Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 14,831, Abraham Weed, New York
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New York  Weed, Abraham  NUMBER  S  14.831

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New York No. 28.502
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Abraham Weed

of Saratoga, a County in the State of New York
who was a Private in the .. Commanded 
by Captain ..of the Regt, commanded 
by Col. Livingston in the N. York Troops
time for twenty months,

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Inscribed on the Roll of N. York
at the rate of 66 Dollars 66 Cents per annum
to commence of the 4th of March, 1831.

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Certificate of Pension issued the 2nd Day of April
1834 and Sent to Hon. J.
Cramer N. R.

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Arrears to the 4th of March 1834   199.98
Semi-ant allowance ending to Sept   33.31
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 233.31

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Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by D Brown   Clerk
Book E  Vol 4  Page 124
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Abraham Weed

Admitted

Private 20 months

Hon. J. Cramer
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WAR DEPARTMENT

PENSION OFFICE

Sir:

Feb 17 34

The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832,
has been examined and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist which must be removed
before a pension can be allowed. The notes and regulations will show what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace ({ thus ). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them. and you will,
by complying with this request greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

A STATEMENT Showing the Service of Abraham Weed

Period when the service was rendered:
1777 Spring of; dischg in fall
1778 

Duration of claimant's services: 7 mo., 15 days; 9 mo (1778)

Names and ranks of the field officers under whom he served: 
Col. Van Schaick and Cap. Collins
Col. Van Schaick and Cap. Schuyler
Col. Livingston, Col. Van Cortlandt and Cap. Ball

I am respectfully, 
your obedient servant

James L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.

The following regulations have been adopted:

This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms “Continental Line,” "State troops,” "militia," and "volunteers,” all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.

Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:

1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval Service.
4. Indian Spies.

As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.

DECLARATION,

In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of } ss
County of , }

On  .. this day .. of personally appeared (a) before
A. B. a resident (b) of .. in the county of ..  and State,..  Territory or District of aged (c) years, 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 enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d)  with and served in the (e) regiment of the line, under the following named officers : {Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service ; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers ;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service ; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. ) This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]

He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of ..

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

[And then will follow the certificate of the Court. ]

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.

I .. of the Court of .. do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of .. for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this .. day of ...

If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out,

Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia.
except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:

(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the -- and C. D. residing in (the same )
hereby certily, that we are well acquainted with .. , who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be .. 
years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.

Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid.

[And then will follow the certificate of the Court. ]

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 A. B. 
who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the a - and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the
.. and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I, .. Clerk of the Court of do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of  ... for a pension.

In testimony whereof, have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this .. day of ..,


Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if  neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light
upon the transaction. 

If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration,(l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his
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I, Charles Deake Commissioner hereby certify
that Salman Child who has sworn and subscribed
to the within affidavit is a man of the first
respectability and standing in this community,
late the first Judge of the County of Saratoga, 
for several years a member of the Legislature and also a member of the Convention to amend
the Constitution of the State of New York

at January 31 1834
Charles Deake

State of New York
Saratoga
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S. Allison Clerk of the County
of Saratoga do certify that Charles Deake, before whom
the foregoing affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at
the date of the same a commissioner of deeds in & for the
said County, duly authorized to administer Oaths &c
I am acquainted with his hand writing &
verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit
& to the above certificate to be his proper hand writing
and signature-
Witness my hand and seal of Office
the sixth day of February 1834
of Goodrich Clerk
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A.Weed
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Saratoga County ss

Before me Stafford Lapham, one of the Commissioners for taking affidavits in said County, came John Prior, Asa C. Barney and John Pettit and being severally sworn deposed and said that they had been acquainted with
Abraham Weed for rising thirty years and that
he has ever been reputed a soldier of the Revolution, a man of truth and veracity and that they have every reason to believe that he performed the service as stated in his application for the pension.

Sworn and subscribed to this 30th day of January
1834

Before me Stafford Lapham
Commissioner .
John Pettit
Asa C. Barney

I Stafford Lapham Commissioner hereby certify that the above named deponants, Viz John Prior, Asa C Barney and John Pettit are men of respectable standing in this community having each of them been formally members of the
Legislature of the State of New York and also have respectively filled the first offices in the Town in which they reside.

Stafford Lapham, Commissioner &c.

January 30th 1834
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State of New York 
Saratoga County 

I Alpheus Goodrich Clerk of the County of Saratoga do certify that Gilbert Purdy before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County, And that I am acquainted with his handwriting  and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper handwriting and signature.

Witness my hand and Seal of Office the twenty ninth day of March 1834.

A. Goodrich
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14831
INVALID

File No. 14.831

Abraham Weed

Priv. Rev War

Act: June 7th 1832

Index: - Vol. 1 , Page 400

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