Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7993, for William Patchen, Connecticut
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3-1776

SERVICE
Conn

Patchen, William

NUMBER
R7993

CONTENTS
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37.333
Wm Patchen
N.Y.
Act. 7. June 32

7993
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State of New York
[strikethrough] Niagara [strikethrough] Erie County ss.

On the seventeenth day of July in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty six personally appeared before me Theodotus Burwell, a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Erie of the degree of Counsellor at Law of the Supreme of said state William Patchen a resident of the City of Buffalo in the county of Erie and state of New York aged Eighty six years 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:

I was born on the 16th day of December 1760, at the town of Western County of Fairfield and state of Connecticut and was in my fifteenth year when the war of the Revolution broke out. I went in my sixteenth year to learn my trade (that of a millwright) at Ridgefield Fairfield County, Connecticut. Ridgefield was not far from Fairfield the county seat of Fairfield County & during my apprenticeship I often attended on duty to guard the court house during the sessions of the court, to guard against the invasion of the enemy, bodies of whom were then stationed at Huntington  & Loyds neck on Long Island. I recollect once while on guard one [?] an artilleryman (I think his name was Daniel) had his hands shot off while running down a [?] with an iron ramrod. Fairfield County lay on the sound and was subject to incursions from the British and from time to time to here. In 1779 a body of State Guards was formed in the county of Fairfield a Regiment of State Guards. Early in 1779 I think in the month of April, I enlisted in Captain Hulls company belonging to this Regiment which was composed and having a cavalry This Regt [?] nine months. (I do not recollect his given name) I was the first Lieutenant of our company -  Mr Husted (I do recollect his christian name. Gornet, Corporal -- Lockwood (his christian name I cannot recollect) who was afterwards promoted to be a captain. I do not remember the other corporals names. As soon as we made up our company which was [?] of a hundred we went to Greenwich - not in Greenwich one Colonel Delancy, a British
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officer who commanded a Regiment of Tories had come up to Greenwich on a plundering and marauding expedition and our company went to Defend the Town. We met at Greenwich and went on duty there Greenwich lay on the sound and was the most south western Town in the County of Fairfield. Our duty time there was to divide into scout patrol and scatter. Through the county & if we found a party of the enemy to fire notice to the Militia to rally. The county was infested with marauding parties of British & Tories I recollect  that in the month, I think of August 1779 I was out on one of these scouting parties to reconnoiter the Enemy. We were about a hundred and perhaps more in all, part of whom were from our company, and a part from the neighboring towns, Danver, New Milford, Stratford and other neighboring places. We marched to New Rochelle in Westchester County in the State of New York near the river Pitts where we met a detachment of the Enemy of about an equal force. Sometime in the afternoon of the day in the month of August as nearly as I can recollect the month, we met on four corners. Major Tallmadge who belonged to Colonel Sheldon Regiment commanded our party. He was a large, strong and powerful man and rode a large bay horse which he took from the British. He was a brave officer and there was no flinch in him. He was a man of few words, but decided and Energetic & what he said was to the purpose. We blocked the corners by forming in close column & waited for the Enemy to come up. They formed as they came up. We had an Engagement with them which lasted half an hour if not more when they sounded a retreat and we followed killing some and making some prisoner the number I did not know. I was on the right part of the time, and early in the engagement one of the enemy a strong good looking fellow rode up - spurred up to me and said  “Get back you dammd rebel” - I said to him “Keep your place” He then made a pass at me, cut through my cap and wounded me slightly on the forehead and the scar
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now remaining - I then made a pass at him so used my sword that he fell from his horse although I do not know the final result. I have no doubt he never afterward raise the battle cry of King George & his herd of cattle stealing Tories, Major Tallmadge [?] & shouted “Thank God Almighty, give them another “ - We made it our headquarters at Greenwich during all the time. I served in the guards - I enlisted in this Troop of Horse for nine months & one day at Greenwich on service during the whole nine months off and on - I served during that time according to my enlistment. My time near out in the winter of 1779 - so which was a hard winter and the sound was frozen over & the snow fall deep - I served and ranked as a private and acted as a field or Guide.

In the spring of 1780 & to the best of my recollection in the month of April (it was after the snow had gone off, before the leaves were out on the trees) I enlisted in the Regiment of Foot comprising in part of the Connecticut State Guards for nine months. The officers of our Regiment were Colonel Samual Canfield of New Milford, Major -- Smith (his christian name I cannot remember) The officers of the company in which I served was Capt Hanford Hoyt of the Town of Hanford, 1st Lieutenant --- Raymond (his christian name I do not recollect) Ensign -- Raymond, (I do not recollect his christian name they. were brothers) Joseph Patchin a first cousin of mine was a duty sergeant & Jacob Richards, second Sergeant - There were two more Sergeants, but their names I do not remember - Moses Gates was first Corporal and the name of the others have escaped my memory. Gideon Wood was one Steward. Our Company was stationed at North street in Greenwich Our duty was to separate into searching parties to protect the country from marauding Expeditions of the Enemy. 

There was a man named Frink, a notorious Cow Boy, a refugee who had held the rank of Major in the American Service who kept his headquarters at
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Morrisiana near New York who commanded some seventy five Tories who came out to Greenwich on a plundering expedition about the latter part of April or first of May in the year ’80 shortly after we went on duty. He came with a detachment of about fifty Tories & came up reconnoiter our positions - We were then lying about five miles from Greenwich Meeting House. He came up in a field to the west of us. We exchanged shots with him. They were mounted & on horses I have no doubt they stole from the Whigs. Col. Wells commanded our party. Also Frink had retreated a short distance, he shouted to his men “Come, said he “lets give Col. Wells another shot before we go”. They did form and exchanged shot & a young man who had shortly before been discharged from the regular Army the continental service, a fine young fellow of our party was killed, he was the only one of our party who was injured - They then retreated, we saw them no more at that time - In August 1780 I heard that Frink was down at Pecksland & told all of our company who were willing to go out with me to follow. A party of about one hundred was raised and we came up north Frinks party on the Main road from Boston to New York. When we came up Frinks party ran but Frink remained. I fired at him and cut his coat under his arm & he then turned and retreated. They left the cattle which were returned to their owners. During this summer I was out in a party of about thirty volunteers who had requested me to act for them as guide. We stopped at a school house some half a mile from Greenwich Meeting House to refresh ourselves where we were surprised by a party of the Enemy mounted. Our party foolishly rushed out & were all cut down but myself and one Blackman. I stove out the back widow with the butt of my musket & myself and Blackman leaped out and ran through an orchard running from one tree to another and followed by two of the enemy mounted who said “Give up, you dammed rebels” I shot one of them & Blackman the other and jumped over a fence near
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by and escaped - In the latter part of August we held another Engagement with Frink in the Town of Rye about Eight or ten miles from Greenwich Meeting House. There were about eighty in our party & some seventy in Frinks - We defeated this detachment killing and wounding serveal  - In another engagement which lasted about three quarters of an hour & in which I was wounded a little below the right knee. The engagement took place [strikethrough] about [strikethrough] near a large stone house about a half a mile from McBudds tide mile on the sound about eight o’clock in the morning - One ensign Hoyt commanded our party - Frink came up [strikethrough] and formed [strikethrough] in an orchard just about the stone house. We formed behind a stone fence & were ready to receive them. During the action one Sergeant Brown was wounded but not mortally. During the action Ensign Hoyt said to me “Pilot, what do you think of a charge” “Short metre” I replied & we sprang over the fence and went at them & they immediately retreated. Near the close of this action I received the above mentioned wound, a little below the right knee by a musket ball & was laid up disabled about a fortnight. Our officer was kind to us.

Sometime in the latter part of August or first of September 1780 a party of some fifty or sixty British & Tories came over from Long Island in seven whale boats, who landed on the west side of horse neck. I had been down two or three days before, and ascertained they were coming. We met them with a party of four or five hundred and took them all prisoner & took their boats - We ha other engagement, and skirmishes between one scouting parties and those of the Enemy from time to time. I served in the foot men my whole time of enlistment in the year 1780 nine months. - I served as a private and was discharged as a pilot or guide -

In the spring of 1781 I again enlisted for nine months at Wilton in Fairfield county Col. Samuel Canfield was Colonel of our Regiment Capt Hanford Hoyt was Captain of our company. The names of the other officers I cannot recollect - I was detached from the company a good part of the time, acting under Captain Ebenezer
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Couch of New Milford. My duty this year also was that of a Pilot or Guide. I enlisted as a Private and served as such until about the middle of the Summer when I was appointed Sergeant Mjor of the Regiment and held that office until the close of the period of my enlistment - We were engaged in reconnoiter from time to time - We were stationed in the middle road between the North River and 
Boston road. One Regiment went down into Westchester County NY. during the forepart of the Summer. Washington and his army were there - It was before he went south to take Cornwallis - Our Company was there & I was also there. I recollect that a body of about thirty of the Enemy were at one time firing at Washingtons Life Guards. When some eighty of us under the command of Capt Couch attacked them and defeated them. They retreated & we returned to camp - During this year, but at what particular time, my memory will not enable me to state, Major Tallmadge took five hundred men to take Fort Slongum on Long Island - My best recollection as to the time is that it was about the first of July - We crossed the sound in the evening & got there about midnight. The Fort was occupied by about three hundred of the Enemy - We surrounded the Fort on being hailed by the Sentinel, the words “Groton God d--m you “ rang all around our lines alluding to the taking of Fort Griswold. I never say fellows more frightened - They cried “quarters’ gentlemen, quarters’ and immediately surrendered. In the summer and I think in the forepart of the summer, of one of the years during my service which I have forgotten & cannot recollect it, the British Sloop of war, Shaldelvern of eight guns lay off Bilden neck - Lieutenant Deforest of the Continentals raised a party to take her and came to me & I joined them. We muffled our oars and dropped down to them on the evening & some ten or eleven o’clock PM we boarded her. They retreated to the cabin & bolted the door against us. We turned one of the pieces a six pounder & threatened to put a
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ball among them. They then surrendered. We took the Sloop to Norwalk & she was afterward used as a privateer.

Cornwallis was taken in the fall of that last year of my service as above stated & we had no engagements of consequence afterwards. In the fall one Regiment returned into the west part of Stamford & throw up what we called a fort & erected barricks. I served out my time nine months - We were paid for service in Continental Bills, But after the French came we had some silver - The whole period of my service in the State guard of Connecticut was twenty seven months.

I was baptized by the Rev. W Lorning, an Episcopal Clergyman of Norwalk Connecticut in my infancy as I am informed and believe & suppose he made a record of my age in his Registry of births and Baptisms as it was custom to do so. His house was burned and its contents destroyed when Norwalk was burned. Whether this record was destroyed , I do not know but suppose it was - I never knew any other record of my age, nor any memorandum except an entry of my own in my bible some four years since - I resided when I entered the service in the Town of Wilton in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut. In 1782 I went home to my Fathers in Western Fairfield Co & remained for some time after which I went back to continue to learn my trade (but got wages as I was just twenty one years of age) a millwright - at Ridgefield with James Conklin & resided there as nearly as I remember about a year when we removed to what was called lower Salem in the state and I lived with him there about one year. The next summer I worked with Ephraim Rumsey in Reading in Fairfield Co Conn. I then got married and lived on Long Island one summer. From Connecticut I removed to Ballston in Saratoga Co. in this state & resided there three years & then removed to Saratoga Springs where I resided eighteen years. From there I removed to
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Butternuts in Otsego Co. N.Y. & resided there until about seven years since when I moved to Buffalo N.Y. and resided thee until two years ago last spring when I removed to Lockport Niagara Co N. Y. & resided there until last spring when I came back to Buffalo where I now reside - I am not so well acquainted in Buffalo as in Lockport, or neighborhood & cannot to my best knowledge obtain any one at Buffalo to testify to my reputation as a soldier of the revolution. I enlisted enlisted and served in the war of the Revolution as above stated as a volunteer. I never received a written discharge. I received a warrant as Sergeant Major as above stated from Colonel Samuel Canfield, but it has been lost when, or how or where I do not know. When I lived at Butternuts I employed Judge Hiram Kinney to make application in my behalf for a pension. He told me I would require two witnesses to prove my services in the Horse & and in the foot. These I could not get. I went to Saratoga County to find some of my old fellow soldiers. I found but two Sergeant Major Richard & Mordecai Benedict the rest were either deceased or removed. I could not obtain the requisite number of Witnesses so had to abandon the application which was not made - I supposed until about one year ago that I could not obtain a pension without that number of witnesses & therefore have not made application - My sister Elizabeth Randall of Collins in Erie Co. N.Y. is the only living witness, that I know off as to my services. Davis a good part of the time since congress has granted relief to surviving soldiers of the revolution I have been in comfortable circumstances but I am now old and poor & under the advice of friends have thought it right to apply for a part of that bounty which my country extends to such of her sons as served her in her day of trial and danger - I have no documentary evidence to prove my service
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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present and declare that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
William Patchen

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me
Theodotus Burwell
[?] of Eire Co. Courts
Cousellor JP
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State of New York
Erie County ss.

Elizabeth Randall of the Town of Collins in said county being duly sworn says: I was born in the Town of Wilton, County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut on the 28th day of April one thousand seven hundred and sixty six - My Fathers name was George Patchen. My second husbands name was Joseph Randall, now deceased who was a Pensioner of the United States for Revolutionary Services & after his death I applied for arrearages of his and obtained it. William Patchen named in the above declaration is my brother - Our family at the time of the revolutionary war commenced lived in Wilton in the said County of Fairfield When I was about twelve or thirteen years of age (It was in the spring - But I have no recollection of my own as to the precise year) I distinctly and clearly recollect that my brother William above named left our house to go into the Army into the Connecticut State guards. I think he went first to Danbury, twelve miles from Wilton I recollect he was equipped with: a musket, bayonet & cartridge box. I do not recollect any other equipment if he had any other. The fact of his going made a strong impression on my mind & I felt very sad at his leaving as we hardly expected to see him again - It was understood in our family that he had enlisted & we knew if there was danger, he would be partly sure to be in it. I heard from him after he left & where he was at Danbury by a gentleman who came from Danbury and saw him there & told me an antidote of him. He returned home late in the fall after he left & staid a short time. I definitely recollect his being equipped on his return & that while he was at home I washed his clothes for him I cannot now distinctly recollect whether it was
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late in the fall or winter until when he returned home. He staid but a short time & then returned to the army. I cannot say how long it was after this that he again returned home but it was a long time. From my recollection of his going and returning I should think he was in the service not far from two years but the precise time I do not recollect and am not able to state
Read to  Elizabeth Randall

I Nathaniel Frank a Justice of the Town of Collins in & for the county of Erie do hereby certify that the above deposition was this day read to the above named Elizabeth Randall and subscribed by her in my presence, and being by me duly sworn she made oath & stated that the facts stated and contained in the said deposition are true. I further certify that I know the said Elizabeth Randall and that she is a person of good character and reputation and entirely credible.
May 22, 1846
Nath Frank
Justice of the peace of the Town of Collins Erie Co. N.Y.

There is an attached piece of paper, typed document completed in handwriting

State of New-York,
COUNTY OF ERIE} ss.

I, MANLY COLTON, Clerk of the County of Erie, and the Court of Common Pleas thereof, do hereby certify that Nathaniel Frank Esq., whose name is subscribed to the jurat to cu annexed Deposition was at the time of the taking the same a Justice of the Peace of the Town of Collins in and for said County, duly Elected and sworn, and acting as such. And further, I am acquainted with the hand writing of said Nathaniel Frank, and [strikethrough] verily believe [strikethrough] that the signature “Nath Frank” thereto [strikethrough] to be [strikethrough] his genuine signature.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my name and affixed the Seal of the said Court of Common Pleas and of said County, this Eighteenth day of July A.D. 1846
Jno C Fields Dept Clerk
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late in the fall or winter until when he returned home. He staid but a short time & then returned to the army. I cannot say how long it was after this that he again returned home but it was a long time. From my recollection of his going and returning I should think he was in the service not far from two years but the precise time I do not recollect and am not able to state
Read to  Elizabeth Randall

I Nathaniel Frank a Justice of the Town of Collins in & for the county of Erie do hereby certify that the above deposition was this day read to the above named Elizabeth Randall and subscribed by her in my presence, and being by me duly sworn she made oath & stated that the facts stated and contained in the said deposition are true. I further certify that I know the said Elizabeth Randall and that she is a person of good character and reputation and entirely credible.
May 22, 1846
Nath Frank
Justice of the peace of the Town of Collins Erie Co. N.Y.

State of New York
Erie County ss

all of the Town of Collins in the county of Erie and State of New York being duly sworn say and each of them says that they [strikethrough] and each of them says that [strikethrough] they are personally well acquainted with Elizabeth Randall named in the above deposition and have been acquainted with her for a number of years and have for [tear in paper] that the said Elizabeth is a person of good moral character, inteligence and respectability, & of good standing in society and that her reputation for veracity is good -
Subscribed  & sworn this --- day of 1846 before me. 
D Nanill
ES Crampton
Wm S Stewart
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We Eleazer Thomas a Clergyman now residing in the Town of Penfield in the County. of Monroe and State of New York, but lately & during the Better part of the years 1844 & 1845 residing in the Town of Lockport in the county of Niagara and State aforesaid, and John S. Shuler M.D. residing in [strikethrough] of [strikethrough] said Town of Lockport hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Patchen named in the above declaration: That we believe him to be eighty six years of age: That he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he has lately resided [strikethrough] that [strikethrough] in the said Town of Lockport to have been a Soldier of the Revolution: And that we concur in that opinion: And the said Eleazer Thomas further says that during a part the same year the said William Patchen was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Sockport and under his pastoral care as such - 
E Thomas
J.S. Shuler

Sworn and Subscribed the 13th day of July 1845
Jos. J. Bellah
Justice of the peace

There is an attached piece of paper, typed document completed in handwriting

State of New York, 
Niagara County Clerk’s office, } ss.

I, John Van Horn Clerk of the said County, do hereby certify that Joseph J Bellah Esquire, before whom the annexed [strikethrough] judgement [strikethrough] rat was [strikethrough] rendered [strikethrough] made, was, at the date of the rendition of the same, a Justice of the Peace for said County of Niagara, and duly authorized by law to act as such Justice, and that I am well acquainted with his hand-writing and that [strikethrough] verily believe [strikethrough] the signature Jos J Bellah subscribed thereto is his genuine official signature.

Witness my official Seal and signature, the 16 day of July 1846

John Van Horn Clerk.
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And I the said Theodotus Burwell
do hereby declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories presented by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And I further certify that it appears to me that Eleazer Thomas who has signed the preceding certificate a is a clergyman now resident at Penfield in Monroe Co. in the state of New York but during the greater part of the year 1844 & 1845 a resident at Lockport in the county of Niagara and State of New York: and that John S. Shuler M.D. is a credible person; and that their statement is entitled to credit -

And I further certify that the above named applicant William Patchen cannot from bodily infirmity attest in open court & there submit to an Examination upon his said application - 

T. Burwell
Judge of Erie Court & Counsellor in Supreme Court

State of New York
Erie County ss}
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I Manly Colton County Clerk of the County of Erie in the [strikethrough] and [strikethrough] State of New York and of the court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby certify that at the time of the making of the last above certificate, Theodotus Burwell above named was & now is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the said county of Erie of the degree of Counsellor at Law of the Supreme Court, of the State of New York, duly commissioned, qualified & sworn and acting as such, and I further certify that his signature “T. Burwell. Judge of Erie County Courts & Counsellor in Supreme Court above annexed as his genuine signature -

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of the said Court of Common Pleas and of said County this Eighteenth day of July A.D. 1846

Jno. C Field Dep. Clk.
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Typed document completed in handwriting

[strikethrough] Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873. [strikethrough]

7.993
P.O. Wm Patchen
Service:
Enlisted: ---, 18--,
Discharged: ---, 18--.
Application filed: ---, 18--.
Alleges: 
Re-enlisted:

Attorney:
P.O.
---Recognized. --- Contract.

Written over the typed document

A.O.T.
Aug. 27, 1906

REJECTED
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Know all Men by these Presents, That I Laura Lewis of the Town of Unadilla Otsego County and State of New York hereby constitute and appoint CW Bennett my true and lawful Agent and Attorney, to prosecute the Claim of William Patchin for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or Increase of Pension, that may be due: and I hereby authorized my said Agent to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said claim, on file in the Departments at Washington City, elsewhere: to file additional evidence or arguments; and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claim, which Certificate I wish made payable to the heirs at the Albany N.Y. agency to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purpose herein expressed; and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.

WITNESS my hand and Seal this Twentieth day of October A. D., 1855.
Laura Lewis

SIGNED AND SEALED IN THE PRESENCE OF 
Wm. C Bently

There is an attached seal.

State of New York
COUNTY OF Otsego}SS.

On this Twentieth day of October A.D. 1855 before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared Laura Lewis and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be her act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand, the day and year aforesaid.
Wm C Bently J. Peace
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Typed document completed in handwriting

State of New York
COUNTY OF Otsego}SS.

Be it known, That on this Twentieth day of October A.D., eighteen hundred and fifty five, before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Laura Lewis a resident of Unadilla in said County, and made oath according to law that she is the Daughter of William Patchen died who was a Revolutionary [strikethrough] Pensioner [strikethrough] soldier & an applicant for a pension [strikethrough] at the rate of --- Dollars per annum; [strikethrough] that she has been informed that the said pension ought to be [strikethrough] increased [strikethrough] allowed; that she is directly interested as a claimant in said Pension, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
Laura Lewis

SWORN to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid, before me.
Wm C Bently J. Peace, }

Wm. C Bently a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County do hereby certify that Laura Lewis who executed the foregoing paper is a respectable resident of this county, and is, I believe, directly interested in said claim as therein set forth.
Wm C Bently J. Peace

STATE OF NEW YORK,
OTSEGO COUNTY CLERK’S OFFICE.}

I, WILLIAM C. FIELDS, Clerk of the County of Otsego, do hereby certify that Wm C. Bently whose name is subscribed to the certificate of proof or acknowledgement of the annexed instrument, was at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgement, a JUSTICE OF THE PEACE of the County of Otsego, dwelling in said County, duly authorized to take such proof or acknowledgement, and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice, and verily believe that his signature to the said certificate of proof or acknowledgement is genuine, and that said instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the Laws of the State of New York.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of said County, the 22nd day of October A. D., 1855
Wm C Fields Clerk.
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Typed document completed in handwriting

State of New York
COUNTY OF Otsego}SS.

Be it known, That on this Twentieth day of October A.D., eighteen hundred and fifty five, before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Laura Lewis a resident of Unadilla in said County, and made oath according to law that she is the Daughter of William Patchen died who was a Revolutionary [strikethrough] Pensioner [strikethrough] soldier & an applicant for a pension [strikethrough] at the rate of --- Dollars per annum; [strikethrough] that she has been informed that the said pension ought to be [strikethrough] increased [strikethrough] allowed; that she is directly interested as a claimant in said Pension, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
Laura Lewis

SWORN to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid, before me.
Wm C Bently J. Peace, }

Wm. C Bently a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County do hereby certify that Laura Lewis who executed the foregoing paper is a respectable resident of this county, and is, I believe, directly interested in said claim as therein set forth.
Wm C Bently J. Peace

STATE OF NEW YORK,
OTSEGO COUNTY CLERK’S OFFICE.}

I, WILLIAM C. FIELDS, Clerk of the County of Otsego, do hereby certify that Wm C. Bently whose name is subscribed to the certificate of proof or acknowledgement of the annexed instrument, was at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgement, a JUSTICE OF THE PEACE of the County of Otsego, dwelling in said County, duly authorized to take such proof or acknowledgement, and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice, and verily believe that his signature to the said certificate of proof or acknowledgement is genuine, and that said instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the Laws of the State of New York.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of said County, the 22nd day of October A. D., 1855
Wm C Fields Clerk.

LS of A C
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State of New York
County of Otsego} SS:

Mordecai Bedient of the Town of Butternuts in said Count being duly Sworn doth depose and say that he is now in his ninety first year of age. That previous to the Revolutionary War deponent resided in Wilton Connecticut, and that at the age of seventeen this deponent entered into the service of the Continental Army and served as a soldier in the State Service and Continental for the period of five years, and that deponent now receives a pension for said services and his Name is enrolled on the pension list New York Agency. That this deponent was well acquainted with Mr. William Patchin now deceased. Previous to and during the Revolutionary War, that said Patchin lived a near neighbour at that period to this deponent. That this deponent well knows that the said William Patchin enlisted or was drafted as a Private in the Cavalry or Troop belonging to the Connecticut State line and served as such in the Revolutionary War, about the period of Nine months according to the best recollection of this deponent: This deponent further says that this deponent, and the said Patchin removed from Connecticut into the Town of Butternuts, Otsego County and State of New York about the year one thousand eight hundred and four, and lived Neighbours [strikethrough] during [strikethrough] up to the year; 1845 or there abouts when the said Patchin removed to Buffalo as this deponent was informed and believes: That the said Patchin and, this deponent were about of an equal age: and this deponent is informed that said Patchin died at Buffalo some four years ago: This deponent well and distinctly recollects
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that the said William Patchin when he went into the service as aforesaid, hired or bought a favorite White Horse, belonging to deponents Uncle, to use in said service, and this deponent say the said Patchin Start off armed and equipped, for White Plans to join the army; and this deponent did not see the said Patchin again till this deponent came out of the army or service.
X his mark.
Mordecai Bedient

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 11th day of November 1852}
Wm. C. Bentley Justice of the peace of said county

STATE OF NEW YORK,
Otsego County Clerk’s Office.}

I, WILLIAM C. FIELDS, Clerk of said County, and of the Courts of Record therein, do hereby certify that Wm C Bentley Esquire, was, on the 6th day of November 1855 a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Otsego, duly authorized to act as such, and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice, and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and official seal of the said County and of said Courts, at Cooperstown, this 7th day of Nov 1855
Wm C Fields Clerk.
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37,333
Wm. Patchin
N. York
Letter to Hon W. Hunt, 5.Aug.1846
Let to Hon N.K. Hall Jan 13’48
R.W. Young 22nd Nov’r 1853
C.W. Bennett Feby 12 1856

Act 1832
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William Patchin
NY Act 1832
13 Cole

Honl. J. Minot.
Com’r of Pensions. 
Pension Office
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House of Representatives
July 27 1846

Sir

I am requested to present the application of William Patchin for a Pension. I hope you will be able to give it an early examination and that the proofs may be found sufficient.

I remain
Very respectfully yours
W. Hunt

Col. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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House of Representatives
Washington Dec 21. 1847

Dear Sir:

I am requested to enquire in regard to the Pension application of Wm Patchin of Buffalo whose papers were first filed (as I am informed) in the summer of 1846, and for whom Mr. Stuart of Lockport was the agent.

Please be so kind as to state what objection there is to his papers or proof and what is necessary to be done to obtain a favorable decision.

I am very respectfully
Your most obt. sevt.
N.K. Hall

James L. Edwards Esq.
Com’r of Pensions
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Washington
Jany 31. 1836

Hon’l J. Minot
Com’r of Pensions

Sir.
 
I have the honor to [?] herewith an affidavit sent to me to file as additional proof in support of the suspended claim of William Patchin of N. York for a pension under Act of 1832.
Very Respectfully
C.W. Bennett

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