Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 11751, William Wheaton, Mass. R.I.
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Wheaton, William
Service
Mass.
R.I.
Number
S 11751
carded
Contents
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1304
New York
William Wheaton
of Albany in the State of New York who was a Private in the Comp'y commanded by Captain Hansburg of the Regt. commanded by Col Simon in the R. Island line for 1 year and 5 months

(star)
R. I. and Mass
Records completed May 29 08 gr.

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 56 Dollars 66 Cents per Ann. to commence on the 4th day of March,1831
Certificate of Pension issued 31st day of October 1832 and sent to J. B. Moore

Arrears to 4th Sept. 1832 $84.99
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar '33  28.33
$113.32

{Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Geo. C. Stiles Clerk
Book D Vol. 5 Page 155
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State of New York
Albany County SS
On this 18th day of July 1832 personally appeared before Joseph B. Moore a Judge of the county Courts of the County of Albany and State aforesaid William Weaton a resident of the town of Westerlo in the county of Albany and State of New York aged 75 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 herein stated.
He resided in the town of Warren in the state of Rhode Island and entered the said service immediately after the Battle of Lexington and joined Capt. Ezra Almsbury's company in a regiment commanded by Major Munro and Colonel Martin in the month of April 1775 and immediately marched to Bristol in the said State of Rhode Island where he and the said company were engaged in resisting the depredations of the British. Shortly after ne was ordered back to Warren where he an others built a Fort, where he continued until the last of the summer of the same year. He then enlisted out of the said company into a company of Minute men commanded by Capt. William Barton at Warren aforesaid. that he continued in Barton's company untill about the middle of April 1776, when he removed from Rhode Island to the town of Hancock in the state of Massachusetts. In August 1776 he was drafter out of Capt. Lusk's company and sent to Pitsfield in the said state where the company he belonged
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to was organized and put under the command of Captain Joseph Barnes & Lieut. Mason, Simeon Martin was orderly Sergent, this company were called Flying Camp Militia, From Pitsfield he was ordered to march with the said company to Danbury in Connecticut where they made a short stay & then marched to Reading & then to New Fairfield in the said state where they joined a regiment commanded by Colo. Symonds in Genl. Lincoln's Brigade where they staid about a week then marched with the said Brigade down to Horse Neck & then to Kingsbridge where they joined Genl. Washington's Army. The said Brigade then went up the river to a place called Valentine Hill, where they built a Fort and continued there untill the fore part of October and then went to a place called Tuckahoe and from there to White Plains and was there engaged in the Battle. After the Battle of White Plains and spent time in the month of November of the same year he was dismissed and then returned home. In the year 1777 he was not in the service. In the month of Apri8l 1778 he was drafted out of Camp. Smiths Company of Militia at Hancock in Massachusetts for the term of 9 months and hired a substitute by paying the said Captain 
Smith $52. who hired a man to take his place.
About the first of May he volunteered and went out in a company of Rangers to go on a Scout after the Cow Boys and went from Hancock to Kinderhook in the State of New York and a num-
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ber of other places pursuing Refugees or Con Boys and was out in the service more than two months or untill July after and then returned home at Hancock. In the Spring of 1779 He was again drafted at Hancock aforesaid and hired a substitute by the name of Spencer Wheaton and paid him $30 to go and perform the service, the said substitute went to Cherry vally in New York.
Towards the fall of the year of 1780 he was again drafted at Hancock to go to the (illegible) and hired one Simeon Nichols as a substitute to take his place, who went and performed the service. That he never received a written a discharge except one from Capt. Smith at the time he hired a substitute by paying $52. which is lost. That he has no documentary evidence to prove his service nor does he know of any person he can procure at this time to testify to his service.
That he was in no battle except the one at White Plains. That he resides 22 miles from the city of Albany where the Courts of Record are held for the County of Albany, that he is very infirm and is much diseased and disabled, and is wholly unable to attend the court at there distance from his home. 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.
William Wheaton
Sworn to ad declared the day and year aforesaid before me,
J. B. Moore, Judge of Albany County Courts
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We Benjamin Martin a member of the Babtist Church residing in the town of Westerlo in the County of Albany and State of New York and ichabod Peck residing in the town of Ressselaerville in the said county and State hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Wheaton who has subscribed and sworn to the within declaration , the we believe him to be 75 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.
Benjamin Martin
Ichabod Peck

Sworn & subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me
J. B. Moore Judge of Albany County Courts

And I the said Judge do hereby 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 stated . And I do further certify that I am well acquainted with Benjamin Martin & Ichabod Peck who have signed the preceding certificate & that thye reside as they state, that they are very respectable persons and are credible and that their statement is entitled to full credit. That the said applicant is unable to attend the court by reason of bodily infirmity.
J. B. Moore Judge &c.

State of New York
Albany County S.S.,
I Conrad AA. Ten Eyck Clerk of the city & County of Albany do hereby certify that Joseph B. Moore before whom the within declaration was sworn & who has made the above certificate is a Judge of the County Courts of the County of Albany and that the signature J. B. Moore to the said declaration & certificate is his genuine signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County this 19 day of July 1821
C. A. Ten Eyck, Clerk
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State of New York
Albany7 County SS
On this 23d day of August 1832 personally appeared in open court, before   the Justices of the Justices Court of the City of Albany in the county & State aforesaid, now sitting, William Wheaton a resident of the town of Westerlo in the County of Albany and State of New York aged 75 years and upwards who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration in addition to the declaration hereto annexed 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 being the same stated in the declaration hereto annexed made on the 18th day of July 1832 and served as herein stated.
He entered the said service in the town of Warren in the State of Rhode Island where he then resided as a volunteer the next day after the Battle of Lexington and on the 20th day of April 1775, and joined Capt. Ezra Alansburgs company in Colonel Martins regiment. Major Munro also belonged to the said regiment. He was immediately marched, as he has stated in the said declaration hereto annexed, to Bristol in Rhode Island where he staid a short time and then was ordered to Warren where he was engaged in building a Fort. He continued in the said service untill in the summer of the same year and then enlisted in Capt. Bartons company and was ordered to a place called Prudence Island and continued in the said company untill the middle of April 1776. Having served one year from April 1775 to April 1776. He was then dismissed and he returned home. He
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immediately removed from Warren in the State of Rhode Island to Hancock in the State of Massachusetts.
In the month of August 1776 he was drafted at Hancock aforesaid and joined Capt. Joseph Barnes company for the term of Three months, Lieut. Nason and Sergeant Simeon Martin belonged to the said company. He was immediately marched to Pitsfield, Danbury, Reading & New Fairfield and then joined Colonel Simons Regiment and Genl. Lincoln's Brigade as he has stated in his said declaration andd then went to Horse Neck & Kingsbridge where he joined Genl. Washington's Army, then was marched to Valentines Hill where he helped build a fort and continued untill October. Then went to Tuckahoe and from there to White Plains and was engaged in the Battle at that place on the 19th October 1776. An continued there untill his three months expired and then dismissed and returned home to Hancock. He served as a private soldier during the terms aforesaid. In the month of April 1778 he was drafted at Hancock aforesaid for the term of nine months and hired a substitute to take his place and paid Capt. Smith $52 to pay the substitute as he has more particulartly mentioned in his declaration hereto annexed.
In the month of May 1778 as near as he can recollect he volunteered and joined a company of Rangers for two months and went on Scouts after Cow Boys & tories to Kinderhook and other places untill his time was out as he has stated in said declaration and was dismissed the last of July 1778 and returned home to Hancock.
In the spring of the year 1779 He was again drafted to go into the service for three month as near as he can recollect and hired a
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substitute by the name of Spencer Wheaton to go and service his time out and paid him $30 for such service, the said substitute wen to Cherry Vally and returned home in the fall of the same year.
In the fall of the year 1780 as near as he can recollect he was again drafted to go into the said Service and he hired one Simeon Nickols to serve out the time as his substitute and paid him $15 for such service. He was gone about six weeks.
That he was actually in the said service in an embodied corps, One year and five months and served by substitute at least thirteen months and a half.
He received no written discharges except the one from Capt. Smith referred to in his declaration hereto annexed nor has he any documentary evidence, nor does he know of any person he can procure to testify to his services. He further states that the facts and circumstances stated in his said declaration hereto annexed are in every respect true.
He also states that his is very poor and has no property, and that he is very infirm and unwell, and has been doctering for the Pleurisy for some time past and that it is with great difficulty and inconvenience that he is obliged to attend the court. And that it is utterly impossible to procure his witnesses who reside at least 22 miles from Albany to attend the court.
He hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
William Wheaton
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open Court
J. G. Wasson Clerk
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary solder and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Benjamin Martin who has signed the certificate hereto annexed is a member of the Babtist Church and resides in the said town of Westerlo and that Ichabod Peck who has also signed the same is a resident of the town of Renssalaerville, that they are both credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
And the Court further certified that in consequence of the great distance the said Benjamin Martin and Ichabod Peck reside from the Court and in consequence of the poverty of the said applicant, that the said witnesses cannot be procured in court without too much inconvenience and expense to the applicant.
I John G. Wasson Clerk of the Justices Court of the City of Albany in the County of Albany and State of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of William Wheaton for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 23d day of August 1832
John G. Wasson, Clk
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3707
New York

admitted
1 year & 5 mo.

$56.66
$28.33
$84.99
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BRIEF in the case of William Wheaton, Westerlo, Co. of Albany in the Stete of New York
(Act 7th June, 1832)

1, Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant in disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he?  75 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period/Duration of Service/Rank/Names of General and field Officers under who he served

April 20 in 1775/till the middle of Apr. '76/private/Capt. E. Alansbury Col. Martin, Major Munro
August 1776/3mos./private/Capt. Jos. Barnes, Lt. Mason/Col. Simon/Genl. Liincoln
April 1778/hired a substitute for 9 mos/blank
May 1778/till the last of July 1778/voluteer/blank
Spring of 1779/hired a substitute for 3 mos./ blank
Fall of 1780/hired a substitute for 6 weeks/blank

5. In what battles was he engaged?
6. Whre did he reside when he entered the service? Warren R. Island
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?

I Certify that the foregoing statements and answers agre with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
W. Fawcett
Examining Clerk
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section
AWF;MLB

July 8, 1930

Mrs. B. L. Johnson
6949 Bennett Avenue
Chicago, Illinois

Dear Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 11751, it appears that William Wheaton, while residing in Warren, Rhode Island, enlisted immediately after the Battle of Lexington and served as a private in Captain Ezra Almsbury's Company, Colonel Martine's Rhode Island Regiment, until the latter part of the summer of 17775 when he enlisted and served as private in Captain William Barton's Company until in April, 1775.
In 1776 he moved to Hancock, Massachusetts and enlisted in August 1776 and served three months as private in Captain Joseph Barn's Company Colonel Symond's Massachusetts regiment and was in the battle of White Plains.
He served in 1778 about two months in a company of rangers and was out again the Cowboys and Tories, officers' names not given.
He was allowed pension on his application executed July 18, 1832 at which time he was living in Westerlo, Albany County, New York and was aged seventy=five years and "upwards".
There is no reference to wife or children.

E. W. Morgan
Acting Commissioner
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Pension Bureau
Washington D. C.

Dear Sir: 
Will you please inform me if there is record of any pension for service in the Revolutionary War by the following persons:
1. William Wheaton, Gloversville N. Y.  or
Johnstown N. Y. Born May 10, 1757 died Aug. 4, 1847. He is said by family tradition to have been wounded in a battle at Johnstown, N. Y.
2. Consider Chard of Ballston, Saratoga Co., N. Y.
3. John. Stickles Saratoga Co or Cayuga Co.
Sincerely 
Ruth Wheaton Johnson
(Mrs. B. L.)
6949 Bennett Ave, Chicago
May 19, 1930

Stamped-U. S. Pension Office May 21 1930
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Rev. War
11751
INVALID
File No. 11.751
William Wheaton
Priv. Rev. War

Act: June 7th, 1832
Index: Vol. A, Page 409

[Arrangement of 1870]

1929 Dec. 10 Mrs. A. Robinson adv. name of wife not given & adv. how to get date of death etc. See letter in Reuben Wheaton S.24010 awf
1930 July 8 Hist to Mrs. B. L. Johnson  awf
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In the Revolutionary War claim for pension of William Wheaton (S. 11751), is is not stated that soldier was ever married.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name of person paid and possibly the date of death of the above named Revolutionary War soldier, you should apply to the Records Division, General Accounting Office, Washington, D. C. citing all of the following date:
William Wheaton, Certificate No. 1304, issued October 31, 1832, rate $56.66 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, New York Agency.
Respectfully,
Winfield Scott
Commissioner