Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 28717, Jeremiah Dudley, Mass N.H.
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SERVICE: Mass., N.H.
Dudley, Jeremiah
NUMBER: S. 28717
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24,576
New York
Jeremiah Dudley 
of Steuben Co in the State of New York 
who was a private in the Comp commanded 
by Captain Ballard of the Reg. commanded 
by Col. Freyse in the New Hamp & Mass
line for 13 months

Inscribed on the Roll of New York 
at the rate of 43 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 9 day of Jny 1834 
and sent D Cruger 
Bath [NY]

Arrears to the 4th of Sep. '33 $108.33 
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar '34   21.66 
[=] $129.99 

{Revolutionary Claim,} 
{Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Geo C. Stiles Clerk,
Book E. Vol. 4, Page 96
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No. 25711 
Jeremiah Dudley St[e]uben County 
New York 

Proof of Service
Admitted 
Private 13 months 
an on active post 
for 12 mo 

Danl Cruger (Bath) Present
N York
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WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Pension Office, 
Augt. 17 1833 

Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim. 

A Statement, shewing the Service of Jeremiah Dudley Steuben County New York

Period when the service was rendered | Duration of the claimant's service (Y-M-D) | Rank of the claimant | Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served | Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service | Proof by which the declaration is supported

Enlist July 1775 | 0-8-0 | private | Cap Hudson, Ballard/ Col. Freys Regt | 74 years, County of Lincoln, District of Maine | Traditionary evidence- papers correct
Vol 2 Jany 1776 | 1-0-0 | " | Cap Hudson, Col Whitcomb | " | "

I am, respectfully, 
Your obedient servant, 
J. L. EDWARDS, 
Commissioner of Pensions. 

There is no evidence of enlistments for 8 mo in 1775.  There were enlistments for 7 mo in the compy in which declarant alleges to have Served.
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2
REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.

At bottom:
"Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power."
Declarant should Give proof of service for this years term of enlistment if possible
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3.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
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25711
In the Matter of
Jeremiah Dudley
Pension application
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State of New York 
Steuben County ss.  On this 28th day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three personally appeared in open Court, before Robert Morrell Esq., one of the Circuit Judges of the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of New York, at a Circuit Court now sitting at Bath in and for the County of Steuben aforesaid in the State aforesaid, Jeremiah Dudley a resident of the town of Bath in the County & State aforesaid, 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 7th 1832, that he is seventy nine years old & 
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. That in the year 1775 he resided in the County of Lincoln in the then District of Maine. That he went from his home to Portsmouth in the State of New Hampshire and while there he heard of the Bunker Hill Battle. That he immediately went to Cambridge in the State of Massachusetts to enter into the Service of his Country. That on the last of June or first of July 1775, he enlisted as a private Soldier into the Service of the United States at Cambridge aforesaid under Capt. William Hudson Ballard in the eight months service, and was attached to Col. Joseph Frey's Regiment, of which one Bricket was Lieut Col. & one Poor, Major and was stationed at Cambridge aforesaid in the College until about the first of September of that year; that he was at the last mentioned period, transfered [sic] by his own consent to Capt Samuel McCobbs Company and attached to the Troops under the command of Col. Arnold, destined for Quebec & Lieutenant Colonel Enos & Majors Bigelow & Meigs. Marched from thence to Newburyport, there took shipping and Sailed to Augusta on Kennebec river. Thence went in Batteaux up Kennebeck river about one hundred and twenty miles - That the boats were then
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carried over by land to a stream called the Dead Stream - went up this Stream about seventy or eighty miles. It was then found that provisions were short - that in consequence of the deficiency the companies were ordered back. That the Company to which this deponent belonged, commanded by Capt. McCobb was one of the three ordered back under the Command of Col Enos that this deponent returned to Cambridge and joined his own Company under the Command of Capt William Hudson Ballard, and Served out his enlistment which expired on the first of January 1776. That he then volunteered for one month under the same Capt and at the same place immediately upon the expiration of the above service, and before that month expired enlisted in the years service and served that year under the said Capt William Hudson Ballard, in Col Asa Whitcombs Regiment of Massachusetts line, of which the time served as a Volunteer was put[?], commencing on the 2d January 1776 and ending on the first  day of Jany 1777 - one Fraser was Major, and does not recollect that there was any Lieutenant Colonel. Soon after the last enlistment, marched from Cambridge to Dorchester Point - When the British evacuated Boston, we marched to that place and was Stationed there until about the middle of August in 1776 and While there was inocculated [sic] for the Small Pox - In August the Regiment by ordered to Ticonderoga & this deponent marched with is company to that place and wintered at that place until first of January 177 and was then and there discharged. That he received a discharge but the Same has been lost. That he cannot
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from old age & the consequent loss of memory, State his Services more particularly. That he claims a pension for eighteen months service as a private, and that he did not Serve less than that period. That he has no documentary or other proof of said said service, and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service. 
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 - 
1st That he was born in the town of Brentwood in the State of New Hampshire in the year 1753 
2d That he has no record of his age 
3d That he resided when he entered the service at a place now called Pittstown in the County of Lincoln in the State of Maine -
Since at Winthrop, Bangor, and now at Bath Steuben County
4th That he was called into service in the manner already stated 
5th That he has already stated the names of the officers under whom he served and the circumstances attending such service
6th That he received a discharge as already Stated signed by his Captain, William Hudson Ballard, the Colonel having left the Camp the day before he was discharged, and that the same has been lost 
7th That he states the names of Daniel G. Skinner and Samuel Legro as persons who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution 
[Signed] Jeremiah Dudley
Sworn before me this 28} 
day of May 1833}
[Signed] Wm. H. Bull, Clerk of Steuben Com. Pleas
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We Daniel G. Skinner and Samuel Legro of the Town of Bath in which the said Jeremiah Dudley resides, in the County of Steuben & State of New York, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the said Jeremiah Dudley who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy nine years age; that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion & that no clergiman [sic] resides in the neighborhood of said Dudley.
[Signed] DG Skinner
[Signed] Samuel Lagro
Sworn & subscribed the
day & year aforesaid 
[Signed] Wm. H. Bull Clerk of Steuben Com. Pleas 
And the said Court do hereby declare the opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and Served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Daniel G. Skinner & Samuel Legro who have signed the preceding certificate are residents of the town of Bath as above stated and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit
[Signed] Robt. Morrell 
Circuit Judge 

State of New York 
Steuben County 
I William H. Bull, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and of the said Circuit Court, in the said County of Steuben, Do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jeremiah Dudley for a pension 
In testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of office this 29th day of May 1833
[SEAL]
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[Signed] William H. Bull
[Ribboned SEAL]

We do hereby certify that we have been acquainted with Jeremiah Dudley the above applicant for a pension for nearly fifteen years he for that period & up to the last summer having resided within about five miles of our respective residences. That his character is good and be believe him entitled to full credit for truth and veracity; and although his recollection of details may be impaired by his great age, yet in matters in general we would give full credit to his representations.  Washington Dec 19, 1833 
[Signed] P Howell M.C. 
Daniel Cruger late M. C.
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28717
Revy INVALID.
File No. 28,717
Jeremiah Dudley
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7" 32
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 116
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Right side:
Apl. 11 1904 - His. to Mrs. Bell Hull- Boone In
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I hereby as agent for Jeremiah Dudly an applicant for a pension for Revolutionary services, hereby relinquish a claim on his part, for all but thirteen months service. Jany 7th 1833 
[Signed] Daniel Cruger
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State of New York} 
Steuben County} ss. 
Jeremiah Dudley of the town of Bath in said County the revolutionary soldier in the annexed papers named being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is in his eighty first year of age - And that he is Confident that he enlisted into the 8th month service in the year 1775 from the following circumstances viz - 
That when conversing with his fellow soldier since the Revolution of the services performed in that year they all spoke of the 8 months service. And that about the the time when their enlistment would expire in that year Doctor Franklin came to Cambridge to consult with Genl Washington and to devise means retain the 8 months men in the service And that on the same morning when the term of enlistment expired an address from Genl Washington was read at the head of his company inviting all to remain one month longer And that this deponent accordingly remained that time but that he could not positively assert that the enlistments for that year were for 8 months 
And this deponent further saith that it is twenty years & upwards since he moved from Maine to his present residence and that has written to his brother in the State of Ohio And to his fellow soldiers in the States of Maine & New Hampshire but has been unable to hear from them - that as far as he can learn all his fellow soldiers are now dead - that previous to his application for pension he made every possible effort to get testimony of his service but was unable to procure any - that by reason of old age and consequent loss of memory he cannot give any further particulars in relation to his services which would tend to
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an of importance that he has already given - that he was a soldier of the Revolution and performed the services stated in his declaration he knows and well recollects.
[Signed] Jeremiah Dudley
Sworn & subscribed before}
me this 13th November 1833}
[Signed] H.W. Rogers J.P.

Steuben County ss.  I do certify that I am personally acquainted with Jeremiah Dudley Esq. whose name is Subscribed to the foregoing affidavit and that he is a man of Good Moral Character and that his character for truth and veracity is beyond reproach- 
[Signed] H. W. Rogers J.P. 

State of New York 
Steuben County. ss. 
I certify that Harry W Rogers Esq before whom the within affidavit was taken was at the date thereof a Justice of the peace in and for said County of Steuben, duly authorised so to act and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe that his name signed thereto is genuine. Witness my hand and Seal of Office this 10 day of December AD 1833. 
William H. Bull Clerk 
H. Switzer [?] Dep clk
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28717 
Jeremiah Dudley 

May 28, 1833) born 1753
Bath N.Y. ) Brentwood N.H. 

75 July Pittston Maine, Mass 
Capn. Wm Hudson Ballard 
Col Jas Fry [stricken]
Capn. Saml McCobb [stricken]
Col Fry
" Enos [stricken] 
" Arnold [stricken]
pvt to Jany 1, 76 

Jny 1, 76 Capn do
Col Whitcomb
pvt 1 yr

No Bat  [?]

Crf [?] 24,567 Act 32 
ass. Jany 9, 1834, N.Y. Agcy
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OWN
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March 4th Boone Iowa 1904
Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington D.C. 

Have you any Pension regard of Jeremiah Dudley he was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. He was born in Bangor, Maine, & died in Bath Steuben Co. New York. 
He is my great grand father & I want dates of birth & death & wife's name to complete family record. 
Respy Yours 
Mrs Bell Hull 
211 -11st Boone 
Iowa 

OLD WAR & NAVY FILES APR 7 1904 [receipt mark]
U.S. PENSION OFFICE APL 6 1904 [receipt mark]