Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 14,283, for John Rhodes, New York

SERVICE
New York
Rhodes, John
NUMBER
S. 14283
carded.
CONTENTS
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New York John Rhodes of Edinburgh in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Gray of the Regt commanded by Col ————— in the New York line for 18 Months
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 60 Dollars ————— Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March , 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 9 day of July 1833 and sent A Wash Baltimore Md. N.Y.
Arrears to the 4th of Mar '33 $90 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sep '33 15
$105
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Job Cromwell Clerk
Book E Vol. 4 Page 74

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undetailed service as a substitute & indefinite claim of seven months for various terms disall- ed
acord
18 mo pri 60 $
A Wash
Pension Papers.
of John Rhode under Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832.
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I am well acquainted with the applicant within mentioned. He is a man of respect- ability. Let his cer- tificate or other answer be sent to
John Bell & Co. Creators Ballston Spa N.Y.
John W. Taylor
11.12.13
amended 6 mo
A Wash. agent

declaration of John Rhodes in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7 th 1832.
State of New York County of Saratoga } ss: On this seventh day of September in the Year one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Saratoga, now sitting John Rhodes a - resident of the Town of Edinburgh in the County of Saratoga, aforesaid, aged sixty nine 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 th 1832.
The said applicant saith that he enlisted in a company of Volunteers commanded by James Gray, as captain, on the twentieth day of March in the Year 1777 - at - Saratoga Barracks, in the County of Saratoga aforesaid. - John Brondon - first Lieutenant - I do not recollect the name of the second Lieutenant - Stephen Starr indigo - John Grant orderly sergeant - Isaac Nickerson - John Jones and many other private soldiers. - General Schuyler had the command of the American forces in the north at this time - and continued in the command until General Gates superseded him. - I always understood from Capt. Gray that the Company was a volunteer company and not attached to any Regiment - After I enlisted in marched with the Company to Fort Edward - we remained at the fort about one month - and engaged in scouting parties and in several skirmishes - from the fort we marched to Skeneborough (now White- Hall) - remained there some three or four weeks - and then Capt. Gray received order to march to Fort Ann - and then Capt. Gray was ordered to march to the head of Lake George & I marched with the company there - We remained stationed at this place, until the continental forces under General Schuyler retreated to the South, - The Continental troops passed by us - on the route through Skeneborough aforesaid - Then we received order to march or retreat to Saratoga Barracks

where we arrived according to my impression, between the twenty fifth of July and the first of August, ensuing. We remained there about three days to let the baggage have sufficient time to move on before us. From thence we marched with a part of the Continental troops, commanded by the following officers, whose names I recollect - Colonel Morgan of the Regiment of Riflemen - Colonel Spenser & Colonel Cortland of the two regiments of Infantry. to Still water. - Capt. Grey had to take the command of the rear guard with his company. I recollect hearing an adjutant or superior officer of the army give order to Capt. Grey after the army was paraded for march, to burn every bridge or tear the bridge the road  up to fall every tree that would reach or obstruct, with him and take all the inhabitants that remained on the route that had not fled already. Capt. Grey executed these orders. The rear guard under Capt. Grey started from Saratoga Barracks about 4 o'clock P. M. marched all night and arrived at Swart Ferry in Stillwater the next morning. We remained there about one week perhaps more, when General Gates superseded Genl. Schuyler in the command, when we marched to Bemis's Heights and there up breastworks &c. After we had marched  remained there the British lines were within about three miles of us - where they had thrown up breastworks fortified &c. The two armies under General Gates & General Burgoyne lay in a dormant state, fortifying &c until the 19th of Sept. when our army moved towards the British breastworks - Then ensued a general battle, in which I was engaged - and stationed in the left wing, of the sixth division with my company which division was under the command of an officer of the name of Van Schoick - and was in the battle all day - remained in the  service and was in the battle in October at Saratoga on the next day the fighting continued, and on the evening of that day the British retreated to Saratoga. I was in the battle or cannonade at Saratoga in the month of October, and there I continued there till the surrender of Genl. Burgoyne. Capt. Grey & his company formed a part of the guard that conducted the prisoners of Burgoyne's army that were sent to Boston - With the exception of myself and William Stickland & Benjamin Wheeler who remained at the Saratoga barracks by permission of Capt.

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Grey, in the service until the middle of November ensuing when I was dismissed by the commanding officer at Saratoga Barracks, and I returned home to my father's about four miles down the River from the Barracks, now in the Town of Eastown in Washington County, State of New York, - I was fourteen years of age when I joined Capt. Grey's company as a volunteer, and served therein during the Year 1777 - nine months.
In May 1778, I volunteered & enlisted in Captain Job Wright's company - Holt-Dunham - First lieutenant Benoni Grant - Ensign - we rendezvoused at Saratoga Barracks - We marched from thence to Fort Edward, - staid some weeks there, - then we marched to the head of Lake George, and took up our quarters at Fort George for the season, and took up our quarters at Fort Edward - from thence we marched about one month or thereabouts - we staid there some days - to Schoharie aforesaid - we staid there some days - then to Fort Edward - staid at Fort Edward & was engaged in frequent scouting parties till about the first of November ensuing, when I was dismissed & returned home to my father at the place aforesaid. This term of service amounted to six months, all the pay ever received for my services was $100. in continental money, for which I got a quantity of beef & mutton, & paper, lodging & a portion of brandy. In the month of June or July in the Year 1779 - I was drafted as a militia man for one month, and myself with about hundred men rendezvoused at Roland Perry's house, at the foot of Palmentown Mountain, about four miles distant from Saratoga Springs, under the command of Capt. Ephraim Woodworth, - I served out the term of one month - The duty consisting in erecting and guarding a picket fort and in scouting parties - After the expiration of my term of service, I served in the same company as a substitute one month for Philip Ingersoll, and also one month as a substitute for William Rhodes my father - The last month I served as a substitute for a young man whose name I do not recollect - The two last months of this service I, under the command of Capt. David Storm, who relieved Capt. Woodworth, at the expiration of this

four months service I was dismissed by Capt. Storms & returned home.
From this period until the close of the Revolutionary war I was frequently called upon & turned out against the Indians & Tories, and was frequently engaged in scouting parties. These periods of service amounted to from two to ten days each. I was one of the party that pursued the party of Tories & Indians under Monroe when they burned Ballston, & took General Gordon of Ballston prisoner & many others. I should think that I was engaged at different times in this kind of service at least seven months. —
I was born in the twenty fourth day of August in the Year 1763 - at the Town of Poughkeepsie in the County of Dutchess & State of New York. I removed from then with father to a place four below Schuylerville now in the Town of Easttown aforesaid. I lived there till the Year 1780. when removed with my father to a place now in the Town of Saratoga, & county of Saratoga aforesaid. From thence I removed to the Town of Edinburgh in the County of Saratoga aforesaid - where I have continued ever since to reside - about sixty eight years.
The Record of my age kept by my father in his family Bible has been lost by fire - I have now no Record except from recollection - I refer to Samuel Cook of Milton and Isaac Chase of Malta both in said County of Saratoga as persons qualified to attest my character for truth & veracity and to my having the reputation in my own the neighbourhood, of having been a revolutionary soldier. — I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declare that my name is not on the pension roll of any agency of any State.
Sworn & subscribed in open court the day & year aforesaid
John Phelps
Thomas Palmer Clerk

WE Samuel Cook of Milton
We, the undersigned, a gentleman formerly a resident of the town of Milton in the County of Saratoga resident of the town of Ballston in the County of Saratoga residing, I ran Chase - of the town of Malta - in the said County of Saratoga, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Rhode who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him sixty nine years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Samuel Cook Dean Chase
Sworn & subscribed in open court the day & year aforesaid this 7 th day of September 1832
Thomas Palmer Clerk
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 certifies, that it appears to them that Samuel Cook is a gentleman formerly a resident of the town of Milton in the County of Saratoga & State of New York and that I ran Chase - who has signed the same is a resident of the town of Malta - in the said County of Saratoga and are credible persons that their statement is entitled to credit. I, Thomas Palmer, clerk of the court of Common Pleas of the County of Saratoga, now sitting, Do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Rhodes for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office this seventh day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred thirty two.
Thomas Palmer Clerk

ADAMS, JOHN
RECEIVED OFFICE
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Handwritten initials and marks
vs.
COURT OF
NELSON W. EVANS, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW. 106 WEST SECOND STREET. PORTSMOUTH, O.
Dec. 30 th 1901.
Hon. Henry Clay Evans, Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:-
My paternal grandfather, John Rhodes , was a Revolutionary soldier from the State of New York, and was said to have been a Colonel and a pensioner. Will you kindly furnish me with the substance of his declaration for pension. Also my maternal grandfather, Daniel Deming , was a Soldier of the Revolution from the State of New York, and a pensioner. Would you kindly send me the substance of his declaration of pension, and greatly oblige,
Yours truly, George P. Rhodes, #558 E. 8 th St.

Jan 4 20-1902 Geo. W. Rhodes Portsmouth, Ohio
1978. Nov. 1 Raymond E. Van Syckle adv. rel. to family data ms. A.
Reborn
14283 INVALID.
File No.
14283
John Rhodes
Prin. Rev. War
Act:
June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol.
1
, Page 214
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Rev. & 1812 War Section
November 1, 1928
Raymond E. Van Syckle 1729 Ford Bldg. Detroit, Michigan.
Sir:
I advise you that in the papers of the pension claim of Daniel Deming, S. 15092, there are no data relative to the soldier's family.
In the papers of the pension claim of John Rhodes, S. 14283, it is stated that the soldier's father was William Rhodes. There are no further data relative to his family.
Respectfully,
E. W. MORGAN Acting Commissioner

MICHIGAN SOCIETY SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
PRESIDENT REV. JOSEPH A. VANCE DETROIT
VICE-PRESIDENT LEE M. HUTCHINS GRAND RAPIDS
VICE-PRESIDENT FRANCIS C. CAMPBELL DETROIT
SECRETARY RAYMOND E. VAN SYCKLE DETROIT
REGISTRAR CLARENCE M. BURTON DETROIT
CHAPLAIN REV. HARLAN L. FEEMAN ADRIAN
HISTORIAN ARTHUR L. VANDENBERG GRAND RAPIDS
TREASURER FRANK G. SMITH DETROIT
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 1729 FORD BUILDING DETROIT, MICHIGAN
Jan 30, 1928
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:-
Please advise family data contained in following pension records:--
John Rhodes , 14283, Inv. Rev. War, allowed on app. Sept 7, 1832 while residing at Edinburg (Saratoga Co.) N.Y.
Daniel Deming , 15092 Inv. Rev. War, allowed on app. Oct 21, 1832 while residing at Stockton N.Y.
I have the revolutionary services and date and place of birth of the soldier in each case, --in a statement previously issued by the Bureau; but nothing is said as to members of family.
Yours truly
Raymond E. Van Sycke Secretary.

John Rhodes For a Pension
A Wash agent

State of New York
County of Saratoga } ss, I Lebbeus Armstrong, a clergy- man lately a resident in the Town of Edinburgh in the County of Saratoga in said State, now living in Ballston in said County, do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with John Rhodes who has subscribed and sworn to the declaration made before the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Saratoga to which this is attached and that I believe him to be Sixty nine years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he then resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolu- tion and that I concur in that opinion -
Sworn and Subscribed
this 10 th day of April 1833 } Lebbeus Armstrong
In open Court in the Court of
Common Pleas in & for the County
of Saratoga at present now sitting
A Goodrich Clerk
And the said Court Certifies that it appears to them that Lebbeus Armstrong who signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman a resident in the Town of Ball- ston in the County of Saratoga in the aforesaid State and that his statement is entitled to Credit
I Alpheus Goodrich Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Saratoga, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter, amending the application of John Rhodes for a Pension. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 10 th day of April 1833
A Goodrich Clerk

State of New York } County of Saratoga } ss
Personally appeared before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas now sitting Antiochus Chase in & for the said County, John Rhodes of the Town of Edinburgh in said County who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, In answer to the 6 th Question required by the War Department—
Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given & what has become of it? He says that he never received any written discharge from the service of the Revolution and he further saith that he knows of no person now living by whom he can prove his service in the Revolutionary Army or any part thereof now sitting
John Rhodes
Subscribed & sworn before me the Court of common pleas in & for the county of Saratoga aforesaid now sitting— Sworn In open Court A Good rich Clerk