HENRY/RACHEL BUTTERFIELD REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION, DELAWARE COUNTY, NEW YORK

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HENRY BUTTERFIELD/WIFE RACHEL THAYER

Source: New Hampshire Pension Records, USDAR, Vol. 7, 1918.

Butterfield, Henry/ W.F. 23733/ N.H. Service

Oct 8, 1832, Henry Butterfield, of Sidney, Delaware Co, NY, aged 74 years, 
deposed:

that he enlisted at Westmoreland, NH, Jan 1778, under Capt. Reynolds, Col. 
Peabody, NH state troops, went to Rhode Island and served under Generals Greene 
and Sullivan through that campaign and until the term of one year had expired; 
when he was discharged at Providence, R.I. by General Sullivan;

that before this in the spring of 1777 he enlisted from Keene, NH as a minuteman 
for six months under Capt. Blake; served at White River, VT, in pursuit of the 
Indians and was at the taking of Burgoyne's army at Stillwater, NY;

and also that he volunteered and went on several alarms at different times, and 
refers for further evidence to the former application transmitted under the law 
of 1818, which was not allowed.
Henry Butterfield
(The application referred to does not appear to be on file, B.M.D.)

Sep 12, 1832, Solomon Robbins testified that in 1778 the state of NH called for 
a quota of militia men for one year's service in Revolution and that Henry 
Butterfield, Timothy Butterfield and Isaac Cobb were enlisted from Westmoreland, 
NH.
Solomon Robbins

Jul 15, 1833, Abijah H. Beach testified that when Butterfield made his 
application he had answered the usual questions which were not forwarded as it 
was not considered necessary, but now he sends them:

Butterfield was born in Westford, MA in 1759; lived in Westmoreland and Keene, 
NH during the Revolution; after the war lived in Greenwich, (?), Worcester Co, 
MA about 30 years, then in Otsego Co, NY for 10 or 11 years; and the last 6 
years in Sidney, Delaware Co, NY; that he served at the northward under Major 
Timothy Butterfield; was in the battle of Bennington and his messmate Thrall was 
killed by his side in that battle, etc.
Abijah H. Beach

Jun 1, 1833, Rev. Samuel Manning, of Masonville, and Samuel Butterfield of 
Sidney, both towns being in Delaware Co, NY, certified to their belief in 
soldier's veracity, etc.

Jul 15, 1833, Rachel Butterfield, aged nearly 70 years, testified that she 
married Henry Butterfield in 1783; that her two brothers, John Thayer and Samuel 
Thayer, who were in the battle at R.I., and Samuel was wounded in that battle; 
she has heard them say that Henry Butterfield was also in that battle. She also 
testified that she was well acquainted with Major Timothy Butterfield, Henry's 
uncle, and knows that Henry enlisted as a private under his uncle. She 
recollects perfectly hearing the neighbors say that Henry was at the surrender 
of Burgoyne; that she saw said army after they were taken, as they passed 
through Rutland, MA, near which place she then lived, etc.
Signed by mark.

Claim allowed Nov 28, 1833, for service as private 6 months, 22 days.

Dec 29, 1838, Rachel Butterfield, of Unadilla, Otsego Co, NY, "aged 76 years 
last November, 13th day", deposed:

that she is the widow of Henry Butterfield, Revolutionary pensioner, who died 
Oct 30, 1833 and that she was married to him Nov 20, 1783.
Signed by mark in presence of a Supreme Court Commissioner, Charles C. Noble, 
who testified that she made a mark because her hands shook so she could not 
write.

Samuel Butterfield, son of Henry and Rachel Butterfield, testified to the death 
of his father, etc.
Samuel Butterfield

Certificate from the town clerk of Hardwick, MA; that among the list of 
marriages performed by Paul Mundell, Justice of the Peace for Worcester Co, MA, 
is recorded:
Henry Butterfield, of Greenwich, and Rachel Thayer of Hardwick, Nov 30, 1783.

Another declaration of Rachel Butterfield, of Tompkins, Delaware Co, NY dated 
Oct 9, 1839, is also on file. Claim allowed.

Aug 10, 1843, Rachel Butterfield of Tompkins, Delaware Co, NY, aged 70 years 
[sic], applied under a later Act and certificate 3564, Albany, NY Agency, was 
issued Dec 9, 1843, Act of Mar 3, 1843.