Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 37,744, Darius Benedict, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Benedict, Darius
837.744
CONTENTS

20.865
Connecticut
Darius Benedict
of Ridgfield in the State of Connecticut who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Hoyt of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Bradley in the Connecticut line, for the term of three years in May 1777 to April 1780
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 14th day of March 1829
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 of April 1829 and sent to Depe S. Bradley Esq. Ridgfield Ct.
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1829 $45.70 Semi-ann. all'ce ending
$45.70
{Revolutionary Claim, Acts March, 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820.}
Record Book 6 Vol 3 page 35. BMB

State of Connecticut } County of Fairfield } on the 13 th day of March A D 1829 at Ridgefield in the County of Fairfield personally appeared before the Subscriber an associate Judge of the County Court or Court of common Pleas in and for said County the same being a Court of record for said County, Darius Benedict resident in said Ridgefield aged seventy years who being first duly sworn according to Law Doth on his oath make the following Decla- ration in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of Congress of the 18 th March 1818 and the 1 st day of May 1820 that he the said Darius Benedict enlisted enlisted for the term of three years on or about the first day of May in the year 1777 at Pekskile in the State of New York in the Company commanded by Captain Samuel Noyes in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Philip B Bradley in the line of the State of Connecticut on the continental establishment that he continued to serve in said Corps until the 28 th day of April 1780 when he was dis- charged from the service in Springfield in the State of New Jersey, that his name is not on the pension roll of any State - that he

has once made an application for a pension while residing in the State of New York, about five years ago, as he now believes, but his said application was not granted for want of sufficient evidence to support it - That his discharge which at the time he made his first application he supposed was lost, has since been found and that his second application was made as soon as he found that instrument and other evidence to support his Claim -
Darius Benedict
Taken Subscribed & declared before me this 13 th day of March 1829 before Benjamin Isaacs associate Judge.
and in pursuance of the act of the 1 st May 1820 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 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 service of the United States in the Revolutionary war passed on the 18 th day of March 1818" & that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me nor have

any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto an- nexed and by me subscribed -
viz (necessary wearing apparel excepted)
1 Ink stand $ 0.18 1 Pair shears ,.06 3 Files ,.12 1/2 Wire 4 1 Hatchet 1.00 1 Pocket knife ,.12 1/2 1 Old Tin Kettle , 6 $ 1.59
And that no changes have been made in my property since the 18 th of March 1818 and that I am now from extreme weakness and general debility unable to attend personally in Court.
Darius Benedict
Sworn subscribed & declared & taken before me this 13 day of
March 1829 Benjamin Isaacs Associate Judge &c.
The Deponent is a blacksmith by trade but has become so enfeebled by age and other bodily infirmities as to render him altogether incapable of pursuing his business or any other. The Deponent has no family or any relatives of sufficient ability who would by law be liable for his support and the declarant further saith that he is in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to support himself without the assistance of his country that is to say without the aid of government except by private or public charity -
Darius Benedict
Sworn to and declared on the 13 th day of March A.D. 1829
Before Benjamin Isaacs Associate Judge County Court or Court of Common pleas for Fairfield County

has once made an application for a pension Benjamin Isaac an Associate Judge of the County Court or Court of common Pleas held in the County of Fairfield where the Declarant resides do hereby certify that the above named Darius Benedict is from extreme weakness and great bodily disability from a disease called the Consumption with which I am credibly informed and believe he has been afflicted for the space of three years and which has increased of late so as to confine him to the house and unable to attend the Court of which I am a Judge and I do not think from present appearances that he will be able to attend the Court above named at its next session. I have therefore in pursuance of the act of Congress of the first of March 1823 attended at his place of abode and administered the foregoing oath. - Benjamin Isaac Associate Judge of the County Court or Court of common Pleas for Fairfield County
Fairfield County ss. Ridgefield on the 13 th day March 1829 - I certify that I found on oath of different Persons that the amount of Darius Benedict's property did amount to one Dollar and fifty nine cents. I also found that he served more than three nine months in the army of the Revolution on the continental establishment under one engagement.
Benjamin Isaac Associate Judge County Court for Fairfield County

State of Connecticut } Fairfield County ss }
I Thomas B Osborne Clerk of the County Court or Court of Common
Pleas within and for said Fairfield County do hereby certify that Benjamin Isaacs Esquire before whom the above affidavit of Darius Benedict who is now sick and confined to his house, was made, is Judge as aforesaid; I also certify that, said Schedule and oaths have been admitted to the record of said Court and that the same are truly copied therefrom; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Judge that the total amount amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is one Dollar and fifty nine cents and that it appears to the satisfaction of said Judge on the testimony of indifferent witnesses that the said Darius Benedict served more than nine months in the army of the Revolution or the continental establishment under one engagement;
and I further certify that Jesse S. Bradley of Bridgefield in said Fairfield County is a Justice of the Peace for said County and that full faith and credit is due and ought to be given to all his official acts. In testimony whereof

I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County Court in Fairfield this 13 th day of March A.D. 1829
Thomas B. Osborne Clerk of said County Court
I, Benjamin Isaac, an associate judge of the County Court or Court of Common Pleas, within and for the County of Fairfield do hereby certify, that said County Court is a Court of Record and that Thomas B. Osborne is Clerk of said Court and that the foregoing attestation under his hand and the Seal of said Court is in due and usual form. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand. This 14 th day of March A.D. 1829
Benjamin Isaac, associate Judge of County Court for Fairfield County.

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File No. 37744
Darius Benedict
His Her Mar
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 85-
[Arrangement of 1870.]
July-19-1902 Jas. P. Benedict, Bklyn
Oct. 21-1902 E. D. Benedict - Bklyn

THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES
Darius Benedict 83.37744 born -
S File 37744 Darius Benedict born

Whereas Private David H. Sill in the 6 th Connecticut Reg t having served with the Union Forces the full time which he engaged is hereby discharged from the Service of the United States of America. Given under my hand at Springfield New Jersey April 28 th 1870
David H. Sill Lt. Col. Comd t 2 d Gen l Brigade
W.B. to have provision for Ten Days and pay until

J. L. Edwards

War Department, Pension Office, June 26. 1827.
Sir,
In answer to your letter of the 19. instant respecting Darius Benedict, I have to inform you, that it appears from the Records of this Office, that the documents in support of his claim to a Pension, on account of revolutionary service, were returned for further evidence, on the 29. August 1823, to S ts . L. Ville, Esq r . at Lansingburgh, N. York, since which time, it does not appear, that any papers in support of the claim, have ever been received at this Office. I herewith enclose a blank form for his guidance, in making a new declaration, the instructions attached to which, must be strictly adhered to. If his statement in regard to his having served in Col. Bradley's Regiment, be correct, it is unnecessary for him to prove his service, as there is sufficient evidence in this Office, that a man of his name served in that Regiment.
I have the honor to be, Very respectfully, Your most obt. Servt.
Hon. Gideon Tomlinson Fairfield Connecticut.
J. L. Edwards

J. Watson Centurion
Palmerston South A. O. H. L. ...

Columbia } Be it Remembered that on the 18 th Day of County } October 1824 came before me Richard Paul Egan one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County
COLUMBIA COUNTY, } ss. CLERK'S OFFICE, }
I, JUSTUS M KINSTRY, CLERK OF THE COUNTY OF COLUMBIA, do hereby certify that Richard Egan whose signature appears on the annexed Certificate, was on the date of the said Certificate a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Columbia,....IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County, the 15 th day of October
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty- four
Justus M c Kinstry

Columbia County } Be it Remembered that on the 13 th Day of } October 1824 Came before me Richard Gault Esq } one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said Coun- } ty John Waterous and made oath and says that } he has been acquainted with Darius Benedict rising } of fifty years and that said Darius Benedict was } bound an apprentice to him about forty seven } years ago and that while an apprentice to him this } deponent said Benedict was drafted to serve nine } nine months in the line continental service During this time he } the said Benedict Enlisted in the Continental } Service under a Captt Hoyt and that something like } three or four years afterwards he the said Benedict } Returned and worked for him this Deponent in his } Shop at blacksmithing Same time that when he } quit his Shop he went away left the state of } Connecticut and does not recollect that he has seen } him in thirty Eight years till this present } month and further this Deponent saith not
Subscribed and sworn this 13 th Day of October 1824 before me Richard Gault J. Peace John Waterous
NB. This may Certify that I have been acquainted with John Waterous three years last April and know him to be a man in good standing and of an unblemished character Dated Hillsdale 13 th October 1824 Richard Gault

John Smith Carlyle

of Connecticut Rob Smith of Ridgefield Fairfield County & State of Connecticut of Lanesville Age Testifies and says That he is well acquainted with Darius Benedict, that he lived with John Waterous of R. Ridge- -field and worked with D. Waterous at the Black Smith Business, and in 1817- he belonged to the Militia Company in D. Town, in which it was then an Officer, and some time in year 1817. he was Draughted for Nine Months, soon after his being Draughted he Enlisted into the Continental Service for three years, after the exp expiration of his service he returned to Ridgefield and worked with D. Waterous at Blacksmith Business, after his leaving D. Waterous I have no Recollection of seeing D. Darius again till 1824 when he came to my house to get my Deposition - Respecting his being Draughted into the Service - I also know him to be the same person who was Draughted into the service out of the Company which I then belonged to - I have no knowledge of D. Darius being in possession any Property to the amount of five Dollars since his Application to me in 1824 — Further the Deponent saith Not — Ridgefield Feb y 12 th 1829 — J. Smith
State of Connecticut ss Fairfield County By J. Smith of Ridgefield Feb y 12 th 1829 personally appeared Rob Smith known to me personally known as a man of fair character and truth and veracity and made oath, according to his best knowledge and belief that the facts there- -in stated are true in the foregoing Depo- -sition by him subscribed and sworn before me J. S. Bradley Justice of Peace

Jeremiah Wheeler of South Salina West Chester county and State of New York of late but age lately and etc. That I have been ac- -quainted with Darius Benedict now of Bridge- -field in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut since he was some years of age, he lived with John Watrous of said Bridgefield and worked at the Blacksmith Smiths house, after he left said Watrous the first time I saw him was in Col. Brigs Battalion which I believe was the 5 th , into which I enlisted in May 1777 and joined the same in July following at Purskill in the State of New York, I believe while Benedict was in the service, he was principally employed as an artificer that he discharged his duty faithfully and soon the time for which he enlisted, that said Regiment was stationed at Springfield New Jersey in the Spring of 1780 when a great number of the soldiers were discharged and I know that said Benedict is the same person who discharged said service in the Revolutionary army in said Regiment Bridgefield Feb. 12 th 1829 Jeremiah Wheeler

State of Connecticut ss. In Guilford County ss. Bridgefield February 12 th AD 1829 Person ally appeared Jeremiah Kuler to me known nally known as a man of truth and veracity and made oath that the facts therein stated (viz) in the foregoing deposition by him subscri- bed are just and true according to his best knowledge and belief - before me Jesse S. Bradley Justice of the Peace
I certify that Jesse S. Bradley is a Justice of the Peace and Minister for the County of Fairfield, in the State of Connecticut & that I believe the above to be his genuine signature J. S. Bradley
Washington Feb y 27. 1829.
Jesse S. Bradley Justice of the Peace

Ridgefield March 16 th 1829
Sir, At the request of Darius Benedict, an applicant for a pension, I forward to you his declaration with accompanying documents in its support.
I am informed it is a rule of your Department, if the applicant is eventually successful to date his certificate, on the time from which he commenced to draw from the day of his first application. Mr. Benedict, as appears by an inclosed letter written by J. S. Edwards Esqf., first applied in 1823 but failed for want of sufficient evidence which was then out of his power to procure.
Mr. Benedict has requested, should his papers here with sent, be satisfactory to the Department and he be placed on the pension list, that his certificate may be sent to me.
Hon. John H. Eaton Esqf. Secy y of War
With respect your Ob st Serv t . Jesse S. Bradley

Parris
Pension Office
21 March, 1829.
Darius Benedict
at No. 18. 1818.
Connect.
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Honorable John H. Eaton Esquire. Secretary of War Washington

War Department, Pension Office, February 27. 1829
Sir,
I again return the papers in the case of Darius Benedict, being still deficient, as you will perceive, on comparing his declaration and the documents exhibited, with the enclosed printed regulations. It is indispensably necessary that he should account for property disposed of since the 18. th of March 1818. I would particularly refer you to the note marked (g) in the printed sheet.
An order has been given to pay Abel French, on the production of the proper vouchers, whatever may appear to be due him. On application at the Agency, he will receive his money up to the 4. th of March 1820, if the same has not already been paid.
I have the honor to be, Very respectfully, Your Obet. Servt. James L. Edwards
Hon. D. Plant, House of Representatives

91 Columbia Heights Brooklyn July 11. 1902
Dear
Commission of Pensions Washg ton DC
My dear Sir -
I have the honor to acknowledge the return of my letter of July 4 th asking for information of Pensioners for services in the Peninsular War - with Circular of your office as to the manner of information asked for -
All the persons named were pensioners - and none was given over Major Anchor day of execution
As this information is for historical reference I venture to renew the request in the returned letter of July 4/02
Yours Res d G. F. Bernal

91 Columbia Heights Brooklyn July 4. 1902 To J. you  upon military service Comr of Pensions Washington DC
Dear Sir
I have the honor to request that you will furnish me with evidence that the following named are on your rolls as pensioner for service during the Rev. War.
  Thomas Benedict  clerk  Jan'y 9. 1841  } see names    Grace Oliver  "  Oct 24 1845    James  ✓  July 18 1849    Claron  ✓  Jan'y 30 1845    David   1844    
You will observe by enclosure circular that it is proposed to hold a meeting of the descendants of Thomas our honorable ancestor to form a Reunion of those akin to him. And I have been

requested by the projector to get what information I could of his ancestors and their descendants
Your office has always been very prompt and obliging in granting my requests.
I am only able to do that kind of work as I am keeping up the reputations of the ancestor for longevity. I was born in 1818. and my father in 1779. died 1874. over 95 yrs. my g. f. died aged 84. and the ancestor 101. Only 1 of my direct ancestors & I am of the 7th generation, died under 85 years.
With great respect.
I am Resply Yours
John Tallmadge Bennett