Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 11792, Abijah Winch, Mass.
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(8-1776)
SERVICE 
Mass.
Winch, Abijah
NUMBER
S. 11792
carded
CONTENTS
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[Left side of the document]
Letter to J Gove 15 Sept 1837.
To Burlington Vermont [from] 4. March 1837. 21t Oct 1837
Notification sent to Jesse Gove Rutland Vermont
Let to Pen Agt 14 Sep 1840
To Albany New York from 4th Sep 1840. 2d Oct 1840.-- notification to C.F. Hammond 
Crown Point NY.
[right side of the document]
20.825
New York
Abijah Winch
of Essex Co. in the State of New York who was a Private in the Camp commanded by Captain Prost of the Regt commanded by Col. Smith in the [New York is crossed out] line for 13 mos. & 4 days ---"---
New York. Albany
Mass.*Line
Records corrected June 12/? 
Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 43 Dollars 77 Cents per annum 
to commence on the 4th day of march, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 9 day of Octr 1833 and sent to C.F. Hammond Crown Point
Arrears to the 4th of Sep '33 $109.42
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 M '34 $21,88
$131.30
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Go C Stiles [signature] Clerk,
Book E Vol. 4 page 40
Death not on [?] 13
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Application for a transfer.
State of Vermont Rutland County SS}
On this 4th day of September, 1837, before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for said County of Rutland, personally appeared Abijah Winch who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company Commanded by Capt. James Frost in the Regiment Commanded by Colonel Thomas Nixon in the services of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State New York, from whence he has lately removed; that he now resides in Pittsford in the State of Vermont, where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be paid in future. The reason of his removing into Vermont is, that his children sent word to him to come over.
Abijah Winch [signature]
Sworn and Subscribed
before me, the day and year aforesaid,
R Pierpoint [signature] Justice Peace
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State of Vermont Rutland County SS. 
I Robert Pierpoint Clerk of the County Court for the County of Rutland certify that Robert Pierpoint is a Justice of the peace for said County and that his signature to the within certificates is genuine
In testimony [illegible] of I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Rutland this 8 day of Sept AD 1837
R Pierpoint [signature]
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I, William Beal of Pittsford in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont aged 46 years, do depose testify & say, that I am personally acquainted with Abijah Winch, whose affidavit is on a preceding page of this sheet, and do know him to be the identical person whose name is inserted in the pension certificate now in his possession, given at the War Office of the United States the 9th day of October, 1833, signed [Leo Cass.] Secretary of War, and granting to the said Abijah a pension of forty=three dollars and seventy seven cents per annum; and I do verily believe, that the said Abijah is the identical person that in his affidavit aforesaid he testifies himself to be. My age being 46 years, was interlined, above, before signing.
William Beal [signature]
State of Vermont Rutland County SS}
Be it known, that on this second day of October 1837, before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, personally appeared the said William Beal who hath subscribed the preceding affidavit in my presence, and made solemn affirmation that the same contains the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth: and I do hereby certify, that the said affiant is a reputable person, and a person of truth and veracity.
R Pierpoint [signature] Justice Peace
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22216
Abijah Winch
Admitted
Private 13 mo & 4 days
C F Hammond
Crown Point 
New York
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WAR PEPARTMENT,
Pension Office
Sir:
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 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. These 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 the Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, gently facilitate the investigation of your claim.
A Statement, shewing the Service of Abijah Winch Essex County New York
[Tabular form follows with columns] [columns are transcribed down] [4 rows in each column]
Period of time when service was rendered:
1776 he thinks
1778 [illegible]
1780 [illegible]
1780 Spring
Duration of the claimant's service:
Years [none indicated]
Months
6
2
6
[none indicated]
Days [none indicated]
Rank of the claimant:
[none]
[none]
Quarter Master Sergt
[none]
Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served:
Lt Goodanough
Capt Rice
Lt Hays
Sergt Pike
Cap Daniels
Cap Frost
Names and Rank of the General and Field officers:
[none indicated]
[none indicated]
[none indicated]
Sergt Nickson
Col Nickson
Lt Col Smith
Maj Hassard
Battles in which the applicant was engaged:
[none indicated]
Country through which he marched:
Sudbury
Providence
R Island
West Point
N Jersey
Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period:
aged 74 years
Farming dam[?] Massachusetts
Evidence by which the declaration is supported:
Locutionary
I am respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J.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 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.
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 ----} ss.
On this ---- day of ---- personally appeared (a) before A.B. a resident (b) of ----in the county of ----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. [pointer finger right image] 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 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 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 certify, that we are well acquainted with ---- 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 day 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. 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 alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County, in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of the case.
The Court wili [will] propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State Troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2.Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6. To a Soldier.} Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it?
    To an Officer.} Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their        belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that he answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons - one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier,, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify, to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
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Sept 11 1840
Mr Evans
Crown Point NY Sept 7th}
Hon. J L Edwards 
Comr of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Crown Point N.Y. Sept 5th 1840
Hon J L Edwards
Sir
Abijah Winch a United States pensioner who has formerly employed me to do some of his pension business and who had not drawn his pension for a year until yesterday in consequence of the removal of his residence from Vermont to this state, and his health and ability preventing him going to Vmt to draw at so inclement a season of the year as that when his Spring pension falls due -- It makes it very bad to do without his money so long, especially as he is unable to labor and has not a dollar of property [illegible] what he draws from the government --- and is obliged to get advances from others, relying on his pension money for pay, which would be attended with much trouble and expense to draw if he should decease with the debt on their hands --- The trouble of looking up and getting a release of the rights of heirs would be so great as to make the arrears that might be due from government little better that lost to those who take care of him in his helpless condition
Please address the notice of transfer from the Vermont to the Albany agency Abijah Winch care of the subscriber
And much oblige Your Old Servt
Chas F Hammond [signature]
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Abijah Winch
22216
In Rolls [illegible]
14 July to 18 Dec 80 
Admitted
Private 13 mo & 4 days
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State of New York
Essex County SS.
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Essex, Abijah Winch who being duly sworn --doth depose and say that from old age and the consequent loss of memory he can not swear positively as to the precise length of his services but according to the best of his recollection he served no less that the Jurats mentioned below and in the following [illegible] [illegible] for six months the first period of my service I served as a private. For two months the second period of my service I served as a Private and for the five months & four days the last period of my service I served as a private each service Claim a pension
Subscribed and from this 20th day of June 1833 Abijah Winch [signature] before me
Edw S Cayler [signature] Justice Peace
State of New York Essex County ss.
On this 20th day of June in this year 1833 Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Abijah Winch a Resident of the town of Crown Point, in the County aforesaid aged 74 years who being duly sworn upon his said oath doth depose and say that the first period of his service in the year 1776 at Sudbury Mass [illegible] under the Officers named in his former declaration He cannot recollect the Captains name but recollects that Lieutenant Goodanough & Sergeant Rice were two of his
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Company Officers & he believes there were no Field Officers out on duty. Commanding the Company to which he was attached. that Government there had a considerable quantity join Continental State Stores at Sudbury and that a Sergeants 
guard was detached to guard the Continental [illegible] and a Corporal guard to guard the States stores --- that deponent
 was one of the Sergeants Guard and serviced for the whole [illegible] Sergeant Rice that he does not know whether [?] he was a [?] Guard in his Company - his father was Captain of the Militia Company in Farmingham [Framingham?] Massachusetts & that he had just [?] by his age became a Sergeant for Militia duty - that his father Captain Joseph Winch attached deponent & this other young man [?] Ebenezer Boughton and John Pike and placed them in the Sergeants guard to go on the aforesaid duty- that he entered the service in the Spring of the year [?] not [?] the [?] time and served until late in the following Autumn at which time the Military Stores was removed from Sudbury and the Guard was dismissed & returned never [?]the Service [?] months on this tour [???] a Military discharge that his second time of service at Providence Rhode Island was in Sergeant Hays Company & cannot recollect the name of his Captain thinks he was in Colonel Jacksons Regiment of Massachusetts Militia but will not swear positively he marched from Sudbury to Providence in Company with [?] other of the Company he was drafted and ordered to join his Company at Providence & did so he was stationed at Providence & his duty while there was keeping guard & was sometimes stationed as one of the guard on board a Prison ship one British prisoner then laying in Providence [?] was marched from Providence to Bristol Rhode Island and while there was employed in [cutting fash?] for the purpose of [?]
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the British Army then lay in Rhode Island and soon after they having abandoned and sailed for New York the American Troops [?] marched and crossed on to Rhode Island where he remained until his two months had expired being about five weeks he was then dismissed having served two months & returned home
that his last Record of Service was in the Continental Service that the Town of Framingham had to famish twenty five men who were turned [near] Levis and he volunteered there were no Officers ready to take Command the march to Old Springfield in Massachusetts and [?] forward to Captain and in the Continental line who he thinks was Captain Daniels of Colonel Nicksons Regiment And who took Command of the men who were [Ra??] in Farmingham & marched them to West Point where they arrived at West Point he & the others were from under charge of Dull Officers and marched to Gallows Hill and [Dul???] for the [?] in about two months the Regiment arrived at Gallows Hill when they found the Regiment & was in General Nicksons Brigade and marched to Stony Point & crossed the River to the Jersey Shore & he served in Colonel Nicksons Regiment until discharged Which he thinks was a little before his six months had expired after leaving home. At this time he Rc'd a written discharge but does not know what has become of it- it was signed by Lt Col. Smith Col Nickson having gone the night previous on the Grand Rounds. & [?unted] Lt. Col Smith to give the discharge [?] he did not state in his declaration that he was a Quartermaster Sergt that he stated one Nickson was just made Sergt & afterward promoted to Quartermaster Sergt at least he [?] so to have been understood
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State of New York County of Essex SS
On this 10th day of January 1833 personally appeared in Open Court Abijah Winch before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Essex now sitting Abijah Winch a Resident of the Towne of Crown Point County of Essex and State of New York aged seventy four 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 Officer and served as herein stated
That he entered the service of the United States service the following Officer Viz Lieutenant Joseph Goodanough Sargeant Rice (forgot his given name) Corporal Dick Graves in the year 1776 (he thinks but will not be positive) in the Town of Farmingham in the State of Massachusetts, says he was drafted (and served six months being the period for which he was drafted and says he was employed in Guarding Continental Stores and then returned home to his Fathers house in Sudbury his Father having removed there while he was absent says he entered the service again in the year 1778 in the Town of East Sudbury by being drafted under the following Officers Lieutenant Haynes and Seargeant Pike Says they marched from Sudbury to Providence Rhode Island and remained there two weeks was employed in Guarding Pensioners says the Pensioners Rose on the Guard and took the Guard ship which lay at Providence aforesaid says he was out at this time two months says they went to Bristol Rhode Island and stayed there a few days and then went on to Rhode island and that the Enemy was gone sys he remained
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there about six weeks says he was employed in guarding the fort which the enemy had left and then returned home to East Sudbury says he entered the service again in the year 1780 at Framingham, Massachusetts he living there with his Father at the time his Father having removed there from East Sudbury by volunteering without Officers and went to Old Springfield Massachusetts where one Captain Daniels of the Continental Troops took command of him and others says they made a Seargeant of Thomas Nickerson one of the number who volunteered with him and others at Framingham aforesaid and that afterwards he was appointed Quarter Master Seargeant says he marched from Springfield Massachusetts and a Captain Daniels to West Point in the State of New York and that he was sent to Place called Gallows Hill distant he thinks about four miles from West Point and was drilled there to march and wheel three hours in the forenoon and three hours in the afternoon without any guns and that he was marched from that place to Stoney Point New York and from there to New Jersey says he was occupied marching from one place to another and was on guard says he was stationed at Tappan at the time a Major Andre was hung that he was in guard and did not see him executed but well [illegible] and seeing the people on the hills to witness the execution and should have witnessed it but he was on guard and could not says this was in the year 1780 says he was out six months at this time and
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that he entered the service in the Spring of 1780 and quit in the fall of the same year and returned home to his Fathers says the troops he joined in New Jersey was called General Washingtons Army General John Nickson had the command of the Brigade he belonged to and that his Captains name was Samuel Frost Leiutenant White, Seageant Rossell Rawson Orderly Seargeant Colonel Nickson brother to General Nickson commanded his Regiment Leiutenent Colonel Smith Major Hassard says he was discharged by Leiutenant Colnell Smith he haveing the Command in the absence of the Colnell he haveing gone on the guard Rounds says he had a written discharge and had it in his possession and [caused] the same home and put it into his Fathers draw and never saw it since and thinks he did not fetch it away with him when he left his Fathers in the year 1781 has no documentory evidence  of his service and [thereof] no pension whose testimony he can procure who can testify as to his service excepting Peter Wise who was Captain in Col. Nicksons Regiment who resides in [Rupert] Vermont and is about 80 years of age and is in a state of mental derangement says he saw General George Washington a great many times in New Jersey and says he say General Knox also Colnell Glayton of General Nicksons Brigade says that he was one of the guard over Major Andre one night as he was informed but did not go into the house but saw Commissioned Officers look out of the window of the room in which Major Andre was confined says Genl George Washington passed by him while he was on guard at the time
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says General Baron Stuben [?] the Army of Genl. Washington in the Jerseys and that he saw him frequently and heard him give the Words of Command and that he spoke in broken language and says their is no Clergyman in said neighborhood with whom he is acquainted He hereby Relinquished every claim whatever to a Pension or Annuity except the Present and declare that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State
Abijah Winch [signature]
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Leonard Stow [signature] Clerk of Essex County
1. Where and in what year was you born 
I was born in Farmingham in the state of Massachusetts in the year 1759 as he was informed by his Father and Mother
2nd Have you any Record of your age and if so Where is it
Has a Record of his age
4 How were you called into service where you drafted did you Volunteer or were you a Substitute and if a Substitute for whom
Lived in Farmingham Massachusetts when he first entered the Service and was drafted into the Service that he lived in East Sudbury the
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second time he entered the service and was drafted into the service at this time and that he lived in Farmingham Massachusetts at the time he volunteered to go into the Army of General Washington and that there had [illegible] four persons volunteered at this time out of the Town of Farmingham and forward
3d Where were you living when called into service where have you lived since the Revolutionary War and where do you now live
Lived in Farmingham Massachusetts when called into service has lived in the Town of East Sudbury Massachusetts Clarendon Vermont Farmingham Massachusetts Saint Albans Vermont Shelden Vermont Pittsford Vermont Crown point Essex County New York and Resides here now
5th State the names of some of the [General- crossed out] Regular Officers who were with the troops Where you served such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can Recollect and the General Circumstances of your service
General George Washington General Knox General Baron Stuben General Nickson Colnel Nickson Col Sprout Col Grayton dont Remember the other Regiments and Troops
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says he was employed standing Centre over Continental Stores and was in no engagement says he stood Centre over Major Andre [?] at a place called Tappan says he frequently saw General Washington says he was one of the guard that had the charge of Prisoners [?] on board of the Prison [?] ship at Providence Rhode Island and that the Prisoners [?] rose and tool the ship and that finally they retook them again and got [illegible] Took Possession of ship and kept it
6th did you [illegible] Receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it
Says he received a discharge from the service and says Lieutenant Colnel Smith signed and gave him the same but that it is lost he having left it at his Fathers House a great many years ago
7th State the names of Persons to whom you are known in your Present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for Truth and Veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution but that he now sufficiantly acquainted [illegible] the Clergyman for him to be Present
Elisha Rhodes Levi S Rhodes
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We Elisha Rhodes residing in the Town of Crown Point County of Essex and State of New York and Levi S, Rhodes residing in the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Abijah Winch who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be about seventy four years of age that he is refuted and believed in the neighbourhood where he resided to have to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion [?]
Elisha Rhodes [signature]
Levi S. Rhoades [signature]
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
L Stow [signature] Clerk of Essex County
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Essex County
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 has he states and the court further certifies that it appeared to them that Elisha Rhodes and Levi S. Rhodes who has signed the preceding certificate are residents of the Town of Crown Point County of Essex and State of New York are credible persons and that their statement is in entitles to credit
I Leonard Stow Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas do hereby certify that the for going contained the original proceedings of the said Court in the Matter of the Application of
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Abijah Winch for a Pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of my Office this 10th day of January 1833.
Leonard Stow Clerk of the County of Essex & Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas aforesaid County
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Rev War 
11792
[check mark] INVALID.
File No. 11,792
Abijah Winch
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7th 32
Index: --- Vol. A, Page 411
(Arrangement of 1870.)
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Rutland 8 Sept. 1837
Sir
Herewith, I transmit you the affidavit of Abijah Winch, testifying his removal from the New York, into the Vermont Agency; and requesting, hereafter to be paid in Vermont.
I am desired to say for him, that it will be most convenient for him to receive his future payments at the Burlington Agency That which fall due on the 4th instal has not yet been received.
I am very respectfully
sir
Your obt sert
Jesse Gove [signature]
Hon. James L. Edwards [signature]
Com. of Pensions
City of Washington
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JAMES L. EDWARDS, Esquire,
Commissioner of Pensions,
Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 13th last
I have to state, that Abijah Winch
a Pensioner under the Act of June 7, 1832 at 43 77/100 Dollars per ann: was last paid to the 4 day of March 1837
I am, Sir,
Very respectfully,
Your ob't serv't, 
Tho. W. Olcott [signature]
PRES'T. AND PENSION AGENT.
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Rutland Vt. 4 Octr. 1837.
Sir -
In answer to your letter of the 15th ultimo relative to the transferring of Abijah Winch from the New York Agency to that of Vermont, I now forward to you, again, the affidavit & application of Winch, with the affidavit of William Beal appended thereunto, deposing what he believes said Winch to be the indentical person he claims to be in [illegible] affidavit.
W. Beal is a very worthy citizen, of undoubted truth and veracity, and withal a very conscientious man --allowing
himself to "swear not at all", and will only affirm [underlined]; which, according to the laws of the land, is a sufficient verification. I can find no person who will swear [illegible] the mark, than W, Beal has done. And I know of none of Winch's comrads who would testify to his identity. I presume however, that the present document will suffice.
I am very respectfully your obt servt
Jesse Gove [signature]
Hon. James L. Edwards
Comr, of Pensions City of Washington
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Pension Agency
Burlington Sep 23. 1840.
Sir
In reply to your favors of 14" & 16" [inst] I have the honor to State that Abijah Winch under Act of 7" June 1832 was paid to the 4" Septr 1840 and that Captivity Stearns under Act of 7 July 1838 was paid to 4" March 1840 In my respects of  [?] instant the last named was erroneously stated as Stevens
I am Very Respectfully yr obt servt
H [Lomy] Pens Agt
by Chas. F. Warner [signature]
J L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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State of New York County of Essex SS
On this fifteenth day of August 1840 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Essex personally appeared Abijah Winch who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Captain ---Cloyes in the Regiment commanded by Colonel ---Nixon in the service of the United States, that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Vermont from whence he has lately removed that he now resides in the Town of Crown Point in the County of Essex and State of New York where he intends to remain & wishes his pension to be there payable in future The following are the reasons for removing from the said State of Vermont to the said State of New York to wit This deponent had something due him from Elisha Rhoady who resides in said Crown Point and he came & took some land of said Rhoady that the day no place of residence permanently established
Abijah Winch [signature]
Sworn and Subscribed to before me the day & year aforesaid
Chauncy Finton [signature] Justice of the Peace
State of New York County of Essex SS
On this fifteenth day of August 1840 before the subscribed a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Essex personally appeared Charles F Dike to me known to be a person of veracity and made oath in due form of Law that the person who made the above [affidavit -crossed out] oath is the person described in the foregoing affidavit
Charles F Dike [signature]
Sworn and Subscribed to before me the day & year aforesaid
Chauncy Finton [signature] Justice of the Peace
I certify that the word "affidavit" in the above affidavit of Charles F Dike was erased before execution of the same
Chauncy Finton Justice
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I certify that Abijah Winch the individual named in the within [afflicted] from bodily infirmity is unable to go to Vermont to obtain his pension & the probability is he never will have any other residence but Crown Point his present place of abode but that given his said bodily infirmity & from loss of memory he is unable distinctly to recollect the names of the Captains of his Company or the Colonels of his Regiment but that he has the regular Certificate of pension I know & that he will never leave said Crown Point I have no doubt
Chauncy Finton [signature] Justice of the Peace
To James L Edwards [signature] 
Com Pensions 
Washington City
State of New York County of Essex ss
I Edmund F. Williams Clerk of said County and Clerk of Court of Common Pleas of said County do certify that Chauncy Finton whose name is subscribed to the foregoing depositions and certificates was on the day of the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly elected and qualified and that his Constitutional terms commenced on the third day of March last and will expire on the last day of December 1843 & further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe the Signatures "Chauncy Finton" to be genuine
Given under my hand and seal at the Office of Clerk of said County at Elizabethtown this 31st day of August A.D. 1840
E. F. Williams [signature] Clerk