Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34026, Daniel Benjamin, Continental. New York.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Continental. New York.
Benjamin Daniel
p. 34026.
end in 1853.
CONTENTS

12.770
Nov 24, 1853
New Jersey
Daniel Benjamin of Sussex County in the state of New Jersey who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Malcomb of the New York line, for the term of 3 Years 1780
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 16 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 4 th of July 1819 and sent to Walter L. Shaw Esq. Ramaburgh N. Jersey
Arrears to 4th of March 1819. 10 m. \frac{15}{30} = \frac{1}{2} - 85 3 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Sept 1819. 48: -
$133:3
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Dieu Nos. 24-1853
(p. 919)

Daniel Benjamin
not entitled to a pension having procured a substitute
If the applicant will prove by a credible witness, that he served as he states, his claim may be admitted. His name does not appear on our master roll.
Pension Office - War Dept. June 9. 1849
State of New Jersey County of Sussex to Be it known that the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County personally appeared Nathan Benjamin aged fifty seven years and upwards who being duly sworn according to Law doth depose and say that ac- cording to the best of his knowledge, information and belief

District of New Jersey
Guipsey County ss:
On this sixteenth day of April A.D. 1818. before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Com- mon Pleas of said County, personally appeared Daniel Benjamin aged Sixty one years resident in New Jersey Guipsey County aforesaid who being by me duly sworn ac- cording to Law doth on his oath make the following declara- tion in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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" That he the said Daniel Benjamin enlisted in the year 1776 on or about the month of April at Warwick in the State of New York under Capt. Tompkins company being attached to Col. Malcom's Regiment of foot New York line Genl Conway's Brigade for the term of three years or during the war, that the said Danl Benjamin served under said enlistment for the term of two years and nine months, and at the expiration of said term, got his discharge from under the hand of Col. Malcom at Haverstraw in the State of New York and got a substitute to serve the term of his enlistment out which was accordingly done that the said Daniel was at the Battle of Monmouth which took place on the 28th day of June, 1778 - That he has unfortunately lost his discharge and has no other evidence now in his power of his said service, that he the said Daniel is now in reduced circumstances and has the wish of his Country his
Sworn and Declared before me } Danl D Benjamin the day and year above written } marks J. H. B. H. S.

County State
Walter L. Shae Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Daniel Benjamin did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding Declaration against the Common Enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the secretary of the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned Act of Congress —
Witness my hand at Hanbury N.J. the sixteenth day of April A.D. 1818 —
Walter L. Shae
State series for o sists accor and w within was pr in the money and h to the t the thi Sworn before me The
State of New Jersey
Sussex County ss. I, Ephraim Green Esq. Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do certify that Walter L. Shae Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit appears to have been made and who has thereto subscribed his name was at the time and signing the same one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Sussex duly qualified & sworn and to all his acts as such full faith and credit is and ought to be given
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of said Court this 11th day of May A.D. 1818.
E. Green Esq.

County of Sussex State of New Jersey
State of New Jersey I, William Lee Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid do certify that the within named Clarence Daniel Bergmann is in indent and under circumstances and facts in and of my Country and - (Handwritten signature) (Handwritten text) Feb. 1890.
State of New Jersey County of Somerset - Before me the sub- scribed one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, personally appeared Peter Courtes and sixty seven years and upwards, who being duly sworn according to laws doth depose and say, that he is now and was in the year 1776 personally acquainted with the within named defendant Daniel Beyersma, that he was present when the said Daniel enlisted at Warren in the state of New Jersey and saw him take the County money and to the best of this deponent's recollection and belief the said defendant did serve according to the time specified in the within declaration and from then this deponent saith not - Sworn and subscribed Peter Courtes Taken on this 28 th day of June 1819.
Thurs 2 nd Dec r

Daniel Benjamin
of the applicant will prove by a credible witness that he served as the state, his claim may be admitted. His name does not appear on our master roll.
Patton H. H. H. June 28th
State of New Jersey County of Sussex Before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county personally appeared Nathan Benjamin aged fifty seven years and upwards who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that accor- ing to the best of his deponent's recollection and belief the within document did exist at the time and in the period stated in the within declaration and that he served libelion for the time therein stated as the return of serving believing - Nathan Benjamin Subscribed and sworn to before me this 28th day of June 1819 -

copy of Daniel Benjamin Affidavit for Pennoa Sussex Co: N. Jersey. Vernon township.
N o 12770
Sep 1819
What is my right to keep 500 in the stock certificate shares in action?
Con
Benjamin

District of New Jersey Superior Court - 18
On this fifth day of June in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Superior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Sussex and State of New Jersey. The said Court being a court of record in said County constituted and established by the laws of the State of New Jersey. A Court of record having a seal and power to give seal inasmuch as it has unlimited jurisdiction in point of amount in civil causes and whose Judgments are reversible by writ of error only at Common Pleas and now sitting at Newton in the said County. David Benjamin of the age of sixty one years resident in the Township of Vernon in the County of Sussex and State of New Jersey who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare and say that he served in the revolutionary war as follows. He enlisted as a private in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy five under Captain John Wisner in Regiment commanded by Colonel Nicolas for the term of three months and afterwards in the same year enlisted for five months under Captain William Blain in the same Regiment in the New York line. The number of the Regiment not recollected. His enlistment for the term of five months and afterwards this Deponent recruited in a Company commanded by Captain Loom in a Regiment commanded by Colonel --- Malcomb Lieutenant Colonel --- Aaron Burr of the New York line. The number of the Regiment not recollected for the term of three years which three years of service this Deponent completed. And this Deponent further says that he received from the war Department of

the United States a Certificate under the hands of J. C. Calhoun Secretary thereof and the Seal of the said Department of War and numbered on the back thereof 12.770. dated the ninth day of July one thousand eight hundred and nineteen Stating that this deponent was placed on the pension list roll of the New Jersey Agency - at eight dollars per month to commence on the sixteenth day of April eighteen hundred and eighteen and the said David Benjamin do solemnly swear that I was an citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen 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 eighteenth day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen 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 this deponent doth further say that he was sixty one years old the twenty fifth day of July last past that he is by occupation a labourer that his family residing with him consists of him- self his wife and two children his wife named Amy of the age of fifty seven or eight years that his children are named William aged thirteen years and Amy aged ten years and that the defendant and his said wife by reason of age and infirmity are unable to provide for the comfortable support of themselves and family and that his said children
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the hands the seal numbered day of July nineteen the pension dollars per April the said was a resident of March hundred that time property so to diminish an act certain cial Service was passed the year eighteen person in contract some other hereunto and this he was sister of July labourer most of his age named years that thirteen the defendant informally support of children
are too young and feeble to provide for or contribute in any in any considerable degree to their own support and the deponent further says that he considers himself in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to support himself without the assistance of his country
his Daniel D Benjamin mark
Signed and declared in Open Court on the 5 th day of June A.D. 1820
Signed Agdree — Schedule of the deponent's property necessary clothing and bedding excepted. Real estate — none — Personal estate, goods and chattels none. They having been all sold lately by virtue of a landlord's distress warrant — rent due from Levi Bernet for about twenty six dollars —
Signed and declared in open Court the 5 th day of June A.D. 1820. Daniel D Benjamin mark
It is the opinion of the court that the applicant has no property either real or personal except the above chose in action 5 th June 1820 Agdree —
Ephraim Greenfield: Clerk of the inferior court of common Pleas & for the county of Superior do hereby cer- tify that the foregoing oath and the 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 court that the applicant has no property either real or personal except the above chose in action. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this ninth day of June A.D. 1820
Ephraim Greenfield: Clerk of the court of the county of Superior

January 9, 1927
Mrs. Carl L. A. Schmidt 1731 Channing Way Berkeley, Calif.
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 34026 it appears that Daniel Benjamin was born January 25, 1759, place not stated.
He enlisted at Warwick, New York in 1775 and served four months in Captain John Wisner's Company, Colonel Nicoll's New York Regiment, then enlisted again in same year and served five months as private in Captain William Blair's Company in the same regiment.
He enlisted in April 1776, served as a private in Captain Tomm's Company, Colonel Malcolm's New York Regiment, was in the battle of Monmouth, and served three years.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 16, 1818 while a resident of Sussex County, New Jersey.
In 1820 he was living in Vernon Township, Sussex County, New Jersey and referred to his wife Amey aged fifty-seven or fifty-eight years, and two children, William aged thirteen,
and Amy aged ten years. He died November 24, 1853.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.

34026 Rev INVALID.
pg 7 (p. 12) Fidelity to the Cause John M. Stewart in U. S. Veteran Reunion S.A. 8-26-10 M.T. 12
File No. 34026
Daniel Benjamin Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 34
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Hamburg, N.Y. 28 th June 1881
Admiral
The Honble. N. C. Calhoun
Longfellow Ensign Geo. Washington —

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Enclosed you will receive the declaration of Daniel Benjamin - with the certificate required by the act. I mention in my letter that the persons who have signed the same are both respect to the law in town with sentences of respect to him.
Yours affec. Servt J. B. Mansfield Newburyport 28 th Jan 64
Mr. Hoskins Esq. Salem