Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44069, John Wilson, Conn. Continental Penn.
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SERVICE
Conn.
Continental
Penn

Wilson, John 

Number
S44069
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2109

New York [check mark]
John Wilson [ink splatter]
Private
Capt Manning   Con

In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

1775
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 25 of April 1818 

Certificate of Pension issued the 6 of Aug 1818 and sent to Willm Malcolm Esq Canadarago New York

Arrearages to 1, Sept 1818
4 {illegible] 10/[illegible]  $34.00
Jan 4 1823 died
Revolutionary claims,
Act 18th March, 1818 
[illegible]
Washington's Life Guard
4  years
1776
[Faint writing at bottom illegible - Madison
Continued]
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[Very faint writing]
Notification sent to John [illegible] 12th Sept.
1820 Auburn New York 


d. Jan 4 1823
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Nov 6"1906
F.
au
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Wilson, John
His name appears on a list of applicants for invalid pension returned by the District Court for the District of Vermont, submitted to the House of Representatives for the Secretary of War on Feb 21, 1795 and printed in the American State Papers, Class 9, page 156.

Rand; Sergeant
Gen Washington's life guard
Disability; wounded in his right arm by a musket ball
When and where disabled, June 27, 1778, Monmouth
Residence: Windsor County
To what pension entitled, one-third
Remarks; Discharged December 11 1778
Evidence complete.
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[Left Page]

John Wilson
Private

[Right Page]

Invalid Pensioner

Admitted 

[Signature written down right edge]

J. N. M. Hunt [illegible]
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County of Madison & State
of New York                       SS

On this 25" day of April 1818 , before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Common Pleas of the County and State aforementioned personally appeared John Wilson aged sixty three years, resident in Sullivan in the said County who being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provisions made by the late 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". That he, the said John Wilson enlisted in Woodstock in the state of Connecticut - in the company commanded by Capt. Manning of the Connecticut Line in Colonel Durkee's Regiment as a private in the year 1775; that he served in General Washingtons life guard ; that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States until the year 1779 - when he was discharged from service in Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania, that he was in the battles of Bunker Hill, White Plains, Brandywine, and Monmouth-
and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.  
Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.  
John Stocking            John Wilson
Judge &c.
I, John Stocking Judge, &c. as aforesaid, do cerfity, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said John Wilson - did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, on the continental establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned Act of Congress.

Dated April 25 - 1818 John Stocking
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[Seal of the Court]

Know all mem by their presents that I John Wilson named in the above affidavit for the consideration of one dollar [illegible] in hand paid, have released and relinquished to the United States all my rights to any pension which I was entitled to from the Government of the United States previous to the [illegible] of the Act mentioned in the said affidavit; and particularly I the said John Wilson has relinquished the pension which I now receive under the Act of Congress on the 20th of April 1796. In which whereof I have here  unto set my hand and seal the 20th day of April 1818. 
In presence of           John Wilson

Wm J. Hodges

State of New York
County of Madison   On the 25" day of April, 1818 the above named Wm Wilson acknowledged the above instrument to be his free act and  County deed for the [illegible] and purposes therein mentioned. 

John Stocking   Judge of Com Pleas for Madison County.
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State of New York Clerk
Office Madison County    SS

I certify that John Stocking [illegible] named was a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas and for the the County of Madison on the 25th day of April 1818 duly qualified also that the signatures of John Stocking within appear to be in his own proper hand writing. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 6th day of May 1818.
J. N M. Hunt  Clerk

[Written faintly, sideways further down the page]

Invalid pensioner
Admitted
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John Wilson  2109 copy

6 August 1818


[ illegible]

Sept. '18
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State of New York
Cayuga County,    SS
On this Sixth day of July 1820, personally appeared, in open court, being a court of record for the said county, the Common Pleas John Wilson aged 66 years, resident in [illegible] in said county, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows:
Sargent in General Washington [illegible] Guard as refference to his first declaration dated the 20th day of April 1818 will show his pension certificate is number (2.109),

And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th 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 thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisons 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 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts or debts, due to me nor; have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by be subscribed
 Real Estate  none
Personal Property  none  Family [illegible] and [circled] [illegible] sustained by their friends himself out of all    business. His occupation was farming on account of his wound and [circled] the infirmity of age rendered unable to labor.

Debts due to declarant  none
Debts due from Declarant to 
John Stuart in New York in a judgement debt [illegible]  310 ~ 00 
Samuel McLentice Madison County   150 ~ 00
Sundry Small debts estimated at - 100 ~ 00
Signed John Wilson

Sworn to, and declared, on the Sixth day of July 1820 before
Rufus Sheldon Judge of Cayuga Com: Pleas
I, James Glover clerk of Cayuga County 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 no dollars and no cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this Sixth day of July 1880.

James Glover
Clerk of the Court for the County of Cayuga
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Record Division.

, November 17, 1910.

Mrs. C. E. Carver
c/o 1818 Bushnell Avenue,
South Pasadena, Cal.

Madam:

In response to your letter without date received the 14" instant, you are advised that John Wilson, Revolutionary War pensioner, Sur. File No. 44,069. died January 4, 1823.  

For date of last payment of pension, names of persons paid and date of death of Sally widow of John Wilson, [illegible] Revolutionary War pensioner, wid. File No. 2,679, you should address the Auditor for the Interior Department, U. S. Treasury Department, citing the following data; Certification No. 3,081, issued December 2, 1 853, under Act of February 3, 1853 at the Connecticut Agency.

Revolutionary War pensioner John Wilson Sur. File No. 14,077, was born at Thompson, Connecticut, in 1749, for date of last payment of his pension, names of persons paid and date of his death, you should addres the Auditor for the Interior Department, U. S. Treasury Department, citing the following data: Certificate 9, 495, issued May 22, 1833, under Act of June 7, 1838 at the Connecticut Agency.

Very respectfully, 


Commissioner.
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44069
INVALID.
[illegible]

File No.  44.069
John Wilson
[illegible] Rev. War

Act: 18" March 18
Index: - Vol. 3, Page 569
[Arrangement of 1870]

[Written on right side of page]

Nov. 17.1910. Mrs. C. E. Carver 1818 Bushnell Ave. South Pasadena Cal. infd date of death, See Agency Book.
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{Written on left page]

John Wilson private

{writing cut off on right side]
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State of New York
County of Madison SS
John Wilson of the town of Sullivan in the County of Madison and State of New York beng duly sworn deposeth and saith that sometime in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy inhe the deposeth entered the Americal service in the war of the Revolution as a private in Captain Mannings Company in Colonel Durkee's Regiment in General Putnam Brigade in the Connecticut line in which company the deponent served [part of the sentence crossed out]  [illegible] was transferred to General Washington's life guard,  and there served the year, after which this deponent entered the Pennsylvania Line in Captain Samuel Talbot's Company in Colonel Walton Stuarts Regimen and that at Valley Forge this deponent was drafted out and was transferred to the life guard of General Washington where the deponent continued until after the battle of Monmouth, when the deponent was wounded on account of which wound the deponent was placed on the Pension list by the Act of Congress paper the 20"  day of April 1796   Afterwards the deponent was discharged in the City of Philadelphia by General Arnold at the time hew there commanded.
John Wilson [Signature]

I John Stocking one of the Judges of the Court of Common Please in and for the Couty of Madison [illegible] do certify that on the 28" day of March 1818 the above named John Wilson subscribed & made oath to the above written affidavit before me.
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and that I am fully satisfied of the truth of the same. And i further certify that from my own knowledge, and from the information of others with whom I am acquainted that said John Wilson by reason of his reduced circumstances in  life is in need of assistance from his country for support.

John Stocking

Know all men by these persons that I John Wilson Named in the foregoing affidavit do hereby agree and [illegible] that in case I shall be placed on the new Pension list so as to become entitled to receive the sum of eight dollars a month during my natural life  to the provision of the late Act of Congress, making provision for the surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution, that I will relinquish all right or claim which I now have on the government of the United States for any pension or pension to which I am now or have heretofor been entitled by virtue of any former Act of Conress.  Witness my hand and seal at the town of Sullivan in the County of Madison  on the 28" day of Marh 1818.

Wm JHopkins    John Wilson
Signatures]
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Madison County  SS
On the 28"day of march 1818  before me John Storkey one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of Madison and State of New York personally appeared John Wilson, who to me being well known acknowledges that he executed the above sealed instrument as his her act and deed for the uses and purposes therein mentioned.

John Stocking