Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13704, for Samuel Lazenby, Maryland
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Md

Lazenby, Samuel

NUMBER
S.13704

carded

CONTENTS
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20270
New York
Saml. Lazenby
of philp in the State of N York who was a private in the Comp commanded by Captain White of the Regt. commanded by Col. -- in the Cont line for 9 mos.
* Md. Records corrected June 16/06. GS

Inscribed on the Roll of N York at the rate of 30 Dollars -- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 13 day of Aug. 1832 and sent to D McNiel Phelps

Arrears to the 4th of Aug '31 $60
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Sep 31. 15
$75.

Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by Go. C. Stiles Clerk
Book E. Vol. 3, Page 66
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(written vertically)
Rev War

13704
INVALID.

File No. 13,704
Samuel Lazenby
Pri  Rev War

Act: June 7th 32
Index:-Vol. ____, Page 216
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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1 Brief No. 7964
Samuel Lazenby
Admitted 
Private 9 months
4.10.17

18 Sepr. 1832
24 mos

Page 83.
D. McNeil
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No. 7964
BRIEF in the case of Samuel Lazenby of Phelps County of Ontario in the State of New York
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Before a Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? 
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3. How old is he? 72 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period. In 1780 or 81 March
Duration of Service. -3-months
Rank. As a private
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. Capt. Lodewick Youst -- Major Joy Bailey (sic) (Mountjoy Bayly)

Period. In 1780 or 81 August
Duration of Service. -6-months
Rank. As a private
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. Capt. White and Major Bailey.

5. In what battles was he engaged? None
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Montgomery County Maryland
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? By traditionary evidence
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
They appear to be correct-
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

[signed] James Ord
Examining Clerk.
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Samuel Lazenby
Declaration
7964

Admitted
Private 9 months

Passed
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State of New York Ontario County SS

Personally appeared before me the subscriber, a judge of the County Court for said County of Ontario Samuel Lazenby, who on his oath deposeth and saith- that after mature reflection, on the subject of the time he served during the Revolutionary War, It was as following

In the year 1781 I served a private in Capt Lodewick Youst's Company of Maryland Militia three months from the first of March until the first of June In the year 1781 and 1782 I served a private in Capt. Whites Company of Maryland Militia six months - from the first of August 1781 until the first of February 1782 - and for such service I claim a pension - I was born in the year 1760 at Montgomery County and State of Maryland I know my age to be seventy two years from a record kept in my family Bible, which is a copy taken from my fathers family Bible - I do not recollect the name of any of the officers who were in the service with me except those who belonged to my company and regiment. My Col. name was Joy or Mountjoy Bailey (sic) (Bayly) My Major's name was Anderson-
[signed] Samuel Lazenby

Sworn to and subscribed this 10th day of December 1832
David McNeil Judge of the County Court

State of New York, Ontario County SS: I Charles Crane Crane, Clerk of the said County, hereby certify, that David McNeil Esquire, before whom the above affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at the date thereof, a judge of the County Court of Ontario County duly authorized to take the same: And that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of such Judge, and verily believe his signature to the above certificate is genuine. 

Witness my hand, and the seal of said county at Canandaigua this 31st December 1832
Charles Crane
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STATE OF NEW YORK, 
Ontario COUNTY } ss.
On this Twenty Seventh day of August 1832, personally appears in open court, before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, for said County of Ontario now sitting Samuel Lazenby  a resident of Phelps in the county of Ontario and State of New York aged seventy two years, who being 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 7th, 1832, That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.

That in the month of March 1780 or 81, as near he can recollect, 
he entered, a drafted Militia man, as a private and continued 
for three months in Captain Lodowick Yousts company of Mary[land]
Militia (Majors name was Joy Bailey) at that time stationed 
at Fredericktown Maryland - duty during this term was 
guarding prisoners taken at the Capture of Burgoyne's Army.
was verbally discharged and returned home, resided at 
this time in Montgomery County State of Maryland. In about 
two months after the expiration of his first term of service, 
in the month of August in the year 1780 or 81, he again entered 
the service, enlisted in Captain White’s Company of Maryland 
Militia in Major Baileys Regiment stationed at the place 
aforesaid, from Montgomery County and marched to Fredericktown, 
and remained for the space of six months, during which time 
he was employed in guarding prisoners, and other duty. the 
prisoners were 1800 Hessians and 200 British from Cornwallis’ 
Army - he received a written discharge which he has since lost.
That he resided in Maryland after the War until the year 
1805 when he emigrated to the State of New York and removed 
to the town of Phelps, and County of Ontario in said State, 
where he has since resided and where he now resides - 
that he has no documentary evidence nor knows no person 
whose testimony he can procure that can testify to his service but is acquainted with John Baggerly a Clergyman and Thomas Edmonston  
who reside in his neighbourhood and who will certify to 
his character for veracity and their opinion relative to 
his having served in the Revolution -  

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. in open Court, 
Samuel Lazenby 
Charles Crane, Clerk
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We, John Baggerly, a Clergyman residing in the Town of Phelps, County of Ontario and State of New York and Thomas Edmonston residing in Phelps, County and State aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Lazenby who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be Seventy Two years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
[signed] John Baggerly
[signed] Thomas Edmonston

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
in open Court,
Charles Crane Clerk

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named Applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states, and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that John Baggerly who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman, and resides in Phelps, County of Ontario and State of New York and that Thomas Edmonston who has also signed the same is a resident of Phelps, County and State aforesaid and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I, Charles Crane, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Lazenby for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this twenty-seventh day of August A.D. 1832.
[signed] Charles Crane