Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23,592, David Davis, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Davis, David
S. 2 3 5 9 2
CONTENTS

See letter 4 Oct. 1834 to P. Q. Do. 6
Hon. D. Haley April 7. 1837
Letter to Hon. T. M. Williams Esq 3 Audited 9 th Jan y 1840
Paid at the Treasury under the Acts of the 6 th April 1838 from 4 March 1834 to 4 Sept 1834 Age Notified 2 March 1840
6410
New York
David Davis
of Canandaigua in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt. commanded by Col. Parsons in the Connecticut line for 17 months
scribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 56 Dollars 66 Cents per annum; commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 th day of March 1833 and sent to Hon. D. D. H. No. Represent
Arrears to the 14th of Sept 1832 $84.99 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Mar '33 28.33
$113.32
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Ino Bromwell Clerk Book D Vol. 5 Page 81

9246 David David
adm 2 17 mo. pri $56.66
Thomas Beals Agent Canandaigua

State of New York Orleans County 3 ss :
On this twenty eighth day of August 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the County Court now sitting David Davis, a resident of the town of Gran- andagua County and State aforesaid, aged Seventy five 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. 1832
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as herein stated,
1 st At Groton County of New London and State of Connecticut in October 1775. He enlisted in Captain Isaac Gallup's Company Colonel Samuel Parsons Regiment and marched through Providence to Roxbury and helped to build the Forts at Dorchester. Colonel Huntingtons Regiment was at the same Station.
He was sick the Spring following, and left the service 1 st April 1776 and served over five months.
2 o In May 1777 he enlisted at West Greenwich in Rhode Island, under Lieutenant Amos Fink for nine months and served out the whole time on the shore of Rhode Island and at Tiverton and was at Howland's Ferry in the winter of 1778 and was discharged at Tiverton on the 16 th March 1778.
3 o After this was drafted at Groton to go to West Point in June 1782, and served out his term of three months. He does not remember the name of the Captain. Was sent down to Verplanks Point, and from thence to Kings Ferry, and after this discharged, went home by land by New Haven and Guilford.

He has no documentary evidence and knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service.
He knows Sutton Truman, Cyril Eaton and William Trimbley of Canandaigua.
He was born in Grafton 13 May 1757 and lived there until after the war and moved to Cayuga County about thirty years ago and about fifteen years ago to Canandaigua where he now lives. He has no document of his age.
He hereby relinquishes every claim to whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State.
David Davis
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid in open Court
W Cyril Eaton & William Trimbley both residing in the Town of Canandaigua in the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with David Davis who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy five years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion.
Subscribed and sworn the day and year aforesaid in open Court.
William his X Trimbley mark
Cyril Eaton
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 William Trimbley and Cyril Eaton who have

signed the preceding certificate, are both residents of the town of Canandaigua, are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, Charles Crane, Clerk of said court, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of David Davis for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this first day of September A.D. 1832.
Charles Crane

N o 9240 David Davis
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11.12.17.
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Thos Beals Catskilliqua N.Y.

BRIEF in the case of David Davis of Canandaigua in the State of N. York (Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? in open Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? Seventy five years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. As a Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days. Gen.     October In 1775. States that he served over 5 Mo s Col o Sam l Parsons Connect.   May 1777 4 Lt o Amos Frink R. Island   June 1782 3 Officers names not recollected  
5. In what battles was he engaged? None stated
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Groton — Connecticut
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional evidence alone
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.
H. Gordon Examining Clerk.

Resolution
23592 INVALID.
File No. 23,592
David Davis
Rev Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32 nd
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 111
[Arrangement of 1870.]

State of New York } In the matter of David Davis Putnam County } application for a pension -
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the peace in and for said County David Davis who being duly sworn according to law did depose and say that the reason why he had no clergyman to support his application for a pension before the County Court on the 28 th August 1832 was because that in the Township where he resides there is no settled clergyman, and he knew of none whom he could procure - He is required to give the reasons of the omissions under which he served - He now says that he gave the names of his officers under his first tour of duty - under the 2 nd head he now says he belonged to Colonel Tappings Regiment, and was enlisted by Captain George Tinnant, but he served under Lieutenant French, as set forth in his declaration, and was part of the time at Snedens, and took a party of the British who came on shore for water - There were seventeen prisoners taken and were sent to Albany - At the end of his term of service being nine months, he received a discharge signed by Colonel Tappings, which he has lost, and cannot say what has become of it - under the 3 rd head he now says that he belonged to Captain Knapp's Company, but Captain Knapp did not go to West Point - He went under the orders of Captain Knapp to West Point, under the command of a Sergeant, his name he does not recollect, and immediately after he got to West Point, he was sent down the River to Verplank's point and then to Kings Ferry, as a guard at the Commissary store - and served there until his time expired and was honorably discharged and went home - He further saith that owing to the infirmities of age he cannot give the names of the officers under which he served in the last war but he does say that he served out the term of three months as set forth in his declaration - The four first interrogatories prescribed by the War Department he has answered in his original declaration - To the 5 th interrogatory he now says, that he does not remember the names of any other Regiments that were at Roxbury and Dorchester in 1775, but Colonel Huntington - There were a great many troops there at that time, but he did not know the officers of any of the Regiments - While he served in Rhode Island as under his 2 nd head

he now says there were no other Regiments there except, Colonel Tappings, and his duty was to guard the lines - Under the 3 d head he now says that when he got to West Point there were other troops there, but he did not know any of the Regiments - he was immediately ordered down the River to guard the Cannons at Ston and he was detached the whole time and did not serve near any other troops - To the 6 th interrogatory he now says that the only written discharge he ever had was from Colonel Tappings as before stated, and he does not know what has become of it -
The 7 th Interrogatory he has answered - Under his 1 st head he served not less than five months - under the 2 d head not less than nine months - and under the 3 d head not less than three months, in all one year and five months as a private soldier for which he claims a pension
David Davis
Sworn to and subscribed this twenty first day of January 1833 before me
Henry Chapman J.P.
State of New-York, Ontario County ss. I, Charles Crane, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify that Henry Chapin, be- whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certi- ficate of Affidavit was, at the date thereof, a Justice of the peace in and for said County; and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe the said signature to be his proper act and deed. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this twenty-first day of Janu- ary A. D. 1833.
Charles Crane

Mechanics Bank
New York Oct. 2 d 1834
Sir
I enclose for your examination the Papers in the case of Peter Avery Overseer of David Davis a Pensioner on the Roll of this Agency now residing in the State of Connecticut. The Power of Attorney is in favour of Edwin Chester who having returned to Connecticut has substituted Merrill and Williams of this City to receive the Pensions. There is no seal annexed to the Certificate of Guardianship, but the Attorney states that such Documents are considered sufficient at the Agency in Connecticut, and I have therefore concluded to forward them for your decision.
I also enclose a Paper in the case of John Foster who has recently removed from this State to Connecticut.
I am very respectfully Sir Yours in Service
W. Fleming President
James L. Edwards Esq. Comptroller of Pensions

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
February 3 d , 1840.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Overseer of David Davis, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany, N.Y. Agency, at the rate of fifty Six Dollars and Sixty six Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March 1834, to the 4 th Sept. 1834.
Respectfully, yours,
Wilson B. Harris Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.