Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18,255, Benjamin True, N.H.

(-1770)
SERVICE
NUMBER _____
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True Benjamin
S. 18,255
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CONTENTS

942 New Hampshire Benjamin True
Rockingham in the State of N.H. who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain [blank] of the Regt commanded by Col Reed in the N.H. line for 8 Mo 26 D from 1780
1881 March 10 Hon L Morse Military Service -
Inscribed on the Roll of N.H. at the rate of 29 Dollars 53 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 rd day of October 1832, and sent to Hon J Bell Wheeler N.H.
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $ 44.29 Semi-ant. allowance ending June 30. 12.76 $59.05
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. H. [blank] Clerk. Book [blank] Vol. 1 st Page 187.
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Hn J Bell Chester N H

State of New Hampshire Rockingham County ss.
On this Seventh day of August A.D. 1832.
personally appeared in open court before the Superior Court of Judicature now sitting in Exeter within and for said County of Rockingham. Benjamin True a resident of Chester in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire aged seventy years last May, 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 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated, he the said Benjamin True enlisted as a private soldier the last of the month of August 1781 into Captain William Boyes' company and Colonel Daniel Runnells' Regiment of New Hampshire State volunteers for the term of three months, he immediately marched from said Chester, to Number four, now Charlestown, on Connecticut river, in New Hampshire. Captain Boyes' company and Captain Webster's company were detached from said Regiment and crossed said Connecticut river, thereinto Vermont and marched to Manchester, and thence to Castleton in Vermont and thence to P'keepsborough in the State of New York and from thence to Fort Ann on Lake George the said two companies then marched to Granville in the State of New York, from thence they returned to Castleton and thence to Rutland in the State of Vermont and from thence back to Charlestown in New Hampshire and again joined said Regiment; said Regiment was raised for the defence of the United States, he the said Benjamin True performed a soldier's duty in said Captain William Boyes' company during the whole campaign and served out the term of three months for which he enlisted and was discharged at said Charlestown about the first of December 1781 when said Regiment was broken up and dismissed; He further states that he resided in Chester aforesaid when he entered the service and has no documentary evidence, and that Captain William Moore can testify to his service, said William Moore is a native of said Chester and now resides there, and served as a soldier in the same company and was his messmate during his service in said Captain William Boyes' company and also in the six months' campaign in Captain Moses Dustin's company and Col. George Reid's N. Hampshire Regiment in 1780. 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.
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year afore said
Attest Charles K. Clark
Benjamin True
I William Moore residing in the town of Chester and county of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire do hereby certify that I served as a private soldier in the above named Captain William Boyes' company and Colonel Daniel Runnells' Regiment three months in the Fall of 1781, and was messmate with the above named Benjamin True during the whole campaign, I have been personally acquainted with said Benjamin True from our infancy having always lived in the same neighborhood and being nearly of the same age. I further say that said Benjamin True was seventy years old last May in my belief. I further certify that I enlisted as a private soldier as a (New Hampshire new levy) with the aforesaid Benjamin True in June 1780 and was mustered with him for the term of six months and served with him in Captain Moses Dustin's company and the second

New Hampshire Regiment commanded by Colonel George Reid six months from the time of our enlistment and was a messmate with him during said service
Sworn to, and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
William Moore
Attest Chadwick Clerk And the said Court do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Benjamin True who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that I believe him to be seventy years old last May; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution
Sworn, and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Attest Chadwick Clerk
John Wilson
Joseph Long
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the before named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this
I Peter Chadwick Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the County of Rockingham in the State of New Hampshire do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Benjamin True for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this eleventh day of August Anno Domini 1902
Chadwick Clerk of the Court Rockingham County

State of New Hampshire ss. Rockingham County
On this Seventh day of August A.D. 1832, personally appeared before the Superior Court of Judicature of the State of New Hampshire now in session at Exeter within and for said county of Rockingham Benjamin True a resident of Chester in the county of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire aged seventy years last
Mary, 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 7 th 1832. That he enlisted as a private soldier in the army of the United States in the month of June in the year 1780 at said Chester, as a new levy and served in the second Regiment of the New Hampshire line under the following named officers, in the company commanded by Captain Moses Dustin and the Regiment commanded by Colonel George Reid. That he marched to Kingston in said county of Rockingham and was mustered as a private soldier and returned to Chester and thence immediately marched through the States of Massachusetts and Connecticut to Westpoint in the State of New York and there joined said company and Regiment and remained in the service of the United States six months from the time of his enlistment being the term he engaged for.
He further declares that he was born in Chester in the county of Rockingham and resided there when he entered the service. He further states that the company in which he served was stationed in the vicinity of New York City and that he received a written discharge at the expiration of his service which is herunto annexed about three hundred miles from home.
He hereby relinquishes every claim 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.
Sworn to and subscribed. The day and year aforesaid
Attest Richard G. Smith Benjamin True
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states

5876 Benj True
M. C. E.
On Rolls of 6 Months Mrs. (called New Levers. 5 Months & 26 days
8 Months & 26 days
Adm J L E
$ 29.53
Rev. S. Bell Chester NH -

5870  BRIEF in the case of  Benjamin True  of Chester Rockingham  in the State of  N. Hampshire  (Act 7 June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? A Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? —  3. How old is he? 70  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     In 1780 June to end of term — — — Private Col Reed - Capt. Dustin   last gang of 1781 to 1 Dec. — — 3 — " Col D. Rumbold - Capt. Boyes  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? None mentioned  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Chester 
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  Documentary Proof being a discharge from Col. Reed  Living Witness - Tradition
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
No Clergyman's Certificate
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
W. C. Easton Examining Clerk.

Benjamin True S.F. 18255- N.H.

Benjamin True. new Swiss soldier in the Second Hampshire Regiment being ordered unfit for duty for want of clothes is hereby discharged the Service. - The Governing Commission behind this and New Hampshire will issue Provision to him up to the 25 th Inst: Receiving proper certificate when he last drawn Given under my hand in camp New Hampshire Valley This 15 th Day of December 1776 Geo. McLeod Lt Col Command 2 nd Hampshire Regt
To Thomas Civil or Military

Rev Sec 20 3918 Maine Ave, Balto, Md.
April 20 th 1920
Bureau of Pensions
Rev. War Records Section
Commissioner;
Dear Sir:-
Your reply giving me the information concerning my great grandfather, Capt. Selman Walton was rec'd for which I thank you.
Will you please be so kind as to give me any information or data you

may have 2 concerning my great great grandfather, Capt Benjamin True of New Hamp- shire. I have no data concerning him except that his daughter, Hannah True, married Isaac Worthen of Chester, N. H. at Chester Nov. 25-1802. I know that Benjamin True served in the Rev. War and from the family I understand he was from N. H. In a New Hampshire

history in 3 speaking of the Worthens of that state it says, "Isaac Worthen mar- ried Hannah True, daughter of Capt. Benjamin True."
Also can you give me any data concerning Capt. Wm Walton of North Carolina.
He is mentioned in Sappels' War Records of the Rev. as an officer entitled to half pay.
I certainly will appreciate

any information concerning either of these men.
1 st  Capt. Benjamin True of New Hampshire S. 18255
2 nd  Capt. Wm Walton of N Carolina. { W. 1518- S. 17184.
Thanking you again so much for the records you sent me, Respectfully yours,
{Mrs} W. Blakeslee 3918 Maine Ave Balto. Md.

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File No. 18,255
Benjamin True
Pr. Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 379
[Arrangement of 1870.]

March 15. 1897 History to Hon. J. D. Leighty House of Representatives. see - Inv. 44589- 1920 May 14 Hist. to Mrs. W. Blakelee

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
S.F. 18,255-
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Benjamin True a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     June 1780 6 mos. Pvt. Moses Dustin George Reid N.H.   Aug. 1781 Dec. 1781 William Bayes Daniel Russell        
Battles engaged in, none stated
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Chester, Rockingham Co. N.H.
Date of application for pension, Aug. 7, 1832 His el. was ab.
Residence at date of application, Chester, Rockingham Co. N.H.
Age at date of application, born in May 1762
Remarks: There is no data on file as to his family
Respectfully,
Commissioner.