Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 14286, for Pelatiah Rice, Vermont
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(3-1776) SERVICE Vt. Rice, Pelatiah NUMBER S.14286 carded  CONTENTS
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New York 28.743 Pelatiah Rice Chautauque in the State of New York was a Private in the Company commanded Captain Wright of the Regt commanded Col Warner in the Vermont for 6 months
 Inscribed on the Roll of New York the rate of 20 Dollars - Cents per annum commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. Certificate of Pension issued the 3 day of June 1834 1831 and sent to Hon A. Hazeltine H. Rep
 Arrears to the 4th March 34 $60.00 Semi-anl. allowance ending Sept 4 '34 10.00 (=) $ 70.00 {Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.} Recorded by Lam H. Page Clerk  Book E Vol. 4 Page 119
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Declaration of Pelatiah Rice. In order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed June 7th 1832.
 State of New York Chautaugue County} ss On this 25th day of December 1833. personally appeared before Thomas B. Campbell Esq. a Judge of the court of common pleas in & for the said county of Chautauque Pelatiah Rice a resident of Westfield in said county aged 79 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 1832. 
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
 That in January 1776 he enlisted as a private soldier in the Vermont Militia at Bennington for the time of three months under Capt Samuel Wright and Lieut Ransom and immediately afterwards marched with his company to Montreal where they lay bye, till Col Warner came on & took the command of the company to which he was attached & several other companies of Vermont Militia which he found there & marched them down the river to Quebeck. He continued on this duty at this place after his time of three months had expired & till the some time in the month of May when a body of British troops arrived & compelled the American to abandon the seige. He retreated under the command of Col. Warner up the river to a place called point Chamboy. At which place the companies separated in consequence of the scarcity of provisions his company continued its retreat alone, making some halts at different places in search of provisions and reached home in June having been absent on duty five months.
 In June 1777 call was made for one half of the Militia in Napermoshe in Rensalaer county in this state where he there resided to aid the American army in retreating from Fort George to Fort Edward This declarant went on that service under the command of Capt. Vasino? & Lieut Martin & spent the month He  remembers to have seen Gen Schuyler at Fort Edward.
 In the fall of 1778 he was drafted under Capt. John Tasset & Col. Walbridge & marched to Castleton in Vermont in this occasion he was absent from home one month. In the same year of the west thereafter, he was again called out whether by draft or as a volunteer he can not remember, under Capt.
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 Button Lieut. Baker & Col Abbit to protect Skeensborough from a party of Indians which was said to be in its neighbourhood. He was on tour one month.
 He was during the war on several other tours of military duty the particulars of which he can not by reason of the lapse of time & the infirmities of age, state but in the aggregate they amounted at least to one month more, & that in the whole he served not less than nine months. He was born in Westbury in Massachusetts in the year 1754. He has no record of his age.  
In 1776 when he enlisted he lived in Waloomschoick in Renssalaer county in this state. In the summer of the same year after returning from Quebeck, he removed to Napermooshe in the same county. In 1778 he removed to Bennington in Vermont. He lived in Bennington 2 years & then returned back to Waloomschoick at which place he lived at the close of the war.  Soon afterwards he removed to Hoosick in the same county & lived there two years & then removed to Springfield in Otsego Co. in this State where he lived till the year 1810 or about that time, when he removed to this county where he still resides.
 By reason of old age & the consequent loss of memory he can not state more particularly than he hs done above the name of  the regular officers who were with the troops where he served except that he knew Gen Arnold & Gen Worcester at Quebeck that Gen. Worcester a large fleshy man & that Gen Arnold, was a small man & was lame during the winter in one leg. He remembers also to have seen Gen. Allen at Castleton He remember also that during the siege of Quebeck that he assisted in raising a battery of ice which was very speedily demolished by the British field pieces. During the fore part of the tour to Quebeck he acted as a corporal & in the latter part as a serjeant. He never received a written discharge to the best of his remembrance.
He says that he is acquainted with Lawton Richmond Benjamin Hutchens, William Hutchins, Low Minegar Jonathan Cass & many that in his neighbourhood who can testify as to his character for veracity & their belief as to his services in the revolutionary war 
He says he does not know any that there is anywhere any written or documentary evidence of his services & he knows of no living person by whom he can prove them. (crossed out- that whenever on duty except that he thinks he can prove that he was on duty at Castleton in Vermont as above stated by William Hutchins)
( left margin bottom) The lines by reason of the applicant Hutchins at Castleton but then said he did not remember serving.
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(left margin top) he erased where put in saying that he saw Williams said Williams being questioned said applicant at that place.
He says that he should have made an earlier application for a pension had he not been detered by the State of his health, that since the passage of the late law he has been so sick & feeble that he  had no expectation of living to enjoy his country's bounty if it was granted but that his health has very much improved in the last 3 months 
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension  or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. Pelatiah Rice
Sworn to & subscribed the 26 of December 1833 T. B. Campbell Chautauque County  Lawton Richmond a clergyman residing in the town of Westfield, county of Chautauque aforesaid does hereby certify that he has been acquainted with the aforesaid Pelatiah Rice who has been sworn to the above declaration that he believes him to be 79 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 he concurs in that opinion
Lawton Richmond 
Sworn to & subscribed the 26 day of Decem. 1833 T.B. Campbell
Chautauque County Benjamin Hutchins residing in Westfield aforesaid does hereby certify that he has been well acquainted with the aforesaid Pelatiah Rice who has been sworn to the above declaration & who is now present with this deponent for more than forty years that he believes him to be 79 years of age & that he has always been reputed & believed by his acquaintances in the several places where he has known him to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that he never knew an opinion or belief expressed to the contrary & that he concurs in that opinion  Benj Hutchins
Sworn to and subscribed the 26 day of Decem. 1833. T.B.Campbell
 And the said Thomas B. Campbell Judge as aforesaid does hereby certify that the above named Pelatiah Rice can not from bodily infirmity attend Court and he does hereby declare his opinion after the investigation on 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 said Judge further certifies that
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he is personally acquainted with the above named Lawton Richmond, who signed the above certificate & that he is a clergyman residing in Westfield aforesaid he is also acquainted with the above named Benjamin Hutchins who is also a resident of the same town & is a credible person, and that the statements of the said Lawton & Benjamin are in titled to credit. And he does further certify that the above applicant has lived in his neighborhood during the last sixteen years & that during that time he has been well acquainted with him, that he is man of unquestioned truth & veracity & he has always understood & believed that that he was a Revolutionary soldier, & he never heard a contrary opinion expressed. And he further certifies that the lines in the above declaration in regard to William Hutchins having been acquainted with the applicant at Castleton, were erased before signing & that the line stating that the applicant knew Gen. Allen in Castleton was incerted before signing T. B. Campbell 
State of New York Chautauque County ss. James B Lowry Clerk of the said County of Chautauque Do hereby certify that  Thomas B. Campbell Esqr. whose signature appears above & to the Seal of the foregoing affidavit, was on the 26th Day of December about? & now is one of the Judges of the County Courts held in & for said Courts and that his name above writen is genuine In Testimony whereof I have herein ( covered by Seal) to set my name & affixed the Seal of said County this 28th day of December, A.D. 1833 Jas B Lowry Clerk 
29267 Pelatiah Rice Pension papers  Vermont Militia  Admitted Private 6 months 
Hon. A. Hazeltine  A. Smith Westfield Chau Co N.Y.
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section

October 24, 1924.
Mrs. Walter McCarty,
c/o Concord State Bank,
Concord, ILL.

Madam: 

I have to advise you that from the papers in Revolutionary War pension claim, S.14286, it appears that Pelatiah Rice was born in 1754 in Westbury, Massachusetts.

While a resident of Walloomsac, Rensselaer County, New York, he enlisted in January 1776 and served 5 months in Captain Samuel Wright's Company, Colonel Warner's Vermont Regiment. Having moved to Napermooshe in said county, he served from June 1777 for 1 month under Captain Garimo in the Vermont Troops. He moved to Bennington, Vermont, in 1778 and enlisted in the fall of 1778 and served 1 month in Captain John Fasset's Company, Colonel Walbridge's Vermont Regiment. In 1778 or 1779 he enlisted and served 1 month in Captain Button's Company, Colonel Abbot's Vermont Regiment. He served at various other times, amounting to 1 month, dates and names of officers not stated.

He was allowed pension on his application executed
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December 25, 1833, while a resident of Westfield, Chautauqua County, New York.

There is no data on file as to his family.

The above noted is the only Pelatiah Rice found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.

Respectfully,

Commissioner.
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[verso]
Aug '9 '99 Mrs B L Ernst Cooperstown, N.Y.
1903, Mch. 7. History to Mrs. F. W. Crandall. Letter with cl. R. 847, Nathaniel Bird, F.W.
1923 Sept. 27. Hist. to Mrs. A. R. Stark AW
1924, Apr. 28 - Hist. to Mrs. W. A. Smith. u.m.
1924, Oct 24 - Hist. to Mrs. Walter McCarty UM

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14286.
RevWar ✓INVALID.
File No. 14.286
Pelatiah Rice
Priv. Rev. war
Act: June 7th 1832
Index: - Vol. 1, Page 317
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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[handwritten letter]

[logo: DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION]
Captain Richard Somers Chapter
Saint Peter, Minnesota

10 Aug't 1923

Dear Sir - 
Will you kindly send me copies of the Pension Records of the following who served in the Rev. War.
Pelatiah Rice was placed on the pension roll of Chautauqua Co N York - 1732 - for services of private in the Vermont Militia
Philip Rounseville enlisted 1780 in Captain Joseph Hortons company from Freetown Mass where he was born in 1750 - 
Abiel Cale [margin note: a or o O] enlisted in Capt Manassah Kemptons company from Dartmouth
/s/Mrs (Alice R. Stark - )
St Peter Minnesota
[receipt stamp: U. S. PENSION OFFICE H AUG 13 1923]
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[handwritten letter]

Concord Ill.
Oct. 1 - 1924.

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C. 

was there a pension allotted the widow of Peletiah Rice of Rochester, New York, who was in the American Revolution 
The war department has not record of Peletiah Rice, in this war, but our family records show, he was a soldier in the revolution 
The war department directed me to write you for the information
Very truly yours
/s/Mrs. Walter McCarty
Concord Ill.
c/o Concord State Bank
[receipt stamp: U. S. PENSIO]N OFFICE L OCT 4 1924
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Cooperstown N.Y.
April 28th 99

Dear Sir:

Will you be kind enough to tell me if Pelletyne, of Pelletian Rices name appears on the Pension roll as a Revolutionary soldier. Any information will be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely yours

Mrs B. S. Ernst
Cooperstown
Otsego Co
N.Y.
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[receipt stamp: U. S. PENSION OFFICE. B APR 29 1899]
[receipt stamp: O. W. & N. DIVISION MAY 3 1899 RECEIVED.]
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[handwritten letter]

2950 West River Drive
Minneapolis Minnesota
Mar 23 - 1924
[receipt stamp: U. S. PENSION OFFICE L MAR 27 1924]

Dear Sir
Will you please send me copies of the pension papers of the following Rev Soldiers - 
Pelatiah Rice who was in Mass. served in Vt Military was pensioned in Chautauqua NY 1832.
Peter Buckalen. Middlesex Co New Jersey.
Thanking you I am Very truly
/s/Mrs. W. A. Smith
2950 West River Drive
Minneapolis Minnesota
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In reply to your request of [blank], received  [blank] for a statement of the military history of Pelatiah Rice a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. S. F. 14,286.
[column headings: DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.|LENGTH OF SERVICE.|RANK.|OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.(CAPTAIN.|COLONEL.)|STATE.|
Jan. 1776|5 mos|Pvt.|(Samuel Wright|Warner|Vt.|
June, 1777| 1 " |[blank]|(Garimo| ✓ )| " |
Fall, 1778|1 " |[blank]|(John Fosset|Walbridge.)| " |
1778 or 1779|1 " |[blank]|(Button|Abbot)| " |
[blank]|various other times a- |[blank]|(names of officers not|recollected)|[blank]|
[blank]|mounting to 1 mo.|[blank]|([blank]|[blank])|[blank]|
[end of columns]
Battles engaged in, ✓
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Walloomsac, Rensselaer Co. N. Y. 
Date of application for pension, Dec. 25, 1833. His cl. was al.
Residence at date of application, Westfield, Chautauqua Co., N.Y.
Age at date of application, Born 1754, Westbury Mass.
Remarks: There is no data relative to family. 
The above soldier is the only Pelatiah Rice found on the Rev. War records of this Bureau.
Very respectfully, 
Commissioner.
6-2856
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Rev. & 1812 War Section.

April 28, 1924.

Mrs. W. A. Smith,
2950 West River Drive,
Minneapolis, MINN.

Madam: 

I have to advise you that from the papers in Revolutionary War pension claim, S.14286, it appears that Pelatiah Rice was born in 1754 in Westbury, Massachusetts. While a resident of Walloomsac, Rensselaer County, New York, he enlisted and served as a private in the Vermont Troops as follows:

From January 1776 for 5 months in Captain Samuel Wright's Company, Colonel Warner's Regiment.

From June 1777 for one month in Captain Garimo's Company.

^He moved to Bennington, Vt in 1778

From the fall of 1778 for one month in Captain John Fasset's Company, Colonel Walbridge's Regiment.

In 1778 or 1779 for one month in Captain Button's Company , Colonel Abbot's Regiment.

And at various other times, amounting to one month, dates and names of officers not stated.

He was allowed pension on his application executed
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December 25, 1833, while a resident of Westfield, Chautauqua County, New York.

There is no data on file as to his family.

Respectfully,

Commissioner.