Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18440, Samuel Heminway, Mass.
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(8-1776)

Column headings: Service. [No Heading]. Number.

Mass. Heminway, Samuel. S.18440

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13441
Ohio Pittsburgh
Samuel Heminway of Geauga in the State of Ohio who was a private in the Co. commanded by Captain Bigelow of the Regt commanded by Col. Flaggon in the Mass. line for 7 mo. & 9 days.
$24.33/100
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio Pittsbg at the rate of 24 Dollars 33 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 day of July 1833 and sent to Mathews & Hitchcock Paineville O.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833  48.66
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Sept '33  12.17
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$60.83
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by Wm. R. Palmer Clerk,
Book E. Vol. 8. Page 113.
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Samuel Heminway's 
Application for a pension-
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11823

Filed Augt 14th 1832.

[Bottom of page} Clerk's fees 50. cts
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The State of Ohio
Geauga County Ss }
On the thirteenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, Personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Joshua Collett and Ebenezer Lane judges of the Supreme Court of said state, at Chardon Court House in and for said county of Geauga and State of Ohio, now sitting, Samuel Heminway, a resident of Perry township in the county and state aforesaid aged seventy six years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States as a volunteer and private under the following named minute officers to wit.  Timothy Bigelow Captain, Jonas Hubbard, First Lieutenant, John Smith Second Lieut. and William Gates Ensign, on the seventeenth day of April A. D. 1775 at Wooster, County of Wooster and State of Massachusetts, being induced to enter said service from the alarm at [illegible], the battle of Lexington.  That with the company to which he belonged he marched through Shrewsbury, Northbury, Medbury, Sedbury, West town, Waltham, Watertown to Cambridge.  That about three days after his arrival at Cambridge Gen Artemas Ward arrived there and this deponent was placed under the command of said Gen. Artemas Ward. Col. Ward of Southbury, Lieut Colonel a man belonging to Lancaster in said Wooster County whose name this deponent does not recollect, Major Timothy Bigelow, Captain Jonas Hubbard, First Lieut. John Smith, Second Lieut William Gates, Ensign John Pearce.  That he remained at Cambridge in service under said officers two weeks from the date aforesaid, when in consequence of an accident, which happened to his father he left the service and returned home and that he was a citizen of Wooster aforesaid when he entered the service of the United States as aforesaid.  
That on the alarm attending the battle of Bunker Hill [end of page]
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That he was born at Wooster in the County of Wooster & State of Massachusetts on the 21st day of November 1755 and that a record of his age is contained in the town records of said Wooster.
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and during said battle, he as a volunteer again entered the service of the United States, on the 17th day of June A.D. 1775 at Wooster aforesaid and went in company with Colonel Benjamin Flagg and others through the country above ^described towards the battle ground and arrived at Cambridge just after the battle had been fought. How he entered the company under the command of Captain Jonas Hubbard and served a few days under the same officers as before when at said Cambridge. He then left the services and returned home to said Wooster, having been at that time five days in said service. 
That in the latter part of January A.D. 1776 he again entered the service of the United States ^as a volunteer and private under Capt Washburn First Lieut William Gates Second Lieut Hubbard, Ensign not recollected, Colonel Smith commanding the regiment, at Wooster aforesaid where he resided, and was marched through Shrewsbury, Northbury, Marlbury, Sedbury, Cambridge, Brooklyn and Roxbury to Dorchester, where he was stationed two months being attached to the line around Boston for the purpose of [illegible] it. His army was there under the command of Gen Washington. Generals Putnam of Connecticut, and Sullivan of Marblehead and Ward of Shrewsbury with the brigades under their command constituted a part of the aforesaid line. After the evacuation of Boston by the British and on the 31st day of March A.D. 1776, this deponent was discharged and returned home having at this time been in service two months. 
In the fore part of July 1776 this deponent again entered the service of the United State under Capt William Gates, First Lieut Cunningham, Second Lieut Nathaniel Howard, Ensign Walker at Wooster aforesaid where he then resided and was marched through Hartford and Middletown ^to New Haven where with his company he went on
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board of a sloop and proceeded to New York. At New York he with the company to which he belonged was placed under the command of Col Holeman and joined the army under the command of Gen Washington. Under the command of said Colonel he was stationed at New York about two weeks, when he with his regiment was marched up to East Greenwich four miles from the city where he remained ^about three weeks and was confined with a burn which he received on his passage from New Haven to New York. During his confinement, the regiment to which he belonged joined Gen Sullivan on Love Island, [illegible] at a battle fought, as near as the deponent recollects, in the latter part of August of the year last aforesaid was taken prisoner by the British. From East Greenwich this deponent being sick was carried to Horse neck at the same time that the ^main army retreated to White Plains. He remained at Horse neck near three months when he received from Capt William Gates a written discharge (which discharge this deponent believes was burnt at the burning of his house at ^Scipio, State of New York in the year 1819) and after said discharge he returned home having been in service four and one half months. During more than three months of the time aforesaid this deponent was confined with the from aforesaid and with a malignant fever in consequence of which he was in no engagements and had not the opportunity to learn the names of the officers that he otherwise would have had. The companies enlisted at the same time with this deponent were called the 'New Levies" and were enlisted for five months and this deponent received his discharge just two weeks before the expiration of said period. 
        In April A.D. 1788 he enlisted as a volunteer into Capt Ebenezer Belknaps company - in which company Uriah Ward ^was Lieutenant and Ithamar Smith Ensign, at Wooster aforesaid where he then resided and was marched
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through Grafton and Upton to Providence in Rhode Island where he joined the command of Gen Sullivan, and the regiment under the command of Col Wade Lieut Col. Wood and Major Francis Wilson.  From Providence under the command of the officers aforesaid, he was marched to Newport Island and was stationed there about two weeks, thence marched down near the lines of the enemy near New Port Village. From this place Gen Sullivan retreated the deponent being in the army and in said battles fighting, ^on said island till he came near the Ferry to cross over  [[crossed out: "from the Island"]] to the main land.  on this retreat Col Wade commanded the picquette guard to which this deponent belonged. Previous to this retreat Gen Green with three regiments under his command was on the Island with Gen Sullivan, and of the regiments on the Island this deponent now recollects Col. Bigelow, Gen Greenes coloured regiment and Col Wades. After the retreat, Col Wades regiment to which this deponent belonged and Gen Greene's coloured regiment were sent to East Greenwich fifteen miles below Providence and Gen Sullivan with his brigade went up to Providence and was stationed there . About a fortnight after the arrival of Col Wade's regiment at East Greenwich, it was divided up into companies and the companies stationed at different points on the Providence river as guards. This deponent under the command of Capt Belknap was stationed at [illegible] Newtown opposite Newport Island and remained there until January 1st A.D. 1779 when he was discharged at the same time with the whole regiment having been in service nine months. This deponent further says that he has no documentary evidence of the said several periods of service or of any of them and that he knows no person, whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service as aforesaid and he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that he is not 

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This deponent further says that he resided in Wooster aforesaid twenty ^two years thence [multiple illegible words written above the previous four words] he removed to Grange,  County of Hampshire of state of Mass. & lived in that county ten years ^to [illegible] three years in said Grange and [illegible] years in the town of Greenwich, thence removed to New [illegible] New York [illegible] lived there nearly one year, then [illegible] lived in Lansing, New York three years, thence removed to Grange State of New York & lived there [illegible] [illegible word above previous] years, thence removed to Elbridge, New York, where he resided until February last, where he removed to Perry where he now lives.
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on the pension roll of the agency of any state - 
Sworn to and subscribed, the day [several faded, illegible words] and year aforesaid in open court - Samuel Heminway
Edward Paine Jnr Clerk



We Francis Norwood a clergyman residing in Painesville, Geauga County ^Ohio and Elisha Coltun residing in Perry aforesaid [word crossed out] hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with the said Samuel Heminway 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 in open Court 
Edward Paine Jnr Clerk.
[To right of the text and above-right to the Clerk's signature are handwritten signatures]
Francis Norwood
Elisha Coltun Jr


And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states - And the Court further certifies that Francis Norwood who has signed the preceding certificate ^is a clergyman resident in [word crossed out] Painesville aforesaid and that Elisha Coltun who has also signed the same is a resident of Perry aforesaid and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit - 
Edward Paine Jnr Clerk
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I Edward Paine Jnr Clerk of the Supreme Court for said County of Geauga do hereby certify that the forgoing contained the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of [crossed out "of"] Samuel Heminway for a pension--

[Affixed to document is a piece of paper with an illegible embossed seal.]

In testimony whereof I heard hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this fourteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two. 

Edward Paine Jnr Clerk.
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11. 823
13.441
Samuel Heminway
Geauga County
Ohio

[[crossed out: "Return [illegible]"]]

AON__ 7. Months &
9. days.___

Matthews [illegible] Hitchcock
Painesville
[crossed out: "Edward Paine  Clerk"]
[crossed out:  "Chardon"}
Geauga County
Ohio
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BRIEF in the case of [handwritten} Samuel Heminway {end handwritten] of [handwritten] Geauga County [end handwritten] in the State of [handwritten] Ohio [end handwritten]
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge ?  [handwritten] before a Court [end handwritten]

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity ? [blank - no response]

3. How old is he? [handwritten] 76 [end handwritten}

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 

[Column headings: Period. Duration of Service (subheadings: Years, Months, Days.). Rank (subheading: As a). Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served (subheading: Gen.).

Vol. 0, 2, 14. Private. Timothy Biglow Capt
In 1775.  0, 0, 5. [no response]. Colo Flaggon, Capt Jones. 
June 17---1775. 0, 2, 0. [no response]. Colo Smith.
January---1776. 0, 0, 14. [no response]. Captn Wm Gate.
July---1776. 0, 3, 21. [no response]. Captn Wm Gate.
1778. [crossed out]^14. [no response]. Captn Ebenezer Belknapp.
[Added by hand under the "Duration of Service" column and a hand drawn line:  69].


5. In what battles was he engaged?  [handwritten] Bunkershill [end handwritten]

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? [handwritten] Woster Cty Massachusets

7. In his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  [handwritten]  Traditionary [end handwritten]

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?  [handwritten] not properly attached [end handwritten]

 [symbol] Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned. 

[handwritten] John N Ashton [end handwritten]
Examining Clerk.

[Added by hand in black ink: "In all 7. mo. 9. days--"].
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May 21, 1940


BA-J/AWF
Samuel Heminway
S. 18440

Mrs. George F. Ruch
159 Chemung Street
Waverly, New York

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Samuel
Hemingway of New York, and of Walter Tichenor of Elizabethtown, New York.

Revolutionary War data furnished by this office
are obtained from claims for pension and bounty land which have been made to the United States, based upon service in that war. A search of the records fails to show such claims on file on account of the Revolutionary War service of Walter Tichenor, under any spelling of the surname.

The record of Samuel Heminway which follows was obtained from papers on file in claim for pension, S. 18440, based upon his service in the War of the Revolution. This is the record of the only Samuel Heminway found on file in the Revolutionary War records of this office. The surname was searched under similar spellings.

Samuel Heminway was born November 21, 1755, in Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts. The names of his parents are not given.

While a resident of said Worcester, Samuel
Heminway volunteered April 17, 177[number crossed out]^5, and marched to Cambridige, under Captain Timothy Bigelow, and in
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Cambridge, he was placed in Captain Jonas Hubbard's company, Colonel Artemas Ward's Massachusetts regiment, and in consequence "of an accident which happened to his father" he returned home to Worcester, having served about two weeks. Samuel Heminway served in June, 1775, about five days in Captain Jonas Hubbard's company Colonel Benjamin Flagg's regiment. He enlisted late in January, 1776, served two months as private in Captain Washburn's company, Colonel Smith's Massachusetts regiment. He enlisted early in July, 1776, served four months and two weeks in Captain William Gates' company, Colonel Holeman's Nassachusetts regiment. He enlisted sometime in April, 1778, served in Captain Ebenezer Belknap's company, Colonel Wade's Massachusetts regiment, was in the battle of Rhode Island, and was discharged January 1, 1779.

The soldier, Samuel Heminway, continued to live
in Worcester, Massachusetts, until 1791, then moved to Orange, Massachusetts, to Greenwich, Massachusetts, to New Durham, New York, to Lansing, New York, to Genoa, New York, to Elbridge, New York, and in the month of February, 1832, noved to Perry Township, Geauga County, Ohio.

He was allowed pension on his application
executed August 13, 1832, at which time he was living in Perry Township, Ohio.

The papers on file in this claim contain no
discernible data relative to his family, other than
the reference to his father as given herein.

In order to obtain the date of last payment
of pension, name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you
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should apply to the Comptroller General, General
Accounting Office, Records Division, this city,
and furnish the following data:

Samuel Heminway
Certificate # 13441
Issued July 34, 1833
Rate $34.33 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
Ohio (Pittsburgh) Agency.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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[handwritten along top of document - from left to right]

[underline] P [end underline]    18440       1940 - May 21 -[illegible] to Mrs. George F. Rauch [illegible]


INVALID.
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File No. [handwritten] 18,440 [end handwritten]

[handwritten] Samuel Heminway [end handwritten]

[handwritten] [illegible] Rev War [end handwritten]

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Act: [handwritten] June 7" 32 [end handwritten]

Index:--Vol. [handwritten] 1 [end handwritten], Page [handwritten] 171 [end handwritten]

[ Arrangement of 1870. ]
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11823
Saml Heminway
Geauga Co
Ohio

Correctly briefed -
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of [handwritten] Samuel Heminway [/handwritten] which require further proof or explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? [handwritten] yes [/handwritten]

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? [handwritten] yes [/handwritten]

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? [handwritten] yes [/handwritten]

V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? [handwritten] yes [/handwritten]

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? [handwritten] yes [/handwritten]

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? [handwritten] yes [/handwritten]

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? [handwritten] yes [/handwritten]

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? [handwritten] yes [/handwritten]

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? [handwritten] yes [/handwritten]
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to
their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service ? 

[handwritten] yes [end handwritten]

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it ?

[blank - no response]

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such cannot be had ?   [handwritten]  yes  [end handwritten]

XIV. [dagger symbol] If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?  [handwritten] no [end handwritten]
    If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath,
certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?  [no response]
    Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the
regulations direct?  [no response]

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service ?

[no response]

XVI. [double dagger symbol] Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct ? [handwritten]   not authenticated #  [end handwritten]

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily ? And, if not, which of them is not so answered ?

[no response]

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EXPLANATORY NOTES.

* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the logs of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
     "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For _____ year_____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months
and _____ days, I served as a _____ ; and for such service I claim a pension.
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  It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served ; the duration of each term of engagement ; the particular place or places where the service was performed ; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority ; that he was either in the field or in garrison ; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
[dagger symbol]QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
   In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
[double dagger symbol]QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
   In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate. [In the left margin next to the paragraph is handwritten "[illegible]#"
        [manicule/pointing hand symbol] In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
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[center of page]
MRS. GEORGE F. RUCH
159 Chemung Street
Waverly, New York

[handwritten to left of above address]
Stamp gone where rec. in Rev. [illegible] Mass [illegible]-[illegible]
[end handwritten]

April 10, 1940

Veterans Administration,
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:-

[handwritten above following paragraph: "only"]
Do you have any pension record of
Samuel [underline] Hemingway [end underline] who served in the Revolutionary War as a sergeant of Captain David Lyon's Company, 1st New York Regiment of which Alexander McDougall was Colonel. He enlisted February 14, 1776. 

[symbol] Also, have you any war record of Walter [underline] Tichenor [end underline] who lived at Elizabethtown, N.Y.

These records are wanted for entrance to the Society of the Daughters of the Amnerican Revolution. 

Thank you, I am

Yours truly,

[signed] Harriet H. Ruch

[Circular stamp in black ink]
Numbers 1-12 arranged in a circle with an arrow pointing to the 12
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