Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6612, for Daniel Mc Carty, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
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McBarty, Daniel
R. 6612
CONTENTS

State of New York } 83: County of Dutchess }
On this first day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four, personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Dutchess now sitting: Daniel M c Carthy a resident of the town of Rhinebeck in the County of Dutchess and State of New York aged eighty years seven months and eight days, who being first 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 the 7 th 1832.
That on the first day of December in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine, he was honorably discharged from the Continental Service, as a private in the United States Army, the period for which he had enlisted having then expired - That he then resided in the town of Stamford in the County of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut - That in the month of December of the same year and in less than a week after being so discharged, he entered the service of the United States as a Substitute for Lieutenant Samuel Youngs, in Captain Sylvanus Brown's Company, Colonel Mead's Regiment of Infantry, in the Connecticut State Troops, and continued to serve as Lieutenant of said Company in said Regiment, under said Colonel and Captain until about the first of June following when said Regiment was discharged, its period of service which was for twelve months, having then expired.
The declarant further states that during the time he served in Colonel Mead's Regiment as aforesaid, that he the declarant was not employed in any civil pursuit - that his service was continued and unremitted - that said Regiment was stationed along the Sound, in detachments, reaching from Horse neck to Stratford - employed in watching the movements of the Enemy who then had possession of the City of New York, and in guarding the coast against hostile parties, with which they frequently came in collision. Captain Sylvanus Brown's Company in particular, to which the declarant was attached, was stationed at Horse neck.

The declarant further states that prior to Colonel Mead's Regiment being discharged as aforesaid, arrangements were made for organizing a new Regiment, under the direction and command of Brigadier General Waterbury of said Stamford, which should be in readiness immediately to take the place of the former, in the said Connecticut State Troops. These arrangements were so carried into effect, that this new Regiment which was also one of Infantry, did immediately succeed Colonel Mead's Regiment, in the service. The only field officers attached to it were Brigadier General David Waterbury who commanded the Regiment and Major Samuel Webb - Captain Samuel Comstock officiated as Adjutant - Captain Sylvanus Brown was appointed to the command of a Company in said Regiment, at the time of its organization and this Deponent at the same time re-entered or, more properly, continued in the service of the United States, as a Lieutenant in said Captain Brown's Company, and continued to serve under him, as such Lieutenant for twelve successive months, which was the period of service for which said Regiment had enlisted, at the expiration of which time it was accordingly discharged.
This last mentioned Regiment was also stationed along the coast, in detachments, from Horseneck to Stratford, and the general character of its service was the same as had been that of Colonel Mead's Regiment, as above stated. The Company to which the declarant belonged remained stationed at Horseneck, and during this second period of the declarant's service as well as during the first, his service was constant, and he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
The declarant further states that on or about the first of June in the year one thousand seven hundred & eighty one, in pursuance of measures previously taken, a new Regiment of Infantry, in the said Connecticut State Troops, was organized under the direction of the said Brigadier General David Waterbury, so as immediately to take the place of the former, whose

time of Service had expired - This new or last Regiment was also engaged for twelve months - it was formed in a great measure out of the materials of that to which it succeeded in the Service - It was placed under the command of the same field-officers viz: General Waterbury & Major Samuel Webb - Captain Sylvanus Brown & the Declarant both reentered the Service of the United States in this New Regiment when first organized, retaining their respective grades - The declarant was again attached to Captain Brown's Company & continued to serve as Lieutenant of said Company which was Stationed at Norwalk, until some time in the month either of December or January, shortly after the cessation of hostilities, when the Regiment was disbanded, its Services being no longer required - The principal duty of this Regiment as of the two which had preceded it, consisted in guarding the coast from Norwalk to Stratford - The Declarant was not employed in any civil pursuit during this his last period of Service - his Service as above stated was continued & unceasing from the time when he was received as a Substitute for Lieutenant Samuel Jennings as aforesaid until the disbanding of General David Waterbury's last Regiment - and the whole time including his said three periods of Service was not less than two years - It was during one of his said periods of Service & to the best of his recollection in the Summer of Seventeen hundred & eighty that Fairfield & Norwalk in Connecticut & Bedford in New York were burnt by the British - In the year Seventeen hundred and eighty one, the Declarant with his Company, were employed in making a great number of fascines, in obedience to orders which he received from General Washington in person - Captains Mathew Mead a brother of Colonel Mead, & Sylvanus Pitch served with Declarant both under Colonel Mead & afterwards under General David Waterbury - In the Summer of Seventeen hundred and eighty one, the Continental Army lay at Bedford and White Plains in the County of West-Chester in the State of New York, but a few miles from Stamford - during the interval, the declarant had frequent personal intercourse

with several of the Regular officers belonging to that Army, among others Brigadier General Nixon, General John Grayton who commanded the Regiment to which declarant had belonged when a private in the Continental Service, Lieut. Colonel Loring of the same Regiment & Colonels Nixon and Putnam of General Nixon's Brigade, & Captain Job Sumner -
The declarant further states that he has no documentary evidence of his service as such Lieutenant, that he knows of no surviving witness whose testimony he can procure, who can testify either to his service, or to his reputation of having served as such officer - That he received a Lieutenants Commission from General David Waterbury, signed by him, & under the Seal of the State of Connecticut, but that at the close of the war the said General Waterbury purchased the declarants claim for back pay, and required that the declarants commission should be left with him as a voucher, which was assented to by declarant. The declarant has never been able to repossess himself of his said Commission. In the year eighteen hundred & eighteen, when about to make application for a pension as a Lieutenant, to which he supposed himself entitled, under the Act of March the 18 th of that year, he went from Delaware County in the State of New York where he then resided, to Stamford in Connecticut which had been General Waterbury's place of residence, for the express purpose of regaining his commission - but he was there informed that General Waterbury was dead, & that his family had removed to the State of Ohio - He then made inquiry for Major Samuel Webb, under whom he had served, and ascertaining his place of residence he procured the said Major Webb's deposition as to the fact of declarants service as a Lieutenant, as above stated. This deposition accompanying his application for such pension, was, at the request of declarant, forwarded to the War department by Judge Ebenezer Root of Delaware County, but returned by the department to the said Ebenezer Root, with the remark, that the provisions of the Act of Congress

of March the 18 th 1818, did not embrace Officers who had served in the State troops, but only those who had served in the Continental Army - The deposition of Major Webb, was left in the possession of Judge Root, who has been dead for several years - Since his death the declarant has been at much trouble to ascertain whether the said deposition was not to be found among the papers of the said Judge Root, and is satisfied from the result of his inquiries, that the document in question has been lost or destroyed. The declarant further says, that Major Samuel Webb according to his information and belief has been dead about six or seven years.
The declarant states that he was born in the year seven hundred and fifty four, at Charleston in the State of Massachusetts - that he has no record of his age - that he was living in the town of Stamford in the County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut, at the time when he first entered the service of the United States as a Lieutenant as aforesaid, that after the war he continued to reside in the said town of Stamford for the space of about ten years, that from Stamford he removed to the town of Peekskill in the County of Dutchess and State of New York and there resided about seven years, that from thence he removed to Rhinebeck in said County & there resided about twenty years, from thence he removed to the town of Andes in the County of Delaware, & there resided about twenty three or twenty four years - from Andes he returned to the said town of Rhinebeck where he has ever since resided & now resides; that in eighteen hundred and nineteen he applied for and obtained a pension as a private in the Continental Service, under the Act of March the 18 th 1818 - That he is known in his present neighborhood to General Morgan Lewis, Peter R. Livingston Esquire, Elias Cowles, Garret Van Klevren Esquire a Justice of the Peace of the said town of Rhinebeck, & General John Armstrong, who can certify to his character for veracity & their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not the pension roll of the Agency of any State except only on that of the Agency of the State of New York, under the Act of Congress of March the 18 th 1818.
Sworn to & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Sworn to & Subscribed in Open Court
October 1, 1834 Henry Brann Clerk David M c Carthy
I William B. Platt, residing in the town of Rhinebeck in the County of Dutchess and State of New York, do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Daniel M c Carthy who has Subscribed and Sworn to the above declaration; that I believe him to be eighty years of age & upwards; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that I concur in that opinion: I also certify that his character for truth and veracity is good, and that he is reputed and esteemed in the neighborhood where he lives to be a worthy citizen and an honest man, and that I concur in that opinion.
Sworn to & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid
in Open Court Henry Brann Clerk W B Platt
We Peter R. Livingston & John Y. Schuyler residing in the town of Rhinebeck in the County of Dutchess do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Daniel M c Carthy the above named declarant, and that his character for integrity and veracity is irreproachable
Sworn to & Subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Sworn to and Subscribed in Open Court October 1, 1834
Henry Brann Clerk
Peter R. Livingston
John Y. Schuyler
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I Robert Scott, a clergyman, residing in the town of Rhinebeck in the County of Dutchess and State of New York do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Daniel M c Carty, of said town and County; that I believe him to be eighty years of age & upwards; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that I concur in that opinion.
Affirmed and subscribed to this twenty second day of August 1834 before me
Edward E. Cowles
Justice of the Peace
Robert Scott
I John Armstrong Junior, residing in the town of Rhinebeck in the County of Dutchess and State of New York do hereby certify that I was well acquainted with Robert Scott who subscribed the above certificate. That the said Robert Scott was a clergyman, residing in the said town of Rhinebeck, far advanced in years, and labouring under great bodily infirmity; that at the date of the above certificate, he was not expected to live many weeks, and that the said Robert Scott is since dead.
John Armstrong Jr. (over

Sworn to and subscribed in New Court to, 1st October 1834
Henry P. Frazer Clerk
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And the Said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after, hitting the Interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states - And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Robert Scott who signed the above certificate hereunto annexed, was at the time of signing the same a Clergyman resident in the town of Rhinebeck in the County of Dutchess, far advanced in years, laboring under bodily infirmity, and not then expected to live many weeks, and that the said Robert Scott is since his dead; and that his statement is entitled to full credit. And the Court further certify that it appears to them, that William B. Platt, Peter R. Livingston, John J. Schuyler & John Armstrong Junior who signed the preceding certificates, are all residents of the said town of Rhinebeck, that they are credible persons and that their respective statements, are entitled to credit.
I Henry J. Traver Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Dutchess, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Daniel M c Carthy for a pension. and I further certify that Edward E. Coles, was at the time of taking the affidavit of Robert Scott hereunto annexed a Justice of the Peace in & for said County duly commissioned and qualified, and further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Justice & rightly believe that the signature of the said Justice to the certificate of attestation subjoined to said affidavit, is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office, this first day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred & thirty four.
Henry J. Traver Clerk

33,516
In the matter of Daniel McCarty's Application for a Lieutenant's pension under the Act of 1832.
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
612.
P. O.
Francis McCarthy
Service:
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____|____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Mem: [Private]
↳ Capt. Geo. Miles, a respectable citizen of New York, and a man of intelligence, assured me that the Statement of Daniel M c Carthy is entirely false. He was called on by M c Carthy to testify as to his service, and refused, and told M c Carthy that his State- ment of his service was wholly destitute of truth.
J. L. E.

33,516
Daniel Mcbarty N.Y.
act-7 th June 1832

Dear Mr. Garty N. York, Oct 30/38
Sir,
let. to all. Radcliffe 17 Oct. 38
[It is alleged that the highest credit that Mr. Garty was prepared to allow for private education] see letter to. dated April 29 1839.
Let to all. Nov 1/38
to a Second Class boy. Evans & Fane Nov 6 1838

Know all men by these presents that I Mary Conly formerly Mary McCarthy have made and nominated and appointed and by these presents do make nominate and appoint Jessie O White of Boers Township Main Co. my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name and for my use and benefit to search and recover if possible all the monies back and unpaid to my father Daniel McCarthy formerly of Delaware Co. who had been in the united states service in the time of the Revolutionary war his being a soldier through the whole time of the war. And there is yet due to his service supposed to be over three thousand dollars This being my appointment and request witness my hand. — — — Mary Conly August 21 st 1854

Senate Chamber Dec r 28 th /835.
J. L. Edwards Esq. Court of Pensions.
Dr Sir
I herewith send some additional papers in relation to the application of Daniel M c Carty for a pension, and hope the subject may claim Your attention, as early as Your public duties will permit - I know M c Carty, personally, to be one of our most worthy citizens for honesty and integrity.
Respectfully Yours W. R. Fallin

June 14. '43
Dear Mr. Cooley -
Myself & 32
Edward Lyman Commiss'rs of Pensions War Dept. Washington City.

Albany June 12. 1843.
James L. Edwards Esq. Comm r . of Pensions, Sir,
I am requested by Mr. Daniel McCarty, a Pensioner residing in Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, to ask the favor of you, to furnish me with copies of your correspondence with his late Agent, William Radcliff Esq. now deceased, in relation to his claim for an increase of pension, on the ground that he held the rank of Lieut. General as such in the Revolutionary War.
I understand that you have rejected his claim as Lieut. and my object is, on his behalf to learn the grounds of your decision, and to see whether your objections cannot be removed by such further proof as he may be able to produce. All I wish, therefore, is a copy of so much of your correspondence with Mr. Radcliff, as will enable me to see how the case now stands before you.
Mr. McCarty has sent me a copy of an affidavit made by Samuel Cornwall, before Aaron Clark Mayor of New York, on the 5 th of Sept. 1838, (the original of which I presume, is on file in your office) which goes to prove his services as a Lieut.
I am, Sir very respectfully
Your obed t Serv t
General Jenkins

There is evidence that Col. Levi Wells served at Greenwich - probably after 1779 as his Acc't in the books is dated 1781.
Cap. Iabiz Fitch served at Greenwich at Horse Neck - his Acc't is dated 1782 - as is also Cap. Sylvanus Brown, as in Coast Guard at Stamford
There is evidence of Genl. Waterbury's service at Greenwich - The entry is dated 1783.
These dates are supposed to be those of the settlement - of the Acc'ts. - Have no means of ascertaining the precise time of service - except that in some cases we can ascertain when the Companies were raised, or when ordered on to a Port.
There are no pay Rolls of these officers - except a few names of "Short Lives," under Cap. Fitch (no given name) in 1780 - W. M c Cartys name has not been discovered.

Red Hook N.Y. December 23 rd
Free
Hon ble N. P. Tallmadge In Senate, Washington City.
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Dr Sir,
I have been applied to by Mr. Daniel M c Carty, of the Town of Rhinebeck to assist him in obtaining from the Government a Pension as Lieutenant of the Provincial Troops in the State of Connecticut during the Revolutionary War. — Our friend Mr. Armstrong had made out his papers and forwarded them to the War Department some time since and it appears that the Secretary requested Mr. Armstrong to write to the Comptroller of Connecticut for information in regard to the length of time Capt. Brown was in service under whom Mr. M c Carty served as Lieutenant. — The Comptroller's reply I herewith enclose and also the additional deposition of Mr. M c Carty explaining what does not appear in the letter of the Comptroller. —
Mr. M c Carty is one of our most respectable, venerable and worthy citizens, whose character for probity, truth & honour is above all suspicion: and it would be highly useful to him in his declining years and in his present circumstances to receive as promptly as may be the reward which has so long been delayed for his meritorious services during the Revolutionary War. —
Mr. M c Carty informs me that he has been favoured by a personal interview with you on the subject at Poughkeepsie and that you promised him to aid him in the accomplishment of his object — We are not only assured by this but by your known promptness in aiding your constituents in any thing in your power that you will upon this occasion do as well as may be all that can be done in the case. —
I am with Respect
Your Ob t Serv t
Geo H. M c Clusky
Red Hook Dec r 23 d 1835.
Hon ble N. P. Tallmadge,
P.S. — Please write me the result as soon as you conveniently can.

C. K. Gardner also leaves to refer to the Commis n good will, the letter and papers transmitted by Mr Armstrong (formerl y on Aid de Camp to Genl Brown)
Revolutionary Claims
Charles K. Gardner Esq.
Assist. Post-Master General
Washington City D. C.

Rhinebeck Octob. 8 th 1832
Dear Sir,
Will you do me the favor to hand the inclosed, to Mr Edwards the Commissioner of Pensions, and request a decision in the case, as speedily as may consist with a proper examination of the claim? If you will be so kind as to interest yourself in the matter, you will not only very much oblige me personally, but you will confer no small obligation upon an old soldier, who, believe me, is in every respect deserving of it.
I shall probably be in Washington in the course of a few weeks - when I hope to have the pleasure of shaking hands with you - In the meanwhile, I remain Dear Sir
Very truly & Respectfully
Your friend & servant
John Armstrong Jr.
Charles K. Gardner Esq.
Acting Post Master General

In the Matter of the Application of David McCarty for a Sergeant's Pension in the Revolutionary War.
Dr. Applicant's Aff. Dec. 23 d . 1835.

State of New-York Dutchess County ss:
Daniel M c Cartey of the Town of Rhinebeck in said County and State, being duly sworn deposes and says, in addition to the Statement he has already made and now on file in the War Department, and to explain to the Department what may not appear by the Comptroller's of Connecticut's letter herewith sent, as follows:—That after serving three years months from December, 1778. in Capt. Brown's Company as his Lieutenant.—Capt. Brown & this deponent volunteered and remained in service until the following June at Horeneck under Col. Wells in the said letter mentioned—They were requested to remain in service by Col. Wells and Genl. Waterbury until the regular Army should arrive in that vicinity—In June aforesaid after the arrival of the Army deponent was sent to the Stamford to guard the Seaboard under Capt. Jabez Fitch with his detachment—That deponent remained there until Winter following. That this deponent was appointed a Lieutenant by Genl. Waterbury and remained in Genl. Waterbury's

Command during the whole time until the close of the Revolutionary War: that deponent was constantly in the service of his country as Lieutenant for the above period and engaged in many severe skirmishes with the enemy, and one especially wherein the deponent through his active exertions prevented Genl. Putnam from falling into the hands of the party of British Light Horse - they were in close pursuit of the General when they met this deponent with his detachment who suddenly fired upon them and thereupon they speedily retreated and deponent has no doubt that but for this deponent's prompt interference Genl. Putnam would have been a prisoner in a very few moments. And further that at the time Col. Sheldon's Regiment was surprised & defeated at Pound Ridge Meeting House in Westchester County in this State deponent with his detachment then reconnoitering in that neighborhood saved a party of the (flying) Troops closely pursued by a party of British deponent with his

detachment lay in ambush and fired upon the pursuers, killed two and took four prisoners, the remainder retreated, and thus the pursued party escaped. — And further this deponent says not. —
Subscribed & Affirmed the } 23 d day of December — 1835 before me,
John Elsffer Justice of the Peace in the town of Red Hook said County.

In the Matter of the Application of Daniel McCarty for a Lieu- tenant's Pension in the Revolutionary War.
Applicant's Affidavit Dec. 23. 1835.
Hon. N. P. Talmadge Senate N.S.

State of New York } ss: Dutchess County.
Daniel M c Carty of the Town of Rhinebeck in said County and State, being duly sworn deposes and says, in addition to the Statement he has already made and now on file in the War Department, and to explain to the Department what may not appear by the Comptroller's of Connecticut letter herewith sent, as follows: —
That after serving three months from December 1779 in Capt. Brown's Company as his Lieutenant - Capt. Brown and this deponent volunteered & remained in service until the following June at Horseneck under Col. Wells, in the said letter mentioned - They were requested to remain in service by Col. Wells and Genl. Waterbury until the regular Army should arrive in that vicinity - In June aforesaid after the arrival of the Army deponent was sent to Stamford to guard the seaboard under Capt. Sabez Fitch with his detachment - that deponent remained there until Winter (following): That then deponent was appointed a Lieutenant by Genl. Waterbury and remained in Genl. Waterbury's command during the whole time until the close of the Revolutionary War; that deponent was constantly in the service of his country as Lieutenant for the above period and engaged in many severe skirmishes with the enemy, and one especially wherein the deponent through his active exertions prevented Genl. Putnam from falling into the hands of a party of British Light Horse - they were in close pursuit of the General when they met this deponent with his detachment who suddenly fired upon them and thereupon they speedily retreated and deponent has no doubt that but for this dep-
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ment's prompt interference Genl. Putnam would have been a prisoner in a very few moments: — And further that at the time Col. Sheldon's Regiment was surprised and defeated at Pound Ridge Meeting House in Westchester County in this State, deponent with his detachment then reconnoitering in that neighborhood saved a party of the flying Troops closely pursued by a party of British deponent with his detachment lay in ambush and fired upon the pursuers, killed two and took four prisoners; the remainder retreated and thus the pursued party escaped. —
And further this deponent says not. —
Subscribed & affirmed } the 23 d . day of December } 1835 before me, }
John Daffin Justice of the Peace in the town of New Hook Essex County
Francis M c Cauley
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