Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16043, Hinsdale Bates, Conn.
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Conn     Bates, Hinsdale    S.16043

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        Declaration of Hinsdale Bates       (1)

a Revolutionary Soldier of Norton Township Medina County Ohio in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832

The State of Ohio    )
Medina County  S/s )   on the twenty fourth day of June AD 1832 personally appeared before me Allen Pardee one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Medina County Ohio Hinsdale Bates a resident of Norton Township in said County (he appears before said associate Judge by reason of his old age and growing infirmities & because there will be no Term of the Court of Common Pleas in said County untill the 14th of October AD 1832) aged Seventy five 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 Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 - That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and service as herein stated

I  Question  Where and in what year were you born?
Answer  I was born in Durham in New haven County & State of Connecticut on the 25th Day of December 1757 -

II  Have you any Record of your age?
Answer  I have no Record of my age

III  Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, & where do you now live?
Answer  When called into service I was living at Hartland Hartford County Connecticut where I lived from the close the war untill 1811 when I moved to Vernon Trumbul County Ohio and lived there untill 1814 when I moved to Norton Medina County where I have lived ever since and do now live -

IV  How were you called into Service, were you drafted did you volunteer, or were you a Substitute and if a Substitute for whom?
Answer - I enlisted as a soldier on or about about the first of April 1776 in the United States Troops to serve for one year in Capt. Oliver Pettibones Company in Col. Meigs Regiment

V  State the names of some of the Regular officers who were with the troop where you served - such continental Militia
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Regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service
Answer - I enlisted at Hartland in Hartford County Connecticut about the first of April 1776 into the United Stated Troops in Capt. Oliver Pettibones company in Col Meigs Regiment.  In this Company I marched to New York and was there and in that vicinity with the main Army untill the army retreated from York Island and at that time our company with several others - were ordered to cross the River into the Jersey side.  about the first of September we recrossed the Hudson River and joined the main Army at the White Plains - I was in one skirmish on the White Plains - where we were stationed untill the first of April 1777 - when I was discharged.  My father Oliver Bates was a Lieutenant in the same company to which I belonged

VI  Did you ever receive a Discharge, and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it?
Answer - I had a written Discharge & cannot recollect by whom it was signed - I have lost the same

VII  State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution
Answer  For this purpose I refer to Philemon Kirkum Esqr and Phineas Bronson also soldiers of the Revolution of Norton Township as there is no Clergyman residing in said township

I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a Pension or annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State.  I have no documentary evidence of my service & do not know of any person living by whom I can prove the entire length and time of my service although Nathan Hatch & James Ganyard living in Granger Township are knowing to the fact of my being in the Service & whose Affidavits to that fact I herewith send to the War Department
          Hinsdale Bates
   Sworn to and subscribed this Sixth day of June A.D. 1832 before me
Allen Pardee       
Associate Judge of the
Court of Common Pleas Medina County Ohio
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I James Ganyard of Granger Township Medina County Ohio on solemn oath depose and say that I am well acquainted with Hinsdale Bates who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing Declaration say that I know that he performed service as a soldier in the United States Army in the war of the Revolution but what length of service I do not know & further I say not             James Ganyard
I hereby certify that James Ganyard above named is a man of truth & veracity and his statement is entitled to credit
  Sworn & subscribed before me this 21st day of June AD 1833 -
      Ezra M. Lee   Justice of the Peace

I Nathan Hatch of Granger Medina County Ohio on solemn oath depose and say that I am well acquainted with Hinsdale Bates who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing Declaration and that I know that he performed a tour of service as a soldier in the United States Army in the Revolutionary war but what length of service I do not know & further I say not
            Nathan Hatch
I hereby certify that Nathan Hatch above named is a man of truth and veracity & his statement is entitled to credit
   Sworn to & subscribed before me this 21st day of June A.D. 1833
   Ezra M. Lee   Justice of the Peace

We Philemon Kirkum and Phineas Bronson reside in Norton Township in Medina County Ohio hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Hinsdale Bates who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration that we believe him to be Seventyfive years of age, that he is a man of truth and veracity and 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
                 Philemon Kirkum
                 Phineas Brunson
And I Allen Pardee associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Medina County Ohio hereby delare 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 (interlined: and that on account of his advanced age & increasing infirmities it would be difficult for him to attend Court & that there will not be a Term of the Court of Common Pleas for said County untill October 14- 1833 -) and further certify that it appears to me that Philemon Kirkum & Phineas Bronson who have signed the preceding certificates are residents of Norton Township Medina County Ohio that they are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.  In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & name this 24th day of June AD 1833 -

        Allen Pardee Associate Judge of the Court of Common
         Pleas of Medina County Ohio
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The State of Ohio  )
Medina County     ) 
     I Timothy Hudson Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Medina County Ohio do hereby certify that Ezra M. Lee Esq. before whom the affidavit of James Ganyard was taken was at the time of the taking the same was acting Justice of the Peace duly commissioned & sworn to whose official acts full faith and credit are & ought to be given - and also that the above is his genuine signature - And I further certify that Ezra M. Lee Esqr. before whom the affidavit of Nathan Hatch was taken was at the time of the taking the same an acting Justice of the Peace duly commissioned & sworn to whose official acts full faith & credit are & ought to be given and that the above is his genuine signature - And I further certify that Allen Pardee before whom the Above Declaration of Hinsdale Bates a Revolutionary soldier & the cerficiates of Philemon Kirkum & Phineas Bronson were made was at the time of the making of the same one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Medina County Ohio to whom official acts full faith & credit are and ought to be given that the foregoing are his genuine Signatures - In testimony whereof I have hereto set my name and affixed the Seal of said Court this 29th day of June AD 1833 -
          Timothy Hudson Clerk
[Seal Affixed]