Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10462, for Isaac Terry, Massachusetts
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(3-1776)
Terry, Isaac [star]
Service Mass.
Number R10462

Contents
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1884 Dec 8 Stephen Terry,
 Con history Prior
[crossed off} Acts of July 14, 1862 and March 3, 1873.
10462
P.O.
Isaac Terry
Service:
[stamped] REJECTED
Enlisted: 18.
Discharged:  18.
Application files:  18.
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O.
Recognized.
Contrac
Cert. of Dis.
Searched for: 18
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Isaac Terry
New York
From Act 7 June 1832
Rejected see letter to Horace Draper
Nov 30 1837
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10589
In matter of Isaac Terry
Pension Application
a service of more significance not embraced by the act
10462
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State of New York
County of Broome SS
On this thirtieth day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Broome, now sitting, Isaac Terry resident of Colesville in the county of Broome State of New York aged seventy six years, 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 the seventh of June in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following circumstances and while residing in the Sea Port town of Old Dartmouth (since did into and now respectively called Fairhaven New-Bedford and Dartmouth in the County of Bristol and State of Massachusetts.
In the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six, about the middle of June he belonged to a militia company commanded by Capt. Jenny ^in Colonels Claghorns Regiment , the other officers of which he does not now recollect. In consequence of the exposure of that Port to the invasion of the British and Torries, the Town authorities made a draft of fifty of the most robust & able men in town to stand in readiness and remain at home in defence of the Port called Militia-minute-men. This company of fifty men was armed and distinguished by a sort of helmet or cap inscribed by "the defence of Liberty". It was this deponents lot to be one of the men belonging to Capt. Jenny's company who was drawn to make up the fifty minute men. From the period of his being drafted by the Town authorities to serve as a minute-
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man his duties in Capt. Jenny's company ceased. The members of Capt. Jenny's company were occasionally drafted for the regular service, from which service this deponent was excepted by being retained by the town authorities and till so retained was liable himself to be drafted for the regular service. He served in the capacity of a militia minute man till sometime in the summer of the year seventeen hundred and eighty, when he removed to a place called (illegible) Plain five miles distant from Old Dartmouth having been in the service as a minute man for the period of four years. During which period his services consisted in guarding the harbour and watching and arresting Torries. He doing this he was frequently in skirmishes, in which the inscription on his forehead "in defence of liberty" was alone sufficient to render him a chosen mark. He has often been in fight with Torries and British soldiers at but a few places distant when their shots were heard a way side. The town of Old Dartmouth and its harbour were often molested by the British while their fleet and land forces were in and about Rhode Island Property to an immense amount was destroyed by fire and other means, and this deponent was a sufferer to the mount of six or seven hundred dollars by the burning of a cargo of which he was part owner. By the depreciation of the army at that time he also lost two thousand dollars. He has been lame for the last twenty eight years from  cancerous affections and is now a cripple getting about only by means of his two crutches. He has received his support for the last ten years from the town as a pauper and by a late arrangement if he has further support, must become an inmate of the County Poor House. This he thinks he can not
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endure. His services were not exclusively confined to the town of Old Dartmouth, but extended to the distance of eight or ten miles round about as occasion required the minute militia forming scouting parties and acting under the command of some one of their number whom they designated as their Captain. Of this four years service as a minute-man he has no witness or documentary evidence. He was born at Rochester, Plymouth County Massachusetts on the Sixteenth day of October in the year one thousand seven hundred and fifty five & he knows of no living witness by whom he can prove his services.
He hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of any agency in this or any other State.
Isaac Terry
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid,
B. Marvin clerk

We, Thomas Blakslee Judge of Broome Co residing in the town of Colesville and Caleb Nass residing in the same town, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Isaac Terry who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy six years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resided to have been a soldier of the Revolution; and that we concur in that opinion.
Thos. Blakslee
Caleb Nass
Subscribed to and sworn to the day and year aforesaid.
B. Marvin, Clerk
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed
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by the War department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certified that it appears to them that Hon. Thos. Blakslee who has signed the preceding certificate is a resident in the town of Colesville and that Caleb Ness who has signed the same is a resident in the same town of Colesville and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I B. Marvin Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Broome County do hereby certify that this contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Isaac Terry for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 30th day of August 1832.
B. Marvin Clerk of Broome Com. pleas.
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Revolutionary
 claim (suspended)

Isaac Terry
(crossed out-Massachusetts)
New York
1832
Suspd.


N. Cole
May 3/53
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State of New York
County of Chenango
Be it known that before me, Warren Gray, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County of Chenango on this 30th day of December 1852, personally appeared John Terry, of the town of Smithville in the County of Chenango, aged sixty five years, who being duly cautioned and sworn in due form of law states, that he is the son, and one of the heirs at law of Isaac Terry deceased, who was as this deponent is informed and believes a revolutionary Soldier who served as Minute Militia Man Under the command of Captain Henry Jenny, col. George Clayger Massachusetts Militia during the revolutionary war and that his father Isaac Terry died in April 1845-that his mother died in 1825; that her name was Huldah; that his father and Mother as he is informed and believes were married before the breaking out of the ar of the revolution, and were residents of Bristol County Massachusetts; that his father died in the town of Colesville, Broome County, New York. The said John Terry, by these presents, constitute appoint & fully empowers and authorizes irrevocably and with power of substitution, H. C. Hassler of Washington City D. C. as my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name and stead, to examine into, to prosecute, demand and to receive from the United States Government Offices my rights in all and my (illegible) of claim for pension or arrears of pension or land that may be due me as Son and heir at law of said Isaac Terry deceased.
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In witness whereof the said John Terry has on this 30th day of December 1852 hereunto signed his name and affixed his Seal.
John Terry
Witness: Robt. Monell
Witness: Warren Gray

Sworn to ^ and acknowledged^ before me, the day & year above written.
Warren Gray Justice of the peace

State of New York
County of Chenango Ss
I hereby certify that Warren Gray Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit and acknowledgement was made, and who has thereunto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn and that his signature above written is genuine.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said County Court his 31st day of December 1852.

State of New York
Chenango County Clerk's Office, ss.
I Horace S. Read, Clerk of said County do certify that Warren Gray Esq. before whom the annexed instrument was proved or acknowledged, was at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly authorized and qualified to take the same. And further: that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe the signature thereto, purporting to be his is genuine; and that the said instrument is executed in accordance with the Laws of the State of New York.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal at Norwich, this 31st day of December, 1852.
Horace S. Read, Clerk
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The National Archives
Form Van-51
12-5-41
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives.

Bounty Land Warrant Record Card*

Name: Terry, James
Grade: Private
Line: Maryland
Warrant Number: 11753
Acreage 100
Issued December 12, 179?  (torn)
to--not shown

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 3 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.  Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.