Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21,982, for Enoch Place, Rhode Island
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Service

R.I.

Place, Enoch
Elizabeth

Number
W. 21, 9282
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329

New York

Enoch Place
of Wilton Sa Co in the state of New York
who was a sergeant in the company commanded
by Captain Blackman of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Hitchcock in the R Island
line, for the term of two years 
from May 1776 to  17

Inscribed on the Roll of New York 
at the rate of 120 Dollars per annum, to
commence on the 4th day of Mar 1831
and
Certificate of Pension issued the 20th Aug
1832 and sent to Enoch Place
Schuylerville PO Saratoga  Cy N Y
the Roll on____day of 182____ and notification sent to ____ at _____Pension commencing on the ___ of___ 182 ___
Amount due on 4th of Nov 1832  $120
Semi annual all.   4 Sept 1832 60
$180
{Revolutionary Claim,} 7 June 1832
Recorded Book  [illegible]
Vol 5 Page 124
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1660
Sept 1818
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State of New York
County of SARATOGA, }ss.
On this 22nd day of August 1820 personally appeared in open Court, in the Court of Common Pleas of the said County, the same being a Court of Record for the said County, proceeding according to he course of he common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Enoch Place aged sixty five years resident in the town of Wilton formerly a part of the town of Northumberland in the said County, in the State aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows: viz that he this deponent enlisted in the month of May 1775 in the town of Gloucester in the County of Providence and State of Rhode Island in the company commanded by Captain Nathaniel Blackmarr in the Regiment Commanded by Colonel Daniel Hitchcock in the line of the State of Rhode Island on the continental establishment that he continued to serve in the said corps until the expiration of the Term of his enlistment when he was discharged from the said service at Prospect Hill near Boston:  In the beginning of the year 1776 he this deponent again enlisted in the said town of Gloucester in the company commanded by the said Captain Blackmarr for the erm of one year in the Regiment commanded first by Colonel Henry Babcock but shortly after by Colonel Christopher Lippett in the line of the state of Rhode Island:  That this deponent marched with the said Regiment 
to the Island of Rhode Island where the said Regiment was stationed until about the first of September 1776 and marched from thence and joined the main army lying before the city of New York: and that he this Deponent was in the battles of White plains, Trenton and Princeton and that he continued to serve in the said corps until the full aspiration of the Term of his enlistment after which the solicitations of the general officers, he this deponent together with a number of others volunteered to serve in the said army for one month longer which he did and was discharged.  Again he this deponent at the town of Providence in the State of Rhode Island in the month of April 1777 enlisted for the term of fifteen months as first sergeant in the company commanded by Benjamin Whipple in one of the Regiments raised by authority of the State of Rhode Island commanded by Colonel Archibald Crary as a Sergeant major in the time of General Sullivan's expedition upon Rhode Island, he this deponent was advanced to the rank of Ensign and carried the standard of the said Regiment in the Battle and retreat from the said Island and served the full tern of his enlistment in the said Regiment and was discharged.  Again in the month of May 1779 he the deponent hired himself out as a substitute and took a Sergeant's place in the company commanded by Captain Traffings in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Topham
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from the said island and served the full term of his enlistment in the said Regiment, and was discharged.  Again in the month of May 1779 he the deponent hired himself as a substitute, and took a Sergeants place in the company commanded by captain Traffings in the Regiment commanded by Colonel [illegible] Topping in the Rhode Island State service and served in the said Regiment until it was discharged.  Again in the month of June 1780 he the deponent enlisted at  the town of Gloucester in the state of Rhode Island for the term of six months as a private soldier,  a [illegible] in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Green in the continental establishment joined  said Regiment and was made an orderly Sergeant in the company commanded by captain John Holden, belonging to the said Regiment, in which he this deponent served the full term of his enlistment and again in the month of March in the year 1781 at the town of Gloucester in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island he this deponent enlisted as a private soldier for the term of three years in a [illegible] to fill up Colonel Green's Regiment in the continental establishment  joined to said Regiment near a place called [illegible] in the state of New York, and was made a non commissioned officer in the company commanded by Colonel Jeremiah Olney (Colonel Green and Major Flagg of the said Regiment having been massacred by the Refugees a few days previous to this deponent joining the said Regiment) in 1781 he this deponent marched with the said Regiment to the south and joined the Army which laid siege to Yorktown and Gloucester, and he this deponent was in the battle of the taking of Lord Cornwallis;  And this Deponent further saith, that he served in the said Regiment the full term of two years, seven month and nine days and was honorably discharge.  And this deponent further saith that he sacrificed upwards of seven years and nine months of the prime of his life in the service of his country, and that as he is now in such indigent circumstances as to require the assistance of his country for support.
That his original declaration was made on or about the 16th day of April 1818 and that his Pension Certificate is numbered 1660
  And I 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 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 service of he United Sates, 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 hereto annexed, and by me subscribed .
Enoch Place
Sworn and declared on the 23rd day of August in open Court 
Thomas Palmer clerk
  I, Thomas Palmer Clerk of he Court of Common Pleas of the County of Saratoga do hereby certify that  the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is Thirty six dollars and eighteen cents.
  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this 20th day of August 1820
Thomas Palmer
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Saratoga.
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Schedule
1 yearling calf  $4.  3 yearling hogs $6.   6 pigs$3  13.00
2 old tables $3. 10 old cottage chairs 1.25. 1 Large spinning wheel $1.00--4.75
1 small spinning wheel 2. 1 trunk 1. 1 pine chest $1.  4.00
1 one clothe press/4. 1 narrow ax/. 2 ax polls 50/100  5.50
1 frying pan 1/b 3 earthen pots 6/. 1 Kettle 8/  1.94
1 tea kettle 4/ 1 fire shovel 2/ 1 pair old andirons 4/  $1.25
8 knives and forks 2/ . 2 pails 3/. 1 churn 4/. 8 large & small spoons 2/.  1.38
1 iron wege 1/. 1 cupboard 8/. 18 plates 4/. 1 decanter 2/.  1.88
1 wine glass 50. 1 tumbler 60. 1 looking glass 2/.   36
1 earthen pot 3/ . 2 milk pans 3/.  75
2 hi panes 3/. 6 bowls 2/. 4 jugs 4/. 4 bottles 2/.  1.37
36.18
And this deponent further saith that his occupation is a  labourer and that he is unable to perform hard labour.  That he has a wife aged fifty six years and that she is of a weakly habit not able to support herself.  And that he has one Daughter Belinda aged 23 years.  and that she has been out of health for more than one year. and is not able to contribute much to her support.  And that he has a Daughter Jerusha aged 26 years of a weakly habit, and not able to contribute much to her support.  Making four a family residing with him, and not one of the four that enjoys good health and all partially dependent on him for support
Enoch Place
Sworn to in open court the 23rd August 1820
Thomas Palmer 
Clerk
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State of New York
Saratoga County ss.}
  On this fourth day of August eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared before me Stephen H Dillingham one of the Justices of the peace in and for the County of Saratoga Enoch Place aged seventy seven years a resident of the town of Wilton in the county of Saratoga and state of New York who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.  That he is a noncommissioned officer of the Army of the Revolution now in the receipt of a pension under the act of March 18, 1818, as from his final Discharge and Pension certificate hereto forwards to the Department of War may appear.  He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any Agency in any State only on that of the Agency in the State of New York.  That his service in the American army during the Revolutionary war amounted in the aggregate to seven years ten months and nine days Viz Three years nine months and nine days in the continental line and four years and one month in the Rhode Island State Service.  That in the year 1774 he enlisted in an Independent company self created and organized and armed,  meeting weekly for discipline under a Drill Master ( A British Deserter) whom they hired.  That in 1775 aroused by the alarm of the Battle of Lexington that company volunteered (including deponent) and marched towards Boston from the town of Gloucester, County of Providence and colony of Rhode Island that place of their residence.  That in the month of May 1775 at the said town of Gloucester he enlisted in the continental army as a private for the term of eight or nine months in a company of which Nathaniel Blackman was Capt. and Daniel Hitchcock was Colonel and served the full term of his enlistment.  That in the year 1776 he reenlisted  under Capt Blackman as first Corporal in the Rhode Island State Regiment commanded until disqualified by insanity by Col Henry Babcock and afterwards by Col Christopher Lippet, and in May or June he was promoted to a Sargantry and soon became
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first Sergeant and in the month of August marched with the Regiment nearly 700 strong and joined the main army under Gen. Lee's Division the day before its retreat from Yorks Island.  That in their retreat through the Jersey's  he in common with others being destitute of shoes were necessitated to tie slips of raw hides around his feet--crossed and recrossed the Delaware through the foot of snow of December--was in the battle of Trenton and Princeton and upon the expiration of the term of enlistment-viz one year, at the solicitation of the commander in chief of other officers, volunteered with others to remain another month.  That in his opinion the toils and hardships of that Regiment entitled them to equal consideration with the continental troops-and the whole Army endured hardships of surmounted obstacles unsurpassed by Napoleon's Army in crossing the Alps previous to the battle of the Marengo--for they marched without shoes, watched without artificial excitement and fought without bread.  For many days they were destitute of salt and were [illegible] with lean fresh beef and sour flour.  That in the year 1777 soon after his return from the army hired as a substitute in the militia in the town of Gloucester and marched to Providence for the defense of the town the enemy then being in possession of the Island.  The General assembly of Rhode Island this year ordered two Regiments to be raised and equipped for the defense of the State- to relieve the militia drafts.  That he enlisted as first Sergeant in a company commanded by Capt Benjamin Whipple in the Regiment commanded by Col Archibald Crary for the term of fifteen months and did duty for that term near Bristol where the Regiment was stationed.  That in the year 1778 he enlisted for the term of one year as Sergeant major in a Regiment commanded by the same Col. Crary arranged and returned in a company commanded by Capt Nathan Olny.  This being the year of Gen Sullivan's expedition upon the Island of Rhode Island and [illegible] officers becoming scarce he was advanced to the rank of [illegible] Ensign and carried the standard of the Regiment in the battle on  and 
retreat from the Island in which rank and station he was [illegible] during the full term of his enlistment and for some time did the duty of Adjutment in the Regiment.  About this time he was offered a commission in the continental line- but the government not allowing any thing for officers clothing or equipment and the depreciation of 
continental money  having rendered him about pennyless he was obliged to decline the offer.  In 1779 he quit the service with a determination never to enter it again. Nevertheless he in the month of May in that year re-enlisted the service as a substitute and as a Sergeant in Capt Traffing company in Rhode Island State Regiment as commanded by Col Toppin and served in
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the same until disbanded - first as duty Sergeant - then as orderly and last as Sergeant major-enduring hardships equal to any continental troops - having the Enemy almost continually in view and furnishing his own clothing.  In 1780 he on retiring from the Army left the state and entered an academy as a student in Woodstock Connecticut - and in the month of June of that year being on a visit to his native town of Gloucester and finding the militia called and the drum beating for recruits to fill Col Greene's Regiment in the continental line -  he re-enlisted and was appointed the first Sergeant in Capt. John Holdings company - in which station he served for six months - the period of his enlistment.  In 1781 the continental money became valueless and his savings from the pittance allowed a soldier, entirely lost to him - may even a Legacy of 100 P willed to him was paid to him by the Executor in brown paper - under the sanction of the Law of a little State more Patriotic than just -  constituting paper Rags a lawful tender.  In March 1781 more men having been required to fill Col Green's Regiment, his native town to prevent a Draft undertook to hire its Quota and he being offered four half Joes as a bounty with a fair promise that in future the Army would be paid monthly and in S pieces re-enlisted at Gloucester and joined the Regiment then lying at Crumb's pond in the State of New York.  A few days afterward Col Green and major Flagg were [illegible] by the Refugees at Croton River.  He served in the company commanded by Zephariah Brown in the Regiment commanded by Col Jerh Olny in the capacity of orderly Sergeant for two years seven months and nine days, and received an honorable and final Discharge, (after the definition Treaty was signed) on Christmas eve 1783.  That he performed the arduous and confining duty of first Sergeant for more than three years - that of Sergeant Major for nine months and [illegible] Ensign for six months.  That he participated in the siege and capture of Lord Cornwallis.  That 1775 before the battle of Bunker Hill he received the wound the scar which is visible on his ankle in an expedition to dislodge a British Guard stationed at Roxbury neck.  That all the [illegible] he received during the war of the Revolution was [illegible] at the head of Elk River which was borrowed by Gen Washington
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on his personal credit of Comte de Rochambeau who supplied the American commander in chief with two months pay to stimulate his men moving on to the Siege of Yorktown.  The remainder of his pay for two years and seven months service was in final settlement certificate -  which brought him eight shillings in the pound payable in goods at an [illegible] price.
Enoch Place
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me
S. H. Dillingham Justice
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1393
New York Albany
Elizabeth Place
widow of Enoch Place
R. I.
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Sergeant
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
120 Dollars  --
Cents per annum, to commence on 
the 4th day of March 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the
23 day of August
and sent to 
Lews Jenkins
Albany
NY
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 166 Vol. 4
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V 2424
Elizabeth Place
N. York
Married 29. March 1785
Husband died 12 Oct. 1833
Col Olny
Capt Blackman
R. I. Line
Admitted
Sergeant 2 years
died Oct 12 1833
Preston
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State of New York
County of Livingston ss
  On this 25th day of September eighteen hundred and thirty eight-Elizabeth Place a resident of the town of Caledonia, County and State aforesaid, aged seventy five years. who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows:"  That she is the widow of Enoch Place, who was an orderly Sergeant in the Army of the Revolution, and who drew a pension as such for a number of years previous to his death, that at the time he procured his pension Warrant or certificate, he was a resident of the town of Northumberland or Wilton, Saratoga County and State aforesaid and that he died at Caledonia in the County of Livingston and State aforesaid on the 12th day of October, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty three, and that at the time of his death there was a balance due to him as a pensioner, and that she procured the necessary evidence required by the war department as his widow to receive the same which was paid to her agent by the department after sending to the war office his pension warrant  and other papers, all of which you are respectfully referred to the Register in the department.
  She further declares that she was married to the said Enoch Place, on the 29th day of March in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty five, by the Revd. W Demster officiating clergyman of the town of Saratoga, in the County of Saratoga and State aforesaid.  That there was no law that she knows of requiring a register of their marriage, and that she has no documentary evidence of the same, That she was not married to him prior
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prior to his leaving the service, But the Marriage took place previous to the first of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four viz, at the time above Stated, and that she has not been married since the death of her husband, but remains the widow of the said Enoch Place.---
  And she further declares according to the best of her knowledge and belief, that the said Enoch Place first enlisted in the service of his country in the Town of Gloucester in the State of Rhode Island, that when the first term of service expired, he enlisted again, and again, until he served nearly eight years in all--But that his last discharge reads for only about three years--for the proof of which you are also respectfully refer'd to the records of the department
Elizabeth Place
State of New York
Livingston County ss  I William H Stanley Clerk of the Common Pleas Court and of the said, county of Livingston, do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration of Elizabeth Place was Subscribed and made upon Oath duly administered in open court before the Judges of the same on the 25th day of September AD 1838
  In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and, affixed the seal of the said court this 25th day of September AD 1838
W H Stanley
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State of New York ss.
On the 22nd day of September in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty eight Robert McKay of the town of Caledonia in the County of Livingston, being duly sworn deposeth and saith, that he assisted in laying out the Corpse of the late Enoch Place, in the town of Caledonia aforesaid, and that he believes the time of his death is correctly stated, in the declaration of Elizabeth Place, and that she has not since been married. 
Robt. McKay
Subscribed and sworn this 22nd day of September 1838 before me, Willard H Smith
First Judge of the County Court of Livingston County in said state.  And I the said Judge do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Robert McKay, that he is a person of truth and veracity.
Willard H Smith
Judge di.
State of New York
Livingston County ss.
I William H Stanley Clerk of the Common Pleas Court of the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Willard H. Smith Esquire is a Judge in and for said County duly Commissioned and qualified to act as such, and that his signature above written is genuine.
  In Witness Whereof I have set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County the 26th day of September AD. 1838.
W H Stanley
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State of New York ss.
 On this 22nd day of September in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty eight, Robert Place of the town of Caledonia in the County of Livingston, being duly sworn deposeth and saith, that he believes himself to be forty seven years of age, and the son of the late Enoch Place and Elizabeth Place his widow. and that his parents were lawfully married, and that they lived together over forty eight years, and that his mother has not since the death of his father been married
Robert Place 
Subscribed and sworn this 22nd day of September
1838 before me
Willard H Smith first Judge
of the County Court of Livingston in said state .
1839
47
1792
and I the said Judge hereby certify that I am acquainted with the above named Robert Place, that he is a person of truth and veracity.
Willard H Smith First
Judge dr
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November 24, 1906.

Hon. James A. Tawney
Winona, Minnesota.

My dear Mr. Tawney:

In reply to your letter dated the 20th instant, and received in this Bureau on the  22nd , I have the honor to advise you that it appears from the papers in claim, Widows File #21,982, that one Enoch Place resided at Gloucester, Rhode Island, where he enlisted and served in the Rhode Island troops as follows:
Enlisted in May, 1775, as Private in Captain Nathaniel Blackmar's company, Colonel Daniel Hitchcock's regiment, for eight months, at the expiration of which he re-enlisted in the same company as Orderly Sergeant and served under Colonels Henry Babcock and Christopher Lippitt for thirteen months; he was wounded in the ankle in attempt to drive British from Roxbury Neck, Massachusetts; 
enlisted in April, 1777, as First Sergeant in Captain Benajah Whipple's company, Colonel Archibald Crary's regiment,  for fifteen months; and in 1778, as Sergeant Major under Captain Nathan Olney, in Colonel Crary's regiment, was made Brevet Ensign and regimental standard-bearer in General Sullivan's Rhode Island expedition; served twelve or fifteen months; enlisted in May, 1779, as Sergeant
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Hon. Jas. A. Tawney
in Captain Trafton's company, Colonel Topham's regiment and served until the regiment was disbanded; enlisted in June, 1780 as Orderly Sergeant in Captain John Holden's company, Colonel Greene's regiment for six months;  enlisted in March, 1781, as Sergeant in Captain Zephaniah Brown's company, Colonel Jeremiah Olney's regiment  (Colonel Greene and Major Flagg were massacred) and was discharged December 25, 1783; was in the battles of White Plains, Trenton, Princeton, Siege of Yorktown and Gloucester, Virginia.
  He was allowed pension on an application executed April 16, 1818, at which time he was sixty-three years of age and a resident of Northumberland or Wilton, Saratoga county, New York.
  Soldier married March 29, 1785, Elizabeth Milligan.
  In 1820 he mentioned his daughters Jerusha, aged twenty-six years, and Belinda, aged twenty-three years.
  He died at Caledonia, New York, October 12, 1833, and his widow was allowed pension on an application executed September 25, 1838, at which time she was seventy-five years of age and a resident of Caledonia, Livingston county, New York; son Robert Place, aged forty-seven years (in 1838), testified in her claim.
  Very respectfully,
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Enoch Place
R. I. W.21982
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By WILLIAM ALLEN, Esquire;
Major in the Army of the United States of America, and Captain Commandant of the Rhode-Island Troops.
THESE are to CERTIFY, that the Bearer hereof
Enoch Place, Sergeant
in the Rhode-Island Troops, having faithfully served the UNITED STATES
seven months and nine days and being enlisted for Three Years, is hereby Discharged the American Army.
GIVEN at Saratoga the 25th day of December, 1783
William Allen
Attest F Greenman 
Adjutant
of the Rhode-Island Troops.
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Post mark
U.S.  PENSION OFFICE 
D
JUN 3
1898
OLD WAR AND NAVY
JUN 6 1898
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OFFICE OF 
R. M. PLACE
GENERAL INSURANCE
AND
PENSION AGENCY
WALKER BLOCK.

Caledonia, N. Y., June 2nd 1898
Hon. Comm. of Pensions
Washington D. C.
Dr Sir
   The Enclosed letters are self Explanatory.  May I ask your aid in continuance of the search, or further information, and return of enclosed letters.
I have the honor to be
Very Respectfully
R. M. Place
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Albany. 5020
Elizabeth Place
widow of Enoch Place
who was a pensioner under the Act of March 1818 and who died on the 12, Oct. 1833
of Livingston Co. in the State of N. York
who was a Sergeant in the company commanded by Captain Blackman of the regt. commanded by Col. Olney in the R. Island line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany 
at the rate of 120 Dollars --Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of Feb.
1840 and sent to James R. Clark
Caledonia, N. Y.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. '39   420.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 March '40 60.00
$480.00
{Act July 7, 1838.}
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk
Book A. Vol. 2. Page 98
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490
New York Albany
Elizabeth Place
widow of Enoch Place
who was a Sergeant
in the Revolution
for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
120 Dollars --
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21st day of June, 1843.
and sent to
J.R. Clarke
Caledonia,
N. Y.
[Act of March 3, 1843]
Recorded in Book A. 
Vol. 1 Page 111.
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New York Roll.
(N. 1660.)
Enoch Place,
Sergeant
Rhode Island Line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on 
the 16th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 of June 1818,
and sent to Abm Vn Densen, Esq.
Saratoga, N. York.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818.
4 months 19/30. $37.06
{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
Olney
3 years 
1777
Northumberland, Saratoga
County
Continued
see letter to July 28, 1832
to J. R. Clark.
Notification sent Nov 4th 18210 to Tho. Palmer
Ballston Spa N Yk
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V
Elizabeth Place
of Enoch
New York
Suspended
[illegible] 30 April
1839 Jas. R. Clark
to same 5 Sept. 1839
Act of July 1838
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State of New York
Saratoga County, ss.
  Robert Milligan of the Town of Wilton County and State aforesaid Being duly sworn saith that he was present at and Witnessed the marriage of Enoch Place to Elizabeth Milligan now widow of the said Enoch Place deceased And that the said marriage took place on the 29th day of March in the year of 1785 By the Reverend Wm. Demster officiating Clergyman
Robert Milligan
Subscribed and Sworn before me
this 12th day of December 1839
Francis K. Winney
I hereby certify that I have been acquainted with the above mentioned Robert Milligan above forty years and believe him to be a man of truth and veracity-Saratoga November 12th 1839.
Francis K. Winney
STATE OF NEW-YORK,
Saratoga County Clerk's Office }ss.
I, Alpheus Goodrich, Clerk of the county of Saratoga, Do Certify, That Francis K. Winney before whom the annexed affidavit purports to have been sworn, was on the date of the same, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper hand writing and signature.
Witness my hand and seal of Office, the 13th day of November 1839
A Goodrich Clerk
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State of New York
Saratoga County ss.
  Robert Milligan of the Town of Wilton County and State aforesaid Being duly sworn saith that he was present at and Witnessed the marriage of Enoch Place  to Elizabeth Milligan now widow of the said Enoch Place deceased And that the said marriage took place on the 29th day of March in the year 1785 By the Reverend W. Demster officiating Clergyman
Robert Milligan
Subscribed and Sworn before me
this 12th day of November, 1839
Francis K. Winney Justice of the peace
I hereby Certify that I have been acquainted with the above mentioned Robert Milligan above forty years and believe him to be a man of truth and veracity.  Saratoga November 12th 1839
Francis K. Winney
to the said affidavit, to be his proper had writing...
Witness my hand and seal of Office, the 13th day of November 1830
A Goodrich Clerk
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postmark
CONGRESSIONAL 
NOV 22 1906
U. S. Bureau of Pensions.
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FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
JAMES A. TAWNEY, MINN, CHAIRMAN.
HENRY H. BINGHAM, PA.
LUCIUS N. LITTAUER, N.Y.
WALTER P. BROWNLOW, TENN.
WASHINGTON GRDNER, MICH
FREDERICK H. GILLETT, MASS.
WALTER I. SMITH, IOWA.
JOSEPH V. GRAFF. ILL.
ABRAHAM L. BRICK, IND.
J. WARREN KEIFER, ILL.
LEONIDAES F. LIVINGSTON, GA.
GEORGE W. TAYLOR, A;A/
STEPHEN BRUNDIDGE, JR., ARK.
JOHN J. FITZGERALD, N.Y.
A.S. BURLESON, TEX.
JOHN A. SULLIVAN, MASS.
JAMES C. COURTS, CLERK
KENNEDY F. REA.
FRED P. FELLOWS. ASSISTANT CLERKS

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
WASHINGTON, D.C., ,190

FIRST DEPUTY COMMISSIONER
NOV 22 1906
U.S. PENSION OFFICE.

Winona, Minnesota,
20 November, 1906.

Hon. V. Warner,
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Sir;
  A letter addressed to Major-general Ainsworth, Military Secretary, for the military record of one Enoch Miles Place, brings reply that if I apply to you for the information it will be furnished me.
  For an old friend I am trying to get the military record of one Enoch Miles Place, said to have been born in Saratoga County, New York in 1756, to have served in a Rhode Island regiment during the Revolutionary war, and to have received a pension beginning in 1818, and his wife, Elizabeth, from 1833.  Any information you can give me bearing upon the military record of this Enoch Miles Place, an as exhaustive as may be, will be greatly appreciated.
Very sincerely,
J A. Tawnly
postmark 
O.W.& N. DIV.
NOV 22
1906
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RECORD & PENSION OFFICE
520901
WAR DEPARTMENT 
MAY 31 1898

Walther Black,
Caledonia, NY.
May 27 1898.
Enoch Miles Place,
N.Y.  Rev. War.

R M. Place, requests to be furnished record of soldiers service and the amount of Pension per month he received.

RECORD AND PENSION OFFICE,
WAR DEPARTMENT.
Washington, May 31, 1898.

Respectfully returned to
Mr. R.M. Place
Walker Block
Caledonia, New York.
  The name Enoch Miles Place has not been found on the rolls, on file in this office, of any New York military organization, or on the rolls of any organization of Continental troops, in service during the war of the Revolution.
  It is proper to add, however, that the collection of Revolutionary war records in this office is far from complete, and that the absence therefrom of any name  is by no means conclusive evidence that the person who bore the name did not serve in the Revolutionary army.
  In view of the statement that the soldier was a pensioner, it is suggested as a possibility that the desired information may be obtained from the Commissioner of Pension, Washington, D.C., who is the custodian of the pension records of all wars, and whose office is separate and distinct from the Record and Pension Office of the War Department.
  The two-cent postage stamp inclosed by you is herewith returned.
By authority of the Secretary of War:
F C Ainsworth
Colonel, U.S. Army,
Chief of Office

(300a-a)
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OFFICE OF
R.M. PLACE
GENERAL INSURANCE
AND
PENSION AGENCY
WALKER BLOCK
Caledonia, N. Y. , May 27 1898
To the officer in Charge
Division of Records and Pensions
Washington, D. C. 
Dr  Sir,
  I have the honor to ask, if consistent with your duty, for a record of service, and amount of pension per month, drawn by Enoch Miles Place, a revolutionary soldier, who rec'd his pension for some years before his death at this place (Caledonia Livingston County NY.)
  His widow, Elizabeth Place survived him some 15 to 20 years, and drew a pension of $10. per Mo. receiving it twice a year also at this place.
  I have the honor to be
Very Respectfully Yours
R.M. Place
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INCORPORATED MAY 1, 1784
University of the State of New York
ANSON JUDD UPSON, Chancellor
WILLIAM CROSWELL DOANE, Vice-Chancellor
MELVIL DEWEY, Secretary
ESTABLISHED 1818
BEW YORK SATE LIBRARY
Melvil  Dewey, Director
W.S. Biscoe, Senior librarian G. R. Howell, Archivist
S. B. Griswold, Law librarian D. V. R. Johnston, Reference librarian
Albany, N.Y. May 21 1898
Mr. R.M. Place Caledonia NY
Dear Sir
  I have looked over the U.S. list of pensioners for Livingston Co. and no one of the name Place is there recorded.  So that I do not see how I can assist you.  You might write to the  Division of Records and Pensions, War Department, Washington D. C. who have some additional records of revolutionary soldiers.
Yours very truly
Geo R. Howell
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Rev
WIDOW, &c.

file No. 21.982
Elizabeth Place
Wid of
Enoch Place
Sergt Rev. war
Act: Feb. 29th /48
Index:--Vol. M, Page 133
[Arrangement of 1870.]

June 27 98
R M Place
Caledonia
NY.
1906 Nov. 24-Hist to Hon Jas. A. Tawney
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Payable on the 4. March and
 4. Sept. of each year at the
 U. States Branch Bank,
New York
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WAR DEPARTMENT
Revolutionary Claim.
I CERTIFY, That in conformity with the Law of the UNITED STAES, of the 18. of March 1818, Enoch Place, late a Sergeant in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the New York Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to commence on the sixteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. 
GIVEN at the WAR OFFICE of the UNITED STATES,
this thirtieth day of June one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
J. C. Calhoun
Sec. of War.
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Albany August 4,1848.
James L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions,
Sir,
  I enclose the Declaration for Mrs Elizabeth Place, for the purpose of obtaining her pension Certificate under the Act of 2nd February 1848.
Very respectfully 
Yr. obt. Sevt.
Lemuel Jenkins
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Caledonia NY
Nov 18
Nov 25
J R Clark Pll
Jne
Hon J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
on
[illegible]
Eliz Place
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Caledonia Nov 16th 1859
Honorable J. L. Edwards
  Dear Sir,
  I have tried and tried in vain to find record proof of the Marriage of my Mother-in-law Elizabeth Place to Enoch Place deceased.  Rev. W Demster did not stay long at Stillwater after there marriage, and probably never kept any record, as  the laws of this state did not require it-and we can get no [illegible] about him from the inhabitants now living there whether he is now living or dead--But I herewith include positive proof of their marriage on the same day as set forth in the Declaration--Will you at your earliest convenience be so kind as to once more compare all of the proof now in your possession and see if you cannot grant to the old Lady what she thinks is so justly her due. (to wit) her pension warrant or certificate
  Permit me once more Sir, Respectfully yet most earnestly to repeat that I hope you will be able to let us hear from you soon.  as it is now considerable over a year since her declaration has been sent to the War office
Address as usual to Caledonia Livingston Co N.Y.
I have the honor Sir, to be
with great respect your
obt servant
J. R. Clark Pll
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STATE OF NEW-YORK
Saratoga County Clerk's Office, }ss.
I, Alpheus Goodrich, Clerk of the county of Saratoga, Do Certify, That Francis K. Winney before whom the annexed affidavit purports to have been sworn, was on the date of the same, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit, to be his proper hand writing and signature.
Witness my hand and seal of Office, the 31st day of May 1830
A Goodrich Clerk
Jane Milligan
Robert Milligan
Sworn the 30th day of
May 1839 before me
Francis K. Winney Justice
I hereby certify that I have known the above named Jane Milligan and Robert Milligan over forty years and believe them to be persons of truth and veracity.
Francis K. Winney Justice
Saratoga May 30th 1839
Subsequent to the date of the above affidavit appeared before me the above named Robert Milligan one of the above Deponents and Being duly sworn saith that the above named Enoch Place and Elisabeth Milligan ( now widow of said Enoch Place deceased ) were married to the Best of his Recollection and Belief in the year 1785 and positively Before the year 1790
Robert Milligan
Sworn this 30th day of May 1839-
before me
Francis K. Winney Justice
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State of New York
Saratoga County ss.
Robert Milligan of the town of Wilton and Jane Milligan of thee town of Saratoga Both of the County and State aforesaid Being duly sworn say that they were present and witnessed the marriage of Enoch Place and Elisabeth Milligan ( now widow of the late Enoch Place deceased) Both of the town and County of Saratoga by the Reverend Mr. Demster officiating clergyman in said town
Jane Milligan
Robert Milligan
Sworn this 30th day of
May 1839 before me
Francis K. Winney Justice
Subsequent to the date of the above affidavit appeared before me the above named Robert Milligan one of the above Deponents and Being duly sworn saith that the above named Enoch Place and Elisabeth Milligan(now widow of said Enoch Place deceased) were married to the Best of his Recollection and Belief in the year 1785 and positively Before the year 1790
Robert Milligan
Sworn this 30th day of May 1839
before me
Francis K. Winney Justice
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Free
Correct
M. Boyd
The Honorable Secretary of
the War Department
Washington City
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The Honorable Secretary of
the War Department
Sir.  
Saratoga 21 April 1818
  The inclosed vouchers are forwarded to the war department for the purpose of processing the applicant named in such vouchers to be placed on the pension List.
  I will thank you to forward to me as soon as possible, the certificate or Document of the application being granted, in the manner adopted in your Department.
  I have the honor to be very respectfully your most obedient servant
Abm Vn Densen
Agent for the applicant
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Free
W Nov 90
Enoch Place
NY [illegible] bon
Watervliet
Nov 16
Hon
James L Edwards
pension commission
Washington City 
D C --USA
329
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Dear Sir
  I have been solicited by an old lady whose husband has been a soldier in the revolutionary war to apply to the war department to ascertain if there was no provision made for the widows of revolutionary soldiers.  She was married to the soldier during the war or rather at the Commencement of it she is at present in indigent circumstances and needs assistance.  the declaration she must make in order to obtain relief from the general government .  I have not the form of, nor can I obtain it any where in the vicinity.  I have therefore thought proper to address the secretary of war whose kind feelings towards an indigent old lady whose husband has bled and toiled for our freedom will freely send her all the necessary forms and instructions as prescribed and decided upon by the war department--if the department does consider it improper to answer this letter and send her the necessary forms and instruction they will please to direct their answer to me at-West Troy Albany county state of New York
Your ob..
West Troy, November 13th 1837
Peter Decker agent
NB the woman's husband was a pensioner
carried over
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N B  The pensioners name is Enoch Place and at the time of his death in 1833 was on the pension roll
Please send the form and laws or regulations
attach to it and Oblige yours [illegible]
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Free
Hon Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
Washington
Sergt $120 per semi
drop him old Roll
August 14 1832
Schuylerville NY
Aug 6
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you will Please direct my returns to Schuylerville Post Office Saratoga Co NY
Enoch Place
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Caledonia Oct 6th 1838
JL. Edwards Esqr
Sir your note of the 17th September was thankfully received.  the rules I acknowledge are perfectly clear yet those two Widows (to wit)  Elizabeth Place, and Margaret Gibson has come perhaps a little short of all the requirements  as set forth in rule 2 as adopted by the Secretary of War.  Yet in the case of Elizabeth Place you will see by reference as set forth in the declaration that since the death of her husband the late Enoch Place who was a pensioner, she has heretofore satisfied the Department, that she was his Widow, in order to get the balance due him, yet whether that will avail her anything in this case you best know.
  We sincerely hope however that the declarations and corroborating testimony comes so near the letter and meaning of the law, that your decision will be favorable to the efforts made, and yet discharge clearly that duty which you  owe to your conscience and those respected Widows
With sentiments of due respect and esteem I am, Sir Your obt sevt
Jas R Clark
P.S. if convenient please let us hear from the Department Soon
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Noy June 17
[illegible]proof
Elizabeth Place
Free
J. L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D. C.
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Caledonia June 11h 1839
J. L. Edwards
  Dear Sir, yours stating that the case of Elizabeth Place and Margaret Gibson's declaration to entitle them to a pension was suspended for further proof, was duly read.  We have got positive proof of the Marriage of Mrs Elizabeth Place, which I Herewith include.  We have not as yet got any further proof which will be of any service to send for Mrs Gibson.  will you please examine the case of Mrs Place again with the proof inclosed and decide whether this is now satisfactory--If not write what is further wanted at your earliest convenience
  While on the subject I would state that there is an other Widow near here who I think is entitled under the old Law-her name is Dolly Kendrick.
Her husband John Kendrick was a soldier in the War of the Revolution for one year and nine months.  Mr Kendrick died before the granting of any pensions whatever-consequently was never put onto the Pension Roll
She always has remained a Widow since his Death.  But never applied for a Pension.  She was Married before the close of the War.  But her husband was not in the Service after their Marriage, but was for the time above stated immediately preceding the Marriage, will you please be so kind as to give us yours opinion concerning her case
I have the honor to be
with great respect
and esteem your
obt. svt
J. R. Clark [illegible]

Address to me at
Caledonia Liv. Co
N Y.
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J R Clark
ansd. 28 July 1832
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July 23, 1832
Pension
Office

Free
Caledonia NY
July 15

To the Hon Mr Cass
Secretary of War
Washington City
D. C.
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To the honorable the Secretary of War
Dear Sir
  I have been perusing the Pension Act of 1832, and also your explanation of it, and I think Sir by your kind assistance, or rather if you will in answer to this letter explain to me  some steps for my worthy old Father in law to take, who is a worthy old veteran of the Revolution, he may be benefited by this late Act of Congress
 I will relate as near as possible what he can prove, or make satisfactory to the court, in the first place he is now a pensioner, has his pension certificate as a private under General Washington but he is not satisfied with that nor ever has been, he was in the Army near seven years.  He inlisted or volunteered as a private, he was raised to orderly Sergeant from that he was a staff officer or Aide de camp, from that he received a Lieutenant's commission, which commission he has now in his possession can produce it, and he thinks from these facts which can be satisfactorily shown you, that he ought in the first place to have had a larger pension, but at the time he first applied for pension
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the Judges of Courts did not understand the business as well as they now do, and the Judge was too particular with him and for want of some little proof, probably of little or no consequence, he gets no more pay than a private soldier of the Revolution, which pension he has drawn for twelve or thirteen years.
 Now Sir you will see the meaning of this letter, and if there is any more pay honestly his due, after satisfactory measures are taken, and you will be so good as to direct what course to take you will much oblige your friend and servant.
J. R. Clark
P.S.  I see something said as tho it will answer to merely send a private letter to you with the pension certificate, he can do that, and his old commission likewise.  You will find his name on the pension roll.  Enoch Place Northumberland, or Wilton Saratoga County State of New York
If he should make out that he was a commissioned officer, and will probably get pay as such, please in your answer to this, note when that extra pay would commence, whether for the whole time or from the 4th day of March 1831
Caledonia Livingston Co N.Y. 
J R C
July 15 1832
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Admit Sergeant $120
Albany Agency
Send to J. R. Clark
Caledonia
N.Y.
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1168 Mar 19 43
NY
Mar 3 43

FREE
 To the Hon the Secretary of War
Care of J. L. Edwards Esquire
Commission of Pensions
Washington City
D. C.
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State of New York, Livingston County, ss.
1843 On this 5th day of May personally appeared before Willard H Smith of the Town of Caledonia in said County, Elizabeth Place a resident of Caledonia in said County, aged seventy eight years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth in her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3rd March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war.  That she is the widow of Enoch Place who was an orderly Sergeant in the Army in Colonel Olney's Regt. and that she received the annual pension of one hundred and twenty Dollars under the act of July 7th 1838.
  She further declares that she is still a widow.
Elizabeth Place
  Sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written
Willard H Smith First Judge
of Livingston County Courts
And I do hereby certify that the above named Elizabeth Place is personally known to me, and that she signed the above declaration in my presence
Dated 5th May 1843
Willard H Smith First Judge
of Livingston County Courts
State of New York
Livingston County Clerk's office ss
  I Samuel P. Allen Clerk of said County do hereby certify that the Hon Willard H Smith whose name is subscribed to the above affidavit, and Certificate, was on the day of the date thereof, First Judge of County Court in and for the County
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of Livingston, duly Commissioned, and Qualified to act as such, and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Judge and verily believe his signature subscribed on the foregoing Certificate and affidavit to be genuine.
  In Witness whereof I have herewith set my hand and affixed the seal of said County at Geneseo this 12th day of May AD 1843.
Saml P Allen
By
Wm H Whiting Dep Clerk
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J.L. Edwards Esquire Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir
  As agent for Mrs Elizabeth Place and Margaret Gibson, I send to the Department there declarations in order to have them placed upon the Pension roll, if you find them entitled to a further Pension (as no doubt you will) you will please send their Pension Certificates to me at Caledonia Livingston County NY.
I am
Sir
your obt
servt
J. R. Clark
Caledonia May 14th
1843
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ad
admitted

L. Jenkins
Albany
N.Y.
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State of New York,
County of Livingston
On this twenty Eighth day of July
in the year one thousand eight hundred
and forty-eight, personally appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace
in and for the county of Livingston
in the State of New York, Elizabeth Place
---
a resident of the town of Caledonia in the said county of Livingston
aged Eighty three years, who being first duly sworn, according to
law, doth, on her oath, make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision
made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 2d February, 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War:

That she is the widow of Enoch Place who was a Sergeant in the war of the
revolution, and on account of whose service she was pensioned under 
the Act of 7 July 1838, 3d March 1843 & 17 June 1844 -
and the annual amount of the pension which she received under the
act of 17 June 1844, was one hundred and twenty dollars
She further declares that she is still a widow

Elizabeth Place
Sworn to & subscribed, on the day
& year above written, before me

Alex Ferguson Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above Declarant is personally known to me
Alex Ferguson Justice of the Peace
State of New-York,
County of Livingston
.
I, William H. Whiting
Clerk of the said county, do hereby certify that
Alexander Ferguson was on the day of the date of the above Declaration, a
Justice of the Peace in and for the said county, duly elected and sworn, and that the
signatures to the Jurat of the above Declaration and to the above Certificate, purporting to be his, are
genuine.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of
the said county, this twenty ninth day of July
1848.
Wm H Whiting, Clerk
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State of New York
Saratoga County Enoch Place Sixty three years old
of the Town of Northumberland Sworn deposeth and saith
That in the month of May in the year 1775 he enlisted in a Company commanded by Capt Nathaniel Blackman in Col
Daniel Hitchcocks Regt in the Rhode Island forces as a private soldier
for the Term of eight months was with the army that lay before Boston
The first campaign and served out the full term of his enlistment
and that in the year following 1777 he the deponent inlisted under the same Capt as before in one of the Rhode Island Regts commanded
by Col Henry Badcock and afterwards by Col Christopher
Lippett was stationed on Rhode Island where he was promoted 
to the rank of an orderly [illegible] marched with the Regt and joined the [illegible] at or near New York in the 
month of September was in the battle at the [illegible] plains [illegible] when that officer was 
Taken Prisoner at Bearskin Ridge in July was in the
Battles of Trenton and Thruston [?Prinston?] and the Regt being engaged
but for one year he the deponent with a number more volinteered to [?] a month after the expiration of the Term of the
enlistment when he received his discharge from Genl Mifflin
and farther this deponent saith that the following year 1777 he
enlisted as first Sergeant in Capt Benajah Whipple Company (in one of the
Regt which was ordered by the Legislator of the State of Rhode
and Term of fifteen months) commanded by Col Archibald
Cary and that he completed the term of his enlistment in the same
Station &c and that the next year 1778 he enlisted as serjeant Major
of the same Regt which was ordered to be [illegible] and continued
for the same time as before, and farther that he the deponent was promoted 
part of that said Term as Ensign and carried the Standard of the Regt
on the day of the Battle on Rhode Island in Genl Sullivans expedition and that he had the repeal (?) of a Commission during the
war but the officers at that time having nothing allowed of Governmint for
their Clothing and equipment and under the falling State of the 
money for an ensigns pay was quite insufficient to support him
And that at the end of this term he left the service for the money
had fell to that degree that he could no longer support himself in the Army.
And this deponent father deposeth and saith that
he never received one cent of what was then termed depreciation
money And further that about the opening of the Campaign 1779 he
took a Serjent place as a substitute in the Rhode Island State Troops
and served out the Term as Sergeant and was now determined
10 bid the service adieu But that in the year 1780 men were called
for for the Term of six months to fill up Col Greenes Regt which was
reduced to almost nothing and the men to be raised were proportion
to the several Towns and the Town where the deponent then lived beat
up for volunteers and he turned out as a private soldier but on
his joining the rest was made an orderly sgt in Capt John Holden
Company and served out the term in the same rank and farther
Saith more Levees being demanded to augment The Rhode Island
troops which were thin arranged in one regt commanded by Col [illegible] and
the number being proportioned to each Town as before he the
deponent enlisted for the last time as a private soldier in the month
of March 1781 for the Term of three years Joined the Regt few days
after the Col and Major of that Require both inhumanly butchered
by the [Roffengus?illegible] and that he was then made  commisioned
in Capt Zepaniah Browns Company the Regt after this was commanded
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by Col Juemiah Olney And farther the deponent saith that he was in the said Regt at the Seige of York and Gloucester
in Virginia and that at the close of the war the said Reg was on command at Saratoga in the State of New York and that
he being a live he was not discharged until the 25th of the month
of December in the year 1783 and that he served the United States that
Last Tour Two years seven months and nine days as his last discharge doth specify which he the deponent saith is the only [illegible]
he has to shew so all his services the others [illegible] and further
the Ardious [?] and confined duty of an orderly Sergt full three year
during the war of the revolution and that he is a man of a
family and that he hath never since he left the Army benn able to rise at any time above what might barely be termed
a comfortable living and that by repeated misfortune and
the recent dull and hard times he is reduced to very low
sicumstances and that his wife is very weak and sickly woman and that some time ago he received a Rupture
which renders him unable to do hard labor and that
from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his
Country for Support
Enoch Place
Sworn April 16th 1818
before me Salmon Child first Judge of the Court of Common
pleas in & for the County of Saratoga - And I the said Judge do
hereby certify, That from the facts stated in the above deposition
the discharge herewith enclosed and my acquaintance with the
said Enoch Place I am satisfyed that he served in the American
revolutionary war on the Continental Establishment and is entitled
to be placed on the pension list pursuant to the act in that case
made and provided
Salmon Child
---
Saratoga County ss

I William Stilwell Clerk of the Court of Common
pleas in & for the County of Saratoga do certify that ┃
Salmon Child before whom the above affidavit
was made is the first Judge of the said Court and
that I am acquainted with the said Salmon and know the above to
be his signature - In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed the Seal of the said County this sixteenth day of April
in the year of our Lord 1818-
Wm Stilwell Clerk