Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt.479-100, Nathaniel Bates, N.H.

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SERVICE
N.H.

Bates, Nathaniel
Stroud, Abigail
Former widow

NUMBER
B.L. Wt. 479-100

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479

Nath'l Bates-
Sol. [Soldier] N. Hampshire 
Line.

N.h issued 9th Dec. 1809 &
Del'd [delivered] to the Hon. [Honorable]
Moses Robinson.

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I Richard Richardson of Lawfull [lawful] age
testify and say that I was at Peterborough in the County of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire in Company with Capt. Jason Wate [Wait] and Nathaniel Bates then of Dublin in the County of Cheshire came there and enlisted in said Wate's [Wait's] Company during the war, That I afterward joined the same Company and served with him [at the] same time and that Col. Cilley  told me N. [Nathaniel] Bates was shot I was by his side in Battle. that Nathaniel Bates [son] now in Stoddard and Edward Bates of Springfield State of Vermont are heirs at Law of said Nathaniel disceased [deceased] - further saith not -
[signed] Richard Richardson

Cheshire Ss. May 15th 1809
Personally appeared the above named Richardson and made solemn oath that the above deposition by him subscribed contains  the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth taken at the request of Nathaniel Bates [son] before me
[signed] Gardner Towne
Js't [Justice] [of the] Peace

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I James Hackley of lawful age Testify and say that I was well acquainted with Nathaniel Bates of Dublin in the County of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire I know that said Bates was a soldier in Capt. Wait's Company and in Col. Cilley's Regiment I understand that said Bates was killed during the war he told me so himself he was slain in a battle at Bemus [Bemis] Heights [also known as the Battle at Freeman's Farm] in the State of New York in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy Seven and further saith not
[signed] James Hackley "his X mark"

Hillsborough Ss. Peterborough 10th May 1809
James Hackley came before me and made solemn oath that the above deposition contains the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the Truth taken at the request of Nathaniel Bates [son]
Before me
[signed] John Smith Justice Peace

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I Abigail Stroud of Clarksburg in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts - of lawful age do Testify and say, that in the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred and Seventy Seven, I was then the wife of Nathaniel Bates who then lived at Dublin in the State of New Hampshire and some time in the fore part of the s'd [said] year of Seventeen hundred and Seventy Seven, the said Nathaniel Bates my husband, enlisted in a Company commanded by Capt. Jason Wate [Wait] during the War, and the s'd [said] Nathaniel Bates went into the Army; and was killed in Battle at or near Bemus [Bemis] Heights in the State of New York Sometime in the month of September the same year above said - and further more that Edward Bates of Springfield in the State of Vermont and Nathaniel Bates [son] now of Clarksburgh [Clarksburg] in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts are both of them my Sons, and Sons to the Nathaniel Bates, deceased- 
and further the Deponent saith not -
[signed] Abigail Stroud "her X mark"

Berkshire Ss. May 22, 1809, then personally appeared Abigail Stroud the signer of the foregoing deposition; and made Solemn Oath, that it contains the truth and the whole truth -
taken at the request of Nathaniel Bates [son]
before me -
[signed] Deodatus Noble, Justice of the Peace

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Nathaniel [son] & Edward Bates
Power of Attorney

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N. Bates [son] has removed to
town of Fredonia (illegible)
State of New York

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Know all men by these presents that we Edward and Nathaniel Bates [sons] of Springfield in the County of Windsor jointaly [jointly] and (illegible), do hereby Constitute and appoint The Honorable Jonathan Robinson Esqr. of Bennington in the County of Bennington, our true and Lawfull [lawful] attorney for us and in our names to procure a title of any person authorized by the government of the United States, of a certain right of Land that Fell to our honored father Nathaniel Bates, a Continental Soldier from the State of New Hampshire --------
During the American War, Deceased, we being Sons and the only Heirs of the s'd [said] Nathaniel Bates, Deceased, and we Do give unto our said attorney full power to do every act and acts relating to our Said father's right of Land as fully as we our selves [ourselves] might or could Do if we were personaly [personally] pressant [present] -
 in witness where of [whereof] we have hereunto Set our hand and Seal this Eighth Day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and nine.
Signed in presants [presence]
of
[witness signed] Isaac Glynn
[witness signed] Roswell Ward

[signed] Edward Bates
[signed] Nathaniel Bates

Windsor County August 8th 1809
personaly [personally] appeared the above named Edward and Nathaniel Bates and ackoledged [acknowledged] the foregoing instrument to be their free act - before me
[signed] John Davis Justice of peace

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North Scituate, Mass.
Nov. 22, 1926

To the commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir,

Can you tell me if in your Rev. files of Mass. you find the name of Dwelly [or Dwelley] Clapp W14485 of Scituate as having been a pensioner? He was born 1741, but we cannot find the date of his death on the Scituate Vital records.
He was the son of David Clapp & had children Roger, Dwelle, Betty, Alexander & Ruth.

I also wish to inquire about one Nathaniel Bates born in Cohasset [Mass.] 1733. In Cohasset

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Genealogies P. 36 he is said to have served in the Rev. However the date of his death is not given; so if there is a record of this Nathaniel being a pensioner it might possibly give the date of his death.
Thanking you in advance
I remain
Yours respectfully
Sarah R. Stoddard
Registrar
Chief Justice Cushing Chap. D.A.R. [Daughters of the American Revolution] of Scituate.

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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section.

January 15, 1927

Sarah R. Stoddard
North Scituate
Mass

Madam:

From the records of this Bureau, it appears that Nathaniel Bates, while a resident of Dublin, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, enlisted in the early part of 1777 and served in Captain Jason Wait's Company, Colonel Cilley's New Hampshire Regiment, and was killed at the Battle of Bemus Heights.
Warrant No. 479 for 100 acres of bounty land was allowed Nathaniel and Edward Bates, on account of the above services of their father.
Soldier left a widow, Abigail (her maiden name is not stated and there is no data on file as to their marriage), she afterwards married Stroud, whose first name is not given. In 1809 she was living in Clarksburg, Berkshire County, Massachusetts.
The above noted Nathaniel Bates is the only

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soldier of that name found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.

Respectfully,

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.