Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12688, Amasa Church, Conn. Continental

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church, Amasa
S. 12688
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933 New York Amasa Church
of Burlington in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company, commanded by Captain Bass of the Regt. commanded by Col. Sloss in the Massachusetts line for 7 Months
★ Continental Conn.
Records corrected Jan'y 5/16/32
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per Annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of Octr. 1832 and sent to J. Walworth
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832 $34 99 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar. 33 11 66
$46 65
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Geo. C. Atles Clerk, Book D Vol. 5 Page 76
Date of death not on AB

Annessa Church -
No 1589.
Returns from Prison Office to be forwarded to James O'Keefe Burlington Otsego county N. York

State of New York
Otsego County ss. # One the ninth day of
August A.D. 1832 Amasa Church a resident of the town of Burlington in the county and State aforesaid personally appeared before me James C. Wadsworth Esquire one of the judges of Court of common pleas of the said county of Otsego it being a court of record having a clerk and seal and after making his the said Judge first duly sworn according to law maketh the following declaration and saith that he was born in the town of Mansfield in county of Windham and State of Connecticut in the year 1755 and that he is now 77 years of age and that in the year 1775 at the said town of Mansfield in the said State of Connecticut in the month of May he enlisted for the term of six months in to the company of Captain James Deyo and Col. Morris Regiment and General
Putnam's Brigade and was mustered and marched off to Boston there joined the Regiment and was stationed at Cambridge a building Huts and keeping Guard and watching the movements of the Enemy and at the time of the Bunker Hill Battle he was a Guarding the Huts in Cambridge but he had a full view of that
# he chose to explain the substance of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832

Engagement and served onto the Six months a doing on Duty in the vicinity of Boston worked on the Forts in Cambridge and the Breastwork on Crowpeak Hill (so called) was discharged by Col. Steers at Cambridge of age said in the month of November in writing and the said discharge is now lost or destroyed that he cannot produce it then again in the year not now recollects at the said town of Mansfield in the State of Connecticut was drafted in the militia into Captain Baps Company to go to Providence in the State of Rhode island to guard the Public Stores and remained immediately to to Providence and so served for one month under the said Captain Baps it was about the first of July that he was so drafted and was discharged by Captain Baps verbally at Narragansett at the end of the month and that he was not in any engagements or battles and has not now any documentary evidence to prove his Service There is a Record of his age in town clerks Office in the said town of Mansfield - and from his advanced age and Bodily infirmities that he is not able to attend

and from his advanced age and bodily infirmities that he is not able to attend
the courts of the said county it being 10 miles or more from his residence to the place where they are held and that since the war he has resided in the town of Mansfield aforesaid and in the town of Burlington in the said county of Otsego where he now resides and has for 14 or 15 years past
He hereby relinquishes all claim whatever to a Pension or an Annuity except the present and declares that his name is not the Pension Roll of the agency of any State
Subscribed and sworn the day and year aforesaid before me Laurens 6 Name on the a quidam of Otsego County courts Moses Church

State of New York
Otsego County S.S. Be it known that on the 9th day of August 1832 personally appeared before James C. Mansfield Esquire one of the judges of the said county. Mary Ladd a resident of the town of Burlington in said county who being first duly sworn as according to law says that she is now 72 years of age that she resided in the town Mansfield in the State of Connecticut during the revolutionary war that in the year 1775 she well recollects that she was well acquainted with Amasa Church the above appointed who has read the above Declaration in her presence in the spring of the year that he enlisted into Captain James Dewey's company for six months and her march off with the said company and knows that he was gone six months or more and he returned with the said company and thinks he is at present 77 years of age and she has lived within 80 rods rods of him for 35 years past and that she now thinks from his advanced age and bodily infirmities that he is unable to attend the courts and that he is a person of truth and veracity and able to full credit
Subscribed and sworn
Mary Ladd mark
this 9th day of August Before me James C. Mansfield a judge
Amasa Church

he is a person of truth and veracity and able to full credits Subscribed and sworn Aug 1 st 1840 this 9 th day of August Newark Before me James C. Mansfield a Judge Dedgo
Be it known that Abigail Wood of the town of Burlington in said county being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that she is now 75 years of age that she is the sister of Asahel Church that has lived the whole of her life that she lived in the town of Mansfield in the state of Connecticut during the Revolutionary War well remembering that the aforesaid Applicant enlisted into Captain James Denny's company for six months that it was not long after the start of the Lexington battle and saw him march off in that company for Boston and thinks he was gone six months or more and some time after his return from Boston was not remembered the year that it was reported in the family that and in the neighborhood that he the said Applicant was drafted and gone in the Militia to Rhode Island and thinks he must have been gone a month or more and has lived within two miles of her said brother Asahel Church for 42 years past and believes that from his advanced age and bodily infirmities that he is not able to attend the courts of the said county and that he is a man of standing

and respectability and entitled to full her credit and belief and that she is now unmarried with Amy Ladd at that makes the foregoing affidavit and that she is respectability and entitled to full credit and that her brother the said Amasa Church is as much as 77 years old and further saith not
Subscribed and sworn her Abigail H. Wood this 9th day of August 1832 Mark.
Before me found
to Wadsworth a Judge of Allego County Courts

W. 57th County N.H.
Be it known that in
this 13th day of August 1832 personally appeared before James Mawdorth Esquire one of the Judges of the courts of the said county, James C Church and after being duly sworn according to law makes the following Affidavit and saith he is now 80 years of age that in the Revolutionary war he has lived in the town of Mansfield in the State of Connecticut and that Amasa Church the above applicant is his brother and that he recalls that in the year 1775 in the spring immediately after the news of the Lexington Battle that the said Applicant enlisted at the town of Mansfield aforesaid for 8 months into Captain James Doyce's Company and Col. Hovey's Regiment of State Troops and marched immediately to Cambridge or Boston and was gone in their service six months or more and then returned with the said Company.
Then again the year not now recollects to he the above Applicant was drafted in the light horse in the militia and went to Rhode Island to guard the Public Stores in Providence and the vicinity of Providence and that he was then gone over months or more and that the said Applicant must be as much 77 years old he thinks and further saith
Subscribed and sworn this James C Church 13th day of August 1832 Before me James C Mawdorth a Judge of the 57th County Courts

State of New York } Otsego County } I, Horace Lathrop Clerk of the said County do certify that James C. Walworth before whom the preceding affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County & that I am acquainted with his hand writing & hereby believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper hand writing & signature Witness my hand & Seal of Office this 14 th day of Augt 1832.
Horace Lathrop
By V. K. C. Corp. Deputy

Worcester County I James C. Matthews the said Judge mentioned in the foregoing declaration and declare do certify and declare it is my Opinion after a full and careful investigation of the matters and after putting the interrogato- ries prescribed by the war departments that the said Applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and did so serve as he states And the said Judge further certifies and declares his opinion that Amy Ladd and Abigail Wood and James C. Church are residents of the said County and are competent persons and that they their statements are entitled to credit and they are all of them personally known to the said Judge as is likewise the Applicant and that they are all entitled to credit and the said Judge further certifies that it appears to him that the said Applicant from bodily infirmities is unable to attend the courts In testimony whereof I have subscribed my name this 13th day of August 1832
James C. Matthews Judge of Worcester Common Pleas

Amasa Church
Admitted
7 mo
2 23.33 18.661 54.99 \frac{2}{3}

BRIEF in the case of Amasa Church  of Burlington in the State of New York  (Act 7 June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? before a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? it does so appear  3. How old is he? Seventy Seven 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. As a Gen.     May In 1775 6 Private Col. Storr. Putnam's Brigade   July - year not recollectd 1 " Cap. Bass. Comp'y  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none stated  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Mansfield, Massachusetts  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? by living witnesses  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? the papers are correct in form and authentication 
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
W. Gordon Examining Clerk.

March 11, 1940.
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Miss Inez E. Williamson 4314 Linden Hills Boulevard Minneapolis, Minnesota.
BA-J/CC Amasa Church S.12688
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Amasa Church, who was born January 23, 1755, in Mansfield, Connecticut, and died October 10, 1839.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, S.12688, based upon service of Amasa Church in the Revolutionary War.
Amasa Church was born in 1755, in Mansfield, Windham County, Connecticut, the names of his parents are not shown.
While residing in Mansfield, Connecticut, Amasa Church enlisted in May, 1775, and served six months in a company commanded by Captain James Dana, Colonel Storrs' Connecticut regiment; he again enlisted in July, year not stated, and served one month under Captain Bass in the Connecticut Troops and guarded stores at Providence, Rhode Island. His service was rendered as private.
The soldier was allowed pension on his application executed August 9, 1832, while a resident of Burlington, Otsego County, New York, where he had lived for forty-two years.
It is not stated that soldier was ever married.
In 1832, soldier's sister, Abigail Wood, was aged seventy-five years, and resided in Burlington, New York, and in the same year, his brother, James C. Church, aged sixty-six years, made affidavit in Otsego County, New York, in support of his (Amasa's) claim for pension.

In 1832, one Amy Ladd, aged seventy-two years was residing in Burlington, New York, and stated that during the Revolutionary War she was residing in Mansfield, Connecticut, and was acquainted with Amasa Church, no relationship stated.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, and the name and address of person paid, you should address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data:
Amasa Church Certificate No. 933 Issued October 22, 1832 Rate $23.33 per annum Commenced March 4, 1831 Act of June 7, 1832 New York Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

July 18, 1932
Mrs. Russell L. Do g Trumansburg New York
Amasa Church S.12688 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX BA-J/HEL
Dear Madam:
The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, S.12688, based upon the military service of Amasa Church in that war.
Amasa Church was born in 1755, in Mansfield, Windham County, Connecticut.
While residing in Mansfield, Connecticut, he enlisted in May, 1775, and served six months in a company commanded by James Dana in Colonel Storrs' Connecticut Regiment: he again enlisted in July, year not stated, and served one month under Captain Bass in the Connecticut Troops and guarded stores at Providence, Rhode Island.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 9, 1832, while a resident of Burlington, Otsego County, New York, where he had lived for forty-two years.
It is not stated that soldier was ever married.
In 1832, soldier's sister, Abigail Wood, was aged seventy-five years, and resided in Burlington, New York, and in same year, soldier's brother, James C. Church, made affidavit in Otsego County, New York, in support of his brother, Amasa's, claim for pension.
664 Very truly yours
A.D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator.

July 24, 1929
Mrs. Charles Breon 53 Park Street Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Dear Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, B.12688, it appears that Amasa Church was born in 1755, in Mansfield, Windham County, Connecticut.
While residing in Mansfield, Connecticut, he enlisted in May, 1775, and served six months in a company commanded by James Dana in Colonel Storrs' Connecticut Regiment.
He enlisted in July, year not stated, and served one month under Captain Bass in the Connecticut Troops and guarded stores at Providence, Rhode Island.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 9, 1832, while a resident of Burlington, Otsego County, New York, where he had lived for forty-two years.
It is not stated that soldier was ever married.
Very truly yours,
EARL D. CHURCH Commissioner.
This man was not a Capt. at the time of this pension but was his as arranged by - there -
Date of death not on AB

4314 Linden Hills Blvd. Minneapolis Minn.,
Feb 18-1940
Dept of Interior Pension Bureau Washington DC
Dear Sir:-
Will you please send me, by return mail, the pension record of Amasa Church , Born Mansfield Ct. Jan 23 - 1755, Died Oct 10 1839, enlisting in the Revolutionary War at Mansfield Ct. May 6-1775
Thanking you in advance for your trouble
Yours truly Inez E Williamson (Miss)

Trumansburg, New York, June 20, 1932.
Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
Will you please inform me of Amasa Church  only one of Mansfield, Conn. and Sely Gregory of Cranberry Plain, Conn. drew pensions for services during the Revolutionary war? I wish to join the D.A.R. and I find that I am a descendant of each of these men. Thank you for the trouble.
Yours very truly, Mrs. Russell D. Daig.

Apr 30-1929.
Pension Office War Dept Washington, D. C.
Have you on record Hezekiah Allen, Mansfield Conn. He moved to Burlington, New York after Revolution. Lived in Burlington, Otsego Co. after war for eight years. His da, Metripaunthum Allen married Amasa Church only (He also served) I appreciate any help you can give.
Sincerely Chas Breon 53 Parks St. Cobbs Wis.

4314 Linden Hills Blvd Minneapolis Minn., Mar 15 - 1940
Dept of Interior Pension Bureau Washington DC
had been ans, much 18
Dear Sir:
I wrote asking for the pension record of Amasa Church. Born Jan 23 - 1755, Died Oct 10 - 1839 enlisting in Revolutionary Army May 6 - 1775 Mansfield Ct., about a month or more ago, as I haven't heard word if my letter had been mislaid or for some reason forgotten. I'm quite anxious to have this report soon as possible, as it must accompany my report to Washington DC, for membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution which must be in your city by Apr 1-
Thanking you in advance for this trouble
I remain
Yours truly
Inez E Williamson

1929-June 24-List to Mrs. Chas Breon. Ek
1932-July 18-List. to Mrs R. T. Doeg Ek
1940 Mar 11-List to Drey & Williamson cc
Rehms
12688 INVALID.
File No. 12,688
Amasa Church
Prim. Rev. war
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. _____, Page _____
[Arrangement of 1870.]