Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 14626, Joseph Doty, Mass.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE Mass.
Doty, Joseph
Susannah
NUMBER W.14626
CONTENTS [BLANK]
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Massachusetts. 1687

Sussannah Doty, [presumed: widow] of Joseph Doty, deceased, who died on the 16. July 1825, of Plymouth in the State of Mass. who was a pri & Corp in the Compy commanded by Captain Parker of the regim commanded by [BLANK] in the Mass. line for 6 mos private
3 mos. 6 ds. Corporal.

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts, at the rate of 31 Dollars 73 Cents, per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 6th day of January 1838, and sent to Seth Miller, Jr. Wareham, Mass.

Arrears to the 4th of Septr 1837 $206.24
Semi=annual allowance ending 4 Mar '38 15.86
$222.10
{Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3d
Recorded by D McCurdy, Clerk, Book A. Vol. 2. Page 49.

Dup C fr. Nov 7. 51 sent to c. A. Morton Weestown Mass
C.A. Morton Jny 18 1853
& same June 2d, 1853
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V1637
Susannah Doty widow of Joseph.
Mass.
recd. marriage Oct '71.
Rolls .
Vols. p. 58 Corpl 3 ms 6d
Vol 18. - 36 - not on - have proof for 6 mo in 1776
admd
6 mo pri
3 mo. 6 ds Corpl

Seth Miller Jr Esq.
Wareham Mass.
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State of Massachusetts
Plymouth County ss
On this twenty fifth day of February 1837. personally appeared, before Wilkes Wood Judge of Probate of the County of Plymouth, Susannah Doty resident of Rochester in the County of Plymouth & State of Massachusetts, aged eighty two years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836. That she is the widow of Joseph Doty late of Rochester in said County deceased, who was a soldier of the Revolution and according to her recollection and belief, that, in the year seventeen hundred and seventy five her said Husband Joseph Doty enlisted into a company of Militia commanded by Joseph Parker of Rochester, John Burgess being Lieutenant, and marched to Roxbury near Boston, and served at said time and place three months
also in the month of June in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six the said Joseph Doty enlisted into a company commanded by a Capt Wood of Middleborough and went to New York where he served six or seven months
after the above services were performed She cannot state at this time the year, the said Joseph Doty went to Rhodisland [Rhode Island] as a soldier in a company of Militia under the command of John Gibbs of Wareham and served at this time three months.
She does not know whether the said Doty was a private or a noncommissed officer. at the several services above stated He was at the time of the Revolutionary War a Corporal in the Company of Militia in Rochester
she further declares she was married to the said Joseph Doty on the seventeenth day of October in the year seventeen hundred and seventy one, that her husband, the aforesaid Joseph Doty died on the sixteenth day of July in the year eighteen hundred and twenty five
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and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by the proof hereto annexed
Susanah Doty her mark

Subscribed & sworn to by the above named Susannah Doty on the day & year first above written & I certify that she is a credible person & by reason of advanced age & bodily infirmity is unable to travel to attend Court.
Wilkes Wood Judge of Probate

Plymouth Ss. I Jacob H. Loud Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Hon. Wilkes Wood is Judge of Probate for said County & that the above is his true & genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand & the seal of the Probate Court for said County this thirteenth day of March 1837 Eighteen hundred & thirty seven
Jacob H. Loud
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Certificate of Town Clerk

October 17-1771 Joseph Doty of Middleborough & [the remainder of the text is covered in the scan]
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October 17-1771 Joseph Doty of Middleborough & Susannah Smith of Rochester was married by the Rev. Mr Jonathan Moor.
Recorded by David Wing T Clerk

The above is a true copy from the records of the Town of Rochester in the County of Plymouth & State of Massachusetts- To be found on Book No 3-- Page 198
Attest James Ruggles Clerk of sd Town of Rochester

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Plymouth ss. January 18. 1837. James Ruggles appeared and made solemn oath that the foregoing certificate by him subscribed is a true copy from the Records of said town of Rochester; and I further certify that said Ruggles is the town Clerk of said town of Rochester
Charles J Holmes Justice of the Peace
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Deposition of Silas Besse
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I Silas Besse of Wareham in the County of Plymouth & Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the seventy ninth year of my age do testify and say that in the year seventeen hundred Eighty or Eighty one (it being the year Cornwallis surrendered) in July or August I enlisted into a company of Militia for three months commanded by John Gibbs of Wareham; Tisdale Winston of Rochester was Lieutenant and marched to the Island of Rhode Island, and was stationed at a place called Butts Hill. I served in said company at said time and place the full term of three months and was then discharged; the duty performed was to keep guard and make stronger the fortifications. our company belonged to Colo Jacob's Regiment I further testify and say that Joseph Doty who then lived in Rochester, but since deceased enlisted in to said company and served at said time and place the said term of three months and was discharged at the same time I was: Said Doty was a Corporal in said Company. the said Doty frequently talked about his wife and family while he was on Rhode Island at said time. I have no doubt he was then a married man, I have seen the widow of the said Joseph Doty within four months, now living in Rochester, Silas Bess, his mark

Attest Seth Miller JP

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth County ss.
Be it known that on the second day of January 1837 Silas Besse above named, whom I certify to be a credible witness, personally appeared before me a justice of the Peace in and for said County and being cautioned deposed the foregoing deposition, and subscribed the same, and made oath in due form of law, that that the said Deposition is true
Before me Seth Miller Jr. Justice of the Peace
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Deposition of Edward Raymond
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I Abraham Burgess of Rochester in the County of Plymouth & Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the seventy sixth year of my age do testify and say that in the commencement of the Revolutionary War in the year seventeen hundred and seventy five or six my father went to Roxbury as a Lieutenant of a Company of Militia, as I understood, I know of my own knowledge he left home to go there. and it was the common report that he enlisted for two months, and that after he had served this time he enlisted for a little longer time, I was then and have been since acquainted with Joseph Doty late of Rochester deceased, and all I can say about the said Joseph Doty's serving in said company at said time & place. I have frequently heard the said Doty and my father have conversation about being at Roxbury together at said time and [crossed out: my] I have heard them converse together, about my fathers being sick, and said Doty being taken out of the ranks to take care of him, as my fathers [illegible] was a young man, & he prefered said Doty to take care of him when he was sick. The above conversation between my father & said Doty I have stated according to the best of my recollection
Joseph Parker of Rochester was Captain of said Company
Abraham Burgess

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth County ss
Be it known that on the seventh day of February 1837 Abraham Burgess above named, whom I certify to be a credible witness, personally appeared before me, a justice of the peace in and for said County and being cautioned, deposed the foregoing deposition, and subscribed the same and made oath in due form of law that the same is true
Before me Seth Miller Jr Justice of the peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth ss.
I Jacob H Loud Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Charles J. Holmes & Seth Miller Jr. Esquires are severally Justices of the Peace in & for said County & that they are duly Commissioned & qualified & that the signatures to the annexed papers purporting to be signed by them officially are well known to me to be their true & genuine signatures.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the Seal of the Probate Court for said County this thirteenth day of March in the year 1837
Jacob H. Lord
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I Edward Raymond of Middleborough in the County of Plymouth & Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the Eighty third year of my age, do testify and say that some time during the Revolutionary War I enlisted into a company commanded by Nathaniel Wood of said Middleborough and Joseph Doty then of Rochester enlisted into the same company with me and marched to New Haven, & there embarked on board a vessel & landed in New York. & there we served in New York untill the English took possession of New York. I was one of the Guards, and left the City or town of New York by the order of General Putnam, and we had great difficulty of excaping without being taken, and we served the rest of the time for which, we enlisted with the Army in the State of New York. I cannot recollect in what year this service was performed, otherwise than by knowing that during this service. the English took possession of New York. We enlisted for five or seven months I cannot at this time of life distinctly recollect which but I think it was seven months the said Doty served with me in said company [crossed out: the] the full term for which we enlisted and were discharged at the same time & we returned home together. John Miller of Middleborough was our Lieutenant Col. Cary or Col Sproats commanded the Regiment to which we belonged
I lived about a mile from said Doty and about the same distance from the girl whom he married, and her maiden name was Susannah Smith. Doty had before this service married the said Susannah who is now living in Rochester
Edward Raymond, his mark

Attest Seth Miller Jr.
Fiber Eaton

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth County SS.
Be it known, that on the fourteenth day of January 1837 Edward Raymond above named, whom I certify to be a credible witness, personally appeared before me, a justice of the Peace in and for said County, and being cautioned, deposed the foregoing Deposition, and
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subscribed the same, and made oath in due form of law that the said Deposition is true

Before me Seth Miller Jr. Justice of the Peace
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for duplicate

C. A. Morton
Freetown Mass
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Jos. Doty. [Joseph Doty]
75. x Jos. Parker - 3 mo [crossed out: vol 15.91 - not on [illegible] roll.]
76 Wood. 6 or 7 mo -
copd 3 mo. 6 days -
" Jno Gibbs 3 - vol. 2-58-68-9-70 [illegible]
" 19-158-165.
" 36-33-35.
vol 3.39 not on R.Jd. Decd. 76. 60 days -
1.189 - not on
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Freetown July 31st 1851
J. L. Edwards Esqr
Sir
As long ago as November 7th/.50 I forwarded to the Pension Department, the Application of Mrs Susanna [Susannah] Doty of Rochester Mass a pension for an increase of her pension. She set forth in said Application that her husband Joseph Doty deceased, performed 3 months service under Capt Joseph Parker of said Rochester, at Roxbury for which she has never received any benefit. The Certificate of Mr. Doty accompanied the Application, and the person who had the keeping of it neglected taking a copy of it. Consequently she has not drawn her last semi annual payment of Pension due in March last. & as she is now 76 or 77 years of age she feels my uneasy on the subject. I forwarded in May last (the 8th) an inquiry to the department in relation to this subject, but as yet have received no answer to the first Application, or my inquire of May 8th.
I find by reference to my memorandum that at the time I forwarded Mrs Dotys Application I also sent on to the Department a manuscript having some fact-bearing on the claim of [illegible] Kernes heirs to a pension & possibly the papers in Mrs Dotys case may have been overlooked, I wish to call the attention of the Commissioner to this case imme
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diately as Mrs. Doty is poor and needy & either send a Copy of the original Certificate in order to allow her to draw the amount now due her, or any such course as the Department may choose to adopt, that she may obtain her semi-annual payment due in March and soon again to be due in September next
Very Respectfully
Your humble Servant
Chas. A. Morton
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House of Reps.
Washington Feb 7-1852
Hon James E Heath Comr of Pensions
Sir
A constituent of mine, of respectable character, desires me to state - that in November 1850, he forwarded the to the Pension office, the application of Widow Susanna [Susannah] Doty a Revolutionary Pensioner for an increase of pension - since which he has not heard from your office.
Will you inform in what is the result of that application:
I have the honor to be Most Respectfully Yours
[illegible] Fowler
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Hon. J. L. Edwards
Washington
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July 11th 1837
Sir
Jacob H. Loud Esq. Clerk of the Probate Court for this county communicated to me the contents of your Letter of June 9th, 1837 in relation to the claim of Mrs Susannah Doty for a pension, and you state that the Roll of the two first alleged terms of service cannot be found
The Deposition of Mr Abraham Burgess was forwarded with the papers as evidence of the service under Capt Joseph Parker Mr Abraham Burgess is a brother of the Hon Tristam Burgess and is a man in whose recollection and integrity the greatest confidence can be placed, and as I have been lately informed, he thinks he is not mistaken in the name of the captain under whom his father served at that time
I have procured two depositions which show that a company under Capt Nathaniel Wood did serve in New York at or about the time alleged -
And it is possible that this company might have been joined to a Regiment in the continental Service; and the Rall might not be among the Rolls of the Massachusetts Militia, or the Rolls have been lost, or mislaid. John Miller was my great Uncle and when a boy I heard it spoken of that he served at New York as an officer. It appears to me from the evidence, there cannot be a reasonable doubt
that [crossed out: there] this service was performed.
your Respectfully
Seth Miller Jr
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Probate Office Plymouth Mass.
March 15, 1837
J. Sl. Edwards Esq
Sir
I send herewith the applications for Pensions of
Susannah Doty & Mary Josselyn
Please send the Certificates or any returns to me
Yours &c
J. H Loud
Reg.
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Probate Office
Plymouth Aug 7.1837
Dear Sir
I send herewith in relation to the claim of Mrs. Susannah Doty a letter from Seth Miller Jun. Esq a Counsellor at law of this County & two Depositions which he supposes to overcome the objections contained in your letter in relation to her claim.
I have no personal knowledge of the Case of Mrs. Doty.
Yours with respect
J. H. Loud Reg.
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Freetown Bristol Co Mass.
February 7th 1853
J. E. Heath Esq.
Dear Sir
I received the 25th of January last past, a communication from the Pension Office, in answer to an application for an increase of Mrs Susannah Doty's Pension. The purport of said Court is a rejection of the claim for the increase prayed for, but I find no allusion made to the Deposition of Mr. Abraham Burgess, which accompanied the said Application. I [illegible] application to be made to the Secretary of this State for search of the Rolls in his Office, in order to obtain proof of this particular term of 3 months service, alleged to have been performed by Claimants husband, at Roxbury near Boston in the fall of 1775. It appears that Capt. Joseph Parkers company performed two terms of service in the year 1776, but the name of Claimants husband was not born on either Roll. Consequently the proof must be obtained of his service, & the Deposition of Mr Abraham Burgess of Rochester (whose Father John Burgess of Rochester was Lieutenant in Capt Parkers Company at the time Joseph Doty claimants husband perform the 3 months service, for which an increase is asked) who was a Neighbor of both Parker and Doty at the time of duty performing the service above named in the fall of 1775-
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Notwithstanding the certificate of the secretary of this State, showing that Parkers Company was called out but twice & both times in 1776, I have satisfactory Evidence that said Company was called out 4 times, to wit in 1775 twice in 1776, and again in 1778. I consider the deposition of Mr Abraham Burgess of Rochester (a Brother of the Hon Tristam Burgess of Rhode Island) a person of unimpeachable integrity conclusive proof of said Company service in the fall of 1775 and I have in my possession a copy of the "Company Roll of Capt Joseph Parkers Company in a Regiment of Militia from the State of Massachusetts Bay, stationed in the State of Rhode Island, now in the service of the United States, commanded by Col Ebenezer Sproat for the term of 3 months, from the 4th of January 1778"
The [illegible] I copy from the heading of the Roll; endorsed on said Roll. "Entered January 9th 1778 This Roll is in the family of the first Seargeant Jonathan King of Rochester; Joseph Dotys name is not borne on said Roll, but there are names of persons on it who [illegible] to wit, Gibson Hammond Sherman Lincoln & others who were Neighbors of Mr Doty. Of this Roll, our Secretary has no Evidence, still there is such Roll in existence and so I argue, that there being no Rob. of Capt Parkers company, for service in 1775 is not to taken as positive proof in the form of Mr Burgess Deposition, that Parkers Company did not perform 3 months service in the fall of 1775. Mr Burgess is very distinct in his recollection of his Fathers service with Doty (who was his near Neighbor) in Capt Parkers Company at the time alleged
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stating that his Father, being sickd with Dysentery, had a person detached to take care of him, who was so unwilling to wait upon him, that he and Mr Doty exchanged and Doty took care of his Father as he was a Neighbor Doty felt anxious that he should have good care and attention.
I would respectfully request a review of this case and a careful consideration of the bearing of Mr Burgess Deposition upon it.
You state that a duplicate of Mr Dotys Certificate was forwarded to me Nov 7 1851. I would say, that although Mr Dotys application was forwarded in November 1850 I have received no communication in reply until yours of January 18th 1853. Mrs Doty and July 1852. In August following I obtained the Court certificate of her death and the name of her surviving children preparatory to decerning the arrearage Can I have a duplicate of the certificate? The one you forward me, is doubtless in the Dead Letter office in Washington. At the time I forwarded Mrs Dotys application I sent on WS. Record to show the time of the death of Jesse Keen. That Claim was then being prosecuted by Noah Pease who obtained a pension for the heirs of Keen, consequently my WS was of no service to him. If agreeable to the Department I should like to have it returned-
Very Respectfully your humble Servant
Chs. A. Morton
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Freetown September 11th 1852
J. E. Heath Esq
Sir
On the 7 of November 1850, I forwarded to the Pension Department an Application of Mrs Susanna [Sussanah] Doty a Revlutionary Pensioner of the United States, for an increase of her Pension
In May, 51 I addressed a Letter of inquiry on the subject; again in July following and soon after the assembling of Congress last December I addressed a Note to Natl. Oliver Fowler requesting his assistance in the business, who wrote me that he had made application in writing to the Department, and when he received an answer would give me the impact of it. Mrs Doty died the first of July last past; Mr Fowler is now dead and I have no answer to an application that has lain in the Department almost two years.
In order to [illegible] the accruage claim the heirs of Mrs Doty her original certificate now in Washington must be obtained which I desire to have forwarded to me of the Department decide against an increase of Pension
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You will please address me at East Freetown Bristol County Mass and [illegible] an answer at the earliest moment as the subject has been delayed so long.
Respectfully Yours &c
Chs A. Morton
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Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 14.626
Susannah Doty Widow of Joseph Doty Corp Rev War
Act July 4th 36
Index:-Vol. a, Page 189
[Arrangement of 1870]
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I Lydia Wood of Middleborough in the County of Plymouth in the seventy second year of my age do testify and say that John Miller was my father and that he in the year 1776 or 1777 went into the service as a Lieutenant of a company, and as was then understood said company was commanded by Nathaniel Wood, and I have frequently heard my father talk about this service, and as he said he went to New York and was there when the British took the city, and I have heard him talk about the perils they encountered, when they left the city. My father was gone from home according to the best of my recollection about six months I well recollect this from the circumstance that during my fathers abscence I lived at my grandfather's. I have now in my possession a letter that my father then wrote from New York to his brother
Lydia Wood

State of Massachusetts
Plymouth County ss.
Be it known that on the twenty third day of June 1837 Lydia Wood above named whom I certify to be a credible witness personally appeared before me and deposed the above and subscribed her name thereto and made oath to the truth of the same
Before me Seth Miller Jr Justice of peace
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I Silvanus Wood of Middleborough of lawful age to give evidence do testify and say that in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six men was raised or enlisted to go to New York, and and the companies met in Middleborough at the house of Elias Miller, Nathaniel Wood was a Captain of our of the Companies. My Brother Samuel Wood was one of the soldiers under Capt Wood they returned very late in the fall of that year. I do not recollect the time they marched from Middleborough, but according to my best recolection they were gone about six months, my brother returned and died the winter following
Sylvanus Wood

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth County} ss
Be it known that on the twenty third day of June 1837 Silvanus Wood above named, whom I certify to be a credible witness personally, appeared before me and deposed the above deposition and subscribed his name to the same and made oath that the same is true.
Before me Seth Miller an Justice Peace.

Plymouth ss. I Jacob H Loud Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Seth Miller Junior Esq is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County & that the signatures to the two foregoing affidavits purporting to be signed by him are his true & genuine signatures.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of the Probate Court this Seventh day of August 1837.
Jacob H. Loud