Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 21769, Samuel Bennett, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Bennett, Samuel
R. 21769
CONTENTS

(3-223.)
Henry
No. 21.769
_____, Ex'r. REJECTED
OLD WAR INVALID.
Samuel Bennett of Con n P. O. Pri Capt Throop Con'troop
Service : _____
Enlisted : _____, 18 .
Discharged : _____, 18 .
Application filed : _____, 18 .
Alleges : _____
Re-enlisted : _____
Attorney : _____
P. O. _____ 297

21.252
Samuel Bennett Capt Throop's Com y of Col y Montgomery County New York
Act 18 March 1818
Jan y . 11. 1832
ref. to the Com. on Rev y Pensioners
Rejected 09 April 1830. See letter to Hon Benedict Arnold
Service by Subst te evidence not suff t
Mar 1. 1832
Com y - dist d - to his
29
Denny as to his

Samuel Bennett Pension Application
Stratford March 25
free
Genl Benedict Arnold
Member of Congress
Washington City

Dear Sir
I acknowledge the Receipt of yours and agreeable to the proposition you was pleased to make have herewith Inclosed an application to the Secretary of War - this is a Business which I am altogether unacquainted with & having no means of Better Information at Hand & the Short time to Return an answer I have done it in haste and with with my own Limited Information on the subject —
Now Sir if the application is Incorrect will you have the Goodness to Correct it & if any thing should be wanting please to send me what it is - perhaps it may not appear Correct to have Mr Blackman & myself give Affadavits for each other - But a moment's Reflection will in some measure appohize Let half a Century pass & see how difficult It will be to find those whom we were Intimately acquainted with they are gone to that Land Where no traveller returns - I can procure others with some trouble if that should be objected too which you will please to inform me
I need not tell you Sir how much I feel Indebted to you for your kind assistance - If it was within your power & not too much trouble if any object as to the Testimony to procure & present to the Secretary at war the statement which I made to the Senate with the proof I shall Rest Satisfied that you will do all in your power to procure the desired Object in the mean time Give me leave to subscribe myself yours most Respectfully
Stratford 24 th March 1831
Sam d Bennett

County of Montgomery
Personally appeared before me one of the Justices of the peace for said County Samuel Bennett the signer of the application to be placed on the Pension Roll the other side of this Paper & made Solemn Oath that all the Property both Real & Personal Either directly or Indirectly was not worth one Hundred & fifty Dollars
Chenezer H. Blackman Esq. For said County

To the Hon ble John Eaton Secretary of War
Sir the undersigned would Respectfully present his Claim to be placed on the pension Roll to your Hon ble
That in the 1776 he Intisted under Lieu t Nathan Suly in Capt Eliphalet Thorp's Company in the Connecticut forces for nine months to guard the Lines on the seaboard and service his Term act on or about the time his Term Expired the Legislature of Connecticut passed a Law that if two men would hire a man during the war they should be Exempt from all Military duty that he & another man hired a man to Intist during the war the man so hired served 5 years & was killed Leaving no one to have an after Claim on his Country and that 100$ was paid to Induce him to Intist in addition to the Continental Bounty his half was $50 paid at that time and that he was at his Country call at all times & on all Occasions in the Region where he Lived and that he did Turn out more than four months at different times to fight the British which makes his Services together with his Substitute more than three years Besides his being a minute man during the war that he was born in Old Fairfield in Connecticut that he is now in the 72 nd year of his age & has for five years past had a bad Rupture in his Body and that together with the Natural Infirmitities of old age Renders him unable to Labor for a living & is very poor as to Property and cannot obtain a living in Comfort, to dig he is unable to Beg he is Ashamed and Respectfully appeals to your Hon ble for the Justice of his Claim to be Placed on the Pension Roll Respectfully
Samuel Pennett

The deposition of Daniel Blackman now living in the Town of Stratford County of Montgomery & State of New York and the deponent says that he is well acquainted with Samuel Bennett who has made application to the Hon ble John H Eaton Secretary of War to be placed on the pension Roll & that he was personally acquainted with him at the commencement of the Revolutionary War & thro' the war & knew him to be a Zealous & active friend to his country he serv d as stated in his application and that he with with another man hired a man during the war & that he himself turn d out to Repel the British he verily believes on all & every Question and the deponent believes the statement made in in his application to be placed on the Pension Roll to be substantially true & that said Samuel Bennett is now poor as to Property & poor in health and not able to obtain a Living in comfort and further the deponent saith not
Daniel Blackman
the above deposition was sworn
to before me this 23 day of
March 1830 -
attested to before me
Ebenezer H Blackman Esq r for sd County
March 24-1830

Samuel Bennett
 January 11. 1832
ref. to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions

22 d Congress 1 st Session
Congress of the United States
In the House of Representatives
January 11, 1832.
On motion of Mr. Taylor
Resolved, That the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions be instructed to inquire into the expediency of placing the name of Samuel Bennett on the roll of Revolutionary Pensioners.
Attest M. S. Clarke Clerk