Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4862, Thomas Hempstead, New York
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(8-1776)

Service
New York 

Hempstead, Thomas
Hempsted or 

Number
R. 4862
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3557  Duplicate
Declaration of 
Thomas Hempstead [underlined]
to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of 7 June 1832


Not. found

letter to Ew Chase Oct. 24. 32 upon examination of the original declaration of which this is a duplicate-
4865
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 1832. -

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State of New York
County of Suffolk } : On this third day of October 1832 personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas of the said County, Thomas Hempstead, a resident of the town of Southold in the said County of Suffolk and State of New York, aged seventy four years and upwards, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1776, at the same time with Benjamin Payne and others of the said town, for six months, and served in a regiment (the number of which he cannot state) in the New York line under the following named officers. Brigadier General Scott, Brigade Major Nicholas Fish, Colonel Drake, Lieut. Col. Haliburt, Major Moses Hatfield, Captain Jonathan Bailey, Lieutenant David Horton, and Ensign Benjamin King. At the time he entered the Service, he resided in the said town of Southold. He was at the battle of Long Island, and in several skirmishes which took place upon the subsequent retreat of the army. A few days after the retreat over to New York, he, with the regiment marched to Stuyvesants Meadows, back of New York, to oppose the landing of the enemy there; and from thence to Kingsbridge. Afterwards the regiment retreated to Whiteplains; but a few days before the Regiment went there, he was taken sick, and ordered to find quarters for himself if possible; which he did near the camp; and was sick for a few weeks and attended by Doctor Halsey, the [Regimental, crossed out] Doctor of the Regiment
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during which time, the battle of Whiteplains took place within his hearing. After his recovery he again joined the Regiment and remembers helping to row across the river to Haverstraw. It was here, (he believes) that he was discharged; and it must have been in or about the month of November 1776 yet he cannot state the precise time. He served his full term of six months, and his time expiring about this time he left the service.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except for the present, and he declared that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency of any state.
Sworn to, and subscribed
the day and year aforesaid} [signature, Thomas Hempsted}
[signature, Joseph R Huntting] [illegible]

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.

I, Joseph R. [illegible] Clerk of the said Court of Common Pleas, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Thomas Hempstead for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand, and seal of office this third day of October 1832
[signature Joseph R Huntting] [illegible]
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Thomas Hempstead

[illegible] 1832. NY.

AH Markland
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State of New York
County of Suffolk

Be it known, that on this twenty eighth day of January A.D. 1853 before me, the under-dersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Laura Booth resident of: Southold. in said County, and made oath according to law that she is the legal heir of the identical Thomas Hempstead who was a Soldier in the war of the Revolution, and who heretofore made application for the benefit of the Pension Act of [blank] that she is directly interested as a claimant in said pension and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or argu-ments as my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
Countermanding and revoking all Powers of Attorney, and authority heretofore given, I hereby constitute and appoint C. W. BENNETT, of Washington City, my true and lawful Attorney, to prosecute the claim of Thomas Hempstead for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or increase of Pension that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said Attorney to examine all papers or documents in relation to said claim on file in the Department at Washington City, or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive for my exclusive benefit, the certificate which may be issued for said claim, which certificate I wish made payable at the Washington City, D. C. Agency; to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed, and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.
[signature Laura Booth]
Sworn to, Subscribed and Acknowledged before me the day and year above written, and I hereby certify that I believe the said [tear in paper mended by tape] Laura Booth to be directly interested in said claim as set forth, and to be the identical party therein alleged.
[signature Henry Huntting Justice of the Peace]
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[text stricken with pen]
[stamped REJECTED]

4862
P.O.
[signature] Thomas Hempstead
Service:

Enlisted: ___, 18  ,
Discharged: ___, 18 ,

Application filed: ___, 18  ,

Alleged: _____
_____
Re-enlisted: ____
_____

Attorney: ____
P. O. _______
______
_____ Recognized.  ____Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis.    Searched for ______, 18  .
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June 11. 53

Pow: atty: case
Thomas Hempstead
deed

Ny
[illegible] 7th June 1832

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
PENSION OFFICE, OFFICIAL BUSINESS
Commissioner
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[note in pencil: B Mayo]

Hon L. P. Waldo
[illegible] of Pensions
Pension Office.
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State of New York
County of Suffolk  On this twenty seventh day of May 1834 
personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Commons 
Pleas now sitting Thomas Hempstead a resident of Southold in the 
County of Suffolk and the State of New York aged seventy six years, who 
being first duly sworn according to the 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 [illegible] of the Month of May in the
year one thousand eight [crossed out] seven hundred and
sevety six as the Town of Southold in the County
of Suffolk and State of New York he enlisted
as a private in the army of the United States in the company com=manded by Captain Jonathan Bailey [underlined], the Lieu=tenant's name was Horton, in the Regiment com=manded by Colonel Drake, the Lieutenant Colonel's
name was Hubbers in General Scotts Brigade
that he [crossed out} soon after his enlistment 
he went with his
Company to the City of New York, and continued
there until the British landed at Flat Bush on Long Island
that he and his Regiment then went over to Brooklyn on Long
Island and continued on the Island until the American
Army retreated from Long Island under General Wash=ington, that he continued in the city of New York a few
days when he retreated with the army over Kings
Bridge, and from there went to White Plains
[illegible crossed out] he was not in the battle of White Plains, but was
at that time [illegible] in the vicinity of Tarry Town
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of his age in his [illegible] which was kept by his father, as was born in the Town of Southold aforesaid, that he lived in Southold aforesaid when he enlisted into the service and has lived there ever since the Revolutionary War, that he never received any written discharge from the said service. That Rev. Erza Youngs and Henry London Esquire Rev Jonathan Huntting and Ebenezer W. [illegible] Esquire all of the said Town of Southold living in his neighborhood are persons to whom he is known and who can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his service as a soldier of the Revolution. That he hereby relinquishes every claim [illegible] to a pension or community except the presence and does [illegible] that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the [illegible] State
[illegible] the day and year aforesaid.
Thomas Hempstead
Sworn before me in open Court J R Huntting Clk
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Smith Town NY 27 June Free
New York
Original
June 30, '36
War Department
Pension Office
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New York
Original
June 30, '36
Smith Town NY 27 June Free
War Department
Pension Office
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Suffolk Court House N. Y.
June 14 - 1834 -
Sir -
Enclosed I forward the declaration of Thomas Hempstead for a pension. I believe he has before made an application for the same service, but I have not seen the papers and do not know the ground of his rejection on that time.
I am sir
Very Respectfully
Yours
George Miller

J. L. Edwards esq
Commisioner of Pensions -
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N.Y.
Thomas Hempstead
March 25, 1835
Pension Office
Rec
Hon. Lewis Cass -
Secretary of War -
Washington -
New York Mar 23
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Read 25 Mar
Suffolk Court House March 18, 1835
Sir-
The delay in forwarding the enclosed deposition relative to the claim of Thomas Hempstead for a Pension was [illegible] by its being mislaid - It furnishes all the testimony we are now able to produce in support of the claim. I made the application for the pensions of Thomas Conklin and Benjamin Horton for their pensions for serving in the same company at the same time and I never [illegible] from any [illegible] before that the enlistment or service of the parties was less than six months. Captain Payne who made the enclosed deposition is a very [illegible] as well as of unquestioned veracity.
I am very Respectfully
Yours [illegible] Lewis
George Miller -
Hon. Lewis Cass -
Secretary of War -
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State of New York
County of Suffolk } Benjamin Payne of the Town 
of Southold in the said County being
duly sworn saith that he has already made a
deposition in favor of the application of
Thomas Hempstead for a pension as a
private in the company commanded by
Captain Jonathan Bailey in Colonel Drake's
Regiment in the army of the Revolution that
this deponent enlisted and served for the
term of six months, as an orderly Sergeant
in the same company
for which this deponent now receives
a pension, that this deponent is
positive that he, the said Thomas Hempstead
Thomas Conklin and Benjamin Horton all
enlisted in the said company for the term
of six months, that the said Thomas Conklin
and Benjamin Horton have both received
pensions for their service in the said company
as this deponent has understood and believes
that they are now both deceased that there
is now no person living who served in the
said company, but the said Thomas Hempstead
and himself, to his knowledge, except
perhaps Daniel Tuthill who if living lives
several hundred miles from this deponent

Subscribed & sworn this 24th day of September 1834
Benjamin Payne

before me
George Miller
Commissioner of Deeds
I certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Benjamin Payne that he is a man of veracity and worthy of belief on oath
George Miller
Commissioner
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State of New York
County of Suffolk } J. Joseph R Huntting Clerk of the said County of Suffolk do certify that George Miller where name is subscribed to the [illegible] of the within affidavit on the day of the date thereof was and still is a commissioner of deeds in and for said County duly qualified to administer oaths and that I believe his name subscribed as aforesaid to be in his own proper hand writing I being acquainted with the same.

Witness my hand and seal of office
this 19th day of March 1835-
Joseph R Huntting Clk
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Hon.
Lewis Cass
Secy of War
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Southold Suffolk County NY
Hon. Lewis Cass Secy of War | 10 Nov 1832
Sir
I herewith return the papers[crossed out] declaration in the matter of the application of Thomas Hempstead for a pension under the act of June 7. 1832.
After Mr. Hempstead had forwarded to the  War Department the papers, which have since been returned to him with objections it was presumed from the published regulations from the department that his declaration was informal, And by the advice of his friends he[carrot] made his declaration before the Court of Common pleas previous to the nature of his first declaration from the War Department, as he could have no other opportunity until the sitting of the Court in January next---The Court presuming that he served in the Continental establishment, his papers are made out accordingly.
Respectfully Yours
Ebenezer. W. Case
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31.608
Thomas
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We[?] Ezra Youngs a clergyman residing in the County of Suffolk and Henry Landon residing in the same county hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas Hempstead who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy 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 we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
[illegible] Joseph R. Huntting Clk |  Ezra Youngs
                                                   |  Henry Landon

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War department and receiving the answers as stated in his above declaration, that the abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states----
And the court further certifies that it appears to them that
who has signed the preceeding[sic] certificate is a
clergyman resident in the county of Suffolk, and that
who has also signed the same is a resident in the said county a[blacked out] is a credible person and that the statement is entitled to credit

J Joseph R Hunting clerk of the court of common pleas of the county of Suffolk aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Thomas Hempstead for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 27t day of May One thousand eight hundred and thirty four
Joseph R Huntting Clk
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State of New York
County of Suffolk: Benjamin Payne of the
Town of Southold in the County of Suffolk
being duly sworn saith that some time in
the fore part of the month of May in the year
1776 at the said Town of Southold, Thomas
[crossed out: Thomas] Hempstead in the annexed declaration
named, enlisted in the company commanded
by Captain Jonathan Bailey in the Regiment
commanded by Colonel Drake in the Brigade
of General Scott in the army of the Revolution,
that the said [crossed out] Thomas Hempstead
to serve in the said corps, to the
knowledge of this deponent until the army
crossed the Hudson River some time in
the latter part of the month of October following his enlistment, that this deponent did not cross the River in consequence of sickness,
that the said Thomas Hempstead went
with the said company to the West end of
Long Island was with the army there, at
New York and at White Plains, and
this deponent has no doubt but that the
said Thomas Hempstead continued
to serve in the said Company until he
was regularly discharged at Haverstraw
after the expiration of his term of six
the same time with the said Hempstead and is now a pensioner
months-- that this deponent served in the company and for
Benjamin Payne

Subscribed & Sworn this
13th day of June 1834
before me-

George Miller
Commissioner of Deeds

I certify that I am well acquainted with the said Benjamin Payne that he is a man of fair character and worthy to be believed under oath, that
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he made oath to the foregoing deposition after the twenty two last words
in different ink were added and interlined to the same
George Miller
Commissioner of Deeds

State of New York
County of Suffolk: Benjamin Horton of the Town of
Southold in said County being duly sworn saith that in the
fore part of the month of May[crossed out] June in 1776 at the said Town of
Southold Thomas Hempstead in the annexed declaration
named enlisted in the company commanded by Captain
Jonathan Bailey in the Regiment commanded by Colonel
Drake in General Scott's Brigade in the Army of the Revolution,
that the said Thomas Hempstead continued to
serve in the said company for the term of his
six months and until he was regularly discharged
some time in the month of November[crossed out] December following
his enlistment, at Haverstraw on the West side of the
Hudson River, that this deponent has personal knowledge
of the said service, that he enlisted about
the time that the said Thomas Hempstead did, and
served all the time with him and was discharged
at the same time with him, that this deponent is now
a pensioner for the same service, that they both
served as privates in the same company
Benjamin Horton

I certify that on the 13th day of June 1834 the above named Benjamin
Horton, with whom I am well acquainted and is a person of credibility
and fair character, and worthy of belief on oath subscribed and
made oath to the above deposition before me, after the words "May"
and "November" were erased, and the words "June" and "December"
interlined, which alterations were made at his request as he stated his
recollection to be the whole deposition having been drawn in his presence. 
I am [illegible] led to believe from conversation with [illegible]
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Payne since, that he is mistaken as to the time of entering and leaving the service, they did not see each other.
George Miller
Commissioner of Deeds

Suffolk County to: J Joseph R Hunting clerk of the said county of Suffolk do hereby certify that George Miller before whom the two above depositions appear to have been taken was on the day of taking the same and still is a commissioner of deeds duly authorized to take affidavits and that his name subscribed to the above [illegible] or certific[carrot]ates I believe to be in his own proper hand writing I being acquainted with it same.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal office this 20th day of June 1834.
Joseph R Huntting Clk
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Washington City
June 6th 1853
Hon. D. G.[?] Walds      |
Lawr. of Pensions         |  Sir

I have the honor to enclose herewith a power of attorney executed by the heirs of Thomas Hempstead, decd. of the State of New York, whose claim under Act of 7th July has been suspended.
I hope to be enabled to file additional evidence in the case sufficient to establish the claim before it comes up for examination.
Very Respectfully
Your Obedn. Serv.
C. W. Bennett
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New York
Revo.
Thomas Hempstead
Suspended
left to [illegible] Miller
Aug. 5. '34
left to friend April 8. 1835
EW Bennett [illegible] 23/53