Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 5473, Benjamin Hatch, New York

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New York
Watch, Benjamin
S 5473
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14186 14576
New York
Benjamin Hatch of Madison Co in the State of New York who was a Partisan in the Company commanded by Captain Post of the Regt. commanded by Col. Suddington in the N. Y. mil line for 1 yr.
Enscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 72 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 day of May 1833 and sent to A. S. Sloan C.C.
Arrears to the 14th of March 1833 $144.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending Sept. 36.00 $180.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk, Book C Vol. 4 Page 00
Let to W H Silverthorn dms 6/13/51
O. P. Granger Aug 18/57 Same Nov 3 1857

Benjamin Hatch Pension under the act of June 7. 1832. D 14576

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832
State of New York
Madison County ss. On this ninth day of October 1832. personally appeared before the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Madison now sitting said Court being a Court of record established as such by the laws of the State of New York. Benjamin Hatch a resident of Lebanon in said County & State of New York aged seventy seven years & upwards 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 & served as here my after stated.
Firstly That about July 1. 1775. then residing at a 2 mi. place called Fredericktown in the County of Butchers & State of New York, he was called from the militia into actual service, together with a few others amounting in the whole number to only a company of men, for the purpose of guarding the public stores in that County - That one Major or Benajah Gares was the captain commanding the Company the whole being under the control of a Colonel Luddington - That he was of no subordinate officer or Captain  company connected with the said company of men - He was employed during service at Dover Meeting house so called in said County, guarding stores &c Fredericktown, about equal portions of time in each place - He was finally discharged at Fredericktown about September 1. 1775 having fully served out his two months period of enlistment
Secondly That he enlisted at a place then called Fredericktown where he then resided in Dutchess County New York in the Company 2 yrs. of Captain Anthony Post & Lieutenant Johnson to serve for two years as near as he can now recollect - that it was in the spring of 1776. That he enlisted as an artificer & drove as a blacksmith - That he served at Fredericktown, was regularly mustered once a week & when the British

attacked & burnt Danbury in 1777 he was called out & has come - That he knows he served two winters & that he served out his time - Whether his name is or is not upon any now existing roll he does not know - He had no written discharge but was honorably discharged at the expiration of the period for which he had enlisted at Fredericktown aforesaid
Deponent does not know of any living person by whom he can prove his services nor has he any documentary proof of the same
That he was born in Fredericktown aforesaid April 7. 1755 - as he is informed & believed as appears in a family Bible now in the possession of Eli Hatch deceased's brother & who resided in Bloomfield in the County of Otis & State of New York
That since the Revolutionary war he has resided at Great Barrington Berkshire County State of Massachusetts - That in February 1801 he removed from there to Lebanon Madison County where he has since continued to reside
And the applicant further saith that he is known to Jonathan Edgerton of Hamilton Madison County & to Rufus Tyler of Lebanon in said County who are his neighbors & that he knows them by their personal character for veracity & their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution
That he has no recollection of his age as as aforesaid stated - That he lived at Fredericktown aforesaid when called into service & entered the service in the manner aforesaid - That he has before stated the names of officers & the circumstances of his service so far as he can now recollect & as
That he never received a written discharge or a Commission
He hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a Pension or annuity as of the part & that he is not on the Pension Roll of the Army of any State. on the day of your aforesaid Given & subscribed to the day & year aforesaid A. S. Sloan Clk. B. D. D. HATCH

We John G. Hovey a resident of Hambleton in the County of Machin & State of New York & Rufus Tyler a resident of Lebanon in said County & both neighbors of the above named Benjamin Hatch do hereby certify that we are well acquain- ted with the said Benjamin Hatch, that subscriber & know both above declarants that we believe him to be seventy seven years of age; that he is respected & beloved in the neighborhood where he has resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that you can concur in that opinion - & further that he is of good character for truth & veracity Sworn to 2 subscribers The day & year aforesaid A. S. Sloan Clk John G. Hovey Rufus Tyler
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter & after putting the Interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier & as he states. And the Court further certi- fies that in answer to them their John G. Hovey Esquire of Hambleton & of Lebanon in the County of Machin are each of them residents of their towns & that they are neighbors of said applicant & that each of them is a credible person & entitled to credit
I Andrew J. Sloan Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Machin, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Benjamin Hatch for a Pension In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this nineteenth day of October 1852. A. S. Sloan Clk.

22/11/76
CH 14576
Buyan The Hatch - Madison Co N. York
Rolls.
March 1 '78 - for one year
   Description of Section Number Date Remarks                        
A. S. Sloan Clerk

BRIEF in the case of  Benjamin Hatch  County of Madison  in the State of N. Y.  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 77 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.     about July 1 st In 1775 - - - 2 Private Gen. Col Suddington   up to 15 th Sep - 1775 Capt Post   Spring - 1776 enlisted 2   He states no other service  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none stated  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? N. Y. Dutchess Co  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? of witnesses  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? defective 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
John H. Atkinson
Examining Clerk.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., May 23, 1923
In reply to your request of _____, for the history of Benjamin Hatch , a soldier of the Revolutionary War, the following is taken from the petition claim for pension.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     July 1, 1775 to Apr. 1-1775 Pvt. ✓ Luddington N. Y.   Spring 1776 2 yrs. Artificer Anthony Post ✓          
Battles engaged in, none stated
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Fredericktown, Dutchess Co., N. Y.
Date of application for pension, Oct. 9, 1832. His ch. was ab.
Residence at date of application, Lebanon, Madison Co., N. Y.
Age at date of application, Born Apr. 7, 1755 in Fredericktown, New York.
Remarks: He died Jan. 9, 1854 in Lebanon, N. Y. He left no widow (and wife's name is not stated), but left the following children: Ira B., John, Stephen, Lyman, Anna Sharp and Lucretia Hatch.
Respectfully,

Whereas I Benjamin Hatch of Lebanon in the county of Madison N.Y. was an artificer in the army of the Revolution, and have been allowed a pension for my services, under the act of 7 June 1832, at the rate of Seventytwo Dollars, per Annum, and am now on the pension Roll at that rate, and whereas I am advised that I am entitled to an increased rate of Pension, for my services as an artificer, the proof of which services is now on file in the Pension Office at the city of Washington; Now therefore I do hereby constitute and appoint Henry H. Sylvester Esq. of said city, my true and lawful attorney & agent to present and prosecute my claim to such increase of Pension as I may be by law entitled to. Hereby revoking any and all former power or powers of attorney executed by me to any other person or persons, for that purpose - Witness my hand and Seal this 6th day of December A.D. 1850.
Executed in presence of Ellis Coman Benjamin Hatch
State of New York } Madison County } On this Sixth Day of December A.D. 1850. before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in & for the said County, personally appeared Benjamin Hatch above named, & to me known, & acknowledged the above power of attorney to be his act and deed. Ellis Coman Justice of the Peace

State of New York
Madison County ss. At a Surrogate Court held in & for said County of Madison, at the Surrogates Office in Morrisville in said County on the 24 day of February 1854 before Sidney T. Holmes, County Judge of said County, it was satisfactorily proved to said Court by the oath of John P. Hatch; on file in my Office, that Benjamin Hatch died in Lebanon in said County on the 9. day of January 1854: That he was an inhabitant of said County: that he left no widow: that he was a revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, at the rate of seventy two dollars per annum. That he left him surviving the following named children to wit Ira B. Hatch, John Hatch, Stephen Hatch, Symon Hatch, Anna Sharp, & Lucretia Hatch.
And I further Certify, that the said Ira B. Hatch , has been duly appointed by me administrator of the estate of the said Benjamin Hatch deceased. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office at Morrisville aforesaid this 28 day of October 1854.
Sidney T. Holmes County Judge & Surrogate

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Benjamin Hatch T. 9 May 1832,
Ina B Hatch 1 - Mrs Hatch 2 - Stephen Hatch 3
Lyman Hatch 4 & Anna Shapp 5 - Lucetia Hatch 6
Ina B Hatch aDow 7 (Mrs Hatch Mitchell)

1 Rev
2nd stamp
Greene. N. Y. Apr. 9. 1923. U. S. Commissioner of Pensions. Washington D. C.
Dear Sir,
I am looking up the early history of my great great grandfather, Benjamin Hatch, who was born in Egremont Mass. served seven or eight years in the war under Gen Green. He was a gunsmith. I am told he was a pensioner and that he was one of the last, to die, in Madison County. Can you give me information as to vol. and page, of the book in which it can be found.
Respectfully,
Mr. W. H. Daily.

1922-May 23-Recd to Mr. H. D. Dailey - 100%
Rev. Wm
5473
INVALID.
File No. 5473
Benjamin Hatch
Artificer Beer War
Act: June 7 th /32
Index:—Vol. M , Page 159
[Arrangement of 1870.]

PAID FREE
Benjamin Hatch Aug 30 3n 1856
Hon. L. P. Waldo
Comm of Pensions
Washington
D.C.
Official

Postmark
Benjamin Hatch MM - 1832
Hon. L. P. Waldo Court of Pensions Washington D.C.
Official

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of
Benjamin Hatch
which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? yes VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? in part VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? Citizens only— XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? no XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? yes XIV. † If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? no XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? answered
 EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

No. 3/12.

40 Pension Office Nov 3 1854
Sir
If there was any proof that the Benjamin Hatch, who served under Captain Seth Sherwood, was the Benjamin Hatch of NY who has been pensioned for services under Captain Post, the amount of service indicated by the certificate of the Comptroller of NY is so small that the increase to be allowed upon it would not repay the children for the expense necessarily incurred in the preparation of their application. But there is no such proof. He did not claim any such service in his declaration, nor did he furnish any proof tending to show such service. The claim is disallowed.
Mrs. P. Granger Esq. Morrisville Madison Co NY
Disallowed

Morrisville, Madison Co. N.Y. Aug 7. 1854.
Sir
Benjamin Hatch was a Pensioner under the act of June 7. 1832 at the rate of about $72 per Annum.
An agent at Washington has written to his children, stating that their father Benjamin Hatch of course is entitled to an increase of his Pension - that he was not allowed as much as he ought to have been, on account of his having been an artificer in the War - If Benjamin Hatch is entitled to an increase of his pension, his children wait to make application for it -
Will you have goodness to examine the Papers of said Hatch & inform me if he is entitled to have his pension increased.
Respectfully yours Otis P. Granger
Hon L. P. Waldo

Morrisville, Madison County N.Y. Oct. 28. 1854
Sir
Enclosed is the Certificate of the Compt r of N.Y. shewing a longer duration of service of Benjamin Hatch than one year under Capt Post, under Capt Seth Sherwood -
I also send Certificate of Service of this County shewing death of Benjamin Hatch &c -
The administrator Ira B. Hatch applies for an increase of the Pension of his father Benf o Hatch in behalf of himself & the other children - Please make the Certificate to Ira B. Hatch the Adm r .
Respectfully yours Otis P. Granger
Hon S.P. Waldo Com r of Pensions

State of New-York, COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE.
Albany, October 25 1854.
I Hereby Certify , That on searching the Records in this office for the Registry of Certificates issued in pursuance of a law, passed April 27, 1784, entitled "An Act for the settlement of the pay of Levies and Militia for their services in the late war, and for other purposes therein mentioned," I find the following, viz:
   NAMES. NO. OF BOOK. NO. OF CERTIFICATE. DATE. £ S. D. RANK AND NAME OF COMPANY OFFICER. RANK AND NAME OF FIELD OFFICER.     Benjamin Hatch Private 2 8567 Dec r 8, 1779 " 14 2 Capt. Seth Sherwood Col. Alexander Webster                    
I have examined the Rolls for the items above set forth, and find them to be correct.
W. B. Haswell Clerk.
Philip Schuyler Dep. Comptroller.

Power of Attorney from Benjamin Walsh to Rev R. Merrick
M 32
10 Cole
By G. H. Herrick

Know all men by these presents, That I, Benjamin Hatch, of Lebanon, New York, am a pensioner of the United States on account of services in the Revolutionary war, at the rate of seventy two dollars per annum, and as such,
have constituted and appointed, and by these presents do constitute and appoint George R. Herriek, of the City of Washington, my true and lawful Attorney, irrevocably, with power of substitution for me and in my name, place and stead, to ask and receive of and from the United States any Bounty Land , Extra pay , Pensions, Patents, MONEY or MONEYS, that are now due to me on account of services rendered, disbursements made, or expenses incurred by me
while in the service of the United States, or on any other account whatsoever, and in my name to give receipts and other sufficient discharges, for such Bounty Land , Extra pay , Pensions, Patents, and money due as aforesaid, and to attend to and prosecute any and all business of whatever nature I may have with or before any of the Departments of Government or Congress, and, generally, to do any and every other act or acts, that I might or could do, were I personally present at the doing thereof; hereby ratifying and confirming whatever my said Attorney, shall do in and about the premises by virtue hereof, divers good causes and valuable considerations, me thereunto moving.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this sixth day of December 1851.
Signed, sealed, and delivered } Two in the presence of } witnesses.
Benjamin Hatch
John P. Hatch Turner O. Hatch
State of New York } ss: County of Madison } 1851 personally appeared
On this sixth day of December Benjamin Hatch to me well known before me, and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be his act and
deed for the purposes therein contained.
John Niles J. P.
State of New York } ss: County of Madison }
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That John Niles Esq., before whom the foregoing acknowledgement was made, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the county aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Madison County court, this third day of January one thousand eight hundred and fifty two
J. P. James Clerk.

POWER OF ATTORNEY.
State of New York } ss. COUNTY OF Madison
Know all Men by these Presents,
That I, Benjamin Hatch of Sebanon Madison County , do hereby authorize, constitute and appoint L. M. Drury of Canandaigua Ontario County State of New York my true and lawful Attorney to prosecute for me and in my behalf, all and singular, claim or claims, I may have against the General Government of the United States, on account of the service of my self deceased , in the war of the Revolution; the said power of Attorney to be irrevocable for the space of three years from the within date; and the said L. M. Drury is hereby authorized to take all necessary and proper steps in the prosecution of said claim or claims on my behalf.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 17 th day of February 1852
Ellis Goman J. P. Benjamin Hatch Ira B. Hatch
State of New York } ss. COUNTY OF Madison
Be it Known, That on the Seventeenth
day of February 1852 before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorised by law to administer oaths, personally appeared Benjamin Hatch above named, and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be his act and deed.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, the day and year last above mentioned.
Ellis Goman Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Madison
State of } ss. COUNTY OF
I, _____ Esquire is of the County and State aforesaid do certify, that _____ now, and was at the time of the date of the foregoing, a Justice of the Peace, duly commissioned and qualified to act as such in and for said County; and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his, is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and Official Seal, this _____ day of