Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29001, Joseph Bennett, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Bennett, Joseph
NUMBER
S. 29001
CONTENTS

26.955
Massachusetts
Joseph Bennetto of Bristol in the State of Mass who was a Private in the Comp commanded by Captain Ingraham of the Regt commanded by Col. _____ on the Mass line for 18 No 282
Vine
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 63 Dollars 08 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 day of Aug. 1833 and Ruth A. Bradford N. Mass
Arrears to the 4th (Dec. 71) $126 16
Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sep 33 31.57
$157 70
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
A. B. Stiles
Recorded by _____ Clerk Book E Vol. 2 Page 8
Bristol 77

State of Massachusetts - Bristol ss.
On this fourteenth day of October, A.D. 1837, personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate  Judge of the Supreme Court now sitting at New Bedford, Joseph Bennett now resident & inhabitant of Fairhaven, formerly part of Dartmouth, in said State & County, aged seventy one years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, & served as herein stated - to wit - That in the year 1778, the year the British destroyed part of Bedford & Fairhaven Villages, in Dartmouth, he enlisted & served nine months & did service during that time in that part of Dartmouth now Fairhaven, & in the fort at the entrance of the harbour, in a company commanded by Captain Timothy Ingraham - that he was in said service some time before the British burnt Bedford & Fairhaven, & some time after also, &

was there when the fort was build, or was chiefly built, & worked much on said fort himself.
That in 1779, he was some time stationed at the Cove, so called, on the west side of the harbor, under Captain Claghorn, at two different periods , a six six weeks at each time, & a few days besides also
That after, & not long, but cannot say positively, he was twice ordered to watch the enemy & was called to the west, or South West parts of Dart- mouth, & marched there, being several miles from his home in the south west  north east part of Dartmouth, & was two weeks in each time. doing duty there.
That in 1780, he served in a company into which he had enlisted, under the Comm and a Capt. Claghorn of Dartmouth, for three months , on R. Island, a part of the time was quartered in Quaker meeting house, & some time on Butts' hill, in the

north part of the Island, & a part of it at Narra- ganett neck, in south part of State of Rhode Island, at watch Hill, & at point Judith -
That in the year 1780, in the fall of the year he went to West point, on the North river, for three months as a soldier during that term of time there, under Capt. Daniel Drake, John Hicks, Lieutenant - soon after the difficulty with Gen. Arnold & his escape - Does not recollect the Regt - was a waiter to said Hicks, Gen. M c Dougall having commanded there at the time - He also states that he was born in Dartmouth, in the County of Hate aforesaid, which is since divided into the towns of Dartmouth, Fairhaven, New Bedford & Westport - That he was born in 1761 & on the fourteenth day of October of that year
That he was an inhabitant of said Dartmouth, when he went into the United States' service in 1778. That he now lives in Fairhaven - That he

had no discharge in writing, but was always regularly dismissed, when the time expired for which he was listed. - was ordered out
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present, & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any State — Joseph Bennett
Monday and Tuesday the day before a year ago -
Samuel Putnam - Inaug. S. J. bound
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and such as he states.
Samuel Putnam                      Judge S. J. Lamb
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
1. I, James Sproat, Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court in & for said County of Bristol, do hereby certify, that the within contains the orig- inal proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Joseph Bennett, of Falmouth, in said County, for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and seal of the said Court, the day and year first above written. J. P. Gynock
Joseph Brant

19472
Joseph Burnett
Mass
March 28/Nov 28 days
14-16 ob
June 6 1893
P. 415
60 8 30
A. Bradford
New Bedford
Mass

60 BRIEF in the case of  Joseph Bennett  of Bristol  in the State of Mass  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? open 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.     In 1778. enlisted — 9 — Private Gen. Brigadier General Ingraham.   1779 — " About — 3 — " " Clayborn   nor. long after — two week each time — — 28 " " Clayborn   1780 enlisted — 3 — " " Clayborn   " — 3 — waiter Col. Drake — Lieut. Dunk has forgotten other Officers  
5. In what battles was he engaged? none
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Dartmouth Mass.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? traditional and four living witnesses.
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?  The periods are not precisely given in every case — nor the exact length of service — one Magistrate certified the other the witness credible — one not.
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
George Taylor
Examining Clerk.

W. M. N.Y. M.E.
29 001 Rev INVALID.
Apr 1/93 Chas. H. S. 6 Stetson, 57 State St., Albany
File No. 29,001
Joseph Bennett Rev Rev War
Act: June 7 th 39 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 32
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Bennett  Manuscript
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Joseph Bennett.
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Pray give your certificate of vicariate or return

I John Skiff, formerly of Fairhaven in the County of Bristol a state of Massa- chusett, but for ten years past a resident in Easton County of Wash- ington a state of New York, & now on a visit in said Fairhaven, aged seventy one, testify & say that in the year 1778, I served ten months in Capt. Timothy Ingraham's company, at Nobscoot Point in said Fairhaven on the east side of Bedford or Dart- mouth harbor, & chiefly in the Fort there situated; that Joseph Ben- nett of Fairhaven aforesaid was in the said company & served at the same time & place, with me
John Skiff Bristol J. Octo 3. 1832
Subscribed & sworn to, as true
Before me Haden Bradford Just. Pease

I also certify that said Skiff is known to me & is an old soldier & a credible witness
June 20 th 1833
Aldecu Bradford Just here

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Bristol ss.
I James Sproat Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for said county of Bristol do hereby certify that Alden Bradford whose signature is affixed to the within certificates is a Justice of the Peace in and for said county of Bristol and duly qualified to administer oaths.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this twenty seventh day of June in the year eighteen hundred and thirty three.
Ja. Sproat

I Daniel Hix, a Clergyman in the town of Dartmouth & County of Bristol, testify & say that I am well acquainted with Joseph Bennett of the Fairhaven in said County, adjoining Dart- mouth, that he is about the age of seventy one years, that he reputed & believed in the town & neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, & that also is my opinion — Daniel Hix Bristol J. Octo. 2 d 1832
Subscribed before me & I certify that said Hix is a clergyman duly qualified according to the rites and ceremonies of the known to me — Eld. Bradford Just. P. Pease
I Simon D. Mearns of Fairhaven in the County of Dartmouth testify that I am well acquainted with Joseph Bennett of said Fairhaven, that he is about seventy one years of age, that he is reputed & believed

I have no doubt - but
to have been a soldier in the war of the revolution - & that he he was of that opinion - & particularly that I believe he was in the service in 1778, at the Fort on Nobsco Point in Fair Haven on the eastern side of the port of Bedford, then Dartmouth since his mark D. Mearns
Bristol p. Oct. 20. 1832
Signed known to me at time
Baker vice Alden Bradford
June 20 th 1833
Just Paine
Said Mearns is known to me as a worthy man, & an old soldier of the Revolution, tho' unable to write - Alden Bradford I believe him also fully credible - A. Bradford -
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I Thunstow Potter of New Bedford, formerly Dartmouth, in the county of Bristol & state of Massachusetts, aged seventy five years, testify & say that I am well acquainted with Joseph Bennett, of Fair Haven, former- ly part of said Dartmouth, that he was in the same company with me, commanded by George Claghorn, for three months, on R. Island, at Butts' hill, so called part of the time, & at Narragansett, in the south westerly part of that State, at a place called Watch Hill, & also at point Judith - I think it was in 1779, or 1780 - but have no record now to decide
Thunstow Potter Bristol - Oct 2 d 1831 Subscribed as true Alam Bradford
June 20 th 1833 I also certify that said Potter is credible to all. me as to his age, that he is reputed & believed

in my opinion. I have no doubt but do not know him personally
Alden Bradford Just Peace

Earl Sears of Middleborough in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being in the Seventy first year of my age, do testify and say, that I was in the Revolutionary War. That from about the eighth day of September A.D. 1781 to about the eighth day of December of the same year, I was a private soldier belonging to the company of Capt. Ebenezer Barney, and belonging to Col. Dike's Regiment, and under the immediate command of Gen. Mc Dougall. That the company and Regiment to which I then belonged was stationed at or near Westpoint in the State of New York - That I perfectly well recollect of Capt. Daniel Drake with his company, (which also belonged to Col. Dike's Regiment,) being stationed at or near to Westpoint during that period. Joseph Bennett, who at that time, was a resident of and in that part of Dartmouth in the County Bristol, which has since been incorporated as Fairhaven, in which the said Bennett now resides; was a private soldier in said Drake's company during the three months was the aforesaid and was stationed at said Westpoint. Joseph Bennett who served as aforesaid, I have this day seen, & know him to be the same person who served as aforesaid in Capt. Drake's company. —
Bristol ss. Oct. 12 th 1832. Then personally appeared Earl Sears who subscribed the above declaration and made oath to the truth of the same — Before me, Ethan P. Hathaway, Justice of the Peace.
Oct. 12 th 1832 — I certify that Earl Sears the above deponent is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit — E. P. Hathaway, Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Bristol ss. I, James Sprout, Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for said County of Bristol, do hereby certify that Nathaniel P. Hathaway Esq., whose signature is affixed to the within certificate, is a Justice of the peace in for said County of Bristol, and duly qualified to administer oaths.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, this twentieth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.
J. Sprout
J. Bennett
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U. OLD WAR & NAVY MAR 16 1895 FILES.
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PENSION A MAR 14 1895 U S OFFICE.

WM. M. STETSON, 51 STATE STREET.
Albany, N. Y., March 11/1895
Com. of Pensions Washington D.C.
Sir,
I want information concerning my grandfather Joseph Bennett who died in North Fairhaven, Bristol Co. Massachusetts in 1847 or 1848 or thereabouts and who up to the time of his death drew a pension from the U.S. Govt for service as I believe in the War of the Revolution - I would like to know if his name appears as a pensioner and whatever else may be a matter of record concerning his service - enrol- ment & discharge - I do not know as I am addressing the proper office

WM. M. STETSON, 51 STATE STREET.
Albany, N. Y., _____ 189
if not will you kindly oblige by referring this to the Dept whence I may get the necessary information & very much oblige
Yours respectfully
W. M. Stetson