Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42386, for Ichabod Stoddard, New York
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Service New York
Stoddard, Ichabod
Number S. 42386
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16.79 New York
Ichabod Stoddard,
of Genesee (?) Co. in the state of New York who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Ganseront (?), of the New York ?, for the term of 3 years. 
Inscribed on the Roll of New York, at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 13 of April, 1818. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 of April, 1820, and sent to Samuel Lake, agent, Batavia, New York.
Arrears to 4th of March, 1820, semi-anl, all'ce ending 4 Sept, 1820. 
22 mo: 18/30 4/31
$181.83
48
$229.83
Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818
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State of New York
Genesee County
Ichabod Stoddard being duly sworn saith that he us now a citizen of the County of Genesee in the State of New York, that from his reduced circumstances of his life, he needs the assistance of his country for support, that he is now Sixty eight years of age and not able to perform active labour 
And this Deponent further saith that he enlisted in the Continental Service on the twenty second day of December AD 1776 in Captain  Tebout's Company in the 3Rd regiment New York State Troops commanded by  Peter Garnsworth Colonel/ and ___ Willet Lieut. Col.  and continued in service until the close the war that he was then a prisoner of war, That he did not return until some time after peace was made and never had any regular Discharge. that he enlisted during the war and did his duty promptly that he was in many of the most important battles, fought during the Revolution that he received a wound in his knee  which has occasioned him much pain and is still very lame - that he never received a pension from the United States and herby relinquishes all claim to any other pension and further saith not.
Ichabod Stoddard.
Sworn and subscribed this 13th day of April 1818 Before me and I certify that from
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satisfactory evidence to me adduced the reduced circumstances of the said Ichabod Stoddard is such as to entitle him to a pension under the Act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 provided the proof of services shall be sufficient to entitle him to the same.
James W. Stevens
one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for Genesee County, State of New York
State of New York
Genesee County
I Simeon Cummings Clerk of the County aforesaid to hereby certify that the James W Stevens before whom the above affidavit appears to have been made is a Judge of the Court of Common Please acting under the authority of this State and that the above is his Signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunder set my hand and affix the County Seal of Batavia the 20th Day of April AD 1818 Simeon Cummings
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Ichabod Stoddard
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Ichabod Stoddard
Ex
Property $18.00
Death 178.25
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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 seventeenth day of June of the term of June 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. John H. Jones, Richard, Smith, Isaac Wilson, Moses Haythen
Genesee County, ss -On this seventeenth day of June 1820, personally appeared in open Court (being a Court of Record) Ichabod Stoddard, aged seventy years, resident of the town of Bethany in said county, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that her served in the Revolutionary War as follows: During the war served in Capt. Tiebouts company in Colonel Willets Regiment New York Line was a prisoner of ware when peace took place that his Original Declaration was made in April (1818?)that his Certificate is numbered in the back is 16791. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any matter 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 United States in the revolutionary war", passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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. 
Real estate I have none. I am in possession of about twenty acres of Land belonging to the Courtland land Company, on which I have about 10 acres cleared and  a poor old log house not said anything 
Lot above mentioned to J Company ____NY
1 year old heifer
1 swine 6 =pigs
1 ____
3 barrels of meat and flour
1. common court chest
1 _____ in Size
4 common wicker chairs
2 wooden pails
2  small tin pails 
2 _____ kettles
1____
1 Spider
1 small cane to do
4 knives pewter
6 common plates
6 cups and saucers common earthware
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1____
1 Spider
1 small crane of herbes
4 _____
6 common plates
6 cups and saucers common earthware
1 tea and sugar barrel __
4_____
2 earthen bowls
2 tin basins
4 common iron spoons
2 small tubs
1 common___sieve
My pension money is all due as I have not received any payment. I am owing debt in the following _____
To the heirs of S Dumman (?) of Canandaigua $35.00
 To Mrs. Moses " $14.00
To ___ Cass " Utica $14.00
To Phinchas L Tracey " Batavia $22.25
To _____ Smith " Bethany $13.00
To Samuel ____"Utica 35.00
To Jonathan Lay " Batavia $13.10
To Nathan Martin"  Stafford 7.11
to James Randolph  "Bethany " 20.00
To Wm. Brainard " Stafford " 3.00
(total) $178.25

I am a blacksmith by trade but am decrepit and infirm that I am unable to make a home an aged wife she has been totally blind for ten years past, and a little Girl named Sophia (?) White aged 12 years who was given me when very young which constitute my family -and the deponent further says that the debts above mentioned have been principally contracted for his family provisions for medical aid and assistance in his wife's sickness
Ichabod Stafford
Sworn and subscribed in open Court 17th day of June 1820 S. Cumings Clrk of the Com Pleas
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I Sim'n Cumings Clerk of the Court of Common Please in and for the County of Genesee do hereby certify that the foregoing oath (or affirmation) and the schedule here to annexed are truly copied from the record the said court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said  Court that the total amount in value of property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Sixty Eight dollars. 
In testimony whereof I have herewith set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this 17th day of July 1820
S Cuming Clerk of the Court of the county of Genesee
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42386
INVALID
Levy
File No. 49386
Ichabod Stoddard
___ Rev War
18th March 18th
Index:----- Vol. 3, Page 489
[Arrangement of 1870]
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Additional testimony
5737
Ichabod Stoddard Genesee County
New York
Provides
Colo Gansevoorts Right
N. York line, 3 years
13 April, 1818
Service proved by the testimony of Henry Tiebout, Capn of the Regt. Samuel Lake Esquire Admitted 
Batavia
Genesee County
Certificate to be mailed to me at this place Batavia New York 
Samuel  Lake 
#3
Samuel Lake, agt, 
Batavia NY
Rec'd 14 Feby 
1820
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By DeWitt Clinton
Governor of the 
State of New York
It is hereby certified that Henry Tiebout was Captain in the New York forces during the Revolutionary War  and that from every evidence of his character  aforesaid I have no doubt of the truth of the annexed certificate relative to Ichabod Stoddard. 
In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed my name and the Privy Seal of the State at the City of Albany this 25th day of January Anno Domini 1820
DeWitt Clinton
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Personally appeared before me the Subscriber one of the justices of the peace in one for the County above written in the State of New Jersey the 21st day of Decembr 1819 Henry Tiebout on of the judges of the pleas ___ and for the Said County and formerly a captain in the  service of the United States of America in the Revolutionary war who being duly  sworn on his oath doth say that Ichabod Stoddard was a private soldier in the revolutionary war that he ____ by him this deponent in his company in the 3d regiment of the New York forces commanded by Col Peter Gansevoort he was inlisted on the 3rd day of December in the year 1776 for 3 years in the ____ of service in Ne_____ aged 23 year and as appears by my size ____ five feet seven Enches high Light complexion, brown hair, blue eyes  a blacksmith by trade. His name will be found in the Mister Rolls in the War Department  of Captain Henry Tiebouts Company in the 3rd New York Regiment from the year 1776 to 1779 and I further certify that he served this Country with honor and respect ____ the whole time for which he was inlisted-  
Henry Tiebout Late
Captain  the 3rd Regiment of the New York Forces in the revolutionary war. 
Sworn and subscribed before me the day and date above John Williams Justice of the Peace
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The subscriber Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth in the State of New Jersey do hereby Certify that John Williams Esquire before whom this within deposition was made is duly enrolled in my Office as one of the Justices of the Peace of the said county and that his official acts for such are entitled to faith and credit.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hands and affixed as the seal of the Said Court, at Freehold this twenty seventh day of December in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and nineteen - and I the Subscriber do also Certify that I am acquainted with the handwriting of the said John Williams Esquire and that the name "John Williams Justice of the Peace" thereto subscribed is the proper  handwriting of the said Justice Williams - and also that the Deposition and signature of Henry Tiebout are the proper handwriting of the Honorable Henry Tiebout Esquire who is one of the Judges of the said Court, with whose hand writing I am also acquainted. 
J. Phillips
Free of office fees
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State of New York
Genesee County
Ichabod Stoddard being by me duly sworn doth depose and say that in addition to the facts stated in his affidavit hereto annexed dated April 13th, 1818, he is a blacksmith by trade and when in the service in the Revolutionary war he frequently worked in the Armor Shops at times when he could be absent from his company - that he enlisted under Capt. Tiebout for inly three years and immediately after this time had expired he enlisted into Col. Livingston's Regiment and served about six months when he enlisted into the Naval Service of the United States for during the war that he served on board the Ship Confederacy and one of her tenders commanded by Cap. John Welch and that at the close of the war he was a prisoner as before stated  -and further says not - 
Sworn and subscribed this 18th day of January 1820 before me, Richard Smith Judge &c

Ichabod Stoddard
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I hereby certify that I am fully satisfied that the said Ichabod Stoddard did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in his declaration and that he is in indigent circumstances and Stands in need of assistance for support -
Richard Smith. Judge Gen.
Comm Pleas
State of  New York
Genesee county [illegible]
In Testimony that Richard Smith was at the about date a judge of the Court of Common pleas in said county and that the above is his signature
I have hereto set my hand and  county seal at Batavia February 3rd 1820.-
Simon Cuming clk
by R C Smead Dep