Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44,597, Benoni Ballard, New York.
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New York
Ballard, Benoni
S.44.597
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Application sent to
H. John Phillips, Esq.
29 Sept. 1821
Onandaga, NY 

Benoni Ballard, priv
New York line
[illegible]to about 9 months

in the United States during the Revolutionary War
inscribed in the roll of New York

8 Dollars per month, to
commence
the 8th of April, 1818.-

Certificate of Pension issued the 18 of Sept
and sent to the case of Joshua
Forman, Esq; Marcellus, N.Y.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818. $39.20
Semi-annl allowance ending March 4, 1819 $48.00 
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$87.20
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
Van Schaick

[Note on side: Let. R.J. [illegible],  Jan. 25/60
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State of New-York,
Onondaga County.
I, Joshua Forman, First Judge of the Court
of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Onondaga, in the
State of New-York, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that
Benoni Ballard
of the town of Onondaga
in said county, did serve in the Revolutionary War, against the common
enemy, as stated by him in his declaration on oath hereunto annexed, made before me 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 Revolutionary War:"
And I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had
before me to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to
the directions of the aforesaid act of Congress.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the
seal of the said Court to be affixed, this Eighth day
of April in the year 1818
To J.C. Calhoun, Esq.
Secretary for the Department of War of the United States
Joshua Forman

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State of New York
Onondaga County
Ebenezer Moore of the
town & County of Onondaga being duly sworn
saith that he was a soldier in Capt William
Allens Company in Col Olneys Regiment
the Rhode Island line & was stationed for
about fifteen months at Saratoga before
his discharge at the close of the Revolutionary War and that during that period he well knew
Benoni Ballard now here present & he
has subscribed the affidavit hereto annexed
that he was then called one of General Schuyler's
guard & was engaged in scouting parties
was in constant service to this deponents
recollection there more than nine month
before said Ballard was discharged
that was at the time solders who had
[illegible] for the war was discharged
at this deponent having listed for
three years was retained there for
about five or six months [illegible]
& further saith not

E. Moore
Sworn this Eighth day
of April was before
me Joshua Forman
First Judge
of [illegible] Common Pleas
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State of New York
Onondaga County

Bennoni Ballard being duly
sworn saith that on the first day of January in the year
seventeen hundred & Eighty he enlisted as a private soldier in the Company
of
Captain Tibout in the Regiment commanded
by Colonel Van Schaick in the line
the State of New York in the Continental
army, for during the war
with Great
Britain and served as a soldier to the
expiration of that was under said enlistment that he was employed most of the time
from the period of said enlistment as
one of General Stephens (?) Guard & stationed
at Saratoga with a body of soldiers to
guard that frontier and never
marched with the regiment from
the time of his enlistment and not being
with the regiment at the time of his
discharge he never received a regular
or written discharge from the army-
that said Van Schaik's Regiment lay at
Saratoga at the time of his enlistment
it was about to be marched away
the deponent with many others from said
Regiment were retained at Saratoga
and served as frontier guards from seventy
parties in the [illegible] to the end of the
war when he was dismissed from service
by the commanding officers.  [illegible] 
that while in that here he was under
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Command of Col M Bensby a Colonel of
Militia of the State of New York afterwards of
Major Scott of New Hampshire line
afterwards of Colonel Olmy of the Rhode
Island line, who being gone home to
his family Captain John Holden had
command at Saratoga at the close of the war when  this deponent was
discharged - that he is now aged fifty
eight years in the month of January last
& now resides in the Town of
Onondaga in the County of Onondaga
& from his reduced circumstances in life
is in need of assistance from his
Country for support & further
saith not.

Benoni Ballard
Sworn to & declared
before me this Eighth day
of April in the year 1818
Joshua Forman
First Judge of Onondaga Court of Common Pleas
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In the matter of
Benoni
Ballard
Van Schaik
2472

Mar '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,) Benoni Ballard
aged sixty nine years, resident of the town of Middlesex,
first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows to being
under Capt Henry Tilbout in Col. Van Schaick
Regiment in the New York line commencing in
January 1780 and continued to serve as a private in the said Regiment until the close of the War in 1783 having served three years and nine months,
and that he made application for a pension on the Eighth day of April -- 1818 and that
he received a Pension Certificate, No. 2, 472 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.

One cow $15. two hogs $4 two Chests $1. one table $1-- $21.00
Two iron pots $2.00- one small Kettle .75 one tea kettle, .50-- $1.75
One Bake pan .50 one frying pan ..50 --$1.00
Two spinning wheels 2.00 three chairs .38 one chain 1.50-- $3.88
Four broken trace chains $1.50 one chair- .25--$1.75
Two old [illegible] $1.50 one old spade .25 three bags 2.00--$3.75
Seven [illegible]  $2.00 four Earthen plates .25 --$2.25
One teapot  .19 one tea cannister .12--$.31 Three tin basins .19 three Earthen Crocks .37--$.56
One tin pan .12 ½ one tunnel .13 Eight spoons .50-- $.75
One Cream pot .06 one Sad iron, .31--.36

Two iron rings .25 two Bibles 1.25. two pigs .87--$2.37

Two small books .50 one Vinegar cruit .13 --
$.63 
One cow bell $.50
One decanter .25 one milk cup .06 One [illegible] $1.00-- $1.31
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$42.18
Benoni Ballard
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And I do further swear and declare that I am
by occupation a farmer and that by means of [illegible] 
and other infirmities, that I am not able to perform
any kind of labor and that my family consists of
my wife aged sixty three years

Benino Ballard
Sworn & declared to this

21st day of August 1820 in
open Court before me
Micah Brooks
a Judge of Court Com pleas
ONTARIO COUNTY, ss.
I, John Van Folsen, 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 aforesaid Schedule, is $42.18.
In testimony thereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court,
on this twenty second day of August 1820.
J. Van Folsen, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, in and for said County
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Claim of
Benoni Ballard
[illegible]
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State of New York

Warrenton County
On this second day of August A.D. 1859 personally
appeared before me one of the Justices of the peace in and
for said County and State aforesaid Benoni Ballard aged
60 years a resident of the town of Northumbria and in the County
of Saratoga and State aforesaid who being duly sworn according to law declares that he is the son of Benoni Ballard a revolutionary
pensioner at the rate of $96 a year who the latter part of his be
was a resident of the town of Irondequoit County of Monroe and
State aforesaid and of Hannah his wife whose name
was Danon but at the time of her marriage with his father
she was a widow by the name of Runyon,  that they removed
from the town of Saratoga County of Saratoga & the aforesaid, about
the year 1817 (?)  to the said town of Irondequoit where his father died
on the 15th day of August 1827 leaving his mother a widow
was survived him until the 6th day of Jan 1840 when
she died at the town of Irondequoit aforesaid. That at the time
of her death the only surviving children and heirs of his land were Richard Ballard and this declarant. That
Richard Ballard died on or about the 15th day of December 1848 leaving 6 children Viz Richard Ballard, John Ballard
Jane Ballard, William Ballet Augustine Ballard & [illegible] Ballard, 
that the said Richard is a resident of the said town of Northumberland the place or places of residence of the other of
children of his said brother being unknown to him that his
said mother remained a widow from the death of his
father until her decease but had no reason to believe nor did he know she had any reason to believe of any claim she had to her husband's pension, nor of her not receiving it until about a year since.  That the
declarant does not know of, or believe in the existence of a
public or private record of the marriage of his said parents
or of them out of the death of either of these nor [illegible]
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State of New York
County ss
the 2d day of January A D 1896 personally
appeared before me part of the
County & State aforesaid [remainder illegible due to faded ink on download but appears to be a standard jurat]
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Know all
by this presents that I, Benoni Ballard in the foregoing declaration 
[remainder illegible due to faded ink but appears to be Ballard's attestation that he has appointed an attorney in fact to pursue claim]
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State of New York
Washington County

In this 10th day of [illegible] 1859
personally appeared before me a Justice of
the peace for the County and State aforesaid Samuel Marshall aged 80 years and a resident in the town of Saratoga in the County of Saratoga and state aforesaid and after being duly sworn according to law stated that he knows and is well acquainted with his father Benoni Ballard and is mother Hannah Ballard.  That they
resided in the said town of Saratoga until their
June to the county
of Monroe in said state which was in
the year [illegible] 
That he knew them to be together as man
wife from the year 1781 until the said removal and
that they were reputed so to be and that the fact of their being
and was never called in question by their acquaintances and friends.  
That he has no reason to believe nor does he believe
that any record evidence or testimony of eye witness with person now
be found of their marriage that the said Benoni and Hannah
Ballard had a family of children and that the said claimant
is the second son by said marriage and is now the only living
child that his father the said Aaron Ballard was a revolutionary pensioner and died in the said County of Morris on the
5th day of August 1827 and that the said Hannah his wife
having since the death of her said husband remained a widow
died in the same county on the 4th day of this he was
[llegible] informed shortly after their several deaths which information
my hand and still believes true and that their deaths
the times and places aforesaid has been believed and never
doubted by their friends and acquaintance here from that
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to the present time and that he has no interest in the claims of
the said Benoni Ballard -

Samuel Marshall

Subscribed and sworn to before me day and year first above written and I certify that the affiant is a credible witness.
[jurat which follows too faint to be legible]

State of New York
Washington County
ss
On this 10th day of August 1859 personally came before me a Justice of the peace in and for the County and State aforesaid
 Thankful L. Dennis aged 78 years who being duly
sworn saith that she is a resident of the town of Saratoga
mentioned in the foregoing affidavit of Samuel Marshall
That he knows and was acquainted with the said Benoni Ballard 
and Hannah his wife and knows and is acquainted with Benoni
Ballard the claimant therein mentioned that she has
heard the same read and can and does testify fully to the
facts as therein stated except that she does not know [illegible] Benoni Ballard
[remainder too faint to be legible]

Her
Thankful X  Dennis
Mark
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13th
J.C. Hitchcock, Clerk
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Rev'y
INVALID.
File No. 44,597

Benoni Ballard
Priv. Rev. War.
Act: 18 March 1818
Index: -- Vol. 3, Page 25
[Arrangement of 1870.]