Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 32058, William White, Continental (Mass.)

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental (Mass.) White, William
S 32058
CONTENTS

Ordnance 26.902
William White
Resident in the State of Ind a who was a Pvt in the Company commanded by Captain Callender of the Regt commanded by Col. Sams in the Pa line for
9. Mo. at $30.00
Inscribed on the Roll of Indiana at the rate of 10 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 th day of July and due to Mrs. Spencer Dawson
Arrears to the 14th of Feb'y 3, 90.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending Sep. 15.00 105.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D. J. Hagun Clerk, Book 6.2 Vol. Page 141

Order to pay 11 th Oct 1837. Letter to J. Cole 8 th June 1839. Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 April 1838 from 4 th March 1837 to 4 Sept 1838. Ag ts notified 2 nd July 1839
Letter to Mr W. White September 18, 1850 Sir John Macdowell Apr. 13/56 Same June 10/58

State of Indiana } County of Dearborn }
On this 13 th day of May personally appeared before the Probate Court of Dearborn County William White a resident of Dearborn County in said State aged 70 years the 19 th day of last November 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 was drafted for a term of six months in Boston Massachusetts on the 9 th or 10 th (according to deponents recollection) day of July in the year 1780 as a private in a Company of Three Hundred Men, Captain Wallender or Kalender marched us through part of Connecticut and across the Hudson River about 5 miles below West point thence on to the State of New Jersey to a place called Tappan pond or Tappan where there was a camp here, deponent belonged to Colonel Sams Regiment of Artillery General Stark's Brigade. Staid in camp at Tappan two or three weeks and the Company I marched with from Boston was divided and distributed among several other Companies to fill up vacancies in them. Myself and six or eight others were thrown into Capt. John Sams Company which consisted of about 150 men. (I was youngest man in the Company at that time. A Mr. Bailey was Orderly Sergeant - Mr. Anderson was also Sergeant Mr. Evans was Corporal. Remember the names

of Want and French among the Soldiers of his Company) We marched thence (that is from Tappan) to what was called the English Neighborhood about 8 or 10 miles from Tappan. I stayed here in Johnsons Company in camp at the English Neighbor- hood, five or six weeks. Then a Company of Scouts was made up - 5 or 6 persons from Johnsons Company was detached joined this scouting party, which was in number about fifty, being made up from divers companies as declarant understood. We marched in this scouting party down below the "Highlands of York" near the American lines. It was a few miles below what was called Larrytown. We lay in the woods in the day time and at night was on the Scout. One night we came athwart a party of fellows which our Captain called "Refugees or Tories". They fired on our Sentry. We marched down and fired on them & they on us. They fled, we pursued, but they fled so fast our Captain thought it was a plan to lead us into ambuscade, and we returned. We took 20 horses from them. We staid at near the Lines , 10 or 12 days and marched on up to West Point, when we got there Johnsons Company was there to winter . Here we staid till declarants term of six months was out which expired the 9 th or 10 th of January 1781. While at the Point we took up a large chain which was stretched stretched across the river from Fort Arnold to the other side. I got a written discharge but took no care of it after I got home, and do not know what became of it.

Declarant was a little over sixteen years old when drafted. When discharged, returned immediately to Boston. The next fall, being the fall of 1781, I was drafted at the beginning of the month of September, for a term of three months as a private . It was in a company I think of about 100 men, under Captain Eaton Lieutenant Tilton Sergeant Thayer Sergeant Crane. Marched up into Yorks State at the Highlands of Yorks It was about 12 miles I think from a place called Fishkill. There was a talk that the British were coming out of the City of New York. Several Companies of Militia dropped in where we were encamped. We marched about to one place and another short distances but not so far but we got back to camp at night. Colonel Crane (a Boston man) was at our camp most of the time. He was Colonel of a Company of Artillery. Staid here in camp till the first of Dec  Oct  when we  get a truce  discharge  discharge  when  at  the  the  end  the we were discharged & I went home. Was born about 3 miles from Boston have a record of my age in a bible at home. Lived in Boston when called into service. About seven years after the war I went to the City of New York - worked there a year - went to Leydey state & worked 2 or 3 years - thence to Philadelphia, married & staid six years - thence to Franklin County in Pennsylvania & staid 12 years - then to Mifflin County & lived till about 10 years ago this month when I moved to Dearborn county Indiana where I have ever since lived

My Discharges were signed by my Captains. Rev Alfred Cotton Samuel M c Math - Henry Likely Esq Rose, W James Angeline & Thomas Stack & friend Ward he names as some of his neighbors who can testify to his character for veracity & their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution. Declarant says he was drafted to fill vacancies in the Regular Troops he suppose, but did not enlist as a regular soldier, and does not know whether the names of troops drafted as he was, are on the Rolls of the Government, and therefore has stated particulars of his service & produces traditional evidence as in cases where the names are not on the Rolls. 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 State Agency in any State. Declarant states also that he does not know of any person living whose testimony he can procure, of his services aforesaid and has no documentary proof on the subject.
William White
sworn & subscribed
in open court 13 th May 1834
We A. F. Cotton a clergyman residing in the County of Dearborn, and Samuel M c Math residing in the same, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William White, who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration. that we believe him to be seventy years of age. that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
sworn & subscribed in open court 13 th May 1834. A. F. Cotton Sam l M c Math

31.257
Mrs White Indiana
f-1781 p-9- #30
P. L. Spooner Lawrenceburg Indiana

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 his duty. And the Court further certify that it appears to them that Alfred J. Cotton who has signed the preceding Certificate is a clergyman residing in the County of Dearborn State of Indiana and that William M c Math who has also the same is a Resident in the same County and is a credible person and that their statements is Entitled to Credit.
John Lee Engstrom
I James Dill clerk of the Probate Court of Dearborn County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of William White for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 25 th day May in the year 1834.
James Dill clerk.

Taunton May 21 st 1854
A. Edwards Esq Sir,
Please have an answer to this application given as soon as convenient and directed to the subscriber Your obedt Servt P. S. Spooner

William White End - 27 1832
26.902 The Commissioner of Pensions Washington City. D.C. Cole

William Lloyd and - a - Postmark: WASHINGTON D.C. MAR 30 1865 George A. Whiting Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D.C. Ms. B. 1. 6 v. 11 p. 34

32 058
Rev INVALID.
Rev
File No. 32,058
William White
Rev Rev
Act: June 1 st 89 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 449
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Cincinnati Ohio, March 9. 1856 No. 379 Main street.
To the Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D.C.
I have advice under date August 11. 1852 from the Treasury Department, Third Auditor's office, that the application of Mary White, widow of the late William White deceased, a pensioner of the Indian Agency, for a pension for herself, or such relief as the law provides, has been referred to the Commissioner of Pensions. The Commissioner of Pensions has made no reply, so far as I have been advised, on this subject. Please inform me, what reply is made to her application.
Respectfully Yours John H. Gaddwell

Lawrenceburgh March 20 30 th Sept. 1837
Friend:
J. S. Edwards Com te Pensions Sir
The accompanying Papers John Shoemaker & W m White have been returned to me as being informed (see the endorsement on the back of each)
That part of the instructions under which I have hitherto acted in relation to the payment of Invalid Pensions & Revolution Pensions under the Acts of 18 th March 1818 & 7 th June 1832 is in three words "When a Pensioner has neglected for one year or more to claim his Pension Additional proof of his identity will be required This addi- tional proof will be furnished agreeably to the subjoined form Marked B"
Those papers I now enclose again and made out in conformity with those instructions & unless some other instructions have been issued which has not reached me are certain the instruc- tions do not require payment to be deferred until authority is obtained from the Pension Office will you have this matter explained
Respectfully your obed t serv t E. D. Johnson

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
June 29 th 1839.
Sir:
Under the act 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," William White, — a Pensioner on the Roll of the Indiana Agency, at the rate of Thirty — Dollars and — Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March, 1837, to the 4 th Sept., 1838.
Respectfully, yours,
William H. Harrison Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

No. 379 Main Street Cincinnati, Ohio. May 13. 1858.
George C. Whiting Esq. Commissioner of Pensions U. S. Washington City, D. C.
Sir
In the lifetime of Mr. White, he received a pension, as a Revolutionary soldier.
After his death, I procured arrears due him (for his widow), and applied for such relief for her, as the law gave to widows of Revolutionary soldiers, but nothing has been done. She survived him some two years, and then died pending her application for relief at your office. Her daughter now reminds me of the application made for her mother, and is needy and indeed destitute.
Mary White was the name of the widow.
M rs White's Pension certificate is recorded in the pension office in Book E 2 Vol 7. page 141 by J. Sprague Clerk in your office as I find by my memorandum.
I have no recollection now of the date of my application

for Mary White.
Respectfully yours
John W. Caldwell

Mr White Nashville - 323 Nashville Tenn SEP 10
FREE
To John L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions. Washington City D. C.

Cincinnati, August 10 th 1850.
To John L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions.
Sir. You will please have payment of my pension transferred from Madison, Indiana. to the Agency Office, in this place. My certificate is dated July 10 th , 1834. Signed by Levi Clapp. Numbered 26.902. The reason for making this application is, that I have been residing here for some years past, & I wish to avoid the delay, as well as charges which now attend the payments when transferred, please notify me, addressed to care of Henry E. Spencer, Mayor. I much oblige
Attest Sam l . A. Spencer.
Yours very Respectfully William + White Mark