Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12076, Nicholas Bartlett, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Bartlett, Nicholas
S. 12076
CONTENTS
Carded

New York 14921
1889 New history by M. M. Bartlett. Prior
Nicholas Bartlett of Pompey — in the State of N. York who was a Private in the Corp. comman by Captain Burt of the Reg. comman Col. Herwe in the Mapt for 7 months & 7 days
scribed on the Roll of N. York the rate of 24 Dollars 00 Cents per annu commence on the 14th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of July 1833 — and Sutto A Smith Meaulins
ears to the 14th of Moa'33 $ 48 u-ant. allowance ending 4 Sep 33 12
$60
Revolutionary Claim, Act June, 7, 1832. J. C. Sales Clerk
Recorded by Book E. Vol. 3. Page 40

New York 14927
1889 Rev History by M M Bartlett Prior
Nicholas Bartlett
of Pompey - in the State of N. York who was a Private in the Comp y comman by Captain Burt of the Reg t comman by Col. Herwe in the M ap t y time for 7 months & 7 days
Inscribed on the Roll of N. York at the rate of 24 Dollars 00 Cents per annu to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of July 1832 and to Martha Smith Mcaulins
Arrears to the 4th of Mar'33 $ 48 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sep'33 12 $60
Revolutionary Claim, Act June, 7, 1832.
Recorded by J. C. Stiles Clerk Book E. Vol. 3. Page 40

11.801
Nicholas Bartlett
Obj. 16
P. 319.
MS. A. 1. 5
Smith Marlin
NY.

BRIEF in the case of  Nicholas Bartlett  of  Pompey  in the State of  New York!  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? Eighty four years.  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. As a Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     Volunteer In 1775 April 1 1/4 Gen. Genl Putnam.   refted 1776 Augt 3 Capt Burt, Col Harned, Genl Lincoln,   Volunteer 1777 May 3 Capt Rollings. Genl Schuyler,  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? was present at White Plains  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Hadley. Mass  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Willard Robinson & Tinsman walking cattle to landing ordered.  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
D. Kirt Examining Clerk.

11.80
In the Matter of the application of Nicholas Bultell
for a pension
A. Smith Agent
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State of New York,
County of Onondaga ss. On this twenty fifth day of Sept r .
1832 personally appeared in open Court before Daniel Moseley Vice Chancellor of the Seventh Circuit at a Court of Chancery held for the State of New York at Onondaga
Nicholas Bartlett a resident of Pompey in said County aged eighty four years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832 That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated; In April 1775 immediately after the Lexington Battle, volunteered and marched to Cambridge and joined the American Troops, then opposed to the British under Gen- eral Putnam and served five weeks, and having a family of his own, and the care of his father's, he returned home when the Army was organized; In July 1776, He was drafted for three months and served the whole period in the State of New York; joined the Company at Horse-neck, and was immediately was ordered to East Chester was stationed a few days fortifying to prevent the landing of the enemy, then retreated to Valentine's Hill, then to White Plains, was there, when the battle was fought but lying in the breast work was not attacked with small arms, but were cannonaded, and executed an attack on their part of the lines, worked at breast work at the time, then moved out of town into the wood, when the British retreated he followed the British in a second under Captain Brew of Springfield Massachusetts, and at night this applicant and one Farr took a horse from the British out of a wheat field where they were returned out to eat in wheat which had then got up ankle high, at the expiration of three months, he was discharged at the ledge in White Plains by Colonel Stone in whose Regiment, he served; he set out from home under Captain Dwight of Belchertown Lieutenant Simon Smith of Amherst, that after a

little skirmish with the enemy near East Chester he never saw any man of Captain Dwight, who was scared and went home, part of the time in the service had no other company officers but sergeants, and this applicant assisted in the management of the company tho' but a private. In this service he frequently saw General Washington, General Lee and other officers, and was in that part of the Army commanded by General Lincoln In May 1777 he volunteered against Washington for three months, and served that term in Captain Kellogg's Company of Hadley, does not recollect the Colonel, was under General Schuyler marched first to Moses Creek, was some time at Fort Edward, and on a scout to Halfway Brook, went on express to near Fort Ann on the retreat of the army, thinks there was about three  400 thousand men at Moses Creek, retreated to the ferry, where the company was station- ed a short time, then to Schuyler's Farm, then to the Panache near Bennis' heights, which last march was performed in a very rainy day, and at this last place was discharged in the latter part of  afterwards the service, General Gates commanded, and about the time this applicant was discharged he understood that General Arnold was there: This applicant further saith that in the above service he served seven months at least, that he was born at Groton Massachusetts in 1747. He has a record of his age, made with his own hand, that during the Revolutionary war, he resided at Hadley Hampshire County Massachusetts and resided there at his several periods of entering into the service, since the Revolutionary war, he has resided there at Dalton Massachusetts, Cazenovia, Gorham Ohio & possibly other places, and for the last six years has resided at Pompey where he now resides, that once he was drafted & twice volunteered into service was never a substitute can state nothing very particular respecting the service officers & troops but as above stated; his service was in the Massachusetts Militia

never had a written discharge, has no documentary evidence of his service, that he knows of no person, whose testimony, he can procure, who can testify to his service
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State: that there is no Clergyman residing in the neighbourhood where the applicant now resides, that William Robinson and Simson Watkins are persons to whom he is known in his present neighbourhood, and who can testify as to his character for veracity, and as to their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution
Nicholas Bartlett
Subscribed & sworn to the day and year of our Lord
Daniel Mosely
Forfeit Judge of Vice Chancellor.
We William Robinson and Simson Watkins residents of Pompey county of Onondaga hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Nicholas Bartlett, who has made the above declaration, and that he is a man of good character for veracity, and full credit may be given to his statement that we believe him to be eighty four years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn this 25 day of Sept. 1832
William Robinson Simson Watkins Daniel Mosely
Forfeit Judge

And the said Court doth hereby declare its opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories required by the War Department that the above named Nicholas Bartlet was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states, and further that William Robinson & Simson Loathman are residents of the town of Pompey and each of whom have signed the preceding certificate and that they are credible persons and their statements so entitled to credit.
Daniel Moseley Vice Chancellor
I Daniel Moseley Deputy Clerk of the Court of Chancery of the Seventh Circuit for the State of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Nicholas Bartlet for a Pension in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of office this 25 th day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty two —
Daniel Moseley Deputy Clerk in Chancery

I Daniel T. Moseley Deputy Clerk of the County of Ulster in the Seventh Circuit for the State of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application Nicholas Burtlett for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal of Office this 13 th day of April one thousand eight hundred and thirty three
Daniel T. Moseley Deputy Clerk

Perhan
12.076 INVALID.
File No. 12.076
Nicholas Bartlett Priv Boer War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. A , Page 22
[Arrangement of 1870.]