Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 45,288, Admatha Blodget, Continental Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Continental Mass.
Blodgett, Adnatha
b. 4 5,288
CONTENTS

14-401 New York.
Admalla Blouget of Groton in the state of N. York. who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Nixon of the Massachusetts he, for the term of 3 years .
Inscribed on the roll of New York at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 1 st of August 1819 .
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 th of Sept. 1819 and sent to Augustus Gray Esq. Clinton Co. N. York.
rs to 4th of Sept. 1819  \frac{14.4}{31.30} 4. 67 and all'ce ending 4 Mar 1820 40. 00
4.46.22.1805 44.67
Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.
R Josephine Co. N. York.
The certificate in this case was properly addressed to Plattsburg and returned in a dead letter, and forwarded to Albany N.Y. 10 th May 1820.
1871 March 23. Mr H French history Prior
(Witness, Abraham sent May 18 th 1820  George  Smith  Esq.  Clinton Co. N. York. 

Adrianna Bloxham P.W.
Col. Nixon's Mist. Reg.
1777-3 years - 10 th Aug. 1819.
Roll
Admitted
Gordon Franklin Col.

Tompkins County ss } Admatha Blodget of Groton State of New York } in the County of Tompkins
State of New York, being duly sworn, deposeth & saith That on or about the first of December in the year 1775 He the said Admatha, did Enlist as a Soldier in the then Continental army in a Company commanded by Capt. Warham Parks, in a Regiment commanded by Colonel Learned & Shepard joined the army at Roxbury, and that after the Evacuation of Boston by the British Army, he went to New York, continued there untill it was Evacuated by the American Army — was in a Battle at Trogs neck in October 1776 was also in the Battle at Trenton on the morning of 26 th of December 1776 — and on the first day of January 1777 was discharged the service — And on the fifteenth day of April following did reinlist for three years in a Company Command- ed by Capt. William Toogood, in the sixth Massa- chusetts Regiment Commanded by Col n Thomas Xixon joined the Army in May following, was in the Battle at Bemis' Height on the 7 th of October 1777 — and on the 17 th of May in the year 1779 he was taken Prisoner by the British where he remained confined in the Sugar House in New York untill the 27 th day of October following when he made his Escape from Prison Swam across the River and joined his Regiment on the 30 th of October at Peeks kill; continued with the Regiment untill the 15 th of April in the year 1780 at which time he was Honorably discharged, having served in the American Army in the whole more than four years, and that the latter part of the three years the Company was commanded by Capt. Heywood & the Regiment by Col n Smith

And further this deponent saith that he is in Indigent Circumstances and needeth the assistance of his Country for his Support agreeable to the act passed for the relief of Revolutionary Soldiers under the Continental Establishment and further that his discharge is lost
Adonatha Blodget
Subscribed and sworn this Eleventh day of August Eighteen hundred and nineteen the name Adonatha Blodget with whom I am well acquainted and do certify to be a credible witness
I do hereby certify that I am satisfied that the person above named Adonatha Blodget is in Indigent circumstances and needs the assistance of his Country for support according to the act passed for the relief of Continental Revolutionary soldiers. Augustus Gray one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas Augustus Gray one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Tompkins County

State of New York } ss. S. George, P. Frost Deputy clerk Pompeius County } of said County do hereby certify that Augustus Brady Esq r before Me whom the annexed affidavit was taken was on the date of the date thereof a Legal acting Judge of the Court of common pleas in and for said County of Pompeius, duly appointed and sworn according to law to take Affidavits &c. and further that I am acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Judge, and verily believe the signature Augustus Brady to be in his own proper hand-writing. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of the said Court and County at Ithaca, this 12 th day of August. 1819.
Sec. P. Frost Deputy Clerk.

A copy
Admatha Blodget
14.4.11.
March 1020
Dist. P.
Low. C I L.E.-
Geo: P. Croft, Esq. Ithaca,
Co. of N. York
Geo. P. Croft Esq.

Copy
State of New York } ss Tomkins County }
on the 24 th day of February 1821 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Common Pleas held in and for Said County in Said State constituted a Court of Record by the Laws of Said with power to hear try and determine all actions real personal and mixed arising in the Said County and also all transitory actions altho the same may not have arisen within the Said the Said County and with other powers Adonaiha Blackett aged Sixty two years resident in the Town of Groton in the Said County who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows that he enlisted on or about the first of December (1775) at Brimfield Massachusetts under William Parks in Regiment commanded by Colonel Leonard and served until the first of January (1777) and was discharged at Branton & then enlisted again the 15 th day of April (1777) at Brimfield for three years under Capt Wm Boogood the Reg t was commanded by Colonel Thomas Nixon and was discharged the 15 th of April (1780) at Soldiers Fortune was taken prisoner the 14 th of May (1779) and taken to New York and put in the Sugar house in New York and made my escape the 21 st of October in the same year
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any way or 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 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 me nor having other income than what is contained in the schedule hereunto

annexed and by me Subscribed
that he is Sixty two years old Dec last and that he is not able to labour but a small part of the time on the account of the Rheumatism and other disorders that he has wife aged fifty five years of about middling health and one boy aged ten years of middling health the mrs of his benefit does not return Recollect that he drew from the 18 th of August 1819 and drew the pension money the 18 th of March (1820) and has not drawn but once
Swens and allerton in open Court January the 24 1821 before me
Augustus Cray
one of the judges of the court of common pleas of San Luis County
State of New York Tompkins County ss
I George P. Frost, Deputy Clerk, of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly cop- ied from the Records of said Court.
And that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Forty two Dollars and twenty five cents - In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said court this 5 th day of February 1821 -
Geo. P. Frost
Deputy Clerk

An Inventory of the property of Admutha Klodgett
  Real estate none     an income yearly of ten dollars  $10 00    one mare 18 years old  20 00    1 teakettle  75    1 teapot 3 cups and saucers sugar bowl     cream cup 3 teaspoons 3 knives and forks     3 earthen plates  1 00    Shovel and Tongs  1 00    one vel-side saddle  3 00    2 ribbles  2 00    2 chains  1 00     42 25    Swear and attest January
the 24 th 1884 in open court } Admutha Klodgett before me }
Augustus Crary one of the judges of the court of Common Pleas of said county

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Admatha Blodget a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.  LENGTH OF SERVICE.  RANK.  OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.  STATE.    CAPTAIN.  COLONEL.      Dec. 1. 1775  Jan'y 1. 1777  Pvt.  Warham Parks  Learned and Shepard  Mass.    Apr. 15. 1777    William Forgood  Thomas Nelson        Higginson  Smith      on May 17. 1779   he was taken prisoner and confined in Sugar House in New York until Oct. 27. following, when he escaped and gained his Regt. on Oct. 30. and continued with it until Apr. 15. 1780 when he was discharged.     Battles engaged in, Saratoga Trenton Bennington  Residence of soldier at enlistment, enlisted at Brimfield, Mass.  Date of application for pension, Aug. 11. 1819. The U. was at  Residence at date of application, Goshen, Tompkins Co. N.Y.  Age at date of application, born in Dec. 1758. died July 22, 1855. from R.B.  Remarks: In 1851 he referred to his wife then 56 years old and "one boy 10 yrs old" their names are not stated. In 1852 sons Alva 26 years and Henry 30 years were residents of Goshen N.Y. There is no other data on file as to his family.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

1930 June 10 Hist. Soc. B. Hobart
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INVALID.
Rev
File No. 45-288
Admatha Blodget
Pris Rev War
Act: 18 March 1818
Index:—Vol. 3 , Page 49
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Hon. D. Woodworth M c Kinley & Howe & Admiral Pobjett
See caveat & recanta- tion in this case, among the papers of Moses Howe.

War Department, Pension Office, July 27 th 1822.
Sir,
Information having been given to this Department, that you have fraudulently conveyed your property to your sons, for the purpose of bringing yourself within the provisions of the acts of Congress granting pensions for revolutionary services, I have to state to you, that the further payment of your pension will be suspended until you shall have exhibited satisfactory evidence, that the aforesaid information is incorrect.
I am, respectfully,
M r . Obt. Secy.
J. L. Edwards
M r . Admather Blodget, Groton, N. Hk.

New York
Admatha Blodget placed on the revo. roll 20 Sept. 1819.
Suspended - see papers within. Hon. R. Day written to 15 Dec. 1824, requesting his opinion, which he declined giving.
Hon. R. Day written to 10 Mar. 1825 - and Hon. D. Woodcock Aug. 9. 1825. See letter 10 April, 1826 to Hon. C. Humphney H. R. Suspension removed. See letters to Agent & Hon. D. Woodcock H. R. Dec 5. 1828.

Alvah Blodget of Groton in the County of Tompkins
Son of Almaltha Blodget being duly sworn deposes & saith that he is almost twenty six years of age and that he lived with his said father most of the time for three years after he was twenty one years of age and that his said father has conveyed to him a small part of his property for which he has become obligated to pay fifty Dollars of his father Debts - and further saith not
Alvah Blodget
October 5 th 1892
That the above is true
Sworn before me J. G. Hunt J. P.

I State of New-York, I, Miles Finch (Deputy Clerk Tompkins County) of said County and Deputy Clerk of said County, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby cer- tify that Jabez Stone before whom the annex- ed affidavit was taken was in the day of the late time of the Partis in the said County of Tompkins dwelling in said County duly commission- ed and known to me to be the person described to me to be the first colony. Further I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Jabez Stone and hereby believe the signature of Jabez Stone on the annexed affi- davit to be his own hand writing. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court this Seventh day of October 1822. At Ithaca. Miles Finch (Dep. Clerk.

State of New York, I, Miles Finch, Deputy Clerk of Tompkins County, said County and Deputy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing before me the annexed affidavit was taken on the day of the date there- of a Justice of the Peace in the said County of Tompkins duly commissioned and qualified according to law authorized to act in that capacity. Further I do certify with the hand writing of the said Justice and my own the signature of Joseph Stout on the foregoing affidavit to his proper hand writing. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court this Tenth Day of October 1822 at Ithaca. Miles Finch Dep. Clerk.

Henry Blodget of Grooton, County of Tompkins, Son of Almatha Blodget being duly sworn deposeth & saith, that he is now upwards of thirty years of age & that he has been in his said father's employment from the year 1813 to the year 1819 except 3 months in the autumn of 1813 and 3 months in the autumn of 1814 when he was in the service of his country in the late war and that after the above six years services he did contract with his said father for the most part of his property for which he became obligated to pay of his said father debts the amount of three hundred and Ninety Dollars which sum together with the above services he believes to be the full value of the property received and further saith not
Henry Blodget
Sworn before me J. P. Just. Esq. Octob. 5 th 1822 }

To the Hon J. C. Calhoun Secretary of war
Sir I received your letter of the 24 th of July last informing me of the suspension of the payment of my Pension &c — in the month of October following I wrote to you stating some reasons for the conveyance of my Property together, with the affidavits of my sons, also a certificate of the Town Clerk showing the amount in value of my property so conveyed — having received no return, and having lately seen a letter from the war office addressed to John Ellis Esq. containing Extracts of a communication respecting the property & standing of Moses Howe all which I know to be false in the extreme! and having good reason to believe, that something similar was communicated respecting me
I now humbly request you, to send me a copy of said letter or communication, together with the signatures although I am poor & unable to help myself, yet I trust I have friends who will not suffer the authors of such slanderous libels to escape with impunity
I am with respect your
most obedient serv t
Admatha Blodgett
Groton Tompkins Co April 7 th 1823

P.S. - Sir I have delayed sending this, hoping that I might by some means find out the authors of said communication before alluded to - but Scurry commonly attends the Murderer, the assassin and the vile Slanderer - as the said communication to your office does virtually accuse me of the crime of Perjury I again repeat my request that you would be so kind as to let me know the author or authors together with the particular statement made by them. I shall not at present take any further measures to prove to you the fallacy of said information but remain with sentiments of respect your most obedient Servt
Admalla Blodget
Groton May 20 th 17.23

Sir I know not from what source you had information respecting my fraudulently conveying my Property - but it must have been conjectural, if not malicious - I am not conscious of having wronged any man, or defrauded any man. That I did legally convey my little property to my sons, after the passing of the pension Law of 1818 I acknowledge for the following reasons, viz: being in debt more than I could pay, or probable more than my property would pay, at public sale; my sons became responsible for the payment of my just Debts
more than four years actual service in the revolutionary war & almost six months shut up in a merciless Enemy's prison, together with present age, infirmities, and pecuniary embarrassment, will not warrant a decision which will render my few remaining days more comfortable
I shall rest under the Consoling Consideration, of living, & (I hope & trust) dying in a free and
Independent Country
all which is humbly submitted by your
obedient Servt. Admathe Blodget
Groton Oct. 2 d 1822
P.S. you will see by the annexed affidavits & Certificate the manner of Conveyance and the value of the property conveyed

Mr Admalla Blodget Grosvenor Tompkins St New York
[Faint, mirrored handwriting from the reverse side of the page]

State of New York
Albany ss:
Joseph Russell of the city of Albany being duly sworn deponeth and saith, That he was personally acquainted with Admatha Bloodget while in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary war, That the said Admatha belonged to Capt d Heywood's Company of the the Sixth Mass tts Regiment commanded at that time as this deponent believes by Col. Smith That S d Admatha enlisted in the year 1777 for three years That he served out the time for which he enlisted and was regularly discharged. and further this deponent saith not
Sworn to & subscribed this 28 th day of July 1819
before me John G. Watson Justice Peace
Clerks Office City & County of Albany ss. I do hereby certify that the above named John G. Watson was a justice of the Peace in & for the City & County of Albany at the time the above Affidavit was taken and that he was duly authorized to administer the same.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name affixed the Seal of the Albany Common Pleas on this 28 th July 1819 - George Merriam Clerk

This may certify that the property of Hannah Blodget on the assessment list for the year 1819 was valued at 422 dollars And the property of Henry Blodget and Anna Blodget for the year 1820 on the assess- ment list was valued at 438 dollars
Groton October 4 th 1822
David Gould J. Clerk

State of New York } Onondaga County } I, Jeremiah Jackson of Company in the County of Onondaga and fifth New York being duly sworn, saith that he was a soldier in Phelps's Regiment in the Massachusetts Line from the spring of the year 1777 to the end of the year 1780. & during all that time knew that Dometta Blood was a soldier in the United States Service & then always understood that he served in Onondaga County in New York Regiment of the Massachusetts Line - That department knew him before he went into service & saw him frequently from time to time during that period, tho' he does not know that before him included in the Regiment at any one time that he was enrolled & this department believes that the left side Blood in service when he was discharged. Further saith not
Jeremiah Jackson
Subscribed to me this 12th day of July 1899 by the above named Jeremiah Jackson with whom I am well acquainted & do hereby certify as a Credible Witness Joshua Thomas Just Judge of Onondaga County, New York

State of New York Onondaga County Clerk's office July 12 th 1819. I certify that Joshua Homan
before whom the within affidavit was taken was at that time of the Court of Common Pleas- the first Judge of Onon- daga County duly Commissioned and sworn as such Judge and that he is still acts as the first Judge of the Com. Pleas in and for the County of Onondaga and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge and duly believe that the within signature of Joshua Homan is in his own proper hand writing. In wit- ness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County of Onondaga
Freeman Adams Clk

Admatha Blodget (March 1875)

State of New York
Tompkins County
Personally came Alvah Blodgett of the town of Groton in said County personally known to me and after being by me duly sworn did then depose and say that some time about the first of January 1822 he this deponent Received from Admather Blodgett a warranty deed of twenty five Acres of Land valued at that time at about two hundred fifty Dollars for which at that time had a balance debt due of about two hundred dollars and that this deponent paid a debt of fifty dollars due from the said Admather Blodgett for and in consideration of the said twenty five Acres of Land and further saith not
Sworn and subscribed the 6 th day of Jan y - 1826
before me
Samuel Cristianus Judge of Comp. Com. Pl.
Alvah Blodgett
Tompkins County
Henry Blodgett of the town of Groton in said County came before me and being by me personally known and after being by me duly sworn did then depose and say that on or about the first of January 1822 he this deponent purchased and Received from Admather Blodgett a warranty deed of seventy five Acres of Land situated lying and being in the said town of Groton valued at that time at about seven hundred dollars and that this deponent further saith that he became obligated to pay debts due from the said Admather to the amount of about three hundred and fifty dollars and that in this deponent further saith that he had and did labour for the said Admather from the year 1812 until the year 1821 - with the exception of six months since in the late war which he this deponent considered and verily believes he had a just and lawful demand against the said Admather to the amount of at least four hundred dollars as he this deponent had victuals & clothing in said term of about eight years labour
Sworn and subscribed the 6 th day of Jan y - 1826 before me
Samuel Cristianus Judge of Comp. Com. Pl.
Henry Blodgett

State of New York } B Hampkins County }
Personally came before Admatha Blodget of the Town of Groton in said County Person- ally known to me and after being by me duly sworn did then depose and say that he had not been the owner of any more Land than one hundred acres & three thirds of an acre of Land within twenty years Last past and that he was insolvent and was under the necessity of selling his Land to pay the same further this deponent saith not Admatha Blodget
Sworn and Subscribed This 6 th day of January in the year of our Lord 1836
before me Saml Frittenden one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in the said County of Hampshire —

I am well acquainted with Samuel Britten den before whom the annexed affidavits were taken and with his hand writing - He was at the time the said affidavits were taken a Judge of the Court of common Pleas of the County of Tompkins in the State of New York. and I believe the certificate to be signed in his proper hand writing
Washington April 6. 1886
Charles Humphrey N. C.

Ms. A. 9. 2
Friendship, N. Y. May 19, 1920.
Commissioner of Pensions Bureau of Pensions Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:-
May I have a statement of so much history of Admatha Blodget, a Revolutionary War soldier from Brimfield, Mass, as is contained in his application for pension. I wish to use this as a certificate to enable me to join the H.A.R.
Very truly yours, Lotta B. Hobart.
P.S. Our family record shows that he enlisted from Brimfield in the 6th Mass. Regiment commanded by Col. Thos. Nixon, I think.

La Salle Club.
Chicago,
Jan'y 1 st
1894.
To the Honorable The Commissioner of Pensions.
Dear Sir.
I am, desirous of obtaining the following information, and would request that you do me the kindness of forwarding the same to me at the address appended, at as early a date as you consistently can.
Thanking you in advance for the attention you may give the matter I am, very sincerely Yours,
H. H. French 115 5 th Avenue Chicago Ills
See 2 nd page

La Salle Club.
2 Comm. Finsens.
Chicago,
1890.
Admatha Blodgett enlisted as a private(?) soldier in the first Revolutionary War (1776) from the town of Brimfield, State of Massachusetts.
Wanted to know 1) from what regiment 2) from what company he served in 3) What was the date of his enlistment 4) What was the date of his discharge 5) Any other points that may be of interest to his descendants. #