Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13756, for Barnabas Lighthart, New York
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(3-1776)

Service 
New York

Lighthart, Barnabas 

Number
S. 13756

carded

Contents
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14090

21811

New York
Barnabas Lighthart
of Saratoga in the State of New York 
who was a Private in the Company commanded
by Captain Bates of the Regt commanded
by Col. Yates in the NY ma 
line for 24 mo 

Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831 

Certificate of Pension issued the 9 day of May 
1837 and sent to 
W.Q. F. Warren Saratoga

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $160.00
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Sept $40.00
$200.00

Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by W.L. William Clerk
Book E Vol 4 Page 24

Dead 
Order to pay and letter to at
Nasle C Act 1838
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Barnabas Lighthart
Saratoga Co
NY

March 21 33
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admitted
24 mo Private 

P 309 

22 Mar 33

W.L. F. Warren 
Saratoga Springs 
New York
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Brief in the case of Barnabas Lighthart
of Saratoga Co in the State of New York
(Act 7th June 1832)

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

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infimity?

3. How old is he? 71

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 

Period 
Volunteer In 1776

Duration of Service
Years, Months, Days
Time not stated 

Rank 
As a 
-

Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served
Gen. 
Capt. Bates comp of Rangers

Enlisted as substitute for Joseph Munger 

From March until the beginning of Winter 9 months 

Capt Peak, Col. Yates

Enlisted 1781
9
Capt. Dunham, Col. Willis Reg. 

5. In what battles was he engaged?

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Washington co. New York 

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

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

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

J.E. Bradford
Examining Clerk
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State of New York
Saratoga  ss: Personally appeared before me the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace after from of Corinth in the County of Saratoga aforesaid Barnabas Lighthart 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 period mentioned before and in the following grades. For nine months I served in Capt. Bates Company of Rangers. For nine months I served as a private under Capt. Peake Col. Yates regiment. For nine months I served as a private under Capt. Holton Durham and Mayor McKinstry, Col Willis Regiment and for such service being twenty seven months I claim a pension. 
And deponent further says that there is no clergyman even whom he is acquainted residing in his town or elsewhere whose certificate he can procure for the purpose of his application for a pension. 
Subscribed and sworn this
1st day of April 1833
before me
Winsor Brown Justice

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State of New York
Saratoga County ss
I Alpheus Goodrich Clerk of the County of Saratoga do certify that Winsor Brown, before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said county, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper hand writing and signature. 
Witness my hand and seal of office
the Eleventh day of April 1833
(and I certify that a part of the 4th line in the above certificate was erased before signing)
A Goodrich Clerk
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21811
Barnabas Lighthart
Pension Papers 

Nothing appears but that a clergyman can certify (crossed out)

admitted 24 mo Private
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State of New York 
Saratoga ss: On this 25th day of September 1832, personally appeared in open court before the vice chancellor in the court of Claims of the Circuit of said State now sitting Barnabas Lighthart of the Town of Corinth in the County of Saratoga aged seventy one years 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 7, 1832. 
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. 
On being asked Where and in what year he was born? He answered in Fishkill Dutchess County in said State in the year 1761. 
On being asked Have you any record of your age? He answers no. He never knew of any
On being asked Where were you living when called into the service, Where have you lived since the Revolutionary War. Where do you now live? He answers when called into service he lived at Fort Edward in the County of Washington, since the Revolutionary War he has lived in Milton in said county of Saratoga for two years, he then moved to Saratoga Springs in Saratoga County, then to the said Town of Corinth where he has lived twenty eight years and upwards and where he now lives. 
On being asked, how were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer, were you a substitute and if a substitute, for whom? He answers and says he went in the service in March 1776 at Fort Edward aforesaid, as a volunteer in Capt. Bates Company of Rangers and he was employed in Scouting and Rangering the woods and country from March till second fell quite deep in the fall or winter. Says Capt. Bates
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gave him the command of several men and sent them out as rangers, he recollects the names of one of these to wit. Albert White, one Gilbert, one Bush, one Cummings and does not know as they are living now. Says he was wounded in the leg by a party of Indians near Lake George and had a number of skirmishes with them, he was at Ticonderoga, Fort Ann, Whitehall and Poultney. Says that Capt. Woodward with a party was with them at one time. In the beginning of Winter of that year he was dismissed but had not written discharge and he doesn't remember the precise day. Immediately after this service he enlisted for 9 months as a substitute for Joseph Munger under Captain Peak, Colonel Yates Regiment. Burgoyne was executed from Canada in the latter part of the season the army retreated before him. I was assigned most of the time that summer and fall to do service with the Batteaux's on the River from Stillwater to Albany. I remember that fall Burgoyne surrendered, General Yates was the American commander. I was in no general battle. My burnings was transporting baggage and ranging out in the outskirts of the camp principally I served that 9 months but never received any written discharge. I remember the names of Genl Arnold and Col Wilkinson who were there. In 1781 I again enlisted for 9 months under Capt. Holton Durham and Lieut. Benoni Grant and served the whole time at Saratoga near the place of Burgoyne's surrender. I took no written discharge. My Capt. and Lieutenant were suspected of having communication with 5 Britishmen who came from Canada. One of whom was named Loveless and my Capt. and Lieut. were served and sent to West Point in Irons as Traitors and Loveless was arrested and condemned
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thing as a spy. Salmon Child Esq late Judge of this county served in the same company with me and John Petit Esq a Justice served in the same detachment which consisted of 3 companies under Major McKinstry in Col. Willis 
Regiment of New York State Troops, says he knows of no documentary evidence of this service, he knows of no person now living who can testify to his service except the aforesaid Salmon Child, John Petit and one Thomas Jordan whose testimony he intends to procure. But he says the said Jordan is very infrim and sick and unable to attend court. That he is known to Windsor Brown Daniel Crawford Ambrose Clother and Salmon Clother and Benjamin Rose. 
living within his neighborhood and who can testify as to his character and veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution.
And he hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except for the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any state. 
On being required to State the names of one of the Regular officers who were with the Troops where one served such continental and militia Reg issued as one can recollect and the general circumstances of your service he answers that he cannot state more fully than he has already done hereinbefore. 
On being asked if he ever received a written discharge from service? he answer no 
On being required to state the names of persons to whom he was known in his neighborhood and who could testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution? he says his answer to this
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question is already contained above. 
Sworn to and subscribed the 25
Sept 1832 before me in 
open Court
G.M. Davison
Clerk in Channy 

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The Daniel Crawford of the Town of Saratoga Springs of Saratoga and Benjamin Rose of Town of Greenfield in same county hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Barnabas Lighthart who subscribed to be seventy one 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.
Sworn and subscribed in 
open court the 25th Sept 1832
before me 
G.M. Davison
Clerk in Chancery 

Benjamin Rose
Daniel Crawford
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State of New York
Saratoga ss} Salmon Child being duly sworn says that he knew Barnabas Lighthart during the revolutionary war. The first I knew him in the service was in 1781. And then he was in the service under Capt. Holton Durham. Stationed at Saratoga, near the spot where Burgoyne surrendered. This was the 9 months service and I know he served there 6 months or thereabouts. I was be the same service and a private within same company but i went away in the fall and left Lighthart there. The Lieutenants name was Benoni Grant and the aforesaid Captain and Lieutenant were suspected as traitors sometime in August and were sent to West Point in Irons. they were suspected of making communication with one Loveless and others who were British and Loveless was condemned and hung as a spy. 
Sworn and subscribed this
11th Sept. 1832 in open court
before me
E. Cowen

Salmon Child
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State of New York 
Saratoga ss  John Petit being duly sworn says that he knew Barnabas Lighthart named in the annexed papers during the revolutionary war. That he knows that said Lighthart enlisted under Capt. Holton Durham and served under him at Saratoga near the surrender of Burgoyne. The company was 9 months now. I served at the same station and that the same time in Capt. Silas Mays company and I frequently saw him in the service in there the that season, which it was in the year 1781. The whole detachment consisted of 3 companies and was under Major John McKinsty, Col. Willis Regiment New York State Troops. John Petit
Subscribed and sworn this 
11th Sept 1832 in open court
before me
E. Cowen
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State of New York
Saratoga ss: Thomas Jordan being duly sworn says that he is too sick and infirm to attend court in behalf of Barnabas Lighthart. And he states that he was well acquainted with the said Barnabas Lighthart in the revolutionary war and that in the years deponent served with the said Barnabas Lighthart under Capt. Joseph Peake (or Peek) Col. Yates Regiment and Deponent believes the said Barnabas served as stated in his foregoing declaration
Sworn August 22d 1832
before me 
Harvey Granger
one of the Judges of Saratoga County Courts

Thomas Jordan

State of New York 
Saratoga County} ss
I Alpheus Goodrich Clerk of the County of Saratoga Do certify that Harvey Granger before whom the foregoing affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper hand writing and signature. 
Witness my hand and seal of office the
fourth day of January 1833
A Goodrich
Clerk
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The        of the Town of 
County of Saratoga and      of the town of 
in said County
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State of New York 
Saratoga ss} Barnabas Lighthart being duly sworn says that in addition to the statement hereunto annexed he states that there is no clergyman residing in the town where he lives to deponents knowledge and that deponent is entirely unacquainted with any clergyman whose certificate he can procure for the purpose of his application for a pension. 

Sworn in open court
before me this 2d Jan 
1833
E Cowen

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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 further certifies that it appears to them that Windsor Brown and Salmon Clother who have signed the foregoing certificate are residents of Corinth in the county of Saratoga and are credible persons and their statement is entitled to credit and Salmon Child and John Petit are both credible and reputable persons. 

I Gideon M Davison Clerk of the Court of Chancery in and for the 4th Circuit of the State of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Barnabas Lighthart for a pension. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 7th day January 1833.
G.M. Davison 
Clerk
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Rev War

13756

Invalid

No. 13756
Barnabas Lighthart
Priv. Rev War

Act: June 7 1832

Index:- Vol. 1 Page 224

Arrangement of 1870
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Ballston Spa Sept 27 1838

C Dra

Sir
I have herewith enclosed to you, the Power of Attorney of the children of Barnabas Lighthart late a Pensioner of the United States for the balance due their father at the time of his death. 
Please to examine the papers and return to me the necessary certificate to enable them to obtain said balance from the pension Agent at Albany N.Y. 
Very Respectfully 
Your mo obt servt 
Aaron Nash

Hon'ble
J.L. Edwards
Washington City 
D.C.