Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15117, Daniel Fenton, Mass. New York
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State of New York, Columbia County ss. On this tenth day of August A.D. 1832 personally appeared before me Henry Hogeboon a Judge of the County Courts of said County of Columbia Daniel Fenton a resident of the Town of Austerlitz in the said County of Columbia State of New York aged seventy six years in April last who being first duly 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 1. 1832
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and
served as herein stated
That in or about the first of April in the year 1776 he enlisted as a volunteer in Great Barrington in the County of Berkshire and
State of Massachusetts in the company of which John Shepherd was Captain, Silas Goodrich lieutenant - called as this deponent supposed the Massachusetts militia - that he with said company marched from the Town of Barrington about the fifteenth of April in said year to Stockbridge in said State of Massachusetts & County of Berkshire - thence to Bennington
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in the State of Vermont, thence to
Whitehall in the State of New York
thence to Ticonderoga & Crown Point
in said State, thence to Isle O'Nove
thence the St. John Chamberlen, Sovell or Three
Rivers in Canada. thence back to Sovell & thence to Montreal where he was assigned to take charge of
the sick & particularly of the ensign whose name was Stiles - the company then having been inoculated for the small pox - that he continued in charge of said ensign for five or six weeks until the said Ensign died
at place called the Isle la Mott some nine between the Isle O' Fore[?] and Crown Point - that at Crown Point
he again joined his company and marched with them to Ticonderoga and Mount Independence in the state of Nw York - in the latter place this deponent was taken sick & was taken to the on Hospital on Lake George where he remained about a month & was then discharged about this first of September
1776 & came home - that this deponent & his company were not in connection with any other
company or regiment until they
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returned back from Canada to the State of New York - that the captain was absent from the said company
at this time this deponent enlisted and this deponent did not see him until this deponent & his company
arrived at Mount Independence on their return
from Canada - that at Mount Independence
this deponent's company joined the regiment
commanded by Colonel Porter & Lieutenant Colonel
Thomas Williams in General Arnold's Brigade - that
this deponent at the time of said enlistment as a volunteer as aforesaid resided in said Town of
Great Barrington, County of Berkshire & State of Massachusetts - this deponent during the
time aforesaid of his enlistment service was not in any battles - that when this deponent left
said hospital he had a written discharge from the doctor whose name he thinks was Batson which he has lost that he has
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no documentary evidence in relation to said service - that he
knows of no person except John Eastland of West Stockbridge
in this county of Berkshire State of Massachusetts, whose testimony he can procure and whose affidavit accompanies
this declaration & deposition who can testify to his service
aforesaid
That about the first of December 1776 this deponent again
entered the service of the United States in the Massachusetts
enlisting as a substitute in the place of --- Wells who was drafted for three months - that said last enlistment was
also in Great Barrington aforesaid - this deponent residing there at the time last mentioned - that the company in
which this deponent enlisted was commanded by Capt Ebraham Fitch - they marched with this deponent to Albany in the State of New York, thence to Saratoga, thence to Fort Ana, thence to 
Skenesborough, thence to Ticonderoga where he and they remained until the exp-
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expedition of their term of service in the month of March 1777 - when this whole company left said place & returned home - that on their march to Ticonderoga, they were
joined by several companies - viz one commanded by Capt Sargent of Stockbridge in the County  of Berkshire & State of Massachusetts - one commanded Capt Rathbone of Richmond as this deponent believes in the County & State last aforesaid, - another commanded by Capt Watkins & several other companies whose officers this deponent cannot particularly recollect - that at Ticonderoga the regiment was commanded by Col Simonds, Major Hays and was under the command of Genl Drayer's brigade - that this deponent & his company during the time last mentioned were in no battles or engagements - that he received no written discharge for said last term of service - that he has no documentary evidence in relation to it and that he knows of no person except
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Gains Tremain whose affidavit accompanies
this declaration and deposition whose testimony he
can procure who can testify in relation to the last [illegible] term of service
That sometime in the fore part April 1779 this deponent at that time residing in the County
of Albany now Columbia in the State of New York again entered the service of the United States in
under the following named officers and served as  herein stated to wit:
 that he was drafted as one of the militia of the State of New York for the term of nine months
& joined his company at the City of Albany,
which company was commanded by Capt Joseph Bovit
Sergeants Kennedy, Butler, Kidder - said company then
joined the regiment commanded by Col Van Rensselaer - remained in Albany for a month or six weeks when a portion of the regiment & of this deponent's
company and among the [illegible] this deponent were drafted to go German Flatts & Fort Herkimer - 
they accordingly went under the command of Col. Van Rensselaer travelling through Schenectady
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Johnstown, Little Falls to Fort Herkimer and German Flatts where they & this deponent remained without being in any actual engagement
guarding the frontier protecting the inhabitants until the expiration of their term of service on the first day of January 1780[?] when
they were dismissed & went home - this deponent received no written discharge & has no documentary evidence in relation to said
last term of service & knows of no person
whose testimony he can procure who can testify
to said term of service except Gains Tremain
whose knowledge and information concerning it
is embraced in the affidavit hereto annexed of the said Tremain
---
And the said Daniel Fenton hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state and
that he has never in any way received any pension or annuity for his terms of service aforesaid or any portion thereof