Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 10574, Seth Dickinson, Mass.

SERVICE
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Mass
Dickinson, Seth
S 10574
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2271
New York
Seth Dickinson
Worcester in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Chapin of the Regt. commanded by Col Porter - in the Massachusetts line for 11 Months
Enrolled on the Roll of New York at the rate of 36 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of Novem ber 1832 - and sent to Schuyler Crisp new Esq, Worcester, Otsego Co. N.Y.
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 - $ 54.99 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar 33 18.33
Dec. 2. 1838 $ 73.32 see Agency Book
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by John Cromwell Clerk Book D Vol. 5 Page 87

In the matter of debt Dickinson a soldier of the Revolution.
Exemplification
Pension { July 24 Office { 1832.
admitted

State of New York County of Otsego } ss
On this sixth day of September A.D. 1832 personally appeared before me Seth Chase a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Otsego, being a Court of Record with Common Law Jurisdiction. Seth Dickinson a resident of the Town of Worcester in the said County of Otsego, who first being duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in addition to his declaration heretofore made in open Court before the said Court of Common Pleas, the exemplified copy of the Record whereof is hereto annexed in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 1832. That he was born in the Town of Old Hatfield in the County of Hampshire in the State of Massachusetts, on the 14th day of December in the year 1760. That the time of his birth is recorded in the Town Clerk's Office in the Town of Old Hatfield, but that he has no record thereof in his own possession. And for the place of his residence when called into the service in the War of the Revolution, reference can be had to the Original declaration hereto annexed wherein the same is fully set forth. That after the Revolution he removed from Old Hatfield to the Town of Pittsfield in Massachusetts, where he resided eight years, and from thence he removed to Worcester in the County of Otsego about forty years ago, where he now resides and has resided during the last forty years except in the years 1829 & 1830 he resided in the Town of Westford Otsego County and the year 1831 in the Town of Decatur in said County. And further he declares that at the expiration of the ten months service in the year 1776 as set forth in his declaration hereto annexed he received a written discharge from service according to his best recollection, but by whom it was signed he cannot now recollect or state, and which discharge has been lost or destroyed many years since. And also he further states that he has no recollection of receiving any written discharge from service in the year 1777 as detailed in his said Original declaration hereto annexed. And he the said Seth Dickinson also states that he is well known to George Dunning a Clergyman and Deacon William Stinson both residing in his neighbourhood in the Town of Worcester in the County of Otsego aforesaid. And he the said Seth Dickinson 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 and subscribed the day and year above Seth Dickinson. Seth Chase a Judge of Otsego County

WE George Dunham a Clergyman residing in the Town of Moleester in the County of Otsego and Deacon William Stimson of the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Seth Dickinson of said Town who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration - that we believe him to be seventy one years of age as he has above stated - that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion -
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Seth Chase a judge of Otsego county
George Dunham William Stimson
And I the said Seth Chase one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Otsego in the State of New York do hereby declare my opinion after 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 I do further certify that it appears to me that George Dunham who has signed the foregoing certificate is a Clergyman resident in the Town of Moleester in the County of Otsego and that Deacon William Stimson who has also signed the same certificate is a resident in the same Town and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to full credit - In witness whereof I have hereunto set my name this 6 th day of September A.D. 1832 -
State of New York Otsego County
Seth Chase a judge of Otsego county
I Horace Lathrop Clerk of the said County do hereby certify that Seth Chase herein before whom the foregoing declaration swath of Seth Dickinson the certificate of George Dunham and William Stimson purport to have been made & sworn to whose name appears to be signed to the above certificate was at the date thereof one of the Judges of Otsego County (Seths duly commis- sioned & known as such) & authorized to administer oaths & take affidavits & also that I am acquainted with his hand writing & hereby believe his name subscribed Seth Chase a Judge of Otsego County to the said affidavits & oath & certificate to be his own proper hand writing & signature Given under my hand & the seal of said County this 8 th Day of Sept. 1832
Horace Lathrop By V. H. C. Deputy

The People of the State of New York, by the Grace of God Free and Independent: To all to whom these presents shall come or may concern. Greeting. —
Know ye, that We, having inspected the Records & Proceedings remaining in the Clerk's Office of Our Courts of Common Pleas for Our County of Otsego, do find therein the Record of certain evidence and proceedings, in the words & figures following, to wit. — "Otsego Court. Pleas.
Of the term of June in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
State of New York Otsego County ss.
Be it remembered that on this 21 st day of June in the year 1832. personally appeared in open court in the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Otsego in the State of New York, being a Court of Record, proceeding according to the principles of the Common Law, with power of fine & imprisonment. Seth Dickinson, aged seventy two years, and a Resident of the Town of Worcester in the County of Otsego aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath solemnly declare, in order to obtain a pension under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved June 7, 1832 entitled "An Act supplementary to the Act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Revolution," That he the said Seth Dickinson resided in Old Sheffield in the County of Hampshire, Massachusetts in the year 1776. And in the month of January in that year he the said Seth Dickinson enlisted as a Volunteer into the service of the War of the Revolution, in a Company of Militia or State Troops commanded by Capt. Israel Chapin in Col. Elisha Brainerd's Regiment, for the term of ten months. That in the month of February 1776 he the said Seth Dickinson was mustered with said Company at Northampton by Genl. Shepherd a Muster Master then at that place, and on the 8 th day of March of that year he the said Seth Dickinson marched in said Company for Quebec. And he the said Seth Dickinson further states as aforesaid that the said Company was on the march one month to a day, and arrived at a place about four miles North of the City of Quebec in Lower Canada and at that place joined the American Army under the command of Genl. Arnold. And the said Seth Dickinson remained in said

Company & Regiment above stated as a private soldier at this place until the American Army commenced its retreat from Canada. And further that he the said Seth Dickinson retreat- ed with said Company, under the command of Capt. Chapin and with the American Army until he arrived at Secondoga. And after remaining at Secondoga for some time, Col. Peters Regiment marched to Saratoga, and at the expiration of the ten months service was dismissed from said service, and the said Seth Dickinson then returned home to Old Stockbridge the place of his residence.
And the said Seth Dickinson further declares in manner aforesaid, that in the month of September 1777 he again volunteered for the term of one month to serve in the War of the Revolution in a Company of Militia commanded by Capt. Joshua Root bridge of Stockbridge aforesaid, in a Regiment commanded by Col. Mase. That he the said Seth Dickinson enlisted in said Company and Regiment in the month of September 1777, to Stillwater, and remained in the service at that place and Saratoga, until after the surrender of the British Army under Genl. Burgoyne. And that he the said Seth Dickinson was in the Battle at the taking of Burgoyne & the British Army, and continued in the service until three days after said Battle, when his term of service of one month for which he enlisted, expired. And that he the said Seth Dickinson was in the Battle at the taking of Burgoyne at the time of his discharge and returned home to his residence in Old Stockbridge aforesaid.
And the said Seth Dickinson further declares as aforesaid, that he hath not at any time received any pension or annuity under any Law of the United States providing for revolutionary services, and that his name has never been inscribed on any pension Roll in any state or the United States, and further saith not.
Seth Dickinson
Sworn and subscribed in Open Court this 21 st day of June 1832.
Horace Lathrop. Clerk.

State of New York § Francis Dickinson aged seventy years Otsego County ss: § in November next now a President of the Court of Common Pleas in said County of Otsego, being duly sworn in open Court in the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Otsego, doth depose & say that he is a Brother of Seth Dickinson the person who has subscribed and taken the above oath and that he this Deponent & the said Seth Dickinson both resided in Abn. Flatfield in the County of Hampshire Massachusetts in the year 1776. And this Deponent further saith that he well knows & recollects that the said Seth Dickinson volunteered & enlisted into Capt. Chapin's Company in the Winter of 1776 and that he the said Seth Dickinson marched from home and went into actual service in the war of the Revolution in the month of March 1776. This Deponent also recollects that the said Seth Dickinson enlisted at this time for ten months, and marched to Quebec in Lower Canada. This Deponent also saith that he thinks Seth Dickinson served out the term of service for which he enlisted as aforesaid. This Deponent also well recollects that the said Seth Dickinson went again into the service of the Revolution as a Soldier in the month of September 1777. marched up to Saratoga & Stillwater and remained in the service until after the Battle with Burgoyne & his surrender. And from this Deponent's best recollection the said Seth Dickinson was at this time in the service about one month as a Hunter and engaged or enlisted for the term of one month, and further saith not.
Sworn & subscribed in Open Court      Francis Dickinson This 21 st day of June 1832
Horace Lathrop. Clerk
State of New York § Otsego County ss: § James O'Moroe, a Judge of Otsego Common Pleas being duly sworn in open Court in the Court of Common Pleas of Otsego County doth depose & say, that he is well acquainted with Seth Dickinson the person who has made the above declaration & oath, and also with Francis Dickinson the person who has made & subscribed
Sworn and subscribed the day and year first above written James O'Moroe a Judge of Otsego County

the above deposition, and that they are men of good character and entitled to full credit on oath or otherwise. And further saith not. -
Sworn to and subscribed in open court in the Court of Common Pleas of Otsego County this 22 nd day of June A. D. 1832.
Horace Lathrop. Clerk.
Otsego Com. Pleas.
Of the term of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two. -
Otsego County ss. We the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the said County of Otsego do certify, that Seth Dickinson appeared before us in open court at the present June term of said court, and made his declaration and oath in manner and form as above specified for the purpose of obtaining a pension under the provisions of the Act of Congress of June 7, 1832. and at the same time produced before the said court as Witnesses to support his said declaration and oath. Francis Dickinson & James O. Morse, who then & there in open court respectively made oath to the depositions by them above subscribed. Which is satisfactory evidence to us of the truth of the facts contained in the declaration and oath of the said Seth Dickinson. In witness whereof We the said Judges have hereunto subscribed our names in open court at the Court House in Cooperstown this 22 nd day of June A. D. 1832.
Elisha Foster
J. O. Morse Judges H., Seth Chase
Filed June 22. 1832,
All which we have caused by these presents to be exemplified and the seal of our said Court of Common Pleas to be hereunto affixed. Witness George Morell Esquire first Judge of Our said Court at Cooperstown in the County aforesaid the 23 rd day of June A. D. 1832.
Horace Lathrop. Clerk.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of John Dickinson a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Jan 1776 10 mos Pat Isaac (blank) Ebenezer Dyer Mass.   Sept 1777 1 " John (blank) May        
Battles engaged in, at surrender of Burgoyne Residence of soldier at enlistment, Old Hampshire Office Date of application for pension, June 21 1836 Residence at date of application, Winsted Conn Age at date of application, born at Old Hampshire Co. Mass. Dec 14 1760 Remarks: He died Dec 3 1836 (age 76) and his wife was married (widow)
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

Rev.-1680. 161 Emerson Place Brooklyn, N. Y.
December 26, 1916.
The Pension Department Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen,
Can you give me any information concerning a Seth Dickinson, Revolutionary soldier, who died Dec. 2, 1838, aged 78 years. He is buried in the old Congregational cemetery at Worcester, N. Y.
He was my great- great grandfather and

I wish to use this information in order to join the D.A.R. The New York State records at Albany do not contain his name, and I have no more information than what I have given you.
Thanking you in advance for whatever information you can furnish, I remain, Very respectfully yours, Etta E. Southwell

Reborn
10544 INVALID.
1917 Jan. 6. Heist to Etta E. Southwell. aw.
File No. 10544
Seth Dickinson Red River War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index: — Vol. 2 , Page 97
[Arrangement of 1870.]