Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44,631, Silas Blodget, Conn. Mass.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Conn.
Mass.

Blodget, Silas

NUMBER
S. 44,631

CONTENTS
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5116
New York Roll
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Silas Blodget
Lieutenant
Col. Webb's
Regt
Conn't Line
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
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Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of Twenty Dollars per month, 
to commence on the 28th of April 1818.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 28th of Dec. 1818 
and sent to John Prior Esq.
Ballston Spa N York
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1818 4 mo & 7/30 - 84.66
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th March 1819 120.--
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$204.66
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Webb

{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818 }

About 18 Months 1777
[illegible signature]
?radley - [illegible]

[right side, on edge, very faded]
Notification sent Nov 4, 1820 to Tho's Spencer [unsure of name]
Ballston Spa N. Y.
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State of New York Saratoga County ss:
On this Twenty eighth day of April 1818 before me Jeremy Rockwell one of the Judges of the Court of common pleas of the County of Saratoga personally appears Silas Blodget aged Eighty six years resident in the town of Hadley in the County of Saratoga in said State who being by me first duly sworn according to Law doth on his Oath make the following declaration in Order to obtain 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 he the said Silas Blodget on the first day of January 1777 had a commission granted him of first Lieutenant of a Company in a Regiment commanded by Col. Charles Webb in the Brigade commanded by Brigadier General Huntington in the Connecticut Line, that he continued to serve in the said corps or in the Service of the United States until the fourteenth of June 1778 when he was discharged from service at Valley Forge in the State of Pennsylvania, and that he is on 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 said Services except the Commission and his discharge hereunto annexed.
Sworn before me 
[signed] Jeremy Rockwell 
the 28th day of April 1818 -
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I Jeremy Rockwell one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Saratoga do certify that it appears to my Satisfaction that the said Silas Blodget did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common Enemy, and I now transmit the proceedings and Testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary of the Department of War pursuant to the direction of the aforementioned Act of Congress
[signed] Jeremy Rockwell

Saratoga County ss:
I William Stilwell Clerk of the said County do certify that Jeremy Rockwell is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County and that the foregoing are his signatures - 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said Court this 28 April 1818
[signed] Wm Stilwell Clerk

[illegible Court Seal affixed at left]

State of New York
County of Saratoga ss }
I John Prior one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in Saratoga County Do hereby certify that from testimony heard before me on this 9th day of December 1818 which is entitled to credit I am fully satisfied that Silas Blodget the above named Deponent and who made the foregoing Declaration is in such reduced circumstances that really stands in need of the assistance of his country for support
[signed] John Prior
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Copy of Silas Blodget

Silas Blodget

5116
Mar 1, 1819
[illegible initials]
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[printed form, blanks filled by hand]

State of New York,
County of Saratoga SS. }
On this twenty second day of August 1820 personally appeared in open Court, in the Court of Common Pleas of the said County, the same being a Court of Record for the said County, proceeding according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Silas Blodget late a lieutenant in the army of the Revolution aged Eight Eight years, resident in the said County, in the State aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows: that his service commenced as a Lieutenant under Major Enos in the month of May in the year 1775. the Regiment commanded by Lieut. Col. Milles of the Connecticut Line and under Genl. Spencer he served untill December ensuing. He again was commissioned as a Lieut entered the service under Capt. Colton of the Massachusetts line in the month of August and returned the November ensuing;
That his original declaration was made on or about the twentieth eighth day of April 1818 and that his Pension Certificate is numbered five thousand and one hundred and sixteen 5116.
And I solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818; 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.
And he further saith that he again entered the service and was commissioned as a Lieut on the first day of Jan. 1777 under Captain Walbridge of the Connecticut line regiment commanded by Colonel Charles Webb under whom he served untill the Spring or Summer of 1778. when he was honorably discharged at Valley Forge that he was in an engagement at White Marsh Pennsylvania and does not recollect of other service - 
Sworn to and declared on the twenty second day of August 1820 before me in Open Court.
[signed] Silas Blodget
[signed] Thomas Palmer Clerk

I, [blank] Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Saratoga do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule hereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said court; and I do 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 one hundred & fifty dollars and -- cents.
IN testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court, on this 22nd day of August 1820
[signed] Thomas Palmer Clerk
["Clerk" lined thru] of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of [blank]

[illegible Court Seal affixed at left]
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An inventory or schedule of the within named Pensioner Silas Blodget's property
[1st column]
1 yoke of working cattle 50.00
3 cows 45.00
1 small mare (15 years old)  15.00
one oxe yoke staple snug  2.00
one old horse sled  1.00
one dung shovel  1.00
one half pt timber one clevis and bolt one old plow with serve plates etc 1.25
one basket 0.62
one old meal barrel 0.30
one chopping knife 0.20
one Tea Kettle 0.37 1/2
one candlestick 0.12 1/2
two plain chests 2.00
one table 0.75
one warming pan 1.00
two old axes 1.00
one fine shovel & tongs 1.00
one tramel 1.00
one pair old andirons 1.00
Three augers (old) 0.50
three old chizzels one gouge one square and compasses 1.50
one old hand saw & one pair adds 1.00
Two iron wedges, one iron dog, a small draught chain and a pair of beelte rings 2.00
two old iron pots 1.50
two skillets & one spider 1.25
one old half bushel and one half peek measure 0.25
six plates and one cup 1.25
two old pewter platters 0.12
five spoons 0.12
and salt mortar 0.12
Total $134.62

[2nd column]
Brot fow'd [Brought forward] 134.62
two old butter Basins .25
two jugs and one Bottle .56
one tea pot .31
three tin basons .15
one old colander  12 1/2
four old chains 1.00
two old wooden bowls .18
two mess dishes 12 1/2
one large bible 1.00
twelve sermon books .50
one book case .25
one old saddle & bridle 2.50
one p. nippers shoe grumblets 0.75
one old sythe & heoreuting 1.00
one old sicle 0.12 1/2
one old broad hoe 0.25
one meal sive 0.50
three knives & forks 0.37 1/2
one pitch fork & one rake .50
one draw shaver 0.25
one bread tray 0.12 1/2
one pr. old saddle bag 1.00
one draw colea and one crick collar (old) 0.75
one flour barrel 0.37 1/2
one sheall butter tub .30
one old work tub .50
Total 148.37

That I am a farmer by occupation. My family consists of myself aged eighty eight years unable and in consequences of very old age to do anything towards rendering me a support. I have a wife who is eighty three years old who lost the sight of one of her eyes about ten years (illegible word) & has become perfectly blind and for two years and six months past has not been able to walk or leave her bed. That previous to my receiving a pension. I was in very reduced circumstances and had it not been for the Charity
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of my neighbors myself and wife must have suffered. Apart of the above inventory including some of the cattle was purchased with the avails of my pension.
[signed] Silas Blodget

Return to Bruch P Rogers
Corinth Saratoga County N.Y.
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[printed form, blanks filled by hand]

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RECORD DIVISION.
S. F. 44.631
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3─525.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., [blank], 19[blank]

In reply to your request of [blank] received [blank] for a statement of the military history of Silas Blodget 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.
[table with the following column headings]
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
LENGTH OF SERVICE.
RANK.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. CAPTAIN. COLONEL.
STATE.

[table data presented in a narrative format] 
Served from May 1775 to Dec 1775 as a Lieutenant under Lt. Col. Wyllys, State of Conn.

Served from Aug to Nov [year not shown] as a Lieutenant under Capt. Cotton, State if Mass.

Served from Jan 1, 1777 to June 14, 1778 as a Lieutenant under Captain Walbridge and Col. Chas. Webb, State of Conn. 

Battles engaged in, White Marsh
Residence of soldier at enlistment, [blank]
Date of application for pension, Apr. 28, 1818. Fl[illegible]
Residence at date of application, Hadle, Saratoga Co, N. Y.
Age at date of application, 86 yrs. Date of birth not stated. Died Aug 27, 1824 *
Remarks: In 1828 his wife was 83 year old her name is not stated
* from A.B.

Very respectfully,
[blank]
Commissioner.
9 -- 2856
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In the matter
Silas Blodget

Correct [very faint]
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State of New York
Saratoga County Clerks Office } ss

I Thomas Palmer Clerk of the said County do certify that John Prior by whom the above certificate was made was at the date thereof and now is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County acting under the authority of this State and that the name of "John Prior" subscribed to the same is in his proper handwriting.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the county seal the twelfth day of December 1818
[signed] Thomas Palmer Clerk

[illegible Court Seal affixed at left]
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44631
Revy
INVALID.

File No. 44631
Silas Blodgett
Lieut., Rev. War

Act: 18th March 1818
Index: - Vol. 3, Page 49

[ Arrangement of 1870 ]

Apr. of 1897 His [History]
Mr. G. C. Mc Mu[llin]
Watertown - [N.Y.]

1912 Nov. 8 History to Mrs. Jerome Farrar
V. L. M.
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[printed form, blanks filled by hand]

IN C O N G R E S S.
The DELEGATES of the UNITED STATES of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Counties of New-Castle, Kent and Suffix on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, TO
Silas Blodget Esq Greeting
WE, reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, DO, hereby these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be first Lieutenant of a Company in a Regiment commanded by Col. Charles Webb in the Army of the United States, raised for the Defence of American Liberty, and for repelling every hostile Invasion thereof. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of a first Lieutenant, by doing and performing all manner of Things thereunto belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your Command, to be obedient to your Orders as their first Lieutenant. And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions from Time to Time, as you shall receive from this or a future Congress of the United States, or Committee of Congress, for that Purpose appointed, or Commander in Chief for the Time being of the Army of the United States, or any other your superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in Pursuance of the Trust reposed in you. This Commission is to continue in Force until revoked by this or a future Congress.
Dated at Hartford in the State of Connecticut, the first Day of January A Lem 1777.
By Order of the Congress, 
[signed] John Hancock PRESIDENT
ATTEST. 
[signed] C. H. Montgomery [unsure of initials]
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I hereby certify that the within named Lieutenant Blodget is discharged from further service in the American Army at his own request

By His Excellency
Command
Rob. H Harrison Jr

Camp Valley Forge
June 14: 1778
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This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services.
Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States.

O. W. & N. DIV.
Revolutionary.
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L. W. B.
I. 44631.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
April 7, 1897.

Sir: -
Replying to your request for information concerning John Lucas and Silas Blodget, soldiers of the Revolutionary war, you are advised that a very careful search has been made and from the data given the name of John Lucas has not been found upon the Revolutionary war pension records on file in this Bureau.
Silas Blodget made an application for pension on April 28, 1818, at which time he was 86 years of age and residing at Hadley, N.Y., and his pension was allowed for eighteen months' actual service as a Lieut. in the Conn. troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Col. Webb. Place of his enlistment not stated. Place or date of birth and death not stated, but information relative to date of death can possibly be obtained upon application to the Hon. Auditor for the Interior Department, 
Very respectfully,Treasury Department, this city, giving the soldiers full name and record as above set forth together with the following data: Cert. No. 5116; New York Agency; Act of March 18, 1818.
Very Respectfully,

Commissioner.

Mr. G. C. McMullin,
Watertown, N. Y.
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[printed letterhead, handwritten letter, page 1 of 2]

JEROME FARRAR,
Grower and Shipper of
FINE SELECTED CHAUTAQUA COUNTY GRAPES.

Westfield, N. Y., Nov 1 1912

Commissioner of Pension,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir: -
Can you give me any information in regard to Silas Blodgett, Lieutenant In the second Regiment Conn Line, Colonel Charles Webb. Which went into Camp at Peekskill early in 1777 served along the Hudson and on Dec 8th engaged in the shark action at White Marth. As resident of Stafford, Conn. but for Acct. of Connecticut Pensioners, Act of 1818 residing in New York did he draw a pension in New York State if so when
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[printed letterhead, handwritten letter, page 2 of 2]

JEROME FARRAR,
Grower and Shipper of
FINE SELECTED CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY GRAPES.
Westfield, N. Y., - 191

how long and have you any record of his death, if any fee for answers to this communication please let me know and I will forward same at once
Yours Very Truly
Mrs Jerome Farrar
196 E. Main St.
Westfield
Chaut. Co.,
N. Y.

[round stamp]
Pension
A
NOV
U. 4 S.
1912
Office.
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[printed letterhead, building image, company logo, typed date and letter]

GEO C McMULLIN
THOS A. SEARS

SPECIALTIES
Teas.
Coffees.
Spices.
Molasses.
Tobacco
& Cigars.
GEO. C. Mc.MULLIN & SEARS
WHOLESALE GROCERS
AND
Tea Jobbers.
Nos. 3 & 4 Smith Bldg.
Watertown, N. Y.
Feb. 27, 1897

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:-
Can you give me any information in reference to Silas Blodget, a revolutionary soldier, who came from Stafford, Conn. He was First Lieut. and the record shows his discharge June 14th, 1778. As I understand he was a pensioner, and such being the case, I would like to get the date of his birth and death.
Also I would like to find out whether the name of John Lucas, a private, in Col. Wilty's ^Connecticut regiment, Revolutionary War, appears on the pension list.

Yours truly,
Geo McMullin