Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24031, John Davenport, Conn.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Conn.

Davenport, John
or Deavenport
Polly

NUMBER
W.24031

CONTENTS
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18523

New York
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John Davenport
died Jun 30-1830 su
of Seneca County in the State of New York
who was a Private in the Regiment commanded by
Colonel Meigs? of the Connecticut
line, for the term of [illegible: this tour?]

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Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 12 of May 1818.

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Certificate of Pension issued the 25 of March 1832 [last digit illegible]
and sent to the Hon. W.B. Rochester
House of Reprs.

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Arrears to 4th of March 1822 - $366.19
semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1822  $ 48.
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$414.19

[calculation]
45 mos. 26/31 [probably means: 45 months between '26 to '31]
0
---
360
  6 19

{Revolutionary claim,
Acts 18th March, 1818.}
til May 1820.


[right hand page]
sent letters 2 March 1830
to Arza Lewis Esqr
Letter to Hon Edwards June 13, 1838
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At a Court of Common Pleas, held at the court house in the village of Waterloo in the Town of Junius in and for the county of Seneca on the first Tuesday in February 1822,  - Feby. 5, 1822. --

Present, John McLean
Luther F. Stevens
Benjamin Lemmon
David Arne Jr } Esquires Judges of said court,

In the matter of
John Devenport a
Revolutionary Soldier } Ordered on motion of Jesse Clark Esq. Attn & counsellor at law that the affts. & declaration of the said John Devenport be amended by inserting the words, "of the Town of Galen in the County of Seneca & State of New York", immediately before the word "aged", -
Dated, February 5, 1822.

Seneca County ss: I certify the above to be a true copy of the record of said rule, & further that the said John Devenport appeared in open court & was sworn anew to the said afft. & Declaration on the day of the date of said rule. [crossed out: before]

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas at Waterloo this 11th day of February 1822. -
[signed: Elial Scudder] Dep. Clk. of Sen. Co.
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Original Claim

District of New York
County of Seneca ss. } On this 3rd day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty personally appeared in open Court in the Court of Common Pleas held in and for the County of Seneca in said State before the Judges of the same Court being a Court of Record & so declared & established by the laws for said State & so solemnly adjudged by the tribunals of the said State & possessing the power of fine and imprisonment and a [illegible: clerk?] and Seal. John Devenport of the Town of Galen in the County of Seneca and state of New York aged sixty eight years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the eighteenth of March 1818 and the first of May 1820  that he the said John Devenport enlisted for the term of Eight months in the spring of the year 1775 in Stratford in the State of Connecticut in the company commanded by Captain Whitehead in the regiment commanded by Colonel Waterbury in the line of the State of Connecticut on the Connecticut Continental  establishment that he continued to serve in said Corps until the end of the said Eight months when he was discharged at Fort George in the State of New York. That he enlisted again for twelve months on the the first of January 1776 at Stratford in the state of Connecticut in the company commanded  by Captain (name forgotten) in the regiment commanded by Colonel Webb in the line of the state of Connecticut in the Connecticut Continental establishment that he continued to serve in said Corps until the end of the said twelve months when he
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enlisted again immediately without being discharged for the term of during the war at White Plains in the State of New York in the company commanded by [crossed out?: Colonel] Captain Elisha Ely in the regiment commanded by Colonel Return J. Meigs in the line for the State of Connecticut on the Connecticut Continental establishment that he continued to serve in said Corps untill [until] 1781 in the fall when he was transferred to the Invalids in consequence of being wounded in Battle and that he was unable to a serve afterwards and was permitted to go home.

That he was in the Battle at White Plains in the Battle at the taking of St Johns in Canada in the Battle at Horseneck and at Danbury in Connecticut

[signed: John Devenport]

And in pursuance of the act of the first of May 1820 I do solemnly Swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 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 as 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 the naval service of the United States in the revolutionary War" passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor have any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts owed to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed to wit. I have no Real Estate. I have one old cow thirteen or fourteen years old one hog one axe
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one old [illegible] one small dish kettle one tea kettle one frying pan four old kitchen chairs six tea cups 4 saucers six plates five knives and forks
and that I am a farmer by occupation which I use by taking land upon shores that my age sixty eight years that my health is very feeble though old age and its [illegible] I am able to do but little [illegible] that my family [illegible] of er wife & two children and my wife  is in feeble health has been so far the money those two years She is able to do but little before [illegible] her age is fifty four years my two children are under age one is a girl of 16 years of age the other a boy of age thirteen of feeble health from his infancy - I have some debts due to me. I am indebted to the amount of fifty dollars
John Davenport
I Jeheal H Halsey Clerk of the Court of Common Please in and for the County of [illegible] do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed and truly copied from the Records of the said court & do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the afore said schedule is seventeen dollars & seventy five cents.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto I set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on the 3d day of October AD 1820
J.H. Halsey Clk & c.
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District of New York
County of Seneca ss.} John Davenport within named declarant being duly sworn deposeth & and saith that in the month of May in the year of our Lord 1818 he employed L. W. Ruggles Engr of the said County to assist this deponent in obtaining 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 pass the 18th day of March 1818, that the said declaration was made out by the said Ruggles duly sworn to by this deponent; in the 12th day of May 1818 before the Hon. John Sayre one the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County, that this deponent then left the said declaration  with the said Ruggles in order that the same might be sent to the war department, and the said Ruggles afterwards told this deponent that the same had been forwarded t the war department and further saith not.
John Davenport

[unk] subscribed & sworn this 19th day of Dec 1820 before me
John McLean Jr
Judge Sen. Com. Pleas
State N. York

District of New York
County of Seneca ss.} Samuel Warner Ruggles of said County being duly sworn says that John Davenport applied to this deponent to make out his declaration in the month of [unk] 1818 and that this deponent on the twelfth day of May 1818 drew the said declaration so that said Davenport & was to the same before his honor John Sayer Esq a Judge of Seneca Com Pleas according to this deponents best recollection & belief.
Samuel Warner Ruggles

Sworn this 23d Dec 1820 before me
John McLean Jr
1st Judge Seneca County N.Y.

Pension papers of John Davenport
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State of New York
Wayne County} ss.
On this thirteenth day of October eighteen hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before me David Arne Junr one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Wayne, Polly Devenport, a resident of the town of Huron in the county of Wayne afforesaid aged seventy two years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress, passed July 7th 1838, entitled "A act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows:" That she is the widow of John Devenport wo was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and who served in a company commanded by Captain Elisha Ely of the fourth Connecticut Regiment.
She further declares that she was married to the said John Devenport on the twelfth of March, seventeen hundred and eighty four, that her husband, the said John Devenport died on the thirty first day of January ighteen hundred and thirty; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz: at the time above states.

Polly Devenport her mark 

Sworn to and subscribed by making her mark on the day and year above written, before me.
David Arne Jr,
Judge Wayne County Courts
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State of New York
County of Wayne}ss. I Cullen Foster Clerk of Wayne County hereby certify that David Arne Jr was  Judge of the County Courts of said County, duly appointed & qualified at the date of the Jurat of the within affidavit, and that his signature to the said Jurat & the within certificate is genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County this second day of November 1838.
Cullen Foster Clerk
Wayne County
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Reported
4184
New York   Albany
Polly Davenport
widow of John Davenport Conn
who was a Private
in the Revolution.

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
80 Dollars ----
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the
3rd day of Jany 1844
and sent to Sylvester Clark
Clyde
New York

[Act of March 3, 1843]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1  Page 117
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Rev WIDOW, &c.

File No. 24031
Polly Davenport
wid. of
John Davenport
Pri Rev war

Act March 3rd 1843

Index:- Vol a, Page 172

[Arrangement of 1870]
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Albany 2775
Polly Davenport
widow of John Davenport
who was a pensioner under the Act of March 1818
and who died on the 1 January 1830
of Wayne Co. in the State of N. York
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain         of the Regt commanded
by Col Meigs in the Con.
line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany
at the rate of 80 Dollars per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 13th day of May
1839 and sent to Wm. Edwards
Soders Point, N.Y.

Arrears to the 4th of March '39    240.00
Semi=annual allowance ending 6 Sep "  40.00
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                                                   $280.00

{Act July 7, 1838}

Recorded by D. Brown Clerk,
Book A  Vol 2  Page 74
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I Targy Burroughs of the town Sodus in the County of Wayne & State of New York do certify on oath, that I am well acquainted with Polly Davenport of the town of Huron in the said County of Wayne & also that I was well acquainted with her husband John Davenport who died in said town of Huron on the thirty first day of January eighteen hundred & thirty. The said Polly Davenport is now about seventy two years of age. She was married to the said John Davenport in the town of Peacham in the County of Caledonia and State of Vermont some time in the month of March seventeen hundred and eighty four. The said John Davenport at the time of his death was a pensioner for services performed in the Revolutionary War, and his widow the said Polly Davenport drew his back pay from the 4th of Sept. 1829 to the 31st of January 1830. I do further certify that the aforesaid Polly Davenport still remains the widow of the said John Davenport, and that they had, and brought up, a large family of children most of whom now reside in the said County of Wayne.
Targy Burroughs

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 29 day of October 1838
Elisha Gatchell Justice

I certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Tangy Burroughs and that she is a person of respectability and sustains a good character for truth and veracity.
Elisha Gatchell
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State of New York
County of Wayne} ss. I certify that Elisha Gatchell whose signatures appear to the within certificate & affidavit was at the time said affidavit purports to have been worn to, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned & qualified and that his signatures aforesaid are genuine. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County at Lyons this second day of November AD 1838
Cullen Foster Clerk Wayne
County aforesaid
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4704 October 1843
NY
Mar 3d 1843
Polly Davenport
$80 per an
Sylvester Clarke
Clyde
N. York 
[stamp] CLYDE
Pension Office 
Washington
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STATE OF NEW YORK
County of Wayne} ss.
On this twentieth day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty three before the subscriber, Nathan Lawton one of the Justices of the Peace in said County & State aforesaid personally appeared Polly Davenport a resident of the town of Huron in said county, aged seventy eight past who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 3d of March 1843, granting pensions to widows of person who served during the revolutionary war:

That she is the widow of John Davenport, deceasd who was a Revolution Pensioner.

She further declares that she was  Pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress, passed July 7, 1838, and that the annual amount of the pension which she received under the said act was Eighty Dollars.

She further declares that she is still a widow.

Polly Davenport her mark X

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written.
Nathan Leighton

I certify that the above declarant is personally known to me.
Nathan Leighton

STATE OF NEW-YORK
County of Wayne} ss.
I, Daniel Chapman clerk of said County, do certify that Nathan Leighton Esq was on the day of the date above jurat and certificate, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county, duly appointed and qualified, and that the signature above, purporting to be his, is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name, this twenty third day of October 1843.
Daniel Chapman
Clerk Wayne Co.
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Clyde Wayne Co NY
Octr 24 1843
Dear Sir
Enclosed you have a petition of Polly Davenport who wishes her name entered upon the Pension list, which I suppose will be done. She wishes to know whether she can draw the amt due or six months to Sept. last - please inform me -
Yours
Sylvester Clarke
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3152
2775 Polly Davenport 
Admitted
Private 2 years
William Edwards Esq

Loden Point
N. Y
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J.L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Sodus Point
Wayne County N.Y.
Nov 8 1838

Sir

I send you herewith the papers which have been deemed necessary to establish the claim of Polly Davenport to a pension under the act of Congress of the 7th July last. John Davenport was a pensioner at the time of his death & his widow the present claimant made application & drew what money was due him at the time of his death viz. his pay from the 4th Sept 1829 to the 1st of January 1830. As you must have the record of this in you department it has not been thought necessary to enter fully into proof of service. Examination has been made to find some record proof of the marriage, but none can be found. If there should be any error committed in the papers sent or any farther proof required to establish the claim you would do me a favor by giving me the earliest notice.

I am, respectfully you obt servt

Wm Edwards

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
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For the date of he
original declaration
see Jonn Dolber's papers

Admd Con JSE

Free

Hon. William B. Rochester
In Congress
Washington
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Dr Sir
I take the liberty of enclosing the declaration & oaths of an old revolutionary soldier who is extremely anxious to procure his pension certificate before the 4th of March next in order that he may be able to draw his money at the next semi-annual day of payment he is [unk] poor and [unk] yet a worthy old man- the papers were returned from the war department with the objection that the applicants place of residence was not stated in the declaration- the [unk] must has been made by witness places of residence as you will see by the annexed certificate of one [unk] of service and I see no reason [unk] for any delay in granting the certificate.
The pension certificate ought to entitle the applicant to his pension from the 12th May 1818 at which time his original declaration was made as will appear from the annexed affts & from papers on file. Will you have the goodness to see this business attended to as soon as possible & return pension certificate to me [unk] [unk] & inform me if any thing is yet wanting.

Yours truly
Jesse Clarke

Hon W B Rochester
Waterloo 12th Feby 1822
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Davenport
Lodus Point
1 June
J.L. Edwards Esqr.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City 
Inr at June 8
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Sodus Point
Wayne Co. N.Y.
May 31st 1838

JL Edwards Esq

Sir
The widow of John Devenport now residing in this town has desired me to ascertain of you whether she would be entitled to a pension for the Revolutionary services of her late husband. It appears that Mr. Devenport was a pensioner of the Government at the time of his death, & his widow was married to him about two years after the close of the Revolutionary war. There having been some amendments proposed to the act of 36 & was knowing whether any of them had been passed into a law, I have taken the liberty of making the enquiry whether under the circumstances above stated she would be entitled.

I am, very respectfully, your obt servt

Wm Edwards