Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4,683, for Daniel Tilden, Connecticut
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE Conn. Continental
CONTENTS
Tilden, Daniel
NUMBER S. 4.683
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22. 45.
Ohio Pittsburgh
Daniel Tilden
Portage Co in the State of Ohio
who was a Captain in the Co command
Capt himself of the Regt commanded
Col. Wells, in the Connt [Connecticut] line for two years
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio PittsB. [Pittsburg]
at the rate of 480 Dollars 00. Cents
is per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of Nov.
1833 and sent to Honble. [Honorable]
Jonathan Home H of Rep. [House of Representatives]
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833 1200
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Ma 34 - 240
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$1440.
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Wm R. Palmer Clerk,
 Book E Vol. 8 page 129
Jany 19, 1854
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State of New York
Otsego County 

On the fifth day of December 1818 personally came before me James S. Campbell one of the Judges for the Court of Common pleas for the State & County afforesaid [aforesaid] Daniel Tilden and made oath to the within
declaration & application in order to obtain a pention [pension]in pursuant to the act of Congress in such case made & provided the said Daniel Tilden is personally known
to me and from my own knowledge of him & from the Testamony [testimony] annexed and I am satisfied that the application is fair and bonifide in all respects and that by Reason of his reduced circumstances he is absolutely in need of assistance from his Country for support
James S. Campbell
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To the Honorable John C. Calhoun
Esquire Secretary of the war department:
The petition of the undersigned Daniel Tilden now of the town of Warren in the County of Herkimer & York humbly sheweth [showeth] that your petitioner is of the age of seventy five years & in need of aid from his country for support that at the formation of the continental army in the revolutionary war your
petitioner, was appointed a Lieutenant and Adjutant in the twentieth
Regiment of said Army commanded by
Col. John Durkee, the company in which he was such Lieutenant being commanded by Captain Thomas that while bearing such commission of Lieutenant & serving as Adjutant on the 15th day of September 1776 your petitioner was promoted to a captain
in said Company & commanded the same, till the regiment to which it was attached, was discharge on the 3d Day of January A.D. 1777
he was actively engaged in the whole  Campaign of 1776 in the commands above specified; was with Washington in the retreat through the Jerseys, at the taking of the Hessians at Trenton. That in the retreat from Fort Lee your petitioner:
his baggage fell into the hands of the Enemy:
on quitting his trunk. your petitioner took from it his money about two hundred & sixty Dollars of which belonged to twenty absentees
in his company, being their pay for the month of July & August 1776 & the residue of said money amounting to ^nearly^ a like sum was your petitioners; that having just put the whole of this money into his pocket book, your petitioner he night following said retreat, being the 16 day of December, had the misfortune to have the said pocket book containing the said money &
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his commission, stolen from him; that your  
petitioner, although he paid all the money due the said absentees to them except one who never returned, has never received a cent thereof, nor been renumerated in any way either for the same or for his own loss
on that occasion; That your petitioner was late from the State of Connecticut
That your petitioner during the
campaign aforesaid enlisted in the said
company thirty five men, several with
reputations in the capacities aforesaid
he has the vanity to believe during
all the time aforesaid, was never
reprimanded by his superiors or blamed
by his inferiors for any of his
conduct in the campaign aforesaid: was
appointed to the same rank in the
three years service immediately after
his discharge; but through ill health
& the great privations, which he experienced
and in the campaign aforesaid, your
petitioner declined the honor thus
conferred on him; & that your
petitioner has hitherto never received any
pension from his country: On the
foregoing statement & by virtue of the
documents hereto annexed, your petitioner
respectfully [illegible] to be placed on
the pension list of his country & as
in duty bound will ever pray &c
Daniel Tilden
Sworn & Subscribed December 5th 1840
Before me James S. Campbell one of
Judges of the Court Common pleas for
the County of Otsego & St New york