Benjamin Sutton Pension
 

On February 24, 1834 in Campbell County, Kentucky the said pensioner at the age of 77 years appeared in open court and stated and swore upon oath that he had served in the company under the command of Captain Conrad Countryman and also under the command of Lt. Peter Clackender. And he had served in the regiment under the command of Colonel Hanck to serve in the militia of Sussex County in the state of New Jersey. He stated that he had acted in the capacity of a substitute for his father and that they had marched to Amboy, New Jersey in the year 1776. The said pensioner served for a tour of one-month duration. He also stated that he was occupied in guarding the jail of the Sussex Court House for a period of two years. Benjamin Sutton also stated that he served under the following officers; Sergeant Nanaon Blackwell, Corporal James Robinson, Commissary John Dunlap, Sergeant Poland, Corporal James Rankin, and Corporal Peter Brown.

The said pensioner further states and swore that he marched after being in the said service for a period of two years to Germantown in the company under the command of Captain Countryman. He said that his brother Daniel Sutton was shot and died in the battle at that place. He remembered Colonel Washington, General Lee, General Pulaksi, and Captain Helm under whom they marched to Morristown through Princeton for a tour of one-month duration. He stated that he was honorably discharged by the Captain Helm at Morristown in the state of New Jersey.

In answering the questions posed by the Department of War, the said Benjamin Sutton stated the following: He had been born in Sussex County, New Jersey on March 14, 1736. He had moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and from there he had moved to the mouth of the Little Miami River in Ohio. From there he moved to Campbell County, Kentucky where he had continued to reside since that time. He stated that he had acted as a substitute for his father for one tour of duty, one month in 1776. He had volunteered his services for another tour of duty for two years in 1776. And had been drafted into the service for another tour of duty for one months duration. The affidavit of Thomas Herbert, a clergyman and Isaac Copp was also taken at the same time and in the same place as the foregoing. The said deponents stated that they had been both well and favorably acquainted with the said pensioner and that in the neighborhood in which Benjamin Sutton resided, he was reputed to have served in the Revolution on the side of the United States of America.

In a letter from Grants Creek Post Office in Switzerland County, Indiana and dated February 26, 1859, C J Sutton being one of the heirs of said pensioner and Benjamin Sutton asked that he might receive his father’s back pension and bounty land for the heirs. The same request was made in a letter written by Thomas H Sutton, another one of the heirs of the said Benjamin Sutton. It was dated November 2, 1857 from Cincinnati, Ohio.

The covering jacket of the said records of the pensioner Benjamin Sutton stated that he had served in the company under the command of Captain Conrad and in the regiment under the command of Colonel Hankerson in the line of the state of New Jersey for a period of one years duration. The said applicant for a pension, Benjamin Sutton was on the Kentucky Roll of Pensions at the rate of $40 per year as his certificate of pension for that amount was issued on June 6, 1834 and it was sent to the Honorable R M Johnson, House of Representatives.
 

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