Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 10381, Nathaniel Booth, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Booth, Nathaniel
S. 10381
carded
CONTENTS

222 nd New York
Nathaniel Root
of Saratoga Co. in the State of New York who was a "Sergt & Pls" in the Company commanded by Captain Granger 1 st of the Regt commanded by Col Webb 2 d in the Connecticut line for 11 months, Ensign and 13 Mo Sergeant Major.
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Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 175 Dollars — Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st day of Novem- ber 1832 and sent to Claimant Care of Hon. J.W. Taylor Ballston Spa N.Y.
ars to 4th of Sept 1832 — $262.50 mizant. allowance ending 4 Mar 33 87.50 $350.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by Geo. C. Hiles Clerk, Book D Vol. 5 Page 69
Hon. Hugh White — June 12 th 1846,
Duplicate Certificate issued on 13 Feb 1833. And sent to Hon. J.W. Taylor Hosp. R.

7365,
Ent Sept 5 Feb 77 app Sept May 25 Nov 78 Ensign 1 st May 1980 Resigned 1 July 1981

State of New York County of Saratoga } p.
On this fourth day of September one thousand eight hundred thirty two personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Saratoga Nathaniel Woolf aged seventy seven years the fourteenth day of May last who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed June 7. 1832 - That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1777 as a Sergeant served in the Second Regiment of the Connecticut Line under the following named officers - That on the fifth day of February 1777 when he enlisted he resided in the town of Stratford in the County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut On the fifth day of February 1777 he enlisted as a Sergeant among the men. His Colonel's name was Charles Webb, He was not out, Isaac Sherman the Lieutenant Colonel had command He belonged to Captain Granger's Company. He joined the Regiment at Stamford. Fairfield County Connecticut. He marched in the Spring foregoing from Stamford directly to Peekskill N.Y. Colonel John Chandler's Regiment of Connecticut Troops was at Peekskill The following officers belonged to the Second Connecticut Reg- iment - Major Wolcans. Adjutant Henry Ten Eyck. Captain Stephen Bets. That Company James Beebe was Lieutenant & Austin Ensign - Charles Webb was paymaster - General Putnam was Commander in Chief at Peekskill -

He staid at Peekskill till Fort Montgomery was taken then marched up by land on the east side of the north river thru Fish Kill to Red Hook He staid about a week & was order- ed back to Fish Kill. On the 22 d of October 1777 at Red Hook he was placed & taken to the Hospital at Fish Kill where he was confined till about the 10 th of Dec r under the care of Doctors Mott & Blanchard who were surgeons of the Army. After he was able to leave the hospital he returned home to Connecticut & was engaged during the winter in recruiting. In the spring about the 1 st of March 1778 he took the men about 8 or 10 in number & joined his regiment at Valley Forge. He staid there till the 16 th of June 1778. General Washington was Commander in Chief. Captain Granger had resign- ed. Lieutenant The command of his company Lieutenant James Brebis succeeded him. On the 16 th of June he left Valley Forge with the Army passed through Princeton to Monmouth. He was engaged in the Battle of Monmouth on the 28 th of June 1778. After the Battle he went with his regiment to New Brunswick staid about three weeks. From New Brunswick he marched to Crofford & Kings Ferry on the North River back to Peek- skill. From Peekskill he marched to White Plains thence to Fredericksburgh thence to New Milford Conn. staid there till some time in November 1778 then marched to Reading Fairfield Co. there he staid all winter till about the 1 st of May 1779. He then marched back to Peekskill thence to Nelsons Point on the east side of the north river opposite West Point. in the month of August he had a furlough went home on account of ill health. About the 1 st of October 1779 he joined the regiment again at Peekskill. On the 26 th of November he crossed the North River at Kings Ferry went to Morristown N.J. At this place they prepared winter quarters & remained till about the middle

of January 1780 when the Connecticut troops were ordered down to Springfield Newarks Elizabethtown Westfield & other places on the east side of New Jersey . He was stationed at Spring- field. About the 1 st of May 1780 he marched back to Morristown. Not far after the 1 st of June the British came out of New York & he with the other Connecticut troops marched down to Springfield then to Connecticut Farms that the Bri- tish retreated before they came up with them. During the sum- mer He is not able to state the different places he was at marched through during the summer of 1780. but he was at Peekskill, Orangetown & Clarkstown, that He was present at the Execution of Major Andre about the first of October at Tappan or Orangetown. After Andre's Execution he went back to New Jersey - was at Pines, Stumptown Potama & Great Notch. Some time in the month of November he marched back to Peekskill. He wintered in the Highlands during the spring of 1780. He was out six weeks on the enemy's lines then returned & joined his regiment at the Highlands. He continued with the Regiment till about the first of July when he received his discharge at Peekskill.
On the twenty fifth day of November 1778 he was appoin- ted Sergeant Major for previous to this time for as the owing to the scarcity of officers he did the duty of Ensign - That he is the identical Nathaniel Booth named in the annexed Commission - That from the first of September 1778 until the Fall of 1780  and discharged about the first of July 1780. He performed the duties of Ensign in the Second Connecticut Regiment of Continental troops, that during a portion of that time he did the double duties of Ensign & Sergeant Major in the same regiment. That some time in the Fall

of 1780 the precise time he cannot state, the Second Connecticut Regiment was consolidated with the Third Connecticut Regiment. He continued to perform the duties of Ensign in the last named Regiment until his discharge about the first of July 1781.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any State.
Subscribed & sworn in open court this 4 th day of September 1832. ROMAN PALMER Clerk
Nath l Booth
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states.
I Thomas Palmer Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County Saratoga & 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 Nathaniel Booth for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hands and seal of office this fourth day of September 1832.
ROMAN PALMER Clerk

I certify that I have been well acquainted with Nathaniel Booth above named for more than thirty years. He is, & long has been, an Elder of the Presbyterian Church in Ballston. His character for truth & integrity is spotless.
Ballston Spa N. Y. Sept. 18. 1832
John W. Taylor M. C.
P.S. Mr Booth requests if compatible with the regulations of the Department that his original Commission may be returned to him.

1: 7365 Nathaniel Booth.
admitted
Ensign None Sergeant Major 18-
Enlisted for the War 5 July 1777. Sgt Major 25 Nov 1778. Ensign 11 August 1780. discharged Resigned 1 st July 1781
Elaine

No 7363
BRIEF in the case of Nathaniel Gooch  of _____ in the State of _____  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? In open Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 77 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 1777 5 July - 8th inst. for during the war. - was discharged about 1st July 1781 Sergt Gen. Putnam Gentleman Cap Granger Col Ch s Webb Isaac Sherman   25 Nov r 1778 Sergt. Major   1 st Sept r 1778 Ensign  
5. In what battles was he engaged? Monmouth
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Stratford Conn.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  Documentary proof - Com d of Ensign
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.
A. Muntzel Examining Clerk.

Nathaniel Booth's Application for new certificate Hon. J. W. Taylor HR
issue a new Certificate

State of New York,
County of Saratoga ss: On this fifth day of February
1833 before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace in & for the said County of Saratoga personally appeared Nathaniel Booth of the Town of Ballston in the County aforesaid who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly held the office of Sergeant Major until the first of August 1780. in the second Connecticut Regiment commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Sherman in the service of the United States, and who from the first of August 1780 until the first of July 1781 held the commission and performed the duties of design in the Company commanded by Captain Riley in the aforesaid Connecticut Regiment then commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Hoyt and after the consolidation of the Connecticut Regiments in the Autumn of 1780 commanded by Colonel Webb.
That he has received information that on the twenty first day of November 1832 a pension Certificate was sent to him directed to Ballston Spa N.Y. from the Pension Office in the Department of War Washington City under the Act of Congress of June 7. 1832 at the rate of one hundred and seventy five Dollars per annum. That he has never received the said Certificate. That on the fifth day of February instant he inquired for the same at the Post Office in the Village of Ballston Spa N.Y. but without effect.

That he was then informed by the Post Master of the said Office that no communication from the Pension Office directed to him had been received at that office at any time within a year past Nathaniel Booth
Sworn and subscribed to before me the day and year aforesaid
And I certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Nathaniel Booth, and know him to be a credible person, and that his statement is entitled to credit
A Good rich Justice -
State of New York
County of Saratoga
ss: On the fifth day of February 1833 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in & for the said County of Saratoga personally appeared Anson Brown who being duly sworn saith that he is well acquainted with Nathaniel Booth of Ballston in the County aforesaid who is described & has subscribed the foregoing affidavit that he knows him to be the same person described in the said affidavit -
ANSON BROWN
Sworn and subscribed to before me the day & year aforesaid - And I certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Anson Brown, and know him to be a credible person, and his statement entitled to credit -
A Good rich Justice -
State of New York
Saratoga County
ss: I Alpheus Goodrich Clerk of the

and I certify that I am well acquainted with the ad- named Anson Brown, and know him to be a credible person, and his statement entitled to credit —
A Good rich Justice —
State of New York § Saratoga County § I, Alpheus Goodrich Clerk of the County of Saratoga do certify that Alpheus Good- rich, before whom the foregoing Affidavits of Nathaniel Booth & Anson Brown purport to have been sworn and who has certified to their credibility, was at the date of the said affidavits a Justice of the peace in and for the said County, and that I am acquaint- ed with his hand writing & truly believe his name subscribed to the said affidavits & certificates to be his proper hand writing and signature —
Witness my hand and seal at office the fifth day of February
1833 — A Good rich Clerk

Reo War
10381 INVALID.
File No. 10.381
Nathaniel Booth En d Reo War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. A , Page 39
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Treasury Department
30 Auditor's office, 17 January 1829.
Sir
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 16th instant, making inquiry whether the Records in this office afford any information, either in support of, or in contradiction to the statement in the case of Nathaniel Booth of the Revolutionary army, and also asking any other information in my power to furnish in relation to the case. In reply I have to state that it appears by the Register of the Connecticut line that Nathaniel Booth, enlisted for the war, as a sergeant, on the 5th February 1777, was appointed sergeant major on the 25th November 1778, and an Ensign on the 1st August 1780 and resigned 1st July 1781. It further appears by the Register of final settlement certificates issued after the close of war, that one was issued in favour of the petitioner for his subsistence to the 10th April 1780, amounting to 46 50 / 90 $ - This is all the information in relation to the individual case before me, which the Records of this office afford.
It is proper to add, that from the period to which the subsistence has been paid, it would seem, that although the Register of the line states the petitioner to have been appointed Ensign on the 1st August 1780 he must have been settled with for his subsistence, as an Ensign commencing at an earlier period, say prior to the 10th April 1780, because no payments were made for arrearages of subsistence to non-commissioned

officers, or privates - As to his pay, it is to be observed that the State of Connecticut paid her troops generally to the end of the year 1781, which is corroborated by the settlements made by the United States, commencing generally 1st January 1782 - whether the petitioner received his pay from the State, or from the Paymaster, it is impracticable now to ascertain, the accounts and vouchers having all been destroyed
With great respect
Your ob t serv t
Peter Hagner Ad.
Hon. Geo. Wolf
Chairman of the Committee
on Revolutionary Claims
H Rep!

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED
For James M'Intire Esqrs Greeting . We, Reposing especial trust and confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity. DO by these presents constitute and appoint you to be an Ensign in the Second Connecticut Regiment in the Army of the United States, to take rank as such from the first day of September 1778 . You are the of to be fully and diligently to discharge the duty of an Ensign by doing and performing all manner of things therein belonging. And we do hereby charge and command all Officers and Soldiers, under your command, to be obedient to your orders, as Ensign. And you are to observe and follow such orders and directions as from time to time shall be given you by the future Congress of the United States or Committee of Congress for the purpose appointed, or Committee of the States, or Commander in chief for the time being of the Army of the United States or any other your Superior Officer, according to the rules and discipline of War, in pursuance of the act referred to you. This Commission to continue in force until revoked by this, or a future Congress, the Committee of Congress before mentioned, or a Committee of the States.
Entered in the War Office and examined by the Board
Attest
John H. Morton
Secretary of the Board of War
Witness His Excellency Samuel Huntington Esqrs . President of the Congress of the United States of America in Philadelphia the 5 day of September 1780 and in the fifth year of our Independence.
Sam Huntington Esqrs

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