Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44045, Benjamin Whitney, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Mass.-
Whitney, Benjamin
S 44045
CONTENTS

17329 Q New York
Benjamin Whitney 2 d Rush in the state of New York who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel M c Jackson of the Mass. line, for the term of one year & 7 months
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 29 of August 1815
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 d of June 1820 and sent to Ashley Larned Esq r Rochester, New York
Arrears to 4th of Mar: 1820 — 145-86 Semi-ann. all'ce ending Sep 1820 48- 18 mo 7/30 $193.86
{ Revolutionary claim, { Act 18th March, 1818. }
cont d Mar 1824
Notification sent to Mass. Laws on 24 May 1822 Rochester New York

State of New York
Ontario County ss on this twentieth  29 th day of July  August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me the subscriber one of the judges of the court of common pleas in and for the county of Ontario aforesaid personally appears Benjamin Whitney, aged fifty four years resident in Rush in the county aforesaid who being by me first duly sworn cloth on his oath make the following declaration 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 States in the revolutionary war that the said Benjamin Whitney enlisted some time in March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty one at Topsham in the County of Somerset in the State of Massachusetts in a company of Infantry commanded by Lieutenant Thomas Foster (the captain being absent) in Colonel Michael Sack's Regiment and in the Massachusetts line and that he continued to serve in the said corps or in the service of the United States until October in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty two when he was discharged at New Bedford point in New York by reason of sickness, and that he was in no important battle and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support, and that he has no further evidence now in his power of his said services
Sworn to and declared before me this day and year aforesaid Benjamin Whitney Timothy Barnard
Ontario County ss I Timothy Barnard one of the judges of Court of common pleas in and for the county of Ontario do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Benjamin Whitney did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy, and I do further certify that it appears to my full satisfaction from the testimony of Chandler Huntington to me well known and by me duly sworn that the said Benjamin Whitney is in reduced circumstances and stands in absolute need of the assistance of his country for support, and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the secretary for the department of war pursuant to the direction of the aforesaid act of congress Dated the 29 th day of August 1818
Timothy Barnard

Will the Hon. Secretary of War have the goodness to make return to Ashley Samson, Rochesterville, Conn. Co. N.Y.

Decemr. 29 th August 1818.
Benjamin H. T. T. at New York Baltimore
March 1791 - Col. Mich. Schenk's Age
Miss. Ann Schenk
Decemr. 1782 -
Honble. Timothy Barnard Judge
Service must be proved by the dep- osition of Respondees certified by the Judge to be credible.
David Ashley, Jameson Rocky Top, Tennessee
State of New York Ontario County ss: In testimony that Timothy Barnard Clerk Office - whose name is subscribed to the foregoing Certificate was on the day of the date of the same one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Ontario and that the same is his signature thereunto Subscribe my name & affix the County Seal at Canajoharie this 26 th day of September A.D. 1818
Thos. M c Nair Clerk

Benjamin Whitney Copy of Declaration & Inventory —
Sep 20
Con J. L. E.
Messrs Lawson & Gregory Rochester, N.Y.

State of New York Monroe County ss
On the fourteenth day of September 1821 personally appeared in open Court at being a court of General Sessions of the peace in and for said County and constituted a court of record by proceeding according to the course of Common Law and keeping a record of its proceedings and recognized as such court by the laws and judicial decisions of this State, Benjamin Whitney 2 d aged fifty seven years resident of the town of Rush in said County, 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 in the Spring of nineteen hundred and eighty one at P'keepsie for the State of Massachusetts in the company commanded by Thomas Stokes in the eighth Massachusetts regiment commanded by Colonel Michael Jackson that he continued to serve in the said Corps or in the service of the United States by himself and his substitutes until the end of the war, when his regiment was discharged near West Point in the State of New York. That he made application on the twenty ninth day of August 1818 and that he received a pension certificate No 17329. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. And that I have not since that time by gift sale or any other manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby 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 eighteenth day of

March 1818 - and that I have not nor has any person for me in trust any property in securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule annexed and by me subscribed viz -
  One old chest 50 cts four chairs 1 50 cts  $ 2, 00    one old bandh stick 25 cts one kitchen table 50 cts  " 75    One old loom and apparatus $4.00 one half bucket 25 cts  4.25    One meat bench 50 cts one damaged bucket 1 00.  1.50    One pot $1,00 one tea kettle $1,00, one spider 50 cts  2.50    one shovel & hough $1,00 one old wash tub 25 cts  1.25    one water pail old 25 cts four earthen plates 20 cts  " 45    Three knives & 3 forks 50 cts one earthen tree pot 25 cts  " 75    Three Cups & three saucers 20 cts four iron spoons 25 cts  " 45  
$ 13.90
And I do further swear that I am by occupation a farmer and that by age and infirmities particularly a complaint of dizziness in the head and frequent tinnitus of faintness, which complaints have disabled me from performing any labor for the greater part of the year past, and that my family consists of my wife aged fifty four years in feeble health, two daughters, one aged sixteen and one aged fourteen, one son aged fourteen not very healthy -  I swear and declare this 14 day of September 1821, in open Court before me
Benjamin his  X Whitney 2 d mark
E B Strong a judge of Monroe Common Pleas

Monroe County ss:
I, Nathaniel J. Rochester Deputy Clerk of the County of Monroe duly appointed according to law in the absence of the Clerk do certify that the foregoing Oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the Record of the said Court: and I 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 Thirteen Dollars and Ninety cents. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this eighth  seventeenth day of January A.D. 1822 N. J. Rochester Def. Clk.

44045
INVALID.
Rev y
File No. 44,045
Benjamin Fitzhugh Rev Rev Rev
Act: 15 March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 561
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Ezechiel Durham Affidavit
[Faint, mirrored handwritten text, likely bleed-through from the reverse side of the page. The text is mostly illegible but appears to be a formal statement or affidavit.]

I Ezekiel Peckham of Athens in the County of Windham & State of Vermont of lawful age testify & say that Benjamin Whitney formerly of Pepperell in the County of Middlesex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts & now a resident in the town Rush County of Indiana & State of New York - Served as Private Soldier in the Revolutionary war in the same Company with me about eighteen months we both enlisted for three years in March 1781 and were attached to the first Company in the eighth Massachusetts Regiment the said Whitney served until the first of October 1782 when by reason of sickness he was he was discharged by substituting another man in his place - The aforesaid Company was commanded by Lieutenant Thomas Foster the Regiment by Colonel Michael Jackson Ezekiel Peckham
State of Vermont Athens January 6 th 1820 Windham County ( Ezekiel Peckham came before me and made solemn oath to the truth of the above Deposition by him subscribed in my presence - I am personally acquainted with the said Peckham & consider him to be a man of truth & veracity Attest Daniel Fuller Justice of the Peace
State of Vermont Windham County Court Clerk's Office, Brattleborough January 6 th 1820.
I certify that Daniel Fuller Esquire is one of the justices of the Peace for the county of Windham aforesaid, duly commissioned under the authority of this State, and that I believe the signature of the preceding certificate to be his hand writing - Witness my hand & the Seal of said Court the day and year above written - James Elliott Clerk

John Scott Affidavit

I John Scott of Peterborough in the County of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire of lawful age testify and say that Benjamin Whitney formerly of Rippeill in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts and now a resident in the town of Rush County of Ontario & State of New York - served as a private soldier in the Revolutionary war in the same Company with me about eighteen months we both enlisted for three years in March 1781 and were attached to the first Company in the eighth Massachusetts Regiment the said Whitney served until about the first of October 1782 when by reason of sickness he was discharged by substituting another man in his place - The aforesaid Company was commanded by Lieutenant Thomas Foster the Regiment by Colonel Michael Jackson John Scott
State of Vermont & Franklin Septm 24 - 1819 - County ss John Scott Esq came before me and made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed in my presence - & I am personally acquainted with the said Scott & consider him to be a gentleman of integrity truth & veracity
Attest Samuel Austin Justice Peace