Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12,471, Simeon Church, Conn. Mass N.H.
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SERVICE  Comm.  Mass.  N.H.

Church, Simeon

NUMBER  S. 12,471

carded
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3040
NewYork
Simeon Church
of Bern in the State of New York  who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Stiles of the Regt commanded by Col Stark in the *[Massachusetts]  line for 2 years
* N.H., Conn. and Mass
Records completed Aug 17/05. [J?]

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 80Dollars -- Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 11 day of Dec 1832 and sent J B Moore Rensselaerville

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1832 - -  $120
Semi-anl. allowance ending Mar 4 -   40
[total] $160.00

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Geo C Stiles Clerk
Book D  Vol. 5 Page 83.
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1161
Simeon Church
admitted
2 years private
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State of New York
Albany County SS   On this 4th day of December 1832 personally appeared before Joseph B. Moore a Judge of the County Courts of the County of Albany and State aforesaid Simeon Church a resident of the town of Bern in the County of Albany and State of New York aged 82 years and upwards 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 here in stated.
He entered the said service in the Town of Marlow in the State of New Hampshire immediately after the Battle of Lexington and on the 22d day of April 1775 a volunteer & joined Capt Canfield's Company and immediately marched to Cambridge in Massachusetts, where he staid and kept guard untill about the first of May 1775 when he enlisted in Capt Stiles Company and Colo Starks Regiment for the term of Eight months, a private soldier, and continued in said regiment about one month, at which time Capt Stiles company & one other company were transferred to Colo Sergeants regiment, in which company & regiment he served out his term of Eight months in building forts, keeping guard &c at Cambridge aforesaid.  Immediately after his eight months expired he volunteered and served two months in Capt Holmes company in Colo Sergeants regiment as a private, in the manner above stated, making in the whole Ten Months service at Cambridge aforesaid, and was dismissed on the
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7th day of March 1776 and returned home to Saybrook in Connecticut where he had previously resided on the 13th day of March 1776-
He again entered the said service at Saybrook aforesaid a volunteer and enlisted as a private soldier in Capt Stevens Company in Colo. Motts reqiment of Militia or State Troops, on the first day of July 1776 for the term of five months and was immediately marched to Ticonderoga in the State of New York and was stationed at Mount Independance where he staid and kept guard untill his term of five months expired, and was dismissed on the first of December 1776 and then returned home to Saybrook aforesaid
He again entered the said service at Saybrook a volunteer and enlisted as a private in Capt Bucks Company in Colo John Ely's regiment of Militia on the 15th of December 1776 for the term of three months, and was immediately marched to New London in Connecticut, where he staid but a short time, and from there was marched to Providence in the State of Rhode Island, where he staid and kept guard untill within a few days of the expiration of his term of three months, when he was marched back to
New London where he was dismissed on the 15th of March 1777 and then returned home to Saybrook
He again entered the said service at Saybrook aforesaid a volunteer and enlisted in Capt Smiths Company in Colo Elys regi-
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ment of Militia on the first of January 1777 for the term of Five months as a private Soldier, and was immediately marched to Providence in the State of Rhode Island where he staid a short time, and was then marched to a place then called Harlens Ferry in the said State of Rhode Island where he was stationed a short time, and was then marched to New London in Connecticut and from there to Norwalk where he staid and kept guard untill his term of five months expired, and was dismissed on the first of December 1777, and then returned home to Saybrook
He again entered the said service at Saybrook aforesaid about the first of August 1778 he having been drafted and joined Capt Chapman's company and was marched down to the sound and was there stationed and kept guard for the term of one months as a private soldier
He was in the actual service of the United States in the Revolutionary war, and served in an embodied corps for the term of Two years as a private Soldier; and for such service he claims a pension-
He was in the Battle of Bunker Hill in June 1775 but in no other
He was born in the month of August A.D. 1750 at the town of Saybrook in the State of Connecticut, where he resided when he entered the said service at the several periods above mentioned, except when he first entered the said service, at which 
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time he resided in Marlow in the State of New Hampshire - After the War he removed to [Stillwater--crossed out] in the State of New Hampshire, and from there back to Saybrook and from Saybrook he removed to Stillwater in New York and from there to the said town of Bern where he has lived for the last 36 years
He has no record of his age now in his possession-
Genl Washington, Genl Sullivan Genl Stark, Colo Wyman & Genl Gates were with the troops where he served. He served with Colo. Wymans and Colo Starks Regiments in Genl Waterburys Brigade, and Genl Parsons Brigade
He never recd a written discharge nor has he any documentary evidence relating to his service. He knows of no person he can procure to testify to his service, although he has made every enquiry in his power to find witnesses-
He is known to the Revd Ephrain Crocker, Miner Frink, Henry Barber, Job Rider, Rufus Watson, Henry Stone Esqr Reuben Winegate, Reuben Finch, Alexander McIntosh and others who can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution
He has but just recovered from a severe fit of sickness and is now very feeble and unwell, and is wholly unable to travel 25 miles the distance he resides from Albany where the courts of record for the said County of Albany are held at this season of the year. He is also troubled with a complaint
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called the Diabetes, which renders him entirely unable to travel any distance at his advanced age, he cannot therefore under any circumstances go to Court to swear to his declaration even if he is deprived of a pension on that account
He further recollects that while he in the State of New Hampshire on business he was called out on an alarm in the spring of the year 1777 and was marched to the place called Otter Creek in the State of Vermont and there served one week as a private soldier. He was out occasionally on alarms at other times not enumerated above for short periods, but does not particularly reccollect the number of times
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
He further states that he made a declaration of his services pursuant to the regulations of the War Department of 27th June 1832 and that his papers were transmitted to Washington by J. B. Moore Esqr on the 16th of July last as he understands and verily believes to be true; that he has no knowledge of what has become of the said papers any further than as he understands they were transmitted from the City of Washington directed to the said J B Moore, and that they have never been received by him, or this declarant 
[signed] Simeon Church
Sworn to and declared the day and year aforesaid before me
[signed]  J. B. Moore Judge of Albany County Courts
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We Ephraim Crocker a Clergyman residing in the town of Rensselaerville in the County of Albany and State of New York and Job Rider a Merchant residing in the same place hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Simeon Church who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration; that we believe him to be 82 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
[signed]  Ephm Crocker   Job Rider

Sworn and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid Before me
[signed] J. B. Moore Judge of Albany County Courts

Albany County SS   I the Subscriber a Judge of the County Courts of the County of Albany in the State of New York do hereby certify and declare my 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 I do further certify that I am well acquainted with Ephraim Crocker and Job Rider who have signed the preceding certificate, that the said Ephraim Crocker is a Clergyman and the said Job Rider a Merchant and that they both reside in the said town of Rensselaerville, and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit. And I do also certify that the said applicant cannot attend the Court by reason of bodily infirmity - In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 4th day of December 1832
[signed] J. B. Moore

State of New York
Albany County SS.  I Conrad A. Ten Eyck Clerk of the City and County of Albany do hereby certify that Joseph B. Moore before whom the within declaration and foregoing certificate were sworn and who has made the above certificate is a Judge of the County Courts of the County of Albany in the State of New York, and that the signature "J. B. Moore" to the said declaration and certificates, is his genuine signature
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County this sixth day of December A.D. 1832
[signed] C. A. Ten Eyck Clerk
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S. 12, 471
Simeon Church
Dec. 1832 res. Bern, Albany Co. NY
b. Aug. 1750 Saybrook Conn. & lived there at enl.
Enl. in Marlow NH

Apl 22, 75 - Capt Canfield
May 1, 75 in Capt. Stiles    Mass
[Capt] Holmes
Col. Clark
Col. Sargent    
dis Mar. 7, 76    10 mos

July 1, 76   Capt Stevens    Conn
dis Dec. 1, 76   Col. Mott    5 m.

Dec 15, 76   Capt Buck
dis  Mch 15, 77   Col. John Ely    3 m

Spr. 77 called out on alarm to Otter Creek Vt   1  wk

Enl at Saybrook July 1, 77    P in Capt Smith
Dec 1, 77    Col Ely    5 m

Enl at Saybrook Aug 1, 78  P in Capt Chapman  1 m

Bat Bunker Hill
No claim for Titus Church or another Simeon [Church]
am
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JRW
I. 12417 Rev. War.
Jan. 19, 1905.
Sir:  In reply to your recent inquiry, you are advised that the date of Simeon Church's death is not of record in this Bureau.
For date of last payment of his pension, you should apply to the Auditor for the Interior Department, at the Treasury Department, this city, quoting as follows: Certificate No. 3040, Act of June 7, 1832, issued December 11, 1832, New York agency.

Very respectfully,
Acting Commissioner.

Mr. C. W. Church,
Waterbury, Conn.
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WW
Waterbury Ct   Jan 6-'15
Gentlemen,
Some time ago I rec'd a report from your office on the pension granted to Simeon Church of Bern, Albany Co. N.Y., who filed his application Dec 4-1832.  Since then I have been trying to find out when he died.   Do not your books show when a pension ceases to be in force?  Any information on that point will be acceptable,
Yours
[signed] C. W. Church.

[stamps]
U. S. 
OLD WAR & NAVY FILES
JAN 9 1905 
P. B.

U.S.PENSION OFFICE.
A
JAN 7 1905
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[left side]
Sept. 16, 1904 Hist. to
C. W. Church Waterbury Conn
letter of Eng. in I. 42. 122
Philemon Church
Jany 18. 1905 to above
Auditor for last payment

[right side]
Rev War
12471
INVALID.
File No. 12471
Simon Church 
Priv Rev War
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Act: June 7, 1832
Index: - Vol. 2 Page 66
[in brackets] Arrangement of 1870.