Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 17501, for Peter Putman, New Jersey
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State of New York County of Steuben Ss: On this second day of February
1825 personally appeared in open Court being a court of record for said
County Peter Putman aged sixty five years resident in the town of
Barrington in the said County who being first duly sworn according to
law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the
provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the
1st May 1820: that he the said Peter Putman enlisted for the term of two
years during the revolutionary war on or about the 5th day of March 1778
in the State of New Jersey in the company commanded by Captain Holmes
in the 2d Regiment commanded by Colonel Dayton in the line of the State of
New Jersey on the continental establishment. that he continued to serve
in the said corps until about the 1st October 1780 when he was discharged
from the said service at Princeton in the State of New Jersey from the
hospital that he was in the battle of Monmouth and also in another
battle ^ which was fought in the State of New Jersey, which battle used to go by the name of
the Pompton battle, that he received a written discharge from said
service signed as this declarant believes by the said Colonel Dayton and
which said discharge was delivered to him by the Surgeon and which
discharge he has long since lost and cannot now produce: that he has
no other evidence now in his power of his said services except the affidavits
of Moor Wilson & John Jolly, that the said Moor Wilson is very old and
infirm and is now confined to his bed in consequence of a fall; and that the
said John Jolly now resides fifty four miles from Bath in the
said County of Steuben, is old and very weak and infirm and cannot
as this declarant believes endure so long journey-- That the family
of this declarant consists of himself and his wife Sarah aged 64 years,
neither of whom are able to work much being afflicted with rheumatism.
That he made a declaration in writing of his said services before Thomas
McBurney Esq. first Judge of the County of Steuben on the 3d February
1820: that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except
the present: that his name is not on the roll of any State except that of
New York, and that the following are the reasons for not making earlier
application for a pension: that he did not wish to be dependent on his
country while he was able to maintain himself and wife: that owing to
sickness and misfortunes he has become unable to work and is quite