Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43,057, for Robert Muzzy, Massachusetts
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(8-1776)
SERVICE
Continental Mass.
Muzzy, Robert
NUMBER
S 430,57
CONTENTS 
See N.A. Acc. No. 874
No. 050121-Not Half Pay
Robert Muzzy
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Erie County  (State of Pennsylvania)
   Before me the Subscriber one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the said County, personally appeared Robert Muzzy and being sworn doth dispose and declare,-That in the Month of April in the year of our Lord one thousand and seven hundred and seventy five, he, the said Robert Muzzy entered as first Sergeant a Company of Minute Men at that time so called, command by Captain John Leland, which company was afterwards annexed to the 24th Massachusetts Regiment, under the command of Col. Ephriam Doolittle; that deponent was in the engagement on Bunker's Hill, and acted as Sergeant in that battle.
   That in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six deponent was an Ensign in Captain Edward Seagraves's Company belonging to the Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col. Joseph Reed the number of this Regiment deponent does not distinctly recollect, but believes it to be the 13th: that deponent was in the battle on Long-Island and in the engagement at Trenton and Princeton:
   That in the year one thousand and seven hundred and seventy seven, deponent received a Commission of Lieutenant in Captain Isaac Warren's Company, belonging to the Second Massachusetts Regiment, commanded
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by Col. John Bailey,: that deponent served as a Lieutenant in the said Company during the hardships of the campaign and acted in that capacity at the surrender of Burgoine's Army: that deponent, with said Regiment immediately afterwards joined the Commander in Chief at the Gulph-Mills in Pennsylvania: that during the winter of 1777-1778 deponent with the Army was incamped at Valley-Forge.
   That during the Spring of one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight, Captain Warren died and the command of the Company devolved upon deponent which command deponent held and exercised during the remainder of his continuance in the service of the Revolutionary War: deponent also states that the said Company was one of the field-officer's Companies, which were commanded by Lieutenants, and that deponent command the said Company at the Battle on the Plains of  Monmouth:
   That deponent continued to serve in said Regiment until the opening of the campaign in the Spring of one thousand Seven hundred and Seventy nine, at which time deponent was detached to a company commanded by Captain Judah Alden belonging to a Regiment of Light Infantry, under the command of Col. Rufus Putnam: that at the Storming of Stoney-Point deponent was under a detachment commanded by Col. Fleury of the right wing of the Infantry; and at the close of the campaign
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deponent again joined his former Company and Regiment:
   That deponent continued to command the company of the then late Captain Warren and belonging to the second Massachusetts Regiment during the years one thousand Seven hundred and Eighty, one thousand Seven hundred and Eighty one, and untill the 30th day of April one thousand Seven hundred and Eighty two; at which time, the war being nearly closed, and the health of deponent being much impaired by an assiduous attention to duty through many long and hard campaigns of service, deponent offered his resignation the Commander in Chief, and on the day last above mentioned, received from him an honorable discharge; which discharge was written on the back of deponents Commission [which was on parchment and duplicate of the one enclosed] but is not now in the possession of deponent:
   To prove the truth of the above declaration deponent begs leave to refer to the muster-rolls, payrolls and monthly returns for the above mentioned Companies and Regiments at the day & times above mentioned & especially to those of the Month of April A.D. 1782
   Deponent doth also depose and say that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, he is need of assistance from his Country for Support.-
Sworn & Subscribed the 24th Day of Apl 1818 before me John Vincent
Robert Muzzy
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To the Honorable John C. Calhoun Secretary of the Department of War,
   I do hereby certify that Robert Muzzy who has this day, under oath made the foregoing declaration of his services during the Revolutionary War is a resident Citizen of the County of Erie aforesaid, his character is good but he is indeed poor and needy and perhaps there is no one more justly entitled to the benefit of the 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:
   Inclosed is the Commission of Mr. Muzzy a a Lieut bearing date 1st January A.D. 1777-And the oath bearing date 21 March A.D. 1778 showing that he served at least nine months.
Erie April 24th 1818    John Vincent
Commonwealth of Pennsyl
(Damaged script)
I Certify that the above named John Vincent is duly Commissioned one of the associable Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Erie and that the above is his Signature and that full faith and credit ought to be given to his [illegible] acts. In Witness Whereof I have hereunto [illegible] and Seal this 6th day of May, 1818
                       For John Kelso
                       Edward J Wilson
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Robt Muzzy
P. Papers
1821-
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State of New York
Oswego County
   On this seventh day of February one thousand eight hundred & twenty one personally appeared in open court it being the Court of Common Pleas which by the Laws & decisions of the tribunals of said State has been declared to be a Court of Record, Robert Muzzy aged eighty years resident in the Town of Richland in said County & State who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, to wit, in the company commanded by Captain Jacob Miller in the regiment commanded by Colonel Ephraim Doolittle in the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy five in the continental & Massachusetts line & that he this declarant served the year following in Colonel Joseph Reids Regiment in the service & line aforesaid & from that time untill the year one thousand seven hundred & eighty two served as a Lieutenant, being duly commissioned as such in the Second Regiment in the Service & line aforesaid. And this declarant further says that his original declaration to obtain his pension certificate was made on the 24th day of April 1818. & that in pursuance of said declaration a pension certificate was granted to this declarant Number 4.416.  And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818. & that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent shurely so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions 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 on the 18th day of March 1818.-And 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 or property except necessary wearing apparel & bedding, except what I derive from my pension-And I do further swear that I have no persons in my family who reside with me & that I am by occupation a farmer but unable to labor by reason of age & infirmities.
Sworn to & Delivered in open court before me this 7th day of February 1821-John Grant  Jr.
First Judge of Os. Cy. [illegible]
Robert Muzzy