Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2,210, Benjamin Conklin, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Conklin, Benjamin Hannah
R. 2,210
CONTENTS

State of New Jersey County of Essex } ss
I Elizabeth Pool heir at law of Benjamin Conkling do upon oath testify and declare to the best of my knowledge and belief that Benjamin Conkling my father did enter the service AD 1776 at Elizabeth town State of New Jersey for the term of during during the war and served as a private in the Light Horse Company commanded by Captain Oba Meek Colonel William Crane in the Regiment of New Jersey Matilda of the Continental line and that he continued in the service as aforesaid until the close of the war AD 1783 and that the above service was in the Revolutionary war I further declare that I have never received a warrant for the Bounty Land promised to my father Benjamin Conkling on the part of the United States nor do I believe that he ever received it or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever Therefore
Know all men by these presents that I Elizabeth Pool aforesaid do hereby constitute and appoint Gabriel Grant, M d to be my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States a warrant for the quantity of land due me as aforesaid and my said Attorney is hereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or Attorneys under him for the special purpose above expressed
Witness George Hogen William H. Winans
for Elizabeth X Pool Mark

Personally Appeared the above named Elizabeth Pool subscribed to the foregoing declaration and made oath to the same and in my presence acknowledged the power of Attorney therein subjoined to be her free act and deed for the purpose therein mentioned on this Twenty third day of March A.D. 1857
Isaac Reynolds Notary Public
State of New Jersey County of Essex ss
I, James J. Terhune Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County and State aforesaid hereby certify that Abraham M. Reynolds whose genuine signature is affixed to the above acknowledgement and affidavit was at the time of signing the same a Notary Public in and for the County and State aforesaid duly Commissioned and sworn that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court This Twenty third day of March A.D. 1857 James J. Terhune Clerk

State of New York City and county of New York ss
On this third day of September One thousand eight hundred and fifty- two, personally appeared before me a Notary Public, within and for the State aforesaid. Elizabeth Pool, who being duly sworn according to law deposes, and says, that she is a daugh- ter and Joint heir at law of Ben- jamin and Hannah Conklin - that her mother's maiden name was Hannah Watfield. It appearing from the records of the family Bible, that her Father and Mother were married at Elizabethtown New Jersey, by the Rev d Mr Calwell a Presbyterian Minis- -ter on the sixth day of August 1774.
That the said Benjamin Conk- lin served as a mounted man in the Revolutionary War, in the New Jersey Militia, and to the best of her information her father and mother were married while he was in the Military Service, and that he con- tinued in said service to the end of the war -
That her father died on the 10 th day of May 1811, at the town of Rahway New Jersey, and that her mother widow of the said Benjamin Conklin died at the City of Eliza- bethtown, New Jersey, on the ninth day of April 1838, leaving only five children her surviving viz - Abigail, Charity, Fanny, Maria

and Elizabeth (the deponent) — That since then; Charity and Abby have died — Sworn to before me in { Elizabeth her Pool Mark Wm H Browne Notary Public

Ms. A. 9. 2. 8, 125. Hannah Conklin
Byd. Benjamin Conklin dec. N. Jersey
Lett. to D.S. Browne
Feb: 26/53
Lett. to W. Pennycuick, April 17/55
4 July 1836
Benjamin Conklin N.J. Jan 1832
J. Sprague General Postmaster New York N.Y. P.O.
Miss. H. Conklin

2-210
P. O. Hannah
Benjamin Conklin
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
REJECTED
Application filed: _____, 18
Wages: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

Rev & Dear Brother
I called on Dr. McChesney today in reference to the pension ,
He finds that Mr Benj n Carklin served for some time in the N. J. Militia & is credited on the record for one month's actual service
Dr. Mc c - says that Mr. b-'s children cannot draw any pension unless their parents were married before 1800, & one of them was living at the time of the passage of the Acts of Congress in 1836 & 1838 .
They could then draw the pension due their parents .

He does not think it very likely that the circumstances of the present case would justify the expectation of a pension , at this late day. But perhaps there are other circumstances with which he is not familiar.
I regret that I cannot send any information more encouraging to your worthy friends.
Happy to have rendered even a slight assistance in their search - I remain
Dear Brother,
Yours faithfully
Taunton 21 st Aug t / 52
Theo. L. Cuyler

Newark Apr 10 th 1855.
Dear Sir:
I have to inquire whether any final disposition has been made of the case of Elizabeth Poole Applicant for arrears of pension of Benjamin Constant a private in the New Jersey Militia in Col Coanes Regiment. Capt Ben Markin, & if not what situation the case is now in.
A person who was an enlisted marine from 1839 to 1845 with honorable discharges & who was engaged under Commodore Read in the bombardment of Cebuano towns on the coast of Sumatra in punishment of a piratical attack upon an American vessel, has applied to me to assist him in getting a bounty land warrant for such service under the late act, & at his request I have to inquire whether according to the interpretation placed upon the act by your office such a case if made out, would be held to entitle him to the warrant. An early answer will oblige
Yours respectfully H. C. W. Fleming
L. P. Waldo Esq d Com d ing

Stock Apr 10 th 1855.
Dear Sir:
I have to inquire whether any final disposition has been made of the case of Elizabeth Poole Applicant for arrangements of pension of Benjamin Contine a private in the New Jersey Militia in Col Coane's Regiment. Capt Ben Markin, & if not what situation the case is now in.
A person who was an enlisted marine from 1839 to 1845 with honorable discharges & who was engaged under Commodore Read in the bombardment of Cebuano towns on the coast of Sumatra in punishment of a piratical attack upon an American vessel, has applied to me to assist him in getting a bounty land warrant for such service under the late act, & at his request I have to inquire whether according to the interpretation placed upon the act by your office such a case if made out would be held to entitle him to the warrant. An early answer will oblige
Yours respectfully H. A. W. Cunningham
L. P. Waldo Esq. Commanding

Hon James E. Heath Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
The papers here forwarded are from the only three surviving children of Benjamin Conklin, whom the State served in the Revolutionary Army under General Washington
The inclosed letter is from the Revd Mr Cuyler of Trenton N. J.
Yours Respectfully
D. S. Browne 42, Crosby St
New York
17 th Sept 1852

D r Gabriel Grant
Answr March 31/57
Buy n  Caulkins die  St. St.
St of Ward 44-176
Rev - 160-55 N.D.
Rej, 2210
Richard Sanklin, mid.
Buy Sanklin
Rec d March 26. 1857.

Dear Sir
Newark March 23/37
I hereby send enclosed the Application of Mrs Elizabeth Pool heir at law of Benjamin Conklin war of the Revolution Please notice and forward receipt of Application to my address and Oblige
Hon Geo C. Whiting Comm of Pensions Washington
Yours Respectfully Adriel Grant
Newark New Jersey

No. 8,125 Hannah Conklin, N.Y. Benjamin Conklin.
New York July 4, 1836,
2210

State of New York City and county of New York ss
On this 10 th day of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, personally appeared before me a Notary Public, within and for the State aforesaid, Sarah Hatfield who being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says, that she has been well and intimately acquainted with Benjamin Cronklin and Hannah Hatfield, and knew them to have lived together as husband and wife and that they were so in fact until the death of the said Benjamin Cronklin, which took place at the town of Rahway New Jersey on the 10 th day of May 1811, that she knew them from their youth, and that the widow of the said Benjamin Cronklin whose name before marriage was Hannah Hatfield died on the 9 th day of April 1838 at Elizabethtown New Jersey leaving only five children her surviving viz. Charity, Abbey, Fanny, Maria and Elizabeth - that since the death of Hannah Cronklin aforesaid Charity and Abbey have since died. that the deposition of Elizabeth Pool is true and worthy of credit, and further that she is disinterested, sworn to before me.
Myrtill Brown Notary Public
Sarah her X Hatfield mark

State of New York. City & County of New York, ss.
Hannah Tooker being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that she was intimately acquainted with Benjamin Couklin and Hannah Couklin - whose maiden name was Hannah Hotfield - since infancy in the State of New Jersey. That said persons were husband and wife and so continued and lived together until the death of said Benjamin Couklin, which took place in Rahway N.J. in or about the year 1811, which circumstance is well remembered by this deponent.
That said Hannah Couklin died at Elizabethtown, N.J. April 9 th 1838 and that she, the deponent, attended the funeral of said Hannah Couklin who continued to be the widow of the above said Benjamin Couklin until her death.
That said Benjamin and Hannah Couklin left only three children who are now living, viz; (Betsey or Elizabeth) Pool now a widow, Maria Corey also a widow, and Fanny Tyrell, residing at Newark, New Jersey, and deponent further says that she is disinterested.
Sworn before me this 10 th day of September 1852
Hannah Tooker marks
My H. H. Brown Notary Public

It is hereby Certified that Satisfactory proof has been exhibited before me by the Affidavits of Sarah Hatfield and Hannah Tooker two Credible witnesses and of known respectability - the first residing at No. 24 Watt St. and the other at No. 473 Greenwisch St. in the City of New York. - that Hannah Couklin the claimant in this case is the Widow of Benjamin Couklin, and that they said witnesses are disinterested.
New York Sept. 10 th 1852.
Wm H Brown Notary Public