Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1507, Calvin Burt, New York

SERVICE
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new york
Burt, Calvin
R 1507.
CONTENTS
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
1509
RECEIVED
P. O. Calvin Durt
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

STATE OF Ohio County of Athens Calvin Burt
} ss.
Amy Brink being duly
sworn according to law, deposes and says that She is a Child of Calvin Burt deceased, to whom a pension was probably due , that this deponent is directly interested in said claim.
Sworn and subscribed before me this 10 day April 185 4 and (I do hereby certify that the said Amy Brink is a respectable person, and that I have full faith in the truth of the above statement sworn to by her as being directly interested in said claim.)
Amy Brink mark
Know all Men by these Presents, That I Amy Brink a child of Calvin Burt deceased, to whom a pension was probably due, John S. Edwards of Washington DC do hereby constitute and appoint And Jor, of Ovid, N. Y. , my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name as one directly and personally interested in the claim or application for a pension
Witness my hand and seal, this 10 day of April 185 4
Sealed and delivered in the presence of Mathan S. Pilcher On Board
Amy Brink mark
STATE OF Ohio County of Athens
} Be it known that on the 10 day of April 185 4
before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and State, duly authorized by law to administer oaths and take acknowledgements, personally appeared Amy Brink above named, and duly acknowledged the above power of attorney and affidavit to be her act and deed.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand the day and date above mentioned.
Mathan S. Pilcher  M.P.

Letter to A. G. Brown May 17. 1845.
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See N.Y. Index,
April 5, 1832.
Calm Buoys,
June 7, 1832,
James S. Edwards Esq. Chair of Pension City of Washington D.C.
PAID

Athens, Ohio, March 31, 1845
Dear Sir
Enclosed herewith is an application of Calvin Burt, for a Pension under the act of June 7, 1832. Age and loss of memory, have deprived him of the power to make as distinct a statement of his services as would have been desirable; but I am satisfied from the testimony of aged persons who have known him long, that his principal statements are correct. Any communication relative to his claim, or any further testimony which may be required may be addressed to me, at this place, or to Hon. S. H. Vinton, M.C., from this Congressional District.
Respectfully
A. H. Brown
J. L. Edwards Esq. Comm r of Pensions
Perhaps the former application of Mr Burt, while a resident of Cattaraugus County, New York, if preserved on file, may throw some light on his case, having been made when he was some 10 or 12 years younger.

25911
Calvin Burt
Itt Ohio
at 7. June '32-

The State of Ohio, Athens County, So.
On this 27th day of February, A.D. 1845, personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Common Pleas of said Athens County, now sitting, Calvin Durt, a resident of Rome Township in said County, aged 84 years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath, make the following declarations for 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.
When fifteen years of age, and residing in Cambridge in Washington County, State of New York, in the year 1776, he was enrolled in a Militia Company, and was called into service as a private, under Capt. Whelp, in Col. Warner's Regiment, and marched to Saratoga; that being too young for duty as a soldier in the line, he was employed during nine months as a Teamster, in the transportation of the Army baggage and stores from Albany and other places to and from Saratoga for the use of the American Army. In the succeeding year, 1777, he was again called into service, and marched to Saratoga and served served several months under the said Captain Whelp, until he was cashiered for improper conduct, and he continued to serve in the same Company under Capt. Goodenough, who succeeded said Capt. Whelp, to the expiration of his time, which he believes was nine months, in addition to his first tour of nine months as a Teamster. That from his age and failing memory, he cannot state more distinctly the dates and terms of his said service, but believes that he served as aforesaid two terms of nine months each, the first as a Teamster, and the second as a Private in said Company, that he was principally employed during said second period at Saratoga guarding stores. That of the Field and other Officers under whom he served, he now remembers only the names of Genl. Schuyler, Col. Warner, and Captains Whelp and Goodenough. That he has no documentary evidence, and knows no person now living by whom he can make proof of his services. That he continued to reside for several years after the war in said Cambridge, and afterwards removed into Vermont where he resided several years, and then removed into Oneida County, New York, afterwards into Steubens County and then into Cataumagus County where he continued to reside until about eight years since when he removed to Athens County, Ohio, where he now resides. That while residing in Cataumagus County, some 10 or 12 years since, he made application for a Pension under said act

of June 7, 1832, and was able to prove and did prove his service by the testimony of _____ Nash, a Revolutionary Soldier and Pensioner, then residing in said Catawba County, but whom he believes to have since deceased. That his said application then failed through some informality, he thinks for the want of the Certificate of a Clergyman, such as required by the regulations of the War Department. And he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State. Sworn & subscribed the day and year aforesaid, in open Court. J. M. Dana Clerk } Calvin X Burt mark Attest, A. G. Brown
We Amos Miller, a Clergyman residing in said Rome Township Athens County, and John Griffith and Sumner Griffith residents of said Rome Township hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Calvin Burt who has subscribed and subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration, that we believe him to be 84 years old, that he is reputed and believed where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. That the said John Griffith have been acquainted with the said Calvin Burt for more than sixteen years, during which he has always been reputed a Revolutionary Soldier & distinguished as such on several several public occasions, and that the said Sumner Griffith have well known the said Calvin more than forty years, during which he was always reputed & believed to be a Revolutionary Soldier, and was always said to have served as he has stated in his above declaration. Sworn to & subscribed in open Court at the said February Term 1845 J. M. Dana Clerk } John Griffith Sumner Griffith mark Attest A. G. Brown Amos Miller
And the Court do hereby declare their opinions, 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 certify, that it appears to them that Amos Miller who has signed the foregoing certificate is a Clergyman, resident in Rome Township, in this County, and that Sumner Griffith and John Griffith are credible persons, and that their statements are entitled to credit.
I Joseph M. Dana Clerk of said Court of Common Pleas of the County of Athens in the State of Ohio, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Calvin Burt for a Pension. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this 31 st day of March, A.D. 1845. J. M. Dana Clerk