Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10,082, for Josiah Starr, Connecticut
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SERVICE: Conn
Starr, Josiah
NUMBER: R.10.082
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Josiah Starr
Application for a Pension
Ohio
162
Rejected did not serve six months
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The State of Ohio
Portage County   ⎬
On this sixth day of March 1835 personally
 appeared in open Court before the Court
of Common Pleas now sitting Josiah Starr a resident of Charlestown in the County of Portage State of Ohio aged Eighty three years old 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 of the United States under the following named officers and served as herin stated
First tour I was called out under Captain John Whitmore as orderly assant in his company about the middle of August 1776 and went from Middletown Connecticut went
first to the city of New York from thence onto Long Island and returned in the night to New York - where we remained until we were discharged. I served this tour two month, the
company were not all discharged at the same time the most of the company were discharged before me
second tour was to Danbury when that place was burnt in the spring of the year of 1777 we were out from ten to fifteen days 
Our third tour was to Fishkill and up the Hudson River. I was drafted into Capt Jobes Brooks company as Sargeant and Col Roger Newbery Regiments - we followed the [?] became wind burned.  We were then marched down the River till we reach Fishkill we then crossed to New Windsor where I served out by turn of the months we were drafted the last of September and marched the first day of October.
Fourth town I was out in Alarm ten days when the British shipping were off the harbor of New Haven
Fifth tour when the enemy landed at Newhaven we were called out on an alarm, and served ten or fifteen days.
Sixth tour we were called out on an alarm and went to Killingsworth at the time the enemy landed on Duck Island from East Guilford we went to Old Guilford when we were discharged served in this tour eight
to ten days
Seventh tour in the spring of 1776 I volunteered and went into the service and worked with Cap Taylor to make close [clothes] for the Army by the direction of Chauncy Whittlery, [?]-
Eighth tour In the winter of 1776 - 1777, I was out under a Whittlery
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again and made close [clothes] for the Army and served as deputy commisary a part of the time. I served six month in this tour.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on any pension Roll of the Agency of any State
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year
aforesaid- Josiah Starr
Attest. Geo. Kirkum Clerk.
Josiah Starr
We William Colman Jr of Ravenna Portage Co Ohio and Edwin Wetmore of Stow, Portage County Ohio hereby certify that we are acquainted with Josiah Star who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be eighty
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
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Geo. Kirkum Clerk-
William Coolman Jr.
Edwin Wetmore
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above
named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier
served as he states. And the Court further certifies it appears to them that  William Coolman Jr is a resident of Ravenna that Edwin Witmore who has also signed the same is a resident in Stow and are both creditable persons and that their statement are entitled to credit-
I George Kirkum Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Portage in the State of Ohio, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Josiah Starr for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seal of office this Eleventh day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred & thirty five
Geo. Kirkum Clerk
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RECORD DIVISION
R.F. 10.082
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C., July 10, 1902
In reply to your request of ___, received ___ for 
a statement of the military history of Josiah Starr a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT: Spring 1776 - Aug 1776
LENGTH OF SERVICE: 2 mos
RANK: Tailor
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED: Commissary Channey Whittersby & Sgt John Whitmore

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT: Winter 1776 - Spring 1777
LENGTH OF SERVICE: 6 mos 10 to12 days
RANK: Deputy Commisary and Tailor under Channey Whittlesby of Danbury
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED:

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT: Sept 1777
LENGTH OF SERVICE: 3 months
RANK: 
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED: Sgt Jobes Brooke & Roger Woodsbury

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT: .
LENGTH OF SERVICE: 10 Days on an alarm at New Haven

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT: .
LENGTH OF SERVICE: 10 - 15 Days on an alarm at New Haven

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT: .
LENGTH OF SERVICE: 8-10 Days on an alarm to Killingworth
Battles engaged in______
Residence of soldier at enlistment: Middletown Conn.
Date of application for pension: March 6, 1835
Residence at date of application: Charlestown, Portage County, Ohio
Age at date of application: 83 yrs old
Remarks:
The claim was rejected on the ground of insufficient proof of six months actual service in the Conn. Militia
The service as Tailor was not of the character provided for by the act of June 7, 1832 under which he applied
Very respectfully,
1563 10-
Commissioner.
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Ravenna, Ohio
March 12th

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Confirmation of Pension 
Washington City
DC
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Ravenna, Portage County Ohio
March 11  1835

Hon J. L. Edwards

I herewith enclose the Application of Josiah Star for a pension and hope that will arrive safe.  Should the Departments grant him a pension he would wish it payable at the Ohio Pittsburgh Agency
Will you have the group to inform me whether the Secretary of War has given any order for a transfer.  There are several that are [?] that are suspended under that rule.
I remain very Respectfully yours
Cyrus Printup
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I Michael Stuart of Chatham in the County of Middlesex and State of Connecticut being seventy-four years of age and say thta during the Revolutionary War I was well acquainted with Josiah Starr then of Middletown in said County but now reside in Portage County Ohio.  The last of September 1777 the militia were called out on an alarm and I went as a soldier in the rank of a Private to Fishkill and from there  up the River to Red Hook.  Just before our arrival at Red Hook news arrived of the taking of Burgoyne.  We then returned down the River to Fishkill where after having been in service about two months I was discharged and returned home.  Josiah Starr I will  remember was in service at the same time in the rank of Orderly Sargeant.  He remained in service after my discharge and how much longer I cannot say though it was some time.  We were out frequently to other short tours to Guilford and elsewhere but the precise length of the service I do not remember.  I have often seen Mr Starr since those tours and our services in the Revolutionary War have been the subject of conversation.
Date at said Middletown the 24th day of Sept 1834.
State of Connecticut
Middlesex County Middletown 24 Sept 1834.
Then and
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I Samuel Butter of Middletown, County of Middlesex and State of Connecticut being seventy two years of age depose and say that during the Revolutionary War and a long time after I was well accquainted with Josiah Starr of said Middletown but who now resides in Portage County, Ohio. the last of September 1777 we were both drafted for three months - he in the rank of orderly Sergeant and I in the Rank of a private - into Capt. Jabez Brooks' company. Capt. Brooks belonged in Middletown. We were in service at Fishkill and from thence followed the British fleet up the [crossed out : Connecticut] River to Candle Hook where the Fleet became windbound and returned down the River. We were then marched down the River till we reached Fishkill barracks. Capt. Brooks' company was attached to Col. Newbury's Regiment. [crossed out : We] Mr Starr, myself and others were there put in a Detachment to New Windsor where Mr Starr served out his term of three months and after that I went down to Morristown into the Continental service. Mr Starr and myself have had a great many conversations on the subject since the War at different times when we were together. And further the Deponent saith not. Dated at said Middletown the 24th day of September 1834,
Samuel X Butter (his mark)
witness Stillman K. Wightman
State of Connecticut [_] Middlesex County, Middletown wr Sept, 1834.
Then and there personally appeared Samuel Butter, subscriber by his own mark, of the foregoing deposition, well known to me as a person of truth and veracity, and made oath in due form of law to the truth of the fat, therein contained before me, Attest, Stillman K. Wightman, Justice of the Peace.
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1. I, Daniel Shephard of Chatham in the County of Middlesex and State of Connecticut, being eighty years of age depose and say that I have always resided in said Chatham which adjoins the Town of Middletown in Said county and have always been well acquainted with Josiah Starr of said Middletown who removed some three of four years since from said Middletown to Portage County in Ohio, I further depose and say that during the Revolutionary War I was orderly Sergeant in Capt. Daniel Stewart's company and served in that rank in said company six different Tours. During the same time Josiah Starr was orderly Sergeant in Capt. Whitmore's company unless perhaps a short time before the termination of the War when possibly Capt. Meigs may have had the command of the company. My first tour of duty was at New York in 1776. We left Middletown the 15th of Augt._ were on Long Island when the fort was taken at Flatbush, [__] We were dismissed the 27 Sept. and returned home. Our next Tour was to Danbury when that place was burned in the Spring of the year 1777. we were absent about 12 days, were dismissed and returned home. Our next Tour of duty was to Fishkill and so on up the River in Oct 1777. We followed the fleet until our arrival at RedHook when the army returned down the River and we were marched to xxxxxxxx Fishkills where about the 12th of Nov. I was dismissed and returned to Chatham,
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2. We were out in service xxx eight or ten days at New Haven when the British [crossed out :landed] shipping appeared off the Harbor and it was expected would land. This was soon after the burning of Danbury. [crossed out :After the enemy] Afterward when the enemy landed at New Haven we were again caled out into service and reached East Haven when they landed and some men were killed on both sides. We were absent on duty eight of ten days this trip. Agian we were afterward ordered to Killingworth at the time the enemy landed on Duck Island - from Killingworth we were marched to East Guilford, thence to Old Guilford where we were discharged and came home after a service of eight or ten days. The whole of the forgoing service was not less than five months. I have a distinct recollection that Mr. Starr was out in service these Tours. I often saw him and know that he was orderly Sergeant. I saw him in many instances daily on duty and beleive that he always performed his duty well. [crossed out : And further this deponant] I now receive a pension for the above described services. And further the Deponent saith not. Dated at said Middletown the 27th Sept. 1834, Daniel Shepard
State of Connecticut 
Middlesex County ⎬ Middletown 27th Sept. 1834.
Then and there personally appeared Daniel Shephard, subscriber of the foregoing deposition, known to me to be a person of truth and veracity, and made oath in due form of law to the truth of said depostion, before me, 
Attest, Stillman K. Wightman, Justice of the Peace.
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Rejected
See letter to Cyrus Prentiss
Ravenna, Ohio
23 March 1835
Act 7th June 1832 
(over
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Com. of Pensions
Washington, D.C_
Dear Sir: _ Can you give me anything regarding the Rev. war service of Josiah Starr, Sr. of Middletown, Ct._He was born Jan 27_1751 Married to Mary Warner Nov. 24, 1773 died Apr. 12 1837 in Charleston _ Had three children Mary, Nancy and Josiah Jr who resided laterly in Stow, Ohio. I have no data excepting letters
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regarding a pension written in [?]53 [?] 54: = Said Josiah Starr was a relative of Col. Josiah Starr of New Milford, Ct. Said pension was not recieved - Thanking you - (Mrs. Geo. U) Jessie Marvin 292-17 [__ __,] Columbus Ohio July 4 -  

[stamp] U. S. Pension D Jul 6 1972 office
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1912 July 12 Hist. to Mrs George N. Marvin. V.L.M.
[crossed out]Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873. 
[stamped] REJECTED
10,082
Josiah Starr