Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16001, Richard Denny, New York
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New York Denny,Richard S16001
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 4743 New York
Richard Denny
of Schoharie Co in the State of New York
who was a Private  in the company commanded by Captain - of the Regiment commanded
by Col. Canfield in the New York
line for 7 months


Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.


Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of Feb. 1834 and sent to Hon. John Adams House Reps.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1833  - $58.32
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar. 1834  $11.66

$69.98

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by John Cromwell Clerk

Book E Vol. 4 Page 96
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Interrogatories asked to the applicant and answered 

1 - Where and what year were you born 
Was born in the town of Dover Dutchess County in the year 1759

2  Have you any record of your age

No

3 Where living when called in service, and where since and now live

When called into service I lived in Amenia Dutchess County since have lived in Coeymans Albany County then moved to Kortright Delaware County from there to Jefferson Schoharie County all in the State of New York - where I now live

4  How were you called into service

Enlisted all only 3 months and then a substitute for Elijah Smith

5  State names of officers - I have set them forth above to the best recollection

6  Did you ever receive a discharge

No

7  State the name of persons in your neighborhood 

I have

Richard Denny (his mark)

This twenty third day of January one thousand eight


Witness
E. Judd

State of New York
Schoharie County
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hundred and thirty four personally appeared ┃
Before me and took and subscribed the
within affidavit I would certify that is
the same
Richard David whose name
is on the Original application for a Pension

Marvin Judd one of the
Judges of Clare County
Common pleas
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State New York
Schoharie County SS
Personally appeared before me the ┃
undersigned Judge of said County Richard Denny
who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that by
reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory
he cannot swear positively as to the precise length ┃
of his service but according to the best ⌨
of his recollection he served not less than the
periods mentioned below. In the year 1776
was one month in actual service on the west
side of the Hudson river nearly opposite Fishkill
do not recollect any officer excepting general Putnam
who then commanded in the year 1777 in the
spring I enlisted and served three months under
Lieutenant Wood his christian name not
recollected in Colonel Canfields Regiment
our service was building a gaol in Dutchess
County the three months service I performed
I then enlisted for three months more under ┃ the
same Luntenant Wood in Colonel Canfield
1
Regiment and was stationed at the prison to
guard or safe keep the prisoners as set forth in

my declaration recollect a Sergeant Benjamin
Cook did duty there, and in the year of 1780
enlisted or engaged as a subsitute under
Capt. Noah Wheeler for Elijah Smith in Col. Canfields Regiment
for three months and served the full tour
at West Point fort when first there Gen. Arnold  was in command but soon left the
fort and Major Andre was taken, and was
present when Andre was executed have no
recollection who had the command after
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at the fact recollect an officer said to be General Washington aide did and was their discharged
in the year 1781. Enlisted under Capt John
Seaton as a minute man for three
months in Col Fields Regiment our duty
was as a patrol guard  on the lines in Dutchess
County that was at that time and Westchester
County in the State of New York every
night and had no duty in the day time
as heretofore set forth and there is no
living witness to my knowledge that I
can produce as to my service but as
to my reputation if necessary Sean
produce the testimony of Frederick Smith
William Ather Ezra Woodward Selah Stevens
Capt Isaac Buckingham and one hundred
others if required by the war department
All my services I did as a private soldier
Dated at Jefferson this 21st January 1834-

Witness Erastus Judd
his
Richard
Dennis
mark
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State New York
Schoharie County ss.
 Personally appeared before me the undersigned  justice of the Peace of said County Richard Denny who being duly sworn deposeth and saith by reason of old age, and the consequences of the loss of memory cannot swear to the precise length of service but according to the best of my recollection I served not less than the periods mentioned below

1.  In the year 1776 was one month in actual service on the west side of Hudson River nearly opposite Fishkill do not recollect any officer excepting General Putnam who commanded at that time
the year after I enlisted and served three months under Lieutenant Wood his Christian name not recollected our service was building a gaol in Dutchess County the three months service I performed, I then enlisted for three months more under the same Lieutenant Wood, and was stationed at the prison to guard or safe keep the prisoners brought there as set forth in my declaration and the officers was Lieut. Wood and Sergeant Benjamin Cook.  In the year 1780 I enlisted or engaged as a substitute under Capt. Noah Wheeler for Elijah Smith for three months and served the full tour at West Point for General Arnold was the Commander, when I was in the service Arnold left the fort and Andre was taken and was present when he was executed have no recollection who had the Command after Arnold left but recollect seeing an officer said to be General Washington aide-de-camp.
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and was then discharged - at my first enlistment, enlisted as a minute man was considered as such  only as above stated when in actual service, and was a patrolling guard on the lines when the British lay in New York until the close of the war to protect our officers and property from depredations of British and Tories, the length of service I cannot ascertain only the ten months the rest of the time not often in bed at night but off on scouts.  All this I did as a private soldier for such service I claim a pension

Dated at Jefferson this 31st day May 1833

Richard Denny (his mark)

Witness - E. Judd

Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year above

Aaron Tyler - Justice

State of New York
Schoharie County 

I John Gebhard Jr. Clerk of the said county Do certify that Aaron Tyler before whom the preceding affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same, one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said county:  and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name inscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper hand writing and signature.

Witness my hand and seal of office this fifteenth day of October 1833

John Gebhard Jr. Clerk
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State New York
Schoharie  County SS. On 30th day of September 1832
personally appeared before me Marvin Judd one of the
judges of the Court of Common pleas of said County
being a Court of said Richard Denny a resident of ┃
the Town of Jefferson in said County aged Seventy
three 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 United States
Service as a Militia soldier in 1776 was then
a resident of the Town of Amenia Dutchess County
& State who do not recollect the officer that
served under, went to Fishkill crossed over the Hudson
river and performed one months duty and discharged
this was an army of regular troops lay their
think commanded by General Putnam, the next
year after I enlisted for three months under Lieut
Wood and served the full time and then enlisted
for three months more under the same officer
and was stationed in Dutchess  County to guard
prisoners I think brought from New York or some place ┃
South and continued the whole time of my enlistment making at that time six months 
no
officers their at time only Lieut. Wood and Sergeant
Benjamin Cook- and after this enlisted under
Captain Noah Wheeler for three months with a
promise of land but never got any, and was
discharged at Peekskills, and after this was several
times detached in the Militia under officers then
names not recollected. And the deponent thinks ┃
his residence being near the seat of war at that ┃
time and almost every hour called on short duty
he has faithfully served at least one year and
has no other evidence in his power at this
to give only what is herewith attached
but he further states that he never had any write
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discharge from any officer only discharge or dismissed by the officer then in command and soon after called on for the protection of the state for a few days or weeks and continued in that situation  during the Revolutionary War - age bodily infirmity and length of time since any services were performed I have no other statement I am able to make - neither my record of my age and do not know the month or day from my own recollection that I was born being entirely destitute of any education, nor kept any memorandum of any business only in my mind,  and do relinquish all pensions or annuities only this I would trust you for other information to Joseph Muxley now in my present neighborhood - who can testify to my character for truth and veracity also Colonel Benjamin Hickok or William Dart.

Richard Denny (his mark)

Witness - Erastus Judd


State of New York

Schoharie County

This 3rd day of September 1833 the above oath taken and subscribed before me
Marvin Judd a Judge of said County

State of New York  Schoharie County  I John Gebhard Jr. Clerk of the said county do certify that Marvin Judd before whom the affidavit of Richard Denny, Benjamin Hickok, Reuben Merchant, Eli Bois, and John Bangs purport to have been sworn, was at the date of the same one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said county:  and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name inscribed to the said affidavits and the certificate of credibility, to be his proper hand writing and signatures - witness my hand and seal of Office this fourth day of October 1832.

John Gebhard Jr. Clerk
of Schoharie Common Pleas
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we Benjamin Hickok an acting Justice residing
in the Town of Jefferson County of Schoharie and State
New York and Reuben Merchant Post Master of the same
place, hereby certify that we are well acquain ┃
ted with Richard Denney who has subscribed and
Sworn to the foregoing declaration, that we believe
to be seventy three 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, and that their is
no clergiman in his immediate vicinity, and
that Richard Denny is a person of truth and
Verasity

Benjamin Hickok Justice Peace
 Reuben Merchant P. Master

Sworn and subscribed the day
and year aforesaid Before me 

Marvin Judd a Judge at
Schoharie County
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Doctor Eli Boid being duly sworn saith that ┃
he is acquainted with Richard Dany of Jefferson in the
County of Schoharie and from old age and bodily
infirmity is unable to attend the court of Common Pleas of this County to make the declaration required
and submit to an examination before said Court

Eli Boies
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the 29th of Sept 1832 Sworn
and subscribed Before me
Marvin Judd a Judge of
Schoharie County
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State New York
Schoharie County

Richard Denny
14634

The Reverend John Bangs of Kortright in the County of Delaware and State of New York being duly sworn saith that he is a Regular Minister of the Gospel or Clergyman and is personally acquainted with Richard Denny the within applicant for a pension for more than nine years.
And know him to be an honest man for the truth and believe him to be seventy three years of age, that he is reputed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a revolutionary soldier and I concur in that opinion 

John Bangs

Sworn and subscribed the 21st day of Sept. 1832 before me Marvin Judd Judge of Schoharie County

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 states,and I the said judge further certifies that John Bangs who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the Town of Kortright and Delaware County and Benjamin Hickok, Reuben Merchant and Eli Boier who have signed the same are residents in the Town of Jefferson aforesaid and are creditable persons and that their statements are entitled to credit, and that from bodily infirmity as it appears the applicant is not able to attend the Court.

Marvin Judd a Judge of 
Schoharie County
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14634
Richard Denny
Jefferson
Schoharie Co
New York
Admitted
M
Hon.
John Adams
H R
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War Department

Pension Office

Nov. 24, 1833

Sir:

The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are hereby returned.  The following is a statement of your case in a 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 the 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 printer letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

Period when the service was rendered  

1776
1777
1777
1780
1781


Duration of the claimant's service

1 month
3 months
3 months
3 months
3 months


Rank of the claimant - Private

Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served

Not recollected - only General Putnam
Col. Candfield
Col. Candfield
Col. Candfield
Col. Fields

Age at present , and place of abode when he entered the service - 74
Amenia
Dutchess County, N.Y.

Proof by which the declaration is supported - 

None

Richard Denny (his mark)

Witness E.Judd


I am respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
James L. Edward
Commissioner of Pensions
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2
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,  mucicians 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 County of
On this    day of     personally appeared (a) before            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            (3) 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 country 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 marked.  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 he 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.           A. B.
(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           &c.
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 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 certify, 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 solider 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 Solider, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. 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, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this       day of        &c.
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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Handwritten at bottom 

No claim for service not specified in the manner pointed out above can be allowed
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16001
INVALID.
File No. 16101
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Richard Denny
Pri Rev War ┃
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Act: June 7 1832
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Index: --Vol. 1, Page 95 ┃
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Hon. M. Thurman
Oneonta, NY
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RECORD & PENSION OFFICE
J. W. & J.
6
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5440
East St.
Oneonta, New York
May 12, 1899
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Richard Denny
from
Mrs Mary Thuman
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Request information
relation to the above named, and
whether his widow received
a pension
asks data regarding
all of the name of Denny
that can be furnished.
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To
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Record and Pension Office,
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington. May 13 1899.
Respectfully to
Mrs. Mary Thurman
37 East Street,
Oneonta, New York 

1899
From the meager data furnished it is impossible
for this Department to identify the
record of the within named man, if he was in
the military service of the United States, or to
determine whether or not he was in that service
.
Application for information relative
to pension matters should be
addressed to the Commissioner of Pensions
, this city, to whose office the
subject pertains.
BY AUTHORITY OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:
F.C. Ainsworth
Chief of office
( 298)
Per
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Chief Clerk
May 13, 1899
War Dept.

1899


37 East St. May 12th
Oneonta Otsego Co
N. Y.
We wish to learn all about.
Richard Denny, and family
He was father of Martin Denny
Did Richard Denny's Widow receive
Pension?
We need dates of all the
Denny's far  back that you
can furnish us with.
address
Mrs Mary Thurman
Oneonta Otsego Co
N. Y.
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3 mo. building Jail &
3 mo. guarding prisoners
in jail not military services
in an embodied copy
under military duty &
therefore not allowed


Admitted
7 mo pri