Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19988, for Samuel Pike, Massachusetts
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(3-1776)
Service
Mass. [Massachusetts]

Pike, Samuel
Sarah

Number
W. 19988.
B.L. Wt. 4829-100-1798 [illegible]
B.L. Wt 79-60-55
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Samuel Pike
7440
Sept 1841
Seth C. Baldwin Jr Caldwell
Warren Co. N.Y. Agent
C
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STATE OF NEW YORK:
At a Court of Common Pleas held at the Court-House, in the town of Caldwell, in
and for the County of Warren, on the 13th day of September, 1820:
PRESENT, their honors,
Halsey Rogers
Esquire, First Judge,
Norman Fos
Henry Shencer -
Esquires, Judges.
[handwritten] possessing power of fine & Imprisonment & Jurisdiction to an unlimited amount
Personally appeared in open court, being a court of record, [caret handwritten the town of Caldwell] held in and for the said
county of Warren,
[handwritten] Samuel Pike
residing in the town of Caldwell
in said county, and being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare, that he is now a pensioner
of the United States, under the act of Congress of the 18th of March, 1818: that his Pension Certificate is numbered [handwritten] 7.440 and that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows,
[handwritten] that he enlisted in the
year 1775 at Cambrige for eight months under Capt. John
Liston in Colo. Dolittle, Regt & served his time enlistment. In 1776
enlisted under Capt James Miller Colo. Ward Regt for one year
& served the time of enlistment.  In 1777 enlisted under Capt Wm
Watson in Colo. James Wessons Regt and served three years & then
in 1779 or 1780. Enlisted for during the war under Capt Wm
Watson & served to the end there of. He was discharged at
Newbough Huts on the 9th June 1783. from the 2d Company
commanded by Maj. Wm North of the 4th Massachusets Regt
commanded by Colo. Henry Jackson - That I applied for
my pension on the first day of April 1818 before William
Robard Esq first Judge of the County of Warren and that
I have red my pay at the rate of Eight dollars month
from that time to the 4th March 1820-
And in pursuance of the Act of Congress of the 1st of May, 1820, I [handwritten] Samuel Pike
do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818, and 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 and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War,” passed
on the 18th day of March, 1818; and 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, and by me subscribed.

Subscribed and sworn, this [handwritten] thirteen day of [handwritten] September
A. D. 1820, in open court.
Samuel Pike-
Seth C Baldwin & Clerk
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I was born in the town of Holliston County of Middlesex [crossed out] of
Massachusetts & now work in the town of Caldwell County of Wane
& Hale of New York (Mason) aged between 59 & 60 years am in a hovel
state of hearth & little able to labour owing to my legs being affected
severely with Rheumatism Paine [pain] - I have a wife in the forty sexth [sixth] [46]
year of her age & six children - with me one boy 19 years
one boy 17 years, 1 boy 15 years, 1 boy 13 years, 1 girl 12 years
1 boy 9 years for whom I provide. My children are in good health
but still are unable to support me & themselves

Samuel Pike

STATE OF NEW YORK,
WARREN COUNTY, SS.}

[seal attached to the left] 

I, SETH C. BALDWIN, Junior, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas
of said County, Do hereby Certify, that the foregoing Oath,
and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court - And, by order of the Court I do
further Certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that
the total amount, in value, of property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is sixty two ~~~ Dollars
& seventy six ~~~Cents: - and also, that this is the first Court of record held in and for said County, at which
this application could have been made, since the knowledge of
the Act of Congress of the 1st of May, 1820 ---IN TESTI-MONY [testimony]
WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed
the seal of the said Court, on this thirteenth day of
September, 1820.

Seth C. Baldwin, Clerk
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To the Hon. Lewis Cap. Secretary at War Samuel Pike of Caldwell, Warren County, New York a Revolutionary Pensioner, humbly and respectfully represents that he served in the war of the Revolution, during almost the whole of the war, and was discharged at Newburgh, where he received
a written discharge from the service, certifying that he had faithfully served in the Revolutionary War for the Term of Eight years and fourteen days, which discharge is lost-
That he was placed on the Pension List of the United States in pursuance of the provisions of the Act of Congress of 1818, and is still on the Pension List, receiving at the rate of Eight dollars
per month, which is fully paid up to the 4th of March last-
That he is advised and humbly [illegible] that he is entitled to a pension of ten dollars per month, in line of his present pension on account of his services in the Rev'y War as a noncommissioned officer-- and in order to this he states that he served two years as a corporal in Capt. Watson's company in Col. Weston's Regiment in the Massachusetts line, and he also served immediately thereafter two years and more, as a Sergeant in Capt. Wm North's company in Jackson's 4th Massachusetts Regiment, in the Continental service and was discharged therefrom as mentioned above.
The he is quite infirm and helpless, not having gone out of his house for many years, except as he has been occasionally carried out, and begs leave to refer the Department to his original declaration made in 1818, before Wm Robards, and transmitted by him to the war office, on which his original Pension certificate was granted
that his memory is quite poor, in consequence of his age and infirmities,
 and if required to give dates particularly, it would not be in his power he hopes that the rolls in the War Office and his original declaration will supply sufficiently as to date-
In pursuance of a direction which is appended to the printed
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State of New York
County of Warren ⎬
No
On this 25 day of June A.D. 1839.
personally appeared before the Judges of the County Courts of the said County ^now in Session, and being a Court of Records -
of the said County, Sarah Pike a resident of Caldwell in the County
of Warren in the State of New York Aged Sixty four 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 Samuel Pike, who was a Sergeant in the Army of the Revolution, That to the best of her knowledge information or belief Samuel Pike her said husband resided in in the County of in the State of Massachusetts when he entered into the service of the
United States in the War of the Revolution and served as a Sergeant aforesaid And she further states that her husband the said Samuel Pike was a Pensioner of the United States at the time of his death, at the rate of one hundred and twenty dollars per annum; that previous to the year 1832, and after the year 1818 he received a pension at the rate of Eight dollars per month; that he resided in Caldwell in the County of Warren in the State of New York, when he received a certificate of Pension under the Act of Congress passed 7 June 1832, for the names of the Officers under whom he served, and the circumstances of his services, the Department is referred to his declaration under the Act of Congress passed 7 June 1832, supposed to be on file in the Pension Office at Washington City. She further declares that she was married to the said Samuel Pike on the seventh day of November in the year Seventeen hundred and ninety three; that her husband the aforesaid Samuel Pike died on the fifteenth day of February in the year one
thousand eight hundred and thirty eight; that she was not
married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage
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took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four viz: at the time within stated.
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year within written before
in open court- this 25th day of June 1839.
Thomas Archibald Clerk
[signature] Sarah Pike

I Thomas Archibald Clerk of said Court do hereby certify three
the satisfactory evidence has been processed to said Court that Sarah Pike above named is an Inhabitant
Residing in Caldwell in the County aforesaid and that she is the widow of Samuel Pike the late a pensioner of the United States ais now dead 
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court the day and
year above Written
Thomas Archibald Clerk
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ay Esquire
Counselor for
[?] ston Spa -
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State of New York
County of Saratoga ⎬ SS:
Be it known that before me Abel Meeker a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared John Whitehead a resident in Milton in the County of Saratoga in the State of New York aforesaid aged
seventy-nine years, who being first duly sworn according to
law, doth depose and say, that he was personally acquainted with
Samuel Pike and Sarah Mation, before and after they were married, that they both resided in Batson, (now Milton) in the County of  Albany (now Saratoga) When the said Samuel Pike was married to the said Sarah Ma[???] by the Reverend Mr. Ripley pastor over a Presbyterian Church in Batson aforesaid on the 7th day of November in the year seventeen hundred and ninety three;
And that they resided in the said Town for several years after said marriage as husband and wife, when about the year 1812 they moved to Caldwell in the County of Warren with their children their eldest daughter being married where they resided until the death of the said Samuel Pike in the winter of 1838, that he left the^said Sarah Pike his
lawful widow and as he is informed and verily believes she has not since been married but continues to be the widow of the said Samuel Pike deceased,
Sworn and subscribed this 9th day of May 1839 before me A[illegible] Justice
[signature

John Whitehead
mark
9th day of May 1839 before me A. [illegible] Justice} John is mark X Whitehead
I said Justice do hereby ^ certify that the deponent John Whitehead above named is unable to write his name by reason of a Partial loss of his eye sight and I further certify that I am well acquainted with the above named John Whitehead and that his character for truth & veracity is fair and in my opinion entitled to credit May 9, 1839
A. M[illegible]  Justice
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Sarah Pike.
Declaration