Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-14
RIDE OF GEN. PUTNAM
DESCRIBED BY WITNESS

went into Gen. Putnam'S service as waiter
| l stayed there about five weeks. Gen. Put
! nam then went to West Point. l went there
! also, on one of the baggage wagons
| continued at West Point as such waiter till
! l was discharged, which was in December
| lII9 the last of the month. l think. At
| the time of my discharge Gen. Putnam had
| been gone some weeks from West Point to
| Connecticut, and was there taken sick as
was Informed, and did not again join the
army.
Previous to my discharge l was sick and
| unfit for duty for about six weeks NV
brother-in-law Thomas Johnson who was
then in the service at West Point, wrote to
my father informing him of my sickness
Soon after my father came to West Point
with my discharge which he had procured
from Gen. Putnam, he then being IN Con-
nectcut. The discharge was signed by
Israel Putnam and. I think, by some other
officer l kept it until my fathers house
was destroyed by fire In Cairo, Green
county, n. y, about twenty years since.
My discharge was burned at the same time
In the house.
do not know Of any person living by
whom l can prove the aforementioned
service. The said Johnson removed to Ohio
some seventeen or eighteen years since
some~}ere on the Licking river He was
quite an aged man when he removed
whether now living or dead I know not
Hilderbrand lived with my father about
SIX years and he died. My father and
mother are both dead.
was born on the goth day of August,
1852, In the town of New Fairfield, county
of Fairfield, state of Connecticut
After leaving the service I resided there
until about May l. 1850. when 1 removed
to OblOng, three miles from Salisbury Fur
mace, Connecticut where I resided about
twenty years. From thence I removed to
Cairo, Green county and state of New
York, where 1 resided ten years From
resided about two years. From thence to
Davenport, where l resided about two
years. From thence to Marietta Ohio,
where I resided about six years From
thence to oxford, Chenango county. n Y.
where l resided about six years From
thence TO Andes. Delaware county. n y.
where l resided about two years From
thence to Colchester, in the same county
Where resided two years and from thence
TO SANFORD, same county, where l have
resided about two years and where / now
reside.
He hereby relinquishes every claim,
Whatever to a pension or annuity, except
the present and declares chat his name ts
iio' "H IHe pension roll of the agency of
any state. JOSEPH RUNDEL
Sworn to and subscribed the dav and wear
"ioieSdlu' b. MARVIN, Clerk
@,
Sanford, and Charles Wood. residing in
the same town. hereby certify that We ara
well acquainted with Joseph Rundel. who
has subscribed and sworn to the above
declaration; that We believe him to be
seventy years of age; that he is reputed and
believed, in the neighborhood where he re-
sides, to have been q soldier of the revo-
luton, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and wear
aforesaid. B. MARVIN, Clerk.
his
CHARLES X WOOD
mark
And the said court do hereby declare their
opinion. after the Investigation of the mat
ter and after putting the heterogeneous
prescribed by the War Department, that
the above-named applicant was a revolu-
tionary soldier and served as he states
And the court further certify that it an
pears to them that John Wood who has
signed the preceding certificate, is a resi-
dent in the town of Sanford, Broome
county, ard that Charles Wood. who has
also signed the same, is a resident in the
same town and is a credible person, and
that their statement is entitled to credit.
!. b Marvin, clerk of the court OF COM
mon pleas of the county of Broome, n. Y,
DO hereby certify that the foregoing con-
ta1ns the original proceedings of the said
court In the matter of the application of
Joseph Rundel for a pension
In testimony whereof have hereunto set
my hand and seal of office this both day Of
August 49, B. MARVIN, Clerk.