Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 14944, Jeremiah Bennet, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Bennet, Jeremiah or Bennett
S. 14944
carded
CONTENTS

Rev. Amos
14.944 INVALID.
File No. 14.944
Jeremiah Bennett Price Row was
Act: June 1 th 1852
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 30
[Arrangement of 1870.]

5575
New Hampshire
Jeremiah Bennett
of Concord in the State of New Hampshire who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Sherman of the Regt. commanded by Col. Harris in the N. Hampshire line for 6 Months
★ Mass. Line.
Records corrected Jan'y 31/07. B.
Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire at the rate of 20 Dollars ~ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of Feb 1833 and First Year Lt. Col. John D. Dows of Regt.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832 $ 30.00 Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 Mar 35  10.00
$40.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Albion Dows Clerk Book D Vol. 151 Page 144

Samuel Bennice Landers 105 88.
Private 6 m Adm?
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this twenty-ninth day of August A.D. 1832. H. B. Chase, Register of Probate.

DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
State of New-Hampshire, } ss. at a Probate Court held at Concord County of Merrimack
On this 29 th day of August 1832, personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges of the Court of Probate for said County, now sitting, Jeremiah Bennet a resident of Concord in the County of Merrimack and State of N. H. aged 77 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated
That he enlisted as a private in Capt. Samuel Thompson's Company of Rockingham Artillery in New Hampshire in July A.D. 1775 under Capt. Thompson in the eight months service and service six months in the 2d Continental Line under Col. Green and Maj. Weston in New Hampshire Artillery two months service expired when he enlisted, that he marched from Boston to Winton Hill from Concord to Concord line Mass, and assisted in defending the Port at Peninsular Point. served out his full term of six months, and then (July 1776) he was his Sergeant then honorably dismissed but did not take a military discharge.
That he has no documentary evidence of his service in person - where testimony he can procure who can testify to his service.
That he voluntarily served six months in the above enlistment. That he was born in Concord N.H. in the year 1755. That there is a record of his age which is at his house in Concord. That when he entered the service his residence was in Brentwood N.H. but was in Concord when he enlisted & since he left the service he has lived in Concord and Concord where he now lives.
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, Jeremiah Bennet
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year above mentioned
We, Jonathan Rollins residing in Concord N.H. and James Thompson now residing in Concord N.H. hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Jeremiah Bennet, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 77 years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year above mentioned
Jonathan Rollins James Thompson
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 certifies, that it appears to them that Jonathan Rollins who has signed the preceding certificate, is a resident in the said Concord and that James Thompson, who has also signed the same is a resident in the same Concord and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit. Boswell Stevens Judge of Probate
H. B. Chase, Register of the Court of Probate for said County of Merrimack do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of the said Jeremiah Bennet for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this twenty-ninth day of August A.D. 1832.
H. B. Chase, Register of Probate.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Dennet, Jeremiah GRADE Private LINE New York
WARRANT NUMBER 6770 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Aug. 26, 1790 to Joseph Wright, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.