Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30175, Samuel P Tyler, Mass.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE   NUMBER
Mass.   Tyler, Samuel P.   S. 30175 
CONTENTS
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21271
Massachusetts
Saml P Tyler
Beckshire in the State of Mass
was a Sergeant in the Comp commanded
Captain Ward of the Reg commanded
Col [illegible] in the Mass
for 3 [illegible] $12.42
8 " [illegible]       40 - 
                         $52.42
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Inscribed on the Roll of Mass
the rate of 32 Dollars 42 Cents per annum,
commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of Aug
1833 and sent H. W. [illegible]
Secy
Arrears to the 4th of Mar. $104.84
Semi-an. allowance ending Nov 2621
$131.05
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832 ⎬
Recorded by S. Axtily Clerk
Book C Vol. 2. Page 85
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Let. to Hon G. N. Briggs
("O.C.") Dec 15, 1838
Lot to Pension
Let. to Pension Agent, Boston,
Dec 15, 1838
[illegible] Hon. G. N. Briggs, Apl
15 '39
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13899
Samuel P. Tyler
Mass
Sept 8
Private 3 mos 22 days
Sergt 8
11 - 22
5-1606
May 21 1833
P 404
242
H W Bishop Esq
Lenox
Mass
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BRIEF in the case of Samuel P. Tyler
Co of Berkshire in the State of Mass
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 79
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Years, Months, Days. As a. Gen.
June In 1775 enlisted. 8. 28. Pvt. 
Sergeant. Cap Barns. Col Woodbridge.
"I served as a Minute Man during the war and was out on many alarms"  1 12-. Private.
28. ".
14.
2.
5. In what battles was he engaged? was wounded in the head by a british Solde
Battle of Benington
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Berkshire Mass
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? traditionary two Living witnesses
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? the papers
are not attached agreeably to the regulations - he does not state his service specifically as a Minute Man
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above
George Payton
Examining Clerk
[illegible]
2,22
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I David Jewit of the Town of Lansborough County of Berkshire & State of Massachusetts of Lawfull age, do testify & say that I was acquainted with Samuel P. Tyler of New Ashford County & State aforesaid, during the
revolutionary War, that he enlisted into Capt Asa Barns Company of Militia belonging to Col. Sherbridge Regiment as a Sergeant, for eight months, in the month of June AD. 1775, & went to Boston, that he was wounded in a Skirmish at Leechmore point, that he continued in the service during the time of enlistment or until discharged, & that I was frequently in the mess with him during the campaign, & further the deponent saith not -
David Jewett
Berkshire ss. Sept. 24th 1832
Personally appeared the above named David Jewett or made oath that the above certificate by him subscribed was true
Before
Timothy Whitney Justice of the peace
And I further certify that David Jewett the above deponent is a man of good morals and of truth & veracity
Timothy Whitney Jus. Pa
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
kshire, ss. I, HENRY BISHOP, Register of the Court of Probate in and for said County, do hereby certify that Timothy Whitney Esquire, before whom the annexed deposition was
taken is one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly and regularly appointed, and that I am well acquainted
with his hand writing, and have no doubt that the signature annexed to said deposition is genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this twenty fifth day of September A.D. 1832.
Henry W. Bishop Register of Probate
deponent ┃
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John Hall's Deposition
for Saml. P. Tyler
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I John Hall of the Town of Scarson, County of Essex & State of New York of Lawfull age, do testify and say that I was acquainted with Samuel P. Tyler of New Ashland County of Berkshire & State of Massachusetts
during the Revolutionary War. & that I saw him
several times at Boston during the summer of
1775 and that he was a soldier in Capt Asa Barns Company of Militia & further the deponent saith not. John Hall
Berkshire ss -
Lansborough Sept 11th 1832
Personally appeared the above named John Hall and made oath that the above certificate by him subscribed was true
Before Wm H. Tyler
Berkshire ss
I hereby certify that I have been acquainted with John Hall the deponent above mentioned, for more than thirty years, that he is a good
moral Citizen to a man of unquestionable
truth & veracity 
W Styles Justice of the [illegible]
Lansford June 29th 1833-
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Berkshire, SS. I, Henry W. Bishop, Register of the Court of Probate in and for said County, do hereby certify that William Tyler Esquire, before whom the annexed deposition was taken is one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly and regularly appointed, and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and have no doubt that the Signature
annexed to said deposition is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this twenty fifth day of September A. D. 1832.
Henry W. Bishop Regr Probate
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State of Massachusetts
Berkshire County ss
Lanesborough July 9th 1833
Personally appeared in open court before the Honorable William P. Walker Judge of the Court of Probate for said County Saml P. Tyler who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that by reason of old age & the consequent loss of
memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below & in the following grades-
the 1st Period referred to in the declaration I [illegible] & served as a private four weeks under Cap Saml Sloane at & about Roxbury
in the month of April & May 1775
2nd period under the enlistment as Sergent June 1775 for eight months- 3d Period at Ticonderoga in the spring of 1776. I served six weeks as a privet under Capt Smedly-- 4th Pended at Manchester I served four weeks as a private in the spring of 1777 under Capt Amaniah Bobbit - 5th period at Bennington in August 1777 I served as private two weeks under Capt Danforth - in the amount of which [illegible] of [illegible] is four months service as a private & eight months as a Sergeant, and for such service I claim a Pension Samuel P Tyler
Subscribed & sworn to the day & year aforesaid
M. P. Walker Judge of Probate
I Henry W. Bishop Register of the Court of Probate within & for the County of Berkshire in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts do hereby certify that the forgoing contains the original  supplementary & [illegible] proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel P. Tyler for a pension - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of aforesaid Court of Probate this eleventh day of July A.D.1833 Henry W Bishop Register Probate
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13899
Samuel P Tyler
New Ashford
application for Pension
Apl 25, 1832
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State of Massachusetts 
County of Berkshire ss
On this 25th day of September AD. 1832 personally appeared in open Court before Honorable Wm P Walker Judge the Court of Probate within & for the County of Berkshire and [illegible], Samuel P. Tyler a resident of New Ashford in the County of Berkshire
& State of Massachusetts, aged 79 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 act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
That he entered the service under [illegible] of the United States under the following named officers, & served as herein stated that he went to Roxbury immediately after the Battle at Lexington & after staying a while returned & enlisted as a Sergeant in Capt Asa Barns Company of Militia belonging to Col. Marbridge's Regiment for eight months & went to Cambridge near Boston the latter part of June 1775 - he was wounded in the head in a encounter with the British soldiers at Lechmone Point and his hearing much
impaired ever since - after being wounded he returned home & stayed two or three weeks & then went back & served his time out- after this he served as Minute Man during the War was out on many Alarms - was in the Battle at Bennington in August 1779 - the winter previous he spent at & about Ticonderoga during the above time his residence was in New Ashford before mentioned & he has resided there ever since 
1-He was born in the Town of [illegible] June 16th A.D. 1753
2 He has a record of his age in an old family Bible
3d- He was living in the Town of New Ashford, County of Berkshire & State of Massachusetts when called into service & has continues to live there to this
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June 16th A.D. 1753.
2. He has a record of his age in an old family Bible
3rd-He was living in the Town of New Ashford, County of Berkshire & State of Massachusetts when called into service & has continued to live them to the present time
4 He volunteered & Enlisted
5 General Washington, Genl. Greene, Genl. Putnam, General Starks, Col. Morris, Col. Miles Powell, Roland Warner's Regiment. Col. Miles Powell's Regiment are some of the officers & Regiments where he served - He thinks the general circumstances of his service was arduous enough
6 He never had any discharge
7 Jonathan Ingram, Bartholomew Woodcock
Lyman Hall, David Jewit, John Leland,
Samuel Burbank &c are some of the persons
adjacent to him who can testify to his character for truth & veracity & their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution
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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
Samuel P Tyler
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
W. P. Walker I. Probate
We Henry B Hooker, a Clergyman, residing in the [illegible] [illegible] County and Lyman Hall
residing in [illegible] hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Samuel P Tyler who has subscribed and sworn to the above
declaration; that we believe him to be seventy nine years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the
revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Henry B. Hooker
Sworn and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid Lyman Hall
W. P. Walker J. Probate
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation 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 the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Henry B Hooker who signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman, resident
in the town of Lanesborough in the County of Berkshire and Lyman Hall of [blank] and that
who has also signed the same, is a resident
in the town of Lanesborough in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
W. W. Walker I. Probate
I, HENRY W. BISHOP, Register of the Court of Probate within and for the County of Berkshire in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Samuel P Tyler
for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office of said Court of Probate, this twenty fifth day of September
in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty [illegible]
Henry W. Bishop Register of Probate
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13899
Samuel P. Tyler
H. W. Bishop Esq
Lenox
Mass
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in [crossed out] red ink/[crossed out], will apply to the claim of Samuel P. Tyler which require further proof or explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? No

V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? No

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? yes

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?

XIV. If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath,
certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? Yes

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? yes

XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? No

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? yes

EXPLANATORY NOTES.
*QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
**Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For [blank] year [blank] months and [blank] days, I served as a [blank]. For [blank] months and [blank] days, I served as a [blank] and for such service I claim a pension.
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the
officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the
applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant  not found on the records of the Department, he must move his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths
must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of
office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
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Tyler
[illegible]
April 5th free
G.N. Briggs
M.C.
J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Washington D.C.
[written vertically in left margin]/[illegible] Mass/[written vertically in left margin]
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Lanesboro 4 April 1839
Sir
Mr Samuel P. Tyler of New Ashford
a pensioner I think under the law of 1832, on
applying to the Pension Agency after the 4th of March last was informed that no further payment
would be made without further orders from the
Department. I am requested to ask the reason
why his pension has been suspended
Respectfully
Yours
G. N. Briggs
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30175
Revy INVALID.
File No. 30, 175
Samuel P Tyler
Sergt Rev War
Act: June 7th 32
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 427
[Arrangement of 1870.}