Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17838, Justus Bellamy, Conn.
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Conn. Bellamy, Justus  S.17838
                                   carded
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New York 28.599
Justus Bellamy
of Leeds Co in the State of Upper Canada
who was a Prvt and Sgt in the Company commanded by Capt Martin in the Regiment commanded by Col Waterbury in the Connecticut  militia
time for 12 mo Private
                  2 1/2 " Sergeant
Inscribed on the roll of New York
at the rate of 32 dollars 50 cents per annum 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834
Certificate of Pension issued the 16th day of April
1834 and sent to
Hon. R. Gillet
Arrears to the date of 4th of March 1834 $157.50
Semi-anl. allowance ending Sept. 1834 26.25
$183.75
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by Sam St. Page Clerk
Book E Vol. 4 Page 16

Right side
See letter to P. Degt[sp?] June 26th 183[?]
[hard to read] Sept. 20 1834
to R. H. Gillet 10. Aug. 1840 [Note Justus died in Sept. 1840]
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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. Laurence County
     On this eighteenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of St. Lawrence, now sitting, Justus Bellamy, a resident of the town of Augusta, in the Country of Leeds in the Province of Upper Canada, aged seventy-six years, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits 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 shortly after the battle of Lexington at the commencement of the Revolutionary War, in the spring of the year 1775, this deponent volunteered at Chesire in the state of Connecticut, with the militia, to go to Boston, and was mustered under Captain Robert Martin and Lieutenant Reubin Rice, of Chesire aforesaid, about the last of March or first of April, and marched for Boston aforesaid. There was about one hundred men out at this time. He does not recollect of there being any field officers with them. Deponent and the other officers and soldiers marched for Boston and went to within some ten or twenty miles of Boston, when they were ordered to hold, and Deponent and his
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comrads [sic] staid [sic] there about one week and then marched back to Chesire aforesaid and were discharged when he returned to Chesire. No written discharge was given to this deponent. Deponent believes that of this period he served one month. That within a day or two after this deponent returned, he and five other young men of the same age enlisted at Chesire aforesaid in a Company commanded by Captain James [something crossed out] Arnold, deponent believes for six months. It was a condition of this enlistment that the six should mess together. One Nathaniel Bunnell was our Lieutenant and one Tyler was Ensign. We mustered, Deponent believes, at Durham, Ct. This enlistment dates back, as Deponent understood it, to the time the order issued for raising the Troops. The Regiment was under the command of Genl Wooster, who was then called General, though he seemed to act as a Colonel! One Waterbury was our Lieutenant Colonel. We joined the Regiment at Horseneck [Now Greenwich]. Deponent understood the troops then raised and to which Deponent was attached, were Connecticut state troops. We laid at Horseneck about one month and we then marched to the City of New York. General Wooster sent, one day, early in the morning, for this Deponent to come to his quarters. Deponent went. Genl. Wooster asked this deponent, if he would go on a tour and endeavor to take General Skeen, who was then in New York, and was supposed to be on his way to Canada. Deponent answered that he would do his best to accomplish
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the business. Deponent was informed that he Genl. Skeen went in disguise, but that he wore a blanket coat and rode in a French Caleche and drove a French horse. Genl. Wooster told this deponent that he might pick any six out of his company to go with him, and directed Deponent to pursue Gen Skeen as far as Dobbs Ferry fourteen [miles] above the City of New York. Deponent went and selected his five messmates and one Jared Hitchcock and went in pursuit of Genl Skeen. We over took him at the ferry just as he was putting off from the shore in the ferry boat. When we went aboard he told us that we should all be massacred in one hour if we attempted to take him back. He used a great many threats to deter us from arresting him and taking him back. We however took him back to New York and delivered him up to Genl. Wooster. Genl. Washington was at his quarters at the time. We went from New York to Dobb's ferry in an hour and fifty minutes on foot and we returned to New York in less than five hours from the time we started. We took him back in his carriage, and to guard him two went before the carriage, two behind, and one on each side. Deponent came along without reference to any particular place to have travel, but kept so as to superintend the whole movement. General Wooster and General Washington complimented us highly for our exploit in taking so important
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a prisoner. Deponent cannot state what time this was. Deponent says that about a week from this time General Wooster again sent for this deponent and handed him a pair [of] pistols and a sword and a letter to Governor Trumbull of Connecticut, and requested him to take his six associates in taking Genl Skeen and to take charge of him again and convey him to Govn Trumbull at Hartford Connecticut. General Wooster informed us when we got our prisoner to Hartford, we might go home and stay one week and then return to New York. We did take Genl Skeen to Hartford and delivered him to Governor Trumbull and took a receipt from him for the prisoner and a letter to Genl Wooster, and after visiting at home five days we returned to New York and again joined the army at Harlaem, to which place it had been removed during our absence. Shortly after we returned, we were sent to Long Island, to a place called the "fire place" and then marched to Montauk Point, and then we went on an excursion to Plumb Island to keep the British from driving away the stock there. We exchanged a few shot with their men who came for cattle and they retreated and we took the cattle away and returned to Harlaem, where we lay a short time, when we were ordered to Canada. We immediately marched up the North River and halted at Greenbush opposite Albany and staid there a few
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days.  One day when [we] were paraded, Genl Wooster informed us that our term of enlistment was about out and that he should not go any further without we engaged to go ahead and stand by him until the end of the Canada Campaign. He said he wished all who were sick or lame or had the rheumatism to step out and they might go home. Deponent thinks that six or seven stepped out forward of the line, as being unable or unwilling to go. Genl Wooster then commenced limping like a lame man and asked if there were no more lame or had the rheumatism in his whole army, and after doing so a minute or two all returned to the ranks save two, who were discharged by the Genl on the spot. Genl Wooster then praised his men and remarked that with such troops, he could go to Hell and back with them all safe, and from thence we marched [something crossed out] to St. Johns in Canada. We went by way of Lake George. This was in the fall of the year. We arrived at St. Johns in November. We went from Ticonderoga down Lake Champlain to St. Johns in Boats. Genl Schuyler and some troops were at this time at Ticonderoga. We landed above St. Johns. Deponent steered the Boat which carried Capt James Arnold and his company. Genl. Wooster directed Capt. Arnold to bring up the rear and see that no man was left behind. We struck a brush heap just as we landed, which turned over - Captain Arnold and Deponent staid in the boat and handed out the guns to one Jones who handed them to the men.
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We made the Boat fast and went ashore and we joined Genl Montgomery at the North encampment. When Genl Montgomery and Genl Wooster met, Genl Montgomery said, "I  welcome you to this place - I am heartily glad to see you. My commission is older than yours and I must command, and I think it a God damned shame - I am but a young man and you are an old man experienced in war. I shall always take your advice as a son would that of his father. The night after we were on fatigue in erecting a battery against Fort St. John's, which was occupied by the British. Deponent and one other person, a stranger to this Deponent, were selected by Genl Wooster and Col. Waterbury to go and reconnoiter above the fort to see how things were set up and what was going on. We went out accordingly. The British threw up sky rockets and discovered us, and when we were a little separated, they captured the person with Deponent. Deponent was informed at the time, that he told the British  that Genl Wooster has come on with 1.500 [sic 1,500?][fifteen hundred] troops and he feared the fort would be all blown to pieces within three days and requested them to put him in a secure place. [Some small writing above this line - When the place was taken we found him, he had been in the bombproof.] This exaggerated account of General Wooster's strength was intended to alarm the British, for in truth he had only about 300 men with him. The next day after we build out breast work, the British demolished it, and then we proceeded to erect
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one of more strength, on which we placed three cannons. They fired shot and hove shells at us, but did not destroy our works. Deponent was at work reinforcing the works when Genl Montgomery came up and put his hand on Deponent's shoulder and sprang up on the top of the breast work to see if it was as it should be, and the instant he stuck his feet on top, a cannon shot passed him and cut off the skirt of his coat and turned him around and he pitched into the breast work, but stuck upon his feet, but this did not seem to hurt or frighten him. 
   As soon as our cannon were fired, we brought balls on our shoulders to the works, to be used. Deponent on this occasion brough six twelve-pound cannon shot about half a mile on his shoulders in the leg of his old trousers, and he carried them across his shoulders, three on one side and three on the other. Before he arrived at the breast work, a soldier got tired of his load, who had but three, and threw one down and deponent picked it up and arrived at the breast work with seven balls. We commenced firing and kept it up for three days, and we on the third day got a thirteen inch mortar going and threw one shell into the top of a chimney, which went down and exploded within three feet of the powder magazine. 
   On the fourth night we were all mustered to storm the fort and got within about a hundred yards, a parley was beat by the British, and we withdrew to our camp and laid upon our arms all
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night, and with orders to turn out at the beat of the tattoo[underlined], and not at the beat to arms. A flag of truce came from the fort, and a parley was held at Genl Wooster and Genl Montgomery's markee. The British officer offered to come out and march off to Montreal and Quebec and go home to England and not take up arms again during the war. These terms were not accepted, and the British officers returned to the fort and our officers ordered the tattoo[underlined] beat and we all marched toward the fort again and then another parley was sounded by the British and we all returned to camp again and received the same orders as before, and then a flag of truce came again from the British and The British[crossed out] They agreed to capitulate and march out in the morning and surrender themselves as prisoners of war and to be treated as such and no guns to be fired on either side - This was to be done at nine o'clock the next morning - We were all kept up that night and doubled our guards and kept in situation to act to the best possible advantage. Genl. Wooster himself took deponent and situated him in a little by path which was a crooked route] past our lines to the British fort. Deponent was stationed in a thick brushy place where it was dark, and Genl Wooster told him not to fire, if he could avoid it at all but if any person came to bring him to his quarters. The dark spot selected was a spot where the ground was low and it being
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a very wet time deponent stood in water about six inches deep, and the weather being very cold,  snow having begun to fall occasionally, Deponent suffered very much with the cold. About midnight a man run against Deponent's bayonet. Deponent told him to stop or he would be a dead man and to move out of the brush at the point of his bayonet and if he attempted to escape he would be blown through. Deponent saw him put something into his mouth, but he could not tell what it was because it was so dark. Deponent took him to Genl Wooster and informed the General of all the particulars. The General searched him, but could find nothing and he affirmed that he had nothing about him. He would not talk much. The General compelled him to take physic and kept a guard over him. Deponent staid by him all night, tho he had not slept at all in three nights. In about two hours after taking the physic, the prisoner discharged a ball, which on being examined was found to be of silver and went together with a screw and on taking it apart it contained a small bit of paper on which was written these words "Hold out and  you shall be relieved." In the morning the British marched out with their arms six deep and laid them down and surrendered themselves prisoners of war - Our lines, which were only one file deep, was about the same length of theirs, which was six deep. Major Prescott, who commanded them, came up in front
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of when deponent stood and said that "In obedience to what has been done, I lay down my arms, but of choice I had rather die by them" and the tears run down his cheeks and he cried like a child. The British were then taken on board our Lake craft and sailed for Ticonderoga under Commodore Douglass, as he was called. Capt. Cook and his company marched into the fort and  took and kept possession. I was on that morning transferred to Capt Cook's company and promoted to the Office of Orderly Sergeant. This was late in November. Under the enlistment under Captain Arnold Deponent served as he believes seven months and a half. On joining Capt Cook's company this deponent found their requisition for provision had not been answered and Capt Cook sent deponent to attend it. When deponent went to Commissary Waters he said the requisition was not right, and pointed Deponent to his desk to see a form that was right - Deponent then wrote one out and signed the Captain's name by Deponent as orderly sargeant[sic], then Deponent got the provisions. In about one hour General Wooster sent for Deponent , and Deponent asked Capt Cook to go up with deponent as he feared trouble for having used the Captain's name as he did. Capt Cook went. When we arrived Genl Wooster said "I am going to present you with a quarter Master Sargeant's Warrant, and I wish you to take
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charge of the provisions that are here and those that are coming on and send them on to my orders, as I am going to leave for Montreal. Depondent told him that it would be hard for Deponent to leave Capt Cook as neither he nor either of his sergeants could write, but Deponent would accept the new appointment and perform both duties , and Deponent did do so until the 25th of December , when deponent was compelled to leave on account of ill health. 
At this time Deponent served as Quarter Master Sargeant and also as Orderly Sargeant one month and a half, as he believes. [In left hand margin note 1 1/2 months as Quarter Master Sgt]. Genls Montgomery and Wooster went with all the forces except Capt Cook's Company to Montreal. On the 23rd of December aforesaid, Captain Arnold returned, and deponent on account of his continued ill health, occasioned very much by standing in the water as above mentioned, was permitted to join Capt Arnold's company and we went down the lake in Boats, and when we got to Benington, Vt. we had eat up all our provisions and Capt. Arnold said he had no more for us, and we must take care of ourselves, and we then went home to Chesire[sic], where deponent arrived about the middle of February. At this time after, Deponent discontinued to perform the duties of Quarter Master Sargeant at St. Johns one month and two-thirds expired before Deponent reached home
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Deponent's illness increased, and on the second day after he arrived home he had to take himself to his bed and was not able to get out of it for two months, and the Doctors all concluded that Deponent must die, and that this disease was occasion by extreme exposure in the army. Dr. Patten among other physicians called and on asking Deponent what he wanted, Deponent told him he wished to drink cider out of his mother's silver tankard. The Doctor said Deponent might drink as much as Deponent pleased. On it's being brought, Deponent drank of it and Deponent began to mend slowly and so on got so as to set up. One day when the family was dinner Deponent was sitting in an easy chair near the fire he felt  an extraordinary feeling about his feet and ankles and which seemed to feel precisely as he felt when standing in the water at St. Johns above referred to and while this sensation was powerfully felt, the wood on the fire fell down and on deponent's attempting to reach the tongs to put it up he pitched forward onto the fire. Deponent's father at that instant stepped into the room and caught deponent by the left arm and pulled him back and in so doing pulled his shoulder out of joint. On this being set, Deponent gained slowly and was able to walk out at the May training of the militia, and on that occasion this deponent was chosen orderly sargeant in Captain Ephraim Cook's Company, a distant relation. [Note in left margin "3 months sick at home and unable to perform being sgt."]
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of the Captain Cook Deponent left at St. Johns. Sometime during the same month of May Capt Cook's Company was called out to march to New York. We were mustered at Chesire and went to New York and one Thaddeus Cook was our Colonel. At Norwalk Ct. we went aboard of sloops and sailed to New York and there we remained until after the battle of Long Island. The night after the battle this Deponent assisted in bringing our men from Long Island and he recollects that he crossed to the Island eleven times in a boat on that night. That night or in the afternoon of the day previous General Sullivan was taken prisoner by the British and was afterwards exchanged for Genl Skeen (who was taken by this Deponent) as Deponent then understood. Deponent then remained in New York until our army was driven out by the British. On the retreat from the city Deponent was drafted into the rear to guard the Baggage and Cannon. On the retreat to Haralem on[or?] King's Bridge we were all the way fired at by the British and cut off amazingly, and Deponent expected to be killed but resolved to sell his life as dearly as possible. We made a sort of fortification of rails at Harlem Heights a little west of the road. We soon found ourselves surrounded and on finding no words of commands given and on looking about there was no person in Command, or that ranked higher than Deponent. Deponent
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then counted and saw that of all there were but 70 left. He immediately took charge and said to the men that at it was best to mount on top of the rails and get them fire at us and then fall back and then pounce upon them in their smoke. We did so and when they were reloading we rushed up on them with our bayonets and cut all who went in front of us them[crossed out] down.  When we felt that we touched them with our bayonets, we pulled trigger and fired and in this way cut them all down when we met them. [we went right through their ranks and filed (all crossed out).] Our different platoons each met them in this way as they approached, but at the same time our party kept retreating as fast at the enemy formed and came up. When we had retreated as far as the wood, when we filed off and went to the road, and when we had passed a small fortification, we saw General Washington coming on a gray horse and the British cavalry after him. We opened to the right and left and let him pass. When the British horse came up, the front rank kneeled down and set their bayonets so as to strike their horses in their breast, and the rear ranks stood up and fired at the horsemen. They were cut down, and the riders were thrown from their horses, and we stopped their progress, and they returned and gave up the chase. We crossed over King's Bridge and remained there then from four to six weeks, on what was called
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St. Valentine's Hill. Deponent believes, but he is not certain, that he remained there until General Washington went to White Plains  and then Genl Wooster, with the army to which Deponent belonged, went to Horseneck [now Greenwich Ct.]  where we went into winter Quarters - more than one half and probably two thirds of Deponent's company were dead and gone home sick. We remained there through the winter. We kept a guard, called a Captain's Guard, at a house called Jagger's House, about ten miles towards New York from Horseneck. At this time Deponent's father was in the same company when Deponent served, and acted as a Lieutenant. His name was Aaron Belomy[sic]. Captain Cook went home sick before or about this time and one Amos Hotchkiss had been promoted to the office of Captain in his place - Captain Hotchkiss, when the British cavalry were approaching from new York, Deponent thinks they were then called Delancy's House, and were the same that we drove back who were chasing Genl. Washington as above mentioned, thought best to retreat from Jagger's house. Deponent opposed this and proposed to go into the house, close the lower story, and knock out the upper windows and fire from thence. To this the Captained assented and in a short time the British cavalry retired to their Quarters near Kings Bridge and we returned back to the main army leaving only a small guard at this place.
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A short time, say two weeks after, the same cavalry attacked a guard at this place and on the guard attempting to retreat they were nearly all cut off. Nothing else of note occurred until the spring opened. We staid at Horseneck until Spring and he thinks until the last of May  and we were discharged and arrived home the last of May. And Deponent further says that of this time he served he thinks one year as an Orderly Sargeant.[In lefthand margin "1 year or so Ord Sargeant"] Deponent thinks this return must have been in May 1777 -
  Before leaving the army Genl. Wooster offered this deponent a Lieutenant's Commission and the Duty of an Adjutant in the Continental army, but Deponent having contracted and arranged to be married at Cheshire he declined accepting the office.
  Deponent and his father then hired one man to serve for them during the war, which was to clear Deponent and his father from service during the war.
  Deponent then continued at home with his family for some time. 
  Afterwards and deponent thinks in 1788[sic][1778] when the British were marching for Danbury to destroy it, Deponent volunteered with the body of the militia and served under Capt Ephraim Cook in Col Thaddeus Cook's regiment. We went to Norwalk in Connecticut and staid there until the British [marched [crossed out]]sailed down the Sound. We had a break with them before they embarked, at Compo, when they embarked.
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At this time, one of our Adjutants named Goodrich got hemmed in by the British on a Marsh and was in great danger of being taken and Deponent and 30 men went to his relief. Capt Symon, a British officer, was close in pursuit, but we got Goodrich off clear! In getting off Capt. Symon made a set to of this deponent and ordered his men to take deponent. Deponent was left pretty much all alone and deponent drew up his musket and shot Capt Symon down, but afterwards he recovered. Deponent then run and jumped over a fence and in getting over he found he had fallen in with a large number of British soldiers. He then run to go past a house when he was fired at in another quarter from a field piece. The ball passed into the house about eight feet above his head, but the hay with which it was wadded hit this Deponent on the back of the neck and knocked him over. The first thing deponent knew after this he was across the road and over the fence and endeavoring to escape through the orchard. Deponent run three fourths of a mile under a fence until he come to an inlet from the Sound and when he got there he fell down entirely exhausted - Here he was shot at but not hurt and on being rested a little he finished loading his gun and gave his pursuers a shot. Immediately several guns were fired at Deponent and then deponent escaped and joined his friends. Deponent and friends gave several shots at
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the British and then the British all retreated to their ships.
  Deponent well recollects of hearing that when he was knocked over with the hay wad, that the father of the Present United States Senator Mr. Foot of Connecticut remarked to Deponent's father that he would never see Justus (this Deponent) again. The troops staid some days watching Genl Arnold's (the traitor) movements and then returned home - At this time Deponent was absent and served as an orderly sargeant[sic], as near as he can recollect, one month. [In left margin "1 month orderly Seagt"].
  Deponent then remained at home until the regiment was called out again by Col Cook. Deponent carried the orders from the Col to each of his Captains. When this was, Deponent cannot recollect, but he thinks it was after Danbury was burned. At this time Deponent mustered as orderly sargeant in Captain Ephraim Cook's Company. We were at New Haven some ten days. Deponent believes that from the time he first started from home on this occasion until he returned he was gone about two weeks and served all the time as an orderly sargeant[sic]. [In left-hand margin "1/2 month as Ord Sargt"].
  Deponent did not at any time of being discharged receive a written discharge, and he has no evidence of his services within his reach other than what he has annexed hereunto.
  Deponent after this resided in Chesire[sic] aforesaid with his family, until
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About a year afterwards and then deponent removed to Great Barrington in Massachusetts and staid there about one year, and then removed back to Chesire and staid there until sometime after the close of the war, and he then removed to Vergennes VT where he remained until 1816. From thence Deponent removed to Whitehall in the state of New York where deponent staid about two years. From thence Deponent returned to Vergennes Vt where Deponent staid until 1826, when deponent being very poor and unable to support himself went on invitation to live with his son who offered him a home in Canada where he still remains. Deponent says that his wife died in Vergennes Vt about 1813. Deponent says that he has now living fourteen children and that he is poor and has no property. 
  Deponent further says that during the last war he was invited by Col. Jenkins of the state of New York and who belonged to the same company? as Deponent aforesaid? to accept the appointment of public storekeeper of Vergennes Vt, which Deponent accepted.
  Deponent continued in that place for two years and a half and constantly received and issued provisions as they were wanted for the army and recruiting stations there. For this service and for a large sum of money expended in procuring provisions for army, this deponent never receivedone cent from Government or from
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any person, or people whatsoever, which is the reason of this deponent being in such poor and destitute circumstances.
  Deponent was born in Chesire Ct. Deponent has no record of his age . Deponent's father had one of it in his bible but he does not know where that is. Deponent has always understood that he was christened by the Reverend Samuel Hall of the town of Chesire aforesaid.
  Deponent resided at Chesire aforesaid when called into service and has resided at the places above stated since that time, and was called out as above stated.
  Deponent has stated the names of all his officers as far as he can, and he cannot state any circumstances further than above stated.
  Deponent never received a written discharge from the army for any enlistment or service.  Deponent never received commission in the army of the revolution. Deponent received a warrant as a Quarter Master Sargeant and received warrants as an orderly sargeant, all of which are lost or destroyed long ago.
  Deponent knows Judge Rubells Attwood? of Norfolk Ct and Hon Saml. A. Foot of Chesire Ct. who can testify to his character and reputation. 
  In the neighborhood where deponent resides, there is no person known to the Court of Common Pleas in St. Laurence Country who can attest to his character and circumstances.
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Deponent 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.
Sworn and Subscribed
the day and year
aforesaid
A. C. Donnely         Justus Bellamy

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and Served as he States.

Name? Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the Country of St. Lawrence do hereby Certify that foregoing Contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application [of] Justus Bellamy for a pension. 

In testimony whereof 
I have hereunto set my hand and 
affixed the seal of said Court
the 26th day December 1833
 J C Smelk?
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17838
INVALID.
No. 17.838
Justus Bellamy
Srgt. Gen. ?
Act June 7th 32
Index: - Vol.  , Page 423
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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This soldier did not capture 
Gen Skene as alleged
by him, the Skenes
father and son were 
both Majors  the father 
was captured at Bur-
goynes surrender and 
the son near Skensborough
in 1775 by some of
Col. Herricks men

see Lossing
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State of Vermont
City of Vergennes  Mr. William H. White Clerk
of the City of Vergennes and Enoch D. Woodridge of said City both in the County of Addison and State of Vermont testify and say that we have examined the records of said City and find that Smith Booth Esq on the 3rd and 8th days of April D 1818 was mayor of said City of Vergennes and Chief Judge of the City Court thereof. And we further say that we have examined the signatures of the said Smith Booth as Mayor of said City Clerk the 3rd and 8th days of April D. 1818 annexed to the application of Justus Bellamy for a pension as a revolutionary soldier under the act of Congress of 1818 is in the own proper hand writing of the said Smith Booth, the both of us having been long and well acquainted with the said Booth and with his hand writing - And we further say that the said Booth since the date of said certificate has deceased.
City of Vergennes Oct. 10 1833
William H. White [signed]
E. D. Woodridge [signed]
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State of Vermont
City of Vergennes   I, John D. Ward?, Mayor of the City of Vergennes and Chief Judge of the City Court thereof hereby certify that on this 11th day of October AD 1833, personally appeared before me the said Mayor William H. White and Enoch D. Woodridge to me personally known who made solemn oath that the within affidavit by them subscribed is true. And I further certify that the said deponents are in my opinion credible witnesses.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of said City of Vergennes to be hereunto affixed. And I have also caused the seal of said City to be affixed to the certificates of the said Smith Booth as Mayor of said City of Vergennes this 11th day of October AD 1833.
                     John Ward? Mayor [signed]
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Hon R. H. Gillet
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State of New York
St. Lawrence County  Russell Attwater of Norfolk in said County being duly sworn, testifies and says that he has been acquainted with Justus Bellamy since the year 1773, at that time he lived in the Town of Cheshire State of Connecticut and for several years thereafter, that in July 1779 the British troops landed at New Haven Connecticut. the militia in the town of Cheshire all turned out to repel the enemy, at which time J. Bellamy belonged to the militia and this deponent believed said Bellamy was then in service, but being wounded in the early part of the action which confined this deponent for about a year does not know how long said Bellamy then served. Said Bellamy has through life sustained a good reputation and full credit is to be given to his declaration.
Sworn and subscribed
before me this 16th day of 
October 1833   Russell Attwater [signed]
Phineas Attwater Justice of the Peace

      Washington 6th Jany 1834
  
       This certifies that I have been acquainted with Jusus Bellamy from my Infancy and so far as I have ever known, he is a man of truth and veracity and any statements made by him are to be entitled to full credit.
    Sam A. Foot
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I am well acquainted with Rupert Attwater who signed the within affidavit and his statements are entitled to credit. The said affidavit and signature are his proper hand writing. I further certify that Phineas Attwater whose name is signed to the Surot? in said Affidavit is a Justice of the Peace of St. Lawrence County and authorized to administer oaths and his own proper hand writing is signed thereto. 
Dated Feby 7 1834?   R. H. Gillet
                                   Hon.? R&R?
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Waterbury's Regt not on 
the Container? Estate?
lishment, ? for
Pension inadmisible?
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State of Vermont. City of Vergennes Mayor's 
Office April 3d 1818.
                                   I Smith Booth
                              Mayor of said City and
                              Chief Judge of the City
                              Court, do certify that I
                              am satisfied that Justus 
                              Bellamy served in the
                              Revolutionary war as stated
in his affidavit by him sworn and
subscribed too[sic] before me this day in witness
whereof I have herunto subscribed my 
name and affixed the seal of said
City the day and year above.
            Smith Booth Mayor [signed]

we whose names are herunto
subscribed do Certify that Justus Bellamy
of this place is in reduced circumstances
and has not any property left except Household
Furnature so far as we are able to 
Judge. 
Vergennes. 3rd April
1818.
[Signed to the right of Judge, place, and dates lines]
Saml. Strong of Erangant?
Abel Tomlinson
JOhn H. Sherril Port Ar?
Smith Booth Mayor of [said?] City
Thomas Byrd Cl. of said? City
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I Justus Bellamy of the City of Vergennes in the County of Addison and State of Vermont do say that on or about the first of April AD 1775 I enlisted a private soldier into Capt James Arnold's company in the continental service, and joined the Regiment commanded by Col Waterbury at Horseneck [now Greenwich Ct.] in the month of May following.  We were then under the command of Genl. Wooster, from Horseneck we were marched to New York and from thence were ordered and marched into Canada and joined the American Army under the command of Genl Montgomery? and was there at the taking of St. Johns [Fort St. Jean], after which the company to which I belonged returned, and we were discharged at or near Bennington the last of Janry or first of February following, and I received my pay in the month of May following from Capt. Arnold. Sworn and subscribed before me. 
Dated at Vergennes     Justus Bellamy [signed]
April 3d 1818
Smith Booth Mayor [signed]
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I John Benham of Ferrisburgh in the County
of Addision and State of Vermont do testify
and say that I belonged to Capt. James Arnold's 
company and that I am knowing to Justus
Bellamy's having served in the Revolutionary
War the time and manner as stated in 
his affidavit. Sworn and subscribed
before me this 3d day of April 1818.
Smith Booth Mayor [signed]  John Benham [signed]
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Justus Bellamy this day appeared before
me and made oath that henow is an ever has
been a Citizen of the United States And that he
is in Low and reduced circumstances and stands in need
of support from his Country.
                                        Justus Bellamy [signed]
Sworn and subscribed before me
this 8th day of April 1818
Smith Booth Mayor [signed]
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[Postmark or date stamp]
   Mr. Gillet & Myers
                     Consollors?
   Ogdensburgh
Page 37

Augusta Uppercanada March 24 AD 1834

I Received your of yr 18 Inflest? and I understand by 
My son Saml J. Bellamy that Goverment are 
Not Satisfied that I did more than one year
Service that they will give me fifty dollars a year
and three years Back pay. I have but one Request
It is my Humble Prayer that the President
Should Record my Account of Service and will be
Satisfied with What Ever they Please to give
Me. I am Dear Sir your Humble Servant -
                            Justus Bellamy [signed]
Mr. Gillet & Myers
              Ogdensburgh
Page 38

I Samuel Talmage of Cheshire, New Haven County Connecticut, a Revolutionary Pensioner, Testify and say that Justus Bellamy formerly of said Cheshire now residing in Augusta Upper Canada, in the Month of August 1776 was a member of Capt Ephraim Cook's company of Connecticut Militia, and served with the deponent ordered into the service of the United States for the defence of New York, and that said Justus Bellamy and the deponent in said month of August 1776 marched for New York where they arrived and were there stationed - That the said Bellamy was one of the party who brought the troops off from Long Island in 1776 - The deponent was absent from home on this tour as he verily believed five weeks - The deponent further says that he verily believes that the said Bellamy was in the United States service on this tour the same term of time.
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And further the deponent saith not.
                       Samuel Talmage [signed]
Sworn and subscribed this 2d day of December 1836.
Before me Wm L. Foot Justice of Peace

THis certifies that the deponent Samuel Talmage is a credible person and that Wm L Foot is a Justice of the Peace for New Haven County.
                               Regent? Peck [signed] Clerk of Probate for Cheshire District
Page 40

                                 Ogdensburgh N.Y.
                                 July 4, 1840

Sir,
        The accompanying afft was placed in my hand this morning to send to you, on which Mr. Belomy[sic] asks an increase of his pension. The whole circumstances of his case have passed from my mind and I cannot say what was allowed him when his certificate was granted. The results of your deliberation he wishes communicated to me.
                       Your obt srvt
                        R. H. Gillet
J L Elwood By?
Com of Pensions
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                                        Comptroller's Office
                                         February 12th 1834.
 I Elisha Phelps, Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Connecticut do certify that the 
pay roll of Capt. Ephraim Cook's company
to Peekskill, is charged to the United States
upon the books of the Pay Table, under date
April 24th 1778, but no roll of the company 
has been found, or evidence showing how long
they served has been found.
    That the pay roll of Capt. Ephraim
Cook's company at Horseneck is also charged
to the United States under date August 24th 1779; but no roll of it has been found, or evidence
where the service was performed, or of the regt
to which it belonged, or the duration of the 
service.
     And that the payroll of Col. Thaddeus
Cook's Regt. is also charged under date of
30th March 1780 to the United States, but no
roll of it has been found.
                                 E. Phelps [signed]
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Sir,
     I saved all the secondary evidence
to be found regarding the service of Capt.
Ephraim Cook's company. Rolls of it are not 
here, but if are existance, probably are in the 
War Office. Almost all the original rolls
were in 1788 sent to the General Government, 
as vouchers for the revolutionary Service 
of Connecticut.
                            I am very
 See $?                      respectfully
                                    Yours?
                                   E. Phelps [signed]
Page 43

Hon. R. H. Gillet
          H. C.
           Washington
                 D. C.
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The records of the State of Connecticut show
that Genl. Wooster was appointed to command
one of the six regiments ordered to be raised
by the General Assembly in April 1775, and
James Arnold one of the Captains in said 
regiment. They were ordered to be raised
and to serve seven months.
                                  E. Phelps [signed]
                             Comptroller's Office
                              Feb. 4- 1834
I Elisha Phelps, Comptroller of Public 
Accounts of the State of Connecticut, do certify
that it appears by the records of the Pay
Table Office that General Wooster's regiment
were actually raised in May 1775.
    By a list of discharged soldiers, on file, [it appears (crossed out)], who belonged to Capt. Arnold's 
company. Gen. Wooster's Regt 1775 ^ it appears^ that Justus Bellamy a private was discharged by Genl.
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Schuyler on the 25th of November 1775; but the
time of his commencing service in said
company and regiment does not appear upon
any vouchers or records in this office.
     Under date 10th March 1779 the pay roll
of Capt. Robert Martin Col. Moseley's regiment at West Point is charged upon the books of the Pay Table to the United States. No roll of 
this company has been found, or any evidence 
of the duration of this service, or time when
the service was performed.
                               E. Phelps [signed]
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Sir,
     I send you all the evidence found of the 
service of Mr. Bellamy. As you did not state
the time where, or place where he served in Capt.
Martin's Co., I am unable to determine, whether
the charge of the pay roll embraces this service.
     I suppose there are perfect rolls of Col. Waterbury's regiment in 1775; but not of Gen. Wooster's. A list of discharged soldiers belonging
to Gen. Wooster's and Col. Heinmond? regiments
in 1775 exist in this office.
                                I am very
See $? which you             respectfully
within transmit or deliver?  Yours?
Hon? Att Ellsworth              E. Phelps [signed]