Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 28727, Abraham Finch, Conn.
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Service Conn. Finch, Abraham Number S28727
or Finche, Abram Contents
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(8-1778)

Service
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Finch, Abraham
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Finche, Abram
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S. 28727
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Contents
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New York 28.820
Abraham Finch of Oswego Co in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Mead of the Regt. commanded by Col Mead in the Connecticut line for 10 months 11 days
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 34 Dollars 45 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of June 1834 and sent to Hon R. Day House Reps
Arrears to the 4th of March '34 $103.35
Semi-anl. allowance ending Sept 4 '34 17.22
$120.54
Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by Saml H. Page Clerk, Book E Vol. 4 Page 101
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State of New York
Oswego County ss On this Twenty second
day of August in the year one thousand
Eight Hundred and thirty two personally appeared before me, Joel Turrill, first Judge of
Oswego County Court at my office in the Village
of Oswego, County aforesaid, Abraham Finch
a resident of the Town of Granby in the County of
Oswego, aforesaid, aged Seventy nine 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 Greenwich, in the
County of Fairfield, in the State of Connecticut on
the Twenty second day of May Seventeen Hundred
and fifty three, according to a record in the family
Bible of this applicant, transcribed from his fathers
Bible and which this applicant believes to be correct
that he entered the service of the United States in the
month of November in the year one thousand Seven
Hundred and Seventy five and volunteered in the
State Troops of Connecticut and belonged to a company
of which Abraham Mead of the Town of Greenwich
aforesaid was Captain, Sylvanus Mead of the same
place Lieutenant Eleaza Mead Ensign and
Joseph Knapp Sergeant that this company belonged
to a regiment commanded by Colonel John Mud
That upon his enlisting in said company, it proceeded
to the City of New York where he continued with said
Company and was constantly engaged in working at
the Fort for one year the Term for which he enlisted
at the expiration of said Term the aforesaid company
was discharged and he returned to the Town of
Greenwich aforesaid:
That in the Spring of the year Seventeen Hundred and Seventy seven according to the best of his recollection he again entered the service as a volunteer and enlisted in a company of Light Horse
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of which Company Odel Cluse of the Town aforesaid
was Captain Eben Knapp of the same place Lieutenant and Charles Rundle Sergeant; that the last
mentioned company, in number about seventy, were
stationed and continued in the neighbourhood of
Greenwich, guarding the lines, that he enlisted in the
last mentioned Company for the Term of two years
That after serving Eighteen months of that time the company was disbanded: That during the time of
service aforesaid he was not engaged in any
Battle, but had frequent skirmishes with them. That after his discharge from the last mentioned company he continued to live in Greenwich
aforesaid about Two years when he removed
to Danbury in the State of Connecticut, where
after having resided three years he removed to
Stillwater in the County of Saratoga in the
State of New York, where he lived about Twenty
years, and removed from thence to the Town of Tully in the County of Courtland in
the State aforesaid when he resided about
Twenty years, and then came to the Town of
Granby in the County of Ohio, and State last
aforesaid, where he has lived ever since 
That he
has never received a written discharge
from his service aforesaid: That he has no
documentary evidence of his service aforesaid,
and that he knows of no person except
Solomon Knapp whose affidavit accompanies
this declaration whose testimony he
can procure who can testify to his service
that John Beers and William
Scofield of the Town of Granby in the County
of Oswego aforesaid are well acquainted with
him and reside in his immediate
neighbourhood and will testify to his character
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for veracity and their belief of his services as a
Soldier of the revolution-
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a
pension or anuity except the present and declares
that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency
of any State
Sworn to & Subscribed
the day & year aforesaid 
Abraham Finch

J Turill First
Judge of Oswego
County Courts
State of New York 
Oswego County SS
John Beers and William
Scofield of the Town of Granby
in the County of Oswego aforesaid being duly sworn
say that they live in the immediate neighbourhood of
Abraham Finch who has subscribed and sworn to
the above declaration and are well acquainted with
him, and believe he is Seventy nine years old: that
he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood to have
been a revolutionary soldier and that they concur in
that opinion
Sworn Before me this 22nd day
of August 1832,
John Beers
William Scofield

J Turrill First
Judge ofOswego
County Court

and I the said Joel Turrill First Judge 
of Oswego County court do hereby declare
my opinion after investigating 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 I do further certify
that it appears to me that John Beers and
William Scofield who have signed the
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the preceeding certificate reside in
the town of Granby 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
being in the immediate vicinity of said
applicant who can be procured to testify in this
matter. And I do further certify that the
said applicant is unable to appear in
court his reason of his bodily infirmities
J Turrill First
Judge of Oswego
County Court

Oswego County SS
William Finch of the Town of Granby [illegible]
County being sworn says that he has been acquainted with said
Solomon Knapp who has deposed to the service of said Abraham
Finch for 20 years: that said Knapp is about
70 years old
a man of truth.
Sworn this 8th Sept 1832
Wm. Finch

J. Turrill First Judge
Oswego County Courts

State of New York
Oswego County SS
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 & affidavits
were  subscribed and sworn to and who has made
the above 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 Abraham Finch for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and seal of office the first day of October 1832
Eric Poor Clerk
By D McPherson
Dep Clk
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13.767.
Abraham Finch
Oswego County New York

Admitted
Private 10 quoted day

53. 33
 1.12
45.65
Hon R. Day
Alsould Auburn
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 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.  Those 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.
Statement showing the Service of Abraham Finch
Period when the service was entered (illegible) 1775  Duration fo the claimant's service 1 year 5 months  Rank of the claimant Private
Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served Capt Mead (illegible) Mead Ensign Mead Sergeant Knapp Capt (Illegible) (illegible) Knapp Sergeant Rundle
Names and Rank of the General and Field Officers Col Mead  Battles in which the applicant was engaged none  County through which he marched New York Greenwich  Place of abode when entered the service, and age at the present period  Greenwich Fairfield County Connecticut  Aged 70  Evidence by which the declaration is supported  Tradition and Living with wife  I am, respectfully your obedient servant, J.L. EDWARDS, Commissioner of Pensions  A.B. //not 70 - but 79 applicant born 1753 RHM
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 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 are 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, etc. Teamsters, Boatmen, etc.  Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well 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 whre 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 } ss.
On this (space) day of (space) personally appeared (a) before  (space) A.B. a resident (b) of (space) in the county of (space) and State, Territory or District of (space) aged (c) (space) years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on this oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provion made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832.  That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) (space), with (space) and served in the (space) (e) regiment of the (space) 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 servic; 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 etc.]
He hereby relinquinshes 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 (space).
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare this opinion (g) that the above names applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I (space) of the Court of (space) do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of (space) for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this day of (space) etc.
If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, the 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 (space) and C.D. residing in (the same) hreby certify, that we are will acquainted with (space), who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be (space) years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier in the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.[And then will follow the certificat 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 appear to them that A.B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the (space) and that C.D. who has also signed the same is a resident in the (space) and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, (space) Clerk of the Court of (space) do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of (space) for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this (space) day of (space) etc.
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 circumstatnces 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 declartion (l) and he will also, whether he produces such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and is 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
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Finch, Abraham S28727
or
Finche, Abram
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Finch, Abraham          S28727
or
Finche, Abram
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New York
Revy
Abraham Finch
Suspended
Let to Hon R. Day June 10 1834

Act 7 June '32
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E. Phelps
Certificate
in the case of Abraham Finch, from A. Gordon
R. Day

Hon. R Day HR
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It appears by the State records, that in June
1776, the Genl Assembly of the State of Connecticut ordered a [illegible] a regiment to be raised to serve with the Continental army at New York untill the 25th of December 1776;
& appointed
Gold S. Silliman Col. John Chandler
Lt. Col. & Matthew Mead Major of it, [illegible]
Mead one of the Captains
Comptrollers Office
April 24th 1834

I, Elisha Phelps Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Connecticut do certify
that there is charged to the United States on
the books of the Pay Table under date
May 24th 1777 Capt Abraham Mead's account
rendered for his [illegible] in Silliman's
regt; but no roll of the company has been
found.

That the pay roll of Capt. Odle Close's company is charged [crossed out] is charged
to the United States
under date February 19th 1779; & under date 27th May 1779 there are two pay rolls also charged.
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one for his company at the Horseneck [alarm?] & the other for his company as guard at Horseneck
That under date April 18th 1780 the pay roll
of Capt. Odle Close's company St. Dragoons is changed also to the United States.
That under date January 25th 1780 Capt. Odle
Close's pay roll of his company, Court Guards is
charged to the United States
And that no rolls of Captain Meads
or Close's companies have been found or evidence showing how long either of these ceased.
E Phelps.
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Hon R. Day
House of Representations
Washington
DC
From Dept. Commerce
[oval stamp: unclear outer edge text.  Inside text "June 21"
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Auburn June 20th 1834
Dear Sir
Your favour of the 16th inst is received and in answer permit me to say. That we can give no other or fair complexion to the case of Abraham Finch, We have in the last declaration set the matter in its true light and I think such as to entitle him to a full pension. In as much however as you cannot get a full pension you will please get what you can. I suppose the department will be willing to give him a pension for his tour of service in the fall of 1775 & winter of 1776 and also his tour in the summer & fall of 1776 making in the whole about 10 mos
Accept my thanks for your promptness and kindness in attending to my business at the pension office.
Very Respectfully
Your obt sevt
A Gould
Hen R Day
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Abraham Finch
Amended declaration
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State of New York |
Oswego County |
ss
On this Twenty ninth day of May _______ In the year one Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty Three personally appeared Before me, David P. Brewster, first Judge of Oswego County Courts, at my office in the Village of County aforesaid, Abraham Finch a resident of the Town [ill] in the County of Oswego of said aged Eighty years, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration and amendment to the declaration heretofore made and herewith annexed, in order to obtain the Benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
That the company of Light Horse in which this applicant served as stated by him in his declaration hereto annexed, belonged to a Regiment commanded by Colonel John Meed who commanded the Regiment to which this applicant belonged during his term of service in the year 1775 and 1776 as stated in his declaration aforesaid: That said Meed Continued to command said Regiment during the first Twelve months of the service of this applicant in the Light Horse aforesaid, when said Meed was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General. That this Applicant does not recollect the name of Colonel who succeeded Colonel Meed and took command of said Regiment during the remainder of the Term of service of this applicant; That during the whole period of the said Term of service for Eighteen Months, the company of Light Horse aforesaid quartered at Horseneck. That this applicant was employed in the service of the United States. Two years and six months as stated in the annexed declaration of this
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applicant and for the time during which
said service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit, but was constantly engaged in the service aforesaid as a soldier, doing the duties and receiving the rations of a soldier
Sworn to & Subscribed
the day & year aforesaid 
Abraham Finch
D.P. Brewster
First Judge of Oswego
County Court [ill]

State of New York
Oswego County
ss
I Eric Poor Clerk of the County of Oswego, and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Oswego do hereby certify that David P Brewster before whom the above amended declaration was subscribed and sworn to is first Judge of Oswego County Courts, and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said David P Brewster and verily believe the signature to the above amended declaration to be his proper hand writing and signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed
the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said
County and subscribed my name this 29th day 
of May AD. 1833.
Eric Poor Clerk
By D McPherson
Dep Clk

Abraham Finch
Amended declaration
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In the matter of 
Abraham Finch
an applicant
for a pension--
13.767
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State of New York
Cayuga County 
Ss
Soloman Knapp of Genoa in said County being duly sworn says, that in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy five (as near as he can recollect), he lived in the town of Greenwich in the State of Connecticut with Abraham Finch, and while living with him, the said Abraham Finch enlisted into Capt Abraham Meads company of Infantry, and went to New York under him. The Sergeant who enlisted was Elijah Mead. This deponent further says, that he was knowing to his doing duty afterwards in the light horse
Solomon Knapp
Subscribed & Sworn February 11th 1832
before me Thomas Chadwick Justice of the Peace

State of New York,
CAYUGA COUNTY, 
CLERK'S OFFICE,
SS.
I, MICHAEL S. MYERS, Clerk of the County of Cayuga, and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the said County: 
DO HEREBY CERTIFY, that Thomas Chadwick Esquire, was on the eleventh day of February one thousand eight hundred and thirty two a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and that full faith and credit are to be given to his acts in that capacity: And that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice
and verily believe the signature to the annexed certificate of affidavit to be his proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, and subscribed my name this thirteenth
day of February
A.D. 1832
M. S. Myers Clerk
P.H. Myers Clerk [ill]
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Affidavits in the 
matter of Abraham
Finch.

Agent
A Gould
Auburn
NY
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State of New York
Cayuga County   I James Knapp of Genoa in said county do certify on oath that I am acquainted with Abraham Finch an applicant for a pension and was well acquainted with him in the time of the Revolutionary war. That about the month of November 1775 the said Abraham Finch entered the service of the United States in a company of State troops commanded by Cap Abraham Mead for one year that he continued absent from home in said service during said term. That during the said Revolutionary war we both lived in the town of Greenwich in the County of Fairfield   in the State of Connecticut and in the same neighborhood. I further certify that in the spring of the year 1777 according to my best recollection the said Finch entered the service of the Unity States in a company of Ligh horse commanded by Capt. Odel Close of said town of Greenwich, Lieutenant Eben Knapp and Charles Randal Sargeant, and that he continued in service in said company a term of one year and six months thereafter according to my best recollection. I saw him frequently during said service as they were performed near home upon the lines. I was well acquainted with Captain Odel Close and Lieutenant Eben Knapp the said Knapp being a relative of mine. I was also well acquainted with said Capt. Abraham Mead and the other officers of his said company.    James Knapp
Sworn this 17th day of April 1834
before me Thomas Chadwick Justice
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I certify that I am well acquainted with said James Knapp and that I consider him to be a man of truth and veracity.
Thomas Chadwich Justice

State of New York
Cayuga County  SS   I Michael S Myers clerk of said county do certify that Thomas Chadwich Esq. before whom the two forgoing affidavits of James Knapp and Solomon Knapp were made was on the day of the date of the same a justice of the peace of said county - that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said justice and believe his signature to said affidavits and the certificates accompanying the same to be genuine.
Witness my hand and seal of office the 18th day of April 1834

MS Myers
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Explanatory declaration
of Abraham Finch
Agent A Gould
Auburn
NY
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State of New York
Cayuga County
SS
On this third day of June 1834 personally appeared before me first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County Abraham Finch who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration explanatory of the declarations heretofore made by him in order to obtain the benefit of the act congress passed June 7 1832
That upon reflection and after hearing
read the certificate of Elisha Phelps Esquire
Comptroller of publick accounts of the State of
Connecticut he now recollects that his
first tour of service as set forth in his
first declaration was substantially as
follows. In the month of November 1775 he
resided at Horse neck and within the bounds of the Militia Regiment commanded
by Colonel John Mead, That at this time
a company was raised from said Regiment
of such as would volunteer and enrol
their names to enter the service & march
to New York and serve during the following
winter, that the officers of said company
were as follows according to his best
recollection, Abraham Mead Capt, Sylvanus
Mead Lieutenant, Ebenezer (instead of Eleara)
Mead Ensign & Joseph Knapp Sargeant -
that he was one who entered said company
and marched with it to New York, and was
there engaged with others in working upon
the fort until in the month of March following
when he was taken sick and sent to the
Hospital where he continued sick until in
the month of April following when he was
discharged and returned to Horse neck
That Colonel John Mead did not come down
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to New York and spend the winter with said company but came down in the spring and remained until said company were discharged as aforesaid, That he continued to serve at this time a term of five months according to his best recollection. That after his return to Horse Neck as aforesaid he spent about two months at home, at the expiration of which time he again entered service in the company commanded by Capt Abraham Mead aforesaid That he cannot now remember the names of his other company officers. That he had [had] always supposed that his last mentioned services were under Col John Mead until he heard read the said certificate of Elisha Phelps that upon hearing said certificate read he remembers that he was under Major Matthew Mead, that he remembers now Col Silliman and that he was under him in the season of 1776. that said Col Silliman lived at some distance from him, and he was entirely unacquainted with him and had forgotten him entirely until he heard his name mentioned in said certificate, and that even now his recollection of his looks and manners & appearance are very indistinct That he has now no distinct recollection of Lt Col. John Chandler - That Col John Mead lived in his neighborhood and he deponent was well acquainted with him. That he entered said service in the month of June as he believes from the fact that he spent about two months at home and marched from thence with said company to New York some days previous to the battle on Long Island, and was in New York at the time of the battle - that he continued to serve with the American
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Army during its stay in New York & retreated with it up the river therefrom and continued in service until the time of the battle of the White Plains, that at the time of the battle he was stationed about four or five miles therefrom and [arrived on] was discharged from service and returned home in three or four days after said battle. That he did not continue in service according to his best recollection until the 25th of December but his service at this time was five months and ten days as he verily believes He further says that his services in Capt Odel Close, Company of Light horse, he thinks upon further reflection commenced in the fall of the year 1778, he believes so from the following facts which he now remembers. He remembers that he continued a member of said company about one year and six months or nearly that and that it continued into the winter called "the hard winter" which he finds upon examination was in 1780. That his services in said company were as follows and performed in the following manner according to his best recollection
That said company of Light horse was composed of about forty or fifty men & was raised to patrol the shore along near Horse Neck That they had no field officers or higher officer then capt Odel Close although they were in the bounds of Col John Meads Regiment. That each soldier provided his own horse & equippage and [drew pay] those who kept their own horses drew pay ten dollars per month, that he the said Finch lived about one mile from "head quarters" at "Horse Neck" kept his own house at home and where not in active service & on duty boarded at home and received pay ten dollars per month. That others who lived farther off
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or had no home to go to boarded & lived & kept their horses at head quarters. That said company was
called out regularly on parade
once in three days or every third day-That detachments of some eight or ten of said company
were kept constantly patroling the shore from "horse neck" to Kings bridge, and that the regular
tour of each soldier to go on such patrol was twice a week and that he the said Finch performed his regular tours in said company-
That very frequently in cases of alarm the whole of said company would be out together-- and
spend whole rights under arms-- That when not in active service he spent his time at head quarters and at home about one mile
therefrom taking care of his horse-- That he was engaged in no civil employment during
said time and drew pay for continued service, but his pay was "continental money"
and not of much value-- That he continued a member of said company & in service as aforesaid
until the hard winter came on when the snow became so deep that neither party left their quarters and the said regular patrols
was discontinued but the soldiers of said company continued embodied & drew pay and rations as usual and that the whole time he continued a member of said company was eighteen months as he verily believes
That the foregoing statement is made is true according to his best information & belief
Sworn this 3 day of June 1834
before me
J. L. Richardson
Abram Finche
first Judge of Coy

I certify my opinion that the said Finch is a man
of truth & veracity & that the foregoing statement is correct & true
JL Richardson
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State of New York
Cayuga County  }SS     I Michael S Myers Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in aforesaid County do certify that Joseph L Richardson before whom the forgoing declaration was made by whom the forgoing certificate was made was on the day of the date of the same first judge of said court that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said judge and believe his signature to said declaration and certificate to be genuine. Witness my hand and seal of office the 3rd day of June 1834.

M.S.  Myers
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State of New York
Cayuga County    }SS     I Solomon Knapp of the town of Genoa in said county do certify on oath that I am acquainted with Abraham Finch an applicant for a pension and was well acquainted with him in the time of the Revolutionary war. That we both at that time resided in the town of Greenwich in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut. That in the Spring of the year 1777 according to the best of my recollection the said Abraham Finch entered the service of the United States as a soldier in the company of dragoons commanded by Capt. Odel Close of the said town of Greenwich, Lieutenant Eben Knapp and Sargeant Charles Randal and that he continued to serve therein a term of about one year and six months. I further certify that in Nov 1775 or about that time the said Finch enlisted into a company of Connecticut State Troops commanded by Capt. Abraham mead for a term of one year. I was with him when he enlisted and remember that he marched from home with said company and continued absent one year according to my best recollection. I was well acquainted with Capt. Odel Close and Lieut. Eben Knapp and lived in the same neighborhood with them at that time.                                 Solomon Knapp
Sworn this 17th day of April
1834 before me Thomas Chadwick Justice
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I certify that I am well acquainted [illegible]
Solomon Knapp and believe him to be a man
of truth and veracity   Thomas Chadwick, [illegible]
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Dort Cramp
House Rep June 9. 1834
Dort Cramp
Sir
I herewith return
you the papers of A. Finch with
his amended Declaration and
respectfully ask your early
considerate
Yours
R Day