Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 46404, for William Perine, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental
Perine, William
S 46 404
Green Mt. Boys
New Jersey and New York
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July 27/94 Mil. Hist. 6 C Honor C. Eller. N. Paul. Minn.
Residence.
Rev. J. ...
707107
Name: William Perine. Rank: Pri Comp'y: Moore. Reg't: Va Line N. J. Line
Agency.
RATE PER MONTH, AND DATE OF COMMENCEMENT.
1st Issue. { Comm'g 2d Issue. { Comm'g 3d Issue. { Comm'g
DATE OF CERTIFICATE, AND TO WHOM SENT.
1st Issue. { Sent to 2d Issue. { Sent to 3d Issue. { Sent to
Allowed. Act 1828.
Act 14th July, 1862 Bk. G. Vol., Page Registering Clerk:
Disability. {

For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of an Act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution approved the fifteenth day of May an thousand eight hundred and twenty eight I William Perine of the Town of Sparta in the County of Livingston and State of New York do hereby declare that I Enlisted in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution some time in the Spring of the Year one thousand seven hundred and seventy five or six according to my best recollection In Captain Edmunsens Company was attached to the Regiment Commanded by Col. Gansburt which Regiment immediately Marched to New York where I was then and there transferred to Col. Wadsworths Regiment which acted as an Advance Guard to the Northern Army I continued in that service until the defeat and surrender of Burgoyne's Army on the 17th day of October an thousand seven hundred and seventy seven I was then on shortly after released and went home to my Father who then lived in New Jersey I was then drafted in the militia and served during the Winter and part of the Spring of an thousand seven hundred and seventy eight and in May of the same Spring I do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution for and during the war and continued in its service until its termination at which period I was a Private in Captain Moores Company in the fourth Regiment of Light Dragoons of the Continental Line said Regiment was Commanded by Col. White And I do also declare that I afterwards received a Certificate for the reward of eighty dollars to which I was entitled under a Resolution of Congress passed the fifteenth day of May an thousand seven hundred and seventy eight
And I further declare that I was not on the fifteenth day of March an thousand eight hundred and twenty eight on the Pension list of the United States
Subscribed at Sparta this day of December A.D. 1828 William Perine

State of New York
Livingston County ss
Before me Russell Day, Justice of the peace duly empowered to administer Oaths in the County of Liv- ingston in the State of New York personally appeared this day Jonathan Rawley John Prim and Matthew Porter of the said County who did severally make oath that William Prim by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is gen- uinely reputed and believed to have been a Private Sol- dier in the Army of the Revolution in manner as therein stated
Witness my hand this 17 th day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight
Russell Day J.P.
I Levi Hovey Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Livingston in the State of New York do certify that Russell Day before whom the foregoing affidavit was sworn, was at the time a Justice of the peace and duly empowered to administer Oaths
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this eighteenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thou- sand eight hundred and twenty eight
Levi Hovey Clerk

Rec 28 Jan'y 1830 State of New York
Livingston County
William Perrin of the Town of Sparta in the said County being duly sworn according to law saith that he is the identical person who did on the 17 th day of December 1828 make and sign a declaration under the act of Congress passed for the relief and benefit of the Officers and Soldiers of the revolution and this deponent further saith that he did receive the sum of Eighty dollars as a bounty for his services during the revolutionary struggle that the same was received by him in the City of Philadelphia but in what year this deponent cannot now recollect and this deponent further saith that he received the said eighty dollars from a man by the name of Nicholson at one of the public offices in the City of Philadelphia and this deponent further saith that at the time he was in the service of the revolution as a dragoon he more or less during the whole time used a gun or what was then called a carbine and this deponent further saith that from his best recollections the above statement and also his statements in the declaration herunto annexed are substantially true according to this deponent's belief and best recollections
Subscribed at Sparta the 13 th day of January
1830
William Perrin

Livingston County ss
Before me Ruper Day a Justice of the peace duly empowered to administer oaths in the County of Livingston in the State of New York personally appeared William Berne whose name is within subscribed known to me to be the same person who subscribed the within affidavit who did make oath that the within affidavit which he had subscribed was in all respects just and true
Witness my hand this 13th day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty
Ruper Day J.P.
State of New York
Livingston County ss
I Chauncy R Bond Clerk of the Court of the County of Livingston in the State of New York do hereby certify that Ruper Day before whom the foregoing affidavit was known was at the time an acting Justice of the peace in and for the said County of Livingston duly empowered to administer oaths
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 14 day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty
Chauncy R. Bond Clerk

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
O. W. & N. Div.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
M. E. C.
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
July 27, 1894.
Sir:-
In response to your communication of the 17th instant, requesting a statement of the military services of William Perine, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, I have the honor to advise you as follows.
In his declaration he states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the Army of the Revolution some time in the spring of 1775 in the company commanded by Captain Edmonson, in Col. Gansevoort's regiment; marched to St. Johns and was transferred to Col. Warner's regiment, which acted as advance guard to the Northern army; continued in service until the defeat and surrender of Burgoyne, on the 17th of October, 1777. Soon after, he was released and went home to his father in New Jersey. Was drafted in the Militia and served during the winter and part of the spring of 1778, and in May of the same year enlisted in the Virginia line for and during the war, and continued in service until its termination, at which period he was a private in Capt. Moore's company, in the 4th regiment of Light Dragoons commanded by Col. White. From papers in the case it appears that he was at the

battle of Yorktown.
At the time of enlistment he was residing at Trenton, New Jersey, but at the date of the application for pension, December, 1828, was a resident of Sparta, Livingston County, New York.
No mention is made of his family nor any domestic affairs, excepting that he was one of the pioneers of Genesee County, having settled there in 1790.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Homer C. Eller, Esq.,
St. Paul, Minn.

Treasury Dept
Section of Military Pensions

Ques 26 th 1828
Sir
I have the Honor herewith to enclose the Declaration of William Prins to whose case Your attention is respectfully solicited
Your obedient Servt John Allage
A. Dickens Esq.

Livingston County State of New York
Re: 6 March 1829.
I John Paine of the Town of South Dansville County of Steuben County in the State of New York being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he this deponent is now in the seventieth year of age and also that this deponent is a Brother of William Paine of the Village of Dansville County of Steuben and State of New York that he this deponent remembers that in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight the said William Paine died in the spring of the above year at the Town of Dansville State of New York Estate into the Continental Army and this deponent further saith from his best recollection the said William did serve in the Continental war for the space of four or five years and this deponent further saith that that the said William Paine returned to his father in New Jersey some where at or near the close of the Continental war this deponent remembers that when the said William returned home he was dressed in his soldier's dress with his gun that the said William entered said service in the Continental Army for the above space of time this deponent hath no doubt and further this deponent saith not John Paine
Livingston County ss before me Russell Day a Justice of of the peace duly empowered to administer oaths in the County of Livingston in the State of New York personally appeared John Paine well known to me to be the same person who subscribed the above affidavit who did make oath that the above affidavit which he had subscribed was in all respects true and true Witness my hand this 12th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine
Russell Day

State of New York Livingston County ss
I Allen Hutchins Deputy Clerk of the Court of the County of Livingston in the State of New York do hereby certify that Rufus Day before whom the foregoing affidavit was sworn was at the time a acting Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Livingston and duly confirmed to administer oaths
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 14th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine
Allen Hutchins Deputy Clerk.

To To the Secretary of the Treasury For sum time in the the part of last Winter I forwarded to the Department my Declaration under the Act of Congress of May 1828 for the Purpose of having my name Placed upon the Pension Roll I received an answer from the Department that my name could not be found on the Records in the Department but that was not Considered sufficient to reject my claim as it is well known to the Department the Records that I represented my self to have Belonged to was destroyed at Philadelphia in the Burning of the Records of the Department I then forwarded the Evidence of three Persons who were in New Jersey at the time I Enlisted by Reference to three affidavits a file in your Department Can by you be ascertained from the letter that I Received from Mr. French I had no doubt that those affidavits would be sufficient to entitle me to to my Pension but it seems you have thought Proper to reject my claim within the Law as set one thing is certain I have served my Country faithfully since in the commencement of the Revolution in the Southern Army two years and that Service I suffered every thing but Death I then returned home and enlisted and served as by Declaration will explain if you in your wisdom under the Federal notion of Reform felt disposed to withhold from me an honest debt that I am Entitled to your Country View Proper it is by my hard Earnings in connection with others that you hold your situation and if you felt disposed to exercise the part of ingratitude do it But Sir I would have you to consider my situation and I think you will due I think you will do something for me

I am Poor and very old and Deceyt I cant be long that I shall want your help for i was seventy four years old the fiftieth day of Last may Now Sur it seems to be hard That I have to Beg so much for my onnest Due but without asking for it I wont q'tat These few lines from yours William Powne

State of New York Steuben County ss
Re: 6 March 1829
Steuben County ss      Catharine Faulkner of the Town of Urbana in the County of Steuben being duly sworn deponent and saith that she this deponent was well acquainted with William Penn (now of the Village of Dansville Town of Sparta and County of Livingston in the State of New York) in the State of New Jersey in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy five and this deponent further saith that the said William Penn did Enlist into the Continental Army in the year of seventy eight or soon and served therein for some years how many this deponent does not now recollect but this deponent well recollects that the said William Penn came here to his Father in standing about the close of the war and further this deponent saith not
Catharine Faulkner
Steuben County ss
Before me Obadiah Wheeler a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Steuben in the State of New York personally appeared before me the said Justice Catharine Faulkner well known to me to be the same person who subscribed the above affidavit who and make oath that the above affidavit which she had subscribed was in all respects true and true according to the best of her knowledge and belief Witness my hand this Eleventh day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine
Obadiah Wheeler J.P.

Rec d 6 March 1829
State of New York County of Steuben
Steuben County ss John Faulkner of the Town of Albion in the County of Steuben and State of New York being duly sworn deponeth and saith that he this deponent is and his true well acquainted with William Perin of the Village of Dansville Town of Sparta in the County of Livingston and State of New York that this deponent was so acquainted with the said William Perin in the State of New Jersey in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy five and this deponent further saith that the said William Perin died in the Spring of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight Enlisted in Capt Moors Company of light Dragoons in the fourth Regiment Commanded by Col White in the Town of Princeton State of New Jersey and this deponent further saith that the said William Perin died some in the Continental Army some years after his Enlistment that this deponent remembers well that the said William died returned him to his Father in the State of New Jersey from the Continental Army near or at the close of the Revolutionary war and further this depon- ent saith not  John Faulkner
Steuben County ss
Before me Obadiah Wheeler a Justice of the peace duly sworn and to administer oaths in the County of Steuben in the State of New York personally appeared before me the said Justice John Faulkner well known to me to be the same person who subscribed the above affidavit who did make oath that the affidavit which he had submitted

was true Witness my hand this 11 th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine
Obadiah Wheeler J.P.
I John Metcalfe clerk of the court of the County of Stur- ten in the state of New York do certify that Obadiah Wheeler before whom the foregoing affidavit was sworn was at the time an acting Justice of the peace in and for the said County of Sturten and duly swor- powerd to administer oaths
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court this Eleventh day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine
John Metcalfe, Clerk.

Re: 28 Jan'y 1830.
We the undersigned inhabitants of the Village of Dansville County of Livingston and State of New York do hereby certify that we and each of us have been acquainted with William and John Perine from fifteen to thirty years past and from our acquaintance & knowledge of those two men we have no hesitancy saying and also in recommending them as men who sustain a fair and unspotted reputation and for truth and veracity inimitable.
Dansville Village
Jan'y 11 th 1830
(With John Perine 15 years with Mr. Perine 30 years J. Rowley do do 15 do do 25 do do H. H. Morton do do 15 with Mr. Perine 30 years
James McBurney John Perine 15 years with Mr. Perine 30 years
Matthew Porter 15 William Porter 20
Peter Porter 10 Matthew Porter 30
Jacob Porter 16 years Porter Porter 30
Respect day 8 years -
I have been acquainted with Mrs. Perine 17 years -
I have been acquainted with Mr. Perine for 16 years for the last 4 years intimately - W. H. Reynolds
Henry Skeels 30
D. D. Dornhoff 25
I have been acquainted with Mr. Perine 32 years and John Perine 15 years. Their Characters stands fair as represented Wm. W. Hartney
I have been acquainted with John Perine 12 years and William Perine 16 years and found them to be fair men in their character Abraham Zerfass

awd
$46.401

Re: 28 Jan'y 1830.
1300.
House of Reps July 26. 1830
Hon S. D. Ingham
Sir I have the Honour herewith to return the paper in the case of William Prine, with such Explanations & Additional proof, as will I trust be considered sufficient to justify the placing his name on the Pension rolls. I am personally acq- -ainted with most of the individuals whose names appear are subscribed to the accompanying certificate in his favour. They are highly respectable citizens whose statements are entitled to the utmost credit.
In addition to the testimonials of these Gentlemen, I must be permitted to say, that I have been acquainted with Mr Prine from the earliest recollections of my childhood. He was with my father among the Pioneers of the Genesee Country who settled there in 92, and resided

within two miles of each other until 1808. Since which time I have; with the exception of about six years resided at the distance of 26 miles from him. During this, latter, period my occasions have often called me to the village where he resides, and as often have had occasion to transact business with him. I therefore speak from personal observation as well; as a perfect knowl- edge of his general reputation. When I assure you that he has at all times maintained a high character in every particular, which has been to my knowledge been impeached. and I believe it is unimpeachable. I have often heard with great interest our Friend, during the days of my boyhood detail the privations & sufferings he has experienced in the Army, and relate many inter- esting circumstances of the revolution. which are yet fresh in my recollection. especially those connected with the Battle at York Town, Mr & Mrs.

Heulston whose affidavits on with his papers, are near neighbours of mine who are entitled to implicit credit
Yours obedient Servt
John Mayes "
Albany Mr Friend at Danville Village Livingston Co. N.Y.

William Perine 1895. No 2322.2796. Rec 30 June 1829.
133.
Dansville V'keeps N.Y. 22 June 1829
Free 18 3/4
To the Secretary of the Treasury
Washington City
District of Columbia

James Smith base of William Pine

Nov 28 Jany 1830.
To the Hon John Magee
Dear Sir Enclose I return the papers you sent me together with an affidavit of William Dunn making the necessary explanations you requested and also a certification of a number of the most respectable inhabitants in our part of the country of the good character of William & John Dunn & think the government ought to be satisfied and also to give the old man his pension for it has but a few days at the longest that he must have his pension please write me the result
I am Sir yours very Respectfully
Jamies Smith
Dansville Village Jany 16 th 1830

James Smith In the matter of James Smith

Enclosed I send you some additional evidence in the case of Mr. King the Witness are aged and do not recollect all the facts that exist but I believe that he has promised sufficient evidence to entitle him to his pension you will know the goodness to have them over to the proper chief and if it be allowed please procure the checks for him on some bank in this state
I am Sir yours respectfully
J. A. Smith
Sauville Village July 17 th 1829

Revolutionary Claims.
Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
14 Jan y 1829.
The annexed paper, relating to the claim of William Perrine - under the abovementioned act, is respectfully referred to the Secretary of War, with a request that he will be pleased to cause me to be informed whether it appears, by any records in the War Department, that the claimant has received, or is entitled to receive, the bounty in land granted by Congress for service in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution.
R. Rush.
The Hon. the SECRETARY OF WAR.
War Dept.
Bounty Land Office
The records of this office do not show that William Perrine of the Virg a line ever received or is entitled to bounty land of the United States
Robert Taylor
16 Jan y 1829

No. of Original Payroll 1034
1895
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
Virginia or New York line Allowed Perine or Act 1828
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
3 January 1829.
William Perine — of Sparta — in the County of Livingston in the State of New York — has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Private in captain Moore 's company, in but  Whites regiment of the Virginia line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing .
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary. F. D. Dickins
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
6 January 1829
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to William Perine in the not  not is now on the pension
It further appears that William Perine  not  not is now on the pension list of any — any agency, and has been so since the 3 d March 1826 at the rate of  dollars per month.
The name of William Perine cannot be found among those of the Virginia line, to whom Certificates for the gratuity of Eighty Dollars, were issued -
John Hagner And
no record died by 9/81

General Land Office 13 Jan y . 1829.
The name of William Prine does not appear on the list of Warrants issued by the Register of the Land Office at Richmond Va. so far as they have been received.
G. W. Graham Commissioner