Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 612, Lemuel Bates, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Bates, Lemuel Fairuzina
P 612
CONTENTS

State of New York Cott and County } ss.
On this 12 th day of August 1851 Personally appeared before me Daniel Howes a Judge of Cott and County Court the same being a court of Record. Fanny Bates aged Ninety five years Resident of the Town of Cott and Vice County of Cott and and State of New York. Who being duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Pension made by the act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836. That she is the Widow of Lemuel Bates deceased and a daughter of the late Captain Joseph Thompson who was after words Colonel Joseph Thompson of Brimfield Massachusetts. That when the Revolutionary War broke out she made Napsacks for her father Company left Thompson and her husband the said Lemuel Bates made the Cartridge Boxes for said Company. That in the year nineteen hundred and twenty six (1796) her husband the said Lemuel Bates entered the service at Springfield Massachusetts as a commissary and was stationed at Springfield Massachusetts and continued in the War of the Revolution the greatest part of the time until the close of the same, during the time of his service he was stationed at Springfield Mass Providence Rhode Island New London Connecticut Blanford Mass

and a while he was in Salem he went out Prisons and other story to the American Army and I believe he came home on his duty during his time -
She also declared that she was married to the said Samuel Bates in the town of Northfield Massachusetts on the tenth day of March, Seventeen Hundred and Twenty four (1794) by one Elan Brown a Presbyterian Priest and that she has no Publick or Private Record of said marriage. That her husband the afore said Samuel Bates died in Homer Portland County N.Y. on the Twenty second day of September, Eighteen Hundred and twenty two (1822) and that she is still a Widow - her Sworn and Subscribed. Fannyinah Bates The day and year aforesaid Mark
D. H. Wark Portland Co. P. Maine
I hereby certify that the above named - offant sustains a good character D. H. Wark Portland Co. P. Maine

State of New York Cortland County ss.
On this 3 rd day of July 1887 Personally appeared before me a justice of the Peace within and for the County & State aforesaid Abigail Ball old aged Eighty years Resident of Leyden Tompkins County & State of New York Who being duly sworn according to Law doth depose and say that she is a Sister of Harrizenah Bates Widow of Samuel Bates deceased of Cortland County - That this deponent came to the said Bates in Brimfield Hampshire Massachusetts in the time of the Revolution- ary War that the said Bates entered the service at Springfield as a commissary in the year Revolutionary War That this deponent was at the House of the said Bates during the time he was absent and saw him frequent when he returned home from Springfield where he was stationed - That according to the best of this deponent's recollection the said Bates was absent in the War as much as Three years This deponent says that the distance from Brimfield to Springfield is about twenty miles That this deponent well recollects that the said Samuel Bates was married to her Sister the said Harrizenah Bates before he entered the service that this deponent came with the said Bates Wife and this deponent's Sister during the time of the Revolution and in the absence of the said Bates This deponent further says that Harrizenah Bates and this deponent are

daughters of Captain Joseph Thompson & Colonel Joseph Thompson of Brimfield Mass That he held both Ranks in the Revolution Sworn and subscribed Abigail & Ballard The day and year above } Mark Mentioned before me } E W Edgcomb } Justice of the Peace }
I hereby certify that Abigail Ballard sustaining a good Character for truth and veracity - E W Edgcomb Justice of the Peace

1907 March 23. photo mailed to Miss Maria Bates and
Ex'r.
INVALID.
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
Farragina Bates
P. O. _____
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____

Mr. Cole Chief Clerk Pension Office Washington City D.C. 3
77 87.
Fairrezina Bates wid of Lemuel, N. York
Act 4 July 1836.
Set E. W. Edgecomb Nov 25/51.
612

Sept 25 th 1851
App d of Mrs F Bates widow of Samuel.
C. W. Edgecomb Courtland village Niagara New York
Leah H. Atty Counsel to the Washington N.B.

Th Repliant saving and reserving to now and at all time hereafter, all and all manner of benefit and advantage of exception which may be had or taken to the manifold insufficiencies of the said answer and further answer, for replication therunto, say that will aver, maintain, and prove, bill of Complaint to be true, certain, and sufficient, in the law, to be answered unto; and that the said answer
uncertain, untrue, and insufficient, to be replied unto by th Repliant without that, that any other matter or thing whatsoever, in the said answer contained, material or effectual in the law to be replied unto, and not herein and hereby well and sufficiently replied unto, confessed and avoided, traversed or denied, is true; all which matters and things th Repliant and will be ready to aver, maintain, and prove, as this Honorable Court shall direct, and humbly pray as in and by said bill ha already prayed.

3-2233
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Finance Division
March 11 1927
Chief Pension Division.
I have this day received from
Mrs. D. A. Gates (for Miss Nina Bates) No. ....
for $ .85 cash, requesting
photostat copy post office addresses } as per
letter herewith.
1927 Mar 20 photo. mailed Div Finance Div noted Ack
O. Randall Chief Finance Division. B.P.D.
ok 9/15/27
3.17 3.19

State of New York Cortland County }
On this 8 th day of July 1857 Personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid Adma Cha Blodgett aged Ninety Two years Resident of the Town of Longmire County of Tompkins and State of New York Who being duly sworn no according to Law doth Depose and say that he this deponent is a Person of the United States under the act of 18 March 1818 at the Rate of $90- Per annum that he entered the Service in the Year 1775- and continued in said Service in the Revolutionary War until 1780- When he was discharged
That this deponent was acquainted with Samuel Bates of Brimfield Massachusetts That we both Resided in the said Town of Brimfield at the commencement of the Revolutionary War That this deponent Recollects seeing the said Samuel Bates at Springfield in the Year 1779 when the said Bates was then at his Station in Springfield aforesaid and was then acting as a commissary and was dealing out Provisions & Store to the American Army This was at a time when this deponent was returning home from the Army to Brimfield on a Furlough that this deponent saw the said Bates at other Stations during the said War and when he saw him he was acting as a commissary -

That this deponent further say she saw the said Fanny Elizabeth Bates before the Revolutionary War. That she was then the Wife of the said Lemuel Bates that they lived in Brimfield Massachusetts when the war broke out and they were then reported to him to be dead as husband and Wife.
Sworn to and subscribed
The day and year aforesaid Adna his Blodgett before me Mark
E. W. Edgcomb Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above named deponent is a Respectable Person
E. W. Edgcomb J.P.

7787
Fairrezina Bates, md y Lemuel
N. 9.
Act 4 July 1836
E. W. Englecomb

State of New York Cortland county ss
On this 13 th day of August 1857 I personally appeared before me a justice of the Peace Within and for the County of Cortland aforesaid Lemuel Bates aged fifty one years resident of Portlandville Cortland County N.Y. Who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that he is a son of Lemuel Bates deceased Harrisonack Bates of Portlandville Cortland County that my father the said Lemuel Bates died in Homer Potter County on the 22 nd day of September 1820 leaving his widow Lemuel whose name is Harrisonack Bates Who still continues his Widow - Given under my hand the day and year aforesaid
E. M. Edgcomb Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that Lemuel Bates is a Republican citizen
E. M. Edgcomb Justice of the Peace

STATE OF NEW YORK, CORTLAND COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE, } ss.
I, RUFUS A. REED, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify that D. Hawks & E. H. Edgcomb. Esqrs before whom the annexed affidavit was taken, was at the time of taking the same, a County Judge & Justice of the Peace in and for said County, and duly authorized to take the same: And further, that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Judge & Justice and verily believe the signature to the Jurat thereof, is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County, this 15 th day of Sept. 1851.
Rufus A. Reed CLERK.

State of Massachusetts County of Hampden } ss
On this twenty fifth day of June A.D. 1831, personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Hampden and State of said Eli Bates aged eighty four years, Resident of the Town of Springfield in the said County of Hampden and State of Massachusetts who being duly sworn by me according to law doth depose and say that he was acquainted with Samuel Bates of the town of Brimfield in the said County of Hampden and State aforesaid at the time of the Revolutionary War. That the said Bates entered the service as a Commissary at Springfield in said County of Hampden, in the year of A.D. 1777 or 1778, in the Massachusetts Line - that he continued in said service in the said War of the Revolution until the year of A.D. 1781 or 1782, that I often saw the said Bates during the War at said Springfield, Massachusetts where he delt out provisions and other stores to the American Troops, as a Commissary and this Deponent saith that he saw the said Bates at Providence R.I. and at New London Connecticut, and that he recollects seeing the said Bates when he returned home from the War of the Revolution, in the Town of Brimfield, in said County of Hampden, and State aforesaid. That several years after the

close of the Revolutionary War the Said General Bates and his wife Hannah Bates removed from Said Brimfield to Homer County of Coolland and State of New York.
Subscribed and sworn to The day and year first above written before Me
Eliz Bates
L. H. Gannett Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that the above Deposition sustains a good character for truth and veracity
L. H. Gannett
Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
HAMPDEN SS.
I, RICHARD BLISS, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth, for the County of Hampden, do certify, that L. H. Gannett Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the certificate on the paper hereto annexed, was at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned, and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth; and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Gannett and believe his signature to said certificate is genuine.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said Commonwealth, this twenty fifth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty one
Richd Bliss Clerk.

State of New York Cortland County } ss
On the 3 rd day of July 1851 Personally appeared before me a justice of the Peace within and for the county and State aforesaid Paul Flodget aged Eighty Seven Years a Resident of Cortlandville Cortland County State of New York, Who being duly sworn according to Law doth depose and say that he has been acquainted with Samuel Bates for upwards of Eighty Years that they both lived in adjoining neighborhoods in the time of the Revolutionary War that this depon- ant was also acquainted with the said Samuel Bates Wife Sarah or Sarah Bates and this deponent further says that the said Samuel Bates Entered the Service as a Commissary about the year 1778 or 1779 at Springfield Hampden County in the State of Massachusetts that this deponent frequently saw said Bates in the time of the Revolutionary War at Springfield Mass New London Connecticut Providence Rhode Island and was at the said Bates - Quarters and saw him deal out Provisions and Stores to the American Troops and that from the best of this deponent's recollection the said Bates was in the Service for as much as Three years from the time he first Entered at Springfield until he was discharged This deponent further says that he was frequently at the House of the said Bates at Springfield aforesaid during the absence of the said Bates in Service
This deponent further says that the said Samuel Bates lived with his Wife —

Harrodsburg, Ky as Husband and Wife before he entered the War of the Rebellion
Sworn and Subscribed to the day and year above written before me E W Edgcomb Sustainer of the Peace his Paul V Blodgett Mark
I hereby certify that Paul V Blodgett sustains a good character for truth and veracity -
E W Edgcomb J.P.

Cottand Village Sept 15 1887
Sir
I send you herewith the application of Fannyzenah Bates Widow of Lemuel Bates for a Pension under the act of July 4 th 1836.
When acted on Please communicate the Result to me
I am Very Respectfully Your Obedient Servant
E. W. Edgcomb
J. E. Heath Esq. Comm. of Pensions Washington D. C.

Cortlandville Cortland Co. N.Y. December 28 th 1857
M c — Cole Pension Office Washington City D.C.
Dr Sir
Was Mr Ebenezer  John Sanborn (or any other person) within the last 3 years presented claims in favor of Mrs Fanny Bates for Military Services of Lemuel Bates deceased during the American Revolution — if so were they adjusted & paid — Mrs Bates authorized said Sanborn to present such claims — Since which she can not learn from him how the matter has been conducted —
Must Respectfully
J.C. Allen
M c E Sanborn is of 3 Lee Mass 3
M c Cole. Please present my compliments to your Daughter Fanny Indy. S.C. Allen of Palmyra — N.Y.

transferred Release This letter that this letter was written & the date it was a reason it was acknowledged Mrs. D. A. Bates ordered telegrams for this lady & old records recalled MCH
Moravia, N. Y. Feb. 7. 1927.
Pension Bureau, Washington. D. C.
Dear Sir:-
Have you a record of the service of Lemuel Bates in the Revolutionary war? He was from Mass.
Lemuel Bates was my great grandfather and was the son of George and Rebecca Dick Bates. He was born Mar. 4. 1747, married Fairrezimah Thompson (daughter of Lt. Col. Joseph Thompson) died Sept. 12, 1822. Is buried in Cortland, N. Y. on my grandfather's lot. Lemuel Bates Jr.
My grandfather was born in Brinfield Mass. It may be my great grandfather was born there.
Any information concerning Lemuel Bates Sr. who was in the Rev. war will be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance cordially yours. Mina E. Bates.

March 11, 1927
Commissioner of Pensions Washington, D. C.
Sir:
I desire photostat copies of two pages (both copied twice---four pages in all, and one set certified) from Revolutionary War pension claim of Fairrizina Bates, widow of Lemuel Bates (R. 612), Massachusetts Troops.
Miss Maria Bates, Moravia, New York.
Mail to above name and address
Received payment of Mrs. Q. A. Gates Eighty-five cents
Margaret M. H. Finch Rev. & 1812 Wars Section

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