Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8,120, for Daniel Perin, Massachusetts
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{3-1776)

SERVICE
Continental
Mass.

Perin, Daniel
or
Perrin
Betsey

NUMBER
R. 8, 120

CONTENTS
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Notification sent to Stephen Phelps 29 Sept 20 1820
Canandaigua N.Y.

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12,609
New-York

Daniel Perin of Ontario Co in the State of N. York who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Patterson of the Massachusetts line, for the term of one year 1776 

inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 24 of April 1818 

Certificate of Pension issued the 22 of July 1819 and sent to Roswell Babbit, Esq  Rochester N. York 

Arrears to 4th of March 1819 10 7/20 4/31 82.89 
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819 40.00 
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$130.89 
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{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.} Continued Ontario County
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State of New York Monroe County Ss
Darius Perrin Son of Daniel and Betsey Perrin and Sheriff of the said County of Monroe says that he is the son of Daniel and Betsey Perrin the Persons named in the Declaration hereunto annexed and that the said Daniel Perrin Died on or about the second day of January one Thousand Eight hundred and Twenty Four in the Town of Perrinton now in the County of Monroe aforesaid and that this Deponant was present at the Funeral of the said Daniel Perrin on or about the Third day January aforesaid and further this deponant says not
Darius Perrin

Sworn and subscribed before me this 23rd day of February 1839 
Ashley Sampson 
First Judge of Monroe County Warts 

Monroe County ss I Ashley Sampson First Judge of the County of Monroe Hall do certify that Darius Perrin who made the foregoing affidavit is a credible witness and also that he is the Sheriff of said County 
Ashley Sampson 

State of New York Monroe County Clerk's office SS. 
I Certify that Ackley Sampson Esq. was at the time of taking the above affidavit making the certificate thereof a Judge of Monroe County Courts authorized by law to take the same, and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing & verily believe the signature to the same by him above made is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County this 23 day of February A.D. 1839
Ephraim Goss Clerk
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New York Ontario County Ss
on the 28th day of June 1819 before me Stephen Phelps a Judge of Ontario Common pleas personally appeared Jesse Perrin to me well known to be a creditable witness and being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is Brother to Daniel Perrin whos application for a Pension is hereunto attached and that he is disinterested in the Event thereof and that the Deponent and then the said Daniel Perrin served eleven months in the Army of the Revolution as a private Soldier in the year 1776 in the company comanded by Moses Ashley in the Regiment commanded by Col John Paterson in the Massachusetts line and that he the Deponent served in the same Corps with the said Daniel Perrin during the aforesaid Term, and that Deponant was also knowing that the said Daniel Perin served in the year 1778 and 79 in Captain Carlisle Company in the the Regiment commanded by Col Elliot in the Road Island line and that the Deponant was a part of the said two years with the said Daniel Perron. Also that he knew the said Daniel Enlisted in to the three years service in in the year 1781 and continued in said served to the close of the war and in his return he Recollects of Reading his discharge which was an honorable one
Jesse Perrin

affirmed before me the day and year aforesaid 
Stephen Phelps a Judge
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State of New York Ontario County ⎬ss Clerks Office 

In Testimony that Simon Stone whose name is subscribed to the foregoing affidavit was on the day of the date of the same one of the Commissioners to take the acknowledgement of deeds &c for the County of Ontario and that the same is his signature I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the County seal at Canandaigua this 2nd day of July AD 1819

Wm Will Nair Dep Clk
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State of New York Genessee County Ss
on this twenty fourth day of April 1818 before me the Subscriber one of the Judges of the court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Genesee personally appears Daniel Perin aged Sixty years resident in the County of Ontario in the State of New York who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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 . 

That the said Daniel Perin enlisted in the month of February or March 1781 in the town of Rehoboth in the State of Massachusetts in the Company commanded by Captain Blanchard in the Regiment commanded by Col Scammel in the Massachusetts line and that he continued to serve in said corps or in the service of the United States untill the end of the said war when he was discharged from service in Philadelphia in the State of
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Pennsylvania that he was in the battles of Kingsbridge and the battle at the taking of Lord Cornwallis and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said service 
Daniel Perin

And I do hereby further certify that from my own knowledge the said

Sworn to and declared this 24 day of April 1818 before me Ralph Parker Judge

I do hereby further certify that from my own knowledge the said Daniel Peris is in reduced circumstances and absolutely stands in need of assistance from the country for support
Ralph Parker 

GeneseeCounty ss I hereby certify that the court of Common Pleas of Genesee County is a Court of Record in the State of New York, and that Ralph Parker Esquire was on the 24th day of April in the year 1818 one of the Judges of the said court and that the official signatures to the declaration and certificates hereunto annexed are his signatures 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the said Court this 8th day of June A.D. 1818 S. Cummings Clerk
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State of New York Genesee County ss 
Daniel Perin being duly sworn doth depose and say that he this deponent enlisted as a private Soldier into the Continental service in the war of the Revolution into a company commanded by Capt Ashby into the Regiment commanded by Col Patterson in the Massachusetts line an or about the middle of February in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy six for the term of one year and that he enlisted at the County of Bristol in Massachusetts and this deponent further saith that he served the said line of one year from said date and was then regularly & honorably discharged at Philadelphia 

and this deponent further saith that in the month of March 1781 he this deponent again enlisted as a private soldier into the Continental service in the war of the Revolution
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at Rohobeth in the County of Bristol in the State of Massachusetts to a company commanded by Capt Blanchard in the Regiment under the command of Col Scammel It being a regiment Selected from the different Regts of the Continental Army for an expedition to the south for the term of three years and this deponent further saith that he served faithfully the said three years and was at the end thereof in a company of Drgoans under Capt Bedkins in Col Annings Regiment and was then regularly and honorably discharged at Philadelphia and this deponent further saith that his discharges have been lost or destroyed and further that he has not been put on the pension list of the United States and that he is now an actual resident of the County of Ontario and from his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his country for support 
Daniel Perin 

sworn & subscribed before me this 15th day of April 1818 Ralph Parker
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Case of Perin 
Danl Perrin - 
Patterson Aproved

12609 
22 July 1819 Sep 19
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STATE OF NEW YORK. ONTARIO COUNTY, ss, On this twenty first day of August 1820 personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of Common Pleas in and for said county, and constituted a Court of Record by proceeding according to the course of the Common Law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping a record of its proceedings, and recognized as such Court by the laws and judicial decisions of said State,) Daniel Perrin aged 62 years, resident of the town of Brighton in said county, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served the Revolutionary War as follows: 
served under Captain Ashley, Colonel Pattersons Regiment Massachusetts line as a private for the term of one year Commencing in January 1776 and discharged under the Same Captain 1777 and after that enlisted under Captain Williams Colonel Sprouts regiment Massachusetts line for the term of three years as private and discharged under General Armstrong light horse

and that he made application for a pension on the twenty fourth day of April 1818 and that he received a Pension Certificate, No. 12. 609. 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 manner, 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 18th day of March, 1818, 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, viz. 

four chairs 1.00 three small articles 1.75--- 2.75
two old wheels 1,00 1 old 20 ----- 1.50
six plates 25 one shovel .75 ----1.00 
four knives and forks .38 one tub .50 ---- .88
four old bbls ---- .37
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$6.50
Daniel Perrin 

and I do further swear and declare that I am by occupation a labourer and that my age and my many infirmities render me unable to do any work and that my family consists of my wife aged 52 years a daughter 10 years of age one son aged twenty two years that is subject to fits and entirely depending on me for his support Daniel Perrin
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Sworn and declared this 21st day of August 1820 in open court before me William Rogers a Judge of Ontario Com. Pleas 

ONTARIO COUNTY, ss. I John Van Fossil Clerk of said county, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; and I further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the Schedule, is Six-- dollars and fifty cents. 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on on this twenty second day of August A.D. 1820- 
J. Van Fossen Clerk of the Court aforesaid, in and for said County
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State of New York County Monroe County SS
On this twenty second day of February 1837 personally appeared before me, Samuel Mead Judge of Court of Common Pleas of the County of Monroe aforesaid, Betsy Perrin a resident of the Town of Sweden in the County aforesaid aged Seventy five years, who being first duly sworn oath, on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 1838 Entitled "An act granting half pay and Pensions to certain Widows".  that she the widow of Daniel Perrin who was a regular Soldier in the Army of the Revolution , that as near as she can recollect from that he has informed her that he entered the service near the beginning of the War, that he served Six or Seven years in the Army, but in what troop or Company regiment or corps She does not recollect, neither does she recollect what grade or rank he held at the time he was a Soldier; She believes he entered the army from the State of Rhode Island, County of Providence-
she is not in possession of Evidence in support of her claim. That her husband the aforesaid Daniel Perrin Drew Pension under the act of Congress of 1818 that at the time he drew his pension she believes he resided in the town of Brighton now in the County of Monroe aforesaid and that he drew Ninety Six Dollars a year
she further declares that she was Married to the said Daniel Perrin on the thirteenth day of March in the year
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that her husband the aforesaid David Perin, died on the second of January 1824 in the Town of Perrinton now in the County of Monroe aforesaid That she was married to the said Daniel Perrin Prior to his leaving the first the Service but the Marriage took place previous to the first of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four viz: at the time above Stated. 
Betsy her X mark Perrin

Sworn and Subscribed on the day and year above Written before me Saml Mead one of  the Judges of Monroe County Courts

I do hereby certify that the above names Betsey Perrin is unable from bodily infirmity to attend the Court
Saml Mead one of the Judges of Monroe County

and I further certify that the reason that the said Betsey Person did not write her name was that her nerves was so affected that she could not write
Saml Mead  for Monroe Co Courts

State of New York Monroe County Clerks office ss

I certify that Samuel Mead Esquire was at the time of taking the above affidavit & making the above certificate a Judge of Monroe County Court authorized by law to take the same; and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing & verily believe the signature to said affidavit and certificate is genuine. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County this 23d day of February A.D. 1839. Ephraim Goss Clerk
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State of New York Ontario County SS
on the twenty ninth Day of June 1819 before me Simon Stone 20 a Commissioner appointed to take acknowledgment of Deeds c for the County of Ontanori personally appeared Glover Perrin to me well known to be a credible witness to being duly sworn deposeth and Saith that he is Brother to Daniel Perrin whose application for a Pension is hereunto attached and that he is disinterested in the event thereof and that he the Deponent saw the said Daniel Perrin served  Eleven months in the Army of the Revolution as a private soldier in the year 1776, in the Company commanded by Capt Moses Ashley in the Reg commanded by Col. John Patterson in the Massachusetts Line and this deponent was also knowing that the said Daniel enlisted into the three years service in the year 1778 and 79. And this deponent was also knowing that the said Daniel Enlisted into the three years Service in the year 1781 and continued in said service to the close of the war, and further this deponent Saith not 
Glover Perrin

Subscribed & Sworn this 29 of June 1819 before me 
Simon Stone Commissioner &c
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State of New York Ontario County Clerks Office Ss
In Testimony that Stephen Phelp whose name is subscribed to the foregoing affidavit was on the day of the date of the same one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Ontario and that the same is his signature 

I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the County seal at Canandaigua this 2nd day of July AD 1819 Wm Will McNair Dep Clk
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State of Pennsylvania Bradford County ss ⎬ Before the honorable Edward Herrick President Judge of the court of Common Pleas of said County personally appeared Timothy Vincent of Warren township in said county aged 65 years who being duly sworn on his oath says that he resided in Providence in the State of Rhode Island in the year 1792 that in the month of March of that year his sister Betsy Vincent informed him that she was about to be married to Daniel Perrin & within about week from that time she informed me that they were married or that she had married him and I understood from that time forth that she was married to him & so for as my knowledge extends and according to my belief the said Betsy & Daniel lived together as man & wife to the time of his death & this deponent understood from the said Daniel that he had been a soldier in in the war of the revolution 
Timothy Vincent

Sworn to subscribed Feby 14 1829 before me and I certify that the said Timothy Vincent is of good repute for truth & veracity 
Edward Herrick 

State of Pennsylvania Bradford County ss
I David Cash Prothonotary of the court of Common Pleas of said county do certify & make known that the said Edward Herrick who signed the above is President Judge of said court that the above is his proper signature 

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand the seal of said court the 14th of February 1829 David Cash Prothotary
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Daniel Perin 
Application
Col Patterson 
Massachusetts Regt 
1776 for 1 year- 
26 April 1818

Service must be proved by two Witnesses of the certificate of the Commission officer
Admitted
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Ralph Parker one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Genesee in the State of New York as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction  that the said Daniel Perrin did Serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common Enemy. and I now transmit the procedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress Ralph Parker Judge
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Providence Aug 27 1838 

Dear Sir 
the Post Master has put into my hands your letter of 18 inst, respecting the marriage of Daniel Perrin to Betsey Vincent having done the greater part of the business for Pensioners in this City 

I immediately went to the City Clerk office when the records of the marriages and kept. but could not find the record of the above marriage. I presume it was never recorded- If the Marriage took place in this City shops there might be found some one who was present & could testify to the part such is good evidence in the absence of the Record. If you will let me
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who were present I will get their affidavits to the last 
I am respectfully ub 
Benja Cowell 

Anson Sherwood Esq
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[crossed out: Act of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1979]
REJECTED 8120 
Betsey Perrin 
Service: wid of Daniel 
Enlisted: 
Discharged: 
Application filed: 
Alleges: 
Re-enlisted: 
Attorney: 
P. O. 
Cert. of Recognized. of Dis. Searched for -
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N. York Betsey Perrin let to Anson Sherwood 
8120
Act. July 1838
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Married 13 March 1792 
Husband decd 22 Jan 1824
No proof of marriage

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Anson Sherwood, Esq Brockport 
Monro Co
N York