Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 43481, William Dexter, R.I.

SERVICE
NUMBER
162
Dexter, William
8 43481
CONTENTS

19.377
New York
William Dexter.
of Herkimer in the State of New York who was a Private in the Com'y commanded by Captain Humphrey of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Olney in the R. Island line, for the term of nine months
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 31 st of December 1823
Certificate of Pension issued the 14. of Feb'y 1825 and sent to Hon: J. Herkimer House of Reps
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1824 $65:31 Semi anl. all'ce ending 4 March 1825 48.
$113.31
{ Revolutionary claim, Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820. } March 1. 1828

State of New York
Steuben County ss On this thirtyfirst day of December 1823 personally appeared in Open Court in the Court of Common Pleas of Steuben County the same being a Court of Record and held at the Courthouse in the Town & County of Steuben before the Honorable Henry Brown Sanders Lansing & John Mahon Esquire Judges of Said Court, William Dexter of Said County being a resident of the Town of Steuben aforesaid who being first sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the act of Congress of March 18 th 1818 & May 11 th 1820 That this deponent is now in his Sixtieth year, That in the Month of March 1782 this deponent enlisted for the term of Nine Months in a Company Company led by William Umphrey in a Regiment Commanded by Col. Jeremiah Olney in the Rhode Island line, on the Continental establishment that he enlisted in Providence in the State of Rhode Island & arrived at Philadelphia where said regiment was then stationed on the 17 th day of April in the same year, and on that day joined said Regiment That on the 29 th day of May in the same year this deponent with said Regiment left Philadelphia & marched to Verplank's Point in the State of New York That about the last of October or the first of November in that year said Regiment proceeded to Albany by water when we landed and marched to Saratoga at which place this deponent was discharged on account of the expiration of his Enlistment, Then being about the 28 th day of December 1782 that this deponent enlisted & served as a private Soldier
And in pursuance of the act of May 11 th 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States On the 18 th day of March 1818 & that I have not since that time by Gift sale or in any Manner disposed of any property or any part thereof with

Intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of An act of Congress Entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and Naval Service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed March 18 th 1818" and that I have not nor has any person for me in trust any property or or Securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed viz Ordinary wearing apparel - and one scythe & scythe socket -
I have no family for which I provide except one child whom I board - I am a widower depending entirely on my daily labour for support - my other children are of sufficient age to support themselves I do not keep house but labour for daily wages - Sworn to & declared on the 31 st day of Wm Dexter - December 1823
before me Isaac Fox Clerk
The Judges of the Court of Common Pleas aforesaid do Certify that the aforesaid William Dexter on the 31 st day of December 1823 appeared in Open Court & was duly sworn to the truth of the aforesaid Statement and declaration - and that we are of opinion that the property of the said William over and above his clothing is of the value of one Dollar & fifty Cents
Henry Brown Sanders Lansing John Mahon

State of New York
Clerks Office
Herkimer County
I, Jabez Fox Clerk of the County of Herkimer
do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and declaration of William Dax- -ter is a true copy of the Original taken in Open Court on the 31 st day of December 1823 and the Original proceed- -ings are filed in this Office In testim- -ony of which I have hereunto set my hand & Affixed the seal of my said Office this twenty second day of September Eighteen hundred and twenty four —
Jabez Fox Clerk

William Dexter.
19.387
Hon. J. Hartman H. B.
Wm. Dexter made a declaration some years ago - but it is either lost or mislaid -
John Beckner a Member of Congress

43 481 INVALID.
Rey —————
File No. 43 481
William Dexter
Dr. Rev. Mrs.
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index: — Vol. 8 , Page 125
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Wm Dexter's service commenced in March 1782, and ended Dec. following. Shall the claim be admitted? He made application several years ago, and has just obtained proof of his service.
Susp d . See letter to Hon. J. Herkimer H. R. Jan. 5. 1825-
The fact is supposed to have ended 20 days after  the letter completed his term of enlistment Allowed - The war did not end till April 1783. See Atty. Genl's Opinion 12 Feb. 1825-

It appears by the Regimental Book, That William Dexter, now residing in the County of Herkimer in the State of New York, enlisted for, and served the full and continued term of Nine Months, a Private Soldier in the Regiment commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Jeremiah Olney, in the Rhode Island Line, on the Continental Establishment, and that he was honorably discharged from said Regiment at Saratoga in said State of New York on the twentieth day of December 1782 —
I have heretofore, at different periods, issued to William Dexter, two Certificates of similar tenor to the above, which are represented to have been lost or miscarried in transmission. —
W. Dexter H. Major of said Regiment eodem tempore
Providence Dec. 27 th 1824. —

1 st Berkhimer December 20 th 1824—
Hon d Major John S. Dexter Esq
I feel diffident in asking more favours of you, but my indigent Circumstances require me to ask from you another Certificate of My Services as a Soldier while in your Regiment—
When you are informed how grossly I have been neglected by My attorney in getting My pension for Me, you will readily forgive, and perhaps grant my further request. The first Certificate you sent by Mr Chapman I gave My attorney, he pretended he sent it to the war Department this last Summer I got another person to search into the cause, and lo! No Certificate had been there, the Last was given to the same attorney he pretends he also sent that On. Yesterday I Rec d a letter from the war department and No certificate has been sent, this day I called upon him & he cannot tell any thing about them and was not able to give any Satisfactory Account of them I have employed another attorney and all that is wanting Now is your Certificate that I served in your regiment for Nine months—

& that I served on the Continental Establishment & I want you without fail to make it out & send it to John C. Calhoun Secretary at war. Or to John N. Perkins Member of Congress from our County Now at the City of Washington and in either case it will be attended to, and my Certificate for a pension be forwarded to me. I hope at some future day you may have a sufficient Remuneration for your trouble —
From your Most Obedient servant & humble servant
Dated 20th December 1824
William Dexter
Major John S. Dexter Esq. I am an utter stranger to you, but I am acquainted with Mrs. Wm. Dexter and the facts above stated and I am convinced that he has been astonishingly neglected by his atty and as he is very indigent, I have volunteered to see that he obtains his pension — he has a good claim upon Government, and all that is wanting is your Certificate of his Nine Months Service, and that transmitted to the war Department — Your early attention to it will confer a favour on him & your Most Obedt. & humble servant
Henry B. Goff

Paid / 83 3/4
Major John S. Dexter Providence in the County of Providence State Rhode Island

51 Clinton Ellison
The Honourable
FREE
John Herkimer
Representative in Congress.
Washington City. —

Providence Dec r 28 th 1824.
Sir,
With a Letter addressed to me by William Dexter, the contents of which I hope will be a sufficient apology for the trouble I now give you, I enclose a Certificate of his military revolutionary Service. —
It may be proper to apprise you that by a rule established at the War Office my Certificate alone is received as plenary proof of the revolutionary service of Officers, Musicians or Privates in the Rhode Island Line; — the Regimental Book kept by me at the time, containing the Enlistments and Occurrences or Casualties, being still in my possession. —
Being thus the flattered Repository of so much confidence it is with extreme reluctance that I grant Mr. Dexter's request, from a consideration of the possibility that an improper use may be made of the Certificate, by an alteration of the Name in them by which they might subserve the purpose of others for whom they were not intended. —
I hope however that no such mischief will result and that Mr. Dexter will not be denied what has been so liberally extended to his Compatriots. —
I am, Sir, respectfully your obedient Servant
The Honourable John Herkimer —
W. Dexter

William Dexter.
Suspended
Hon. J. Herkimer H. R. Recd Jan 28. 1875

State of New York Wickimer County ss. William Dester of the Town and County aforesaid being duly sworn doth depose and say that he made a Declaration to obtain his pension before David Holt Esq r a Judge of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County aforesaid in the month of March 1818 and had two witnesses to wit A Mr Chapman & Mr James Obrian a Drummer both credible witnesses, to prove his service, and employed the Messrs Fords to assist this deponent in obtaining it - who informed this deponent that they sent his papers to the war department for allowance. Some time thereafter the Messrs Fords informed this deponent that it would be necessary for this deponent to procure more testimony. he then sent to Providence in the State of Rhode Island and obtained a certificate from John S. Dester a Major under whom this deponent served for to prove his services as a soldier in the Continental Establishment, which Certif- =icate was sent on to the war department as this deponent was informed by his Attorneys that some time thereafter they informed him that they expected that the Certificate was miscarried, he then procured a second Certificate from Major John Dester which was also sent on as this deponent has been informed by said Attorneys and whether that

The 6 th Certificate reached the war Department or not is unknown to this deponent, that this deponent some time this last summer or fall gave up all hopes of prospects, with his said attorneys as he considered that his business was neglected by them, — And this deponent further saith that he has not disposed of a single article of personal or real property since the 18 th day of March 1818 nor has any other person for him, with his knowledge or consent, nor has any been sold by execution or otherwise — and that all the property which this deponent possesses is nothing more than his every day's clothes — as was inventoried in his affidavit before the Court, and an exemplification of which was sent on to the war Department, by Mr. Goff whom I have since employed to see to my business in future — and further saith not
Sworn before me this 20 th day of December 1824
W. H. Goff
Alfred Putnam Justice of the peace for the county aforesaid —
This may certify that William Dixie the above deponent to be a man of truth and veracity who under oath —
A. Putnam J. P.

State of New York
Clerks Office
Herkimer County
I, Jabez Fox Clerk of the County of Herkimer do hereby Certify that Alfred Putnam whose whose Signature appears to the within affi- davit was at the time specified therein one of the Justices of the peace for the County of Herkimer and duly Qualified as such, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe the Signature to be in his own proper hand writing in testimony of which I hereunto set my hand and affix my Offi- cial Seal at Herkimer This Sixth day of December Eighteen hundred & twenty five
Jabez Fox OK