Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42502, Samuel Totten, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York.
Totten, Samuel
S. 42502
CONTENTS

1891 Oct 23 H D Totten history Paris
Notification sent Nov. 11 to next of kin Albany N.Y.
8039
New York Roll
Samuel Totten of Guilderland in the state of New York who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Gerrit Van Schaick of the New York line, for the term of One Year
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 6 th of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 nd of March 1819 and sent to the Double Dots House Do r Albany N.Y.
Arrears to 4 th of March 1819 9 \text{ m. } \frac{30}{31} — 87:74 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Sept r 1819 — 48:—
$ 135:74
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued

Samuel Totten's
8039
Sept 18 19

STATE OF NEW-YORK,
Supreme Court City of Albany
(Duplicate)
On this Twelfth day of August 1820 - personally appeared in open court, (being a court of record in and for the said State - according to the solemn adjudications of the Supreme Court of this state, and being a court which proceeds according to the course of common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and possessing the power of fine and imprisonment) Samuel Totten - late a private aged sixty one years, resident in the Town of Berne - in said County who, being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the revolutionary war as follows: in the Company commanded by Captain Edmundson - in the 1st Regiment of Infantry, on the Continental Establishment, in the New York line, for the term in the manner specified in his original declaration, on file in the Pension Office at Washington - dated the 6th day of March 1818 - that his Certificate is numbered 8.039 - and was signed on the Twenty Second day of March 1819 - and that he has received his Pension, at the rate of Eight dollars per Month up to the fourth day of March last
And I do solemnly Swear - that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818; and 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 and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed on the 18th of March, 1818; and 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, and by me subscribed. that I have a Wife aged sixty five years - that I have no occupation - Am blind in one eye & almost blind in the other, and have no means of support other than my Pension - that the following is a Schedule of my Estate both Real & Personal - viz Real Estate  None - Personal Estate  viz - One  Table, Five Chairs & one Chest, One dollar Seventy five Cents - Two Iron Three quartum Pots - One dollar - One Clock, Two barrels Eight plates One dollar Twelve Cents - Four fowls, Six Cups of Sauce & Three dishes One dollar - Two milk pats One Sugar cup, One Tea pot One Kitchen fifty Cents - One small cooking pot - frying pan - Skimmer & dipper One small tin pail One dollar - Three Pails and one foot Stove One dollar - One Stones four pgs & beets & Wedges One dollar - one apron two hoes, four table spoons two dollars - fork knives & one tumbler fifty cents - one penknife Three old coats and One Reel of thread and one hundred needles five cents -
Sworn to and declared in open Court this 12th day of August 1820 - 3 For Bloodgood Clk
Samuel Totten Mark
STATE OF NEW-YORK,
Supreme Court
Clerks Office Francis Bloodgood
Clerk of the Court of Supreme
do hereby certify, that the foregoing declaration and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court, that the total amount, in value, of property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is Twelve dollars and Twenty four cents. In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this 31 day of August 1820 -
Mr. Bloodgood Clerk.

C. Howe, Esq. Albany N. Y.

State of New York } ss. Albany County }
On this 23 rd day of May 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 within & for the County of Albany & State of New York, personally appeared Samuel Totten of resident in P'keepsie in the County of Albany aforesaid aged sixty years, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth 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 & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" That he the said Samuel Totten enlisted at Coxsackie in said State of New York in the company commanded by Capt Edmiston in a Regt under the command of Col. Gustavus Schaeffer of the New York line, in the year 1776, for nine months. That he continued to serve in the said Corps, or in the service of the United States until the 1777. when he was honorably discharged at Albany in the County of Albany aforesaid, and that he also served enlisted & served as a private soldier eighteen months in addition thereto, and was in the Battle at Bernis' Heights & at the taking of the Army under the command of Burgoyne , and that he is reduced in his circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support; that his discharge is lost & that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services excepting the papers annexed -
Sworn to & subscribed before me the day & year first said. Witnes - Caleb Hovee } J. E. Lovell } Samuel X Totten Judge &c - } mark

Estes Hovee, Judge etc. as afore said, do hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction, that the within named James Totten, did serve in the revolutionary war in the continental establishment, as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and the testimony taken & had before me, to the secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
As witness my hand and the seal of said court of common pleas at Albany the sixth day of May in the year of our Lord, One thousand eight hundred & eighteen
Estes Hovee, Judge etc.
State of New York } County of Albany } ss Clerks Office }
This certifies that Estes Hovee is a Judge of the court of common pleas for the county of Albany and State of New York duly commissioned & qualified, that his signature to the above certificate is true & genuine, and that the seal hereunto affixed is the seal of said court of common pleas. As witness my hand at Albany this seventh day of May in the year 1818.
George Merchaet Clerk

State
I Esther Howe I certify that Sebastian Ely, is an acting Magistrate, entitled to full credit & belief, and that Peter C. Adams Esq. is a Judge of Green County, and that I am satisfied that the foregoing affidavits were duly taken & sworn to before the said Peter C. Adams, and that the signature of Philip Corning is true & genuine, and is the proper hand writing of the said Philip, and that the character & standing of the said Philip is fair & good & that full faith ought to be given to his testimony; and I further certify that the said Corning is very indigent, and also that he lives upon the charity of his fellow creatures. Albany Jan. 30. 1819
Esther Howe I certify
Hon. J. C. Calhoun Sec. near Rep.
Sir I am sure Lottens request that his certificate may be sent to me if his pension should be allowed if I receive see it safely delivered
Respectfully yours &c Esther Howe
marks

State of New York Greene County ss
Henry Dogadur of the town of New Paltz in the County of Greene being duly sworn, maketh oath & saith that he is well acquainted with Mr. Samuel Totten of the town of Gunklerland, in the County of Albany, that he has been so acquainted with him for more than forty years - that this deponent in the month of April one thousand seven hundred and seventy six was a private in the company commanded by Captain Robert Edmondson in Colonel Hosack Van Schack Regiment, in the New York line of the army of the United States on the Continental Establishment - that in the said month of April 1776, the said Samuel Totten also was a private in the said company - and that he the said Samuel Totten continued to serve in the said company, in the service of the United States until the first of January one thousand seven hundred & seventy seven when

they were both discharged in the city of Albany in the State of New York having both served the term of nine months -- and further the deponent saith not
Henry X his Bogardus mark
Given this thirty first day of October - 1878
Before me Peter C Adams one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in for the County of Greene
State of New York ss. County of Albany } ss. Sebastian Visscher Esq. being duly sworn says that the hand and the above signature of Peter C. Adams one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Greene, and that his well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Peter C. Adams & readily believes the above signature to have been written by him with his own proper hand and that said Peter C Adams is a Judge of said Court of Common Pleas of Greene County of said State a fair & honorable standing in the community --
Sworn to this twenty seventh day of January A.D. 1879 before me
Estus Flower Judge Albany County, New York
J. V. Visscher

State of New York, Greene County ss }
Philip Conine the of the town of Coxsackie, in the County aforesaid, being duly sworn, maketh oath & saith, that he was lieutenant of the company, mentioned in the foregoing affidavit of Henry Bogardus - that he enlisted the said Samuel Totten, mentioned in the said affidavit in the month of March or April in the year 1776 and that the said Totten served to the month of January 1777 that the said Samuel Totten continued to serve in the said company until he was regularly discharged at Albany in the month of January 1777, having served the full term of his enlistment, being two months - further this deponent saith not
Philip Conine
Sworn this thirty first day October 1818 Before me Peter C Adams one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and of the county of Green - }

State of New-York Albany County - John Fine Christopher Caly John S Waggoner James M Vanderpool Peter Chism
Abraham Stempe William Stempe William M. Nixon
To the Honorable Judges of the Supreme Court in and for the State of New-York
This may Certify that Samuel Totten, has Resided in the County of Albany, for the space of thirty years, formerly in the Town of Watervliet & now in the Town of Guilderland, and has Allways & still bears the Character of an honest & prudent man, and has become feeble & helpless & almost blind, & not able to support himself & much in want of the aid of his Country, which he has faithfully served as a Soldier in the Revolutionary War - We the Subscribers, being well acquainted with him, do recommend him as an Object needfull & worthy of a bounty of his country for his manly & faithful Services - in the defence of the same
Guilderland 24th April 1818
Gertrude Landt John Elliman George Dollar Johnaton Becker Peter G Sharp Frederick Platoo Peter Waggoner
James Platoo Gilbert Sharp John Sharp Phillip Fine Alexander D Beaver Thomas V Beebe H Fine Juse White

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W D Totten Mchg
June 2 1891
Totten 1776-1812

Law Office of Totten & Phelps.
(2)
WM D TOTTEN,
ATTORNEY.
C. M. PHELPS,
PROS. ATTY. FOR KALKASKA CO.
78.
Kalkaska, Mich.,
1891
I wish you would also give all names of those by name of Totten who went into service from Dutchess Putnam and Albany counties in the Revolutionary war and that of 1812 - and date of enlistment, age of soldier enlisted and date of discharge if you have the same and I will pay you for your trouble. Paid bill. Sincerely Yours
Wm D Totten

Law Office of Totten & Phelps.
WM D TOTTEN.
ATTORNEY.
C. M. PHELPS.
PROS. ATTY. FOR KALKASKA CO.
MS.
Kalkaska, Mich.,
June 2 d 1891
Hon Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C. -
Dear Sir
The Hon Third Auditor of the Treasury refers me to you for records of Soldiers who enlisted or were in the Continental Army in 1776 and later and in the war of 1812. gff
What will you charge me for a search of such records to ascertain (1) When Samuel Totten, Jacob B Totten and Joseph Totten went into service - They enlisted as I am informed at Fishkill N.Y. about 1776 or near there.
Please advise me as to what the records show and send bill for search -

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Totten, Thomas GRADE Private LINE New Jersey
WARRANT NUMBER 8784 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED March 13, 1790 to — not shown —
*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.