State County NyArchives Military Records.....Goff, Comfort April 20, 1818
Revwar - Pension Capt. Henry Champion's Co., Col. Wyllys' Regt., Connecticut Line
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Pension S28,744
     Apr. 20, 1818: Comfort Goff of Brownville, Jefferson Co., N.Y., , aged 59 
years, enlisted in March 1776 for the period of one year; Capt. Henry 
Champion's Company, Col. Wyllys' Regiment, Connecticut Line.  He served out 
this term and immediately reenlisted in the same company, same regiment, for 
one year or nine months.  He served out this term and immediately enlisted 
under Captain Samuel Northam of Colchester to drive a Continental team.  He 
served under this enlistment nine months.  The next year he again enlisted 
under the same Captain for nine months more.  He was then discharged and even 
the same day captured by the enemy.  They took from him all his money and all 
his discharges and all his clothes except what he had on, and even took his 
coat.  He was taken by the Refugees or Tories and was carried to New York and 
confined in the Sugar House.  He served in the capacity of a private soldier.  
He has no further evidence to offer.
     Mar. 24, 1829: Comfort Goff of Rush, Monroe Co., New York, aged 69, made a 
second application.  Testimony pretty much the same as the earlier application 
except that his last enlistment as a teamster was under Capt. (Isham) Chapman.  
He was discharged at Peekskill, New York, and on his way home to Connecticut he 
was taken prisoner by a "party of the common enemy," taken to New York City, 
and all his effects, papers and discharges taken from him.  He was detained in 
New York for seven weeks and four days.  He has never received a pension, has 
disposed of no property, has no property in trust.  
     July 3, 1832: granted a pension while a resident of Henrietta, Monroe Co,
New York.  He later moved to Rochester, New York, where he died July 26, 1834.
     

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