Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35,779, Caleb P Bennett, Del.
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SERVICE
Del.
Bennett, Caleb P. 
NUMBER
S. 35.779
B. L. Wt. 227-200-Lieut.
Issued May 30. 1789
no papers
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526 Sept 1818
Delaware
Caleb P. Bennett
Capt Holland
Lieutenant 4
Deleware [sic] line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary
inscribed on the Roll of Delaware
at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 7th of April 1818-

Certificate of Pension issued the 15 of May 1819
and sent to the Pensioner, care
of John Day Esq Judge, Newcastle
Newcastle County, Delaware

Arrearages to 4 Sept 1818- $98.00
4 Mo.  23 days $98.00
{Revolutionary claims, Act 18th March, 1818,}
77 War
continued

Notification sent to Joseph Roberts,
New Castle, Delaware July 14th 1819
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Lt. Caleb P. Bennett
Be it remembered, that on the 24th day of
March in the year of our Lord A.D. Eighteen
hundred and eighteen, before the Honorable
John Way Esqr one of the Judges of the
Court of Common Pleas of the State of Delaware
comes Caleb P. Bennett a resident of
the Borough of Wilmington in the County
of New Castle and State of Delaware, who
upon his solemn affirmation administrated,
affirmeth [sic] and saith, that on the 20th day of
March 1776 he enlisted into a company of
State Artillery commanded by Captain George Latimore 
for the term of nine months, soon after was 
promoted to be first Sargent of the company being raised
for the defence [defense] of the afsd. state 
That in the months of June or July the company, both officers and privates, solicited, or petitioned the proper authorities of the State to be attached to the
Delaware Battalion then on their march,
or perhaps arived [sic] at their destination
in the neighborhood of New York,
about the same time Battalion of Flying Camp
being raised and commanded by Colonel
Samuel Patterson of New Castle County
to which the sd. Company was ordered to join
and to act as a company of Light Infantry
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to the sd Battalion and remained in actual
service during, and after the expiration of the
term of enlistment. On the 5th day of April
1777 being appointed, and Commissioned to
be an Ensign to the fifth Company of the
Delaware Regiment commanded by Captain
Thomas Holland, then on the continental establishment, remaining in actual & active service in said Regt receiving the different
grades of promotion therein, during the remainder
of the Revolutionary war, untill [sic]
honourably discharged, I believe by Proclamation, which took place at New Castle State of Delaware in the fall of 1783
It may be remembered also, that during the
time of service as above stated that
I received two wounds one in the knee
on the 4th day of October 1777 at the Battle of
Germantown, the other in the foot on
the Pee-Dee River North Carolina in August
1780. The scars of which my shattered frame
still exhibits. In the late war being
called out with the [illegible] militia of
Delaware, was appointed by the order of
General Jos Bloomfield commandant of
the District to command the detachment
stationed at New Castle Delaware during
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the year 1813, and while in the active
duties of my profession as commandant,
received a wound in the hip, since which
the Effect has been attended at times
with serious inconvenience, and as age
advances may calculate the efforts will
also increase, being now in my sixtieth
year.-
C P Bennett

Affirmed to and subscribed as
above before me the aforesaid Judge
John Day
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From the Testimony transmitted
herewith respecting Caleb P Bennett an
applicant for a pension, taken before me
for his services in the Revolutionary, and
late war, appears fully to prove to my
satisfaction that he the said Caleb P.
Bennett did serve against the common
Enemy as stated in the said Testimony.
John Day
The Hone.
J C. Calhoun Esq Secty of War Washington
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And on the 6th day of April before the afsd.
Judge, Personally came C P. Bennett and upon his
solemn affirmation, affirms and declares: that from
his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his
Country for Support -
C P. Bennett

Affirmed to and subscribed as above before me
the aforesaid Judge
John Day

State of Delaware
New Castle County SS /
I Joseph Roberts Prothonotary of
the Court of Common Pleas of the said State of 
Delaware in and for the said County of New Castle
do hereby certify that the Honorable John Day
before whom the foregoing deposition was taken and
who hath thereunto subscribed his name, was at
the time and is now one of the associate Justices
of the Court of Common Pleas of the said State of
Delaware, duly commissioned and sworn and
that full faith and Credit are and ought to be
given to all such his acts and attestations
In Testimony I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of said
Court at New Castle the 7th day of April AD.
1818
Jos. Roberts, Prothy
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May 18
Caleb P. Bennett
526
not entitled
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On this twenty second day of June 1820 personally appeared
in open Court of Common Pleas of the State of Delaware being
a Court of Record, as so expressly made and declared by
the act of the General assembly of said State, which created
the said Court Caleb P. Bennett aged upwards of Sixty
years resident in the Borough of Wilmington County of
New Castle in the State of Delaware, who being first duly
affirmed according ^[insert] to law doth on his affirmation declare
that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows to wit
in the Delaware Regiment as will appear by the original
declaration made by me to the Department of War dated
the twenty fourth March 1818. whereon certificate
of pension No 526 was issued. And I do solemnly affirem
that I was a resident Citizen of the United States
on the eighteenth day of March 1818 and that I have
not since that time, by gift, sale or in any manner disposed
of my property, or any part thereof with intent
so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions
of an act of Congress entitled "an act to provide
for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval
Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War
passed on the eighteenth day of March 1818, and that
I have not nor has any person any person [duplicate] in trust for
me any property, securities, contracts, or debts due to me
nor have I any income other than what is contained
in the Schedule hereunto annexed and by me
subscribed to wit
Lands None
Houses None
Bonds or Mortgages None
notes one of thirty Dollars desperate
Ten shares of Stock in the New-Port Bridge Company
which from the time of purchase has not neated [netted] more than
one percent, debt, some small debts due to me as a
public Housekeeper which it is presumed are generally
desperate
one Mahogany Desk
Two Do Bureaus
One Ditto Dining Table
One Walnut Dining Table} all old
One Mahogany Breakfast Table
one Cherry Ditto
one eight day Clock
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one walnut Bureau
one mahogany framed chair bottomed Sopha
One Mahogany Side Board
Two ingrain carpets
one Stair Ditto
Seven looking glasses, Six of which are old
one Winsor Settee
One Open Iron Stove
One Ditto Cooking Ditto
One Sheet Iron ditto
2 pair old Brass Andirons
One pair new ditto
2 pair Shovel and tongs
One Silver tea pot
one ditto Sugar Dish
one Ditto Cream Jug
1 Doz Silver Spoons
1 Doz Do Tea Do
6 Walnut Chairs old
Matting for two rooms
2 ½ Doz. Windsor Chairs old
four dimity window Curtains
Sundry articles of glassware, China and Crockery ware
kitchen furniture &c &c which I verily believe together
with what is above enumerated, would not now sell
for more than 500 Dollars
Income none certain
I am occupied at present by keeping, a boarding House
but have little or no business at present. I also hold
the appointment of Treasurer for the County of New Castle
for the present year, the probable income thereof may
be about Four Hundred Dollars -
My family consists of wife aged upwards of fifty years
and four children. A Daughter named Caroline who is
of full age, a son named Charles who is upwards of
2 years old a son named Edwin, who is about eight-years
old, and a Daughter named Boadicia who is
about seven years old my Daughter Caroline is
necessarily engaged in assisting her mother in the
keeping of the House and taking charge of the younger
children 
Affirmed to and declared and subscribed on the day and year of 
in open Court
Attest Jos Roberts Prothy
Signed C. P. Bennett
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State of Delaware
New Castle County SS
I Joseph Roberts Prothonotary of
the Court of Common Pleas of the said State of
Delaware in and for the County of New Castle
in the said State, do hereby certify
that the foregoing Oath affirmation and
the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied
from the Record of the said Court and I do further
certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the
total amount in value of the property exhibited in
the aforesaid Schedule is according to the valuation
thereof made and exhibited to the said Court by
Peter Jaquett and Joseph Newlin is three Hundred
and fifty two Dollars and fifty Cents
In Testimony hereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court at New Castle
the fourth day of July in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and Twenty
Jos. Roberts Prothy
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35779
INVALID.
Revy
File No. 35779
Caleb P Bennett
Lieut Rev War
Act: 18 March 18
Index: --Vol. 2, Page 34
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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1828-34
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Caleb P. Bennett Lieut. Act of 1818,
Newcastle, Delaware
Also, Act of 1828, Delaware
F. Henry by CC - also act 1828
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Act 1828
Settled at
Treasury
Consd,, with
Invalid file
#35,779
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Revolutionary Claims
[A.]
Form of a Declaration to be made by the Officers.
For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of an act, entitled ""An act for the relief of
certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved on the
15th of May, 1828, 1, Caleb P. Bennett of
the Borough of Wilmington, in the County of New Castle
in the State of Delaware, 
do hereby declare that I was an officer in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution,
and served as such until the close of the war
in the month of October in the year of
Seventeen hundred & Eighty three
at which period I was a Lieutenant in the Delaware
regiment of the and acted as adjutant ['line' lined out] ---
And I also declare, that I afterwards received certificates commonly called commutation
certificates) for a sum equal to the amount of five years' full pay; which sum
was offered by the resolve of Congress, of the 22d of March, 1783, instead of the half
pay for life, to which I was entitled under the resolve of the 21st of October, 1780.
And I do further declare, that I have received of the United States as a pensioner
since the 3d day of March, 1826, no pay or emoluments

Witness my hand this Fifth day of June, in
the year eighteen hundred Twenty eight
C P. Bennett
---
Before me, Thomas M Donnell one of the Justices of the Peace
in the county of New Castle ---, in the State of Delaware personally
appeared this day, Major Peter Jacquett 
and David Kirkpatrick, of the said county, who did severally
make oath that Caleb P. Bennett, 
by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to
have been an officer in the Army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated.
Witness my hand, this fifth day of June in the year eighteen hundred and Twenty Eight
Tho McDonnell [signature]

I [illegible], ['Clerk of' lined out] the Court of the county of [illegible],
in the State of - [illegible], 
do hereby certify, that Thomas McDonnell Esquire, before whom
the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was, at the time, a Justice of the Peace
and duly empowered to administer oaths.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the
said Court, this [illegible] day of [illegible]
Jos Roberts Prothy

Here insert, To the end of the war, or, (as the case may be,) to the time when the arrangement of the Army provided by the resolves of Congress of the 3d and 21st of October, 1780, was carried into effect; and that I was reduced under that arrangement.
Here insert, The sum of [blank] dollars, paid to me by the agent for paying pensions in the State of [blank] 
If the claimant has not been a pensioner, this part of the declaration
may be omitted.
A Justice of the Peace, or other magistrate duly empowered to administer oaths, as the case may be.
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Admitted
J. Y. F.
[illegible]
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No of orig Pa[?] 34, C.O.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
14th June 1828.
Caleb P. Bennett of Wilmington in the County of New Castle in the State of Delaware
has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled ""An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th of May, 1828.
He states that he was as an officer on the Continental line, and served as such to the end
of the War, at which period he was a Lieutenant in the regiment of the Delaware
line; and that he received commutation certificates for the five years full pay granted by the resolve of 22 March, 1783; and, further, that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March,1826, Nothing
['dollars, paid to him by the agent in the State of' lined out]
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far these several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary,
A. Dickins

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
17th June 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that final settlement certificates have been issued for the commutation of five years full pay to Caleb Prue Bennett in
the Delaware line, amounting to sixteen Hundred dollars.
It further appears that Caleb Prue Bennett is not ['now' lined out] on the pension list of ['the' lined out] any agency, and has^[insert] not been since the 3 March 1826
[illegible] ['per month' lined out]
Peter Hagner And
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Washington April 26 /53
Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 18 [?]
in answer to a former communication of
mine, making application for arrearages of
pay due my deceased Father, Caleb Bennett,
for services during the War of the Revolution,
I have to say, that my father was an officer
of the Delaware Regiment and served
during the entire war, and was with Genl.
Washington at the Surender of Cornwallis
at Yorktown. He was attached to the
Delaware Line during his whole period of
Service.-
Your early attention to this subject,
will confer a great favor on
your most obedt. servt.
Ch. W. Bennett
L.P. Waldo Esq
Commr of Pensions
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED
[illegible] Greeting. We, Reposing special trust 
[illegible]Fidelity DO by the presents constitute and appoint you to [illegible]
In the Army of the United States [?] rank as [illegible]
from the day [illegible]
You are fully and diligently to discharge the duty of [illegible]
by doing all manner of things thereunto belonging. And 
under your command to be obedient to your orders,
And you are to observe and follow such orders and directions
for Congress of the United States, or Committee of Congress
commander in chief the of for the time being of the Army of
according to the rites and discontis of War, pursue
until racked by the fence round, then
your rest in
in the money of
June
by doing
that require all
:
officers ┃
time, as you shall receive from
that purpose appointed, to
States, or any other
the trust reposed in you. This is to
of Congress before me
Witness
the Cyr
day of
Indefunder
Survey of the Board of Wor
┃ F.S ASSEMBLED
Meeting. We Reposing special trust
by this presents unites and appoint you to
.

President of
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