Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17,557, for Job Lyon, Connecticut
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(3--1776)

SERVICE
Conn.

Lyon, Job

NUMBER
S.17.557

Carded
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CONTENTS
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Order to pay 22 Sept 1837. 
Order to pay 22 Oct 1838 
17946     17.94
Connecticut 
Job Lyon Greenwich in the State of Con who was a Pri in the com. commanded by Captain -  of the Regt comm by Col Mead in the Con Troop for 8 Mo 14 days 
Inscribed on the Roll of Con the rate of 28 Dollars 21 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of Oct 33 and sent to Hawley Hanford Ct  
Arrears to the 4th of Sep 33. $70.52 
Semi-anl. allowance ending Mar 4.  14.10 
$84.62 
{Revolutionary Claim, [unreadable] 1832}
Recorded by E D B Clerk, 
Book  E  Vol. 3
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State of Connecticut, 
County of Fairfield} ss. Probate District of Stamford 
On this 30th day of August 1832 personally appeared, in open Court, before the Court of Probate for said District, 
now sitting, Job Lyon a resident of Greenwich in the County of Fairfield, and State of Connecticut, aged seventy three years, who being first 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 7, 1832: - 
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers, and served as herein stated: viz.     In the year 1776 in the Spring (April he thinks fit for it was muddy & he recollects the docks in New York & [unreadable] in breaking up) the company of Connecticut militia to which he then belonged was ordered out on duty in the public service for one month in the City of New York & Declarant was out on duty with said company the full term of one month - the company belonged to said Greenwich & to Col. John Meads Regt, but he did not as deponent recollects go New York. Matthew Mead of said Greenwich now dec’d was Caption of the thinks one Krumpf was lieutenant. Our duty was Guard & Garrison duty & working at the breastworks.  When the time expired came home.  Knows of no living person by whom he can prove this service. After as he thinks the first of August of the same year said Col. John Meads whole regiment of Connecticut militia was ordered down to the N York.   Declarant by changing his residence in said Greenwich had now become a member of Capt. Abraham Meads company of militia belonging to said Regt & went with said company & Regt to New York & was then constantly in service for two months.  - Genl Gould Sellick Silliman had command of the Brigade - when declarant got to New York and saw the enemys tents on Staten Island. Declarant was with the army at the retreat from New York & was with it a while at Harlem Heights & helped to build a breastwork there & finally got sick thereby lying on the ground during the battle on Long Island.  One company lay constantly or their times in distress to cross over at a moments warning but were not ordered over.  Odle Close was Lieutenant of the Company Sylvanus Marshall an Ensign. Close had the command, Capt Mead not being with us.
The following fall said Capt John. Meads whole company & declarant with them was ordered out to keep guard near Rye Bridge in New York of were then on steady duty a fortnight. This was in York - killing time & declarant thinks in December - recollects getting first pork planks  improvising-  Capt, Mead was now with us in command.  
Early in the spring of 1777 (as early as February or March) said whole company & Most of the  other companies of the Regt were ordered and on duty at said Rye Bridge & its vicinity for one month and declarant served this term out in said Company in this location.  Capt Mead had command of us there.  The duty was guard duty & scouting - does not recollect what officer was in command of the Regiment.  Recollect that about a hundred American prisoners were returned to us at this place by the enemy & [unreadable] by Capt. Mead - The prisoners were in a most suffering condition.  
In the same year 1777 and in April as he thinks he enlisted in one month in company of Connecticut State troops called Rangers commanded by Capt Sylvanus Mead & lieutenant Sylvanus Marshall – served said month steadily out & near its close went with Said Company to Ridgefield (after the burning of Danbury) where Wooster was killed & followed the enemy thence down to [unreadable] where they embarked - this service was chiefly at or near Sherwood Bridge in said Greenwich - This was under Col. John Meads command.
In the same year as he thinks after harvest  Col. Johns Regt was ordered out against the enemy & did duty constantly for two months at New Rochelle, [unreadable] & Rye in New York. Col. Mead had the command - declarant was out on duty all this time in the company of militia formerly commanded by Abm Mead - now by Odle Close who had become captain – our Duty was guard duty,  Enos Mead was with us, he belonged to another company command by Capt. Howe - cannot recollect these months with certainty. 
In 1778 as he thinks in March & April declarant with others were drafted out in the Connecticut militia in two months on duty against the enemy & did duty steadily the whole time at Stanwich & [unreadable] the duty were guard duty & scouting,  David Wood [unreadable] Greenwich now and had command of the company composed of the Drafts, John Mead was Ensign – he was Col. John Meads son - during this time some Hessian deserters came in town. 
In the latter end of the year 1778 as he thinks declarant formed a part of a guard (a [unreadable] guard)
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stationed in the shore in said Greenwich for one month & on duty during this time – this was by order of Col. Mead - Declarant also was on a guard many other occasions ordered out on guard on alarms against the enemy & always turned out & did his duty faithfully, he cannot state the other members working on those tours – but he has no doubt this together they would amount to  three months.  The duty was rendered in Greenwich, at Byrams Bridge, Newarks Bridge & Kingstreet.  
Declarant was born in said Greenwich Nov’r 16 1758 – has a record of his age in his family Bible – resided in said Greenwich at all times when he entered the service & has ever resided there to present time.  Declarant was ordered out & drafted as stated above - never received a written discharge - cannot state the names of the other officers or regiments, nor the circumstances of the Service more particularly than he has Done without being impossibly tedious.  He refers to Amos Hobby, Enos Mead & Zaccheus Mead to prove his character for  truth & a part of his services as a soldier of the revolution  - He can as yet find no clergyman who knows anything of his Services [unreadable] – and he refers to everybody who knows him to prove his character for truth – Does not know that he can obtain any other proof of his services than the Deposition & the persons he has named above.  A Sergeant or Corporal had command of the Guard for the militia in said Greenwich.
The said John Lyon 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, 
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Job Lyon 
Cha Hawley Judge 
We, a clergyman, residing in the town of residing in the same, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 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 that the town of is entitled to credit. 
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 Amos Hobby, Enos Mead & Zaccheus Mead who have signed the preceding depositions are residents in the town of Greenwich in Connecticut and are credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.  
Chas Hawley Judge. 
I, Samuel Lockwood Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Stamford in Connecticut do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Job Lyon for a Pension. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office, this 20th day of September 1832 
Sam’l Lockwood Clk
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17557 
INVALID 
File No. 17.557 
Job Lyon 
Pri Rev War  
Act: June 7" 32 
Index: - Vol. 1 Page 233 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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No. 7232
Job Lyons
26.66
1.55
28.21
8 mos 14 days private
$28.21
56.42
14.10
70.52
Ch. Hawley
Stamford Con.
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Job Lyon which will require further proof or explanation. 
1. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes.
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes 
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any assigned for his not doing so? – 
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?  Yes 
V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? No 
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? 
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? Yes. 
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? Yes. 
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes. 
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? Yes.
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?  No.  
several witnesses, but no clergyman 
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? Yes. 
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? 
XIV. If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? Yes, in part 
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? Yes 
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? yes 
XV Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? Yes. 
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? 
XVII. , Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? Yes. 
EXPLANATORY NOTES. QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For  - months , and --- days, I served as a- - For -- months days, I served as a and for such service I claim a pension.
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served. and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite , and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the --- officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit. 
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. 
QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers. 
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate. 
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
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J. L. Edwards, Esq
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Stamford Aug, 17” 1833 
J. L. Edwards, Esqr
Sir
I [unreadable]  forward the application of Benjamin Brush & Job Lyon - the objections taken to them will I presume be found to be obviated  
Although they did not before obtain the certificates of a clergyman they have provided them now. Mr Buffett the clergyman enabled himself to give them by making inquiries in the neighborhood & thus ascertaining their reputation.
Your Respectful friend
Chas. Hawley
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State of Connecticut 
County of Fairfield} ss. Probate District of Stamford 
On this 16 day of August AD 1832 before the Court of Probate for said District personally appeared Amos Hobby of Greenwich said District who being first duly worn according to law do his oath in open Court upon say that he is seventy years that he well knows & has known Job Lyon of said Greenwich who is an applicant for a pension  - his character for truth is good – [unreadable] said Job to be between two or three years older than himself, during the revolutionary War & six days after the [unreadable] from the city of [unreadable] -  in 1776 deponent joined the army at Harlem Heights as a substitute for his brother Miles Hobbyy and the said Miles Hobby was out in a militia draft for two months & had the had served out part of the time & deponent took his place because he was sick - Deponent did his duty in Abraham Meads Company of Connecticut militia in Col John Mead – Sylvanus Marshall was an ensign & John Mead was Sergeant -  deponent staid out the expired time of the two months, which was about three weeks said Job Lyon as Deponent well recollects belonged to said company & was then in service all the time & Deponent was & he understood & believes that said Job was out on duty in said company on said occasion for said term of two months.
Afterwards & as deponent believes late in the said year 1776 said Abraham Meads company was drafted or ordered out against the enemy - the deponent then went as a substitute for his said brother - went to New Rochelle in New York & was out on duty four or five days or perhaps a week – Said Job Lyon was out with said company during the whole of this tour.
Amos Hobby 
Sworn to subscribed the day & year aforesaid 
Ch Hawley Judge 
And now on this 29th day August before said Court hereby appeared Enos Mead of Greenwood in the State of New York but was for several weeks resident in Greenwich in Connecticut who being first duly sworn according to law doth his oath in open Court depose & say that he well knew Job Lyon of said Greenwich an applicant for a pension believes him to be seventy three years old – his claim to
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for truth is good. In the Revolutionary war (deponent cannot recollect the year)  deponent & said Job were both under Capt David Wood or Capt. Benj. Green - both [unreadable] deponent was under Wood &  Green both -  under former for three months & the latter for two months. This was the Rangers so called being state troops of Connecticut – said both were with deponent in said Rangers through one of the tours but deponent cant say with certainty which – but under Green - Served the tour mostly in Kingstreet [unreadable] 
Deponent also recollects that on one occasion the Regiment of Connecticut militia to which the said Job belonged was called out  & did duty for two months at New Rochelle in New York & its vicinity -  Col. John Mead had command - Capt Isaac House now dec'd had command of the Company – Abm Hunter dec’d was Lieutenant & Caleb Lyon Ensign - said Job was out through this tour of Duty -  cannot state particularly the year but thinks with all confidence it was in 1777 & in the Spring.   
On another occasion said Job & deponent were out keeping guard as militia on at [unreadable] Bridge in New York and Caleb Howe had his company out -  I was in said service then for several days – cannot say how long – Deponent also well recollects the said Job was out on guard on many occasions in the militia against the enemy doing Duty at  Rye Bridge, Stan White, Byron Bridge & other places on alarms, Scouts, & other drafts &c -  deponent cannot state the number nor length of these tours but said Job continued in the service in the militia during said war.   
Enos Mead 
And in the same day personally appeared before said Court Zaccheus Mead of said Greenwich aged seventy two years who being first duly sworn doth on his oath in Open Court deposes & says that he well knows Job Lyon of said Greenwich applicant for a pension believing him to be seventy three years old - his character for truth is good, in the Revolutionary war deponent & said Job belonging to the Connecticut militia were drafted out in the public service against the enemy for two months& did duty for that period at Stanwich & afterwards at Kingstreet to guard stores – David Wood now dec’d commanded of the Company - John Mead now dec’d was Ensign  - think David Brown now dec’d was Lieutenant. This was as deponent thinks in March & April 1778. 
Zaccheus Mead 
Sworn to subscribed by the said Enos Mead & Zaccheus Mead [unreadable] the day & year aforesaid 
Ch. Hawley Judge
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State of Connecticut 
County of Fairfield } ss Probate District of Stamford 
On this 29th day of July 1833 before Court of Probate in and for said District personally appeared Job Lyon of Greenwich in said District who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath in open Court declare & say in addition to his original declaration dated August 30th 1832 that he waives all claims to a pension  on account of services the length of which he has stated in said original declaration. - But he swears positively that his term of duty in the spring of 1776 was one month -  thinks it was the 9th Co. of said Jno Meads Regt but may be mistaken. This town began in April but he cannot give the day – it was the beginning of April – 
His second tour of duty when the whole regt turned out was for two months beginning the 11 Aug 1776. Col John Mead went with us on this tour.  The third tour of duty in Dec’r. 1776 was for a fortnight – Capt Abm Mead & Lieut Odle Close & Ensign Sylvanus Marshall were there in command of us.  The fourth tour of duty in the spring of 1777 was as declarant believes in March & was for one month.  Mead, Close & Marshall had command of us then. And knew was officer had the immediate command of the whole detachment but Col John Mead had command along the lines at that time.  His tour of duty under Capt Sylvanus Mead commanding in April 1777 was for one month.   
His tour of duty commencing after harvest 1777 when Col Meads Regiment was ordered out was for two months.  Eben Knapp was lieutenant.  This was in as late of September but cannot recollect the day.
His tour of duty in 1778 was two months under Capt David Wood.  His tour afterwards in the same year was for one month. His guard was a detachment from the militia company of Capt Close of which declarant was a member - Capt Close had commanded us; but a Sergeant or Corporal was the officer on guard viz Edward Mead .   
To all those terms of service & their length respectively as stated above the Declarant swears positively knowing that he is Correct. And he says that in every instance in which he served as above stated the corps in which he served was regularly constituted & embodied corps of soldiers raised organized and into service by the public authorities of the State of Connecticut & that his services were Constant Services in  the field camp or Garrison & such as to render it impossible for him during the tours stated above to follow any Civil pursuit during the times above set forth, being devoted to during all the time to the service of the public.  
All of declarant services were rendered by him as a private,  all of the officers mentioned by declarant in his original declaration or in this are dead except Sylvanus Marshall who is so broken down with age & infirmities that notes
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cannot be obtained from him.
The declarant can recollect & swear positively to the precise length of his services & according to the best of his recollection he knows he served not less than the periods mentioned and in the following grades. 
For one month I served as a private (in Matthew Meads company in the spring of 1776 as before stated), for two months I served as a private (under Colonel Mead in 1776 as before stated), for two weeks I sword as a private (under Capt. Abm Mead near Rye Bridge in Dec’r 1776 as before stated),  for one month as a private (in the spring of 1777 as before stated),  for one month I served as a private (in the Rangers under Sylvanus Mead in 1777 as before stated), for two months I served as a private (under Odle close in 1777 as before stated), for two months I served as a private (under David Wood in 1778 as before stated), and for one month I served as a private (in the latter end of 1778 doing guard duty on the shore as before stated) & for such service I claim a pension.  – 
Job Lyon
Sworn to us and the day of year aforesaid 
Ch. Hawley
We Platt Buffett a clergyman residing in the Town of Greenwich in the County of Fairfield in Connecticut & Benjamin Brush Jr of the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Job Lyon who has subscribed & sworn the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy five years of age; that he is reputed believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution that we concur in that opinion 
Sworn & subscribed the 7th day of August AD 1833 
Cha Hawley Judge
Platt Buffett 
Benjamin Brush Jr. 
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation the matter of after putting the interrogatories presented by the war department, that the above said applicant was a revolutionary soldier served as he states - And the Court further certifies that it appear to them that the Revd Platt Buffett who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the town of Greenwich in Connecticut that Benjamin Brush who has also signed the same is a resident in the same place of is a credible person of that their statement is entitled to credit. 
Ch. Hawley Judge
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I, Samuel Lockwood, clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Stanford in Connecticut  do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Job Lyon for a pension.  [      ] testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 7th day of August A D 1833.

Samuel Lockwood   Clk