Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44,232, for Rufus Roberts, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
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Roberts, Rufus
S. 44,232
CONTENTS

18.475
New York
Rufus Roberts
of Harm in the State of New York who was a Bricade in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Myllin of the Cont for the term of one year
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 23 of June 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 19th of Jany 1822 and sent to R. H. Malworth St. Rep. N. Halm
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1821 307. 9 Semi-ann. all'ce ending March 1822 48
38 12 3/4 8 3/4 30 4 3. 9
$ 355. 9
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
may 1 1820
vol. 5 no. 174

Rafus Roberts.
Original application
enlgy p 29. 87/2
File Sept 13 192

State of New York At a Court of Common Pleas held at the Court House in the Town of Cobleskill in and for the County of Schoharie on the 13 th day of September 1820.
Present the Honors Nelsy Dugus  Esquire First Judge Nauman Fox  Esquire Henry Spencer  Esquire
Personally appeared in open court being a Court of Record held in and for the said County of Schoharie Rufus Roberts now residing in Wannsburg in said County and being first duly sworn according to law with an oath declared that he was fifty six years of age last February that he has a wife who is fifty seven years of age has in his family 2 daughters one of whom is 21 years of age has been sick and under the Doctor's care about four years has been entirely blind about 3 years and no prospect of her eye being restored to her sight the other daughter is fourteen years old & he later will not know that renders her unable to labor & hardly that his wife in consequence of having the consumption is unable to labor any almost constantly constantly confined to her bed of his own health pretty good. That he is by occupation a farmer That last February the house he lived in was burnt together with all its contents. That he & his family have been for about 1 year pastures in the town of Gerdine in said County being unable himself to support them - His opponent further says that in the month of March one thousand eight hundred & nineteen he was removed from the town of Renovo in the County of Tioga in the state of Pennsylvania to the town of Cobleskill in the County of Schoharie by the power permission of the Governor of the former second place having been a new new strong strong & etc.
And in pursuance of the Act of Congress of the 1st of May, 1820, I, Rufus Roberts 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 day 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.
Subscribed and sworn, this 13 th day of September A.D. 1820, in open court.
Rufus Roberts
Little B Aldworth Clark
The town of Cobleskill being the place of Legal Residence The deponent is at present residing in the town of Wannsburg in the County of Schoharie & is supported there by the town of Cobleskill aforesaid

History of the estate of the within named Rufus Robards -
Real Estate I have none.
 Personal property. I have 1 cow 3 sheats - 1 small hin. Pet 1 tubette 1 flying pan w' old chains 2 old chests - 4 tubs & tubs 4 wooden p s bowls 3 iron spikes 6 wooden plates & 34 platters 1 axe 1 scythe 
The whole of which property above mentioned amounts to thirty nine do- and eighty seven cents - B 27-87
long, light, serene looks - I find Dulcinea more to a lover twenty years for the above in our land. Some years since.
owes twenty dollars for the above account. Mr. Nichols balance on a loan lost by me of him some years since.
Drusus Robert

22 nd June 1818 Rufus Roberts. For Pension
In 1778 - Enlisted in Col. Wright Conn't Line for 9 months
The service must be proved by the deposition of 2 witnesses certified by the judge to be credible the time of entering & leaving the service in Wylly's reg should be stated and the capacity. The wagon department is not provided for by law.

District of New York Madison County
to S. S. Rufus Roberts of the town of Lenox in the County of Madison and State of New-York being duly sworn saith that he is fifty five years of age and upwards - and that this deponent early in the spring of the year seventeen hundred and eighty, enlisted in a company of Infantry, still later of P. L. Inf. Hartford County & State of Connecticut, in a company commanded by Captain Lee Lacy; & in a Regiment commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Levi Wells of the Connecticut Line and on the continental estab- -lishment - and that he this deponent continued to serve in said Corps, and in the Service of the United States, for nine months & upwards, then next following his said entertainment when he was honorably discharged from service in the City of Hartford in the said State of Conne- -cticut: and this deponent further saith 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 in his favor of the said Service.
This deponent also further saith that from the spring of the year 1778 until the month of November 1782 this deponent was almost all the time in service of his country, against the common enemy. He was out four months in 1778 in Fort Mifflin, & about nine months in 1779 in Capt. Allin's Company Col. Wyllis Regiment of the Connecticut Line, at Fishkill, Peeks Kill, Highlands, in the State of New York, & took up winter quarters at Reading

in Connecticut, in the years 1781 & 1782 he was in the Artillery Department, in the Connecticut Line, and marched under and with General Washington from Fort Plank's Point, in the State of New York, to York Town in Virginia, and was at the siege of York Town & taking of Lord Cornwallis in 1781, and from thence returned to Hartford in Connecticut and was finally discharged from service about December 1782 and this deponent further saith that he has always been a resident of the United States; and that all his aforesaid service was against the common enemy of his country; and that he hath never received any pension from the United States or from any other State.
Dated 22 June 1804
Rufus Roberts
Sworn and Subscribed before me the 23 day of June 1804
J. B. Yates
To the Honorable J. C. Calhoun, Secretary of War of the United States -
I John B. Yates, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the county of Madison and State of New York (the said Court being a Court of Record), do hereby respectfully report:
That it appears to my satisfaction that Rufus

Roberts in the above deposition named, did serve in the Revolutionary war, against the common enemy, on the continental establishment for nine months and upwards. I also further certify that from the proceedings and testimony transmitted from the proceedings and testimony transmitted, I have no doubt that the said Rufus Roberts is in very indigent, needy and reduced circumstances, and absolutely needs the assistance of his country for support.
And I now transmit all the proceedings and testimony taken before me to the Honorable the Secretary of the War Department, pursuant to the directions of the 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."
Dated June 23. 1815. H. H. Gates.
State of New York Madison County ss Elisha Hall being duly sworn saith that Rufus Roberts is well known to this deponent that he is in indigent circumstances and absolutely needs the assistance of his country for support that said Roberts has a number of children one of whom is probably always will remain unable to provide for her own subsistence. And that the said Roberts has nothing wherewith to support his family but his personal labor.
Elisha Hall
Sworn before me this
23 d day of June 1815.
H. H. Gates.

State of New York - Madison County - Clerk's Office 0.1. I hereby certify that it appears this office  to me that John B. Yates, Esquire the Judge within named, is now regularly in Commission as a Judge of the to the Court of Common Pleas of the said County - and duly qualified to serve in that capacity - and the within signature purporting to be the signature of said Judge is in the proper hand writing of said Judge. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & attested the same by the Seal of the Court when the said Judge Presided - Dated September 20th 1818
Wm. Jarvis, Hough D. S. C. M.
22 nd June 1818 Rufus Roberts For Pensions
L. 1778 - Repealed in Col. W. H. - Comm. Line - for petition to
The service must be proved by the deposition of 2 witnesses certified by the judge to be capable the time of entering & leaving the service - Weylly's reg t should be stated and the capacity - the Wagon Department is not promised for by law.

Nathan Roberts off.

State of New York Mannor County ss
Nathan Roberts of the
Town of Calawance and County of Warren, State of the County General in this State. Young and of Groom. Faith. That he is now eighty one years of age, that Rufus Roberts now of Calawance in the County of Warren, State of the County of Warren and County of all adiron and State aforesaid is his son. That this deponent served as a Soldier for the Space of three years in Capt. Daniel Allen Company, Col. Myles Regiment of the Connecticut Line and Continental Establishment That the said Rufus Roberts entered the service in Capt. Allen Company aforesaid in the Month of August 1778. as near as this deponent can recollect at Puckahatchie in the State of New York. and that the said Rufus continued in said Company at Fish Kill Puts Kill & the High Land in the State of New York. & took up Winter quarters at Reading in Connecticut & was Honorably discharged from the Service in the Month of May or June in the year 1779. which this deponent at this time cannot recollect. but that he was nine months in the Service in the same Company with him at the time before mentioned and that while the said Rufus continued in the Service he was considered a good Soldier - for the this deponent saith not - Sworn before me the 4th March 1820 Nathan Roberts A. Willy R. B. B. one of the Judges of the Court Common Pleas of the County of Warren

I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the said Nathan Roberts and that I examined him carefully as to the within affidavit and that he is a man of fair standing as to truth & veracity and that I believe the contents of the affidavit to be substantially true Concord N.H. March 1820
H. H. H. Atty One of the Justices of the Common Pleas
Nathan Roberts aff.

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Ray
INVALID.
File No. 44 232
Rufus Roberts
Pa. Rev. War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 3, Page 429
[Arrangement of 1870.]

I William Isham of St. Albans in the county of Franklin & State of Vermont of lawful age do testify & say that I am well acquainted with Rufus Roberts & that the said Rufus Roberts was a Soldier in Capt. Allens Company in Col. Samuel Mylliss Regt. in the Continental line in the Revolutionary war. & I further say that I served with the said Rufus Roberts in the said Capt. Allens Company from June 1778 to June 1779. one full year. in the Regt. & line aforesaid in the Revolutionary war (which Company was afterwards commanded by Capt. Stetson) & I also say that the said Rufus Roberts was a faithful & good Soldier. & that he was Regularly Discharged from the Service & did not desert therefrom. to the best of my Recollection. I further say that I served in the Company aforesaid from some time in year 1777 during the war & further I say that
William Isham
State of Vermont } St. Albans September 9 th 1820 then Franklin county ss } the above named William Isham
Personally appeared & after being lawfully Examined & duly cautioned made solemn oath that the parts stated in the above Deposition by him subscribed are true - Before me Jonathan James Sec. Peace I hereby certify that I am intimately acquainted with the above named William Isham. & that he is a man of Truth & as credible a witness as any man in the County
Jonathan James Sec. Peace

State of Vermont
Franklin county ss
Franklin county court clerks
Office September 9th 1820 July
6th
Horace Jones clerk of
the county court within and for the county
of Franklin do hereby certify that Jonathan
Jones Esq. is a Justice of the peace
in said County duly qualified to act
as such and by law authorized to take
and certify depositions and that the foregoing
certificate is signed by him in his own proper hand
writing In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
signed my name and affixed the Public seal of said
Court
Horace Jones Clerk

State of New York
Warren County, Clerk's Office. To —
I Little Baldwin Esq. Clerk of the said County of Warren, Do hereby Certify, by order of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas of the said County, that Rufus Roberts whose papers are hereto annexed, on the thirteenth day of September in the year 1820. appeared in open court and was duly sworn, and examined of and concerning the facts set forth in his declaration under the pension act; And by order of the said Court, I do further certify, that the total amount in value of the property, exhibited in the schedule of the said Rufus Roberts, also hereto annexed is twenty nine dollars and eighty seven cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the common seal of the said County this twenty third day of October 1820.
Little Baldwin Esq. Clerk

Hon John L. O'Sullivan
Washington City

State of New York Town of Catskill County of Warren July 12 th 1821
Hon John C. Calhoun Esq. Sir
In 1818 Rufus Roberts became an applicant for the pension granted by the law of the United States passed 18 March 1818. Roberts at that time resided in Madison County in the west part of this State and has since been removed as a poor person to this County (his former place of residence) his original application was returned for want of sufficient evidence of service with an indorsement requiring two witnesses to certify as to the time of service - These have been procured as will appear by the enclosed papers - At the September term of the Court of Common Pleas held in & for this County, Roberts appeared in open court as to his amount of property & his ability to support himself as appears by the certificate of the Clerk of the said Court annexed to the enclosed papers - The papers were again forwarded to you and again returned as being informal & defective - annexed to the papers of Mr Roberts is his Supplementary affidavit and a certificate of the first Judge of this County certifying that Roberts is now a coin charge. If you should still consider the papers insufficient defective or informal be so good as to mention the particular defects or informality that they may be corrected. Roberts has for several years been a burden on individuals & is now wholly unable to support himself.
Inclosed is also an application from Rufus Roberts as administrator of Nathan Roberts deceased - Nathan Roberts at the time of his death was a pensioner of the United States under the law of Congress of the 18 March 1818 - Nathan Roberts died on the fifth of July last - the last money he drew was in March last - this application is for the pension due to Nathan Roberts from March till the time of his death annexed to this application are the letters of administration.
Yours with esteem Joseph White
Hon J C Calhoun Esq. Sec of War
Nathan Roberts's schedule filed with July 23 1821

Application of Rufus Roberts for Pension under the law of 18 March 1818 -

State of New York
Warren County ss. Rufus Roberts of present of the town of Warrenburgh in the county of Warren & State of New York being first duly sworn saith that on the fifteenth day of February instant he will be fifty eight years of age that on or about the first day of June in the year one thousand seven hundred & eighty eight he enlisted in the company commanded by Captain Daniel Allen in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Mygale in the Connecticut line his opponent further saith that he enlisted in the said company & Regiment at Pella Hill in the state of New York & that he continued in the said company & Regiment till about the first day of June in the year one thousand seven hundred & eighty nine when he was honorably discharged at the Highlands in the state of New York which discharge is now lost - And that in the year one thousand seven hundred & eighty nine his opponent again enlisted in the company commanded by Captain De Loy in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Mygale for eight or nine months which term his opponent does not now recollect his opponent further saith that he enlisted in the said last mentioned company & Regiment at Calchester in the state of Connecticut that in the September of the same year the said Regiment was principally destroyed by a party of Refugee Horse at Horse neck in the state of New York & that on or about the first of January one thousand seven hundred & eighty one his opponent was honorably discharged at Horse neck in the state of New York which discharge is lost - Given before me 10th Feb. 1821
Richard Roberts Rufus Roberts full Judge of Warren County

Warren County
I Harry Rogers first Judge of the County of Warren certify that I am well acquainted with Rufus Roberts the person that made the within affidavit & that he and his family, are now supported by the town of Caldwell, which town is the place of his legal residence. He and his family having been removed, agreeable to the laws of this state, from the town of Union in Madison County, at which place they were likely to become a public charge, about two years since, and from which time they now are supported as Paupers of the town, Caldwell
10th February 1821
James
H. W. B. B.