Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6181, for Isaac Lathrop, New York
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Service
New York
Lathrop, Isaac
Number
R. 6181
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33357
Isaac Lathrop
Ill.
82 Capt Cady
Col Waterman
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State of Illinois
Clark County
Let be it remembered that on the 27th day of October AD one thousand eight hundred and thirty five before the circuit court of Clark County began and held on the day and year cast above [not legible] personally appeared in open court Isaac Lathrop a resident of said county aged sixty nine years in June past and made the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of 7th June 1832.  The said Isaac Lathrop being first duly sworn says:  That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named Offices and served as herein after stated - tour.  That he was born in Duchess County New York in June 1766.  That he entered the service in the month of May 1782 and he thinks about that second day of that month and about a month before he was sixteen years of age.  That he entered the service in the following manner tour.  That his father belonged to the militia of N York and when the class of militia to which his Father belonged were obliged to furnish a man he said Isaac Lathrop the applicant was hired by the class to perform a tour of duty of nine months which said nine months he served out faithfully.  That he entered the service at a place then called New Brittan, but
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but now called Canaan or New Canaan.  That he cannot recollect the Regiment to which he belonged but that the officers of his company were Captain Ebenezer Cady, Lieutenant Sluman Wattles and Ensign Ezra Davis.  That his Regiment was commanded by Colonel Waterman, Major Martini Bebee and he thinks Major Jonathan Warner.  That his company and others rendezvoused at New Brittan and after staying there a few days marched to Red Hook.  Thus Col. Waterman did not take command of the Regiment till they reached Maverick on their march from New Brittan to Red Hook.  That he did duty as a private (in which capacity he entered the service) at Red Hook three months and then the Regiment was marched to Fish Kill where he stayed till his term of service nine months had expired when he and others whose time was out went home.  That he has no documentation, evidence or his service and that he knows of no witness by whom he can positively prove his services.  He hereby relinquishes every claim 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.  The court then propounded the following  Interogatories to the applicant as
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as prescribed by the War Department to which answers were made as respectively annexed. - [?] -
Question 1.  Where and in what year were you born?
Answer 1.  In June 1766 in Duchess County NY
Question 2.  Have you any record of your age and if so where is it?
Answer 2.  Any age is recorded in my Father's family Bible now in my possession.
Question 3.  Where were you living when called into service.  Where have you lived since the Revolutionary War and where do you now live?
Answer 3.  When called into service of the United States I was living at New Brittan now Canaan in the State of New York after the close of the war of the Revolution I resided in said State of N York for sixteen years ago come November next I then removed to Madison Indiana where I remained three years from thence I removed to Clark County Illinois and have resided there ever since.
Question 4.  How were you called into service.  Were you drafted or did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom?
Answer 4.  I was called into service in the manner herein before set forth.
Question 5.  State the names of some of the Regular officers who were with the troops where you served.  Which continental and militia regiments as you
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can recollect and the general circumstances of your service.
Answer 5.  I new many officers but whether they were Regular or Militia offices or not I cannot say.  I have in my Declaration [illegible] general circumstances of my services so far as I can recollect them.  I do not know the number of any Regiments not even the one in which I served.  I recollect Col. Yates from about Albany Col. Scott, Col. Whiting, Major Kellogg, Major Warner, Col. Waterman and my company officers. 
Question 6.  Did you ever receive a discharge if so by whom was it signed and what has become of it?
Answer 6.  I did receive a discharge when my nine months tour was out signed by Col. Waterman but I can give no amount of what has become of it.
Question 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 behalf of your service as a soldier of the Revolution?
Answer 7.  R.A. Nott and W.J. Archer
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court.
Isaac Lathrop
We Royal A. Nott [words blacked out] and William B. Archer -----both residents of the county of Clark and State of Illinois do hereby certify that we are well
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acquainted with Isaac Lathrop who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration; that we believe him to be at least sixty nine 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 fully concur in that opinion.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court.
W.B. Archer
R.A. Nott
and the said court as 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 Isaac Lathrop was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the court further certifies that it appears to them that Royal A. Nott and William B. Archer are residents in the county of Clark and State of Illinois and that they are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to full credit.
Alex F. Grant
Presiding Judge Clark
Circuit Court
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33357
Isaac Lathrop
Ill

State of Illinois Clark County 
I Jacob Harlan Clerk of the Circuit Court of and for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing pages contained the proceed [illegible] court ini the matter of the application of Isaac Lathrop for a Pension.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and official seal of said court this twenty seventh day of October A.D. 1835
Jacob Harlan, Clerk
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Isaac Lathrop
Illinois
Suspended
See let. 8 Jany 1842
Uri Manly
6181
Act of June 1832
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REJECTED
6181
Isaac Lathrop
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W. Manly Esquire  P.M.
Darwin
Clark County
Illinois
[stamped with "Albany Jun 3"]
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State of New York
Secretary's Office
Albany June 3. 1837.
Sir,
Your letter of the 20th of May in relation to Isaac Lathrop and Ezra Davis was received this day.  On examining the list of the regular army of the U. States belonging to the line of this State I did not find either of their names.  We have no list or rolls of the names of the Militia Soldiers in this office.
Asa Waterman I find was Lieut. Colonel of the Regiment of Militia in Albany County whereof William B. Whiting was Colonel and Ebenezer Cady was a Captain in the same regiment.  They were appointed as such on the 10th of June 1778.
Yours very respectfully
Arch. Campbell
Dep. Secretary
W. Manly Esquire
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State of Illinois
Clark County
This day before the subscriber Uri Manly one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county personally appeared John Salmon Esq. who being duly sworn says on his oath that he has been acquainted with Isaac Lathrop who he understands has made application for a pension that he the said Lathrop has resided in Clark County Illinois for fifteen years past.  That said Lathrop has always in said county been reputed to believe to have been a soldier of the Revolution and there he the said Salmon fully concurs in that opinion.  That Lathrop is in the opinion of the affiant at least eighty five years of age and is a man of good character for tenacity on oath or other wise that said Lathrop was originally from the State of New York
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that it was reputed on the first arrival of Mr. Lathrop from the State of New York that he had been a soldier of the Revolution and such without intermission has been the report and belief of the country ever since.  He has been acquainted with said Lathrop for fifteen years past.  He the said Salmon is forty four years of age.
John Salmon
Subscribed and Sworn to before me the 28 day of December A.D. 1841
Uri Manly
JP
State of Illinois
Clark County
I Uri Manly Justice of the Peace in and for said county certify that John Salmon Esq. who was by me duly sworn to and in my presence subscribed the above deposition is a credible person and his statement.
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whether on oath or otherwise are entitled to full credit given under my hand and seal this 28th day of December A.D. 1841
Uri Manly JP

State of Illinois
Clark County
I, Darius Phillips Clerk of the county commissioner court in and for said county do hereby certify that Uri Manly whose name is officially signed to the within and foregoing Deposition of John Salmon as having taken the same is now and was at the date thereof an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the said county of Clark, duly commissioned and qualified to office and that full faith and credit are due and ought to be given to his official acts as such testimony whereof have hereunto subscribed my name and official seal of said court at Marshall on the 28th day of December A.D. 1841
Darius Phillips   Clerk
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Marshall Ill. 29th Dec 1841
Sir - Enclosed I have the honor to send the application of Isaac Lathrop a suspended pension pension case.  Suspended because he could not make positive proof.  Ezra Davis was an officer in his Lathrop company.  Davis did live in New York and in [illegible] I paid Gen'l. Van Zoper of that state to take Davis deposition.  He called on him for that purpose but found him too much enfeebled both mind and body to understand even the business upon which he had come.  Davis died shortly afterwards as I understand.  Consequently there is no living [illegible] where his services can be proved.  Claims of this kind have been allowed upon traditionary and it does seem to me this is a case where the rules should apply.  Lathrop claims but a small stipend - is very old very
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poor but very honest.  John Salmon, Esq. whose deposition I sent you is an old resident of the county.  Has known Lathrop a long time and is a man of the first standing in society here.  It is needless to tell you how difficult it is to make the legal proof at this remote period.  I hope under the circumstances the claim may be allowed.  6 months or a little better is all he asks.
Very respectfully
[illegible]
Uri Manly

Hon. J.L. Edmons [name is unclear]

P.S. It seems from the enclosed letter that there is no roll of the New York Militia