Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8701, for John Remington, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Remington, John Mary
A.8701
CONTENTS

Mary Remington
wid of John
N. Y.
Act 7 July 1838.
Act Apr 26. 1852.
L. A. Peirce
Present,

State of New York } County of Monroe } ss: On this 18 th day of August 1857. personally appeared before me the subscriber judge of the Monroe County Court in and for said County of Monroe, in open Court. Mary Remington a Resident of the City of Rochester in said County of Monroe and State of New York aged Eighty one years, in October next, who being first duly sworn according to law does on her oath depose and say that she is the widow of John Remington who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War: that her said husband entered the army either in the year 1775 or 1776 she is not positive which year, that he entered the army as a private and served as such in his first Campaign under Captain William Ford in Col Brown's Regiment of the State of Massachusetts, that he entered the army at Pittsfield in the State of Massachusetts aforesaid that to the best of her recollection information and belief her said husband was in actual service in said Revolutionary War for more than two years: that she is positive he served out full three campaigns and thinks four or five, he served under Capt William Ford. and in the regiment commanded by Col Brown as she thinks, that after her first Campaign and during the remainder of her service he served as Lieutenant by brevet; that this deponent lived at the time of her said service in the same town with the said John Remington afterwards her husband, and knew of his being in actual service during said Revolutionary War, he was out one campaign of six months duration or more, that he served one season as a minute man but she is not positive that it was a full year that in one of his campaigns he was out so late in the season that in returning home he was obliged to cross the Hudson River at Albany partly in a skiff and partly on the ice, that he was in the Battle of Stone Arabia or Stone Ridge as it is sometimes called a place somewhere near the Mohawk river in the State of New York which battle or engagement took place as she thinks in the year 1780: and at which battle Col Brown was killed -

that she is not positive that her said husband was engaged in the action & scene of the battle, but that if he was not, he was at the time there in a company of men under Col Brown's command, and at a Fort called the Upper Fort at Stone Arabia, and the enemy having that fort, attacked what was called the lower Fort where Col Brown was personally - or at least had command at that place,
She also further deposes and says that her said husband was during said war at Bennington and in the campaign against Gen Burgoyne. that she can not at so long a period of time remember definitely the particulars of his military service in said war, but thinks she can with safety say that he was in active service for more than two years in all, during said war
that her husband the said John Remington kept a family record in which was entered the day month and year of her marriage with him, also the time he entered the army, and many of the particulars respecting his campaigns therein, but that said Records were destroyed by fire at the burning of her said husband's shop about the year 1809. : that she has no record or documentary proof of her service, and it is very difficult if not impossible to procure the testimony of witnesses at this late day, his companions and persons knowing the facts in relation to her service in the war being all dead or unknown to this deponent, there may be persons in Pittsfield Massachusetts, her former place of residence, & some old persons who may know something in relation thereto:
She further declares that she was married to the said John Remington at Pittsfield in the State of Massachusetts in the month of September 1787. the day of the month she does not now recollect: that her husband the aforesaid John Remington died at New-Hartford in the County of Oneida and State of New York on the 29 th day of June one thousand eight hundred and forty four and that she has remained a widow ever since that period that she was married to the said John Remington by the Rev. Thomas Allen then a congregational Clergyman in

Patfield of said, since deceased,
Impersona of Cat Eastman.
he Mary Remington
Witness Mark Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written: before me in open Court.
P. H. McCall Judge of Monroe County Court
And I further certify that the above statement is entitled to full faith and credit, this said deposition being personally known to this Court and is entitled to full faith and credit in any statement she may make
P. H. McCall Judge of Monroe County Court
State of New York
County of Monroe
ss: I John T Lacey Clerk of the Monroe County Court in and for Monroe County
of said certify that Patrick G. Buchanan is the Presiding Judge of said Court as above stated, and that the foregoing signature purpor- ting to be his is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of Office and subscribed my name this Eighteenth day of August in the year one thou- -sand Eight hundred and fifty one
John T. Lacey Clerk

14.565.
Mary Remington wid of John
N York.
8701 act 17. July 1838.
At An 26/22
St J. A. Eastman July 7. 1853
8701
St Poughkeepsie Brands
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Rochester NY March 31
1858.
Gov of Pennsylvania
for Several months since Papers were sent to your office in the case of Mary Remington an applicant for a Widows Pension as the widow of John Remington a Revolution- ary Soldier, since I forwarded the papers, which must have been if I recalled rightly nearly a year ago. I have not heard a word from the De- -partment in relation thereto.
Please advise me on this subject
Yours &c
J. A. Eastman

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
8701
P. O.
Mary Remington
Service:
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: REJECTED _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Asmington

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston;
September 29. 1851.
Sir:
There appears to be no evidence of service by John Remington, which can be identified with the enclosed application, except two tours, both in the month of July 1777, apparently from Pittsfield, one of which was for 9 days, the other for 24 days. His name is not found on the rolls of Capt. M c Leod.
I am directed to inform you that a fee will be payable for examinations & certificates hereafter made.
Very Respectfully Your Ob t Serv t Thomas Campbell for the Secy.
J. M. Thayer Esq.

Jan 16. 1852
Mary Remington
N. Y.
Appd. of Mary Remington wid. of John
original
Triplett
S. A. Peugh Present
S. A. Peugh Present,

Washington City D C 11 th June 1852
to J. E. Heath. Sir,
I herewith enclose the application of Mrs. Mary Remington widow of John for pension.
Must I file?
W. H. Pugh