Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37,737, David Betts, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Betts, David
S 37,737
CONTENTS

Connecticut Roll.
(N o 1890.)
David Betts, 4 Conn. Private. J B Webb's Regiment In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 6. of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 31. of July 1818, and sent to the Pensioner at Danbury, Conn t .
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818.
Several allowances
4 months 29/30. $ 39.73
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
77 till close of War
Connecticut

Evolution April 11 th 1910
I will remember that David Butts was a (during) War man & in my company and I think I will remember that he was honorably discharged on the first of July 1903 - or between that & the 6 th But I have no papers to examine relative to this business
Steph n Butts capt in 3 d M st Conn t Light Troops Revolutionary Army
To whom it may concern

I David Betts of Danbury in the County of Fairfield State of Connecticut being duly sworn do hereby say, that I served as a soldier in the army of the United States in the Revolutionary war I enlisted to the best of my recollection some time in the year 1777 for during the war into the Third Regi- ment of the Connecticut Troops commanded by Samuel B. Wilb- in the Company of Capt Stephen Betts near living in New Canaan in Fairfield County and was honorably discharged at the close of the war after more than four years service of my Country But have left my discharge. I am at present cut & poor and entirely destitute of property and am in need of assistance from my Country for support, and further say not
DAVID BETTS
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State of Connecticut Fairfield County to Danbury Probate District on the sixth day of April A D 1818 Personally came before me Daniel A. Cook Judge of said Court of Probate the above named David Betts who being first sworn, deposes to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed being Personally known to me and entitled to credit and at the same exhibited the within enclosed certificate of Stephen Betts Esq of New Canaan in Fairfield County his left in said Regiment of Connecticut Troops of well known respectability by which affidavit and certificate with other evidences by him made and my own personal knowledge of David I am fully satisfied that he rendered the services against the common enemy by him alleged to in his said

assessant; that he is poor and indigent and stands in need of assistance from his Country for support and is every way justly entitled to a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Probate District on the day and year within written in the absence of the Clerk
Daniel P. Cook, Judge of Probate Sister of the Peace and one of the Judges of the Common Pleas in said Fairfield County
David Butts -
Edward G. Sullivan

David Butts 13
Ex 2
1090
Dist: 10/10
con

State of Connecticut, ss. July 18 th 1820
I DAVID BURR, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Fairfield, in the said State, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thereto 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 the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is
Dollars  Twenty three cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Fairfield, this 18 day of July 1820.
David Burr Clerk of the County Court for said County of Fairfield.
District and State of Connecticut, ss Fairfield July 18-1820
I ROBERT FAIRCHILD, Chief Judge of the County Court for the County of Fairfield, in said State, do certify that DAVID BURR, Esq. is the Clerk of said Court, duly appointed and sworn; and that the said Court is a Court of record, made so by the statute laws of said State; that it proceeds according to the course of the common law, has a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, with the power of fine and imprisonment, and keeps a record of its proceedings.
Robert Fairchild
Chief Judge of the County Court for the County of Fairfield.

At a County Court, held in and for the County of Fairfield in the District and State of Connecticut, on the 18 th day of July 1820 the same being a Court of Record, and having a seal, by virtue of the laws of said State.
PERSONALLY APPEARED, in open Court, David Betts a resident in the town of Danbury in the County of Fairfield in said State, and exhibited and subscribed the following Schedule, and made Solemn Oath that the same is a true and perfect Schedule of all his income and property, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) viz.
1 Leach Knife 17 cts. 1 Snuff Box 6 cts. $00.23
David Betts

District and State of Connecticut, ss.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That in the County Court, held in and for the County of Fairfield in the District and State aforesaid, on this 18 th day of July 1820 the same being a Court of Record, and having a Seal, under the Authority of said State, personally came and appeared in open Court, David Betts aged sixty four years, resident in the Town of Danbury in the County of Fairfield in said State, and being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his Oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows: as a private in the 3 d Regiment of the Connecticut line Commanded by Col s Samuel B Webb & in Capt n Stephen Betts Company from the spring of the year 1777 to the close of the War
that the original Declaration made by him, for the purpose of obtaining a Pension, under the Act of Congress of the 18th of March, 1818, was dated the sixth day of April 1818 that in pursuance thereof he was entered in the List of Pensioners, and received a Pension Certificate No. 1890 And I do further 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 herein annexed, and by me subscribed. And I do further declare that my occupation is that of a day labourer. I am very infirm and almost blind, & totally unable to labour and that I have no family residing with me having never been married  I am dependant upon the Public for support
all which is subscribed by me the day and year aforesaid.
David Betts
Sworn to, and declared in the Court aforesaid. Whereupon said Court is, on satisfactory proof exhibited in Court, of opinion that the total amount in value of the property contained in the aforesaid Schedule is twenty three cents Dollars and _____ Cents, and doth order these proceedings to be entered in the Records of said Court.
Attest David Burr Clerk

37737 INVALID.
Rev
File No. 37737
David Betts
Dr Rev was
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 34
[Arrangement of 1870.]