Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12,480, Benjamin Clemons, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Clemons, Benjamin
NUMBER
S. 12.480
carded
CONTENTS

See letter 8 May 1833 to Pension Agents
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New Hampshire 1878.
Benjamin Clemons
of Shelburn in the State of N. Hampshire who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Batchelder of the Reg t commanded by Col Read in the State Troops time for
Private 15 Months.
Mass.
Records completed Aug 31/65
Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire at the rate of 50. Dollars — Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 9. day of March 1833. and sent to Hon. F. W. Meeks, Lancaster, N. H.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $100. 00
Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept. 1833 25. 00
$125. 00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Francis F. Frazar Clerk, Book 0. Vol. 1. Page 148.

Declaration of Benja Clemens
12.572.

DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
State of New-Hampshire, } ss. County of Coos
On this 19 th day of September 1832, personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, now sitting, Benjamin Clemens a resident of Shelburn in the County of Coos and State of N. H. aged 88 years, who 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—
That he enlisted as a volunteer in the Town of Roxbury in the State of Massachusetts into a company commanded by Capt David Batchelder about the Middle of April 1775. Said company belonged to Col Joseph Read's Reg t and immediately went in to the Service in the Town of Roxbury in which Service he remained eight Months when said Reg t was discharged. In the Month of Jan y 1776 at said Roxbury he again enlisted as a volunteer in a company commanded by Levi Aldrich in Col Nathan Ingers Reg t and immediately Marched to Dorchester Hill, and was engaged in building a fort where he remained two Months and was then discharged. — On the 13 th day of July at Upton in Worcester County Ms he again enlisted as a volunteer in the Massachusetts State Troops, in the company commanded by Capt Wm Pope in Col Aaron Willard's Reg t for five Months. — The same day the company was ordered to March to P'keepsie in the State of New York where they arrived about the 24 th of the Month of July & immediately were employed in building forts and in scouting parties and at the end of said five Months the said Reg t was discharged and returned on foot through the woods to Canaanish Vt. from thence to Springfield Vt crossed the Connecticut River in to Charlestown N.H. from thence to his residence in Upton Ms. I have been by Robert
Answers to the Interrogatories by the Court
Answer to 1 st I was born in Upton, in the County of Worcester in the State of Massachusetts in the year 1749
Answer 2 nd The record of My age is in said Upton.
Answer 3 rd I lived when called in to the Service in the Town of Upton in Townsend in the State of Vermont 16 Years, since in Shelburn in the State of New Hampshire where I now live
Answer 4 th I was a Volunteer the whole time
Answer 5 th Capt Batchelder Col Joseph Read Lieut Benjamin Farrar & Robert Tafts; my Regiment was Number 20 I do not recollect any others —
Answer 6 th I never received any written discharge
Answer 7 th Barker Burbank, Robert Ingalls Jonathan Lary, George Green, Samuel Peabody in Shelburn the Town where I now live and John W Weeks, Aaron A Brattle and Reuben Stephenson of Lancaster

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.
Benj (Fonds)
Sworn to and subscribed, the
19 th day of September 1832
We, Robert Ingalls residing in Shelburne As M y J udg presiding in  Shelburne
Benjamin Brinsmade Benjamin Brinsmade
hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Benjamin Clemens , who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 63 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.
Robert Ingalls
Benjamin Brinsmade
Sworn and subscribed the
19 th day of September 1832
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 above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court certifies, that it appears to them that who has signed the preceding certificate, is resident in the and that , who has also signed the same is a resident in the and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
of Conn
I, William Farrar Clerk of the Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Benjamin Clemens for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this 19 day of September
A.D. 1832
Wm Farrar Clerk

James L. Edwards Esq.
Washington

I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the within named Robert Ingersoll, Barbara Burbank & Benjamin Gould, & know them to be credible persons, the two first named highly respectable Magistrates, & the other an honest truth telling man - and believe none of them are interested in the claim of Benjamin Clemmons & I know nothing of Sarah Gates more than is disclosed by her affidavit - Washington March 1. 1833.
L. D. Meigs

War Department
Revenue Office
John Hon: J. M. Marks House of Representatives

James L. Edwards Esq. Pension Office Washington

Rev. War
12.480 INVALID.
File No. 12,480
Benjamin* Clemons Priv. Rev. War.
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 69
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Benjamin* Clemons Records corrected. Aug. 31/05. B.

I Sarah Gates of Shelburne in the county of Hampshire and State of New Hampshire do hereby declare and say that I know Benjamin Clemmons of said Shelburne, and that I have always heard and have no doubt of the fact that he served in the revolutionary army of the United States the full term of fifteen months at different times during the war; in the Spring of seventeen hundred and seventy five I resided at Upton in the town of Massachusetts, where said Clemmons then resided I then knew of his going into the service to a station near Boston or in that direction for the term of eight months and stayed in the army the full term of eight months as I verily believe, the family in which I then resided often heard from him by letters and other wise while he was in said service. I well recollect of his returning from the service late in the following fall in company with John Clemmons, who had also been in the service - I further recollect that said Benjamin Clemmons went into the service several times afterwards during the war of the Revolution but the particular times of his joining the Army or returning home to said Upton I do not well recollect. I further say that Benjamin Clemmons of Shelburne in the county of Hampshire and State of New Hampshire is the identical Benjamin Clemmons who went into the service of the United States in the Spring of the year seventeen hundred and seventy five and returned in the following fall & who served in the army of the Revolution at other times during the war.
Sarah Gates

State of New Hampshire
Coos ss September 13 th 1832
Then the within named Sarah Gates personally appeared and made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by her signed is true — Before me, Robert Ingalls Justice of the Peace
State of New Hampshire Coos ss
I William Farrar clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Coos do hereby certify that Robert Ingalls is a justice of the Peace as above and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine — In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court this 21 st day of September A.D. 1832
W m Farrar Clerk

I Jeremiah Gault of Shelburne in the county of Coos and State of New Hampshire depose and say that I know Benjamin Clemmons of Shelburne, county and  county aforesaid and that I have always heard and have no doubt of the fact that he volunteered into the State Troops of the Massachusetts line for the term of five months and that he served the full term as aforesaid in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six; In the fall of said year I saw said Clemmons in the service at Ticonderoga and also at Cavernish, Vermont when he was returning from the service in December or January following; I further say that the aforesaid Benjamin Clemmons of Shelburne in the county of Coos and State of New Hampshire is the identical Benjamin Clemmons who was in the service aforesaid and stationed at Ticonderoga in the fall of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six —
Jeremiah Gault
State of New Hampshire
Coos ss Sept 3 rd 1882
Then the above named Jeremiah Gault personally appeared and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him signed is true
Before me Robert Ingalls justice of the Peace

State of New Hampshire Coos Co
I William Farnen Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Coos do hereby certify that Robert Ingalls, is a justice of the Peace as within and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 21 st day of September A.D. 1832
Wm Farnen Clerk