Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11,243, Josiah Weaver, New York Vermont
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
New York
Vermont
CONTENTS
Weaver, Josiah
NUMBER
R. 11.242
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Josiah Weaver
Declaration
10229
.
Guard

direct to the care of
James
Robinson
Agent-- China
Tioga
County
N. York
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At a Court of Common Pleas holden at the
Court house in the Village of China in
and for the County of Tioga in the State of
New York Commencing on the fourth
day of September 1832 - Present Hon. Grant
B. Baldwin first Judge, John R. Drake
Bentley Joseph L. Darling & Elijah Shoemaker
State of Ohio
Esquire Judges-
State of New York
Tioga County ss On this 4th day of September
1832 personally appeared in open Court
before the Judges aforesaid being a Court
of record because made so by the Laws
and constitution of the State, having by
Law a clerk and seal now sitting Josiah
Weaver a resident of the Town of Elmira
in the County of Tioga and State of New York
aged Eighty four years the sixteenth day
of June last 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 7th 1832; that he entered the service
of the United States under the following
named officers and served as herein stated
that about the first of June in the year
the Militia in the Town of Clarendon
County of Rutland and State of Vermont
and also in that County genually were
called upon to furnish two companies
for the service of the United States in the
common cause of liberty and this declarent
volunteered for three months in the company
commanded by Capt Seely and under the
command of Col Mead who then resided
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in Rutland aforesaid - That he this declarent
together with the said company were marched
to Bennington in the said State of Vermont
and he was in the Battle on the 16th of
August of that year under Gen. Stark in
which engagement he received a bullet
wound in his left hand which crippled
three of his fingers so that they have remained
crooked up and useless to the present day
he finished this campaign of the
months and was dismissed. sometime
in the fall of the same year 1777 he took
his small family a wife and two children
and removed on to the North River in
the County of Dutchess in the State of
New York at a place in the neighborhood
of what was call'd the nine partners on
his arrival at this place he found that the
Enemy
had the command of the River
and a call was made upon the Militia to
guard the Bank of the River at every
assailable point from the said Nine
Partners down to Fish Kill a distance
of about twenty miles. This declarent
volunteered for that purpose he thinks in
the latter part of October 1777 in the Company
of Captain Israel Real under Col
Vanderburgh which company he served
upwards of two years receiving regular
pay and rations - another Company then
in the same servin at the same time
under
Captain Reynolds and under
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the same Col. the return of this service
was to guard the Bank of the River
so as to prevent the Enemy from the
shipping in the River from landing and pillaging
the property of the inhabitants along the shore
and its vicinity; and also to prevent any
intercourse of the tories with them with
which this region was very much infested
In this service he continued without any
special engagement as to the length of
time till the beginning of the winter or
the month of December in the year 1779
the
he was dismissed. He then removed
with his family to Half Moon Point in
the now County of Saratoga but then
County of Albany and about ten miles
for the City of Albany at which place
he continued to live upwards of thirty
years but instead of getting beyond
the seat of war he found he was getting
more and more into it, at this place
he immediately volunteered in the company
under Col
of Capt Joshua Taylor and
a Schoonhover for one year which he
completed about the first of January in
the year 1781 when he was dismissed from
any further service, during this last years
service he was stationed most of the time
at half moon aforesaid on guard and
entry except in the summer of 1780 he
performed an expidition under Capt Taylor
to Lake George where we staid about one
week and returned-
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That he has no documentary evidence of his
said services and that he knows of no
person whose testimony he can procure
who can testify to his said service
And in answer to the several
interrogators put to him by the Court
he says that he was born in the Town of
Warwick in the State of Rhode Island on
the 16th day of June in the year 1748. that
he had a record of his age which he took from
his parents record and placed it in his family
Bible when he was young, but about five
years since it got burnt with his dwelling
house and he has now no record but his
memory which he believes is cotrrect and
is as above stated-- that when he first
entered the service of the United States he
lived in the town Clarendon, County
of Rutland and State of Vermont, that
at the close of the Revolutionary war he lived in
the town of Half Moon, in the County of
Saratoga
and State of New York and lived
there for the space of about thirty years
then lived about fourteen years in the Town of
Dryden, County of Tompkins and State last
mentioned and for the last five years or since
his house was burnt be has had no permanent
place of residence and that he now lives
in the town of China aforesaid - that
he went into the service at the several
times above stated as a volunteer. that while
in the service aforesaid he was acquainted with
you. George Clinton, he was along
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in the expedition to Lake George [illegible] mentioned
- he was also acquainted with
Gen. James Clinton. but his recollection
of any other Troops or Regiment than those
already mentioned is very indistinct- that
he never received any paper discharge
from the service- That he would refer to
the Hon. Thomas Maxwell, Elijah Jones
and the first Judge of this Court all of Elmira
aforesaid as persons who are acquainted with
his reputation for the good standing
of truth and veracity and for their chief
in the trust of the foregoing declaration
that he hereby relinquishes every claim what
ever to a pension or annuity except the present
and declares that his name is not on the pension
call of the agency of any State of
[signature] Josiah his x mark Green
Sworn to & subscribed
the day & year aforesaid
[signature] Green M. Tuthill Clk

We Christian Greatsinger a Clergyman
residing in
Elmira and Josiah Dunham
residing in the same town hereby
certify that we are well acquainted with
Josiah Weaver
who has subscribed and sworn
to the above declaration; that we believe him
to be eighty four 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-
Sworn & subscribed the
day & year aforesaid
[signature]Green M Tuthill Eld
[signature]Christian Greeting
[signature]Josiah Dunham
of Tioga Co
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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 Christian Greatsinger who
has signed the preceeding certificate is
Clergyman resident in the Town of
Canna and that Josiah Durham who
has also signed the same is a resident in
the same Town and is a credible person
and that their statement is entitled to credit
[signature] G B. Baldwin
First Judge

Green M. Tuthill, Clerk of the Court
of Common Pleas aforesaid do hereby
certify that the foregoing contains
the original proceedings before
the said Court in the matter the
the application of Josiah Weaver
for a pension-

In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand
and Seal of Office this
both day of Septr
1832.
[signature] Green M Tuthill
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No. 1228
BRIEF in the case of
Josiah Weaver of Elmira
County of Tioga
in the State of New York
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
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?
3. How old is he? Eighty four years 84
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
[chart]

Period.
on or about 1st June
Volunteered in 1777
Volunteered; [illegible] in this latter part of Oct 1777
Volunteered immediately as his above service

Duration of Service.
Years 
2
1
Months,
3
Days.
 
-
Rank.
As a
Private

Names of General and Field Officers
under whom he served.
Col Meads Regt beenwit
troops. Capt Seelyes Compy
Genl Stark
 Cut bunderberg, Capt Israel
Seal
Col Van Schaicher, Capt
Joshua Taylor

5. In what battles was he engaged? Bennington, in which he was wounded
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
Clarendon, Rutland Co. Vt Nine Partners, Dutchess Coy. New York
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by
incidental evidence, or by the rolls? tradition is supported by the affiants of
a Clergyman and another Respectable citizen of the same Town whose credibility is
verified by the Court
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
no
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above
mentioned.
Chas G Wilcox Examining Clerk
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no 10,228
Josiah Weaver
New York Rolls

15 Sept '32
6 Decr

16
James Robinson
Elmira
Tioga Coy
NYk

P135
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War
AWF feel

June 24, 1929

Mrs. R. O. Bothfels
238 Seventy-fifth Street
Brooklyn, New York

Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War
pension claim, R.11243, it appears that Josiah Weaver
was born June 16, 1748, at Warwick, Rhode Island.
While residing at Clarendon, Rutland County, Vermont,
he enlisted in June, 1777, and served three months as a
private in Captain Seely's Company, Colonel Mead's Vermont
Regiment and was in the battle of Bennington, where
wounded in his left hand.
He stated that in the fall of 1777, he moved with
his wife and two children (their names not given) to North
River, Dutchess County, New York, and from in October,
1777, served two years under Captain Israel Veal and Colonel
Vanderburg with the New York Troops, guarding the
banks of the river to prevent the enemy from landing in
1779, moved to Half Moon Point, Albany County, New York,
and served one year under Captain Joshua Taylor and Colonel
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Van Schoonhover and was on guard duty at Half Moon.
He applied for pension September 4, 1832, while residing
at Elmyra, Tioga County, New York.
The claim was rejected on the ground that the soldier
failed to render six months actual service in an embodied
corps, the three year service constituted patrol duty which
was not embraced in the Act of 1832 under which he applied.
There are no further data as to family.
Respectfully,
EARL D. CHURCH
Commissioner.
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Josiah Weaver
New York
Act 7 June 1832

Suspended see Letter James Robinson
January 7th 1833

11243
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[stamp] U.S.PENSION OFFICE O FEB 18 1929

238 Seventy Fifth Street
Brooklyn N.Y.

Bureau of Pensions
department of the Interior
Washington, D.C

Honorable Sir  would
like the War Record (1776)
of a Josiah Weaver, who
was born in Warwick, R.I
June 16, 1748 and died
Jan 30, 1841 probable in
New York State
Tradition
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says that he served
in the Revolutionary War
from Vermont and New York
States
Respectfully yours
Anne Slater Bothfils
Mrs. R.U.
York

Feb 15, 1929
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(MF 42)  Date Sept. 23
Name Josiah Weaver N. R. 112
Rev.
Photographic copies wanted of ┃
pieces, consisting of 5 pages
Remarks: make 2 negatives of each of the 5 po
10 photostat
-
Exr. W. Wilson
SEY WAR SECT

Law
Clerk.

Serial
No.

Copies mailed Sept  12 23 Fee receits payment in  Clarkson Brolius BS.W 19753-160-50 1872.
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[Stamp] REJECTED
11243
Josiah Weaver
Service:
Enlisted:
Discharged:
Application filed:
18
18
18
Alleges: The printed list of 1852 gives
cause of suspension as follows:
Re-enlisted: "he alleges 371. service as a
guard & Justly - not military.
service under a regularly organized
corps.
Attorney:
P. O.
Recognized.
Cert. of Dis. Searched for
Contract.
18
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1917 Aug. 15 Hist to Mr. Lucius
Weaver Letter in S.F. 43280
and Fidler
23 Sept. 12 Copies mailed to
Walter H. Powers 70.45 S. New York City
(see receipt for payment
in B.L.W. 2753-160-50 &
Clarkson Crobus, 1812) an
1929, June 24, Hist to Mrs.
R.D. Bothfels as
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of Jany 1833
OC

P.219

Recorded Vol. 8.
Page 210.
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Marblept
Pension off
Jany 7th 1833
 
Sir
 
The declaration of Josiah wEAVER ALLEGES of three
years service under two engagements which he characterized by the term of guard & sentry duty without sharing
that he rendered any service in field or Garrison in a
corps called out, embodied & commanded by competent act
by the act of 7 June 1832 provides for an actual service
only the performed by militia & volunteer company
in guarding the neighborhood constitute a patrol duTy
which is not embraced by the act. This last is deemed
to have been the character of the service of the
above claimant in the three years allowed to & the
other alleged military service in the field is insuffice
to entitle him to a pension - His claim is therefore
suspended & his papers placed on file

Recd Dec 29 1832
Act 7 June

J. Robinson Esq
Elmira
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Rev. and 1812 War

3 -- 525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C.
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R11243

In reply to your request of
received
a statement of the military history of Josiah Weaver
soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired
formation as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension
file in this Bureau.

[Chart]
DATES OF
ENLISTMENT OR
APPOINTMENT.
June 1777
Oct 1777
Dutchess Co NY
1780
Albany Co NY

LENGTH OF
SERVICE.
3 mos
2 years
1 year

RANK.
Pvt.
Guarding banks of river to Pownel the
enemy from landing
Joshua Taylor

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
Seely
Israel Veal
Joshua Taylor

COLONEL.
Head
Vanderburg

STATE.
VT.
NY
Stationed at Half Moon on guard & [illegible] duty
---
Battles engaged in, Bennington where he was wounded in left hand
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Clarendon, Rutland Co Vt
Date of application for pension, Sept 4 1832 under act June 7 1832
Residence at date of application, Elmira, Tioga Co. N.Y.
Age at date of application, born Jan. 15 1748 at Warwick R.I.
Remarks: He stated the fall of 1777 he moved with his wife and two children names not given to North River
Dutchess County The Nine
Parker and 1779 moved to Half Moon Point Albany Co. N.Y.
he had upwards of 20 years.
I was rejected on the ground that soldier failed to under 6months
service constituted patrol Respectfully, duty which was that embraced by and act
6 -- 2856
Commissioner.
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3 of stamped, envelope
enclosed-
R
Westminster, Erie, Pa.
11 / 8 / 1918.
U. S. Pension Office,
Washington, D. C.,
Gentlemen:-
I am desirous of becoming a member of the D.A.R., and to confirm my application the organization requires me to supply them with a certificate from your office to prove that my kinsman Josiah
received a pension by reason of his service in the Revolutionary
This evidence appears upon your Pension Records of
11.243.
I would be greatly obliged if you would supply me will
necessary certificate, and if you will advise me what the expense
will remit amount to cover.
Thanking you for your consideration I am,
Yours respectfully,

[signature] Maud Feidler

I[Stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE ONOV 11 1918