Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12652, Isaac Curtis, Mass.
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Service - Mass.

Curtis, Isaac


S. 12652

carded
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14525

New York

Isaac Curtis

of Wayne in the State of NY
who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Thayer of the Regt. commanded by Col. Fellows in the Mass.. line for 14 months


Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 46 Dollars 66 cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 28th day of May 1833 and sent to Robert Alsop 
Williamson N. York

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 - $93.32
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. 1833 - $23.33

$116.65

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by George Taylor, Clerk
Book E, Vol. 4  Page 50
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20394

Isaac Curtis

Wayne County
New York




Robert Alsop
Williamson 
New York
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WAR DEPARTMENT

Pension Office


Sir:

The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned.  The following is a statement of your case in tabular form.  On comparing those papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed.  The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done.   These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margins with a brace, (thus: } ).  You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

A Statement, showing the Service of Isaac Curtis 
Wayne County NY

Period when the service was rendered

Volunteer 1775
1775
1776

Duration of the claimant's service

8 months
1 month
5 months

Rank of the claimant -

Musician

Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served

Capt. Thayer/Col. Fellows
Capt. Allen/ Col. Fellows
Capt. Lyman/ Col. Woodbridge


Country through which he marched

Cambridge
Dorchester
Ticonderoga


Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period.

78 
Hampshire Mass

Evidence by which the declaration is supported

3 living witnesses prove the several terms of service

I am, respectfully, 
Your obedient servant,
J.L. Edwards,
Commissioner of Pensions
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7 1832
The following regulations have been adopted: This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service. Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law: 1. The Regular Troops. 2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers. 3. Persons employed in the Naval service. 4. Indian Spies. As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first in stance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record. REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832. of On this served in the DECLARATION. In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832. Sir, County of day of A.B. a resident (b) of personally appeared (a) before in the county of years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provion made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) (e) regiment of the line, under the following named officers: with and there set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he enered the service, the battles, if any, in which he was engaged and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.] He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he the Agency in the State of declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. And then will follow the certificate of the Court. A. B. tionary soldier, and served as he states. And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revoluof the Court of hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this day of & c. If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out. Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing with the following additions, viz: (k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be and C. D. residing in (the same) who has years 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. And then will follow the certificate of the Court. And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A.B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. I, Clerk of the Court of contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the applicacation of for a pension. do hereby certify that the foregoing and State, Territory or District In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seat of office, this day of & c. Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission ; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the serupon the transaction. vices of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
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3 will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted ; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County, in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case. The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia. 1. Where and in what year were you born? 2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it? 3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war , and where do you now live? 4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom? 5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it giv- To a Solder, and what has become of it? Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what ter has become of 12 7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution. The Court will see that he answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant. The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons--one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify, to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates. The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject. Applicants unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the
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Isaac Curtis

20394



passed
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State of New York

Wayne County

On this first day of October 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas now sitting Isaac Curtis a resident of the Town of Williamson in the County of Wayne and State of New York aged seventy eight years five months and one day 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 7th June 1832.  That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as herein stated.  
That he with others in the month of January 1775 volunteered and organized themselves into a company in the County of Hampshire in the State of Massachusetts and stood as minute men until some time in the month of April 1775 and that a few days before the battle of Lexington he received orders to march with his company for Boston that accordingly he marched under the command of Captain Abel Thayer, and at Cambridge the company was again organized under the command of Captain Thayer in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Fellows and
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this deponent served in the said company as a musician from the latter part of April to the latter part of December 1775 a period of eight months when the said company having served the term for which they had enlisted were discharged and this deponent then immediately joined a company commanded by Captain Allen in the aforesaid Regiment commanded by Colonel Fellows then lying at Dorchester and continued to serve in the said Company until about the first day of February 1776 when the said company were discharged at Dorchester making a service in the said companies commanded by Captains Thayer and Allen under the command of Colonel Fellows, of nine months, during which time they were stationed in Roxbury, Dorchester, and in the vicinity of Boston.  And the said deponent further declares that he again enlisted at Northampton in the said State of Massachusetts in the month of June 1776 in the company commanded by Captain Joseph Lyman in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Woodbridge  and that he continued in the said service under Captain Lyman for and during the full period of five months and was discharged therefrom
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in the month of November 1776 at Ticonderoga in the State of New York.  And the said deponent further saith that he he was born in the town of Braintree in the County of Middlesex in the State of Massachusetts on the 30th May 1755 and that he has a record thereof in the family Bible.  that when he entered the Army of the Revolution he lived in Williamsburgh then the County of Hampshire in the State of Massachusetts where he resided until he removed to the said town of Williamson in the County of Wayne and State of New York where he has resided for the ten fifteen years.


Isaac Curtis


Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
open court
John S. Cayler

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary solider and served as he states
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I John S. Cayler Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Wayne County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Isaac Curtis for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have ? my hand and affixed the seal of said County this first day of October in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty two.

John S. Cayler Clerk
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Rev. War

12652

INVALID


File No. 12652

Isaac Curtis
Priv. Rev. War


Act:  June 7 1832

Index:-Vol.    Page

[Arrangement of 1870]
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Affidavit in the matter of Isaac Curtis' application for a pension
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In the matter of the Application of Isaac Curtis a revolutionary solider for a pension

State of New York
Onondaga County

On this eleventh day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared before me Daniel Moseley Circuit Judge in the State of New York, Nehemiah Cleaveland a revolutionary soldier aged seventy nine years five months and  - days a resident of the town of Skaneateles in the County of Onondaga and state aforesaid who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he this deponent was acquainted with Isaac Curtis four or five years before the commencement of the Revolutionary War at Williamsburgh in the county of Hampshire and Province of Massachusetts where the deponent and said Curtis then resided, that said Curtis enlisted in the service of the United States, as a musician in the company of Captain Abel Thayer in Colonel Fellows Regiment about the first day of May in the year 1775.  And that said Curtis continued to serve in said company with deponent at Roxbury and Dorchester until about the first day of January in the year 1776 when his time being expired said Curtis again at the request of the commander in chief, engaged in the service in Captain Jonathan Allen's company in the same regiment and served until about the first day of February following when he was discharged and left Dorchester - That said Curtis, after the close of the revolutionary war continued to reside at Williamsburgh aforesaid until about the year 1816 when this deponent understood and believes that he moved somewhere in to the western part of the state of New York.  And according to the best of his information and belief derived from letters received by deponent from said Curtis, postmarked Williamson , the deponent verily believes that said Curtis is now a resident in the town of Williamson in the County of Wayne in the State of New York.  And further this deponent saith not.

Nehemiah Cleaveland

Sworn and subscribed the day and year first above written before me

Daniel Moseley
Circuit Judge
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State of New York
Onondaga County ss.

I Reuben S. Hess Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Daniel Moseley Judge before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn was on the eleventh day of September 1832 and still is a Circuit Judge of the 7th Circuit Court in the State of New York being a court of Record and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe the within signature "Daniel Moseley" subscribed to the ? of said affidavit to be his own proper hand writing and signature.

Witness my hand and official seal of the Eleventh day of September 1832

Reuben S. Hess
Clerk
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State of New York
Wayne County

Joseph Cary late of the town of Gill in the State of Massachusetts now of the town of Williamson in the said County being duly sworn saith that he is in the seventy sixth year of age, that he is personally acquainted with Isaac Curtis of the said town of Williamson, that said deponent entered the army of the revolution in the year 1775 at Roxbury in the State of Massachusetts, a short time previous to the battle of Bunker Hill, and served in a company commanded by Captain Abel Thayer in the regiment commanded by Colonel Fellows in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental establishment, that he continued in the said service until the month of December of the said year when the said company was permitted to return home, that he well remembers the said Isaac Curtis at the time this deponent entered Captain Thayer's company, belonged thereunto and acted as a musician, that the said Isaac Curtis to the personal knowledge of this deponent continued in the said company until said company was discharged in the month of December aforesaid, and the said deponent further saith that he the said deponent served during the campaign of 1776 for five months in a company commanded by Captain Joseph Lyman, in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Woodbridge in the said Massachusetts line on the continental establishment and this deponent
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well remembered that the said Isaac Curtis was a private in the said company commanded by Captain Lyman, and served therein during the five months the said deponent served as aforesaid and further this deponent saith not.

Joseph Cary

Subscribed and sworn the 21st day of June 1832
before me

Robert Alsop a Commissioner of Deeds in and for said County of Wayne


State of New York
Wayne County

I John S. Cayler Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Robert Alsop before whom the above affidavit purports to have been taken was at the day of the date thereof a Commissioner of Deeds in and for said County duly authorized to take the same in and for said County; and that I am well acquainted with his handwriting, and verily believe the signature to be genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this Eighteenth day of October Eighteen hundred and Thirty two.

John S. Cayler Clerk
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State of New York
Wayne County

I Joseph Green of Sodus in the said county, being duly sworn saith that he is now in the seventy eighth year of his age, that he about the first day of January 1775 with others volunteered and organized a company who stood as minute men that early in April 1775 orders were received  to march to Concord in the State of Massachusetts, that the deponent then proceeded from the then county of Hampshire in the said State of Massachusetts, to Cambridge in the said State of Massachusetts, where he with others were organized into a company under the command of Captain Abel Thayer in the month of April 1775, that the said company then immediately proceeded to Roxbury  in the said State of Massachusetts and were attached to the Regiment commanded by Colonel Fellows in the line of the State of Massachusetts in the Army of the Revolution, that the said company under the command of Captain Thayer enlisted for the term of eight months, and that this deponent continued in the said company during the whole period of eight months, in which he served as a Corporal and this deponent further saith that he well knows Isaac Curtis of the town of Williamson in the said County of Wayne and perfectly and distinctly remembers that the said Isaac Curtis served during the whole period of eight months in the aforesaid company commanded by Captain Abel Thayer in the army of the revolution as a musician to wit from the early part of April 1775 to the middle of December in the
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in the said year 1775 when the said company was discharged at Dorchester in the said State of Massachusetts  - and further this deponent saith not.

Joseph Green

Subscribed and sworn by the said Joseph Green this 26th day of June 1832 before me

Robert Alsop 
Commissioner of Deeds


State of New York
Wayne County


I John S. Cayler Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Robert Alsop before whom the above affidavit purports to have been taken was of this day of the date thereof a Commissioner of Deeds duly authorized to take the same, in and for said County; and that I am well acquainted with his handwriting and verily believe the signature to be genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County this eighteenth day of October Eighteen Hundred and Thirty Two. 

John S. Cayler Clerk