Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29513, Ashbel Treat, New York
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SERVICE New York   Treat, Ashbel  Number S. 29513

CONTENTS _______________
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3637 
New York 
Ashbel Treat 
of Mentz in the State of New York who was a Private in the Compiny commanded Captain Shepherd of the Regt. commanded Col. Courtland in the NY line for 1 year & 11 months - - - 
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 76 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 27th day of Dec 1832 and sent to Claimant Mentz
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1832  $114.99 
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4th Nov ‘33  38.33 
[totaling] $153.32 
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Jno. Cromwell Clerk.
Book D Vol. 5 Page 144

1886 Augt 12 T. S. Hopkins history Prior
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Ashbel Treat

No 5292.
admitted
1 yr. & 11 mo. private
$76.66
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State of New York, 
Cayuga COUNTY, } ss.  On this day second day of August A.D. 1832 personally appeared before me the first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Cayuga and state of New-York, Ashbel Treat a resident of Mentz in the County of Cayuga and State of New-York, aged 71 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 under the following named officers, and served as herein stated:- That about the month of April AD 1781 at the town of Sailsbury in the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut he enlisted into the company of Capt Shepherd in Col Philip Cortlands Regiment for a term of nine months, that he was enlisted by a recruiting officer and marched and joined said Company and Regiment at Fish Kill in the State of New York - that from thence he was detached with a part of said Regiment under the command of Lieutenant Col. Wisenvelt and marched to Albany. from thence to Ballstown, from thence to Saratoga where he was stationed until his term of service expired, when he was discharged. He further declares that in the month of March AD 1782 at the town of Lenox in the County of Berkshire in the State of Massachusetts he again enlisted into the Company of Captain Percey in Col. Marinus Willets Regiment of New York State troops as he believes, for a term of two years or during the war, that he joined said Regiment at Albany, and marched from thence west up the Mohawk River to fort Hunter where he was stationed with a part of said Regiment about six weeks, when he marched to Fort Plank, and from thence to fort Plain for winter quarters, that about the first of January 1783 he left said fort and marched west towards Oswego on Lake Ontario in said State of New York, that the marched to fort Stanwix thence across the Oneida Lake and along to within about a mile of Oswego as he believes, from thence they were ordered to countermarch & returned to fort Plain, where he continued until in the month of June 1783 when he left said service on furlough to return when called for, but that he was never again called for and never returned to said service. That whilst in said service he saw and knew the following named officers
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Col Philip Cortland, Col Olney, Baron Steuben and others that he received a regular discharge from said nine months service signed by Lieut Col. Wisenvelt as he believes, but that he has lost the same, that his said furlough signed by Captain -- Percey is also lost. That about three or four years ago he made application for a pension, and sent his documents and proof to establish his claim to a pension under the act of 1828 to Washington, and that they are now on the files of the office of the Secretary of the Treasury as he has been informed and believes, that his claim was not admitted as he believes upon the ground that he was not on the continental establishment - that he has no proof of said nine months service and is not able to procure any
He hereby relinquishes all claim whatever to an annuity or pension except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any State or territory 
[signed] Ashbel Treat
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid 
[signed] J. L. Richardson first Judge of Cayuga
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We, John Grover a Justice of the peace residing in Auburn in the County of Cayuga and Horace Hills residing in the same town Merchant hereby certify, that are well acquainted with Ashbel Treat who has subscribes and sworn to the preceding declaration; that we believe him to be 71 years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion 
[signed] John Grover   Horace Hills
Sworn, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid 
[signed] J. L. Richardson first Judge of Cayuga 
And the said Judge does 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 Judge further certifies, that it appears to him that John Grove who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Justice of the peace resident in Auburn and Horace Hills who has also signed the same, is a resident in Auburn and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit, I further certify that the said Treat resides about two miles and a half from Auburn, and that he is unable to attend Court by reason of bodily infirmity 
[signed] J. L. Richardson first Judge of Cayuga
I, Michael S Myers Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Cayuga and State of New-York, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Judge in the matter of the application of Ashbel Treat for a pension. 
I further certify that Joseph L Richardson before whom the foregoing declarations and certificate were made & by whom the foregoing certificate was made was on the second day of August 1832 and still is the first Judge of said Court duly commissioned and sworn and that full faith and credit are to be given to his acts in that capacity, that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said judge and believe his signature to the said declarations & certificates to be genuine. In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court and subscribed my name the third day of August AD 1832
[signed] M. S. Myers
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29573
Revy INVALID
File No. 29,573
Ashbel Treat
Pen Rev War

Act: June 7 32

Index: -- Vol. 2, Page 422
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Ashbel Treat Pvt – 
N. York line- 
New York 
[Exd one old Book & Ref – Invalid file no 11,579., crossed out] 

“Ashbel W. Treat” on record.  [initials] F.L.
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[TEXT IS CROSSED OUT]
1828 papers to be filed with ad out Jno
File #
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REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS. 
TREASURY DEPARTMENT. 
Sept 13. 1828. 
Ashbel Treat of Brutus, in the County of Cayuga in the State of New York 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 Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a private in captain [blank]’s company, in Van Cortlandt's regiment of the New York line; and does not state that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing 
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary
[signed] A. Dickins 

TREASURY DEPARTMENT. 
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE, 
19th September 1828 
[It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to  in the, crossed out] 
It further appears that Ashbel Treat is not now on the pension of any agency, and has not been so since the 3 March 1836
The name of Ashbel Treat cannot be found among those of the New York line, to whom Certificates for the gratuity of Eighty Dollars were issued- 
[signed] Peter Hagner Aud
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999
Revolutionary Claims. 
Under the act entitled, “An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828. 
TREASURY DEPARTMENT. 3 Dec 1828. 
The annexed paper, relating to the claim of Ashbel Treat under the abovementioned act, is respectfully referred to the Secretary of War, with a request that he will be pleased to cause me to be informed whether it appears, by any records in the War Department, that the claimant has received, or is entitled to receive. the bounty in land granted by Congress for service in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution. 
[signed] R. Rush
The Hon. the SECRETARY OF WAR.
 War Department 
Bounty land office
The records of this office do not show that Ashbel Treat of the New York line was received or is entitled to bounty land of the United States 
[signed] Robert Taylor 9 Decr 1828
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A. Treat
recd. Sept 11. 1828 

Declaration for Pension Ashbel Treat Private New York Line
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Revolutionary Claims
For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of the act entitled an act for the relief of certain surviving officer and soldiers of the Army of the revolution approved on the 15th of May 1828 I Ashbel Treat of the town of Brutus in the county of Cayuga in the state of New York do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution in and during the war and continued in the service until its termination at which time I served Col Van Cortland to the close of the war. And I further declare that I was not on the 15th day of May 1828 on the pension list of the United States.

[signed] Ashbel Treat

Before Mr John Groves one of the justices of the peace  in the county of Cayuga in the State of New York personally appeared this day Samuel Beney and J Gaudier of the said county who did severally make oath
that Ashbel Treat by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally refuted and believed to have been  a soldier in the Army of the revolution in manner as therein stated.
[signed] Samuel Bevy
J Gardier
Witness our this 22 day of August in the year
1828 sworn before me 
[signed] John Groves Justice of the Peace
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25 Jany 1830
Ira Hopkins States that he was in N York
in June 1829 and called on Col M Willetts with
papers from Ashbel Treat  Willetts stated 
that from  Mr. Treats papers and statement he 
had no doubt but  Mr. Treat was in the service
with him, and said further that he had no papers
in his possession that he could refer to
Signed Ira Hopkins

Sworn and Subscribed the 13th of November 
1829 
[signed] John Grover Justice of the Peace
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Mr Treats paper
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Cayuga County ss  on the 26th day of May in the year of our  Lord 1829 before me John Grover one the Justice of the Peace in and for said Came Elijah Lewis who being duly Sworn according to Law deposeth and Saith that he was acquainted with Ashbill [Ashbel] Treat in the revolutionary war and that he the said treat was a solder in the Army of the revolution aforesaid and was in the Company Commanded by Capt Peirce in Col Willets Regiment was discharged at the Close of the war and further this deponent saith not 
[signed] Elijah Lewis
Sworn and Subscribed the 25th of May 1829. 
[signed] John Grover Justice the Peace
I certify that the above deponent is a man of Good moral standing as I have been informed and really believe 
[signed] John Grover 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 John Grover Esquire was on the Twenty sixth, day of May one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine 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 Indenture 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 twenty sixth day of May A.D. 1829.
[signed] M. S. Myers.
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State of New York 
Onondaga County } ss  Samuel Conklin of Spafford in said County being duly sworn says that he is aged sixty six years that in the time of the Revolutionary war he was a soldier in the Regiment of New York State troops commanded by Col Marinus Willet for a term of one & a half years & more and that said service commenced AD 1782 
That whilst in said service he saw & knew one Ashbel Treat who now resides in the town of Mentz in the County of Cayuga - that said Treat was a soldier in the company command by Captain Percy or Pierce in the same Regiment of New York State troops commanded by Colonel Marinus Willet - that he does not recollect or know the precise time that said Treat enlisted into said company but thinks it was in the spring of 1782, and continued to serve until about the close of the war as he verily believes, that he well recollects that said Treat was in service in the winter of 1783 when said Regiment marched towards Oswego - That enlistments into said company were for two years or during the war, and from what he saw of said Treat whilst in service and from what he has since heard him relate of the transactions of the war where said Regiment was in service he thinks said Treat must have been a soldier in said company not less than one year & two months 
[signed] Samuel Conklin
Sworn & subscribed the 29th day of November AD 1832 
[signed] Daniel Baxter (Justice of the Peace)
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I certify that the said Samuel Conklin is a man of truth and veracity Dated Nov 29th 1832 
[signed] Daniel Baxter J P 
State of New York 
Onondaga County }  I Reuben Hess Clerk of said County do certify that Daniel Baxter before whom the foregoing affidavit was made and by whom the above certificate was made was on the day of the date of the same a Justice of the peace in and for said County - that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Justice and believe his signature to the said affidavit and certificate to be genuine 
Witness my hand and seal of office the Eleventh day of December AD 1832 
[signed] R. S. Hess clerk
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State of New York 
Cayuga County } ss   Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for said County of Cayuga Ashbel Treat of Mentz in said County 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 services but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grade - For one year and eleven months I served as a private soldier and for such service I claim a pension 
[signed] Ashbel Treat
Sworn & subscribed the 3d day of December AD 1832 before me 
[signed] John Grover Justice of the Peace 
I certify that the said Ashbel Treat is a man of truth and veracity Dec 3d 1832 
[signed] John Grover Justice

State of New York 
Cayuga County } ss  I Michael S Myers Clerk of the said County do certify that John Grover Esq before whom the above affidavit was made and by whom the above certificate was made was on the day of the date thereof a justice of the peace in & for said County-- that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said justice & believe his signature to the said affidavit & certificate to be genuine 
Witness my hand and seal of office the 12th day of December AD 1832 
[signed] M. S. Myers