Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 7304, for Simon Peck, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
continental(conn.) Peck, Simon
S 7304
Carded
CONTENTS

14372 14375 New York
Simon Peck
of Brownville in the State of N. York who was an Artificer in the Corps of Engineers commanded by Captain Kingsbury of the Dept. of the Army commanded by Col. Baldwin in the N. York line for 3 Years Continental
Mar: 1818
Inscribed on the Roll of N. York at the rate of 144 Dollars — Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st day of March 1833 — and due to S. M. Peck Suffolk co. N.Y.
Arrears to the 4th of Mar: '33 $288 Semi-annual allowance ending 4th of '33 72 $360
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Book C. Vol. 4. Page 71. S. Miles Clerk,
14372 -

19.070
Simon Peck, Cayuga Co. N.Y.
19.145
admitted on Roll Hon. Rowland Dury N.Y.
Rec d 29 Dec. 1823.

State of New-York, } ss. Cayuga County, }
ON this 16th day of September 182 3 personally appeared, in open court, being a court of record for the said county, Simon Peck aged 67 years, resident in the town of Scipio 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:
In the Year 1777 he enlisted into the Company commanded by Capt. Jeremiah Titcomb and served in Colonel Jeduthan Baldwin's Regiment of the Connecticut line of the Revolutionary Army, and was attached to a Company of Artificers, and served, about two Years and was discharged at West Point in the Month of August 1779.
And I do solemnly Swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818; 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, and that I am by occupation a Carpenter and Farmer, and that by reason of Age & infirmities I am rendered unable to follow my said occupation, and that my family consist of my wife Sarah aged 57 Years in usual health, also a little Girl that resides with me aged 7 Years. Simon Peck.
Sworn to, and declared on the Sixteenth day of September before me Geo B. Throop Clerk of Cayuga Com. pleas.
I, George B. Throop clerk of the court of common pleas of Cayuga do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are true copies of the original filed among the records of the said court; and I do further 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 One hundred thirty eight dollars and twenty five cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this third day of December 182 3 .
Geo B. Throop
Clerk of the Court of common pleas of Cayuga County

Schedule of the real & personal estate of Simon Peck.
  One acre and eighty three rods of land & estimated to be worth including buildings $100.00   One Cow 12.00   One Hog. 2.00   One Duck 24.00   One chest of drawers Old fashioned 2.00   Two Stands a bf. 1.50   One table 2.00   One Old Clock 24.00   Wackery Ware 2.50   4 Knives & forks 0.50   1 p. Shovel & tongs 1.00   8 Old Kitchen Chairs 0.50   1 Washy Tub 0.25   Old Iron Ware 2.00   4 Old Barrels & Kegs 0.25   2 Old Wheels & reel 1.75   A few articles of carpenters Tools &c. 2.00   $138.25 
And that he is justly indebted to several persons $15.00.
And that he has no debts due to him
(Signed) Simon Peck
Sworn to & declared Sept. 16. 1823. in open Court before me Geo. R. Throop Clerk

Simon Dicks Declaration &c on Appl n for a pension
increase
3 years Art. 9. autfr.
$144

State of New York } County of Jefferson } p . . . .
On this fifth day of March in the year 1833 personally appeared before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Jefferson, in the State aforesaid, Simon Peck a resident of the town of Brownville in said County of Jefferson aged seventy five years the 23 d day of March last who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1777 , and served in Colonel Seduthan Baldwins Regiment of Artificers, in Captain Eliphas Kingsley's Company of Artificers under the following named officers that is to say, He commenced his service under Captain Lamb, and remained in his Company as he thinks during about one year, when Captain Kingsley was invested with the command of said Company, he does not recollect who was Colonel of said Regiment when he enlisted, but recollects that for the principal portion of the time he served Col. J. Baldwin commanded said Regiment that he served two years from the time of his enlistment and was discharged in the year 1799 and he thinks in the month of August of that year - That at the time of his enlistment he was a resident of the town of Norwich in the County of New London, State of Connecticut and that he entered the service in Captain

Lamb Company aforesaid, at Danbury in said State of Connecticut, that he received a written discharge on leaving the service which he has lost. He further declares that on the 29 th day of December in the year 1823 he received from the war department a certificate of pension under the act of Congress of the 18 th of March 1818, for eight dollars per month, and that the object of this application is to obtain an increase of his said pension to seventeen and one third dollars per month that being the amount of his pay per month while he was so engaged in the service as such artificer as aforesaid, to which said sum of $17 1 / 3 per month he conceives himself to be entitled by virtue of the said act of 7 th June 1832.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present. He declares that he is not on the pension roll of any agency of any State, only on that of the agency of the State of New York.
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid. Simon Peck P. Burchard Clerk
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states.

I Peleg Burchard Clerk of the court of Common Pleas of the county of Jefferson do hereby certify that the foregoing con- tains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Simon Beck for a pension -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this sixth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three -
P. Burchard Clerk

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.
March 8, 1937
B. A. Peters 233 Minnesota Ave Buffalo, N. Y.
Sir:
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 7304, it appears that Simon Peck was born September 25, 1757, place not stated.
While residing at Norwich, New London County, Connecticut, he enlisted in 1777 and served in Captains Jarius Wilcox's, Eliphaz Kingsley's, and Richard Lamb's Company, Colonel Jeduthah Baldwin's Continental Regiment of Artificers, and served until August 1779.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 16, 1823, while a resident of Scipio, Cayuga County, New York, at which time he referred to his wife, Sarah, as aged fifty-seven years.
In 1833, he was living in Brownville, Jef-

erson County, New York.
There is no further data on file as to family.
The above noted Simon Peek is the only soldier of that name found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.

State of New York } ss. Elisha Hewitt of Lampson, County of Cayuga } in the said County, being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath depose and say - That he this deponent is now, and was during the revolutionary war, acquainted with Simon Peck, now re- sident in Scipio in the said County of Cayuga; that this deponent himself enlisted in Capt. Richard Lamb's Company in Col. Jeduthan Baldwin's Regiment in the Continental line, in the Continental service, in the month of March, in the year 1778, and continued to serve in the said continen- tal service for three years the term of three years from the said date - That from the last of June or first of July, in the year 1778, until the last of this deponent's recollection & belief, in the month of August, in the year 1779, this de- ponent personally knew the said Simon Peck to serve as an enlisted soldier, as a private, in the said Col. Jeduthan Baldwin's Regiment, in the continental service as aforesaid - And this deponent further saith, that from the general representation of the officers & soldiers at that time; he verily believes that the said Simon Peck had served as aforesaid, in the said service and Regiment as aforesaid, an about nine months immedi- ately preceding the above mentioned term of about thirteen months which this deponent knew the said Simon Peck to serve as aforesaid - Sworn to and subscribed this 15th. } Elisha Hewitt day of October, A. D. 1823 — Before me C. M. BROWN Judge of the Court Common Pleas

months which this deponent knew the said Simon Peck to serve as aforesaid — Sworn to and subscribed this 15th. — day of October, A. D. 1823 — Before me CYRUS POWERS
Elisha Hewett
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, for the said County of Cuyahoga
I, Cyrus Powers, before whom the above affidavit of Elisha Hewett was made & subscribed, being judge as aforesaid, do certify that I am well acquainted with the said Elisha Hewett, and know him to be a man of good moral character, and well entitled to credit — Dated the 14. November, 1823 —
CYRUS POWERS Judge of Cuy. Com. Pleas
day of dred and twenty three.

months which this deponent knows the said Simon Peak to serve as aforesaid — Sworn to and subscribed this 15th. Elisha H. Hewett day of October, A. D. 1823 — Before me Cyrus Powers Judge of the Court of Common Pleas
STATE OF NEW-YORK, Cayuga County } ss. Clerks-Office. }
C ertify that Cyrus Powers Esquire, was on the fifteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty three a judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Cayuga, duly commissioned and sworn as such Judge and that full faith and credit are to be given to his acts in that capacity. I further certify, that I am acquainted with the hand wri- ting of the said Judge and verily believe the signature to the annexed affidavit " Cyrus Powers " to be his.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the court of com- mon pleas of said county, and subscribed my name, this third day of December in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hun- dred and twenty three .
Geo. B. Shrop Clerk

Claim 17.33 1/3 as Antiquity
March 2. 75 1833 Old Case Simon Peck N. York Revolutionary claim
Hon. Lewis Cab Secretary of war City of Washington

Mowensville Jefferson Co. New York
March 7. 1833.
Hon. Lewis Cag.
Dr Sir, Inclosed I transmit the declaration of Mr. Simon Peck, on his application for an increase of his pension, under the act of Congress of 7 th June 1832 - as the proofs of his service are already before you, it is not conceived to be necessary to set forth in his declaration, the circumstances of his service &c, with the same particularity as he would be required to set them forth in an original application - The object of his making a declaration & procuring the usual certificates is to identify the applicant, and to make known to the department the fact of his still being in life - I presume therefore his declaration will be found sufficient - Should a new Certificate be granted, please direct the same to be sent at this place -
Sanford M. Green

I have the honour of Atty to J. T. Neely in this card date 16. Sep 1857. —
H. S. Evans

19. 145. R New York.
Simon Peck.
born in the state of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Milian of the regiment commanded by Colonel Baldwin in the Continental army, for the term of two years. On Roll
inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 16 th of September 1828
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 th of Dec 1828 and Sent to Hon. R. Day H. Rep.
Arrear to 4th of part of semi anl. all'ce ending 4 March 1824 $ 45. 00
40. 4. 1. 3 45. 3
$ 45. 00
{ Revolutionary claim, Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820. }
March 1. 1824

ALFRED E. ROBINSON.
165 LYCEUM STREET.
Glew
GENEVA. N. Y.,
August 14, 1900.
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir;—
Will you please send me a copy of the military record of one Simon Peck , who enlisted in the service of the Revolutionary War, at Norwich, Conn., and was later a resident of Scipio, Cayuga County, N. Y. Please state when and where he died.
Have the kindness to give this matter your immediate attention, For which I thank you in advance.
Very truly,
A. E. Robinson

Rev. War
3-872. (Old No. 3-545.)
RECORDS.
CHANGE TO BE MADE.
CORRECT.
State, New York Off No. 14372 Class, Invalid Name, Simon Peck Service, _____
Company, Regiment, &c., should be invariably specified.
INCORRECT.
Off 14375 ok. a
H. M. Southwick
State Service not changed by order of or letter of claim.

THE NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY
Ans. Mar. 8, '27
Buffalo, N. Y., February 12, 1927.
Revolutionary War Department, Pension Office, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sirs:-
I would appreciate it if you could give me the record of Simon Peck, who was assigned to the Continental Line in the Revolutionary War.
Yours very truly,
A handwritten signature in cursive, reading "B. A. Peters", written in dark ink with a large, stylized flourish on the final name.
B. A. Peters, 233 Minnesota Ave., Buffalo, N. Y.

PRINTED IN U. S. A.
THE NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY
Buffalo, N. Y., February 28, 1927.
Revolutionary War Department, Pension Office, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sirs:-
Referring to my letter of February 12, requesting the record of Simon Peck, who was assigned to the Continental Line in the Revolutionary War.
Would appreciate it if you could now furnish me with his record.
Yours very truly,
A handwritten signature in cursive, appearing to read "B. A. Peters", written in dark ink.
B. A. Peters, 233 Minnesota Ave., Buffalo, N. Y.

M. E. BOTSFORD,
FRUIT GROWER
✓ And Dealer in Flour, ✓ Ground Feed of All Kinds, ✓ Plows and Extras.
Bee-keepers' and Poultrymen's Supplies.
Keuka, Steuben Co., N. Y., Jan. 17, 1902
Hon. H. C. Evans. U.S. Com. Pensions.
Washington D.C.
Sir: Will you kindly set out two copies of the record of Simon Peck as a Revolutionary War pensioner. He enlisted at Norwich Conn. 1777. Also to what Department shall I write to get facts concerning his death etc?
Yours,
M. E. Botsford.

No record of Rutford
on the end of the

M. E. BOTSFORD,
FRUIT GROWER,
AND DEALER IN
Flour, Ground Feed of all Kinds, PLOWS AND EXTRAS.
Bee-keepers' and Poultrymen's SUPPLIES.
KEUKA, Steuben Co., N. Y., Feb. 1, 1900
U. S. Pension Office, Washington D.C.
Gentlemen: I wish to find out if the names of Ebenezer Botsford or Simeon Peck appears on the pension rolls of the War of the Revolution. Ebenezer lived in New Haven Co., Conn. during the war and served in the war, but when the war closed he moved to Scipio Cayuga Co., N.Y. Simeon Peck enlisted at Bennington Vt., and served several years in the

war and moved to Seneca Cayuga Co. N.Y., after the war.
If their names or either one of them appear on the pension rolls I would like a certified copy of the complete records.
What will be the fee for same?
Yours, M. E. Botsford.
As Recd of Botsford

Feb. 26-1900
History to M. E. Batesford, Keuka N.Y.
Ap. 11-1900 - H. S. A.
N. H. Kyle - Syracuse N.Y.
Sept. 25-1900
A. E. Robinson - Geneva, N.Y.
Feby. 3-1902
M. E. Batesford, Keuka N.Y. - 2 copies
where to get note cash pay int.
1929. Mch. 8 - Hist to B. A. Peters Aug.
Reorder
7304
INVALID.
File No. 7304
Simon Peck
Artist Rev War
Act: June 4 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 11 , Page 292
[Arrangement of 1870.]

g Wtr 30 HENRY N. HYDE, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW, 618 S. A. & K. BUILDING. SYRACUSE, N. Y.
March 26, 1900.
United States Pension Office Washington, D.C.,
Gentlemen,
Will you kindly furnish me a transcript of the official military record of Simon Peck, a Revolutionary soldier and pensioner, who lived at the time of his application for a pension in the town of Scipio, Cayuga Co., N. Y.? Kindly give also the date of his death if you can. Yours respectfully, Henry N. Hyde