Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42982, for Rufus Mix, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
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Mix, Rufus
S. 42982
CONTENTS

Notification sent 30 Octo: 1820, to Denizen Williams, at Albany, N.Yk. —
2141
New York L
Rufus Mix Colo Parsons private Continued line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 27 of Apr. 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 of Aug. 1818 and sent to John Russell Esq. Coopers town, Otsego Co. N.Y.
Arrearages to 21 st Sept. 1818 — 4 mos 8/30th $34 13
{Revolutionary claims,} {Act 18th March, 1818,}
6 years
✓ Sheldon Hartwick, Otsego Co. Continued

42982 Rev INVALID.
File No. 42,982
Rufus Mix Rev Rev War
Act: 15 March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 3 , Page 339
[Arrangement of 1870.]

MSK - 157
Recd 21 Aug 1820
Hon. J. C. Calhoun Secy. of War Washington D.C.

J. C. Calhoun Esq r Dear Sir 3 Please to direct the answer to Denison Williams Albany). The situation of my Concunz. & by so doing oblige an unfortunate Albany Aug t 15. 1820 (Revolutionary). Soldier Rufus M c Intosh

Rufus Mix
no 2521
sp. 6 Aug. 1818.
Continued. sent to Denison Williams Esq Albany. N.Y. 30 Oct. 1890.

property except my wearing apparel Sworn to and declared S (Sigma) Rufus Shaw in open court on the 13 th day of June 1820
C. H. Williams
Deputy Clerk
I Henry Inman Clerk of the City and County of Albany. Do hereby Certify that the foregoing oaths and the schedule then to annexed, are truly copied from 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 property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is nothing—
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this Thirteenth day of June 1820—
Henry Inman Clerk

State of New York Albany County ss
On this Thirteenth day of June in the Year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred & Twenty personally appeared in open Court, (being a court of record in & for said County, according to the solemn adjudications of the Supreme Court, of the State, and being a court which proceeds according to the course of common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and possessing the power of fine and imprisonment) Rufus Mix aged 63 years, resident in the City of Albany, in said County, who, being duly sworn according to law, both on his oath declare, that he served in the revolutionary war as follows to wit. That said Rufus Mix served in the Second Regiment of light Dragoons commanded by Colonel Elisha Sheldon in Capt Talmadge's company in the Connecticut line in the continental establishment, that I made application before John Russell a Judge of the Court of common pleas in Otsego County on the 27th day of April 1818 and my certificate numbered 2141
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 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 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 profession a Shoemaker and that owing to general debility I am unable to support myself, that I have no family for which I provide that I have no real estate and no personal

property except my wearing apparel Sworn to my declaration \S (Sigma) Rufus Hild in open court on the 13 th day of June 1820
C. H. Williams
Deputy Clerk
I Henry Truax Clerk of the City and County of Albany. Do hereby Certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule there to annexed, are truly copied from 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 property exhibited in the of fore mentioned schedule is nothing—
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this Thirteenth day of June 1820—
Henry Truax Clerk

Rufus Mix - 27 April Correct

State of New-York, OTSEGO COUNTY
ss. Rufus Mix age 86 years being duly sworn, saith, that he is a resident of the town of Hartwick in the County aforesaid, and has served as a private soldier in the war of the revolution against the common enemy, for the term of Nine Months and longer, at a certain period of the war herein after mentioned, on the Continental Establishment, and is yet a resident citizen of the United States; and by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for support. And this deponent further saith, that he never has received any pension from the U- nited States, and doth hereby relinquish his claim to every pension that may have been heretofore allowed him by the laws of the United States, excepting and reserving to himself the right of claiming, and he doth hereby claim a pension under an act entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed 18th March, 1818. And this deponent doth further declare under oath, that the time he entered the army of the United States in the war of the revolution aforesaid, on the Continental Establishment, the officer under whom he served, and the line to which he belonged, together with the time and manner of leaving the service, are all correctly set forth, according to the best of his knowledge and recollection, in the following manner; that is to say, he the said —
Rufus Mix did at Norwalk in the State of Connecticut, , immediately after the Battle of Bunker Hill, in the year 1775. which under one Lieut Ebenezer Brewster in the  Line Colonel Parsons regiment belonging to the Connecticut line — which enlistment was for six months — served until a few days before the expiration of said six months and then in this deponent enlisted again under the same Ebenezer Brewster who was a Captain at that time in Colonel Parsons regiment belonging to the same Connecticut line — which enlistment was for one year — and he this deponent served in said regiment until about one week before his enlistment expired and then enlisted under Captain Benjamin Talmadge in Colonel Sheldon's regiment of Light Dragoons belonging to the Connecticut line — which enlistment was for during the war — in this deponent served in said Sheldon's regiment until the end of the war and was discharged in the month of June 1783 in the State of Connecticut by Genl. Washington — which discharge this deponent has lost — During the time he this deponent served in the war, he was in the Battles of Brandywine and Germantown and was three times taken prisoner — and this deponent further saith not
Sworn & Subscribed before me this 27 th day of April 1818.
Rufus Mix
John Raper Judge of Otsego Com. Pleas.

State of New-York, } ss. OTSEGO COUNTY,
Elijah Fitch of the town of Deerington with whom I am being duly sworn, saith, that he is personally well acquainted with Rufus — the applicant above named, and has been so acquainted with him the said Rufus — for fifty — years, and during that time the said Rufus — has sustained a good character for truth and vera- city, and he this deponent verily believes that full credit ought to be given to the de- clarations of the said Rufus when under oath.
And this deponent further saith that he knew that the said Rufus was a Soldier in the revolutionary war —
Elijah Fitch
Sworn before me
This 27 th day of John Ransom April 1818 — Judge of Otsego Co. Pleas
State of New-York, } ss. OTSEGO COUNTY,
I John Ransom one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid, do certify that I am satisfied the said Rufus Mif — served in the revolutionary war as aforesaid, against the common enemy, for a longer term than nine months, as stated in the affidavit of the said Rufus — hereunto annexed — And I do further certify that full credit is due to the deposition of the above named Rufus — and also that the evidence on which I have founded my judgment is contained in the affidavit of the said Rufus —
Given under my hand at Cooperstown this 2 nd day of May 1818. —
John Ransom Judge of Otsego Co. Pleas