Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 3916, for Micah Skinner, New York
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Service: New York
Skinner, Micah
Number: S3916.
carded
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6614
Ohio - Pittsburgh Agency
Micah Skinner
in the State of Ohio
who was a Private in the Company commanded
by Captain Skinner of the Rej commanded
by Col Willett in the New York 
line for 2 years   Private - $80.00

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 80 Dollars per annum; to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 day of March 1833 and paid to Hny E. Cook 
Home Reps [?]
Arrears to 4th March 1833  $160.00
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Sept 1833. 40.00
$200.00

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Vinal Line Clerk,
Book D Vol. 10 Page 48

Right side:
Dead
Paid at the Treasury under
the Act of 6 April 1838
from 4 March to 14 Aug 1839. Agt notified, 6 Dec 1844
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Petition of Micah Skinner 
Sol. Revolution - for Pension 
Jany 30 1832 
Refd to the Committee 
on Revolutionary Pensions 
Mar. 15th 1832 
Bill - No 472 

By M Cooke 
of Ohio 
State troops
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To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled- 
The undersigned your memorialist asks leave most Respectfully to present, that in the month of April AD 1781 he enlisted as a private Soldier for a term of three years in Thomas Skinners Company Col. Marinus Willets Regiment then paste muster at Albany and took our station on the Mohawk River in the State of New York on the frontear and that said Company & Regiment as your memorialist has always understood were raised by the State of New York in obedience to an act of Congress passed in the year 1780 requiring of the State of New York Levies to reinforce the army of the United States to guard the frontiers that after such inlistment your memorialist was transferred to Capt (his Christian name is forgotten) Cannons Company in the same Regiment in which Company he continued faithfully to serve his country untill after the close of the Revolutionary war when he was honorably discharged. that in execution of the object of the afforesaid Requisition he was stationed under the afforesaid Command, upon the then frontiers when he was actively engaged in the Battle of Johnstown and in ambush Skirmishes with the Indians on the Mohawk river during which he was frequently in extreme peril & suffering as well from the savage foe as from Cold and Hunger having many times ben out in Scouting parties [1?] and 3 days without food or Comfortable Clothing 
that on the 6th day of February 1782 he started with Col. Willets Regiment from their frontier winter quarters on an expedition to Lake Ontario with the design of Surprising & taking fort Oswego - during which expedition your memorialist indured sufferings from the severe coldness of the weather and extreme hunger which it is not in his power, to discribe and which can only be conceived of  from the fact that the expedition was performed in the depth of winter that they were Eleven days in performing it and that they had but 4 days provisions to sustain him during the whole 11 days, your memorialist further states that such was his weakness and exhaustion from hunger and his exposure for want of comfortable clothing that his feet were actually frozen from his heels to his toes so that they becom one block [?]
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& that During the whole period of his service he was so constantly exposed to heats that it brought on and colds a kind of Constitutional Rheumatism which has afflicted him through Life & which of late in his old age has become so severe as to render him unable to labour to any useful purpose, but to Deprive him almost of the enjoyment of Sleep that he is now Distute of property and without Children who are able to support him and that unless he can obtain some relief from his Country he can anticipate nothing in futer but abject dependence and chilling penury, that his Discharge being thought of no value has been lost, (my name in my Discharge was spelt Michael how it was on the master Rool I know not but i think likely it was a mistake in the muster master) 
Your memorialist made an application to the Secretary of War in 1818 which he understood was rejected on the ground that Col Willets Regiment was not strictly considered as belonging to the continental establishment. After which he hoped to be able to get along without renewing his application but absolute necessity now compels him now to ask some remuneration for his early Sacrifies and sufferings in the cause of his Country and he most earnestly prays your honourable body to grant him a pension or some such other relief as they may deem just & reasonable and as in duty bound he will ever pray 
Monroeville, Huron C.T.O. 18 Jany. 1832 
[Signed] Micah Skinner 

Sworn this 18 Jany. A.D. 1832 before me 
S. VanRensselaer J.P.
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[Signed] Micah Skinner 

Sworn this 18 Jany. A.D. 1832 before me 
S. VanRensselaer J.P.

State of Ohio
Madison County, Personally Came before me John Corey, a Justice of the Peace in Madison County, David Culver and after being duly Sworn according to law deposeth and Saith that he was knowing the Micah Skinner did Serve in the Revolutionary war for the term of Nine Months under one enlistment in the New York line on the Continental Establishment under Col. Marinus Willets in the Company Command by Captain Canon, that he enlisted about the first of April - 1781 - and was discharged the first of January, 1784 and likewise I believe the above witness is a Credible person 
given under my hand and Seal the 25 day of January 1828
[Signed] John Corey- JP
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The State of Ohio Madison County ss.
 I John Moore Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the county aforesaid, do certify that John Cory Esqr before whom the within affidavit was made was at that time and now is one of the acting Justices of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified, and that the signature purporting to be his, is genuine and that due faith and credit ought to be given to all his official acts as such- 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office at London this 29th day of May AD. 1828 
[Signed] John Moore Clerk M. C.
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To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled-  The undersigned your memorialist asks leave most Respectfully to present, that in the month of April AD 1781 he enlisted as a private Soldier for a term of three years in Thomas Skinners Company Col. Marinus Willets Regiment then paste muster at Albany and took our station on the Mohawk River in the State of New York on the frontear and that said Company & Regiment as your memorialist has always understood were raised by the State of New York in obedience to an act of Congress passed in the year 1780 requiring of the State of New York Levies to reinforce the army of the United States to guard the frontiers that after such inlistment your memorialist was transferred to Capt (his Christian name is forgotten) Cannons Company in the same Regiment in which Company he continued faithfully to serve his country untill after the close of the Revolutionary war when he was honorably discharged. that in execution of the object of the afforesaid Requisition he was stationed under the afforesaid Command, upon the then frontiers when he was actively engaged in the Battle of Johnstown and in ambush Skirmishes with the Indians on the Mohawk river during which he was frequently in extreme peril & suffering as well from the savage foe as from Cold and Hunger having many times ben out in Scouting parties [1?] and 3 days without food or Comfortable Clothing  that on the 6th day of February 1782 he started with Col. Willets Regiment from their frontier winter quarters on an expedition to Lake Ontario with the design of Surprising & taking fort Oswego - during which expedition your memorialist indured sufferings from the severe coldness of the weather and extreme hunger which it is not in his power, to discribe and which can only be conceived of from the fact that the expedition was performed in the depth of winter that they were Eleven days in performing it and that they had but 4 days provisions to sustain him during the whole 11 days, your memorialist further states that such was his weakness and exhaustion from hunger and his exposure for want of comfortable clothing that his feet were actually frozen from his heels to his toes so that they becom one block [?]
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The State of Ohio Huron Co. ss.
John Seymour and James Hamilton of Ridgefield Township County of Huron & State aforesaid being each duly sworn deposeth & saith that they are well acquainted with Micah Shinner who resides in their neighborhood & whose name is subscribed to the memorial hereunto attached. That the said Micah Skinner is a member in regular standing of the Presbyterian Church in said Township of Ridgefield - That he is now extremely infirm and as your deponents believes - poor in worldly Goods & that he sustains a fair character not only for the sobriety of his habits, but for the strictly Truth & veracity & further saith not 
[Signed] John Seymour
[Signed] James Hamilton 

Sworn to this 18 Jany AD 1832 before me
 S. Van Rensselaer J.P.

P.S. In addition to the above I would say that I have been acquainted with Micah Skinner nearly Six Years past and with John Seymour & James Hamilton Elders of the Church a longer time, and have no hesitation in believing all they have stated 18 Jany. 1832 
[Signed] S. VanRensselaer
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State of Ohio      }
Huron County ss.} Clerks Office Norwalk January 20th 1832 
I David Gibbs Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in said County do certify that the within named Schuyler VanRensselaer is & was, on the 18th Inst. a lawfull Justice of the peace as within mentioned, & that the Signatures within purporting to be his are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court & subscribed my name the day & year first above written. 
[Signed] D. Gibbs Clerk

Crosswise: 
Petition of Micah Skinner
Sol. Revolution - for Pension
Jany. 30 1832
Refd to the Committee
on Revolutionary Pensions
March 15th 1832
Bill - No. 472

By M Cooke
of Ohio

State troops
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Gideon, Prister. 

TREASURY DEPARTMENT. 
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE.
Jany 27th 1844 
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States, and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, The children of Micah Skinner, decd., a Pensioner on the Roll of the Pittsburg, Pa. Agency, at the rate of Eighty Dollars per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March to the 14th Aug. 1839.
Respectfully, yours, 
[Signed] Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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Rev War
3916
INVALID.

File No. 3916
Micah Skinner
Pri. N.Y. line

Act: June 7, '32
Index:- Vol. A, Page 343

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Micah Skinners
Pension Papers
No 6235.

not on rolls
Admitted
2yrs
$80-
Hon S. Cooke
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22d CONGRESS, 
1st SESSION. 
H. R. 472. 

MARCH 15, 1832. 
Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House to which is committed the bill (H.R. No. 351) for the relief of David Brooks. 

Mr. HUBBARD, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions. reported the following bill: 
A BILL 
Granting pensions to certain persons therein named. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, authorized and required to place Micah Skinner, Benjamin Jordan, Abner Reckard, Ebenezer Holmes, Elias Chamberlain, Isaac Fellows, Isaac Richardson, Zachariah Sanders, Samuel Barrett, Abraham June, Charles Chamberlain, Nathaniel Montagu, and Nell Whittaker, on the list of revolutionary pensioners; and that he pay to them, each, during life, at the rate of eight dollars a month; commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty.
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All the papers, depositions &c proving the Revolutionary services of Micah Skinner, will be found on the files of the office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives, where the Chr. of the Com. on Pensions informed me he should deposit them. 
[Signed] E. Cooke

The papers above referred to fully prove the good character of Mr. Skinner & that full reliance may be placed upon any statement he may make. Mr. Edwards, if requested, will dispatch a messenger for them, & with such, as are required by the instructions of the War Dept. to be taken before the Court- they will insure the inscription of his name on the Pension list.
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The State of Ohio Seneca County ss.
this day personly appeared before me the subscriber an acting Justice of the Peace in and for Seneca County Eli Wright and was duly sworn according to Law and Deposeth and saith that he the said Eli Wright was knowing to Micah Skinner Surving  in the Revolutionary war in the Company of Capt Cannon's Company and Col Willetts Regiment for the space of three years under one inlistment he the said Micah Skinner enlisted in the month of April 1781 and was discharged the first of January 1784 I the subscriber so certify that the said Eli Wright is a man of character and truth that can be depended upon
[Signed] Ely Wright
Taken and Subscribed before me this 10 day of February in the year AD 1832 
[Signed] John Tingler Justice of the peace

 I hereby certify that the above-named deponent is well known to me as a man of credibility -
[Signed] E. Cooke
 A Representative of Ohio
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The State of Ohio Seneca County ss.
I Joseph Howard Clerk of the Court of Common pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that John Tingler before whom the within affidavit appears to have been sworn to, and whose name is thereunto subscribed as such, was at the time of subscribing the same, and now is, an acting Justice of the peace of said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and that full faith and credit are due to all his official acts as such 
In testimony whereof, I the Clerk aforesaid, have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Tiffin in said County this 11th day of February AD. 1832.
[SEAL]
[Signed] Joseph Howard, Clerk
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State of Ohio Huron County ss.  Norwalk 27th July AD 1832 
On this 27th day of July AD 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Supreme Court of said State within and for said County of Huron now sitting Micah Skinner a resident of Ridgefield in said County, and said State aged Sixty six years 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 AD 1832 
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated - that he lived in New Lebanon, Albany County, State of New York in the month of April AD 1781, enlisted for three years into the Continental Army into one of the two Regiments ordered by Congress to said State of New York to [raise?] for the public service That he enlisted into a Company commanded by Captain Thomas Skinner into a Regiment commanded by Colonel Marinus Willet. That he passed muster at Albany took his stated on the Mohawk river on the Frontiers that he was employed on scouting parties - he fought the Indians and British particularly in a considerable Battle at Johnstown in said State of New York which lasted two or three hours - that he was employed in guarding the Frontiers on the Mohawk river the whole of said three years - that he was discharged at the time of the peace viz on the 6th of January AD 1832. That he was after the first year for which he enlisted transferred to a Company commanded by a Captain Cannon commanded in a Regiment by the same Colonel Marinus Willet.  Captain Skinners Company having mostly been cut of by the Indians he was acquainted with a Captain Peter Besturze, his adjutant was Pliny More. That he last forwarded his Memorial to Congress by the Honorable [Venture?] Cook a member of Congress from the State of Ohio stating his services & praying for a pension to be granted to him, and also at the same time forwarded by said Cook two Affidavits one given by David Calver Madison County and one from Eli Wright of Crawford County both in said State of Ohio which memorial & said Affidavits said Cook now informs he deposited with the Chairman of the Committee on Pensions who informed said Cook he should deposit on the files of the Clerk of the House of Representatives.
 It appears by a Bill accompanying this that Mr Hubbard from the Committee on Revolutionary pensions reported a Bill in the last Session of Congress that the Secretary at War be authorized and required to place among others the said Micah Skinner of the List of revolutionary pensioners at the rate of Eight dollars a month during his Lfe, commencing on the first of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty, which Bill accompanies this declaration
[Signature illegible]
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He hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares his name is not on the pension roll of any agency of any State 
[Signed] Micah Skinner 
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid 
[Signed] Attest   D. Gibbs Clerk Supr. Ct. 

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named Applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states
[Signed] Attest    D Gibbs Clerk Supr. Ct. 

I, D. Gibbs Clerk of the Supreme Court of Huron County Ohio do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Micah Skinner for a pension. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office - this 6th day of August AD 1832.
[Signed] D.Gibbs. Clerk Supr. Ct.