Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17275, Daniel Betts, Conn.

SERVICE
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Betts, Daniel
S. 17275
CONTENTS
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17532 Connecticut
Daniel Beth
of Milton in the State of Connecticut who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Comstock of the Regt. commanded by Col. Saltonstall on the Connecticut line for 24 months.
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of Augt. 1833 and del. B. Isaacs of Vt. to R. Con Present
  Arrears to the 4th Mar '33  $160.00    Pensant. allowance ending 4 Sep '33  40.00         $200.00  
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by N. (Mann) Clerk, E Vol. 3 Page 1

State of Connecticut, } ss. County of Fairfield, }
On this 3. day of Augt. 1832 personally appeared, in open Court, before
The Court of Probate within and for the District of Norwalk in said County
now sitting, Daniel Betts
a resident
of Wilton in the County of Fairfield, and State of Connecticut, aged Seventy four years, who being first 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 on the first of Augt. 1776. I enlisted in Wilton as now called. at that time a company of Norwalk into Capt. Samuel Cornstock. of State troops. and was marched to New York. and served. Three months in August. 1777. I enlisted under Lieut. Jonathan Rockwell. and was marched to the North and joined the Army at Stillwater under Col. Seth Warner. and was in the Battle when Burgoyne was taken and was discharged. at Rhinebeck in State New York after serving three months.
That on or about the first of December. 1777 entered into the service into Capt. Nathan Gilbert Company in said Wilton. and served them in guarding and protecting the sec- coast and on the lines until the first day of June. 1782.
Then on the first day of June 1782. I enlisted in said Wilton into. Capt. Hopkins Company Lieut. Matthew Gregory Col. Samuel B Webb Regt. in the Continental Army. for one year and joined the Army at White Plains from thence to Peekskill. from thence to the State of New Jersey. thence to the high Land in the State of New York and was there discharged in Wapping. but have lost it. That I have

no written discharge nor any documentary evidence of my service. That I was born in said Milton on 8. day of December 1757 Recorded in family bible produced in Court and have always lived in said Milton.
The said Daniel Bette 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.
Daniel Bette
We, Charles J. Todd a clergyman, residing in the town of and Jesus St. John residing in the same, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Daniel Bette who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 74 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 and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Charles J. Todd Jesus St. John
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 abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Charles J. Todd who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the town of Milton and that Jesus St. John who has also signed the same, is a resident in the town of Milton and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Benj. Isaac, Judge
I, Charles Isaac Clerk of the Said Probate District do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the appli- cation of Daniel Bette for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Probate Office, this 3. day of Augt. 1832.
Chas. Isaac Clerk

State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield
Probate Court, District of Norwalk
April 9. 1833. Personally appeared the within named Daniel Betts, and being duly sworn in open Court according to Law, did on oath say, in explanation of the declaration herewith, that in the year 1776 as is hereinafter stated, I served in Capt. Samuel Bronson's Compt. Col. John Moad Regt. under Genl. Silliman and was marched to New York and Harlem Heights on Company combat of one hundred men, and was in actual and in constant service during said Campaign Three months
That in the year 1777. I enlisted as is hereinafter stated under Lieut. Rockwell Col. Silliman's under Genl. Gates and was in actual and constant service as is hereinafter stated for Three months
That on the first of December 1777 entered into the service of Capt. Nathan Gilbert's Company under Col. Moad and Col. St. John under Genl. Silliman, and was in constant and actual service on guard, and on the lines over seven months, and was in seven campaigns over one month each time which continued until I entered into the Continental Army.
That on the first of June 1781. I entered into the Continental Army as is hereinafter stated excepting making a mistake in the year. I believe I enlisted as Daniel Betts for as my Father was then living in the same town he was not in the Army. Making the whole of the time in which I was in actual and constant service as a Private Soldier. Two years and One month
No. 3145
Sworn and subscribed in open Court the day and year aforesaid
Daniel Betts
Benj. Dyer Judge
Com. Silliman 4th mo. 1833

et,
17.275 INVALID.
June 17-1901-Will Chas. G. Phelps - mailing fee
File No. 17275
Daniel Bell
Rich New York
Act: June 7 th 99
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 123
[Arrangement of 1870.]

San Betts
acorn
5. 11. 17
3 days
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims , of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Daniel Betts which require further proof or explanation.
 I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?  II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?  III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?  IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?  V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? — no — No such person appears by the rolls to have enlisted in Hopkins Company in S.B. Webb's Reg t at the time stated. Further proof of service must be adduced.  VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?  VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?  VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?  IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?  X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? 

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
XIV. † If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? — no Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office?
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? 4th disubsequent
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
“Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For _____ year _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____. For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension.”

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
QUERE XIV.  Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI.  Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

W m Daniel Bells
Albany 5 th January 1833
Dear Sir,
I received your letter this day and will comply with your wishes as far as my memory will serve me - I will remember that you was a private soldier in the Connecticut line in the Continental Army in the year 1781 or 1782 in Captain Hopkins company in which I was a Lieut. Col. Webb's Regiment - The time has been so long elapsed deprives me of saying me of saying exactly how long you was in the Army at that time - but I have no doubt but what you was (as you say) in the Army one year at that time - I will remember that we had recruits joined the Army about that time and served one year - I receive from Government $320 as a Lieut. pay since 1828
Matthew Gregory
State of New York City and County of Albany } On the 5 th day of January, 1833, personally
appeared the above named Matthew Gregory,
who made oath to the truth of the facts set forth in the above statement, before me,
D. P. Cole Justice of the Peace

State of New York, City & and County of Albany ss. I Conrad A. Ten Eyck Clerk of the said City and County do hereby certify that John C. Cole before whom the within Affidavit purports to have been sworn to at the date of the same one of the Justices of the Peace in & for said County that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verely believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper hand writing and Signature
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of the said County this eighth day of January 1833.
C. A. Ten Eyck Clerk

State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield } ss Probate Court Dist. out of Norwalk Aug. 3 d . 1832 Personally appeared Jesse P. John of Wilton in said County, aged 73 and being duly sworn according to Law in open Court depose and say that he is well acquainted with Daniel Betts of said Wilton and knows that said Betts enlisted into the Continental Army in June 1782 in Col. Samuel B Webb Regt. and that he served there one year that I was in the same in the same Regt and at the same time
Jesse P. John
Sworn & subscribed in open Court Benj. Isaac judge At the same Court. Personally appeared Capt. Nathan Gilbert aged 84 of said Wilton and being duly sworn according to Law in open Court depose and say that In in Aug. 1776 said Daniel Betts and myself served in Capt. Samuel Boutwick Company of State troops and was marched to New York and served three months together.
That on or about the first of December 1777 said Daniel Betts entered my Company in said Wilton and served under me in guarding and protecting the sea coast and on the lines until the first day of June 1782 and he then enlisted into the Continental Army -
Nathan Gilbert
Sworn and subscribed in open Court
Benj. Isaac, judge
Probate Court - District of Norwalk I hereby Certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Jesse P. John and Nathan Gilbert and know that are credible and respectable Persons.
Benj. Isaac judge

State of Connecticut } County of Fairfield }
Probate Court District of Norwalk Feby. 26 1833 Personally appeared Jesse St John of Milton in said County and being duly sworn in open Court according to law depose and says that he is well acquainted with Daniel Butts of said Milton and knows that said Butts enlisted in the Continental Army into Capt. Hop- kins Company Col. D. B. Webb's Regt. in June 1781. in my former disposition it was in June 1782 but on reflection I am convinced it was in the year 1781 I belonged to the same Regt. and was in the service at the same time Mr. Butts had a Father living in said Milton at the time of his enlistment and I believe he enlisted as Daniel Butts Jr. as he was then called and his Father did not belong to the Continental Army. deponent further says he was a captured in Capt. Parsons Company at the siege of said town of Milton and been taken a prisoner since the act of 1822. Sworn & subscribed in open Court Jesse St John
& that said Jesse St John is a creditable Person. Bury's Isaac Judge
at the same Court. Personally appeared the within named Nathan Gilbert and being duly sworn in open Court according to law depose and says that the said Daniel Butts served in the Company under my Command from the first of December 1777 until he enlisted into the Continental Army on the first of June 1781. on reflection I find I was mistaken in the year in my former disposition Sworn and subscribed in open Court the day & year above said and that said
Nathan Gilbert
Nathan Gilbert is a Credible Person
Bury's Isaac Judge

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Getts, David GRADE Private LINE Connecticut
WARRANT NUMBER 5496 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Dec. 30, 1796 to not shown
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.