Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23,591, Jeremiah Bennett, Conn. New York.
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Service: Conn., New York.

Bennett or Bennet, Jeremiah (Lois)

Number: W.23,591
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Left side:
[illegible] Jentte 
[illegible] Cowan 
Greenwich, N.Y. 
June 12, 1820 

Right side:
8015 
New York  
Jeremiah Bennet 2d 
of Washington Co. in the state of N. York 
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by 
Colonel Van Cortlandt of the New York 
line, for the term of the War-1781 

Inscribed on the Roll of New York 
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on 
the 21st of March 1818- 

Certificate of Pension issued the 22d of March 1819 
and sent to John C. Walker, Esqr 
Greenwich, N. York. 

Arrears to 4th of March 1819 - 11 75/31	91.87 
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819  48.00
[=] $139.87
 
{Revolutionary claim,} 
{Act 18th March, 1818.} 
Continued 
Washington County.
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3694
New York Albany
Lois Bennett
widow of Jeremiah
N.Y.
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
80 Dollars --- Cents
per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the 
6 day of Feby 1849
and sent to J.W. Johnson
Kingston, Fulton Co N.Y.

Recorded on the Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 12 Vol. 4
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In the matter of 
Jeremiah Bennett 2d
Revolutionary pension
No 5015
Schedule &c

Continue
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District of New York 
Washington County ss. 
On the 1st day of June 1820 personally appeared in open Court being a Court or record for the said County (which proceeds according to the cause of the common law - has a Jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount - keeping a record of their proceedings and having a seal) Jeremiah Bennett 2d aged fifty seven resident in Easton in said County being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows first in the second New york regiment - Col Van Courtland & after the taking Cornwallis transferred to Col Samuel B. Webbs regiment Connecticut line discharged by Majr Genl Henry Knox as stated in his original Declaration Dated twenty first of March 1818 as appears by his pension certificate number 5015 Dated 22nd March 1819 
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 & 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 & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed on the 18th day of March 1818 & 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 & by me subscribed Viz
Real Estate 
In right of my wife twelve & an half
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acres of land situate in Boston aforesaid principally fine plain land 
one cow- one sow- five sucking pigs 
4 or 5 pewter plates- ½ Doz tea cups & saucers 
1 pewter tea pot - 1 old pewter platter 
2 Tin pans - 1 pail - 1 Wash tub - 1 Tea Kettle 
1 Three quart Kittle - 1 Dish Kettle- 1 iron pot 
1 Table - 1 meat [?] barrel- 4 chairs - 1 blust 
1 axe- I hoe - 1 Sythe -1 sledge - 2 garden rake
1 garden hoe - 1 flail - 1 Levingling [?] Knife 
Income none-- but my pension & daily labor 
My family consists of myself-- my wife who is sickly & infirm, and a son Levi Bennett who is twenty six years of age an idiot entirely helpless and depending on me for support. 
I have no trade - am able to labor at farming the principal part of the time and am infirm by reason of a breach but not to support myself and family without public or private charity 
[Signed] Jeremiah Bennett 2d
Subscribed & sworn this 1st day of June 1820 in open Court. 
D Shepherd Clk
A Copy

I Daniel Shipherd Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Washington (being the Court in the within Declaration mentioned) do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied, and I further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is one hundred and Eighty Eight Dollars 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
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my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on the first Day of June 1820
D. Shepherd Clerk
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Left, crosswise:
taken & had before me, to the secretary for the department of war, pursuant to th directions of the forementioned act of congress -
Jonathan Sprague
One of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas
in & for the County of Washington

Right:
Jerh. Bennet's
Affidavit
No. 2

Direct to the care of
John C. Walker, Greenwich
County of Washington
N. York

Col. Van Cortlandt's
N. York Regt.

1781 for the War
21st March 1818

Admitted
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State of New York 
Washington County ss 
Jeremiah Bennet being duly sworn deposeth and saith, that he was duly enlisted as a soldier in the Revolutionary Army of the United States of America on the Continental establishment, on the sixteenth day of January AD. 1781 under Capt. John P. Hamtrank of the second New York Regiment commanded by Col. Cortland -- that he continued in said regiment untill the Month of December following, when by a General Order he was transfered to the third Connecticut Regiment commanded by Col. Samuel B. Wells in Capt. Edward Bulkley's Company -- that he continued in said Company about one year, when he was transfered into Capt. ___ Selden's Company of said Regiment where he continued untill June seventeen hundred and eighty three, when he took the place in the Line, in the Company aforesaid, of a soldier by the name of Hatch, who was enlisted for three years. Your deponent was then transfered into Col. Herman Swift's Regiment
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and in Capt. ____ Douglass' Company, where he continued untill the thirty first day of October AD Seventeen hundred and eighty three when he received his discharge at West Point from General Knox. That your deponent has now lost his said discharge - that your deponent in the year seventeen hundred and eighty five, left the said discharge either with one Nathan Herrick or James Patridge, for safe keeping, where he supposed and verily believed it still was untill a short time since, when the above persons were called upon, and no such paper could be found. 
And your Deponent further saith that he served as above stated untill the end of the Revolutionary War on the Continental establishment -- and that he is now in verry necessitous and indigent circumstances -- that he is fifty six years old and has a family, a wife who is very much enfeebled and six children one of whom is an ideot, perfectly helpless who is now twenty four years old -- that he is without property and no means of gaining a support but by his day labour
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by which he can gain but a scanty pittance -- and your deponent further saith that he has no other solace or consoling hope of relief, but the Revolutionary Bill which he trusts will admit his claim and thus reward him in some degree for his toils & hardships in atchieving our independence -- And that he now has no other evidence in his power of his services.
Done at Greenwich in the County of Washington this thirty first day of March AD 1818
[Signed] Jeremiah Bennett

State of New York 
Washington County ss. Greenwich the thirty first day of March AD. 1818 Personally appeared before me Jonathan Sprague one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in said County, Jeremiah Bennet, the signer of the above affidavit and made Oath that the same was true- 
And I hereby certify that it does fully appear to my satisfaction, that the said Jeremiah Bennet did so serve as stated in his sd [?] affidavit against the common enemy in the Revolutionary War, and that he is in my opinion a proper subject for a Pension under the Law of the United States "providing for persons engaged in the land and naval service of the same in the Revolutionary War." And I now transmit the proceedings & testimony
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Top:
taken & had before me, to the secretary for the department of war, pursuant to th directions of the aforementioned act of congress - 
Jonathan Sprague One of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Washington 

Center, crosswise:
Jerh. Bennet's 
Affidavit No. 2 
Direct to the care of John C. Walker, 
Greenwich County of Washington N. York 
Col. Van Cortlandt's N. York Regt. 
1781 for the War 
21st March 1818 
Admitted

Bottom:
State of New York} 
Washington County) I Daniel Shepherd Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Washington do certify that Jonathan Sprage Esqr by whom the above certificate was made is one of the Judges of the said Court Acting under the authority of the said State and that the above is his Signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this Second day of May 1818 
[Signed] D Shepherd Clk
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Declaration. In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7 July, 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" 
State of New York 
Fulton County ss.  on this twentieth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty Eight personally appeared before Abraham Morrell First Judge of the County Courts of the County of Montgomery (being Courts of record in said County & State) Lois Bennett, a resident of Johnstown in the County of Fulton & State aforesaid aged Seventy Eight 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" That she is the widow of Jeremiah Bennett of Easton in the County of Washington and State aforesaid deceased, who was a common soldier as private in the army as deponant has been informed and believes, that the said Jeremiah Barrett was inlisted for five years or during the war as deponant has been since then informed and believes. Deponant cannot state the day, month or year when the said Jeremiah
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Bennett entered the service nor the time when he left the same -  deponant cannot state whether the said Jeremiah Bennett was under more than one engagement  nor can deponant state the places [?] he served nor the rank and names of the officers under whom he served - deponant cannot state the Town County nor State in which the said Jeremiah Bennett resided when he entered the service but deponent is informed and believes he entered the service in the State Connecticut and whether he was drafted, was a Volunteer or substitute deponent cannot state nor can deponent state the battles in which the said Jeremiah Bennett was engaged nor the country through which he traveled and deponant has no documentary evidence in support of the claim except what may appear on the records of the war department. That the said Jeremiah Bennett was a pensioner at the time of his death, that he had been inscribed on the pension roll for many years before his death, that he drew his pension for many years at the City of New York as deponent is informed and believes. That one Barnsell [?] of Union Village Washington County generally attended to the servicing of said pension for the
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said Jeremiah Bennett as his agent or attorney as deponant thinks - That the said Jeremiah Bennett resided at Easton Washington County & State of New York when he was put on the pension roll as deponant believes and that he resided there at the time of his death. That he died on or about the second day of January 1828 (if deponant mistakes not) at Easton aforesaid. Deponant further declares that she was married to the said Jeremiah Bennett on the fifteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred & Eighty Seven in the town of Preston in the County of New London (thinks the name of the county is New London) in the State of Connecticut and that Levi Hart was the Clergyman before whom they were married. That her husband the aforesaid Jeremiah Bennett died on or about the 2d day of January A.D. 1828 as aforesaid, the precise time deponant does not now recollect. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz. at the time above stated. That deponants name was Lois Gates before she married the aforesaid Jeremiah Bennett and she resided in Preston aforesaid at the time of her marriage. That deponant never was married to any
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other person but the said Jeremiah Bennett. That the is now single and unmarried since the decease of the said Jeremiah Bennett deceased deceased as aforesaid. That deponant has seen the pension certificate of her late husband where it is or what has become of it deponent does not know.  That the papers of the said Jeremiah Bennett on file in the war department at Washington will give no doubt the necessary information, that he was pensioner as aforesaid.
Lois (X her mark) Bennet 

Sworn to and subscribed on the 20th day of September 1838
Before me
[Signed] Abm Morrell First Judge of the County Courts of the County of Montgomery


State of New York
Montgomery County ss. 
I certify that on the 20th day of September A.D. 1838 Lois Bennett known to me to be the Individual [illegible - mentioned?] and described in the above declaration appeared before me, made oath to the above declaration and under her oath declared it to be true. That she directed me to write her
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name to said declaration she being unable to write her name. That I accordingly wrote or subscribed her name thereto for the reason aforesaid and thereupon she made her mark thereto. That she is a credible person and that her declaration and oath as aforesaid made is entitled to credit. That the erasure on the 3d page in the 8" & 9" lines [illegible] under the words "at the name of the County is New London" were interlined before the said declaration was subscribed & sworn to. And I do further certify that the said Lois Bennett was confined to her Room and Bed at the time the said declaration was taken and that the said Lois Bennett cannot from bodily infirmity attend the Court. 
Given under my hand at Johnstown aforesaid this 20th day of September A.D. 1838
[Signed] Abm Morrell
First Judge of the County Courts of the County of Montgomery
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State of New York 
Montgomery County 
ss. Elisha Bennett of Johnstown County of Fulton being duly sworn says that Jeremiah Bennett the person named in the foregoing declaration was his father, that he is dead and died at Easton to County of Washington & State aforesaid on or about the Second day January A.D. 1828. -- That the said Jeremiah Bennett was a pensioner of the United States,  That deponent has seen the pension certificate but what has become of it deponant cannot state that whether the same is lost or mislaid in deponents opinion - Deponent further says that Lois Bennett the person who made the foregoing declaration is his mother, that she was the wife of the said Jeremiah Bennett deceased & is now the widow of said deceased and she resides in Johnstown in the County of Fulton and State of New York.  The above is true to the best of deponents knowledge & belief.
[Signed] Elisha Bennett
Sworn to and Subscribed this 20 day of September 1838}
Before me}
[Signed] Abm Morrell
First Judge of Monty. Co. Courts
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I William R. Jewett of Griswold in New London County State of Connecticut of Lawful age depose and say as pastor of the first Congregational Church and Society in Griswold, formerly, a part of Preston I have the custody of the Records of said Church in which are recorded the marriages in said society from the year 1720 to the present time, as appears from our Records by the different clergyman who were pastors of said church are in the order of their succession to the office of pastor. And I find on said record book on the page under the head "Record of Marriages" the following which is an exact copy except the date which which is written in legible words and figures. "Seventeen hundred eighty seven March fifteenth " "Jeremiah Bennett of Saratoga New York" and "Lois Gates of Preston" 
and I do certify that the following is a true copy of said record under the head "Record of Marriages" 
"1787. March 15th Jeremiah Bennett of Saratoga New York & Lois Gates of Preston" 
And I do depose and say that from an examination of said records I have no doubt but that said record was made by the Revd. Levi Hart
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and according to my belief in his hand-writing and from said record it appears that the said Hart was Pastor of said Church & Society (then in Preston) from the year 1762 to the year 1808.
And do depose and any that I hold the office of Pastor of said Church and Society and as such have the custody of said records and that the aforesaid copies are true copies of records with the exception aforesaid.
Griswold Sept. 8th 1838.
[Signed] William R. Jewitt Pastor of said Church and Society

New London County ss. Griswold Sept. 8th 1838 
Then personally appeared the Revd William R. Jewitt signer of the foregoing deposition a person to me well known as a credible witness and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed in my presence.
Attest. Samuel C. Morgan Justice of the Peace in and for New London County
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Rev.
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 23591
Lois Bennett
widow of
Jeremiah Bennett
Pri Rev War
Act: Feb 29 48
Index:-Vol. A, Page 55
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Albany 929
Lois Bennett
widow of Jeremiah Bennett
who was a pensioner under the Act of 18. March 1818
and who died on the 22d. January 1828
of Fulton Co. in the State of New York. York
who was a Private in the [blank] commanded
by Captain [blank] of the Regt commanded
by Col. Van Cortland in the N. York
line for 2 years

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

Certificate of Pension issued the 10. day of Nov.
1838 and sent to Aaron Haring, Johnstown, N.Y.

Arrears to the 4th of Sep. '38.   200.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar. '39.  40.00
[=] $240.00

{Act of July 7, 1838.}

Recorded by D. Brown Clerk
Book A. Vol. 2 Page 67
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1106.
New York   Albany
Lois Bennett
widow of Jeremiah Bennett
who was a Private
in the N.Y. line
for 2 years

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
25th day of July, 1843
and sent to Eli. E. Jenkins, Johnstown N. York

[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A. Vol. 4. Page 101.
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Crosswise:
1825
Sept. 24.
NY.
7 July 1838.

FREE [postage]
James L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

[Postmark]
Johnstown N.Y.
SEP 24
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Dear Sir
I enclose you the Pension papers of Lois Bennett and as soon as the decision is made please forward to me the result
Respectfully
Aaron Haring

Johnstown 21st Sept. 1838
Fulton County N.Y.
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Ebenezer Shelly's
Afidavit [sic]
No. 2.
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State of New York 
Washington County  ss.
Ebenezer Shelly being duly sworn deposeth and Saith, that he was a soldier of the Revolutionary Army on the Continental establishment and that he well knows that while he was in the service as aforesaid, he knew Jeremiah Bennet the person who has subscribed & made oath to the affidavit accompanying and that he was a soldier of the same regiment - being in the third Connecticut Regiment commanded by Col. Samuel B. Webb, that he knew the said Bennet at West Point at the time & that he now knows him. And your deponent further saith that the said Bennet is actually in very indegent circumstances 
Done at Greenwich in the County afd this thirty first day of March AD. 1818 
[Signed] Ebenr. Shelley 

State of New York 
Washington County ss. 
Personally appeared before me Jonathan Sprague one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid, Ebenezer Shelly the signer of the above affidavit and made that the same was true. 
[Signed] Jonathan Sprague 
One of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Washington
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State of New York} 
Washington County} ss.  I Daniel Shepherd Clerk of the court of Common Pleas of the County of Washington do certify that Jonathan Sprague Esqr by whom the annexed Certificate was made is one of the Judges of the said Court acting under the authority of the said State and that the name Jonathan Sprague thereto subscribed is his Signature In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court the 23d day of April 1818. [Signed] D Shepherd Clk
[SEAL?]

Crosswise:
Ebenezer Shelly
Afidavit [sic]
No. 2.
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Johnstown May 19, 1843

James L. Edwards Esq.
Commr. of Pensions

Sir,
Enclosed I transmit the applications of Mary Sammons, Rebecca Sherman and Lois Bennett for pensions under Act of 3 Mch 1843.
Respectfully Your obt Servt
[Signed] Chas. E Jenkins
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LB
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1106
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State of New York 
Fulton County ss. On this twelvth [sic] day of October 1848 personally appeared before me James W Johnson a Justice of the peace in and for said County, Lois Bennet a resident of the town of Johnstown in said County aged about ninety five years 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 2d February 1848 granting pensions to Widows of persons who Served during the revolutionary war, that she is the widow of Jeremiah Bennet who was a private in the Militia in which he Served, and the annual amount of pension which she received under the act of 17th June 1844, was Eighty dollars per annum - And she further declares she is still a widow 
the words "of the town of Johnstown" interlined
Lois (X  her mark) Bennet 
Witness 
[Signed] Mary Jane Bennett 

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written 
before me.   [Signed] James W. Johnson, Justice of the peace. 
I further certify that Lois Bennet is to me personally well known & that the reason she does not write her name is on account of extreme age & loss of sight. 
[Signed] James W. Johnson  Jus Peace 

State of New York}
Fulton County Clerk's Officess} [sic]
I Stephen Wait Clerk of said County do certify that James W Johnson Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit & declaration
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purports to have been taken was at the date and time of taking the same a Justice of the peace in and for said County dwelling in said County and legally authorized to act as such, and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice of the peace in and for said County, and verily believe his signature to the foregoing Jurat & Certificate is his genuine signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of said County this 18th day of October AD 1848
[Signed] S. Wait Clerk
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Kingston Fulton County N.Y.
Oct 17th 1848

Sir
Elisha Bennet the son of Lois Bennet with whom she resides says his Mother first drew a Pension under the act of 1836 for five years & he thinks some two [erased?] years elapsed after that time expired before she drew a pension again. Should that be the fact could she draw a pension for that time.
Respectfully Your &c
J.W. Johnson
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Lois Bennett

Admitted
Private 2 years

Aaron Haring Esqr
Johnstown
New York

Crosswise: 1825
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State of New York 
Montgomery County ss. 
Aaron Haring of Johnstown County of Fulton & State aforesaid being duly sworn says that he was acquainted with Jeremiah Bennett deceased, that he was a pensioner of the United States, that Lois Bennett the person who made the foregoing declaration is the widow of the said deceased, that she resides in Johnstown County of Fulton and State aforesaid. The above is true to the best of deponants knowledge & belief, that I was present when she made her declaration but from the circumstances believe and have no doubt that she is the widow of the deceased Pensioner
[Signed] Aaron Haring 

Subscribed & sworn to this 20th day of September 1838}
Before me
[Signed] Abm Morrell 
First Judge County Courts of the County of Montgomery
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State of New York 
Montgomery county ss.
I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Elisha Bennett who subscribed & made oath to the above deposition, that he is a credible person and his signature is entitled to credit 
Given under my hand this 20 September 1838
[Signed] Abm Morrell  First Judge of Montgomery County Courts

State of New York 
Montgomery County ss 
I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted Arron Haring who made oath to the deposition above subscribed by him and have been acquainted with him for more than thirty years last past, that the said Aaron Haring is a credible person and that the deposition subscribed
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by him as aforesaid is entitled to credit Given under my hand this 20th day of September A.D. 1838 
[Signed] Abm Morrell First Judge of Montgomery County Courts 

State of New York)
Montgomery County} 
Clerks office ss.} 
I do hereby certify that the above named Abraham Morrell Esqr whose name is Subscribed to the Jurats of the foregoing affidavits & proceedings was on the day of the date of the Same first Judge of Montgomery County Courts as therein stated and duly authorized by the Laws of the said State to administer Oaths and that his Signature Subscribed to the same is gamine, 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of my office this 20th day of September 1838 
[Signed] A. J. Comrie Clerk
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1266
Lois Bennett
$80 per anm

Ch E. Jenkins
Johnstown
N. York
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STATE OF NEW-YORK,} 
County of Fulton} ss. 
On this Eighteenth day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-three before the subscriber, a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared Lois Bennett a resident of the town of Johnstown in said county, aged Eighty this year 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 persons who served during the revolutionary war: 
That she is the widow of Jeremiah Bennett who was a private in the revolutionary Army & was a pensioner under act of 18 March 1818 and she refers for proof of the regiments in which he served to the papers sent on to the War Department by him when he applied for a pension 
She further declares that she was a 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 and owing to infirmity cannot write.  
She further declares that she is still a widow. 
Lois ( X her mark) Bennett 
Witness Chas E Jenkins
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written.}
[Signed]  Jas. T. Hildreth Justice of the Peace 

X Certify that the above declarant is personally known to me. 
[Signed]  Jas. T. Hildreth Justice of the Peace 

STATE OF NEW YORK,}
County of Fulton} ss.  I, Stephen Wait clerk of said county, do hereby certify that James T. Hildreth, was on the day of the date of the 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 Eighteenth day of May 1843.
[Signed] S. Wait Clerk