Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43,319, Lemuel Whitman, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Whitman, Lemuel
S. 43,319
CONTENTS

12. 266
New York
Leviathan
in the state of who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Myllys of the Connecticut line, for the term of 3 years
scribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 5 of June 1818.
ertificate of Pension issued the 15 th of July 1818 and sent to Maria Whitman Angelica, Allegany Co.
years to 4th of Mar 1819 73 1/2 emi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1818
8 25 4 11 7 1/2 30 35
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
New York
Examined with Orig. Rolls Sept. 1853 No. 4.
Det. to Hon. A. Peck July 24 1850.
Geo Crane Nov 28, 1854 Josiah Whitman Aug 14 1856.
Original sent Nov 15. 1820 to Maria Brown

Lemuel Whitman Private, Angelica, Allegany County, New York. Col. Wyllys's regimt. Connecticut line
3 Years.
8th June, 1818.
On Roll
Judge artificial of indigent in cum Stan- ley military
Philip Church, Alexander Davenport, Judge, Angelica, Allegany Co: New York.

Allegany county ss.
On this seventh  Eighth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen before me the subscriber first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in said County personally appear Lemuel Whitman aged Sixty Seven the tenth day of last May resident in the Town of Angelica in said County who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the pensions was 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 he the said Lemuel Whitman enlisted during war the last of February Seventeen hundred and Seventy seven under Lieut. Obediah Gore at Wyoming in Capt. William Judes Company Col. Samuel Wylle Regt. of Connecticut, Genl. Parsons Brigade and served in that Regt. three years and that Regt. was disbanded and he was then transferred over to Col. Dutcher's Regt. Capt. Lemuel Giff. Company, served and in that until the war ended. and that he was at the taking of Cornwallis and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services. Lemuel Whitman
and subscribed
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid.
Philip Bruck
I Philip Bruck first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Allegany aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Lemuel Whitman did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against

The common enemy and I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken and laid before me to the Secretary for the Department of war pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
Philip Church
Albany County ss. I hereby certify that Philip Church Esquire the person who took the above proceedings is first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Albany in the State of New York and that the above signatures are the genuine & true signatures of the said Philip Church. Certified under my hand and the seal of the County of Albany in the State of New York this Eighth day of June eighteen hundred and fifty.
Moses Van Curen Clerk
State of New York } Albany County ss } I, Moses Van Curen one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in said County do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the within named Samuel Whitman was at the date of this affidavit & still is an indigent & reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and I now retransmit the proceedings to the Secretary for the Department of war June 11 th 1857. Moses Van Curen
Albany County ss. I hereby certify that Moses Van Curen was at the date of the last certificate and still is one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in Albany County and the signature to said certificate I know to be the proper hand writing of him. Certified under my hand & the seal of the County of Albany this day of June 1857. Moses Van Curen Clerk
In Pleas send any communication on this application to Hon. Dorr Angellier Albany Sts State of NY
Hon. John C. Calhoun Secy for the Dept. of war
Hon. Dorr
In pleas send any further communication on this subject to Hon. Dorr as before.

Samuel Whitman
Samuel Whitman Lemuel
12.266
Sept 1819
any communication on the within application please direct to Alvan Burr Angelica, Allegany Coun- ty. State of N York -
Alvan Burr Nov. 15. 1820

State of New York Albany County ss
On this 27 th day of June 1820 personally appeared in open court of Common Pleas in said County of Albany being a court of record for the said County Samuel Whitman aged 70. years resident in the town of Angelica 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 I enlisted in February 1777. during the war in the company command- ed by Capt William Inslet in the Third Connecticut Regiment commanded by Col Samuel Wyllys and served in the same three years and then trans- ferred to Col Geiger's Regiment 1 st Connecticut Regiment & was discharged at the close of the war the date of my original declaration I do not recollect but I have received a pension the number of my pension certificate is 12. 266. and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818. and that I have not since that time by sale or in any 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 per- sons engaged in the land and 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 secu- rities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any other income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
Sworn to & subscribed this 27 th day of June 1820. before me
Samuel Whitman -
Moses Van Campen Judge
Schedule of all my property.
 30. old beds  2. Shackamans  3. Shoe knives  12. old hats  18. old knives  1. gross of locks  1. pair of pincers  1. pair of nippers  2. old razors  1. inkstand 
I have no family I am a shoemaker by trade and not able to labour one half my time in consequence of old age & rheumatism & dimness of sight & not able to subsist myself without assistance.
Samuel Whitman -
Sworn to & declared this 27 th day of June 1820 before
Moses Van Campen Judge

I, Amos Peabody, Clerk of the County of Allegany in the State of New-York, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of said court & I do further certify that is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is two dollars & twenty cents. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this 7 th day of August Eighteen hundred & twenty
Amos Peabody
Clerk of the Court for the County of Allegany

Lemuel Whitman
Oct 18 m 1818
Lemuel's son of Purvis Washington
& C.
Springbok Mich May 19

43 319 INVALID.
Key
File No. 43,319
Lemuel Whitman
Dr. Pen Tao
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 3 , Page 560
[Arrangement of 1870.]

War Department Revolutionary Claims I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818, ————— Samuel Whitman late a Private in the Army of the Revolutionary is inscribed on the pen- -sion lists, Roll of the New York Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to commence on the 4 th day of June one thousand eight- hundred and eighteen Given at the War Office of the United States, this 15 th day of July one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, With the seal of } the War Office } J. C. Calhoun on it Secretary of War

Payable Semi-annually. The first Payment on this certificate will Will be made on the 4 th of September next, in New York at the Branch Bank of the U. States

Washington Jan. 21, 1850.
Sir,
Will you oblige me by answer to the enquiry contained in the enclosed letter?
Very Respectfully,
Alpheus Felch
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Comm. of Pensions
Washington

S Dole Esqr.
Sir yours of the 24 of April 1856
Has bin Received in that you requested me to send you a copy of the Certificate of pension granted to my father and when my father and Mother were married and when my father and Mother died
as to the exact date of their marriage I am not able to state, it must have been about the commencement of the Revolution as I was the second child and I was Born on the 25 th of October 1774, I have often heard my Mother tell of being drove off from Morning at the time of the massacre which was in July 1774 and

and of carrying my Brother who was 2 years old for her sake and riding on horse back to Connecticut my father died on the 12 th of May 1821 and my Mother died in December 1846
I send you a copy of the Certificate which my father had Please write what the Prospectus are and oblige yours
Josiah Whitman S. Dole Esq Washington D.C.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Whitman, Levi GRADE Private LINE New Hampshire
WARRANT NUMBER 3555 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED July 21, 1789 to Ladd & Cass, assignees
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.