Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43933, for John Rice, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Rice, John
S. 43933
CONTENTS
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H 3 9 3 3 INVALID.
Rev
File No. H 3, 933
John Rice Rev Mr. Rice
Act: 18 March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 421
[Arrangement of 1870.]

13. 803
New York
John Rees
of Mayfield in the state of New York who was a Sergeant in the regiment commanded by Colonel Livingston of the New York line, for the term of Six Years
Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 5 of Sept 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 of July 1819 and sent to John L. Lobdell Esquire agent Johnstown N.Y.
  Arrears to 4th of March 1819  $ 47.96    Semi-ann. all'ce ending Sept 1819  48.    6 mo. arrears.  $ 92.96  
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }
  Deduct Invalid Pen.  $ 38.41    Due @ 6.40 to 4 March 1819  $ 57.55  

John Rice, Sergt. Mayfield, Montg y . County, New-York. Various services - part in Col o Livingston reg t and part in the invalid corps, com d . by col o Nicholson N. Y. - 1777 to 1783.
5. September, 1818.
The claimant must return his original certificate before he can be placed on Roll under Act of Aaron Haring, judge. the 18 March 1818 Johnstown, Montgomery County, N. York.

State of New York Montgomery County
In conformity with the provisions of the act of Congress of the United States of America, passed 18 th March 1818. Entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War the following declaration is made under oath by John Rice of the town of Mayfield in the county of Montgomery and State of New York before the Honorable Aaron Hains Esquire one of the Judges of the court of common Pleas in and for the county of Montgomery in the said State in which the said John Rice before here doth reside that is to say -
I John Rice aged about ninety Eight years of the town of Mayfield in the county of Montgomery and State of New York on this fifth day of September one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Do. solemnly sincerely and truly swear and declare that I served against the common Enemy in the Army in the War of the Revolution for seven years and one month on the continental establishment. and that I am a resident citizen of the United States to wit in the town county and State aforesaid and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life I stand in need of the assistance of my country for support. I do further swear and declare that I served in the said Revolutionary War in the capacity of and being about two or three years a Private soldier, then a corporal and about two years a Serjeant and was discharged such that I enlisted at Albany in the State of New York on or about the 10 th of May one thousand seven hundred and seventy six into the company commanded by Captain Wright. Colonel James Livingston Regiment and New York Line that I continued in said corps until I was disabled by an umbilical rupture at in the year of our lord 1777 Bemis's heights in the

State of New York after which I joined the Invalid Corps under Colonel Nicholson and continued therein until the conclusion of the War when I was discharged at West Point in the State of New York on or about the tenth day of June one thousand seven hundred and eighty three. that I think that I sent my discharge to Washington when I was placed on the Pension List of Invalids - That I was at the taking of General Burgoyne. at the attack on Fort Stanwix & at the Battle of White Plains and that I have no other evidence of my said service except the papers recorded at Washington on the former application - In witness of the truth of this declaration I have subscribed the same in the presence of the said Judge and have solemnly deplored to the truth thereof on the day herein before for that purpose specified -
And I hereby further declare in pursuance of the requisitions of the aforesaid act of congress. I do hereby fully and absolutely and to all intents and purposes, relinquish all claims to any Pension under any of the Laws of the United States except the Pension contemplated to be allowed me under the act of congress aforesaid mentioned and under which this Declaration is made -
Subscribed & sworn to This 5th day of September 1818
John J. Rice Mark
Before me Aaron Haring The Judge aforesaid
I Aaron Haring The Judge aforesaid Do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said John Rice has served in the revolutionary war as stated in the aforesaid declaration against the common enemy. That I have often seen his pension Certificate in which he drew his pension for revolutionary services. I had his affidavits & powers to draw the same frequently taken before me, that to my knowledge he has been a pauper & town charge to the town of Johnstown in Montgomery County in said State of New York for more than ten years now last past. And that the pension or nearly all of it has been applied by the Overseers of the Poor of Johnstown.

aforesaid towards the support of the said John Rice as a pauper of said town. And I now transmit the testimony taken & had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the act of Congress aforesaid. Given under my hand at Johnstown this 5th day of September 1818
Aaron Haring
State of New York Montgomery County
I John M c Carthy Clerk of the court of common pleas for the said County do certify that Aaron Haring whose name appears signed to the above Certificate & before whom the declaration hereto annexed appears to have been made and sworn to is one of the Judges of the Court of common pleas in & for the said County In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court the 5 th day of September 1818
John M c Carthy

Columbia June 4
free
Hon. John C. Calhoun Secretary of War Washington
Admiral
Edward

Hon. John C. Calhoun
Sir
Enclosed are the papers in the case of John Rice and applicant for a pension with an affidavit of Richards Lodge as to the loss of Certificate &c. which puts it out of the power of Rice to return to your office - I am Sir Yours &c.
John L. Lobdell Agent for applicant

I am well acquainted with R Dodge's hand writing : and know the initials to be his signa- ture - he is a very respectable man -
J. L. Edwards

State of New York Montgomery County ss }
Be it remembered that on this third day of June in the year 1819 personally appeared before me Aaron Haring Esquire, first Judge of the County aforesaid, Richard Dodge, to me well known, who being duly sworn says, that he has been for several years past, in possession of the original Certificate granted to John Rice, as an invalid pensioner of the army of the revolution, and has been employed aged unemployed by the said John, for several years past, to apply for and obtain for him his said pension, and that the said original pension Certificate to the said John, is lost, or mislaid, and cannot be found, —
Richard Dodge
Subscribed and sworn to this 3 rd day of June 1819.
Before me Aaron Haring Judge as aforesaid