Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 23579, Jonathan Benedict, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Leon
Benedict, Jonathan Hulda
W. 23579 B.L.M. 26709-160-55
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20.107 New York
Jonathan Benedict of Shoreham in the State of Vermont who was a Private in the Comp commanded by Captain Heeseh of the Regt commanded by Col. Elmore in the Infant line for 13 mos a Sept.
Inscribed on the Roll of My own at the rate of 6 Dollars 25 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 day of July , 1831 and See No G. Pettit habus
Arrears to the 4th of March $ 130 Semi-ant. allowance ending Sept '31  32.50 $162.50
{ Revolutionary Claims, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Col. Stiles Clerk, Book C Vol. B Page 47

Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7th 1832 - -
State of New York
County of Onondaga
On this 15th day of August 1832
personally appeared before George a Judge of the County Courts, in and for said County, at his own house, being unable, from bodily infirmity to appear in open Court, Jonathan Benedict, a resident in the Town of Pompey in said County, aged Eightyseven years who being first duly sworn, according to Law, doth on his Oath, make the follow- ing declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 - - That he entered the ser- -vice of the United States, under the following named Offi- -cers and served as herein stated. - That he was ten years old when the French War began, & thirty years old when the revo- -lutionary war began, & that there was just twenty years between the two wars, that his recollections are not distinct as to dates, but he recollects being out along the coast on two or three short drafts the very fore part of the War, being then a resident of Danbury in the State of Connecticut, & remembers going on in this service under Capt Joseph Smith & Col Couch, one or both of whom, belonged in Brookfield, that he often went in this way on short drafts from three weeks to two months, and in frequent general alarms, when marauding parties of the enemy would land from their ships and from Long Island, and when the whole country would turn out as far as twenty miles, which was the distance of Danbury from Norwalk, to which place, & to Middletown & Byram River & other places he often went in drafts as aforesaid and general alarms, & thinks & believes his services in this way, in all, could not have been less than one year during the war - that he belonged at home , to Capt Daniel Hock's Company of Militia, and part of the time Capt Joseph Elmore was Captain at home , & that he was Orderly Sergeant in said Company, & when out in the service as aforesaid - That Capt Hock went out on some of the aforesaid drafts & alarms, but Captain Elmore never went -

That he well recollects, while at Byram River, he was Serjeant of a guard one night, was relieved in the morning by another Serjeant with his guard, & thinks his name was Gustip, & immediately a party of the British came & dispersed his guard, killed one of our men left in a house, took another out of doors. & told him in derision to say his prayers for he must die, & they killed him in presence of a neighbouring woman who stood pleading for his life. - That in 1776 he was drafted & went to New York under the said Capt Keok, & Col Ely Mygatt, commonly called Col Maggot, and was there when our people left the City, & belonged to a party that was ordered to call the men away from the entrenchments, & was ordered to go a second time, & see that our men were all out of the entrenchments, & then found two men still there, by the names of Peter & Stephen Amblers with whom he was acquainted at home, that he was in the fighting when the enemy took possession - and believes he left home this time in July or August, and returned home in the fall having been gone as much as three months and simply crossing Kingsbridge which is twelve miles from New York. - That in the forepart of the same year He went & served under Capt Keok & Col Mygatt in New York, he thinks as long as Six weeks or two months, & well recollects that he came back by water & landed at Norwalk in Connecticut, that he went on, the same day , and travelled about six miles to Betts tavern in Wilton, where he stayed all night, & next morning travelled on to a place called Umphall hill, where he met his brother in law Moses Vail with two horses who had come to meet him & help him home, & that he did Orderly Serjeant only during the whole of the aforesaid service at New York - That he well remembers seeing General Washington, while at New York - That afterwards towards the close of the War, & during the time that General Mc Dougall was in command of the continental troops at Westpoint, he went to that place and joined a company under Col Canfield of New Milford in Connecticut, & his Regiment was one year men, that he joined the company as fallacies - that he had been harassed so much, in drafts & alarms where he lived in Danbury, he concluded it was best to go away & join the service some where from home - that Col Mygatt gave him a pass and recommendation, to Col Canfield, then

3 at Westpoint, with which he went to Westpoint, in the month of June, and agreed with Col Canfield to join his Regiment, with whom he was well acquainted, & remained in said Regiment over four months, & was dismissed in October of the same year, by his consent & agreement - that he well remembers that there was some difference between General McDougal and Col Canfield, between the continental and the new men, about doing labor on fatigue. That they were preparing firewood for Westpoint for the Winter. That the wood was brought there in Boats & had to be carried up a terrible great hill, that it was said General McDougal intended to have the militia as they were called, bring it pretty much all up the Hill, & that the militia did carry it chiefly up the hill, and grumbled about it very much, and a good deal of other hard service on fatigue, more than they thought belonged to them - That Westpoint lies on the North Deposant river on the West point side of the river, above New York, & the remembrance the names of Crumpond, Peekskill & in that neighborhood. That he was taken into the service as aforesaid by Col Canfield as an Orderly Sergeant, & did that duty during the said term of more than four months, which he believes was in the year 1781, but is not positive. That while the deponent was out on one of the above terms of service, his brother Gilbert Benedict of Danbury aforesaid, now deceased, in behalf of himself and the deponent, according to a rule in Connecticut that if any two men would furnish a Soldier for during the War, his service should answer for both, did hire one John Allen of New London to service for them as aforesaid during the War, and each paid said Allen fifty silver Dollars for his service, that through ignorance of said Gilbert, he conducted said Allen into the State of New York where he joined Col Willetts Regiment, which mistake of said Gilbert, by not entering said Allen in the Connecticut troops was the cause of deponent, being afterwards called on to perform duty in that state - that said Allen did serve as aforesaid during the war in pursuance of said agreement, in Col Willetts Regiment of New York troops, and had six hundred acres of Land patented to him in the County of Onondaga, and was not seen after the War by either

4 of his said employers. That he has no documentary evidence, & that he knows of no person, whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his service - That soon after he came into this Town about fifteen years ago, two and a half years of which time, he has resided in Carenovia in Madison County, his eyesight began to fail, & for seven years past , he has been almost entirely blind, which has been the cause of confinement at home so that no Clergyman is sufficiently acquainted with him to testify as to his reputation as a Soldier in 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 and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before George Pettit Judge of Onondaga County Courts
Jonathan Benedict
State of New York County of Onondaga
On this 15 th day of August 1882 personally appeared before George Pettit, a Judge of the County Courts in and for said County, Stephen Benedict, a resident of the Town of Pompey in said County, who being duly sworn before the said Judge, deposes & certifies that he is well acquainted now, & has been heretofore for about the term of about fifteen years in Pompey aforesaid, with Jonathan Benedict who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that he believes him to be Eightyseven years of age, that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the revolution, & that deponent concurs in that opinion - That deponent is son of Gilbert Benedict named in the said declaration, that he has frequently heard said Gilbert say that he was in the service with said Jonathan as much as Eight or nine months and has also heard him make statements about the said Jonathan & himself, having hired one Allen to serve for them during the War as set forth in said declaration. -
Stephen Benedict
Sworn and subscribed the day & year aforesaid before George Pettit Judge of Onondaga County Courts

State of New York } Onondaga County }
On the 29 th day of December 1832 personally appeared before George Pettit a Judge of County Courts in and for said County, at his house in Pompey in said County, being unable from heavy infirmity to appear in open Court, Jonathan Benedict who subscribed & swore to the foregoing declaration, on the 15 th day of August last, before the said Judge, who, being again duly sworn, according to Law, by and before the said Judge, as further proof and explanation of said declaration & particularly in answer to objection No 4 of the list of objections returned from the Ward Department to his said application, deposes and says, that the service first mentioned in said declaration was in the year 1775, & that the services performed in short drafts as mentioned therein, under Col Ganeh, Capt Smith & Capt Keese were in that year - that the service therein mentioned as having been performed in New York, under Col M'gatt & Capt Keese was in 1776 - & that his service at Westpoint was in the summer and fall of 1781 - that he is now no more positive of these facts because certainly seems to be required, but believes them to have been as stated above & that he may be mistaken as to time through extreme old age & loss of time memory, but is confident of the performance of the service, at the places & under the Officers stated in said declaration - that by reason of the same effects of age & infirmity he cannot specify swear positively as to the precise length of his service, in explanation of objection No 5 but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades - For one year & four months I served as a Sergeant, for which service I claim a pension - as set forth in my former declaration, & if such service is allowable under the Act of Congress of June 7 th 1832. I claim to be allowed enough of said service to make up two years; for  Eight months of which service being performed by said Allen in the grade of a private - The deponent further says in answer to objection No 17 that he was born in in the Town of Danbury County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut in the year One thousand seven hundred and forty five, referring to the first interrogatory in the said regulations - To the second, that he has no record of his age
To the sixth interrogatory, that he never received a discharge in writing from the service, and to the seventh he states the names of Stephen Benedict, John Warner, John Vail and Hannah Vail as persons to whom he is known in his present neighborhood, & who can testify as to his character for truth & veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution.
Sworn & subscribed the day & year above written before George Pettit Judge of Onondaga County Courts
Jonathan
Benedict

And I the said Judge do hereby certify that the within named Jonathan Benedict, cannot, from bodily infirmity attend the Court - and further, that the answers contained in the within affidavit, this day sworn to and subscribed by said Benedict, to Nos 1, 2, 6 and 7 of the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, are the same answers, that were given by him, to the said Judge, according to his best recollection & belief, when the foregoing declaration was made on the 15 th day of August last, but inadvertently understanding the word See , as used in the regulations immediately following the interrogatories, to in the sense of the word perceive , he did not deem it necessary to insert the answers in said declaration -
Given under my hand and seal at Pompey this 29 th day of December 1832
George Pettit Judge of Onondaga County Courts
State of New York Onondaga County
ss: I Reuben S. Hays Clerk of the said County do hereby certify that George Pettit was on the 29 th day of December last and now is one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County which is a Court of Record and that I am acquainted with his handwriting and verily believe his name subscribed to the jurat of the above affidavit and to the above certificate to be his proper hand writing and genuine signatures.
Witness my hand and Seal of Office this 11 th day of January 1833.
R. S. Hays Clerk Pr A. Edwards Jr. Dep. Clerk
Jonathan Benedict

1090. 1098 New York Albany. Huldah Benedict, widow of Jonathan Benedict, N.Y. who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Sergeant.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 65 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 day of August 1848 and sent to B. T. Clarke. Cazenovia N.Y.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 10 Vol. 4,
Reg. 3 m 55-39382
Reported
Date of death not shown on AR.

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the third Section of the Act of Congress of the 4th July, 1836 State of New York Onondaga County
On this 20th day of August 1836 personally appeared before George Pottel a Judge of the County Courts in & for said County, Huldah Benedict, now a resident of the Town of Galias, but late of Pompey, both in the County of Onondaga aforesaid, & State of New York, aged Seventy years, said Judge who being first duly sworn, according to Law, doth, on her Oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed July 4th 1836. That She is the widow of Jonathan Benedict who was a private Soldier, & a part of the time, a Serjeant, as the declarant believes, in the militia or Army of the revolution, and also was, at the time of his decease, a pensioner of the United States, under the Act of Congress passed Jan 7th 1832, and served as set forth in his declaration, & in the proof thereto annexed, under said last mentioned Act, which said declaration & proof were made in said Town of Pompey before the said Judge, in the years 1832 and 1833 now on file in the War Department, & is all and the only proof of the said service in the power of the declarant to procure. She further declares that She was married to the said Jonathan Benedict, before the termination of the said service of her said husband expired, by a Minister whose name was Peck, in the Town of Danbury, Bethel Society, Fairfield County, State of Connecticut, on or about the 11th day of June in the year 1782 when She was Sixteen years old that the said Jonathan was then a Widower with seven children by his first Wife, then deceased, and that respondent's maiden name was Huldah Seely - that her husband, the aforesaid Jonathan Benedict died in Pompey on the 20th day of July in the year 1834, and that She has remained a Widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed. She further declares that She has no documentary evidence of the service of her said husband, (except as aforesaid) to support her claim

nor has she any record of her said marriage, nor does she know or believe there was any public record made of it in the troublousome times of the revolution when it took place. She further declares that she had no children under the age of sixteen years at the time of their Father's decease as aforesaid
her
I certify that on the day & year mentioned first in the foregoing declaration Huldah Benedict appeared before me & subscribed & swore to the same, that she is well known to me is a credible person, & her statement is entitled to belief. & that from bodily infirmity & inability to get to Syracuse where the Courts are held, 20 miles distant she is unable to attend the Court, and that she signed by her cross because she never could write —
Huldah X Benedict mark
George Pettit Judge of Onondaga County Court
State of New York Onondaga County p.
I, Hawn Edwards Clerk of the Court of
Common Pleas of said County do hereby certify that George Pettit Esquire before whom the within and preceding affidavits purport to have been sworn was at the respective dates of the said affidavits a Judge of the Onondaga County Courts duly appointed and qualified and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the jurat of said affidavits to be his genuine signature. Witness my hand and seal of Office this 23. day of August 1836
H. Edwards Clerk
Huldah Benedict Application under the Act of Congress of July 4th 1836 George Pettit of Haldus Onondaga County N.Y. her Agent.

State of New York
Onondaga County
On the 22 nd day of August 1836 before George Pettit a Judge of County Courts in & for said County, comes Oliver Vail of Danbury, County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut, Fifty nine years old in July last, & being duly sworn deposes & says, that he is acquainted with Hulda B. Benedict who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declaration, & has known her as long as he can recollect any thing, that his Father brought her up & she lived at his Father's house when she was mar- ried, & was married at his house in Danbury aforesaid as was said & talked in his said Father's family, although deponent does not remember to have been present at her marriage, that said Hulda lived with Jonathan Benedict late of Pompey deceased, as her husband, & deponent knows them to have lived together as man & Wife within sixty rods of deponent's Father, for a period about of thirty years af- ter their marriage as aforesaid, & has been acquainted with them as such, ever since the expiration of that period, & that they have had & brought up a family of eleven children, with whom deponent is more or less acquainted, & also with seven other children of the said Jonathan Benedict, by a former Wife, that deponent well recollects the said Jonathan Benedict, when he kept a school in the house of deponent's Father, while he was yet a Widower, & before he was married to the said Hulda, as well as he recollects, that he afterwards lived with her as his Wife for and during the said period about of thirty years, deponent well remembers hearing said Jonathan tell of incidents & occurrences that he saw and which happened to him while he was a Soldier in the revolu- tionary War - & that said Hulda has remained a Widow ever since the death of said Jonathan, as deponent is inform- ed & believes -
Oliver Vail
Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year above- written by Oliver Vail, who is a credible witness before me, George Pettit Judge of Onondaga County Courts -

State of New York Onondaga County
On the 22 nd day of August 1836 before George Pettit a Judge of County Courts in & for said County, came John Vail of the Town of Fulmer in said County, aged Fifty-eight years next October, who being duly sworn, deposes and says, that he is brother to Oliver Vail who has made the foregoing depoa- -tion which has been read in deponent's hearing, and deponent resembles & knows all the facts stated in said Oliver's deposition, & further says that when said Jonathan Benedict & Huldah Benedict removed from Danbury, they removed to Dover, Dutchess Coun- -ty, State of New York, where deponent then lived. Which was at, or about the end of the thirty years mentioned in said deposition of said Oliver, that said Jonathan & Huldah & deponent & his family all lived in Dover about twelve years, & then, or within one year they all removed to the same neighborhood in Onondaga County aforesaid, during all which time, down to the death of said Jonathan, two years ago last July deponent has known them to live together as man and Wife - that said Jonathan was a Pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress of June 7 th 1832 and that said Huldah Benedict has not been married since, but still remains the Widow of said Jonathan Benedict & further says not —
John Vail
I certify that on the day & year first above- written, John Vail subscribed & sworn to the above deposition, before me & that I have long known him to be a reputable man & a credible witness George Pettit Judge of Onondaga County Courts

8622
Jonathan Ponderich
Service by substitute dis allowed -
Adm 13 mo serg. $65
4.5.16. 17
5 Set 1832 26
George Pottit
Habers
MS. B. 1. 6 v. 5 p. 95.

BRIEF in the case of  Jonathan Benedict  of  Conney  in the State of  New York  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? Eighty seven 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.     The first part of the war In 1775 as often called out for short terms & during his whole service of short terms was — 1 As a Sergeant Gen. Genl. Heath, Genl. Schuyler, Col. Lydig, Col. Cuyler.   Aug. 1776 — as much as — 3 As — 4   Jan'y 1781 — — — 4 Col. Campbell Crawford  
 5. In what battles was he engaged?  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Saunderg. Conn.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Stephen Benedict, John Ward Cully & traditional evidence.  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.
J. Hunt Examining Clerk.

Rev. E. W. Benson. Oct 27/55 let E. W. Benson Nov 14/55
Geo. Lane 57 1/2 27/15 no eni of calls
Vol. Bk. 93. E. W. Benson
39.382 { Act Mar 3/55 Rec aft 5/55
Hulda mid of Benedich Jonathan Benedich (Sergt) Capt James Clark { N.Y. Mil. Died Oct 17/56. in a S.P. 11/55 B.D. by Dr. Rev. War ...
N.Y. ad July 48-1090 Filed Aug 22/55 Third Auditor's Office August 29/1855. There appears to be no eni- dence in this office of Rolls of a capt. James Clark, Ch. G. Militia. A. H. Lander for 3rd Auditor.
Elias W. Benson Syracuse NY

DECLARATION FOR BOUNTY LAND.
STATE OF New York County of Onondaga } ss :
On this Twentieth day of March , A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me, a justice of the peace, Hulda Benedict , aged 49 years, a resident of Pompey , in the State of New York who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Jonathan Benedict , deceased, who was a Sergeant in the company commanded by Captain James Clark in the Militia regiment of Militia , commanded by in the war with Great Britain, declared by the United States on the 18th day of June, 1812. ; that her said husband enlisted as a volunteer at West Point and at New York , on or about the day of A. D. , for the term of 6 months , and continued in actual service in said war for the term of Six months , and was honorably discharged at West Point on the day , A. D.
She further states that she was married to the said Jonathan Benedict in Danbury on the 9th day of July , A. D. 1743 by one John Pesh a Presbyterian Priest , and that her name before her marriage was Hulda Seley ; that her said husband died at Pompey on the 20th day of July , A. D. 1434 , and that she is now a widow.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the "act approved March 3, 1855."
We, Robert Woolley and James Benedict , residents of Pompey in the State of New York , upon our oaths, declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Hulda Benedict , in our presence, and that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
Witnesses
Robert Woolley James Benedict
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written ; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons ; that the claimant is the person he represents himself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
Rich S. Tracy J. P.
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I Hulda Benedict of the county of Onondaga , and State of New York , do hereby constitute and appoint ELIAS W. BENSON of Syracuse, N. Y., my true and lawful Attorney, for me and in my behalf, to prosecute my claim for Bounty Land
and to receive such Bounty Land as may be issued, hereby revoking any power of Attorney which may have been heretofore given, and confirming all things that my Attorney, the said Elias W. Benson, may lawfully do in the premises.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 20th day of March A. D. 1855 for further proof please refer to the Pension Records she being a petitioner her husband Hulda K Benedict drew a pension of 65 4/10 a year
Acknowledged before me the day and year last above written. State of New York Onondaga County ss
Rich S. Tracy J. P.
and the above named Hulda Benedict further says that she has heretofore made application for bounty land under the act of September 4th 1850 and received a sum of money for which she has since legally disposed of and cannot now return she makes this application for the purpose of obtaining the additional bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act approved the 3rd day of March 1855 she also declares that she has never applied for or received under this or any other act of Congress any bounty land warrant except the above mentioned
Sworn & subscribed before me this 20th day of March 1855
Hulda K Benedict mark
Rich S. Tracy Justice of the Peace

We the undersigned do hereby certify that we knew Jonathan Benedict & Hulda Benedict when they lived together as man & wife and raised a Family of Children as such and that Hulda Benedict is the person she represents herself to be { James Benedict Robt. H. Walker Sworn & subscribed before me this 20 th day of March 1855 Giel J Tracy Justice of the Peace
39.382
Hulda One Nut
Jonathan
James
Robt. H. Walker
Giel J Tracy
Justice
STATE OF NEW YORK, ONONDAGA COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE,
I Certify That Giel J Tracy whose name is subscribed to the Jurat of the annexed instrument, was at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, and duly qualified and authorized to take the same. And I further certify that I am well acquainted with his hand-writing, and verily believe the signature to said Jurat is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and af- fixed the Seal of said County, at Syracuse, this 20 th day of March 1855.
Samuel Lockwood Clerk.

MMNF Q
November 15, 1926
Mrs. Thomas M. Cory 1428 Schiller Ave., Little Rock, Ark.
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 23579 it appears that Jonathan Benedict was born in 1745 in Danbury, Fairfield County, Connecticut.
While a resident of Danbury, Connecticut he enlisted in 1775 and served at various times, between thirteen and sixteen months in all, until in 1781, as Orderly Sergeant under Captains Joseph Smith, Daniel Hicock, Joseph Elmore and James Clark, and Colonels Couch, Eli Mygatt, Canfield, Joseph P. Cooke and Beardsley in the Connecticut Troops.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 15, 1832 while a resident of Pompey, Onondaga County, New York. He died July 20, 1834 in said Pompey.
Soldier married the first time, date, and name of wife not given, and by this marriage had seven children whose names are not stated. He married the second time on June 11, 1782 or 1783,

or on July 9, 1783, in Bethel Parish, Danbury, Connecticut, Huldah Seely or Seley born in July 1765 or 1766, of Danbury, Connecticut. Names of her parents not stated. She was allowed pension on her application executed August 20, 1836 while a resident of Fabius, Onondaga County, New York. In 1855 she was living in Pompey, New York.
Soldier and his wife Huldah had eleven children, Cyrus aged forty-eight in 1833, and James aged fifty-five in 1843, are the only names stated.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.
Soldier's bro-in-law - was
Moses Hall - near at his house -
Sol had niece Hannah
Long daugh. to said Moses Hall,
Met Polly Wadsworth.
Sol had Bro. Kilburn in Rev. He had son Stephen of
Pompey, N. Y. in 1832

State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield ss.
On this 18 th day of June 1833
personally appeared before the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury, in said County and State Phineas Taylor of said Danbury aged Seventy three years who being duly sworn before the said Court according to law, doth on his oath depose and say, that he now resides in the Town of Danbury in said County, where he has resided since and during the revolutionary War during which he was well acquainted with Jonathan Benedict, who also resided in said Town of Danbury at that time, who now resides in the Town of Pompey County of Onondaga & State of New York as the Deponent is informed and verily believes. That during the war aforesaid the said Benedict was in the service of the United States in the Connecticut Militia, in the Company commanded by Captain Daniel Hickok in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Joseph P. Cook, Stationed at the City of New York said Benedict served at this time the term of three months, this term was in the summer of the year 1776, I served in the same Company with him, & am well knowing of his serving as aforesaid. I think he was a sergeant of the Company at that time.
In the year 1779 said Benedict was at the Town of Fairfield & Norwalk in this State when those Towns were burnt, he was at this time in the Company commanded by Capt Daniel Hickok in the Regiment of Col. Beardsley, and was in the actions fought at those places, and afterwards proceeded with said Company to the Town of

Stamford in this State, when he was dismissed after serving two weeks. I was at this time at those places in the drafted troops, and well recollect of his serving as above stated
The deponent further testifies & says that, in the year 1780 as this deponent believes, there was a draft for four months from the Militia of this State, to go on to the lines at Hornneck in this State, said Benedict was drafted as a sergeant to go on said town, he agreed with me to serve two months, said town provided I would serve the other two months, to which I agreed he served the first two months when I went & took his place & served the remainder of the term, the service was performed in the company commanded by Captain Joseph Smith, in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Canfield
The Deponent further says, that in the year 1777 at the time Major Andre was taken I was in the State Service on a tour of nine months at Westchester, & Eastchester, & Peekskill in the State of New York, and while I was there the Militia in this State were called to go up the Hudson River to watch the British Shipping on a tour of three months, said Benedict at that time belonged to the Militia in the company of Captain Daniel Tickok, and on my return I was informed that said Benedict served on said tour, & I verily believe he did, but have no personal knowledge of the fact, But I know that Captain Tickok's company went on said

Low, and that said Benedict was a Sergeant in said company at that time - and further the deponent says not. Phineas Taylor.
State of Connecticut, New Britain County ss. a. a.
On the 18 th day of June 1833, At Danbury in the said County, before me the undersigned Probate Judge and for the District of Danbury in the said County, personally appeared Phineas Taylor, known to me to be the person described in and who executed the foregoing deposition, and being duly sworn, made solemn oath to the truth of the same. Given under my hand this 18 th day of June 1833.
Edward Taylor Clerk of said Court
I, Phineas Taylor of Danbury in the County of New Britain and State of Connecticut, Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury in the said County do hereby certify that the foregoing deposition of Phineas Taylor is a true and correct copy of the original thereof, and that the proceedings therein were had and taken before me, and that the same are true to the best of my knowledge, information and belief. Given under my hand this 18 th day of June 1833.
Phineas Taylor Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury Connecticut

Fabius, Onondaga County, N.Y. May 15 th 1843.
Honoured Sir, I herewith transmit more proof for obtaining a pension. To prove my marriage is difficult.
No record of it can be found though we have sought for it diligently and I know of no person living that saw me married yet in truth I was married at the time and place I have described. I was married at Moses Vail's house His (Moses') son Oliver is named in my son's deposition.
My husband's parents, Moses Vail and his wife, John Matthews and his wife and Jesse Burrel and his wife were at my wedding who I believe are all dead. I conclude most honoured Sir, by hoping, what I have sent may be deemed sufficient.
I remain your humble servant. Huldah Benedict Hon. J. L. Edwards. } Commissioner of Pensions }
Note. If this is insufficient, be so good as to let me know Hon. J. L. E. H. B.

Honorable J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions

269 6 Aug 8/43
Hul. Benedict,
March 20/43
NY
$65 per an
Cornwall-on-Hudson Washington 24
B. F. Clarke Cazenovia N.Y.
Howland L. Edwards

Cazenovia Aug 4. 1843
J. L. Edwards Esq
Dr Sir
Enclosed I forward you what I suppose will be sufficient to enable Mrs Hulda Benedict to obtain her Certificate for the additional year Widows Pension - If any thing should be wanting I will thank you to let me know as soon as convenient & it shall be forwarded to you immediately
Respectfully yours
B. T. Clarke

State of New York Madison County } ss
On this 15th day of July 1848 personally appeared before me W. T. Clarke a justice of the peace in Schoharie County Huldah Benedict a resident of the town of Lakin County of Onondaga State aforesaid aged eighty three years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 2nd February 1848 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.
That she is the widow of Jonathan Benedict who was a sergeant in the Connecticut line of the Revolutionary Army but the Officers names under which he served she cannot now remember. That she received annually under the act of June 17. 1844 the sum of Sixtyfive Dollars and that she still remains a widow
Subscribed & sworn to ( her ) before me this 15th day of June 1848 { Huldah x Benedict mark W. T. Clarke J. Peace James Benedict
I certify the above named Huldah Benedict is personally known to me & that she executed the above declaration by making her mark having lost the art of writing through infirmity.
Cazenovia July 15. 1848 W. T. Clarke J. Peace

State of New York Madison County Clerk's Office ss I Abner Hoan Clerk of said County hereby certify that B. S. Clarke Esq. before whom the within declaration on oath was taken and whose name is subscribed to the jurat thereof was on the day of the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly elected and qualified. That I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and truly believe that his signature to said jurat is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal this 18 th day of July 1848
Abner Hoan Clerk
Adm. etc.
B. S. Clarke Cazenovia N.Y.

Fabius Way } June 28 th }
add. for proof Jon. C. Benedict
Dear J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington

Traverse Onondaga Co
June 27th 1933
Sir - Having waited for the enclosed affidavit of Phinehas Taylor till expectation had gone, I for- -warded last week the additional proof in favor of Jonathan Benedict's application for a Pension, as all that could be obtained - Mr Taylor's dep- -osition is conclusive as to the applicant's ser- -vice, Three months & two weeks, & if the two months substituted service of the dismount, & the 3 Months in 1777 are allowed, the amounts of service proved by the last affidavit of the Applicant, & those of S t Benedict & Mr Taylor, are perhaps as near in agreement as men of their ages, without opportunity for contact, for more than twenty years, could be expected to recollect - Mr Benedict is so greatly superannuated, & is so very a child, that any discrepancy between his declarations & affidavits, & those of the witnesses will be imputed, I trust, to these circumstances - And wherein the evidence of the witnesses is more favorable to him than his own, with- -er as to his service as a Sergeant , or amount of service, it is submitted whether the former would not be taken as the standard of his allowance - - I am very respectfully &c
George Patten

V 8575 Huldah Benedict N.Y.
act 7. July 38 adm'd Emerson 65
Mrs Huldah Benedict 4 Fabius Onondaga N.Y.

State of New-York } Onondaga County } S.S.
On this Sixth day of December Eighteen hundred and forty-two, personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Onondaga Huldah Benedict, a resident of the Town of Fabius in the County of Onondaga, aged Seventy-Seven years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 7, 1838 entitled "An act granting half-pay and pensions to certain widows": That she is the widow of Jonathan Benedict, who was an Orderly Sergeant in the Connecticut Militia during the Revolutionary war between the United States and Great Britain, and was a resident of the town of Danbury, Fairfield County in the State of Connecticut. That he was drafted at different times during the war and at one time enlisted for one year and served his time nearly out. That he was a pensioner and received a pension under the laws of the United States for several years previous to his death and up to the period of his death; For a particular account of his services she refers to the records of the War Department and the Pension office.
She further declares that she was married to the said Jonathan Benedict on the Eleventh day of June Seventeen hundred and eighty-three that her husband the said Jonathan Benedict died on the Twentieth day of July Eighteen hundred and thirty four that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first

of January Seventeen hundred and Ninety-four, viz: at the time above stated.
Sworn to & subscribed } Huldah her Benedict On the day and year above } marks Written before }
State of New York
Onondaga County Courts I certify that the above named Huldah Benedict appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in Open said County now sitting at the Court house in Syracuse in said County & was duly sworn to the foregoing statement  declaration & that she subscribed her name thereto by making her mark she not being able to write her name from old age & infirmity. Given under my hand at Syracuse this 6 th day of December 1892
Witness my hand and seal of said Court
Chas. T. Hicks Clerk of Onondaga County Courts

State of New-York } ss Onondaga County
On this fifth day of December Eighteen hundred and forty-two personally appeared in the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Onondaga Hannah Losey, who, being first duly sworn according to law deposes & says that she is sixty years of age, that she resides in the town of Pompey in said county of Onondaga, that she has & now is been acquainted with Huldah Benedict, the widow of Jonathan Benedict, a revolutionary soldier, that she has heard the annexed declaration of said Huldah Benedict read & knows the contents thereof, and that she has been personally acquainted with said Huldah Benedict for nearly sixty years, that she has known her ever since she can recollect of knowing any thing that the husband of said Huldah was her uncle, & that the said Jonathan Benedict & the said Huldah Benedict lived together as husband & wife for more than forty years previous to the death of said Jonathan which took place on the twentieth day of July Eighteen hundred and thirty four, and that they lived together as husband husband & wife ever since she was old enough to remember, and that she has lived with them and a near neighbor to them ever since she can remember & up to the time of his death as above stated.
Subscribed & sworn to before me this 6 th day of December 1842
Hannah Losey mark
Chas. T. Hicks Clerk of Onondaga County Courts

Huldah Benedict being duly sworn before Peter Benson a justice of the peace of the town of Fabius county of Onondaga and State of New- York deposeth and saith, That in the month of December last past before the court of Common Pleas held in and for the said county of Onon- daga she made a declaration for the purpose of trying to obtain a pension of the United States under the act of Congress of the 7 th of July 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows," which she is informed by a letter from the Com- missioner of pensions is received and on file in his office. She further deposeth and saith that Jonathan Benedict and herself were married in the parish of Bethel in the town of Danbury, by a Presbyterian minister of said parish whose name was Peck, and that diligent search has been made in said town and parish records to find that event recorded but no such record can be found, and that there is no family re- cord of her said marriage and she verily believes that there is no record of her and her said husband's mar- riage; that since she was married she has had eleven children whom she naird that are all the fruit of said marriage. Huldah X Benedict mark
Sworn and subscribed before me this 8 th day of May 1843 Peter Benson Justice of Peace
I the above said Justice of the Peace do hereby certify that I am acquainted with the above said Huldah Benedict and know she has a good moral character and is a woman of truth and veracity that she is infirm of old age and cannot write but retains her mental faculties and that she is unanimously reputed to be the widow of the above said Jonathan Benedict. I believe she deserves a pension.
Peter Benson JP

James Benedict being duly sworn before Peter Benson a justice of the peace of the town of of Fabius county of Onondaga and state of New York Deposeth and saith. That according to the best of his knowledge and belief he is the son of the with- in named Jonathan and Huldah Benedict that he is fifty five years old, that he has from infancy most- ly lived with and near his father until his said Father's death, that he had access to all his father's papers and books and that there is no family record of his father's and mother's marriage, that he has caused the parish records of Bethel and the town records of Danbury, where said marriage is said to have been consummated, to be thoroughly searched, to find the record of said marriage but no record of that event can be found, that Oliver Vail a nephew of his father had informed him, previous to his (Oliver's) death which happened in October 1841 aged sixty four years, that he (Oliver) recollected said Jonathan and Huldah being married at Oliver's father's house when Oliver was quite young and that said Oliver's character for truth is unimpeachable that his father had told him of being married to his mother that he believes with full assurance that his father and Mother were lawfully married nearly 60 years ago Subscribed and sworn before } James Benedict me this 8 th day of may 1843 }
Peter Benson J.P.
I the above named Justice of the Peace hereby certify that I am acquainted with the above said James Benedict and know him to be a man of good standing in community and that his character for truth and veracity stands fair Peter Benson J.P.

Hannah Lory being duly sworn by and before Peter Benron justice of the peace of the town of Fabius county of Onondaga and State of New York Deposeth and saith that she has heard the affidavit of Huldah Benedict made this day before Peter Benron Esq and that she made an affidavit on behalf of said Huldah in December last before the court at the time she (Huldah) made her Declaration for a pension she fur- ther deposeth and saith that she can plainly remember when she was seven years old and from that time forward her uncle Jonathan Benedict and the said Huldah lived together as husband and wife and that she was seven years old, more than forty three years before her said uncle Jonathan's death, and that said Huldah had eight children before she removed from Danbury forty three years ago and and three thereafter all the eleven she merely believes are the legitimate issue of said Jonathan and Huldah's marriage which marriage from concur- rent circumstances appears to have taken place almost sixty years ago
Hannah Lory
Subscribed and sworn before } me this 8 th day of May 1843 }
I the above named Peter Benron J.P.
I the above named justice of the peace hereby certify that I am acquainted with the above said Hannah Lory and know she is a woman of unexceptionable character for truth and veracity Peter Benron J.P.

Polly Woolley being duly sworn by and before Peter Benson a justice of the peace of the town of Fabius Onondaga County and state of New York deposeth and saith That she has heard the affidavit of Huldah Benedict made this day before Peter
Benson Esquire and believes she tells the truth, that she resides in Fabius and that the said Jonathan named in said Huldah's affidavit was her uncle, that she lived in Danbury in Connecticut from her earliest recollection until she was a woman grown, that she is fifty- eight years old, that she lived near to the said Jonathan when she was a child and remembers that the said Jonathan and Huldah lived together as husband and wife when she was seven years old, that they removed from Danbury about forty three years ago and that they so lived together as husband and wife from her earliest recollection until her said uncle's death; that she always supposed they were lawfully married and never heard the least whisper to the contrary. Polly Woolley
Subscribed and sworn before
me this 8 th day of May 1843
Peter Benson J.P.
To the above named justice of the peace hereby certify that I am acquainted with the above said Polly Woolley and that she has a good and fair charac- ter for truth and veracity. Peter Benson J.P.
State of New York, Onondaga County,
I certify that Peter Benson Esq. whose name is subscribed to the foregoing affida- vits & certificates, was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid Commissioned & sworn That I am well acquainted with his handwriting & verily believe that the signatures to said certificates and affidavits are genuine. Given under my hand & the seal of said County this 13 th day of May 1843.
Lewis Hullett Dept. Clerk (Clerk absent)

STATE OF NEW-YORK, } ss. County of Madison
On this 27 th day of July in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-three before the subscriber, a justice of the Peace in for said County
personally appeared Huldah Benedict a resident of the town of Fabius in said  the county of Onondaga aged seventy eight years who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 3d of March 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolu- tionary war:
That she is the widow of Jonathan Benedict who was a pensioner of the United States
She further declares that she was a Pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress, passed July 7, 1838, and that the annual amount of the pension which she received under the said act was Sixtyfive Dollars
She further declares that she is still a widow.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day } and year first above written. }
before me B. T. Clarke J. Peace
Huldah X Benedict
I Certify that the above declarant is personally known to me.
B. T. Clarke justice peace I certify the above named Huldah Benedict subscribed the above affidavit by making her mark because she has never learned to write B. T. Clarke J. Peace
STATE OF NEW-YORK, } ss. County of Madison
I, Warren Fairchild clerk of said county, do hereby certify that Benjamin T. Clarke Esq. was on the day of the date of the above jurat and certificate, a justice of the Peace in and for the said county, duly appointed and qualified, and that the signature above, purporting to be his, is genuine, as I verily believe
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of of- fice and subscribed my name, this first day of August 1843.
Warren Fairchild Clerk

Sept 29 42
To the
Free Secretary of war or to the authority for adjusting claims of widows of revolutionary soldiers for pensions
City Washington D.C.
Mrs. Huldah Bendire

Fabius. September 22. 1842
Honored Sir
I write to you to have you let me know if I am entitled to a pension from the herein after named circumstances which are as follows to wit: My late husband Jonathan Benedict during the war revolutionary between this country and Great Britain lived in the town of Danbury in Fairfield county Connecticut and served as an orderly Serjeant in the Connecticut militia in said war against the British so that under the act of Congress passed I believe in 1832 he received a pension of the United States of 65 Dollars a year until his death which occured on the twentieth day of July 1834 and I have ever since lived and am now a widow I am now 78 years old and was married to my said late husband 61 years ago last June and lived with him from that time until he died he was called into the service after we were married to defend against the British near Long Island sound It would be difficult to prove our marriage by eye-witness or by record I can show it by common reputation or by persons who have heard my late husband call me his wife or tell of our marriage I have often been told I was entitled to a pension and I made some attempt to obtain one soon after my late husband died but I never heard from it more and being poor was not able to get help I said no more about it until this time but seeing something in the news papers about widow's pensions it encouraged me to write and ask if you think I am entitled to one or what proof is requisite If you write to me send your letter to Widow Huldah Benedict town of Fabius Onondaga County State of New-York
This from your humble servant
Huldah Benedict

Honored Sir
Fabius Dec: 7: 1842
I received your communication of September 30 and attended the court of common pleas of this Onondaga county on the 6 th instant and in open court made the accompanying declaration and had Mrs. Lucy Lorey's affidavit taken then there in court I will describe her. My late husband was her uncle. When I was married I lived at her father's after my husband and myself lived near her father's in Danbury her father died when she was young and she came and lived with us considerable and the rest of the time at her grand-father's within a quarter of a mile of our residence until my husband and family removed to Dutchess county in the state of New-York about the year 1800 about 4 months after she came from Danbury and made her home with us and worked sometimes for us and sometimes for others who lived near us until we removed to Onondaga county in the year 1816 she soon after married and removed to Pompey in Onondaga county to near where my husband lived and died and she lived near there until this time. Her husband Martin Lorey is a respectable farmer of Pompey of a good property and she has a fair reputation as an amiable and a virtuous woman and a woman of truth and veracity. I wrote to you that I was married in 1781 but I afterwards conversed with my son and we found the truth to be I was married in 1783 pardon this informity of old age. My husband I wrote was in the service after we were married he went 3 or 4 days to the tuse mills from a rumor that the Tories intended to burn them he then returned and went no more I have given you all the testimony I have been able to obtain at present and hope your clemency if consistent with the law will accept it as sufficient I am respectfully your humble servant Huldah Benedict

Hon J L Edwards Commissioner of Pensions
Direct to Huldah Benedict Fabius Onondaga County N. Y.
See 12/14

Feb 11 '43
My
Hulda B...
To the Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D. C.

Honore sir Fabius January 30. 1843
I sent a declaration that I made before the court of common pleas of this county of Onondaga to you with an affidavit to try to obtain a pension and having received no returns I write if you will let me know if it came to you or if further proof is requisite in the business I can make myself known to you as the widow of Jonathan Benedict by the testimony of Judge George Pettit who assisted in obtaining a pension for my late husband and there may be some people yet alive who lived in the neighbourhood when and where I was married but did not see us married or if any thing is in default in the case be so kind as to let me know and you will confer a great favor on your humble servant Huldah Benedict Hon. J. L. Edwards
Note direct to Huldah Benedict Fabius Onondaga Co. N. Y.

Mar 29 1863
Rev.
Mr. Samuel H. Hunsicker 4 President
The Commissioners of Pensions
Washington D. C.

Fabius Onondaga County, N. Y.
March 17 th 1843
To the Commissioner of Pensions. Sir. I am requested by some former unsuccessful applicants for Pensions to renew their Claims, & present original Claims for some others. Of the first Class is the case of William Fox. Reference to his papers will show (which may be on the files of one of the houses of Congress, as he afterwards petitioned for a special Act) that his claim was denied at first, because his name was not found on the rolls of Col. Mcliggy's Regiment, as set forth in his declaration - & that it failed at last, after proving his service by one living witness, for the want of a second, according to the regulations. Encouragement is taken to ask a reexamination of this case, from a reply to a Letter addressed to Box 305, Albany P. O. to which, "applicants for Pensions whose claims had been disallowed" were invited to apply for "useful advice free of charge" by an anonymous advertisement in the Albany Argus. The reply says "if he drew no land, prove that his character for truth & veracity is good, & that he has ever been reported to have been the Soldier as described," and adds, that his advice "is founded on some new decisions". Permit me therefore to say, that any amount of proof to the truth & veracity and reported service of Mr Fox can be adduced, and to enquire if such proof will be of any avail in favor of his claim? Should you think proper to give his case a reexamination, I refer you to a

a paper containing some additional evidence from Hartford, Connecticut, which I forwarded more than a year ago to Mr Birdseye of the N. R. from this district, & which he probably presented for your consideration, although he returned me no answer. The next case I mention is Mrs Judith Nuttall, under the Act of 1836. From an examination of your numerous Letters in her case, it appears that she failed only because her marriage to John Nuttall, who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818, took place some five or six days after the latest service found/moved among the papers of his application. This applicant was very aged & sick at the time of the passage of the Act of July 1838 & continued so till the winter of 1839, when she died. Her case seems to have been made out complete under this last Act. Her Son, who is very poor, with a large family, receives the claim as heir to Judith Nuttall, and the enquiry he desires me to make & request your answer, is, what is there to hinder his claim to the amount she would have been entitled to, under the Law of 1838, whether that was for the full five years, or only from the day that Law took effect, to the day of her death? If your opinion favors his claim what steps remain for him to take in order to get the money? To account for his delay in making this application, it is due

to him for me to say, that he came to me for that purpose on hearing of the act of 1838, but before either of us had seen it, according to my best recollection, & I discouraged him, supposing he could draw the pension, only from the passage of the Act to the time of his Mother's death, a period too short to more than compensate for the trouble & expense. Pending the passage of the Act of July 7 th 1838, the Hon. W m Taylor, M. C. from this District, through whom the lengthy correspondence on Mrs. Nailbats case was conducted, & who entered largely into the merits of it, wrote me under date of June 8 th that her case would be clearly embraced by the provisions of that Act, should it become a Law. P. O.
A third case is that of Huldah Benedict, whose husband, Jonathan Benedict, was a pensioner under the Act of June 1832. From what remains before me, of your correspondence on her case, it appears that her application under the act of 1836, failed on the same grounds simply because their marriage was solemnized, subsequent to the termination of her husband's service. Permit me to repeat the enquiries made soon after the Act of 1838 became a Law, (but to which I find no answer) what further steps are necessary for her to take, that she may realize the benefit of the Act last mentioned?
I have just now got hold of a List of the titles of the Laws passed at

at the late Session of Congress, as published in the National Intelligencer, among which I find "An Act granting a pension to certain widows of Revolutionary Soldiers." Will you do the favor to send me a copy of this Act with the regulations established under it, as soon as convenient after the latter shall be prepared?
I am very respectfully your Obedt Servt Geo. Pettit
Mar 29 1843 The Commsrs of Pensions to Mr Hull H. Harrington D.C.

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Jonathan Benedict which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? ay II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? ay 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? not distinctly 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 VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? ay VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? ay VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? ay IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? ay 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? ay

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? no
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? no
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? no
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?
And is the official character and signature of the magistrate 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? no
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? 12 67 12 67
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.

State of New York } County of Onondaga } I John Vail residing in the Town of Fabius in said County, do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Jonathan Benedict who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and that I believe him to be Eighty seven years of age, that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the revolution, & that I concur in that Opinion. I have further, that I have been acquainted with said Jonathan ever since he remembers any thing, & for about sixteen years he knew said Jonathan in the Town of Danbury in Connecticut, & afterwards in the Town of Dover in Dutchess County New York State as much as Seventeen or Eighteen years, and has been acquainted with him in the County of Onondaga aforesaid Fourteen or Fifteen years, and deponent knows that said Jonathan was respected in all those places as a man of truth and veracity, & was also reputed and believed in those places where he resided as aforesaid, to have been a Soldier in the revolution, at New York and West point & other places, & deponent has heard it told by Gilbert Bone dit named in said declaration, & others, that said Jonathan and Gilbert hired one Allen to serve for them during the War as set forth in said declaration - John Vail
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before
George Pettit Judge of Onondaga County Courts
And I the said Judge do hereby declare my 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 I do further certify that it appears to me that Stephen Benedict & John Vail who have subscribed and sworn to the preceding certificates, are residents, the said Stephen, of the said Town of Pompey & the said John, of the said Town of Fabius, are credible persons, & that their statement is entitled to credit, that I have been personally acquainted with said Stephen more than twenty years, & with the said John over ten years, & that they both are respected in their neighborhood as men of truth & veracity. - And I do further

certify that the said Applicant, being blind & much superannuated, cannot, from bodily infirmity attend the Court. And further, that though his mental powers, are considerably impaired, the facts and circumstances were detailed by him, & very nearly literally taken down as set forth in his foregoing declaration, and almost entirely without the aid to his memory, of suggestion or leading questions, which makes his narrative more than usually minute, and occasions some absence of particularity, in giving the dates, and names of places and Officers &c.
Given under my hand and Seal, at Pompey aforesaid This 15 th day of August, 1832
George Pettit Judge of Onondaga County Courts
State of New York Onondaga County
ss: I Reuben S. Hef Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County do hereby certify that the above named George Pettit was at the date of the foregoing statement & still is a Judge of the said Court of Common Pleas in & for the said County of Onondaga which is a Court of record & that the signature annexed to said statement is his genuine signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal of office this 27 th day of August eighteen hundred & thirtytwo R. S. Hef Clerk
8622
Jonathan Benedict

State of New York Onondaga County
On this 30 th day of May 1833 personally appeared before Otis Bigelow Judge of Onondaga Common Pleas in & for said County, George Pettit, of Tully in said County, who being duly sworn by said Judge, according to Law, did depose & say that Jonathan Benedict, who has subscribed & sworn to the affida- vit of the 26 th instant, hereto annexed, appeared before the deponent in the month of August last, & made his declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 - that in December last the said Jonathan also appeared before the deponent, and made a supplemental affidavit, in answer to objections with which the said Declaration was returned from the War Department, and yesterday again appeared, as heretofore at his own house in Pompey before the Deponent and sworn to the affi- davit first above mentioned - that he found the said Jonathan at the time specified above, but especially the last, with his mental faculties, greatly impaired by age & consequent infirmity and his memory in particular, in ruins, as appeared from his inabil- ity to connect & arrange, in their proper order, facts, incidents and circumstances, which seemed to be distinctly recollected in their isolated character, and which more stated by him with exact precision on the three occasions above mentioned, and every time alike. There consist of names of places & officers, and many occurrences strictly character- istic of the revolutionary War & service, showing satisfactorily a know- ledge of those events which only could have been acquired by per- sonal service - that some of these were stated in his said declaration - that there is evident defect in his location & arrangement of them, specially as to the order of time, arising as deponent rightly believes, solely from loss of memory - that finding that faculty more than ever impaired, the deponent yesterday in his questions, found it necessary, for the reasons stated, to avoid leading him into detail, and confined him to the direct enquiry as to the time , and the shortest time of his service in each separate tour, to which he answered of himself as stated in the affidavit annexed - that he is utterly poor & both he and his Wife entirely dependent on a son of small means & a large family, & occasionally deranged - that his Wife Huldah Benedict is of uncommon sound mind & memory, and states the facts set forth in her affidavit annexed with clearness confidence & intelligence - that she informs this deponent that the task of taking care of the said Jonathan, is extremely laborious an account of an asthmatic affection, which has required her to be up with him every night for the last five months, which this deponent rightly believes to be true - that the said Huldah and Cyrus Benedict the son, are persons of unsurpassed veracity and their statements in their affidavits annexed are entitled to credit -
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid before Otis Bigelow Judge of On On & Can Pleas
George Pettit

State of New York } County of Onondaga } ss. I, Renben L. Hefl Clerk of the said County do certify that George Pettit Esquire before whom two of the preceding affidavits purport to have been sworn was on the 26th day of April 1833. one of the judges of the Onondaga County Courts, and that Otto Bigelow Esquire before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn was on the 30th day of May 1833 one of the judges of said County Courts. And that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said judges and verily believe their names subscribed to the several jurats of the said affida- vits to be the proper hand writing and genuine signa- tures of the said judges Witness my hand and Seal of Office this 21st day of June 1833— R. L. Hefl Clerk

State of New York
Cattaraugus County } } }
I John B. Hall aged Seventy three Years on the Nineteenth day of May Eighteen hundred & Thirty three, do depose and say that I am personally acquainted with Jon- athan Benedict, of the Town of Pompey, County of Onondaga and State aforesaid, and do know him to be the identical Person he represents himself to be, I further say, that I was hired by said Benedict to go a term of Militia duty, for the term of three Months, in the Army of the Revolution, I went from the Town of Danbury, in the State of Connecticut where we both lived at the time, under Captain Couch, who said Couch lived in New Milford in said State, it was in the Year Seventeen hundred and Eighty one - I went from Danbury, directly to West Point, where I remained, til I was honorably discharged verbally by Captain Couch aforesaid, having served honestly and faithfully three Months as a substitute for the aforesaid Jonathan Ben- -dict, for which I engaged - this deponent thinks that the said Benedict paid him for the three Months term as aforesaid - I served as a Corporal about two Months, in said company, while out -
John B. Hall
Sworn and subscribed before me
this 7 th day of May 1833
Lyman H. Campfield Justice Peace
I certify that I am well acquainted with John B. Hall who has subscribed and sworn to the above affidavit, and know him to be a person of truth and veracity & respectable in his neighbourhood.
Wann May 7 th 1833
Lyman H. Campfield Justice Peace

State of New York Cortland County
Clerks office ss I Samuel Hotchkiss & Clerk of said County do certify that Simon Blafield Esq. before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn to at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in the said County duly Commissioned and sworn also that I am acquainted with his hand writing and truly believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit and Certificate with out his own proper handwriting & signature.
Witness my hand & Seal of Office the 8th day of May A.D. 1833
Samd Hotchkiss & Clerk

State of New York } On this Seventh day of June 1833 Chautauqua County } Personally appeared before me J. S. Bly a Justice of the Peace in and for the said
County Samuel Benedict of the Town of Harmony in said County aged Seventy nine years who being duly sworn before the said Justice J. S. Bly according to law doth on his oath, doth depose and say that he now resides in the said town of Harmony that in and during the Revolutionary War he Resided in the Town of Danbury, County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut that he was then and there well and I then intimately acquainted with Jonathan Benedict and with the Record of his age who was Born I also Resided in the same place during said War but now Resides in the Town of Pompey County of Onondaga & State aforesaid where also this deponent has since Resided I then was well acquainted with the said Jonathan who was Reported. When frequently absent from home during the Revolutionary War to be out in the Service of his Country as a Soldier and this deponent well Recollects that in June 1876 a General alarm & Call was given & I then wanted to go to New York & as a Volunteer or on a draft the said Jonathan mustered under Ensign Brock I was gone till November following & then Returned and that in 1776 1777 April 26 the Enemy invaded us near Danbury to destroy our Stores & and the said Jonathan was then engaged under now Capt. Hickey who mustered by order of Brigadier Genl. Warner who was mortally Wounded at that time I was out not Recollecting exactly how long and again in June following an order from Government issued for a new draft and the said Jonathan was drafted on a Six months term I went away to Horse neck &

was about Byram River but said deponent does not now recollect the officers he served under but was for a term of six months I returned. This deponent further well recollects that the said Jonathan was drafted I did go out I returned on two separate & distinct terms of two months each afterwards and that he was a prompt efficient & spirited soldier I was often out on short terms but under what officers or at what places does not now recollect and this deponent verily believes that the said Jonathan Benedict did serve as aforesaid as much or more than a year and further says not deponent  deponent Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid before me Theron S. Bly J.P.
State of New York Chautauqua County } Clerks Office } Z. C. Young Dept. Clerk of said County do certify that T. S. Bly before whom the within affidavits purport to have been sworn was at the date thereof Justice of the Peace in and for the said County duly qualified and sworn also that I am acquainted with his hand writing & verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit and Certificate within & below to be his own proper hand writing & signature Witness my hand and seal of office The 8 th day of June A. D. 1833 Z. C. Young Deputy Clerk
I certify that I am well acquainted with Samuel Benedict who has subscribed & sworn to the within affidavit and know him to be a person of truth and veracity and respectable in his neighborhood Theron S. Bly Justice Harmony June 7 th 1833

I certify that I am well acquainted with Cyrus Bendit and Kuldah Bendit who have subscribed and sworn to the within affidavit & know them to be persons of truth & veracity and repu- table in their neighbourhood George Pettit Judge of Cien- ceyga County Courts — Malheur April 26 th 1833
George Pettit Esq. Malheur Ore.
J. L. Esdaile Commissioner of Oaths

War Department Pension Office
April 13. 1833
Sir
The claim of Jonathan Benedict has been examined again; It was returned for a more perfect specification of his service. In his supplemental affidavit, he makes an aggregate allegation of his service. The regulations require in all cases, particularly in those supported by the traditional certificate alone, " a very full " account of service. (Viz: a detail of each tour in every essential point. No allowance can be made for any service which is not thus circumstantially narrated. He will therefore make another affidavit, setting forth each tour for which he claims in strict conformity to the regulations. The term of service "in short tours and under alarms", bears no reasonable proportion to the amount of service usual under like circumstances for that period. His claim is suspended, and his papers placed on file.
I am Respectfully
Yr Obt. Servt. J. L. Edwards
Geo. Petit. Esq Habius N.Y.

State of New York Onondaga County
In this 26 th day of April 1833 Jonathan Benedict with me named personally appeared before George Pettit a Judge of the County Courts in and for said County, & being duly sworn by the said Judge deposes & says in addition to his Declaration heretofore made, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 that his memory is so broken - by reason of age & infirmity, that he cannot re- call it, so as to be specific as to the length of time of his several periods of service mentioned in said declaration, nor the times of commencement and discharge, but surely believes his service at Westpoint then men- tioned continued from the month of June to the month of November inclusive making five six months service - That the service at New York then mentioned, was not less than four months - That he was gone from home at one time in the country around here not certainly as much as two months - That at the time near Byram River as mentioned in said declaration he was in the service one Month or six weeks making in the whole not less than thirteen Months, exclusive of the service rendered by John Allen who was employ- ed and paid by the Deponent & Gilbert Benedict his brother, as their substitute as set forth in said Declaration - and further that the Deponent was drafted for four months, & hired and paid one John B. Hall to serve as his Substitute & that said Hall did serve at Westpoint three months as such Substitute, which service was not men- tioned in said declaration or his supplemental affidavit, being forgotten by the Deponent & further he says not -
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before George Pettit Judge of Onondaga County Courts
Jonathan Benedict mark

State of New York On this 26 th day of April 1833 personally appeared before George Mondsaga County to Pettit, Judge of the County Courts in and for the said County. Huldah Benedict, aged Sixty Eight years next July, and Cyrus Benedict aged forty Eight who being specially called sworn before the said Judge according to Law, de- pose and say to wit: The said Huldah, that She is the Wife of Jonathan Benedict the above deponent - that She has lived with him as such Wife fifty one years, and knew him from her Childhood and lived in the same Town ever after She was Eleven years old - that his faculties, especially his mem- -ory, is greatly impaired & he is reduced in his respect almost to childhood that She well remembers that said Jonathan was, in the service during the latter of his first Wife, & before the marriage of the deponent to him, as many as four times besides short periods of absence, that his service in the revolutionary War, at New York, Hoosick, West point, and Byram River, are all well recollects by her, and She amply testifies the several terms at those places, are set forth in the above affidavit, if any thing shorter than the truth, which belief is also predicated on his statements after made by him since the War - The deponent also well recollects that said Jonathan hired John B. Hall as his substitute, & that he and his brother Gilbert hired also, & paid, John Allen as their substitute as stated in the above affidavit & in said Jonathan's former declaration - The Cyrus deponent and says on his part, that he has often heard Jonathan Benedict, the above deponent and his deponent's Father, then tell and repeat with great particularity, even the day and date of his several terms of service in the revolutionary War at West point, New York, Hoosick & Byram River, and other shorter periods of service in times of Alarm, & that he vividly believes the said terms of service are understated in the above affidavit, and has heard him often tell of his brother & himself hiring John Allen as their substitute as stated in the above affidavit & recollects also, he often said Gilbert left the same & that they paid him 100 Silver Dollars for his said services - Huldah one Benedict known and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before George Pettit Judge of Mondsaga County Courts Cyrus mark Benedict
100

Additional testimony of Huldah Bent Wid of Johnathan revolution soldier No 39,382
Capt Clark Connecticut Troops
She draws $65 per annum

Capt. Lewis Clark 1812
State of New York , County of Cattaraugus , } ss.
On this 13 th day of October , A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty- five , personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, Maria Hodges & Ezra Benedict
residents of the County of Cattaraugus in the State of New York , who, being duly sworn, according to law, declare that they are well acquainted with Maria Benedict , and that she was
the Wife of Jonathan Benedict , and that she is now a Widow, and was such at the time of making the application.
Ezra Benedict Maria Hodges
Sworn Subscribed
And Acknowledged before me, the day and year above written.
James Thompson Justice of the Peace.

Rev.
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 28579
Huldah Benedict Widow of Jonathan Benedict Sergt Rev War
Act Feb 2nd 1848
Index: Vol. A , Page 55
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1914: First to Mr Chas. E. Galt Feb. 13. M. B. H.
1915: Oct 21. History to Mr. Josiah H. Shinn.
1915: Oct 21. History to Mrs Thomas B. Gory M. B. H.
1916: Jan 18: History to Homer D. Galt. M. B. H.
1919: Jan 14. To Flora L. Thrasher. d
1921: Sept 16 to Miss Mary Francis, letter in S. 17252 Nathaniel Benedict. Ev
1921: Dec. 2 with to Ethie O. Russell - Ev.
1922: Jan. 27 with Mrs. Thos. M. Gory Ev
1926: Nov 15 - Hist. to Mrs. Thos. M. Gory - M. B. H.

No 7369 New York
Bp 28 June
Huldah Benedict widow of Jonathan Benedict
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832. and who died on the 20 th day of July 1834 Onondaga in the State of N. York — who was a Sergeant in the company commanded by Captain Decock — of the N.Y. commanded by Col. Almond — in the N. York — line for 13 Months —
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany — at the rate of 65 — Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 th : day of June 1843 and sent to Mrs Huldah Benedict, Fabriq, Onondaga
Whole amount due $325-00
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Mettenant Clerk.
Book A Vol. 2 Page 70

✓ 3080 Albany
Huldah Benedict widow of Jonathan Benedict who was a Sergeant in the N. York Line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 65 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 st day of Dec r 1843 and sent to
B. H. Clarke Cazenovia N. York
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1 Page 102

N 58575
Hulda Benedict
No Ap No
Suspended
Letter to claimant Feb 23-43
do " 27 43
let to G. Pettitt April 29 43
Act 7 th July 1838.

26.709
5 Mea Aug

New York Revs
Jonathan Benedict Suspended let to Geo Pettib 13: April 1833
Act 7 June '32

W. Sp. June 10 1850 Ohio
In due time you will receive my letter please to begin with I don't know if the same did last, it is very dry here at this time I hope you will do me a favor at the examining at the Pinedale of the the rolls of Fort Linnard Cos. 11th Inf. Regt. Ohio
By the name of Nathaniel Sutton Eschleman at Fort Gratiot was at the battle of Detroit Harbor
and want you to bring the subject of W. D. Hulda Benedict Widow of Jonathan Benedict a revolutionary soldier she has been on the pension list for ten or fifteen years at
the rate of 5.00 per month and they refused her bounty for this reason she was not in receipt he being dead & there on parole testimony now the matter is settled want them to sent her bounty also Garrett Fosmer Private in Capt. St. John's Company 9th Regt. Penna. Vol. Inf. Col. Clark Do Millard Polisson musician in same Regiment Can't locate him
Yours truly J. M. [unclear]

They were passed there by just over the same boundary and some doubt by some and knew each 40 acres of land under the law of 1802. I have as an attached an application under the law of 50, and rejected on the account of their not being on record every is acknowledged to be right with the values
Hon J. P. Benson
Yours Truly
E. Willard Benson Vt Jan 1812.
Will the Com t of Pensions be so kind as to return it to me with the means of a reply? Most oblig d J. P. Benson

Sandusky Feb. 7 th 1914
Commissioner of Pension Washington D.C.
My Sir
I wish you would furnish me the Record of my Great Grandfather his Name was Benedict his Wife drew a Pension for a number of years as his Widow her Name was Huldah Benedict I am unable to remember his given name he was in the Revolutionary

was as a soldier from the State of Conn. Please have it looked up and send it to me as I wish to get his War Record from the Dept enclose find stamp for reply and oblige
Yours &c
Charles E. Ball
S. S. Home
East 60
Ohio

Commissioner of Pensions Jan. 7 th 1922
My Dear Sir:
On the death of Jonathan Benedict July 15. 1834 a Rev. soldier & pensioner of Danbury, Conn. and after 1818 of Pompey, Onondaga Co., N. Y. his widow, Hulda (Seelye) Benedict, applied for and received a widow's pension I have been told. She died in Pompey N. Y. in 1857 aged 91 years.
Will you not most kindly examine the records and give me all data concerning Hulda Benedict available?
I am particularly anxious to get the exact date and place of her birth, her father's name if known etc.
A prompt reply will be most greatly appreciated
Mrs Thomas M. Long 1428 Schiller Ave, Seattle B. C., Ark

Bounty Land Office,
Dillaye Block, No. 15,
SYRACUSE, N. Y.
GEN. E. W. BENSON.
COL. H. OLDS, Aid.
Syracuse November 10 th 1855.
Dr Sir I take this opportunity to wright you a line.
In relation to the claim of W d Huldah Benedict I saw by your last letter, that the name of Jonathan Benedict a revolutionary soldier is not on the rolls, there is I confess something about the matter that I do not fully understand in the first place as I understand Jonathan Benedict in his life time drew one hundred Dollars and after his death some time his widow Huldah Benedict drew just five hundred and sixty five Dollars
Aver

back pay and then she commenced and Draw and Does now $65 per annum half yearly and since the last fourth of September $32.50 She has Drawn for the last 12 or 13 years, for most of the time she has lived within one mile of my residence therefor I speak understandingly of the matter If she has been Drawing money all this time unlawfully I think it is time it was stoped, and if she is a pensioner, which it appears she is or at least she gets sixty five Dollars a year she is entitled to Bounty Lands If Mr Benedict had not Drawn it in his life time

I made up my mind I would write this letter and If Mrs Huldah Benedict has no claim then she and her friends will not find fault with me for not doing her business as it should be done says If she had employed another man and there are always men to set up persons in such matters she would had it a long time ago
Yours Truly Elias W. Benson
Hon J. Minott

14 P. 1898 P. 1898 Commissioner of Pensions Rev. War Sec.) Washington, D. C.
My Dear Sir:
My great great grandmother - Hulda (Seelye) Benedict widow of Jonathan Benedict, 1747-1834, (Rev. soldier) drew a Widow's Pension after her husband's death.
Will you not send to me all data contained in her application, and perhaps her husband's, relating to date and place of her birth and of her marriage and her father's name if that be given?
I am most anxious to get all information possible along these lines and do not know where else to apply. Am willing to bear all copying expense if charges are made and will be most grateful for a prompt reply.
Respectfully
Mrs Thomas M. Gory 1428 Schiller Ave., Little Rock Ark.
Sept. 15/28

39382
Huldah Benedict wid
Jonathan
Boyton
Hen
J. Merrill
Somersham of Preston
Washington
He
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July

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
TO THE HONORABLE JAMES M. TOLSON DIRECTOR FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION WASHINGTON 25, D. C. SIR: In re your letter of November 13, 1935, in the above-captioned matter, you are advised that the Bureau is in receipt of a communication from the Department of Justice dated November 14, 1935, and that the Bureau will be kept advised of any developments in the case. Very truly yours, JAMES M. TOLSON
RECORDED INDEXED
NOV 23 1935

✓ htk 24 stamp.
Rev War w
November 15, 1921.
U.S. Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
Dear Sir:-Will you please give me a statement of the military history of Nathaniel Benedict of Con- necticut b -1716 a soldier in the Revolutionary War (also a pensioner, I think) d ---1816 according to records I have. --As was his son Jonathan Benedict of Danbury Conn.
excerpt:--- in regard to Johnathan Benedict From bound volume of documents in State Library, - 1832. Revolutionary War. Pay Table. EVol.xvii , documents 73. Soldier & Accounts 1780-1781 (Connecticut.) EW. W 23579. what statistics you can give I will be more than grateful
Thanking you I remain Respectfully Yours.
Effie O Russell Furr Oak, Michigan Box 156.

Jonah H. Shinn Committee on Commerce U. S. Senate, Washington D.C.
Cert. Jonathan Benedict,

Kindly send certificate to
Mrs. Thomas B. Cary Batavia Ark. R. T. D. B
Jonathan Benedict

Rex CROSBY & CROSBY
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
HARLEY N. CROSBY
CARL REX CROSBY
FALCONER, N. Y.
January 4, 1919.
To the Pension Department Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:
I am seeking membership in the D. A. R. and in order to complete my application papers, I would like whatever information can be obtained in your office concerning one Jonathan Benedict, from whom I am descended. He is on record as a Revolutionary pensioner, who "probably came to central New York from Connecticut."
Any information you can obtain for me concerning this soldier, his birth, ancestry, marriage, military service, rank, etc. would be greatly appreciated, and I shall be glad to pay for such information if you will tell me what the fee is.
Yours respectfully,
Flora L. Thrasher.
36 Prospect Street, Jamestown, New York.

Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America
AFFILIATED WITH A. F. OF L. H. D. CALL SECRETARY-TREASURER 212 MAY AVE.
Syracuse, N. Y., January 12th, 1916.
see end. Lock Box 212
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir: -
I would kindly request the military record of the husband of Huldia Benedict who was a pensioner of the War of the Revolution and her last residence before her death was Delphi, N. Y. Her husband's name was, I think, Nathaniel Benedict, and as I understand was a private soldier, enlisted at Danbury, Conn.
I am desirous of securing this information because of the fact he was my great grandfather and I wish to complete the record of the family, having served myself nearly four years during the Civil War.
Thanking you in advance for any courtesy you may extend me at this time, I am
Sincerely yours,
Homer D Call Lot 1st Line G.R. 76th 8 Vols

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Jonathan Benedict , a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. W 23579
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Putnam, 1775 Served at Ordly Sgt. Joseph Smith Daniel Perick, Col. Mygatt Conn.   +1781 Various times Nicols, Joseph, Oliver Barfield & Joseph P.   13 mos. and James Cook Cook & Boardley.        
Danbury
Battles engaged in, Greenwich, N.Y. Fairfield & Norwalk.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Danbury, Fairfield Co. Conn.
Date of application for pension, Aug 15, 1832. His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Pompey, Onondaga Co. N.Y.
Age at date of application, 6 in Danbury, Conn. 1745 - d. in Pompey, N.Y. July 20, 1834.
Remarks: Soldier married twice. Names of first wife not stated. He married his 2nd wife Huldah Seely or Seely on June 11, 1782 or July 9, 1783 in Bethel Parish Danbury, Conn. and Huldah was allowed pension on a declaration executed Dec 6, 1842 while a resident of Fabius, Onondaga Co. N.Y. By his 1st marriage soldier had 7 children, names not stated; by his 2nd marriage he had 11 children. By census of 1833, 1st James aged 55 in 1843. Only names stated.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.