Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 17029, for Joseph Percy, Connecticut
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Service - Conn
Percy, Joseph
Number - R.17029
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The State of Ohio
Trumbull County (Illegible) On this twenty first day of August in this year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty six personally appeared in open court of record, the Supreme Court of the State aforsaid sitting in and for the county of Trumbull aforesaid. Joseph Percy resident of the township of Howland in said county of Trumbull aged seventy one who bring duly first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the  following declaration in order to the provision made by the Acts of Congress of the 18th March A.D. 1818 and the first of May A.D. 1820. that he then said Joseph Percy enlisted for the term of nine months sometime in the Spring of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy time in the Cont. army commanded by Capt. David Hinman in the regiment commanded by Col. Benjamin Hinman in the line of the State of Connecticut on the continental establishment that he continued to serve in said company for about the term of two months when he became sick and unable to do the duty of a soldier. and by permission of his said Colonel hired one Solomon Reynolds as a substitute for the remaining time of his said enlistment and that the said Joseph Percy after the aforsaid nine months sometime in the winter of A.D. 1775 or 1776 again enlisted for the term of three months in the State of Connecticut in the company commanded by Capt David Hinman in the regiment commanded by one Colonel Whiting in the line of the State of Connecticut on the continental establishment that he continued to serve in said corps until the expiration of said term of three months when he was discharged from the service at a  place called horse-Neck in the State of Connecticut that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present
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that his name is not on the roll of any State Connecticut and that the following are the reasons for not earlier application for a pension. That this affiant having lost his dis charge and being in possession of no written evidence of his services has not been able since the passage of the aforesaid acts of Congress until within a short time since to procure the necessary proof thereof And in pursuance of the act of the first of May I do solemnly swear that I was a resident of the United States on the 18th day of March A.D. 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provision of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed the 18th day of March A.D. 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.  That since the 18th day of March A.D. 1818 there has been no change in my property except some of a triffling nature in my household furniture and of which I have now no distinct recollection.
  Viz three hogs weight about 100 pounds each. Four pigs, seven geese, two chairs and one table of my own make one porridge pot broken one tea kettle one iron three gallon kettle one frying pan old, shovel and tongs old two old flat irons, one looking glass 8 by 10 inches three earthen plates two bowls two teacups and saucers one half dozen knives and forks old one half dozen table spoons old two candlesticks both broken, two iron trammels one drawing knife, axe and gimblet, one chest old two 12 quart water pails, one six
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quart tin pail, two tin pint cups, one milk pail one meat barrel and one old sieve.  That my family consists of myself and wife  Love Percy aged sixty seven years that I am wholly incapacitated for labor by reason of rhumatick affection for several years past has rendered me incapable of walking but by the assistance of crutches.
                                      Joseph Percy
Sworn and subscribed in open court before me this 21st day of August 1826  
                        George Parsons Clerk S.C.
 
State of Ohio       Mr John W. Suly and Sylvanus 
Trumball County  Suly being well acquainted with the above named applicant know him to be a poor man, and believe the above schedule containing a true statement of all the property by him owned and that the value of said properly in amount does not exceed twenty Dollars
                                      John W. Suly
                                      Sylvanus Suly
Sworn and scubscribed in open court August 21 1826 Before me George Parsons Clerk S.C.

The State of Ohio     I George Parsons clerk of 
Trumbull County      the Supreme Court of the 
                                State of Ohio in and for the 
                                 county of Trumbull  do 
                                 hereby certify that this
                                 foregiving oath and the 
                                 schedule thereto annexed
                                 are truly copied from the
                                 original.  And I do further
                                 certify that it was the 
                                 opinion of s.d court that 
the total amount in value of the property set forth in the aforesaid schedule is not greater than twenty Dollars.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said court at Warren the 18th day of September A.D. 1826 - George Parsons Clerk
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December 22, 1933

BA-J/EEL
Joseph Percy-R.17029

Mr. C.E. Pratt
Hastings Business College
Hastings, Nebraska

Dear Sir:
   Reference is made to your letter in which you state that your ancestor was Joseph Percy and that you desire the entire records of the families and descendants of John Percy, his father, who came from England in 1740, settled in Boston and later resided in Connecticut.
   This office has no genealogical data on file as a means of establishing ancestral lines and no clerical force assigned to genealogical research.
   The records of this office consist of claims for pension and bounty land which have been made to the United States based upon service in that war.  These records have been searched and the record found of a Joseph Percy who may be one of the ancestral line in whom you are interested.  His record is given here in as found in claim for pension, R. 17029, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
   The date and place of birth and the names of the parents of Joseph Percy are not shown in the papers in the pension claim.
   On August 21, 1826, while living in Howland Township, Trumbull County Ohio, he applied for pension, and stated that he enlisted, place not given, in the spring of 1775, served as a private in Captain David Hinman's Company, Colonel Benjamin Hinman's Connecticut Regiment, and after two months service was compelled to return home on account of sickness; that he again enlisted in the winter of 1776 and served three months under the same captain in Colonel Whitings's Connecticut Regiment.  He was aged seventy-one years when he made above application.
   His claim was not allowed as he did not serve nine months continuously in the continental line as required by the pension law under which he applied.
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In 1826, Joseph Percy stated that his wife, Love Percy, was aged sixty-seven years, but did not give her maiden name or the date of their marriage, and there is no reference to children.

                             Very truly yours

                              A.D. Miller
                              Assistant to Administrator

[Note below handwritten on typed letter]
In letter written in 1837 - the widow is referred but Mrs F. said not to mention that she survived him as he was rej. because his serv. was not 9 mos. continuous in Continental Line and her rejection because he did not serve as much as 6 mos. and anyway we did not know that it was Love Percy as she might have died and he married again.
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1908 Dec 28.  Hist. to Mrs. J.R. Webster letter in S. file 8304 John Davidson C

1910, Jan. 8. To ?? Mr. Genl. U.S.A.
Tombstone.       F.W.

1910, May 226. To ?? Mr. Gen. U.S.A.
(Duplicate of above)  F.W.

1933 - Dec 22. Hist. to Mr. C.E. Pratt.  E ??

17029
P.O.   Joseph Percy
Service:
Enlisted: Revolution, 18
Discharged:              , 18
Application filed:  REJECTED , 18

Alleges:
Re-enlisted:

Attorney:
P.O.

      Recognized                Con
      Cert. of Dis.               Searched for
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3-871

RECORD DIVISION

Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions

Briefed by    L.D.L.
Claim No
Certificate No.
Soldier                   Joseph Percy
Service                   Conn.
Additional Service

No       claim, State records             , 190_
No claim, combination records       , 190_

                          REMARKS
No claim, except Rej. #17029
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To the Honourable the Secretary of War for the United States of North America -
                                                   Enclosed is the
application of Joseph Percy for a pension: together with such proof of his services, as at this time he is able to procure - Please write me immediately the result of his application _ Direct to me at Warren Trumbull County Ohio _
                     yours be _    Roswell Stone

Warren September 20th AD 1826
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State of Ohio       }      Famlen?  August
Trumbull County  }      18th, AD 1826
                           David Hicok being duly sworn, deposeth amd saith that he is well acquainted with Joseph Percy of the township of Howland County of Trumbull and State of Ohio and that he was also acquainted with Said Percy in the year, Seventeen hundred and seventy five as a soldier in the Revolutionary war, that Said Percy, listed in a company commanded by David Hinman in the Regiment commanded by Benjamin Hinman in the Connecticut Line, that Said Percy enlisted for nine months in the Spring of 1775, and that the said Percy served the said nine months in the raised Company, Regiment, and Line - personally, and by Solomon Reynolds as a Substitutt, for him.  That after the expiration of the said nine, the said Percy enlisted under David Hinman Capt in the Regiment commanded by Col. S Whiting in the Connecticut line, and that the said Percy in the last said inlistment enlisted for three
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months in the winter of 1776 and served the same time in person - David Hicok

State of Ohio     }   Framlen?   August 18th 1826
Trumbull County}   Personally appeared the 
                               above-named David Hicok to me well known and in my presence subscribed the foregoing Deposition, and made solem oath that the matters therein contained are true -
                John F Kingsley Justice of the peace

The State of Ohio }  I George Parsons clerk of 
Trumbull County   } the court of common pleas
                                in and for said county do
                                hereby certify that John F
                                Kingsly whose signature
                                appears affixed to the 
                                above certificate is and 
                                was at the time of sub- 
                                scribing the same as
                                Justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn agreeably to the laws of said state.
    In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Warren the sixth day of September A.D. 1826 -
                    George Parsons Clerk
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Sworn & Subscribed
this 2nd day of May,
1826 before me-
                  Oliver Judd Js [Justice} Peace
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State of New York,  }  ss.
   Otsego County,   }
 
(seal) I DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That Oliver Judd 
               Esquire, before whom the annexed
               affidavit was taken was at the time of
               taking said affidavit, one of the                                         
               justices of the peace in and for said 
               county, dwelling in the said county, 
               duly commissioned and sworn as 
               such AND FURTHER, That I am                    
               acquainted with the hand-writing of 
               the said Justice and verily believe the 
               signature officially set to the annexed affidavit to be his proper hand-writing.

  In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the County afore- said, the 3rd day of May, 1826
                      T.B. Crandal, Clerk

(SEE NEXT PAGE FOR FULL TRANSLATION OF WRITTEN DOCUMENT)
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State of New York
Otsego County :

          Solomon Reynolds being sworn deposeth & Saith that he is well acquainted with Joseph Percy of the town of Howland, county of Trumbull in the State of Ohio, and that he also was acquainted with said Percy in the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy Five, as a Soldier in the revolutionary war; that Said Percy listed in a company commanded by David Hinman in the regiment commanded by Benjamin Hinman in the Connecticut line that Said Percy listed for nine months in the Spring of 1775, and that the said Percy served the said nine months in the same company regiment & line personally and by this deponent & others as a substitute for him.  That after the expiration of the Said nine months, the said Percy enlisted in the same company under David Hinman in the regiment commanded by Colonel Whiting in the connecticut line & that the said Percy in the last said enlistment enlisted for three months & Served the same time in person with this deponent And that Said Percy was personally discharged from Service.
                                Solomon Reynolds
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Name?  J.W. Allen
  Sept 9 1837
      Ken
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             War Dept. Pen Office
                          Sept 9 1837
Sir,
         I wherewith enclose W. Spaldings letter to M. Birchard Esq respecting the ease of the widow of Joseph Percy ^ and agreeably at Mr Barchards request^ I have to inform you that he made application for a pension in 1826, under act March 18, 1818, and the claim was rejected and his papers filed. He alleges therein that he enlisted he enlisted in 1775 in Connecticut to serve nine months and after serving two months hired a substitute to serve out the remainder of the term.  He also alleges to have served three months in 1776.  The 3rd section of the act of 4 July 1836 provides for none whose husbands did not in person perform six months service.  His widow in not therefor entitled to the benefit of said act.
   Name:  John W. Allen
                N.R.
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                              COPY

Roswell Stone, Esq.                War Department
Warren                                   Pension Office
  Trumbull County, Ohio         7 Oct. 1826

   Sir:  The claim of Joseph Percy to a pension on account of Rev'y service, has been examined and rejected.  Colonels Hinman and Whiting, under whom he states to have served, did not belong to the Continental Establishment, and the Law of the 18 of March 1818, under which Mr. Percy claims a Pension, provides for those only who served on that establishment.  The papers in the case will remain on our files agreeably to the regulations of this Department.

                                               J.L.E.
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received  ???  1908
for a statement of the military history of Joseph Percy a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) [or his widow crossed out] application for pension on file in this Bureau.
 Only Joseph Percy Conn -           Rej. 17029

Dates of
Enlistment or       Length of
Appointment       Service.              Rank
---------------------------------------------
 Spring 1775          2 mos.               Pri
 Winter     76          3 mos. 

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS 
RENDERED
-----------------------------------------------
Captain                  Colonel                State
------------------------------------------------
David Hinman        Benj. Hinman        Conn.
    "         "                        Whiting

*Conn book P. 424.

Battles engaged, ____________
Residence of soldier at enlistment _____
Date of application for pension,  Aug. 21, 1826
Residence at date of application, Howland Twp., Trumbull Co., Ohio
Age at date of application, 71 yrs -
   Remarks:  Soldier mentioned his wife Love aged 67 yrs. and stated that he was crippled with rheumatism and obliged to use crutches.
     This claim was never allowed for the reason that claimant did not allege nine months ^actual service^ on the Cont'l Est. as required by the Act Mch 18, 1818 under which he applied.
  Very Respectfully (page cut off)
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18 March 1818
  Rejected  Ohio

See letter of Oct 1826  [crossed out]
to Roswell Stone Esq
see letter 9 Sept, 1837  [crossed out]
Nd    J.W. Allen
                                      17029
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C.E. PRATT, B, SC., President
T.K. WILSON, M.A., Principal

         Hastings Business College
              Hastings, Nebraska
                October 26, 1935

OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT

Department of Interior
Bureau of Pension
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:

In re:  L.D.C. Am. File 37749 Revolutionary War, family records of John Percy who came from England about the year 1740 and settled in Boston, then moved to Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut where he had a family of three sons, Nathan, John, and Joseph

Will you please send me the entire records of the families and descendants of John Percy, carrying it to the place where the Booth family joins the Percy family.

I am not certain whether I have given you all the information necessary to do this.  I am a descendant of  Joseph Percy, born the year 1754; his wife's name was Love Reynolds and they were married in the year 1774.  I think Eunice Percy was my great grandmother, born Feb. 22, 1797.

Thanking you in advance for your favor, I am
                        Very truly yours,

                        C.E. PRATT [signature]
                         President
CEP: MMS

          [stamped] RECIEVED Oct 30 1933,
                           Mail Sub-Div
                            Vets. Adm.
                             Division 3