Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15142, David Gilmore, Mass. Vt.
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(3-1776)
Service   Number
Mass.  Gilmore, David  S. 15142
VT
Carded
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12731   8902     
New York David Gilmore
Mustarded in the state of New York
who was a private in the commpany commanded  Captain  Cowfer of the regt. commanded Gnl Woodbridge in the (star) in the Map E nu ..me for 14mo
(star) Vt. and Mass Janis 31/04
Records completed . S.
Transcribed on the  Roll of New York
(at) the rate of 46 Diollars 66 cents per annum.
commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issues the 2nd day of May 1833 and  Sept 2
Thomas Miller or Mudign
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833
Semi-anl. allowance ending Sept 23.33
$116.65
Revolutionary Claim
Act June, 7, 1832
(top of next column)
Dead. See Letter written and letter to S.J. Goodwin Oct 3.1834 - is. to Jame 4 June 1835
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No. 12.7031
David Gilmore
S.F. 15142
admitted
16 NCO Private
Thomas Muller Jr Agent, 
Madison
New York
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No. 12.731
BRIEF in the case of David Gilmore, of Madison, County of Madison in the State of New York.
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Before a Judge. - 
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? -----
3. How old is he? 77. Years
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 Gen. Putnam|
In 1775.|(---|8.|---)|private|Capt Cowden. Col Woodbridge|
-----|(---|1.|---)|Substitute| ----|
July 1777.|(['about' crossed out] ----|5.|----)|private|Capt Allen. Col. Herrick.|

5. In what battles was he engaged? Battle of Bennington
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Pelham, County of Hampshire, Masstts.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? One living witness.
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? ----

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
/s/James Ord Examining Clerk.
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Mr. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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New York 27 Sept 1834

Mr. J. L. Edwards
Dear Sir}
Enclosed by advise of the Notary at New York I send you a Pension which he does not feel authorising to pay, as the Pensioner did not make his mark for his name, being sick and unable to write; (he has since died.) And now Sir if you can possibly pay it, it will save his heirs considerable expence; his name you will see was written by his consent, and it is the last you will have to pay as he died in about Sunday after the Fourth of Sept - I shall have New York in the course of next week. You may please direct your answer to this City
Yours with respect
/s/Saml J. Goodwin
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State of New York
Madison County} ss.

John White of the Town + County of Madison + State of New York, being duly sworn according to law doath on his oath depose + say, That he is personally knowing to the fact of David Gilmore having served in the first campaign of the Revolutionary war, at Cambridge near Boston in Captain David Cowden's Company this deponent served in the same company, + in the same campaign, + from the same Town, and was in the every day habit of seeing him in the said service, until this deponent was dismissed, which was before the said David Gilmore had completed his term of enlistment but he has no doubt, but that he served as he states in his declaration, And that this deponent doe not know personally of the services, of the said David Gilmore in the year 1777. he having previously removed from the State of Massachusetts, but has been a neighbor to him ever since he removed to the place + has before this time heard him relate the incidents of that campaign, as set forth in his declaration, + that he bears a good unreproachable character in the neighborhood, where he lives for truth + veracity + in all respects, + that he is in said neighborhood reputed to have been a soldier of the Revolution + such, reputation he has never heard doubted, and this deponent fully believing that full+ entire confidence can be placed in the facts set forth in his said declaration + that deponent does fully believe that all he sets forth is said declaration is true, And does not doubt but that he is the age he states.
/s/John White
Sworn + subscribed this 8th day of September 1832 before me 
/s/Thomas Miller Jr. Justice of the peace}
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State of New York
Madison County} ss.
Samuel White of the Town + County of Madison + State of New York being first duly sworn according to law does on his oath, depose and say that he has lived in the neighborhood of David Gilmore of Madison aforesaid , for nearly 30 years and has heard him at different times, years ago relate the incidents of a campaign, + services, rendered by hm in the Revolutionary war, in a Regiment of Vermont Rangers in the years 1777, and of his being in the battle of ['Boston' crossed out] Bennington, + other services, during that campaign as set forth in his declaration, and that the said David Gilmore is reputed in the neighborhood where he lives, as a man of truth  + veracity + respectability, + is in said neighborhood reputed to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and this  deponent has never, hear it doubted, and this deponent fully believes, that all that, the said David has set forth in his said declaration is true, and that he has no doubt, but that he is the age he states
/s/Samuel White
Subscribed + sworn to this 8th day of September 1832 before me 
/s/Thomas Miller Jr Justice of the Peace}
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In order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress of 7th June 1832
State of New York
Madison County} ss.
On this Eighth day of September 1832 personally appeared before me James B. Eldridge first judge of said county at Madison in said County David Gilmore, a resident of the Town of Madison in the county of Madison + State of New York, aged 77 years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doath on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by ['of the' crossed out] act of Congress passed June 7th 1832, That in the year 1775 he enrolled himself, by enlisting in the State troops of Massachusetts for eight months' service, under Captain David Cowden, and Lieutenant Robert Harrington, and Ensign Jacob Hawkins, + that he resided in the Town of Pelham County of Hampshire + State of Massachusetts at the time he enlisted, + that the Captain resided in the same place, + that  the lieutenant resided in the Town of Conway in the same county + the ensign in Taunton, and that, he entered the service at - Cambridge near Boston, about the first of May of that year, and that the said company to which he belonged was attached to Col. Ruggles Woodbridge's Regiment + Gen. Israel Putnams Brigade, + that he at + near Cambridge served, out the campaign, the full time of his enlistment, + was then dismissed about the first of Jany. 1776 but received no written discharge, and that he, before, he returned home + immediately enlisted, or entered the service again at - Cambridge + served one month, to fulfill the full term of an enlistment, of another person, as his substitute - his name not recollected, + was again dissmised(sic) on or about the first of February 1776 + that he served no
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is no written discharge. And that he again enlisted in the year 1777 for six months, in the Vermont Troops in a company commanded by Capt. Ebenezer Allen + Lieutenant Isaac Clark + Ensign Piers and that at the time he enlisted he resided in the Town of Powlet Rutland County Vermont, he does not remember the place of residence of any of the officers of the company except the Ensign, which was in ['Bennington' crossed out] Tinmouth, Rutland County Vermont, + his given name he does not remember, and that the said company was attached, to Col. Hendricks, or Herricks Regiment, of - Bennington, + that he entered the service, the fore part of July of that year, + that the Regiment was a regiment of Rangers, + that he performed service, principally in Rutland County Vermont, in scouting, + protecting the frontier from the depredations of the Indians and tories, and during the service, the company to which he belonged, was detached, from the Regiment, + - surprised + took, the enemy's guard + block house at Mount defiance, + one piece of brass ordinance, an eighteen pounder, + made prisoners of the garrison troops, or a principal part of them, and previous to leaving Bennington, he with his Regiment was in the battle of Bennington, + also at Mount defiance, he was there in the company, at the taking of it, and after the taking of Mount defiance, his company Joined, their Regiment + marched to lake George, + provided boats + made an attack uppon(sic) Dimond Island, situated in Lake George, + that the attack was repulsed by the enemys artillery, + the attempt to capture it was at that time abandoned, + that he was also in this attach't, and that he served in this enlistment, about five months, being dismissed in the forepart of December of that year, at Bennington, + received no written discharge, And in all the above enlistments, he - enlisted + served as a private --
And that he resided after the Revolutionary war
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in the Town of Powlet, Rutland County Vermont, untill the year 1804. And that he then removed to the Town + County of Madison + State of New York, + where he at present resides, And that he, was born in the Town of Pelham, Hampshire County, Massachusetts on the 16th Novr. 1754 as he has been informed + believes, + that there is or was a public record of his birth + age in the aforesaid Town of Pelham, And that he has no documentary evidence except what is hereto attached + that John White of the Town + county  of Madison + State of New York, belonged to the same company with him in the first campaign at Cambridge + served with him + that he does not know of any one now living, who was with him during his last campaign - 
And that he is well acquainted with John White Capt Samuel White, Gen Erastus Cleaveland, + Benj Simmons - + many others to whose reference can be had. - and that he hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the present, + that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State
That while at Cambridge General Washington commanded some part of that. General Green was there also some part, there were many troops there but he cant recollect if he then knew who command them He recollects that Colonel Brand(?) and also Colonel Brewer were there That when he was in the Regiment commanded by colonel Hendrick or Herrick. they were not attached to any particular Brigade when at Bennington at the time of the Battle General John Stark command that during the battle Colonel Warner came there. Colonel Robingson of Bennington command a Regiment of Militia that there was quite a number of Prisoners Taken they were put into the church and kept there with a guard arround them. That when they supprised and took part ['In reference' crossed out] Mount Lebanon they were under the command ['of Colonel Brown,"' crossed out] Captain Allen their was early and company engaged in the enterprise,
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15142
INVALID. [initials: ow]
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File No. 15,142
David Gilmore 
Pri Rev War
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Act: June 7th 32
Index: - Vol. 1, Page 143

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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[addressed envelope]
May 28
Dav Gilmore
NY [illegible] 8902
[postmark: MADISON N.Y. MAY 23]
FREE

Mr. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Madison 23 May 1835

Mr. J. L. Edwards

Dear Sir
I last fall presented a pension paper, as power of Attorney in favor of David Gilmore, and it was rejected on account of his not making his mark for his name, he being sick and unable to write; but the agent at New York advised me to sent it to Washington director to you and thought you would accept it without his mark being made, as he is now dead, and it would be a good deal of Expence for the Heirs to get a small an amount as then is due him.
I accordingly sent the paper to you with directions for you to mail it to me or return to New York but it did not come while I was in the City, and I have written you once since from Madison expecting it but have rec'd no answers. I should keep writing until I hear Something expecting the paper. Please answer this letter and accept the payment of the pension if you can consistently.
Yours with respect
/s/S. J. Goodwin
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The Pensioner being unable to write his name must make his mark X to his name and the reasons stated by the Justice
why he does so
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UNDER ACT OF 7th JUNE, 1832 - Printed and sold by JAMES NORSON , Morrisville.
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State of New-York,
Madison COUNTY,} ss.
BE IT KNOWN, That before me, Thomas Miller  Jr. a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared David Gilmore and made oath, in due form of law, that he is the identical person named in an original Certificate, in his possession, of which (I certify) the following is a true copy:
WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
I Certify, That in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 7th of June, 1832, David Gilmores of the State of New York who was a private in the War of the Revolution - is entitled to Forty six dollars & Sixty five cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable, semi-annually, o the 4th of March and 4th of September of every year. GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this 2nd day of May one thousand eight hundred and thirty three
(L. S.)
/s/Lewis Cass Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned /s/J. e. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions. 

That he now resides in the Town and County of Madison and has resided there for the space of Thirty years past and that previous thereto he resided in Pollet [Pawlet] in Vermont and previous thereto he resided in the Town of Pelham in Massachusetts
/s/David Gilmore
SWORN and Subscribed before me, this 5th day of September 1834}
/s/Thomas Miller Jr. J. Peace
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Know all Men by these Presents, That I David Gilmore of the Town + County of Madison a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, do hereby constitute and appoint Samuel Goodwin of Madison my true and lawful Attorney, for me, and in my name, to receive from the Agent of the United States for paying Pensions in the city of New York, my Pension, from the 4th day of March 1834 to the 4th day of September 1834.
Witness, my hand and seal, this 5th day of September.
Sealed and delivered in presence of Thomas Miller Jr.
/s/David Gilmore

State of New-York
Madison COUNTY,}ss.
BE IT KNOWN, That on the fifth day of September 1834 before the subscriber, a Justice of the peace in and for said County, personally appeared David Gilmore above named, and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be his act and deed.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, the day and year last above mentioned.
/s/Thomas Miller Jr. J. Peace
I certify that the letter(S) and the word (of) washed out with the pen in the foregoing Pension certificate was done before signing
/s/Thomas Miller Jr. J. Peace
[margin note: I certify that the name of the Pensioner signed to the Pension certificate and to the foregoing [illegible] attorney. was seen by another person in my presence and at the request of  the Pensioner [illegible] sick and am entitled to correct his name /s/Thomas Miller Jr. J. Peace]