Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 11757, Isaac White, S.C.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
S.C.

White, Isaac

NUMBER
S. 11757

carded
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CONTENTS
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8648
New York
Isaac White
of Greenwich in the State of New York
who was a private in the Company commanded
by Captain Prayton of the regt. commanded
by [blank] in the S.C. mi [?]
fir 23 mos.
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Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 76 Dollars 44 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of Apl
1833 and sent to 
Charles F. Ingalls Greenwich
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Arrears to the 4th of March 1833      $153.32
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept "     38.33
                                                           $191.65

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

Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk,
Book C.  Vol. 4  Page 35

[note on right side]
Rej. Dec 1838
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State of New York                  [seal]
Washington County SS

On this 20th day of August personally
appeared in Open Court before the Court
of the Common Pleas of the County aforesaid
now sitting Isaac White a resident
of Greenwich in said County aged seventy [?]
years and three months 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 was born in New Port R..I.  At 13 years of age
went to Charleston S.C. where he arrived on 
the 5th Nov. 1774 in the summer of 1777 volunteered
into a company of volunteers commanded 
by Capt. Philip Praytor, Lieut. Thomas
Parker attached to no particular regiment
was on duty 2 1/2 months and through the 
first seige of Charleston  was under the command
of Maj. Gen. Wm. Moultrie held ready 
to duty at anytime.  Did garrison duty as 
often as once in nine days for 18 months
The militia were obliged to do garrison duty
in consequence of the regular troops being
elsewhere engaged.  was so engaged till the 
fall of 78 when he enlisted into a company
of artillery raised in Charleston.  Capt. Anthony
Toomer.  Benj. Wilkinson 1st Lieut. Charles
Norne [?] was 2d Lieut. Daniel Stearns orderly
Sergt.  The company was joined to a Battalion 
of Artillery commanded by Maj. Guin
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[illegible] The Battalion consisted of the companies
viz. one company commanded by Capt.
Edward Railledge and the other by Capt. Howard
who was a celebrated Lawyer.  He served three
months and through the 2d Seige of Charleston
Genl. Benj. Lincoln commanded at that seige
This deponent received a severe wound 
in the thigh.  After the capitulation of 
Charleston and on the 12th of April the deponent
was paroled according to the terms 
of capitulation for 12 months and had not
the privilege of a citizen while on the parole
by the British he was not permitted to go 
without the lines which were established by
the American Army and which had come 
into the possession of the British by the 
Surrender of the Town under penalty of forfeiting 
his parole.  After the expiration of 
the parole all that would not take the 
oath of allegiance to the British King were 
put on board a prison ship.  This deponent
was of the number and was on board of the 
prison ship four months.  he was then exchanged
The cartel was settled and he was put ashore
at Jamestown Va. in the summer of 1780 -
He was in the service in all Three years and 
four months.  He has followed the sea at 
different times for seven years then came to 
this County in 1792 and has resided here since
He has no Documentary Evidence and knows
of no person by whom he could prove his
his service.  has a record of his age in family
Bible taken from his father.  He did not receive
a regular discharge when he left the service.
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he was born at Newport Rhode Island in 1762 -
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever 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 -

Isaac White

Sworn and subscribed the 238th
day of August
1832

J. S. Leigh Clk

We Moses H. White residing in the Town of 
Greenwich in the County of Washington and State of
New York and Nathan Skinner of the same 
place hereby certify that we are well acquainted
with Isaac White, who is described in the above
declaration that we believe him to be Seventy
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 - 

Moses H. White
Nathan Skinner

Sworn the 13th day of August 1832
before me Charles F. Ingalls one of 
the Judges of Washington County 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
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further certifies that it appears to them that Moses H.
White and Nathan Skinner who have signed the 
preceding certificate are credible persons and that
their statement is entitled to credit - and that the 
Moses H. White resided in the Town of Cambridge
County of Washington aforesaid - and that their 
attendance in open court could not be procured without to much
expense to applicant -

I Jesse S. Leigh Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas
in and for the County of Washington Do hereby certify
that the foregoing contains the original proceedings 
of the said court in the matter of the application
of Isaac White for a pension - In Testimony whereof
I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 20th 
day of August 1832 - 

J. S. Leigh Clk
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Isaac White
Pension Claims
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Xo [or to?]
Declaration
C.
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5679
Isaac White
Pension Papers
3 years
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State of New York
Washington County SS

I Jesse S. Leigh Clerk of 
said County Do certify that Charles F. Ingalls
before whom the annexed certificate of Moses H
White and Nathan Skinner purports to have been
sworn was at the date of said certificate one of the
Judges of County Court in and for the said County
and that I am acquainted with his hand writing
and verily believe his name subscribed to said 
certificate to be his proper hand writing and signature.
In testimony whereof I have 
hereunto set my hand and 
affixed the seal of the said 
Court the third day of September
in the year of our Lord one 
thousand eight hundred and 
Thirty two

J. S. Leigh Clk
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State of New York
Washington County SS.

Personally appeared before me
the undersigned a Justice of Peace in and 
for the said County - Isaac White 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 two months and a 
half I served as a private in Captain Philip
Praytor company under the command of 
Major General William Moultrie.
For two months out of the eighteen months 
he did garrison duty as a private in Captain
Phillip Praytors company under General Moultrie
at Charleston - 
For three months I served as a private in 
Captain Anthony Toomers company in a 
batallion of Artillery commanded by Maj.
Grimball - through the second seige of Charleston
For twelve months he was a prisoner at war
on parol during which time he was not allowed
the privilege of a British subject - nor permitted
to perform any labor - confined within the British
lines at Charleston - If he went without the lines
or performed labor he forfeited his parol - then 
were the terms of capitulation.
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For four months he was on board of a prison
ship - which was ancored in Charleston Harbor - 
as a prisoner of war -
And this deponent further saith that the reason 
that he did not name a clergyman, was that he 
that there was no one that was sufficiently 
familiar with his reputation as a soldier
to testify to it, he now resides so far distant
from when his services were performed that he 
has not so frequently comenced upon the subject -
except with his particular friends - 
Answers to the question what were put by the court
He was born in 1762 - at Newport Rhode Island
He has a record of his age in a family bible
in his possession
Where he was called into the service he lived 
at Charleston South Carolina - since the 
Revolutionary War he lived at Newport Rhode 
Island and followed the sea for seven 
years - after that he moved to the Town of
Greenwich County of Washington & State of 
New York where he still resides and has 
resided for resing [?] forty years -
He was a volunteer when first called into the 
service -
Amongst the officers belonging to Continental
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Army were General Hagun - he thinks he was 
acquainted with as many as twenty - but has
forgotten them, of the State officers he recollects
Captain Scott of the Second Regiment - he 
recollects Col Ellott who commanded the first
regiment at Fort Johnson - in the first of the 
War Moultrie was a Colonel of the Second
South Carolina Regiment - commanded Fort
Moultrie when the British fleet was defeated
he knew Col Thompson commanded the 3rd
Regiment of Rangers at a place called ninety
six - under [?] the officers stated in his first
declaration -
He never received a regular Discharge from 
the service -
The persons to whom I am known in my 
present neighborhood and who can testify 
to my character for veracity and their belief
of my services as a Soldier of the revolution
are Moses H White Nathaniel Skinner
Benjamin Remmington & Amos Lampkin
Calvin Skinner & others - and further this 
deponent saith not 

Isaac White

Sworn the 1st day of January
1833

J. Boies Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Washington County SS.

I Jesse S. Leigh Clerk of said
County do certify that Joseph Boies before whom
the above affidavit of Isaac White purports
to have been sworn was at the date of said
affidavit one of the Justices of the Peace of the 
Town of Greenwich in and for said County &
that I am acquainted with his hand writing and
verily believe his name subscribed to the affidavit
to be his proper hand writing and signature - 
In testimony whereof I have 
hereunto set my hand and affixed 
the seal of the said Court the twenty
second day of January in the year 
of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred & thirty three -

J. S. Leigh Clk

[written sideways]
Isaac White
Pension Declaration 
admitted 
23 mos. Private 

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No. 5679
Isaac White

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5.12.16.17

Sep 5 1832
Nov 9 1832

Chas. F. Ingalls
Greenwich, N.Y.
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BRIEF in the case of Isaac White
of Greenwich in the State of N. York
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1.  Was the declaration made before a Court of a Judge?  in Open Court

2.  If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  [blank]

3.  How old is he?  Sixty Seven & three months, according to his
own declaration, but believed to be Seventy by his witnesses

4.  State his service, as directed in the form annexed.  
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Period.
In 1777 then between 12& 13 yrs old
States that he subsequently performed Garrison duty as often as
once in nine days, until the Fall of 1778.
Duration of Service.
Years, Months, Days.
2 1/2 [months]
Rank.
As a
Private
Names of General and field Officers under whom he served.
Gen.
Capt. P. Praytor
Genl. Moultrie    seige of Charleston

Period.
Inlisted in the Fall of 1778.
Duration of Service.
Years, Months, Days.
3 [months]
Rank.
As a
Private
Names of General and field Officers under whom he served.
Gen.
Capt. A. Toomer - Charleston
States that after the capitulation of Charleston he continued a Prisoner
on parol for 12 months, and afterwards 4 months more in a Prison
ship, and that he was in the service in all, 3 years & 4 months -

5.  In what battles was he engaged?  wounded at the Seige of Charleston

6.  Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Charleston S. Carolina

7.  Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence,
by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  Traditionary evidence above

8.  Are the papers defective as to form or authentication?  and if so, in what respect?  the papers
are defective in authentication

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

Wm. Gordon 
Examining Clerk.
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June 5, 1940

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ISAAC WHITE
S. 11757
BA-J/MLB

Mr. H. Adelbert White
The University of Nebraska
Lincoln, Nebraska

Dear Sir:

You are furnished herein the record of Isaac White as found
in the papers of pension claim, S. 11757, based upon his service in 
the Revolutionary War.

Isaac White was born in 1762 in Newport, Rhode Island; the 
names of his parents were not given.  He moved to Charleston, South
Carolina, where he arrived November 5, 1774.

While a resident of Charleston, South Carolina, Isaac White
volunteered and served two and one half months as private in Captain
Philip Prioleau's South Carolina company.  He served one day  in every
nine days, amounting to two months, as private doing garrison duty
under Captain Philip Prioleau in the South Carolina troops at Charleston.
He served three months as private in Captain Anthony Toomer's 
company in a battalion of South Carolina artillery commanded by Major
Grimball in the second siege of Charleston, in which he received a 
severe wound in his thigh and was taken prisoner but paroled within
the British lines at Charleston according to the terms of capitulation,
was held twelve months on parole, at the end of which parole
he refused to take the oath of allegiance to the British King and 
was put on board a prison ship anchored at Charleston, held four
months then exchanged.

After the Revolution, the soldier lived in Newport, Rhode Island,
and followed the sea seven years.  He moved to Greenwich, Washington
County, New York, in 1792, and while living there was allowed pension
on his application executed August 28, 1832.

It is not stated in the claim whether or not Isaac White 
ever married.
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In 1832, one Moses H. White was residing in Greenwich, Washington
County, New York; his relationship to the soldier, Isaac
White is not shown.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the 
name of person paid and possibly the date of death of Isaac White, 
you should write to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office,
Records Division, this city, and cite the following data:

Isaac White
Certificate #8648
Issued April 22, 1833
Rate $76.66 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
New York Agency.

Very truly ours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator


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Rev War
11757
INVALID.
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File No. 11.575
Isaac White
Priv. Rev. War
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Act:  June 7th 1832
Index: - Vol. A, Page 404
[Arrangement of 1870.]


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1940 June 5 - Hist. to Prof. H A White
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June 5, 1940

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ISAAC WHITE
S. 11757
BA-J/MMHF:MLB

Mr. H. Adelbert White
The University of Nebraska
Lincoln, Nebraska

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request
the Revolutionary War records of an Isaac White who was born
probably in Greenwich, Massachusetts, perhaps the son of Isaac,
who lived at one time in Adams, Massachusetts, or East Hoosic, New
Yor, and later in Springfield, Otsego County, New York, where he
died.  You request to know, also, whether or not he and the John
White (S. 11770) and the William White (S. 26904), whose records
were furnished you, were all three brothers.

There is one claim for pension, only, on file upon
service of an Isaac White in the Revolutionary War.  His record
is furnished you herewith, the claim number - S. 11757.  This office
has no way to determine whether or not those three soldiers were 
brothers.

Very truly yours


A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA

H. ADELBERT WHITE
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH

111 Andrews Hall
November 18, 1939

Veterans Administration
Washington, D. C. 

Gentlemen:

You have been very kind in the past, three or four times, to reply
to my inquiries as to certain men named White.  I am still trying to 
trace relationship among these men and other persons.

To save additional searching, I now enclose carbon copies, with 
my own notations, in the cases of William and John White, Revolution
soldiers.

Now I am seeking to show whether Isaac White was or was not a brother
to John, as seems quite likely, and as to whether the three men
were brothers.

Please see what your records show in regard to an Isaac White who 
was born probably at Greenwick, Mass., and perhaps was the son of 
Isaac White, Senior.  After the Revolution, I am informed he and 
others of the family were living at Adams, Mass., which was then perhaps
East Hossic, New York.  This tract was in the disputed lands
between Vermont and New York.  The Isaac that I have in mind settled
at Springfield, Otsego County, New York, and died there.  I am also
informed that another Isaac White was in that area, but this second 
man may have been Isaac, Jr.  I get the impression that father and
several sons fought in the Revolution.  We are rather positive that 
the John described by you in the case S 11770 was a brother of this Isaac
or of one of the two, father and son.

Can you inform me?

If I could be assured that the William White described in your case 
S. 26904 was born at Greenwich,, Mass., that would help.  He was born 
in 1742, as your account indicates, and we have from other sources, 
and if I could know the month and day, I could be assured as to whether
he was the man in mind, for whom we know the precise day of birth.  As 
you inform me, however, your records do not show precise date for him.

Sincerely yours,

H A White


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VETERANS ADMINISTRATION
WASHINGTON

January 4, 1937
In Reply Refer to 
William White, S. 26904
BA-J/MCS

Professor H. Adelbert White
111 Andrews Hall
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, Nebraska

Dear Sir:

The data which follows were obtained from papers on file in the 
pension claim, S. 26904, based unon the disability incurred by William
White during his service in the Revolutionary War.

The date of his birth, place of birth and name of parents were not given.

While living in that part of Vermont (exact place not given) which 
at that time belonged to New York State, he enlisted and served as 
private in Captain David Stowell's company in Colonel William Williams
New York regiment and was wounded during the battle of Saratoga.  The 
dates of his enlistment and discharge were not given.

Because of disability resulting from said wound he was pensioned
under the act of August 11, 1790.

William White was living in Bainbridge, Chenango County, New York,
in September, 1821, at which time he was seventy-eight years of age.

One F. S. Edwards stated that his father-in-law, Dr. White of New
York, was a son of the soldier, William White, and that the soldier
died in 1827.

There are no further data relative to the family of William White.

Very truly yours,

(signed) A. D. Hiller,
Executive Assistant to the Administrator

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Additional notations by Prof. H. A. White:

The Collections of the Vermont Hist. Society, (Vol. II) give more
of the history of this man.  He was given land by New York in that
eastern strip which finally fell within the borders of Vermont.  The 
account says he was one of those dispossessed by Vermont, and some were
imprisoned, and their goods confiscated.  To compensate for this loss,
the state of New York set off a township, equal to 9 miles square, at 
the junction of the Unadilla and East Branch of the Susquehanna Rivers.
It was first called Clinton, then Jerico, and finally and now the tp.
of Bainbridge.  William White is credited to Jerico in the Census of 
1790.

Other independent records seem to indicate, but not conclusively,
that he was also born in Greenwich, Mass., and that he was a brother
of the John White who lived.  Vermont records do not confirm this.
It is also said that this William White was born in 1742.  His family
at the time might have been living at Brookfield, Sturbridge, or possibly
at Adams, Mass., which was then known as East Hoosic, New York.

The problems are two:
1.  Whether this William White and John White (Veterans Administration
Number S. 11770) were brothers.
2.  Whether both were brothers to Isaac White, who lived once at 
Adams, Mass., and then at Springfield, N.Y.  The 
military service of this Isaac White quite likely would be similar to 
that of John and William, notable the service of the former.

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VETERANS ADMINISTRATION
Washington

June 16, 1935

In Reply Refer to:
BA-J/MCS
John White, S. 11770

Professor H. Adelbert White
1718 South 25th 25th Street
Lincoln
Nebraska

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your request for the record of the Revolutionary 
War soldier, John White, of Pittsfield, Otsego County, New York.

The date furnished herein were obtained from papers on file in the 
pension claim, S. 11770, based upon the military service of John White.
He was born in 1756 in Greenwich, Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
While living in Adams, Massachusetts, he enlisted and served as 
Lusk's company in the regiment of Colonel Ethan Allen of Vermont, was
a private and was at the capture of Fort Ticonderoga on May 10, 1775;
from late in August or early in September, 1776, about six months as
private in Captain Mason's company in Colonel Sumonds' Massachusetts
regiment; from June, 1777, one month and fifteen days as private under
First Lieutenant William White in captain Enos Parker's company in Colonel
Symonds' Massachusetts regiment; from August 14, 1777, until August
19, 1777, as private in Captain Enos Parker's company in Colonel
Benjamin Symonds' Massachusetts regiment and was in the battle of 
Bennington; from July 3, 1778, until January 1, 1779, as fifer and steward
in Captain Enos Parker's company in Colonel Jacob Gerrish's Massachusetts
regiment; from November 16, 1779, about one month as private in 
the Massachusetts militia under Lieutenant Stephen Bates.
After the Revolution he lived at Adams, Massachusetts, in New Lisbon,
Otsego County, New York.
He was allowed pension on his application executed October 16, 1832,
at which time he was living at New Lisborn, New York.
In 1843 he was living at Pittsfield, Otsego County, New York.
John White died in July, 1843.
His wife, her name not given, was not living in September, 1843.
A daughter Mrs. Sophronia Harrington was living in New Berlin,
Chanango County, New York, in 1865 and she then referred to a sister
who was a widow but she did not give her name.
One John T. White was living in New Berlin, New York, in 1862, but 
it was not stated that he was related to the soldier, John White.
In 1832 one William White was living in Pittsfield, New York, aged
seventy-two years and he stated that Lieutenant William White (mentioned 
above) was his father.

Very truly yours,

(signed)  A. D. Hiller
A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator

[Private advice informs me that this John White is buried in the 
Burlington Green Cemetery, not far from the places named in this 
letter.  His grave stone is said to be there today]

Was he a brother to William White, Bainbridge, N. Y., and Isaac
of Springfield, N. Y., the former of whom died in 1827?