Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22,807, David Hamlin, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Hamlin, David Hamlin or
S. 22 807
CONTENTS

Buffalo N.Y. 541 New York
David Wambin Erie Co. in the State of New York who was a Private in the Co. H. commanded by Captain Thayer of the Regt. commanded by Col. Ayer in the New York line for 9 months — Mch.
Enscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 30 Dollars 00 Cents per annum to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of Dec: 1833 — and sent to Clarissa Clarissa
Arrears to the 14th of Sep '33 $ 7 50 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 M '34 1 50 $90
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Scollard Clerk, book E. Vol. 4. Page 10.

Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7. 1832 -
State of New York Erie County P the 1832. On this twenty seventh day of November 1832 personally appeared before the Hon William Miffls Ely one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, David Nantlin a resident of the town of Clarence in the County of Erie and State of New York aforesaid, aged Eighty years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath making 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 stated That he was born in the town of Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth, in the State of Massa- -chusetts in the year 1752, That he entered the service of the United States as a Militia Volunteer from the town of Cummington in Massachusetts under Captain Abel Thayer, Lieutenant Joseph Warner, Ensign David Whitmarsh. The Regiment was commanded by Colonel Fellows Lieutenant Colonel Ayer and Major Tupper - That he marched from Cummington about the 22 or 23 rd day of April in the year 1775 upon the receipt of the intelligence of the battle of Lexington, through Worthington Hadley Concord and Lexington to Cam- -bridge, That on the first day of May he and the Company enlisted into the continental state troops, or Volunteers of Massachusetts the same , under the above mentioned officers for Eight Months. About the fifteenth of May he was stationed at Roxbury and Dorchester, in the vicinity of Boston, where he continued till he was discharged on the first day

of January in the year 1776. after serving eight months on the 14 th day of June he had a review of the battle of Bunkerhill from Dorchester  Raybury Light — That he had a verbal discharge only
And the said David Hamlin further says that he again entered the service of the United States in September in the year one hundred and seventy seven under Captain Brainerd and Colonel Mills or May in the Militia Volunteers — That he marched from the town of Connington, Hampshire County Massachusetts, through Williamstown to Hudson River at Stillwater where he continued under General Gates till the capture of General Burgoyne, when he was discharged, about the 20 th of October after serving one month. He was in several skirmishes upon the out posts and within a short distance of the Enemy, during the battle of Stillwater, — He was on guard over some wounded prisoners at the surrender of General Burgoyne — Saw Generals Arnold and Fellows his Colonel while stationed at Raybury
He says that he has resided since the revolution — any way at Milford Otsego County, Bloomfield Ontario County and for the last 28 years in Clinton Erie County and State of New York where he now resides That he has no documentary evidence in his possession. nor does he know of any living witnesses that he can prove his service except the affidavit hereto annexed He has no record of his age

He says that he has been acquainted with Thomas Biceus and Edmund Hull residents of his immediate neighborhood for a number of years who can testify to my character for truth and veracity and their belief of my services as a revolutionary soldier
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the pence and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any state Sworn & subscribed this 28 th Day of Nov 1832 David H. Harkins before me Wm Mills a judge of Erie County courts
We Thomas Biceus and Edmund Hull residing in the town of Clarence in the County of Erie and state of New York hereby certify that we are well acquainted with David Harkins who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration that we believe him to be eighty years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn & subscribed this 28 th Day of Nov 1832 before me Wm Mills a judge &c Thomas Biceus Edmund Hull

And the said Judge William Mills a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Erie County doth hereby declare his 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 I the said William Mills Judge as aforesaid do further Certify that it appears to me from examination that the said Applicant is unable, from age and bodily infirmity to attend the Court of Common Pleas of Erie County, and also that it appears that Thomas Pricer and Edmund Hull who have signed the foregoing Certificate are residents of the town of Clarence in the County of Erie, and are creditable persons and that their statement is entitled to Credit
Wm Mills a Judge etc
State of New York
Clerk's office Erie County ss. I Noah P. Sprague Clerk of the County of Erie do certify that William Mills Esq before whom the foregoing affidavits were made and also whose name is sub- scribed to the above Certificate or declaration was at the date of the same one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said County duly appointed and authorized to do the same and further that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge and do verily believe the signature "Wm Mills" subscribed to the foregoing certificate to be in his own proper handwriting In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official seal this 6th
January County

Genesee County State of New York
Lydia Taven of the town of China in the County of Genesee and State of New York being duly sworn saith that she is eighty three years of age - That she is acquainted with David Nankin of the town of Claren in the County of Erie and was acquainted with him in the town of Cummington, Hampshire County Massachusetts in the Revolutionary war. - That she recollects that the said David Nankin volunteered and went into the Army of the United States in - year - 1775 Seventeen hundred and seventy five - That he went from the town of Cummington Massachusetts and was absent from home about eight or nine months and she understood at that time that he was in the Army at or near Boston
She further saith that she recollects that the said David Nankin was in the service of the United States in September and October in the year 1777 at the taking of Gen- Burgoyne that he was then absent about a month and she then under- stood he was in the Army of the United States
She says that she boarded in the same family in the years 1775 & 77 at Cummington with David Nankin
Subscribed and sworn before me this 22 nd Dec 14 th 1832 Seth Lewis J.P.
Lydia Taven

State of New York
Genesee County
Sp. J. Timothy Fitch, Clerk of said County certify that Seth Lewis before whom the within affidavit purports to have been taken and made was on the day of the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said County
and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice subscribed to said affidavit and verily believe the same to be genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and seal of Office this seventeenth day of January 1833
(Timothy Fitch Clerk)
By R. Pringle Deputy
David Hamlin
22872
Genesee County ss. I Seth Lewis a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Genesee do certify that I am personally acquainted with Lydia Sawyer the person who appeared before me and made oath to the within Affidavit on the 14th day of December last, is a person of good moral character and that her statements are entitled to credit and belief. Dated
September the 5th A.D. 1833
Seth Lewis J.P.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, October 25 th 1833.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of David Hamlin as a private is borne on a Muster Roll of Capt. Abel Thayer's Company, in Col. Fellows' Regt. where he is allowed from April 28 th to the 1 st of August 1775. for services and travel, three months and eleven days. m. a. 3 11
David Hamlin claims for further services under Capt. Abel Thayer in 1775. the rolls of which are not found after the 1 st of August '75. in this Office.
Edward D. Bangs Secy

Ist. Regt Inf. File 22.807 Rev. War.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.,
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of David Hamlin , a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Cummington, Mass. Apr. 23, 75 8 mos. Abel Thayer Fallows Mass.   Sept. 77 1 mo Banister May "                                     
Battles engaged in, was guarding pris. dur. bat of Stillwater, Residence of soldier at enlistment, Cummington, Mass. Date of application for pension, Nov. 28, 1832: allowed. Residence at date of application, Clarence, Erie Co. NY. Age at date of application, 80 Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., Mass. 1752.
Remarks: Pensioned as Hamlin
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

Revocation
2280 1/2 INVALID.
File No. 22,807
David Hamlin
Rev War
Act: June 7 th 92 nd
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 168
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1894 Sept. 20 Hist. to Hon. H. H. Andrews Audubon, Iowa 1906 Aug. 3. Hist. to Mabel W. Boyd.

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2884 Main St. Buffalo - N.Y. July 17. 1906.
Commissioner of Pensions Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:-
Will you kindly send me the record of David Hamblin, an Erie Co. N.Y. Pensioner of the list of

1831, and oblige.
Yours sincerely.
Mabel W. Boyd.