Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 18866, Thomas Cammet, N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER
N.H.
Cannet Thomas Billacha
N. 18866
CONTENTS

New York 1867
Billacha Cammet widow of Thomas Cammet
NY
who was a pensioner under the Act of 18. March 1818 and who died on the 3. August 1835 of West Chester Co. in the State of N. York who was a Private in the _____ commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt. commanded by Col. Cilley — in the N. Hampshire line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 th day of Feb. 1839 and delivered to Hon. A. Ward, Present
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. '38 200.00 Semi-annual allowance ending Mar. '39 40.00 $240.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk Book A. Vol. 2 Page 72

1867
7638
New York.
Thomas Gannet
of Cortlandt in the state of N. York who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Gilley of the N. Hampshire line, for the term of 3 years. 1777-
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 3 rd of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 th of March 1819 and sent to M c John Constant, Esq. Peekskill, N. York.
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 - 10 \frac{25}{30} \frac{4}{31} $8. 49 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1819 40.00
$136.49
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Westchester County
Continued under Act 1 May 1820, and notification sent to Wm McLean, Peekskill, N.Y. 26 June 1820.

Thomas Cummet priv. billings & stamp. reg. 1777 to 1780. 3 d April 1818
Correct.
Admitted -
Thomas Cummet

State of New York } Westchester County } ss
Thomas Cannett of the Town of Cortlandt in the County of Westchester being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is in the sixtieth year of his age and is in reduced and indigent circumstances, That this deponent enlisted as a soldier in the service of the United States of America in the month of April in the year 1777 in a company commanded by Captain Hutchinson in Colonel Lillies Regiment of New Hampshire Troops and in the Brigade commanded by General Poor, That this deponent served in the said company under the command of Capt. Hutchinson for and during the term of three years being the span of time for which this deponent enlisted, that this deponent was then honorably discharged by George Washington Commander in Chief. —
This deponent further saith that in the winter of 1782 he again enlisted into the service of the United States in Exeter in the State of New Hampshire in a Company commanded by Capt. Rowell and afterwards transferred to a company commanded by Captain Centar in the Regiment commanded by Col. Rea in Genl. Poor's Brigade, that this deponent again served in the company and Regiment aforesaid for and during the full term of three years being the full time for which this deponent enlisted in the company last aforesaid and this deponent further saith that he was then honorably discharged at the Garrison on West Point by Genl. Hull then Commander of that post.
And this deponent further saith that the discharge first above mentioned was deposited with an Leavitt in Exeter in the State of New Hampshire from whom your deponent has heard no information for thirty years nor does this deponent know when he is or the said discharge and further this deponent saith that the discharge given him by Genl. Hull is lost and that he the said deponent is unable to give any more or further account of the same.
Thomas Cannett
Sworn and declared before me on the day and year aforesaid H John Constant

Jeff John Constant one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of West Che- ster do hereby certify that on this third day of April 1818 the within named Thomas Cannet personally known to me appeared before me & made oath to the facts set forth in the within affidavit by him subscribed and I am fully satisfied of the truth & correct- ness of the same and that the said Thomas Cannet is intitled to the provision contained in the act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed the 18 th March 1818
H John Constant

State of New York Putnam County
In Putnam County Court of Common Pleas June term 1820 on this 8 th day of June 1820 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record by virtue of the Statute creating the same, Thomas Cammet aged sixty four years resident in Cortlandt Town, Westchester County, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war in the first New Hampshire Regiment in Colonel Sillys Regiment Capt d Hutchings Company that he made his declaration on the third day of April 1818 that his pension certificate is N o 7638 and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed March 18 th 1818 and that I have not now nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule herunto annexed and by me subscribed are Cow one swine, one table, one iron pot one iron kettle, one iron teakettle two pails four Cairs, three plates, five knives and forks five spoons five earthen Bowls one axe one hoe one chest no real Estate nor income whatever that his occupation is that of a Taylor at which he can do but little that his family consists of himself his wife Belinda aged sixty three years a son named Joseph aged sixteen a Daughter aged fifteen years both are able to do something towards their living Thomas Cammet
I sworn to and declared in open court on this 8 day of June 1820 before me Rowland Bailey Clerk of said Court

I Rowland Bailey Clerk of the court of common Pleas in and for said County of Putnam do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in the value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is thirty dollars.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this 12 th day of June 1820.
Rowland Bailey Clerk of the court of Common Pleas of the County of Putnam

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 Entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows"
State of New York County of Westchester ss
On this eleventh — day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine personally appeared before the undersigned a Supreme Court commissioner of the Supreme Court of Judicature of the people of the State of New York Billacha Cammet a resident of the town of Cortlandt in the County of Westchester aforesaid 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 Entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" That she is the widow of Thomas Cammet who was a private in the war of the revolution and served as the declarant always understood in the New Hampshire line but in what regiment he served the declarant does not now know. That the said Thomas Cammet deceased was a revolutionary pensioner of the United States at the time of his death and was placed on the pension roll of the United States on the New York agency the declarant believes on the 15th day of March 1819.

She further declares that she was married to the said Thomas Cannet on the twenty second day of March in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty six at the town of Cortlandt in the County of Westchester aforesaid by the Reverend Silas Constant: that her maiden name was Billacha Taylor and that she as well as her husband the said Thomas Cannet resided in Cortlandt aforesaid at the time of said marriage: that she has no record of her said marriage, nor does she know of any one living who was present at the time of said marriage, nor never had any, but she is informed that the said Constant made a memorandum of it at the time that her husband the aforesaid Thomas Cannet died on the third day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty five. 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. At the time above stated
Sworn to & subscribed this 11. day of February 1839 before me - Billacha X Cannet her mark "Nor does she know of any one living who was present?" interlines above. Albert Lockwood
Supreme Court Commissioner
State of New York County of Westchester ss I Albert Lockwood Supreme Court Commissioner as aforesaid do certify that in my opinion Billacha Cannet above named cannot by reason of bodily infirmity attend a court of record in said county to make her declaration in open court. Albert Lockwood Supreme Court Commissioner

State of New York County of Westchester
ss p Thomas Cannet of the town of Cortlandt in the county of Westchester aforesaid being duly sworn says that he is the son of Thomas Cannet now deceased and Billaacha Cannet of the town of Cortlandt aforesaid: that the said Thomas Cannet deceased was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States at the time of his death and for many years before his death: that the said Thomas Cannet deceased died on the third day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty five in the town of Cortlandt aforesaid and left him surviving his widow the said Billaacha Cannet who has remained his widow ever since the death of her husband the said Thomas Cannet deceased and is now his widow. and the deponent further saith that he is as forty years of age on the twenty third day of March last, and that the said Thomas Cannet and Billaacha his wife had three children older than this deponent; and the deponent further saith that he always understood from his father the said Thomas Cannet deceased that he belonged to the New Hampshire line and further deponent saith not
Sworn to and subscribed this 26 th day of January 1839 before me
Thomas Cannet -
Albert Lockwood Supreme Court Commissioner
I certify that Thomas Cannet who has subscribed and sworn to the above affidavit is in my opinion a credible witness and that the

above affidavit is entitled to full credit and belief Dated January 26 th 1839
Albert Lockwood Supreme Court Commissioner

State of New York
County of Westchester ss p William D. Everson of the town of Cortlandt in said County being duly sworn deposes and says that he is the Clerk of the town of Cortlandt afore said and has as such clerk the care and custody of the records and public doc- uments of said town and the Deponent further saith that he has searched the records of said town in his office and finds no marriages recorded therein And he further saith that there are no records of marriages in said office and further the deponent saith not
Sworn to and subscribed this 11 th day of February 1839 before me
Wm. D. Everson
Albert Lockwood Supreme Court Commissioner
I certify that I am acquainted with William D. Everson above named and that he is a credible witness and entitled to full be- lief.
Albert Lockwood Supreme Court Commissioner

Perf WIDOW, &c.
File No. 18866
Billiecha Cammet widow of Thomas Cammet Pris Rev was
Act: July 7 th 38
Index: Vol. 11 , Page 120
[Arrangement of 1870.]

4400 In the matter of the application of Billalca Cammet for a pension -
Under act of 1898-
Admitted Private 2 years
Hon A. Ward Present

State of New York County of Westchester ss St: John Constant Resident of the town of Cortland in the County of Westchester aforesaid being duly sworn says that he is now sixty seven years of: that he is the son of the Rever- end Silas Constant deceased and has in his possession books papers and documents that belonged to his father the said Silas Constant: that upon searching a Book kept by his father and in his hand writing, he finds an entry in the words and figures following to wit: "1786 March 22 nd rode to Mrs Taylors and married Mr Gannet" and the deponent further saith that he has no doubt that the said entry is the entry of the marriage of Thomas Gannet and Billa Lakin his wife: that the said Thomas Gannet was known as well by the name of Gannet, as Gannet and that this deponent did not know how it was spelled until the said Thomas Gannet applied to this depo- nent many years ago to assist him in obtaining his pension and that this deponent did obtain a pension for said Thomas, some where about the year 1819 that said Thomas then had his discharge from the service with him and his name was there spelled Thomas Gannet: and the deponent further saith the said name is now pronounced Gannet, by many per- sons: and the deponent saith that

there has never been in this part of the country any person or persons of the name of Gannet or Gannet except the said Thomas, and his descendants within the recollection of this deponent, and the deponent saith that he has known the said Thomas Gannet or Gannet about forty years, and the deponent has always understood that said Thomas was from one of the eastern States and was a soldier in the continental army and that this deponent has seen the discharge of the said Thomas from the service and further the deponent saith not
Sworn to and subscribed the 11 th day of February 1839 before me
H. John Constant
The word "Constant" erased on first page "and his descendants" interlined Albert Lockwood Supreme Court Commissioner
I certify that I am acquainted with H. John Constant above named and that he is a gentleman of the first respectability and entitled to full belief
Albert Lockwood Supreme Court Commissioner

State of New York County of Westchester ss. for Doctor Nathaniel Drake of the town of Cortlandt in said County being duly sworn on his oath saith that he has been acquainted with Thomas Gannet and Billacha his wife fifty years at least, that he knew the said Billacha before she was married that her maiden name was Billacha Taylor and that her mother was a widow at the time her daughter the said Billacha was married to the said Thomas Gannet, that he has known the said Thomas and Billacha to live together as husband and wife fifty years and has no doubt that they were married to each other prior to the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety, and the deponent further saith that for fifty years and upwards he has occasionally practiced as a physician in the family of said Thomas and Billacha --- and the deponent saith that during the said fifty years that he has been acquainted with said Thomas Gannet he has heard him called Gannet as often as Gannet, — That the deponent recollects that soon after he became acquainted with said Thomas he asked him if he went by both names and he said some called his name Gannet and some Gannet but that his name was Thomas Gannet. And the depo- nent saith he understood on his first becoming acquainted with said Thomas Gannet that he was from one of the eastern States and had served in the Continental army during the war. and the deponent saith that he believes the said Thomas Gannet

name has been pronounced Gannet in consequence of similarity of sound between Gannet and Barnet and the fact that his name was not known here until he came here from the east. And the deponent further saith that he has practised medicine in the said town of Portland for upwards of fifty years and never heard of any other persons of the name of Gannet or Gannet except the said Thomas and his family and further deponent saith not
Sworn to and subscribed } Nathl Drake this 11 th day of February } 1839 before me — }
Albert Lockwood Supreme Court Commissioner
I certify that Doctor Nathaniel Drake the above affiant and that he is a gentleman of the first respectability and entitled to full belief
Albert Lockwood Supreme Court Commissioner
State of New York, County of Westchester ss:
J. Olona H. Smith Clerk of the said County and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County Do hereby certify

that Albert Lockwood before whom the annexed and foregoing Affidavits of Billacha Cammet Thomas Kammitt, William D Everson, James Frost, St John Constant and Nathanie Drake purports to have been taken was on the day of the date of taking the same a Supreme Court Commissioner in and for the said County Commissioned and sworn and duly authorized to take the same And further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Albert Lockwood and verify before that the foregoing signatures to the several Deeds and Certificates of Character purporting to be his are genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County this 12 th day of February A D 1839
John H. Smith Clk

State of New York
County of Westchester
ss James Frost of the town of Cortlandt in the said County being duly sworn on his oath saith that he is now sixty nine years of age. that he knew Billasha Taylor now the widow of Thomas Carmet deceased before her marriage to the said Thomas Carmet. that he was acquainted with her family and lived in the same neighborhood with her. That he knew her while the said Thomas Carmet was courting her, but was not present at their marriage; but recollects that they were said to be married some time about the spring of the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty six at Cortlandt aforesaid: that he well recollects of having heard their marriage then spoken of as having then taken place and he has no doubt it did then take place that from that time to the time of the death of the said Thomas Carmet he was well acquainted with the said Thomas Carmet and Billasha his wife and that during all that time they lived together as husband and wife and had several children together. That the said Thomas Carmet was as the deponent always understood a native of or came from the State of New Hampshire. and was a revolutionary pensioner at the time of his death: that that said Thomas Carmet died three or four years ago and that the said

Billacha Cannon has remained a widow ever since the death of her said husband. And the deponent further saith that he never knew any other family of the name of Cannon in this part of the country and that the said Thomas Cannon and his family were the only persons of that name that this deponent ever heard of in this part of the country and further deponent saith not.
Sworn to and subscribed { James Frost this 11th day of February { 1839 before me { Albert Lockwood Supreme Court Commissioner
I certify that I am acquainted with James Frost above affiant and that he is a credible witness Albert Lockwood Supreme Court Commissioner