Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5416, for Reynold Huntly, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Service SERVICE
Kurtsy, Reynold
Yr. 5416
CONTENTS

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P. O. Reynold Huntly Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____ _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.

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Reynold Huntly Onondaga Co. N. York
Rejected, served only three months. See letter 16 Nov: 33 to R. S. Heiss Esq. clerk of Onondaga County Court. Syracuse Manlius P. O. N. York
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Chf.
Sept 21 CA-183
FREE
Hon. J. S. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington

28/1/1
Reynold Huntly

State of New York
Onondaga County
On this 30 day of August 1882 personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Onondaga
in open Court and now sitting. Nicholas Gentley a resident of the town of Manlius County and State aforesaid aged Seventy six years, who being first duly sworn according to law, do hereby make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832
That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. That on the 1 st of September 1776 (4) he volunteered for Three Months in the Militia of the State of Connecticut and went into the Service of the United States in Captain Bushnell's Company in the Regiment under the command of Col John Gly. That he marched with the Regiment from the town of Lyme in the State of Connecticut to the County of Westchester in the State of New York That the applicant was there taken sick and remained about three weeks when he joined the Army at White Plains on the North River under General Sullivan. That during the time he was sick there was a Battle between the American and British troop near White Plains and some buildings were burned at White Plains. That on or about the 1 st of December 1776. He was discharged at White Plains having completed the term of his enlistment for Three Months 1 He was born in the town of Lyme in the State of Connecticut County of New London on the 3 rd of March 1707 2 he has no record
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of his age 3 was living in the town of Lynn of which when he entered the service and continued to live at that place until the year 1807, when he removed to Mansfield, where he has since lived and still lives, did not receive a written discharge from the service. He has no documentary evidence and knows of no person living by whom he can prove his service. He hereby relinquishes every claim or pretence to a pension or annuity except the pension and allowance that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of the United States.
Reynolds Huntley
Sworn and Subscribed to this 20 th day of August - 1833
John Weston } Judges of the Court of Colin Bigelow } Common Pleas in and for the David Munroe } county of Bristol
We Allen Brunt a clergyman residing in the town of Mansfield and Nicholas Cook - residing in the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Reynolds Huntley who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and we believe him to be twenty six years of age that he is respected and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion
N. Cook
Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid John Weston First Judge of Common Pleas
Allen Brunt
and the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after investigating the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named

Applicant was a revolutionary soldier and several as he states and the Court further Certifies that it appears to them that Allen Bonds who signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman resident in the town of Mauldin and that Nicholas Cook who has also signed the same is a resident of the town of Mauldin and is a credible person and their statement is entitled to
credit John Watson } Judges of the Court Otis Bigelow } of Common Pleas David Mump } in and for the County of Grandison - Clerk
of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Reynolds Huntley for a pension In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this Eighth day of August 1833
R.S. Mess clerk