Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 45312, Amos Bostwick, Continental (Conn)
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
[column headings: SERVICE. NUMBER.]

Continental (Conn) Bostwick, Amos. S. 45312.
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15.351
New York 
Amos Bostwick 
of Unadilla in the state of New York who was an Ensign in the regiment commanded by Colonel C. Webb of the Connecticut ne, for the term of one year.
Inscribed on the roll of New York at the rate of 20 Dollars per month on 11th of Apl 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 of Octo 1819 and sent to Abijah H. Beach Unadilla N York. 
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1819: $336.00
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar 1820. $120
$456.00

{Revolutionary claim. 
Act 18th March, 1818}

[handwritten in right hand side margin: "Nov 19 1829}
Continued 

Notifin sent Nov. 20th . 1820 to Abijah H. Beach Unadilla N.York.
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DISTRICT OF Otsego County, SS.

On this tenth day of September 1819, before me, the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Court of Com. Pleas within and for the district, personally appeared Amos Bostwick aged 74 years, resident in Unadilla in the said district, who, being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, 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 United States in the revolutionary war:" That he, the said Amos Bostwick enlisted for the term of one year on the first day of January in the year 1776 in New Milford in the state of Connecticut in the company commanded by Captain Isaac Bostwick in the company commanded by Charles Webb in the line of the State of Connecticut on the Continental Establishment; that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States, until the first of January 1777, when he was discharged from service in Trenton state of New Jersey, that he was in the battles of White Plains and Trenton and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in in his power of his said services. Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.
[Signatures] Amos Bostwick
Abijah H. Beach Judge as aforesaid

I, Abijah H. Beach Judge, &c. as aforesaid, do certify that it appears, to my satisfaction, that the said Amos Bostwick did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months at one time, on the continental establishment; 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 aforementioned act of Congress. I am also satisfied that he needs the assistance of his country for support. I also certify that he made a previous declaration on the 11th day of April 1818 was transmitted together with his Commission in month of May 1818 and again in October same year with the affidavit of Elisha Bostwick & Solomon Fenton both creditable & respectable men who testify that they were Officers in the same Regt & one in the same Company in the same Campaign of 1776 with the said Amos Bostwick - also that said Commission was correctly copyed at the time by myself and is herewith transmitted - I also certify that the sd Amos Bostwick needs the assistance of his country for support. Abijah H. Beach Judge
[Lower left - "SEAL OF THE COURT."]
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I also Transmit herewith the Affidavits of of Elisha Bostwick & Elijaha Boardman Esquire the copy of Amos Bostwick's Commission and Mr. Edwards Letter, and do now Certify that the Declaration & Application of said Amos Bostwick was made and sworn to on the Eleventh day of April 1818.
Abijah H. Beach as Judge & as aforesaid-
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War Department
Pension Office
July 21.1819

Sir,
Your letter of the 3d instant has been received. In reply, I have to inform you that it does not appear from the records of this Office that the declaration of Amos Bostwick was received a second time. He had better make another one. I have enclosed a form for that purpose. If you will certify as to the precise day on which the first declaration was made, his pension, if he is entitled to one, will commence from that time.

I am, respectfully,
y.ob. Servt
J. L. Edwards

Abijah H. Beach, Esq.
Unadilla, New York 

the assistance of his Country for Support. Abijah H. Beach Judge & c
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Amos Bostwick
No. 15.254

Unadilla 
$13.55

Con
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State of New York
Otsego County  Be it Remembered that on the 12th day of June 1820 before me Abijah H. Beach Esquire one of the Judges in & for the said County of Otsego personally appeared Amos Bostwick of the town of Unadilla in the said County of Otsego who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath affirms & declares that he the said Bostwick is Seventy four years and ten months old his wife Sally is Seventy one years old Daughter Sally thirty three years old - has no other family that they are Residents of the Town of Unadilla in the said County of Otsego that he said Bostwick by occupation is a Farmer but is unable to perform manual Labour by reason of bodily infirmities and inabilities of old age and that he served the United States in the Capacity of Ensign in the Revolutionary War in the Company commanded by Captain Isaac Bostwick in the Regiment Commanded by Colon Charles Webb in the lines of the State of Connecticut on the Continental establishment that he made application for a pension on the 11th day of April in the year [illegible 1818] in pursuance of an act of Congress passed on the 20th day of March 1810 that he received a certificate from the War department of the United States dated the eighth day of October one thousand eight hundred & nineteen numbered 15251 and he said Amos Bostwick did thereupon take & subscribe  before me the said Abijah H. Beach an oath in the words following (viz) I Amos Bostwick do solemnly swear that I was a Citizen of the United States on the 10th day of March in the year 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner whatever 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
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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 the 18th 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.
[signature] Amos Bostwick
Sworn by the Subscribed on the 12th day of June 1820 before Abijah Beach
one of the Judges as aforesaid

A Schedule containing the whole Estate & income of Amos Bostwick Necessary Clothing & bedding [illegible - exacbted taken & subscribed by the said Amos Bostwick before me Abijah H. Beach one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas as aforesaid on the 12th day of June 1820 (viz)
Some pension money which is my only income
One old table one Candle Stand old & broken - 2.25
Old [illegible - Cosers] Chairs and 25 cts - 1.75
small booking glass - 1
1 old chest 2 old trunks - 1.25
1 pr andirons - 1.50
1 Shovel & tongs - 1.50
1 pot & kettle [illegible - yretas] each - 1.50
1 tea kettle - .75
1 set brown tea cups - .30
5 earthen plates - .25
two old Spinning wheels - 1.50

$13.55
Amos Bostwick
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State of New York
Otsego County Clerks Office [illegible]: I George Morell Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Otsego & State of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing oath & the schedule hereto annexed are truly copies from the Records 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 thirteen dol & fifty five cents.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 24th June 1820
George Morell Clerk

State of New York} 
Otsego County}

on the 11th day of October 1820 the aforesaid Amos Bostwick personally came into open Court of the sd County and made Oath that the above affidavit and schedule by him subscribed are true

Sworn this 11th October 1820 before the Court.
[signatures] Amos Bostwick
George Morell Clerk
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State of New York
Otsego County Clerks Office: I George Morell Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Otsego aforesaid being a Court of Record do hereby Certify that the above named Amos Bostwick personally appeared in open Court on the 11th October 1820 and took & subscribed the within affidavit.

Witness my hand & the Seal of the said Court this 11th October 1820.

George Morell Clk
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION
3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, 
BUREAU OF PENSIONS, 
Washington, D. C. 

[illegible initials in upper left hand corner]

In reply to your request of [blank], received [blank] for a statement of the military history of Amos Bostwick 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. S. 45.312

[column headings: DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. CAPTAIN. COLONEL. STATE]
Jan 1, 1776. Jan. 1, 1777. Ensign. Isaac Bostwick. Charles Webb. Conn. 

Battles engaged in, White Plains & Trenton
Residence of soldier at enlistment, New Milford, Conn.
Date of application for pension, Sept. 10, 1819. His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Unadilla, Otsego Co. NY
Age at date of application, 74. He died Nov 19 1829
Remarks: In 1820 soldiers wife Sally was 71 years of age and his dau. Sally was 33 years. There is is no further family data on file. 

Respectfully,

Commissioner.
6-2856
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45312
Revy INVALID
File No. 45312
Amos Bostwick
Ensign Rev War

Act: 18 March 1818
Index: - Vol. 3, Page 54
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1914, March 28: history
to Mr. Frederick Bostwick
M.B.H.
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State of New York
Otsego County

I hereby do certify that here within is a true copy of Amos Bostwick's Commission which was sent to the Pension Office at Washington with his supplication for Pension 
11th April 1818
Abijah H Beach
a Judge in Otsego County
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In Congress
[circled text appears to read "SS"]

The Delegates of the United Colonies of New Hampshire- Massachusetts Bay- Rhode Island- Connecticut- New York- New Jersey- Pennsylvania - the Counties of New Castle, Kent and Sussex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina - To Amos Bostwick Gentleman We reposing special trust and Confidence in your Patriotism Valour Conduct and Fidelity - Do by these incidents constitute and appoint you to be Ensign of Captain Isaac Bostwick's Company in the ninteenth Regiment of foot Commanded by Colonel Charles Webb in the Army of the United Colonies - Raised for the Defence of American Liberty and for Repellling every hostile Invasion thereof. You are therefore Carefully and Diligently to Discharge the duty of Ensign 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 Ensign - and you are to observe and follow such orders and Directions from time to time as you shall receive from this or or a future Congress of the United Colonies or Continental Congress for that purpose appointed or the Commander in Chief for the time being of the Army of the United Colonies or any other Superior Officer according to the rules and Decipline of War in pursuance of the trust reposed in you - this Commission to continue in force until revoked by this or a future Congress.
by Order of the Congress 
John Hancock
Attest Charles Thomson Secty
January the first 1776
A Copy taken and made by A. H. Beach
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Amos Bostwick
Ensign
11th Ap. 1819
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State of Connecticut District of New Milford. On this 28th day of August 1819, before me the Subscriber, Judge of the Court of Probate for said District of New Milford aforesaid, personally appeared Elijah Boardman Esq. well known and by me deemed as worthy of full credit. I being duly sworn saith that during the Campaign of the year 1776 he served in the Regt of Continental troops commanded by Col. Charles Webb & company commanded by Capt. Isaac Bostwick, which sd Reg't Company was raised for one year from the first day of Jany 1776, that Amos Bostwick then of New Milford in said State but now of Unadilla, County of Otsego & State of New York, was an Ensign of said Company, that this Depont served with Amos Bostwick in said Company from sometime in the month of March when this Depont joined said Regt until sometime in the month of October following, when by reason of sickness he left the service & never afterward rejoined s'd Regt but has always understood, & verily believes, that Bostwick served until the expiration of sd year in the capacity aforesaid and this Depont further saith that at the time the sd Bostwick removed from the said State of
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Connecticut he was in reduced, & very indigent circumstances; & from information this [illegible -Depont?] believes him still to be in needy & dependent circumstances.
Elijah Boardman
[signature]

Sworn to the day & year above written before me the said Judge of Court of Probate, in witness whereof & of these Present, I have unto affixed the seal of said Court. 

David Boardman
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State of Connecticut, District of New Milford. On this 28th day of Aug. 1819 before me the Subscriber Judge of the Court of Probate for said District personally appeared Elisha Bostwick Esquire of said District, to me well known & by me decreed worthy of full credit, & being by me duly sworn according to law, saith that, during the campaign of the year 1776 he served as a Lieutenant in the Reg of Connecticut troops, upon the Continental establishment, commanded by Col. Charles Webb, in the Company commanded by Capt. Isaac Bostwick, which said Reg[illegible] Company were raised for the period of one year, towit from the  1st of Jany 1776 to the first of Jany 1777- that Amos Bostwick, then of New Milford, but now of Unadilla in the State of New York, served during said Campaign, as an Ensign in said Company and was discharged at Trenton, in the State of New Jersey on the first day of Jany 1777 and the [illegible - Deposed?] further saith that he [illegible] Amos Bostwick was with the [illegible - Deposed?] during said period, in the Battles of White Plains and Trenton, upon which latter occasion, he
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carried the Flag of Col. Webb's Regiment, and that he further saith, that at the time, the same Amos Bostwick moved from said New Milford he was in [illegible - "reduced"] circumstances, from information this [illegible -Deponent"] verily [crossed out text - "still"] believes him still to remain so - 
Elisha Bostwick

Sworn to, this day & year first above written before me David S. Boardman
Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of New Milford
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State of New York
Otsego County Clerks Office [illegible] I certify that Abijah H. Beach whose signature appears as to the annexed paper was at the respective times [illegible] bear date a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Otsego duly qualified as such and that the said designation are [illegible]
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed [crossed out text] the seal of said County this 13 Sept 1819
G. Morell Clk
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[Stationery bears seal of New Haven Colony Historical Society in upper left hand corner. "New Haven Colony Historical Society, 1863; N.H.M.C. - B.S.S."] [Crest of seal shows "N.H. 1638"]

144 Grove Street
New Haven, Conn.
March 20, 1914.

The Hon. Commissioner of Pensions.
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:-- Will you please give me the Revolutionary service of AMOS BOSTWICK [name underlined manually], who is recorded in "Conn.Men in War of Revolution," as "Connecticut Pensioner residing in New York." page 641. On page 105 of same book is mentioned as being one of those who crossed the Trenton on the evening of 25th December, 1776.

Very truly yours, 
Frederick Bostwick
Great-grandson of said Amos.