Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 952-100, for Dennin Sheffield, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Sheffield, Dennin or Denning
B.L.W. 952-100
CONTENTS

— 952 —
The heirs of Denning Sheffield private — 6 th Regiment Mass: line —
Warrant 2 nd January 19 th 1821
Hon. Caleb Tompkins —

State of New York
Westchester County G. Ozias Osborn and Daniel Teller being duly sworn do depose and say that they and each of them were personally acquainted with Damin Sheffield who served as a soldier in the Army during the Revolutionary War as we are credibly informed and verily believe that the said Damin Sheffield is deceased leaving several children and their deponents further say that they were personally acquainted with George Sheffield the applicant in the annexed petition named and that the said George Sheffield is a legitimate heir at Law of the said Damin Sheffield deceased as their deponents are credibly informed & verily believe. the said Ozias Osborn for himself states that in the year one thousand eight hundred and ten  ten his deponent saw the said Damin Sheffield in the Village of Pikes Kill in the County of Westchester that a conversation passed between this deponent and the said Damin Sheffield in the course of which the said Damin Sheffield inquired after his Son George who then lived with this deponent and requested this deponent to direct his Son to come to Pikes Kill to see him and stated that he would give his right to land to his said Son George and the said Ozias Osborn further states that the said Damin Sheffield died shortly after the conversation passed between him & the said Damin Sheffield.
Sworn to the above statement the 27th day of January 1810 before me Ozias Osborn one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Westchester
Daniel Teller Ozias Osborn

Ozias Osburn sworn to the facts contained in the within statement the 21 day of February 1820 before me
Jonathan Ferris one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for Westchester County
The said Ozias Osburn further saith on oath that the said Dennis Sheffield described in the within depositions is the same person identified by Mason Wallis in his deposition taken in the County of Broome before Stephen Mark Esq. and handed by this deponent to Caleb Tompkins Esq. to be forwarded by him to the department of Ozias Osburn was sworn & subscribed before me this 21 st day of February 1820
Jonathan Ferris one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for Westchester County

To the Honorable Secretary of War.
Sir you'll please deliver the Land Warrant for land which may be awarded to the Heirs at Law of Dennis Sheffield deceased to the Honorable Caleb Tompkins Clerk of Congress 1818 - Date 2 nd of March 1818 - Witness Elias Osborn Yours obed t Serv t George Sheffield

Walter Young
The People of the State of New York by the grace of GOD Free and Independent To all to whom these presents shall come or may come or said sealing
Know Ye that on this Seventh day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Twenty one Proof was made before me Samuel Youngs Surrogate of the County of Westchester in the State of New York that George Sheffield is one of the Sons of Dunning Sheffield late a Soldier in the army of the United States of America in the revolutionary War and that Charles Sheffield Alexander Sheffield and the Petitioner George Sheffield are the only legitimate Children and heirs at Law of the said Dunning Sheffield Sec d that am now living In Witness whereof we have caused the Seal of Office of our said Surrogate to be hereunto affixed this ninth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Twenty
Sam d Youngs
Westchester County ss.
I certify that Ozias Osborn was one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County on the Twenty Seventh day of January one Thousand Eight hundred and Nineteen. He was And duly qualified as such as appears from the roll of Oaths in this Office. and I Further Certify that Jonathan Ferris was a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in said County on the Twenty first day of Feb y 1820. duly sworn and qualified as such as ap- pears from the roll of Oaths in this Office. In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Affixed the Seal of Said County this Seventh day of December 1820
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