Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 17000, for Robert Simpson, New York
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(3-1776)

Service
New York

Simpson, Robert W. 17000
Fuller, Mary Former widow

Contents
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4197
New York
---
Mary Fuller fmr.
widow of Robert Simpson
who died on the ---
of Saratoga in the State of NY
who was a Pri[vate] in the Co commanded
by Captain King of the reg commanded
by Van Renselaer in the
line for 21 Mos 24 days

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany
at the rate of 2 dollares 66 cents
per annum, to commence on the 4th day
March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of April
1845 and sent to W.B. Pierce,

Arrears to the 4th of---
Semiannual allowance ending--- 
Albany
N. York

Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 4, 1836,
Section the 3d
Recorded by F.L. Swann, CLerk

Book C Vol [?] Page 114
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by an act of Congress, passed July 4, 1836 entitled "An act granting half-pay and pensions to certain widows."
State of New-York,
Saratoga County

On this fifth day of August in the year
one thousand eight hundred and forty four personally appeared before Nicholas B. Doe
one of the Judges of the county Courts of the County of Saratoga aforesaid Mary Fuller a resident of the town of Northumberland in the County of Saratoga and said State of New-York, aged seventy nine years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by an act of Congress passed July 11, 1836
entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." That she is the widow of Josiah Fuller late of the town of Northumberland in said State of New York who
departed this life on the fourteenth day of November 1840. That her husband
the said Josiah Fuller was her second husband, she having previous been the wife of Robert Simpson for whose services & imprisonment
in the war of the Revolution she solicits a pension. 

That her first husband the said Robert Simpson was a soldier of the United States during said war & that he entered the service from New Concord Albany ( [?] Columbia County) N.Y. where he then resided that his service
after marriage was as follows. In the fall of the year 1779 he enlisted
sound for a period of four months. He left home the first of September
in said year & went down the Hudson[?] River, but the place of his service &
the officers under whom he said Declarant cannot now owing old age
loss of memory recall[?]. In the month of July 1780 he again enlisted
under Captain
Sherword under him to send for a period
two months & afterwards at Fort [?] where he in company [calls] Benjamin Suitler [?], Charles Robinson,  Samuel Dunham & others all in the Fort taken prisoner by the
enemy and taken as captive to Canada, from whence he never lived [?] but died in imprisonment, after having remained in captivity for eighteen months

AND DECLARANT FURTHER SAITH, That she was married to the said Robert Simp-
Son on the Seventeenth day of March
seventeen hundred and seventy nine by Eqr Beebe, J.P. at New Concord aforesaid, that the
following persons were present at her marriage, to wit: Dudley Adam & wife, Samuel
Poe [?] & wife Joseph, TImothy & Bridgid Lord & Sarah Lord but she does not know that any of them are living
That previous to her said marriage she resided in the town of New Concord
and bore the maiden name of Mary Lord
That her husband the said Robert Simpson
died as aforesaid on the
while in captivity in Canada [before] the close of the war
but the precise day or month of his death declarant is not able to testify,

Mary Fuller, her mark X

Subscribed and sworn the day and year aforesaid before me.
Note "on the" & "day of" erased before execution

N.B. Doe
Judge of Saratoga County Courts

I do hereby certify that the above named Declarant in my opinion is unable, from her feeble state of health & the infirmities of
to attend Court at the place where the Court sets- and that never having learned to write the cannot now write her name. Saratoga Springs. N.B. Doe Judge of Saratoga County Courts
August 5th 1844
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State of New York &
Saratoga County 

Elizabeth Simmons of the town
and County of Saratoga in said State of New York aged seventy four years being duly sworn deposeth and saith that she is well acquainted with widow Mary Fuller who now resides in the adjoining town of Northumberland that deponents acquaintance with
said Mary Fuller commenced during the war of
the Revolution and as early as the year 1780
that at the time thereof deponent lived in
the town of Saratoga and said among who was
there the wife of Robert Simpson lived there
also, that they then said Robert and Mary were
there and those living together as husband and wife and deponent well remember that shortly after their first child was born when it was about two weeks of old the said Robert Simpson Left [home?] to serve in the army and that from said service he never returned but it was there reported and believed that he was taken a prisoner by the enemy and conveyed to Canada where he died in imprisonment
which report deponent has of the sense[?]
heard Reported and has never doubted its truth and deponent further saith that said child of said Robert and Mary above mentioned lived in said town of Saratoga for many years in the acquaintance as deponent
and that said child has always been reputed
as the son of said Robert Simpson who died
in imprisonment and of Mary Fuller who
is, as deponent is informed name applying for
a pension and deponent further saith that --
[?] ago said child moved to the west and
and deponent has been informed that he [?] died. --

Submitted & Sworn the 4th day
October 1844 before me 
certify that said Elizabeth
Fitsimmons is a credible witness
Elizabeth Fitzsimmons

S. H. Dillingham Justice of the Peace

I hereby until the erasure [?] of the last sentence was done by me
at the request of the deponent before signature
S. H. Willingham Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Warren
County
Benjamin Knapp of the town of Chester in said County, aged eighty years, being duly sworn
deposeth & saith that he was a soldier & prisoner during the war of the Revolution and is now a pensioner of the United States under the Act of Congress passed June 7 1832. That during said war he enlisted & served in the Company of Captain Adiel Sherwood in the Regiment of Colonel [don't [illegible] the Col] until he was taken a prisoner by the enemy & conveyed a prisoner to Canada. That he thus enlisted in the middle of Aug in the year 1780 when being on duty at Fort Ann he in company
with Robert Simpson Masses Hunter & John Hathaway & others was taken prisoner as aforesaid & moved to Canada. That said Robert Simpson belonged to the company of the same Capt Adiel Sherwood, & was on duty with Deponent therein at Fort Ann aforesaid when taken prisoner, and in company with him was conveyed to Canada. That said Robert
Simpson never lived to return, but after have been retained in captivity for a period of at least Eighteen months, he died in imprisonment. And Deponent further saith
that said Robert Simpson when thus taken prisoner was a married man, and that widow Mary Fuller now of Northumberland NY was then his wife, she having subsequently, as deponent has been informed & believes, been
married to one Josiah Fuller who is now also deceased.

Subscribed from this 13th day of September 18 1841 before me & I certify that said Benjamin Knapp is a credible witness
Theodon Bailey 
Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Warren County
Clerks Office

Thomas Archibald Clark of said County do hereby certify that Theodore Bailey
before whom the witness affidavit purports to have been taken was at the time thereof, a Justice of the Peace in & for said County duly elected & sworn that his signature to said affidavit appears to be genuine.

Witness my hand & official Seal
this twenty third day of October of
A.D. 1844
Thomas Archibald Clarke
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Please execute the within certificate & return the same to me by first mail  Respectfully Wm. B. Pierce, Albany State of New York
State of New York
Washington County ⎬ ss
William Sanders of the town of
Fort Edward in said County aged 83 years being duly sworn deposeth & saith that during the war of the Revolution he was well acquainted with Robert Simpson whose widow, Mary (now Mary Fuller) is applying for a pension. That in the summer of the
year 1780 Deponent saw said Robert Simpson on duty with the company of Captain Adel Sherwoodat Fort Edward & Fort Ann. That Deponent was not in service but lived near said forts & visited them often every week & knew most of the soldiers garrisoned therein. And Deponent further saith that in the fall of said year, said Fort Ann was taken by the enemy & Deponent was then informed that said Robert Simpson, with a number of others, members of said Captain Sherwoods Company were taken prisoners by the enemy & conveyed to Canada as Prisonersof War. That after this time deponent was induced to join the enemy & that he served the British in Canada.
That when there he again saw said Robert Simpson in confinement as a prisoner of war
That afterwards deponent was ordered to guard a Block house at a place called Grand Isle & while there he was informed that said Robert Simpson had died of the Camp [illegible] & has often since heard the same fact related & does not doubt its truth, and Deponent is well assured from his own personal knowledge that said Robert Simpson had remained a prisoner in the hands of the British for