Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S.12101, Benjamin Bartlett, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass
Bartlett Benjamin
NUMBER
S12101
boarded
CONTENTS

New York Pay to Bartlett of the State of New York who was a Private in the Comp. commanded by Captain (Alb.) of the Regt. commanded by Col. Woodhull in the Mass line for 1 Yr.
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 April 1838 from 4 March 1837 to 4 Sept 1837 age notified 5 July 1838 1889 Nov 1. History by M m Bartlett Prior
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 10 Dollars Cents per annum commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 day of Aug. 1832 and for the Pamela 1833 Conquest
Swears to the 14th of May $ 80 Rem-ant. allowance ending 1st p. $ 20 $100
Recorded by { Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. } Book C. Vol. 3, Page 17 Clerk,

2355
Benj. Bartlett
Admitted Private 12 months p 28.
5.16
18 Sept 1872 Done
Heunus Arnold est Conquest Vag

7325
BRIEF in the case of  Benjamin Bartlett  of Ira Cayuga Co NY  in the State of New York.  (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? 69 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.      In 1780 on about 5 July enlisted on about 5 Nov. was discharged  1781  on about 1 st April enlisted last of Nov. was discharged  4 As a  Genl. Benedict Arnold  Genl. Washington  Col. John Albrod. Col. Willridge  Col. Convent. Col. Sayer May Gower  May Genl. John Stark   
5. In what battles was he engaged? none stated
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Belcher Hampshire County Mass
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Living Witness Francis Needham personally knowing to his enlistment in or about the 5th of July 1780 was also knowing to his enlistment in 1781 and that he served with him during the first enlistment
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? not authenticated
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
A. Kuntzel
Examining Clerk.

7355

Communications to be directed to Dennis Arnold in the town of Conquest Cayuga Co N. York

State of New York County of Cayuga
On This 24 th day of May 1833 personally appeared in Open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Cayuga Now Sitting Benjamin Bartlett a resident of the town of Ira County of Cayuga and State of New York Aged Seventy (70) years 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 Viz. That he Enlisted as a private Soldier in the United States Service on the fifth day of July in the Year 1780 under Capt. Job Albrod, Lieut. Dickerson and Ensign Albrod, That the field Officers were Col. Woodbridge and Adjutant Flint That the Major Name he does Not recollect That when he Enlisted he resided in the Town of Belcher County of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts That the Country Through which he Marched were Northampton and Chesterfield to Glaverac where he joined the regiment and marched from Thence to Poughkeepsie, from Thence to Fishkill and from Thence to West point where he was was Stationed Under Gen. Benedict Arnolds Untill Major Andre was taken as a spy. Then Under Gen. Geo. Washington Untill he was discharged, it being as near as he can recollect from the best of his memory the fifth day of November in the Year 1780 Making four months Services as a private Soldier and that he was acquainted with Gen. Geo. Washington & Gen. Benedict Arnolds, and that he again Enlisted in the United States Service on the first day of April (1781) Seventeen hundred and Eighty One, Under Capt. Convent Lieut. Ganson and Ensign Joel Billings That the field Officers were Col. Sayre Major Poven, Adjutant Tracy and Doctor Fields Surgeon of the regiment That when he Enlisted he resided in the Town of Belcher County of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts That the Country Through which he Marched was Northampton, Pittsfield, New Lebanon and Albany where he joined the regiment That he marched from Thence to Saratoga and there joined the Army Under Major General John Starks Commander in Chief of the Northern Line That he was acquainted with John Starks Jr. Brigade Major and aid to his father and Col. Wisenfield Commander of a New Hampshire regiment of Continental Soldiers and Thomas Starks Adjutant Generals and Col. Gansworth Commander of a regiment of New York forces and Enoch Leonards Commissary and that he was discharged from the Army as near as he can recollect from the best of his memory
The Last day of November in the Year (1781) Seventeen hundred and Eighty One. and he was born in the Town of Ware in the County of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts in the Year (1763) Seventeen hundred and Sixty Three and that he has not any record of his age in this Country and that he has resided ever since the revolutionary war in this State and that he served in the revolutionary war as aforesaid under a voluntary Enlistment and that he never received any written discharge from the Army but was verbally discharged from the first Campaign as aforesaid by Gen. Washington and was discharged in the same way the second Campaign by Gen. Starks and that 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 to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Person ally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace of the County of Cayuga Benjamin Bartlett 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 period mentioned be low and in the following grade, for one year as a private Soldier and for such service I claim a pension, Subscribed and sworn before me May 24. 1833 Dennis Arnold Justice of the peace. Benjamin Bartlett mark We Harry Ferris residing in the town of Ira and Thomas Cooper residing in the town of Conquest in the County of Cayuga do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Benjamin Bartlett who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy 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. Subscribed and sworn before me May 24. 1833 Dennis Arnold Justice of the peace. Harry Ferris mark Thomas Cooper mark
I Francis Needham of the town of Conquest County of Cayuga and State of New York do hereby certify upon my oath that I am well acquainted with Benjamin Bartlett who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and that I am personally knowing that he Enlisted into the Service of the United States as a revolutionary Soldier on (or near) the fifth day of July in the year 1780 and immediately went away and it was said went into the Service of the United States and continued in the Service as aforesaid until some time in November following at which time he returned home. and I am also knowing that he again

Enlisted in the Said Service of the United States on (or near) the first day of April 1781 and that he continued in the Service as aforesaid until the Last of November in the same Year and that he served in Capt e Converse Company in a regiment Commanded by Col e Sayrs (The Christian Name I do not recollect) and that I served with him in the same Company all the time of this Last term of Service as aforesaid, Francis Wardham
Sworn and Subscribed May 24. 1833
And the Said Courts 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 Certifies that it appears to them that Harry Ferris who has signed the preceding Certificate is a resident in the Town of Ira and that Thomas Cooper who has also signed the Same is a resident in the town of Conquest in the County of Cayuga and that they are Credible persons and their statement is entitled to Credit. and that Francis Wardham who has signed the foregoing Affidavit is of sufficient age to have a knowledge of the Service of the above named Applicant and that he is a Credible person and is entitled to Credit
¶ Michael S. Myers Clerk of the Court of Common pleas of the County of Cayuga do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Said Court in the matter of the Application of Benjamin Bartlett for a Pension and I do further certify that Dennis Arnold whose signature is annexed to the foregoing statement of Harry Ferris and Thomas Cooper is a Justice of the peace of the Said County and that the signature annexed is his Genuine signature In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this 24 th day of May 1833
M. S. Myers Clerk

October 25, 1939
BA-J/MCS Benjamin Bartlett S.12101
Mr. Ralph D. Phillips 43 Barrow Street New York, New York
Dear Sir:
The data which follow were taken from papers on file in the pension claim, S.12101, based on the military service of the only Benjamin Bartlett of Massachusetts that is found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.
Benjamin Bartlett was born in 1763 at Ware, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. The names of his parents are not given but his father was living at the close of the Revolution.
While living in Belcher, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Benjamin Bartlett enlisted July 5, 1780, and served until November 5, 1780, as private in Captain Job Alvord's company in Colonel Woodbridge's Massachusetts regiment. He enlisted April 1, 1781, and served until November 30, 1781, as private in Captain Coney's company in Colonel Sears' Massachusetts regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed May 24, 1833, at which time he was living in Ira, Cayuga County, New York, and he had lived there since the close of the Revolutionary War.
The papers in this claim contain no data relative to the soldier's family.
If you desire to obtain the date of last payment of pension of Benjamin Bartlett, the name and address of the person to whom it was paid and possibly the date of death of the soldier, it is suggested that you address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D.C., giving the following data: Benjamin Bartlett, Certificate 20190, issued August 10, 1833, rate $40 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, New York Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by J. W. Rice
Claim No. S. F. 12101
Certificate No. _____
Claimant Benjamin Bartlett
Soldier _____
Service Rev. War.
Additional Service _____
No _____ claim, State records _____, 190_____
No claim, combination records _____, 190_____
REMARKS:
O. V. No Surv. Wid. or Rejd other than above and S. F. 19535 (Not identical; soldier died in 1825); and Rej. 577 (soldier an offi- cer, lived in Walpole, N. H., and Arlington, Vt., during Rev. and in Shitten- den Co., Vt., in 1833. Chief Division

Treasury Department,
Second Comptroller's Office, June 30 - 1838.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Benjamin Bartlett a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany, N.Y. Agency, at the rate of forty — Dollars and — — — Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832 has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March 1837 to the 4 th of September 1837
Respectfully, yours,
Abner K. Parris Comptroller
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.

Rev. War
12,101 INVALID.
File No. 12,101
Benj. Bartlett Rev. War
Act: June 18th 32
Index: Vol. 1 , Page 22
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1918, Jan. 22. History to Mrs. James Hensley. F.W. 1929, Oct. 25. Hist. to Mr. Ralph D. Phillips. See letter in Rev. ch. Daniel Bartlett. M. 18570. Va.C.

Evidence insufficient act 1828.
1403
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
6 January 1829.
Benjamin Bartlett of the Town of Ira in the County of Cayuga in the State of New York has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Private in captain Coney 's company, in the regiment of the Massachusetts line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing .
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary W. H. Dickinson
Ref. File no 577 lost file
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
9 th January 1829
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to _____ in the _____
It further appears that _____ is now on the pension list of the _____ agency, and has been so since the _____ at the rate of _____ dollars per month.
The name of Benjamin Bartlett cannot be found among those of the Massachusetts line to whom certificates for the gratuity of Eighty Dollars were issued -
There is now on the General Pension Roll of the New York Agency, a man by the name of Benjamin Bartlett, at the rate of $8 per month, but according to the accounts rendered he has received nothing for several years past.
Sam H. Agner's End

War Department, Bounty Land Office 5 May 1829.
The records of this Office, do not show that Benjamin Bartlett of the Mass s . line, ever received, or is entitled to bounty land of the U. States. — u Robert Taylor
Enclosed is a copy of my letter of 1828. 1403

1403 I Benjamin Bartlett of the Town of Ira in the County of Cayuga and State of New York do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution for and during the war and continued in the service until its termination at which period I was a private in Captain Conys Company I do not remember the No. of the Regiment of the Massachusetts line and I also declare that I had the promise of the Reward of Eighty dollars but never got it to which I was entitled under an act of Congress Passed the 15 th May 1778 and I further declare that I was not on the Pension list of the United States on the fifteenth day of May 1828 1 st December 13 th 1828 Benjamin Bartlett
Before me Luther Barnes one of the Justices of the Peace for the town of Ira County of Cayuga and State of New York Personally appeared this day Francis Needham of the said County and made oath that he was Personally acquainted with the subscriber of the foregoing declaration and served with him in the army the above specified time Francis Needham 1 st December 13 th 1828 Luther Barnes justice Peace
Before me Luther Barnes one of the Justices of the Peace for the Town of Ira County of Cayuga and State of New York Personally appeared John C. Barnes and Henry Ferris and by a long acquaintance with the above named Francis Needham testifies that we never knew of his testimony being impeached John C. Barnes Henry Ferris 1 st December 13 th 1828 Luther Barnes justice Peace

State of New York Cayuga County Clerks Office
I Abraham Gidley Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Cayuga in the State of New York do hereby certify that Luther Barnes Esq. before whom the within Affidavits were taken was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, and duly Empowered to administer Oaths, and further that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe that the within signatures "Luther Barnes" is genuine In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and Affixed the seal of the said Court of Common Pleas at Auburn this fifteenth day of December A D 1828
Abraham Gidley Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Cayuga

To the Honorable Secretary of the United States Treasury — N o 88 at the
City of Washington —
Revolutionary Claims Caton NY Dec 23

2 nd evidence of identity
To the Honorable Secretary of the Treasury
Sir under the Late act of Congress I consider myself a subject of their benevolence which Claim I transmit to you by way of affidavit Ira Dec r 19 th 1828 —
to the Honorable Richard Rush Esq r . Treasury department

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# 19535

Recd 19 Jany 1830
I Benjamin Bartlett of the Town of Ithaca in the County of Cayuga and State of New York do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution for and during the war and continued in the service until its termination at which Period I was a private in Capt. Cones Company the number of the Regiment I cannot recollect of the Massachusetts line and I further declare that my Father received a Certificate for the reward of eighty dollars but I do not know whether he ever received it or not which I was entitled under a resolve of Congress passed the fifteenth of May 1778 and I also declare that I was not on the fifteenth of May 1828 on the Pension list of the United States witness my hand Benjamin Bartlett Nov 16th 1829
Before me Luther Barnes one of the Justices for the County of Cayuga in the State of New York Personally appeared to day Francis Needham of the said County who made oath that he was Personally acquainted with the subscriber of the above declaration and knowing to his service as set forth in the same Nov 16th 1829 Luther Barnes Justice Peace
State of New-York. CAYUGA COUNTY, } ss. CLERK'S OFFICE.
I, MICHAEL S. MYERS, Clerk of the County of Cayuga and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the said County: DO HEREBY CERTIFY, that Luther Barnes Esquire, was on the Sixteenth day of November one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and that full faith and credit are to be given to his acts in that capacity: And that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Luther Barnes and verily believe the signature to the annexed transcript to be his proper hand writing.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, and subscribed my name this Fourteenth day of December A. D. 1829
M. S. Myers Clerk by P. H. Myers Dep. Clerk

Comm. of Pension Bureau
Mr. G. M. Saltzgeber 12/20/72
Dear Sir: Particular
Oblige by giving me a copy of the pension application of Benjamin Bartlett who, according to the census of 1840, was then a pensioner, 77 years old, living in Cayuga County, New York.
I should also be glad to have the pension record of William Bartlett

Wm, was a Lieutenant in Col. Wm. Campbell's Regt. at the battle of King's Mountain
Respectfully
Mrs. Jas. Hensley
1508- Laurel St.
Jan 14/18
Nashville, Tenn (from son)

In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Benjamin Bartlett a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau. S. F. 12,101.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     July 5, 1780 to Nov. 5, '80. Pri. Job Alvord. Woodbridge Mass.   Apr. 1, 1781 to Nov. 30, '81. Coney. Hearts                                     
Battles engaged in, ✓ Residence of soldier at enlistment, Belcher Hampshire Co., Mass. Date of application for pension, May 24, 1833. His claim al. Residence at date of application, Era, Cayuga Co., N.Y. Age at date of application, B. in 1763, at Ware, Hampshire Co., Mass. Remarks: There is no data relative to his wife.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

October 25, 1939
Mr. Ralph D. Phillips 43 Barrow Street New York, New York
BA-J/MCS Benjamin Bartlett, S.12101 Daniel Bartlett, W.15570
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your request for information relative to Revolutionary War soldiers, Benjamin, Daniel, Ebenezer and Oliver Bartlett.
Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims for pension and bounty land made to the United States and based on the military service of soldiers in this war. A careful search of the records fails to show such claims on file on account of the service of an Ebenezer Bartlett as described by you, or of any Oliver Bartlett.
You are furnished herewith, the records of Benjamin Bartlett, S.12101, and Daniel Bartlett, W.15570.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator