Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 3342, Justus Gaylord, Conn
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Service 
Conn 


Gaylord, Justus
Lucretia 

Number
W 3342
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1599 Pennsylvania 
Sucretia Gaylord, 
widow of Justus Gaylord, 
who was a private, 
in the Connecticut line.

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. 

Certificate of Pension issues the 27 day of February, 1846
and sent to 1073. Pierce 
Albany, 
N. York

[Act of March 3, 1843.]
+ 17 June, 1844.
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2 Page 108.
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Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by an act of Congress, passed July of 1838 entitled "An act granting half-pay and pensions to certain widows."
State of Pennsylvania
Bradford County}ss.
On this 16 day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty five personally appeared before Harry Morgan one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County, Lucretia Gaylord, a resident of the town of Wyalusing in the County of Bradford and said State of Pennsylvania aged eighty seven who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by an act of Congress passed July 7, 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." That she is the widow of Justus Gaylord late of the town of Wyalusing in said State of Pennsylvania who departed this life on the twenty third day of May 1830. That her husband the said Justus Gaylord for whose revolutionary services she now claims pension and her second husband she having previously been the wife of Captain Aholiab Buck, who was slain fighting at the head of his company at the massacre of Wyoming, and whose name is now engraved upon the monument erected upon that battle ground, That declarant is informed that it will be difficult, if not impossible to prove a sufficient amount of service & entitle her to a pension on account of her first husband the said Aboliab Buck, she therefore applies for the pension due her on account of the services of her second husband, the said Justus Gaylord who was a regularly enlisted soldier of the Connecticut Line, under Colonel Durkee, and who served for a number of year. Declarant cannot say how long, and until his brother took his place as his substitute. That her husband the said Justus Gaylord, enlisted in said service from the town of Kingston on the Wyoming District therein part of Connecticut in company with his brother Ambries Gaylord with whom he served for a long time but the various particulars of their service declarant cannot relate. She has has however heard him relate that he served in General Sullivans expedition against the Indians, and thinks that Colonel Spaulding then had command.
And Declarant further saith, that she was married to the said Justus Gaylord on the twelfth day of October seventeen hundred and eighty six by Revd Wm Johnson at Kingston aforesaid; that the following persons were present at her marriage, to wit: Jemima Hounaker [?] the only person now living (the last acct she lived in the state of N. York)
That previous to her said marriage she resided in the town of Kingston aforesaid and bore the name of Lucretia Buck, being the widow of Aholiab Buck aforesaid.
That her husband the said Justus Gaylord died as aforesaid on the twenty third day of May, Eighteen hundred & thirty, never having applied for pension. That she was not married to him previous to his revolutionary service, but after the war, to wit at the time above stated.
Lucretia Gaylord

Subscribed and sworn the day and year aforesaid, before me
Harry Morgan Asst Judge
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State of Pennsylvania
Bradford County} ss

On this 16th day of May 1845 before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared Jonathan Stevens of the Township of Standing Stone in the said County Aged eighty Years Who being legally Sworn before me Asa Stevens the Justice aforesaid both Depose and Say that Sometime in the Month of August or September 1776, by a Special act of Congress Captain Robert Durkee and Captain Sam-uel Ransom Citizens of the Place known and Call by the name of Wyoming Consisting of the present Borough of Wilks Barre with Several other Township ware Severally Commissioned and authorized to enlist & raise two Companies of Soldiers for the Defense of that place, they Raised 85 Men each in each of these Com-panies he does not now Remember which but thinks in Ransom's company Justus Gaylord the person named in the Application of Laetitia Gaylord Enlisted he often saw them mustered in Wilke Barre. For December Instead of defending the place they ware Called to the Seat of War which then raged in the State of New Jersey. Their enlist was for three Years or during the Pleasure of Congress. They (that few who survived) ware held untill of 11 June 1783, Deponent Saw them Discharged. Justus Gaylord left by procuring a man to take his place Near the Close of the Year 1781 at that time the two companies ware reduced into one and annexted to the Connecticut line Commanded by Cap't Simon Spalding in the 14th Connecticut Reg't commanded by Col John Dur-kee in the First Brigade of the Connecticut line under Briga-dier General Jedediah Huntington - The Deponent did not see him enlist but from report & know that he was among the troops - he know that from Several Circumstances that Justus Gaylord was in the Battle at Valentines hill on the 3rd Day of July 1781
Subscribed and Sworn before the
Day and Year aforesaid
I Also certify that the Witness to me Well known
                                                                             Jonathan Stevens 
is reputed to be a Crediable Witness
                       Asa Stevens Jus Peace
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Family Record 
Births.
Mr Justus Gaylord was born Jan 12th AD 1758
Births.
Miss Lucretia York was born [unintelligible] 21st AD 1758
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(677)
Family Record.
Marriages. 
Mr Justus Gaylord wed 
[unintelligible] 
Mrs Lucretia Buck
Oct 12th 1786
Marriages.
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State of Pennsylvania
Bradford County
Jonathan Stevens of the town of Standing Stone in said County of Bradford aged 81 years being duly sworn deposeth + saith that about the years 1775 + 1776 he knew Lucretia York, now Lucretia Gaylord, widow of Justus Gaylord deceased. That about that period as common report said, she remarried Aholiab Buck, who was a Captain of Milita, + who was slain in the Wyalusing battle in the month of July 1778. That defiment then left the country and returned again in the year 1788, or ten years thereafter. That upon his return he understood that Justus Gaylord had been married + the said Lucretia Buck during his absence. That from that time he remained well acquainted with said Justus Gaylord + Lucretia his wife, until the day of the said Justus Gaylord's death during which time they lived together as husband + wife  + raised a family of children that is daughter by first wife had + the daughter by her first husband. That since the day of the said Justus Gaylords death, which occurred about fifteen years ago. He said Lucretia has remained his widow since Humm arrived + is still unmarried.

Subscribe + from this 9th day of October 1845 before me. I certify the said Jonathan Stevens read the above affidavit in my presence before execution + pronounced the same to be true and correct + further that the said Jonathan Stevens is a credible witness.

NB Gaylord and Wife had no Children together, J Stevens

Asa Stevens, Justice of Peace 

Jonathan Stevens [signature]
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State of Pennsylvania
Bradford family

Joseph Elliott of the town of Wynhising is
Eighty nine years pensioner of the United States
, being duly sworn deposeth & saith that he was well acquainted with Justus Gaylord who died at Wynhising in the year 1830
and whose widow Lucretia Gaylord is still living in Wynhising
is an applicant for a pension. That Deponent knew said Gaylord
during the Revolutionary War & has known him ever since until the
said day of his death. And Deponent further Saith that
said Justus Gaylord was a regularly enlisted soldier of the
Connecticut Line during said War of the Revolution hall as deponent
did not serve with me he cannot state his office nor the particulars of his service. He knows however that he did serve
or for a number of years & that his brother Ambrose also
served in company with him. And Deponent further
oath that said Justus Gaylord married the widow of
Captain Aholiab Buck the identical person who is
now applying for a pension. That deponent was not
out at said marriage, but well remembered the time of its occurrence and that it occurred but three or four years after the
was of the Revolution ended. He is confident that it occurred
before 1790 -
Subscribed & from this twelfth

day of May-1845 before me & I
certify that said Joseph Elliott
is a credible witness
Henry Gaylord
Joseph Elliot
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State of Pennsylvania
Bradford County
Prothonotarys office
I am Aaron Chubbuck Prothonotary of said
County do hereby certify that Harry Morgan before whom the
foregoing declaration of Lucretia Gaylord I feel to have been taken
was at the time thereof the associate Judge in & for said County duly 
Commissioned & sworn & that Asa Stevent & Harry Gaylord before
whom the accompanying affidavit of Jonathan Stearns & Joseph
Elliott purport to have been taken were at the respective dates there
of Justices of the Peace in the said County duly commissioned & for
further that the respective signatures of the said Judge & full
as to the said declaration & affidavits of one
appears genuine
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand & affixed
my official seal this twenty fourth
day of October
1845
A Chubbuck Prothy,

By A Allen D.
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12,444   Jan 14 1846
Lucretia Gaylord
July 7. 1838

Hon. J.L. Eduards 
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington 
D.C.
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Albany
Sir
NY
January 12. 1846.
I enclose the papers of Lucretia Gaylord entire of Justice Gaylord an applicant for pension under the Act of July 7. 1838. from the
letter of  [illegible]James Griffin, also enclosed you will notice that I
have used every endeavor to obtain the necessary proofs concerning
marriage. It appears that there is no church record, and that
there may be no unnecessary delay I send you Mrs Gaylords [illegible] in advance
of the expected affidavit shewing that fact
Justus Gaylord served in one of the enlisted companies of Wyalusing from 1776-1781
1781 when his brother to his place in substitute. This fact is proved by the witness Jonathan Stevens & confirmed by
the evidence of Joseph Elliot : I have written to the proper
offices at Harrisburgh Pa, but do not find rolls of Captains
Durkee & Renson's companies. I submit the case in hopes that the
rolls in your office are more correct.
The marriage of Justus Gaylord to Lucretia Buck (formerly York) is proved first by the
affidavit of Jon Stevens who says that they were married during his absence from that county, to which he returned in 1788
Second by the testimony of Joseph Elliott who well knew the
time of its occurence & that it occurred but 3 or 4 years after the
Revy war  certainly before 1790 & third by the testimony of Disdamia Shoemaker a personal witness who remembers the time
of as occurrence from the fact of living in the same house, and having herself been married the same season, to wit, the fall of 1786
The family record is not relied upon as evidence
but is submitted as supplementary evidence alone.
I am  [illegible]
Very respectfully Your Obt Sert
Wm B. Pierce
Hon J L Edwards Commissioner of Pensions
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State of Pennsylvania
Susquehanna County} ss

Diadania Shoemaker of the town of Rush in said County aged 79 years, being duly sworn deposeth and saith that she is acquainted with Widow Lucretia Gaylord who lives in the neighboring town of Wyalusing, and is, as Deponent is informed, an applicant for a Pension. Deponent was present at the marriage of the said Lucretia to her late husband Justus Gaylord and witnessed the marriage ceremony which was duly performed by the Rev'd Wm Johnson a Presbyterian Clergyman, at Wyoming Valley, Pennsylva-nia. Said marriage occurred, according to the best of Deponents recollection in the fall of the year, (1786) Seventeen hundred & Eighty six. She remembers the year of said marriage from the following circumstance viz. that they were living in the same house and the said Lucretia Gailord was married to Justus Gailord the same fall that she was married to David Shoemaker and she the said Diadania Shoemaker was married to David Shoemaker in Nov of 1786 and further saith not.
Sworn and subscribed before me
Bliny Bischard Justice of the Peace
Diadania X (her mark) Shoemaker
Witness John L. Gaylord
              William Shoemaker
Subscribed & sworn this seventh day of October 1845 before me & I certify that the above affidavit was read & the said Deponent before execution & by her declared was true &  correct & that the said Deponent, Diadania Shoe-maker is a credible witness
Bliny Bischard Justice of the Peace
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State of Pennsylvania
Susquehanna County
Prothonatory Office

said County do hereby certify that Pliny Richard Phelps
whom the within affidavit purports to have been taken was at the
time thereof a Justice of the Peace in & for said
County duly commissioned
& sworn & that his signature to the Jurat of said affidavit appears
to be genuine
of
Witness my hand official seal
this twenty fifth day of October AD
1843
John Blanding Prot

the
applicant for pension
Act July 7. 1838
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Great Bend Pa                                                   5
Jan 6th
WM B. Pierce Esq.
Albeny City 
N. York
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W. Bend Jany. 5./46

Dear Sir, 
Two weeks tomorrow, I started for Kingston a distance of 64 miles from this place, arrived there the second day, and found as ignorant a sit of men belonging to the Church spoken of as myself. However I ascertained that the Pastor and Church Clerk were absent and would not return under several days. Also that at the time Mrs. Gaylord was married they kept no record. I tried to get an affidavit to that effect but could not until the Pastor returned but agreed with a gentleman in that place to procure one and send it to me as soon as possible, but no tidings yet; furthermore [carat with text above] since [illegible] agreed with the Prothonotary of Montrose Susquehanna Co. (who says he is acquainted with all the principal men in Kingston) to with, which he has done; if I receive no answer from them within ten days from this date shall pay them another visit and if Possible procure the necessary papers. I learned at K.that Lucretia Gaylord now resides at the mouth of the Wyalusing Creek, but did not return that way consequently did not [illegible].
In great haste I remain yours, 
Jas Griffin
Wm B. Pierce Esqr
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Lucretia Gaylord
Act July 7. 1838 c/o
Supplemental
Agent Wm B Pierce
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Comptroller Office Connecticut
Hartford 25 Aug. 1845.

On application for evidence of the service of Justus Gaylord in the War of the Revolution, I have examined the record of settlements made with the Connecticut Line of the Continental Army, and under head of "Settlement with 2 Companies from Wyoming commanded by Capt Ransom & Durkee before 1780," find the name of Justice Gaylord who is stated to have commenced services January 1, 1777, and to the line of that settlement, January 1st, 1780, to have served three years as a private.

Also, under head of "Settlement with two Companies raised at Wyoming under the Captain Simon Spalding for the year 1780", I paid the name of Justus Gaylord who is stated to have commenced service January 1st, 1780, and to the time of that settlement, January 1st, 1781, to have served twelve months as a private.

Also, under head of "Settlement with the 1st Connecticut Regiment, John Curkee, Esquire Colonel, for the year 1781", I find the name of Justus Gaylord, who is stated to have served from January 1st, to December 31st, 1781, twelve months as a private.

A Carrington Comptroller
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Rev.
Widow, &c

File No. 3342
Lucretia Gaylord
Widow
Justus Gaylord
Pri; Rev. War

Act: March 3, 1843
Index: - Vol.  A, Page 262
Arrangement of 1870
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Cert. enc.
Lucretia Gaylord

Hon'l J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D.C.
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Washington February 25, 1846

Sir
Since filing the papers in the case of Lucretia Gaylord under the Act of July 7, 1838, I have received the enclosed certificate obtained by the applicant from the Comptroller of Connecticut in Aug't last.
I am Sir
Very respectfully
Your Obt Servant
Wm B. Pierce

Hon'l J.L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions
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9887
Pennsylvania
Lucretia Gaylord,
Widow of Justus Gaylord
Who was a pensioner under the Act of [blank]
And who died on the 23d May, 1830
of Bradford (in the State of Penn.
who was a private in the [blank]
Commanded by Captain [blank] of the 
[blank] commanded by [blank] in 
the Connecticut line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Philadelphia Pennsylvania 
at the rate of 80 Dollars [blank] Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 27th day of
February 1846 and sent to W. B. Pierce, 
Albany, N. York

Total amount, $400.00 (Act July 7, 1838.)

Recorded by [illegible] Clerk,
Book D  Vol. 1  Page 221.