Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43,594, Prince George, Conn.

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SERVICE
Conn.

George, Prince

NUMBER
S.43.594

CONTENTS

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New York Roll. [handwritten]
No. 1,691 
Prince George, 
Capt. Prentiss
Drummer
Connecticut Line May 1777 to June 1783
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
*nscribed on the Roll of New York
At the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 20th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued 30 of June 1818, 
and sent to the Pensioner at 
Poughkeepsie, N. York
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818
[typed text lined out]
4 months 15/30 	$36. ( “ )

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818}
By 
S. B. Webb
[continuing?]
Beekman Dutchess Co. [handwritten]
22 Aug 23

[illegible] sent to
W. H. Buckley Poughkeepsie
NY 20 July 1820

See letters to W. A. Willtse & the
Agent October 18th 1823

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Examd with orig Rolls
Aug 1883 C. S. P.

FREE
The Honorable John C. Calhoun
Secretary at War
City Washington

Recd 11 Oct 1823
(postage cancelation reads: NEW-YORK OCT 7)

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To the honourable John C. Calhoun, Secretary of War for the United States….

Sic  By the accompanying papers it will be perceiv’d that the widow of Prince George, late a Pensioner of the United States, applied thro’ me, as her attorney to the New York Agency for paying Pensions for the amount due her husband at the time of his decease --- was informed by the agent that the widow ought to [administer to?] before he could obtain the sum due  -- I have also been advised to state to your honour [honor] the situation of the widow and family with a hope of obtaining for her the amount due without the expence [expense] of administring [administering] --- I am well acquainted with the family of Prince George – he died without any property – his pension, with what little labour he could do (for he was a very infrimd [infirmed] man by reason of a rupture in the scrotum) was her whole dependance, for the support of himself, his wife and three children  -- the oldest about twelve years of age  -- I beg leave to add that in my opinion all the property Prince George died in possession of with the exception of what is due on his pension would not pay the costs of obtaining Letters of Administration – hence if it is not inconsistent with the regulations of the government in such cases, I beg in her behalf that so much as was due to her husband at the time of his decease, be allow’d to her
I am Sir, Yours Very Respectfully – 
William A. Willtsie 

Beekman. Dutchess County
Sept. 22d, 1823

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State of New York
Dutchess County 
On this twentieth day of April in the year 1818 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Please for the said County of Dutchess personally appeared Prince George aged Fifty five years resident in the town of Beekman in the said County Who being by me duly sworn according to Law Doth on his oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the provision made by the late Act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and naval Service of the United State s in the revolutionary War; that he the said Prince George enlisted when he was thirteen years of age as a Drummer in the [year -strikeout) month of May in the year 1777 in the State of Connecticut in the Company Commanded by Capt Prentiss in the Regiment Commanded by Coln. Demmon in the Connecticut Line that he continued in the said regiment and in other regiments in the service of the United States until the Eighth Day of June in the year 1783 when he received a regular discharge signed by the Commander in Chief of the Army of the United States which is herewith forwarded to the department of War and that he is in reduced circumstance and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his service. 
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid
Albro Akin [handwritten signature]
One of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for Dutchess County

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I Albro Akin – Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Dutchess within named do Certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Prince George did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the within Declaration against the Common enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid Act of Congress within mentioned
April 20th 1818
Albro Akin (handwritten signature)

I Jacob Van Ness Clerk of the County of Dutchess in the State of New York do hereby certify that Albro Akin before whom the written affidavit was taken was at the time a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County acting under the authority of the State and that the above is his signature.  In witness whereof I have here unto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court this twentieth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. 

Jacob Van Ness (handwritten signature)

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Martha George
Oath for Prince George  Decsd
-	Pension

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I Martha George of the Town of Beekman in the County of Dutchess and the State of New York do solemnly swear that I am the widow of Prince George late of the said Town of Beekman deceased. That my said Husband Prince George was a Pensioner of the United States under the act of the Congress in the United States of the 18th of March 1818 and that my said husband died at the Town of Beekman aforesaid on the 22nd day of July now last part  - that his pension certificate is now in the hands of one James Peters of the Said Town of Beekman who refuses to surrender the same to me and that I am poor and in indegent [indigent] circumstances with three children depending on me for support which induces me to take this method of obtaining from the government of the United Sates so much of my late husbands pension as was due on the twenty second day of July last the time of his decease. 

Sworn and subscribed			Martha George (handwritten signature)
Th 12th day of September
1823 Before me
James Delong Justice of the Peace

I, Sylvanus Freeman of the Town of Beekman int eh County of Dutchess and State of New York do solemnly swear on the holy evangelist that I am personally acquainted with Martha George above named that I know her to be the widdow [widow] of the later Prince George of the Town of Beekman aforesaid and that I was present when the said Prince George died on the 22nd day of July last part and that she has three children depending on her for support. 
Sylvanus Freeman (handwritten signature)
Sworn the 12th day of September 1823
Before me
James Delong Justice of the Peace

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In the matter of Prince George, a Pensioner of the United States

(###) Beekman
3rd June 1818 
Sept 1818

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At a Court of Common Please held at the Court House in the Village of Poughkeepsie in and for the County of Dutchess in the State of New York on Monday the twenty sixth day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty – 
Present the How James Demott First Judge
Daniel C. Ver Planck
Abraham D Van Wyck		Esquires Judges
Thomas Sweet 

Dutchess County SS: Be it remembered that on the 26th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty personally appeared in the Court of Common Pleas in open court the said court being a Court of Record or the County of Dutchess in the State of New York Prince George aged about fifty three years resident in the town of Beekman in the County of Dutchess aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows that he enlisted at Brantford (near Newhaven) in the State of Connecticut in the summer of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six in Captain Prentices Company in the fourth Regiment of the Connecticut line commanded by Colonel (#) Drummond for during the war and that he served therein as a drummer for six years until the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty two when he was discharged at West Point in New York according to the best of this deponents recollection and belief: and that his original declaration is dated the twentieth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that his pension certificate is No 1.691 And I do solemnly sw3ear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent hereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act

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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 one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscripted to wit
Real Estate I have none
Person estate 
1 Pot				4 spoons
4 chairs				2 Bottles
1 pair cast and irons	1 jug
3 knives & two forks	1 old axe
					1 water pail
And this deponent further saith that his family consists of himself his wife of the age of twenty six years & two children the one about seven years old and the other an infant about one year old that he has no means of support but his labour and that of his wife and that they are both weakly and infirm & that this deponent is unable to labour much in any business –
	his
Prince “X” George
	Mark

Sworn and subscribed in open court
This 26th day of June 1820
W Henry Buckley Depy Clerk

I John Johnston Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Dutchess in the State of New York Do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule are truly copied from the Records of said court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is three dollars – 
		In testimony whereof I have hereunto set My hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this twenty sixth day of June in 		The year 1820 – 
				John Johnston Clerk (handwritten signature)

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43594
INVALID
Revy aw
File No.  ……43,594
Prince George
Drummer Rev War
Act: 18 March 18
Index: -- Vol. 3, Page 191
{Arrangement of 1870}

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Sept 1815
Application of Martha George wife of Prince George, deceased late a Revolutionary Pensioner for balance of pension due up to the time of his death, he having been continued under 1 May, 1820
Wm. A. Willtsie, Attorney of the widow represents that she is not able to pay the expense of taking out letters of Administration and requests that she may be paid without formality “if not inconsistent with the regulations of the government.” – 
	The widow states under oath, that her husband’s certificate of pension is in the hands of one James Peters who refuses to surrender the same to her and that she is “poor and in indigent circumstances with three children depending on her for support”  etc. and requests that she may be paid whatever was due to her husband at the time of his death etc. –
Oct 18th 1823
Write the usual letter to the Agent & inform Wm. George’s attorney that if she will take oath to the (illegible) of the Cert: a new one will be issued – though it is contrary to the regulations to issue a duplicate in any case where the originals is lost, yet as hers is a very extraordinary case, the rule has been departed from 

See letters to Wm. A. Willtsie and the Agent for paying U. S. Pensioners. New York – Oct. 18th 1823


Write Agent on Monday

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By His Excellency
GEORGE WASHINGTON, Esq;
General and Commander I Chief of the Forces of the
United States of America
THESE are to CERTIFY that the Bearer hereof 
Prince George a Soldier
In the Third Connecticut Regiment, having faithfully 
Served the United States from May 1777 to the Dates hereof
And being inlisted for  the War only, is 
Hereby Discharged from the American Army
Given at Head-Quarters the Eighth 
Day of June 1873
G Washington (handwritten signature) 
By His Excellency
Command, 
J. Trumbull (???) Secty
REGISTERED  in the Book
Of the Regiment, 
Joseph Clarke Adjutant (handwritten signature)
The above Prince George
Has been honored with the Badge of Merit for six
Years faithful Service. 
Sam. B. Webb Colonel

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Martha George
Power of Atty
for so much of 
Prince George’s Pension as had accrued up to the 22nd July 1823 the time of his decease

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Know all men by these present that I Martha George widdow of the late Prince George of the Town of Beekman in the county of Dutchess and State of New York who was a pensioner of the United States under the law of the United States of the 18th of March 1818 Do hereby Constitute and appoint William A. Wiltse of the said Town of Beekman in the said County of Dutchess my true and lawful attorney for me as the widdow of the said Prince George Deceased to receive from the agent of the United States for paying pensions in the City of New York so much of my late husbands pension as was due at the time of his decease which was on the 22d day of July now last past. 
Witness my hand and seal this 12th day of September 1823

Sealed and delivered 		Martha George (handwritten signature)
In presence of 
James DeLong
State of New York
Dutchess County
Be it known that on the 12t day of September in the year 1823 before me James DeLong one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said County of Dutchess personally appeared Martha George above named known to me to be the widdow of the late Prince George and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be her (act?) and deed in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year above mentioned
James Delong Justice of the Peace (handwritten signature)