Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12380, Aaron Bump, New York

SERVICE
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New York
Bump Aaron
S. 12380
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8138 New York
Aaron Bump of Saratoga in the State of N. York who was a Private in the Comp y commands by Captain Lieut. Powell of the commands by in the New York line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 80 Dollars each per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 day of March 1833 and sent to Hon. W. Taylor Ballston N.Y.
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 33 $160 Semi-ant. allowance ending 10 Sep 33 40 $200
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by E. G. Stiles Clerk, Book E. Vol. 4. Page 15.

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Aaron Bump
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Han, J. W. Taylor

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BRIEF in the case of Aaron Dundy County of Saratoga in the State of New York (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? —  3. How old is he? 71.  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.     Drafted In 1780 March He says, "He was in service and a prisoner of war Three years and about Eight Months." As a Private Gen. Lieut. Powell, Ensign Loop  
 5. In what battles was he engaged?  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Albany City. N.Y.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional & Witnessed  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
F. Waugh Examining Clerk. March 8, 1835.

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Aaron Bump

State of New York Saratoga County } ss
On this 5 th Day of September 1832 Person- ally appeared before the Court of common Pleas of the said County of Saratoga now sitting Aaron Bump a resident of the town of Galway in the County of Saratoga and state of New York aged twentyone years on the sixth Day of July last, who being first Duly sworn according to law both on his Oath make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June the 7 th 1832
That in the year of nineteen hundred and eighty he lived with his father at a place then called White Creek in the Co- unty of of Saratoga, now the County of Washington and state of New York that in the forepart of March of nineteen hundred and eighty, there was a requis- ition of the State of New York, to raise a Company of Soldiers by Draft from the Militia of the said County of Washington to guard the Northern frontier of said State of New York, at which time he was one of the soldiers so Drafted, that he Marched from White Creek by the way of Salem, Hudson, and Granville to the head of Lake Champlain, where he entered the service in the aforesaid Company of Drafted Militia, under the Command of Lieutenant William Powell, and Ensign Henry Baugh, Does not recollect of any other commissioned officer at Schuylersburgh except a Commissary, thinks his name was Sugar, that about the twenty first or twenty second Day of March aforesaid, Ensign Henry Baugh, the orderly sergeant by the name of William G- Woodworth, together with himself, David Duley, Robert Thom- as, David Walton, Ephraim Bice, William Gray, William Blowers, James Ketch, and some five or six others were taken Prisoners (at Schuylersburgh aforesaid) by a Party of Indians and Tories, consisting of about sixty or seventy Indians, three or four Frenchmen, and a Tory by the name of Joseph Battis, at which time the Indians killed one of our soldiers by the name of Nathaniel Bice, also killed and skulled an En- glishman and woman, who had come to camp to sell Eggs and other game, when the Indians encamped the first night

he and the other Prisoners were in Danes, and amongst other cruelties on a severe cold night he and the other Prisoners were told they were going home and were taken out of Danes and put on the Deck of a ship and kept there all night without any fire many of whom froze their feet and hands, the next day they were put back in Danes, from this Danes he was taken and put on board of a Prison ship at a place (thinks) called St. Patrick's hole where he and the other Prisoners were lowered to half a point of Danes for a day which they soaked in water and sat naked for the want of apparatus to cook them, and by reason of his cruel treat- ment and hard sufferings he got the scurvy, and when in that situation and when on board of said ship he was taken with a fever then called the black fever, with which fever, the greater part of the time from four to six weeks he was deprived of his senses, having no other bed but that of a blanket, wearing his skin and flesh from his bones, from thence he was taken to the Hospital, and from the Hospital taken and put on board of a ship opposite Quebec, from thence he and other Prisoners were taken to a French settlement about sixty miles below Quebec, where he remained a Prisoner to the end of the war, when a Bri- tish ship came and took him and other Prisoners to New York where he and the other Prisoners were put on board of American Vessels and landed at Dobbs Ferry on the North River above New York, and that he never received any written discharge and that by reason of his imprisonment, illness, cruel treatment &c his constitution and limbs was and now is much impaired, his feet legs and joints ever since his im- prisonment have been cold burned and stiffened, That he was in the service and imprisonment as aforesaid for three ye- ars and about eight months, he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no other surviving witness to prove his services and imprisonment other than those whose affidavits are hereto annexed — has no record of his age, was living at White Creek, then in the County of Albany, now the County of Washington, when called into the service, was born in Bakerstown Patent County of Dutchess and in the State of New York on the sixth day of July one thousand eight hundred and sixty one as he always understood and did believe —

since the revolutionary war, lived in the towns of Whitehall and Cambridge in the County of Washington until about forty years since, when he moved to Gansevoort in the County of Saratoga where he now lives, he was drafted when called into the service, there was not any troops at Schenectady enough at the time he entered the service or at the time he was taken Prisoner, establishing the Company of Militia been commanded by Lieutenant William Russell and Ensign Henry Cook, and a commissary, thinks his name was Dugan, The General business of his service is stated in the above subscription.
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.
Given under my hand this 10th day of March 1880 I am known in my present dwelling to be the person described in and who is the person entitled to the pension herein claimed. Aaron J. Bump
Given under my hand and seal this day and year aforesaid
Thomas D. Atner Clerk

We Maxson Mosher a Clergyman residing in the town of Gansevort in the County of Saratoga and State of New York and Ebenezer Banta of the same town and County, hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with Aaron Bump who has subscribed and sworn to the above Application; That we believe him to be seventy five years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have a soldier in the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion Sworn and subscribed to in open Court, the Day and Year aforesaid. } Edward Warner Clerk Maxson Mosher Ebenezer Banta

State of New York } Saratoga County }
On the 5 th Day of September 1832, Personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Saratoga now sitting, William G. Woodworth Esq. now of, and late a justice of the Peace of the town of Mayfield, in the County of Montgomery, and State of New York, who being first duly sworn according to law, Deposeth and saith, that he was twenty three years old on the 13 th Day of October last that in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, he lived in the Town of Cambridge, in the County of of Albany now the County Washington, State of New York, and was a sergeant in Capt. Joseph Miller's Company in Col. Lewis Van Vets Regiment of Militia, and that on the seventh Day of March aforesaid, he and David Duley, Ephraim Bunker, David Norton, William Gray, Henry Wells, Nathaniel Bube, and Robert Thomas, were drafted, and others were drafted from other Companies in the County of Washington, to guard the frontier Northern frontier of the State of New York, he well recollects several were drafted from White Creek, and recollects the names of James Ketch, Aaron Bump, and William Blowers, that he left Cambridge on the eighth Day of March aforesaid, and marched to Skeneateles through the way of Salem, Herkton, and Granville, and entered the same at Skeneateles on the tenth Day of March aforesaid, in a Company under the Command of Lieutenant William Powell and Ensign Henry Loop, that there was not any other troops or Commanding officer at Skeneateles except James Dugan who was a Commissary, that he was the orderly sergeant of said Company and well recollects the name of Aaron Bump being on the Roll of said Company and that on the twenty first Day of March aforesaid, Lieutenant Ensign Henry Loop, himself, John Simpson a sutler, William Blowers, Aaron Bump, William Gray, James Ketch, David Norton, Ephraim Bunker, David Duley, and several others of said Company, were taken Prisoners by a Party of Indians and Tories, which consisted of about sixty three or four Indians, their packmen and a Tory by the name of James Joseph Bettie, at which time the Indians killed one of the soldiers by the name of Nathaniel Bube, also killed and skulped an Old man and woman, who had come to

bank to all Eggs and other same, when the Indians incamped the first night after they were taken Prisoners, the Indians separated the Prisoners, and each Prisoner was guarded by a certain Party of Indians, so as to keep each Prisoner separate from the other Prisoners, until they arrived at St Johns in Canada, the Indians making the Prisoners carry their Provisions and baggage, they all arrived at St Johns about the same time, when they were the Prisoners were put in Prison, and the Indians, British, and Tories held a time of Rejoicing, the Indians on the next morning began to start off by squads with their Prisoners, they were the Principal Part of the Day in starting off by squads with their Prisoners, and he was the last of the Prisoners that started from St Johns, he and several of the Prisoners were taken to and confined in Montreal Jail, and that he and William Blowers are of the Prisoners who were taken Prisoners with him on the twenty first Day of March aforesaid, and three other Prisoners by the names of Joshua Ogins, John Mayville, & John Sawyer, broke jail, and he and William Blowers made their escape and returned home to Cambridge in the summer of nineteen hundred and eighty, and he understood, and it was the gen- eral understanding in the said County of Washington at that time that Ensign Henry Loaf, David Norton, Aaron Bump, Robert Thomas Thomas, David Sulby, Ephraim Bunker, James Ketch and others of the Soldiers who were taken Prisoners with him at Schu- nack as aforesaid, were detained in Canada Prisoners until the close of the war, that Ensign Henry Loaf, David Norton, David Sulby, and Robert Thomas, after they returned home from Canada, which was after the close of the war, told him that Aaron Bump returned home with them, at the close of the war he lived some fourteen or fifteen Miles from the residence of the said Aaron Bump, and David not recollect of seeing the said Aaron Bump, after said Aaron Bump left him in the Prison at St Johns, until he heard said Bump resided in Gateway of Saratoga, County some twelve or thirteen miles from his residence, and he shortly after which was about thirteen years since he called at the house of the said Aaron Bump, when and where he saw the said Aaron Bump, and from the interview he then had, and the several interviews, which he has since had, with the said Aaron Bump, and the facts and

when and when he saw the said Aaron Bump, and from the interview he then had, and the several interviews, which he has since had, with the said Aaron Bump, and the facts and —
Detailed account, which he gave of what took place at Schenectady, and at the time they were taken Prisoners, and on their way to and at St Johns, There is not a remaining doubt on his mind but what Aaron Bump who was taken Prisoner with him at Schenectady as aforesaid, is the same Aaron Bump, who se Delineation in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress, Passed the 7 th of June 1832, hereunto annexed, is the same Aaron Bump who was taken Prisoner with him and others at Schenectady as aforesaid.
Sworn and subscribed to the Day,
and Year aforesaid in Open Court
Thomas Palmer Clerk
William G Woodworth
In Court

State of New York Saratoga County } ss
On the 5 th Day of September 1832 Personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Saratoga now sitting Charles Deake Esquire late a Justice of Peace of the County of Saratoga aforesaid and now a resident of the town of Greenfield in the County aforesaid aged sixty nine years on the 26 th Day of March last - who being first duly sworn according to law Deposeth and saith, that he lived in White Creek in the County of Washington and State of New York at the time of the Revolutionary war, and lived a neighbour to and was well acquainted with Aaron Bump, whose Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed June the 7 th 1832 - is herunto annexed, that in the fore Part of March of eighteen hundred and eighty the said Aaron Bump and several others of White Creek aforesaid were drafted to guard the Northern frontier of the State of New York, shortly after the said Draft, the said Aaron Bump and others so drafted left White Creek, and as was then said for Schenectady at the head of Lake Champlain, shortly after the said Aaron Bump left home, news was received at White Creek, that the said Aaron Bump and some twelve or fifteen others were taken Prisoners by a Party of Indians and Tories and were taken to Canada, and the said Aaron Bump did not return home until the end of the war, at which time it was said & thought universally believed at White Creek aforesaid, that the said Aaron Bump was detained in Canada a Prisoner to the end of the war, And this Deponent further says, that he moved from White Creek to Greenfield aforesaid about forty years since, and about the same time the said Aaron Bump moved to the town of Galway adjoining the said town of Greenfield, where he has ever since been well acquainted with the said Aaron Bump, and that the said Aaron Bump is a man of good reputation and of good standing in Church and society, in whose truth and veracity full reliance can be placed
Charles Deake
Sworn and subscribed to in Open Court the Day and Year aforesaid
Richard C. Palmer Clerk

State of New York } Saratoga County } ss
On the 5 th Day of September 1882, Isaac Gire personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Saratoga now sitting Isaac Gire Esq. one of the members of the Senate of the State of New York, who being first sworn according to law, Deposeth and saith, that he resides in the town of Galway in the County of Saratoga aforesaid, he is well acquainted with Aaron Bump, whose declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed June 19 th 1882 is herewith annexed the said Aaron Bump has resided in Galway and vicinity for about forty years, and about the first acquaintance with the said Aaron Bump, he was informed by the said Aaron Bump of his having been taken prisoner by the Indians and Tories when a soldier in the service of his country in the revolutionary war, in substance as set forth in his declaration herewith annexed; he has frequently heard the said Aaron Bump complain of his joints being stiff and of his limbs being cold and benumbed, by reason of his confinement and cruel treatment when a prisoner, and this Deponent further says, the said Aaron Bump (albeit poor) is a man of a fair reputation, of good standing in church and society.
Sworn and subscribed to in open Court the day and year aforesaid
Isaac Gire
Thomas Palmer Clerk
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certify that it appears to them that Mason Mosler who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman, resident in the town of Galway in the County of Saratoga & State of New York, that Eleanor Conner who has also signed the same is a resident in the same town & is a Member of the House of Assembly of the State of New York & a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit —

I Thomas Palmer Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Saratoga do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Aaron Bump for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this fifth day of September 1832
Thomas Palmer Clerk
I am well acquainted with Isaac Gere & Charles Deake the witnesses, they are credible & highly respectable. Gere is a Senator in the N.Y. Legislature. John W. Taylor March 9. 1833
Mem o 2 years $88
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Aaron Bump 44
Aaron Bump

State of New York Saratoga County } ss
On the 9 th Day of October 1832 Personally appeared before me Alpheus Goodrich Esquire one of the Justices of the Peace of the Town of Milton and County of Saratoga; Ebenezer Banks who being by me first Duly sworn according to law, Deposeth and saith that he resides in the Town of Galway in the County of Saratoga aforesaid, and that he is and has been well acquainted with Aaron Bump (for about thirty years) whose Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Compuls. Pardon from the 7 th 1832 is herunto annexed, and from the first acquaintance with the said Aaron Bump and to the present time he has frequently heard the said Aaron Bump relate the circumstances of his imprisonment in substance as set forth in his said Declaration, and that he has frequently heard the said Aaron Bump complain of having lost the use of his limbs by reason of his imprisonment, and the Deponent further says, the said Aaron Bump, altho' Poor and Deprived, is of good standing in Church and society, in whose truth and veracity full credit can be given
Subscribed & sworn before me this 9 th day of October 1832 A Goodrich, Justice of the Peace
Ebenezer Banks

State of New York Saratoga County ss.
I William L. Goodrich Deputy Clerk of the County of Saratoga, do Certify that Alpheus Goodrich, before whom the within Affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said County, and that I am acquaint- ed with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said Affidavit, to be his hand writing.
Witness my hand and seal of office the twenty fifth day of Oct- ober 1832.
W. L. Goodrich Depy Clerk.

Rev War
12380 INVALID.
Rev
File No. 12,380
Aaron Bump Dis. Rev War
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Index: — Vol. 6 , Page 62
[Arrangement of 1870.]