Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32813, Benjamin Herington, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
★ Herington Benjamin or Herinton Warrington
S. 32813
CONTENTS

Massachusetts Roll
1,586
Benjamin Harrington, Col. Hinman Private, Connecticut Line 1777 three years in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
scribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of $8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 13. of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30. of June 1818 and sent to Jno. Hooker, Esq. Springfield, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818. Period after ending
4 months 22/30 $37.86
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Onkawa
✓ Stanford Hampshire Esq.

Notification sent July 31 st 1820 to John Ingersoll Springfield, Mass. No. 1

32 813 Rev INVALID.
File No. 32,818
Benjamin Harrington Rev Rev Rev
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Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 174
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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July 31

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
COUNTY OF Hampshire ss.
ON this tenth day of July 1820, personally appeared, in open court, before the circuit Court of common Pleas the same being a Court of Record and so established by a Statute of said Commonwealth, said Court being now in session at Springfield within and for said county of Hampshire - Benjamin Herrington an applicant for a pension under the act of Congress of May 1st 1820 aged sixty eight years, resident in Hampshire in said county who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: That he enlisted in
Confined in the state of Connecticut in April in the year of our Lord 1777 was Capt Thomas Abbs Company in the 1st Connecticut Regiment and Genl Parsons Brigade in the Continental Army, and served in said company three years - and that afterwards he served two years and five months in Capt Dyer's Company in Col. Sheldon's Regiment - that by profession he is a farmer, but for some years past has been and now is unable to labor on account of his bodily infirmities - that he has a wife aged sixty one years, and in feeble health - that he has one son by the name of Benjamin aged eighteen years living with him - that he has no children other than the one mentioned in a pension certificate under the act of March 18th 1818
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818; And that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
SCHEDULE.
 1 yoke four year old cattle $11.50  2 yearling heifers " 7.00  1 yearling steer " 7.00  1 old kitchen table " 1.50  6 old kitchen chairs all broken 2.00  2 old stools " .12  2 old bottles " .12  1 barrel keg " .20  1 old shell skin kettle cracked 83  1 old pot (only two legs) 33  1 small dish kettle " 60  1 bellows " 50  $ 92.20 
The debts due from me are as follows except some trifling amounts not exactly recalled to wit  To Anna Dyer - 63.94  To Silas Herrington - 44.00  To Eph. Gilpin - 11.00  To Sal. Stuart - 4.17  To John Collett - 3.75  $ 126.86 
Benjamin Herrington
Sworn to and declared on the tenth day of July - before The Circuit Court of Common Pleas
Attest John Ingersoll Clerk
I John Ingersoll Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said County do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Ninety Two Dollars and twenty Cents exclusive of the debts due to the said applicant.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, on this Eleventh day of July 1820.
John Ingersoll { Clerk of the Court for the County of Hampshire

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampden County ss.
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In this 28. day of April 1840 personally came I appeared before John Hooker Esquire Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Western Circuit in said Common- wealth, including the said County of Hampden, Benjamin Harrington, a citizen of the United States resident in Springfield in said County, who being duly sworn deposes & saith that in the month of May 1775 he enlisted into the army of the United States into Capt. Hezekiah Hascall's Company in Col. Heman's Regiment, for the term of six or seven months, & which he does not recollect, & that he served during that term as a common soldier, and at the expiration thereof was discharged by verbal order - That in February 1776 he enlisted into Capt. Enoch Chapin's Company in Col. Porter's Regiment in the Massachusetts line for the term of nine months, that he served for & during said last mentioned term as a common soldier, at the expiration of which term he was discharged by verbal order, in New Jersey. - That on the 10th of April 1777 he enlisted into the army of the United States then called the Continental Army, into Capt. Thomas Aples's Company in Col. Samuel Willis' Regiment in the Connecticut Line, as a common soldier for the term of three years - that he served for & during said term of three years as a common soldier & at the expiration thereof was hon- orably discharged from said service by a written order given near Westfield in New Jersey - & that said discharge was lost as this deponent verily believes, while he was re- moving himself, his family & goods from Enfield in Conne- cticut to Springfield in Massachusetts, thirty one years since & he is utterly unable to find it - That in the month of February 1781 he enlisted into said army & said Continental Army into the company commanded by Capt. David Edgar, in Col. Sheldon's Regiment, for & during the term of the war longer or shorter, & that he continued in said service as a common

Soldier until the close of the Revolutionary war - And that on the 12. day of June 1783. he was honorably discharged from said Service at Danbury in the State of Connecticut in writing under the hand of Capt David Edgar, which said last mentioned discharge was lost in the same manner as that before stated. - And this Deponent further saith that he is in reduced circumstances in life & that by reason thereof he stands in need of assistance from his County for support. -
April 14.
Henry Harrington
I William Clapp of Enfield in the State of Connecticut do hereby say that I belonged to Capt. David Edgar's Company of Col. David Mylls. Regiment with the said Henry Harrington & that I know of his serving in said Company & Regiment for the term of three years in the revolutionary army in the Connecticut Establishment of the American Army as he has never in his present appearance -
W m Clapp

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Hampden ss.
B E IT REMEMBERED, That on the fourteenth day of April A. D. 1818, came before me, JOHN HOOKER,
Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Western Circuit in said State, and including the said county of Hampden — the above named
Benjamin Harrington the applicant & William Grafton severally
respectively made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavits by them subscribed, and hereto annexed. I do thereupon hereby declare, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said
Benjamin Harrington the applicant did serve in the revolutionary war, against the common enemy, for more than nine months, on the continental establishment, as set forth in his affidavit aforesaid, and that he is yet a resident citizen of the United States, is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of assistance from his country for support. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand, and caused the seal of the said Circuit Court for the said county of Hampden to be affixed hereto, this 14 th day of April 1818
And I do therefore hereby certify & transmit the above as the testimony & proceedings had in the said application before me to the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
John Hooker