Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 10904, for John Ingersoll, Connecticut

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Ingersoll, John
S. 10904
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20.972 New York
John Ingersoll
of Oswego in the State of New York who was a private in the Comp. commanded by Captain Smith of the Regt. commanded by Col. Meigs in the Cont. 2 Years " " "
Enrolled on the Roll of New York the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum, commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 day of Oct. 1833 and to J. Pettit Richland
Arrears to the 14th of Sep. 33 $ 200 Semi-ann. allowance ending 4-27-34 40 $ 240
{ Revolutionary Claim, At June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. C. Steele Clerk, Book E Vol. 4. Page 63

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John Gigeroll
Admitted Private 2 years 5.6.16.17.
line - names of officers reg 116
P. 116 116
19 June '33
J. J. Pettit Reckiana swego co New York

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BRIEF in the case of  John Ingersoll - Richland  co of  Oswego  in the State of  New York  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 73 years  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.     "April In 1778 '79 or '80" — 9 — — Substitute Gen. Col. Mearns, Col. Smith   "Then" (blank) (indefinite) 9 — — Penetration Col. Wadsworth   1782 — 1 year — — private Col. Boyd   (indefinite) — — " Col. Smith  
 5. In what battles was he engaged?  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? none stated  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? (none)  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
M. T. Tabor Examining Clerk.

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John Ingersoll
Connecticut Lines Massachusetts Line .9 m      Continental
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about 6 1/2 years service
July 27 78 to Sep 17 78
On rolls of Major Rest from July 27 78 to Sep 17 78

State of New York } Oswego County ss }
On this 24 th day of September A.D. 1832 personally appeared before the Judges of the court of Common Pleas of said County of Oswego in open court at one of its regular & stated terms according to the Statute John Ingersall a resident of the town of Richland in said County & State aged 73 years the 11 th day of October 1831 who being duly sworn according to law doth in his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. - That he enlisted in the army of the United States in April A.D. 1778. or 1779. or 1780. The precise year he cannot recollect for nine months in Colonel Meigs' regiment. Potter was lieutenant of the company - and the captain's name according to the best of his recollection was Smith in the Connecticut line under the said officers. That he enlisted for nine months - & was a substitute for a person living in Danba- ury whose name has escaped his recollection. That he joined the army at Robinsons farm just below West Point. From thence they marched to White Plains & laid there till September - & then he enlisted into the Commissary Generals department Wadsworth being the commissary - That he enlisted for a year That he drove a waggan & horses in that service until they came to winter quarters at Middlebrook & Bound Brook in New Jersey That they built their cabins & as soon as that was done news was received that all who would enlist for the next campaign should have a furlough of three months to go home &c - That thereupon he enlisted for the next campaign & took his furlough & went home - On return at the expiration of the furlough he returned into the service & joined the same company in the
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1 year

Commissary department that he was in the year before, commanded by Captain Boyd up Pennsylvania - That he remained there in that service until May & was then called upon to drive a team for General Greene - That in that service he went from New Jersey up to New Windsor - or a little back of West Point - Conrad Weaver & Andrew Emrick were both in the same service They drove a four horse team each - and he drove a two horse team - That they remained in the service at that place until fall when they returned with the army to winter quarters at Easton in the Jerseys that he remained there until the first of January when he received his discharge from Major Burnham signed by General Greene & took it home with him and gave it to his mother residing in Millford County of Litchfield & state of Connecticut - That he remained at home all of the next season & until Connecticut raised a regiment of troops commanded by General Waterbury In which he enlisted for one year. Smith was Captain Nathan Murray - Banfield and others also enlisted in said Regiment - That they rendezvous at Old Stamford & his company then marched up into Stanwich & remained there a while & then marched to White Plains - that they were at Horse neck - Frogs point & at all places where the lines were necessary to be guarded. That the Tories & refugees were particularly troublesome in stealing cattle and committing depredations on American property & the business of said Regiment was to guard the lines - That he remained until the years enlistment expired when he received a discharge about two miles above Old Stamford where they had built Barracks & a small fort. General Waterbury signed the discharge & Capt. Smith gave it to him & he then returned home & staid until the next August when he started to go on a
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1 year

37 yrs
went up to Saratoga to see three of his brothers that were living there, whom he had not seen for some time. That when he had arrived at Lancaster in Massachusetts he there enlisted for three years & did not of course go to Saratoga. One Smith & Stearns or Stearns enlisted him & 59 others & they all received their bounty & marched to Spring- field in Massachusetts & passed muster before an officer whose name he cannot recollect. A sergeant was sent from the first regiment of the Boston troops as they were called to march us down to Kings ferry. There he joined the regi- -ment. That Captain Smith commanded the Company to which he belonged being a different person from the Smiths above mentioned. One Joseph Mathews was his Mesmate - also Zephaniah Hough & Ensign Rexford also mes'd with him. At Kings ferry lay York troops - Connecticut troops & Boston troops. That they remained there until in the fall & then marched to West Point & staid a few days & then went into the mountain at Snake Hill & built barracks there & remained all winter. He believes this was in the year 1782. That the next spring he was taken from that regim- -ent & placed into an infantry company four of which were formed - one of which was marched to West Chester one to New Rochelle - one to Kings bridge & the other to East Chester. That he was in the Company at West Chester under Captain Bradford of the Massachusetts Line. That they remained there until the fall when they moved down towards New- York & occupied the posts as the British evacuated them. That they first came to Kings bridge next to Harlem Heights then went almost to New York & crossed over to the Jersey shore & took possession of a large fort & from there went into New York

and remained there & was present at the memorable occasion of Washington's taking leave of the army. — That he & the company to which he belonged about the first of January 1784 were placed in the barracks at the South Battery where they remained in winter quarters until spring — That same time in May the Company together with adjutant Bull who acted lieutenant went in an Albany Sloop up to West Point — where he was honorably discharged in the month of June before the 3 years had expired because their services were not required A.D. 1784. — The discharge was signed by the Major who acted as the Captain of his company — and That Captain Bradford was discharged when the "during the wars" men were & Adjutant Bull & the Major took the command of the Company — Bull acting as lieutenant & the Major as Captain — All these discharges he left with his mother. That after he was discharged he lived in New Milford two years Then moved to Saratoga in New York — from Saratoga he moved to Hoosac — thence to Purgahannah — thence to Floyd & thence to his present place of residence and I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and declare that my name is not in the pension roll of any Agency in any State —
I sum to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
1st Question Where and in what year were you born?
4 Born in Old Bedford in the year 1758
I sum to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
D. W. Hudson Deputy
Helen Ingersoll
And the said Court hereby declare their opinion that the above mentioned applicant was a

revolutionary soldier and served as he stated Lawell Johnson Judge of Reynolds 1 st and Count Sam Newman
I Erie Poor clerk of the said court of Common Pleas of said County of Oswego do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of John Ingraham for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 24 th day of September A.D. 1832 Erie Poor Clerk
By D. McPherson Dep. Clerk

Reckman
10904 INVALID.
Our
Visit to Mrs. A. B. Avery. Mar. 10, 1906. letter in Rev. 29469
File No. 10904
John Ingersoll Dis. Rev. War.
Act: June 7 th 82
Index:—Vol. A , Page 188
[Arrangement of 1870.]

State of New York } County of Oswego }
Received at the Hands of Samuel Pettit a Certificate for a Pension of $81.00 a year issued by the War Department under the act of Congress of June 7. 1832 - & bearing date June 25. 1833. Gabriel Baldwin

State of New York } County of Oswego ss }
Personally appeared before me John Ingersoll a Justice of the Peace of the said County John Ingersoll to me well known who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is the identical John Ingersoll who on the 24 th day of September A.D. 1883 person- ally appeared before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County of Oswego in open Court and made a declaration underneath in order to obtain the benefit of the Provisions made by the act of Congress passed June 27, 1882 That by reason of Old age and the encroachment loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service. but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below in the following grades. - for nine months in Meigs regiment he enlisted; but did not join the regiment until after days after the enlistment. that he believes he joined the regiment in one month after enlistment & served as a private until he enlisted in the Barnum's department. being seven months as near as he can recollect.
That for One year he served as a private in the Barnum's department.
That for One year he served as a private in Genl. N. A. C. Hays regiment.
That for One year & 10 months he served as a Private under the last enlistment for three years in the Boston Troops. - The amount of all of his service as near as he recollects is four years and five months for which he claims a pension.
That from loss of memory he cannot state the names of the officers - Col., a Captains, more definitely than he has in said declaration.
That in consequence of his claiming a pension as

a soldier in the Continental establishment, he did not, in said declaration, answer the interrogatories prescribed by the War department, nor prove the evidence of a colony man & other respectable persons as to their belief respecting his age, & general belief relative to his revolutionary services.
That he cannot say whether General Washington's regiment in which he served one year was in the Continental establishment or not - but that he does know they were called Connecticut troops - and said John Ingersoll further deposes that he left his discharge with his mother soon after he received the - and he has not seen them since - That his mother has been dead forty five years & he supposes & believes they have long since been destroyed.
And in relation to the interrogatories prescribed by the War department he says in answer to the second interrogatory that he has a record of his age in the family bible - That it was inserted in the old family bible forty years ago & it was copied from the old bible into a new one, seven years ago.
In relation to the third interrogatory prescribed by the War department he deposes & saith that when first called into actual service he lived in New Milford - Litchfield County State of Connecticut where he resided until he married in the year 1786 and soon after he married he moved to Bennington in the State of Vermont - & resided there until the Spring of the year 1787 & then moved to Saratoga County in the State of New York - From Saratoga County he moved to Otsego County in New York - From Saratoga Otsego County he moved to Oneida County in said State, & from Oneida County he moved to where he now resides in said County of Oneida in the year 1804 where he has resided ever since.
In relation to the fourth interrogatory prescribed by the War department said John Ingersoll deposes that in the services in Hays's regiment he was a Substitute. In all other cases he was a volunteer - That he cannot recollect the name of the person for whom he was a substitute.

In relation to the fifth interrogatory prescribed by the War Department said John Ingersoll deposes that he cannot state the names of the officers with whom he served any more distinct or definite than mentioned in his said declaration above offered to but he believes that Col Thompson had the command over the Canniparys department a part of the time. That he was acquainted with Genl Putnam, Col Sheldon, Genl Green, Genl Washington & Shelbys regiment of Horse.  In relation to the sixth interrogatory prescribed by the War Department said John Ingersoll deposes that Lieutenant Patter wrote his discharge from Neys regiment & Col Neys signed it. Maj r Burnham wrote his discharge from the Canniparys department & Genl Green signed it. That Genl Waterbury signed the discharge from his regiment. That he cannot recollect the name of the officer who signed the discharge from the last term of service - but he does recollect he was a Major & did Captain's duty as it was after the close of the war - all of which discharges he left with his mother as above stated & he has not seen them since & believes they were destroyed long since and he does not know any person living that knew him in the service.  In relation to the seventh interrogatory prescribed by the War Department said John Ingersoll deposes & saith that he has been long acquainted with the Reverend Josiah Chapin, Mr Joseph Dyer, William Hall and the most of the older inhabitants of the town of Richland in Onondaga County as he was one of the first settlers of the said town of Richland which contained in the year 1804 only four families; but now contains more than 500. voters.  John Ingersoll
Taken Subscribed & sworn this 3 rd day of July A.D. 1833 before me James S. Pettit Justice of the Peace

I Josiah Chapin a Clergyman residing in the town of Richland Onondaga County hereby certify that I am well acquainted with John Ingersoll who made a declaration in the Court of Common Pleas of Onondaga County on the 24 th day of September 1832 for the purpose of obtaining the provisions of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832 - That he saw him in Court at that time & saw the Clerk of said Court administer to said John Ingersoll the usual oath on such occasions - and that he believes him to be Seventy four years of age - That he has been acquainted with said John Ingersoll for the last twenty five years & had frequent intercourse with him every year during all that time - and that said John Ingersoll is reputed & believed to have at all times during such acquaintance been reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that I concur in that opinion - That he believes said John Ingersoll's memory has failed in consequence of old age & debility very much within five years past
Taken affirmed & subscribed before me this 3 rd day of July A.D. 1833. J. J. Pettit Justice of the Peace
Josiah Chapin
State of New York } County of Onondaga }
We Joseph Chase and William Hale residing in the town of Richland, Onondaga County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Ingersoll who has subscribed the above affidavit & have been acquainted with him during the last twenty years That we believe him to be Seventy four years of age That he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion
Taken affirmed & subscribed before me this 3 rd day of July A.D. 1833. J. J. Pettit Justice of the Peace
Joseph Chase Wm Hale

processes of law
State of New York } Onondaga County ss }
I James S. Pettit a Justice of the Peace of said county of Onondaga do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with said John Ingalls, Isaiah Chapin, Joseph Chase & William Hale who have respectively this day taken & subscribed the respective affidavits hereto annexed, before me - That said Isaiah Chapin is a minister of the Gospel in good standing in the church to which he administers in said town of Richland - That the said Joseph Chase is a man of Credibility & a respectable citizen of said town of Richland - and said William Hale is the Sheriff of said County whose moral character & reputation are above suspicion
Dated July 3 rd 1833
J. S. Pettit Justice of the Peace

Clerks office Osage County I Eric Poor Clerk of said County do hereby certify that James D Pettit Esqr before whom the preceding affidavits purports to have been sworn thro also by whom the preceding certificate purports to have been subscribed was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said County; And that I am acquaint- ed with the handwriting of the said Justice and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavits and the said certificate to be his prop- er hand writing and Signature —
Witness my hand and Seal of office this Eighth day of July in the Year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty three —
Eric Poor Clerk By D. M. Pherson Dep CLK

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John Lagersoll

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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of John Gagerdall which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? It does
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? He did
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Hee has
V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? e to 220
* VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? No
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? Hee has
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? Hee has
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Hee has
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?
* The line - names of Capt & Col. circumstances of enlistment & discharge should be distinctly set forth - particularly in relation to the last term of alleged Continental service.

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? Yes XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? None XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? Yes XIV. † If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office? XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? Yes XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? Yes
 EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
“Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For _____ year _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____. For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension.”

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.