Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 28,832, for Joseph Owen, Massachusetts
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SERVICE
Mass.
New York

Owen, Joseph

SERIVE
S.28.832
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3273
New York
Joseph Owen
of Bern of New York
who was a Private in the Company commanded
by Captain Noble - of the Regt. commanded by Colo. Nixon - in the Mass line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at
the rate of 80 Dollars
to commence on the 4th of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 14th day of Decr 1832--
and sent to J B Moore
[illegible]


Arrears to 14th day of Sep 1832   $ 120
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4th '33  40
$160

{Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Geo C Stiles
Book  D   Vol. 5 Page 119

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Died Feb 26, 1844 (AB)
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admitted 
2 years
___________
80 $
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State of New York
Albany County SS. On this 4th day of August 1832
personally appeared in open court before the
Judges of the Justices Court of the City of Albany
in the County of Albany now sitting, Joseph
Owen a resident of the town of Bern in the
County of Albany and State of New York
aged 73 years, who being first duly sworn
according to law, doth on his oath make
the following declaration in order to obtain
the benefit of the act of Congress passed June
7. 1832 That he entered the service of
&
the United States under the following named
officers and served as herein stated-
In the month of June in the year 1777 he volunteer
red in Capt Nobles Company and Colonel
-
Nixons regiment in the town of Sheffield in
the County of Berkshire in the State of
Massachusetts and went with the said
company to Bennington in the State of
Vermont, where he saw a day or two, and then
went to Fort Edward in the State of New
York, where they staid a day or more and then
went with said company to Fort, or Lake George
as a guard to guard the ammunition waggon there
bringing ammention (ammunition) down the river toward
Albany, and come down with the said Waggon
to Fort Edward, then went to Kingsbury where
he and the said company was joined by the con
mental troops. He staid at this place about
a week or 10 days during which time they had
in engagement with the enemy, the troop
Then treated from Fort Edward down to Fort Miller
where they staid one night then followed down the
river to Stillwater, where he was discharged
in the month of August or September of the same
year, and then returned home he June 1778
He again volunteered and went with a company
to Albany and joined the continental troops
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and marched with them to Cherry Valley in
the State of New York, and staid there 2 or
3 weeks and then with part of the forces
returned to Albany where he was dis
charged and then returned home, having been
out at this time about six weeks
In March or April 1782 he enlisted in Capt
Perceys Company in Colonel Willett Nobles
town as it was then called, in the County
of Columbia in the State of New York
for two years and joined the regiment at
Albany where he staid a week or 10 days
and then went with some of the companies
of the said regiment to Schenectady, then
to Fort Hunter, then to Fort Plain,
at Herkimer in the State of New York
where they arrived in the fall of the same
year, that he continued at Fort Plain, where they arrived in the fall of the same year that he continued at Fort Plain in Herkimer County as he believes, and in the
State of New York during the winter, In the
Spring of the year 1783 he went with the
said company to Fort Herkimer where he
said during the summer untill fall
about the month of October he was sent
by his officers after a man who had deserted, and was in pursuit of him,
and while he was after
the said deserter, the said Company and
regiment was discharged that he never
received a written discharged nor was
he in any particular battles, nor has he
any documentary evidence, nor does he
know of any person he can procure to 
testify to his service, except Thomas Frisbee
who has made the following affidavit
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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever
to a pension or annuity except the present and
declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the Agency of any State
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Signature of  Joseph Owen

J.G. Wasson Clk

State of New York
Carry County SS. Thomas Fisher residing in the
Town of Bern in the County of Albany and
State aforesaid aged 71 years being duly from
deposes and says that he well know Joseph
Owen the soldier who has subscribed and from
to the foregoing declaration, and knew him
well in the revolutionary war and has known
him ever since. that he this deponent well
knows that the said Joseph Swan did serve
as a soldier in the Army of the United States
during the Revolutionary war That he will
recollects that the said Thomas
did belong to Capt Percy Company and
Colonel Willets regiment in the year 1782 and
that he frequently saw the said
during the said son doing duty in the said
company and regiment as a soldier, And this
deponent further says that he has no doubt and
verily believes that the said Joseph Owen did
serve as he states in said declaration as a soldier
in the said War. And further that he verily
believes the facts and circumstances stated in
the said declaration, to be substantially true
And this deponent on his oath afore and further
said that the said Joseph Owen is a very
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respectable man and is a member of the Bath
Church, and that he is a man of credibility
and integrity, and that his statement is in
titled to full credit and belief. And for
other that he is generally reputed and
believed in the neighoushood where he
resides to have been a soldier in the
Revolutionary War and that he served are
has stated in his said declaration
Signature of Thomas Frisbee

Sworn to and subscribed in open 
Court the day and year aforesaid
John G. Wasson Clk
And the said court do hereby declare the
opinion, after the investigation of the matter
and after putting the interest
by the War Department, that the above
applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and
served as he states. And the Court further
certifies, that it appears to them that Thomas
Fisher who has subscribed and sworn to
the foregoing affidavit is a resident of the town of
Bern in the County of Albany and State of
New York, and that he is a credible her
son, and that his statement is entitled to credit
I John G. Wasson Clerk of the Justices Court
of the City of Albany in the County of Alba
my and State of New York do hereby certify
that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the
application of Joseph Owen for a pension he
testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and
seal of office this 4th day of August 1832-
Signature of John G. Wasson Clk
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State of New York
Albany County SS On this 8th day of November
1832 personally appeared before me Joseph
B. Moore a Judge of the County Courts of the County
of Albany and State of New York Joseph Owen
a resident of the town of Burn in the County of Albany
and State of New York aged 73 years and upwards
who being first duly from according to law doth on
his oath make the following further and additional
declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act
of Congress passed June 7 1832

That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named officers
and served as herein stated, and as he has more particularly stated and set forth in his declaration
made on the 4th day of August 1832, which is hereto annexed

I entered the said service at the town of Sheffield
in the County of Berkshire in the State of Massachusetts
where was born and where I then resided a volunteer
and served as a private soldier in Capt Nobles, company and Colo. Nixons regiment of Militia from the
first of June 1777 to the first of September 1777 Making
Three months and performed duty at the several
places and in the manner set forth in my declaration
hereto annexed

I again entered the said service at the to
of Sheffield aforesaid a volunteer and served as a
private Soldier Six weeks in Capt Ballards Company of Continental troops, I think I joined the company about the first of June 1778, and was dismissed
in July 1778, I served at the places mentioned in my said
declaration hereto annexed
I again entered the said service
at Nobletown, (now Hillsdale in the County of Columbia
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in the State of New York where I then resided, a
volunteer and enlisted in Capt Percy's Company
in Col. Willets regiment of New York State troops
for the term of two years. as a private soldier.
I served as a private soldier in the said Company
and regiment at the places and in the manner
particularly set forth in my said declaration hereto
annexed, from the first of April 1782 untill
the said regiment was disbanded and discharged
by the termination of the war, and untill the first
of December 1783 as near as I can possibly reccollect making one year and eight months

I was in the actual service of
the United States in the war of the Revolution in an embodied Corps, and served two years and two weeks as a private Soldier; and for such service
I claim a pension-

I never received a written discharge
nor was I in any particular battles

I was born in the
month of January A.D. 1757 at the town of Sheffield
in the County of Berkshire in the State of Massachusetts, and have a record of my age in my
family Bible, in my house-

I removed from Sheffield
where I first entered the service to Nobletown
where & I first entered the said service and and removed
from there to the said town of Bern my present
place of residence, where I have lived for the
last forty years

I have no documentary evidence
nor can I possibly procure any other witness then Thomas Frisbee whose affidavit is hereto annexed
to testify to my service
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I am old and infirm and in poor  health, and cannot possibly again travel 
the distance, I was compelled to last August, to attend the Court

I hereby relinquish every claim whatever
to any other pension, then the one under the
act of June 7th 1832-

I am known in my present neighbourhood to Elder Ephraim Crocker, Roger
Gale, Absalom Rider, Nathaniel Jones, Thurston Gifford. 
George Cook, Sands Cook, Lewis M. Dayton, Deacon
Levi Lincoln, and many others who can testify to my
character for veracity and their belief of my services as a soldier of the revolution

I served part of the time in Col
Nixons regiment and knew Capt Newell, Lieut Johnson, Major Van Benchoten, and others whose hand
who does now recollect - cannot recollect
what regiment he served with either Continental 
or militia, other them above stated
Signature of Joseph Owen

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year
aforesaid Before me
J. B. Moore Judge of Albany County Courts

We Elder Ephraim Crocker a Clergyman residing in
the town of Rensselaerville in the County of Albany and State of New York and Lewis M Dayton Merchant
residing in the same place hereby certify that
we are well acquainted with Joseph Owen
who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 73 years
of age and upwards; that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides
to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. 
Signature of Ephrm Crocker

Sworn and subscribed the day and
foresaid.  Moore Judge
J B Moore
Albany County Courts
Lewis. M. Dayton
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State of New York
Albany County Ss. And I the subscribed a Judge of
the County Courts of the County of Albany and State
aforesaid do hereby certify and declare my opinion, after the investigation of the matter and after
putting the interrogatories prescribed by
the war
Department, that the within named applicant
was a revolutionary soldier and served as he
states. And I do further certify that I am well
acquainted with Elder Ephraim Crocker who has signed
the within certificate, that he is a clergyman
resident in the said town of Rensselaerville.
and that Lewis M. Dayton who has also signed
the same is a resident in the said town of Rensselaerville
in said County and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. And I doalso certify that the said applicant cannot
attend the Court by reason of bodily infirmity

In witness whereof I have hereunto set
my hand the day and year aforesaid
Signature of J. B. Moore Judge

State of New York 
Albany County SS. I Conrad A. Ten Eyck Clerk of the City and County of Albany and State of New York do hereby certify that Joseph B. Moore before whom the within declaration and certificate
were from and who has made the foregoing
Certificate is a Judge of the County Courts of
the County of Albany and that the signature
J. B. Moore" to the said declaration and
certificate is his genuine signature-

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal of the said County
this Eighth day of November A.D. 1832
C.A. Ten Eyck Clerk
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October 30, 1936
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JOSEPH OWEN
S. 28832
BA-J/MLB

Mrs. Charlotte T. Luckhurst
156 Western Avenue
Albany, New York

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the
Revolutionary War record of Joseph Owen, born in 1757 in Sheffield,
Massachusetts, and died in Berne, Albany County, New York, in 1841.
You request, also, the names of his wife and children, if on file,
and of witnesses who made affidavit in support of his claim for
pension who may have been related to him.

You are furnished herein the record of Joseph Owen as obtained
from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 28832, based upon his
service in the Revolutionary War.

Joseph Owen was born in January, 1757, in Sheffield, Berkshire
County, Massachusetts; the names of his parents are not given.

While a resident of Sheffield, Massachusetts, Joseph Owen
volunteered June 1, 1777, served as private in Captain Noble's
Massachusetts company, and in Colonel Nixon's Massachusetts regiment,
was stationed at Kingsbury for a week or ten days, during which time
he was in an engagement with the enemy and was discharged September 1,
1777, then returned home. He volunteered June 1, 1778, and served
six weeks as private in Captain Ballard's Massachusetts company. He
moved from Sheffield, Massachusetts, to Nobletown which was later
Hillsdale, in Columbia County, New York, and while residing there
enlisted April 1, 1782, and served as private in Captain Percy's
company, Colonel Willett's New York regiment, and was discharged
December 1, 1783.

The soldier moved from Nobletown (Hillsdale), Columbia County,
New York, to Berne, Albany County, same state, where he was a member of the Baptist Church.
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Joseph Owen was allowed pension on his application executed
August 4, 1832, while a resident of Berne, New York, where he had
lived forty years. He died February 26, 1841.

No reference was made in the claim to wife or children.

Joseph Owen stated in his claim for pension that he was
acquainted in his neighborhood with Elder Ephraim Crocker, Roger
Gale, Absalom Rider, Nathaniel Jones, Thurston Gifford, George and
Sands Cook, Lewis M. Dayton, Deacon Levi Lincoln and many others
(whose names he did not designate).

In 1832, Elder Ephraim Crocker, a clergyman of the Town of
Rensselaerville, Albany County, New York, and Lewis M. Dayton, a
merchant of the same place, made joint affidavit, and one Thomas
Frisbee, aged seventy-one years, a resident of Berne, Albany County,
New York, made affidavit, also, in support of the claim for pension
of Joseph Owen, but no relationship was shown between him and any of
the above - named persons.

In order to obtain date of last payment of pension and name of
person paid, you should address the Comptroller General, General
Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data: 

Joseph Owen
Certificate #3273
Issued December 14, 1832
Rate, $80 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act June 7, 1832
New York Agency.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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28832
Revy  INVALID

File No. 28,832
Joseph Owen
Pri  Rev  War

Act June 7" 32"

Index: - Vol. 9, Page 806

[Arrangement of 1879.]

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1907 Jany 26  History to Mrs. C. H. Stillson
1935 Nov. 6  Hist. to R.E. Dale _MLB
(Rec ltr in (?) W18478 of Daniel (?)
1936 Oct 30 - Hist to Mrs Charlotte Luckhurst MLB
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MRS. CHARLOTTE TAYLOR LUCKHURST
REGISTERED GENEALOGIST
188 WESTERN AVENUE
ALBANY, NEW YORK

Sept. 30, 1936

Veterans Administration,
Revolutionary Division,
Washington, D. C.

Joseph Owen, born in Sheffield Mass.
1757, died in Berne, Albany Co. N.Y. 1841 was a
pensioner of the Revolution, may I have an
abstract of his application papers, showing the
names of his wife and children if they are on
file, or the names of any others who might
act as witnesses and perhaps were related,

If there is considerable detail as to his
services, I may want a photostat copy, please
advise me as to cost,

Very truly yours,
Charlottte T. Luckhurst

[Note: Stamp can be seen - RECEIVED Oct 1 1936]
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Ansonia Jan 17 190

Please send me record
of Joseph Owens, Revolutionary
Soldier of New York State.

Was a pensioner died in 1841.

Also John Hilton of New York
State war of 1812
Died in fifty five
Widow drew a Pension

Mrs C H Stillson
Ansonia

34 No Cliff St.
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November 6, 1935
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Daniel Owen, W. 18478
Joseph Owen, S. 23832
BA-J/MB

Mr. R. E. Dale
Nebraska Historical Library
Station A
Lincoln, Nebraska

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the
Revolutionary War records of Daniel Owen, born in Ashford, Connecticut
, in 1780, married Lydia Rice and lived near Oneida County,
New York; Blosser Owen, born also in Ashford, Connecticut, in 1761,
married Abigail Picknell and died in 1843 in Belchertown, Massachusetts
; also, Joseph Owen, born in Sheffield, Massachusetts, in 1787,
married Hannah Button and died in 1841 in Berne, New York.

Because of the large number of requests for records of Revolutionary
War soldiers and the lack of clerical force available for furnishing such information, it has been impossible to make a
series of investigations and reports pertaining to soldiers of that
war for one person.

The records of Daniel Owen and Joseph Owen are furnished you herewith.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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November 6, 1935
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JOSEPH OWEN
S. 18832
BA-J/MLB

Mr. R. E. Dale
Nebraska Historical Library
Station A
Lincoln, Nebraska

Dear Sir:

You are furnished herein the record of Joseph Owen, as found
in the papers on file in pension claim, S. 28832, based upon his
service in the Revolutionary War.

Joseph Owen was born in January, 1757, in Sheffield, Berkshire
County, Massachusetts; the names of his parents are not given.

While a resident of Sheffield, Massachusetts, Joseph Owen
volunteered June 1, 1777, served as private in Captain Noble's
Massachusetts company, and in Colonel Nixon's Massachusetts regiment,
was stationed at Kingsbury for a week or ten days, during which time
he was in an engagement with the enemy and was discharged September
1, 1777, then returned home. He volunteered June 1, 1778, and served
six weeks as private in Captain Ballard's Massachusetts company. He
moved from Sheffield, Massachusetts, to Nobletown which was later
Hillsdale, in Columbia County, New York, and while residing there
enlisted April 1, 1782, and served as private in Captain Percy's
company, Colonel Willett's New York regiment, and was discharged
December 1, 1783.

The soldier moved from Nobletown (Hillsdale), Columbia County,
New York, to Berne, Albany County, New York.

Joseph Owen was allowed pension on his application executed
August 4, 1832, while a resident of Berne, New York, where he had beenliving forty years. He died February 26, 1841.

There are no family data shown in the claim.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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W. and N. Division  3-525.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Joseph Owen 
a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR,
will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his
is application for pension on file in this Bureau.

DATES O FENLIISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
(?) Mass.
January 1, 77
January 1 78
Nobletown, MAss
October 1, 82

LENGTH OF SERVICE
 3 mos
3 mos
1yr. 8 mos

RANK.
Pvt 

OFFICERS UNDER WE SERVE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
Noble
Baldwin
Percy

COLONEL.
Nixon

Willett 

STATE.
Mass.
Mass. ]N.Y.


Battles engaged in,_____________________
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Sheffield Berkshire Co Mass

Date of application for pension,  August 1832

Residence at date of application,  Berne, Albany County  New York 

Age at date of application,  from Spring [unleggible]

Remarks:
He died at Nobletown, N.Y. 
(?0 record (illegible0
No further to data

Very respectfully, 
Commissioner.