Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R, 822, Amos Bicknell, Vt.
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(3-1776)
[column headings: SERVICE|[blank]|NUMBER|]
Vt.|Bicknell, Amos|R. 822|

CONTENTS
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State of New York
St. Lawrence County } ss: On this twenty fourth day of September 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 & for said County, now sitting, Amos Bicknell a resident of the town of Stockholm in the said County of St. Lawrence and State of New York aged sixty ['seven' crossed out] six years the fifth day of February last, 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 7th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. That he first enlisted as a volunteer on the 12th day of August 1780 at Barnard, Windsor County, in the State of Vermont. where he resided during the Revolutionary War. in Capt. Benjamin Cox's company, in Col. Matthews Regiment - he does not recollect whether the enlistment was for any stated term or not - a few days previous to his enlisting a party of hostile Indians came and plundered his father's house at Barnard and took three prisoners near there. Capt. Cox's company was im-
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mediately raised and paid by the State and belonged to the Vermont State Troops as he supposes. The company commenced building a Fort soon after it was raised and his father's house is as within the pickets - he spent part of this term of service on duty at the Fort, and part of it in scouting against the Indians. he was at the Fort when the Indians burnt Royalton on the 16th of Oct. was dismissed there with the company some time in December he is quite sure, he does not recollect the day - he remembers that anker (anchor) ice was running in ['Wash' crossed out] White river when he was scouting the last time, thinks he served as much as four months. 
There were no continental Troops about there - Immediately after the appearance of the hostile Indians as aforesaid. Several companies were raised & paid by the State to man a Line of Forts at Peacham, Corinth, Bethel and Barnard - 
The next Spring,  in April 1781 he enlisted again as a volunteer at the same place he thinks ['for' crossed out] for eight months in a company commanded by Beriah Green. who, he believes, was Lieutenant - thinks there was no captain. believes the company belonged to the Regiment commanded by Col. Safford of Woodstock, and to Gen'l Waits Brigade. He was engaged during this whole campaign nearly in
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the same way as in the previous one, part of the time at the Fort and part of the time scouting. The scouting ground of the company to which he belonged was about the head of Doe river and Mad river and in the towns of Pittsfield, Rochester, Hancock, Kingston &c he was dismissed after the time for which he enlisted at the Fort with the company ['well' crossed out] very late in the season, he thinks in December. He has no documentary evidence of his service in either campaign. 
Said Bicknell further saith that he has recently been to Barnard aforesaid to procure proof of his said service and has obtained the affidavit of John Foster who was sergeant in the company in which he served during the first campaign, which affidavit is hereunto annexed - he found the commission of Capt Cox but could not ['found' crossed out] find his muster roll. He was not able to find any person living who was in the company with him during his second term of service, as the soldiers of that company came more from a distance. The best proof he can obtain of that service is that contained in the affidavits of Nathan Parmeter and Nathaniel Aiken's hereunto annexed. He never was engaged in any battles. 
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present.
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and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of ['any' crossed out] the agency of any state. 
Lived in Barnard till 1806. when he moved to Potsdam in St. Lawrence County N. York - and in 1811 moved from Potsdam to Stockholm where he has resided ever since.
/s/Amos Bicknell
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid}
/s/A C Low Clk

['We' crossed out] I George Wilkinson a clergyman residing in the town of Potsdam in said county of St. Lawrence ['and' crossed out] hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Amos Bicknell, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration: that I believe him to be sixty six 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 I concur in that opinion; 
/s/George Wilkinson
/s/A C Low Clk

And the Said Court 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 ['George' crossed out] it appears to them that George Wilkinson, who signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, residing in the town of Potsdam adjoining the said town of Stockholm.
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No 14584.
Amos Bicknell St Lawrence County New York
rejected
16. P. 383
May 9 '33
A C Low clerk St Lawrence County Court New York
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BRIEF in the case of Amos Bicknell County of St Lawrence in the State of New York
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? a Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? [blank]
3. How old is he? 66-
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
[column headings: Period.|Duration of Service.(Years,|Months,|Days.)|Rank.(As a)|Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.|]
Enlisted as a Vol In 1780 Aug 12|([blank]|4|[blank])| Private|Capt Cox Col Matthews|
 "  1781|([blank]|8-|[blank])| " |Lieut Green  " Safford|
[end of columns]
5. In what battles was he engaged? None
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Windsor Co Vermont
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? traditionary evidence Living witnesses
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? The papers not connected as the regulations require
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned. 
/s/Dyer Castor Examining Clerk.
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 In the - matter of Amos Bicknell
Supplemental affidavits for a pension - 
Allen & Baldwin
Potsdam N.Y.
Agents -
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State of New York
St. Lawrence County }ss: Amos Bicknell of Stockholm in said County being sworn saith that he made a declaration for a pension at the September term of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said county in 1836. and caused the same to be forwarded to the Pension Office at Washington: that he was afterwards directed to procure additional evidence in relation to his alleged service in the Revolutionary War. that the service for which he claimed a pension was of a period of eight months in 1781 rendered in a Fort at Barnard Vermont. This Deponent would now state that since he received his last instructions from the Pension Office. he has taken a journey to the state of Vermont for the sole purpose of obtaining such further testimony as is desired by the Department in relation to his said service. and he has been able to procure the affidavits of Samuel Bennet and John Haraden which are annexed. that he could not find any other persons there and he does not know of any other persons living, by whom he can ['procu' crossed out] make further proof of his said service than he has already made. He would
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further state that as he has stated in his former papers, that he served about four months in the year 1780 in the Fort at Barnard aforesaid in a company commanded by Capt. Benjamin Cox, and eight months in the same Fort in 1781 in a company commanded by Lieut. Beriah Green. that he performed the first above mentioned period of service before he was sixteen ['fifteen' crossed out] years of age, and he on that account waives all claim to a pension for the same; that the reason why the said Bennet in his annexed affidavit does not know the whole of this deponent's eight months service, is this: that the said Bennet was engaged in the Fort at Bethel in the said state of Vermont in the spring of 1781. having enlisted as a soldier from Woodstock: that the said Bennet & others were sent from the said Fort at Bethel by Gen'l Wait, to join the company in the Fort at Barnard, and did not arrive there 'till this Deponent had served about four weeks in said Green's company. That ['the' crossed out] companies were raised ['about the same time' crossed out] for both of said Forts at Barnard & Bethel, but that the said Green's company nothing but a few soldiers were ordered from Bethel to join it, and this deponent well recollects that said Bennet
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was one of them and jointed the said Company at Barnard about one month after the same had entered upon duty there. and he further saith that he well recolects that the said John Haraden joined his company, as he states in his annexed affidavit, in September of that year, 1781, being [illegible] at that time to take the place of one Loisdell. This deponent further states that in a letter from the Pension Office dated Oct. 7. 1836 he is mentioned as stating that he enlisted in "Capt. Cox's Company 1781" &c. He would say, by way of explanation, that the facts were stated by him to Benjamin G. Baldwin, one of his agents in his application, who drew the same out in his declaration, and subsequently in his supplemental affidavit, which were read over to this deponent and signed by him; and he ever intended to state to said Baldwin that his first service was performed under Capt. Cox and then served under Lieut. Beriah Green, and if it was stated otherwise in any of his papers. it was done by mistake and not detected by this deponent when the same was read over to him. He would further state that he lived at Barnard at the time the said Fort was built and he served as a soldier there all the time all the time that any
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Troops were stationed there - 
/s/Amos Bicknell
Sworn this 15th day of July 1837 before me
/s/Benjamin G. Baldwin Justice Peace}

I Lawrence County ss: Benjamin G. Baldwin of Potsdam in said County being sworn saith that he is the person referred to in the preceding affidavit of Amos Bicknell as the agent who drew the papers upon his application for a pension as well as his supplemental affidavit upon the same application, and he well recollects that said Bicknell has uniformly states that he serve about four months in 1780 in Capt. Benj'a Cox's Company in Barnard before he was ['15 years old and' crossed out] sixteen years old. he served eight months in 1781 in a company commanded by Lieut. Beriah Green in Barnard aforesaid - 
/s/B. G. Baldwin
Sworn this 18th day of July 1837 before me 
/s/Zenas Clark J. Peace

I certify that I am acquainted with the above named Benjamin G. Baldwin and believe him to be a credible person - 
/s/Zenas Clark J. Peace Judge

St. Lawrence ss:  I Alvin C. Low
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[court seal affixed] Clerk of said County hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Benjamin G. Baldwin and Zenas Clark, named in the annexed papers as Justices of the Peace of said county, and with the hand writing of each of them, and that they were each of them, a Justice of the Peace, at the respective dates of the foregoing affidavits of Amos Bicknell and Benjamin G. Baldwin and that their respective signatures to the jurats thereto are genuine - 
Given under my hand and the seal of said County at Canton this 19th day of July 1837. 
A C Low clk.
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Ex'r. INVALID.
No, 822
REJECTED
['Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.' crossed out]
[initials: own]
Amos Bicknell
P. O. [blank]
Service: [blank]
Enlisted: [blank], 18[blank]
Discharged: [blank], 18[blank]
Application filed: [blank], 18[blank]
Alleges: [blank]
Re-enlisted: [blank]
Attorney: [blank]
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New York
Revol.
Amos Bicknell
Rejected
See letter to A. C. Low 14 August '33
822
act 7. June '32
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[illegible partial document]

New York
Revo'y 
Suspended - 
Amos Bicknell
let to Allen & Baldwin
Act. 7. 1836 - 
Let to Hon R. H. Gillit
Feb., 8. 1837
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In the matter of Amos Bicknell.
Additional affid'ts for pension under act June 7, 1832. 
Allen & Baldwin
Potsdam N. Y. 
agents -
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State of New York
St. Lawrence County }ss: Amos Bicknell of Stockholm in said County being sworn deposeth and saith that  at the September Term of the Court of Common Pleas of said County he made a declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Pension act of June 7th 1832, and his papers soon after forwarded to the Pension Office, as he understands, by his agents, Messrs. Allen & Baldwin of Potsdam in said County, who received an answer to such application dated October 7, 1836. in which it is required that "a satisfactory reason should also be assigned for the delay in making the application." This deponent would therefore state that he for a long time supposed he was not entitled to a pension as he supposed his services in the war were rendered before he was 16 years of age. That being in the state of Vermont during the last summer on a visit he ascertained in conversation with an older brother and other friends older than himself that he had long been in an error with regard to his age. that he had no record of his age and had supposed he was only 15 years old in the Spring of 1781 when he enlisted for his said eight months service, but that he then ascertained as appears by the affidavit forwarded with his papers, that he was 16 years old before he enlisted for said service and he therefore made the said application for the
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pension to which he conceived himself entitled in consequence of such service omitting any claim for 4 months service rendered by him the summer previous to his arriving at the age of sixteen.
It is further stated in said letter from the Pension Office that there is no evidence in the Department that the fort at Barnard, in which this deponent alleges that he performed such service was garrisoned eight months in 1781, and that there appears to have been little occasion for such service after the year 1780. As an answer to which this deponent has procured and caused to be annexed the affidavit of Nathan Parmeter as to such fort being garrisoned in 1781 and as to the fact that such service was performed by the militia in that year. 
This deponent would further state that he can not obtain more positive proof of his said service without sending about 200 miles, into the state of Vermont, where he supposes he might obtain more proof if necessary. That when he was in said state last summer and procured the affidavit of James Aikens, annexed to his former papers, he might have procured the affidavits of other persons who were also knowing to his ['serv' crossed out] performing the said service, and some of whom this deponent understood were receiving a pension for service performed in the Vermont state militia
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during the said year of 1781. This deponent further states that he always understood and believes, & still believes that the company in which he performed his said service in both of the said years of 1780 & 1781 was raised by an order of the state and paid by the state - that he well recollects his father, Amos Bicknell, was deceased, was commissary for said Fort at Barnard and that he settles his accounts with the state for the supplies furnished for the Troops in the winter of 1781 & 1782.
/s/Amos Bicknell
Sworn this 10th day of January 1837 before me 
/s/B. G. Baldwin Just Peace. }

State of New York
St. Lawrence County } ss: Nathan Parmeter of Potsdam in said County, being sworn saith that he resided in the town of Barnard, Vermont in the years 1780 & 1781. that he now receives a pension for services rendered in the Revolutionary War; that he well recollects that Troops were raised by said State of Vermont in both af'said years and stationed at different Forts., at Barnard, Bethel, Corinth and Peacham that he well recollects when the Fort was built at Barnard.  that he assisted in building it, and was often at the Fort in both af'said years when troops were stationed there; that Capt Benj'a Cox commanded the company there the
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first year, and that Lieut Beriah Green commanded the company that was stationed there in 1781. that the Troops arrived there early in the spring of 1781 and continued there till late in the fall, this deponent thinks as much as eight months; he believes and always understood that the troops were raised by an order of the said state of Vermont, and paid by the state and were regularly enlisted & bound to do military duty and he has understood that several persons who he knew were engaged in that service, are now drawing a pension from the United States. 
/s/Nathan Parmeter
Sworn this 10th day of January 1837 before me Benjamin G. Baldwin Just. Peace }
I am well acquainted with Nathan Parmeter the above deponent, & believes him to be a person of fair character for truth & veracity. 
Jany. 10. 1837 - 
/s/B. G. Baldwin Just Peace

State of New York
St. Lawrence County Clerks Office }ss.
I Alvin C Low clerk of said county hereby certify that Benjamin G. Baldwin before
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whom the foregoing affidavits of Amos Bicknell and Nathan Parmeter purport to have been taken was at the date of the same a Justice of the peace of said County duly sworn, and that the ['hand writing' crossed out] signatures of the said Baldwin to the said affidavits are in his proper handwriting with which I am well acquainted - 
[county seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said County this twenty seventh day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty seven - 
/s/A C Low clk
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
State of New York
St. Lawrence County } ss:
On this twentieth day of September 1836. personally appeared in Open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County now sitting Amos Bicknell a resident of the town of Stockholm in said county of St. Lawrence aged [margin note: 71] 71 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.
That in the Spring of the year 1781. he thinks Apl. 1781. in the month of April, while residing in the town of Barnard, in the County of Windsor and state of Vermont, he enlisted as a volunteer into the company of Vermont Militia commanded by Lieut. Beriah Green, the Capt Benjamin Cox. not taking charge of the Company that season, to serve for a period of eight months. Several companies were raised buy the State the same spring and the fall before and garrisoned at different Forts, at Peacham, Corinth, Barnard and other places. Gen'l Wait com-
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manded the Brigade and Col. Joseph Safford of Woodstock, the Regiment to which his company belonged the company to which this deponent belonged, went into a Fort which was erected at Barnard aforesaid the fall before, and remained there upon duty during the fall period of their enlistment, eight months.
The Company spent considerable time in Scouting, in detached parties through the towns of Stockbridge, Pittsford, Rochester, Hancock, Kingston, and about the head of Dog river and Mad river, to protect that part of the state against  the attacks of the Indians who would sometimes come into the state from Canada.
This deponent was constantly engaged with the company during the full period of eight months and the Company was then discharged late in the fall, by a verbal discharge. There were no other companies near the said Fort during the said term, either of State or Continental Troops, as this deponent believes. He has no documentary evidence of his said service, but has been able to procure the annexed affidavit of James Aiken who served in the same company with him during the said period of eight months. 
This deponent further saith that he was
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born in the town of Ashford in the County of Windham in the state of Connecticut on the fifth day of February 1765. as he believes. 
He never has had any record of his age, and has for some time been in some doubt as to the precise year in which he was born, but from the annexed affidavits of Thomas M. Wright, Dinah Hammond and John S. Bicknell. he is confident that the above statement respecting his age is correct. He further saith that he resided in Barnard aforesaid where he enlisted into the service, and that he enlisted as a volunteer, and that since the Revolutionary War he has resided in the town of Barnard, Vt. Potsdam & Stockholm New York he moved to Potsdam in 1806 and resided there till 1811 and then moved to Stockholm where he has ever since resided.
He can not give the names of any other Officers than he has already done except he believes his Sergeants name was Hays.
nor can he state any more fully than above the general circumstances of his service. He never received any written discharge and never received a Commission, his service being rendered, by him as a private. He further saith that no Clergyman resides within several miles of his place of residence, and he knows of none who could certify as the reputation in his neighborhood of his revolutionary services. but is acquainted with Samuel Otis, Levi French and others living in Stockholm who he believes can certify to the reputation in his neighborhood of his revolutionary services
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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 agency of any state - 
/s/Amos Bicknell
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
/s/A C Low clk

We, Samuel Otis and Levi French residing in the town of Stockholm in said county of St. Lawrence hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Amos Bicknell who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration: that we believe him to be 71 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 - 
/s/Samuel Otis
/s/LS French
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
ACL /s/A C Low clk} 

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 Samuel Otis and Levi French, who have signed the preceding certificate are residents in the town of Stockholm in said County of St. Lawrence and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Alvin C. Low Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County,
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do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Amos Bicknell for a pension - 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this twentieth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty six - 
/s/A C Low clk.
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6 Feb
Hon R H Gillett 
case Amos Bicknell 
Mr Luce

Col. J. L. Edwards
Com Pensions
Washington DC
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I Alvin C. Low, Clerk of the said Court of Common Pleas and of the said County of St. Lawrence, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Amos Bicknell for a pension - I also certify that Zenas Clark, before whom the following affidavit of Nathan Parmeter appears to have been taken and Horace Allen before whom the following affidavit of Nathaniel Aikens appears to have been taken, were, at the respective dates thereof, Justices of the place of said County of St Lawrence and that their respective signatures to the said affidavits and the certificates following them are their own hand writing - 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office the Twenty fourth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty two - 
/s/A C Low clk

St. Lawrence County Clerk's office ss. I, Alvin C. Low, the clerk of said County, and above named, certify that the annexed are the same papers returned to me from the pension office and which, through inadvertance were not properly authenticated by having the tape pass under the Seal - Witness my hand & seal of Office the 21st day of May 1833.
/s/A. C. Low clerk -
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[addressed envelope]
[margin notes: Oct 6, 1836 N.Y. Mr Luce]
[postmark: [POTSDAM NY SEP 9]

Hon. Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
Washington D.C.
care of J. L. Edwards
Comm'r of Pensions}
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[handwritten letter]
Potsdam, N.Y. Sept. 29th, 1836.

Sir,
We enclose you papers in the case of the application of Mr. Amos Bicknell of Stockholm in this County (St. Law.) for a pension under the act of 7 June 1832 - Can trust you will have no difficulty in becoming satisfied of the propriety of the application, and hope to receive a certificate for him as soon as the business of the Department will permit you to attend to the case - 
Very Respy Yr. Obet. Servt
/s/Allen & Baldwin

Hon J. L. Edwards
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Samuel Bennet Depo.
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I Samuel Bennet of Barnard in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont aged Seventy seven years do testify and say - 
That I was a soldier in a company commanded by Lieut Beriah Green in the Vermont State Troops in the year 1781 and was stationed at a Fort in said Barnard for the protection of the frontiers against the Brittish and Indians - 
I was out in this service at this time seven months  - I commenced the service the forepart of May 1781 and continued in the same untill the last of November following when we were discharged - 
I further testify that Amos Bicknell then of said Barnard, and now of Stockholm in the County of St Lawrence and State of New York as I am informed, joined our Company as a soldier soon after we took possession of said Fort at Barnard, and said Bicknell continued in said company doing duty as a Soldier untill we were discharged the latter part of November following a period of seven months and some over - 
/s/Samuel Bennet
State of Vermont
Windsor County ss. Barnard June 22d A.D. 1837
Then Samuel Bennet personally appearing, made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed contains the whole truth and nothing but the truth - and I also certify that said Samuel Burnet (Bennet) is a credible witness 
Before me /s/George E. Wales Justice of Peace
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John Haraden Depo.
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I John Haraden of Barnard in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont aged Seventy one years do testify and say, That I was a soldier at the Fort in Barnard aforesaid in the year 1781 under the command of Lieut. Beriah Green - This fort was erected for the defence of the Frontiers against the incursions of the British & Indians - 
I went to said Fort as a soldier about the first of September of that year and remainded there untill we were discharged in the November following - and I should think the latter part of November, for I reccollect that it had snowed before we left - 
During the time I was at the Fort aforesaid Amos Bicknell was then doing duty as a soldier in the same Company - He was there at the time I joined the Company and remained at said Fort and did duty as a soldier in said Company untill we were discharged as above stated - I now understand that said Amos Bicknell resides at Stockholm in the County of St Lawrence & State of New York - 
/s/John Haraden
State of Vermont
Windsor County ss. Barnard June 22d A.D. 1837
Then John Haraden personally appearing, made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed contains the whole truth and nothing but the truth - and I do also
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certify that said John Haraden is a credible witness
Before me /s/George E. Wales Justice of Peace
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State of Vermont
Windsor County ss } I Benjamin Swan Clerk of Windsor County Court, do hereby certify that George E. Wales is one of the Justices of the Peace within & for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his Signatures to the two foregoing Depositions are genuine - 
[court seal affixed] Given under my hand, and the Seal of said County Court this 22d day of June 1837 - 
/s/Benj'a Swan Clerk
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In the matter of the application for a pension by Amos Bicknell.
14584.
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I John Foster of Barnard in the County of Windsor and state of Vermont of Lawful age depose and say that in the year 1780 at Barnard aforesaid I was a soldier in a Company of Rangers under the command of Benjamin Cox of said Barnard that Amos Bicknell then junior was a soldier in the same company for three months or more during said time I was orderly Sargeant in said company and further I say not
/s/John Foster
State of Vermont
Windsor County ss } At Barnard in said county before me this 30th day of August 1832 John Foster personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed
/s/Luther Chaney Justice Peace
State of Vermont
Windsor County ss } Woodstock County Clerks Office 31st August 1832
I Benjamin Swan Clerk of Windsor County Court Do hereby certify that Luther Chaney is one of the Justices of the Peace for said County, and that the above is his signature - 
[court seal affixed] In Testimony whereof I hereto affix the Seal of said Court, and subscribe my name the day & year last above - 
/s/Benj'a Swan
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State of New York
St. Lawrence County } ss: Nathan Parmeter of Potsdam in said County being sworn deposeth & saith that he is seventy three years old, that he has been a long time well acquainted with Amos Bicknell now of Stockholm in said County, formerly of Barnard, Vermont, and who is now making application for a pension, that during the years 1780 & 1781 this Deponent lived in Barnard aforesaid within about one mile and a half of the said Bicknell's fathers house, that he well recollects that in August 1780 a company of hostile Indians plundered the said Bicknell's fathers house and took them prisoners near there, that immediately thereafter a company was raised by the state commanded by Capt. Benjamin Cox, that said company assisted by the Inhabitants of the town immediately built a Fort and the said Bicknell's father's house was within the pickets; that this Deponent worked several days in building said Fort and saw said Amos Bicknell there in the said Cox's company, and he frequently saw said Bicknell there, probably two or three times every week, as long as said company was there, saw him with the company receiving rations and always understood and verily believe that he served in the said company till it was discharged, which he thinks was over three months. And this Deponent further saith
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that in the Spring of 1781, he thinks in April, another company was raised and stationed at the Fort ['of' crossed out] at Barnard commanded by Lieut. Beriah Green, that he frequently saw said Bicknell in the company drawing rations and I always understood and believes that said Bicknell served in said Company till it was discharged. which was very late in the fall after - The precise time said company was stationed there he cannot tell, but thinks it must have been as much as seven months.
/s/Nathan Parmeter
Sworn & subscribed this 11th day of September 1832 before me
/s/Zenas Clark Justice Peace.
Said Parmeter is a man of fair character for truth and veracity. 
Sept. 11, 1832. /s/Zenas Clark. Just. Peace
St. Lawrence County
State of New York }ss: Nathaniel Aikins of Potsdam in said County being duly sworn saith that he is seventy two years of age, that he has just heard the above affidavit of Nathan Parmeter read, that he resided in the town of Barnard in the State of Vermont in the years 1780 & 1781 within two miles & a half of the residence of the said Amos Bicknell in said affidavit named that he well recollects all the facts stated in ['said affidavit as facts with the recollection' crossed out]
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said affidavit as facts within the recollection of said Parmeter and that he believes every thing stated in said affidavit is true that he worked at said Fort at Barnard at the time said Parmeter did and well recollects seeing said Bicknell on duty in said Cox's company, & in said Green's company very frequently during both seasons of 1780 & 1781 and always supposed and believed and does believe that said Bicknell served in said Cox's Company and said Green's company during the whole periods for which they were respectively raised, which he believes was more than three months for the ['first' crossed out] said Cox's company and between seven and eight months for the said Green's company.
/s/Nathaniel Aikens
Sworn & subscribed this 13th day of September this 13th day of September 1832 - before me /s/Horace Allen, Justice Peace
Said Aikins is a man of truth & veracity Sept. 13, 1832. 
/s/Horace Allen Just. Peace -
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Abstract of said Bicknell's claims for services=
From the 12th August 1780 - 4 months.
   "  April 1781 - 8 months
12 months
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[addressed envelope]
[margin notes: July 26 Addl pff Amos Bicknell Act 1832.]
[postmark: POTSDAM N.Y. JUL 20]
The Secretary of War
Washington D. C.
Pension application under Act of 7 Junef 1832
J. L. Edwards Esq. Com'r of Pensions
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[handwritten letter]
Potsdam N.Y. July 20th 1837.

Sir. 
We enclose to you some supplemental papers in the case of the application of Amos Bicknell of Stockholm for a pension under the act of June 1832. The application, it will be seen from the papers, was made about a year ago and an affidavit explanatory of the delay, subsequently sent to the Department, and now additional proof of the service of the applicant. It seems to us now there can be no doubt left of the justice of the claim, and we hope it will be satisfactory to the Department, and that a certificate will soon be rec'd by us - 
With great Respect we are Yr Obd't Serv'ts
/s/Allen & Baldwin

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Com'r of Pensions }
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I John Bicknell of Barnard in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont of Lawfull Testify and Say, that I have over heard my Father Lieut Amos Bicknell late of Barnard aforesaid, and my Mother say, that my Brother Amos Bicknell was fourteen years old when the mooved from Petersham Mass to Barnard with their family -
July 16 1836. - /s/John S. Bicknell
Windsor County ss }
Sworn to before me - I also certify that the said John S. Bicknell is a credible witness
July 16 1836 - /s/Jos. B. Danforth Justice Peace
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I Dinah Hammond of Barnard County of Windsor and State of Vermont of Lawfull age Testify and Say - that I was well acquainted with Mrs. Bicknell, Wife of Lieut Amos Bicknell, late of Barnard Aforesaid. in her Life time, and have often heard her that is Mrs. Bicknell, Say, that Amos Bicknell Son of Said Liet Amos Bicknell, was fourteen years of age when they moved with their family from Petersham Mass to Said Barnard - 
/s/Dinah Hammond
Attest /s/John S. Bicknell
Windsor County ss } Barnard July 16 1836 - 
Personally appeared ['John' crossed out] Dinah Hammond ['Affiant' crossed out] Signer of the above Deposition and took Solemn oath that the above deposition was true - I also certify that the said Dinah Hammond is a credible witness
/s/Jos B. Danforth Justice Peace
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I Thomas M Wright of Barnard County of Windsor and State of Vermont of Lawfull age Testify and Say, that I lived in said Barnard in the year of our Lord 1779 and for about two years before that time and was well acquainted with Lieut Amos Bicknell, and lived a near neighbor to said Bicknell, and that he mooved with his Family from Petersham Mass - to said Barnard in the fall of the year 1779 - and further the deponent saith not July 16, 1836
/s/Thomas M Wright
Windsor County ss} Barnard July 16 1836 - 
Personally appeared Thomas M. Wright Signer of the above Deposition and took Solemn oath that the same was true, I also Certify that the Said Thomas M. Wright is a credible witness
/s/Jos. B. Danforth Justice Peace
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State of Vermont
Windsor County ss } I Benj'a Swan Clerk of Windsor County Court, Do hereby certify, that Joseph B. Danforth is a Justice of the Peace, within & for said County duly commissioned & qualified and that his Signatures to, and within these affidavits are genuine
[court seal affixed] In Testimony whereof, I hereto affix the seal of said County Court, this fifteenth day of July Eighteen hundred & thirty six
/s/Benj'a Swan Clerk
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I James Aikens of Barnard in the County of Windsor & State of Vermont of Lawful age do testify and say that in the Spring of the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty one I commenced service in the Vermont State Troops as a soldier under Lieutenant Beriah Green of Barnard and served under said Green eight months and was then and there personally acquainted with Mr. Amos Bicknell that he the said Bicknell commenced service at the same time with me and served for the aforesaid time of Eight months - and that we passed muster under Col. Joseph Safford - 
/s/James Aikens
State of Vermont
Windsor County ss } At Barnard in the County aforesaid Personall appeared James Aikens Signer of the above Deposition - and after being duly Cautioned, made solemn oath to the truth of the same in due form of Law before me. this fifteenth day of July 1836. - 
/s/Calvin Green, Justice of the Peace
I Certify that the above Deponent is a credible witness /s/Calvin Green, Justice of the Peace
Windsor County ss. I Benjamin Swan Clerk of Windsor County Court do hereby certify that Calvin Green is a Justice of the Peace within & for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and that the above are his signatures.
[court seal affixed] In Testimony whereof I hereto affix the Seal of said County Court this fifteenth day of July AD 1836 -
/s/Benj'a Swan Clerk
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33.842
In the matter of Amos Bicknell.
application for a pension.
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[handwritten letter]
Ho. Reps
Feby 4. 1837

Sir, 
I enclose you the papers relating to the Claim of Mr Amos Bicknell for a pension I know nothing of the merits of his claim further than to say I have always understood him to be a soldier of the Revolution & a respectable man, whose statement should be believed.
His witness Parmeter, is a man of undoubte veracity.
Please communicate with me on the subject. 
Your obt servt
/s/R. H. Gillet

Col J.L. Edwards