Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4266, for Solomon Linsly, Connecticut
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Conn

Linsly, Solomon
or Linsley or Lindsley or Linsey 
Lucy

NUMBER
W. 4266

CONTENTS
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298
New York
Solomon Linsley 4
Private
Connecticut line
'80 to 8 June 1783
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 6 of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 28 of April 1818 and sent to the pensioner, care of Robt. Livingston, Judge &c New York.

Arrearages to 4th. Sept. 1818, 4 30/31 mos.  $39.74
$39.74

Revolutionary claims, Act 18th March, 1818,

Swilt
Continued
Madrid, St Lawrence Co

(right side)
Letter to E. Crosby 12 Sept 1851

(right side written vertically)
Notifn. sent Nov. 15th 1820 to Joseph York 
Madrid N. Yk.
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3131
New York
Lucy Linsley
widow of Solomon Linsley who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Conn private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.

Certificate of Pension issued the 7th day of Decemr. 1853 and sent to W. G. Wade Rose N.Y.

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 78. Vol. A

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In the matter of Solomon Linsley application for a pension certificate under the act of 7th June 1832.

Allen & Baldwin, agents. 
Potsdam, S. Law- County N.Y.
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
State of New York St. Lawrence County SS:
On this sixteenth day of September 1834 personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County, now sitting, Solomon Linsley a resident of the Town of Madrid in the said County of St Lawrence and State of New York aged seventy one years, as I think, 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.

He saith that he has for several years past he thinks since the year 1818 drawn a pension of ninety six dollars per year under the act of Congress of March 1818, which was the pension allowed by said act to privates and non-commissioned officers, without any distinction, and having served more than two years as a sergeant in the Revolutionary War he now makes application for Sergeants pay under the aforementioned act of June 7th 1832 and says that he entered the service of the United State under the following named officers and
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served as herein stated. 
He said that he enlisted as a volunteer for one year at Litchfield in Connecticut where he resided during the revolutionary war, in a company commanded by Capt. Smith Lieut. Samuel Harrison, Ensign Doty in Col. Mead's Regiment. The precise time of his enlistment he cannot tell though he thinks in the spring perhaps March or April of 1778. and he cannot tell whether he enlisted in the Continental army of Connecticut State Troops. He recollects well of enlisting in said company for one year as a Corporal and marching soon after he enlisted to Horseneck and was stationed there with said Regiment during the whole year guarding the lines and preventing the enemy from coming into the Country. There was no other Regiment or Company of soldiers stationed in that vicinity during said time of service. He performed service during that period as a Corporal and received a written discharge in the next spring from the Colonel and went home.

1779 In the same spring he thinks of 1779 he again enlisted as a volunteer with the rank of corporal for another year in the company of Capt. Gillet in Col Enos Regt. at the same place and marched soon after to White Plains, there joined the Regt. and after remaining there a few weeks crossed Hudson River and went to West Point and remained there till fall. Then went to Horseneck and remained there some time and then went to old Greenwich a few miles from Horseneck
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and remained there throughout the winter and until his time of enlistment expired and then received a written discharge from his Colonel. There was no other Regt. in the vicinity of the Regt. to which he belonged through this year, and he was engaged in no battles. He then went home and he supposes he remained at home till the next winter for he recollects well of enlisting for three years in the Continental army in the winters of 1780 & 81. He either remained at home through the summer of 1780 or else his enlistments were all one year later than he has above stated, and his second campaign continued only a part of a year, though he is quite sure he did serve a full two years as Corporal previous to his last enlistment for three years.

Winter of 1780 & 1781. In December 1780 as in the first of the year 1781 while at town of Litchfield he enlisted in the Continental army for three years as follows: The Selectmen of the town, as he understood it, appointed a committee consisting of Capt. Harrison, Capt. Peck and Mr Leman Stone to raise a three years man, and this deponent was applied to and he enlisted for that term in the Continental army being assured by the committee that he should be promoted to the rank of Sergeant on entering into the service: though another man by the name of Orange Barns was procured in a similar way in another part of the town. Very early in the spring after, and he thinks as early as the first of April, he and said Barns started
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memory is not very good as to the dates of his services, but he has always had it impressed strongly upon his mind that he was discharged in December 1783 from his three years enlistment, and that he enlisted in the winter. Therefore he supposes he enlisted in the winter of 1780 & 1781 - and that he served two different campaigns of one year each before that enlistment, but is not perfectly certain as to the years of such services, but believes them to be as above stated.

He further saith that he was born in the town of Litchfield in the state of Connecticut, on the 21st day of July in what year he cannot tell. He has no record of his age and has never seen any to his recollection. He thinks, however it was in 1763 because he thinks he was about fifteen years old when he entered the service and that he supposes was in 1778, although he could not speak with much certainty on that point. He has no doubt however that he was 17 or 18 years old when he first entered upon his said three years service.

He lived in Litchfield three or four years after the war when he moved to Cornwall in the State of Vermont and remained there about twelve years when he removed to the town of Madrid in said County of St. Lawrence where he has ever since resided. He resided at Litchfield aforesaid when he entered the War at each time and he entered
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upon each of his said services as a volunteer. He has stated the particulars of his said services in his preceding declaration as fully as he can recollect them. He received three written discharges, two from his Colonel & one from Genl. Knox, all of which are destroyed. He states that he is well acquainted with Genl. John Crawford, John Horton Esq. Joseph Freeman Esq of Madrid & Lemuel Burk late of Madrid now of Canton Sheriff of said county & Honl. David C Judson of Ogdensburgh Judge and various other persons of Madrid who could testify as to the deponents reputation as a revolutionary soldier. But he is not acquainted with any clergyman whose testimony upon that subject can be produced. Only one clergyman resides within several miles of this deponent's residence and he has resided there but a short time & does not probably know anything upon that subject.

He further says that he has no documentary evidence of his said services and knows of no person living whose testimony he could procure as to his service. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state except that of the state of New York.

His present claim is for the full pay of a Sergeant
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he having served two years as a Corporal and more than two full years as a Sergeant in the Revolutionary War.

He annexes hereto his present certificate which may be retained by the Department in case a new one shall be granted.
Slomon Linsly

Since drawing the foregoing this deponent recollects and adds, as a part of his Declaration, that he was present, and served in both the battles which were fought, at the attack of the Brittish upon Fairfield & Norwalk in Connecticut, the burning of these places by the said Enemy. Sworn & subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
A C Svrrclk

Mr David C Judson (a Judge) residing in the town of Oswegachia in the county of St Lawrence and state of New York and Lemuel Burk (sheriff) residing in Canton in said county, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Solomon Linsley who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy 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.
D. C. Judson
L. Burk

Sworn and subscribed the day & year aforesaid before me 
Horace Allen, Justice Peace

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the in-
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vestigation 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 the above named Daid C. Judson & Lemuel Burk are persons of credibility and of fair respectable character & standing

I Alvin C. Sorr, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County of St. Lawrence do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Solomon Linsley for a pension. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 17th day of September in the year aforesaid one thousand eight hundred and thirty four. And I further certify that I am acquainted with Horace Allen (& his handwriting) before whom the above affidavit or certificate on oath of David C Judson & Lemuel Burk was taken, and that he was at the date of such taking, thereof one of the Justices of the peace of the county of St. Lawrence & that his above signature thereto is in his proper handwriting. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office on the day & year last aforesaid.
A C Sorr Clk
(over)
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And I the said clerk do further certify the day and year aforesaid & as part of my foregoing certificate that the above named David C Judson and Lemuel Burk appeared and were sworn in open court in presence of the judge thereof upon the hearing aforesaid, although sworn by a Justice of the Peace.
Witness my hand & seal of office the day and year aforesaid.
A C Sorr clk
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State of New York St. Lawrence County SS
St. Lawrence Com. Pleas of June Term 1920

On the seventh day of June 1820 personally appeared in open court of Common Pleas of St. Lawrence County being a court of record of said county and state, Solomon Lindsley aged abut fifty seven years resident in the town of Madrid 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 - in the second regiment in the Connecticut line under Colonel Herman Swift in the company commanded by Capt. James Morris and in the light infantry company commanded by Capt. Timothy Taylor as is stated in his original declaration dated April 6th 1818 - and that he has received a pension certificate numbered (298) and dated April 28th 1818.

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
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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 and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war passed on the 18th day of March 1818. - And that 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 then what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed - Viz - 

One cow 12. one old (illegible) 5. - one table 1 50/100  - 18.50 
one chicken .50. one iron kettle 1.00. one pot .50 - 2.
one small kettle .75. one shovel & trowel 1.00 - 1.75
four chairs - 1.50. two pails - .75. one pan - .50 - 2.75
(total) $25.00

No other estate or personal, or debts, or contracts or securities due me - Solomon Linsly
and I do further solemnly swear that my
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occupation is a labourer - but from lameness and sickness I am disabled from following the same except at short intervals - and that I reside in a house belonging to one of my sons - and my daughter aged about twelve years resides with me - and that two of my sons occasionally dwell in the same house with me - the name of the eldest is Jasper aged about 16 years and the other Chester aged about 14 - my daughters name is Lavinia - my sons are generally imployed in work for others to procure a subsistence for themselves, and assist me 
Solomon Linsly

All which was sworn to & declared in open court June 7th 1818- before 
Joseph York clerk

It is the opinion of the court that the total amt. in the value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is twenty five dollars - 
Joseph York clerk