Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 28899, for Samuel Standish, Massachusetts
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Service: Mass., Vt.
Standish, Samuel
Number: S. 28899
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4462 
New York 
Samuel Standish
of Washington in the State of New York 
who was a Pri & Srg. in the Compy command 
by Captain Henrie of the Regt command 
by Col. Simmons in the Massts 
line for 4 months a Sergeant
&  5 ½ " " Private 

Inscribed on the Roll of New York 
as the rate of 35 Dollars 32 Cents per annum, 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 16th day 
of Jan 1833 and sent to J C Parker 
North Granville [?] 

Arrears to 4th of Sep. 1832  $57.48 
Semi=anl allowance ending 4th M '33  19.16 
[=] $76.64 

{Revolutionary Claim,} 
{Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Geo. C. Stiles, Clerk
Book D.  Vol. 5. Page 207 

Right side:
see letter to P. Agt Jan. 23. 1840 
Order to pay 24 March 1840
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1st Brief - No. 7846

Saml. Standish
admitted
(Page 75.)

51416

20 Sep 1832
21 Nov 183[?]

J.C. Parker
Agt
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No 7846
BRIEF in the case of Samuel Standish of Granville County of Washington in the State of New York (Act 7th June, 1832.) 
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? in open Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? 
3. How old is he? 78 years  
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
Period | Duration of Service (Y-M-D) | Rank | Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served (Gen.) 
In 1776 April | 0-0-20 | Private | Capt. Hawird
1776 Sept. | 0-about 2-10 | " | "   " , Col. Simonds
1777 July 8 | 0-2-0 | " | Capt. Rowley, Col. Brown
1781 June | 0-x4-0 | Serjeant | Col. Robinson
5. In what battles was he engaged? of White plains 
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Stockbridge, Massachusetts 
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? 2 living Witnesses & traditionary Evidence 
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? They appear to be correct 
X  Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned. 
[Signed] James Ord Examining Clerk.
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I Jesse S. Leigh clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Washington in the State of New York Do hereby certify that the four half sheets hereto annexed containing the affidavits of John Tanner, Thomas Griffith the Declaration of Samuel Standish the certificate of Samuel C. Dillaway a clergyman & John C. Parker the opinion of the Court and my original certificate & Seal on the original papers in the application of the said Samuel Standish for a pension and the further specification of the said applicant is now hereto attached And that John C. Parker before whom the said further specification aforesaid and several affidavits & Clergymans certificate purport to have been Sworn & who has certified to the Credibility of said witnesses was at the said several times & Still is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County duly authorized to administer oaths therein & that the name J. C. Parker to the several Jurats subscribed is the proper hand writing of the said Justice and also his proper hand to certificates of credibility of witness aforesaid to me well known. 
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office at the top of this my certificate upon the names Ribbon binding papers together this 21st day of December 1832
[Signed] J. S. Leigh Clk
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State of New York 
Washington County ss. 
Personally before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Washington & State of New York Samuel Standish of Granville in said County and Declarant in the annexed Declaration named 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 length of his service, But according to his best recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below - and in the following grades, 
for twenty days ["2/3 mo" in margin] I served in my first tour in said Declaration as a private soldier. In my second tour in said Declaration I served two months & ten days as a private soldier ["2 1/3 mo." in margin] In my third tour in said Declaration named when I was taken by the Indians I served two months and an half as a common soldier ["2 1/2 mo." in margin]. In my fourth tour in said Declaration for four months ["4 mo" in margin] I served as a Sargeant in all which time I served nine months and an half ["9 m 1/2" in margin] and for such service I claim at pension (This Declarant having been taken a prisoner and never having been exchanged as a Prisoner of War claims if allowed a full pension under the said act)
[Signed] Samuel Standish 
Subscribed & Sworn this 
11th day of December 1832 
before me
[Signed] J.C. Parker J. Peace,   and I certify that the above Declarant sustains a good character for veracity and the reputation of his having been a soldier and taken by the Indians and escaping from the British has been [illegible] in his neighborhood and so known by me for more than twenty years past and have never heard it questioned [Signed] J.C. Parker J. Peace
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State of New York
Washington County ss.
John Tanner of Granville in the County & State aforesaid Aged Seventy two years being duly sworn saith his has been acquainted with Samuel Standish above forty years lived within two miles of him and now lives within that distance of him that he believes the said Samuel Standish to be Seventy eight years of age and that he is a man of truth and veracity and has always been so esteemed by his neighbors that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that he was taken prisoner by the Indians and he further saith that in the month of October 1781, this Deponent was Stationed at Whitehall in Capt Parmalee Allens Comp'y in Col Walbridges Regiment when the said Samuel Standish he well remembers came into Whitehall then Skenesborough with some British & Tory prisoners and delivered over to the guard in said Regiment under Col Walbridge. 
John (X his mark) Tanner
Subscribed & Sworn this 21 August 1832 before me 
[Signed] J.C. Parker J. Peace,    
and I certify the above Deponent is a credible person & entitled to belief & has been well known to me for many years.  [Signed] J.C. Parker J. Peace 

Thomas Griffith of Whitehall in the County of Washington & State of New York being duly sworn according to law saith that in the fall of the year 1781 he was a soldier in Capt Parmalee Allens Comp'y Col. Walbridges Regt Stationed at Skenesborough now Whitehall and well remembers seeing Samuel Standish named in the annexed Declaration come into Whitehall with some prisoners as Sargeant of the guard who guarded the prisoners from Bennington as he understood & he has heard the above affidavit of John Tanner and and he fully concurs therein & he has known said Standish for forty years past 
[Signed] Thomas Griffith
Subscribed & sworn this 23rd August 1832 before me [Signed] J.C. Parker J.Peace
and I certify that this Deponent is a credible person and entitled to belief & he has been well known by me for many years past & believe himtobe sixty nine years of age.
[Signed] J.C. Parker  J.Peace
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State of New York}
Washington County} ss.
On this twenty eighth day of August 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the County Courts & Court of Common Pleas of said County & State aforesaid now sitting Samuel Standish a resident of the Town of Granville in the County of Washington and State of New York aged Seventy Eight years on the 8th day of May last who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the Benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7,1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated -- 
That while he lived in Stockbridge in the State of Massachusetts and in April 1776 the Militia of Stockbridge were called upon by their officers for the Solicitation of the Committee (of safety, he supposes) of New Canaan in the State of New York adjoining Massachusetts having been disturbed and their sittings broken up by the Tories when he volunteered under Capt Havins, marched to New Canaan and took a number of Tories and carried them before the Committee there, who sentenced them to imprisonment in Albany where he went with his Captain guarded the Tories there and put them in confinement, that he was out on this Occasion twenty days ["2/3 mo" in margin]. There was also a Militia Company from Richmond near Stockbridge engaged with the Militia of Stockbridge on this occasion, the officers he does not remember & there was no Col's Command. 
And he further states that at Stockbridge aforesaid there was a call for a Brigade of two months men to be raised in Massachusetts in September (he believes) 1776 and in raising which it took six out of his Militia Company, Capt. Hewins of Stockbridge was appointed to the Command of the Company to be raised at said Stockbridge & at Cote [?] of Richmond, that on this occasion he turned out with three others and two others were Drafted for the said two months Service, from thence he marched to Fairfield Connecticut in the Company so raised under Col Simonds of Williamstown & Majr Rossiter of Richmond in Genl. Lincolns Brigade (he believes) staid a few days at Fairfield then marched by way of horse neck towards New York & met the troops retreating from New York, marched to Valentine's Hill began to build a fort, then retreated towards Whiteplains, where he arrived Sunday morning in October and on Monday according to his remembrance the Battle of Whiteplains took place on the twenty ninth day of October - he is pretty confident that he was in that Battle and he remembers it was said Col Brooks Regt suffered severely
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his regiment suffered some on that occasion, After the Battle he marched up the Hudson River to North Castle several miles from White plains and encamped in huts and continued there until the expiration of his term of service and at the request of the Officers staid several days, perhaps ten days after the expiration of his two months when he was dismissed without written discharge during this Campaign, knew Col Brooks & Regiment Col. Hows Regingent, Remembers seeing Genl Washington, Gen Putnam, Genl Lincoln & Genl McDougal & remembers seeing Col Glover's Regt on a Hill firing on the British with Cannon - In this Campaign he served about two months ten days ["2 1/3 mo" in margin] 
And he further states that while he lived at Stockbridge Massachusetts on Burgoynes coming up Lake Champlain the Militia were called out and he about the 8th day of July of the year 1777 started from home with the Militia and marched for Fort Ann through Richmond Hancock & Williamstown Massachusetts there to Pownal & Bennington Vermont, from thence through Cambridge New York to Fort Miller on Hudson River then up to Fort Edward & thence to Fort Ann where he joined Capt Rowley's Company from Richmond Massachusetts at John Denon from Stockbridge in Col. Brown's Regiment (he believes) in Genl Fellows Brigade. 
At Fort Ann Capt Rowley & another Captain whose name he does not remember were ordered to go down wood Creek and get up a Scough lying there with two field pieces, he went with them and on their march for the Scough they met the enemy British Indian & Tories at a place now called Battlehill where they drove the enemy up the hill & Captain Rowley with his Company went Round the hill and attacked them in another position there wounded and took a British Capt. Montgomery and the enemy were driven from from the ground and then these Companies retreated into Fort Ann, and the whole of the army there towards night retreated towards Fort Edward, halted that night on the plains of Sandyhill where the Indians & Tories attacked them & killed two of his tent mates. But they were driven back by Genl Nixon's artilery. The next morning they marched to Fort Edward and while there he was with others called on to relieve a guard on the hill north of the Fort went and relieved the guard and had not been there Long before he heard an Indian Scream and Instantly was
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was fired upon by them, he ran towards the River and Fort & before he arrived he met three Indians coming from the River between him and the Fort who all fired upon him, but missed him, where he was taken prisoner by them taken up the hill again near to a spring, was there striped of his hat, coat & handkerchief and pinyoned by them and after a short time he saw a party of Indians coming up with two women they came up the hill to the spring and after there they seemed to be in a quarrel, they shot one of the women and scalped her, this woman he knew to be Jennet McCrea he had seen her before when the Americans offered to take her down the river she refused to go said she was not afraid to stay, the other woman was old Mrs McNeil aunt to Miss McCrea..The Indians the led him away by the cord with which he was bound towards the British into an Indian Camp where he saw the Indian Col Brandt [Joseph Brant] he then saw four red coats with bayonets in their hands coming who came and took him before Genl Frazier who asked him how he came there. he answered because he could not help it - the Genl then asked how many men were had below = this Declarant answered about six thousand, he replied you havent half that number for said he I have been through the camp within three days - this Declarant then replied if he had been there and counted them he need not ask him any questions about it - he was then committed to the guard where he continued several days with the army until they head passed below Fort Edward. Then having taken more prisoners he was with them sent under a Tory guard to Lake George where he was put on board Batteaux or gun boats and taken to Ticonderoga and put into the Stone Barracks under Hessian Guard and treated there very bad and after about a fortnight from bad treatment and being requested he engaged to go with a team for there to transport provisions from Lake George to Fort Edward. And on the third trip himself and three other prisoners having before agreed to escape the first opportunity in the night left their teams, traveled all night and the next day and another night and the day after, came across some american troops going on to Join our army, and they all continued and he arrived safe in Arlington Vermont, from whence he went home - in the month of September being gone over two months [ "2 mo" in margin] knew no other officers than in his Brigade except Genl Nixon whom he remembers
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& Remembers Col. Rensselaer who was wounded at Battle hill aforesaid. 
And he further saith that about the middle of June 1781 a party of British and Tories four British and four Tories came to Pittstown in Rensselaer County New York and took a Esqr Bluker a hired man & negro from his own farm prisoners and started for the green Mountain in Vermont and came off from a Mountain in Bennington & [illegible] the road and steered for the green Mountain and was discovered in the morning when the People rallied and pursued into the woods overtook them & made them prisoners and released Bluker his hired man & negro, and committed the British & Tories to guard in Bennington and the next day Col. Robinson of Bennington raised a guard of sixteen men and appointed this Declarant Sargeant of the guard, he remembers the names of some of the Guard to wit: Sherman Babcock George Parker  -- Scott, Richard Wheat. the Col. gave this Declarant written orders, he put these prisoners into a School house in Bennington and kept them from about the Middle of June 1781 Until the month of October when he was sent with them to Skeensborough on the account of a [illegible-"Cartet?]] for an Exchange of prisoners where he guarded and delivered them over to a guard at Skeensborough in Col Walbridges Regt. Stationed there they was put into a guard house about two miles from the Landing to remain there until exchanged When he returned with his guard to Bennington where he resided & had done for some time before this E[illegible].
The service on this occasion was four months ["4 mo is payment" in margin] which this Declarant served according to the best of his remembrance & belief, he never was exchanged as a prisoner of war and claims in consequence, if allowable, full pay as a pensioner. 
1. That he was Born in Norwich of Connecticut on the 8th May 1754 
2. That he has a Record of his age in his bible at home 
3. That when called into the service he lived in West Stockbridge Massachusetts and at Bennington in his last service mentioned and since the Revolution he has lived in Danville Washington County New York and still lives there.
4. That he always entered the service as a volunteer & not as Substitute 
5. That the names of the officers & Regiment he has mentioned in the body of his Declaration as fully as he can remember with particulars recollected 
6. That he never rec'd a written discharge
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7. That he is known in his present neighborhood by Rev Samuel C. Dillaway John C. Parker Ashiel Dayton John Farmer Benjamin D. Utter & Thomas Griffith of Whitehall. Others who can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution - 
And he further saith he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his service other than those whose affidavits and annexed.  
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the presents, and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State or territory whatever. 
[Signed] Saml. Standish
Subscribed the day & year aforesaid 
[Signed] J. S. Leigh Clk 

We Samuel C. Dillaway a Clergyman residing in West Granville in the County of Washington & State of New York and John C. Parker of the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Standish named in the annexed Declaration, that we believe him to be Seventy Eight years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier the Revolution and to have been taken prisoner by the Indians during that period, that he is esteemed a man of veracity and the reputation of his having been such soldier is very general & have never know of its having doubted. 
[Signed] S.C. Dillaway
[Signed] John C. Parker

Subscribed & affirmed by Rev S Dilliway before me this 27th day of August 1832 Before e [Signed] John C. Parker, J. Peace
The said John C. Parker sworn in open court this 29th day of Augt. 1832
[Signed] J.S. Leigh Clk
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 Samuel Standish was a Revolutionary soldier
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and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Samuel C Dilliway who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the Town of Granville in this County and that John C. Parker, who has also signed the same is a resident of the same place and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit - and further that in the opinion he cannot without too much upset & inconvenience produce the above named Samuel C. Dilliway, John Tanner & Thomas Griffith in open court.

Jesse S. Leigh Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Washington Do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Standish for a Pension and I further certify that John C. Parker before whom the said Samuel C. Dillaway purports to have been affixed to the above certificate, and the affidavits of John Tanner and Thomas Griffith was on the date thereof a Justice of the Peace duly authorized to administer Oaths, that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe that same to be his proper signature.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this twenty ninth day of August one thousand eight hundred and by thirty two. 
[SEAL]
[Signed] J.S. Leigh Clk
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and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Samuel C Dilliway who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the Town of Granville in this County and that John C. Parker, who has also signed the same is a resident of the same place and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit - and further that in the opinion he cannot without too much upset & inconvenience produce the above named Samuel C. Dilliway, John Tanner & Thomas Griffith in open court.

Jesse S. Leigh Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Washington Do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Standish for a Pension and I further certify that John C. Parker before whom the said Samuel C. Dillaway purports to have been affixed to the above certificate, and the affidavits of John Tanner and Thomas Griffith was on the date thereof a Justice of the Peace duly authorized to administer Oaths, that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe that same to be his proper signature.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this twenty ninth day of August one thousand eight hundred and by thirty two.
[SEAL]
[Signed] J.S. Leigh Clk
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August 18, 1911. 
Hon. William H. Draper, 
House of Representatives. 

My dear Mr. Draper:
 In reply to your letter dated and received the 17" instant, I have the honor to advise you that from the papers in claim Sur. File No. 28,899, Rev. War, it appears that Samuel Standish was allowed pension on an application executed August 28, 1832, while a resident of Granville, Washington County, New York. 
He was born in Norwich, Connecticut, May 8, 1754, and was a resident of West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, when in April, 1776, he enlisted in Captain Hewin's company of Militia, and served twenty days. 
In September, 1776, he was called out under Captain Hewins and Colonel Simonds, and served two months and ten days. He was in the battle of White Plains. 
In July, 1777, he was called out in Captain Rowley's company, Colonel Brown's regiment. After the battle of Fort Anne, in which he engaged, while on guard duty near Fort Edward, he was captured by the Indians, and while their prisoner, witnessed the murder of Jane McCrea. Later he was taken to the stone barracks at Ticonderoga and placed under Hessian guard, from which he escaped, returning home in September of that year. 
In June, 1781, he was appointed Sergeant of a prisoners' guard at
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Sur. File No. 2, 899-2 

Bennington, Vermont, by Colonel Robinson, and served four months. 
A son Samuel, in referred to in 1840. There is no further family data in the claim.
Owing to a lack of clerical force available for such a purpose, this Bureau is unable to furnish copies of papers on file, but any person designated by you will be allowed to examine and copy the papers in the above cited claim. 
Very respectfully, 
Commissioner
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Crosswise:
Amos Standish
or Saml
[illegible]

[Postmark] Albany N.Y. JAN 18
f[ree]
James L. Edwards Esquire
Commr of Pensions
War Dept
City of Washington
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Mechs. & Farmers Bank 
Albany Pension Agency 
January 15. 1840.

James L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions,
Sir, 
By your letter of the 9th of Sept last, we were instructed not to pay the pension of Amos Standish to his son Amos Standish Junr., unless he furnished security that it should be paid over to his Father. 
We accordingly made a memorandum to that effect on our Books. But we think we have very lately discovered an error in regard to the pension intended by your letter. 
The pension of Amos Standish has never been paid to his son. But we find that the pension of Samuel Standish has been twice paid to his son Samuel Standish Junr. & was so paid in Sept. last.
Be pleased to form me with your further intentions on this subject. 
Very respectfully 
Your Obed Servt.
Thos. W. Olcott
Prest. & Pens Agt
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Albany March 16. 1840 
James L Edwards Esquire 
Commissioner of Pensions 

Sir 
The enclosed pension power [?] of Samuel Standish, has this day, been presented by the Attorney for payment. 
Agreeably to your instructions of the 23d of Jany. last, I submit it for your inspection. 
Very Respectfully 
Your obdt. servt.
Thos. W Olcott
Prest. & Pens Agt
per L. Jenkins [?]
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28,899
Revy
INVALID.
File No. 28,899
Samuel Standish
Sergt. Rev War
Act: June 7" 32"
Index:-Vol. Q [2?], Page 895
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Feb 6/19 [illegible]
Fredrick [?] Hammond [illegible]
Also sent Mass [illegible]
Bureau Pensions
1911, Mar. 11 - Hist. to Mrs. Alice Griggs
1911, Aug. 18. Hist to Hon. Wm. H. Draper N. [illegible]
1911 Aug 26 Section rel. [Janet?] McCrea to Hn Wm. H. Draper
1916 Apr 13: history to Mrs. Louise K. Ward. M.B.H.
1927, Apr. 19. Am. Hist. [illegible] 
[illegible] [drawers?] of [parents?]
not on record. a.u.
1927, June 29 Am. Hist Soldier [?]
names dates as on Application [?] M.M.F.
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[Letterhead] 
Established 1869. Incorporated 1890.
THE C.H. Hammond Company
Dressed Beef, Hogs, Sheep, &C.
Slaughter Houses at Hammond, Ind. and South Omaha, Neb.
Dictated by Se to Ke   Hammond, Ind.  Jan. 14, 1895.

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:--
I enclose a memorandum of the records of a Revolutionary soldier, and would ask if you have any reports on file concerning same. 
Yours resp'y, 
CW Standish
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Samuel Standish Volunteered at Stockbridge, Mass. under Capt. Hewins and afterwards under Col. Simonds of Williamston and Major Rossiter of Richmond; was in the battle of White Plains Oct. 29th., 1776 and discharged July 6th. 1777, and afterwards was called out with the Militia at Stockbridge and marched to Fort Ann, N.Y. and there joined Capt. Rowley's company of Richmond, and while on picket duty at Fort Edward was taken prisoner, and while prisoner, saw the Indians kill and scalp Jennie McCrea. (See D. Wilson's Life of Jane McCrea, Page 104)
His name is mentioned in the National Official Register List of Pensioners as living at Granville, New York in 1840, aged 86 years.

Ancestor of Charles D. Standish, Hammond, Ind.
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MR. DRAPER.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 
COMMITTEE ON ACCOUNTS. 
WASHINGTON. 
Aug 17-1911 

Hon J L Davenport 
Comr of Pensions 

Dear Sir 
I am requested by a constituent, to obtain a copy of the application for a Pension made by Samuel Standish a Revolutionary Soldier who lived in Washington Co. NYork -- 
Very Truly Yours
Wm H Draper
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The Louisiana.
 2123 - 18th Street 
Washington D.C. 
March 8, 1911

Commissioner of Pensions, 
Washington, D.C. 

Dear Sir: 
Please send me the record of Samuel Standish, a Revolutionary soldier - Placed
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on the Pension Roll, Jan. 16,1833, at which time he was a resident of Washington County, New York.  Served in the Massachusetts militia.
Very truly yours,
Alice Griggs
(Miss)

S. 28899
Address 2123 18th Street
Washington, D.C.

[Postmark] U.S. Pension Office MAR 9 1911
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Rev. Sec.-1. C.B.JC.
291 Ashland Ave
Buffalo, N.Y.
April 4, 1916.

Gentlemen -
Will you please send me the pension Reports of Solomon Emmons who was a resident of Washington Co. N.Y. when he applied for Pension - Feb. 13, 1833 aged 79 years. He was of Connecticut State Line.
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Also Samuel Standish who resided at time of application in Washington Co, N.Y. Jan. 16, 1833 aged 78. Was private and Sergeant in Mass. Militia.
Have you any record of one Bani Kelsey, who served in Capt. Bezeliel Bristol's Co., Lieut. Puirson's July 7, 1779. Major Starr's Reg't.
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He was supposed to have served or enlisted from Killingworth Conn.
Most Respectfully
Mrs. Louise Kelsey Ward.
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MR. DRAPER. 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 
COMMITTEE ON ACCOUNTS. 
WASHINGTON 
Troy, N. Y. Aug. 24 1911 

Hon. J. L. Davenport, 
Commissioner of Pensions, 
Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sir: 
A few days since you very kindly gave me the record of Samuel Standish, a Revolutionary War soldier whose pension claim is numberes 28,899. My constituent now writes and asks me to ascertain, if possible, what Standish stated in his application or otherwise, as to the way in which Jane McCrea was killed. There are three accounts of it, one that an indian tomahawked her, another that an indian shot her and another that American bullets killed her, and Standish was the only reliable eye witness. 
The gentlemen asking for this information is one of the leading citizens of my District and I should be very glad to obtain the details on that point for him, if possible. 
Awaiting your reply, I remain, 
Very truly yours, 
[Signed] Wm H Draper
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[Postmarks]
RECORD DIVISION AUG 25 1911
CONGRESSIONAL U.S. Bureau of Pensions AUG 25 1911
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August 28, 1911. 
Hon. William H. Draper, 
House of Representatives. 

My dear Mr. Draper:
In reply to your letter dated the 24" and received the 25" instant, I have the honor to furnish you the following account of the murder of Jane McCrea, related by Samuel Standish in his application for pension, Sur. File No. 28, 899. 
"The next morning (after the battle of Fort Anne) they marched to Fort Edward and while there he was with others called on to relieve a guard on a hill north of the Fort went and relieved the guard and had not been there Long before he heard an Indian scream and instantly was fired upon by them. he ran towards the River and Fort & before he arrived he met three Indians coming from the River between him and the Fort who all fired upon him, but missed him, where he was taken prisoner by them taken up the hill again near a spring, was there striped of his hat coat & handkerchief and pinyoned by them and after a short time he saw a party of Indians coming with two women they came up the hill to a spring and there they seemed to be in a quarrel, they shot one of the women and scalped her, this woman he know to be Jennet McCrea he had seen her before the Americans offered to take her down the river she refused to go said she was not afraid to stay the other woman was old Mrs. McNeil aunt to Miss McCrea." 
Very respectfully, 
Commissioner.
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[missing] and N. Division.  3 - 525.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, 
Bureau of Pensions, 
Washington, D. C.
Sur. Fil. S. 28,899

In reply to your request of _______ received  ________ for a statement of the military history of Samuel Standish a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. 

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT | LENGTH OF SERVICE | RANK | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED (Captain/Colonel) | STATE
Apr. 1776 | 20 days | Pvt. | Capt. Hewins/Col. [blank] | Mass.
Sept. 1776 | 2 mo. 10 days | " | Capt. Hewins/Col. Simonds | "
July 1777 | 2 mo 15 days | " | Capt. Rowley/Col. Brown | "
June 1781 | 4 mos. | Sgt. of prisoner guards at Bennington | Capt. [blank]/Col. Robinson | Vt.
Battles engaged in, White Plains and Fort Anne 
Residence of soldier at enlistment, West Stockbridge, Mass. 
Date of application for pension, Aug. 28, 1832 - Cl. al. 
Residence at date of application, Granville, Washington Co. NY. 
Age at date of application, b. Norwich, Conn, May 8, 1754 
Remarks: After the battle of Fort Anne in 1777, when on guard duty near Fort Edward, he was taken prisoner by the Indians and while held by them witnessed the murder of Jane McCrea. He was later taken to the stone barracks at Ticonderoga and placed under a Hessian guard, from whom he escaped. A son Samuel is referred to in 1840. 
Very respectfully, 
Commissioner.
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section. 
April 19, 1927.

The American Historical Society, Inc. 
80 E. 11 St. 
New York City. 

Sirs: 
In response to your letters, I have to advise you that the names of the parents are not on record in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 28899 of Samuel Standish. 
The Revolutionary War records of the bureau fail to afford information in regard to soldiers named Israel Standish and Solomon Rookhill. (that letter returned) 
Owing to the great pressure of current work and the lack of a clerical force available for the purpose, it is not possible to take up such requests as your for immediate consideration. They are answered in the order of their receipt , as rapidly as possible, by the courtesy of the government and without fee. 
Said records are open to the public for research work under the provisions of the Act of Congress, dated March 3, 1901 and anyone designated by your corporation may examine and collect data from a reasonable number of Revolutionary War pension claims by calling at the bureau, which is the
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usual practice in these matters, by organizations desiring a series of investigations and reports.
Respectfully,

WINFIELD SCOTT,
Commissioner.
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The American Historical Society, Inc.
Eighty East Eleventh Street
PUBLISHERS OF HISTORIES GENEALOGIES BIOGRAPHIES HERALDRY 
New York, April 14, 1927.

Commissioners of Pensions 
Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sir: 
Having received no reply to our letter of March 3, we fear that it has miscarried and are taking the liberty of repeating same. 
We are preparing a genealogy for a branch of the Standish family and would like to know the names of the parents of Israel and Samuel Standish who were soldiers in the Revolutionary War.
Israel Standish; private, Capt. Benjamin Phillip's Company, Col. Elisha Peters (Hampshire County) Regt.; enlisted July 10, 1777, discharged August 12, 1777, service 38 days in Northern Dept., including travel (100 miles) home. 
Samuel Standish; private, Capt. Aaron Rowley's Co., Col. John Brown's detatchment of militia; entered service, June 30, 1777, discharged July 21, 1777, near Fort Ann; service 22 days; detatchment raised in Berkshire County for service at Fort Ann or an alarm at Ticonderoga; also Capt. Rowley's Co., Col. John Ashley's detatchment of Berkshire Co. Militia; entered service July 22, 1777, discharged August 18, 1777; 23 days at Stillwater. 
Thanking you for your cooperation and hoping to hear from you soon, we are 
Yours very truly, 
THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc. 
M. M. Lewis /kr

KvR

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The American Historical Society, Inc.
Eighty East Eleventh Street
PUBLISHERS OF HISTORIES GENEALOGIES BIOGRAPHIES HERALDRY 
New York, March 3, 1927.

Commissioners of Pensions 
Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sir: 
We are preparing a genealogy for a branch of the Standish family and would like to know the names of the parents of Israel and Samuel Standish who were soldiers in the Revolutionary War.
Israel Standish; private, Capt. Benjamin Phillip's Company, Col. Elisha Peters (Hampshire County) Regt.; enlisted July 10, 1777, discharged August 12, 1777, service 38 days in Northern Dept., including travel (100 miles) home. 
Samuel Standish; private, Capt. Aaron Rowley's Co., Col. John Brown's detachment of militia; entered service, June 30, 1777, discharged July 21, 1777, near Fort Ann; service 22 days; detachment raised in Berkshire County for service at Fort Ann or an alarm at Ticonderoga; also Capt. Rowley's Co., Col. John Ashley's detachment of Berkshire Co. Militia; entered service July 22, 1777, discharged August 18, 1777; 23 days at Stillwater. 
Thanking you for your cooperation and hoping to hear from you soon, we are 
Yours very truly, 
M. M. Lewis 
THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc. 
Per: KR

KVR/MH
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BMMF
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section

June 29, 1927

The American Historical Society, Inc.
80 East Eleventh Street
New York City

Sirs:
In response to your letter of June 22, 1927, I have to advise you that on April 19, 1927 you were advised that the names of the parents of Samuel Standish are not on record in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 28899 of that soldier, and that the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau fail to afford any information in regard to Israel Standish.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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The American Historical Society, Inc. 
Eighty East Eleventh Street 
PUBLISHERS OF HISTORIES GENEALOGIES BIOGRAPHIES HERALDRY 
New York, June 25, 1927. 

Scanland Sp. Research- EL 

Commissioners of Pensions, 
Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sir:- 
Enclosed you will find a copy of our letter to you on June 22nd.
We received an envelope from you today, with our return envelope in it, but no letter so we are again repeating our request.
We are preparing a genealogy for a branch of the Standish family and would like to know the names of the parents of Israel and Samuel Standish who were soldiers in the Revolutionary War. 
Israel Standish; private, Capt. Benjamin Phillip's Company, Col. Elisha Peters (Hampshire County) Regt.; enlisted July 10, 1777, discharged August 12, 1777, service 38 days in Northern Dept., including travel (100 miles) home. 
Samuel Standish; private, Capt. Aaron Rowley's Co., Col. John Brown's detachment of militia; entered service, June 30, 1777, discharged July 21, 1777, near Fort Ann; service 22 days; detachment raised in Berkshire County for service at Fort Ann or an alarm at Ticonderoga; also Capt. Rowley's Co., Col. John Ashley's detachment of Berkshire Co. Militia; entered service July 22, 1777, discharged August 18, 1777; 23 days at Stillwater. 
Thanking you for your cooperation and hoping to hear from you soon, we are 
Yours very truly, 
THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc.
M.M. Lewis

JMH:D
enc.
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The American Historical Society, Inc. 
Eighty East Eleventh Street 
PUBLISHERS OF HISTORIES GENEALOGIES BIOGRAPHIES HERALDRY 
New York, June 22, 1927. 
COPY
Scanland Sp. Research- EL 

Commissioners of Pensions, 
Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sir:- 
Having received no reply to our letter of March 3rd, April 14th and May 12th, we fear that it has miscarried and are taking the liberty of repeating same.
We are preparing a genealogy for a branch of the Standish family and would like to know the names of the parents of Israel and Samuel Standish who were soldiers in the Revolutionary War. 
Israel Standish; private, Capt. Benjamin Phillip's Company, Col. Elisha Peters (Hampshire County) Regt.; enlisted July 10, 1777, discharged August 12, 1777, service 38 days in Northern Dept., including travel (100 miles) home. 
Samuel Standish; private, Capt. Aaron Rowley's Co., Col. John Brown's detachment of militia; entered service, June 30, 1777, discharged July 21, 1777, near Fort Ann; service 22 days; detachment raised in Berkshire County for service at Fort Ann or an alarm at Ticonderoga; also Capt. Rowley's Co., Col. John Ashley's detachment of Berkshire Co. Militia; entered service July 22, 1777, discharged August 18, 1777; 23 days at Stillwater. 
Thanking you for your cooperation and hoping to hear from you soon, we are 
Yours very truly, 
THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc.

R:D
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The American Historical Society, Inc. 
Eighty East Eleventh Street 
PUBLISHERS OF HISTORIES GENEALOGIES BIOGRAPHIES HERALDRY 
New York, June 22, 1927. 

Scanland Sp. Research- EL 

Commissioners of Pensions, 
Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sir:- 
Having received no reply to our letter of March 3rd, April 14th and May 12th, we fear that it has miscarried and are taking the liberty of repeating same.
We are preparing a genealogy for a branch of the Standish family and would like to know the names of the parents of Israel and Samuel Standish who were soldiers in the Revolutionary War. 
Israel Standish; private, Capt. Benjamin Phillip's Company, Col. Elisha Peters (Hampshire County) Regt.; enlisted July 10, 1777, discharged August 12, 1777, service 38 days in Northern Dept., including travel (100 miles) home. 
[initials a.w.f. in margin]
Samuel Standish; private, Capt. Aaron Rowley's Co., Col. John Brown's detachment of militia; entered service, June 30, 1777, discharged July 21, 1777, near Fort Ann; service 22 days; detachment raised in Berkshire County for service at Fort Ann or an alarm at Ticonderoga; also Capt. Rowley's Co., Col. John Ashley's detachment of Berkshire Co. Militia; entered service July 22, 1777, discharged August 18, 1777; 23 days at Stillwater. 
Thanking you for your cooperation and hoping to hear from you soon, we are 
Yours very truly, 
THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc.
M.M. Lewis/kr
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