Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37749, Stephen Betts, Conn. Continental

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(3-1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
Connecticut 
Betts, Stephen   S. 37749
Continental      B.L.Wt. 139-300 Captain
Issued May 18, 1789.
No Papers
CONTENTS

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[Left entry:]
Stricken from the roll
4.272
See letter to Honorable G. Tomlinson
and the Agent 7 April, 1820
Connecticut Roll

Stephen Betts
Colonel Webb Major 
Connecticut Line
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
and Continental

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut -
at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on the 28th of April 1818 -

Certificate of Pension issued the 10th of Nov. 1818 and sent to Pierpont Edwards Esquire
Judge Bridgeport Connecticut.

Arrears to 4th of September 1818. 84,,66
Semi-annual. allowance ending 4 Mar: 1819
120 ~
4 months: 7/30ths $204,,66

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
July 1775 during the war in different capacities
Pensioned under Act 18th May 1828, to his death } 8 years
New Canaan

[right page] Copy of Commission sent to Mr Betts, at New Canaan, Connecticut 19 June 1828

Letter O. S. Seymour Jan 31/55.
Honorable O. S. Seymour 6 March 1855.

Date of death not on A.B.

[illegible, very faint]

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District of Connecticutt [Connecticut] Ss
On this 28th day of April AD 1818 Stephan
Betts of New Canaan in law in District under oath before Pierpont Edwards District Judge of the United  States for the District of Connecticutt  [Connecticut] in which District the said Stephen Betts now resides and ever since the end of the war of the Revolution hath resided To the and that he may be placed on the pension list of the 
United States in pursuance of the act of Congress approved the 18th day of March AD 1818 Declares that in July or August AD 1775 the Declarant entered into the service of the United States as a sarjeant [sergeant] in Captain Joseph Hoyts company in Colonel
Charles Webbs Regiment in the Connecticutt [Connecticut] line on the continental establishment (as the declarant believes) of the armies of the United States in the war of the Revolution for the term of six months which he faithfully served out in his said capacity   And that on the first day of January AD 1776 the declarant received an Ensigns commission in the same company and Regiment & Line and on the same establishment &c for one year which year the Declarant faithfully served the United States as an Ensign in their armies in the War against the common Enemy And that in the month of January AD 1777 the

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Declarant received a second Lieutenants Commission in the armies of the United States and in the month of February following he received a First Lieutenants Commission in said armies and in the month of July the same
year on the sixteenth day of said month the Declarant (being on that day twenty one years of age) received a Captains commission in said armies bearing date the first day of January AD 1777 signed by the then president of Congress And that while the Declarant served the United States as a Lieutenant as aforesaid he was in a company commanded by Captain Joseph Hoyt
in Colonel Charles Webbs in the Connecticut line on the continental establishment And while a
Captain he served in the same Regiment while
commanded by said Colonel Charles Webb and and after the reduction of the Regiments by order of Congress in the Regiment Commanded by Colonel Samuel B Webb.  And that the Declarant faithfully served the United States in manner above stated in their armies in the war of the revolution in said line on said establishment against the common enemy from said July AD 1775 to the end of the war of the Revolution and and that on the tenth day of October AD 1783 the Declarant was in pursuance of an act of Congress of the thirtieth day of September AD 1783

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by Brevet promoted to the rank of Major in the army of the United States signed by Elias Boudinot President: which Brevet the Declarant now exhibits to said Judge Honorable Mr. Boudinot
and further saith that his several commissions abovementioned he hath by time and  accident lost.
And the Declarant further maketh oath that beside being in a number of actions against the enemy of less note he fought in the battles of Trenton and Monmouth and commanded the Forlorn Hope in storming the works on the right of the American army under Colonel Hamilton before York Town in Virginia at the capture of Lord Cornwallis.
And that the declarant now is and ever since the
declaration of Independence hath been a resident citizen of the United States and that by reason  of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his country for his support.
                                                                       Stephen Betts

District of Connecticut Ss April 28th AD 1818 the aforenamed Stephen Betts came before me and  in my presence subscribed the aforesaid declaration and made oath that the same is true               
Pierpont Edwards
District Judge of said District

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District of Connecticutt [Connecticut] Ss
On this 28th day of April AD 1818 before me Pierpont Edwards District Judge of the United States for the District of Connecticutt [Connecticut] came Colonel Daniel Burritt of Bridgeport in said District now commandant of a Regiment of the militia of the State of Connecticutt [Connecticut] who being duly sworn doth depose and say that the aforenamed declarant Stephen Betts now is and for a number of years last past hath been a resident citizen of the United States and as this Deponent verily believes by reason of his reduced circumstances in life is in need of assistance from his country for his support
Daniel Burritt
April 28th AD 1818 Sworn before me
Pierpont Edwards ~
District Judge of the District of Connecticut

[down right side] Stephen Betts
[illegible]

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Pension Office
1st March 1855.

Connecticut Roll.
Act 18th March 1818.
$20.~ per annum. } Stephen Betts.
To what time paid?
When did he die?
S. Cole
for Commissioner.

R. J. Atkinson Esquire
Third Auditor.

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Stephen Betts paid to 4 March 1820 and dropped, restored under act 15 May '28 [1828] and paid up 28" November 1832, the day of his death. Nothing due.
Robert J Swinson
Auditor

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April 18, 1935

Mary R. Comstock
Wilton, Connecticut

STEPHEN BETTS
S. 37749
BA-J/MLB [illegible]

Dear Madam: 

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the record of Stephen Betts who served  as captain and brevet major in the Revolutionary  War from Connecticut, and applied for pension in 1818. 
The record of Stephen Betts follows as obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 37749, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War. 
Stephen Betts was born was born July 16, 1756; the place of soldier's birth and names of his parents are not given. 
He enlisted in July, 1775, served as Sergeant, Ensign, Second Lieutenant and First Lieutenant in Captain Joseph Hait's company, Colonel Charles Webb's Connecticut regiment. On January 1, 1777, he was commissioned Captain and served to the end of the Revolutionary War in Colonels Charles Webb's and Samuel B Webb's Connecticut regiments. On October 10, 1783, he was commissioned Brevet Major in the United States Army. During his service in the Revolutionary he was in the battles of Trenton, Monmouth and at the siege of Yorktown and surrender of Cornwallis. 
Stephen Betts was allowed pension on his application executed April 28, 1818, while a resident of New Canaan, Fairfield County, District of Connecticut, where he has resided since the close of the war and was still living in 1828. 
He died November 28, 1832, place not given. 
There are no family data shown in the claim. 

Very Truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant  to the Administrator

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IN PURSUANCE
Of an ACT of
CONGRESS
Of the Thirtieth Day of SEPTEMBER,
A. D. 1783

Stephen Betts Esquire
is to Rank as Major by Brevet, in the ARMY of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA.

GIVEN under my Hand at Princeton the Tenth Day of October 1783

Elias Boudinot President
B Lincoln

[stamp] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES of the UNITED STATES

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[Two columns]
[Left side]
37749
Revolutionary INVALID.

File No. 37,749
Stephen Betts
Major Revolutionary War

Act: 18th March 18
Index:-Volume 2, Page 35
[Arrangement of 1870.]

[right side] 1908 December 26. History to Mrs. Florence A. Chrisney. c
1922 - October 12 - History To Honorable. Morris Sheppard. MMTF
1923 January 5. J. P. Betts
furnished history and told of cost of copy of com. AN.
1925 - December 22 - History to Mary Bentley MMTF
1935, April 18 - History to Mary R. Comstock - MLB

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Sir

I am requested to transmit to you the within letter from Captain Betts and request the mistake to be corrected and the certificate to be sent to me yours with Esteem J B Sherwood

Congress Hall December. 9th. 1818

Honorable J C. Calhoun S W [Secretary of War]

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478   599.

No. of Original payt 4 - 5
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
August. 8. 1828

Stephen Betts, of New Canaan, in the County of Fairfield, in the State of Connecticut has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he was as an officer on the Continental line, and served as such to the end of the war,
at which period he was a Captain in the third regiment of the Connecticut line; and that he received commutation certificates for the 5 years full pay granted by the resolve of 22 March, 1783; and, further, that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing ~ 
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far these several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary,
A Dickins.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
12th. August 1828

It appears by the records in this office, that final settlement certificates have been issued for the commutation of five years full pay to Stephen Betts - Captain in the Connecticut line, amounting to Twenty four Hundred dollars.
It further appears that Stephen Betts is not now on the pension list of any agency, and has not been since the 3rd. March 1826. 
Peter Hagner Auditor
#37.749 Allowed
Allowed, Act 1828

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Revolutionary Claims.

[A.]

Form of a Declaration to be made by the Officers.

For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of an act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th of May, 1828, I, Stephen Betts of New Canaan of [crossed out], in the County of Fairfield, in the State of Connecticut do hereby declare that I was an officer in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution, and served as such* to the end of the war
at which period I was a Captain in the third regiment of the Connecticut line.
And I also declare, that I afterwards received certificates (commonly called commutation certificates) for a sum equal to the amount of five years' full pay; which sum was offered by the resolve of Congress, of the 22d of March, 1783, instead of the half pay for life, to which I was entitled under the resolve of the 21st of October, 1780.
And I do further declare, that I have received of the United States as a pensioner since the 3d day of March, 1826,† no money.

Witness my hand, this 16th day of June, in the year of our Lord 1828 Stephen Betts
Subscribed and sworn to this 16th day of June 1828 before me
Before me,‡ Clark Bissell of Norwalk in the county of Fairfield, in the State of Connecticut, personally appeared, this day, Samuel Knapp and Thomas Couch, of the said county, who did severally make oath that Stephen Betts by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been an officer in the Army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated.
Witness my hand, this 16th day of June, in the year of our Lord 1828
Clark Bissell Justice of Peace

I, Thomas B Osborne, Clerk of the County Court of the county of Fairfield, in the State of Connecticut, do hereby certify, that Clark Bissell Esq, before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was, at the time, a Justice of the Peace for said Fairfield County, and duly empowered to administer oaths.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, this 16th day of June AD 1828 I.S.
Thomas B Osborne
Clerk of said County Court

*Here insert, To the end of the war, or, (as the case may be,) to the time when the arrangement of [seal] provided by the resolves of Congress of the 3d and 21st of October, 1780, was carried into effect; and [seal] reduced under that arrangement.
†Here insert, The sum of  dollars, paid to me by the agent for paying pensions in [seal] of . If the claimant has not been a pensioner, this part of the de[seal] may be omitted.
‡A Justice of the Peace, or other magistrate duly empowered to administer oaths, as the case may be.

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Stephen Betts, Major,
Connecticut line, New Canaan
28. April, 1818.

Admitted

Pierpont Edwards, Esquire
Judge,
Bridgeport, Fairfield County
Connecticut.
Received. 27. May, 1818.

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The
Honorable John C Calhoun
Secretary of the Department of War
Washington

[up left side] Stephen Betts

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I Pierpont Edwards District Judge of the District of Connecticut do Certify that it appears to my Satisfaction that Stephen Betts who made and subscribed the declaration contained in the annexed shedule [schedule] did serve in the Revolutionary war against the common Enemy as Stated in the declaration and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me in his Case to the Secretary of the department of War pursuant to an Act of Congress in such Case made and provided said proceedings and testimony are contained in the annexed schedule May 20th 1818
Pierpont Edwards -

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Mr J C Calhoun

Secretary of War.

Washington

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New Canaan Fairfield County and State of Connecticut
December 3rd. 1818
Sir in compliance with a law of the United States March 18th 1818. I made my Declaration for a Pension nearly as follows, I entered the Revolutionary Army in the year 1775. I served an Ensign 1776. & 1777. 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, and till July 83 I served a Captain and at the Close of the war I had a Brevett [brevet] Major from Congress. this Declaration was made on the 28th day of April last. this Brevett [brevet] and Declaration was sent to the War Department by the District Judge of Connecticut [yes]terday Mr Edwards presented me the Certificate enclosed. Stephen Betts on the Pension Rool [roll] at 8~ Dollars per Month instead of $20 dollars per Month.  I pray you Sir to overlook this business and inclose [enclose] to me such a Certificate as the law provides in my Case and you Sir will much
oblige your Humble
Servant. Stephen Betts

J C Calhoun Esquire

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Dec 9 = 1908
Commission of Pension
Washington
D. C.

[stamp] 
U.S. PENSION OFFICE
A
DECEMBER 11,1908

Kind Sir
Can you give me any information of one Atha Meeks. He came to Indiana and in 1811 was killed by Indians. it was called in history the Meeks massacre did he get a Pension before death or did his wife for service in the Revolutionary War This is for the purpose of becoming a Daughter of the Revolution.
Have you any Record of

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Nathan Hatfield or Stephen Betts doing services or getting pension in Revolutionary War.
Yours with Respect and thanking you for all information
Mrs. Florence A. Chrisney
Chrisney Spencer Company
Indiana.

Can you give me if James Giles of Massachusetts received pension for Revolutionary war service
Enlisted in 1777 at age 17 under Captain Moses Ashley and in the Burgoyne Company if Pension were at when Received did he go to North Carolina or Virginia

[stamp] 
U.S. PENSION OFFICE
December 11, 1908

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2 cent Postage stamp received F. N. S.
returned January 5. [19]23

47 Steele St.
Auburn New  York

Department Of The Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Revolutionary War Section

G. M. Saltzgaber
Commissioner

Dear Sir;
Will you kindly forward such information as is available concerning the pension of Revolutionary War soldier Captain Stephen Betts of Connecticutt [Connecticut]. Am very anxious to get any possible information concerning Captain Betts including date of birth, death, enlistment, term of service etc.

I would like to enquire as to the possibility of obtaining photostat copies of Captain Betts commissions.
If you will kindly write me with reference to above I will be pleased to remit such charges as are attached to the work

very truly yours
John P Betts

[stamp] 
U.S. PENSION OFFICE
January 2, 1923

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CHARLES L. MCMARY, OREG., CHAIRMAN.
WELSEY L. JONES, WASH.  MORRIS SHEPPARD, TEX.
LAWRENCE C. PHIPPS, COLO.  THOMAS J. WALSH, MONT.
FRANK H. GOODING, IDAHO.  JOHN B. KENDRICK, WYO.
RALPH H. CAMERON, ARIZ.  KEY PITTMAN, NEV.
TASKER L. ODDIE, NEV.
SAMUEL M. SHORTRIDGE, CALIF.
H. K. KIEFER, CLERK.

United States Senate,
COMMITTEE ON IRRIGATION AND RECLAMATION.
October 10, 1922.

[stamp] OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER
OCT 11 1922
U. S. BUREAU OF PENSIONS.

My dear Mr. Gardner:
I have an inquiry regarding the data shown by the pension records as to Captain Stephen Betts, a Revolutionary War pensioner. He was of Stamford and Norwalk, Connecticutt [Connecticut], and, I understand, received a pension for service in the Revolutionary War. My inquirer wishes to know if his pension record will show the date of his birth, data as to parentage, etc.
Please let me know what the pension records show as to him, and oblige,
Yours very truly,
Morris Sheppard.

Hon. Washington Gardner,
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

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Wilton Connecticut
April 5, 1935.

Pension Bureau
Washington D. C.
To the Commissioner

Dear Sir-
Will you Kindly give me the address of the Capt Stephen Betts Major by brevet - who applied for pension in 1818 from Connecticut
Sincerely
Mary R. Comstock

[stamp] RECEIVED
APR 8 1935
MAIL SUB-DIV.
[illgible] ADM
RECORDS 28

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Pension Bureau
Dear Sir,
Will you please send me a copy of the service record of Stephen Betts, who was a captain in the Revolutionary War. Connecticut army?
I am anxious

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for any family data. 
Yours truly.
Mary Bentley 
150 Guy Park Ave
Amsterdam
NewYork 
November 15 1925

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In reply to your request of__
for a statement of the military history of Stephen Betts
soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired
information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
S.File 37.749

[Five column table with headings:]
Dates of enlistment/Length of service/Rank/OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED/State
July and August 1775/[check mark]/ Sergeant/Joseph Hait/Charles Webb/Connecticut
January 1, 1776/_[check mark]/Ensign, 2nd Lieutenant, 1st Lieutenant/Ditto/ditto/ditto.
January 1, 1777-to end of war/Captain/Ditto
October 10, 1783/__/Brevet Major/Ditto
Battles engaged in, Trenton, Monmouth
not
Residence of soldier at enlistment,[check mark]
Date of application for pension, April 28, 1818.
Cal
Residence at date of application, New Canaan, Connecticut
Age at date of application,1756
Remarks: Died November 28, 1832.

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Revolutionary War Section  MMH

October 12, 1922

Honorable Morris Sheppard
United States Senate

In re: Stephen Betts -- War of Revolution
S. 37749.

You are advised that from the papers in the above noted pension claim that Stephen Betts was born July 16 1756 enlisted in July 1775 and served as Sergeant, Ensign, Second Lieutenant and First Lieutenant in Captain Joseph Hait's Company, Colonel Charles Webb's Connecticut Regiment. On January 1, 1777 he was commissioned a Captain and served to the end of the war in Colonels Charles and Samuel B. Webb's Connecticut Regiments. On October 10, 1783 he was commissioned Brevet Major in the Army of the United States. He was engaged in the battles of Trenton, Monmouth and at Siege of Yorktown.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 28, 1818 while a resident of New Canaan, Fair- [Fairfield]

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field [Fairfield] County, Connecticut where he lived since the close of the War. 
He died November 28, 1832. Places of birth and death not on record. 
There is no family data on file. 

Very truly yours, 

Commissioner.

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AW
Revolutionary War Section. 

January 5, 1923. 

Mr. John P. Betts, 
47 Steele St. 
Auburn, New York 

Sir: 
In response to your letter of the 2nd instant, you are advised that from the papers in the pension claim, S. 37749, it appears that Stephen Betts was born July 16, 1756, and that he enlisted in July 1775 and served as Sergeant, Ensign, Second Lieutenant and First Lieutenant, in Captain Joseph Hait's Company, Colonel Charles Webb's Connecticut Regiment. On January 1, 1777, he was commissioned Captain and served to the end of the Revolution, in Colonels Charles and Samuel B. Webb's Connecticut Regiments. On October 10, 1783, he was commissioned Brevet Major in the Army of the United States. He was engaged in the battles of Trenton and Monmouth and he was also at the Siege of Yorktown. 
He was allowed pension, on his application executed April 28, 1818, while a resident of New Canaan, Fairfield County, Connecticut He died November 28, 1832. Places of birth and death are not on record. There is no data on file as to his family. 
The only commission of said soldier on file in this Bureau is that of Brevet Major. If you desire a copy of it, a photostat copy will be furnished you under the provisions of the the Act of August 4, 1923 for fifteen cents, with twenty five cents extra for certification, if that is desired.
The proper amount should be forwarded to this Bureau by money order drawn to the order of the Secretary of the Interior. 
Very respectfully, 

H.M. Vandervort
Acting Commissioner.

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1  MMNF
Revolutionary and 1812 Wars Section

December 22, 1925

Mary Bentley
150 Guy Park Ave.,
Amsterdam, New York 

Madam: 
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 37749 it appears that Stephen Betts was born July 16, 1756, the place not stated. 
He enlisted in July 1775 and served as Sergeant, Ensign, Second Lieutenant and First Lieutenant in Captain Joseph Hait's Company, Colonel Charles Webb's Connecticut Regiment. On January 1, 1777 he was commissioned Captain and served to the end of the Revolutionary, in Colonels Charles Webb and Samuel B. Webb's Connecticut Regiments. On October 10, 1783 he was commissioned  Brevet Major in the Army of the United States. He was engaged in the battles of Trenton, Monmouth, and he was also at the Siege of Yorktown. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 28, 1818 while a resident of New Canaan, Fairfield County, Connecticut where he had lived since the close of the war. He died November 28, 1832. 
There is no data on file as to his family. 
Respectfully, 

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.