Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6130, for Nathaniel Lane, New York
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New York
 Lane, Nathaniel 
R. 6130
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New York
Revolutionary
Nath Lane
Rejected
See Let to Wm. Mitchell
May 01: 1874
6130
Act 7 June ‘32
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Rejected
6130
Nathaniel Lane
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Nathaniel Lane
Pension declaration
31.056
William Mitchell
Agent
Bethany
Genesee county
N. Y.

N. Lane
Decl.
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832
State of New York
County of Genesee SS:
On the 6th day of February 1834 personally appeared before the judge of the court of common pleas now sitting, Nathaniel Lane resident of the town of Bethany in the county of Genesee of New York, aged sixty nine years who being first duly sworn according to law,doth on his oath made the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1781 in the month of April or May, but the precise time he does not recollect.
That at the time of his enlistment he was living under the Protection of his father near Peekskill the state of New York. That he enlisted for during the war in the continental service under Col. Wadsworth or Col. John Carter and which he cannot now remember as those two officers were together at the time, he enlisted and as he continued with both of them as a waiter and was in the immediate service of one of them, and sometimes of the others that he went  from Peekskill with the army to Boston, where he remained two or three months there he marched to Hartford in Connecticut, thence to Philadelphia and that Colonel Wadsworth remained at Hartford and his applicant went to Philadelphia as a servant of Colonel Carter and remained with him at the city of Philadelphia until the last of or first of April 1782 where he’d received a written discharge  from Colonel Carter and returned home. That he gave his discharge to his father, which has been lost,  as he has deposeth and believes. That the said Wadsworth and Carter were  paymasters of the French army and continued and remained with the French army. That he served a little more than a year, but could not state how much more that he served at least one year and does not claim a pension for more than one year.
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That he was born at a place called Crum-Pond    Near Peekskill in the state of New York on the second day of June 1764. That he has a record of his age in his family Bible and that he was born as aforesaid from information from his parents and other sources.
He has not, to his knowledge any living or documentary evidence of his service further than is herewith presented and he verily believes he could not procure any. That he remained at Peekskill until he was 22 years of age thence he removed to a place called Nine Pastures in Duchess County N.Y. And remained there four or five years. Thence he moved to Catskill and lived there about three years, thence to Ballston in Saratoga County and lived there 3 or 4 years, thence to Ballston thence to Lowville, Lewis Co. where he lived during the last war with Great Britain and frequently volunteered in the service of the United States, thence he returned to Auburn and thence to Mentz in Cayuga County at which places he [crossed out word]
remained a short time and thence returned to Bethany, Genesse County, where he now resides and has resided for three years, that the Rev. William Smith and David Smith reside in his present neighborhood and can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his service as a soldier of the Revolution.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Nathaniel Lane
Sworn to and subscribed in open court the day and year aforesaid before me.
Isaac Wilson first Judge of Genesse County 
We William W. smith a clergyman residing in the town of Bethany in said county and David Smith residing in the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Nathaniel Lane who had subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be sixty nine years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court.
Wm. W. Smith
David Smith 
Isaac Wilson first judge of Genesse County County
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And the sad court do hereby declare their 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 William W. Smith who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the Town of Bethany in said county and that David Smith who has also signed the same is a resident in the same town and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Isaac Wilson 
James Taggart
Horace Tierring
William Mitchell 

I Timothy Fitch, clerk of the Court of Common Pleas do hereby certify that the foregoing containing the original proceeding of the said court in the matter of the application of Nathaniel Lane for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this sixth day of February 1834.
Timothy Fitch clerk