Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 14,246, for Israel Rand, New Hampshire

SERVICE
N.H.
Rand Israel
NUMBER
8.14246
CONTENTS
carded

14146 14/100 New York
Israel Rand
of Clinton Co in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Butler of the Regt. commanded by Col. Bartlett in the N. H. militia une for War
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 day of May 1833 and sent to J. D. Woodward Plattsburg
Arrears to the 14th of March 1833 $ 66.66 Semi-annual allowance ending 11 Sept. 16.66
$ 83.32
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk Book 6 Vol. 4 Page 73

14. 760
Israel Rand Clinton Co N York
admitted.
10 mo. Private.
J D Woodward Plattsburg N.Y.

BRIEF in the case of Israel Rand of Clinton Co. in the State of New York (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Spencer  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 71 years  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     6 th July In 1780 - 3 Private Gen. Colt Butler Colt Bartlett   19 th May 1781 7 - - , Colt Stevens Colt Wentworth  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? None  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Hillsborough Co. N Hampshire  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? In citation  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Papers not attached as reg d 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Nicholas Oats Examining Clerk

Israel Rand
10 Months in Revolution.
Address, 42 Woodward Plattsburg N.Y.
14760
1

Declarations in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed
June 7. 1832
State of New York
County of Clinton ss On this fourth day of October 1832. Personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Clinton now sitting. Israel Rand a resident of the town of Plattsburg in the County of Clinton and State of New York aged Seventy one 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 act of Congress, passed June 7. 1832.
That he entered the services of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
I was born in the town of Rye in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire July 12. 1761. I have a record of my age in my Father's Bible now in my possession which I have had in my possession for forty five years past and which I have recently referred to.
I resided in Warner Hillsborough Co New Hampshire and enlisted at that place July 6 1780 as a Substitute for Thomas Amis into Capt Henry Butlers Col Col Thomas Barlett's Regt New Hampshire Militia for three months (Lt Kimball) (John Gardner Adjutant & Lieut) I marched through Hopkinton, Weare, New Boston, Anherst, Hold all in New Hampshire Shirley, Pepperell, Lancaster, Worcester, Brookfield, Palmer, Leicester, Spencer, Milburyham, Springfield, all Mass. Crossed the Connecticut River into Weatherfield Mass thence we marched through Great Barrington Mass, from thence to Poughkeepsie (don't recollect the intermediate towns except Fishkill) to West Point N.Y. where I was stationed and where I served my time three months fully out and was honorably discharged at that place on or about the sixth day of October 1780 and about a week after Major Andre was executed. I had no written discharge. I was absent from home three months and three weeks. After my discharge I returned to Warner N.H. and there on the 19 th day of May 1781 I again enlisted into Captain Ebenezer Dearing's Company Col. M'Intosh's Regt New Hampshire Line Lieut Joseph Hunt and — Bell (I believe it was a Continental Regt it might have been a Regt of State Troops) for Seven months. I marched through Hopkinton New Hampshire, Congregational Pembroke, Ellentown, Ipswich, Deerfield, Concord Nottingham. Ipswich. Newmarket, Greenland to Portsmouth N.H. where I was stationed in Fort Washington which was on Sattler Island and where I served till the twentieth of October 1781 having served my seven months the time for which I enlisted fully out. I received a written discharge signed by Capt Dearing, my discharge was on the same piece of paper with those of Samuel Rogers Michael Amis and John Blase dell who were my mess mates. I had the discharge myself and lost it in Warner N.H. a few years after I left the service but how
3. dec.

10 months in all.
I cannot state - The residence of my messmates above mentioned are unknown to me, in case they are living and whether they are living I am unable to say. I actually served during the revolutionary war in the service of the United States ten months. I never was drafted. I knew Genl Arnold at West Point N.Y. I was at Dobbs Ferry when the British came up in a ship called the Vulture to plunder our cattle. I was engaged in the skirmish at that place. we had a picket guard on both sides of the North River. I was on the west side of the River. I ought to have stated that during my first three months service when stationed at West Point N.Y. I served about three weeks at Stoney Point and saw Generals Washington and Knox there, this was soon after Major Andre was taken.
I have no documentary evidence and know of no person whose testimony I can procure to testify to my services. The names of persons to whom I am known in my present neighborhood and who can testify to my character for veracity and their belief of my services as a soldier of the Revolution are Hon Kinneer Newcomb Platt Newcomb Elisha Boardman Daniel Robinson. Robert Dayton Robert Craig Miles Clay Israel Rand David Rand & the whole neighborhood.
After my time was out in Oct 1781 I returned to Warner N.H. and there resided until the month of April 1782 and then went to Rye N.H. and lived there until the year 1784 when I went to Jefferson N.H. where I resided about eight months. I then returned to Warner N.H. and married a wife at that place and resided there till the year 1811 when I moved to Plattsburg N.Y. where I have ever since resided and where I now reside. -
I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and claim that my name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any state.
Israel Rand
Sworn and subscribed to in open Court this fourth day of October 1832 and I certify that Defendant is a credible person, in open Court before me .
me Geo W Beecherth acting Clerk of Clinton Com. Pleas -
State of New York County of Clinton We Josiah Wiley - a clergyman residing in the town of Plattsburg - in the said County and Frederick Halsey a clergyman residing in the same town hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Israel Rand who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy one 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 to this fifth

day of October 1832 and I certify that Deponants are credible persons and that said Josiah & Frederick also Clergymen in the town of Platts- burg N.Y. - done in open Court before me
Josiah Wilcox Swt Fredk Halsey Swt
Geo. M. Beckwith acting Clerk of Clinton Com. Pleas.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after 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 Frederick Halsey — who has signed the foregoing Certificate, is a Clergyman resident in the town of Plattsburg in the said County and that Josiah Wilcox — who has also signed the same is a resident in the same town and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. I George M Beckwith Acting Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Clinton do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Israel Rand for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this fifth - day of - October eighteen hundred and thirty two.
Geo. M. Beckwith acting Clerk

Perman
14.246 INVALID.
File No. 14.246
Israel Brand
Priv. Ber War.
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 309
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Israel Band

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims , of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of
Israel Band Clinton 6 th further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes V. * Has he mentioned 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? yes VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes

 XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? yes  XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?  XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? yes  XIV. †If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? no   If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? yes  Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? yes    XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? yes  XVI. ‡Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? yes  XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? yes 
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. 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 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 shewn 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.
†QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
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 claimants 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.
‡QUERE XVI. 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 paper 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.
¶ In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, 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.