Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41741, for Benjamin Langdon, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Langdon, Benjamin
S. 41741
CONTENTS

informed July 9. 1821 that he could not be restored — sent to J. Phelps
0046
New York. 4
Benjamin Langdon Phelps in the state of N. York who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Van Cortlandt of the New York line, for the term of 2 yrs & 2 mo.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 2 d of May 1810 —
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 d of March 1819 and sent to Wm Rogers Esq. Palmyra, N. York.
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 — 10 3 / 4 80.77 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Dec r 1819 — 40.00
$: 120.77
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Ontario County unclaimed

Case of Benj r Langdon
(P.O. 46)
$136.50
(Sept 1819)

Sincerely & truly affirm I, Benjamin Langdon do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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.
affirmed this 22 nd day of May 1820 in open Court } Benjamin Langdon
AT a Court of Common Pleas, held at the Court-House in Canandaigua, in and for the County of Ontario, before the Judges of said Court, on the 22 nd day of May of the term of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
PRESENT—
Nathaniel W. Howell Stephen Bates Micah Brooks Moses Atwater
JUDGES.
EX PARTE
In the matter of Benjamin Langdon a Pensioner residing in the town of Phelps in said County. } The said Benjamin Langdon as a person placed on the Pension List of the United States, having exhibited a schedule subscribed by him, containing his whole estate and income, (his wearing apparel and beds and bedding excepted) in pursuance of an act of Congress of the United States, entitled "An act in addition to an act, 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, passed May 1st, 1820; and having taken, subscribed and produced to this Court the oath or affirmation by said act required, and said Court having heard evidence of the nature and value of the property mentioned in said schedule and duly considered the premises, are of the opinion that the property contained in the said schedule is of the value of One Hundred and thirty dollars and Fifty cents, and they hereby order their Clerk to certify the same in due form.
Ontario County, } Clerk's Office, ss. }
I, John Van Fosen Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Ontario county, do hereby certify the foregoing schedule and copy of the oath or affirmation of Benjamin Langdon are true copies of the original schedule and oath or affirmation now on file in my said office, and also that the above opinion and order of said court touching the value of the property set forth, is a true copy of the minutes of said court in the case of said Benjamin Langdon a United States'
Pensioner.—In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County, this 22 nd day of May 1820
John Van Fosen CLERK

To the Hon. the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Ontario, holden at the Court House in Canandaigua, in and for said county, of the term of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty—
I, Benjamin Langdon being an actual resident of the town of Phelps in said county, having been placed on the Pension List of the United States, by virtue of the act, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed the 18th day of March, 1818, do hereby, pursuant to the act in addition to the act above mentioned, passed May 1st, 1820, exhibit to said Court the following as a Schedule containing my whole estate and income, (my freehold wearing apparel and bedding excepted) that is to say:—
  4 1/2 Acres of land $ 67 50   2 Cows 30 —   1 Yearling & 1 Sucking Calf 6 —   8 Swine 10. — 4 Sheep 6 50 16 50   Some household furniture 16 50   $ 136 50 
I do on my oath further declare that I am fiftyseven years of age and that I served in the Revolutionary War in the company commanded by Capt. Benjamin Walker , the 2 d New York Regiment commanded by Col. Van Cortlandt as set forth in my original declaration bearing date the 2 d day of May 1818 and that I received a pension certificate N o 8046, and further that I am by occupation a Farmer and that by age and bodily infirmities I am able to perform but little manual labour and that my family consists of my wife aged 52 years unable to labour, three sons aged eighteen, sixteen & eight years and one daughter aged 15 years and that I am indebted to the amount of thirty five dollars for which I am now liable to be called on.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name this 22 d day of May 1820
Benjamin Langdon
The foregoing exhibit inventory and statement of facts affirmed to in open Court the 22 d day of May 1820

The State of Ohio Geauga County } ss
On this twentieth day of February 1836.
before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for said County, personally appeared Benjamin Langdon who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Benjamin Walker in the regiment commanded by Colonel S. Van Courtland, in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of New York, from whence he has lately removed; that he now resides in the State of Ohio (Pittsburgh agency) where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable, in future. His reasons for removing from the State of New York to the State of Ohio are, that his children reside there, and he is desirous to be with them.
Benjamin Langdon
Sworn & subscribed to, before me the day & year aforesaid
William Canfield Justice of the Peace
The State of Ohio
Geauga County } ss
I, Wycomb Clark of the County & State aforesaid being duly sworn do declare that Benjamin
Langdon who has sworn to & subscribed the above affidavit, is known to me, to be the identical person therein described,
Sworn and subscribed to this 20 th
day of February 1836. by the said
Wycomb Clark
Wycomb Clark, with whom I
am well acquainted, and hereby
certify to be a person of truth &
veracity
William Canfield Justice of the Peace

The State of Ohio } Guangy County } 3
I D.D. Aiken clerk of the court of Common Pleas for said county, do hereby certify, that Heiler banful a Esqr before whom the foregoing oaths appear to have been taken, on the twentieth day of February A.D. 1836, was at that time and still is, a Justice of the Peace,
within and for said county, duly commissioned and sworn according to law, and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and do verily believe the foregoing signatures, purporting to be his, are true and genuine.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said court at Chardon in said county this twenty second day of February A.D. 1836 D.D. Aiken, Clerk

State of New York Ontario County ss.
On the second day of May One Thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Before me William Rogers one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County and State aforesaid - Personally appeared - Benjamin Langdon aged Fifty five years. a President in the town of Phelps in the County & State aforesaid. who being duly affirmed - According to Law, doth on her his solemn affirmation make the following declaration. in order to obtain the provision made by the Late 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 - that the said Benjamin Langdon. resided in Fredericks- burgh precinct. Dutchess County and State of New York in the month of February or March in the year 1781 in the Company commanded by Captain Benjamin Walker. Colonel Philip Van Cortlandt. Regiment which was the Second New York Regiment. and continued to serve in that Corps or in the service of the United States until the close of the war. or until the ninth day of June 1783. when he was discharged from service at the Garrisonment three or four miles from Newburg. in the State of New York. that he was in the Battle in taking Cornwallis in Virginia - and that he is in reduced circumstances and absolutely stands in need of the assistance of his country for support. and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services - Benjamin Langdon affirmed to declare & subscribed the 2 d day of May 1818. before me Wm Rogers
May 10 1818 John Van Rensselaer Speaker New York Rep. H. Hon. Cor Howland John D. D. D.

State of New York f. I William Rogers one of the Ontario County p. judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County and State aforesaid
do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the within named Benjamin Langdon did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy for the term of Nine months, on the Continental establishment - and I am persuaded from my own personal knowledge and other information that he is in reduced circumstances and absolutely stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support - and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the war department pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid act of Congress.
Palmyra May 2 nd 1810. Wm Rogers
State of New York } In testimony that William Rogers Ontario County } whose name is subscribed to the Clerks office } foregoing certificate was on the day of the date of the same one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Ontario and that the same is his signa- ture I herunto subscribe my name and affix the Coun- ty seal at Canandaigua this 24 th day of June A.D. 1818
Thos M c Nair Clerk

L. W. B. I. 41267. I. 41741.
This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services.
Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the rolls of the War Department in the possession of the Department pertaining to the War may be found in the archives of the War Department.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
June 6th, 1898.
O. W. & N. DIV.
REVOLUTIONARY.
Madam:-
In response to your recent inquiry, referred to this Bureau by Hon. Webster Davis, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, I have the honor to advise you as follows:
John Train made an application for pension on April 25, 1818, at which time he was 59 years of age and residing at Tinmouth, Vermont, and his pension was allowed for nine months' actual service as a private in the Vermont troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt. Grant and Col. Warner. He enlisted at Tinmouth, Vermont.
Benjamin Langdon made an application for pension on May 2nd, 1818, at which time he was 55 years of age and residing at Phelps, N. Y., and his pension was allowed for two years and two months' actual service as a private in the N. Y. troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt. Welker and Col. VanCourtlandt. He enlisted at Fredericksburg, N. Y.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Mrs. Addie Umbehauer, Montpelier, Williams Co., Ohio.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Benj Langdon a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. S 41941.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Feb or Mar 1781 June 9, 1782 Pvt. Benj Walker Philip Van Cortland NY        
Battles engaged in, At Surrender of Cornwallis Residence of soldier at enlistment, near Fredericksburg, Dutchess Co. NY Date of application for pension, May 2, 1818 His Ch. al. Residence at date of application, Phebe Ontario Co., NY Age at date of application, 55 yrs
Remarks: In 1820 he refers to his wife (name not stated) aged 52, son 18 (name not stated), daughter Amanda 15, son Lorenzo Dow 12, & son Barnes 8 years of age. About 1836 he removed to Ohio to be near his children -
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

Glen
Ohio
Cleveland, Sept 18/01
To
Pension Agent Washington D.C.
Will you kindly send me the records of the Pension Of- fice regarding Benjamin Langdon of Phelps Ontario Co. N.Y. who served as private- in Revolutionary War . I want the dates especially
Mrs. A. M. Brower 741 Willson ave Cleveland Ohio

Apr 20

29 Postage stamp recd 74 3/4.
Rev. Sec Adm
Naval Training Base Hampton Roads Va.
April 28.
U. S. Pension Office, Washington D. C.
Gentlemen:
Will you kindly give me a copy of, or data in regard to the pension papers of Benjamin Langdon, Native of Delaware, served in the Revolutionary war. Place of enlistment unknown to me but have been informed that at the close of the war he settled in Manchester N. Y. and died about 1826
Thanking you in advance I am Yours etc. Mrs. Helen A. Gay.

June 6 '98
Mrs A Umbinhauer Montpelier Ohio
Oct. 8 1901 Mrs. A. M. Brown Cleveland Ohio
1906. March 14. Hist. to Mrs. G.O. Burkland Z.B.7.
1920, May Hist. to Mrs. Helen A. Gay - Hampton Roads, Va. E.W.
41741 INVALID.
Ray
File No.
41741 Benjamin Langdon P.O. Box 100
Act:
18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol.
8
, Page
286
[Arrangement of 1870.]

(3-469.)
Bureau of Pensions.
Revolution Application No. _____
Certificate No. _____
NAME OF SOLDIER, John Langdon Co. _____ Reg't _____
INFORMATION DESIRED. Livermore N.Y.
Any claim? Dry out
D. Hall

3-595.
O. W. AND N. DIVISION.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Feb. 28, 190.6.
Searched by Mill
Original No. _____
Certificate No. _____
Claimant, _____
Soldier, Ezra Langdon
Service, _____
Rev. War
Remarks: _____
no V.W. Ins. or Wid.
no V.W. Reg.
no B.L.
Dr. [Signature] Paid no claim Bryant
Chief of Division.

Mechanics Bank New York 17 March 1836
Sir
Benjamin Langdon a Private at $8 per Month Under the Act of 18 th of March 1818 mentioned in your Letter of the 13 Inst t , was last paid, as appears by our Books, to the 14 th of September 1835.)
I am very Respectfully Your ob dt Serv t John Fleming Pres t & Pen al Agent R d Sylvester Spencer Chief Clerk
James L Edwards Esq Comm r missioner of Pensions

Paeonia Jan y 12 th 1822
Hon. Elijah Spencer Sir.
Inclosed I send you a petition signed by the neighbors & friends of Brayanin Langdon of the town of Phelps in the County of Orleans, which upon inspection Your Honor will perceive presents to Congress a strong expression of public sentiment in favor of Mr Langdon to be restored to the Pension list from which he was stricken - The land which Mr Langdon purchased & which was set forth in the schedule & forwarded to the Secretary of State was paid for by the proceeds of his pension money. I have been long acquainted with Mr Langdon & more recently with his particular situation in point of property. He is indeed indigent, his family helpless, & particularly his wife sick & languishing. His credit is depreciated by reason of being stricken from the Pension list of revolutionary soldiers, and in consequence thereof is deprived of the necessary comforts of life - I hope you will think it a duty to this indigent & aged man & meritorious too, to use your exertions to have him restored to his claim upon the Government - (Brayanin Langdon - New York line. 2 d & 4 th Reg t - Capt d Benj. Walker's Com y .) I am resp t ly Yr obt t & Hum e Serv t
Wm Rogers

Your Honor will please to examine the planter's office for the last first appraisement or Schedule which has not been returned to me. Therefore I trust it must remain in the office. I am Sir I. it is necessary for my further proof or state- ment of fact. Please to write to me immediately this from your most humble servant Benjamin Langdon

Debts -
17 Apr: 1822 no rec letter May 8. 1822
Benjamin Langdon.
Applicant aged 57 yrs -
Wife, 53 yrs old
Daughter 15 - Sept 19
2 sons - 12 & 10 yrs of age -
Served 2 yrs 2 mo!
1 st Sched: 42 1/2 acres of land - whole amt of Sched: $136.50 -
2 nd Sched: 2 acres of land - amt of Sched: $60.62 -
A petition for re-instatement, signed by a number of persons states, that Applicant purchased the land exhibited in schedules, out of his pension money -
Applicant states, that since making his 1 st schedule, he has sold some of his property to satisfy
Hon: E. Spencer H.R.

by his creditors. St. John's Church ... ... ...
Restored Apr 15 th 1823,  Cir. Tra. Mar. 15 th '36  Transf. to Ohio Pittsburgh from 4 Sept 1835 - Mar. 19 1836
New York Ohio Pittsburgh Benjamin Langdon, priv. Sold from '81 to end of line
1. Sched: made May 1820.- 4 acres of land $67.50 2 cows Sept 19 30 1 yearling calf 6. 1 yearling calf 16.50 1 yearling calf 16.50 1 yearling calf 16.50 $130.50
2. Sched. Oct 1820.- occupation: Farmer age 57, of 52, will to work - 3 sons 18 11 4 8, 1 Daught 15. well
Applications for restoration Sept 2 July 31 + May 1822 3. Sched. Nov. 1820.- 2 acres of land $30.- 1 cow & calf 10.- 1 yearling calf 8.- 5 pigs 7.02 Corn, potatoes & corn stalks 5.- ch & furniture Total $60.02
has sold some of his stock

Case of Benjamin Langdon "
2 d 23 Mar. 1819.
Stephen Phelps Agt Canandaigua N.Y.

And in pursuance of the said Act of the 1st May, 1820, I, Benjamin Langdon do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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.
Two acres of Land $30 - one cow and one calf $10. - 40.00 2 hogs & five pigs $8. Corn, potatoes & corn stalks 7.62 - 15.62 household furniture 5.
Benjamin Langdon $60.62
And I do further swear & declare that I am by occupation a farmer, but that by reason of bodily infirmities, I am unable to labor much, and that my family consists of my wife aged 53 & very infirm, my daughter Amanda aged 15, my son Lorenzo Dow aged 12 and my son Barnes aged 8 years - Benjamin Langdon
affirmed to and declared in Open Court this 10 th day of November 1820 before me Moses Atwater a Judge of Ontario Com. Pleas -
Ontario County ss. I John Van Fosen Clerk of said county, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Sixty dollars & 62 cents
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 14 day of November 1820
John Van Fosen Clerk of Ontario County

STATE OF NEW-YORK,
ONTARIO COUNTY, ss.
On this twelfth day of November 1820 personally appeared in open Court, (being a Court of Common Pleas in and for said county, and constituted a Court of Record by proceeding according to the course of the Common Law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping a record of its proceedings, and recognized as such Court by the laws and judicial decisions of said State,) Benjamin Langdon aged fifty seven years, resident in the town of Phelps in said county, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th of March, 1818, and the 1st of May, 1820:—
That he, the said Benjamin Langdon enlisted in February or March 1781, during the war, served out his time and received an honorable discharge on the ninth day of June 1783, and that he has no other evidence, now in his power of his said services except what is now in the War Office — that he made application for a pension, under the last mentioned act of Congress, on the 2 d day of May 1818, and received a pension certificate N o 8046, and that on the 20 th day of June 1820, he was stricken from the Pension List under the said act of the 1 st  May 1820, and that subsequent to that period, he has been obliged to dispose of his property to satisfy his creditors —

To the Honorable Congress Convened in the City of Washington. Greeting
We the Humble Petitioners of Benjamin Langdon a Private Soldier of the Bristol Mary War beg leave to shew to your Honorable body that the said Benjamin Langdon states that he enlisted as a Private Soldier in Captain Benjamin Walkers Company in the Second Regiment of the New York Forces Philip Van Cortlandt Commandant. During the contest between Great Britain and America and at the close of the War he has received an honorable Discharge on the ninth of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty three, and that he the said Benjamin has on the twenty third of March one thousand eight hundred and eighty three to commence the Second of May 1818 and has drawn to the amount of one hundred and twenty five Dollars & since his Pension has been with him him. Now we your humble Petitioners together with the said Benjamin beg leave to shew that the said Benjamin has with the assistance of the said Pension allowed him been enabled to purch- ase him two acres of wood land & build a small Log House & owns one Cow & Calf and other small articles the whole appraised at Sixty Dollars & sixty two Cents by William Heath & Joseph Adams Appraisers

Now Wee your Humble Petitioners Neighbors and acquaintances of the said Benjamin beg Leave to Shew that in our humble Opinion the said Petitioner is justly entitled to his aforesaid Pension in order to support himself and his aged companion & numerous family in some of the common comforts of life Therefore We your humble Petitioners beg that your honorable bady will take this Petition into your most wise consideration & grant us our Prayers & we as in Duty Shall ever Pray
Phelps December the 6 th 1821.
Subscribers Names
Edward Dole Marvin Minor James Hildreth William Tomson Henry Forbush W m C Green John Spelman Robert Cline Robert Barclay George W m Wilson
Subscribers Names
Otho Beall Francis Van Dusen George F. Klein Lemuel Jones Collins E. Crosby Sarah Colfe Helen Thompson Green Jones Silver Leonard Benjamin Shrop W m Rogers Isa Walniff

Subscribing Names
Thomas Rogers 2nd
Mr. Rogers Jun.
Mrs. Rogers 5.00
Thomas Rogers
James B. Dickey
Abra. Rogers
Harry Cook
Stephen Rogers
Abel Thross
Joseph Adams
Peter Becker
Henry Bell
Richard Wake
Samuel Long
William Hildreth
Joshua M'Kinney
Solomon Barns
Samuel Miller
Isaac Grant
John B. Roberts
John Chapman
William Adams
Andrew ... J. G.
Joshua ...
Josiah ...
John Miller
Conrad Oline
Joel Brown
Cyrus S. Button
Josiah Rice
Dawson Conger
Grace ...
Samuel ...
Elisha Egleston
Daniel Miller
John Daggett
Abraham ...
Hiram Rose
George Allen
H. A. ...