Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 625, William Batterson, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Batterson William
R 625
CONTENTS
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Ex'r.
INVALID.
NO. 625
REJECTED
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
William Patterson
P. O. _____
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18__
Discharged: _____, 18__
Application filed: _____, 18__
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____

19.247
M m Batterson, Portage Co. Ohio.
Seth Day, Ravenna, Ohio.
Rec d 6 May 1824.
G. Calhoun
625
Rejected letter 24 June 1824 -
John
Pension application.
Ravenna 9 April 24
Secretary of War
Washington City

Wm. Batterson: application for a pension
original application

The State of Ohio Portage County ss On the 27 th of September Eighteen hundred & twenty three, at a Court of Common Pleas held within and for the County of Portage Being a court of record proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction un- limited in point of amount, and having the power of fine and imprisonment in open Court personally appeared William Patterson, resident in said County aged seventy seven years, who being duly sworn ac- cording to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of the 18 th of March 1818, the first of May 1820, & the first of March 1823, that he the said W m Patterson enlisted for the term of seven months on the second or third day of April in the year seventeen hundred and seventy five, in the state of Connecticut, in the Company commanded by Captain Ichabod Doolittle, in the regiment commanded by Colonel Waterbury (I think Davis) in the line of the State of Connecticut, on the Con- tinental establishment; that he continued to serve in the corps about five months, when he was drawn into the command of General Worcester under whom he continued until the term of his enlistment expired, at which time he was at St. Johns & volunteered his services in the Company commanded by Captain Milworth, in the command of General Worcester, in which corps he continued, without returning home until the last of December following, when he was discharged from the said service by General Wor- cester, at Montreal in Lower Canada. My discharge is unfortunately lost. I drew pay for more than ten

months, and received payment of Captain Doolittle. "And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth of March eighteen hundred and eighteen, & that I have not 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 & naval services of the United States in the Revolutionary war," passed on the 18 th 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 & by me Subscribed. This deponent saith that he has no property either real or personal & has not had any for several years past except wearing apparel—
This deponent further saith that he is by occupation a farmer, but owing to the infirmities of age he is unable to do sufficient labour for the support of himself and family which consists of his wife Grisel age seventy eight years and very infirm. He & his wife have lived for the last seven years with their son who is thirty four years of age, who has a family & is in indigent circumstances, so as to be unable to afford much for the support of his parents, without distressing his own family. And this deponent says that without such assistance of the government he will become an object of public charity—
W m Patterson marks
Sworn & Subscribed to in open court this 27 th day of September A.D. 1823. — S. Day Clerk

The State of Ohio Portage County ss.
I Seth Day Clerk of the Court of Common pleas of said county do certify that the foregoing is truly Copied from the records of said court: And the court having inspected the said statement and being satisfied of the truth thereof ordains the same to be filed in the Clerks office and a copy thereof
To be certified to the War Department. Given under my hand and the seal of said court at Ravenna this twenty sixth day of April Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and twenty four.
Seth Day Clk.