Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12781, John Doty, Conn.

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Connecticut

Doty, John

S12781

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[column 1]
20648
New = York
John Doty
The pensioner in the State of New York
who was a Corpl. & [?] in the Comp commanded by Captain Smith of the Regt. commanded by Col. Mead in the Cont line for 3 m. Cap. 15 " pin} 
Inscribed on the Roll of New York [a]t the rate of 61 Dollars — Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of Sept 1833 __and with N. Howard Stephen Four
Arrears to the 4th of Sept '33 $152"50
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 14 '74  30"50
$193"00
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by P. C. Stiles Clerk
Book E. Vol. 4. Page 15

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Dead
Paid at the treasury under the Act of April 6th 1838 from 4th Sept 1840 to 26th November 1840. Agent notified April 16th 1842

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State of New York
County of Rensselaer Ss} On this fifth day of September 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of the Troy Major Court now sitting John Doty a resident of Stephentown in the County of Rensselaer and State of New York aged seventy years who being first 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 1. 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated, that he enlisted in Captain James Smiths Company of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Mead in the fall of the year 1779 for nine months and served his time out vis. nine months that at the time he enlisted he resided in the Town of Saybrook in the State of Connecticut that during the aforesaid service he was stationed at Horseneck in the State of Connecticut aforesaid that the next year (vis. 1780) he enlisted in Captain Abner Smith Company of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Beebe and served in said Company six months was stationed at Horseneck aforesaid resided at the time of enlistment at Saybrook aforesaid, that during year aforesaid (vis. 1780) he enlisted in Captain Star's Company of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Samuel Canfield and marched from Saybrook aforesaid where he then resided, to West Point, in the State of New York marched through New Haven and other places in going to West Point served at West Point three months as a Corporal and had a Warrant but it has since been lost, that he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State or (if any) only on that of the agency of the State of New York
John Doty
Sworn to & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid 
Archibald Bull Clerk

I Samuel Dean a Clergyman residing in the Town of Stephenton, County of Rensselaer and State of New York hereby certify that I am well acquainted with John Doty who is named [crossed out] in the above declaration that I believe him to be seventy years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood

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where he resides to have been a Soldier of the revolution and that I concur in that opinion
Samuel Dean
Sworn & subscribed this day 3d of September 1832 before me
Nathan Howard Justice Peace

I Nathan Howard residing in the town of Stephentown County of Rensselaer and State of New York hereby certify that I am well acquainted with John Doty who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that I believe him to be Seventy years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that I concur in that opinion
Nathan Howard
Sworn & subscribed this fifth day of September 1832 in open court before me
Archibald Bull Clerk

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foregoing certificate of Samuel Dean purports to have been sworn was on the day of the date of the same one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County, and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe the signature "Nathan Howard" thereto subscribed to be genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this fifth day of September 1832.
Archibald Bull Clerk

State of New York
County of Rensselaer Ss} On the 24 day of January 1833 personally appeared before me Nathan Howard a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County John Doty the above named applicant for a Pension who being duly sworn deposeth and saith in answer to the objections contained in a Brief from the War Department Pension Office and in addition to the preceeding Declaration by him made First that he was born in the Town of Saybrook New London County & State of Connecticut in the year 1761
2d has no record of his age that he knows of
5th dont recollect of any except those mentioned in his declaration except Capt Redfield
6th never had any written discharge to his recollection
7th Nathan Howard Samuel Dean Joshua Kendal & Henry Platt who can testify to my character for veracity & this belief of my services as a soldier of the revolution
John Doty
Sworn & subscribed this 24 day of January 1833 before me
Nathan Howard Justice of the Peace

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State of New York
Rensselaer County Ss } I hereby certify that Nathan Howard Esq before whom the within affidavit of amended declaration purports to have been sworn was on the day of the date of the same one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County. And that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his signature thereto subscribed to be genuine In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this 6th day of February 1833.
Henry R. Bristol Clerk
per N Howard [illegible] Depy.

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John Doty
Declaration for a Pension 8741

admd
3 mo Corpl
15 mo pri

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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Second Comptroller's Office
March 7th, 1842.

Sir:
Under the date 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," The widow of John Doty, decd. a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany, N.Y. Agency at the rate of Sixty one Dollars and — cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1840, to the 26th Nov. 1840.
Respectfully yours,
H [illegible] K. Parris
Comptroller
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

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8742
John Doty

p-60

13 Sept. 32
14 Nov. "
p. 353

1098

122
+3050
_______
15250

Nathan Howard 
Pell
Stephentown NY

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BRIEF in the case of John Doty.
of Stephentown in the State of N 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? Seventy years.
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. [Form consists of a table with 4 columns/rubrics]
Period.
1789— In (1779) fall 
1780
Duration of Service. Years, Months, Days.
[Months]
9
6
3
Rank. As a
Corporal
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Capt J Smith, Col Mead
Capt Abner Smith, Col Beebe
Capt Star, Col Canfield

5. In what battles was he engaged?
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Saybrook
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? (Pension rolls in the State of NYork, A clergyman & Nathan Howard certify to traditionary evidence)
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?

Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with evidence in the case above mentioned.
Examining Clerk.

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Rev War [left margin]
12781
INVALID.
File No. 12.781
John Doty
Corpl Rev War
Act: June 7" 1832
Index:—Vol. ......., Page .......
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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John Doty

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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of John Doty — which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yy [?]
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yy [?]
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? —
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yy [?]
V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? yy [?]
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yy [?]
VII. Has he made relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yy [?]
VIII. has the COurt given their opinion? yy [?]
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yy [?]
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yy [?]

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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? yy [?]
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is ther any reason assigned for not obtaining it? —
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, ahs he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? yy [?]
XIV. +If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? —
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? —
XVI. ++Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? yy [?]
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? An, if not, which of them is not so answered? 112 507

EXPLANATORY NOTES
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For ___ months and ___ days, I served as a ___; nd for such service I claim a pension."

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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months [italicized] is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
+QUERE XIV. Proof of Service. 
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service with two credible witnesses, who are requires to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the affidavits must be properly authenticated, as above directed.
++QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

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Comptrollers Office
June 13th 1833.
I Elisha Phelps, Comptroller of Public Accounts for the State of Connecticut, do certify, that on the journal of Pay Table, under date June 3rd 1790, there is charged to the United States, "To order on Treasurer per Capt. James Smith, amount of wages for his company £31776,7,8."
Also on said journal, under date July 2nd 1781, "To order on Treasurer to amount Capt. Abner Smiths account rendered pay roll ie. Col. B. Beebe's regiment £1140,14,2;" & that both charges are embraced in the abstract of claims against the United States. The vouchers for which, were receipted by E. Haskell Bone.
I also certify, that I have not been able to find any rolls of the companies; or any other evidence of their having served in the army of the Revolution.
E. Phelps