Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13,092, Simeon Griswold, Conn. Continental
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Conn.     Griswold, Simeon    S. 13092
Continental 

carded
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New York 14.127
Simeon Griswold
of Nassau in the State of New York who was a Srgt. J.D.M in the company commanded by Captain Phelps of the regiment commanded by Col. Wells in the N.Y. area line for 1 m- 9th Sept.
10 m- 21st December

Continental and Conn. 
Records corrected  Jany 15/06 

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 149 Dollars 5 cents for annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 7 day of Jany 1834 and seventh
General Wool

Appears to the 4th of Sept. 1833 $372.67
Semi-ann. allowance ending [illegible] 74.53
$447.20
{Revolutionary Claim,
{Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk
Book C1 Volume 4 Page 20
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Sir to H.H. Sylvester
[illegible] 25 '44

Paid at Treasury, under act 6 April, 1838, from 4 Sept. 1843 to 7th Dec. 1843 Agent notified 7 April 1846.

H.H. Sylvester 24th Nov. 1850


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let to Giles F.. Yates Esq.
July 25, 1840
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Sir to H. H. Sylvester
Sept. 25 '44

Paid at Treasury, under act 6 April, 1838 from 4 Sept. 1843 to 7th Dec. 1843 Agent notified 7 April, 1846

H. H. Sylvester 27th Nov. 1850


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Let to Giles F Yates Esq. 
July 25, 1840
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State of New York
Rensslaer County : Henry R. Pristol clerk of the said county do certify that Spencer Whiting Esquire before who the annexed affidavit of Simeon Griswold was taken, was at the date of the same a justice of the peace of the said County of Rensslaer and as such duly authorised to take such. affidavit, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and easily believe his name subscribed to said affidavit to be his proper handwriting and signature. Witness my hand and seal of office this fifteenth day of January 1833. 
Henry R. Bristol Clerk
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State of New York}
Rensslaer County} 
Simeon Griswold the identical person named in the declaration hereto annexed of the town of Nassau in the County of Rensslaer  and State of New York being duly sworn, for the purpose of state with greatest precision the length of his service, and the different [illegible] in which he served, in language so definite as to [illegible] the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled", and "the period or periods of the war when he served" says that he arrived at Roxbury and joined the army near Boston, which was the first of his entering the service of his country on the twenty eighth day of April in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy five or within a day or two of that time. That the troops at the time of his first joining the army was not organized or regularly formed into Companies or regiments, but the entire map was under the command of General Putnam, under whom he served as a volunteer until the beginning of the month of July nxt after he so joined the Army when General Washington took the command; that he then enlisted in the Company commanded by Captain Solomon Wells of Tolland Connecticut as set forth in his said documentation. That he continued to serve in said company until on or about the first day of April in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six and until after the British troops had evacuated the City of Boston, when he returned home to Bolton as in his declaration is set forth after having served the full term of eleven months from the time he first entered the army as aforesaid. And this deponent further says that as near as he can recollect it was, on the first of May in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy six, that he enlisted as a sergeant, under Lieutenant Carver, in Captain Phelp's Company as stated in his said declaration, that after so enlisting in said last mentioned company he remained
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therewith in the state of Connecticut, as near as he can remember, one month, when the regiement was organized and this deponent proceeded with the same to City of New York, where he arrived as early as the tenth of June in the same year, at which time he reveived the appointment of Quarter Master in said Regiment from Colonel Ward, which according to his best recollection was given to him immediately on arriving in New York- and as soon as the day. last above mentioned. That he enlisted in said last mentioned company for the term of one year, as sergeant as a foresaid, was appointed Quarter Master and performed the duties of said office in the manner in his said declaration set forth for and during or until the full period and termination of said year; when and as near as he can now remember on or about the first of May in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven, he was discharged, as in said declaration set forth; And this deponent further says that according to his best recollection and belief he enlisted in Captain Loomis' Company of Calvary on the twenty fifth of July in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven and that he served as stated in his said declaration until the twentieth day of October of the same year when the was discharged, but received no written discharge, that said Company of Cavalry did not belong to any regiment then in the army but was sent on from the State of Connecticut, singly to the aid of the Northern Army and further says not Simeon Griswold.


State of New York
Rensslaer County. 
I Spencer Whiting a justice of the peace in and for the town of Nassau in said county do hereby certify that on the fourtheenth day of January AD 1833 appeared before me Simeon Griswold of said town
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to the well known and subscribed and errors to the above affidavit that he is a person of standing and respectability and is entitled to full belief and further that the word "organized" and "twenty fifth" of July was written upon an Erazure in said affidavit before the court was taken as aforesaid.

Spencer Whiting 
Justice of the Peace
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State of New York}
Rensslaer County} 
City of Troy}
For on this eighth day of August in the year of our Lord one Thousand Eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open court before the judges. of the Court of Common Pleas called the mayor court of the City of Troy Simeon Griswold resident of the town of Nassau in the County of Rensslaer and State of New York aged seventy nine years, who first being 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 under the following named officers and served as herein stated, that is to say That at the time of the battle of Lexington, he resided in the town of Boston the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut and whom receiving intelligence of that battle was immediately remanded to the vicinity of Boston in the state of Massachusetts, and then joined the army, such as it was, under the Command of General Putnam, was sometimes stationed  at Roxbury and sometimes at Cambridge and performed duty in this manner for some time and until the army was organized and General Washington took the immediate command  there of. hat he then enlisted in a company of infantry commanded by Captain Solomon Wells of Tolland Connecticut, but does not now recollect the names of the subaltern officers in said company, and continued to serve in said company until the British Troops left Boston, in the spring of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six.  that during the period aforesaid he was present and witnessed the battle of Bunker or Breed's Hill but was not engaged on said battle by reason of his being employed in other service at the time. That after the evacuation of Boston aforesaid he returned home to Bostone aforesaid after his return home and sometime in the month of April or May of the same year he enlisted as a Sergeant in Captain
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Noah Phelps Company in which one land(?) [illegible] was lieutenant and the name of the enlisted was Holcomb_ that said company belonged to a Regiment Commanded by Colonel Ward of New Haven and which was raised by the state of Connecticut by virtue of a requisition from the Continental congress; that after being mustered said Regiment was odered to New York, and thereupon he proceeded wherewith by water from the City of Hartford to the City of New York, where he remained a short time when the said regiment pursuant to orders sent to Kingsbridge, and was there at the time the British Troops drove out the American forces and took possesion of said city. What he remained at Kingsbridge aforesaid a short time when the whole army was marched to White Plains, that he was presnet and engaged at the Battle of White Plains and saw Generals Washington and Sullivan at that "place; the he was immediately upon being mustered in said last mentioned Regiment and after leaving the flats of Connecticut as aforesaid for New York and joining the army there appointed by Colonel Ward to be Quarter Master in his regiment in which capacity be served in said Regiment until his term of service therein as hereinafter mentioned explained; That he accompanied that part of the army under the immediate Command of General Washington from the state of New York into the State of New Jersey and participated in all the privations and sufferings endured by the army in the retreat through the latter state across the Delaware into the State of Pennsylvania, that after remaining a short time on the most side of the Delaware he recrossed the river at Trenton with the troops under General Washington and was engaged with them in taking the [illegible] at that place in the month of December in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six. That after performing the service last mentioned
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he crossed to the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware and remained there with the army until it again crossed the river and took past at Trenton aforesaid, that while stationed there the British Army marched to attack them; not in the night they once ordered to decamp by General Washington, with all [illegible] silence and expedition in doing which he, this deponent lost all his papers and documents showing his appointment of service as a Quarter Master as aforesaid, that he marched with the army all that night and was engaged with a rank of the British Army near Princeton, and he proceeded with the American Army, under Washington to Princeton and assisted in capturing apart of the British forces left there. That from thence he marched with the army to Morristown in New Jersey and there was into winter quarters that on arriving at Morristown he was destitute of every means of protection except the single suit of clothes which he wore. and whilst he remained there he had the small pox with great severity. That some time in the month of May or June in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven he received his discharge, after having served one year, the period of his enlistment in said Regiment and from the time of his arriving in New York as above mentioned, as Quarter Master of said regiment nearly eleven months and returned home. That in the same summer of the year one thousand and seven hundred and seventy seven he enlisted as a private in a company of cavalry commanded by Captain Loomis of East Windsor Hartford County Connecticut and one Lieutenant Norton that from thence he was marched with said
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Company by the most direct route to Albany in the state of New York from thence up the river to a place called Half Moon, and then directly to the American Army under the command of General Gates ,  At Stillwater in the county of Saratoga. That he remained there and was engaged in the Battle with Burgoyne's Army on the nineteenth of September in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven and in that battle served under General Arnold by whom he was ordered to attend his aid early in the afternoon of that day, into the woods in order to ascertain what caused the firing in that direction, that he proceeded on the discharge of the duty assigned him, and on arriving at the shot from where the firing had proceeded he found Colonel Morgan and his Corps engaged with a British scouting party, and that he thy deponent continued to serve in the performance of the duties assigned him by the General Arnold throughout the Battle and until night what he remained in service in the last mentioned company in the Army at Stillwater  and thereabouts until the entire Army command by Burgeoyne surrendered, and for the term, as near as he can recollect of about three months, when he returned home. And this deponent further says that he made an application to the War department for the benefit of the Act of Congress of March 1818. What pursuant to such application his name was placed upon the pension roll at and after the oath of Eight dollars a month and that he received this pension under said act until he was struck from the roll by reason of his inability to comply with the requirements of the act
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of Congress of 1819, since which time he has not received any pension whatever, that the papers upon which such appreciation was predicated was forwarded to the War Department and are now on file there as the deponent believes, that in support of  said application he believes he obtained the affidavit of one Granger of Sandersfield in the County of Berkshire in the state of Massachusetts of his service in the army for one year during the year of seventeen hundred and seventy six and seventy seven, but who as he [illegible] believes  is now dead as he cannot learn any thing from him, and he further says that he does not know of any person now living except himself who can prove the services aforesaid or ay part thereof as he resides more than one hundred miles from the place where he enlisted, as aforesaid. 

In answer to the interrogations responded by the War Department he says.
1st that he was born in the town of Bolton, then in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut on the thirteenth day of May in the year one thousand seven hundred fifty three.
2nd That there is a record of his age made ny the town authorities in the town of Bolton aforesaid and he also has one of his aged and that of his family made by himself and inserted in a small book now in his possession.
3rd That when he entered the service, at all times as aforesaid he lived in the said town of Bolton_ where he continued to live until the spring of the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty one. where
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he removed therefrom to the town of Pittsfield in the County of Berkshire and State of Massachusetts at which place he lived until the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen when he removed tot eh town of Nassau in the County of Rensslaer  and state of New York where he has resided ever since.
4th. That he volunteered when he first went into the service and afterward enlisted as aforesaid- 
5th That he cannot remember distinctly the names of any other regular officers who were with the troops during his service that he has above mentioned except one Colonel Willis as he believes who are with the army during the second years service and Major Meigs who was in the army about Boston during the first tour of service, above related and that the general circumstances of his service are as above related, Amounting in the whole to two years and two or three months.
6th That he received a discharge at Morristown in the State of New Jersey on leaving the army in the month of May 1888. but which has, long since, been lost or destroyed and that he has not now any documentary proof of his service.
7th That he is know to Brigadier General John E Wool inspector General of the United States   Army and served other person of longevity and respectability residing in his neighborhood and in the City of Troy and also to the Clerk of the County of Rensslear and to most of the judges of the court of Common plea of said county who can testify as to his character for [illegible]
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and their belief as to his services as a soldier of the revolution. That the clergyman who at present resides in the Village of Nassau where he lives is not intimately acquainted with him being a clergyman and not having officiated in that capacity for any very great length of tim, or that place. and therefore he has not called upon him for a certificate to that effect. 
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that this name is not upon the pension roll of the agency of any state. 
Simeon Griswold

Sworn to and subscribed this day of year aforesaid Archibald Bull Clerk

We John Barney, residing in the City of Troy and John Koon residing in the town of Nassau in the County of Rensslaer hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Simeon Griswold who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy nine years of age and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we [illegible] in that opinion. 
John Barney 
J. Koon

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Archibald Bull Clerk

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogated prescribed by the War department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and
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served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that John Barney who has signed the preceding certificate is a resident in the City of Troy and in the town of Nassau both of the County of Rensslear and that they are credible persons, and then statement is entitled to full credit.

I, Archibald Bull Clerk of the Mayor's Court of the City of Troy do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Simeon Griswold for a pension. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this Eighth day of August in the Year  one thousand eight hundred and thirty two. 
Archibald Bull Clerk
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State of New York
County of Rensselaer}JS

On this 2nd day of February 1844 personally appeared in open court before the court of common pleas of the county and state aforesaid Chester Griswold and John Barney Residents of the same county , who first being duly sworn according to law, doth on their oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of June 7th, 1832.

That they are the executors of the last will and testament of Simeon Griswold deceased, late of Nassau of the County and State aforesaid, that he died on the 7th December 1843. that he was a pensioner under the act of Congress of June 7th 1832, that he received under said act as Sergeant and Quarter Master, only the sum of $149.07 per year whereas they are advised and believe that he was entitled to the additional sum of $450.93cts per annum, which sum he was entitled to as a Staff Officer in the personal staff of General Arnold at the Battle of Saratoga and the surrender of General Burgoyne, in addition to his service as Sergeant and Quarter Master in Colonel Wards regiment of the Connecticut Militia together with his service in New Jersey and New York for the particular of which his service, they would respectfully refer to the honorable commissioner of Pensions to the papers and documents accompanying his declaration, all of which papers, are presumed to be on file in the proper department at Washington, they must also refer the commissioner to the papers of the day as traditionary evidence [illegible].
And they now claim as executors of the said Simeon Griswold deceased the difference between the sums paid, and the sums due as such
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Staff Officer according to the provisions of said act of June 7th,1832. 
Chester Griswold and John Barney

Sworn and subscribed to the day and year aforesaid  Charles Hooper Clerk of Rensselaer N.Y.

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 applicants are the Executors of the last will & testaments of the within named Simeon Griswold deceased, who was at the time of his death a Revolutionary Pensioner a& that he died at the time within set forth. 
I Charles Hooper clerk of the County of Court of Common pleas in open the County of Rensselaer, the same keeping  account of Record, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said least in the matter of the application of Chester Griswold and John Barney, Executors of Simeon Griswold aforesaid deceased, for a means of pension due to him as staff officer in the army of the Revolution. 
In testimony where of I have hereunto subsribed my name and affixed the official seal of the said Court - this 2 nd day of Feb. 1844 

Chester Hooper Clerk

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Griswold
Griswold
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7006 
Simeon Griswold


Gen. Wool present
5.16

20 August 32
5 Dec  32

P. 133
Z Koon Nassau
 [illegible]
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7006
Brief in the case of Simeon Griswold
of Nassau Rensselaer Ct in the State of New York
(Act 7th June 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?   open Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3. How old is he? 79 years

4. State his service as directed in the form annexed. 
 Period: enlisted and served  enlisted and served; duration 1 year; Rank: Sergeant; Cap. Solomon Woods Cap. Noah Phelps Comp. 
Period:1777 enlisted Rank: Quarter Master Cap. Wards Regt. 
remained in service as [illegible] he can recollect about 3 months  private Cap. Loomis 

5. In what battles was he engaged? White Plains and Capture of Burgoyne

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Bolton Connecticut

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence or by the rolls?  he received a pension under the act of 1818- the papers which supported that pension he writes to apply at the present and say they are in the wWar Department Traditionary evidence

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
not authenticated.

I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned. 

A Reintzel- Examining Clerk.
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November 20, 1937
Simeon Griswold, S. 13092
Wm. Rowley, S.C. 7147
BA-J/MCS

Mr. Robert H. Phillips
Nassau
New York

Dear Sir: 
Reference is made to your request for information relative to Manus and Simeon or Simon Griswold who served in the Revolutionary War and William Rowley who served in the War of 1812. 

Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims for pension and bounty land made to the United States and based upon the military service  of soldiers in that war. A careful search of the records fails to show such claims on file on account of the service of Manus Griswold.

The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S. 13092, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Simeon Griswold. 

He was born May 13, 1753, in Bolton Connecticut. The names of his parents were not given. 

While a resident of Bolton he went to Roxbury Massachusetts, and served as private under General Putnam from about April 28, 1775., until the first of July, 1775, when he enlisted in Captain Solomon Wells' Connecticut company and served until about the first of April, 1776. He enlisted the first of May, 1776 and served one year as sergeant and quartermaster in Captain Noah Phelps' company in Colonel Andrew Ward's Connecticut regiment and was in the battles of White Plains, Trenton and Princeton. He enlisted July 25, 1777, as private in Captain Loomis' Connecticut company, was in the battle of Stillwater September 19, 1777, and at the surrender of Burgoyne and served until October 20, 1777.

In the spring of 1781 be moved from Bolton to Pittsfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, where he lived until 1815 when he moved
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Nassau, Rensselaer County, New York.

Simeon Griswold was allowed pension on his application executed April 8, 1818, at which time he was living in Nassau, New York. 

He died December 7, 1843, In Nassau, New York.

In 1829 Simeon Griswold referred to his wife but did not give her name. She did not survive him. 

He was survived by the following children only: Chester Griswold who was living in Nassau, New York, in 1850 aged sixty-nine years, and Sophia Stone. 

There are no further data relative to the family of Simeon Griswold.


The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim S.C. 7147, based upon the War of 1812 service of William Rowley.

He did not state the date and place of his birth and the names of his parents. 

He enlisted at Hudson, New York, served as private in Captain Joseph Lord's company of New York militia from September 18, 1814, until December 3, 1814.

He married in December, 1817 in Kent, Columbia County, New York, Laney Shaffer.

In 1851 William Rowley was living in Chatham, Columbia County, New York, aged fifty-five years and in 1855 he was living in that county.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 22, 1871, at which time he was living in Padua, McLean County, Illinois. 

Very Truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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Griswold, Simeon
Conn.- Cont. S13092
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Record  of Colo. Andrew Ward and Simeon Griswold [illegible] fifty fie tents twenty five spade, twenty eight pick axes, sixteen kettles which were drawn out f the public house for the use of said Regiment on Jan. 7, 777.
Thos Reed [illegible]

 Record also ten old buckets  
1  box Doctor Bandages 
Thos Reed [illegible]

Receipt. Marked (A) referred to in the named affidavit of Simeon Griswold. J. Koon  Com
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Griswold, Simeon
Conn. Cont. S13092
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State of New York
Rensselaer County JS

Simeon Griswold of the town of Nassau County of Rensselaer and State of New York being duly sworn doth depose and say, that he enlisted under Lieut. Samuel Carver, a company commanded by Noah Phelps attached to Capt. Andrew Wards Regiment of New Haven state of Connecticut on the first day of May 1776. And on the organization of said Regiment, in the city of New York, was on the first day of June, thereafter appointed by the said Col. Andrew Ward Quartermaster to said Regiment, in which capasity he acted, till the first day of May 1777, at which  time the said Regiment was discharged by Gen. Washington at Morristown in the state of New Jersey, The time having expired for which said Regiment was enlisted and that he is the same Simeon Griswold as mentioned and intended by and in the  receipt hereunto affixed as signed by Tho. Reed and dated the 2nd January 1777.

Sworn and subscribed this 7th day of December 1833 before me Chester Griswold,  Conn. The county for for tehe County of Rensselaer 

Simeon Griswold
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*Top Left* 
This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary Soldiers as wer pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services. 
Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States. 

I. 13092.
L.W.B.

Department of the Interior 
Bureau of Pensions, 
Washington, D.C.,
April 30, 1897.

O.W.& N. Div.
Revolutionary.

Madam- 
Replying to your request for information concerning Simeon Griswold, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, you are advised that he made an application for pension on April 8, 1818, at which time he was 68 years of age and residing at Nassau, N.Y. , and his pension was allowed for one year's actual service as a sergeant and quartermaster in the New York troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt. Phelps and Col. Wells.  He enlisted at Bolton, Conn.
Very Respectfully, 

Commissioner.
Mrs. E.M. Green,

36 First St. , Troy, N.Y.
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Nassau, N.Y. Nov 11 1937

Veterans Administration
Washington D C

Gentlemen:-

Will you kindly furnish me with any Military or family records that you may have on file, relative to the following soldiers?

(Simeon) Simon Griswold b. 1753; d. 1843 Lived Pittsfield, Mass and Nassau NY.  Married Ann ____

Manus Griswold, b. 1755; d. 1843. Lived Berkshire Co. Mass ad Berlin, Rens Co NY. Marr. Deborah _______.

Thanking you for your consideration, I remain, 

yours truly
Robert R. Phillips
Robert R Phillips
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Nassau, N.Y. Nov 8 1937

Veterans Administration
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:

Will you kindly furnish any Revolutionary War or War of 1812 records that you may have on file pertaining to :-

William Rowley, b. Ca 1794; mar Margaret _______. Lived (1850) Columbia County, NY.

Simeon (Simon) Griswold, b. 1753; d. 1843, Nassau Rens Co., NY., married Ann _________

Appreciating your attention, I remain,

yours truly, 
Robert R. Phillips
Robert R. Phillips


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Received 
Nov 9 1937
Mail Sub-Div.
[illegible] 10
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O.W. & N. Div.

Department of the Interior, 
Bureau of Pensions

Washington D.C.,..........., 189........

Respectfully returned to the writer who is requested to furnish, for purposes of identification, as much as possible of the information called for below. 
Wm Lockren
Commissioner.

Full name of soldier: 
Simeon Griswold

Place of residence before service: 
(Town, county, and State, if possible)
Stephentown or Nassau Rensselaer Co. NY.

Date of death (as near as possible): 
alive in 1841
died in 1843- [illegible] 175-3

Christian name of widow:
Ann Hutchinson

Did either he or his widow receive a pension?
He received a pension

Remarks:
It is deemed as full [illegible] as can be given

Your name and address:
Mr. Edw M Green 
36 First- Sheet
Troy, N. Y.
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Apr. 30. 1894- History
to Mrs. E. W. Green
36 First st. Troy N.Y

1937 Nov. 20 first to Mrs. Robt R. Phillips, W E S 

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Rev War
13.092 
Invalid

File No. 13.092
Simeon Griswold
L.M & C Rev. War

Act: June 7th 1832

Index:- Vol. ________-, Page __________

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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I, Abraham Granger of Tolland in the County of Hampden and Commonwealth of Massachusetts testifieth  and Sayeth Simeon Griswold of Nassau in the County  of Rensselaer in the State of New York enlisted as Sergeant in Capt. Noah Phelps Company in Col. Andrew Waves Regiment Said Regiment was [illegible] by the State of Connecticut in May of 1776; said Regt joined the United States Army involved York under the command of Gen. Washington the said Simeon Griswold was appointed to the Duty of Quarter Master in said Regt. and did the freely accordingly the Simeon Griswold was then Discharged in May [illegible] 1777 in the State of New Jersey by Genl Washington on and further more the Deponent Sayeth not. 

Abraham Granger

Hampden Co., Tolland  January 7th  1819 I personally appeared before on Abraham Granger, of the signed at the [illegible] Affidavit and Solemly do swear the above named Simeon Griswold after enlisting in the above mentioned company and regiment was appointed to the Duty of Quarter Master and did the duty accordingly.  

William Moore Justice of Peace
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[Illegible] [Illegible] Office
Nassau- New York
15th December 1829

Sir,
Permit me to call your attention to the situation of Simeon Griswold a revolutionary soldier who under in the village of Nassau N. Y. Having complied with the provisions of the act of Congress of 1818 he was placed on the Pension list, and continued when said list as received his pension until the act of Congress of 1819 came into operation, when from this fact that he was unwilling to make oath that he was a pauper and actually obliged to obtain support at the house of public charity, his name was stricken from the role of pensioners, since which he has partly been unable for a portion of said time to obtain a support from the requisites arising from the office
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of Justice of the peace. But that [illegible] of existence, although exceedingly small has been cut off by those opposed to the present communication of the general Government, in [illegible] of his supporting Andrew Jackson for President of the United States. 
Hence, he is now [illegible] of the means of [illegible], except a small  pittance which he arrives from a small house in which he resides, and about a quarter of an acre of ground, which altogether is entirely inadequate to the support of himself and wife. He is now 77 years of age and too infirm to labour. The object in making this statement is to ascertain, whether he is worthy and patriotic citizen, can be restored to the pension list under the present regulation, of the war Department. An early answer will greatly oblige Mr. Griswold.
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Very respectfully, I am, his and your [illegible] servant. 
John E. Wool


To the Hon.
John H. Eaton 
Secretary as War
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I, Abraham Granger of Tolland County of Hampden Commonwealth of Massachusetts testify and say that I am personally acquainted with Simeon Griswold now of Union Village in Nassau, Rensselaer County and State of New York. and know that he enlisted into a Company in the Continental Service commanded by Capt. Noah Phelps in a regiment commanded by Colonel Andrew Ward in the month of May of 1776 for the term of one year and that he served faithfully during said term and was honerably discharged in the month of May of 1777 by General Washington in the state of New Jersey. These facts I know because I served as orderly Sergeant of said Company during said term. And further the deponent saith not. 

Abraham Granger

State of of Connecticut Hartford County of Simsbury  November 5th A. 1818. Personally appeared before me, Abraham Granger Esquire subscriber of the foregoing affidavit, and solemnly swore the same contains the truth and nothing but the truth.  

Elisha Phelps Justice of Peace
for Hartford County
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I Roswell Nobles of Simsbury County of Hartford and State of Connecticut testify and say that I am personally acquainted with Simeon Griswold now of [ilegible] Vilage, in Nassau, Rensselaer County, State of New York and know that he enlisted into a Company in the Continental service commanded by Capt. Noah Phelps and Regiment commanded by Colonel Andrew Wards in the month of May A 1776 for the term of one year, and that he served faithfully during said term and was honorably discharged by Gen. Washington in the State of New Jersey in the month of May AD 1777. I know these fact, because I belonged to the same Company and served with him during the term aforesaid. 

Roswell Hobbs

State of Connecticut Hartford County Simsbury on November 5th AD 1818- Personally appeared before me the [illegible] authority Roswelll Nobles subscriber  of the foregoing affidavit and made solemn oat that the same contains the truth &  nothing but the truth. 

Elisha Phelps Justice of peace
for Hartford County
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We the undersigned are personally acquainted with Abraham Granger Esq. and Mr. Roswell Nobles, subscribers of the preceding affidavits, and know them to be gentlemen of fair characters. 
Simsbury Conn. Nov. 5th 1818 
Joth Montigue 
Elisha Phelps

I Thomas Chester Clerk of the County Court Court of Common Pleas [illegible] for the County of Hartford in the State of Connecticut do certify that Elisha Phelps Esq. is a Justice of Peace in and for said County of Hartford as appears by a Commission remaining in my office I was on the 5th day of November 1818 and he has this day declared to me that the three foregoing signatures in his name are his signatures. 

Witness my hand and the seal of said County this 20th day of December A.D. 1818
Thomas Chester Clerk
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State of New York
Albany County} SS
Chester Griswold of Nassau county of Rensselaer State of New York, being duly sworn, says that he has for a long time been acquainted with Simeon Griswold, within named and that he is in [illegible] [illegible] is [illegible] stances, was actually stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support.

Chester Griswold

State of New York
County of Albany} SS
On this third day of February 1819 came before me personally the above Chester Griswold solemn oaths that the above affidavit by his testimony is true & correct. I further certify that I am personally acquainted  with Simeon Griswold the applicant for a pension and that he is in [illegible] stories and stands in need of the [illegible] of this country for support. 

Estes Howe Justice 
Albany County [illegible]
for the State of New York


City and County of Albany 
Clerks office
I Horatio Merchant Deputy Clerk of said city and county do hereby certify that Estes Howe was a judge of the court of Common please in and for said county at the time the above certification was taken and that I am acquainted with his [illegible] and verify the signature  is the said certificate to be his In Testimony where I have here unto set my hand and caused the deal at th Court of Common Please to be affixed this 4th Feb. 1819 
Horatio Merchant [illegible]
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Simeon Griswold
Declaration 
of rank and [illegible]

Allowed [illegible] 
marked L.C.
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State of New York
Rensselaer County 

Simeon Griswold of the town of Nassau in said county being duly sworn doth depose and say that he has received from the war department of the United States a pension certificate  whereby he is entitled to receive the sum of one  hundred and four dollars and thirteen cents per annum during his natural life which certificate was issued pursuant to an application made by this deponent for a pension under the act of 7th June 1832;  that is the declaration of this deponent forwarded  to the Department, he set forth among other things the fact that in the early part of the spring of 1776, he was appointed a QuarterMaster of a Regiment commanded by one Co. Ward of New Haven Connecticut, but not until said Regiment had arrived at the city of New York, and further that he reformed the duty of Quarter Master for each Regiments then belonging to the army under the immediate command of General Washington, and served therein through the winter campaign in the State of New Jersey until the Army as  sent into Winter Quarters at Morristown and until he was discharged in the Spring of the year 1777.: and also that in January of the last mentioned year, he lost his commission of Quarter Master, together with all the [illegible] connected with his department, through the sudden and immediate departure of the American Army from the vicinity of the British Army in the night time, and immediately previous to the battle  of Princeton, New Jersey: by reason of which [illegible] he was not able to advice any proof further than that afforded by his own statement under oath of his having been a Quartermaster; whereby as this deponent has been informed and believes, the War Department in making an estimate of his carries just out of the account the time served by this deponent as such Quarter Master, and allowed him nothing therefor, And this deponent further says that at the time on making out his said declaration he amiably believed that he had last as he set forth in his said papers all evidences whatever of his having been such Quarter Master, but since receiving his said certificate, on a search among his old papers, he found among them a receipt  taken by him on the 2nd January 1777 from  Thos. Reed [illegible] Tully of the army. which receipt is thereto annexed marked (A) and this deponent further says that he is the identical person named in said receipt and to
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when the same was given, which receipt is all the documentary or other proof now within the knowledge of this deponent of his service as Quarter Master, as set forth in his said declaration- and of the existence of which he had no knowledge at the time of preparing such declaration, verily believing the same to have been destroyed or lost with his commission and other papers, as above stated, and further says not. - Simeon Griswold

Sworn the 23rd day of September 1833 before me. 
J Koon Commssioner of Rens. Co


State of New York Rensselaer County} I Henry R. Bristel Clerk of said County do hereby certify that John Koon Esq. before when the foregoing affidavit purports to have been sworn on the day of the date thereof a Commissioner of Deeds in the foresaid County, duly authorized to take the service and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his signature above subscribed is genuine. 
In Testimony Thereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my hand and affixed the seal of said County this 24th day of September 1833. 
Henry R. Bristel Clerk
M. N. Howard [illegible] Depy.
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*sideways writing as noted*
Cancelled and new Certificate issued
for $149.07  7th Jan. 34 
WLW
--------------


Payments to be made at New York by the Presd US Pn BK
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of 

New York


Recorded in the Pension Office
in Book E Volume 4
Page 20 by Jho. Cromwell
Clerk.
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War Department
Revolutionary Claim

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June 1832, Simeon Griswold of the State of New York
who was a Qrmaster Sergeant Dragoon and Private in the Revolutionary Army is entitled to receive One Hundred and five dollars and thirteen cents per annum during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831 and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September, in every year. 
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 10th day of May one thousand eight hundred and thirty three. 
Lew Cas
Secretary of War.

Examine and Countersigned

J L Edwards 
Commissioner of Pensions 


*sideways down center written as noted*
Cancelled
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J.S. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

*sideways as noted*
May 16, 1821
raf
Simeon Griswold
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Schumetada April 10, 1840

J.L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir, 
Simeon Griswold enlisted into Colonel (he thinks Andrew) Ward's Regiment of New Haven, raised by the State of Connecticut for one year, and in the company of Capt. Noah Phelps, as a Sergeant. His first Lieutenant name was Samuel  Corver. After said Regiment was organized, he the said Simeon Griswold received the appointment of a QuarterMaster. In this last named capacity he served for the prior of his engagement that he was a Quartermaster his receipt was in the war department will show. In a precipitate March on the 22nd day of January 1777 (as he thinks) from Trenton to Princeton in New Jersey, he lost his warrant, with all his other papers. He now draws a pension of only $149.50 for annum A reexamination of his papers is solicited and his claim as a Quarter Master to an increased stipend asserted. 
I am very respectfully
your old servant
Giles F. Yates
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J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir,
To my letter making requires the case of Simeon Griswold under the act of 7 June 1832, I have never received any reply.

Yours Respectfully, 
G. F Yates
Jany 18, 1841
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Gideon, Prister

Treasury Department,
Second Comptroller's Office,
September 5th, 1845.

Sir,
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain pensioners and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States" and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, The Executor of Simeon Griswold, deceased, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany, N. York Agency, at the state of One Hundred forty nine Dollars and Seven cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1843, to the 7th Dec. 1843.

Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller 

To the Commissioner of Pensions, 
Present.
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State of New York
County of Rensselaer

On this 28 day of May 1850 before me Henry Kirby....a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally appears Chester Griswold of Nassau in said County, Aged sixty nine years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain  an increase of pension in the case of his father Simeon Griswold, deceased under the Act of Congress paper June 7th 1832, that he is one of the children of Simeon Griswold, who has a Sergeant and Quarter Master in War of the Revolution and a Pension of the United States, That his father the said Simeon Griswold died in the County aforesaid, on the seventh day of December in the year one thousand eight and forty three, That at the time of his death he left no widow, but left the following children [illegible] Chester Griswold (the declarant) and Sophia Stone that they are his only surviving children and each of them are over twenty one years of age. The support of which claim declarant refer the Pension department to the evidence on file in that office and to such as may be furnished by his Agent  W. Valentine of Albany N.Y. and he hereby appoints said Valentine his Agent & Attorney for one year from this data for the purpose aforesaid.
Chester Griswold

Subscribed & Sworn to before on this 28 day of May 1850}
Henry Kirby Justice of the Peace

I certify that I am personally acquainted with Chester Griswold that he is the identical person above names and his statement is entitled to full faith and credit.
Henry Kirby 
Justice of the Peace

the word "widow & but left" intended in the foregoing deposition before execution

Henry Kirby
Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
County of Rensselaer

Ebenezer S. Bassett and James W. Reed residents of Nassau in said county being first duly sworn according to law deposeth that Simeon Griswold a pensioner of the United States died in said County on the 7th day of December in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty three, that at the time of his death he left no widow but left the following children Mr. Chester Griswold and Sophia Stone. That they are his only surviving children and each of them are over twenty one years of age. 
Ebenezer S. Bassett
James W. Reed

Subscriber & Sworn to before me this first day of June 1850.

Henry Kirby
Justice of the Peace

I certify I am personally acquainted with Ebenezer S. Basset and James W. Reed that they are credible and competent witnesses and their statement as above set forth is entitled to full faith & credit.

Henry Kirby
Justice of the Peace
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State of New York, 
Rensselaer County Clerk's Office
I Ambrose H Sheldon, Clerk of the
County of Rensselaer, do hereby certify, that  Henry Kirby Esq.  whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of proof or acknowledgment of the annexed Instrument, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, one of the Justices of the Peace, of the County of Rensselaer, dwelling in said county; duly authorized to take such proof or acknowledgment.  And that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Justice, and verily believe that his signature to the said Certificate of proof or acknowledgment is genuine, and that said Instrument, is executed and acknowledged according to the laws of the State of New York. 
In Testimony Whereof, I have here unto set my name, and affixed the Seal of said County, this 27 day of July  A.D. 1850
Clerk
A. H. Sheldon Clk.
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State of New York
County of Rensslaer
Surrogate Court

On this 29 day of July 1850 before said court it was proved by the addition of the annexed testimony what is satisfactory to said Court that Simeon Griswold a pensioner of the United States died in said County on the seventh day of December in the year one thousand eight hundred & forty three and at the time of his death left no widow, but left the following named children, Mr. Chester Griswold and Sophia Stone, that they are his only surviving children and each of them are over twenty one years of age. 
In testimony whereof I have hereinto subscribed my name & affixed the official seal of said Court the day  & year first above written. G. S Blair
Surrogate
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Charlestown NH
Aug. 17, 1850

Sir 
Encld (Enclosed) you will find the appreciation of the children of Simeon Griswold deceased for and increase of pension
Please examine and upon the state of the case.
I am Respectfully
H.H. Sylvester 


J.L Edwards Esq.
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See his papers 
18 March 1818.
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13836
New York
Simeon Griswold

of Nassau in the state of New York who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Ward of the [Illegible] [cut off] for the term of one year.

Subscribed on the Roll of New York pad at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 8th of April, 1818. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 31st of July, 1819 and sent to J.E. Wood, Esq. 
Brownville, NY.

[cut off]rears to 4th of Mar 1819 end 27/30  $87.20
semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Sept. 1819 $48.00
$135.20

{Revolutionary claim
Act 18th March, 1818}

Levied 1832
letter & brief  J. Koon
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[cutoff] E. General J.E Wool, Dec. 22

[cutoff] Certificate of the ease sent to Hon. H: Hubbard
January 31. 1832

E. Wl
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New York. 14127

Simeon Griswold
of Nassau in the state of N. York who was a Q.M. (Quartermaster) Sergeant in the Company commanded by Captain Phelps of the Reg. commanded by Col. S. Wells in the state Troops line for 12 mo. QM Sergean
2 mo 25 days dragoon
10 months private

Inscribed on the Roll f New York at the rate of 105 Dollars 13 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 11 day of May '35 Gen. Wool, Pensselaer and seat Nassau N.Y.

[illegible] to the 4th of Mar '33 $210.26
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Sep. '33 $52.56

$262.82

{Revolutionary Claim,
[illegible] June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Jno Cromwell Clerk, 
Book E Vol. 4 Page 20
Continental and Conn. 
Recorded corrected Jany 15, 1906
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Colonel J. E. Wool
[illegible]
Knowsville N.Y


Adm. 

Private $8 per mo


Col. J. E Wool 
Brownbille NY
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To the Honorable J.C. Calhoun Secretary of the department of War.

I, Simeon Griswold of the Town of Nassau in the County of Rensselaer and State of New York believing myself entitled to the benefits of the Act of Congress passed the 18 day of March 1818 entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War;  
In compliance of the requisited of the said act beg leave to present to you the annexed evidence to prove my claim to the Pension therein mentioned is a Half Officer on the Continental establishment who has served more than nine months, with due consideration and respect  I am yours.

April 8th 1818

State of New York Rensselaer County : Simeon Griswold of the Town of Nassau and County and state aforesaid being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is now sixty eight years old. The said Deponent further saith that in April of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy five upon hearing that the British had commenced hostilities at Lexington Va, this deponent (then residing in the town of Boulton in the state of Connecticut) repaired to Roxbury for the purpose of repelling the British Troops then in Boston, and served -as-
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as a private soldier until the army was- organised by Gen. Washington. That he then enlisted under Col. Solomon Wells and remained in the army until the first of December of the same year, when he was regularly discharged. 
That in May of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six he this Deponent enlisted as a Sergeant under Capt. Noah Phelps in a Regiment ordered to be raised by the State of Connecticut, for the term of on year which Regiment was commanded by Col. Ward.  That after the said Regiment was mustered this Deponent was appointed by the said Col. Ward a QuarterMaster for the said Regiment. That the said Regiment then marched to New York and remained at New York of Westchester near Kingsbridge until the retreat of the army to the White Plains and the Heights. That in November of the same year this deponent and the said Regiment crossed the Hudson, with General Washington and endured all the privations and hardships with the army in their memorable March through the Jersey to Pennsylvania. That this Deponent to said Regiment assisted in taking the Hessians at Trenton in December of the same year, and again at the taking of the British. Head Quarters at Princetown. That this deponent and the said Regiment then went into Winter Quarters in the vicinity of Morristown and then continued until their said
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term of service agreeable to the enlistment had expired and then were regularly discharged by Genl. Washington; all which said term this- deponent continued to serve as Quarter Master to the said Regiment- This deponent then left the army and repaired to his then place of Residence aforesaid to wit at Boulton in Connecticut. That this deponent about the first of September in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven volunteered in a  Company of Cavalry commanded by Capt. Loomis of East Windsor in Connecticut and marched immediately to Stillwater in the state of New York and on the afternoon of the nineteenth of September attended Gen. Arnold for the purpose of conveying orders and so continued in actual hard service until the surrender of Bugoin after this the deponent and the said Company were regularly discharged and this deponent further saith that at the time of his departure from Trenton on the 22nd day of Jan in the night which was very precipitated this deponent being constantly on duty left there his warrant of appointment as Quartermaster and many other papers and articles escaping the Cloaths by then were - which he has never since been able to recover or hear from- and this deponent further saith that the officers under when he served according to the best information he can obtain all
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all now dead- and this deponent further saith that from his reduced circumstance that he needs the assistance of his Country for support and further this deponent saith not-
Subscribed and sworn to before Mr. Enoch Benedict one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Rensselaer, N. York, Simeon Griswold.

State of New York
Rensselaer County 

I certify that Enoch Benedict Esq. whose Signature is affixed to the foregoing certificate was on the Eighth day of April [illegible] one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County. In Testimony where of I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of the said Court of Common Pleas this fourteenth day of April 1818. 
Ben Smith Deputy Clerk

State of New York Rensselaer County, 
I Enoch Benedict one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Rensselaer aforesaid, Do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Simeon Griswold did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the Common [illegible]; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the [illegible] for the department of War pursuant to this directions of the afore mentioned Act of Congress. 
Enoch Benedict one of the Judges of Rensselaer Common Pleas