Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42,830, for Elias Lent, New York
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(8-1776)

SERVICE
New York

Lent, Elias

NUMBER
S. 42,830

CONTENTS
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12,890
New York R

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Elias Lent
of Westchester in the state of New York
who was a private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel P. Van Cortlandt of the New York
_
line, for the term of 5 years. 1777

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Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 8. Dollars per month, to commence on
the 8th of April 1815.

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Certificate of Pension issued the 24 of July 1819
and sent to Hon James W. Wilkins

Goshen. Orange Co NY.

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Arrears to 4th of March 1819 10 mo 23/ 4/ No 131 [hard to read numbers] = 87.36
emi-anl. all'ce ending September 1819. 48.00

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Dollars = 135.36

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{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }

Cont
Notice [?] sent [?] Ded. [?] 18, 1820 [15.7820?]

to Pierre Van Cortlandt

[light handwritten name unreadable]
N Y.
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42.830

INVALID.
Revy

File No. 42. 830

Elias Lent

Pri Rev War

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Act: 18 March 18

Index: - Vol. 5 [3?], Page 292

[ Arrangement of 1870. ]
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Elias Lent
No. 15

12.890

Certificate of Confirma
to be forwarded to
Genl. Pierre Van Cortlandt
at Peekskill

Cortlandt
Westchester

del [?] 99 [?]

Con
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District of New York
County of Westchester    
Court of Common Pleas } ss.

     On the twenty fifth day of September 1820 personally appeared in Open Court being a Court of Record for the said County Elias Lent aged Sixty one years resident in the town of Cortlandt in the said County of Westchester. Who being first duly Sworn according to Law doth on his Oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows. That he enlisted in the year 1777 in Captain Wrights Company in the Second New York regiment Commanded by Colonel Philip Van Cortlandt, for and during the said War and served in the said Regiment until the Termination of the said War When he was discharged. That while he was in the said Regiment he was in several Battles the most prominent were at Still Waters in the County of Saratoga previous to the Surrender of General Burgoines army. Where the Regiment displayed so much bravery and behaved so gallantly. That he was present at the Capture of that Army, and was also present at the Capture of the Army Under the Command of Lord Cornwallas in Virginia. That the date of his Original declaration was in April 1818 and that a Certificate of his Pension passed the War Office on the 24 day of July 1819 and the Number of the said Certificate is 12,890 and that he has received the pension from the 8th of April 1818 Until the 4th of March last past —

And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by Gift Sale or in any Manner disposed of my property or any part
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thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled "an Act to provide for Certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Services of the United States in the Revolutionary war, passed on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities Contracts or debts due to me Nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereunto Annexed and by me subscribed and that I am of no occupation, and so infirm that I was a pauper on the town of Cortlandt in the County of Westchester untill I received the pension from the United States That I have no family (my wife having left me) and that I am in such Indigent Circumstances as to be unable to Support myself without the assistance of my Country -

Schedule of the real and Personal Estate of Elias Lint of the Town of Cortlandt in the County of Westchester and State of New York
Real Estate None
Personal Estate None

Signed      Elias Lent X his mark
Sworn in Open Court
the 25 Septm. 1820
                Wm. Ro 2nd Clk

I William Requa Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Westchester - 
Do hereby Certify that the foregoing declaration and the Schedule hereunto annexed are truly Copied from the Records of the said Court, and I do further Certify That it is the Opinion of the said Court that the total
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amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Nothing - " -

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this sixth day of October 1820.

Wm. Requa Clk
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The signature
of the Judge
trust [?] be attested by the

[sideways writing]
Elias Lent prit [?]

Admitted

[circled] 232 [?] [end circled]
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Elias Lents affidavit
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State of New York
Westchester County } ss.

Elias Lent being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is an inhabitant of the town of Cortlandt in the County of Westchester and State of New York, that he is in the sixty first year of his age and in reduced and indigent circumstances, that he was a Soldier in the revolutionary army of the United States of America, that he entered said Army in the spring of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven, that he enlisted in a Company commanded by Captain Wright belonging to the second Regiment of the New York line under the command of Philip Van Cortlandt in the Brigade commanded by Genl. Poor, that he served as a Soldier in said Army for and during the full term of Five years, being the term of time for which he enlisted, and was honourably discharged from the same in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty two, that his discharge was deposited with one [?] Lanah Lent for safe keeping immediately after his quitting the service, that the said Lanah Lent has been dead some [?] years and that this deponent has never been able to obtain the said discharge since but verily believes the same to be lost -

And the deponent further saith that the accompanying certificate purporting to have been signed by Philip Van Cortlandt was signed by him on the day of its date and that the same is the Colonel who commanded the second regiment in the New York line aforesaid.

Elias Lent X his mark

Sworn this 8th Day of April 1818 before me
H John Constant
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I do hereby certify that Elias Lent the bearer hereof Served Several Years as a Soldier in the Second New York Regiment under my Command in the Continental Establishment in the Revolutionary War and I believe in Captain Wright's Company ----

given under my hand the 4th day of April in the Year 1818.

Ph. V. Cortlandt late Colo.
2d N. York Regt.
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I Lt. John Cortlant [?] one of the Judges of the Court of Common Please in and for the County of Westchester do certify that on the eighth day of April 1818 the within named Elias Lent personally known to me appeared before me and made oath to the facts set forth in the within affidavit by him subscribed by the affixing his mark and that I am satisfied of the truth and correctness of the same and that the said Elias Lent is entitled to the provisions contained in the Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the revolutionary War passed the 18th March 1818 ---

H. John Constant