
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State of New York
Albany County SS.
On this 20th day of
September 1832 personally appeared before
Joseph B. Moore a Judge of the County
Courts of the County of Albany and State aforesaid
the said Samuel Potter, a resident of the
town of Rensselaerville in the County of Albany
and State of New York aged 71 years in October next, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the
1832 benefit of the act of Congress passed June, 1832
That he entered the service of the United States
under the following named officers and served as herein stated
He entered the said service at the town of Dartmouth now New Bedford in the State of Massachusetts, where he then resided as a volunteer for the term of six months and
joined Capt Joseph Alm's company in the spring of the year 1775 as a private soldier and went to the sea shore and there kept guard until the fall of the same year and until the expiration of the said term of Six months
In the latter part of the summer of the year 1777 he was at Sakonnet in the State of Rhode Island, and his brother
John Potter was drafted at that place to join
the expedition under Genl Spencer against ┃
New Port in that state. He took his brother's
place and went as his substitute and
joined Capt Simmons Company, and was
immediately embodied with large army
and was stationed at Sakonnet and there
kept guard for the term of two months
and thinks more, and was dismissed in the ┃
month of September 1777- immediately after and the same
day his time was out, in September
1777 he again entered the said service as a
volunteer, and was selected as a waiter to an
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Army Surgeon, whose name he does now
recollect, at Sakonnet and served as a waiter
to the said Surgeon at least one month and
was then dismissed, - he then returned home to
New Bedford in Massachusetts late in the
fall of the year 1777
He again entered the said service in the month of March 1778 in  Dartmouth aforesaid and enlisted in Capt Ingraham's company of Massachusetts Militia for the term of nine months and went to New Bedford River [illegible] and there did garrison duty in a fort until the first day of January 1770 - when he was discharged and returned home after having served out his term of Nine months. He served during this campaign
as a private soldier
About the month of May
or first of June 1781 he again entered the said
service and enlisted as a private soldier
in Capt Drakes Company at Dartmouth
aforesaid, Benjamin Wilcox was 1st Lieut and
John Hicks was 2d Lieut in said Company -
He was immediately marched from Dartmouth
in the said Company to Taunton, and from
there to Hartford in Connecticut, and
from Hartford he was marched to West Point
in New York and there joined the United States
Army. He continued at West Point doing duty at one of the Forts until after
Cornwallis surrendered, at Yorktown-
He was then put on board of a vessel on
the Hudson River, and was engaged in transporting provisions etc for the Army until in the winter - He then again joined this said Company and went into Winter quarters at West Point and continued there until the last of February 1782, and until his time was out, and
was then discharged in writing having served
at this campaign nine months
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embodied Corps for the whole Two years
and four months for which he claims
a pension. He received a written discharge from
a Genl, whose name he does now recollect which
has long since been lost or destroyed. He has no
documentary evidence nor does he know of any
person he can procure to testify to his service except the persons who have made affidavits hereto annexed - He was born in the year 1761 at
Dartmouth aforesaid and has a record of his
age in his Bible. He does not now recollect
the names of any of the Regular officers he
served with, nor can he now mention the continental or militia regiments, other than is stated above. That he resides 35 miles from the City of Albany where the Court of Record for the
County are held- that his hip is now out of
joint, and he is a cripple, and wholly disabled
and cannot possibly attend the Court by reason
of bodily infirmity - 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.
He has resided since the Revolutionary
war in the State of Massachusetts, in the
County of Dutchess in the State of New York
and for the last thirty five years in the County ┃
of Green and the Town and County where now ┃
resides. He further states that he was in no
battles except an engagement at Bedford aforesaid against the British under Genl Greyson
on the Acushinot River at which place a number of vessels and other property were taken, by the British
sworn to and subscribed the day
Samuel Potter
year aforesaid Before me
W. B. Moore Judge
of Albany County Court