Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18724, Samuel Blodget, Green Mountain Boys. Vermont
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE

Green Mountain Boys
A
Vermont
CONTENTS
Blodget, Samuel
Blodgett,
NUMBER
S. 18724
Carded
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No 6895
Vermont
Samuel Blodgett
of Addison Co. in the State of Vermont
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Chipman of the Regt
commanded
by Col. Allen in the _______
for 2 years Private
$80.00
Green Mt. Boys
Vermont
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Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont
at the rate of
80 Dollars
 -- Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of March
1833 and sent to Hon. L. Haight
Present
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 160.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4. Sept.
1833  40.00
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$200.00
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⎨ Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by D. Brown
Book D.
Vol. 4
Page 97
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Samuel Blodgett
Admitted
Private
2 Years
$80.00
Hon. L. Wright
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State of Vermont
Addison District ⎬ On this 26th day of Decemr 1832
Personally appeared in open Court before the Probate Court of said district
the County of Addison and
State of Vermont now setting Samuel Blodgett
of Cornwall in said County of Addison aged 81 years
who being first duly sworn according to law, doth
on his oath make the following Declaration in order
to obtain the benefit of an act of the Congress of
the United States passed the 7th day of June 1832
That he is a native of the State of Connecticut, and supposes
and verily believes he was born in Salisbury
now in the County of Litchfield in said Connecticut
in the year 1751. That he has no record of his age
nor does he know of any in existance, but states
the fact from the recollection of what he was informed
of his age by his relatives when young- That he came
into this State & procured some lands in Cornwall where
he now resides when he was a young man and the
State a wilderness
And the said Samuel Blodgett on his oath further
declares- That when Col. Ethan Allen, Col. Seth Warner
and Col. Benedict Arnold Collected a number of Volunteers to take the forts of Tyconderoga & Crownpoint
in May 1775. That he was applied to by John Chipman
then of Middlebury, now in the County of Addison
aforesaid, afterwards major in to volunteer his services
and go with the said John Chipman & others to take
the said forts. That they considered the said John
Chipman their captain in that expedition. That they
marched through the woods to Lake Champlain oposite
Crownpoint and crossed the lake and joined Cols Ethan Allen & Warner soon after they had taken the fort at
Crownpoint and on the same day that Tyconderoga was
taken, which according to his best recollection and other
corroboration circumstances was on the 10th day of May AD 1775.
And the said Samuel Blodgett on his oath further
declares and says. That he with others who had volunteered
in taking the forts aforesaid were required by their officers
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to aid in removing the Cannon and placing a number of them near the Lake so as to have the command thereof, and in the mean time Col Ethan Allen & Col. Benedict
Arnold fitted out a schooner from Skeensboro and a number
of boats passed to the north end of Lake Champlain
to St. Johns and took a sloop of war of twenty guns
and returned with her to Crownpoint whilst the said
Samuel Blodgett was aiding in building a battery
near the lake shore so as to command the lake-
And the said Samuel Blodgett on his oath declares and
says, that by reason of old age and consequent loss of memo
my he cannot swear positively as to the particular day
that he was discharged from the volunteer corps at Crown
point but according to his best recollection it was as
late as the 10th of June AD 1775 that the officers allowed him
to return home to Cornwall aforesaid.-
And the said Samuel Blodgett on his oath further
declares and says, That after he returned from Crownpoint as aforesaid, and after the said John Chipman
had returned, in the summer after the taking of said forts
he the said Samuel Blodgett inlisted as a private soldier
under the said John Chipman then a captain of the minute men so termed, and Col James Head was Colonel
and Daniel Foot then of Middlebury aforesaid was Lieut of said Company. all of which are now deceased
And the said Samuel Blodgett on oath further declares
that by reason of old age and consequent loss of memory he
cannot swear positively to the day on which
he enlisted as a private soldier under the said Capt John Chipman of the corps of minute men as aforesaid, but a
cording to his best recollection it was as late as the 1st of August
AD. 1775.-
And further the said Samuel Blodgett on oath further
declares and says, that the services he performed whilst a
minute man, was part of the time in building a picket fort at
Pitsford and Rutland, and part of the time in keeping garrison
at the fort at Rutland -- And further in scowering the woods
and bye roads through Vermont towards Canada under the
direction of his commanding officers, and the committees
of safety at Brandon & Rutland in the County of Rutland
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Rutland, some times in the capasity of sergent and at
others as a private, in taking up Torys on their way to
Canada to join the british army & at one time whilst
in pursuance of his duty under the direction of Capt
John Chipman as he with a party of men at a place called
Monkton now in the County of Addison took
and disarmed thirteen armed tories on their way
to join the British army in Canada, conducted them
safe as prisoners to the commanding officer then commanding
at Ticonderoga - and took his receipt for
them-- in pursuance of directions from the comm
of safety. This was in the summer of the year 1776
And the said Samuel Blodgett on oath further declares
that some time this season whilst he was an inlisted soldier under the
said John Chipman Captain as aforesaid in ranging the
forests of Vermont as aforesaid, and arresting and disarming
those who were passing this, then wilderness to join the forces
of the enemy in Canada, by a party of the enemy principally
Indians & tory which came from the enemy on Lake Champlain
up Otter creek, as was then stated, he with about twenty
others was taken prisoner amongst which prisoners was Eldad
Andrews then of Cornwall, now deceased. That they were
taken to Lake Champlain and he was put on board of a vessel
said to be a sloop of war and closely kept and confined as a prisoner for a long time. That he was known to be an inlisted soldier
by some of those who aided the Indians & torys in taking him a
prisoner as aforesaid and the receipt from the commanding officer
at Ticonderoga was found with his papers, and delivered to the
British officers, and for some time he was, whilst in his confinement
threatened of being hanged as a rebel
And the said Samuel Blodgett on oath as aforesaid further
declares, that he has no data whereby he can assertain the time
perly when he was taken a prisoner as aforesaid by the
Indians and torys as aforesaid, and taken off to lake Champlain
but according to his best recollection it must have been some
time in the latter part of the summer of the year 1776
And the said Samuel Blodgett on oath further declares that
he was kept and confined as a prisoner and under a strong
guard for a long time after he was taken from the sloop
of war, and in the year 1777 when the army of General
Burgoyne
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Burgoyne moved on to the north end of Lake George he and
about an hundred other American prisoners were kept under
a guard, at a place called at that time Mount Hope near the
French lines by the fort at Ticonderoga then in possession
of the American Army, of this he well recollects - That he was
kept & detained a prisoner under a strong guard at the time
of the evacuation of the forts & old French lines by the
American Army - and for a length of time afterwards
at the said Mount Hope and at the mills on the outlet of
Lake George
And the said Samuel Blodgett on oath further declares and says and of this he has a perfect recollection
that some time in the month of September AD. 1777, a detachment from the American Army commanded by Col. Brown
as it was then, afterwards stated, attended the British forces at Mount Hope and by the bridge over the outlet from Lake George
very early in the morning and captured & took prisoners the
whole British troops who then at those places guarded the American
prisoners, Released about an hundred American prisoners
of which he the said Samuel Blodgett was one, furnished
the American prisoners with arms thus taken from the British
troops and he the said Samuel Blodgett with the other
American prisoners thus retaken by the American troops
commanded by Col Brown, guarded the said British & tory
prisoners, crossed Lake Champlain with them at a place called
the Cold Springs and guarded them on to
Castleton in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont
This must have been the last of September or first of October
D. 1777.
And the said Samuel Blodgett on oath further declares
and says that he continued at Kirtland a short time
under command of the officers of the party of Col Brown
who had taken him and others at Mount Hope when he was
discharged and permitted to return home to Cornwall, that
he took no written discharge but according to his best recollection
it was as late as the tenth of October 1777.and
the said Samuel Blodgett further states, that he has no evidence within
his knowledge of his said service, except the affidavits hereto annexed.
and he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever 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
Subscribed the day &
aforesaid
Saml Swift Judge
Samuel Blodgett
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and the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after
the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interogators prescribed by the War Department, that the above named
applicant was a revolutionary Soldier, and served as he stated
And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that
Ethan Andrus Joel Doolittle, Eben W. Ludd, Daniel Foot, and
John Foot whose affidavits are hereto annexed are credible
persons, and their statements are entitled to credit
Saml Swift Judge
I Hervey Bell, Register of the Probate Court for
the District of Addison in the State of Vermont, do
hereby certify that the foregoing contains the originall proceedings of the said Court in the matter of
the application of Samuel Blodget for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of said Court this 5th day of February 1833
Harvey Bell Register
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Rev. and 1812 Wars Section
Mrs. Charles W. Lee
1901 Elizabeth St.,
Pueblo, Colo.
Madam:
October 28, 1923
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 18724 it appears that Samuel Blodget, pensioned Blodgett, was born in
1751 in Salisbury county later Litchfield) Connecticut.

While a resident of Cornwall, Addison County, Vermont in May 1775 he volunteered under Captain John Chipman
, Colonels Ethan Allen and Seth Warner, was
at the capture of Ticonderoga and Crown Point and served
to June 10, 1775.
On August 1, 1775 he enlisted and served as private
and Sergeant in Captain John Chipman's Company,
Colonel James Mead's Vermont Regiment and the late summer
of 1776, while ranging the Vermont woods capturing
Tories and Indians, he was taken prisoner on Otter
Creek put on a sloop of war on Lake Champlain and confined
there and later at Mount Hope until September 1777.
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when he was released upon the capture of Mount Hope
by Colonel Brown and continued under said Colonel
guarding British prisoners until October 10, 1777,
when discharged.
He was allowed pension on his application executed December 28, 1832 while a resident of Cornwall,
Addison County, Vermont. There is no family data on file. He died August 5, 1838.
From B.
Respectfully,
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Commissioner.
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File No.
18724
INVALID.
Samuel Blodgett

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1923 Oct. 29. Hist. to Mrs. Charles W. Lee
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I Joel Doolittle
of Middleburg in the
County of Addison
& State of Vermont
being duly sworn, according to law
testify
& say, that I have been acquainted with Samuel Blodget of Cornwall
in the same
County, applicant for pension
for more than thirty years,
and I further say that many
years ago, & soon
after I became
acquainted with said
heard
Blodget,
I have him
in frequent
conversations,
relate many events
which took place during the
Revolution
any War,
and connected therewith, which
events took place
chiefly in Vermont
in the neighborhood
and
of Lake Champlain at
an early period
of sd war
and
at the time the Forts at Ticonderoga & Crown Point
were taken from
the British by the American
troops,
and
also at the time the British
forces
invaded
this
part of the County
thro, Lake Champlin
under
Gen
Burgoyne
And said Blodget has
often related to me & in my hearing
the circumstances of his
having been
taken
prisoner
by the Brittish,
detained a considerable time and
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It is not now recollected the length of time
of the particular service, or in what corps, said
Blodget related that he was engaged, or what
length of time he remained a prisoner with
the public enemy; but it has been generally understood & believed in the neighbor
hood in which Blodget resides, that he
was a soldier in the Revolutionary War
and that he was taken prisoner by the
enemy and continued a considerable
time in captivity, and suffered severely,
while a prisoner and
in that opinion
I fully concur-
And I further say that I believe the
said Blodget to be eighty
years old
and upwards
And I further say that said Blodget is
reputed to be a man of
considered
truth & veracity, and that his statements
are entitled to credit
Sworn & subscribed Joel Doolittle
this 5th day of Feby
1833
Dorastus Wooster Just of Peace
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State of Vermont
Addison County of
I. Samuel Swift Clerk of the County Court for
the said County of Addison do hereby certify that
Dorastus Wooster before whom the foregoing
affidavit of it was made was
at the time a Justice of the peace for said County
and his name thereto subscribed is his own signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal of said Court
this 5th day of February 1833
Saml Swift
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I Ethan Andrus of Middlebury in the County
of Addison and State of Vermont aged about 76 years
testify and say that I was in Cornwall in the
County of Addison aforesaid in the year 1776 that the
Samuel Blodget now of Cornwall was then
a prisoner with the british troops then, on the lake
that I then belonged to the northern army, and had a
brother Eldad Andrus who then resided in
Cornwall, now deceased who had been
prisoner with the said Blodget but had
been released-
Further
I have heard the declaration of the said Samuel
Blodget read and have according to my
knowledge & belief obtained in the year 1776 from my brother & others and having been acquainted with
the said Blodget about fifty
years
consider it
agreeable to the truth
Ethen Andrus

sworn to and subscribed before me this 3d day of July 1832

[illegible]Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above named deponent
is a credible witness
Stephen Haight
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State of Vermont
Addison County SS, Samuel Swift Clerk of the County Court for
the said County of Addison, do hereby certify that
Udney H. Everest, before whom the within
is
affidavit of Ethan Andres was made was
at the time a Justice of the peace for said
County, and his name thereto subscribed is his
own signature
testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of said Court this 5th day February 1833
Saml Swift Clerk
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Daniel Foot of Cornwall in the County of Addison
and State of Vermont aged seventy two years being
duly sworn testifies and says-
That he has been acquainted with Samuel Blodget
now of Cornwall, for more then fifty years that 
he is the same person which was taken by the
Indians & torys from the British army and
kept a prisoner for some time from 1776
That before he was taken prisoner he this
deponent went with the said Samuel to Mankton and
with him and others took seventeen torys
all well armed on their way to join the British in Canada as it was then stated which
we took to Brandon to the Committee of safety they were there tried and ordered to be taken
to Ticonderoga to the commanding officer of
of that fortification, where we took them and
delivered them over, and further the Deponent
says the said Samuel Blodget was considered a
true friend to his country in the revolutionary war
and suffered much as a prisoner till he was
retaken in 1777

Daniel Foot
Sworn & subscribed the 19th
day of January 1833
Chs. Linsley J. Peace
State of Vermont S. 

I Samuel Swift Clerk of the County Court
Addison County for the said County of Addison do hereby
certify that the above named Charles Linsley
before whom the above affidavit of Daniel
Foot was made was at the time a Justice of
the peace for said County, and his name thereto
Subscribed is his own Signature
In testimony whereof have hereunto set my hand affixed
the seal of said Court this 2 day of February 1833
Saml Swift
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Eben W. Judd of Middlebury in the State of Vermont aged about seventy one years being duly
sworn deposeth & saith-
That he has been acquainted with Samuel Blodget
of Cornwall in the County of Addison and State
aforesaid for more then thirty years, That there
is no question but that he is the same person
who was a soldier in the revolution- aided
in fortifying at Crown point in May 1775 as a
volenteer
That afterwards was a soldier
under Col John Chipman, whilst a Capt
now deceased, and whilst under him was
taken a prisoner & kept in confinement
a long time, and afterwards retaken at
place called Mount Hope near the forts at
Ticonderoga in the fall of the year 1777
a short time previous to the Surrender of
John Burgoynes Army-
Further this deponent having examined
declaration, and verily believes it contains
correct statement of his services & imprisonment
-
That he is a man of truth & veracity
and has been so considered ever since this
deponant has been acquainted with him
Subscribed & sworn this 5th
Eben W. Judd
day of February 1833
Saml Swift, Judge
I certify that the deponent above named
in credible witness S. Haight
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I John Foot of Middlebury County of Addison
and State of Vermont of lawful age do
testify and say that in the summer of the

year 1776 Samuel Blodget of Cornwell in the
County of Addison and State of Vermont was a
soldier in the revolutionary War that the
said Blodgett was one of a party that went
to Monkton in said County and took fifteen tories and carried them to Crown Point 
in the state of New York and in
the course
of the same summer I understood that
he was taken a prisoner
by the British
Army and kept a Prisoner for ever
have long I do not know
always
but have
understood
that he
was a faithful
soldier in
the American Army I further
say
that I had a brother
taken at the
and
time a
prisoner and have always
understood from
him
that the said
Blodget was a
prisoner at the time
he made his escape and
further say not.
John Foot.
Subscribed the 26th day
of December 1832
Saml Swift, Judge

I hereby certify that the above named
deponent is a credible witness
Haight
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Pueblo Colo
Sept. 17 -23
Pension Commissioner-
Pension Bureau
Washington D.C.
War
Kindly send Revolution
pension record of Samuel
Blodgett who served from
Cornwall Vermont, was
taken prisoner and had a
land grant
Thanking you in advance
I am
Very truly
Mrs. Charles W Lee
1901 Elizabeth St.
Pueblo Colo