Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 5872, for Nathan Parmeter, Massachusetts

SERVICE
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Mass.
Parmeter, Nathan
S5872
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22830 New York
Nathan Parmelee of Laurens Co in the State of N. York who was a Private in the Company by Captain Lany of the Regt. by Col. Smith in the Mapt's line for 14 months
J.P. Tupper. July 28/54 Let same Sept 13/54
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 46 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 day of June 1853 and due to Mr. H. Allen D.A. Baum
Arrears to the 4th of March $93.82 Semi-annual allowance ending 4th March 233.00 $116.60
Revolutionary Claims for June 7, 1832 A. Castle
Recorded by Book C. Vol. 4. Page 71 Clerk

Nathan Permuta application for a Pension. under the act of 7 th June 1833.
22830

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7 th 1832.
State of New York } ss: St. Lawrence County. }
On this twenty fifth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open court, before the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County, now sitting, Nathan Parmeter, a resident of Potsdam in the County and State aforesaid, aged seventy three years, who being first duly sworn ac- cording 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 United States Service under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
That he first enlisted as a volunteer for five months at Sterling in the County of Worcester, in the State of Massachusetts, in June 1847 1876, in Capt. Samuel Sawyer's company in the Regiment of Col. Smith & Lieut. Col. Longley, in Genl. Fellows' Brig- ade in the Massachusetts State Troops - The other Colonels in the Brigade, which was called "The Flying Camp", were Col. Gary and Col. Holman. They marched to Worcester, Brookfield, and other places to New Haven and sailed from there to New York, and in

about a week after arriving at New York they were garrisoned in the Barracks at Greenwich, a short distance above the south part of the Island then, when they remained till the American Army retreated from the City. Col. Glover (afterwards Genl. Glover) was garrisoned there with a Regiment of Continental Troops. Genl. Fellows Brigade retreated over East River on Kings Bridge, and under the name of the Flying Camp, kept on. Manly moving about near the enemy till it reached White Plains with the main Body of the American Army, where there was a partial engagement with the British about the last of October, the 28 th day. In this, he recollects seeing eleven American Generals the morning of the battle, but recollects the names of all, Washington Lee & Putnam were among them. After the battle his Brigade was moving about till it arrived at Harlem Heights in November where after remaining about one month it was dismissed on the 15 th of December and he returned home after being absent 3 months and 10 days - 5 1/2 10 1/2 After being at home about one week he enlisted again as a volunteer in the service 1776 for three months in Capt. the Company in the Regiment of Col. Whitney Lieut. Col. Carter, Major. First in Genl. Jonathan Wadsworth's Brigade. He marched to Danbury, to West Point and then to other

Jonathan Warner's Brigade. He marched to Danbury, to West Point and then to other
31/2 m. Hudson, New Jersey, where the British were there. His Brigade with some other Troops, don't recollect what they were, pursued the British as they retreated from this place and took from them 30 wagons and 60 horses. The Brigade then went to Bond Brook where it remained till April 1777 when the said term of service expired + half a month in addition and the Brigade was dismissed. Major Lee's company of horse were then with the Brig- ade watching the British, who were then in Brunswick. An alarm was given then that a Company of British Infantry was out at Quibbletown foraging. His Regiment was ordered to meet them. When he arrived within sight, there appeared to be a Continental Regiment of Riflemen in an engagement with them. His Regiment was ordered to move round upon the other side and place the British between two fires. Before this was effected, the British re- treated.
In August 1777, having moved from New- bury to Westminster, he enlisted there again as a volunteer to go to the North and take Burgoyne, in Capt. Jackson's Company. Lieut. Bigelow, he thinks Col. Bellows of New Hampshire commanded the Regiment to which he belonged. He marched to Ben- nington, b.h. to Saratoga and to Fort Edwards, N. York, and was engaged about

then and at Ft George in Scouting as against the Indians and Tories till Burgoyne was taken. Thinks there were no Continental Troops near there. Was dismissed at Saratoga on the third day after Burgoyne's surrender the 18th of October 1777 after a service of about  between two and three months. Don't re- member as the enlistment was for any particular time.
Served as a substitute for a person who In February 1778 he thinks, he was drafted at Westminster for three months in the Massachusetts State Troops as he supposes, in Capt White's Company. He went to Rochester to Concord, Roxbury, Dor- chester & Castle William. He served out his full period of enlistment at Castle William in making fortifications & garrison duty . There were no other companies there but Capt White's except one Continental Company, the names of whose officers he does not recollect. He was dismissed there with the Company to which he be- longed, about the last of May next there- after.
He further saith that he has no docu- mentary evidence of his services: that he never was in any engagement except at White Plains, above mentioned. He was born in March 1760 at Spencer, Wor- cester County, Massachusetts, when he was 4 years of age, his family  father moved to Scituate in said state, lived there about eight years and

certain county. Massachusetts, when he was 4 years of age. his father  family moved to Leominster in said state, lived there about eight years and
moved to Fitz Williams, New Hampshire where staid there about one year, then went to Stirling where he resided in during the re- volutionary war till 1777 when he moved to Westminster in Massachusetts and staid there about two years - then went to Barnard, Vermont, resided there till 1812 when he moved to Potsdam, New York where he has resided ever since and now resides. He further saith that he has no position evidence now of his said services. He has written to Massachusetts, where he resided when he went into the army at the sev- eral times above mentioned to procure proof of his services, and has received an answer that some proof has been procured and that other proof will probably soon be procured, when the whole will be for- warded together which will then be attached and forwarded herewith. He is well ac- quainted with Jober Willis, Horace Allen, Jonathan Hoit and a great many others in Potsdam who can testify as to the resu- lation of his said services. He hereby se- cures every claim whatever to any pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any state.
Sworn & subscribed J. Nathan Parmeter the day & year aforesaid J. C. J. M. CLK
We Jober Willis, one of the Judges of the court of Common Pleas, aforesaid, and Horace Allen, Surrogate of said County of St. Lawrence, both residing in Potsdam aforesaid, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Nathan Parmeter, who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration, that he is seventy three years of age, that he is reputed & believed in the

neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we con- cur in that opinion - } Guberz Miller Sworn & subscribed } Horace Allen the day of the of our Lord A D 1841 J M CLK
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories, presented 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 George Wilkinson, whose affidavit is herunto annexed is a clergyman and that Guberz Miller, who has signed the preceding certificate is a Judge of said court and that Horace Allen who also signed said certificate, is the Surrogate of said court and that they are all credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Alvin C Low, Clerk of said court of Com- mon Pleas, do hereby certify that the fore- going contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the ap- plication of Nathan Pannuter for a pension. And that the following affidavit of George Wilkinson was taken in open court and attached hereto -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office the twenty fifth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty two.
A (J M CLK)

count and attached hereto -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office the twenty fifth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty two.
A (Sim Clark)
State of New-York } I Savanna County ss: S. Law. Com. Pleas } George Wilkinson of Pots- dam in said county
being sworn in open court deposes and says that he is a clergyman, that he is well acquainted with Nathan Parnmutt of Pots- dam aforesaid who is about to make appli- cation for a pension, that I believe him to be 73 years of age, that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that this de- ponent concurs in that opinion and further that it will be inconvenient for this deponent to remain in court till said application is made
Subscribed before me Sim Clark
George Wilkinson
I Savanna County Clerk of said ss. I believe B. Low. Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Nathan Parnmutt before whom the two affidavits of Ephraim Miles and Nathan Parnmutt hereto last subscribed appear to have been taken in a justice of the peace in & for said county and that his said signature appears in his own hand writing. In witness whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and the seal of said county this fourth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty three -
A (Sim Clark)
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In the matter of Nathan Parmeter } application for a pension under the act passed June 7. 1832.
Ms. A. 9. 2. 28

Commonwealth of Massachusetts } 88: County of Worcester —
I Abel Wood of Westminster in Land County, aged 76 years, being duly sworn do testify and say that I have long been acquainted with Nathan Panneter, now of Pots dam , in the county of St Lawrence and State of New York , formerly of West- minster aforesaid. That in the month of August or later part of September 1777, said Panneter, then a resident of West- minster, and myself enlisted to- gether into a company of Militia commanded by Capt. Elisha Jack- son, for the term of six weeks, as in Cheshire and immediately marched to Saratoga and were put under the command of Major Bellows, of Walpole in the State of New Hampshire, and soon after marched to Fort Edwards and remained there till after Bur- goyne surrendered, when they we were both discharged, after serving out our full term. Abel Wood
Worcester ss. December 1 st 1832. Then

personally appeared the above named Abel Wood, to me known to be a man of truth and veracity, & made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true.
Before me
Simon Sanderson and Justin after Pease.
Commonwealth of } ss: Massachusetts } County of Worcester. } I Levi Graves of Westminster in said county, age 78 years, being duly sworn, testify and say that I have long been well acquainted with Nathan Parmeter mentioned in the above affidavit of Abel Wood, that I enlisted with the said Parmeter and the said Wood in the said Capt. Jackson's Company in the month of August or September 1777, and marched to Saratoga and Fort Edwards and served till after the surrender of Burgoyne, a term of six weeks, one month, and I will remember that said Parmeter served till the said Company was discharged. Levi Graves Word test:
December 1st 1832. Then personally appeared the said Levi Graves, to me known to be a man of truth & veracity, & made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true - Before me Simon Sanderson Justin Pease

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. } ss: County of Worcester.
I Joseph Pearson of Sterling in said County, aged 73 years, being duly sworn, de- pose and say, that I am acquainted with Nathan Parnuter for- Sanctuary now of merly of Sterling aforesaid, after- wards of Westminster in said County, now of Potsdam in the County of St Lawrence and State of New- York - that I enlisted with said Parnuter for the term of five months, at Salisbury now of Sterling aforesaid, some time in June 1876, in Capt. Sawyer's Company in Col. Smith's Regiment. that we marched to Hartford, in Connecticut, then to New Haven, and there went aboard a vessel for New York, where we joined the main army, then we went to Greenwich Camp, and afterwards retreated out of the City of New York and went to Brooklyn's Harlem Heights, to White- Plains and to Croton's Manor and were dismissed after serving out sailed from there to New York, and in

our full period of enlistment, about the first of December.
I further depose and say that in the year 1876 I resided in Saugetown and Sterling afore- said within about one mile of the residence of Timothy at Hayward, with whom the said Parmeter then lived, and I recollect that soon after the said Parmeter and myself returned from our service as above stated, the said Parmeter and the said Hayward went from home and were absent some time and it was said and I always believed that they were engaged as soldiers in the army.
Joseph Pearson
Worcester ss: December 7 th 1882 Then personally appeared the above named Joseph Pearson, to me known to be a man of truth & veracity, and made oath to the statement by him above subscribed. Before me Simon Saltonstall Justice of the Peace

of Massachusetts. County of Worcester.
ss:
John Hayward,
of Westminster in said County, aged 18 years, being duly sworn, depose and say, that I am son of Timothy H. Hayward, named by Joseph Pear- son in his affidavit above subscribed by him, that my said father died about seven years ago, that I often heard my said father and the neighbors speak of his serving as Lieutenant in Capt. [blank] company in the fore part of the Revolutionary war. that I always understood that he went to West Point and to the Jerseys and was engaged in the service at their town about [blank] months, and I always understood from my said father and others, and always believed, that said Parmachuck was engaged in the same company with my said father and for the same term of time and that he was a waiter to my said father. John Hayward
so it occurred. [blank] Sailed from there to New York, and in

Worcester ss: December 18 th 1832 - Then personally appeared before me the above named John Hayward, to me known to be a man of truth and veracity and made oath to the statement by him above sub- scribed - Simon Dinsmore Justice Peace.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts } ss: Worcester ss:
I, Abijah Bigelow, clerk of the Judicial Court for said County of Worcester, certify that Simon Dinsmore, Esquire, before whom the fore- going & annexed depositions of Abel Wood, Lewis Dyars, Joseph Pearson, & John Hayward were respectively signed & sworn to, is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County, and that the certificates of signatures of the said Justice to the certifi- cates of said oaths thereto affixed are in his maker hand writing. In testimony where- of I hereunto set my hand & affix the County seal, this nineteenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty two. —
Abijah Bigelow Clerk.

State of New York } p. Ephraim Miles of the St Lawrence County } town of Potsdam in the County and State aforesaid being sworn saith that he is acquainted with Nathan Parmeter named in the foregoing paper that this De- ponent is aged twenty three years, that in the year 1778, this Deponent the said Nathan Parmeter, one of his uncles (an uncle of this Deponent) Benjamin Bar- nard Nathaniel Wheeler all lived in the town of Westminster in the State of Massachusetts, and this De- ponent remembers that in the fourth part of the said year 1778, the said Ebenezer Miles Benjamin Bar- nard and Nathaniel Wheeler enlisted for a period of three months at Westminster aforesaid, into the military service of the United States in the militia service to supply the quota of that town, and went into such service at as and performed such service at or about Boston that the said Ebenezer Miles (uncle of this Deponent) the said Benjamin & Wheeler all returned about the same time after the expiration of their said term of service, and this Deponent re- ollects also that the said Parmeter returned at the same time with them from the same ser- vice as was then said and what not this De- ponent then & ever afterwards understood that the said Parmeter entered the said service with the said other persons, but the said Parmeter had not resided long before that time at Westminster and was not before much known to this Deponent, which he believes may account for his not recollect- ing the said Parmeter going into the same service with the said other persons; and this Deponent saith that his said Uncle when he returned as aforesaid returned sick and died soon after that soon after such return this Deponent became well acquainted with the said Parmeter, conversed with him often particularly about the incidents of that service and about his being with his said Uncle therein was told by the said Parmeter of the time place and

Circumstances of his said mother taking the child (the small son) of which he died, and this De- ponent was intimately acquainted also with the said Wheeler, was afterwards a soldier & met- mate with him in the service at West Point, that the said Wheeler often for told this De- ponent during such intimacy with him about living with the said Parmach in the said ser- vice & the said Wheeler & Parmach on differ- ent occasions separately told this Deponent the same of in- cidents during that service as having occurred within their respective knowledge that this De- ponent understood from them that they & the said Ephraim Miles & the said Barnard were met mates together in the aforesaid service and that they all served together the full period of three months for which they enlisted as officers. Given this 21 st day of January                      Ephraim Miles 1833, before me Horace Allen Clerk of the Peace.
I am acquainted with Ephraim Miles who subscribed the foregoing affidavit and believe him to be a person of fair character for truth & accuracy. dated January 21 st 1833 - Horace Allen

State of New York St Lawrence County
p. Nathan Parmach of Potsdam in said County and named in the foregoing petition pa- per, being known, saith that the 26 th line from the top of the 2 d page of the foregoing ap- plication, wherein the figure "5" is rather ob- scurely written, was understood by him orig- inally, and intended to be drawn, and is to be understood, as follows: "being about 5 months and ten days."
And this Deponent further saith that he is well acquainted with Abel Wood named in one of the foregoing Affidavits, and that this Deponent is the same identical person described and referred to by the said Abel Wood in his said Affidavit, and this De- ponent is informed and believes that his place of residence was omitted to be mentioned in the said Affidavit. As the said Wood did merely because he, the said Wood, did not positively know that "Potsdam" aforesaid was this Deponent's place of residence.
And this Deponent further saith that he is the same identical person described and referred to by name by the several Deponents in all the other foregoing Affidavits, and further that the said this Deponent further saith that Sim- on Haywood, named in the foregoing Affi- davit of John Haywood, was brother in law of this Deponent, and with whom this Depo- nent made his home (except when abroad in the
Joseph Pearson who is the person above mentioned in the foregoing Affidavits and who is the person described and referred to by name by the several Deponents in all the other foregoing Affidavits, and further that the said this Deponent further saith that Simon Haywood, named in the foregoing Affidavit of John Haywood, was brother in law of this Deponent, and with whom this Deponent made his home (except when abroad in the

Service as above mentioned, from the age of Eleven years until he was twenty one years of age, that this Deponent served as in the same Affidavit mentioned, that the said Simo the Hayward was his Lieutenant at to whom this Deponent served as coadjutor during the whole term of service therein mentioned, the said Timothy Hayward & this Deponent leaving home from there for the same service and returning home from the same together; and this Deponent saith that it was owing to the error of the person who drew his above application that the above statement in re- lation to the term of service now in question was not embraced in his original applica- tion for that he mentioned some facts at that time of drawing the application and did not observe at the time of making oath thereto that the same facts were not so embraced therein.
And this Deponent further saith that in re- lation to the period of three months service, being the last period of service in his above applica- tion mentioned, that the same is therein stated with less certainty and positiveness than he intended to state the same, that he knows that he served at that the same term of service, during the fall period of three months, besides his time of returning home therefrom that he served as such substitute for a person drafted at Westmoreland as therein stated (but his name was Andrew Barkley but whose name he cannot certainly recollect) also that he served in the said Captain White's Company, that when this Deponent was dis- charged at Castle William the only other as therein above mentioned, there were no troops at that place except the said Captain White's Company, and one

charged in the  above  mentioned , there were no hooks at that place except the said Captain White's Company, and our
other Company, being a company of men , but that there were other troops at Boston and Roxbury and probably at other places in the same vicinity; and further that this Deponent understood that there were all the troops at and in the neighborhood of those places, consisted of one Brigade, the head quarters of which he believes were at Roxbury, but the names of the Commandant of the Brigade and other field Officers thereof he does not recollect, as his whole time of the said three months, except  having was spent at Castle William, with only the said two Companies, except while merely passing through Concord Roxbury and Dorchester, and that no im- portant event occurred during that period, to his recollection, at or near those places; he recollects that a French thirty gun frigate called and refitted at Castle William while Deponent was there; and further that there were only five persons including this Deponent who went from Newton- the aforesaid into the last mentioned service at Castle William, viz Abner Miles, Myramin Bar- nard, Nathaniel Wheeler, one Perry, all of any wife, mate & this  Deponent, and as Deponent is informed & believes, which were persons, as Deponent is informed & believes, are now dead, and this Deponent does not know of any other person now living who was in the same service with (in question) with him or knows of the same. And further that the man- uscripts annexed is all the proof of the ser- vices specified in his said application of which he is able to obtain and of which he has any knowledge.
And this Deponent further saith in relation to the length of time of his above mentioned periods of

Service, that his first above described period of Service was under an Enlistment of five months, and that the said period of his enlistment (the said five months) expired while Deponent was yet in Camp and at the time of his discharge, without reckoning to him any part of said period for his return home which (by the then travelled route) was distant about two hundred miles from the said place of his discharge, and that by reason thereof this Deponent was allowed and also received pay and rations for ten days over the said period of five months, in the same manner as though employed in the Service, which ten days also this Deponent reckoned & included in the said time specified in his said application, and this Deponent attributes to this the difference between his computation of that period of Service & the above Deponent Joseph Pearson.
And this Deponent further saith that the last above statement is substantially applicable to his foregoing statement of his second period of Service, being of above stated at three months & fifteen days, that the period of Enlistment had expired at the time of his discharge (he being, as then travelled) about three hundred miles distant from his home, on account of which he was allowed and also received pay (in addition to the pay for his full term of Enlistment) pay as for fifteen days additional Service which fifteen days this Deponent embraced in the his above statement of that period of Service. And this Deponent saith that by on the same principle of reckoning, he would be entitled to an allowance of 21 1/2 days (or 3 days) for his return home from Castle William, he being a distance of

copy of record of service for a term of 28 1/2 days (or 3 days) for his return home from Castle William, in being a distance of
fifty miles from his home at the time of his said discharge at that place and his period of Entitlement having already then expired. And this Deponent further saith in relation to his said term of service above stated by him as being "about two months", that he has a perfect recollection that the news of the Battle of Bennington Vermont, did not reach first reached him & and Captain Pashley's Com- pany to which he belonged, and with which he marched, after he and the same Company had commenced their march from Westminster of said, towards the place of Burgoyne's Army, and that he passed the in his said march, directly over the battle ground of Bennington, about one week after the battle at that place that when his Deponent was discharged from that term of service, he was one hundred and fifty miles from his home at Westminster of said, whereupon this Deponent saith that the Battle of Bennington being the 16 th August & the sur- render of Burgoyne being the 17 th Oct r & he dis- charged 3 days thereafter, this Deponent broad as he vividly believes (in that term of service during the period of two months hereby the memory time for his return home and he may safely set down the whole period at two months and two days. Therefore,
This Deponent's different periods of service ac- cording to his aforesaid estimation would be as follows:    The first  four months  ten days  5 mo 10 da    The second  three months  15 days  3. 15    The third  2 months  2 days  2. 02    The fourth  3 months  3 days  3. 03     14. 00    Given this 21 st day of January 1833. before me Horace Allen Justice Peace. Nathan Parmeter

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after further than investigations presented by the War Department
Nathan Parnter's application for a Pension under the act of 7 th June 1883.
22830

No 22830 Ralph Parmeter
admitted
1/4 mo. Private.
1532 153
A. C. Smith Lawrence Horace Allen N.Y. Potsdam St Lawrence Co

WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: { ). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
A Statement, shewing the Service of Nathan Pinneton Lawrence Cooley.
See    Period when the service was rendered. Duration of the claimant's service. Rank of the claimant. Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served. Names and Rank of the General and Field officers. Battles in which the applicant was engaged. Country through which he marched. Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period. Evidence by which the declaration is supported.   Years. Months. Days.     Vol Jan 1816 Private Capt M c Intosh Col Smith White Plains Worcester 73 years Living & tradition   lost Oct 28 th 5 10 Major Capt m Cooley Col Cooley Plains Brook County al evidence   Dec 15 Capt m Cooley Col Cooley field to 18 years   enlist Dec 1816 3 15 Capt m Cooley Gen Chatham Mass   rec April 1817 2nd Capt m Cooley Gen New York   Red Oct 1817 2 2 White Brigade Green   out Sept 1818 3 3 Gen Chatham   14 00 Brigade Plains   Whitney Harlem   Major St. John   Major Point  See Morris   am   Brook   Quibble   Down   nylon   Lanetoga   Ed   York   Asbury   Co  
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
 1. The Regular Troops.  2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.  3. Persons employed in the Naval service.  4. Indian Spies. 
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of } ss. County of }
On this _____ day of _____ personally appeared (a) before A. B. a resident (b) of _____ in the county of _____ and State, Territory or District of _____ aged (c) _____ years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) _____, with _____ and served in the _____ (e) regiment of the _____ line, under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. [This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of _____
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
A. B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I, _____ of the Court of _____ do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of _____ for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this _____ day of _____ &c.
If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the _____ and C. D. residing in (the same) _____ hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with _____, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be _____ 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.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their 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 the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B.
who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the _____ and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the _____ and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, _____ Clerk of the Court of _____ do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of _____ for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this _____ day of _____ &c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person

will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County, in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
 1. Where and in what year were you born?  2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?  3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?  4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?  5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.  6. { To a Soldier. } Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it? { To an Officer. } Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it? 
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that he answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons -one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify, to the character and standing of other persons, giving such certificates.
The traditional evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:—For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____. For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months , is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
Proof of Service.
[j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note [j] applies to continental troops only.
[k] This traditional evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
John C. Hiltner

State of New York vs. Lawrence County
17
22830
N.Y.
I, Alvin C. Syer Clerk of the said County, do hereby certify that I have enclosed and sealed herein the original proceedings and proofs before the Court of Common Pleas of said County in the matter of the application of Nathan Parmeter for a Pension
Amasa Allin Esq. } agent Potsdam St Law. Co. N.Y. }
A. D. S. (Seal)

Rev. War
5872
INVALID
No. 5872
Nathan Parameter
Pri Rev War
Act: June 1 st 32
ex:—Vol. M, Page 287
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Wm L. P. Waldo
Am. Pension
Washington D.C.

New York July 24 /87
Sir
Enclosed Please find an affidavit made by Nathan Barnet of Potsdam St Lawrence Co N.Y. which was taken some time ago to obtain an increase of Pension which I think he is Entitled to, Will you please cause the necessary Examination to be made and inform of the result
Yours &c
J. P. Nappier
These affidavits were drawn up hastily according to the old Man's story and may be incorrect as to dates.

Custom House New York
Collector's Office Sep 11 th 1854
Sir
Yrs of the 28 th July is rec d one Clause viz "And you are informed that he (Nathan Parmeter meaning) was pensioned on the 1 st of June 1853 for every day of service claimed by him" is evidently a mistake as I was not aware he received any additional pension in 1853. As regards the application for increase I did not consider it as opening the case anew and if such will be the Effect desire to withdraw it as we had sufficient trouble in procuring testimony then for the pay rec d . If his Pension Can Remain as it is and if we succeed in Establishing more service receive an increase then I desire the application to remain on file at all Events I do not desire to make any movement that will in any way Effect the the pen- sion he is now receiving
L P Waldo
Comr &c
Yrs & J D Raper

State of New York
County of St Lawrence ss: On this Fourth day of October one thousand eight hundred and fifty two before me personally appeared Nathan Parmeter of the town of Potsdam in the County of St Lawrence and State of New York who being by me duly sworn deposes and says that he is the identical Nathan Parmeter mentioned in a certain Certificate of which the following is a copy viz
War Department Revolutionary Claims
I certify that in conformity with the Laws of the United States of the 7 th June 1832 Nathan Parmeter of the State of New York who was a private in the Revolutionary Army is entitled to receive Forty Six Dollars and Sixty Six Cents per annum during his natural life commencing on the 4 th of March 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4 th of March and 4 th of September in every year Given at the War Office of the United States this 1 st day of June one thousand eight hundred and thirty three L. Cass Secretary of War
Examined and Countersigned J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

Payments to be made at New York by Pres M c H. W o A t Agent for paying Pensions in the Agency of New York,
Recorded in the Pension Office in Book E, Vol 4 Page 71
By G c C o States Clerk
That he received such Certificate for his Service in the War of the Revolution that he served for a Period of 5 Months in one Enlistment Volunteered at two different times and served in one nearly Seven months in the other six Weeks That he enlisted at the town of Sterling in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts Sometime in June 1776 That he served under Capt. Sampson in Colonel Williams Regiment under Brigadier Genl. Fellows that during such service he went to New York City and remained on duty in Garrison that during his said Enlistment he made an Expedition into New Jersey and went below Monmouth in pursuit of a detachment of British Soldiers and took from them thirty Spans or Black horses that said Expedition returned to New York and in November somewhere near the latter part left New York and Returned Home without receiving a Written discharge

That he volunteered at Windsor in the State of Vermont in the fall of 1776 that his company was commanded by Captain Beriah Green Regiment under Col Joseph Safford and General of Mott that said Expedition was engaged in scouting for the Indians who entered the United States under Burgoyne and in watching the British that they lay encamped some of the time about Lake George that in the Spring he returned home in the Spring of 1777 having served for a period of over six weeks and received no written discharge.
That he again volunteered at said Windsor and served for the period of six weeks the name of his Captain he does not recollect Lieutenant of was the acting Commander that during this term of service he was at the battle of Bennington and also that of the surrender of Burgoyne that he volunteered in the fall of August and was discharged in the latter part of October.
That he never received a written discharge. That he is of the age of ninety three years the first day of last March and has been has been a resident of the town of Windsor and now makes this application for the purpose

of obtaining) obtaining the  the  means of  means of  Penguin  Penguin to which he may be entitled And further that in case a Warrant should be granted that the same be sent to Israel R Dapper of Canton St Lawrence County New York to whom all communications on the subject may be addressed, Signed in presence of Isaac Dapper
Wm H Olmsted Luther L Parmeter
Israel R Dapper
Subscribed & sworn before me by Nathan Parmeter to me well known and whom I know to be a person of truth and veracity and believe to be of the age within stated
Given under my hand and the seal of the County and County of St Lawrence the day and year above written
Israel R Dapper Deputy Clerk of St Lawrence County of the County there

CUSTOM HOUSE, NEW-YORK
Wm Lloyd Commissioner of Customs Washington D.C.
Waddan N.Y. Oct 32 Anderson