Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 28,952, Ichabod Williams, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Williams, Ichabod.
S. 28.952.
CONTENTS

New York (S.) 31,546.
Ichabod Williams of Tunkila, in the State of N. York who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Deacon of the Reg t commanded by Col. M c Dougall in the N. York line for 11 mos. 14 dys. private.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York (S. H.) at the rate of 37 Dollars 10 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 d day of Nov r 1838 - and sent to Pensioner North Lansing, N. York
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1838: $ 278:25 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar. 39- 18:55
$296.80
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Book 82
Vol. 4
A. Elliott Clerk, Page 82.

WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: { ). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
A Statement, shewing the Service of Ichabod Williams. Tompkins Co. New York.
   Period when the service was rendered. Duration of the claimant's service. Rank of the claimant. Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served. Names and Rank of the General and Field officers. Battles in which the applicant was engaged. Country through which he marched. Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period. Evidence by which the declaration is supported.   Years. Months. Days.     Feb. 1776 " 3 " Privat. Capt. Gann Silvan Douglass Capt. M c Douglass None N. York 76 years Westches- ter Co Traditionary   May Do 1 " " " Capt. Gann Silvan Douglass " Whiteplains " " "   Jan. 1777 1 3 " " Capt. Dole van Major states Schuyler mish " " "   { 1778 at life than he believes 4 5 02 " " Capt. Loch wood " " " " "  
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.
Some direct proof the service in '76 - must be produced

REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted: This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
 1. The Regular Troops.  2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.  3. Persons employed in the Naval service.  4. Indian Spies. 
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of } ss. County of }
On this day of personally appeared (a) before A. B. a resident (b) of in the county of and State, Territory or District of aged (c) 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 provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) , with and served in the (e) regiment of the line, under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. [This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
A. B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I of the Court of do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this day of &c.
If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the and C. D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with , who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 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 we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the
and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, Clerk of the Court of do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this day of &c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed June 7th 1832.
State of New York } County of Tompkins }
On this 3 d . day of October 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the court of common pleas being a court of record, and now sitting. Richard Williams a resident of Lansing in the county and state aforesaid, aged Seventy six 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 7th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
In February 1776 at North Salem the place of his residence in the County of Westchester he enlisted as a volunteer for the term of one year in the New York line of troops, under Captain Samuel Delavan in the regiment commanded by Col. Mc Dougall The name of his Lieutenant and insignia he does not now recollect, he was stationed at Fort Minute near Hurlgate, his duty was working on said fort. At the end of three months his company was disbanded, and he had leave of his Captain to return home. In May 1776 he again enlisted at North Salem aforesaid for the term of one year, under Captain Cornelius Steenrod. Elijah Oakley first Lieuten- ant and Titus second Lieutenant in the aforesaid regiment; during this term he was stationed at New York, his duty was working on

The fort at Governor's Island, which fort was built of turf which term he served out.
On the first day of January 1777 he again enlisted under the said Captain Delavan, who commanded a company of rangers for the term of three months during this term he was wounded by the enemy and was carried home from Kings Street on a horse litter by his father and brother in law by the orders of his Captain. He was confined with his wound during the spring and most of the summer. From this time until the close of the war he was frequently ordered out on duty in the case of alarms; on one of these occasions he went as a volunteer with Captain Lockwood below the lines on a scout, and captured three negroes, whose masters had fled to the enemy, and on their return took five prisoners from the guard house, at Bedford, all of whom they took to Poughkeepsie and delivered them up to the commanding officer; he was frequently ordered on guard to watch the cow boys by whom the country was greatly annoyed and he justly believes the amount of time spent in this last named service could not have been less than four or five months. In 1778 he was one of ten who were formed into a class in said South Salem, which class furnished a soldier for and during the war, to whom they paid one hundred dollars. At the time he was wounded their company were in a house seven miles below the white plains. It was in the night and they were suddenly attacked by the enemy, in which action Lieutenant Paddock and two privates of the Americans were killed, and four of the enemy. The Americans were overcome and taken prisoners.

Amounting to twenty eight in number. These prisoners who were able to march were taken to New York and confined in the sugar house where they all perished except three. This deposit being wounded was left in said house.
This deponent further saith that he was in the battle at Chattertons hill on which place in which three hundred and fifty were killed. This was in the term he was in the service under Captain Sturges in 1776.
That he has no documentary evidence except that which is in the war department - and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his services.
He hereby relinquishes any 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, except that of the agency of the state of New York.
We Nathan Fuller & Daniel Spencer residing in the said Town of Lansing. hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Ichabod Williams, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration. that we believe him to be twenty six Years of age, that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certify that it appears to them that Nathan Fuller & Daniel Spencer residing in the said Town of Lansing who have signed the preceding certificate are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to full credit. I Samuel Love Clerk of the court of common pleas in and for the said County of Tompkins do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Ichabod Williams for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 3 d . day of October 1832
Samuel Love Clerk
Ichabod Williams Pension Papers
10350

And this Deponent further says, that the next court of Record in the county in which he resides, will not sit until the latter part of September next, at Ithaca, being thirteen miles from his residence, that ill health, together with the infirmities of old age, & his lameness (being a woundee previous of 1788) render it very difficult and inconvenient, to attend said court for the purpose of making this additional Affidavit; which are the reasons of his testifying thereto before a Commissioner of Cayuga County, the line of which is but one mile from his residence.
Ichabod Williams
Sworn to and subscribed on the day first above written - before me - J. L. (Sherman Jr. Commissioner)
State of New York Cayuga County
§. I Michael S. Myers, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify, that James Sherman Junior Esq. was at the time the foregoing Affidavit purports to have been sworn, a Commissioner of Deeds of said County, duly authorized to administer oaths &c. And I am acquainted with his handwriting & verily believe that his signature subscribed to said affidavit, is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said County at Auburn in said County this 24th day of July 1833
M. S. Myers

State of New York }
Additional statement -
County of Cayuga } ss.
On this 24 th day of July 1833 personally appeared Ichabod Williams and made oath in due form of law before James Shannon Jr. a Commissioner of the said county, as follows to wit:
That in relation to his service in January 1777, as set forth in his Affidavit herewith connected, he belonged to a Comp y of Rangers which was not to his knowledge connected with any Regiment, & therefore, he cannot state the Colonel's name.
And further this deponent says, that by reason of old age and the loss of memory, he cannot state precisely the length of his service but according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the period mentioned below, and in the following grade:
For One year and eleven months, I served as a Private, for which service I claim a pension.
And further he says, that the reason that the traditional testimony of a clergyman is not connected with his first Affidavit herewith connected, is because there is no one residing near him.
And this Deponent further says in answer to the several interrogatories presented by the war department: That - he was born in Norwalk, Connecticut - in May 1756 - has a record of his age in his family bible - was living in North Salem, Westchester Co. N.York, when called into service - and since the revolutionary war, has resided in said North Salem, then Batavia town, Dutchess Co. N.Y., then in Clinton Dutchess Co. then in Lansing, Tompkins Co. where he now resides - he entered the service and served throughout as a Volunteer - he knew, Generals, Washington, Putnam, & Worcester - Colonels, Hobbey, M c Douglass, Hyatt, Webb's (Van Cortlandt - Dan l & Stephen) Majors Hyatt & Sterling - Capt. Joshua Hyatt, Eph. Lockwood & Drake - recollects the following Continental Regiments - M c Douglass Reg t - Hyatt's Reg t - Webb's Reg t - Van Cortlandt's Reg t & Hobbey's reg t - recollects - Drake's reg t of Militia -
His duty, was keeping guard, fatigue duty, building fort, and scouting - Never received any written discharge - from the service - The following persons residing in his neighborhood, are well acquainted with him, and can testify as to his character for truth and veracity - Nathan Fuller, Daniel Spencer, Doct. Daniel Johnson, Rowell - Beardsley, Jacob Conradt, Esq. Geo. Bowers, & Adam Bowers.

And this Deponent further says, that the next court of Record in the county in which he resides, will not sit until the latter part of September next, at Ithaca, being thirteen miles from his residence, that ill health, together with the infirmities of old age, & his lameness (being a wounded prisoner of 1788) render it very difficult and inconvenient, to attend said court for the purpose of making this additional Affidavit: which are the reasons of his testifying thereto before a Commissioner of Cayuga County, the line of which is but one mile from his residence.
I chabod Williams
Sworn to and subscribed on the day first above written - before me - J. A. (Sherman Jr Commissioner)
State of New York Cayuga County
I Michael S. Myers, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify, that James Sherman Junior Esq. was at the time the foregoing Affidavit purports to have been sworn, a Commissioner of Deeds of said County, duly authorized to administer oaths &c. And I am acquainted with his handwriting & verily believe that his signature subscribed to said affidavit, is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said County at Auburn in said County this 24th day of July 1833
M. S. Myers

34.573
Ichabod Williams
In Vol 5 p 3. - $3. 10. 14 days 1777 8 - 52 44. 53 1779 47. 63 - 7 1/4 days 4 11. 4
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Ichabod Williams
North Reading Middlesex County Mass

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832
State of New York } County of Tompkins } ss. }
On this tenth day of May in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty Eight personally appeared before me John D Christie one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for said County Schabode Williams, a resident of the town of Lansing in said County and State aged Eighty two years, who being first duly sworn according to Law to the best of his knowledge make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein after stated. That in the Fall or beginning of Winter in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy five he listed as a Soldier in what was called the New York Troops, the name of his Captain was Samuel Delavan, Lieutenant Caleb Hobbey, and Ensign Benjamin Jones.
That his Company joined the Regiment under the Command of Col Mc Dougall at the same time with the Company of Captain John Hyatt, That in said Regiment a Man by the name of Taylor was adjutant & who was afterwards a Lieutenant in Captain Steimods Company of which the declarant was subsequently a Member.
That at the time of said enlistment he was a resident in the Town of North Salem in the County of Westchester and State of New York and about the age of Twenty Years, that he was Marched to fort Minuit at Hurlgate on Long Island Sound and served at laboring on this fort and on Guard until his Company was disbanded at or near the close of Winter, which declarant believes included a period of at least four Months.
That immediately after & as declarant believes in the month of March in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy six he enlisted in a Company Commanded by Captain Cornelius Steimod, First Lieutenant Elijah Oakley who was succeeded by Taylor formerly adjutant of the Regiment, and Second Lieutenant Isaac Titus.
That at this time he was as before a resident of the town of North Salem in the County of Westchester & State of New York and was Marched to New York City and served in laboring on the fort on Governors Island, That he went with his Company to reinforce the army under Lord Stirling on Long Island the day of the Battle, but did not arrive until after the American Troops were defeated and retreated with them to New York.
That in the fall of this year he was Marched to White Plains and was present in the Battle at that place on which occasion he recollects the Major of his Regiment was sick and a Captain Ledyard served as Major, That after this action declarant was Marched to Bedford, Salem & White Plains in Westchester County at which places he served on Guard until the year for which he enlisted expired and the Company disbanded.

That declarant immediately joined a Company of Volunteer Rangers Commanded by Captain Samuel Delavan the same officer under whom he first enlisted & at which time as before he was a resident of the Town of North Salem, and served in said Company on Guard and Scouting parties.
That on the night of March Sixteenth Seventeen hundred and Seventy four declarant with his Company was surrounded by the British while encamped at the house of Stephen Ward on White plains about Seven Miles below the Court House in Westchester County, and at which time and place there were several of his Company killed, wounded, and taken prisoners -
That declarant was severely wounded at that time and thereby disabled for several months, after which he was on Guard at Kingsbridge, That declarant is declarant when that place was burnt  That declarant that sometime in the Fall of the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy Eight he was out about three weeks on a scouting party under the Command of Captain Ephraim Lockwood at which time they took several prisoners to Poughkeepsie jail.
That declarant by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory, cannot swear positively as to the precise length of each term of his service, but according to the best of his recollection from the time of his first enlistment in the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy five to the fall of the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy Eight a period of nearly three years, he served as before mentioned not less than two years exclusive of the time he was disabled by being wounded as before stated, beside which declarant residing near the lines was frequently called out on occasions of alarm & performed short tours of duty and for which service he claims a pension.
That declarant was born in Norwalk in the State of Connecticut in the year Seventeen hundred and fifty six, that he has no record of his age made at that time, That at the time he entered the service he resided at North Salem in the County of Westchester and State of New York, where at which place and in the towns of Dekalb & Clinton in Dutchess County & in Lansing Tompkins County he has resided ever since -
That he is now a resident of the County of Tompkins which is part of the territory formerly comprised in the County of Cayuga, that he was in the service by voluntary enlistment, that he does not recollect the names of any regular officers who were with the troops where he served, or Militia officers, other than those before mentioned -
That the General Circumstances of his service were as herein before stated and that he never received a discharge from the service that the names of persons to whom declarant is known in his present neighborhood and who can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution is as follows. Roswell Beardslee Postmaster at North Lansing, John Ludlow Postmaster at Ithaca in 1816. and Benjamin Andrews -
That declarant hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is only on the Pension roll roll of the agency of the State of New York.
That he has no documentary evidence, and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service -
Schabed Williams

Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Before Me - John D. Christie a Judge
We Benjamin Andrews a Clergyman residing in the Town of Groton & County of Tompkins and Roswell Beardslee & John Ludlow of Lansing in said County hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with Ichabod Williams who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration: that we believe him to be Eighty two 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 we concur in that opinion
Benjamin Andrews Roswell Beardslee John Ludlow
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Before Me John D. Christie a Judge
I, John D. Christie one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Tompkins do hereby Certify and declare it as my opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states, and I further Certify that said applicant by reason of bodily infirmity cannot attend the Court, and I further Certify that Benjamin Andrews who has signed the preceding Certificate appears to me to be a Clergyman resident in the Town of Groton in the County aforesaid, and that Roswell Beardslee & John Ludlow who have also signed the same are Residents of the Town of Lansing in said County are Credible persons and their statement is entitled to Credit
John D. Christie
State of New York Tompkins County I, John D. Christie Clerk of said Court, do hereby certify that John D. Christie before me known to me to be the person described in and who executed the foregoing declaration, and that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Judge, and truly believe that the signature thereof is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my Official seal at Ithaca this 14th day of May 1838.
J. D. Christie Clerk

The Deposition of Patience Fuller who deposes and saith that she knowes Ichabod Williams and has known him ever since he was a boy as his father and her husband lived neighbours in weschester county through the Revolutionary war and some time before and since and both came into Dutchys County in the state of New York and there lived near the said Ichabod untill a few years since he removed into the western part of said state and that while in said county of weschester in the year - New York was taken by the British army and I think in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six the winter be- fore New York was taken my Brother Cornelius Stearns Raised a company of soldiers for the American army and commanded them as captain and the said Ichabod Williams was a soldier under him mustered or trained his men at her husbands house and the said Ichabod among them and they both came home when their time was out which I think was for nine months but it might be for a year and she further saith that Capt Samuel De Smedt Raised a company of Rangers as they was called in our neighborhood the next year and the said Ichabod Williams went with him as a soldier and was brought home wounded as it was talked of in the place when his father brought him home and I do not remem- ber of his belonging to any other company only the two years as stated above except Lorrans and scouts that every one went that was a Whig and a friend to his country and that this deponent is in her eighty eighth year of her age and further this deponent saith not
Sworn before me this 2 nd Day of July 1833
Patience Fuller cross
Joshua Brownell Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that the within named Deponent is a credible person.
Joshua Brownell Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that the within Deposition is a credible person.
Joshua Brownell Justice of the Peace

The Deposition of Edward Fuller who saith he was born and lived in Rensselaer County in the State of N. York through the Revolu- tionary war and knew Ichabod Williams and his father's family who lived in the same neighborhood and both moved into Dutch Es County and until a few years past he the said Ichabod moved into Tompkins County at the westward and he knew the said Ichabod to belong to his Uncle Cornelius Steenrod's Company whose service was for the United States Army for Nine Months a year and that his Uncle entertained his men at his father's house and that the said Ichabod was with the Company this was in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six in the winter or spring and they soon went from the neighborhood to join the Army. Went to New York and the same year New York was taken by the British and knew from general report that he served his time out and was in a good many Battles and brushes, that season and knew when he came home and his Capt. both in the same place or near by knew him to go the next year in Capt. Samuel De Lavan's Company of Hangers knew him brought home wounded and heard of his going by the Neighbors before his wound was well to walk on horseback in Saratoga and when the Continental Store was located between the two armies by the British troops and as the line run through our County it was always our Command fight by the friends of the Revolutionary cause until the war was over and no doubt but that he went a great many times that I do not remember as he was always called a bold Defender of his Country and ready to start at all times when called and this Deponent further saith that he is now in his sixty sixth year and fur- ther this Deponent saith etc.
Sworn before me this 2 nd Day of July 1833 - Joshua Brownell Justice of the Peace
Edward Fuller
I hereby certify that the above Deposition is a credible person.
Joshua Brownell Justice of the Peace
July 11

The deposition of William D. Williams who saith that he is a brother to Ichabod Williams and that their father lived in Westchester County in the State of New York through the Revolutionary war where they were both born and knew his Brother Ichabod whilst as he said in Capt. Cornelius Steward's company for nine months or a year which I cannot remember but knows it to be in the winter or spring before New York was taken the same summer afterwards by the British knew the Captain who who was their neighbour and knew his brother Ichabod to go and muster with the company and when the company marched off for the American army he said they went to New York and laid there until the British landed on Long Island and then he and company were detained to go on the Island to reinforce Lord Stirling but they were defeated and the most part taken but he escaped and returned to New York in the night safely this I think was in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy six then New York was taken and he said they fought by turns and skirmishes until they retreated to White Plains in the aforesaid County, where General Washington made a stand and this company belonged to the Doglas Regiment and they lay on Chaterlon hill and had a hard fight with the British but was driven from the hill as he stated when he came home heard the battle guns myself the next year after in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy seven he enlisted in Capt. Samuel DeSavan's company of Rangers the Capt. was also a neighbour and knew him to go and was wounded and taken atwards house in the County aforesaid but was not barred off by reason of his wound but was left in the house and the house set on fire but was put out by a mother wounded man who was concealed and came out as soon as the British marched off before that the fire had done much hurt this by his statement and others who were there being near in our own County knew my father to fetch him home when wounded laid on two horses on a bed and was some to walk for a long time but when the British burnt the stores of the Continental army at Danbury was not able to walk but would go not withstanding the entreaties of mother but took a horse and gun and went he said he followed on thro the night until they entered their sleeping and that this Deponent is sixty eight years old and entered the next year according to family record and further this Deponent saith not.
Wm D. Williams
Sworn before me this 2 nd Day of July 1833 Joshua Brownell Justice of the Peace

STATE OF NEW-YORK, County of Dutchess,
ss. I, HENRY I. TRAPER , Clerk of
the County of Dutchess, DO HEREBY CERTIFY , That
Justina Gravenhorst Esym
whose name is subscribed to the three preceding annexed examinations or affidavits and before whom the same were taken was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, dwelling in the said County, duly elected and sworn
And Further , That I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Justice and verily believe that the signature to the said Examinations or Affidavits is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof , I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said county, the third day of July A. D. 1839
Henry I. Traper, Clerk

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
17-2895-2
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Isahad Williams a 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.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Feb. 1776 enl. or 3 or 4 mos. Pvt. Samuel Delavan { M c Dougall Benedict N.Y.   Mar. 1776 1 yr. Cornelius Steenrod   Jan. 1 1777 Samuel Delavan Ranger   wounded in left thigh at White Plains on Mar. 16, 1777 in a skirmish   Fall of 1778 3 weeks Ephraim Lockwood  
Battles engaged in, White Plains Residence of soldier at enlistment, North Salem, Westchester Co. N.Y. Date of application for pension, Feb. 9 1852 Residence at date of application, Lansing, Tompkins Co. N.Y. Age at date of application, Feb. 10th 1852 May 17, 1756
Remarks: ✓
Very respectfully,
Brother H. D. Williams
Commissioner.

Paw Paw, Mich. March. 29, 1914
Pension Dept. Washington, D.C.
My dear Sir,
I am looking up data to entitle me to membership in the D.A.R. Could you please send me the record of Isaac Williams who was wounded and died in 1777?
very truly, Irene Lane Paw Paw. Michigan

New York.
26.9.14.
Ichabod Williams
Private Capt Delevan Co NY Rangers U. S. Army - Res. Vols.
Inscribed on the roll of New York, at $2, and increased to $3 20 / 100 per month, by law 24 Apl: 1816.
Formal certificate issued 5 th October 1824, and sent to J. Mil- leid, at Locke, N.Y. To Geo. Mills Mar 7. 1838.

Schabod Williams at 7 June '32
Albany Roll 11mo. 4 days
$37:10 per am
Send cut: to Penhurst at North Lansing N. York

New York Rev.
Sabbath William
Suspended
let. to J Millard 22
Oct. 1833
let. to same 28. Ap. '34
11583
Act. 7 June '32

28 9 52 Rev INVALID.
1913 July 30 Hist. to Mrs. G. E. Bardear. V.L.M. 1914 Apr. 8 Hist. to Mrs. Irene Lang
File No. 28 9 52
Schubert Williams
His Rec 1913
Act: 7" June 82"
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 454
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
11580 P. O. Chubon Williams
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Suspended REJECTED allowed

July 18, 1913.
The Island, Yankville, Mich.
Dear Officer -
Have you any record of a man by the name of Thomas Millard, who served in the Revolution? He was wounded in the hip at the Battle of White Plains, but I do not

Know whether he drew a pension or not. Any information about him that you can furnish I will be very glad of.
Yours truly-
Mrs. J. E. Bardeen Jr.
no stamp here July 21, 1913 and

House of Reps May 24 th 1838
J L Edwards Esq
Dr Sir
I send you papers made in behalf of J Williams - for a pension - upon the back of which you will perceive a request that the answer may be addressed care: Hunt North Lansing Tompkins Co
Yours truly H. Gray

Sept 11 Am
Charles Williams
L. Edwards Esq. Pension office Washington
North Lansing N.Y. Free Sept. 5th 1894
0.54

North Lansing Sept. the 4 1858
Deare Sir want to Be Informed the whether there was Presented to the Pension office A Declaration in Order to obtain the Benifit of the act of Congress Passed June the 7 1832 Dated May the tenth 1858 Declaration
Ichabud Williams A Soldier of the war of the Revolution is Declarant of the Said Declaration A Resident of the State of New York County of Tomkins Said Declaration Was Sent to the Hon. A. D. W. Bruyn A Member of Congress from this District Not Being Acquainted with yours Name At the time I Directed the Declaration to him for him to Present to the Pension office By the Death of Mrs Bruyn I have not Ben Able to find out the whether it was Presented to the Pension office or not Not hearing from the Pension Office I Am fearful that it was Not Presented thereby I Want you to answer this Letter Immediately so that if you Can make it Convenient And let me know whether they was Presented or not if they was Presented let me know what the result is About them Said Declaration was Mailed At Ithica some time About the 14 Day of May and or not A Greats while from that time Direct you're Communications Back to me At the North Lansing Post office Tomkins County State of New York I want you to send me the act that was Passed At the last Session of Congress to Allow it to the widows of those that Did Service in the war of the revolution that were Married Between March 30 1783 & January 1st 1794
Alexander Smith
J. S. Edwards Esq

H. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pension Washington City
A Smith

North Lansing Tompkins County State of New York
Oct. Tre. 15 1855
Sir In Reply to your letter of the 11 of Sept last Respecting the Claims of Ichabod Williams as Applicant for A pension under the Act of June 7 1832 with you I enclosed the A Copy of A letter sent to the Hon. H. Gray of the house of Reps. with Copy bearing date May 26 1838 you say that the Claimant should assign A sufficient reason for having so long delayed to Apply for A pension the Applicant says that In the fall of the years 1832 that he applied for A pension under the Act of June 7 1832 By his Agent Mr J Millard of Lock County he says that after he Applied that the Department informed him that they wanted him to get Daniel Sullivan Affidavit to it says that he and Daniel Sullivan lived about two hundred Miles Apart that he sent And Got Daniel Sullivan Affidavit to it And sent it to the Department And the Department then informed him that his statement And Sullivan did not quite agree that he said J Millard done his business on the A week after papers on the same occasion for about three years that the said J Millard then left Lock County for some parts unknown to Claim And did not know what Millard had done with those papers that is the Reason he Assign
Being Induced to pursue his Claims he Causes A New Application to Be Made the Claimant says that the Witnesses is dead with he could prove the length of his services that he has sworn to In his Application And Being able to Make any More Proof he will submit to what your Honor befit to show him
Mr J Edwards Washington City
I Am very respectfully Your obed Servt Alexander Smith Agent for Ichabod Williams

N B your Letter of the 11 of Sept Last was Directed to Albert Smith Instead of Alexander Smith If you will look at my Letter of the 4 th of Sept Last you will see the mistake
A Smith

Locke MS July 23
Mr. Lewis
Hon. J. C. Calhoun Sec. of War
Washington City
for forward certificate
Recd. 3 Augt. 1824

Application for a new certificate
County of Tompkins State of New York
On this 21 st day of July 1824; before me the subscriber, a justice of the peace for the said county of Tompkins personally appeared Ichabod Williams who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Samuel Delavan in the regiment comman- ded by Colonel Benedict in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of New York, but has never received a formal certificate, and now wishes to obtain one.
Sworn and subscribed to before me the day & year aforesaid
Ichabod Williams
Augustus Shaeffer J.P.
State of New York County of Tompkins Blanks office of: -
I, Miles Finch, Deputy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the said County, do hereby cer- tify that the above grounds Augustus Shaeffer, before whom the above affidavit was made, is a Justice of the Peace in the said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and by law authorized to act in that capacity - And that I am impressed with his hand writing and truly believe the above signature of "Augustus Shaeffer" is his proper hand writing - In tes- timony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court this twenty first day of July 1824
Miles Finch - 26.

Locke, Cayuga County N. Y. July 22 nd 1824
Hon. Sir,
I herewith enclose and forward you Mr. Ichabod Williams application for a new pension certificate. Please to give us as early an answer as possible and direct your communication to your Ob d Servt
J. Millard P. Master Locke
Hon. J. C. Calhoun Sec. of War.

State of New York Tompkins County ss
On this Twelfth day of June one thousand eight hundred and twenty four, came before me Jacob Conrad Esquire one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said County of Tompkins. Ichabod Williams of the said County to me personally known and being duly sworn deponeth and saith, that he is the same Ichabod Williams named in the certificate hereunto annexed and that he is the identical person in whose favor the said Certificate hereunto annexed was issued.
Ichabod Williams
Sworn before me on this 12 day of June 1824
Jacob Conrad J.P.

By Richard Varick and Richard Platt of the City of New York Esquires.
This is to certify that in Pursuance of the Law of the State of New York entitled "An Act making Provision for Officers Soldiers and Seamen who have been disabled in the Service of the United States" passed the 22 nd of April 1786 We have exam- ined Ichabod Williams of North Salem in the County of Westchester Shoemaker & Farmer and find that during the late War to wit on the first Day of January in the Year one Thousand seven hun- dred & seventy seven he enlisted as a private in Capt n Samuel Deyo's Company of Rangers in the Service of the United States; to continue for the term of three Months; That while in the Service aforesaid in the Company aforesaid to wit on the sixteenth Day of March in the same Year at Ward's House in the County of Westches- ter the Company under the Command of Capt n Deyo were attacked by a Detachment of the Enemy & he received a Wound thro' the Thigh & fleshy Part of his left Thigh by Means whereof the Sinews of his Thigh are contracted & he is rendered in a great Measure unable to obtain his Livelihood by Labor; That on the

seventeenth day of May last he was thirty years of age. Wherefore in pursuance of the law aforesaid We do further certify that upon the principles of the Act of Congress of the seventh day of June 1795 the said  the  he  is  entitled  to  receive  from  the  Treasurer  of is entitled to receive from the Treasurer of this State a yearly Pension of twenty four dol- lars from the first day day of April in the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy seven if not before paid.
Given under our Hands this fifteenth Day of May 1700.
To Peter S. Curtenius Esq. Auditor of the State of New York.
Rich. Carrick. Rich Carrick Rich. Carrick.
He says he has recd. upwards of £16.

Lehabud Williams

Locke Sept. 17 th
Dear
Ed
Hon. J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War Washington City

Locke, Cayuga Co. N.Y. Sept. 17. 1824
Hon. Sir,
In answer to your favor of the 31 st Ult. in which you say "that Deborah Williams affidavit must be accompanied by the original document on which she has heretofore drawn her pension," I beg leave to state, that when I made application for him, which I think was in June last, I enclosed the original document to the war office, & requested instruction as to the further course - in answer to which, you were pleased to forward a blank application, which was  is enclosed  with  to your instructions as to the affidavit - the said document I apprehend must have been mislaid, or overlooked - so that it will be obvious that I have complied with your requisition -
I am Sir, your humble Servant.
J. Millard P.M.

Westchester County ss be it Remembered that on the 20 th Day of November 1833 before me the undersigned Justice of the Peace, Came Daniel Delavan, and being by me Duly Sworn, Doth Depose and say that he was well acquainted with Ichabod Williams of the town of North Salem in Said County, in the Year of 1775 - 1776 - and 1777 and this Deponent was a Lieutenant in a Company commanded by his Brother Samuel Delavan, and that the aforesaid Ichabod Williams was a Private in Said Company, and that he served over two Years in Said Company and further this Deponent saith not.
Daniel Delavan
Subscribed and Sworn to before me the Day and Year first above Written
Charles Yoe Justice of the Peace
I Do hereby Certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Danill Delavan and that he is always been Reputed as a Credable Person
Charles Yoe Justice of the Peace
November 20. 1833

Auburn Cayuga Co. N.Y. 2 nd Dec. 1833
Dear Sir,
In obedience to your instructions of the 22 nd Oct. last, I sent to West Chester Co. and obtained the Affidavit of Lieut. Daniel Delavan, in the case of Ichabod Williams, which is herewith forwarded.
I beg leave once more, to mention the case of Oliver Hatch, whose case has been before the W. Department. Fifteen months, & altho, I have written frequently , yet I have rec d . no answer to his case - I hope it may be convenient also to favor me with your decision, soon in the cases of Jonathan Smith- and Amos Miller.
Respectfully yours
J. Millard
P.S. As I have recently removed from Locke to this place, please direct your communications to this place -
J. M.

Jan 20
N.Y.
Ichabod Williams
Esq-
Washington City
John Adams Esq President of the U.S.

New York Jan y 17 th 1838
Sir
I saw Ichabod Williams of North Lansing Cayuga County or Tompkins County State of New York & he told me that he Received a Pension of $3.20/100 per Month for a Wound he Received in the War of the Revolution that he had made Application for a further Pension & that he employed one Jeffrey Millard a Post Master to do his business that he took Capt n Daniel Delavan Testimony which Mr Williams never saw but was told that through Age or Infirmity was not correct. It was sent to Washington with his Papers were came back to have it corrected while this was in Operation Capt n Daniel Delavan Died & Mr Millard Removed to parts unknown to him so that he could not Proceed in the business Mr Williams requested me to write to you to know if you have these Papers or any of them in your Office & what is the amount of them & what course he is to pursue to get a Pension under the Law of the 7 th of June 1832 he says he did Duty under 3 Captains 8. 2 Years or More Please write to me at No 1 Avenue C. New York Yours Respectfully George Mills
J. L. Edwards