Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44044, Benjamin Whitney, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Whitney Benjamin Hoar
NUMBER
NUMBER S 44044
CONTENTS

Notification sent Nov. 9 th 1820 to Dan. Shiphouse Salerno at 400
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 of Jany 1819 and sent to Hon. Mr. Lofgren New York City

I Benjamin Whitney solemnly swear & declare that I entered the revolutionary service against the common enemy in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven on the 15 th day of May having enlisted for three years in a company com= =manded by Captain Samuel Darby of the Town of Old York in the Province of Maine in the second Regiment of Infantry in the Massachusetts line I enlisted by the name of Benjamin Hoar (which was then my name but has been altered by the Legislature of the State of New York on my application to Benjamin Whitney) the Regiment to which I belonged was commanded by Colonel Bailey I remained for the whole term of my enlistment which was three years and was honorably discharged at West Point in the State of New York as my discharge will fully show and that I am upwards of sixty years of age and by reason of reduced circumstances am under the necessity of claiming relief under the acts to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war and further this deponent saith not Benjamin Whitney Subscribed & sworn this 6 th day of April 1810 before me Asa Fitch one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in the County of Washington & State of New York

Joseph W Farnam of Salem in the County of Washington & State of New York being duly sworn deposeth & saith that he is personally acquainted with Benjamin Whitney the within deponent & believes his pecuniary circumstances to be such that he is in Actual Necessity of Assistance from Government of the Farnam
Subscribed & Sworn this 6 th day of April 1810 before me Asa Fitch one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in Washington County & State of New York
I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the foregoing Deponents Benjamin Whitney & Joseph W Farnam & know them to be men of considerable property & am well satisfied that the Applicant Benjamin Whitney did serve in the Revolutionary War as within the knowledge of his said circumstances renders him in Actual Necessity of Assistance from the Government entitled to Pensions under the Act to provide for Certain persons engaged in the Land & Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War
Asa Fitch one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in the County of Washington & State of New York
Benjamin W. Whitney
State of New York Washington County ss. Daniel Shipheard clerk of the court of common Pleas of said county do certify that Asa Fitch Esq r before whom the within affidavit appears to have been made is one of the Judges of the court of common Pleas of said county acting under the authority of the said state and that the name Asa Fitch within subscribed is his hand writing In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this 14 th day of April 1810 D. Shipheard

Ben Whitney
5266
March 1811
Cm

District of New York Washington County ss On the 16 th day of August 1820 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of record for the said County (which said Court according to the course of the common Law has a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount) Benjamin Whitney aged Sixty proceedings & having a Seal) Benjamin Whitney aged Sixty two years resident in Salem in said County being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows in Colonel Bayley's Reg't & in Capt. Luther Bayley's Company in the Massachusetts Line which was stated in his original declaration dated the Sixth day of April 1818 as appears by his pension Certificate Number 5266 And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 & that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so 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 & Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18 th day of March 1818 & 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 & by me subscribed (Vizt) part of a set of old shoemakers tools & old books an old Gun & a pen knife And I do furthermore swear that I am a shoemaker but am not able to labour but a little in consequence of a continued lameness in my right Arm & want of sight & that I have no other family who depend on me for support
Benjamin Whitney
Sworn to & declared on the 16 th day of August 1818 before me
Asa Fitch one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in said County

I Daniel Shipherd Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Washington being the Court in the foregoing declaration mentioned do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath & the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court & 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 five Dollars & twenty five Cents — In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court on the twenty ninth day of August 1820
D Shipherd Clerk

Know all men that I, Amos Hoar — a Soldier in the Second Massachusetts Regiment, having served as a faithful good Soldier in the said Regiment, the Term of Three years being the full Term for which he enlisted, is hereby discharged from the same.
Given under my Hand at Westpoint — this Tenth Day of May — 1780.
Luther Bacon Capt.
Ezra Brainerd Lieut. Col. Commandant [Signature]

44 044 INVALID.
Rey —————
File No. 44 044 Benjamin Whitney Rev. Ben. W.
Act: 18 March 18
Index: — Vol. 8 , Page 561
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Benjamin Hoar, altered by the Legislature of New York to Benjamin Whitney Private
Bailey's Mass. Reg
1777 to 1780
of the Secretary of State of N.Y. Certificate, wanted to prove his name was altered by the Legislature of New York.
Adm. Trew
Hon. J. Savage

An Act to change the name of Benjamin Hoar and others to the name of Whitney
Passed March 3. 1815
Whereas a petition has been presented to the Legis- lature of the State of New York by Benjamin Hoar of the Town of Cambridge in the county of Washington on behalf of him- self and his wife Abigail Hoar and his minor children Oliver Hoar, Polly Hoar, and Abigail Hoar; and also by Theophilus Hoar Abel Hoar and Silence Hoar the adult children of the said Ben- jamin Hoar all of the same place praying that the names of the said Benjamin and his said wife and children may be changed from that of Hoar to that of Whitney Therefore
Be it enacted by the people of the state of new- york represented in Senate and Assembly that the names of the said Benjamin Hoar and his wife Abigail Hoar and his said Children Theophilus Hoar Abel Hoar Silence Hoar Oliver Hoar Polly Hoar and Abigail Hoar shall be and the same are hereby changed from that of Hoar to that of Whitney and the said Benjamin Hoar and his said wife and children and their descendants shall for ever be called and known by the name of Whitney and shall sue and be sued plead and be impleaded by the name of Whitney and no other name until their marriage with persons of other names shall render it otherwise by the laws of this State.
State of New York } Secretary's Office }
I Certify the preceding to be

be a true Copy of an Original act of the Le- gislature of this State on file in this Office
In Testimony whereof I have here- unto affixed the Seal of this Office at the City of Albany January 2. 1819.
Arch d Campbell Dep. Secretary