Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4,531, Daniel Hammond, New York
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New York
Hammond, Daniel
R4531
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State of New York}
Suffolk County} Ss
On this second day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court before the judges of the court of common Pleas in and for the said county of Suffolk Daniel Hammond a resident of the town of Brookhaven in said county and State aged eighty years who being 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 or enlisted in the army of the United States in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six in the New York Line under the following named officers - Daniel Griffing, Captain,  Nathaniel Norton , Second Lieutenant and James Clinton, Colonel. That he enlisted in said company at Coram in said town of Brookhaven in the first part of the month of May for the term of one year - That he continued to serve in said company until the expiration of said term when he was regularly discharged at Southold in said County
That he enlisted afterwards in the Month of June in the Company commanded by Daniel Roe, that Nathaniel Norton was also Lieutenant in said Company but whether he was first or second Lieutenant this deponent does not recollect. That he enlisted for the term of nine months - that he continued to serve until the expiration of said term when he was discharged by General Schuyler together with the whole company who returned to their homes as the pleased - that he returned to his home at Brookhaven at which place he resided when he entered the said Company - that he was discharged at Albany in the said State of New York - that he was in no engagement or
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battle - that he never had a written discharge that he was a volunteer - that he has no documentary evidence in his possession reporting his service and that he knows of no persons whose testimony he can procure who can testify to the same - that 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 (?) of any state
Daniel Hammond
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Joseph L. Hunttings(?)

We Richard W. Smith Sherriff of the County of Suffolk and Samuel Davis one of the Justices of the Peace in + for said County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Daniel Hammond who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be Eighty years of age; that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur on that opinion
Richard W. Smith
Saml Davis
Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Joseph L. Huntting (?)
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I Joseph R. Huntting, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Suffolk do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Daniel Hammond for a pension  The testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this second day of October eighteen hundred and thirty two
Joseph R. Huntting Clerk
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I Nathaniel Norton do certify and make oath that in the year 1777 I was a Lieutenant in Captain Daniel Griffing's Company in James 
Clinton's (Colonel) Regiment - I knew Daniel Hammond the within applicant, who now resides in the town of Brookhaven in the County of Suffolk and State of New York, to serve as a soldier in said company, and to the best of my recollection and remembrance I enlisted him myself - that the company was raised for nine months to the best of my recollection - and that I am full satisfied he served his full time out and was a good faithful soldier
Nathaniel Norton
Sworn and subscribed this 22nd day of June 1833 before me
Sidney L. Griffin
Notary Public in + for Suffolk County

Personally appeared before me the undersigned Notary Public Daniel Hammond within named who being duly sworn according to Law deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the name of his captain in his enlistment in the year 1777 - that according to the affidavit of his lieutenant Nathaniel Norton his Captains name was Daniel Griffing instead of Daniel Roe, That he believes Lieutenant Norton to be correct and that this deponent was mistaken
Daniel Hammond
Sworn and subscribed this 12th day of July 1833 before me
Sidney L. Griffin
Not. Public in + for Suffolk County
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State of New York
Suffolk County
(?)
I Joseph R. Huntting Clk of the County of Suffolk do certify that Sidney L Griffin Esq.  before whom the foregoing affidavits of Nathaniel Norton and Daniel Hammond were taken is a Notary Public in and for said County. That I am well acquainted with his hand writing and believe the signatures genuine. Witness by my hand and seal of office this 15th day of July 1833
Joseph R Huntting
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Hoboken   March 26th 1858

Gentlemen, Excuse me for troubling you, but I feel that justice to my grandfathers memory must be my excuse, I am the granddaughter of Daniel Hammond of Middle Island, Long Island, in the State of New York, he served during the Revolutionary War and was honorable discharged at the end of that war, during the latter end of his life, he endeavored to secure his pension, but from some cause did not succeed. I believe it to be really due him, or since his death to his descendants, and if it can really be obtained it will be a great satisfaction, I am the daughter of Daniel Hammond Jun, who is now dead, if you will take the trouble of satisfying yourselves that this is no imposition, and find that Daniel Hammonds name is on the Pension List, it would be doing his descendants a great favor, to be put in the way to secure it, I sign myself
Mrs Raphael Sturmwald
maiden name Betsey Hammond
of 107 Washington Street
Hoboken
New Jersey
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REJECTED
4531
Daniel Hammond
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Revo
Act. 7. June 1832
Danl Hammond
Suspended
See letter to 
Sidney L. Griffin
Suffolk D. H.
N.Y.
18. Oct. 1833
R. Sturmwater
Apl. 8/58

Act of 7 June 1832
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To the
Pension Agent
Washington
District of Columbia
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Daniel Hammond
4531
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Brief objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Daniel Hammond Suffolk Co N York which require further proof or explanation

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where
 he resides? yes

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes

V. *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definate as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? On the rolls - enlisted, Oct 26, 76 deserted August 15, 1777 - all previous service forfeited - for subsequent service he will furnish the best testimony he can procure to substain his declaration.

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? Yes

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension that the one under the Act of of June 7, 1832: Yes

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? Yes

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? Yes
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his Revolutionary service? No

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it: No

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? No

+If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? Yes
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as regulations direct: Yes

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?

XVI. ++Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? No

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? 
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EXPLANATORY NOTES
*QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
**Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A.B, 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 grade; For----year----months----,and ------cents, I served as a -------For------months and------days, I served as a ------; and for such service I claim a pension.
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Smithtown  N.Y. 19 July   Free
War Department
Pension Office
Washington
D.C.
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Suffolk C.H. N.Y. July 14 1833

James L. Edwards Esq.

Sir: Enclosed are the papers + Brief in the matter of Daniel Hammond. Mr. Hammond has amended his declaration reporting the name of his Captain in 1777. Also got the affidavit of his Lieutenant, Nathaniel Norton. I (?) myself, in person, upon Lieutenant Norton, as this (?) to the affidavit will now and he (?) decidedly well of Hammond as a soldier under him.
With respect (?)
Sidney L. Griffin