Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 6880, for Asahel Manrow, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Mass. New York
Narrow, Asahel
R 6880
CONTENTS

Asahel M arion's Declaration
to send John Parker Northhampton Mass County N. York
34.184
D
6880

State of New York Washington County ss.
On this third day of April in the Year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty-seven personally appeared before me David Wood one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Washington (Isabel Marrow of Hampton in the County of Washington State of New York) aforesaid aged Eighty one years on the sixteenth day of October last past and being unable by reason of bodily infirmity to appear in Court at its place of sitting Who being duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832.
That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named Officers and Servants herein stated.
First That while he lived at Johnstown in the State of New York he enlisted in a volunteer Company commanded by Lieutenant Levi Stockwell (Capt. Winne of said Company being at the time sick as he understood and shortly after died) On or about the first day of April in the year 1775 or in 1776 can't be positive which at Johnstown aforesaid on the Mohawk River for the Term of nine months in Col. Wiltts Regiment & General Herkimer's Brigade that he served in said Company under the said Lieut. Levi Stockwell the said Term of nine months and was discharged the day after Christmas of that year at Fort Plain - During this Period the said Company was stationed a part of the time at Johnstown aforesaid and a part of the time at Fort Plain on the south side of the Mohawk River about twenty miles from Johnstown that they spent the time scouting in the vicinity of these places Col. Wiltts Regiment was then stationed at Fort Plain. There were then five Companies in said Regiment one commanded by Capt. Johnson one by Capt. Davis and one by Lieut. Stockwell which he remembers, the other Captain's names he has forgotten, during this period he knew Col. Wiltts & General Herkimer frequently saw them.
Secondly While living at Johnstown aforesaid on or about the twentieth day of March in the year 1777 he enlisted again in the Company commanded by Lieut. Levi Stockwell in Col. Wiltts Regiment & General Herkimer's Brigade for the Term of nine months that he served in said Company for the said Term of nine months that during this period he was stationed at Fort Plain a part of the time and at Fort Dayton until some time in the month of August

of that year When we were Marched to join General Gates near Stillwater on the Hudson River. That he was then Stationed with the army of General Gates, was in the Battle near Stillwater in September of that year against General Burgoyne and continued with the army until Burgoyne surrendered, was present when he gave up his sword to General Gates Standing as a Sentry That on or about the sixth of August 1777 he was in an action against the British Col. Basset at the Oriskwa so called off from the Mohawk river and with the Indians, That though the British & Indians were driven in this action General Herkimer was killed and also Col. Cox and Capt. Cox and others, and a number of Americans were taken prisoners among whom was Major John Blevins and carried to Canada - During this period of service he knew many Officers in the western Army above named and after he joined General Gates Army he knew General Arnold General Lincoln Col. Livingston Col. Daniel Morgan was attached to his Regiment in the Battle at Stillwater of the 19th September
Thirdly That while he was living at Barrington in the State of Massachusetts in the Month of April 1779 as he believes he enlisted as a teamster for the army under Capt. Saba Lines for the term of one year, that he served as a teamster for the Army for one year agreeable to his said Enlistment and was discharged in April of the next year That during that period he was employed in transporting Baggage and military stores for the army, the fore part of the season near Boston and from thence to other places to Westpoint and to White Plains and from place to place in that Region and transporting provisions from Danbury Connecticut to the Army in the State of New York to White Plains and to Westpoint That during this period of service he knew Col. Brewer Col. Bigelow Col. Shepherd of the Massachusetts line General La Fayette General Green and occasionally saw General Washington
Fourthly That in the fore part of June while he was living at Barrington in Massachusetts in 1780 he enlisted or volunteered as a substitute for John Patnam for the residue of his three years enlistment being nine months said Patnam had enlisted in a Company in Francis Regiment for three years as he understood and had served his time out into nine months when this Declarant took his place which was that of a waiter to the Judge Advocate Edwards in the Massachusetts line and this Declarant served in that

capacity for the term of nine months and was discharged about the first of March 1781 during this service he was stationed at West point during the whole term. and was acquainted with Col. Shepherd Col. Dicklow Col. Brewer of the Massachusetts line & Col. Warner of the Connecticut line he saw them several times having been acquainted with them at the west. and also Capt. Gaudang a Frenchman Baron Stuben & General Francis Marion & Col. Hovey.
And he further saith that he has no documentary evidence of his service aforesaid or any portion thereof and that he knows of no person other than Silas Reynolds whose Deposition he has herewith attached whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his service and that his finding said Reynolds was purely accidental.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State or Territory of the United States.
And he further saith that he made application for a pension under the act aforesaid some three years ago which was sent to Washington and from thence returned for some alteration or addition which was made and again sent by his agent to Washington and he never afterwards heard from it. That last spring he accidentally became acquainted with Silas Reynolds anew whose Deposition he has obtained as stated above.
1 st Says that he was born at Farmington in the State of Connecticut on the 16th of October 1755. 2 nd Says that he has a Record of his age in his Bible which is at his house in Hampton, that it was taken from his father's family Record. 3 rd Says that he was living at Lohrstown when he enlisted in the service in 1775 or 6 & 1777 and at Farmington Massachusetts when he entered the service 1779 & 1780 That since the Revolution he lived for the first fifteen years in Washington in the Great Nine partners in the County of Dutchess and State of New York That he removed from thence to Kinderhook Columbia County New York where he lived seven or eight years from thence he removed to Whitehall Washington County New York where he lived about one year and then to Fair Haven in Vermont where he lived about one year from thence to Hampton County of Washington where he has lived ever since and where he still lives. 4 th Says he went into the service as a volunteer by enlistment as stated in the body of his Declaration and as a substitute for 9 months in 1780 for John Paton and was never drafted.

5th Says he has stated in the body of his Declaration the names of the Officers that he knew in the army with the troops where he served and to whom he here adds Col Gauseworth Col Malcomb General Schuyler at Stillwater and Col Van Schaick at the same place last mentioned
6th Says he received two written discharges which were burnt with his dwelling house which was burnt at Kingston the first for his service of 1775 at which he recd from Col Levi Stockwell and the second for his service for 1777 he recd from Col Gauseworth both of which were burnt as above stated that his other discharges were not written but by parole.
7th Says that in his present neighborhood persons to whom he is known and who can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution there are the following. Isaac Clark Marcus Robbins William Hotchkiss Hiram Hotchkiss Caleb Warren Ethan Mann John P. Adams Samuel Beman. and in Granville adjoining Hampton John Frank Richard Savage Hiram Clark That he cannot conveniently procure the attendance before the Judge of the Clergyman or any witness to testify in the premises
Asahel M c Manrow Sworn & subscribed the day and year aforesaid — Before me one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in for said County this third day of April 1837 — David Wood a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Washington
And I the said Judge do hereby declare my opinion that the said Asahel M c Manrow is from bodily infirmity unable to appear before Court at their place of session to make the above Declaration. And also do declare my 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 he states. And I the said Judge do further certify that it appears to me that Obadiah Densmore who has signed the preceding annexed certificate is a Clergyman resident in the Town of Whitehall in said County adjoining Hampton of said. And that Isaac Wood who has also signed the same is a resident of the Town of Whitehall of said is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit

to all which I have hereunto set my hand officially this third day of April 1837
David Woods a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Washington
State of New York Washington County } ss. I Edward Dodd Clerk of the County Courts in and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that David Woods whose name is above subscribed to the Declaration aforesaid and to the above certificate is a Judge of the said County Courts duly sworn and qualified to act as a Judge thereof and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge, and that his name signed to the said Declaration and certificate is the proper hand writing of the said David Woods Judge as aforesaid
And I further certify that John C. Parker and Jacob Searle before whom the annexed affidavits purport to have been taken were each of them at the several dates thereof in the County thereof Justices of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, and have an acquaintance with their respective hand writing and verily believe their several names subscribed to the Jurats of the respective affidavits is the proper hand writing of the said Justices and that they were severally authorized to take the said affidavits at the times they purport to have been taken
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said County Courts at the head of the Declaration & papers annexed upon the silk tape fastening the papers together this seventeenth day of April 1837
Edward Dodd Clk.

New York
Rev.
Asahel Munroe
Suspended
Lib to J. C. Parker
May 1837
to Hon. D. Russell 2. March 1838

6880 REJECTED
P. O. _____
Asahel Hemenway
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

In at Feb 13 N.Y.
Asahel Munroe
J. L. Edwards Esq. D.C.
Am D. Russell W.R.

Warr of Miss D.C. February 13 th 1832.
J. S. Edwards Esq r
Sir
I have rec d the enclosed
letter and for the appropriate answer refer it to you have the goodness to return the letter with your answer
I am Respectfully D. Russell

May 3
W. Granville K.
Free
April 29
Asahel Munroe
N.Y. Oct 1832
James L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington City

North-Manzanillo Wash Co N.Y. April 27th 1887
H. Edwards Esquire
Sir Inlosed I send you the Declaration of Asahel Narrow for the a pension under the act of June 1832 he has been unable to procure any further testimony of his service than as annexed to his Declaration Yours respectfully
John C. Barker

State of New York Washington County ss.
Silas Reynolds of the Town of Fair Haven in the County of Rutland & State of Vermont aged Twenty five years being duly sworn deposeth & saith that he is now in Glensville in the County of Washington & State of New York that in the year 1775 this Deponent was a Soldier in Captain Hoffle Miller's Company from Glencoe in the State of New York stationed at Fort Plain in Canajoharie on the south side of the Mohawk River where he became acquainted with Asahel Marrow of St. Commandant Stockwell's Company and knew him to be in that Company until in the Month of December & nearly new Years that he and this Deponent scouted a great deal during that summer & Autumn and knew him in said Company as much as eight months of the year aforesaid that the said Asahel Marrow was called a good Soldier during all this time, and he says they frequently came across Tories & Indians in their Scouts, they went from Fort to Fort in their Scouts, went to Fort Kirkimer. At Fort Dayton about sixteen miles west of Fort Plain And this Deponent further saith that in the Year 1777. this Deponent was a Soldier in Captain Harrison's Company Lt. Baker's Detachment of said Company stationed at Fort Plain aforesaid and other Forts in that Region as above mentioned, that at this time this Deponent had enlisted for three Years in said Company And that during the Year 1777. he knew the said Asahel Marrow in St. Commandant Stockwell's Company for nine or ten Months that he first saw him in April of that Year in said Company, and the Last he saw him was some time in the beginning of the Winter as near as he can remember that the said Asahel Marrow and he were separated a part of the time by the said Asahel going to join the Army General Gates against Burgoyne. That this Deponent served in Col. Willett's Regiment during both the periods above mentioned. And this Deponent further saith that he has never seen the said Asahel Marrow since he saw him in the Army until last Spring when he saw him in Hampton Washington County New York and had never heard of him until then after he parted with him in the Army, and when he saw him last Spring and heard his voice he inquired of him if his name was not Marrow, and found thereby that they were Soldiers in the Revolutionary war together and after a little

conversation together he recognized him fully as a fellow soldier.
And this Deponent now having heard the Declaration of Asahel Manrow hereto annexed reads says he well recollects the action with the British Col Britton in August 1777 that this Deponent was there taken a prisoner with a number of others most of his Officers were killed and in the night after the action this Deponent and some few others escaped from the British encampment and arrived at Fort Ticonderoga. And this Deponent saith that the said Asahel Manrow was in the Battle aforesaid & well remembers seeing him in the morning before the battle on their march to Fort Ticonderoga - and he fervently believes that the said Asahel Manrow served as he has stated in the two campaigns aforesaid and for the times by him stated of nine months each. And this Deponent saith he is unable to write his name never having learned to write and therefore must make his mark hereunto . This Deponent further saith he has lived in Fair Haven aforesaid between two and three years and before the late war he lived in Lower Canada and at the beginning of the said war this Deponent was compelled to enter the United States and because he would not take the oath then he was imprisoned and afterwards made his escape and came into Plattsburgh from thence to Shoreham and after that he went to Plattsburgh and enlisted for one year in the American Service which he faithfully served & was on board the Row gally Viper No 44 in the Battle on Lake Champlain and continued in the navy until the end of the war.
Subscribed by his mark his Silas mark Reynolds Sworn this 9th day of February 1837 Before me
John Barker Hearn and I hereby certify that I am not personally acquainted with the above Deponent but that I have made inquiry concerning him as a man of truth and find he is a professing Christian of the Baptist denomination. and that he appeared when before me as a candid & intelligent man and I do verily believe him to be a man whose testimony is to be credited as true from information obtained and from his manner of relating the facts of the war of the Revolution.
John Barker Hearn

State of New York Washington County ss. We Obadiah Densmore a Clergyman residing in the Town of Whitehall adjoining Hampton in the County aforesaid and Isaac Wood
residing in Whitehall aforesaid hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Asahel Munro who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; That we believe him to be eighty one years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion. Obadiah Densmore Sworn & Subscribed this 22 day of March 1837 Before me Isaac Wood
Isaac Wood Justice of the Peace
Endorsed on the new security bond