Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,840, Samuel Fellows, Conn.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE

Conn.
Fellows Samuel
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NUMBER
S. 34840
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14.097
New York to
Massachusetts
Samuel Fellows

Of Schoharie Co in the state of New York
was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Burrill of the Connecticut line, for the term of one year

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Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 10 of April 1818

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Certificate of Pension issued the 6 of Sep, 1819
and sent to John Cumming Esq
Schoharie NY.

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Arrears to 4th of Sep: 1819. 16 mos 25/30   134.66
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th March 1820         48---
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                                                                      $ 182.66
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                                                     {Revolutionary claim,}
                                                       {Act 18th March, 1818}   



Sent to               
8 December 1821 Lenox Massachusetts
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District of Massachusetts, ss:

On this 26th
day of June
1820 [1821?]; Personally appeared in open Court before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, begun and holden at Lenox, within and for the County of Berkshire, in
the Western Circuit, on the 4th Monday of June
1820[1821?], the same Court, being a Court of records [record?] for said Circuit; proceeding according to the course of the common Law, with a jurisdiction, unlimited in point
of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment,
Samuel Fellows
aged sixty eight years, resident in Egrement
in the County of Berkshire aforesaid, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows; that he enlisted in the company commanded by
Captain John Stevens in the regiment commanded by Colonel Charles Burrell
in the line of the State of Connecticut
on the Continental establishment. That
his original declaration is dated April 10, 1818 and that his pension certificate is numbered 14.097
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 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 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 me subscribed--schedule of property, necessary clothing and bedding
excepted -- to wit:
The following is a schedule or Inventory of the
Estate of Saml [Samuel] Fellows of Egremont in the County Berkshire
as appraised by
us the subscribers viz:
One Cow  |12|.50
One Hog.  |3.|00
1Table $1. 1 candle Stand .50  |1.|50
7 Chairs at 16 cts.  |1.|12
2 old Chests 50 cts. 2 old spinning wheels, 
50 cts.  |1.|00
2 Tubs 50 cts.  2 pails 34 cts.  |"|84
Churn 33 cts hand bellows 6 cts  |"|39
1 Iron pot $1- 1old brass kettle $2.25  |3.|25
1 broken dish kettle & tea kettle  |"|16
broken Spide[Spider?] 8 cts [illegible] 75 cts  |"|83
Tongs & broken hand Iron  |"|66
Beetle rings [illegible]  |"|50
1Setchel $1Sickle 16 cts. 2 old axes $.1  |2.|16
1 old hoe 25 cts 1 flat iron  8 cts  |"|33
Candle stick & snuffer 10 cts stone jug& pot 
50 cts  |"|60
2 glass bottles 12 cts. 2 tin [illegible]18 cts.  |"|30
Callender 12 cts. & 2 old augurs 25 cts.  |"|37
8 1/2 # of old pewter at 12 1/2 cts. per #  |1.|06
Tin cannister & tunnel  |"|18
7 knives & 4 forks 55 cts. 6 spoons 33 cts  |"|88
half a set of tea cups 6cts. 1set of pye plates 
18 cts  |"|24|
large plate 6cts one wine glass  |"|12

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District of Massachusetts, ss:

On this 26th. day of June 1821; Personally appeared in open Court be-fore the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, begun and holden at Lenor within and for the County of Berkshire, in the Western Circuit, on the 4th Monday of June 1821, the same Court, being a Court of record for said Circuit; proceeding according to the course of common Law, with a jurisdiction, unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Samuel Fellows aged sixty eight years, resident in Egremont declare, that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows; that he enlisted in the company commanded by Captain John Stevens in the regiment commanded by Colonel Charles Burrell in the line of the State of Connecticut on the Continental establishment. That his original declaration is dated April 10. 1818. and that his pension certificate is numbered 14.097

 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 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 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 me subscribed-schedule of property, necessary clothing and bedding excepted-to wit:

That I am by occupation a shoemaker that I am infirm unable to labor on as of a lame shoulder that the number of family residing with me is three that their names and ages are as follow: Esther Fellows my wife aged sixty one of a tender constitution and able to do but little labor Amy Fellows my daughter aged twenty three years wholly incapable of taking care of herself Fellows my son aged nineteen years singed Sam Fellows

Sworn to, and declared on the 26th day of June 1821, before the Court
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The following is a schedule of Inventory of the Estate of Samuel Fellows of Egremont in the County Berkshire as appraised by us the subscribers viz:
One Cow  = 12.50
One Hog = 3.00
 1 Table$1.00 1 Candle Stand .50 = 1.50
7 Chairs at 16 cts = 1.12
2 old chests 50 cts 2 old spinning wheels, 50 cts = 1.00
2 tubs 50 cts 2 pails 34 cts = .84
1 churn 33 cts hand bellows 6 cts = .39
1 iron pot $1 - 1 old brass kettle $2.25 = 3.25
1 broken dish kettle and tea kettle = .16
1 broken spider 8 ct. Shilliard 75 cts = .83
Tongs and booker hand iron = .66
Bec[] rings [] - .50
1 satchel $1. 1 sickle 16 cts. 2 old axes $1 = 2.16
Candle stick and snuffer 10 cts. stone mug and pot 50 cts = .60
2 glass bottles 12 cts. 2 tin basons 18 cts = .30
1 colander 12 cts 12 cts and 2 old augers 25 cts. = .37
8 1/2 of old pewter at 12p cts per # = 1.06
Tin cannister and tunnel = .18
7 knives and 4 forks 55 cts. 6 spoons 33 cts = .88
Half a set of tea cups 6 cts. 1 set of [] plates 18 cts = .24
1 large plate 6 cts one wine glass = .12
1 old one horse waggon $3.00 one old cutters $2 = 5.00
1 old horse harness $4. one old saddle 50 cts = 4.50
9 dunghill fowls 72 cts 1 old hand fan 18 cts = .88
1 old barrel 8 cts 1 old soaptub 25 cts = .33
1 wire serve 75 cts. 1 old iron plate hand saw 25 cts = 1.00
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43.70

sign: Saml Fellows

Egremont Jany 18th 1821

Sign:
Andrew Bacon
Jno Brunson
Nathan Benjamin
appraisers
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Situation of them then named Sam Fellow. Said Fellow is about sixty-eight years of age & infirm to that degree that he is able to do least very little towards support. His family consist of two children one son & a daughter exclusion of his wife.
His wife is able to go back very little towards her support His daughter not able to support herself nor is probable ever will be.
His son between nineteen & twenty years of age [illegible] a little, works out for about half the wages of man, gets a little provision for their support. 
this our opinion they need help from some quarter Egrement month Jan of 1st, 1821 

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Andrew Bacon
Jno Brunson
Nathan Benjamin


Berkshire &
  I Charles Sedgwick Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas within for P. County do hereby certify that the fore going oath & the schedule there to annexed are truly copied from the record of the P. Court: & I do further certify that it is the opinion of the P. Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the afore Schedule is Forty-Three Dollars & seventy cents. In testimony whereof I have herewith set my hand & affixes the seal of U.S. Court on this ninth day of July 1821-

Cha. Sedgwick Clk of the Judicial County
for the County of Berkshire
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137
Saml. Fellows
applicant to be contin on pension list

Recd 19 July 1821

Property $43.70
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State of New York
Montgomery County}

To wit,

Pursuant to an act of the Congress of the United States of America entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval services of the United States is the Revolutionary War" dated March 18th 1818.
I Samuel Fellows of the town of Charleston in the county of Montgomery and state of New York aforesaid so make a declaration under oath before the Honorable Alexander Sheldon Esquire First Judge of the Court of Common Please in the county and state aforesaid (the said court being a court of record of the county and state aforesaid in which I do reside) in the [unk] following that is to say-I do solemnly and sincerely swear and declare that I am a resident citizen of the said United States to wit in the Lower county and state aforesaid and that by reason of my included circumstances is life I am in need of a pension from my country for support. I do further declare that I served in the war of Revolution against the common enemy in the capacity of and being a private soldier t that in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy five I enlisted for seven months and served during that time in a company
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commanded by Captain John Watson in the Connecticut line Colonel not recollected, and was honorably discharged that on the first day of February one thousand seven hundred and seventy six. I enlisted for one year and served during that time in a company commanded by Captain John Stephens Colonel Charles Burrel's Regiment Connecticut line at the end of which time I received my honorable discharge. That on the eighteenth day of April one thousand seven hundred and eighty one I enlisted for three years until sooner discharged and served in Colonel Graytons Regiment [unk] Massachusetts Line for a short time when I was drafted into a Legion of horse commanded by Marquis Armong Dela Parke having been engaged on the taking of Cornwallis at York Town. In this legion I served about two years and eight months when I received my honorable discharge that this discharge has been since sent into the Secretary of War of the United States and is more probably lodged in his office, and I do further declare that pursuant to the act of Congress aforesaid, I do fully and voluntarily relinquish all and every claim I have to any and every pension which has or might hertofore have been allowed me by the laws of the United States of America.
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commanded by Captain John Watson in the Connecticut Line Colonel not recollected. And was honorably discharged that on the first day of February one thousand seven hundred and seventy six. I enlisted for one year and served during that time in a company commanded by Captain John Stephens Colonel Charles Burrels Regiment Connecticut Line at the end of which time I received my honorable discharge. That on the eighteenth day of April one thousand seven hundred and eighty one I enlisted for three years unless sooner discharged and served in Colonel Graytons Regiment Third Massachusetts Line for a short time, afterwards for a short time in Col. [illegible] Regt when I was drafted into a legion of horse commanded by Marquis Armong Dela Parte [?] having been engaged in the taking of Cornwallis at Yorktown. In this Legion I served about two years and eight months when I received my honorable discharge.
That this discharge has since sent into the Secretary of War of the United States and is more probably lodged in his office. And I do further declare that pursuant to the act of Congress aforesaid I do freely and voluntarily relinquish all and every claim I have to any and every pension which has or might heretofore have been allowed me by the Laws of the United States of America
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In witness whereof I have subscribed the declaration in the presence of the said Judge at the town county and state aforesaid this tenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Saml Fellows

Winess Alexr Sheldon

State of New York
Montgomery County}ss

I Alexander Sheldon Esquire First Judge of the Court of Common Please of the county of Montgomery and state of New York (the said court being a court of record of the county and state aforesaid in which Samuel Fellows named in the aforegoing declaration doth reside) do hereby certify to the Honorable the Secretary of the department of War of the United States of America agreeably to the act of Congress written "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and aval services of the United States in the Revolutionary war" papers March 18th 1818, that the said Samuel Fellows personally appeared before me the said Judge on the tenth day of April in the year of ou Lord one thousand
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eight hundred and eighteen and in my presence subscribed the aforegoing declaration and at the same time in due form of Law took an oath before me on the holy evangelist of Almighty God that the said declaration was true and O having examined the said Samuel Fellows touching the matters in the said declaration contained and I also having taken the deposition of Aser Colgrove accompanying these papers & being satisfied that such deposition was the best evidence on the power of the said Samuel Fellows to produce I do further certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Samuel Fellows did serve on the Revolutionary War aforesaid against the common enemy in the [unk] for the time stated in this said declaration and is in other respects true all which proceedings had before me and the testimony provided this case I do respectfully certify & transmit to the honorable the Secretary of War according to the act aforesaid-given [unk] hand and seal of Charleston this tenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

Alexr Sheldon First Judge of Montgomery County
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State of New York
Montgomery County}ss

Asa Colegrove of the town of Charleston in the county of Montgomery & state of New York aforesaid being duly sworn deposeth & saith that he has been acquainted with Samuel Fellows named in the aforegoing declaration for about two years now last past and has during that time repeatedly heard the said Fellows mention his serving on the revolutionary war of the United States and from the knowledge he hath of his character for truth & [unk] morals believe the statement made by him in such declaration is {unk} I further saith not.

Asa Colgrove

Sworn this tenth day of April 1818 before me 
Alxr Sheldon First Judge of Montgomery County

State of New York
Montgomery County}ss

I hereby certify that Alexander Sheldon Esquire whose name is subscribed to the aforegoing certificate was at the time the said certificate purports to have been made and long before I was [unk] hath been first Judge of the Court of Common Please in afore the County of Montgomery in the state of New York and that the said name is in the hand writing of the said Judge as appears for the inspection of the Record of the said Court now remains in the clerks officer thereof-I witness whereof the seal  of the said court is hereunto affixed this twelfth day of June 1818.

Jno McCarthy Clerk of the Court of common pleas for the said county
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Stateof New York
Schoharie County}ss

I Olney Briggs [unk] of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the county Schoharie & state of New York do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Samuel Fellows the within mentioned applicant & whose name is subscribed to the written declaration and that he is in indigent circumstances & stand in need of his countries {unk} for his support. Given under my hand and seal this 13th day of July 1819.

Olney Briggs
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1781 Samuel Fellows prvt 
3 years in Col. Greator Seammils Regt

April 10th 1818

Admitted

It is requested that the judge [unk] certify to the reduced circumstances of the applicant, In proof of service; the deposition of two credible and disinterested witnesses or of an officer of the regiment duly taken and authenticated is required.

13 May 1819
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34840

INVALID

File no. 34840
Samuel Follows
 Pri Rev War

Act: 18 March 18

Index:     Vol. 2, Page 135

[Arrangement of 1870]
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July 3, 1819

Benj Stevens & David Preston

deposition
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the deposition of Benjamin stevens of Canada in Litchfield county and state of Connecticut and of David Preston of the town of Ja.madge and county of Portage in the state of Ohio but now in Canada aforesaid. justify and day that Samuel Fellows family of said Canada but now of the town of Carlisle in the county of Schohara  [schoharie] in the state of New York, saved as a soldier in the regiment commanded .. Charles B. in the . commanded .. John stevens in the Connecticut ... continental establishment in the . army from the month of February in the one year service of seventeen hundred and seventy six , and that the . with him into Canada and that he was with ourselves,  taken as prisoner of Africa called the and  that he  joined the regiment after being released on mount Independence and helped build that fort and that he t. until the time of his year service .  which was on the first day of February One Thousand Seven Hundred and seventy seven 

state of Connecticut Litchfield bounty  SS ,Canada 3rd July 1819. personally heard Benjamin Stevens and David Preston and made soldier oath, that the.. foregoing deposition by them . to containing the truth the whole truth .and nothing but the truth , . farther certify Wilmelsey Benjamin Stevens  and David Preston and our .. 
. stevens justice of peace

solemn
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I Frederick Wolcort, Clerk of the County Court within the county of Litchfield, in the state of Connecticut, certify that Nathaniel Stevens, Esq was at the date of the within certificate & now is a Justice of the Peace within said county, legally commissioned & qualified, that his name subscribed to the within certificate is his hand writing & that the seal hereto annexed is the seal of said court.
July 5th AD 1819
Frederick Wolcort
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The name of Samuel Fellows does not appear on the role of the Massachusetts Pensioners, he must make an affidavit agreeably to the within form and transmit the same with his schedule before his name can be continued on the role.
Pension Office
Sep 25th 1821
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APPLICATION FOR A TRANSFER

County of Berkshire ss.
On this sixteenth day of November 1821, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Berkshire personally appeared Samuel Fellows who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain John Stevens in the regiment commanded by Colonel Charles Burrell in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of New York from whence he has lately removed; that he now resides in the state (district, or territory) of Massachusetts where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable, in future.
Saml. Fellows

Sworn and subscribed to, before me, the day and year aforesaid.}
Andrew Bacon Justice of the Peace

WAR DEPARTMENT, Pension Office, August 13, 1818. The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official character and signature must be properly authenticated.

(over)
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Berkshire Ss Nov 27 1821.
I certify that Andrew Bacon is one of the Justices of the Peace for the county of Berkshire, duly qualified as such & that full faith & credit is given to his acts & attestations in that capacity. That I verily believe the within is his signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereto affixed the seal of the Sup Jud. Court for said county of Berkshire.
Chas. Sedgwick Clerk of the Jud Courts of Mass for the Co of Berkshire

Samuel Fellows
Transferred from New York to Massachusetts 8 December 1821 from 4 March 1820
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Lenox
Mar 30

Free

The Hon. J. C. Calhoun
Secretary at War
Washington City

Mass

Recd 6 December 1821

Mr Edwards