Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16,021, Elijah Goodell, New York
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Service                                  Number
New York    Goodell, Elijah    W16021
                                  Lydia
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9224
New York
Lydia Goodell, decd widow of Elijah Goodell who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the [12 of Oct. 1840 date crossed out] 1829 of Tompkins in the State of N.Y. who was Matross in the Cont . . . [cut off]  commanded by Captain  (blank) ... N.Y. commanded by Captain (blank) of the . . . N.Y. (blank) line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 100 Dollars and (blank) Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836 & Ending Nov. 12, 184_, when she died.

Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of April 1815 and sent to A... Clay, Esq.

Total Amount  [illegible]

Act July, 1838
Recorded by F L Swann  Clerk
Book ? Vol. 1 Page 159

[right side]
Letter to Major Goodell, June 11, 184?
See Let to Agt
22 April 1845
F.E. Hassar [Hassler?]
Nov 7/ 51
Major Goodell, Sept 13/52
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Elijah Goodell

on Wissans Regt
? on 1780 -

On Final settlement
 Vol 3 Page 14
 No 49461

[right side]  19.075
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State of New York
Cayuga County
On this nineteenth day of May 1824 personally appeared in open court (being) a Court of Record for the County of Cayuga Elijah Goodell of the town of Locke in said County and State a for said ago about sixty three years according to the best information and belief of this deponent  who first being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of Congress of the 18 March 1818. And the first of May 1820. that he the said Elijah Goodell enlisted for the term of nine months in the month of May or June in the Year 1780. In the company commanded by Lieut [crossed out] Sturdevant (This deponent does not recall A the name of the Capt of the Company as it was said that he was a prisoner in the City of New York) in the Regt of Col  Wesson or Westons, but under the immediate command of Lieu Col Miller in Gen [General] Glover’s Brigade in the line of the State of Massachusetts. that this deponent served faithfully during the time of his enlistment and was discharged at the end thereof. that this deponent soon after his discharge to wit in the month of March 1781 enlisted again in the line of the State of Massachusetts in the Company of Artillery commanded by Capt Thomas Vose in the Reg commanded by Col. John Crayne in the Continental establishment. that he continued to serve in the said corps until the Year 1783 at which time this deponent employed a substitute (the name of whom this deponent has now forgot) that the substitute was accepted by the Capt. of the Company by and with the consent and affirmation of the Col of said Regt.
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that this deponent paid the substitute for enlisting as such. that this deponent was then discharged from the service which took place at West Point in the State of New York that this deponent was in several skirmishes Viz at Tarry town and what was then called the Mill Square near Fort Washington in the State of New York. that this deponent was at the taking of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, and this deponent further saith that he hath no other evidence in his power? of his services except the affidavits of David Goodell & Henry Dutcher hereunto annexed. And in persuance of the Act of the 1st May 1820. I do solemnly swear that I was a Resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March One thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that I have not since that time by gift or sale or in any manner disposed of any Property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it and to bring myself within the provisions of the act of Congress entitled An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval Services of the United States in the  Revolutionary War invoked on the 18th day of March 1818, And that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts on debts due to nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed. 
	Schedule of the property of Elijah Goodell of the town of Locke in the County of Cayuga applying for the benefit of the pension Law of the United States passed the 18th of March
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1818 and the 1st of May 1820.
     90. Acres of land - Value pr Acre $6 (unproductive) the title to which premises is in dispute - I have no personal  property that I am by occupation a Shoe Maker but owing to my advanced age I am unable to work but a small portion of my time - that my family consists of my wife Lydia Goodell who is aged Sixty Seven years that she is almost blind and is a cripple, that I am unable to support myself and wife with out Assistance, that this Deponent owes into $50 the Value of said land provided his title proves Good. at present no disposition can be made of the land by way of a sale owing to the supposed defect in the title.
  Elijah Goodell.

Sworn this 19th day of May 1824 before me  Geo B. Throop  Clerk
  I George B. Throop  Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Cayuga do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of said Court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount in Value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is One hundred & Eighty dollars (in the Event of the title of said Goodell to the premises mentioned in this said Schedule proving good.)
  In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 19th day of May 1824
  Geo B. Throop, Clerk of Cayuga Com Pleas
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12
Mr. J.W. Quigg
Ithaca
New York
Double
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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the third section of the Act of Congress of the 4th July 1836

State of New York
County of Tompkins SS.

On this 18th day of February 1845 personally appeared before the court holden at Ithaca and for said County in open Court, Major Goodall of Homer in the County of Cortlandt, near the line of the Said County of Tompkins, aged fifty seven years and upwards; who being  first duly sworn according to law, 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 4th 1836.
That this deponent is a son of the late widow of Elijah Goodall, viz. Lydia Goodall, whose husband was a soldier in the War of the Revolution.  That this deponent said further Elijah Goodall served as this deponent has understood and believed in the War of the Revolution two or three years; that he served under Capt Thomas Vose, COl Cramer's Regiment, as this deponent believes; that he probably served under other officers also,--
That this deponent father the said Elijah Goodall died in the year 1829, eighteen hundred and twenty nine, leaving the above named Lydia Goodall, this deponent's mother, him surviving, as his widow, to whom he was married in the year of Our Lord 1783 seventeen hundred and eighty three; that after the death of the aforesaid Elijah Goodall, late a soldier in the War of the Revolution, his aforesaid widow Lydia Goodall remained his widow, never having married after her said husband's death, till her death which took place on the 12th day of November 1840, eighteen hundred and forty; that this deponent and applicant Major Goodall the only surviving child of the late widow Lydia Goodall, makes the declaration in order to obtain the pension due to his aforesaid mother, widow Lydia Goodall, at her decease on the 12th day of November 1840, as above stated.
Subscribed and sworn before the Court in open Court at the day and date [illegible] above written

Major Goodell [signature]

Ezra Weaver Dept Clerk
of Tompkins County
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Top paragraph:
on the 12th day of November 1840, eighty hundred and forty; leaving at his (illegible), the aforesaid Major Goodall, him surviving the above mentioned, he being the only child [?]  Surviving, and that he is  [?] the age of twenty in years - the proof of which was Satisfactory in the Court, is herewith attached, Viz, The deposition of Dorcas Card, Benjamin Card & Zadoc Cady, together with the Deposition of the said Major Goodell in his application annexed
  Robt Monell  Circuit Judge

Bottom:
State of New York
Tompkins County,} S, I Henry B Weaver Clerk of the County of Tompkins do hereby certify that  Robert Monell before whom the foregoing declaration was made & whose name is subscribed to the certificate thereto was at the date of the same acting as a presiding judge of a Circuit Court of Oyer & Terminer &c then being held in and for said county and that the same was subscribed in open court and further that his signature thereto is genuine.
 In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said county at Ithaca the 24th day of February A.D. 1845
 Ezra Weaver Dept Clerk
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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 Dorcas Card of Moravia in said county aged eighty seven years after being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that she has for upwards of sixty years been personally acquainted with Elijah Goodall & his late widow Lydia Goodall, that this deponent has from her first acquaintance heard & believed that the said Elijah Goodall had served in the war of the revolution, that his residence as she also learned was during the war of the revolution in Charlton in Massachusetts, that this deponent has been continually acquainted with the said parties as husband & wife for more than Sixty years, that the said parties had never but two children, that one of them died in 1838, that the Said Elijah Goodall died in Sept 1829 leaving as his widow the said Lydia Goodall, who remained his widow till her death, and that she died on the 12th day of November 1840 eighteen hundred and forty, that at her death she left one child her surviving being her only child surviving & that he is of the age of twenty one years and upwards, to wit, Major Goodall of Homer Courtland County New York, near the line of Tompkins County New York.

Dorcas Card X her mark

Sworn & Subscribed before me
this 14th day of February 1845
Caleb Taylor Justice}  

I certify that the above named Dorcas Card is a respectable person.

Presents of Caleb Taylor Justice
                      Caleb Taylor Justice [signature]

State of New York
County of Cayuga SS
 
Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County Benjamin Card of Moravia, in said county aged sixty years after being duly sworn according to law deposes and says that he has been from a child, personally acquainted with Elijah Goodall & his then wife Lydia Goodall & that he has from his first recollection & acquaintance with the Said parties known them a husband & wife, that he has from a child understood & believed that the Said Elijah Goodall served in the war of the revolution that his residence during the war of the revolution he understood & believed was in Charlton Massachusetts, that this deponent was also personally acquainted with the family of the said parties, that they had two children only & that one of them died in 1838, that the said Elijah Goodall died in 1829 leaving his widow the said Lydia Goodall who remained his widow till her death, and that
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She died on the 12th day of November 1840 eighteen hundred and forty, leaving one child her Surviving being her only child her surviving and that he is of the age of twenty one years and upwards, to wit, Major Goodall of Homer in Courtland County New York, near the line of Tompkins County New York, that this deponent and the only surviving child of the said parties the Said Major Goodall were boys together & that the said Major Goodall is fifty seven years of age or upwards.

Benjamin Card X his mark

Sworn & subscribed before me 
this 14th day of February 1840
before and in presents of Cooper Snider
Caleb Taylor Justice

I certify that the above named Benjamin Card is a respectable person
Caleb Taylor Justice

State of New York
County of Cayuga SS

Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said county Zadock Cady of Moravia in said county aged seventy eight years, after being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he has been since 1800 personally acquainted with Elijah Goodall & his then wife Lydia Goodall, that the said parties had at that time only two children & that they were grown up full size & full age young may & young woman, that this deponent has understood & believed that the said Elijah Goodall had been a soldier in the war of the Revolution and that he was from Charlton Massachusetts, that this said Elijah Goodall died in 1829 leaving his widow the said Lydia Goodall him surviving, and that she died his widow on the 12th day of November 1840 eighteen hundred and forty, leaving at her death one child her surviving, being her only child her surviving & that he is twenty one years of age and upwards, to wit, Major Goodall of Homer Cortland County New York--that this deponent considers the said Major Goodall to be of the age of fifty five to sixty--

 Zadok Cady [signature]

Sworn & subscribed before me this 14th day of February 1845
before me Caleb Taylor Justice 

I certify that the above named Zadock Cady is a highly respectable person
Caleb Taylor Justice [signature]
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State of New York, 
County of Cayuga } Ss

[affixed seal]
I, Philip Van Arsdale, Clerk of said county do hereby certify that Caleb Taylor Esq. was on the 14th day of February 1845, a justice of the peace in and for said county. duly elected and qualified & that the foregoing are his genuine signatures.
In testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common pleas of said county this 15th day of February A.D., 1845.

Philip Van Arsdale  Clerk
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[Verso: a ribbon fixed to the page by a rectangular piece of dark paper or board.  There is writing along the outside of the left hand margin but it appears to belong to another document underneath] 

[Recto:]
Affidavit for 
Papers in case
Lydia Goodell
Revolutionary
Pensioner
State of New York

1

Mr. Cole

Filed 30 July 1837
Ex by--F.E Hussler
Attny
Aug-15-/57
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State of New York
County of Cayuga  SS

Know All Men By these presents that I Major Goodell of the town of Homer Courtland County and State of New York do hereby irevocably make constitute and appoint J.G. Rhoads of Sempronius Cayuga County and State of New York and F. E. Hassler of the City of Washington D.C. or Either of them my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name and for my Benefit to ask Demand and receive all such papers as has been plased [placed] on file in the Said pension office or from the Department of the interior which I may be Entitled to By reason of My Being the onely Heir of Elijah Goodel Deseased [Deceased] also to ask Demand and receive all Such Sum or Sums of money which I may Be come Entitled to from any of the Departments of the United States By reason of the services of My Said father Elijah Goodell for his Said Services during the War Between the United States and Great Britain  Hereby revoking and countermanding any other power of Attorney or authority that may have Been heretofore given--By Me for the above Specified purpose
In testimony whereof I have herewith Set my hand and seal this 2[5?] day of July 1851.

Major Goodell [signature]

On this 22nd day of July 1851 personly [personally] appeared before me Jehial Mather a Justice of the peace duly authorised by Law to take acknowledgements in and for the County of Cayuga and State aforesaid Major Goodell and acknowledged the above power of Attorney to be his free act and deed for the purposes herein mentioned

Jehial Mather Justice of the Peace [signature]
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Power of Atty
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State of New York
County of Cayuga

On this 22 day of July 1851, pesonly [personally] appeared before me Jehial Mather a Justice of the peace of the Town of Sempronius in and for the county and state aforesaid Major Goodell aged 64 years a Resident of the town of Homer, Courtland [Cortland] County and State of New York Depose and says that he is the son and only living child of Elijah & Lydia Goodell and that he is the son of the same Elijah Goodell who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and that his father Elijah Goodell did not obtain a pension for his said services in said war and that this affidavit is made for the purpose of obtaining his said pension from the 4th of March 1826 up to the death of the said Elijah Goodell and the Deponent further says that his father Elijah Goodell died sometime in September 1830 as this deponent believes as reference can be had to papers on file in the pension office and Deponent further says that he thought the assistance of one Adad [Arad?] Joy made an application to the pension Deponent for what he was entitled for his mother Lydia Goodell the widow of Elijah Goodell and obtain the same but this deponent did not make the application at that time for what he conceives himself entitled to from 182[4?] to his said death and deponent says that Lydia Goodell Died some time in the fall of 1840 as will show by papers on file in said pension office and further Deponent Saith not     Major Goodell
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Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 22nd day of July 1851  And I hereby certify
that the above named deponent is the identicle [sic] Heir of Elijah and Lydia Goodell as
stated in this his affidavit

Jehial Mather Justice of the Peace

State of New York
Cayuga County Clerks Office SS
I certify that Jehial Mather was at the time of taking the foregoing Affidavit a justice of the Peace in & for the County of Cayuga duly Elected & qualified & that
the Signatures purporting to be his own are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office this 25th day of July 1851.  Ebenezer B. Cobb Clerk of the County
 of Cayuga & of the Court of record thereof

[Court seal and ribbon attached to the left lower corner of document]
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Let to Arid Joy Dec 17th[?4]
11.756
Suspended
Let to Major Goodell NY
April 5 1843

Lydia ["Major" struck through] Goodell decd.
New York

Act 7 July 1838
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1828 papers
to be filed
see A [superscript "d" underlined]ow
Wid File
#16021

[small calligraphic border below writing]
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Elijah Goodell-- Pvt--
Col. Crane's Artly

New York
Exd one old Book & Ref
Wid. file no. 16021
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Per WIDOW, &c.

File No.     16021
Lydia Goodell
Widow of 
Elijah Goodell
Mattross Rev. War

Act  July 7th 1838

Index:  Vol. A, Page 264
(Arrangement of 1870)
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[Along left margin, overwritten:]
Mr. Heath Commissioner of Pensions

[The following overtop, in center of document:]
July 9th 1852
Rel: to claim 
of Lydia Goodell
Decd wid: of Elijah

Major Goodell
Moravia
N. York

[The following written in pencil overtop the foregoing, covering the upper third of the document:]
G

[The following upside down at the bottom of document:]
July 9, 52

[The following upside down in pencil, just above the preceding:]
Kindly
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REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Sept. 4. 1828
Elijah Goodell, of Locke, in the county of Cayuga, in the State of New York, has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Private in captain T. Vole's company, in Col. Crane's regiment of the Artillery line ; and ^ does not recollect, that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3rd of March 1826, nothing~
   The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office. 
By order of the Secretary, 
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, 
Third Auditors Office, 
11th September 1828
[words crossed out]
It further appears that Elijah Goodell is not on the pension list of any agency, and has ^ not been so since the 3rd of March 1826
The name of Elijah Goodell cannot be found among Those of Col. Cranes Artillery to whom
Certificates for The gratuity of Eighty Dollars were issued. 
[signature]  Peter Hagner  A[?]
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War Depart: Bounty Land Office
15 May 1829
The records of this office do not shew that Elijah Goodell of the Mass, line ever received or is entitled to bounty land of the United States

Robert Taylor
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E. Goodell
recd 4 Sept 1828
ask 4th

Richar [cut off]
Sect [cut off]
City of [cut off]
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Free
Richard Rush Esq -
Sect Treas U S.
City of Washington
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Sir I have annexed an affidavit of S. Baker of Loch [Locke] who was in the army and knew that Goodell was a soldier &c.  but because of the distance of the Cayuga Clerks office from me I did not send for a certificate of the Authority of Same to take afdts &c he living in another county  I suppose the others to be sufficient 
Dated August 25th 1828
Yours &c
M.M. Butterfield

To Richard Rush Esquire
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Cortland County Ss
Before me Lezar B Canfield one of the
justices of the peace in and for the County
of Cortland, duly empowered to adminster
[administer] oaths. at the town of Homer in said County in the State of New York Joel Monro
personally appeared of the town of Lock [Locke] in the County of Cayuga who did make oath that Elijah Goodell by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally reputed
and believed to have been a soldier in
the army of the revolution in manner as
therein stated
Witness my hand this 26th day of August
1824
Joel Monro
sworn and subscribed
before me this 26th day
of August 1828
Lizur B Canfield Justice
of the Peace
Samuel Hotchkiss Jr. Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Cortland in the State of
New York do certify that Lizur B Canfield
before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn was at the time a Justice of the peace of the town of Homer in the County of Cortland and State aforesaid and duly empowered to administ [administer] oaths
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court
this 20th day of August in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and twenty
Saml Hotchkiss Jr. Clerk
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For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of An Act for the relief of Certain Surving [serving? surviving?] officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution" approved on the 15th of May 1828 I Elijah Goodell of Lock [Locke] in the County of Cayuga in the State of New York do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the revolution for three years during the war and continued in its service untill [until] its termination at which period I was a private in Captain Thomas Vorce's Company in the Regiment Commanded by Col. (I believe) John) Crane (I believe the first) regiment of the artillery of the line; And  I also declare that I afterwards, (was entitled to a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars if anyone was, but know nothing of any such certificate) under a resolve of Congress passed 15th May 1778.
And I further declare that I was not on the fifteenth day day [duplicated] of March 1828 on the pension list of the United States, to my knowledge.  Dated at Homer July 15th 1828
Elijah Goodell [signature]

Cortland county SS.  Elijah Goodell of Lock [Locke] in the County of Cayuga being duly sworn by me Lizur B. Canfield one of the Justices of the peace in and for the county of Cortland empowered to administer oaths says he received certificate discharge from the service and left the said discharge with one Lincoln A. Sawyer
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in the town of Worcester and County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts and deposited in his office and he has since sent for it and is told that it was burnt at the time the said Lincoln's office was consumed by fire.
Eliah [Elijah] Goodell  [signature]

Sworn before me this 15th day of July 1828--
Lizur B. Canfield Justice of the Peace
in and for the County of Cortland

Courtland County SS
Before me Lizur B. Canfield Justice of the peace of the twon of Homer in the County of Cortland State of New York duly empowered to administer oaths in the County of Cortland in the State of New York personally appeared this thirteenth day of August in the year 1828 Artimas [Artemas] Dresser of Sempronius in the County of Cayuga and State aforesaid who did make oaths that Elijah Goodell by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally reputed and believed to have been a soldier in the army of the revolution in service as stated therein.  Witness my hand this 13th day of August 1828
Artemas Dresser [signature]

Sworn before me this 13th of August 1828
L B Canfield Justice of the Peace, in and for Cortland County
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Cayuga County SS:

August 25th 1828 then personally came before me Solomon Louam of the Justices of the peace of the [Cort?]land County Samuel Baker and being duly sworn did Depose and say that he is acquainted with Elijah Goodell of the town of Locke and that he knows him to be the same Elijah Goodell and this Deponent and that Goodell served in Colonel Holman's Regiment of Militia and Capt John Nichols Company in the year of 1776 in the Army of the United States and that this Deponent and the said Elijah Goodell served five Months and this Deponent further says that he lived at the time in the town of Oxford in the State of Massachusetts and that the said Elijah Goodell then lived in the town of Charlton adjoining the town of Oxford, that this Deponent was personally acquainted with the s. [said] Elijah Goodell both before and after s. [said] Service and this Deponent further says that understood that the s. [said] Elijah Goodell Enlisted into the Regular Army of the United States and Verily believes that he served in the Continental Army line

Subscribed before me 
S Louam [signature]
Samuel Baker [signature]
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Arad Joy
Ovid
Seneca Co  New York
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State of New York
Cayuga County Clerks Office SS

I Philip Van Arsdale Clerk of Cayuga County, do hereby certify that Caleb Taylor Esq before whom the within Affidavit was subscribed and sworn was at the time of taking the said Affidavit a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Cayuga duly elected and qualified.  And that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Taylor and believe the foregoing to be his genuine signature--  In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the said County this 27th day of February 1848

Philip Van Arsdale, Clerk
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State of New York
County of Cayuga SS
Personally appeared before the Subscribed a Justice of the peace in and for said County Zadoc [Zadok] Cady of Moravia in Said County aged seventy eight years, after being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he was personally acquainted in the war of the Revolution with Elijah Goodall [Goodell] of Holden, Worcester County Massachusetts, that this deponent saw the said Elijah Goodall [Goodell] in actual service in the War of the revolution; that the said Elijah Goodall and his wife Lydia and their family of two children located in Cayuga County New York, more than forty years since that the said Elijah Goodall [Goodell] died in 1829, leaving his wife Lydia Goodall [Goodell] as his widow, who remained his widow till her death, and that she died November 12th 1840, eighteen hundred and forty leaving one child only, to wit, Major Goodall [Goodell] of Homer Cortland County, New York, near the line of Tompkins county New York, that the above named Elijah Goodall [Goodell] the late husband of said Lydia Goodall [Goodell] and the late father of the said Major Goodall [Goodell] was the identical person and soldier who performed the revolutionary service under that name and that this deponent knew of no other Elijah Goodall [Goodell] who performed revolutionary service.
Zadok Cady [signature]

Subscribed and sworn before me this 28th day of February 1845
Caleb Taylor Justice [signature]

I certify that the above named Zadoc [Zadok] Cady is a highly respectable person and entitled to full credit.
Caleb Taylor Justice [signature]
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Sempronious NY
17 Nov

Hon John E Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington City

Rec 25 Nov 1824
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Sempronius Nov 16 1824

Sir
In the Month of August I transmitted to your office some papers pertaining to the application of Elijah Goodell for a pension.  Will you sir have the goodness to forward me your decision thereon
I am Sir very respectfully
your obt [obedient] Servant
Artemas Cady
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State of Massachusetts
County of Worcester  SS.
Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for Said County Jedothan Goodell of Charlton in Said County aged seventy seven years.  After being duly sworn according to law deposes and says that Elijah Goodell in the time of the Revolution a resident of Holden Worcester Co. Massachusetts but late of Cayuga County New York, the late husband of Lydia Goodell of the Same place, was the deponents brother.  That the said parties as the lawful fruit of their marriage, had two children, one of which only survives & that his name is Major Goodell, now of Homer Courtland County near the line of Cayuga County and that he is of the age of fifty five to fifty eight years, that the said father of the said Major Goodell, to wit, the above named Elijah Goodell was the identical person who served in the war of the revolution from the town of [illegible] in the county of Worcester Massachusetts where this deponent at the time of the revolution resided, that he knew of no other Elijah Goodell from the town of Holden or County of Worcester & that he was the identical person who performed revolutionary service under that name, & that Lydia Goodell was his widow & that Major Goodell is a son of the said parties and their only child
Jedathan [Jedothan] Goodell [signature]

Sworn and Subscribed before me this seventh day of March 1845
John Eddy Justice of the Peace [signature]

I certify that the above named Jedothan Goodell is a respectable person and entitled to credit
John Eddy Justice of the Peace [signature]

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Worcester SS
I Jos. G. Kendall Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Worcester certify that John Eddy above named is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County duly qualified & that the signature of his name above written appeared to be in his own hand writing--
In witness whereof I have thereto set my name and affixed the seal of said Court at Worcester this twelfth day of March A.D. 1845.
Jos. G. Kendall Clerk
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March 7, 1845
[?Adalter] case
Lydia Goodall [Goodell]

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commr. of Pensions
Washington
D.C.
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Ovid  March 1 1845

Dear Sir
I endclose application & proof in the case of Lydia Goodall [Goodell], widow of Elijah Goodall [Goodell] whose papers, or a certificate of Secy. of Mass is on file in your office as per your letter of the 17th Dec last, application before the Court   per Son--I have confidence in the merits of the case.
Yours Respectfully
Arad Joy

Hon J L Edwards
Comr. of Pensions
Washington
D.D.

Mr. Cady, you will notice has given two affidavits, on presenting the one attached to the application, he remarked that he knew Goodall [Goodell] in the Service & all about it, & the other was prepared--this is the reason of the two affidavits, that is, because the first did not express half of the particulars that he knew to be true.
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Mr. James L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Mar 3 48
free
Page 41

Mr James L Edwards Esq

I want you should let me know whether there has been A certificate granted for the pension of my father Elijah Goodell or his widow Lydia Goodell.  My father was a soldier of the revolution under Capt Thomas Vost of Cranes [Crane's] Regiment Knoxis [Knox's] Brigade..

yours with respect--
Please write me as soon as convenient
Moravia March 25 1845

Major Goodell
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Goodell dec'd.
NY
act 7 July 1838

Oct 19 '44
NY
Addl [illegible]
Mrs. Goodell

Hon J L Edwards
Commr [Commissioner]. of Pensions
Washington
D.C.
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Ovid Oct 24th 1844

Hon J. L. Edwards
Comr. [Commissioner] of Pensions

Dear Sir
I beg leave to inclose a certificate of service of Elijah Goodell
The history that I have of the case, & I am the appointed agent is, that Elijah Goodell applied for a pensions, probably from Cayuga County N.Y. in 1822; that he died in 1829 was married in 1785 his widow died in 1840--I beg leave respectfully to ask if the inclosed proof applies to the case here represented, & if it does whether the case is not made out, when the facts of his death, her death &c are proven.
I respectfully ask these questions under a supposition that I am not asking amiss, or what I have no right to ask.
I am Respectfully Your Most Obt.[Obedient] Servt [Servant]
Arad Joy
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State of New York
Cayuga County SS

Henry Dutcher of the town of Genoa in county of afforsesaid [aforesaid] aged seventy two years being sworn according to Law Deposeth and sayeth that saw the said Eijah [Elijah] Goodale [Goodell] in the Revolutionary service and that he saw the said Goodale [Goodell] several times while in the service and he thinks that he was in Colonel Crane Redgment [Regiment] on west point and that he saw him in an atachment [attachment] from the Ridgament [Regimen] several times at Verplanks Point and has seen him since the ware [war] and he thinks that he was the most acquainted with him best about the close of the ware [ware] while he Lay on Verplanks point in Van [illegible] Redament [Regiment] and the deponent further sayeth that he has no interest in the said Goodale's [Goodell's] pention [pension] Nether [neither] direct or indirect.

Henry Dutcher H his mark

Subscribed and sworn
to this 14th day Febuary [February] 1823 
before Mr Gursham Morse presence
Jacob W. King
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Augt. 18th 1837

Re:  to claim
of Lydia Goodell dec'd [deceased].

Cap Tripletts 

Arrears Revolutionary Pensioner

Filed 16th August 1831
P. E. Hassler
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Washington City DCa
August 16th 1837

Honorable J. E. Heath
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir,
By virtue of a Power of Attorney on file in your office & for & in the behalf of the Heirs of Lydia Goodell late a Revolutionary Widow pensioner on the Rolls of the State of New York I request that a reexamination of the said claim may be made, & that she receive an allowance as stipulated under the Act 15 May 1828, & should there exist any legal reason for not granting the same please inform
Yours obtly [obediently]
F.E. Hassler,
Attny [Attorney]
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March 22/48
[Adal?] to case
Lydia Goodell

[on side]
free
J.L. Edwards
Comm of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Ovid  March 17th 1845

Dear Sir
I enclose a deposition in the case of Elijah Goodall [Goodell], or his widow Lydia Goodall [Goodell]--I mailed this case to you March 1 45  I ask respectfully that the enclosed paper be placed with the papers mailed March 1. So as to come in & share in the examination & save your department much trouble, the town seems to have been written wrong & altered by the Justice of the Peace before whom the paper was executed, in his own hand & with his own [illegible], I suppose the towns of Holden & Charlton join & Goodall [Goodell] may have lived near the line & the witnesses may have confounded them  &c &c--  I have confidence in this case, as fully & amply made out--but all I ask is justice to the parties
Respectfully Your Most
Obt [Obedient] Servt [Servant]
Arad Joy

Hon J.L. Edwards
Commr. [Commissioner] of Pensions
Washington
D.C.
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To F. E. Haster

Examination of 
Revolutionary Papers

Simon & Elizabeth Bevier

Elijah & Lydia Goodell

on New York Rolls
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Dresserville March 10th 1852
Dear Sir
I herewith send to you an affidavit
of Margaret Dewitt as additional evidence in
the case of Simon and Elizabeth Bevier and also
to identify them as the Heirs of said Beviers I cant
see what more we kneed for the certificate for
his pension was forward to you and his case must
have been made up perfect to entitled him to draw
and what we want is what the widdow might have
drawn and what now belongs the Heirs
The Heirs feel very anxious to learn what the prospects
are
this Margaret Dewitt refud to is now on the
pension Roll and is now drawing a pension she being
a widdow of a Revolutionary Soldier
The matter of
Major Goodell is that he was
Heir of Elijah and Lydia Goodell and that he
drew a pension for that the Widdow might have
drawn during her life but never asked for what
his father was entitled from 1831 up to his death
and that is now what he claims
And all the
proof the necessary in this case I think must have
been made to entitle the heirs of Elijah Goodell
to obtain what their father night have drawn as well as
what their mother did draw
and the papers
of cours are in your controll as you have his power
of Attorney
I am looking after those other cases refered
to by you
Yours truly
J G Rhoads
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11736
Lydia Goodell
Dec'd [deceased]
NY

Act 7 July '38

M 8 3.D.29--
[aomd?] 2 yrs Matross

$100.  from 4"

[struck through: also act 3 march '43]
{struck through:  $100]

Mar. 1836 and ending
[struck through: widow died]

12 Nov: 1840, payl [payable]
to Major Goodell, only sur.[surviving] child

Arad Joy Esqr.
Ovid N.Y.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's Office, Boston; 
Oct 15 1844

I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain i this Department, it appears that the name of Elijah Goodel [Goodell] is found upon a roll for the three years service from the town of Charlton from March 31 1781
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Application for certificate of Revolutionary Services by the widow or her representative--State of New York County of Tompkins  Town of Mclean--
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the rolls in his office, of the service of my late [struck through:  husband], father of Elijah Goodell--
He enlisted in the year ----  from the town of Charlton in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts in the Company of Capt Thomas Vose--in Col Cranes -----Regiment and served as Private--probably--until discharged
He was married in the year 1783. He died in the year 1829  The only other facts which I recollect are as follows--viz.
He enlisted as above stated & served more than 3 years, served under Knox one year, with officers not known.  his widow my mother died in the year 1840
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4/8
Elijah Goodell
Final [illegible]

I am now 57-years old and my memory does not enable me to state anything further material to the search required--
I have empowered Arad Joy of Ovid, Seneca County New York to act in the premises as my attorney--
Witness my hand this 20th day of July A.D. 1848

Signed in my presence by Said Major Goodell Reps [Represented] by his atty [attorney]
Benj [Benjamin] B Sutton Justice of the peace
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And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have  hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written. 
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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19075

Elijah Goodell
Cayuga Co. NY

Artemas Cady 
Sempronius, NY

Recd (Received) 28 Aug 1824

Auburn 22 Aug.
The Honorable J. C. Calhoun
Secretary at War
Washington City
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Sir
I enclose you the papers for Elijah Goodell agreeable to your letter of the 21 July.

I am very respectfully yours &c
Artemas Cady
Sempronius, August 21 1824
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Sempronius 21 Augt 1824

Hon J. C. Calhoun

Sir
I have been acquainted with Elijah Goodell for a number of years passed.  I have never heard his character for truth and veracity under oath questioned, and I believe the facts set forth in his affidavit to be substantially true.

I am Sir Respectfully your Obt. [Obedient] Servant
Rowland Day
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Name crossed out
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19,075

Elijah Goodell

Artemas Cady
Sempronius, N.Y.

Rec'd 9 July 1824
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Mr. Edwards

Kelloggsville
July 1

Free

Hon John C Calhoun
Secretary at War
Washington City

I am Sir very respectfully your [cut off:  obedient]
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Sir
I enclose you the papers pertaining to the application of Elijah Goodell of Locke.  I understand there has been a copy of his application by mistake sent to your office without the papers that it was necessary to have accompany the applications.  I have sent the whole and wish you to forward me your decision as soon [illegible, cut off]eement and I trust you will from an examination of the case grant the [3 words illegible] his petition
I am Sir very respectfully your obt [obedient] Servt. [Servant]

Artemas Cady
Sempronius June 29th 1824

Hon. J C Calhoun
Scratary [Secretary} at War
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19.075
Mr. Edwards
Elijah Goodell
Cayuga Co. N.Y.

John Grover
Auburn, N.Y.

Recd 23 June 1824
[s?sp] See letter June 29. 1824 to Jno Grover

[upside down]
Recd June 23, 1824

[sideways]
Hon John C Calhoun
Secretary of the War Department
Washington City
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Auburn N.Y. June 15 1824

Herewith [illegible - you? shall or will] find Enclosed the applications of Elijah Goodell and Asa Way - After the necessary examinations, will thank you to return them to me -
 Respectfully
  Your Obt Servt
  John Grover

Hon. John C Calhoun
Secretary of War

Asa Way's filed in the original schedules -
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[part of this document is torn]
Original claim
New York
Elijah Goodell, Private
served 2 years from 1781.

[Sc]hedule dated 19th August 1824.
On the 18th of March 1818 claimants property consisted of the following items
1 horse - 1 cow - 3 hogs & 70 acres of land and log house thereon. states that was much harrassed by his creditors who attached his personal property [..ecutions]. sold his farm in Sept 181[?] [to] Elijah Root for $1000, and received in [torn paper] payment horses, harness & cattle amount of [word crossed out] $306 & a bond and [illegible] for $694 - sold 1 horse to [il] Root on credit for $85 debt the insolvency of said Root. - remain  of property sold on executions to [illegible] against claimant which paid t a part of his debts. In the spring [foll?]owing, claimant purchased 50 acres [illegible] for $600 - assigned the bond for the [second?], received an obligation for $94 - this subsequently not considered good was [illegible] for $60 - In the Spring of 1820 there was a judgment against claimant for $100, - he then sold his land for 600 to Artemus & Isaac Cady, payable in four annual  payments in neat stock [..pting] the above Judgment for $100, which is paid in cash in order to satisfy the Judgment claimants personal [interest?] [illegible] at this time under execution. Received from [illegible] such articles as I wanted to  sss?

[right side]
my family and to pay some small debts that were against me, on the [?] first payments"  The note or the last payment of $116 was tur[ned over?] to Rowland Day Esqr to [occur?] a [..ill] of cost that accrued in a suit commenced against Nathaniel Root to cover a demand against him for 85. In the years 1821 ' 23 and part of 1823 claimant and wife were sick with the ague & fever, which together with his losses by lawsuits &c [illegible] above has taken all his property, affidavits of Artemus Cady and Jonathan Hussey exhibited attached to the declaration. Claimant aged 63, Occupation [?]maker unable to do much at business
 [Artemus Cady Esqr Sempronius N.Y. - crossed out]
  See letter to Hon: R. Day, Jany 27. 1825
  H.R
[se]nd to Hon: C. Kellogg, 9th [?]: 1825 -
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Moravia July 1 1852

Mr. Heath sir
My agent Mr Haskel informs me
that I have some five hundred
dollars back pension of my Mother
Lydia Goodells the widdow of Elijah
Goodell deceased which can be got
by showing that they were man and
wife in 1783 or there abouts
Elijah Goodell Revolutionary, under Capt. Thomas Vose, Colonel Crane's Regiment—Henry Nox [Knox] Brigade if you find all right
please inform me and I will send
the desired proof to you
and you
may send in the certificate
Moravia Cayuga Co, New York

Major Goodell
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Mr J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington city D C

June 11th 1845
[postmark] MORAVIA JUN 7
[stamp] FREE
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Mr
JL Edwards Sir
you
granted A pension to
Lydia
Goodell deceased of $469 which was
established in my fathers merits, in my
judgement there is something due my father
he claimed A pension August 7th 1822
of government
he claimed once more
before his death he died September 17
1829 Elijah Goodell served in Thomas Vose's 
company Cranes Regament [Regiment] Knox Brigade
I wish you would make diligent search
and write me as soon
as posable [possible] all about it please here to [illegible] agents as I have no other agent on foot stool to transact
this business but yourself if there is
any thing due my father I demand
it. If not write me why and I give it up
your most obt servant
Moravia June 7, 1845
  Major Goodell
P.B.
let me know whether
My fathers company is entitled to land
To Mr J L. Edwards Esqr
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State of New York
Otsego County SS
Be it remembered that on this 7th day of August 1823 before me Delos White one of the Judges of the County Court of the County of Otsego aforesaid Personally appears David Goodell of Cherry Valley in said County to me well known who being by me duly sworn deposeth and saith as follows--
I David Goodell of the Town of Cherry Valley in the County of Otsego & State of New York being first duly sworn depose & say.  That I am seventy three years of age.  That I am a Brother to Elijah Goodell of the Town of Locke in the County of Cayuga and State aforesaid who is now about sixty years of age.  I furthermore depose to say that during the Revolutionary War the said Elijah Goodell & this Deponent resided in the Town of Charlton County of Worcester & State of Massachusetts.  That during the said War and probably a little more than three years before its close but this Deponent can't now recollect the precise time the said Elijah Goodell enlisted for three years in Colonel Crane's Regiment of Matross or Artillery this Deponent believes in the Massachusetts line.  And he also believes the said Elijah Goodell enlisted in Captain Vases [Vase's] Company in said Regiment but whether that was his Captain's name this
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Deponent is not certain--And I further depose & say that the said Elijah Goodell entered the Service and after he had been in the Service a Year or more I went to visit him from Massachusetts to the Camp at West Point where he was there stationed.  I found him there in the Service & visited him.  He remained in the Service for fifteen months more after I visited him and then returned home having been honorably discharged as he informed this Deponent and as this Deponent believes having as he said procured a substitute who had been accepted & taken his place.  And I further depose & say that at the time he returned home the War had closed but the Army was not disbanded till some time after his return as I was informed & believe.

David Goodell [signature]

Sworn & Subscribed this 7the day of August 1823 before me Delos White one of the Judges of the Otsego County Court.

I the above named Delos White hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named David Goodell and believe him to be a man of fair character and have no doubt his above statement is in substance correct & true--Dated at Cherry Valley Otsego County this 7th of August 1823.

Delos White one of the Judges of the Otsego County Court.
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State of New York
Otsego County SS

I William Nichols Clerk of the County of Otsego in the State aforesaid Do Certify that the above named Delos White was on the day when the above Affidavit was mad and still is one of the judges of the County Court of the County of Otsego aforesaid and acting under the authority of the said State and to the above both to the said Affidavit and to the above Certificate are his Signatures.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Said County Court and Subscribed my name this eighth day of August A.D. 1823.
William Nichols Clk [Clerk]
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E. Goodells

fees 8 s. s. by Mr. Forbush
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State of New York
Cayuga County SS
On this Nineteenth day of May 1824 personally appeared in Open Court (being a Court of Record for the County of Cayuga) Elijah Goodell of the town of Locke in said County and State aforesaid aged about Sixty three Years according to the best information & beleif [belief] of this Deponent, who first being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in Order to obtain the provisions made by the Acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the first of May 1820--that the the said Elijah Goodell enlisted for the term of Nine Months in the Month of May or June in the Year 1780 in the Company commanded by Lieut [Lieutenant] Sturdevant (this Deponent does not reccollect [recollect] the name of the Captain of the Company as it was said that he was a prisoner in the City of New York) in the Regt. of Col. Wesson or Westoris, but under the immediate command of Lieut. Col. Miller in Gen. Glovers Brigade in the line of the State o Massachusetts--that this deponent served faithfully during the time of his enlistment and was discharged at the end thereof, that this Deponent soon after his discharge to wit in the Month of March 1781 enlisted again in the line of the State of Massachusetts in the Company of Artillery commanded by Cap. Thomas Vase in the Rgt. [Regiment] commanded by Col John Crayne in the Continental establishment.  That he continued to serve in the said Corps, untill the Year 1783, at which time this deponent employed a substitute (the name of whom this deponent has now forgot) that the substitute was accepted by the Capt. of the Company by and with the consent & approbation
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of the Co. of said Regt that this deponent paid the substitute for enlisting as such--that this Deponent was then discharged from the Service which took place at West Point in the State of New York--that this deponent was in several Skirmishes Viz. at Tarry Town and at what was then called the Mile Square near Fort Washington in the State of New York--that this deponent was at the taking of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown--And this deponent further saith that he hat no other Evidence in his power of his services except the Affidavits of David Goodell & Henry Dutcher hereunto annexed.  And in pursuance of the Act of the 1st May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the Eighteenth day of March One thousand eight hundred and Eighteen, and that I have not since that time by gift or 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 provisions 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 passed on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or security contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed.
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Schedule of the property of Elijah Goodall of the town of Locke in the County of Cayuga applying for the benefit of the pension law of the United States passed the 18th of March 1818 & the 1st of May 1820
30 acres of land Value p. [per] acre $6 (unproductive) the title to which premises is in dispute. I have no personal property - that I am by occupation a shoemaker, but owing to my advanced age I am unable to work but a small portion of my time that my family consists of my wife Lydia Goodell who is aged sixty seven years that she is almost blind and is a cripple. That I am unable to support myself and wife without assistance.  That this deponent owes into $50 the value of said land provided his title proved good.  At present no disposition could be made of the land by way of a sale owing to the supposed defect in the title. 
Elijah Goodell 

Sworn this 19th day of May 1824 before me. Geo. B. Throop Clerk

I George B. Throop Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Cayuga do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto as served are truly copied from the original filed among the records of said court. And I do further certify that it is the opinion of said court that the total amount is value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is One Hundred Eighty dollars (In the event of the title of said Goodel [Goodell] to the premises mentioned in his said schedule proving good)
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In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court this Nineteenth day of May A. D. 1824
Geo. B. Throop, Clerk
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Declaration
of 
Elijah Goodell
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Cayuga County SS

Elijah Goodell of the town of Locke, County of Cayuga & State of New York, being duly sworn, deposeth & saith, that on the 18th day of March 1818, my property consisted of the following items according to the best of my recollection, to wit:
One Horse
One Cow
Three Swine & 
Seventy acres of poor land on No. 9 in the town of Locke with log building only on it.  That I was much harassed by my creditors, who had attached all my personal property by execution.  That in September 1818, I sold my said farm, to Elijah Root for one thousand dollars.  At the time of sale I received in property three hundred six dollars, said property consisting of horses, harness and cattle; one horse of said property I sold to Nathaniel Root, Jr. for eighty five dollars, on a credit, which demand is lost in consequence of the insolvency of said Root; the remainder of said property was sold on executions to satisfy some judgements that were then against me, & which paid but a part of my debts.  I received a bond & mortgage for six hundred, ninety four dollars.  IN the spring following (1819) I purchased fifty acres of land in the Town of Sempronius for $600 for the payment of which said sum of $^00 I assigned the said bond & mortgage & received an obligation for #94 to be paid at a future period.  Afterwards in consequence of the demand not being considered good, I received $60 and gave up the obligation.  In the Spring of 1820 there was a judgement against my land for about $100.  I then sold my farm for $600 to Artemas Cady & Isaac Cady, payable in four annual payments in neat stock, except the above said $100, in money to pay the judgement & Isaac Cady, such articles as I wanted to support my family & to pay some small debts that ere against me on the three first payments.  The note for the last payment of $116--cts. [no cents] was turned out by me to Rowland Day Esq [crossed through: "Mr. Zadok {illegible}] to secure a bill of cost that accrued in a suit commenced against Nathaniel Root Jr. to recover my demand against said Root of $85.
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In the years 1821'22, & apart of 1823 myself & wife were seized with the ague and fever & were unable to do anything, which together with the above mentioned losses, and lawsuits, & likewise some other lawsuits of which I have been engaged, together with bills of cost, which I have had to pay, has taken all my property as above & left me as per statement in my declaration.
That as relates to the statement that I made of serving nine months in Nelsons regiment I am now satisfied that I made a mistake, though from the length of time that has intervened I verily believed at the time of making the said declaration that I had served the said nine months, as those troops were considered as nine months troops.  This is fully the opinion of this deponent but from his advanced years & long course of ill health he cannot recollect every minute particular.  My property being gone I find myself under the necessity of applying for assistance.

Elijah Goodell [signature]

Sworn & Subscribed the 19th August, A.D. 1824 Before me
Cyrus Powers [signature]
Judge of Cayuga County Courts
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State of New York
Cayuga County SS:

Artemas Cady of Sempronius in the County & State aforesaid being duly sworn deposeth and saith that sometime in the spring of the year 1820 this deponent and his brother Isaac Cady purchased from Elijah Goodell a farm of 50 acres of land lying in the Town of Sempronius aforesaid for which Said premises they this deponent & the said Isaac agreed to pay the said Elijah the sum of five hundred dollars--that they paid one hundred dollars in cash and for the remainder of said five hundred dollars they this deponent and the said Isaac executed their notes to the said Elijah payable in neat stock in four annual instalments, the first of which to be become due on the 1st day of October in the year 1821.  That the three first notes were paid in different articles such as the said Elijah wanted for his familys use and to pay several of his debts--that this deponent has been notified by  Rowland Day Esq that he and Zadock Tittison are the holders and bonafide owners of the note for the last instalment--that after the aforesaid sale of the said farm the said Elijah removed therefrom to about the distance of seven miles from the residence of this deponent, that this deponent has frequently understood form persons residing in the said Elijah's neighborhood since his said removal that the said Elijah and his wife were confined by sickness for a considerable length of time--that many of the facts related in the said Elijah's deposition are true to the knowledge of this deponent and that the said Elijah's reputation for truth and veracity is good.  And further this deponent believes the affidavit of the said Elijah, hereunto annexed is substantially correct & true--

Artemas Cady [signature]

Sworn this 19th day of August 1824 Before me
Cyrus Powers
Judge of Cayuga County Courts
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State of New York
Cayuga County ss: 
Jonathan Hussey of Sempronius in the County and State aforesaid being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he has been acquainted with Elijah Goodell for the Term of 
 ten years and upwards that this deponent never heard the said Elijah's reputation impeached for truth and veracity and therefore  believes it to be good ~ And this deponent further saith that he has examined the affidavit of said Elijah Goodell hereunto annexed and verily believes the facts therein set forth are correct and true.  
J. Hussey

Sworn this 20. day of August 1824 Before
me
Cyrus Powers 
Judge of Cayuga County
Courts _______________________
_________________ [illegible] ___________________


Cayuga County SS   I, Cyrus Powers before whom the above affidavit of J. Hussey Esq. was made and subscribed and before whom the annexed affidavit of Artimus [Artemas] Cady was made & subscribed being Judge as aforesaid do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the said J. Hussey & Artimus [Artemas] Cady and know them to be [words crossed out] respectively to sustain a good moral character and are entitled to full credit and belief.
Dated August 20th. 1824    
Cyrus Powers
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State of New York,
Cayuga County
Clerk's Office } SS

I certify that Cyrus Powers,
Esquire, was on the 19th day of August 
in the year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and twenty four and still is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas_______________
in and for the county of Cayuga, duly commissioned and sworn as such Judge and that full faith and credit are to be given to his acts in that capacity.
I further certify, that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge and verily believe the signatures of 
"Cyrus Powers" to the annexed affidavits to be his.
     In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the court of common pleas of said county, and subscribed my name, this twenty first day of August in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty four.

Geo B. Throop  Clerk