Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8415, for Nahum Powers, New Hampshire
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N.H.
Vt. 
Powers, Nahum
R.8415
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State of New York
Niagara County
On this [illegible] day of June in the year of our Lord 1818 before me the subscribed one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for Niagara County, personally came Nahum Powers aged about 78 years, a resident of the town of [illegible] in said county who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the late act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War. That the said Nahum Powers in the month of April in the year 1778, he enlisted as a private soldier under Capt. Timothy Barron, at Haverhill in the state of New Hampshire. That he was attached to Timothy Bedel's Regiment of the New Hampshire line, That he faithfully served the US under the aforesaid officers for the term of one year when he was honorably discharged by Capt Jason Wait then commanding the regiment aforesaid in the absence of the said Col. Timothy Bedel. That in the year 17781 he again enlisted as a private soldier under Capt Nehemiah Lovell for
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for the term of 8 months and was attached to Col. Benjamin Wait's Regiment of the New Hampshire line that he faithfully served the US for the aforesaid term of 8 months and was honorably discharged. That on the 10th day of August in 1788 he was taken prisoner by the Indians on Hasins' Road near Lake Champlain; was taken to Quebec and exchanged on the 17th day of May following. that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power to prove said services. 
Nahum Powers
Sworn to and subscribed before me June 2, 1818, Oliver Farward, Judge,
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At a court of Common Pleas held at the Court-House in the village of Batavia in and for the county of Genesee in the State of New York, on the sixteenth day of November of the term of November 1820, being a Court of Record, in pursuance of the 41st article of the Constitution of the state of New York, which has unlimited jurisdiction, keeps records of its proceedings, and has immemorially exercised the power of fine and imprisonment. 

Present, the Hon. Moses Hayden Richard Smith and Ralph Parker Judges
Genesee County: On this 16 Nov 1820, personally appeared in open court, being a court of record, Nahum Powers, aged 79 years, resident of the town of Batavia in said county who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows. One year that he enlisted at Haverhill in the State of New Hampshire in the month of April 1778 for one year in the company commanded by Capt. Timothy Barron in Col. Tim. Bedel's Regiment New Hampshire Line-- also eight months in Capt Lord's Company in Col. Wait's Regiment of the same line; was taken prisoner near Lake Champlain and carried to Quebec and exchanged in May 1782 that his declaration was made June 2, 1818 and accompanying this schedule. 
And I do solemnly swear that I was a citizen of the US on the 18 Mar 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner whatever 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 the US in the Rev War" passed on the 18 Mar 1818 and that I have not since that time 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.
Real Estate, I have now: Personal property I have none, except my wearing apparel which does not exceed fifteen dollars in value, that I have no wife nor children to provide for. I have no means of support but live with and am dependent on my connections or the public.
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for a living. That I have no permanent residence and am not able to do any labor of consequence that I at present reside in Batavia with my cousins.
Sworn and subscribed this 
16th day of November 1820, Nahum Powers.
In open court, before me.
S. Cumings, Clerk.

I, Simeon Cumings, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Genesee do hereby certify that the foregoing oath (or affirmation) and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Records of the said Court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount of value of property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is no property or no value at all.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto 
set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this 17th day of November 1820.
S. Cumings, Clerk
Nahum Powers Inventory
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Revolutionary War Records Section 3-525
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
R.8415
Washington, DC

In reply to your request of -- received -- for a statement of the military history of Nahum Powers 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.

dates of Enlistment/appointment: April 1778
1 year length of service, rank of private under Capt Timothy Barron, Col. Timothy Bedel in state of N.H.

also 1781 Aug 10, 1781 under Capt Nehemiah Lowell and Col Benjamin Wart in VT; was taken
prisoner near Lake Champlain; carried to Quebec, and exchanged. May 17, 1782

Battles engaged in see above
Residence of soldier at enlistment: Newbury, Vermont
Date of application for pension: June 2, 1818
Residence at date of application: Schuyler, Niagara Co., N.Y.
Age at date of application: 78 years.

Remarks: His claim was not allowed as his services were rendered in State troops and not in regiments of the Continental Line as required by the Act of Mar 18, 1818 under which he applied for pension. 
N.H. book Vol 2 Page 593 proves 1st service.
Vt book page 526 proves 2nd service.
Commissioner
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1920 March 4
Hist to E. L. Powers
Rejected
8415
Nahum Powers
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Nahum Powers
New Hampshire Line
1778- 1 year
Timothy Bedel's Regt.
Suspended. The deposition of 2 disinterested witnesses showing the service will be required.
Rejected.
not Continental
Dec 12
Batavia N. York
Please make responses to me at this place.
Paul Lake
82145
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Revo [illegible]
Established 1838
Judson College
Marion, Alabama
Paul V. Bomar, D.D., President
Office of the President Feb 16, 1920
The Commissioner of Pensions
Dept of the Interior, Pension Bureau
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir: Kindly send me a fully copy of the pension papers of Nahum Powers (of New York
State) who served in the Revolutionary Army in Capt. Edward Everett's Co., Col. Bedell's Regt. and in Capt. John Willoughby's Co. (1777) and in Capt. Barrow's Co, Col. Bedell's Regt. (1778). I should like also to have the date of his death or the date of the last payment of his pension.
Thanking you, 
I am yours truly,
E. L. Powers
US Pension Office 
28 Feb 1920
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State of New York
Genesee County
Zacheus Lowell being by me duly sworn says that he was well acquainted with Naham Powers in the time of the Revolutionary war and knows that he served as a soldier in Capt Barrow's Company in Col. Timothy Bedels Regiment of the New Hampshire line one 
year commencing in the spring of the year 1778 and ending in the spring of the year 1779 that the deponent and the said Nahum Powers were both citizens of Newbury in Vermont in the time of the Revolutionary War and were well acquainted with each other previous to their entering the service of the US and after they were discharged that he the deponent was also in the service of the US in the year 1778 and frequently heard from the said Powers while in the service and testifies from a personal knowledge of the services.
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above mentioned and that he also knows that the said Nahum Powers was also in the service of the United States several campaigns; and further says not.
Sworn and subscribed the 9th day of November AD 1820 before me and I certify the deponent to be a credible witness.

State of New York, Genesee County
I, Simeon Cumings, Clerk of the County of Genesee do hereby certify that Robert Anderson before whom the preceding affidavit appears to have been made was on the day of the dates thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said County acting under the authority of this State and that the name subscribed thereto officially is in his own proper handwriting. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this 20th day of Nov. 1820.
Simeon Cumings, Clerk
by R.C. Smead, Deputy
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I Oliver Forward Judge as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the within named Nahum Powers did serve in the Revolutionary war as in the foregoing declaration stated. It also appears to my satisfaction that the said Nahum Powers does stand in absolute need of the assistance of his country from support; and I now transmit the testimony and evidence taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to aforesaid act of congress. Oliver Farward, Judge
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State of New York, Niagara County, Clerk's Office
I, Roswell Chapin, Duputy Clerk of the County Niagara do hereby certify that Oliver Forward before whom the foregoing affidavit appears to have been taken is one of the Judges of the court of common pleas in and for the county aforesaid, acting under the authority of this state and that the above is his own proper signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the county seal at Buffalo this 5th of June 1818.
Roswell Chapin, Dep. Clerk
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State of New York
Niagara County
On this 2nd day of June in the year of our Lord 1818, before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the County of Common Pleas in and for Niagara County personally came Caleb Hopkinson who being by me duly sworn doth on his oath say that he was a soldier in the service of the United States in the year 1778 and was attached to Col Bedel's Regiment of the New Hampshire Line, that he then was and has since been acquainted with Nahum Powers, and knows that he served as a soldier in the aforesaid regiment for the term of one year; and he further on his oath aforesaid saith that the said Nahum Powers is in indigent circumstances and from his advanced age is unable to labor and fully believes he stands in need of the assistance of his country for support.
Caleb Hopkinson
Sworn before me June 2nd 1818, Oliver Forward, Judge