Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 12987, Noah Benedict, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
born
Benedict, Noah
S. 12987
carded
CONTENTS

Perkins
✓ 12.987 INVALID.
File No. 12.987
Krahi Benedict
Prin. Rev. nan.
Act: June 9 th 1832
Index:—Vol. _____, Page _____
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1134 New York
Noah Benedict
of Chenango in the State of New York who was a Private in the Conn. Regt. commanded by Captain H. Smith of the Regt. commanded by Col. _____ in the Connecticut line for 9 months.
✓
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 20 Dollars per month to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of October 1832 and sent to E. Mygatt
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1832. $ 45 Pension allowance ending 4 Mar '33 15 $60
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Geo. C. Hild Clerk. Book D Vol. 5 Page 69

3949
New York.
admitted
9 mo
$30.

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BRIEF in the case of Noah Benedict, Coventry,  Co. of Chenango — in the State of New York. (Act 7 June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 69 years  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     In 1781 June 1 9 As a vol. Gen. D. Maltbie, Majors Humphrey Webb, Capt. M. B. H. Goodwin.  
 5. In what battles was he engaged?  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Winchester, Connecticut.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  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.
W. Hawett Examining Clerk.

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Alma

State of New York } County of Chenango }
On this thirteenth day of August 1832, personally appeared in open Court, before the Hon. Robert Morell, Vice Chancellor of the 6th Circuit of the State of New York, at a Court of Chancery, held at the residence of the Vice Chancellor, in the town of Greene, in the County of Chenango and State of New York, now sitting, Noah Benedict, a resident of the town of Coventry, in the County of Chenango and State of New York, aged 69 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, that he being at Winchester in Connecticut, on the 1st day of June 1782, Samuel Roberts, who was an orderly Sergeant in the army at Horse neck in the State of Connecticut, came up to Winchester, when he this deponent on the said 1st day of June 1782, volunteered and enlisted for nine months, and immediately after enlisting he passing through Danbury went with the said Roberts to Horse neck, where they arrived in 4 or 5 days after leaving Winchester, which said town of Winchester is about 100 miles distant from Horse neck, and both places are in the State of Connecticut, at Horse neck he joined Captain Matthew Smith, Lieutenant (Christian name forgot) Gordin, Ensign (forgot) Company of Connecticut State Militia (so called, he believes) which Company was attached to General David Watterbury's Brigade, there was no Colonel, but there were two Majors attached to the Brigade, Majors Humphrey and Webb, whilst he was with the troops at Horse neck, he occasionally went out with scouting parties, he remained with the troops at Horse neck until (he thinks) October 1782 when he went with the Company to Stamford in said State of Connecticut to guard General David Watterbury's hands &c and there remained about three months, and then returned with the Company to Horse neck, where they again joined General David Watterbury's Brigade, and from thence went with the Company (hundred) in the month of January 1783 to White Plains in the State of New York, where they went into winter quarters, at a fort at White Plains, which said fort he helped build, remained with the troops at White Plains until the 1st day of March 1783, when the term of his enlistment expired, and he was discharged and returned home after an absence of nine months,
That he has no documentary evidence, and that he knows of no person, whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his services, except Samuel Roberts, whose affidavit is herewith annexed.
To the 1st Interrogatory, prescribed by the War Department, he answers that born, in the town of Danbury in the State of Connecticut on the 20th day of May 1763.
To the 2d answer, that he has a record of his age, in his bible, at home.
To the 3d answer, that he lived in Winchester, in Litchfield County, Connecticut, when called into service, that he there lived after the Revolution, until about the year 1801, he moved to Coventry in Chenango County, and State of New York, where he has since lived and now lives.
To the 4th answer, that he volunteers his services, and never was a Substitute for any one.
To the 5th answer, that he recollects none of the Regular officers, who were with the troops where he served, except General Watterbury already mentioned, unless General La Fayette, who he believes was with the French army at White Plains, that he recollects no Continental or Militia Regiments, except that the French army was with the Brigade to which he was attached at White Plains, and that the

general circumstances of his service are above given, To the 11th answer, that he never received a written discharge.
To the 7th answer, that he is known to Edmund Bonawale, Lost Master, Solomon Parker, Christopher Stock who reside in his present neighborhood, and who can testify as to his character for veracity, and their belief of his service as a Soldier of the Revolution,
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,
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Isaac Bane
Note, "aged by year" written over an erasure, "aged by year" written over an erasure.
Robt Morell
Fire Chancellor

State of New York }
County of Cortland }
On this 10 th day of August 1832 personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace, Samuel Roberts of Cincinnati in Cortland County, who being duly sworn according to law doth make the following declaration - That he in the year 1781 was an orderly Sergeant in Captain Mathew Smiths Company in General David Waterbury's Brigade of Connecticut Militia, that Noah Benedict who lived in Winchester in Connecticut, did on or about the first of June 1781 enlist in said Captain Smiths Company for the term of nine months, that he went with the said Noah Benedict from Winchester through Danbury to Horse Neck and at Horse Neck said Benedict joined the said Smiths Company, and afterwards they went with the Troops to White Plains, and he saw the said Noah Benedict almost daily, and that the said Noah Benedict after serving out his time of enlistment in active service, was discharged and left the Army with me and returned with me to Winchester, and further says not.
Sworn & Subscribe this 10 th day of August 1832
Sam l Roberts
before me
Oliver Kingsmead Justice of the Peace

State of New York
Orleans County
Clerks office ss.
I Samuel Hotchkiss the Clerk of said County do hereby Certify that Oliver Kingman Esq. before whom the within affidavit-purports to have been sworn, was on the day of the date hereof a Justice of the peace in and for said County duly Commissioned and sworn. his acts therefore in that capacity are to be regarded as such. Also that I am acquainted with his hand writing and truly believe his name to the within is his own proper hand writing and signature
Witness my hand and seal of office this 11 th day of Aug. 1832
Sam. Hotchkiss the Clerk

State of New York } County of Chenango } ss
We Octavius Fitch , a clergyman, residing in the town of Coventry, in the County of Chenango and State of New York, and Luther Holcomb residing in the same place, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Noah Benedict , who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 69 years of age, that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid, in the Court of Chancery aforesaid.
Robt. Morris Levi Chaplin
Luther Holcomb
Octavius Fitch
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states, and the Court further certify that it appears to them that Octavius Fitch , who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman, resident in the town of Coventry in the County of Chenango and State of New York, and that Luther Holcomb , who has also signed the same is a resident in the same place, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Robt. Morris Levi Chaplin
I, Jonathan L. Woods, Clerk of the Court of Chancery for the 6th Circuit of 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 Noah Benedict for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office: this 13, day of August in the year, one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
Jonathan L. Woods Clerk
that the French Army was with the Brigade to which he was attached at White Plains, and that the