Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16640, for Noah Lyon, Connecticut
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Conn.  Lyon, Noah   W.16640
                     Mary
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10896
New York
Mary Lyon dec'd
widow of Noah Lyon who was a pensioner under the acts of and who died in the year 1720 of Cayuga Co in the state of NY
who was a private in the company
commanded by Captain Hobby of the Regt
commanded by Col Waterbury in 
Conn line for 7 mo. & 3 days

Inscribed on the roll of Albany at the rate of 23 dollars 66 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1836 & 4 March 1841.

Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of 
April 1850 and sent to Lumpkin present

Payable to surviving children 
Total amount - $ blank

Thaddeus, Lyon and Ruth Curtis

[Act July 7, 1832]

J E B Chase Clerk
Book D Vol 1 Page 167

Reported
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      Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows
State of New York   )
County of Cayuga   ) SS.  On this 3rd day of May 1848 personally appeared before the Court in Open Court holden at Auburn in and for said County Harvey Heath of said County who being first duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he appears before the Court in behalf of the surviving children of the late Noah Lyon and his late widow Mary Lyon, and he doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838  That as this deponent is informed and believes the said Mary Lyon for whose children this application is made, was the widow of Noah Lyon late a soldier in the war of the Revolution, that he entered the service in the early part of the war, in 1775 or 1776 marched to the North or belonged to the Northern Army, that he probably served under Captain Hobby and Col Waterbury as this deponent is informed six months to one year, that he performed other service but as the soldier and his widow are both dead no more minute history can now be given, that he further declares in behalf of the said widow Mary Lyon that she was married to the said Noah Lyon in March 1781 and that the said Noah Lyon died in 1820 leaving his widow the said Mary Lyon, who remained his widow till her death and that she died on the twenty first day of August 1841 the above is as this deponent is informed and believes, and that at her death she left the following named children her surviving and who still survive being her only children her surviving and that each of them is over the age of twenty one years to wit Thaddeus Lyon of Cayuga County New York and Ruth Curtis of Huron County Ohio
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the said Harvey Heath is a respectable person

Subscribed and Sworn before the ) Harvey Heath
Court at the day and date within written )  
  John W Hulbert County Judge
  of Cayuga County N.Y.

The said Court certify that Satisfactory proof has been addressed before the Court to satisfy the Court that Mary Lyon widow of Noah Lyon died a widow on the 21st day of August 1841 eighteen hundred and forty one leaving at her death the following named children her surviving being her only children her surviving and that each of them is over the age of twenty one years to wit  Thaddeus Lyon of Cayuga County New York and Ruth Curtis of Huron County Ohio, the proof which was satisfactory to the Court was the within declaration of Harvey Heath & the attached affidavits of Israel Mead Rev Seth Smith Abram Kniffin and Edward Palmer
  May 3d 1848  John W Hulbert County Judge
                               of Cayuga County N.Y.

Note the word "Thaddeus" in the eighth line from top in the above certificate written on an erasure before execution.   John W Hulburt
                        County Judge of Cayuga County
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State of New York )
County of Cayuga ) ss   Israel Mead, whom I certify is a respectible person, aftr being duly Sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is eighty eight years of age, that from a boy he had been acquainted with the late Noah Lyon & his late widow Mary Lyon, that this deponent well recollects of the Said Noah Lyon enlisting in the war of the Revolution in the early part of said war, that he joined the Northern Army, went to Ticonderoga, Crown Point, St John &c to the St Lawrence river, that he served under Capt Hobby and Col Waterbury of Connecticut, where the Said Noah Lyon then resided, that he was absent in the service Six or Nine months, or more, that he also performed other Service, but this deponent cannot now particularize it, that he died in 1820 leaving his widow Mary Lyon, who remained a widow till her death, & that she died in  August 1841 leaving the following named children her Surviving, being her only children her Surviving & who still Survive, & are over the age of twenty one years, to wit  Thaddeus Lyon of Said County & Ruth Curtis of Huron Co Ohio
Subscribed & Sworn before me  )
this 22 day of March 1848   )  Israel Mead
Harvey Heath Justice Peace

State of New York  )
County of Cayuga  ) Ss  Abram Kniffin whom I certify is a respectable person, after being duly sworn according to law, deposes and Says, that he was personally acquainted with the late Noah Lyon who died in 1820 leaving his widow Mary Lyon, who died a widow in August 1841 leaving the following named children her Surviving & who still survive, being her only children her surviving & that each of them is over twenty one years of age, to wit Thaddeus Lyon and Ruth Curtis
Abram Kniffen
Subscribed & Sworn before me  )
this 30th day of March 1848       )
   Harvey Heath Justice Peace
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Note the Christian name of the within named Abram Kniffen altered from Abraham to Abram before Execution
    Harvey Heath Justice Peace
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State of New York )
County of Cayuga ) ss  Rev Seth Smith, whom I certify is a highly respectable person, after being duly Sworn according to law deposes and Says that he was personally acquainted with widow Mary Lyon, late widow of the late Noah Lyon, that he attended her funeral, preached her funeral Sermon on the 23d day of August 1841, that he finds from a memorandum then made of it, that the above is the fact & that she must have died on the twenty first of August 1841, and that she died a widow
   Seth Smith
Subscribed & Sworn before me  )
this 30th day of March 1848  )
Harvey Heath Justice Peace
Note the word twenty in the ninth line from top in the above affidavit interlined before execution
     Harvey Heath Justice Peace

State of New York  )
County of Cayuga  )  SS  Edward Palmer, whom I certify is a respectable person, after being duly Sworn according to law, deposes and says that he was personally acquainted with widow Mary Lyon, late widow of the late Noah Lyon, that he recollects well of her death, and that she died in August 1841, and died a widow leaving at her death the following named children her Surviving, being her only children her Surviving & that they Still Survive, and are over the age of twenty one years, to wit Thaddeus Lyon of Genoa, in said County & State and Ruth Curtis of Huron County, Ohio
Subscribed & Sworn before me
this 30th day of March 1848
                          Edward Palmer
Harvey Heath Justice Peace
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State of New York  
Cayuga County Clerk's Office SS   I Ebenezer B Cobb Clerk of said county and of the Courts thereof do hereby certify that Harvey Heath whose name is subscribed to the foregoing affidavit, or the proof thereof was at the time of taking said affidavit a Justice of the Peace in & for said county & duly authorized to take the same.  And that John P Hulbert, whose name is subscribed to to the foregoing certificate was at the time of making said certificate a Judge in & for said county at the time presiding at a county court, then in session in said county and I also certify that the signature of Harvey Heath and John P. Hulbert respectively are genuine
In Testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix my seal of Office, the same being the seal of Said County & the Court thereof this 3d day of May 1848
            E B Cobb Clerk
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13623
Mary Lyon aw
wid of Noah
NY
act 7 July 1838
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State of New York  )
Westchester County  )  SS

   I certify that the Book containing the Record of marriages of the Presbyterian Church of South Salem in said County over which the Reverend Solomon Mead formerly presided as Pastor is in my possession and under the head of marriages solemnized by him the said Pastor I find the following, to wit; No 341  Noah Lyon Mary Mead March twenty ninth one thousand seven hundred and eighty one.
A true extract from the Record aforesaid with the exception of the date which is expressed on the in fair legible figures thus "March 29 1781"
Reuben Frame

I Reuben Frame above named depose and say that I hold the office of Pastor of the Presbyterian Church of South Salem above named; and that the above is a true extract from the records of the said Church with the exceptions above named as certified by me.
     Reuben Frame
Subscribed and Sworn
before me this 30th day of June 1847
     Thomas Mead Justice of the Peace

I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the Reverend Reugen Frame and that his statements are entitled to full credit
       Thomas Mead Justice of the Peace

State of New York  )
Manchester County  )  S.S.
  I Munson I Lockwood Clerk of the County aforesaid and also Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for Said County, Do Hereby Certify that Thomas Mead Esqr whose name is subscribed to the above Certificate and proof of the foregoing Instrument was on the day of the date of the said Certificate and proof a Justice of the peace in and for said County, residing in the said County, Elected and
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sworn and duly authorised to take the same, And further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Justice and verily believe that the signature to the said Certificate and proof are genuine.
  IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court and County the Second day of July 1867
      Junson I Lockwood Clerk
           [seal]
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Mrs. Mary L. Faba
505 Hector Street
Ithaca
New York.

Dear Madam:

   I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 16640, it appears that Noah Lyon was born about 1758.
   While residing in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, he enlisted May 10, 1775 and served as a private in Captain Thomas Hobby's Company, Colonel David Waterbury's Connecticut Regiment.  He was in the campaign to Canada and was discharged December 8, 1775.
   It is stated that he had other services but no details are given.
   He married March 29, 1781, in South Salem, Westchester County, New York, Mary Mead.  They were married by the Reverend Solomon Mead, a Presbyterian minister.
   The soldier died in 1820, and the widow, Mary, died August 21, 1841.
   The following children survived their mother and were allowed the pension due her:  Thaddeus Lyon of Geneva, Cayuga County, New York, and Ruth Curtis of Huron County, Ohio.  They were both then over
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twenty-one years of age.
   There are no further family data.

            Very truly yours,

             EARL D. CHURCH
                Commissioner.

[handwritten note:]

If photostats should be taken from this claim give state report as the service was taken from that   GWS
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Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 16640
Mary Lyon
Widow of 
Noah Lyon
Died Rev. War
Act: July 7th 1838
Index:--Vol. A, Page 449
[Arrangement of 1870]
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No 13623
Mary Lyon
NY
Sent to Hon H L Couger
May 19, '48
Let & [illegible] August 19th 1848
Let Hon H L Couger
Oct 17th '48

Act 7 July 1838
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          State of Connecticut
          Comptrollers Office
          Hartford July 4th 1848

   I certify that upon application for evidence of Service by "Noah Lyon" in the war of the revolution I have examined the documents remaining in this office relating to that war.. and find in a document headed "Pay Roll of Major Thomas Hobbys Company in the regiment of the Forces of the United Colonies, under the command of Col David Waterbury raised in the Colony of Connecticut commencing on the day in which they entered Said Service & ending with the time of their discharge including time for the discharged to get Home" the name of Noah Lyon as a "private" & as entering the Service 10 May 1775 and as being discharged December 8th & as having been in Service "213" "days" wages p month (?)"  "Total Amt of Wages" (pounds) 14.4 "Due for expenses home after discharged a  (?) for (?)" (pounds) 18.9 "Total Amount" "(pounds) 15.2.9"

           Alyah Catting
            Comptroller
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     505 Hector St. Ithaca N.Y.
     Aug 5, 1929

The Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

Dear Sir:
   I am referred to you by the adjutant General in regard to the records of Caleb Lyon and son Noah (?) you of Greenwich Conn.  Can you tell me anything as to their services, if they received a pension & Land Bounty Rights Noah & Caleb Jr. both settled in town of Milto (now Genoa, Cayuga Co. NY. 1796.8. (Military Tract)
   Respectfully Yours
   (Mrs.) Mary Lyon Faba
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    Sorke April 3d 1850

Sir
   I understand that you have succeeded in getting some Pensions allowed in cases sent you by Mr Chester Babcock of McGrawville Cortland Co N.Y. that had been sent to the Commissioner by other persons and rejected  I am also informed by Mr Murphey who is ingaged in the business with Mr Babcock that in cases sent you by them when you succeed in getting a Pension allowed the fees in the case, are divided between you each taking one third  I have been for several years engaged in the business part of time with Mr Murphey & part of the time with another man, & have quite a number of rejected cases which should have been allowed upon the evidence already transmitted if you feel disposed to under take any cases on the condition named above I will forward them to you
   I will name one case now which I think was sufficiently established & if the conditions above named are satisfactory please inform me & I will send the other the case is that of the heirs of the widow Mary Lyon widow of Noah Lyon
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the papers in the case were presented by Hon. H. S. Conger To whom I will refer you

  We have the case of Henry Studwell or rather the heirs of Henry Studwell he Studwell was Pensioned under act 1832 N.Y. Agency as a Sergeant as $66.33 per annum died Oct 19th 1844, he always insisted during his life time that he was entitled to a full pension & talked about trying to get an increase but was rather an inefficient man & never done anything more than talk about it  we have a contract for one half of the increase if any can be had  I know of one witness now living who says he knows that Studwell was in service more than 2 years
   If you can find Record evidence of his service for 2 years there will be no difficulty in getting the increase allowed  I think he resided during the time of Service Greenwich Fairfield Co. C.T. please answer at your earliest convenience
     Yours Respectfully
     Harvey Heath

Thomas Simpkin Esq
     Washington
        D.C.
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         Cortland Village N.Y.
           Oct. 9th, 1868

J. L. Edwards Esq

     Dear Sir:  I send you herewith evidence in the case of the children of Mary Lyons.
           Yours (?)
                 H.S. Conger
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State of New York
Cayuga County  M. Samuel Miles, whoom I certify is a respectable person, of sound mind & strong memory aged eighty four years, after being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says, that when a child and from a child, till the death of Noah Lyon, the late husband of Mary Lyon, whose children are applying for a pension, he was personally and intimately acquainted with the said Noah Lyon, that he was a resident of the town of Greenwich, Fairfield County, Ct during the war of the Revolution, that the said Noah Lyon was six years older than this deponent, and that he was a soldier in the war of the Revolution as this deponent at that time understood and believed that the said Noah Lyon always after the war of the Revolution had the reputation of having been a soldier in the war of the Revolution, and that such reputation was true & that he knew of no other Noah Lyon in said County of Fairfield of age to bear arms. 
Subscribed and sworn before me
This 23rd day of September 1848
Harvey Heath Justice of Peace
State of New York
Cayuga County Clerk's Office J. I Ebenezer B. Cobb Clerk of said County do hearby certify that Harvey Heath before whom the forgoing effiants was taken was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the Peace in afor said County duly qualified to take the same & that his signature is genuine thereto - & testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix my official seal this 27th day of September 1848  EB Cobb
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State of New York  )
Cayuga County      )  ss.  Israel Mead, whoom I certify is a respectable person of sound mind & strong memory aged eighty eight years, after being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says, that when a child & from a child till the death of Noah Lyon, the late husband of Mary Lyon, whose children are applying for a pension, he was personally and intimately acquainted with the said Noah Lyon, that he was during the war of the Revolution a resident of the town of Greenwich, Fairfield County CT, that the said Noah Lyon was two years older than this deponent, and that he was a soldier in the war of the Revolution as this deponent at that time understood & believed and that he Served under Capt Hobby & Col Waterbury that the said Noah Lyon always after the Revolution, and the reputation of having been a soldier in the war of the Revolution, had the reputation of having been a soldier in the war of the Revolution, and that such reputation was true and that he knew of no other Noah Lyon in said County of Fairfield of age to bear arms
          Israel Mead
Subscribed and sworn before me   )
this 23d day September 1848         )

Harvey Heath Justice Peace
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State of New York
County of Cayuga
SS Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County. Rev'd Seth Smith of said county whom I certify is a highly respectable person after being duly sworn according to law deposes & says that he was personally acquainted with Mary Lyon late widow of Noah Lyon deceased whose children have made application for the pension due to the said Mary Lyon at her death that when the said Mary Lyon died this deponent was called upon to preach her funeral sermon & that he made an entry of the date of her funeral & of the age of the said Mary Lyon when she died as he had learned if from the family of the said Mary Lyon that on referring to his book in which said entry was made he found it there stated that she was eighty two years old subscribed and sworn to before me this 24th day of June 1848
Harvey Heath Justice Peach
Seth Smith
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State of New York
County of Cayuga
SS Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county Peleg Gallup of said County who I certify is a highly respectable person after being duly sworn according to law deposes and says that he was personally acquainted with Noah Lyon late husband of the widow Mary Lyon deceased whose children have made application for the pension due to the said Mary Lyon at her death that it was understood & believed in the neighborhood in which the said Noah Lyon and this deponent resided that the said Noah Lyon was a soldier in the war of the Revolution - that this deponent has held the office of Judge of Cayuga County Courts five years and upwards. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 26th day of June 1848
Harvy Heath Justice Peach
Peleg Gallup
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State of New York
Cayuga County Clerks Office
I Ebenezer B Cobb Clerk of said County and of the Courts of record hereof do hereby certify that Harvey Heath Esquire was on the 24th & 26th days of June 1848 a justice of the Peace in and for said County duly elected and qualified & that the signatures to the asserted affidavits are his genuine hand writing. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal this 27th day of June 1848
Ebenezer B Cobb Clerk
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13623
Mary Lyon dec'd
widow of Noah
New York
Cayuga, Co.

Admitted

$23.66
Private 7 mo. & 3 days per annum pd 4 March 1836 to 4 March 1841 when she died

Children Thaddeus Lyon & Ruth Curtis 

Act 7 July 1838

T Lumpkin
Present

Died 1820
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          Ovid N.Y Augt. 1, '48

Dear Sir

     the inclosed paper of Mary Lyon and Thankful Rogers, are papers in which some 6 to 10 of your consitutents are interested, please therefore allow me respectfully to ask you to please inclose them to Coms. of Pensions in your own name - please inclose the answer to me
     Most Respectfully
     Your Obt Servt
      Arad Joys

Hon H. S. Conger
  M. C
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Apr 22/50
Thom's Lumpkin
April 16, 1850

Respecting case of Mrs. Lyon 
widow of Noah Lyon - referred to in the enclosed letter from Mr. Harry Heath

Ref'd to Comm of Pensions
April 19, 1850
Dept Interior

Mr. Allison
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          Washington
           April 16th '58

Sir,
     I enclose herewith Mr. Harvey Heath's letter from New York, and have the honor to request that the case to which he alluded, Viz: Mrs. Mary Lyon, widow of Noah Lyon, New York roll, may be re-examined.  Mr. Heath thinks this case "sufficiently established."
  He is a gentleman well versed in business of this kind, and I trust upon a review of this claim, the Department may regard it as just.  If no allowance, I desire that the objection may be communicated to you.

   I have the honor to be
   Most Respectfully
   Your Obt. Servt.
    Th. Sumpkin

Hon. H. Ewing
 Secretary of the Dep.
   of the Interior.