159.
He came into the society without property, was then an aged man,
brot in his very aged mother-in-law, who was supported several
years by the society, being unable to support herself. He is con-
sidered entitled to 6 years pension @ $96 = $576.00
also entitled to 100 acres of bounty lands @ 2.50 = 250.00
BENONI WRIGHT, a regular soldier of the Revolutionary army. Being
destitute of property or any relations in the society, was supported
many years by the society, lived to be upwards of 90 years of age
and for 20 years '-was scarcely able to perform any manual labor.
Is now dead (1825)land, at the time of his decease, was entitled to
4 years pension @ $96 - $384.00
Making a total in Watervliet of
$11,804.00
New Lebanon 6,714.00
Total $18,518.00
There are several other members of the society to whom arrears for
military services are due, some of whom had the money offered them
after they embraced the faith of the society in 1780 but conscien-
tiously declined accepting it. But It is our wish, in making out
our estimate, to keep within the bounds of moderation; we therefore
forbear to particularize the minor claims.
It may be objected that the claims of the pensioners mentioned in
this statement might have been brot forward & the money received
before the claimants joined the society; and therefore their claims
ought not to be reconed [sic] previous to that time. In answer to
this we would observe that the act of Congress granting pensions
was not passed until the year 1780, the veryyear in which most of
those disabled In the service joined the society, which was the
cause of their declining to make application; and, as the law allows
the pension money to be drawn from the time the disability took
place, it seems but just and reasonable that it should be reconed
from that period.
Calvin Greene
Freegift Wells,
Leading Elders

The sum total of pension moneys, pay for services and bounty lands
due to the members of the societies of New Lebanon and Watervliet
reckoned at compound Interest since the same were due... up to the
1st of January, 1863, is $574,608.38