Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 19283, Solomon Dickinson, Mass.

SERVICE
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Dickinson, Solomon
S. 19283
CONTENTS
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Vermont 24-957
Solomon Dickenson
Organized in the State of Vermont who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Rowson of the Regt commanded by Col Wood in the War of 1812 for his services entitled
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 55 Dollars 55 Cents per annum to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 day of March 1835 and Lieut Genl S. H. Herrick Walter D. V
Swears to the 14th of March 213 Semi-annual allowance ending 26. $240.
Revolutionary War Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by Book B 2 Vol: 3 Page 63

State of Vermont } On this 28 th day of August 1832 District of Brattleford } personally appeared in open court before in the County of Orange } the Probate Court within & for the District of Brattleford of and in said the County of Orange now sitting. Sol- omon Dickinson a resident of West Fairlee in the County of Orange State of Vermont aged 71 years last April, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the ben- efit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the follow- ing named officers & served as herein stated. viz.
In the Spring of the year 1779. the month he does not recoll- ect, he enlisted into Capt. Abner Pomeroy's Company of Southampton Mass. 7 th Col. Woods Regiment Seven attached to Genl. Vose's Brigade. that he enlisted at Amherst in the State of Mass. Cheshire where he then was for the term of eight months. & marched to the White Plains - - and saw him there stationed there then the summer & then went in said company & left to Picks hill and saw him there employed in building Barracks for winter quarters. that he heard and his period of enlistment at Picks hill was discharged from service sometime in the winter of 1780. he well recollects that snow had fallen some time before he left the army. In the Spring of 1780. he is not certain about the month, he again enlisted at said Amherst for the term of six months; the term of Amherst was called upon to furnish several men to fill up vacancies in the regular Army

That he volunteered & enlisted as one of the men & went directly to West Point on Hudson. He joined as he sup- posed a Company & Regiment of the Mass Chautauqua line. That in a few days after his arrival there, a Corps of Light Infantry was formed & the men were selected by the Bureau or Genl. Steubens. That he was chosen out and transferred to a Company of Light Infantry under the com- mand of Capt. Andrews if he recalls the name rightly or French officers, Col. Shepard's Regiment, the other Compa- ny & regimental officers he does not recall nor does he recollect the name of the Company or Regiment which he first joined at West Point as he was soon transferred to the Corps of Light Infantry. He does not recall who was the Brigadier general; but Genl. Layfayette was Commander in Chief of the Detachment of Light Infantry. That he was at  was at West Point when present when two men were shot for desertion to the enemy. 12 men first joined the 6 more as one of the men did not appear to be killed by the first fire. That he left West Point some time before it was surrendered by Cornwallis & marched in with Corps of Light Infantry into New Jersey where in or near Tappan in New Jersey a little in advance of the main Army where Andrews was killed. tho' he did not witness the execution. That after spend- ing most of the Campaign in Virginia, they returned to West Point late in the fall & that he was there dis- missed the last of December or first of January following he well recalls that Andrews had fallen before he was discharged.

He also declares that in the summer of 1781, he again enlisted into a company commanded by Capt. Sayre, or Sire & been attached to a regiment under the command of a Col of the same name of Sayre or Sire, & which in Greenkill Ulster County as he understood but possibly he may not recollect the name coventry. This was a regiment of State Troops as he supposed. He went to Albany & joined his com- pany & regiment & then marched to Saratoga as Hudson River was stationed there until his term of enlistment expired which was three months. He was there when the  five men were taken as spies by the inhabitants & one of them  five was sentenced to be hung by Genl. Stark, who was principal in command at that place, & was executed. That after the expiration of three months, he was dismissed & returned home to P'keepsie.
He further declares that in the summer of 1782, he again enlisted & joined his company & regiment as little below Albany. He enlisted for four months. The Captain's name was Gordon Cowden lived in P'keepsie in Ulster County as he believes but he does not recollect the names of any more of his company or regimental officers; that his regiment was then stationed at Albany the whole time of his enlistment. He was the only regiment at Albany that he knows

if he rightly recollects - He remembers that a little before he arrived at Albany several prisoners made their escape from the jail in that place which they effected by tearing their blankets together & descending from an upper loft of the prison by means of them. That the stitching compound of the blankets gave way, when several men were descending some man broke his leg however that the officers & several of the company were sta- tioned as a guard around the prison - part of the time, while stationed at Albany - That he had out the full term of his enlistment of four months at this time being dismissed at Albany late in the fall. This Regiment as he supposed belonged to the State Troops of the State of Massachusetts - That his whole service in the whole during his four terms of service, at least twenty one months - In answer to questions propounded by the Court - He states that he was born in Amherst in Massachusetts in the year 1704 that there is a record of his age in a book which his father kept, which is now in his possession - That he entered the service voluntarily as above stated & lived at Amherst when he entered each time - That he cannot be more particular as to officers & circumstances than he has been above - That he served as a private the whole time except was a corporal at Watertown that he never had any desertion charge - Knows of no person living who can testify of his service except his brother whose deposition is hereto annexed forever to be subscribed. Solomon Dickinson the day & year aforesaid
John H. Dyer to Hon. Elias H. Dyer Clerk of Court at Hartford who can testify of his character for truthfulness & the ability of his hearing as a soldier of the war - He further states that his claim to a pension at the rate of eight dollars per month that his name is not on the roll of any company in the State

I Elijah Dickinson of Lyman in the County of Grafton State of New Hampshire now in my 69 th year. depose & say that I resided with my father Reuben Dickinson in the Town of Amherst in the State of Massachusetts until near the close of the revolutionary war. & I well recollect that my brother Solomon Dickinson, now present, making application for a pension, who resides in West Fairlee in the State of Vermont enlisted into the service of the United States, to defend his Country in that war. That in the year 1778 as I believe, I am quite sure it was the year before Andre was executed, my said brother Sol- omon enlisted for the term of eight or nine months as I understood, & left my father's house in the Spring of the year as I now recollect, for the purpose of joining the Army. I was absent from home through the Summer until cold weather in the fall or beginning of winter. When he returned, well recollect that he said he had been to the White Pines on Andross Island. I should think he was gone eight or nine months at that time. The next year following, being the year Andre was hung, in the Spring as I believe he again enlisted for the term of six months as I understood & left my father's house in said Amherst for the purpose of joining the Army. I was gone, according to my best recollection six months or more. & when he returned he said he belonged to the Light Infantry. & he, then had on a Capt's suit as the Light Infantry soldiers wore. & he also said as I very well remember, that he had been to the place where Andre was hung, though he was not present to witness the execution; but was two or three miles off at the time. & he said too, that he had seen Genl. Lafayette. & pulled down some fence or bars for him to pass through. Soon after my brother returned at this time I left my father's family & went to reside with a sister three or four miles distant. I had no personal knowledge of his going into the Army afterwards. but I have fre- quently heard my brother say since, that he was out once or twice after the time above mentioned. Elijah Dickinson

State of Vermont } I, Simons Post Register of Probate Probate District of Bradford } within your said District do hereby in the County of Orange } certify, that on this 28 th day of Sept. AD 1838. the within named Elisha
Dickinson appeared personally before said Court and was duly sworn to subscribe the foregoing deposition & I further certify that he is a credible witness in testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court this said 28 th day of Sept AD 1838. Simons Post Regt.

State of Vermont, On this 25 th day of Sept A 1833- District of Bradford P.D. Before the Probate Court within in Orange County & for the said District of Bradford now open sitting Personally appeared Solomon Dickinson of West Fairlee in the County of Orange State of Vermont who made his declaration for a pension before this Court on the 28 th day of August A 1832 & being first duly sworn doth on his oath make the following additional declaration in amendment of his former one. Viz- That he feels surprised that his name is not found on the rolls of Shepard's Regiment, & does not know how to account for it, only from the possibility of his mis- taking the name of the Col. He is very certain that he belonged to Capt. Huddens Company after his transferrence to the detachment of Light Infantry as he easily believed to Shepard's Regt. He recollects well that Col. Jermont a French officer commanded another Regiment, but it is his impression that he did not belong to Jermont's Regt. He has made dil- igent enquiry for some living witness to testify of service during his campaign in 1780, but is not able to find any. Levi Lawrence, late of Thetford Orange County Vermont was in the same Company but he is now dead. One Oliver Holden & one Jones also belonged to the same Company but he does not know where either of them live if they yet survive. He would be very glad to be informed by the Commissioner of Pensions if Capt. Huddens name is on the roll of Shepard's Regt & whether Lawrence, Holden & Jones are enrolled in Huddens Company. if they are & this applicants name is not on the same roll, he must give up the hope of supporting his claim to the service of 1780, unless the facts & circumstances which he has mentioned in his declaration & this amendment, with the traditional evidence he has furnished, with his brother Obiah Dickinsons affidavit, is thought insufficient. After the most diligent enquiry he cannot find living witnesses, who can testify of his service in the years 1781-1782 - must submit claim to the department, to allow for what time they see proper - Solomon Dickinson

State of Vermont Probate District of Bradford } of Probate in said District do hereby in the County of Bennington I certify that on the 28 th day of Sept A 1832. Solomon Dickinson within named personally appeared & duly subscribed & acknowledged to the within foregoing additional declaration In testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand The seal of said Court this day by me affixed Solomon Root Reg.

Heuben Dickinson of the manor in the county of Grafton and State of New Hampshire do hereby affirm that I am and for a long time have been acquainted with Solomon Dickinson of West Fairlee in the county of Orange and State of Vermont and that I was known to him being in the service of the United States as a pri- vate soldier in the revolutionary war as I fre- quently saw him with the army at White Plains in the State of New York. This was in the year 1779. When at home we both lived in Lempster County of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts where he belonged to the same brigade with me and marched with me from White Plains to Red- hill for winter quarters. Our brigadier gen- eral's name was Nixon, I do not recollect his Christian name of Bromfield near Boston State of Massachusetts. Solomon Dickinson ser- ved as near as I can recollect at that time eight months. His captain was Colonel I cannot re- collect. I was seventy years of age at the time of Solomon Dickinson as near as I can re- member was seventy one at the time of my death at West Fairlee aforesaid the 26 th July 1832 Heuben Dickinson
The above declaration and deposition signed by Heuben Dickinson was sworn to by him the 26 th July 1832 before me J. M. Pillsbury Justice of the Peace
This may certify, that I have long been acquainted with the late Solomon Dickinson, that I was also acquainted with his brother. He and his family were brave men. I have always understood they were much in the revolutionary war and having doubt the above statement is true J. M. Pillsbury Justice of the Peace

West Fairlee Sept. 25 th 1833
I hereby certify that for several years Stephen Tichenor the organ of the within deposition was living in the neighbourhood of my father, that I was well acquainted with him, that since he has lived at a greater distance, but in a town not remote His character for truth as far as I know is good, I have never heard it impeached
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19. 103 Solon an Dickinson orange 6° Vermont - 24 days
Adams a private 14. 28/55 mth. $166.44
App d : name appear in Bigelow Reg d : 1780 to have in 4 mo. 28 days
Ans d : S. Short, May 3 d
1834
S. Short Esq. Shelburne Vt.
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office.
June 3 1833
Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: { ). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
A Statement, shewing the Service of Solomon Deekinsen
   Period when the service was rendered. Duration of the claimant's service. Rank of the claimant. Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served. Names and Rank of the General and Field officers. Battles in which the applicant was engaged. Country through which he marched. Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period. Evidence by which the declaration is supported.   Years. Months. Days.     Spring 1779 3 Private Capt Pomeroy Col Woodgate From Amherst 71 years In a citizen up a clergyman a living   Spring 1780 6 Private Capt Heaman Col Shipard While at White Plains 72 years Witness his deposition not within a state as a regiments   Summer 1781 3 " Capt Sayre Col Sayre Ver Long 73 years   Summer 1782 4 " Capt Conner Col Clinton Albany 74 years   21 Torontoga Albany  
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS, Commissioner of Pensions.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
 1. The Regular Troops.  2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.  3. Persons employed in the Naval service.  4. Indian Spies. 
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of } ss. County of }
On this day of personally appeared (a) before A. B. a resident (b) of in the county of and State, Territory or District of aged (c) 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 provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) , with and served in the (e) regiment of the line, under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers, the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. [This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
A. B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I of the Court of do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this day of &c.
If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the and C. D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with , who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 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.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
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 further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B.
who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, Clerk of the Court of do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this day of &c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person

will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County, in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
 1. Where and in what year were you born?  2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?  3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?  4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?  5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.  6. { To a Soldier. } Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it? { To an Officer. } Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?  7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution. 
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons -one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify, to the character and standing of other persons, giving such certificates.
The traditional evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. 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 _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____. For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period of which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months , is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
Proof of Service.
[j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
[k] The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note [j] applies to continental troops only.
[l] This traditional evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[m] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[n] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
This name is not one the following sheperds regiment

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, May 1 st 1836
* hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Solomon “ Dickenson ” , as a private, is borne on a pay-roll of Capt. Abner Pomeroy's Company, in Col. Ezra Wood's Regt. where he is allowed in 1778, seven months and twenty three days, (the month enlisted not mentioned) ————— 7-23
Solomon Dickinson's name is borne on a pay-roll for the six Months Men of the Town of Amherst, where he is allowed from July 1 st to Nov 20 th 1780, five months and seven days, ————— 5 = 7 13:00
Solomon Dickinson claims for services under Capt. — Lt Ganson, in 1780 & 81, but evidence of this service is not found in this Office. ————— Edward D Bangs Secy

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File No. 19283
Salomon Dickinson
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Act: June 7 th 82 nd
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 109
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Solomon Dickinson
Declaration
certified
19103
Return to be made.
to Simon Root.
Shelburne Range
County Vermont

We Timothy Spalding Clergy man resident in Rutland in the County of Rutland State of Vermont & Elisha Thayer resident in West Fairlee in said County, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Solomon Dickinson who has subscribed hereto to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 71 years of age, that he is reputed & believed in this neighborhood when he wishes to have been a soldier of the revolution; that we concur in that opinion from the facts which Timothy Spalding the day before signed Elisha Thayer
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinions, after the investigation of the matter & after putting the question proposed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier as he states. And the Court also certify that it appears to them that Timothy Spalding who has signed the preceding certif- icate is a Clergyman resident in said Rutland & that Elisha Thayer who has also signed the same is a resident in said West Fairlee in a credible person & their statement is entitled to credit. And the said Court further certify that Niles Niles before whom the enclosed deposition of Solomon Dickin- son was taken. Sworn is a justice of the Peace in said Rutland County. His signature thereto genuine. I Simeon Root Clerk or keep of the said Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Solomon Dickinson for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 28th day of August A.D. 1882. Simeon Root CLK

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Seal of Vermont } On this 31 st day of July Wadsworth Probate District } A.D. 1834, personally appeared before the Probate Court for the District of Brad- ford, in the County of Orange State of Vermont now open, Solomon Dickinson of West Fairlee in said Orange County aged 78 years last April & after being duly sworn as the law directs doth on his oaths make the following declaration in addition to the declaration he has already made in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Con- gress of the 7 th June 1832 - That he cannot be more particular than he has been in relating the cir- cumstances of his services in the year 1778, he feels very confident that he served 8 months in that year & his impression has been that his Colonel's name was Wood or Wood, but of this he may be mistaken, he well recollects that his Captain's name was Abner Pomeroy & lived in South Leamington, & he is quite confident that Genl. Nixon of Roxbury or some town near Boston was the Commander of the Brigade to which he belonged. He states that he understood at the time, that one of the Regiments attached to Nixon's Brigade, had been left at the North & that the Regiment to which declarant belonged was connected with that Brigade Brigade to supply the vacancy deficiency - Nixon's Brigade was on the Continental establishment. He thinks he next joined this Brigade at the White Plains - He refers

The deponent, to the deposition of his Brother Solomon Dickinson, for evidence of his services.
He further states that, upon further reflection & from conversation with other persons, he is satisfied that he served but three months in the Campaign of 1779 at Albany, in his former statement, he called this service 4 months, or about that.
In relation to the 6 months service in 1780 he states that he enlisted for 6 months, but that about 4 months before the time expired he was taken sick of the Mearls in New Jersey, was carried to the Hospital at Poughkeepsie Fishkill & remained there until the rest of his Company was discharged & he was supposed that he was not fully discharged until his time of 6 months was out.
In relation to his services in 1781, at Saratoga he does not know that he can be more particular than he has been. After much enquiring he has not been able to find any persons, except those whose depositions he has already forwarded, who can testify further of his services. That he is now old & infirm his memory impaired, but according to the best of his recollection & belief he served as he has heretofore stated - 8 months at the White Plains in 1778. 3 months at Albany in 1779. 6 months at the South, as he supposed in 1780. & 3 months at Saratoga in 1781.
Solomon Dickinson

State of Vermont } I Simon Root Clerk or dep District of Bradford } of the Probate Court for said dis- trict do hereby certify that on the 31 st day of July A.D. 1884 Solomon Dickinson named in the foregoing declaration personally appeared and made oath to the same. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court the day before yours will,
Simon Root Clerk