Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7618, for Seth Newell, Connecticut
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State of New York County of Essex SS
On this sixteenth day of January AD 1841 personally appeared before the undersigned one of the Judges of Essex County Common Pleas Seth Newell a resident of Crown Point in the County and State aforesaid aged eighty three years in October AD 1840 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 7, 1832

That he entered the service under the following named officers and served as herein stated to wit This applicant enlisted in the month of March in 1777 under Capt John Stevens at the town of Canaan in the state of Connecticut and served under Col Hooker of Farmington in said state of Connecticut, in the Connecticut State Militia. After this applicant enlisted he was ordered by the said Capt John Stevens immediately into the pox house in Sheffield a town adjoining Canaan in the state of Massachusetts, agreeably to the orders of said Capt Stevens. this applicant went within two or three days from the time he enlisted into the pox house in said Sheffield and was inoculated for the smallpox & was there under the care of Doct Waters, or Watrens, this deponent there had the smallpox & remained there under the care of said Waters two or three weeks, and it might be a little more until this applicant was allowed by the said physician to leave said pox house. This applicant then returned home to said Canaan. And remained there until August following & then was called into service by orders from Captain Torbell Whitney and this depont went in said Capt Torbell Whitneys company to Bennington in the state of Vermont and arrived  there immediately after the Battle of Bennington. After our company arrived at Bennington we were ordered to guard a number of prisoners to Williamstown a part of the prisoners were Torys part British and the remainder were Hessians. The Torys were coupled together. the British marched in front and
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Hessians behind. After our company arrived at the meeting house in Williamstown another company took charge of the said prisoners and conveyed them in the state of Massachusetts. From Williamstown our company returned to Canaan and remained there about one week. This applicant enlisted for the term of eleven months & after our return from Bennington this deponent went down the Hudson River to White Plains under the command of Captain Nehemiah Lawrence to oppose the British troop from joining Burgoine at this time Thie applicant was under Col Hooker. This applicant staid at White Plains until the British troops came out of New York and went up the Hudson and as soon as they went up the River this applicant & the troops with him went up the River after them. At this time we were under under the command of General Putnam.

We followed the British troops up until the news came that Burgoine was taken, when they returned towards New York City and on their return they burnt (illegible) & this applicant saw the fire. The british went up the River and returned in vessels. They did not land on the east side where we were this applicant with the American troops followed the British down pretty near New York, to Peekskill where we were ordered back to Canaan. We of the militia had no written discharge nothing but a verbal order to return home as we were not wanted there. This applicant was not in any battle. This applicant arrived at home sometime in December of the same year. This applicant well recollects there was snow on the ground and he suffered severely for want of clothing. This deponent thinks he must have started for Bennington in the first of the month of August as they arrived at Bennington about the 18th of August immediately after the battle and we had to haul over one hundred miles and the road was extremely bad and in some places there was no road or guide except marked trees and we had to travel through mud &swamps considerable part of the way. This deponent (black smudge-illegible) including the time he spent having the smallpox by order of Capt. Stevens & going to Bennington & down the Hudson River was six months in the camp excepting perhaps about a week in addition to which this applicant was called out by orders of his said