Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8,325, Robert Davenport, New York Pa.
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New York  Davenport, Robert    S.8.325
Pa              Devenport                
carded
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Ohio [strike through: New York] 24834 
Robert Devenport 24834
of Orange- in the State of New York who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Raymond of the [illegible] commanded by Col. [illegible] in the N. York line for 8 mo. 28 days.

Inscribed on the Roll of New York.
at the rate of 29 dollars 76 cents per annum.
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of March 1834 and 
Newburgh, N.Y.

Arrears to the 4th of March '34 $89.28
Semi-anl allowance ending        14.88
                                                $104.16
Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded By JW Brown
Book 8 Vol. 4, Page 96

Let. to Hon. JW Brown
26 May '34
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State of New York [illegible stamp] [crossed out text]
Orange County [initials] JS

On this Third Day of September 1832 personally appeared
Before Samual S Seward Esq first judge of the
Court of Common Pleas of said County and his
associates the said Court Being now in Session
Robert Devenport a resident the Town of Monroe
in said County aged Seventy five years on the 10th
Day of May last past. Who being duty 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 entertain the United States Service and serving under the following officers in October
1775 for five months in a regiment Commanded
by Colonel Nicholl in Captain Samuel
Raymonds Co [Company] Lieutenant Reynolds Ensign
Holms [Holmes] which Regiment were called minute men
a part of which time he was stationed at Constitution
Island opposite West Point & the rest of the
time at [illegible] Fish Kill [illegible] and was disbanded
in March 1776 when he was enrolled
in Captain Frances Smitty Company in Colonel
Odell or Woodhulls Regiment afterwards Colonel
Harving and was on duty the principal part of three months at Fort Montgomery
and Fort Clinton until the 6th day of October 1777 
With the exception of about three months in the
Winter of 1776 & 7 that on the 6th Day of October
1777 He was doing Duty in Fort Clinton when
attacked by the British & received a severe Bayonet
wound in the arm and narrowly escaped
with life by leaping from the rampart &
running although several times shot at by the 
British soldiery [he was] on that day attached to
Colonel McClougerrys Division under Lieutenant
Brewester The fort was commanded by General
Clinton and part of Captain Moodys Company of
artillery were in the fort But he was absent
& Hatronit at a distance on the rocks
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The rest of the fall was excused from service not
being able to perform on a/c [account] of his wound
in December was ordered out on a tour of Duty
on the lines in New Jersey & remained in the
neighborhood of Hackensack for seventeen day
in February following removed to Susquehanna
in the State of Pennsylvania Luzerne County of
of Plymouth and was enrolled in Colonel Dentons regiment in Capt. Whittlesey & Lieutenant
Gaylors Company and was under orders to be
ready at a moments warning as there was a
constant report of the Indians, attacking
the settlement and Done various short Tour
of Duty until about the 2d or 3d of July when he
was marched to a place called Wintermoot for
where they met the Indians & had a desperate
right all the officers non commissioned office
and missionary he Whittles eye Company to which
He belonged were slain with the exception of
one Sergeant & only Ten rank & file in
Escaped and that in the retreat he killed an
Indian and had on that day several narrow
Escape the United States troops were commanded
by Col Denniston & the Indians by Brant the
Indians pressed on the settlement they all had to
move men women and children & suffered much.
He moved back to his former residence in orange
County & was again Enrolled in Capt. Frances
Smithy Company & was almost continually on
duty until October following when he went
to West Point & drove a team in the Continental service for one year. When he again Join
Captain Smithy Company & continued to do
duty occasionally till the close of the war on
four continued for three months which ended
by the setting in of Winter when he was
Discharged at Fish Kill and deponent further ┃
says that the whole of his service was much
more than two years Exclusive of the waggon
service at West Point and further deponent said
not
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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension or annuity except the Present and Delcares that his name is not on the Pension roll of the agency of any state
in mark
Sworn to and subscribed Robert Davenport
mark
this Day and year aforesaid before me Asa Dunnine Clerk
The Earl Ramsey Minister of the Gospel and James residing in the County of Orange Town of Monro hereby [illegible] that we  are well acquainted with Robert Davenport who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration that we be3lieve him to be twenty five years of age that he is reputed and Believes in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and Subscribed Earl Rumsey
the Day and Year aforesaid James Waygant
before me Asa Dunnine Clerk
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And the said Court do hereby Declare I have no opinion after the investigation of the matter and after pulling the interogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary solider and served as he states and the court further certifies that it appears to them that Bart Kinnsey who has signed the preceeding certificate is a clergynan resident in the town of Monroe Orange County and that James Waygant Esq who has also signed the same is a resident in the same place is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit
I Asa Dunning Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of orange County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Robert Davenport for a pension in the testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 3rd day of September 1832 
Asa Dunning
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Supplementary Affidavit

Swear R Davenport & witness that he signs with a chop and cannot write name
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State of New York
Orange County

Supplementary affidavit of Robert Davenport whose original affidavit hereunto annexed

Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Orange.  Robert Davenport who swore to and subscribed the original Declaration hereunto [illegible] a credible witness to me personally known and having been by me duly sworn according to Law doth depose and sat that in the moth of October one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five he enlisted as a private in a Company of Volunteer Militia Commanded by Captain Samuel Burgmond in the Regiment Commanded by Colonel Isaac Hieholl of the County and State aforesaid During said term Deponent served two months and nine days at Fort Constitution opposite to West Point Colonel Hieholl had the command of said Fort David Bergamots was First and Richard Langdon was Second Lieutenant Vincent Nelms was Ensign and Joseph Morell Esquire of New Windsor a commissioned officer in the Revolutionary and late a Pensioner of the United States under the law of March 1818 was Clerk of said Company after the termination of our said service at Fort Constitution Deponent served with said Company month in the town of Fishkill in the County of D  tship and State of aforesaid The resident of said term of five months  Deponent served with said Company in the town of New Windsor and Cornwall in guarding the [illegible] mountains until the Month of March in the year 1776 when deponent was Honorably discharged with the other men belonging thereto at Fort
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Constitution before named - I was immediately afterward Enrolled in a Company of Militia Commanded by Captain Francis Smith of Colonel Edward Mulls Regiment-This Company was divided into three detachments one of which was Constantly in service until after the battle of Fort Montgomery-They alternately took three regular tours of duty and were Commanded when in actual service by such officers as were from time to time assigned who were sometimes the officers of said Company at others the officers of Companies to which we were attached Deponent served with the detachment to which he belonged whenever its regular time for service returned-Each Detachment of said Company served a period of eight days and then returned home this period being more convenient than a longer time on account of our being near the Passes thro the Mountains & Many of us in the Mountains near which we were required to keep guard. From March 1776 aforesaid until after the sixth day of October 1777 (the day Fort Montgomery was taken) Deponent was in actual service at least one third of the time Exclusive of the times when the whole Company was ordered out on alarms These alarms were Frequent and the whole Regiment on those occurrences turned out-
In the month of August in the year 1776 there was a General alarm and said Company was ordered down to Fort Montgomery and went by land under the  Command of the said Captain Francis Smith-and the other officers of said Company. We remained there Eight days and were then discharged. Captain John Bellknan's Company
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(Page if folded over)
days and ever these discharged. Captain John Bellknans Company
(under the fold)
of Infantry part of Duboirer Regiment Clintons Regiment of Continental troops & Moodys Company of Artillery were at Fort Montgomery. McLaughrys Regiment of Militia was stationed at Fort Clinton We were stationed at the same place General Clinton commanded those Forts-In the month of September 1778 We were again ordered down to Fort Montgomery on an alarm under the Command of the same officers we marched thro the Mountains as before and were stationed at Fort Clinton Under the Command of Colonel McLaughry we remained there one half month. The same Continental troops and a great number of Militia were there. In the latter part of the month of March 1777 there was another General ("alarm" crossed out) alarm at those forts-The militia In the Neighborhood were all ordered out. Our Companys marched to Fort Montgomery under the Command of the officers before named-The same Continental officers and troops as before mentioned were there. We remained at Fort Clinton Eight days and then returned. In Consequence of the Burning of Danbury in Connecticut there was another General Alarm in the month of April 1777 We were again ordered to Fort Montgomery & marched under the Command of the officers of our Company to the said Fort  Deponent served with said Companies at Fort Clinton on this occasion eight days-The Continental officers and troops at that Fort were the same as before. In May ("August" crossed through) thereafter there was another alarm and Deponent was ordered down with detachment of said Company to Tarrytown and remained in service at that place with said Company Eight days and were stationed at Burkerks on the Month of August thereof til we were again ordered to march to fort Mont-
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6.9
--gomery on occasion of a general alarm we
marched thro the Mountains under the
Command of the officers of the Company on
forward at this time Deponent remained in service at said Forts with said
Company ten days & was honorably
discharged as heretofore on the 6th
October 1777 - Deponent was stationed
at Fort Clinton under the immediate 
Command of Lieutenant Benjamin Brewster. The Fort was commanded by Colonel
Mc Laughery . on that day the Fort
was attacked by the Enemy. Deponent
was wounded dangerously in the arm &
with carries a deep scar- & was rendered by
it unfitt for duty and remained disabled
upwards of two months - General George
Clinton was Commander in Chief of the 
americans in that Battle in the
month of December thereafter Deponent
was ordered with the rest of said company
 to Hackensack in the State of
New Jersey when an alarm [illegible] marched down under the command of Captain the Smith Lieutenant Galloway
Thomas Smith second Lieutenant &
Ensign Thomas L Nomerck{?}. we served then 
Eighteen days and were then Honorably
discharged- We returned home on New years
day 1778 I was at Hackensack injured
in said service when news of the
capture of the Hessians at Trenton
arrived, whilst I was on this tour
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of duty & assisted in capturing the
Brittish Picket guard at Prahamus
consisting of sixteen men after
this my father removed his family to
the County of Luzerne in the State of
Pensylvania [Pennsylvania] and I went along
served as a private of Militia inton
Company of Captain Whittlesey in
the Regiment commanded by Colonel
Denniston in  the
Battle at the Battle at the Wintermoot fort at
Whyoming [Wyoming] on the Susquehannah [Susquehanna]
River on the 5th or 6th of July 1878 -
Deponent was engaged in this service
three weeks. The Indians and Jones
were led by Butter and Brant-The
Inhabitents [inhabitants] of Wyoming who escaped
Missouri were driven back-
Deponent again returned to Orange
County- and enlisted as a continental
teamster in the Continental service
in a company commanded by Captain
Joseph Crooks and Major Rourk of the
Wagon Department for one year
and was stationed at West Point &
served out said term of service and
was honorably discharged at the same
place at the termination thereof [?Rosciesko*
 Could be Kosciuszko] the Polish engineer commanded
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7 of 8
all the Continental teams at this
Point. I commenced service as a continental
 teams aster aforesaid in
September1778-In the fall
the year 1779 or 1780 was ordered
with a detachment of Captain
Smiths Company aforesaid to Fishmill
 in the County of Dutch??
in the three months service it  then being the design of General 
Washington to attack New York
which was relinquished- I served
there one month and was honorably discharged some time in the beginning
of winter according to the best of my recollection and
belief and
Deponent also saith that he was born on the
tenth day of May one thousand seven hundred and fifty seven
in the Town of Munroe and County of Orange ard said that there was a record of his age in a family Bible which was lost from a raft in the Susquehannah [Susquehanna] river-
I lived in the Town of Monroe aforesaid when first called into service as aforesaid. then lived there ever since the Revolutionary war and live there now-
I entered the service first as a volunteer in the
four months service and afterwards as above [illegible ] larly related-
I have above stated the names of the Continental Officers, in Continental and Militia Regiments I can now
recollect and the general circumstances of my ser-
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I never received a written discharge from the service
I am well known to John McGarrah Esquire James Weygant Esquire of the said town of Munroe and to James O. Adams Esquire and Nathan Arstcott Esquire of the town of Cornwall in said County, all of whom are active Magistrates in and for Orange County as Deposit has been informed and verily believes to be true.
 
Robert Davenport      X his mark

Sworn and subscribed
This 12 day of December 1883 before me  
James Weyhant Justice

I certify that I am well acquainted with Robert Davenport and know that he's unable to write from never having learned to write.
James Weygant Justice dated this 12th Dec' 1883
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The State of Ohio Preble County
on this 6th day of May AD 1839 Before me
the subscriber a Justice of the peace for the said County of Preble Personally appeared Robert Davenport who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the
Company commanded by Capt. Pierson in the Regiment commanded by Colonel McClocklin
in the service of the United States that he was
wounded in the arm at Fort Clinton on the
6th of October AD 1777 that his name was
placed on the pension role of the State of
New York from whence he has lately removed, that he now resides in Preble County
in the State of Ohio where he intends to remain and wishes his pension to be there payable  in future. The following are his reasons for removing from the State of New York to the State of Ohio, where he now resides, his object was to better his condition and circumstances in life, his son with whom he lived and on whom he was in a great degree dependent for a support moved to this place and he considered it his duty and interest to go with his son his Robert -Davenport-  his X mark
Sworn and subscribed to before
and  the day and year aforesaid
Garland Harris   J.P.
and also at the same time and place
came personally before me the said Justice
Peter Davenport who being duly sworn says
upon his oath that the said Robert Davenport
who has taken the above Oath is the identical
person described in the above affidavit. that he
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WASHINGTON October 10, 1931
BA-J/AWF
Mrs. R. M. Hornlein
293 Wardman Road
Fenmore, New York.
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter relative to Robert Davenport a soldier of the War of the Revolution.
The data which follow are obtained from the papers on file in the pension claim, S.8325, based upon his military service in that war.
Robert Davenport or Devenport was born May 10, 1757 in Monroe, Orange County, New York.
While residing in said Monroe, he enlisted in October 1775 and served five months as private in Captain Samuel Raymond's company in Colonel Isaac Nicoll's New York regiment. He enlisted in March 1776 and served at various times in the New York troops under Captains Francis Smith, Jonathan Tuthill, Pierson, Colonels Woodhull and McClaughrey until October 6, 1777, when he was wounded in the right arm while defending Fort Clinton. He served eighteen days in December 1777 in Captain Smith's company.
He moved in 1778, with his father, whose name is not given, to Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, and served three weeks in Captain Whittlesey's company in Colonel Denniston's Pennsylvania regiment, and was in the battle of Wyoming.
He moved back to Orange County, New York, and from in September 1778, served one year as teamster under Joseph Crooks in the Wagon Department. He con-
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tinued to serve at various times until the close of the war in Captain Francis Smith's company.
He was allowed pension on his application executed, September 3, 1832, then a resident of Monroe, New York.
He was living in 1839 in Preble County, Ohio, with a son, whose name is not stated, nor is the name of soldier's wife given.
There is no further reference to children.
The foregoing record is that of the only Robert Davenport (all spellings of the surname searched) that is found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.
Very truly yours
A.D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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1921 Apr 25 List to Miss Eva M Clonan
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State of New York
Orange County    ⎬

Personally appeared before
-------
the Subscriber a Justice of the
Peace in and for the County Aforesaid
Susanah Smith to me Known to be a credable [credible]
 Witness and having been by me duly
Sworn doth depose and say that she is a
Sister of Robert Davenport who sworn to and
and subscribed the annexed affidavit that
she Recollects of the said Robert being a Great
part of his time in the service of his Country
as a private Soldier and a Waggoner in the
Continental service in the Revolutionary war
as was always said by his Father and his family
that living near Forts Montgomery & Clinton
he turned out on every Alarm and also took
his Regular tour of Duty with his detachment
of Captain Smiths Company to which he
belonged he was wounded in the battle of fort
Montgomery and Will carry the scar of said
wound to his grave in the month of February
1778 my Father moved his family to Luzerne
County, Pennsylvania where we resided at
the time that Butler and Brant led the Tories
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and Indians into Wyoming and Massacreed
the Inhabitants my said Brother Robert
 Davenport served against the Indians on that occasion some time he was at the battle which took place at the Wintermoot fort and was one of the few men of the Company who escaped according to common report at that time near the scene of action the Inhabitants who were not killed by the enemy all fled and my Father again
Removed with his family to the Town of Monroe the County of Orange where the said
Robert now lives after our Return the said
Robert served as a Continental Teamster at
West Point, but does not Recollect how long
that she is sixty three years old says that
she does not positively know of the service
of her Brother only as she knows he was gone
from home and the family said he was in the
army, and further saith not
Sworn and Subscribed                      her
before me this 12th day  }     Susannah X Smith
of December 1833          }                   Mark
James O. Adams Justice of the peace
I certify that the Witness Signed by a Cross
James O. Adams
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Mechanics Bank
New York 22d July 1839
Sir
Robert Davenport, a pensioner under the act
of 7th June 1832, at $29.76 per annum, mentioned in your Letter of the 20th Just has been paid at this Agency
to the 4th September 1838, viz: on the 14th of September 1838,
I am very Respectfully
your Obt Servt
S. Knapp Prest
by Sylvester Spencer
of Pension office
James L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Service                                               Number
New York       Davenport,Robert       S.8325
Pa.              or Devenport    
                                                          carded
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Service                                      Number
New York      Davenport,Robert S.8325
Pa.              or Devenport
                                                    carded
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Service                                              Number
New York     Davenport, Robert       S.8325
Pa.            or Devenport
                                                               carded
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11,203
BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of  Robert Davenport which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?  It does
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?  He did
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?  He has
V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amout(sic) of pension he is entitled?  No
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?  He has
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? He has
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? Heas(sic)
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? He has
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed?  And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?  It is
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2
XI.  Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?  He has [handwritten]
XII.  If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
XIII.  If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
XIV.  + [single obelisk] If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? No [handwritten] Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office?
XV.  Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?  It does [handwritten]
XVI.  ++ [double obelisk] Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?  No [handwritten]
XVII.  Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily?  And, if not, which of them is not so answered?  No [handwritten]
EXPLANATORY NOTES. QUERE V.  In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:  For__year__ months and ___days. I served as a ___.  For _____months and ____days, I served as a ______; and for such service I claim a pension."
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SERVICE                                             NUMBER
New York      Davenport, Robert        S.8.325
Oa.                 Devenport
carded
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Service                                            Number
New York       Davenport,Robert       S.8325
Pa.               or Devenport
                                                          carded
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Eaton, Ohio 11th May 1839 
Sir I send herewith this application of Robert Davenport for a Transfer of his pension from the New York Agency to that of Ohio.  I have also sent inclosed Mr. Davenports Pension Certificate which you will please return to me and also inform me if the transfer is made. Respectfully Yours [initial illegible] Stephens
J [initial illegible] Edwards [illegible] of Pensions Dept of War Washington City
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Robt. Davenport

Non
J.L.Edwards
Commissioner
Washington City

----------
[along the  side of card is written]
who was present- [illegible]  [illegible]
Yours
Walter Case
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Hon             June 10th 1835

James L Edwards

was recently at the Pension office New York
and was there informed that Robert Davenport had a short time previous presented an affidavit for the purpose of drawing his pension, stating that I fraudulently with held his pension certificate as a lien for $40 charged for obtaining it, and also $60 the ballance [balance] of a note I hold against
him, which note the said Robert alledged [alleged]  on oath (as own informed) to have been given without consideration and to be
fraudulent and void. A due regard for my character =impells me to place on file the following statement of facts
[illegible] "I have done considerable business in the pension line but
have never in a single instance sought for it & delay the severest scruting as to the manner of my conducting it. were five 
The terms on which I generally undertook it were five dollars in advance if the applicants were able to pay it,
if not,  a reasonable compensation on obtaining these pensions, to be determined by the Judge before whom the business was transacted. In case I did not succeed in the cases last mentioned, I of course had my "labour for my pains" In some cases found the applicants imposters after the
papers were all prepared for Court, and abandoned the business without presenting them. In others I detected
fraud after the papers had been sent back from your office for amendment, which was the case with a man who piloted the Brittish through the Highlands, another who
was taken fighting against his Country, and others who deserted to the enemy. In these cases I refused to proceed further. In some cases after great labor under
an honest conviction, Nay a certainty of the Justice of the claims, I have not by reason of some deficiency of testimony, been able to succeed. this was the case
with Genl Leonard Smith, Allen Leister and Nathanish Dickison. From the two former I received $5 each from the latter nothing but advanced money to procure his 
testimony from Southold Suffolk County Long Island. Term
Robert Davenport I received not one cent. I held against him
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note a copy whereof with the endorsements is annexed, the ballance [balance] due on which without Interest was 22 In all 32.79c/p
This note had been given to a partner of mine in my absence  for professional services in conducting several suits.
 Davenport had made several small payments on it at different times, as suited his convenience, which were ended at the respective times when made at length he become insolvent, Lurked a while in the
Mountains, as I was informed and believe, and finally left the State-- The note was outlawed by age & I did not value it then nor do I now worth one cent-
After his return he for a long time steered clear of me, and I was surprised when he  [illegible] to me to procure his pension His papers had been all made out wrong by George Wills (as he informed me) Esq.
I informed him that his papers must be made
out again, and that I should charge him a reasonable compensation, to be settled in case of disagreement by Judge Fowler or some other person ***quainted [unaquainted]   with 
the bussiness, [business],  iI f obtained his certificate, if not, nothing
To which he agreed cheerfully-- After I had obtained his certificate I charged him forty dollars & told him, if he was not satisfied, he might go to any one acquainted with the bussiness, and get my bill turned , and I would take whatever they said was a reasonable compensation to this he replied, that if my bill should be taxed by the
Court, they would give me all his pension. I then told him I should retain his certificate until paid for my services in procuring the Pension. Those [illegible] that  I could not get my pay if I did. Insulted by his ingratitude, and told him he had yet  paid the amount of my note though he  had often promised so to do, and I had received small
payments to suit his convenience. He swore he never would pay the ballance, because there was no consideration for it, and it was a fraud. I asked him why he gave the note, and paid from time to time without
objection. He said it was because he was a damned fool and knew no better. This is the only conversa
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tion I ever had with him on the subject and the only time he ever applied to me for his certificate
I further state that forty dollars (in my opinion is no more than a reasonable compensation) and it
was so decided in a case tried in the Court of Common Pleas in this County, without hesitation, where the applicant was ["an officer" lined out] a Commissioned officer, the [lined out, insertion illegible] case which could occur In that case 

Samuel J Wilkin late Member of Congress was one of the parties and I further state that I ["do not believe that I ever" lined out] told the said Davenport that I would not give up the certificate unless he paid the said note.  I well knew that I could not legally return the same for a debt due me.  I never entertained a thought of retaining it to induce the payment of the note. I had made up my mind to give up the certificate if I received twenty dollars which in my opinion is not more than one half of what was justly due to me for my said services & I feel confident that if I had made the payment of the note an objection to be removed before I gave up the Certificate, I could not have forgot it.  

If then the said Davenport has made an affidavit that I refused to give up the certificate unless he paid me forty dollars for my services aforesaid, and sixty dollars the ballance due on the note, or any other sum, as I have been informed he has I feel the utmost confidence in pronouncing it false." The following is a copy of the note. 

"On the first day of May next I promise to pay
Walter Case & Benjamin H Mace or bearer forty seven dollars with Interest for value received dated November 20th 1827

Robert Davenport
mark

"Witness Nathan Smith"

Endorsed "March 27th 1829.  Received on the witness 
by D Hopson $15.00 November 15th 1829. Rcd on the witness $ 9.50 & also Commissions 00.50-11--"

Walter Case
Personally appeared before the subscriber Walter Case
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New York  Davenport, Robert   S.8.325
Pa   or Davenport
carded
contents
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R. Davenport
[illegible]
9 July 1835
Mr --
J.L. Edwards--
Commissioner of
Washington City
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Mr

J.L. Edwards

Sir

Enclosed is the Pension Certificate of Robert Davenport

I am very Respectfully

Yours

Walter Case

Near Windsor July 6th 35 --
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State of New York     }
Orange County          }     ss

May 6th 1834 Conformably to the regulations of of the war Department of the 27th of October 1832
Miles Hughs a magistrate in the County
above named do hereby certified
that I have
the most satisfactory evidence by Peter Burk
and Geo Wilks to me known.
That Robert Davenport who this day appeared
Before me to take the oath of Identity is the
the Identical Pensioner he declares himself
to be in the Annexed affidavit and claim
also satisfyed [satisfied] that the statement made
by him in relation to the Pension Certificate is true
Given under my hand at Monroe the
Day and year
above written
Miles Hughes  J.P.

I Asa Dunning Clerk of the Court of Common pleas in
in the County of Orange Do Certify that Miles Hughes is a
Magistrate as above and that the foregoing Certificate his lasting
to be his is genuine-
In Testimony where I have hereunto affixed my
Seal office and subscribed by this thirteenth
day of June 1834
Asa Dunning
Clerk of the Court of Common pleas in
for same Orange County
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State of New York
Orange County
Be it known that before me Miles Hughes Esq a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid personally appeared before me Robert Davenport and made oath in due form of law that he is the identical Robert Davenport named in an original Pension certificate now illegally withheld by Walter Case who demands Forty Dollars for vary trifling services rendered by him and also sixty Dollars more for an old claim which this Deponent believes to be myself.
That he is entitled to a Pension of Twenty nine 76/100 Dollars per annum on account wounds and disabilities received or of Services rendered  to the United States during the Revolutionary War that he served in Captain Raymonds company of five months min in colonel Nicholls regiment that he now resides in Orange County and has resided there for the space of thirty years past and that previous thereto he resided in the same place except about six months in Luzerne County Pennsylvania and that in addition to the above service he served on various others nearly two years
Sworn and Subscribed this Sixth Day of may
1834
Before me Miles Hughes J.P. Robert  Davenport
mark
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SERVICE   NUMBER
New York   Davenport, Robert    S.8.325
Pa   or Devenport
carded
CONTENTS
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State of New York     }
Orange County     }  SS
Personally came before me Miles Hughs one of
Justices of the Peace in and for said County
Robert Devenport to me known who being duly
Sworn saith that his papers as an applicant
for a Pension were returned from the war
office for some informality and that he
Catted on Walter Case of newburgh to Have
the informality remiderd and that the services rendered by said Case were trifling
and that now the said Case refuses to
Give up his Pension Certificate without
the sum of forty Dollars and that the
said
Case says he has a further claim
against Deponent of long standing which
he says is about sixty Dollars & which
Deponent believes to be unjust  & which the
said Case also claims Before he gives up
His Deponents Certificate
Deponent therefore
Hopes the Honourable the Secretary of War
Will relieve him by sending him a new
Certificate & Deponent will ever pray
& further Deponent saith not
by          his
Robert   X  Devenport
           mark
Sworn & Subscribed Before me
this 6th Day of May 1834
Miles Hughes J.P.
⎬
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State of New York
 Orange County
---
I Asa Dunning Clerk of the said
County Do Certify that Miles Hughes Esq before whom the
within affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the
date of the same a Justice of the [illegible] in and for said
County and that I am acquainted with his handwriting
and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper hand and signature-
Witness my hand and seal of office
this 9th day of May
1834 -
Asa Dunning
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Robert Davenport


Walter Case 
of New Burgh
Agent-
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State of New York
Orange County

Ls. Personally Appeared before me the undernamed Justice of the Peace in and for the County Aforesaid Luke Lamaseut (last name unsure) to me known to be a credible witness Who being by me duly sworn doth depose and say that he was well squinted with Robert Davenport in the Revolutionary army that the Said Robert Serve
=d in the same Company with deponent one month at FishKIll that said Company that said company was Comm
= anded by Captain Johnathan (Little) 
That said company was called out for a tour of three months but was discharged at the expiration of one month
Sworn and Described
this 21st day of December 
1833 before me
James O. (could be a P.) Adams
Justice of the Peace

Luke {There is a "mark" assumed to be the signature of Luke. It is a circle with two vertical lines coming from the top of each side of the circle like horns} Lamasurt (unsure of last name)
     Mark
I Certify that the above Luke Lamasurt 
Signed the above affidavit by making a mark this {There is a mark with a circle and an X inside}
James O. Adams
I Ara Dunning Clerk of the court of Common
(unreadable word) in and for the bounty of Orange do hereby certafy that James O. Adams before whom the Freedoms Affidavit of  Luke Lamoureuse
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(page starts mid-word)

a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Orange and that his name subscribed to said affidavit is his genuine signature

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal This 3d
day of January 1834
Asa Dunning Clerk
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Robert Davenport
Walter Case
New York
Agent
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State of New York
Orange County ⎬

Personally appeared Before me Robert Fowler one of the justices of the peace in and for Said County Henry Davenport of Morrison in Said County having been by me duly sworn doth depose and say that he is eighty five years of age, that he has resided in Morrison aforsaid for the last sixty years that he was a solder of the Revolution and receives a pension from the United States.

That he has personally acquainted with
Robert Davenport since the commencement of
the Revolutionary War that he know said Davenport to be in actual service as a soldier of the Revolution at Fort Montgomery at difrent times, also at New City and Hackensack New jersey deponent further says that he knew said Robt Davenport to be wounded in the right arm
at the Battle at Fort Montgomery on the 6th day of Oct. 1777.  deponent further saith not

Sworn & Subscribed ⎬
this 14th day of Dec.}
1833 before me        }
Robert Fowler           }

This may certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Henry Davenport and know him to be a man of good moral character  Dated Dec. 14th 1883

Robert Fowler
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(3-1776)
Service Number
New York Davenport, Robert S. 8325
Pa Devenport
carded
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name subscribed thereto is his genuine signature as is also his name subscribed to the certificate immediately following said affidavit.  I also certify that the said James Whygant before whom the affidavit of Abraham June hereunto prefixed was sworn and subscribed dated on the 8th day of July 1833 was on the day when said affidavit bears date a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and that his name subscribed to said affidavit and the certificate written thereon is the genuine signature of the said Justice - And I also certify that James O Adams before whom the affidavit of David Leavitt of the 21st day of June 1832 was subscribe and sworn and who subscribed the certificate of the 7th December 1833 written on the back of said affidavit was on the respective [ ]  of the duties of said affidavit and certificate a  Justice of the Peace in and for said County and his name subscribed to the same respectively is his genuine signature.  I also certify that the said
James O Adams was a Justice of the Peace as aforesaid on the 2nd day of December 1833.  The date of the preceding affidavit of Roger Barton and that his name subscribed there to is his signature, that he was a Justice of the Peace
as aforesaid on the 12th day of December 1833 the date of the preceding affidavit of Susannah Smith and her name subscribed thereto his signature as is also his name subscribed to the certification immediately following the same that his name subscribed to the preceding affidavit of James Adams is also his signature and the said Adams was a Justice as aforesaid on the day of the date of the said affidavit & also certify that Robert Fowler before whom the annexed affidavit of Henery Davenport was subscribed and sworn was on the day when said affidavit was sworn a Justice of the Peace in and for said County
& his name subscribed thereto and to the following [illegible] are respectively his signature -

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official Seal this 30 day
1834 January 1834-
Asa Dunning Clk

[lower left border has the name R Davenport]
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(a folded or creased paper, with writing to the right of the crease only)

[faded, illegible] of this in 1780
In this signature must be certified by the County Clerk amend affidavit get Clerks Certificate
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S. Abraham June of the Town of Munson
County of Orange & State of New York being
duly sworn deposeth and Saith he was well
acquainted with Robert Devenport of the same
place (now an applicant for a pension) before the
Revolutionary War that in the year 1779 he was
in the United States Service at West Point under
Capt Joseph Crooks and that he remained there
in the Service until 1780 but cannot tell precisely
 the time when he entered, nor the time
he left but is certain from his own Recollection that he was in the Service over twelve Months at West Point. he further saith he was knowing to said Robt. Devenport to be at the battle at Fort mongomery Saw a Wound he recd in the arm at said battle &
further deponent saith not 
Sworn and Subscribed           Abraham June
this 8th day of July
before me - -
James Weygant Justice of the peace -
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This is to certify that I am acquainted with
Abraham June who made and subscribed the
within affidavit and believe him to be a man
truth & veracity, and that he is entitled to
full credit as a witness, dated at Mumer
This 8th day of July 1833
James Weygant  Js Peace
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R Davenport  R. Burton
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State of New York
Orange County
---

Personally appeared before me the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for Orange County aforesaid Roger Barton Known to me to be a Credible Witness and having been duly sworn Saith that he is well acquainted with Robert Davenport & was acquainted with him in the Revolutionary army that he served in the same
Company with deponent on the Jersey line at two Different times and also at Fort montgomery and West Point Saith that he was in service two Weeks at each tour on the Jersey line Does not recollect how long Davenport was at Fort montgomery & West Point

Roger Barton

Sworn and Subscribed
this 2nd day of December 1833
before me
James O Adams Justice of the Peace
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Robert Davenport -- Certify that D Leavitt was a credible witness
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I Asa Dunning Clerk of the County of Orange and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the said County in the State of New York do hereby certify that James O Adams before whom the within affidavit was sworn was at the time a Justice of the [illegible] duly empowered to administer Oaths -

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this third day of September 1832

Asa Dunning

(crossed out writing)
I also certify that the said James O Adams  was a  Justice of the Peace in and for Orange County on the [illegible] of December 1833 the date of the within certificate and name subscribed on [illegible] Whereof I have hereunto set my name and fixed my official seal this December 1853
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State of New York
Orange [illegible]

Personally comes before [illegible] one of the 
Adams before whom the Justices of the peace in and for said County David Leavitt to me known who being Duly Sworn doth depose and say that he was acquainted with Robert Davenport in the years One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Eight & One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy [illegible] and that he was driving a Team at that time on West Point and further this Deponant saith not

Sworn and subscribed
fore me this 21st day June 1832

David Leavitt
James O Adams, Justice

(written vertically on the left edge)

G James O Adams before whom the [illegible] of David Leavitt was sworn [illegible] and said [illegible] do with that the [illegible] David Leavitt who is now deceased was [illegible] time a credible witness --- dated the 7th day of December 1833.

James O. Adams
Justice of the Peace
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State of Newyork
Orange County

Personally came Before me James Weygant one of the Justices of the Peace in & for said County
Luke Lomoroue to me known who Being Duly
Sworn says that he was well acquainted with
Robert Davenport through the Revolutionary war
& Done Duty in the same regiment & Company
with Him & from His Knowledge of him [illegible]
Believes He Done more than Five years Duty in the united States Service & During that period 
further Deponent Saeth not.  

[illegible]

Sworn and Subscribed    Luke Lamoroue
this 1st day of Sept 1832      mark
before me
James Weygant J.P
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I Ada Dunning Clerk of the County of Orange and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the Local County of Orange in the State of New York do hereby certify that James
Weygant before whom the within affidavit was sworn was 
at the time a Justice of the Law and duly empowered
to administer the Oath- In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and afflixed the 
seal of the said Court this third day of 
September 1832 Ada Dunning

I hereby certify that Luke Lamoreaux who
made an subscribed the within affidavit
is a crible witness and is entitled to full
credit. dated the 19th day of July 1833
James Wygant J. Pear

[sideways] Get Clerk's certificate that engagement too, a
Justice [illegible] July 19th 1833-
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[illegible]
No. 5 C Ave.,
National City, California
November 28, 1921.
To
The U.S. Pension Office,
Washington, D.C.,
Sirs:
Upon the advice of the Librarian for the State of
Connecticut I wish hereby
to make application, for
a copy of an application
for pension made by 
one James Gould, a
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verteran of the Revolutionary War,
of Captain Durkee's Company, 
raised in the Wyoming valley of Pennsylvania..
Any other information concerning 
this same James Gould, his
wife, heirs and descendants
which you might be able to
supply would be highly
appreciated.
In addition, if information 
concerning Robert Davenport,
who, according to family 
tradition, fought in the battle
of Wyoming under Captain
Whittlesey is available and
could also be supplied
we should be very grateful.
Thanking you in advance
for your consideration, I am,
very truly yours,
(Miss) Faith S.P. Ferbitz.
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Nov. 19, 1924
Mineville
Essex Co.
N.Y.
[pension office seal]
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Dear Sirs,
I would like to join the Sons of Revolution 
in the State of New York 
I need a certificate of line of decent.
My ancetor who fought
 is Robert Davenport.
Served as private. Afterwas
granted Lieutenant in 
Orange Co. N.Y.
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Wounded in the arm
while helping to
defend Fort Clinton
and Fort Montgomery
Helped to build Fort 
Putnam and West Point
Born in Monroe N.Y. Orange Co
in 1757.
Died in Ohio 1840
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Highland Falls N. Is. R. F. S.
November 24, 1924. 
Department of the Interior
Washington D.C. [dept of the interior seal]
Gentlemen:-
Will you 
furnish me the data
of the the services of Robert
Davenport of Monroe, Orange 
County, New York, in the
war of the Revolution?
I believe he was wounded in 
the battle of Fort Montgomery
and fought in Wyoming.
Was he in another war?
I think one of the Lamoreaux
was taken prisoner in the battle of Fort Montgomery
but donot know whether or 
not he was a soldier.
Could you find anything 
of him?
I trust I am not causing
you too much trouble.
Respectfully
Charles Clark
P.S would like especially Robert Davenports age, date and terms of enlistment. 
cc
[bureau of pensions seal]
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PARKS BAKERY
905 Wyoming Avenue
BREAD 
ROLLS AND BUNS
PLAIN AND
FANCY CAKES
FORTY FORT, PA., Oct. 19 1926
Pension Office
Dear Sirs:-
Will you kindly look up the pension of a Robert Davenport in the Revolutionary War who enlisted in Orange Co. N.Y. and in 1839 was living in Pretle Co. Ohio? I would like any dates and names of wife and children if available. If any other Robert Davenports received a pension in that war I would like to know about them also.
Thanking you
I  am
Yours Truly 
Mrs. A.L. Parks
905 Wyo Ave
Kingston.
Pa...
[pension office seal]
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293 Wardman Rd
Kenmore, N.Y
Sept 25, 1931
[received seal]
Sent to Kenmore N.Y.
as there was no 
"Jenmore"
Bureau of Pensions
Department of Interior
Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen,
Did the following apply
for pensions after the
Revolutionary War. If so
will you please send me what information you have
about them.
Robert Davenport [underlined], Isapus on Hudson
Ulster Co N.Y. Militia 4th Regiment
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[checkmark] Nathaniel Wallis
private in Capt. James Haddocks, Co
Col Peter Yates Regiment
N.Y. Militia.
[checkmark] Nathaniel Wallis
Ulster Co N.Y Militia
[checkmark] Hugh Wallis
Ulster Co N.Y. Rangers
Thanking you for your trouble. I am
Yours very truly,
Evelyn Wallis Hornlein
(Mrs. RM. Hornlein
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Rev. and 1812 
War Section.
December 11, 1924.
Charles Clark, 
Highland Falls, R.F.D.,
N. Y.
Sir;
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 8325, it appears that Robert Davenport or Devenport was born May 10, 1757 at Monroe, Orange County, New York.
While residing at said Monroe, he enlisted in October 1775 and served five months as a private in Captain Samuel Raymond's Company, Colonel Isaac Nicoll's New York Regiment.
He enlisted in March 1776 and served at various times in the New York Troops under Captains Francis Smith, Jonathan Tuthill, Pierson, and Colonels Woodhull and McClaughrey until October 6, 1777, when he was wounded in the right arm, while defending Fort Clinton.
In December 1777, he served 18 days in Captain Smith's Company.
In 1778, he moved with his father, whose name is not
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stated, to Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, and he served three weeks in Captain Whittlesey's Company, Colonel Denniston's Pennsylvania Regiment, and was in the battle of Wyoming.
After this  he moved back to Orange County, New York and from September 1778 served one year as teamster under Joseph Crooks in the Wagon Department.
Afterwards he served at various times until the close of the War in Captain Francis Smith's Company.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 3, 1832, while a resident of Monroe, New York.
In 1839, he was living with a son in Preble County, Ohio, name of son not stated., nor is the name of soldier's wife on record.
In order to make a proper search of the records for a soldier named Lamoreau, the full name of soldier is essential, with as much as possible of the following data- approximate dates of birth and death, places of residence at enlistment and after service. 
Respectfully,
Acting Commissioner
In Mrs. A J Parks' letter of Dec 15 1926 she was told only "Robert Davenport (all spellings searched) is the only soldier of this name found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau" [handwritten]
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Rev. and 1812
War Section.
December 8, 1924.
Charles H. Clonan
Mineville,
N. Y.
Sir;
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 8325, it appears that Robert Davenport or Devenport was born May 10, 1757 at Monroe, Orange County, New York. 
While residing at said Monroe, he enlisted in October 1775 and served five months as a private in Captain Samuel Raymond's Company, Colonel Isaac Nicoll's New York Regiment.
He enlisted in March 1776 and served at various times in the New York Troops under Captains Francis Smith, Jonathan Tuthill, Pierson and Colonels Woodhull and McClaughrey until October 6, 1777 when he was wounded in the right arm, while defending Fort Clinton.
In December 1777, he served eighteen days in Captain Smith's Company.
In 1778, he moved with his father, whose name is not
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stated, to Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, and he served three weeks in Captain Whittlesey's Company, Colonel Denniston's Pennsylvania Regiment, and was in the battle of Wyoming. 
After this he moved back to Orange County, New York and from September 1778 he served as a teamster under Joseph Crooks in the Wagon Department. one year-
Afterwards he served at various times until the close of the War in Captain Francis Smith's Company.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 3, 1832, while a resident of Monroe, New York.
In 1839, he was living with a son in Preble County, Ohio, name of son not stated.
Respectfully,
Acting Commissioner
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.
3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
WASHINGTON, D. C. , 19
In reply to your request of, received
for a statement of the military history of Robt. Davenport
a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) [crossed out] application for pension on file in this Bureau. S. 8325
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. |
LENGTH OF SERVICE. |
RANK. |
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. |
CAPTAIN. COLONEL. |
STATE.
Oct. 1775 5 mon Pvt. Saml Raymond Isaac Nicoll NY
Mar 1, 1776 1/3 of until Oct 6 1777 Jonathan Tuthill Pierson M Laughry
Dec. 1777 18 days. Francis Smith McClaughrey
July 1778 3 wks. Whittlesey Denniston Pa.
Sept 78 1 yr. Teamster Jos. Crooks NY
1779 to 80 1 mon Pvt. Francis Smith "
Battles engaged in, wounded in arm at Ft Clinton, Wyoming
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Monroe, Orange Co, NY
Date of application for pension, Dec. 12, 1833 et al Sept. 3-1836
Residence at date of application, Monroe, NY
Age at date of application, May 18, 1757 Monroe NY
Remarks: In 1839 he lives with a son in Preble Co Ohio. name not stated.
Respectfully,
3-2856
Commissioner.