Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12733, Amos Davis, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Davis Amos
S.12733
CONTENTS
banded

8679  New York  Amos Davis
of Florida in the State of New York who was a for tyfer in the Company commanded by Captain Cady of the 2nd Regt. commanded by Mr. Kingston in the N.Y. Mtn was for 4 mo 15 ds for 10 " 15 " for
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 54 Dollars 47 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of Apr 1833 and sent to Plate Potter Minaville
Arrears to the 14th of March 1833 $108.04 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept " 27.23
$136.17
{ Revolutionary Claim, { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk Book C Vol. 4 Page 17

In the Matter of Amos Davis for a pension
25 1/18 40.
admitted
4 mo 15 days Wife 10 mo 15 Private
4.33 34 17.32 6 33.33 33.14 66 54.47

Personally appeared before me George Davis a Justice of the peace of the town of Charlton County of Montgomery & State of New York Samuel Doty to me known made oath in due form of law says that he resides in the Town of Canaan in the County of Columbia State aforesaid says that he was called into the service in the revolutionary war as nine months service with Amos Davis of Florida County of Montgomery about the first of May think it was in the year 1780 under the command of Silas Gage as Captain in Col. John M c Kinsten Regiment which embodied in the town of Canaan went from thence to Saratoga and stayed there with said Davis five or six months thinks that said Davis stayed out the whole nine months but would not positively so swear, as at the end of five or six months he his regiment was permitted to go home At another time he was in said service with said Davis at Fish Kill has forgotten the officers names and the length of time they were out and further saith not   part of a bond in 11 th line signed before sworn to. I swear and subscribe Samuel Doty before me this 11 th day of September 1832
George Davis Justice
I George D Ferguson Clerk of the County of Montgomery do hereby certify that George Davis before whom the above affidavit was taken was at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace of said County and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and believe his signature above to be genuine In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said County this twentieth day of September 1832
Geo: D Ferguson

State of New York
Montgomery County, ss. On this twenty fourth day of September 1832 personally appeared before John Hand one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Montgomery and State of New York Amos Davis a resident of Florida in said County aged twenty one 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 th 1832
That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated
That some time in the Month of October as he thinks in the 1778 he entered the Service in a Company of Militia as a Substitute for one Alexander Smith who had been drafted. That he served about one month & a half in this Period, Lieutenant Nathaniel Rowley was the Commanding officer of the Company during this time. That he ended the Service at Chatham now Columbia County and was marched to Cherry Valley where an alarm had been given by depredations committed at that place by a party of Indians & Tories. He was on guard at that place one month & then they were relieved by another portion of this Company who came to take their turn of duty. Then he returned to Chatham; just after he left Cherry Valley it was burnt by a party under the Command of Brant an Indian Chief and one Buttrill a Tory. He does not now recollect the names of any other officers who served this time. That in September of the Year 1779. he again entered the Service at New Canaan Columbia County, in a Company of Militia Commanded by Captain Ebenezer Cady. Lieutenant Rowley and attached to a Regiment Commanded by Col Whitney & Lieutenant Col Waterman. That he entered said Company as a Substitute for one John Perkins. Cannot tell whether Perkins was drafted or acted as a volunteer. That he was during this Service a Fifer. That this Company with several other Companies making a whole Regiment under the Command of Col Waterman were marched to Fishkill on the North River where they were stationed three months after remaining there three months they were discharged & returned home this time was spent in guarding Fishkill they were in no battles or skirmishes during this period

That After he returned from Fishkill he served as a volunteer in a Company of Militia Commanded by Captain John Davis. Lieut. Nathaniel Nowley. & Ensign Elisha Cady and attached to a Regiment Command. of Col Whiting that this Company was raised at Canaan in Columbia County that this Company were volunteers & stood ready to go at all times & places when & where Alarms were given. and that they were frequently called out into Actual Service upon Alarms. the first Service in this Company was at the time when a party of British. Indians & Tories came across the Country from Schoharie and burnt all the Country in the line of their March, the whole Company were ordered to the Assistance of the Militia of Tryon, before they reached Fort Plain they heard that a Battle had ensued between the British & Indians & the Militia of Tryon near Palatine. that the enemy under the Command of Lieut. John Johnson had crossed the Mohawk river & proceeded Northward to Canada, then this Company returned, thinks they were gone about two weeks, recollect going three times to Stillwater upon alarms, the first time were gone two weeks, the other times cannot tell how long, thinks from six to ten days each time, once upon an alarm to Lansingburgh thinks they were gone two weeks, cannot recollect recalled the particular month, thinks the first alarm to Stillwater was in the Spring, one to Stillwater was in the Fall the other two in the the Spring or Summer, he cannot now make a correct estimate of the time actually under arms in this Company but that he remained in this Company doing duty & subject to duty from some time in December 1777 until the first of May 1781. during this period he served as a Fifer. About the 1 st of May 1781 he enlisted in a Company Called Nine Months Men as a private Soldier in a Company Commanded by Captain Elias Gray. Lieutenant Grant or Pliny Moore, is not certain which, attached to a Regiment Commanded by Col McKittrick, Lieut. Col Nowley. Adjutant Lillie's Journal. That during this period He was with the rest of this Company stationed at Saratoga where he remained Nine Months on duty

at the end of which time he received a discharge from Captain Gray but that it is now lost that he was during this period in no battle or skirmish but was guarding that place the whole period. Part of the Continental Army were at Saratoga a part of this time but cannot recollect the names of the officers, he was born 26 th July 1761 in Sharon Litchfield County Connecticut. He has a record of his age in a Bible which he has kept since he was twenty one Years of age, he resided in Canaan when he entered the Service, after the war he resided in Chatham a short time, then removed to Florida where he has resided forty six Years he can prove a part of his services by Samuel Doby whose affidavit is hereto annexed by Joseph Earl & Lucy Chapman. He can prove his Character by the Rev. Charles Howe & Joseph Earls of Florida. He has no documentary evidence of his service. 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, (in 2 nd page the word "near" in 13 th line written on a blot, in 20 th line "recollect" erased. 21 st line "first" interlined
Amos Davis

3 rd page "at Saratoga" interlined in 4 th line also the word "Pouhon" in last line
The within foregoing-Subscribed Sworn to the day & year aforesaid before me John Hand one of the Judges of the Montgomery county courts
1000

Mr Charles Horne a Clergyman residing in the town of Florida in the County of Montgomery and Joseph Earls of the same place do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Amos Davis who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration that we believe him to be Seventy One Years of age, that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion
Subscribed & sworn the day & year aforesaid
Charles Horne before me John Hand & Joseph Earls one of the Judges of the Montgomery County Court -
And I the said John Hand do hereby certify that the above named Amos Davis is unable by reason of bodily infirmity to attend any Court of Record in the County of Montgomery to make his said Declaration, and I do further certify and declare my opinion that after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named Amos Davis was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And I do further certify that Charles Horne who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman resident in the town of Florida in the County of Montgomery and that Joseph Earls who has signed the same is a resident of the same place and is a credible person & that this State must be entitled to credit
John Hand - one of the Judges of the Montgomery County Court - I George D. Ferguson Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Montgomery do hereby certify that John Hand before whom the foregoing proceedings were taken in the matter of Amos Davis for a pension was at that time a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court this 27th day of September 1832
Geo: D. Ferguson

11840
Amos Davis
admitted
4 mo 15 days Fifer 10 mo 15 days Private
5.16
27 Feb 72 19 Dec
Platt Potter
Minaville
N.Y. D.M.

BRIEF in the case of Amos Davis  of Florida in the State of New York  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? a judge  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? yes  3. How old is he? Seventy one 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.     Substitute for Alex Smith In 1778 Oct about 1 1/2 Gen. Nathl. Rawley   after John Aitken 1779 Sep 2 Capt. El. Cady, Col. collecting   then " from Dec r to 11 May 1781, but the duration of service he cannot estimate fifer Capt. Jno. Davis   1781 May 1. 9 private Capt. Gray, Col. McKimster,    Davis - vol 8, p 25 - fifer 3-8/5
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Chatham. Canaan. Conn c  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? A Clergyman & Joseph Carl certify to traditional evidence, Sam Doly, living witness, privy part of the 9 regt. Jemmy - and other service. Lucy Chapman living witness, privy of regt. Nathan Drown, Joseph Carl, living witness, privy of regt. Nathan Drown.  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
X Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Orus Examining Clerk.

State of New York
Montgomery County ss On this 26 th day of September 1832 personally appeared before John Hand a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Montgomery Lucy Chapman aged sixty six Years who being duly sworn saith that Annes Davis of Florida is a Brother to this Deponent that during the Revolutionary War she resided at a place called New Concord now Canaan Columbia County with her parents & Brother as aforesaid. That during said War she knows the said Annes was called out into the service of the United States, and she knows one time he was gone to Fish Kill at another time he was gone nine months & understood he was gone to Saratoga. That the family had letters from him during his absence and she has no doubt from his absence during the time of the war & from what she understood that he served a very considerable time during the war but cannot tell how much.
Subscribed & sworn to the day &
Lucy X Chapman mark
My commission expires on the 10 th day of October next
before me John Hand one of the Judges of the Montgomery County courts -

March 12, 1935
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Mr. Halsey Stevens Evergreen Terrace Homer, New York
Amos Davis, S. 12733 BA-J/MCS Amos
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your request for the Revolutionary War records of Benjamin Merry and Amos Davis.
Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims made to the United States for pension and bounty land based upon the military service of soldiers in that war. A careful search of the records fails to show such claim on file on account of the service of a Benjamin Merry.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S. 12733, based upon the military service of Amos Davis, the only soldier of that name who enlisted from New York State that is found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.
Amos Davis was born July 26, 1761, in Sharon, Litchfield County, Connecticut. The names of his parents were not given.
While living in New Concord which was later called Canaan in Columbia County, New York, he enlisted in October, 1778, and served one and one half months as private in a company of New York troops commanded by Lieutenant Nathaniel Rowley. He enlisted in September, 1779, and served three months as fifer in Captain Ebenezer Cady's company in Colonel Whiting's New York regiment. From December, 1779, until the first of May, 1781, he served at various times, amounting to one and one half months in all, as fifer in a company under Captain John Davis (not stated he was related to soldier) in Colonel Whiting's New York regiment. He enlisted about the first of May, 1781, and served nine months as private in Captain Silas Gray's company in Colonel McKinstler's New York regiment.
After the Revolution he lived in Chatham, New York, until 1786 when he moved to Florida, Montgomery County, New York.

He was allowed pension on his application executed September 24, 1832, at which time he was living in Florida, Montgomery County, New York.
His sister, Lucy Chapman, was living in 1832 at which time she was sixty-six years of age. In 1833 one George Davis was justice of peace in Montgomery County, New York, relationship not given. The papers in this claim contain no further data relative to the soldier's family.
Very truly yours
Soldier's death not on Agency B
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator

1935 Mar. 12, hist. to Mr. Halsey Stevens. U.S.
Rehran
12.733
INVALID.
File No. 12.733
Anna S. Davis
Life. Rev. war
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. _____, Page _____
[Arrangement of 1870.]

State of New York
Montgomery County ss. Personally appeared before me on this 24 th day of September 1832 Joseph Earl of Florida in said County aged Seventy four Years who being duly sworn saith that during the Revolutionary War he was in the service of the United States at one time the particular Year he cannot recollect, at Fish Kill on the North River three months and that during that time Amos Davis now of Florida in said County was in another Company in the same Regiment with this deponent & served the same period of time with this deponent at Fish Kill on actual duty, that he has also understood & believes from what he heard during said war that the said Davis served another term of nine months but does not know it of his own knowledge
Subscribed & sworn to the day & year aforesaid
Joseph Earl
before me John Hend one of the Judges of the Montgomery County Courts

State of New York
Montgomery County ss. Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace of the County of Montgomery. Amos Davis 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 periods mentioned below and in the following grades For Ten months and fifteen days I served as a Private. For four months and fifteen days I served as a Fifer and for such service I claim a pension. And further that the above is in amendment of his declaration made on the twenty fourth day of September 1832 before John Hand one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County of Montgomery in order to obtain the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
Subscribed & sworn this 19 th day of January 1833 before me
Amos Davis
James Voorhies Justice of the Peace
State of New York
Montgomery County.
ss: I, George D. Ferguson, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County do hereby certify that James Voorhies before whom the above affidavit purports to have been sworn was on the date thereof a justice of the peace of the said County; And that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said justice & truly believe that the name of said justice subscribed to said affidavit is genuine!
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 18 th February 1833
Geo: D. Ferguson

BA-J/ILL Asa Stevens W. 2452
27 February, 1935
Veterans Administration Revolutionary War Section Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
The information furnished me by your department, concerning Asa Stevens of Townsend, Mass., and Stoddard and Washington, N. H., has proved very useful, and I offer sincere thanks for your assistance.
Do your files afford any information regarding Benjamin Merry, who served in the Revolutionary War from Kent, Litchfield county, Connecticut (Atwater's History of Kent, page 32), and lived afterwards near Minaville, Florida township, Montgomery county, N. Y.? He may have been the Benjamin Merry who served in the 4th regiment of the New York Line (James A. Roberts' "New York in the Revolution as Colony and State," page 52).
According to Roberts, an Amos Davis served in the Levies under Willett, and an Amos Davis served in the 8th regiment of Albany county (N. Y.) Militia. Do you have records of either of these? They may, of course, have been the same person serving two enlistments. The Amos Davis in whose records I am interested lived also in Montgomery county, N. Y., where he died 10 March, 1842/3; he was born circa 1762, place unknown.
Any information you can furnish regarding these two men, Benjamin Merry and Amos Davis, will be gratefully received.
Very truly yours,
Halsey Stevens
Evergreen Terrace Homer, New York