Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42605, John Vickery, Mass. Enl From Bedford R.I.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE 
Mass.

Vickery, John.

NUMBER 
S. 42605
B.L. Wt. 1779-100

Sub from Bedford R.I.

CONTENTS
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[right side of paper damaged]
13.317
New York
John Vickery
of Caroline in the state of New York
who was a Private in the 10th regiment commanded by
Capt. Soper Mass. Line, for the term of Six Years 
Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 21 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued 6 of July 18[illegible]
and Sent to Stephen Beers [illegible]
Caroline Tioga [illegible] N. York
Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1819 84.23
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sep. 1819 48.00
90 Mo. 10/30 4/31 $132.23
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
Continued [written on bottom of paper]
Notification sent Nov. 8th 1820 to Joseph Speed, Caroline, N Yk
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John Vickery
No. 1879
Jno Vickery
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[handwritten]
State of New York
Tompkins County SS
I John Vickery Resident
of the town of Caroline aged 89 years or thereabout do upon oath testify & declare that about or in the year 1777 I enlisted into the army of the American Revolution in the service of the United States for the term of during the war. & that I served in a Regiment commanded by Colonel Michael Jackson in the Massachusetts line from which I was honorably discharged at the close of the war by Genl Washington & that my said discharge
was sent to the war department when I applied for a pension
I further declare that I receive a pension from the United States & that my certificate is No 13,317. I further declare that I have never received a warrant for the Bounty land promised to me on the part of the United States nor transferred my claim in any manner whatsoever
Therefore Know all men by these presents
that I John Vickery aforesaid do hereby constitute & appoint Lewis Wakilee of Albany in the State of New York to be my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary
of War of the United States a warrant for the Quantity of Land due to me as aforesaid
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 5th day of September 1832.
[signed]
John Vickery


County of Tompkins  SS
Personally appeared before me Jonathan Norwood a Justice of the Peace in & for
the County aforesaid John Vickery subscriber to the above declaration who acknowledged the power of Attorney thereto subjoined to be his free act & deed and likewise made solemn oath to the truth of the said declaration
Dated at Caroline this 5th day of September 1832
Jonathan Norwood J. Peace
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State of New York
Tompkins County} ss
In testimony that the within named Jonathan Norwood was a Magistrate duly authorized to administer oaths & take acknowledgements &c, in the State of New York at the within date and that his name thereto subscribed appears to be his usual signation I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Count and subscribed my name at [illegible] this Seventh day of September 1832.
Saml. Love[?] [illegible]
Tompkins County
Seal [illegible]
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[handwritten]

At a Court of Common pleas held at Spencer in & for the County of Tioga in the State of New York Commencing on the first Tuesday in September 1820, being a Court of Record for the said County established by the laws of the said State, proceeding according to
the course of the Common Law, keeping a Record of its proceedings with a Jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, having the
power of fine & Imprisonment, & with other powers:
Present
The Honble
Gamaliel H. Barston First Judge
Caleb Baker
Joshua Ferris
Joseph Speed
Esquires Judges
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State of New York
Tioga County Ss
On this 7th day of September 1820 personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record for said County, John Vickery aged Seventy years in May last, resident in Caroline in said County who being duly sworn first,  according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: to the best of my recollection one years service in & about New York city; then enlisted by Lieut Hines, & served three years under Capt. Soper, in Col. Tuppers regiment called then
the Tenth, in Massachusetts, and before the end of the 3 years I enlisted for the whole of the War & served a while longer under
Col. Tupper, and then I came into Col. Jackson's Regiment, called the Eighth, from whom I obtained my discharge, which was
sent to the War Department, & a certificate sent me No 13.317, and my discharge has not been returned to me. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th of March 1818; and that I have not since that time by gift, 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 an act of Congress, entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land & naval
services of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18th Mar. 1818, and that I have not nor has any one in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me, nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the
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[handwritten]
Schedule hereunto annexed, & by me subscribed:
Schedule of property owned by John Vickery Sept 1820
One Cow & Calf: 1 Hog - 1 old Musket- 1 old Watch. 3 or 4 old chairs: cups & saucers plates, boxes &c not worth enumerating: One Note, due for pension money lent of fifty Dollars, which I need, have applied for, & not collected -
I have one note of Twenty five Dollars
out against me
(Signed)
John Vickery
I further declare on oath, that my occupation is farming; and that I suppose that my ability to pursue it, is about what is common for people of my age, though I am often severely afflicted with pains & other complaints, much more so, I am confident, than is common to persons of my age. I have a wife aged according to the best of my knowledge & belief, about 68 years of perhaps about usual health, and ability to work - for old people - and a grandson whom I raised from infancy aged 13: whose board clothing & schooling I consider nearly or quite equal to the benefit of his labor-- I take the liberty further to observe that before I was enrolled on the pension list, I was residing on a
few acres of Land, belonging to my son, of which I have since been dispossessed by him, and thereby induced to run in debt for a
few acres of wild land, depending on my Country to assist me in paying for it, and clearing it up; and that if I should be now
left without the aid of that country for whose Independence I so long fought, to obtain, (a circumstance I cannot fear) I should be in a worse situation than I was before experienced its charity (I served under Morgan the day Burgoyne was taken
(Signed ) John Vickery
SworSen to and declared on 7th day of
ptember 1820 In open Court before me
Gamaliel H. Barstow First Judge
(Signed)
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John Vickery
Private
77 to 83
10 Map #1[?]
Judge's certificate as to claimants circumstances wanted
Reg't
Admitted
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[handwritten]

State of New York
Tioga County Ss

On this twenty first day of April 1818 before me the subscriber one of the Judges
of the Court of Common pleas for said County
Personally appears John Vickery aged sixty eight years resident in the Town of Caroline in said County who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth, on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the Act of Congress, entitled an act to provide for certain persons: engaged in the land and naval forces of the United States in the revolutionary war, That he the said John Vickery enlisted in Bedford State of Rhode Island ^ in the three years service ^ for three years, in the company commanded by Amasa Soper (he thinks in the tenth regiment in the Massachusetts line, that he continued to serve in said corps untill a short time before the expiration time of the said three years, when he enlisted again for during the War at West point State of New York (the captains name he does not recollect) in the Regiment commanded by Colo Tupper, that he continued in the service of the United States untill the close of the ^war^ being six years & five month according to the discharge hereunto annexed, that he was at the taking of [B...illegible] & many skirmishes 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 power of his said services 
[signed] John Wickery

Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid
[signed ] Stephen Berry

I Stephen Berry one of the Judges of the County of Common Pleas for the County of Tioga aforesaid, do certify that it appears to
my satisfaction that the said John Vickery did serve in the revolutionary war stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy, and I now transmit the procedings and
testimony taken and had before me to the secretary of the department of war, pursuant to the aforementioned act of Congress
April 25 1818
[signed] Stephen Berry
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section.
March 9, 1927
Mrs. L. W. Smith
348 Front St.
Owego, N.Y.
Madam:
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 42605, it appears that John Vickery enlisted in Bedford, Rhode Island and served one year, officers and dates not stated; after which he enlisted for three years and served in Captain Amasa Soper's Company in the Tenth Massachusetts Regiment, a short time before his enlistment expired, he re-enlisted at West Point New York and served in Colonel Tupper's Massachusetts Regiment, he was at the taking of Burgoyne and several skirmishes and was discharged June 13, 1783, at which time he was in Colonel Michael Jackson's Massachusetts Regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 21, 1818, while a resident of Caroline,
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Tioga county, New York, aged sixty-eight years.
In 1820, he referred to his wife as aged about sixty-eight years and to a son, but he did not give the names of any of them.
In 1832, he was still a resident of Caroline.
There is no further data on file as to family.
The history furnished you, January 19, 1927 of John Vicory (W. 22488) and the one furnished you this day of John Vickery (S. 42605) are the only soldiers named John Vickery (all spellings of that name searched) found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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[handwritten, with several columns, and illegible areas]

[column headings illegible]
1789 Jonathan Crest
to half bushel of corn   1
to half bushel of corn    1
to half bushel corn         1
to [illegible] bushel of corn   3
to three peck and two quarts of corn    3
to your [illegible] Getr hak  1
to own [?] bushel of corn   3
to own care of Daed   1
to own Core Deed   6
to own bushel of corn   3
to own peck of [illegible]    1
to own peck of corn
to own bushel of corn    3
to your [illegible]    2
to own bushel of corn   3
to own bushel of corn    4

January 1790 Jonathon Wilson
Credit to two bushel of corn    6
to own bushel of corn     3
to half bushel of corn   1
to one bushel of corn   3
[bottom line is torn off]
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[handwritten]
October 13 1789

James Andrew [illegible] to Johnat
to clearing on aker and those
quarters of grand  0  21  0
To cutting two Con Deos  0  3  0┃ 21 ┃
to cuting small stuf  0  2  0
to [illegible]  1

to own Days work at the highway 0 2 0
December to own Day worck cut Weed 0  2  0 

January 21 1790 James Andrew
Letter to John Vickery
to own day work diging [illegible] 0  2  0
to own days work cutting weeds  0  2  0
March to cuting logs  0  1  0
to [illegible]  0  2  0
to one day worck cuting logs  0  2  0
to cutting own hundred [illegible] poles
0  1  6

John Vickery  S 42605
January 26 1791 James Andrew Letter to 
John Vickery
to one {page torn ]
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[handwritten]
[Top of page is cut off]
Copy of the oath & Schedule of John Vickery

Fee $0.75

13.317
Sept 1819

Sent to Joseph Spece
Nov 8. 1820
Caroline NY
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Seal [illegible]
State of New York
Tioga county So.
I Thomas Maxwell, Clerk of the County of Tioga + of the Court of common pleas above named, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath + Schedule are truly copies from the record of the said court; and that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the foregoing Schedule is Seventy Nine Dollars.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand + the Seal of the Said Court this ninth day of September 1820.
Tho. Maxwell, Clerk.
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I hereby certify, through friendship to M. Vickery, that he was unable to mention the date of his former declaration because he had forgotten it; and from the same motive, I voluntarily declare, from a full acquaintance of his circumstances, that should he be left without further aid from his country, I believe, for the reason he assigns, in which I know to be true that he would be in a worse situation than he was before.
Joseph Speed, one of the Judges of Tioga County
Sept. 25th 1820
Seal [illegible]
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Tioga County
Clerks office} ss
I certify that the above named Stephen Beers Esquire has been duly Commissioned and Qualified and now is an acting Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, that full faith and credit ought to be given to his acts as such.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the said County to be affixed at Spencer[?] in Said County this 9th day of June A.D. 1780
Mark[?] Carpenter Clk
Seal [illegible]
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State of New York
Tioga County ss
I Stephen Beers Judge as foresaid, having satisfactory knowledge, do certify that John Vickery the applicant named in the within affidavit is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support as set forth in his said affidavit.
Stephen Beers
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Albany N.Y. Oct 13th 1832
Received of William Gordon Esq. of the U. States Bounty Land Office Land Warrant No. 1879 issued to John Vickery who was a Soldier in the Massachusetts Line of the Army of the American Revolution.
Louis Wakeley
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[handwritten]

Oswego, N.Y. Mch. 5 - 1927

Winfield Scott,
Commissioner,
Washington, D.C. 

I am sorry to trouble you again in regard to the Rev. War record of John Vicary. I am a direct descendant, and although the line has once passed the National Board of D.A.R. as supplementary to the Amos Raymond Papers
entered by Clara Osburn No. 3156. and Mary Alice Osburn Brown, No. 31548. There has come up some mistaken statements, which now makes trouble in my record, such as
that of Hannah Burr in 1843, That she
was the only surviving child of John Vicory
While the two sons Edward and William
were by that time living with their families in Michigan. Having left R.I. some time after the War, going into Bennington Vt. for a few years, from there into Caroline N.Y. State, were there as late as 1820. Journing from Caroline to Mich. John Vicory followed his sons into Caroline, as will be seen by the enclosed copy of statement for
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pension. If he died in Smithfield as
your record states, Sept. 28. 1820, he must
have returned soon after, perhaps about
the time the sons moved into Mich. He had made a second marriage to Elizabeth Read in 1790. She was an English woman and some what peculiar. I find this Hannah was married in 1794 but not able to find birth
I note the record which you have furnished
and the statement in the record found in
County Clerk's Office here, do not correspond
also age given. I cannot account for this
as I am sure there was but one John Vicory
in R.C. service, and our family record and
tradition agree with this. John Vicory- M -
Sarah Jillson Mch. 27-1777, resided in Cumberland R.I. She died 1785. - Sons, Edward and William, but no record of Hannah
I am sending you both copies of war service, Hoping you can straighten out the tangle.
Kindly return these copies.
I am willing to pay your fee and expense in this.
Sincerely
(Mrs. L.W.)
Carrie V. Smith
348 Front St.
Oswego, N.Y
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Central Falls Oct 11th 1897
Information concerning John Vicory [Vickery?] a Revolutionary soldier, and pensioner is most respectfully solicited by his grandaughter, the writer of this communication, please send all possible particulars, he was a native of Smithfield, R.I. and was a member of a Rhode Island regiment and was also a soldier in the French war of 1775[?].
Many thanks will be given for the information.
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[handwritten]
Address
Mrs H. P. Hopkins
29 Ashley Street,
Central Falls, N. Y.

[round stamp stating U.S. Pension Office Oct. 13 1897]

[square stamp stating Old [illegible] & Nav7 Oct 16 1897 Files]
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[printed completed in handwriting]

42.605
Invalid.
Revy
File No. 42, 605

John Vickery
Pri Rev War

Act: 18th March 18
Index: - Vol. 3, Page 525
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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[handwritten]
Oct 21/97 Mrs H. P. Hopkins
Central Falls, N.Y.
1927 Mch 9 - Hist to Mrs. L Smith [illegible]
28-Jan- 9 - Mrs. L. W. Smith advised how to obtain date of last payment {cut off]. See her letter in claim of John Vicory
No 22488 [illegible]
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[printed form completed in handwriting]

By His Excellency
George Washington, Esq;
General and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the United States of America.

These are to certify that the Bearer hereof John Vickery [illegible] in the [illegible] Regiment, having faithfully served the United States [illegible] and being inlisted for the War only, is discharged from the American Army. 
Given at Head-Quarters the [illegible] of June 1783
[signed] G. Washington
by His Excellency's command,
 J Trumbull 2nd [illegible] 

Registered in the Books of the Regiment
Francis Taft Adjutant

The above [illegible] has been honored with the Badge of Merit for [illegible] Years faithful Service
[signed] [illegible]
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[printed]
Head-Quarters, June 13th 1783.
The within certificate shall not avail the Bearer as a Discharge, until the Ratification of the definitive Treaty of Peace; previous to which Time, and until Proclamation thereof shall be made, He is to be considered as being on Furlough. 

George Washington

[handwritten]
Nov. 20 1788 Payment received by Jacob Smith

[six sided stamp that reads:]
The National Archives of the United States

Handwritten
John Vickery 
Mase
S. 42605

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John Vickery
[illegible writing below this]

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Feby 22 1803