Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15138, Marvin Gates, Conn.
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(8-1776)

SERVICE
Conn

Gates, Marvin

NUMBER
S.15138

Carded

CONTENTS
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Typed document completed in handwriting

8905
New York

Marvin Gates
Ontario Co in the State of New York
he was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Jones, of the Regt; commanded Col. Wolcot in the Ct. ma for 11 mo

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 31 Dollars 11 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 2 day of May 1833 and sent to R. M. Bayly Geneva

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833.   $73.32
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept  $18.33
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                                                               $91.65
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{Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk
Book E Vol. 4 Page 20
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State of New York
Ontario County} s.s.

Marvin Gates of Bloomfield the within named declarant, being duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath further say in 1776 he resided at Colchester in Connecticut and remained there until January 1794. When he removed to Bloomfield in Ontario County New York where he now resides and has resided ever since - that he was born in November 1757 of which he has a record in his Bible given him by his Parents.

in 1776 he served seven months under 
Colonel Wolcott
Captain Buckley
Lieutenant Harvey
2 Lieutenant Johnson

at New London was Captain Pease

in 1777 served 2 months under
Colonel Lattimore
Captain Jones
in the same company was one Scofield Walter Gustin.

in 1780 served 2 months
under Lieutenant Lyons
Col Ledyard commanded at Fort Griswold.
There were no other troops than Lieut Lyons Company that he cannot recollect the names of any other under or with whom he served:

That from the great length of time that has intervened since he served in the Revolution from his advanced age and consequent loss of memory he cannot now recollect the names of all the officers under and with whom he served. Nor can he state the precise times he enterd and left the service, but according to the best of his recollection and knowledge he served eleven months as a private and for such service he now claims a pension.
Marvin Gates
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State of New York
Ontario County} s.s.

On the 2nd day of March 1833 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared Marvin Gates and subscribed and made oath in due for aforesaid the truth of the foregoing declaration
Eurotas Hastings JP
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State of New York
Ontario County s.s.

On the twenty eight day of August 1832 appeared personally, in open court, before the Judge of the Court of Common pleas now sitting, Marvin Gates a resident of the Town of Bloomfield in the County and State aforesaid aged seventy four year, 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 of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated viz. That at Colchester in Connecticut, where he then resided, in June 1776 he enlisted in Captain Eliphalet Buckley’s company in Colonel Wolcotts Regiment of Connecticut State troops for the term of seven months, that shortly after entering the service he was ordered to New London and was employed then principally at work on Fort Trumbull then building and as guard under the command of Col. Wolcott, that he remained there until January following when he was regularly dismissed but received no written discharge - that while stationed there was sent several times to Long Island for battle, and that the British Fleet anchored off the Harbour that one time remained about twenty four Hours - That in the year 1777 in the early part of September at Colchester he was drafted in Captain Jones Company in Colonel Lattimores Regiment, Connecticut Militia for 2 months, marched to Albany and from there to Stillwater when he was engaged with the enemy in the latter part of September, and was wounded in the arm, towards night, was sent with the other wounded to Camp to Head Quarters, Genl. Gates was commanding officer but
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does not know to whose Brigade he belonged, as he was in the Flank Guard which was marched from Camp to take their post in the [?] by Regiments, his Regiment was under Command of Col. Lattimer, that the morning after said engagement he was sent on a waggon to Albany, and there put into the Hospital, where he remained about two weeks and was then sent home on furlough: That in the winter of 1779 or 1780 he does not now recollect which, he was again drafted at said Colchester, in a Company of Militia commanded by Lieutenant Lyons were sent to Fort Griswold opposite New London, and remained there in the service of the United States for two months, was then dismissed and returned home towards Spring, that there was no other Troops at Fort Griswold at that time except Lieut Lyons Company.--

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State. That he has no documentary evidence of Service.
Marvin Gates

Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court}

We Thaddeus Remington [strikethrough] a clergyman [strikethrough], residing in the Town of Canandaigua and Harvey Saunders residing in Canandaigua herby certify that we are well acquainted with Marvin Gates of Bloomfield, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy four years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Thads Remington
Harvey Saunders

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court}
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And the said 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 Thaddeus Remington - who has signed the preceding certificate, [strikethrough] is a clergyman [strikethrough], resident in the town of Canandaigua and that Hervey Saunders who has also signed the same is a resident in the same town -- and [strikethrough] is a [strikethrough] that they are both credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I Charles Crane - - Clerk of the Court of Common pleas aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Marvin Gates for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this twenty-eighth day of August A.D. 1832
Charles Crane

{There is an impressed seal}
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State of New York
Ontario County s.s.

Elijah Wilder of the Town of Seneca in said County being duly sworn doth on his oath depose and say that in the year 1776 he was a soldier in the service of the United States in Captain Buckleys Company in Col Wolcots Regiment of Connecticut State Troops for seven months. That Marvin Gates of Bloomfield in Ontario County was a soldier in said Company and served with me at New London - that they were both dismissed at that place having served out the time of their engagement being seven months - That in 1777 in September or October deponent was in Albany and saw said Gates in the hospital, he having been wounded it was said at Stillwater.
Elijah Wilder

Sworn to and subscribed this 31st day of July 1832 - before me a Notary Public in said County witness my hand and seal of office - 
RM Bayly
N.P.

Also,
Sworn in open court 28 August 1832
Charles Crane Clerk}

I hereby certify that Elijah Wilder who had sworn to and subscribed the foregoing affidavit is a person of credibility
RM Bayly
N.P.
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State of New York
Ontario County s.s.}

I Charles Crane, Clerk of said county do hereby certify that Eurotas Hastings, whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate of Marvin Gates affidavit was, at the date thereof a Justice of the peace in and for said County, and that Richard M. Bayly, whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate of the affidavit of Elijah Wilder was, at the date thereof a Notary Public, in and for said County, and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of both the said Eurotas and Richard, and verily believe the said signatures respectively to e, as they purport to be, their several respective acts and deeds.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this fifth day of March A.D. 1833
Charles Crane

6870
Matter of Marvin Gates for a pension
Militia
RM Bayly


admitted
11 mons Private

{There is an attached seal and ribbon}
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6870
Marvin Gates
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admitted
11 mons Private

56.14.16
Sept 1832
Nov 1832

R. M. Bayly
Geneva
N.York
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Type written documented completed in handwriting

6870

BRIEF in the case of Marvin Gates - Bloomfield, Co of Ontario - in the State of New York
9Act 7th June, 1832

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3. How old is he? 74 years

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

6 column table
| Period| Duration of Service. Years, | Duration of Service. Months, |Duration of Service. Days,| Rank | Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.|

|June in 1776| - | 7 | - | private | Cap. L E. Buckley, Col. Wolcott |
| 1777 Sept.| - | (indefinite) |- |private |Cap. Jones, Col. Lattimer, Genl Gates |
| winter of 1779 or ’80 | - | 2 mos | - | private | Lt. Lyons|

5. In what battles was he engaged? Stillwater (wounded)

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Colchester, Connecticut

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Living witness as to the 1st term, & Traditionary

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?

[strikethrough] I [strikethrough] Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned. 
W. Fawcett
Examining Clerk
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15.138
INVALID
File No. 15,138
Marvin Gates 
Prv Rev War

Act. June 7, 32

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