Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20686, William Barney, Continental Penn.
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(8-1776)

SERVICE                                   
Continental
Penn. 

Barney, William
(redacted-Sarah)

NUMBER
(redacted-W. 20686)
S-

(illegible) in Baltimore, Md.
ctp. 1791

CONTENTS
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17.911.
New York
_____________________________________________
William Barney, 2.
of Seneca Co. in the state of New York
who was a private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Hubley of the Penns. a. line
line, for the term of 4 years.
_____________________________________________
Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of    Dollars per month, to commence on
the 5th of October 1820.
_____________________________________________
Certificate of Pension issued the 4 of November 1820
and sent to John McLem Jr. Waterlo near Junius N. York
___________________________________________
Arrears to 4th of 
portion of
Semi-anl.all'ce ending 4 March 1821  $40
5 months

{Revolutionary claim, 
Act 18th March, 1818.}
21 May 1820
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William Barney
11 May 1818 privt
Hartleys Mary Regt
1777. to 1781.
Wanted the judge's certificate of reduced (unknown)
came (unknown) of the claimans
(unknown) for Maryland.

(unknown-writing comprimised)
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State of New York
Seneca County 
On this eleventh day of May 1818 before one John Sayre, one of the Judges of the court of common pleas for said County of Seneca personally appears William Barney aged fifty nine years last September. Resident of this County of Seneca who being by one first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision by the late 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, That he the said William Barney enlisted in the Town of Baltimore/now city/ in the state of Maryland on the 10th day of March 1777 in the Company commanded by Captain Barnet Eckleburger of Baltimore in Colonel Thomas Hartley,s Regiment, That he continued to serve as a private soldier in the service of the United States until the month of January in the year 1781 when he was discharged from the service at Trenton in the State of New Jersey and that he has last his discharge that he was in the battles at Brandywine and at German Town and with Sullivan at the Mstward after the Indians, and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support: and that he has no other evidence now in his said (unknown)
W.M. Barney

sworn to and obtained before me
the day and year aforesaid ~
John Sayer

I John Sayer Judge of the Court of common pleas of Seneca County
as aforesaid to certify that it appears to my satisfaction said William Barney did serve in Revolutionary war as stated
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in the preceding declaration against the common enemy, and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the observations of the aforementioned act of Congress. Detce. at November in Seneca County the 11th day May 1818.

John Sayre 

State of New York
Seneca Clerk's Office J: l, Jeheil H. Halsey, Deputy Clerk of Seneca County, do certify that John Sayre Esq. whose name appears to the certificated of the within declaration was at the dates in the said certificates mentioned, a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Seneca County dating under the authority of this State, that I am acquainted with his hand writing + verily believe the signatures to the said, certificated to be proper hand writing of the said John Sayre. In testimony where of I have hereunto sent my hand + affixed the Seal of said Court this 18th day of May 1818.

J.H. Halsey
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Northern District of New York, 
COUNTY OF SENECA SS. William Barney
ON this fifth ~ day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, personally appeared in open court, (being a court of Common Pleas, holden in and for the county of Seneca, in the district aforesaid, and a Court of Record, proceeding according to the course of common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings and having a common seal, laborer aged Sixty two a resident in said district, in the town of Galen, and in the county aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows: that he enlisted in the town of Baltimore (in the State of Maryland-redacted) as a private on the tenth day of March in the year 1777, in the company commanded by Capt. Barnet Eckleburger in the regiment commanded by Col. Thomas Hartley in the Pennsylvania line, on the continental establishment, and that the wanting to serve in the same (unknown) until the year 1781, when he was discharged from said service at Trenton in New Jersey-During which time he was (redacted) in the battles of Brandywine & Germantown after which he was detached with the Regiment to Little York Pennsylvania to guard congress - in June 1778 he was detached under Cap. Carney to Weyoming to guard the frontier, and was in a great many skirmishes with the Indians-He was also at Paoli when General Waine was attacked by the British in the night-He remained at Weyoming until General Sullivan commanded by Col. Adam Hubley & entered a company comms. by Capt. Septimus Davis-the Regiment was now joint & here & called the Eleventh- After returning from said expedition, he with Regiment joined the army in New Jersey-He was at West Point at the time of Arnold deflection-and was discharged at Trenton (he thinks) on the 28 of January 1781-His discharge was destroyed by a little black boy in the year 1785 in the town of Chester in Pennsylvania-He has no other evidence now in his power.

11 pewter spoon spoons 40 plates 7 earthen $1-00
1 (redacted) Do. platter______50
1 Spinning whar(?) 10/ 1 large (unknown) 2.50
6 chairs, 1 chest-4 (rest unknown)
1 meat barrel 4/3 empty barrels 1-
$79.93
Sword & declared in open court 
5th Oct. 1820 ~ J.H. Halsey, Clk.

(on right side column written) The debts which I owe amount to 51.50 (and then signed) W.M. Barney

I, JEHEIL H. HALSEY, clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Seneca, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of the said court, and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforementioned schedule is Eighty dollars and forty nine cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this fifth day of October, 1820.

I.H. Halsey, Clk.
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Northern District of New York
COUNTY OF SENECA SS. William Barney
ON this fifth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, personally appeared in open court, (being a court of Common Pleas, holden in and for the county of Seneca, in the district aforesaid, and a Court of Record, proceeding according to the course of common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings and having a common seal,) laborer (redacted and/or unreadable) a resident in said district in the town of (rest is missing).

His family consists of himself, his (redacted) wife aged 56 years & daughter 17 years old-and has been maintained his worth by the labor of his sons-who are now working for themselves.

(Signed) W.M. Barney

(redacted and/or missing)

And 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, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or of any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other that hat is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. 

SCHEDULE
(left column)
One yoke oxen 5 years old $40-
12 sheep____________________12-
5 hogs or pigs ______________16
1 iron pot/1 cracked kettle__3-
1 tea }
1 bake pan without a lid_____.50
5 knives & forks______________62 1/2
11 pewter spoons 40 plates 7 earthen__1-00
1 (redacted) Do. platter_______.50
1 spinning wheel 10/ 1 large (unknown) 2.50
6 chairs/1 chest 4/ unknown/ 1.12 x
1 meat barrel 4/ 3 empty barrels 4
___________________________________________
$79.93x
Sworn to & declared in open court
5th Oct. 1820 J.H. Halsey Clk.

(right column)
Bal forward -                $79.93
2 old hoes 1/ __________   2x
1 old ox _________________12 1/2
1 tea pot _________________6
6 iron tea spoons _________25
___________________________________________
$80.49x
The debts which I owe amount to 51.50


I, JEHIEL H. HALSEY, clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Seneca, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of the said court, and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is eighty dollars and forty nine cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this fifth day of October, 1820.

(signed)
J.H. Halsey Clk.
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N.B. your petition, for the want of health & means to travel has not been to been able to procure further proof of his services-But is confident that on examining the rolls of the different companies in which he served & which is more fully stated in this petition satisfactory evidences of his services will be found-







In the matter of 
Wm Barney
5 Oct 1820
77th 81 Nasily(?)
(unknown)


John McLea, Jr. Esq.
near Junius, Waterloo New York
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May 22, 1930

Mr. W. Webster Tyler
Box 955
Binghamton, New York

Dear Sir:

I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 20686, it appears that William Barney, the son of Jonathan, of Nantucket, was born April 11, 1759, place not stated.

He enlisted March 10, 1777 at Baltimore, Maryland, as a private in Captain Barnet Eichelberger's Company, Colonel Thomas Hartley's Regiment, was in the battles of Paoli, Brandywine, and Germantown, after in which he was detached and served as a guard to Congress at Little York. In June, 1778, he was again detached and served in Captain Carney's Company, guarding the frontier at Wyoming and was in many skirmishes with the Indians, after which he served in General Sullivan's Indian expedition, then joined Captain Septimus Davis' Company, Colonel Adam Hubley's Pennsylvania Regiment and was discharged about January 28, 1781.

After the Revolution, he lived at Petersburg, Rensselaer County, New York, then in Greenwich, Washington County, New York; about 1810 moved to Thurman (later Johnsburg), Warren County, New York, thence to Warrensburg, New York, and thence to western New York.

He was allowed pension on his application executed May 11, 1818, while residing in Seneca County, New York. (in notation - In 1820, he resided near Galen, Seneca Co., NY. )

He died October 26, 1836.

The soldier married Dorcas Fox, date not given.   She died in April, 1782, He married


(handwritten)
Daniel use this summons again.
It contains data relative to William Barney, NY 11820. 
Widow, Sarah. W. 20686, where these papers have today been placed, having illegible) from the file. 
C.S. 3/3/48
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October 9, 1783, in said Petersburg, Sarah Ellis, who was born June 2, 1764.

She was allowed pension on her application executed April 23, 1845, while residing in Broome County, New York.

Child of William Barney and Dorcas Fox Barney:
Johnathan Barney born April 21, 1782, married Mercy Weaver.

Children of William Barney and Sarah Ellis Barney:

Marcy or Mercy Barney born November 19, 1784, married John Weaver and in 1845 resided in Greenwich, New York.

William Barney, Junior born February 13, 1787, married Ruth Rouse.

Sarah Barney " November 22, 1789, married William Ward, of Athol, Warren County, New York.

Dorcas Barney born March 4, 1791.

Jacob Barney " December 28, 1793.

John Barney " August 3, 1796, in 1845 resided in Broom County, New York, and was a physician.

Very truly yours

E.W. MORGAN
Acting Commisioner
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Rev
WIDOW, &c.

File No. 20686 
(crossed out- Sarah Barney)
(crossed out-widow of)
William Barney
Pri. Rev War

Act March 3, 43 & June 13th, 44
Index: Vol. A, Page 38

[Arrangement of 1870.]

April 1-, 1901
Miss Adelaide R. Le
Cokertown, N.Y.

1930-May 22. Hist.
W.F. Webster Tyler, EEL
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17,911.
New York
___________________________________________
 William Barney, 3rd

of Seneca Co. in the State of New York
who was a private in the Regiment commanded by
Colonel Hubley of the Pennsylvania
line, for the term of, 4 years.
___________________________________________

Inscribed on the Roll of New York. 
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 11 of May 1818.
___________________________________________

Certificate of Pension issued the 4 of Nov. 1820
and sent to John McLea, Junius
NYK
__________________________________________
Arrears to 4th of Sept': 20        $222"47
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar:1891 48"00
                                             _____________
2 years                                        270"47
3 mo.
21/31
4/30

{Revolutionary claim, 
Act 18th March, 1818.}
& May 1820.


(handwritten along right side)
A correct certificate (illegible) and sent -John McLea, Junius, NY
23 July 1821
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(Two date stamps)


PENSION
     NOV
  U.   7   S.
     1901
    OFFICE


). W. (illegible)
  NOV 9, 1901
   (illegible)
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11820-18
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(Transcriber's note: this page contains only what appears to be two initials.)

R. M.
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Box 985
Binghamton, N.Y.
March 13, 1930

Dear Sir:

William Barney-my great great-grandfather-I have reason to believe-served in the Revolution from Pennsylvania and received pension. A William Barney, pensioner, was living in Seneca Co., N.Y. in 1818.
Phineas Parker-my great-great grandfather served in the Revolution from Conn. and received pension while living in Steuben Co., N.Y.
Please send me the military records and all other data possible of these two soldiers. 
I am particularly anxious to learn the date and place of birth, name of wife, place and date of marriage and various residences, also date of death, of William Barney.

Sincerely yours, 
F. Webster Tyler