HomeMy WebLinkAboutBiographies of Revolutionary War Veterans of Tompkins Co Benjamin BennettName: Benjamin Bennett
Date of birth: Dec. 3, 1751
Birthplace: South River, NJ
Parents: Abraham Bennett and Maria Corssen
Spouse: Rebecca James b. abt. 1760 NJ
Marriage date: Nov. 24, 1780
Place of marriage: Frederick Co., MD
Date of death: Sept. 12, 1841(U S Pensioners 1818-1872)
Place of death: Enfield, Tompkins, NY
Place of burial: Unknown
Children:
1)Abraham Bennett b. 1773
By Rebecca James
2)Female Bennett
3)Joseph Bennett
4)Benjamin H. Bennett b. 1778 PA d. July 31, 1839 Northumberland Co., PA m Susanna Balislellan
5)James Bennett b. 1781 PA d. 1854 Montoursville, Lycoming, PA , m.1809 Agnes Watson, dau. of John Watson, Sr.
6)Charles Bennett b. abt. 1783 PA
Pension File #:S12175
Place of enlistment: Tinicum Township, Bucks Co., PA
Service record:
State of New York
Tompkins County
On this third day of October in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in Open Court before the Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and
for the county of Tompkins now sitting Benjamin Bennett a resident of Ulysses
That he entered the service as a private, at Tinicum township, Bucks County in the state of Pennsylvania in a company commanded by Captain Thorn in Colonel Potters brigade but who commanded
the Regiment he does not recollect. He entered about the first of August but the year he does not recollect- that he served in Captain Thorn’s company three months when he was discharged
near Philadelphia and returned home-that he immediately again was drafted and entered Capt. Hunter’s company in the Brigade first mentioned but cannot recollect the commander of the
regiment. He served in the last mentioned company three months and was again discharged at Feather Bed Hill, west of Philadelphia. He was next drafted the following spring-entered Captain
Sharp’s company in General Potter’s Brigade. In his last service he served three months. That he was stationed at Bucks County and Chester County during the whole of his service. Occas
ionally, however, moving from place to place ,the British having possession of Philadelphia. He was in the Battle of Brandywine and in the battle at Crooked Billet. Knew General Washington
when he was with the corps in which he first served. He knew General Potter under whom he served the whole time he was in the service. During his second service General Washington was
with the troops when he served much of the time he was out.
He was born at South River in the State of New Jersey in the year 1754. He has no record of his age. He lived at Tinicum, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, when he entered the service, never
received any written discharge.
He hereby relinquishes any claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and declares his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
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I, Abraham Bennett certify that I am the son of Benjamin Bennett described in the foregoing declaration -that I am now fifty-nine years old, that I have a distinct recollection of the
absence of my father in the Revolution and it was said he was a soldier. I also recollect that during this time he was in service his second time he returned home and that I entertained
great fear of my father because he was a “soldier”. From my recollection about his service I have no doubt he was in actual service none months.
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New York Pensioners, 1835
Benjamin Bennett, Private of Tompkins Co. received an annual allowance of $30.00 for his service in the New York militia. He was placed on the pension roll May 6, 1833 commencing as
of March 4, 1831.
1840 US Census: Living with son Abram Bennett in Enfield, Tompkins, NY, aged 89 Rev War Pensioner
Sources:
Conine Steinbach Family Tree
Bevans/Grill Family
Helen Finch Smith Genealogical Papers 1788-1974, Carl A. Kroch Library, Rare and Manuscript Collection, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Ancestry.com. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
Original data: Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files (NARA microfilm publication M804, 2,670 rolls). Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Record
Group 15.National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Ancestry.com. New York Pensioners, 1835 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1998. Original data: United States Senate. Report from the Secretary of War,
in Obedience to Resolutions of the Senate of the 5th and 30th of June, 1834, and the 3d of March, 1835, In Relation to the Pension Establishment of the United States. [New York Section].
Washington, D.C.: Duff Green, 1835.
Jackson, Ronald V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp.. New York Census, 1790-1890 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.
Original data: Compiled and digitized by Mr. Jackson and AIS from microfilmed schedules of the U.S. Federal Decennial Census, territorial/state censuses, and/or census substitutes.