Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7,063, for Elisha B Maynard, New York
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SERVICE: New York
Maynard, Elisha B.
NUMBER: R. 7,063
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SERVICE: New York
Maynard, Elisha B.
NUMBER: R. 7,063
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32,809
Elisha B. Maynard
N.Y.

Vol. 3 p7 - 3 days Jany 81
"  " p9 - 5 " Nov 80
p12 - 6 " Oct 80

Upside down:
EB Maynard
Declaration
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Declaration in order to obtain benefit of act of Congress passed June 7 1832 
State of New York} 
Westchester County} ss.  
[SEAL]  On this twenty-sixth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Westchester and State of New York now sitting at White Plains in said County, Elisha B Maynard a Resident of the Town of Harrison in the said County of Westchester aged Seventy one years on the twenty fourth day of January last who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June Seventh 1832. 
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated that is to say that in the month of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Seventy eight this declarent was residing in the Town of Harrison aforesaid (then called Harrison's Purchase) in the said County of Westchester within the Militia beat of a Company of Militia in Colonel Thomas Thomas's Regiment of Militia in said County Commanded by Captain Thomas Carpenter and being then over fifteen years of age and constantly exposed to attacks from parties of the Enemy. This declarant volunteer'd to serve and did serve as a private in the aforesaid Company of Militia in Regular Military service under arms on Guard and Patroling parties within the said County wherever they were ordered by their
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officers from the Month of March aforesaid till about the first day of November in said last mentioned year That during this declarents aforesaid service in the aforesaid Militia Company as a private from the exposed situation of the said County of Westchester and their vicinity to the British lines this declarent with his said Company were in almost constant military service under arms by day or night on Guard within the said County insomuch that this declarant could not nor did during said last mentioned period follow any civil employment whatever but was for different periods of time from the month of March aforesaid to the month of November aforesaid in the year 1778 in actual military service under arms as a Private in his aforesaid Company of Militia in the service of the Americans four months 
That while this declarant was serving as aforesaid as a private in his aforesaid Company of Militia & while this Declarent and part of his aforesaid Company with his said Captain and Lieutenant of said Company (James Brundage) were doing duty under arms as a guard at the house of Colonel Thomas Thomas the Colonel of their said Regiment at the Town of Harrison aforesaid a party of British horse and infantry under the Command of Colonel Simcoe before daylight attacked the said party on Guard at Colonel Thomas's as aforesaid and killed their said Lieutenant (James Brundage) and Gilbert Slater a private in said Company dangerously wounded their aforesaid Captain Thomas Carpenter, and took their aforesaid Colonel Thomas Thomas - this Declarant - and all the rest of the party (but one of them) Prisoners 
That the said British party made the attack aforesaid and took this Declarant prisoner on or about the first day of November in the year 1778
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but this Declarent cannot recollect the particular day of said Month. That this Declarent was immediately taken by the said British party under the command of Colonel Simcoe to the City of New York and lodged there in the "Provost Jail" where this Declarent remained a prisoner of War for the space of three months and was then removed as such prisoner to the "Sugar House" in the said City then used as a Jail by the British for the American Prisoners where this declarent remained as such prisoner till his exchange which took place about the first day of April in the year 1779 but the precise day this Declarant cannot now recollect but according to this Declarent's present recollection he was confined as such prisoner as aforesaid in the said Provost and Sugar House for the Term of five months in the whole That when this Declarent was exchanged as aforesaid he recollects that with this Declarent there were several others and among them some continental soldiers they were landed at Elizabeth Town Point in New Jersey, And this Declarent was obliged to walk on foot from there and crossed the Hudson River near Tarry Town to Bedford in the said County of Westchester where this Declarent's father then resided That this Declarent after his return as aforesaid continued to reside with his father at Bedford aforesaid And was enrolled as a private in a company of Militia in Bedford aforesaid then Commanded by Captain Isaac Miller in Colonel Thomas Thomas's Regiment of Militia in the said County of Westchester That on or about the fifteenth day of May in the year 1779 but the precise day of that Month this Declarent cannot now recollect this Declarent with his aforesaid
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Company were called out by their said Captain and did actual duty under arms in the said County of Westchester as a private in his said last mentioned Company as a Guard on the American Lines and on parties against the enemy whenever an occasion offered till the first day of November in the last mentioned year when this Declarent with his said Company were discharged verbally by their said Captain 
That during the said last mentioned service of this Declarent in Captain Isaac Millers Company of Militia their principal duty was to act as patrolling parties and Guards along the American lines in small parties and each man did duty every other night in rotation by order of their said Captain regularly during the said last mentioned time That it is impossible for this Declarant now to recollect or state every time and occasion and the length thereof that he was in actual service under arms in said Isaac Miller's Company of Militia in said Last mentioned year but this Declarent is confident that he served as a private in actual military service under arms in said last mentioned Company during said last mentioned year in the whole for the space of three months and drew provisions during said service from the Continental stores that in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and eighty this Declarent was residing at Bedford aforesaid and was enrolled as a private in a Company of Militia commanded by Captain Hezekiah Miller in the said last mentioned Regiment of Militia and was called out and did duty as a private in said last mentioned Company in said last mentioned year in the same manner as last above mentioned on different occasions which he cannot now particularly
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recollect for the reasons above stated except that during said last mentioned year this declarent with his said Company were for the space of one Month and upwards stationed at Robbins's Mills in the said County of Westchester with Sheldon's American Lighthorse That this declarant served as a Private in actual military service under arms in said last mentioned Company during said last mentioned year from the Month of May to the Month of November in that year four months - That during the years 1781 & 1782 This Declarent belonged, was enrolled, and did duty as a private in a company of Militia commanded by Captain Moses St John in Colonel Thomas Thomas's Regiment of Militia in the said County of Westchester that during each of the said last mentioned years this Declarent was during the winter seasons called out occasionally and did actual military Duty, under arms as a private in said last mentioned Company for short periods of time as their services were required - but in the summer ^seasons of each of the said last mentioned years, this Declarant was out under arms and did actual duty under arms as a private in said last mentioned company constantly and regularly from the month of May to the month of November in each of said last mentioned years - under command of their Captain as Guards on the American Lines, and patrolling parties to protect the persons and property
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of the Inhabitants above and near the lines friendly to the American cause from the attacks and marauding parties of the British who had a large force at Morrisania in the lower part of said County of Westchester. That this Declarant cannot now particularly specify and State each occasion when & where this Declarant served as aforesaid but recollects and states 
That in the month of March 1781 This Declarent with his said  Captain Moses St. John ^(and a part of his said Company) were ordered and did convey and guard a number of British Prisoners from Bedford aforesaid to the American Prison at Fishkill in the County of Dutchess and were in actual service under arms on that occasion for the space of Ten days. That during the said last mentioned year this Declarent with his said Company were stationed and did duty as infantry under arms to Colonel Sheldens Regiment of horse in the Town of North Castle in said County for the space of Six weeks That during each of the said last mentioned years this Declarent served as a private in his last mentioned Company in actual service under arms for the space of four months in each of said years. This ^Declarent in answer to the several interrogatories prescribed by the War Department and put to him by the Court states. - that he was born on the twenty fourth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty three at the Town of Harrison in the said County of Westchester, that this Declarant has a
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record of his age in his possession which he now produces in Court which he believes to be correct and by which it appears that he was born as he has above stated and is of the age above stated That this Declarent was living in the Town of Harrison aforesaid when he was called into service in the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy eight and was afterwards living in the Town of Bedford in the said County when he entered the service at the Several times above stated during the rest of the Revolutionary War That since the Revolutionary War this declarant has resided for the first eight years in the Town of Harrison aforesaid He then removed to the County of Delaware where he continued to live for the space of about thirty six years he then removed to the Town of Harrison aforesaid where he has ever since lived and he now lives. That this Declarant was never drafted into service nor was he ever a substitute nor did he ever volunteer except while he served in Captain Thomas Carpenter's Company of Militia as aforesaid. and during the rest of this declarent's aforesaid services this Declarent was enrolled and did duty by the order of his Captain as he has above stated that some of the regular officers who were with the Troops where this Declarent served were Colonel Sheldon, Colonel Meigs, Major Talmadge and Colonel Jamison. 
That the Continental and Militia Regiments which this Declarent recollects were Colonel Sheldons Regiment of horse Colonel Meigs Regiment of Infantry and Colonel Jemison's Regiment of Infantry - Colonel Thomas's Regiment of Militia and Colonel Hammonds Regiment of Militia. That the general circumstances of this declarents service are set forth in his
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preceeding Declaration 
That this Declarent never received any written discharge from the service - but always verbal discharges from the aforesaid officers under whom he served. That this Declarant has not any written or documentary evidence of his said services, and the only living witnesses of his aforesaid Services are Simeon Tyler of the Town of Harrison aforesaid, Samuel Miller of the Town of Mammaroneck in the said County of Westchester and Thomas Lane of the Town of Greenwich in the State of Connecticut. That the names of the persons to whom this Declarent is known in his present Neighbourhood and who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a Soldier of the Revolution are Jeremiah Anderson and Simeon Tyler both residents of the Town of Harrison aforesaid. That there is not any clergyman residing in the Neighbourhood of this Declarent to give the aforesaid Certificate As to this Declarant's character for veracity and belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution 
That this Declarant claims a Pension under the act of Congress aforesaid for his aforesaid Services as a private in the Militia during the Revolutionary War, viz 
For his aforesaid four months actual service under arms in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy eight in Captain Thomas Carpenter's Company of Militia, 
For his five months imprisonment by the British as an American Prisoner of War taken under arms in November 1778 as aforesaid in the Provost and Sugar house in the City of New York
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For his three months actual service under arms as aforesaid in the year 1779 in Captain Isaac Millers Company of Militia- 
For his four months actual service under arms in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty in Captain Hezekiah Miller's Company of Militia.  For his four months actual service under arms in Captain Moses St John's Company of Militia in the year 1781 as aforesaid 
 And for his four Months actual service under arms in the year 1782 in Captain Moses St John's Company of Militia as aforesaid 
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State
 
Sworn to and subscribed open Court}
the day and year aforesaid} [Signed] Elisha B. Maynard 
[Signed] N Bayles Clk

State of New York} 
Westchester County} ss. We Jeremiah Anderson and Simon Tyler, both residing in the Town of Harrison in the said County of Westchester, hereby Certify That we are well acquainted with Elisha B Maynard who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration. That the believe him to be seventy one years of age. That he is a man of truth and veracity. That he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the
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Revolution and That we concur in that opinion 
[Signed] Jeremiah Anderson
[Signed]Simeon Tyler
Sworn & subscribed in open Court the day & year aforesaid 
[Signed] N Bayles Clk

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigations of the Matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he States, and that the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Jeremiah Anderson and Simeon Tyler who have signed the preceding certificate are residents of the the Town of Harrison aforesaid and that they are credible persons and that they that their statement is entitled to full credit
I Nathaniel Bayles Clerk of the Court Common pleas in and for the County of Westchester in the State of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Elisha B Maynard for a pension 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this twenty sixth day of May 1834 
[SEAL]
[Signed] N Bayles Clk
"Elisha B Maynard" written on erasure by me in the certificate of the Court above
[Signed] N Bayles
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State of New York}
Westchester County} ss: 
Simeon Tyler of the Town of Harrison in the County of Westchester aforesaid being duly sworn doth on his oath depose and say that he is now aged Seventy Two years and upwards and is a Pensioner of the United States under the act of congress passed 7th of June 1832. That Elisha B Maynard now residing in the Town of Harrison in the said County of Westchester is well known to this Deponent and he has been Personally acquainted with the said Maynard from the month of April 1779 That in the fall of the year 1778 This Deponent was living in the Town of Bedford in the said County and belonged to the Company of Militia in the That Town Commanded by Captain Isaac Miller and in Colonel Thomas Thomas's Regiment of Militia in said County That this Deponent well recollects That in the fall of the year and as near as this Deponent can recollect in the Month of November in that year it was reported and believed uniformily in the said County of Westchester that a party of the British under the Command of Colonel Simcoe had in the Night time made an attack upon a party of American Troops at colonel Thomas Thomas's House in the Town of Harrison aforesaid and had taken prisoner their said Colonel Thomas Thomas and a number of the Soldier and carried them to the "Provost" in the City of New York That shortly after this attack Isaiah Maynard the father of the said Elisha B Maynard  (who was then sometimes
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called Elisha Budd Maynard) removed to the Town of Bedford near to where this Deponent then resided and continued to reside there till the close of the Revolutionary War That this Deponent was informed by the said Isaiah Maynard that his son the said Elisha B Maynard in the aforesaid attack on Colonel Thomas Thomas's house had been taken prisoner with the said Thomas Thomas and taken to the "Provost" in the City of New York where he then remained a British Prisoner. That in the Spring of the year 1779 the said Elisha B Maynard returned to his father's Residence in Bedford aforesaid (as was then understood and uniformly believed to be true from the the City of New York where he had been such British Prisoner as aforesaid and had been exchanged) That this Deponent from the best of his recollection states that the aforesaid return of the said Elisha B. Maynard was in the month of April 1779. That the said Elisha B. Maynard continued to reside in Bedford aforesaid near to this Deponents Residence till the Close of the Revolutionary War. That in the Spring of the year 1779 the said Elisha B. Maynard was enrolled and served as a Private with this Deponent in a Company of Militia Commanded by Captain Isaac Miller in Colonel Thomas Thomas's Regiment of Militia till the Spring of the year 1780 when the said Elisha B. Maynard with this Deponent (as Seargent [sic]) was enrolled and served as a private in a Company of Militia in Bedford aforesaid Commanded by Captain Hezekiah Miller in Colonel Thomas's Regiment
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aforesaid till the Spring of the year 1781 and until Sometime in the month april in that year when this Deponent enlisted as a Private in Captain Sacketts companies of Levies in said County for Nine months and served out his time in that Company That on or about the first day of January 1782 this Deponents aforesaid enlistment having expired he returned to his former residence in Bedford aforesaid and found the said Elisha B Maynard Still belonging and serving as a Private in the same Company of Militia which this Deponent left him serving in in April 1781 which had been since the time last mentioned under the Command of Moses St. John who had in the Spring of 1781 succeeded Captain Hezekiah Miller in the Command of that Company That during the nine months that this Deponent served in Captain Sacketts Company as aforesaid this Deponent did not serve in the immediate neighbourhood of said Elisha B Maynard but most of the time within the said County of Westchester - and recollects seeing said Elisha B Maynard during said nine months in actual service under arms as a private in said Captain Moses St John's Company of Militia and on this Deponents return was informed and has no doubt of the truth thereof that the said Elisha B Maynard during said nine months had continued to belong and serve as a Private in said St Johns Company of Militia.
That shortly after this Deponent's return as aforesaid in January 1782 he commenced Serving again with the said Elisha B Maynard as a Private in the said Company of
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Militia Commanded by Captain Moses St John as aforesaid and well recollects that the said Elisha B Maynard served as a private in said last mentioned Company with this Deponent to the Close of the Revolutionary War 
That in Consequence of lapse of time and the frequent occasions during the years 1779 1780, to the spring of 1781 and from January 1782 to the close of the war this Deponent with the said Elisha B Maynard were called out and were in actual service under arms. this Deponent cannot now specify the precise period of each term of service but well recollects that during said years the said Elisha B Maynard was always out doing duty as a Private and a good and faithful soldier whenever the Company to which he belonged was out on duty And that from their exposed situation they were almost continually out in actual service under arms. And this Deponent states that in the year 1779 the said Elisha B. Maynard served as a private in actual military service under arms in the aforesaid Company of Militia commanded by Captain Isaac Miller for the space of four months and upwards and that the said Elisha B. Maynard in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty also served as a private in actual military service under arms in the aforesaid Company of Militia Commanded by Captain Hezekiah Miller for the Space of five months. That the said Elisha B. Maynard so served as a private in the aforesaid Company of Militia Commanded by Captain Moses St John in actual military service
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under arms in the year 1782 four months and upwards That from the Month of April 1781 to the month of January 1782 This Deponent well recollects as he has above stated that the said Elisha B Maynard was in actual Military Service under arms in the aforesaid Company Commanded by Captain Moses St John But this Deponent is unable to state how long the said Elisha the served by reason of his enlistment and service during that time in Captain Sacketts Company as aforesaid 
And this Deponent further saith that all of the aforesaid services of the said Elisha B Maynard and this Deponent in the aforesaid Companies were done by command of their officers who were regularly Commissioned by the Governor or[?] authority of the State of New York 
And further this Deponent saith not 
[Signed] Simeon Tyler
Sworn and subscribed before me} 
this 26th day of May 1834}
The notes  "26th" & May written in Erasure before signing}
[Signed] N Bayles Clk
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I Nathaniel Bayles the ^Clerk of the County of Westchester before whom the preceeding affidavit was subscribed and sworn do certify that the said Simeon Tyler who made said affidavit is known to me and is a credible person 
[Signed] N Bayles
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32,809
New York
Elisha B. Maynard
Suspended
Lett to Hon A. Ward 3 March 1835
Let. to J.W. Tompkins, 10 July 183?
7063
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Elisha B. Maynard
Capt. Carpenter - (Josiah) Miller & St. John - 78.9-80-1.2
vol 9.28
[Above St. John:] Vol. 3 p.7 - 3 days Jany 81-
p.9 - 5 days Nov 80-
p.12 - 6 days Oct. 80-
[Under Miller:] July 79- not on vol. 2.82
Capt Garret Putnam
Vol. 4. p.44-45 - Frederick Lepper
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REJECTED
7063
Elisha B Maynard
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1st - 78 - Carpenter - Thomas - from March to Nov.   4 mo.
1st Nov. taken prisoner with Col Thomas while}
 serving as a guard at Thomas House}  5 mos

2nd  79  Miller Thomas did duty every other night from} 
" March to Nov.} 3 [mo] 
" 1 month stationed at Robbins Mills 1 [mo]

81 & 82 - regular service from May to Nov. ea. year under Capt St John}
specification 

81 - conveying prisoners 10 days & 6 weeks at North Castle under Col Sheldon
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Sir
Do me the favor to give this case your earliest attention. The Session is near its close & I should be glad to take the certificate with me
Truly
A Ward

Dr. Crump
of the P.O.

H of R Feby 21st 1835
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Proof of
Elisha B Maynard
for a Pension
under act of 
Congress 7th June 1832

J. U. Tompkins

Mr. Ward M.C.
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State of Newyork} 
Westchester County} ss.  Thomas Lane of King Street in the Town of Greenwich and State of Connecticut being duly sworn doth on his oath depose and say that he now resides at King Street aforesaid near the State line between the State of Connecticut and the said County of Westchester. That he is well acquainted with Elisha B. Maynard now of the Town of Harrison in the said County of Westchester and has been well acquainted with him since the ^commencement of the Revolutionary War. That this Deponent has no record of his age but according to the information of his family which he believes to be correct this Deponent was seventy Two years of age on the fifteenth day of last October. That during the Revolutionary War in the fall of the year seventeen hundred and seventy eight this Deponent was working for and living with Colonel Thomas Thomas of the Town of Harrison in the said County of Westchester who commanded a Militia Regiment in said County. That this Deponent well recollects that in the fall of said last mentioned year, but the day or month in said last mentioned year he cannot now recollect an attack was made in the night time upon the house of the said Thomas Thomas in the Town of Harrison aforesaid by a party of British horse and Infantry under Colonel Simcoe. That this Deponent was not enrolled or engaged in any military service at the time but was living as a labourer with said Thomas Thomas and sleeping in his house when said attack was made. That after some fireing [sic] the British entered the house and in said attack Wounded Captain Thomas Carpenter who commanded a militia
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Company in said Town of Harrison and killed Lieutenant James Brundage and Gilbert Slater a Private in said Company and took James Sniffen said Elisha B Maynard and several others whose names this Deponent does not now recollect and the said Colonel Thomas Thomas Prisoners and carried them off and as this Deponent was informed and has no doubt is true carried them prisoners of war to the City of Newyork, but this Deponent does not know how long the said Elisha B. Maynard remained such Prisoner. That the said party under the command of the said Thomas Carpenter including the said Elisha B. Maynard were on guard at the time of said attack at the house of the said Colonel Thomas Thomas where a quantity of provisions and stores were deposited at the time. That this Deponent shortly after the said attack returned to his fathers house in the state of Connecticut and there remained during the rest of the Revolutionary War, but did not take up arms on either side neither did he do any military duty during the Revolutionary War nor had he any opportunity of becoming acquainted with the military services of the said Elisha B. Maynard during said War other than at the time and place above mentioned. 
Sworn & subscribed this 13th }
day of February 1835 before me}   Thomas (X his mark) Lane
Note the words "commencement of the " 
interlined on the first page before signing.
[Signed] Augustus Purdy justice of the peace

I Augustus Purdy the Justice of the Peace before
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whom the preceeding affidavit was subscribed and sworn to do certify that the said Thomas Lane who made the said affidavit is known to me and is a credible person - Dated February 13th 1835 
[Signed] Augustus Purdy Justice of the Peace 

State of New York}
County of West Chester} ss 
I John H. Smith Clerk of the said County Do hereby certify, That Augustus Purdy before whom the preceeding affidavit purports to have been sworn and Also by whom the certificate thereof was made was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County. And that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Augustus Purdy and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit and certificate to be his proper hand writing and signature 
Witness my hand and Seal of office this 16th day of February 1835 
[SEAL]
[Signed] John H. Smith
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State of New York} 
Westchester County] ss.  Samuel Miller of the Town of Mamaroneck in the said County of Westchester being duly sworn doth on his oath depose and say, That he is now aged seventy six years & upwards - That Elisha B Maynard now residing in the Town of Harrison in the said County and who has made the preceding Declaration is well Known to this Deponent, and he has been personally acquainted with him from the commencement of the Revolutionary war to the present day. That in the year of our Lord 1778 this Deponent knew the said Elisha B Maynard & recollects that he served during the Summer and all of that year as a private in a Company of Militia belonging to Harrisons Purchase in the said County commanded by Capt Thomas Carpenter in Col Thomas Thomas's Regiment of Militia and this Deponent frequently saw said Maynard in actual service under arms doing Duty as a Private in said Company. That this Deponent well recollects, That in the month of November 1778, This Deponent was coming from North Castle & met this Deponents father near North Castle line in the said
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County who also belonged to the aforesaid Company of Militia commanded by Capt Thomas Carpenter as aforesaid who informed this deponent That during the night previous a Party of British Horse under Col Simcoe had attacked a part of said Company on Guard at Col Thomas Thomass house in the said Town of Harrison taken their said Col Prisoner, Killed Lieutenant Jas Brundage and a private Gilbert Slater of said Company rounded their said Capt Thomas Carpenter & took most of the others Prisoners among whom were the said Elisha B Maynard, who had been a near neighbour both to this Deponent & his father. That the British had carried the said prisoners to the City of New York, this Deponent accordingly on his Return to Harrison Town aforesaid Reparred [sic] to the scene of action the House of the said Col Thomas Thomas & there this Deponent saw the said Capt Thomas Carpenter laying wounded in the house and Lieutenant James Brundage and Gilbert Slater Killed - and heard that said Maynard with the others had been carried a Prisoner of war by the
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British to the City of New York. That this Deponent does not know or recollect at what time the said Elisha B Maynard was released & Exchanged from his said imprisonment but then understood & has always believed it to be true That the said Elisha B Maynard Remained imprisoned till the next spring (being the spring of the year 1779). That from the Spring of the year 1779 to the close of the Revolutionary war the said Elisha B Maynard resided with his father in the Town of Bedford in the said County, and this Deponent recollects seeing the said Elisha B Maynard during the year 1779 & the year 1780 doing duty under arms in a Company of Militia in said County at various times but this Deponent cannot recollect the names of the Captains of said Company but recollects that it was a Company of Militia belonging to the Town of Bedford in the said County. That during the years 1781 & 1782, this Deponent lived in the Town of Bedford aforesaid with the said Elisha B Maynard & was enrolled and did duty each of them as a private
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in a Company of Militia of the Town of Bedford aforesaid commanded by Capt Mosses [sic] St John, till the close of the Revolutionary war And this Deponent further saith That from the Month of May to the Month of November in each of said last mentioned years the said Elisha B. Maynard was in actual military service doing duty under arms, as a private in said last mentioned Company of Militia commanded by Capt Mosses St John belonging to the Regiment of Militia commanded by Col Thomas Thomas in said County for more than four months in each year, in constant & regular service under the orders of the said Captain of said Company, beside frequent services for short periods of time during the winter seasons of each of said years. And this Deponent further saith That the said Elisha B Maynard from the commencement to the close of the Revolutionary war was always Known to this Deponent as an undeviating
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friend to American Independence and one of the most faithful soldiers in the Militia of said County  - in Repelling and Resisting the attacks and inroads to which said County was always Exposed during said war from the British & Tories at Morrisania
Sworn & subscribed 11th day} 
of February 1835 before me} [Signed] Samuel Miller
[Signed] Augustus Purdy
Justice of the peace

I Augustus Purdy the Justice of the Peace before whom the preceding affidavit was subscribed and sworn do certify That the said Samuel Miller who made the said affidavit is known to me and is a credible person Dated February 11th 1835 
[Signed] Augustus Purdy Justice of the Peace 

State of New York }
County of Westchester} S.S. I John H. Smith Clerk of the said County Do hereby certify that Augustus Purdy before whom the preceeding affidavit purports to have been sworn and also by whom the certificate thereof was made ^was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Augustus Purdy And verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit & certificate to be his proper hand writing & signature. Witness my hand and seal of Office this 16th day of February 1835
[SEAL]
[Signed] John H. Smith