Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 11756, Amos Wheat, New York
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SERVICE: New York

Wheat, Amos

NUMBER: S. 11756
carded
CONTENTS:
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14964
New York
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Amos Wheat of Calhoun in the State of N York who was a Sergt. &c in the Comp commanded by Captain Davidson of the Reg. commanded by Col. McDaughlan in the N. York for 6 mos. Corpl. for 6 mos. Capt. 13 " Sergt. 5 " Priv.}
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Inscribed on the Roll of N. York at the rate of 103 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of July 1832 and sent to J. Chattle
Mr. Hope
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Arrears to the 4th of Mar '33
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. '33
$207.32
   51.82
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$259.15
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by G. C. Stiles, Clerk
Book E. Vol 3. Page 38
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State of New York
Orange County ss:

On the twenty first day of August 1832 personally Appeared before me Harrace W. Elliot a Judge of Orange Common pleas in Orange County the said Court being a Court record Amos Wheat a resident of the Town of Calhoun in the County of Orange and State of New York 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 entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as herein stated, that he first enlisted Corporal as a minute man at Deerpark in Orange County said State aforesaid, where he then lived and hath ever since lived, in Capt Dennisons company in Col McGlaughlans Regiment the thirteen names of the Col. or Captain he cannot recollect. it was the first year of the war [CROSSED OUT: he was a private] and the company was marched to Deerpark in Orange County and from thence to Nipanoch in Ulster County to protect the frontiers against the Indians, he served the six months out and then returned home, he was soon after called out in the same company of Militia and was marched to Deerpack to Guard
Ezekiel Gumans house which [INSERT: was] then a Garrison, and the inhabitants against the Indians he was appointed a Servant
and stayed about three months and returned
and was soon after ordered out again
in the same Regiment as [?ap?] Benjamin
Vail was Lieutenant and was marched
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to Hackensack New Jersey and Stayed four months and then returned home and was immediately called to Fort Clinton in Orange County and stayed about four months and was taken sick and the Col. gave him a furlow home, where he stayed several months and was again called out and went to Snake hill in Orange County and stayed about two months, which was immediately after Fort Montgomery was taken by the British, he was again called out marched to Mambacus in Ulster County in Capt John Burnets Company, [INSERT: stayed] eight or nine months on the frontiers against the Indians his whole services was twenty seven or twenty eight months all in the Militia as above stated, he has no written or printed evidence of his services and knows of only two men now living by whom he can prove any part of the same Hezekiah Woodward and Christion Roads-- both of Orange County he was born at Poughkeepsie in Dutchess County in the year 1758. he has a record of his age in his Bible in his possession he [ha??ly] relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State he says he is unable to attend the Court in person by reason of bodily infirmity is subject to sudden ill turns the last eight or nine months of his services he was [illegible] for one [Turhill? Tutbill?], but cannot tell his first name. 
Amos Wheat
Sworn [INSERT: & subscribed] before me
21 Augt 1832 
HW Elliott
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I the Judge above named [word crossed out] Do hereby declare my opinion after the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above name applicant was a revolutionary Soldier and served as he states [a?] I also certify that I think the applicant cannot attend Court by reason of bodily infirmity.
H.W. Elliott 

Orange County ss: Hezekiah Woodward of Calhoun in the County of Orange being duly sworn in open court says he was acquainted with Amos Wheat who has sworn and subscribed the above declaration and says that he served with him in the Revolutionary war in the same company at New Windsor Newburgh and at Snake hill and that he heard of his being a Soldier at other times and has frequently heard it said since the Revolution and [INSERT: has] always been acquainted with him since and believes he  served  as he states.
Hezekiah Woodward
Sworn & subscribed in open Court the 4th day of September 1832
Asa Dunning Clerk

Orange County Christian Proat of Montgomery in said County being duly sworn saith that he is well acquainted with Amos Wheal the above applicant and he knew he was a soldier in the Revolutionary war that he this deponent served with the said Amos Wheat in Capt John [Bu???d] Company in Col Paulings Regiment about nine months protecting the frontier [which?] state
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Of New York against the Indians and he believes he served as he has above stated and he is of the age he has served 
Christian Roats

Subscribed & Sworn in open Court
The 4th day of September 1822
Asa Dunning Clerk

The Court of Common pleas in and for the said County of Orange and State of New York now sitting Do hereby certify that Hezikiah Woodward and Christian Roats who have signed and sworn to the above affidavit in open court are both residents of one said County and are both credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit
I Asa Dunning Clerk of the County of Orange and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Orange Do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the Matter of the application of Amos Wheat for a pension - and I further Certify that Horce W Elliott before whom the foregoing declaration was Sworn to and whose name is subscribed to the foregoing Certificate was at the time a Judge of the Court of Common pleas in & for the said County of Orange where a Court of [R??d?] and that the name of the said Horace W Elliott subscribed to the said declaration & Certificate is in the proper handwriting of the said Horace W Elliott .

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of office this fourth day of September 1832 
Asa Dunning

[Written sideways lower left:]
Amos Wheat
12.263
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Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Orange in the State of New York Amos Wheat who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively is to the precise length 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 six months as a corporal in Captain Dennisons Company in the year 1776 he thinks, I served three months in the same Company as a Sergeant I served four months in the same Company as Sergeant in New Jersey the following year I served four months as Sergeant at fort Clinton in [CROSSED OUT: Captain] Col. McGlaughlins [INSERT: Regiment] [CROSSED OUT: Company] in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight I served nine months in Captain John Bennets company in 1779 [INESERT: as a private] I served two months at Snake hill in Captain Dennisons company in 1778 as a Sergeant I served in Captain Benjamin Vails Company on the frontier for four months does not know the year that I served with [INSERT: an] embodied Corps called into service by competent authority that he was not employed in any Civil pursuit during the time in which the service was performed that all his services were either in the field or in Garrison that I served as a Sergeant seventeen months of the time, and his months as a Corporal, [INSERT: & nine months as a private] and for such services claim a pension. and further I cannot swear positively. 
Amos Wheat
Subscribed and sworn the sixth day of April 1833 before me
William Shaw Justice of the Peace
in
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Orange County ss 
Amos Harding of Mount Hope in the County of Orange and State of New York A Minister of the Gospel being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with Amos Wheat who has subscribed and sworn to the preceeding declarations that he has been acquainted with him for fifty five or fifty six years he was acquainted with him during the [INSERT: greater part of] revolutionary war recollects of his going in company with deponents Father and [INSERT: was] said to have gone to the war he frequently heard it said that the said Amos Wheat was in the war and he believes he was as he was [observed?], and he has often heard it attested of in the neighborhood that he was a Revolutionary soldier [INSERT: believes he] served as he states and that he is of the age he states and that he is a person of truth and veracity
Amos Harding
Subscribed and sworn before me sixth day of April in the year 1833 
William Shaw Justice of the Peace 
I certify that the above named Amos Harding who has subscribed and sworn to the above affidavit before me is a Clergyman a resident of the town of Mount Hope in the County of Orange and State of New York. that he is a credible person and that his statements are entitled to credit. 
William Shaw Justice of the Peace 
State in of New York 
Orange County ss 
I Asa Denning Clerk of the said County Do Certify that William Shaw Esq before whom the foregoing affidavits of Amos Wheat & Amos Harding were sworn & whose name is subscribed to the above Certificate was at the date of the same a Justice of the peace in and for said County and that I am acquainted
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With his handwriting and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavits & Certificate to be his genuine signature
Witness my hand and Seal of office the 20th day of April 1833
Asa Dunning
[faded seal affixed]
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Amos Wheat
Pension papers

[wmd?]
2 years pri
[illegible signature of initials or department/cross out]
6 mo corpl
13 mo Sergt
5 mo pri
[sum] 24
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12,263

Amos Wheat
March 19. 1833
[ch.?] 4.5.6.11.12
P. 305
Wmd
Joseph Chattle
Mount Hope N.Y.
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BRIEF in the case of Amos Wheat
Town of Calhoun in the State of the N. York
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? a Judge
2. If before a Judge, does it appear the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? it is so
3. How old is he? 74 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

[Column headers] Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.

[Row 1] First year of the War, 6 months, Corporal & Private Man}, Capt. Dennison Colo. McGlaughlan [sic]} N. York
[Row 2] Not Specified, about 3 months, Sergeant, Capt. Dennison
[Row 3] Not Specified, 4 months, not stated, Same Officers
[Row 4] Not Specified, about 4 months, not stated, same [illegible]
[Row 5] Not Specified, about 2 months, not stated, same [illegible]
[Row 6] Not Specified, 8 or 9 months, not stated, Capt. Burnet

5. In what battles was he engaged? None Stated
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Orange County N. York
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by tradiitonary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Two living witnesses
8. Are the  papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?they are duly authenticated

x Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned. 

affirm Gordon Examining Clerk.
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April 9, 1940

BA-J/AWF
Amos Wheat
S. 11756

Mr. Parker Sage
5906 Canton
Detroit Michigan

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your request for the Revolutionary War record of Amos Wheat of Orange County, New York.

The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in claim for pension, S. 11756, based upon service of Amos Wheat in the War of the Revolution.

Amos Wheat was born in the year 1758, in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess [sic] County, New York. The names of his parents were not given.

While a resident of Orange County, New York, Amos Wheat enlisted in 1776, served six months as corporal in Captain Dennison's Company, Colonel McGlaughlin's New York regiment, and marches to Ulster County to protect the frontiers from the Indians; served shortly afterwards, three months as sergeant in the same company; and four months as sergeant in Captain Benjamin Vail's New York company; and four months as sergeant in Colonel McGlaughlin's regiment; two months, "which was soon after Fort Montgomery was taken by the British"' officers not stated; served in 1779, nine months as private in Captain John Burnet's company, Colonel Pawling's New York regiment, on the frontier against the Indians.

He was allowed pension on his application
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executed August 24, 1832, at which time he was a resident of "Calhoun", Orange County, New York.

The papers on file in this claim contain no discernible data in regard to the family of the soldier, Amos Wheat.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name and address of person apid [sic] [paid], and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to the Comptroller [sic] General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and furnish the following data:

Amos Wheat
Certificate #14964
Issued July 25, 1833
Rate $103.66 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
New York Agency.

Very truly yours

A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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Veterans Admn.
Washington DC.

This side of card is for address

Detroit Mich Mar 13 1940 7:30PM Air Mail Save [illegible]

Received Mar 15 1940
MAIL SUB DIV
[illegible]
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Gentlemen

Kindly send me an abstract of the Revolutionary War pension record of AMOS WHEAT of Orange co., NY.

Respectfully yours

Parker Sage

5906 Canton
Detroit Mich.
3-13-40
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1940 April 9 list to Parker Sage [Iillegible]

Rev War 
11.756 

INVALID.

File No. 11.756
Amos Wheat
Sergt. &c Rev. War
Act: June 7th 1832
Index: –Vol. A, Page 404

[Arrange of 1870.]
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Amos Wheat which require further proof or explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? [no answer]

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? No

V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amout of pension he is entitled? No

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? No

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? Yes

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?  the Judge has

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? Yes
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? No

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? None No

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? [blank, no answer]

XIV. [cross symbol] If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? [blank, no answer]

If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath,
certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? the Court has

Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? [blank, no answer]

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? Yes

XVI. [double cross symbol] Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? Yes

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? [blank, no answer]

EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. 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 precise length 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.
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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 [phrase it italicized] is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state 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 is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of 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.

[cross symbol] QUERE XIV. Proof of Service. [proof of Service is italicized]
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 claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as 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.

[double cross symbol] QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers. [Mode of authenticating papers is italicized]
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 paper 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.

[hand with finger pointing to the right symbol] In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of
office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.