Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42504, for Daniel Topping, New York
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New York  Topping, Daniel  S. 42504
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New York
Daniel Topping
of Southampton in the state of New York     Date of death not on AB
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Livingston of the New York line, for the term of Seven years.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 23 of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 7 of July 1819 and sent to Silas Stow Esq 
Lowville, Lewis Cty, New York.

Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819 $83.16
Semi-anl. all'ce ending Sept 1819 $48.00
[Total] $131.16

Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818

Continued

Notification sent May 8th 1824 to Martin Hart Esqr Turin N. Y.
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NY R 549
Daniel Topping, an applicant for a Pension
Recd 10 Feb 1821

13.179

Septr [illegible]

Exd

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State of New York
Lewis County

On this Second day of January 1821 personally appeared in Open Court, to wit, in the Court of Common Pleas, held at the Court House in the Town of Martinsburgh in the County of Lewis, the same being a Court of Record in and for the said County, proceeding according to the Course of the Common Law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of Amount, keeping a record of its proceedings and posessing a Seal, Daniel Topping aged Seventy eight years, resident in Leyden in said County, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his Oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: From the latter part of the year 1776 or beginning of the year 1777 as a private in a company commanded by Captain John Davis in Col. Henry B. Livingston's Regiment of Infantry, in the New York line, during the term of three years, after which he served until the end of the War in Capt. Benjamin Walkers Company of Infantry, in Col. Philip Van Cortland's Regiment, New York line. That the date of his original Declaration is on the 23rd day of April 1818, and the number of his Pension Certificate is 13.179. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day 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
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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
18th day of March 1818. And 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 than what
is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me
subscribed
And I do swear that my occupation is farming that in
consequence of being very feeble and having
nearly lost my sight I am unable to pursue my occupation, and am unable to perform but little labor of
any kind -
I owe William Topping Jr the sum of Twenty
five Dollars and have some small Debts due to me
Daniel Topping
Sworn to and declared on the 3rd
day of Jan. 1821 before me in court
John Safford Clerk
Schedule of the whole estate and income of Daniel
Topping his necessary clothing and bedding excepted,
20 acres of Land, 8 acres of which are under improvement, badly farmed. One Small Dwelling House, old, and much out of repair $100. One Barn 26 by 30 feet $25. One Cow $10. One Old Saddle $100. 3 Swine (Small) $1.00  1 old axe 25 cts  1 Shovel 75 cts  1 Pitchfork 25 cts  1 Barrel Pork $6. 00  1 old Clock without a case $1.00  1 4 pail Iron Kettle (Crackd) $1.00  1 small Kettle $0.50  3 old Chests 75 cts  3 old chairs 56 cts  1 Candle Stand 25 cts  2 old Tables $1.00  6 tea cups & saucers 19 cts  3 Tumblers 25 cts  5 pewter plates 34 cts  2 " Platters 30 cts  4 Earthen Plates 25 cts  2 Small Pewter Basins 18cts  1 small Tin Pail 25  1 Fire Shovel & Tongs $1.00  1 Pair Fire Dogs $1.00. 6 milk pans $1.00  4 knives and forks 25 cts  1 Earthen Tea Pot 12 cts  1 Reel 12 cts
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2 old spinning Wheels $1.00 One Lantern (Tin) 10Cts 1 Razor & Shaving Box 25 Cts 1 Bible 30 cts
Total $156.21
Daniel Topping
I John Safford Clerk of the County of
Lewis and Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas in & for said County 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 One hundred fifty Six Dollars
& twenty one Cents in Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court, on
this twenty second day of Jan. 1821-
John Safford, Clerk of the County
of Lewis & Clerk of the Court of
Common Pleas
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Daniel Topping
Sargeant
Leyden, Lewis Co.
New York
Col. Livingston's regt
New York line
23d April, 1818.

76 - War
Admitted
Silas Stow, judge
Lowville, Lewis
County, N. York
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State of New York
Lewis County ss.
I Silas Stow first Judge of the Court of Com. Pleas in and for said County, do certify that on the 23d day of April 1818 Daniel Topping, formerly of the town of South Hampton in the County of Suffolk on Long Island, but now of the town of
Leyden in said County of Lewis, of the age of seventy five years being duly sworn, testifies and says, that after serving two tours of duty against G. Britain of six months each, he in the
month of Decr 1776 enlisted into the army of the United States during the war that he served to the close of the war as a Sergeant, when he was honourably discharged. That the company he enlisted into was commanded by
John Davis, the Regiment by Henry B. Livingstone (the 4 Regiment of the New York line). That the company when he was discharged was
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commanded by Benj. Walker. He deposes that when he sold his right
to lands in the State of N. York he delivered his discharge to the purchaser and has no other document evidential of his claim. That by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he stands in need of the assistance of his country for support. He states that he was in the battle of Monmouth and at the capture of Gen. Burgoyne,
and Gen. Cornwallis.
Sworn before me the day and year first herein
written
Silas Stow
I Silas Stowe Judge as aforesaid do certify
that from the period when the above named deponent was in service, I have known him personally that he is a man of the utmost truth and fidelity. That it appears to my satisfaction; that he served in the revolutionary war against the common enemy as herein stated; and I now transmit the testimony to the secretary for the department of War together with the proceedings had thereon
Silas Stow
Firsst Judge court C. P.
Lewis County
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I Edward Bancroft Clerk of the County of Lewis do hereby certify that
Silas Stow was on the twenty third day of April 1818 first Judge in and for the County of Lewis in the State of New York duly Commissioned sworn. And that the foregoing Signature is the proper hand writing of the said Silas Stow. In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and the Public Seal of the said County of Lewis this 22d day of May 1818
Edward Bancroft Clk
of Lewis County
the deposition of William Topping of the age of fifty four years
Deposeth and saith that he was well knowing to Daniel Topping being
in the Continental army in the Revolution war and that he ser'd till
the war was at an end and further the deponant states that he saw the said Daniel Toping Discharge
William Topping

Sworn this 12th day of June 1819
before me Jonathan Collins Judge of the Court of Common pleas of Lewis County

I Silas Stow a Judge as aforesaid Certify that this applicants family resided at my father's house for some months in time of
the war. That I then, and have ever understood, that he served on the Continental establishment. That he is man of strict truth and
that he is very reduced circumstances
Silas Stow
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January 7, 1936

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Mailed without review F

Mrs. Josephine S. Ware
4 West Oglethorpe Street
Savannah, Georgia


DANIEL TOPPING
S. 42504
BA-J/MLB

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information
relative to Daniel Topping who served in the Revolutionary War
and died in 1830.
You are furnished below the history of the only soldier named
Daniel Topping, under any spelling, found in the Revolutionary War
records of this office. The data therein were obtained from the
papers on file in pension claim, S. 42504, based upon his service
in the Revolution.
The date and place of this soldier's birth and names of his
parents are not given.
Daniel Topping, after serving two tours of six months each, no
details given, enlisted in the latter part of 1776 or early in 1777,
served as private in Captain John Davis' company, Colonel Henry B. Livingston's 4" New York Regiment for three years and was at the surrender of Burgoyne and in the battle of Monmouth, after which, he served as sergeant in Captain Benjamin Walker's company, Colonel Philip Van Cortlandt's 2" New York Regiment, was at the surrender of General Cornwallis and was discharged June 7, 1783.
The soldier was allowed pension on his application executed
April 23, 1818, at which time he was aged seventy-five years and
a resident of Leyden, Lewis County, New York, and was still living
there in 1821. Prior to his residence there he had lived in
Southampton, Suffolk County, same state.
In 1819, one Silas Stow, First Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas of Lewis County, New York, stated that the family of the
soldier, Daniel Topping, resided for some months during the Revolution
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at the house of his (Stow's) father, whose name he did not give, nor did he give any names of soldier's family or state any relationship between the two families.
In 1819, one William Tapping, aged fifty-four years, made
affidavit in Lewis County, New York, in behalf of the soldier,
Daniel Topping, and in 1831 the soldier referred to one William
Topping, Junior, but no relationship was shown between any of them.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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42504
INVALID.
Fille No. 42.504
Daniel Topping
Pri Rev War

Act: 18 March 18
Index:  Vol. [illegible], Page 512
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Mch 23 '94 Sev'l. Hist. w
A. E. Allaben 510 W. 145th
New York City   C

Mch 23 '96 Soldier Pensioned
Mrs. Geo. F. Ralph Utica, NY  M.E.L.

1923 Sept. 22. Hist. to Mrs Geo. Topping   MMHF

1925 May 19 - Hist to Mrs J. K. McKay & one dollar bill returned    MMHF

1936 Jan 7 Hist to Mrs Josephine D. Mare   MLB
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O. W. & N. Div.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., Mar. 5 1894.
Respectfully returned to
A. E. Allaben, Esq.,
#501 W. 145 St.,
New York, N. Y.
with the information that the courtesy of furnishing
the military history of Revolutionary soldiers is extended by this Bureau when the same is desired by descendants for historical and genealogical purposes only, and then only
when the soldier or his widow applied for pension, their papers being the principal source from which data is collected for a report. The history of not more than two soldiers can be furnished to each applicant because of the large number of such requests and the time and labor
it is necessary to expend upon each report.
For purposes of identification the soldier's full name should be furnished, his place of residence before and after service (town, county, and State, if possible), and the christian name of his widow, if one survived him.
Please return all papers with your reply.
Wm Lochren
Commissioner.
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501 W. 145th St. New York City
Feb. 26th 1894
Chief Clerk U.S. Pension Office
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir:
Will you kindly send to my address as above whatever
statements may appear in the records, of your office concerning persons by the name of Topping and Allaben covering
the periods of the Revolution and the War of 1812? Especially the
inquiry is for "Daniel Topping", supposed to have been a Captain, "Edward Topping" a 1st Lieutenant, "John Alaben" a Sergeant all
the revolution; and "Jared Topping" of 1812. Variations in the names are "Tappin", Allaby", "Allorobin" "Allin" & c.
I am very Respectfully Yours
A. E. Allaben
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MAR 13 1894

Old War and Navy 

MAR 1 1894

FILES
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Mrs. George Topping
Cedar Point
Chase Co., Kansas
August 6, 1923

Mr Hays Haymaker
Acting Commissioner of pensions

Dear Sir I am very grateful for pension records
received today of William Topping S 13766- Very anxious to know if his brother Hesikial Topping of Milan and Rhinebeck NY had pension record and to have it
possible and the Record of Daniel Topping who applied for pension in 1818 from Leyden New York.
Yours very Truly
Louisa Grinnell Topping
(Mrs George)

Revolutionary War
AUG 11 1923
SECTION
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FINANCE DIVISION
MAY 29 1925
BUREAU OF PENSIONS

PAUL W. McKAY
WATERFORD. PA.

Box 328
Waterford, Erie County, Pennsylvania.
May 27th, 1925.

Commissioner of Pensions,
War Department,
Washington, D. C.,

FINANCE DIVISION
MAY 29 1925
BUREAU OF PENSIONS

Dear Sir:-You will find inclosed one dollar and I desire you to furnish me with a copy of the pension papers of Daniel Topping, 1741 - 1830, a Revolutionary Pensioner.
He enlisted 1778 in Captain Benjamin Walker's Company,
Fourth New York Regiment and was granted a pension in 1818
Reference is made to page 164 of "Report from the Secretary of War ... in relation to the Pension Establishment of the United States, Washington, 1835."
Trusting you will have no difficulty in doing as requested
from the information given and awaiting your early reply,
I am Respectfully yours
Mrs. Isabella Greene McKay
Waterford, Pa.
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501 W. 145th St New York City
Mch 8th 94
A
Hon. Wm Lochren
Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir:
In accordance with instructions I will confine my inquiries to Daniel Topping and John Alaben both
of whom were my great grandfathers. The inquiry is "for historical and genealogical purposes only".
I understand Daniel Topping to have been a Captain in the Revolution and to have drawn a pension to the time of his death about 1828. The tradition is that he had also a grant of land located "in the Black River Country" of State of New York which he never occupied but "sold for a song". I suppose he lived after the war, and died in the present Lewis County N.Y. (Township of Turin). He was probably born on Long Island and might have been enrolled there or in New Jersey. Do not know his wife's name.
"John Alaben" was appointed Sergeant March 4, 1777 in the Sixth Company (Henry Goodwin, Captain, commissioned Nov 21, 1776.)
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of "Col. Lewis Dubois' New York Regiment". This information is from the roll of the Regiment as it
stood at White Plains N.Y. July 22 1778. If this John Alaben was my great grandfather, as supposed, then his wife's name was Mercy Bouton, and he died (was drowned it is thought) probably in the year 1787. His wife subsequently
Married Jonathan Carle. Whether any pension
was enjoyed, or an application made we do not know.
He was probably born at Blue Point Long Island and enlisted from Cortlandt Manor Westchester Co. N.Y.
Thanking you for the Courtesy extended
I am respectfully yours
A E Allaben
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4 W Oglethorpe St.
Savannah, Georgia
Dec. 28, 1935
Veterans Administration
Dear Sir:
In a recent communication from you re William Topping - S.13766 (Ba- J1EEL) you stated that his father, David, served
in the Revolutionary War and died in 1830 Please give me the full data on Daniel Topping and his Revolutionary War record.
Thank you very sincerely for this.
Very truly
Mrs. Josephine S. Ware
(recently of Boston)

Received
DEC 30 1935
Mail Sub-Div
VETS. ADM.
READER 26
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Rev. and 1812 Wars Section                  MMHF


May 29, 1925

Mrs. Isabella G. McKay
Waterford, Box 328
Penna.

Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 42504 it appears that Daniel Topping, after serving two tours of six months each, no details given, enlisted in December
1776 and served as Sergeant in Captain John Davis' Company, Colonel Henry B. Livingston's New York Regiment, was transferred to Captain Benjamin Walker's Company, Colonel Philip Van Cortlandt's Second New York Regiment and was discharged June 7, 1783. He was in
the battle of Monmouth and at the surrender of Burgoyne and of Cornwallis.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 23, 1818 while a resident of Leyden, Lewis County, New York (formerly a resident of Southampton,
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Suffolk County, Long Island) aged seventy-five years. 
There is no data on file as to his family.
Herewith is returned your one dollar bill, as no fee is charged for this service.
Respectfully,

Wilder S. Metcalf.
Commissioner.
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3-2233       113


BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Finance Division
May 29. 1925
Chief Rev. Sect.
I have this day received
Mrs Isabella Greene McKay
cash No.
for $1.00 requesting

photostat copy
as per letter herewith.

Returned to writer May 29, 1925 MMHF


O. J. RANDALL
Chief Finance Div.
H. C. L.
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Rev. War Section     MMHF
September 23, 1923

Mrs. Geore Topping
Cedar Point, Kans.

Madam:

I have to advise you that from the papers in the
Revolutionary War pension claim S. 42504 it appears
that Daniel Topping, after serving two tours of six
months each, no details given, enlisted in December 1776 and served as Sergeant in Captain John Davis' Company, Colonel Henry R. Livingston's New York Regiment, was transferred to Captain Benjamin Walker's Company, Colonel Philip Van Cortlandt's 2" New York Regiment and was discharged June 7, 1783. He was in the battle of Monmouth and at the surrender of Burgoyne and of Cornwallis.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 23, 1818 while a resident of Leyden, Lewis
County, New York (formerly a resident of Southampton, Suffolk County, Long Island) aged seventy-five years.
There is no family data on file.
Date of death not on A.B.  Respectfully,

In the cl. S.13766 of Wm Topping he states that his father Daniel Topping was a Rev. Sol. & a pensioner 

Commissioner

Wm. whose affid. is in this cl. may be son but not so stated.
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HEAD QUARTERS, June 7th 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.

Daniel Toppon
Town 5 - L139
THE
NATIONAL ARCHIVES
OF THE
UNITED STATES

Daniel Topping N.Y. S 42504
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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
Daniel Toppin Sargt
in the Second N. York Regiment, having faithfully served the United States Seven years
and being inlisted for the War only, is
hereby DISCHARGED from the American Army.
GIVEN at HEAD QUARTERS the
G. Washington

By HIS EXCELLENY'S
Command,
J Trumbull Jun [Illegible]

REGISTERED in the Books
of the Regiment,
Christn Milton L. C Adjutant

THE above Sargt Daniel Tappin
has been honored with the BADGE of MERIT for seven
Years faithful Service.
P. Cortlandt, Col