Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 14878, Richmond Worden, Green Mountain Boys Mass. Vt.
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(3-1776)                                           

SERVICE                                              NUMBER

Green Mountain Boys  Worden, Richmond S. 14878
Mass.                              or Wordon
Vt.                                   or Werdin                carded
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New York 27740

                   Worden
Richmond   Wordin
Oswego in the State of New York
                     sergt
who was a private in the con commanded by Captain Pierce of the regt commanded by Col Warner in the New York 
 Green Mtn Boys in Vt., Mass.
line for 6 months Sergeant
4. to & 6 days private  and June 1788       

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 44 Dollars    ----------- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 8 day of October 1934 and R H    
Martin Oswego

Arrears to the 4th of Sept                    154.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March     22.00 
                                                             _________
                                                            $176.00

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Dan Boyd    Clerk,
Book E 2   Vol. 4    Page 81
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13,769.
X    [{Richard} crossed out]
[{Richmond} crossed out] Wordon

Oswego County New York.


X Richmond Wordin
                     R H.M.

              ei

Refd to End Bump
               to
March 13     34

Admitted

Sergeant 6 mo            $30 _____
Private     4 " 6 days      14 _____
                                  ____________
                                      44


Robert H. Martin
Oswego NY
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Sir:

The evidence in support of your claim under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined and the papers are herewith returned.  The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form.  On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed.  The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done.  These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }).  You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

A Statement, showing the Service of Richard Worden

Period when the service was rendered | Duration of the claimant's service. | Rank of the claimant. | Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served | Names and Rank of the General and Field officers. | Battles in which the applicant was engaged. | Country through which he marched. | Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period. | Evidence by which the declaration is supported.

[columns under Duration of the claimant's service.]

| Years |  Months. | Days. |

Enlisted 1776 | √ | 2 X | | |Private | Capt Pierce |
                                                      St. Pettibone
                                                      Srgt. Barton
| Col Warner | none | White Hall in New York to Ticonderoga down Lake Champlain to Fort St. John to La Prairie Montreal Quebec Mount Independence | Berkshire Massachusetts Aged 74 Yrs | Traditionary |
Substitute 1776 | + |  | 42 | Pr |  Capt Willeright, | Col. Robinson | n
one | Mount Independence |  |  |
Substitute 1777 | | 2. | of | Pr | Capt Low  Lt Warren, 2 Lt. Peirce | not mentioned | none | From Cheshire to Manchester in Vermont |
 voluntd 1777. | not | stated | | Pr | Capt Gabesha | Col. Brush| Bennington | Shaftsbury |  |
Enlisted  1778 | √  | 7 |  | Sergeant | Capt Hutchins | Major Whitcomb |  | Vermont |  |
Volntd 1780 |  |  |  42 | Pr | Capt Mattison Lt. Stone | Major Clarke |  | Castleton Vermont. |  |

I am respectfully, 
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS, 
Commissioner of Pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia" and "volunteers, all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to
Store Keepers, &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval Service.
4. Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832. State, Territory, or District of County of On this  ____________day of 
__________A.B. a resident (b) of ______________
personally appeared (a) before ________________ in the county of _________________ and State, Territory or District of ________ 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 provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) ___________
and served in the ________________ (e) regiment of the ___________ line, under the following named officers:  
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he
declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of
the Agency in the State of _________________
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
A. B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I _________________________ of the Court of _________
do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of _____________________
for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this _________________ day of
_________________& c.

If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be
found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia,
except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and
subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the ________
and C. D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with ____________ who has
subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be ________years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier
of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A.B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the
______________ and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the ________________ and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I ________________Clerk of the Court of ______________
do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the applicacation [application] of ____________ for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this __________ day of ________& c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person 
The certificate of E. D. Bangs is necessary in this case
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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his CASE. The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia. 
1. Where and in what year were you born? 
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it? 
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live? 
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom? 
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services. 
6. To a Soldier. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it? 
To an Officer. Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it? 
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution. 
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant. 
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons--one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates. The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the inquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject. 
Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
 Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the 
Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature. 
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure , taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter. 

[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance. 
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule. 
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served. }1777
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the promised north of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For _________year,_________ months, and _________days, I served as a ______, For ___________ months and __________ days, I served as a _________; and for such service I claim a pension."   It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration in highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each engagement The particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit. 
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable. 
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required. his certificate in every case. 
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case. 
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers. 


Mode of authenticating papers. 
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate. 

Proof of Service. 
[j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. 
[] The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule is note [j] applies to continental troops only 
[k[ This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases. 
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact. 
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
Whip.  Read not certified credible
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State of New York
Oswego County js Robert H. Martin being duly sworn says that he had acted as the agent and attorney of Richmond Worden in the application of the said Worden for a pension.  That the original papers, hereunto annexed were according to the best recollection of this deponent submitted to the department at Washington in the month of October 1832.  That said papers were returned to this deponent some time in the month of May 1833 for the want of precision in the declaration of the applicant and irregularity in the execution of said papers.  That said papers were again submitted to the War department with additional evidence, and again returned to this deponent for further proof.  That thai deponent immediately wrote to E. D. Bangs Secretary of State of Massachusetts pursuant to the directions of the department, but has never received an answer thereto.  That this deponent after waiting a reasonable period for an answer to said letter again wrote to said Bangs and though many months have ellapsed [elapsed] since the last aforesaid letter was written no answers  have been received.  That this deponent had written Shaftsbury citizens residing in Shaftsbury, Vermont and likewise in Cheshire Massachusetts to procure the evidence of individuals named by applicant as having service with applicant during the revolutionary war.  That deponent has received answers thereto recognizing such individuals as former residents, but that they had either died or removed to parts unknown.  That said applicant is entirely dependent upon indigent relatives for subsistence and that he cannot by reason of the infirmities of age and decrepitude attend personally to the procurement of testimony and further depo
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nent says not}
Subscribed and Sworn}
this fifth day  February} Robt. H. Martin
1834 Before me}

D. P. Breswter First Judge
of Oswego County Court
Conusillary

State of New York
Oswego County js  Erie Poor Clerk of the Said County of Oswego to certify that David P. Brewster before whom the above affidavit was subscribed and sworn to, is first judge of Oswego County Court and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper hand writing and signature Witness my hand and seal of office this fifth day of February 1834.
Erie Poor Clk
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State of New York
Oswego County Js

On this tenth day of June 1833 personally appeared before me David P. Brewster First Judge of Oswego County Court at my office in the Village of Oswego in the County aforesaid Richmond Worden a resident of the Town of Oswego aforesaid aged Seventy five years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following amendment to the declaration heretofore made by him and hereto annexed in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States in the last week of the month of January 1775 as stated in the annexed declaration that the Term for which he enlisted was three months:  That he served during said term.  That the company of Captain Samuel Low to which this applicant belonged & in which he served as a substitute for his Brother Peter Worden from the 1st June 1777 for the term of two  months, was not accompanied during said period of service by a field officer, but that said Company belonged to Colonel Symonds {Simonds} Regiment of Berkshire.  That the period of service in which this applicant was engaged in the Bennington Battle on the 15th day of August 1777 as stated in the annexed declaration was not less than eight days.  
That this applicant has obtained since the original papers in his application for a pension was made out and sent to the Department.  An affidavit of Daniel Read proving the service of this applicant in Captain Pierce's Company in 1776.  And this applicant further submits with this, his amended declaration the Sergeants warrant which he received  and which he has found since his original papers were submitted in Captain Hutchins Company, that though said warrant is torn and defaced , it is the original warrant received by this applicant from Captain
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Hutchins.  That this applicant served during the war of the revolution at the several terms stated in his declaration a periods of Fifteen months and Eight days and that for the time during which said service was performed he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
Sworn to and Subscribed}
this 10th day of June 1833} Richmond Warden
Before me
D. P. Brewster First Judge
of Oswego Com Pleas

State of New York}
Oswego County} I Eni Poor Clerk of the said County do certify that David P. Brewster before whom the preceding affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Oswego, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavits to be his proper hand writing and signature. 
Witness my hand and seal of office this 19th day of June 1833.
Erie Poor Clerk
By D. Mc Pherson
Dep Clk
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I Daniel Read of Adams in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts being of careful age do testify and say that I was acquainted with Richmond Warden and know of his enlisting into the service of the United States as a soldier in the forepart of the year 1776 and as I should rather think in the month of January.  He, Warden belonged to Capt Pierce's Company and in Col Warners Regiment to which I belonged [illegible] that him, and I saw Brickman and  Warden very often in the service .  The Regiment to which we belonged at this time was stationed at Quebeck [Quebec} and according to the best of my recollection Brickman & Warden was in the service at that time four or five months and further the deponent saith not.

Daniel Read
Adams
Sept 7, 1832
Berkshire js
On the seventh day of  September AD 1832 the above deponent was examined and  sworn agreeable to law, to the above deposition by him  subscribed and taken to be used in an application to be made by Richmond Worden for a pension.
Peter Briggs Justice Peace
ss
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Mr. Nathan Clafin
Adams Ms Massachusetts
Sept 15      or Zack

Enclosed is the deposition of Daniel Read taken to be used in an application to be made by Richmond Worden for a pension and sealed up by me
Peter Briggs Justice Peace
ss

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Berkshire for I Charlie Sedgwick a clerk of the Supreme Court being a Court of Record for the said County of Berkshire to certify that Peter Briggs Esquire is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County of Berkshire that the signature on the back of this deposition purporting to be his is his hand writing.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court this twelfth day of September AD 1832
Chas Sedgewick Clerk
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State of New York
Oswego County js
On this third day of September in the Year Eighteen Hundred and thirty two personally appeared before me Joel Turrill first judge of Oswego County Courts at my office in the Village  of Oswego in the County aforesaid.  Richmond Worden a resident of the Town of Oswego in the County and state aforesaid aged Seventy four 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 7th 1832.
That he was born in the Town of Coventry in the County of Kent in the State of Rhode Island, on the Twenty ninth day of April in the Year Seventeen Hundred and fifty Eight, according to his recollection.  That he has no record of his age, that he entered the service of the United States in the month of January in the Year Seventeen Hundred and Seventy Six, at the Town of Cheshire (then called Adams) in the County of Berkshire in the State of Massachusetts that he enlisted to serve for the term of three months in a company of which Nathan Pierce was Captain Eli Pettibone first Served on and  Jonathan Joice Second Lieutenant, Caleb Barton first Sergeant & Simon Martin Second Sergeant's all residents of the County of Berkshire:  That upon the formation of that Company we proceeded therewith to Whitehall in the State of New York from thence the Company proceeded on the ice to Ticonderoga where after staying one day, it marched down Lake Champlain to Fort St. John, from thence to La Prairie from thence across the river on the ice to Montreal occupied by the American commanded by General Wooster according to his present recollection.  After staying at Montreal a week the company proceeded to Quebec and arrived then in about one month from the time they left Berkshire: at Quebec they met the companies of Captain Hinman, Captain Hall and Captain Sabin from the County of Berkshire, that these last mentioned
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Companies and Captain Pierce's Company aforesaid belonged to a Regiment Commanded by Colonel Seth Warner and at Quebec the several companies aforesaid joined the American Army Commanded by Benedict Arnold.  That his applicant continued to serve as a soldier sometimes as a guard and sometimes in the discharge of fatigue duties till he was taken sick of the small pox and continued unable from sickness to do duty during the remainder of his term of service.  That his Term of service expired abou the first day of May 1776 and that his company had no yet been discharged, when the Sixth day of May the American Army was compelled to retreat before the British army commanded by General Burgoyne  ' that this applicant with four other soldiers were soon after discharged at or near the place where the outlet of Lake Champlain discharged into the St. Lawrence River, and with them returned home to Berkshire aforesaid:  That he lived in Berkshire till bout September in the same year, when he went to Shaftsbury in the State of Vermont.  That soon after he turned out on an alarm given by the approach of Burgoines [Burgoyne's] Army up Lake Champlain, as a substitute for Francis Mattson, his Brother in law, and served in a company commanded by Captain Ebenezer Willoughby whose Company with other companies formed a regiment commanded by Colonel Moses Robinson:  that they proceeded to Mount Independence nearly opposite Ticonderoga where they remained till Burgoine's [Burgoyne's] retreated to Canada when this applicant returned to Shaftsbury aforesaid having remained at Mt Independence six weeks during an absence of about seven weeks.
That about the first of June 1777 he again turned out as a substitute for his brother Peter Worden who was drafted to serve for the term of two months, to guard Massachusetts shores at Cheshire:  That this company was commanded by Samuel Sow [Stow] John Warren Lieutenant, Joseph Peirce 2nd Lieutenant that this guard consisting of about fifty men proceeded with the stores to
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the Town of Cambridge Washington County when after remaining two days at proceeded to St. Circi's on the Hoosack River where the stores were deposited in a Barn & the guard continued with them at St. Circi about three weeks when this applicant with a portion of the guard under Lieutenant Pierce marched to Manchester in Vermont to protect the inhabitants where he continued as a guard till the expiration of the term aforesaid when he was discharged and returned to Cheshire:
That he soon after went to Shaftsbury aforesaid, and in the forepart of August of that same Year, he volunteered under Captain Jonas Galusha to arrest the  progress of a portion of Burgoyne's Army invading the country near Bennington Vermont.  That the company of Captain Galusha with other companies whose officers he does not recollect, marched to the South West part of Shaftsbury, where the regiment commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Brush made there had quarters. that on the Sixteenth day of that month he was engaged in the Bennington Battle near Bennington, that Colonel Seth Warner was on the ground that day, and some Berkshire militia under Colonel Symond and also General Stark was the commanding officers;  That in the morning of the sixteenth he with others of his company was detached from the regiment for a guard.  That the army then proceeded to dislodge a portion of the British under Colonel Baum from there Breastworks that the British were compelled to retreat and that the guard to which he belonged after capturing Sixteen of the enemy joined the regiment of Colonel Brush:  about that time, the British were reinforced by about five hundred men from Burgoyne's Army:  That Colonel Warner REgiment came up just before the second engagement that day:  That after the Battle he returned to his head quarters at Shaftsbury, was discharged immediately and returned home to Cheshire.
That in the month of May in the Year Seventeen
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Hundred and SEventy Eight.  He went to Shaftsbury aforesaid sand entered under William Hutchins Captain of the first Company of Provincial Troops raised for the defence of the Frontiers of the State of Vermont for the term of seven months and received a Sergeants warrant in said Company;  That said Company proceeded to Rutland Vermont, where Major Whitcomb from New Hampshire according to his recollection commanded at Rutland they met the company of Captain Sawyer and also the Company of Captain Shafford.  On the expiration of the term aforesaid the company to which he belonged was discharged and he returned home to Shaftsbury aforesaid.  That on or about the first day of October in the Year Seventeen Hundred and Eighty, he again turned out on an alarm, and he volunteered to serve in a company commanded by Pelig Mattison,  Nathan Stone Lieutenant.  That this company went to Castleton Vermont in the two other companies, under Major Jeremiah Clark.  That he was at Castleton Six Weeks serving as a soldier guarding the frontiers.  That he was then discharged with said Company and returned home to Shaftsbury.  That he lived in Shaftsbury two years, moved back to Cheshire Massachusetts, lived then about thirteen years,  then moved to Schuyler Herkimer County where k=lived thirteen years.  He then moved to Cayuga County and lived in the Town of Brutus in  said County Twelve years, when he removed to his present place of residence where he has resided ever since.
That he never received a written discharge from his service aforesaid for the server or either of the said terms aforesaid that he has no documentary evidence of his service or any part thereof and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procuse who can testify to his service.  That Jesse Gray and Andrew Thompson of the
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Four of Oswego in the County of Oswego aforesaid reside in his neighborhood and are well acquainted with him, and will testify to his character for veracity and their Belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution.  He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declared that his name is no on the pension Roll of the agency of any State.
Richmond Worden

Sworn to & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid before me
J Turrill Fist
judge of Oswego
County Court.

State of New York
Oswego County Js

Jesse Gray and Andrew Thompson of the Four of Oswego in the county and State aforesaid being duly sworn depose and say.  That they reside in the neighborhood of Richmond Worden who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration.  That they have been acquainted with said Richmond Worden for the last ten years.  That they believe he is seventy four years old.  That he is a man of such, that he is reputed and believed in his neighborhood to have been a revolutionary soldier and that they concur in that opinion.

Sworn Before me this 
3rd day of September 1832
                                      Jesse Gray
J Turrill first                    Andrew Thompson
judge of Oswego 
County Court


And of the said Joel Turrill First Judge of Oswego County Court do hereby certify that in my opinion after investigating the matter fo and after interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named 
applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he
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notes, and I do further certify that it appears to me that Jesse Gray and Andrew Thompson who have signed the preceding certificate reside in the town of Oswego and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit, and I do further certify that it appears to me that there is no clergyman living in the immediate vicinity of said applicant who can be procured to testify in the matter and I do further certify that the said applicant is unable to appear in court by reason of his bodily infirmities
J Turrill First Judge
of Oswego County
Courts

State of New York
Oswego County js

I Donald McPherson deputy clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Oswego do certify that Joel Turrill Before whom the above declaration and affidavit were subscribed and sworn to and who has made the preceding certificate is first judge of Oswego County Courts and that the foregoing are the original proceedings Before said Judge in the matter of the application of Richmond Worden for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have herewith set my hand and seal of office the first day of October 1832.
Erie Poor Clerk
By D. McPherson
Dep Clk

[written vertically on the left side]

In the matter of R Worden
an application for a Pension
13.769
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Rev War
14878
INVALID

File No.  14,878
Richmond Wordon

Sergt & Priv Rev War

Act:  June 7th 1832

Index:  --Vol.  1 ,  Page 416

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Richmond Worden
his Warrantt



2.  6
8, 2
_______
10.0





[STAMP [THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES}]
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By William Hutchins Capt of the first Company of the Provincial Troops raised for the Defence of the frontline of the State of Vermont.

To Richmond Worden [illegible]
Tirrill confidence in you [illegible] and good conduct to constitute to appoint you therefore [illegible] Richard Worden of Capt William Hutchins Company to Be the [illegible] first of my company yo are therefore to carefully & Diligently to obey and [illegible] such orders and directions from [illegible] time to time  [illegible]
shall have from me or any other of your [paper missing] hub to Discipline of war
[missing parts of several lines] [illegible] in you [illegible]
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Oswego July 30. 1833.

J. L. Edwards Esq

I have at length procured a certificate from the office of the Secretary of Massachusetts which I submit with the papers in support of the claim of Richmond Worden

I am Your's
Robt. H. Martin
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COMMONWEALTH OF  MASSACHUSETTS.

Secretary's Office, July 21st 1834

I hereby certify, Tht from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Richmond "Warden" as a private, is borne on a pay-roll of Capt Saml Low's company, in Col. Benjamin Simond's regt. where he is allowed from June 30th to August 4th 1777.  One month and six days.    .-----.-----.----.----.----.----.---.---1= 6

Peter "Werden's' name is borne on a pay-roll of Capt. Saml Low's company, in Col. Benjn Simond's regt. where he is allowed from the 14th to the 19th of August 1777, six days.  .----.----6
Richmond Worden claims for the above services as a substitute for Peter Worden.  Richmond Worden claims for services under Capt. Peirce [Pierce] in Col. Warner's regt. in 1776, there are several rolls of Captains Peirces' [Pierces'] company, but no one in Col Warner's regt. those rolls found in this offices his name
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is not borne thereon.

Richmond Worden claims for services under Capt. Galusha, in Col. Bruck; regt in 1777. at Bennington Battle. under Capt Hutchins and Major Whitcomb in 1778. and under Capt Mattison and Major Clark, in 1780 stationed in Vermont. but the rolls are not found in this office.
Edward S. Bangs.  Sect
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[Right side written vertically]  

NY  Aug

[Stamp [Aug}]

10
   3.33
      66
_________
  13.99


[Left side written upside down]

FREE

J. L. Edwards Esq
War Department
Pension Office
Washington
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[written upside down]

Richmond Worden
cling



GREE

10
3.33
66
_________
13.99

J. L. Edwards Esq
War Department
Pension Office
Washington
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Oswego Aug. 25. 1834

J. L. Edwards Esqr.

Sir

Yours of the 14th instant relating to the claim of Richmond Worden, has been recd.  I have seen and advised with, the applicant in regard to the proposition of the department, to allow him for six months service as a sergeant and four months and six days as a private, on relinquishing all claim to a pension under the act of June 7. 1832.  The applicant accepts the offer, upon the supposition, that his pay as private, will not be less than allowed by the act, the benefit of which he relinquishes.  
The department will please advise me, if a formal relinquishment, signed by the applicant, will be necessary; in case of a communication on this subject, express the nature of the proposition.  
I am your
very Respectfy [Respectfully]
Robt. H. Martin