Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2,619, Thomas Daggett, New York

SERVICE
New York.
Daggett, Thomas as
NUMBER
R. 2619
CONTENTS

the matter of Thomas Dazgetts application for a pension
4-12 Specific
2619
Mr. Pierson

State of New York Rensselaer County } ss }
On the 22 nd day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three personally appeared before me Herman Reichenbach Just Judge of Rensselaer County Thomas Daggett a resident of the town of Pittstown in the County of Rensselaer and State of New York aged seventy two years upwards who being 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 th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein after stated.
That this deponent by reason of old age and bodily infirmity cannot and consequent loss of memory cannot state precisely the times he commenced or ended the periods of service herein after mentioned but according to the best of his recollection & belief he served not up than the periods mentioned below & in manner and form as follows.
That in the month of August 1778 this deponent volunteered his services as a substitute for a private soldier who had been drafted (whose name this deponent does not recollect) in a Company of Militia commanded by Captain Hugh Van Kleek. Lieutenant Scaten in a regiment commanded by Col Hopkins at Fishkill in Dutchess County N.Y. That this deponent volunteered as such substitute for the term of three months. And this deponent was in actual service during the said three months at Fishkill and served as a waiter to the officers of said Regiment during said term of three months when this deponent was
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discharged.
That in the month of September 1779 this deponent again volunteered his services as a substi- tute for one Samuel Avery who had been drafted in a company of militia as a private in a regiment commanded by Col. Graham the Captain's name this deponent does not remember, but does remember that Lieutenant Bell was an officer of the company this deponent joined. That this deponent served as such substitute for the term of six weeks 42 in that he joined the last Company near a place called Cold Spring in Dutchess Co. N.Y. & marched from thence to Fort Clinton nearly opposite West Point & was in actual service six weeks, parading, marching & guarding different posts & places in the vicinity of West Point.
That in the month of June 1780 this deponent again volunteered his services for nine months as a private in a company of militia at or near Cold Spring in Dutchess County N.Y. aforesaid That said Company was commanded by Captain Rensselaer (according to the best of this deponent's recollection) in a regiment commanded by General or Col. Gansvoort or called Rensselaer, & was in actual service parading & preparing for a march to Fort Stanwix for the term of two months at the expiration of which term the said Company being about to take up their march this deponent was taken sick & unable to march with said Company & hired a substitute for the remainder of the said term so that this deponent was not in

2 actual service during the last mentioned time only two months & was in actual service for two months and this deponent further says that in addition to these foregoing periods of service for 3 Months, 6 weeks & two months this deponent during the war of the revolution performed the following services.
That sometime in the year 1777. a man (whose name this deponent does not remember) was taken up by certain officers in the service of the United States as a Spy & this deponent had the care & custody of said Spy & guarded him day & night for one week and then delivered him to the custody of the gaoler in Poughkeepsie N.Y.
And this deponent further says that in the year 1777. this deponent then residing in Dutchess County, aforsaid volunteered several times to go & did go in company with his neighbors in pursuit of Tories & took & arrested several and this deponent & his said neighbors were desired so to do by Committees appointed for that purpose & tho' this deponent did not keep a memorandum of the times he was thus employed & cannot state the length of times with perfect accuracy, yet this deponent verily believes that in the year 1777 this deponent was in actual service in the last mentioned employment for at least eight weeks.
And this deponent further says that in the year 1780 after this deponent had performed the said service of two months as before stated & after this deponent

had recovered from his said illness and in or about the month of October 1780 this deponent was frequently called out & joined a volunteer company of militia commanded by Captain James Fullmadge in Dutchess County N.Y. (the Colonel's name of the regiment this deponent does not recollect) and this deponent at different calls during the remainder of the year 1780 in the last said Company was in actual service in pursuing Tories & in marching from one place to another in the vicinity to wit in all to the amount of at least seven weeks service during the said remainder of the year 1780! That in 1781 & from thence until the close of the war this deponent was occasionally called upon to go with different companies of militia in Dutchess County, in pursuit of Tories & for the purpose of inarming & guarding different posts & places under various officers some of whose names this deponent does not remember but recollects that from 1781 (the commencement of the year) he served a number of times in a Company commanded by Captain James Fullmadge & in a Company commanded by Captain Roscrants under Col. in a regiment commanded by Col. Hopkins, & a regiment commanded by Col. Graham that this deponent was in actual service sometimes for only 3 or 4 days at a time & sometimes two weeks at a time & then

was dismissed until again called upon - And this deponent verily believes that from the commencement of the year 1781 until the close of the war, the said differ- ent periods of service when this deponent was in actual service, would amount to at least six months besides the periods of service before enumerated.
And this deponent further says that he was born in Dutchess County N.Y. on 29 th Sept. 1760 as this deponent has been informed by his parents & believes that he now has no record of age - That he never received a written discharge of his services and has no documentary evidence of his services - That he lived in Dutchess County N.Y. until he was 27 years of age when he removed to Pittstown N.Y. where he has ever since resided & still resides. That he is now infirm & unable to attend Court for the pur- pose of preferring his claim for a pension without exposure of his health and that he is utterly unable to bear the expense of travelling to any place except on foot. That he knows of no person now living whose testimony can be procured except Jonathan Bush of Pittstown who can testify to this deponent's ser- vices. And this deponent further says that he knows of no clergyman whose testimony can be procured, who is acquainted with this deponent. This deponent hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state.
Sworn this 22 nd day of April
Thomas Daggett
1832 before me - H. Brinkbecker Judge as aforesaid

State of New York
Rensselaer County } } Jonathan Bush of Pittstown in the
County of Rensselaer in the State aforesaid being duly sworn upon his oath says that he this deponent is of the age of 72 years & upwards that he this deponent was acquainted with Thomas Daggett (who has subscribed & sworn the forego- ing declaration) during the war of the revolution that this deponent and the said Thomas Dag- gett then both resided at Cold Spring in the County of Dutchess N.Y. that he this deponent was for several weeks in the service of the United States in a regiment of Artillery commanded by Col. in the year 1779 Graham. That this de- ponent marched in company with the said Thomas Daggett during the said year 1779 in a company of militia in said Regiment from Cold Spring in the County of Dutchess to Fort Constitution nearly opposite West Point. And this deponent further says that he knows the said Daggett was often in the actual service of the United States during the revolutionary war from the commencement  onset year 1777. until the close of the war. And this deponent further says that he has heard the foregoing declaration of the said Thomas Daggett (and which is subscribed & sworn by him) read to this deponent & this deponent verily believes the facts therein stated are true & that said Daggett performed the services in manner & form as therein stated. That he this deponent has resided in the neigh-

berhood of the said Thomas Daggett in Pittstown in the County of Rensselaer for the last forty years & that the character of the said Daggett for truth & veracity has always been the deponent believes the said Daggett to be upwards of seventy two years & further saith not.
Sworn this 22 nd day of April 1833 before me Jonathan Earle H. Priestfield acting Judge as aforesaid
State of New York Rensselaer County } Job Pierson of Schaghticoke in the County of Rensselaer being duly sworn upon his oath does hereby certify & declare that he is well acquainted with Thomas Daggett who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that I believe him to be of the age of seventy two years and upwards as stated in said de- claration. That he is respected & believed in the neighborhood where he resides (which is the town adjoining this deponents residence) to have been a soldier of the revolution & I concur in that opinion
Sworn & subscribed this 22 nd day of April 1833 before me H. Priestfield acting Judge as aforesaid
J. Pierson
And I the said first Judge do hereby declare my opinion after investigating the matter &

after putting the interrogatories presented by the War Department that the above named Thomas Dazgett was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states -
And I the said first Judge do further certify that I am well acquainted with both Jonathan Bash & Job Purson who have subscribed & sworn the foregoing affidavits. That the said Jonathan Bash resides in Pottstown N.Y. & the said Job Purson in Schenectady N.Y. and that both the said Jonathan Bash and the said Job Purson are credible persons & their statement is entitled to credit. And I further certify that the said Thomas Dazgett is in my opinion of the age stated in his declaration. That he is now infirm & feeble in health & unable to attend Court for the purpose of proving his declaration without exposure of his health & that the said Thomas Dazgett is so poor as to be unable to hire any conveyance or procure the attendance of any witnesses in his behalf.
H. Smith acting Judge as aforesaid -
State of New York Rensselaer County ss. I certify that Herman Knickubacher Esq. before whom the foregoing Declaration and Affidavits purport to have been sworn was at the date of the same First Judge of the County of Rensselaer Also that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his signature there to subscribed to be Genuine
Witness my hand and seal of office this 9 th day of May 1833 Henry R. Bristol Clerk

REJECTED
2619
P. O. _____
Thomas Daggett
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18
Born in Dutchess Co NY & lived in Rensselaer Co NY after 1787

Leicester Mass March 24 1847.
Sir,
You are requested to correspond with Mr G. Wood of Rose Mr N. relative to the claim of my Father Thomas Daggitt, an applicant for a pension, under act of Congress of March 18 th 1818, from the State of New York.
I am Respectfully Your Obedient Servant
Yours &c.
Thomas Lewis Daggitt
Hon G. L. Edwards Com d of Pensions