Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43,804, for David Parks, Connecticut

SERVICE
SERVICE Loan
Parks, David
NUMBER _____
NUMBER D. 43804
CONTENTS

Notification sent to Stephen Phelps 29 Sep 1820
Canandaigua N.Y.
New York 4,130
✓ David Parks Private Capt Stanton in the 9 th Connecticut Regim. In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War 1777. Three years
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 6 Dollars per month, to commence on the 8 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 4 th of Nov r 1818 and sent to the care of John Grover Esq r Judge of Aurora Cayuga Co New York
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818 4 27 / 30 mo $39.20 Semi-ann. all ce ending 4 March 1819 48.
$87.20
3 P sub to Sept 4.
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
Continued 8 Aug 23 Aurlius. Cayuga Co

43804
INVALID.
Revg
File No. 43804
David Parks
Rev. Rev. Fair
Act: 15 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 388
[Arrangement of 1870.]

David Lark
Waverly
Admitted

State of New York Cayuga County ss
David Parks of the town of Auburn, county of Cayuga and State of New York being duly sworn deposes and saith that on the twenty third day of December seventeen hundred and eighty seven he enlisted into the army of the United States upon the Continental Establishment in Capt. Stanton's Company in Col. Sherburn's Connecticut Regiment. And this deponent further saith, that he was afterwards transferred to Capt. Webb's Company (as he believes) in the 9th Connecticut Regiment Commanded by Col. Ebenezer Huntington, that he continued in the service for the space of three years and was then honorably discharged from the last mentioned regiment, at Morris town in the State of New Jersey in December seventeen hundred & eighty. And this deponent further saith that he has lost or mislaid his discharge, and by reason of reduced pecuniary circumstances in life is in need of assistance for support from his Country. And further saith not. David Parks

State of New York Cayuga County
Personally appeared before me John Grover Esq. Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Cayuga (David Parks within mentioned) and to me personally known, and made oath upon the Holy Evangelists that the within affida- -vit is true. And I the said Judge do certify to the Hon. the Secretary of the War Department, that I am satisfied that the facts in the within affidavit contained are true.
Dated April 18 th 1856.
John Grover Esq. of Cayuga Co. Pleas
State of New York Cayuga County
Personally appeared before me Elijah Bille of the town of Aurelius in the County of Cayuga a person of good moral character & a credible witness having been duly & sworn says, that, he has no interest in the event of this application, that he was in the same regiment with the within (David Parks) & knew him in the service of the United States in the revolutionary war & says that the said (David Parks) served in the said regiment for more than two years at one time and never heard but that the said David was regularly discharged. John Grover Esq. Elijah Bille Judge of Cayuga Co. Pleas

State of New York County of Cayuga
SS: I hereby certify that John Groves Esquire before whom the within Affidavit appears to have been made was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the peace in and for said County acting under the authority of this State that full faith and credit are due to his Official acts in that Capacity and that his Signature thereto subscribed is Genuine In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said County this Eighth day of April A. D. 1828.
E. L. M c Intosh Clk
pr. J. D. Casey Dep Clk

Gayague County, on the 7th day of October 1878 before John Grover one of the Judges of the Court of Com. Pleas for said County came came Phillip Langdon who to me personally known to be a man of truth and veracity and being duly sworn says he is knowing that the person named David Parks served in the Continental Army in Company of James Stanhope's Battery in Col. Henry Sheburn's Regiment in the Connecticut Line two years or more and further saith not
Sworn and Subscribed the 7th day of October 1878-? before me John Grover Judge of Gayague Com. Pleas
Phillip Langdon

Law of David Parks
Sheldon Huntington
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4130
4130 4 Nov. 1818
Mar 19

STATE OF NEW YORK,
ONTARIO COUNTY, ss.
On this twenty first day of August 1820 personally appeared in open Court, (being a Court of Common Pleas in and for said county, and constituted a Court of Record by proceeding according to the course of the Common Law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping a record of its proceedings, and recognized as such Court by the laws and judicial decisions of said State) David Parks aged Sixty Six years, resident in the town of Ponkeepsie in said county, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows:
for the term of three years in continuation, about 2 years of said time in Capt Stantons company in Col Henry Sheldons Regiment in the Connecticut line, then transferred to Colonel Ebenezer Huntington Regiment in the Connecticut line in Grownbridges company from which he was discharged said service first commencing in December 1777
and that he made application for a Pension on the Eighth day of April 1818 and that he received a Pension Certificate, No. 42130 And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818. and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed, viz.
  Cow ax  1.50    Cow hoe .38 (one old say the .3)  .75    Thirty Dollars which I have paid on a     Verbal contract for 20 acres of land  30.00     $32.25  
David Parks
And I do further swear and declare that I am by occupation a farmer and that by age and bodily infirmities I am able to perform but little manual labor and that I have no family
David Parks
Sworn and Declared this 21 st Day of August 1820 in Open Court before me
W m Rogers
a Judge of Ontario Com Pleas

ONTARIO COUNTY, ss.
I, John Van Tassel Clerk of said county, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; and I farther certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, is thirty two dollars and twenty five cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this 22 nd day of August 1890
J Van Tassel Clerk of the Court aforesaid, in and for said County.