Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1512, Henry Burt, Continental (New York)

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Continental (New York) Burt, Henry  R 1512 Susannah

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19,403
New York
Henry Burt,
Lawrence Co. in the State of New York,
[illegible] ho was a private in the commanded
by Captain Danning of the regiment commanded 
by Colonel Warner in the New Hampshire
[illegible] ne, for the term of ten months,
[illegible]om May 1779 to March 1780.
[illegible]scribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence [illegible] the 27th of January 1825.
[illegible] ertificate of Pension issued the 8th of April 1825 and sent to Mas [illegible] Chapman Bacon, GCP
Masena, N. Y.
[illegible] ears to 4th of Mar: 1825. $ 10.32
[illegible]ni-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1825 48.00
58.32
33 Revolutionary Claim, Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820
Sep 1, 25
Dead.
[illegible] letter 21 July 1831
to Pension Agent Albany N. York. do. to same Aug. 5, 1831. Let to Hon R. H. Gillet June 12, 1837. To same Oct. 17, 1837.

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BURT, HENRY

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State of New York
[illegible] Lawrence County [illegible] on this third day of June 1824 personally appeared in open court, being a Court of Record in and for the said County of St Lawrence, Henry Burt resident in the town of Louisville in said County aged sixty four years. Who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the first of May 1820 that he the said Henry Burt enlisted for the term of three years in the month of May in the year 1779 at Lake George in the State of New York in the Company then commanded by Lieutenant Danning in the Regiment Commanded by Col. Seth Warner in the line of the State of New York in the continental establishment that he continued to [illegible] in said Corps until March 1781 when he was discharged from the [illegible] at Lake George in said State of New York having hired a man to take his place in said [illegible] - that he made his first application for a pension on the eleventh of May 1818, which was returned to him [illegible] as following "Proof of his having lived nine months in [illegible] [illegible] is required. the judges certificate as to the [illegible] [illegible] of the claimant also required "that on account of his needy circumstances and his not being acquainted with the plan of [illegible] of any of his [illegible] [illegible] in [illegible] he has been unable to renew the application until now - and in pursuance of the act of the first of May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th of March 1818. and that I have not, [illegible] that time, by gift, lab, or in
John Scott Justice Peace

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any manner disposed of my property or any part there of with intent  there by so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18th day of March 1818. and that I have not nor has only person for me in trust, any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule here to annexed and by me subscribed and this declarant doth further say that he is by occupation a farmer that his eye sight has materially failed him which together with other infirmities incidental to old age renders him unable to obtain his support by labour. that he has [illegible] whatever residing in his family except his wife who is sixty three years of age much affected with the Rheumatism and unable to support herself.
Henry Burt

Schedule
Real Estate none. Personal property- one two year old heifer three sheep. one ox one scythe one sickle one [illegible] one shovel one
set of Dragg [illegible]  (not paid for) - one table. four chairs - 1 chest. One Candle Stick - six earthen plates six knives & forks three [illegible] six spoons. six cups & saucers. one Tea pot. three pots. three kettles and one [illegible] . which said articles of household furniture are old worn and of little value -- amounting to $36-55
Henry Burt

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Sworn to and declared on the 4th day of June 1824 - in open Court
M.B. Hitchcock Clk
I Myrtle B. Hitchcock Clerk of the County of
St Lawrence and State of New York, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath, and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court: I also certify that the Court were satisfied that the
claimant served for the term of nine months under one engagement on the continental establishment; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is thirty six dollars and fifty five cents-
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of the
said Court on this fourth day of June
1824-
Myrtle B. Hitchcock

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State of New York
St Lawrence County ⎬ I Abel Pratt of the Town of Fowler in said County, being duly sworn
saith, that he served during the Revolutionary War three years as a soldier in the Regiment
commanded by Col. Seth Warner of Vermont.
That during the time that this deponent
was in service he was acquainted with
Henry Burt a private soldier in the same
Regiment who to the best of this deponents
recollection he first saw in the month
of May or June 1778 that in the month
of September of the same year this deponent
received a furlough and was absent from
the Regiment three months, and on his
return to the Regiment again saw Henry
Burt and the said Burt continued in
the same Regiment as long as this deponent 
remained in service, which was about two months after his this deponents furlough expired. that this deponent was then discharged and he left the said Henry
Burt in the service.  and this deponent
verily believes that the said Henry Burt
served as a Private Soldier in Col.
Warners Regiment more than ten months
and further saith not.

Sworn & Subscribed
to this 11th day of March 1824 before me
John Scott Justice Peace
his
Abel X Pratt
mark

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State of New York
St Lawrence County

I Myrtle B Hitchcock clerk of the county of St Lawrence aforesaid do hereby certify that John Scott who took & subscribed the acknowledgement of the within affidavit as a Justice of the Peace, was a Justice of the peace in said County of St Lawrence at the time of taking said affidavit and that his name thereto subscribed is his signature In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the County of St Lawrence this 27th day of January 1825 -
M. B. Hitchcock

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State of New York
County of S Lawrence
On this second day of August in the year of our Lord one Thousand eight hundred and thirty seven personally appeared before the undersigned John Fine Esquire first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of S Lawrence aforesaid Susannah Burt a resident of the Town of Louisville in the County and State aforesaid aged seventy six years the twenty eighth day of February last who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 4, 1836.
That she is the widow of Henry Burt
who was a private in the company commanded by Lieutenant Isreal Dunham in Colonel Seth Warners Regiment - this Deponent does not know the Captains name and does not know at what time he entered the service in the said Company nor for what
period. that the father of the said Henry
Burt lived at Little White Creek [illegible]
mentioned and deponent believes he
entered the service there. That this Deponent is the Daughter of Captain William
Brown of the militia, that this Deponent
was married to the said Henry Burt on
either the fourth or sixth day of September
in the year of our Lord One Thousand seven
hundred and Eighty at Little White Creek
in the County of Albany and State of New York
aforesaid. That the said Henry

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Burt [illegible] been out in service as aforesaid
in the Company and regiment aforesaid
before the said marriage and at that
time the said Henry need a substitute in
the said Company. That after the said
Marriage the said Henry was out two
several periods of service one of six months
and one of eight months but in what company or regiment this Deponent does not
recollect but at one of those times he
was at Sarratoga but she cannot say
whether the said Henry was in any or
what engagements. That after the war the
said Henry Burt and this Deponent removed to several different places in the State of
Vermont - lived sometime at Tenemonth
in Vermont in Mount Holly 1st and
removed to Louisville in the County of St
Lawrence and State of New York twenty
Eight years ago the third day of March
last - That they remained in the said
Town and in the adjoining Town of Massena
ever since. That her said husband was a
Pensioner and received a Pension at the
time of his death - That her said husband
died eight years ago the twenty fifth
day of February last and that this
Deponent drew nearly half a year 
pension after the death of her said husband  which had accrued during his
life and after the last payment made
to him and that her said husband
was a few days above sixty nine years
old at the time of his death and
that this Deponent hath not again

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married and that this Deponent is too infirm to go to Canton and attend the Court there
Subscribed & sworn before me Aug 2 1837
John Fine
First Judge of
St Lawrence [illegible]
Susanna Burt

State of New York
County of S Lawrence
Town of Louisville
Calvin Clark of the Town aforesaid
being first duly sworn deposeth and saith
That he knows Susannah Burt now present
and has known her some thirty years and
that she has always sustained an excellent moral character and good character
for truth and veracity that he first knew
the said Susannah at Mount Holly in
Vermont and since in the Town aforesaid
and that he has always known her as the
wife of Henry But when this Deponent
also knew both in Vermont and in this
Town and who was a Pensioner and
that this Deponent is forty eight years old
Subscribed & sworn                     Calvin Clark
before me Aug 1 1837
John Fine
First Judge of
St Law Co
[illegible]

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State of New York & Lawrence 
I hereby certify that I am acquainted with Calvin Clark the above named deponent and that he is a credible witness. I further certify that [illegible]
[illegible] the above affiant is in my opinion a credible person and that from bodily infirmity [illegible] cannot attend the Court are
person and that from bodily infirmity
he cannot attend the Courts of this County [illegible] Aug 2 1837
John Five
First Judge of
St Law by C [illegible]

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State of New York
County of S Lawrence
I William Brown of Wolford County of Grenville and District of Johnstown in the Province of Upper Canada Esquire now at Ogdensburgh in the County and State aforesaid being first duly sworn deposeth and saith. That he was sixty seven years old in August last on the twenty first day thereof. That He was born on a Tract
called the Oblong in Dutchess County in the
said State and that at the age of three or
four years this Deponent has always been
informed and verily believes his Parents
removed to Little White Creek in the County
of Albany and State of New York when
this Deponent first recollects residing
That the Father of this Deponent was Captain  William Brown of the New York Militia in the Revolutionary War. That the Sister of this Deponent Susannah Burt to whose declaration this affidavit is attached is as this deponent verily believes about nine years older than this Deponent. That this Deponent was present at the marriage of the said Susannah to Henry Burt in the Year as near as this Deponent can
recollect of Seventeen Hundred and Eighty at Little White Creek aforesaid That this Deponent being of such tender age cannot swear positively as to the date of the said Marriage of his said Sister but he verily believes it to be as above stated and well recollects that it was not in the winter months or when there was snow upon the ground

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that this Deponent recollects the said
Henry Burt and was acquainted with
him previous to the said Marriage
with the said Susannah but does not
recollect that the said Henry Burt
was out in the Military service of the
United States previous thereto although
he might have been, but this Deponent 
well recollects that after the said Marriage of the said Henry Burt with the said Susannah Brown the sister of this Deponent that the said Henry Burt was out in the Army of the United States and stationed at Saratoga but for how long a time and in what regiment this deponent from his youth at that time cannot state-- but this Deponent saw the troops at Saratoga and at the time heard and now verily
believes that the said Henry Burt
was with them and that this was after
the said Marriage. That this Deponent
has heard at the time and believes that the
said Henry and the said Susannah
removed from Little White Creek aforesaid to Tynemouth in the State of Vermont
and there to Louisville in the County
of S Lawrence and State of New York
aforesaid and that the said Susannah resided
with the said Henry from the time of his marriage aforesaid (excepting only when the said Henry was absent in service or occasionally upon business) to the time of the death of the said

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Henry as his lawful wife and that this Deponent has been sometimes at the House of the said Burt and heard from him during the time
last aforesaid and that this Deponent heard of the death of the said Burt about seven years since. And this Deponent further states that he
does not know as the said Burt
removed directly to Tynemouth aforesaid for Little White Creek aforesaid
but only that He [illegible] there &
thence removed to Louisville and that
this Deponent was at said Burts House in Tynemouth and also at
Louisville and further this Deponent saith not
Sworn & Subscribed
this 20th day of February 1837 before me
John Fine
[illegible] Judge
[illegible]
Wm Brown

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State of New York
St. Lawrence County I Alvin C Low Clerk
of the County of St. Lawrence do hereby certify
that John Fine Esquire before whom the foregoing depositions purport to have been made was at the time of taking the said depositions First Judge in and for the County aforesaid duly authorized to take the same. And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge and verily
believe that the signatures to the said
depositions purporting to be his are genuine

In Testimony Whereof I
have hereunto set my hand
and affixed the Seal of the
said County this Seventh
day of August 1837
A C [illegible]
V2456
Susannah Burt
widow of Henry
N.Y.
1512

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1512
REJECTED
P.O. Susannah Burt
widow of Henry
Service:
Enlisted: , 18
Discharged: , 18
Application filed: , 18
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O.
Recognized, Contract,
Cert of Dis  Searched for, 18

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2456
N.Y.
Act - 4 July 1836

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Susannah Burt  N.York
Suspended
See Let. to Hon R. K. Gillet, Oct. 17, 1837
to C. G. Myer2 Oct. 1838
Act 4 July 18 1836

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State of New York
St. Lawrence County ⎬ ss: I James G Hopkins Clerk of said County & Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas being a Court of record
of said County do certify that on the ninth day of June 1831 Susannah Burt of the town of Louisville in said County personally
appeared in open Court and by her own Oath and the Oath of Henry Burt of the same town proved to the satisfaction of the Court that
Henry Burt late of the said town now deceased named in a certain pension Certificate bearing date the 8th day of April 1825 produced
before the said Court & which is annexed to the foregoing affidavit was a pensioner of the United States at the time of his decease and
that he died on the twenty fifth day of February in the year 1829 and that she the said Susannah Burt is the widow of the said
Henry Burt deceased - That she is of the age of seventy years & upwards and the reason of her not making application to the said 
Court sooner has been her ill health and the distance of her residence from Court.
Witness my hand & seal of Office
this tenth day of June 1830
Seal
Signed J G Hopkins Clerk

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June 12
Henry Burt
Nyork
Col. J. S. Edward
Com Pensions
Washington D C
Am June 12 1837

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Ogdensburgh Ny
June 5. 1837
Sir
I am requested by the widow of
Henry Burt, late of Louisville
in this state to procure a copy of
her late husbands pension certificate
which she wishes to make use of
in procuring a pension for herself
Yours obt
sent
RH Gillet
J S Edwards Esq
Com Pensions

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for Col Edwards
Private

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Ogdensburgh Ny
August 9, 1837
Sir,
Herewith I send you the application of
Susannah Burt who solicits a pension on
account of the services of her deceased husband.
The papers were drawn up by my law partner of Louisville where she resides, by my law partner at the request of a wealthy & respectable gentleman of that part of
the county. Mrs Burt being unable to attend court Judge Fine, who is a highminded, intelligent & honourable man attended & directed what should be taken down, the same as if he had been presiding in court.
the preparation of the papers has been all fair & further I have no knowledge, either of the applicant or her witnesses, so far as I now remember. The case must rest upon the testimony.
I am thus particular on my own account, [illegible] of learning that Thomas Steadman of Mossena, for whom I obtained a small pension (though did not make out the papers & knew nothing except what was shown by the papers sent me) has been detected

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in committing fraud upon you, by going to a
distant County (Clinton N. Y.) & personating his
father & drawing an officers pay. Such occurrences renders it proper for me to write you
fully & frankly all that I know of the papers
that I send you. I hope this will be the
last case I shall ever have occasion to send
Your truly
R.H. Gillet
Col. J.S. Edwards

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Mab  Oct
NY


J.L. Edwards Esquire
Comr Pensions
Washington

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Ogdensburgh Septr 25th 1838
J L Edwards Esquire
Comr Pensions
Washington
Dear Sir
In October of last year I had the honor to enclose to you the Declaration [illegible] of Mrs Susannah Burt of Louisville in this County widow of Henry Burt a deceased pensioner for a pension under the act of '36 - The application was not granted on the ground that no satisfactory evidence of service was given after the Marriage in Sept 1780.
I am now desired by Mrs Burt
to enquire whether her application &
papers do not make out a case under the
act of '38 and if not what further
will be required of her to entitle her
to the Government bounty to which
she conceives herself justly entitled
I am Sir with respect
G M [illegible]
ASG Myers

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Sel Case 19,384
Henry Burt
Lawrence Co. N.Y.

Msrs Champman Bacon {illegible}
Masena N.Y.

Recd 10 Feb 1825

FREE
Honble William H Crawford
Secretary of War
Washington

Ogdensburg
2 Feb

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Massena 1st July 1825
Hon Wm H Crawford
[illegible] of [illegible]
Sir
We reinclose the pension papers on the application of Henry Burt with the additional evidence required by the communication
from the war Department of the 8th Dur last.-
Please address communications to us at this
place as formerly
Yours [illegible]
Chapman Bacon[illegible[

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State of Vermont 
Addison County ss
I Samuel Beach of Whiting in the County and State aforesaid do testify and say that for a number of years I this deponent
served as an officer in a Continental Regiment commanded by Colo Seth Warner and that sometime in the spring or forepart of the summer of A1779 according to the best recollection of this deponent Henery [Henry] Brest [Burt] then of Cambridge in the State of
Newyork [New York] then joined said regiment as an enlisted private Soldier in Capt McCoons Company in said Regiment and that the
said Burt continued in said Warners Regt about one year or nearly that time or until the spring of A 1780 when he was discharged from the service by reason of a wound or breach
which as this deponent was informed he received whilst in the service of the United States and further this deponent saith not
Subscribed & sworn this
Samuel Beach
Subscribed and sworn this
17 July 1824, and
I certify that the deponent is a credible witness
Daniel Chipman Just Peace

State of Vermont
Addison County
I Samuel Swift, Clerk the Court for the said County of Addison, do hereby certify
that the above named Daniel Chipman is a Justice of the peace for said County, and his name above written is his own signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court
at Middleburg this 17th of July 1824
Saml Swift Clerk [illegible]

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State of New York
St Lawrence County
On this 26th day of January 1825 personally appeared in open Court being the Court of Common Pleas which is a Court of Record in and for said County of St Lawrence  Henry Burt resident in the town of Louisville in said County aged sixty five years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath solemnly swear & declare that since the 18th  day of March 1818 he this declarant
hath not either in his own Right or in
right of his wife, nor hath any person in
trust for him, held possessed or owned any 
Real estate or property whatever; nor hath
said declarant now, nor hath he had since the said 18th March 1818 any real or personal estate or property in expectancy
in any manner whatever. Nor hath
said declarant owned any such Real estate since the year 1810. But hath improved rented or hired property during said time - and said declarant further saith on his said oath that he hath not nor hath he had since the date last aforesaid any personal property other
than is set forth in his Schedule hereto
annexed and sworn to in open Court
on the fourth day of June last, except
provision & clothing necessary for a

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Scanty Subsistence for himself and his wife, for some of which provision and clothing said declarant is now necessarily in debt -- and further this deponant saith not
Henry Burt
Sworn to and declared on this 27 day of January 1825 in open court
W. B. Hitchcock Clk

State of New York
St Lawrence County
On this twenty seventh day of January 1825 personally appeared in open Court being the Court of Common pleas which is a Court of Record in for the County of St Lawrence aforesaid Benjamin Phillips James Waterbury
residents of said County of Lawrence, who being first restrictively sworn according to law do depose and swear, that they have been
will acquainted with Henry Burt the above declarant for the last ten years - that they verily believe the said Henry Burt hath been very poor and needy during all that time -- that he hath not during that time owned either in his own or his wifes right any real
or personal estate or property other than

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above stated in his declaration on oath this day-- and these deponents respectively swear that the above declaration of said Henry Burt is true according to the best of their knowledge and belief and further the said Informants say not 
Sworn to & Subscribed on the 27 day of January 1825                          
in [illegible]               
M. B. Hitchcock Clk
St Law Cty

 Benja Phillip
James Waterben

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State of New York
St Lawrence County Ss Abel Pratt of the
town of Fowler in said County, being
duly Sworn Saith that on the 11th Day
of March last he this deponent in behalf
of Henry Burt & to enable said Henry
of obtain a pension from the U States
for Revolutionary Services, made a certain affidavit before John Scott Esq Justice of Peace of said County, stating among other
things "that during the time that this deponent was in Service, he was acquainted with
Henry Burt a private soldier in the Service"
(viz Col. Seth Warners) "Regiment, who to the best of this deponents recollection he first saw in the month of May or June 1778." That this deponent is satisfied and verily believes from
conversations had with divers persons, and
on viature reflection that his said Statement in said affidavit above quoted was a mistake and incorrect , and that he first saw said Henry
Burt in the month of May or June 1779.
and that the facts set forth in said affidavit
above Referred to, as having taken place subsequent to said May or June 1778, in truth and in part took place at and subsequent to May or June 1779  -- and further this deponent saith not

Sworn subscribed to this 25th day of January before me
Calvin Hill Justice Peace

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State of New York
St Lawrence County
ss I Myrtle B. Hitchcock Clerk of the County of St Lawrence aforesaid do hereby certify that Calvin Hill before whom the within affidavit was
taken, was at the time of taking thereof
a Justice of the Peace in said County of
St Lawrence and that his name within
subscribed is his signature-
In witness whereof I have hereto
set my hand and affixed the seal
of said County of St Lawrence this
27th day of January 1825 -
Myrtle B. Hitchcock

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State of New York
St Lawrence County I Myrtle Hitchcock clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in the county of aforesaid do hearby Certify that John B Andrews before whom the written aforesaid appears to have been made is a Justice of New - in of for said County aforesaid acting under the authority of this State- and that his name there to subscribed is his own proper signature

In testimony where of I have - and unto subscribed my name and office the seal of the County aforesaid this 27th Day of January 1825

Myrtle B Hitchcock(signature)