Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23,977, Joseph Tucker, Mass. N.Y.
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service  number
Mass.  Tucker, Joseph   S.23.977
N.Y.
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4461
New York 4461
Joseph Tucker
of Madison in the State of New York
who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Thompsen of the Regt Commanded by Warner in the Masstts
line for 13 months

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 43 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of Jny. 1833 and sent to E. Holmes Morrisville

Arrears to 4th Sep. 1832  $65.00
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4th M '33  21.66
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$86.66

Died Mar. 5. 1836
on A.B.

{Revolutionary Claim, Act of June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Jn oCromwell  Clerk
Book D Vol. 5 Page 144
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1st Brief
No. 10737
Joseph Tucker

4.5.16
detail required

19 Sep '32
15 Dec -

P128

Epenetus Holmes
Morrisville N. Y.
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No 10737
Brief in the case of Joseph Tucker of Eaton County of Madison in the State of New York
(Act of 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Before a Judge
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
Yes
3. How old is he?  81 years
4. State his service as directed in the form annexed.

Period.|  Duration of Service.|  Rank.|  Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
In 17| 8 Months| Minuteman| Gen. Col Danielson Capt Joseph Thompson 
5. Months|  {Capt Aaron Charles & Col Robinson. Genl Scuyler. Col Warner
Every other week for two seasons alternately

5. In what battles was he engaged?  Battle of Bunker Hill.
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Brimfield Mass'tts
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  By traditionary evidence
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
Certificate of Clergyman wanting

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned. 
James Ord Examining Clerk
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admitted
13 mo. private
$43.33

the a[l]ternate weekly service for 2 seasons is deemed a patrol duty not embraced by the Act.
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
State of New York Madison County ss.: on this 27th day of August - in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared before James B. Eldredge first Judge of the county courts in and for the said county of Madison Joseph Tucker a resident of the town of Eaton in the said county of Madison aged eighty one 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 act of congress passed June 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States in the war of the revolution under the following circumstances and under the following named officers and served as herein after stated:
That at the time of the alarm before the battle at Lexington he resided in Brimfield in Massachusetts that he then turned out voluntarily as a minuteman and arrived at Lexington on Sunday after the battle and helped bury a number of the dead that he assisted to take five lusty fellows out of one well that had been thrust in. When he thus went out as a minuteman Joseph Thompson chosen Captain Reuben Lilly Lieutenant and William Keep ensign. Colonel Danielson was the chief Colonel, Shepard was the Lieutenant Colonel and Dr Shepard was the major and these officers went with him to Lexington. After he got to Lexington he enlisted for eight months into what was called the eight months service under the same officers and served this eight months out when he was verbally discharged at Roxbury near Boston - General Heath and General Thomas
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were present when he was discharged. He was in Bunker Hill battle under the same officer who went out with him. That he recollects that Gen Putman was there. His best recollection is that Col. Shepard was promoted to be a General and he thinks he was afterwards a member of Congress. After this term of service he again enlisted for five months to go to Ticonderoga where he marched Aaron Charles was then his captain. Bill Gardner Lieutenant and Amasa Bacon Ensign. That his regimental officers were Major Dickinson of Amherst and Col Robinson of Northfield. That he served these five months out. After this enlistment he was stationed at one time seven or eight days on Albany Hill waiting for orders from Gen Schuyler and when he went to Ticonderoga Gen Schuyler had the command. He thinks Gen Wayne was also there.  He was discharged from this service at Ticonderoga by Col Warren. His discharge was verbal. After his service ended under this last enlistment he moved from Brimfield to Granville in Washington County in the State of New York. After he removed to Granville he enlisted under Capt John Blake Lieutenant Thomas Gould and Ensign Ebenezer Gould in Col Warner's Regiment of which Thomas Grove was Major and that under this enlistment he served at Skenesborough alternately every other week for two seasons when he thus served under this enlistment the Brittish passed through Cambridge in Washington County to Bennington where the Bennington battle was fought. He does not know of any person living who is a witness to any of these services - and that he has no documentary evidence of any of his
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services. He hereby relinquishes every claim what so ever 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. He further states that about six years last past he has through infirmity of body been generally confined to the house in which he has resided and in consequence of poverty has lived with several of his children in different places. that he now lives with a daughter in the town of Eaton in the county of Madison aforesaid where he has lived not yet a year that there is no Clergyman in the town where he now lives who has been acquainted with him and that in consequence of frequently changing the place of his abode as above stated he knows no clergyman who has become so acquainted with him as to be able to make the certificate required by the instructions from the War Department and has therefore procured the certificate and affidavit of two lay-men who have long been acquainted with him which is annexed
Joseph Tucker
Sworn to and subscribed the 27 day of August 1832 before me James B. Elderedge first Justice Madison County
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State of New York
Madison County SS
We William T. Curtis residing in the town of Eaton in the county of Madison aforesaid and Victory Curtis residing in the same town hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Joseph Tucker who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be eighty one years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhoods where he has chiefly resided for number of years last past to have been a soldier of the revolution. And the said William T. Curtis for himself certifies that he has been well acquainted with the said Tucker at least for the last twenty years, and has often many years back heard him tell stories of his services in the Revolutionary War. And that he concurs in the opinion that he was a soldier of the revolution and the said Victory Curtis for himself certified that he has been acquainted with the said Tucker at least for the last twenty years & that before any pensions were granted to soldiers of the Revolution he has frequently heard the said Tucker relate his services in the Revolution and that he then & those times related them the same as they are set forth in his declaration & that he distinctly recollects to hearing him state that he was at Lexington soon after the battle & that immediately thereafter he served an eight month campaign at Roxbury & also that he has served a campaign under Genl. Schuyler at Ticonderoga.
Wm. T. Curtis
Victory Curtis
Sworn to and subscribed this 27th day of August 1832 before me
James B. Eldridge first Judge
Madison county
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State of New York
Madison County Ss
I James B. Eldridge first Judge of the county courts of the county of Madison in the state of New York hereby certify that by request made to me on behalf of Joseph Tucker above named I personally attended at the house in the town of Eaton aforesaid where the said Joseph Tucker resides and that on the 27th day of August 1832 above mentioned the said Joseph Tucker made Subscribed and swore to the above declaration before me. That infirmity of body of the said Joeph Tucker was the reason why I attended upon him to take his said declaration and that from his personal appearance and his statement on oath in relation to his said infirmity it satisfactorily appears to me that he is unable to appear in open court. And I further certify that I propounded the following interrogatories to the said Joseph Tucker to which he ^upon his oath made the answer to each interrogatory ^annexed. 
1. Where and in what year were you born?
answer-In Pomfret Connecticut in the year of our Lord 1751
2. Have you any record of you age and if so where is it?
answer-has no record of his age, cut suppose there was one in Pomfret where he was born.
3. Where were you living when called into the service. where have you lived since the revolutionary war and where do you now live?
answer-was living in Brimfield Massachusetts
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He lived in Brimfield until about twenty five years since when he has lived in Madison county except the time mentioned in his declaration that he lived in Washington County at Granville
4. How were you called into service were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute? and if a substitute for whom?
Answer-was first organized in a company of minute men under half pay until called into service. At the time of Lexington battle he went on an alarm in said company where he served about two weeks after which he twice enlisted as set forth in his declaration.
5.State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served such continental and militia requirements as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service.
Answer-That (illegible) state the officers under whom were the troops with which he served "any more particulars was the (illegible) of service any more fully than the same are set fourth in his declaration"
6. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it?
Answer-That he never received a written discharge from service.
7. State the names of persons whom you are known in your present neighbourhood and who can testify to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the revolution.
answer- that William T. Curtis and Victory Curtis have been for a long time acquainted with him and can testify to his character for veracity and as to its being reputed that he was a soldier in the revolution.
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and I further certify that it is my opinion that the foregoing statements of the said Joseph Tucker are true and that he served as there in stated. And I further certify that the above named William Curtis and Victory Curtis who have signed certificate above are known to me to be men of good standing society and of good character for truth and veracity and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Given under my hand and seal at Eaton in said County of Madison August 27th 1832
James B. Eldridge
first Judge Madison Co.
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Declaration of Joseph Tucker to obtain the benfit of the act of Congress of June 7th 1832
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State of New York
Madison County Clerks Office Ss.
I Andrew S. Sloan Clerk of the said County do certify that James B. Eldridge before whom the two preceding affidavits purport to have been sworn and also whose name appears to the preceding certificate was at the date of the same the First Judge of the County Courts in and for the said County. And that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavits and certificate to be his proper hand writing and signature.
Witness my hand and Seal of office this 18th day of September 1832.
A. S. Sloan Clk.
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10737
Declaration of Joseph Tucker to obtain the
benefit of the act of Congress of 
June 7th 1832
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State of New York Madison County ss: Personally appeared before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace of the town of Eaton in and for the said County Joseph Tucker (at the place of his residence) who being duly sworn, deposed 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 period mentioned below, and in the following grades to wit at the time of an alarm caused by the massacre at Boston when some individuals Called "Rope Walkers" were killed this deponent was one of sixty men who turned out as minutemen, and they then choose Joseph Thompson Captain, Reuben Lilly Lieutenant and William Keep Ensign, and this time this deponent believes was in September 1774, and he continued under exercise under the said officers until the next year when he was marched to Lexington with the aforesaid officers as stated in his declaration to which this is annexed, and this deponent verily believes that he continued as a minuteman under exercise was it was then called not less than six months. These officers were not then as he believes commissioned but they had made choice of them and continued under their command as faithfully as though they had been commissioned.
That at the time of the Lexington battle he enlisted (or rather after the battle was over) but before he returned home, he thinks it might have [been] eight or ten days after the battle) and at Roxbury was formed into a Regiment. This enlistment was into the eight months service as it was then called, and this deponent made this enlistment served eight months and was verbally and honorably discharged and returned home with Colonel Danielson and Colonel Shepard - These eight months served was
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all performed at Roxberry and he was most every day on duty, sometime standing sentry on the lines next to Boston, and sometimes (illegible) a fort on Roxberry Hill.
That the time when he enlisted to go to Ticonderoga was the next fall after he was dismissed at Roxberry, and from the best of the deponents recollection it was in the fall of 1776 it might have in the spring of of 177. One thing he distinctly recollects that after receiving Gen. Schuyler's orders (as was then said) the baggage of the regiment was moved on ^from Albany Hill to Ticonderoga with Sleighs and further he thinks that about the time he was dismissed from this enlistment he saw some soldiers who were going home after the capture of Burgoyne or had turned out on an alarm caused by some movement of Burgoyne's army. Not withstanding any confusion in the mind of this deponent in regard to the time of this enlistment he is certain that this enlistment was for five months and that these five months he faithfully served and was honorably discharged.
That as to the time when he enlisted pursuant to which his service was performed at Skenesboro as mentioned in his declaration he can remember nothing more particulars than he has stated in his said declaration. He recollects that at Brimfield it was reported that Congress had offered a number of townships of land lying about Granville in Washington County New York., to those who would go and defend them and this was one inducement for this deponent to move from Brimfield to Granville and after then moving to Granville he enlisted as stated in said declaration and under this enlistment he verily believes he served as he has stated not less than ten months. That from the best re-
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collection of this deponent he thinks he may have made a mistake in his declaration in naming Col. Warner as the Col. under whom he enlisted at Granville. He is not certain but it might have been Col. Robinson, because he remembers that Col. Robinson was at Skenesboro while he served there and had the command as Colonel. That all his services were performed as a common soldier and that for several terms of service in this deposition mentioned and for the number of months by him mentioned above he claims a pension.
Joseph Tucker
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 17th day of December in 1832
R. B. Root Justice Peace
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State of New York
Madison County Clerk's Office Ss.
I Andrew S. Sloan, Clerk of the said County do certify that James B. Eldridge before whom two preceding and annexed affidavits purport to have been sworn and also whose name appears to a preceding and annexed certificate was at the date of the same the first Judge of the County Courts in and for the said County. And that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavits and certificate to be his proper hand writing and signature. And I further certify that R. B. Root before whom the preceding affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County. And that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said preceding affidavit to be his proper hand writing and signature. 
Witness my hand and seal of office this 22d day of December 1832
A. S. Sloan Clk
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April 1, 1932

BA-J/MLB
Joseph Tucker
S. 23977

Mrs. Emma B. Hawley
2903 Edgehill Road
Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Dear Madaam:
Reference is made to your letter of recent date, relative to Joseph Tucker, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
The data which follow are obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 23977, based upon the military services of Joseph Tucker in the Revolutionary War.
Joseph Tucker was born in 1751 in Pomfret, Connecticut.
In April, 1775, while living in Brimfield, Massachusetts, he belonged to Captain Joseph Thompson's company of minutemen; he volunteered on the Lexington Alarm, and upon reaching there, after the battle he enlisted and served eight months as a private in Captain Joseph Thompson's company, Colonel Danielson's Massachusetts regiment and was in the battle of Bunker Hill. He again enlisted in the fall of 1776 or the spring of 1777, served five months as a private in Captain Aaron Charles; company, Colonel Robinson's Massachusetts regiment; after this enlistment he was stationed seven or eight days on Albany Hill, at the end of which he was discharged by Colonel Warren. He then moved from Brimfield, Massachusetts, to Granville, Washington County, New York where he enlisted under Captain John Blake and Colonel Robinson or Warner. Under this enlistment he served at Skenesborough, alternating every other week for two seasons about ten months in all. 
Ne was allowed pension on his application executed August 27, 1832, while living with his daughter in Eaton, Madison County, New York. He stated that he had lived with several children, but gave no names, nor did he refer to his wife.
He died March 5, 1836.

Very truly yours
A. D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator
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Morrisville Madison County N. York
Dec. 22d 1832

Sir
I return with this the papers of Joseph Tucker to which you will find an affidavit annexed, made to conform as near as circumstances would permit to the directions accompanying the Brief sent with them when returned to me from the pension office. Tucker has sworn to such facts as he could recollect. His memory seems to be much impaired and he is laboring under great bodily infirmity having as I was informed not been able to leave his room for about the last six months.
Yours with respect
Epenetus Holmes, agent for 
Joseph Tucker

Hon. Secy. at War
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Revolution
23977
INVALID

File No. 23, 977
Joseph Tucker
Pri Rev War

Act: June 7th '32
Index: Vol. 2, Page 423

[Arrangement of 1870]

Sept. cancelled
1932 Apr 1-Hist to Mrs. Emma B. Hawley-MLB
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Mrs. Emma B. Hawley
Genealogist and Researcher
2903 Edgehill Road
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
Feb. 10, 1932

(stamp-Received Feb. 24, 1932 Reader #28
Mail Sub. Div.-U.S.V.B.)

Veterans Bureau,
Pension Department,
Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sirs:
Will you be kind enough to send me whatever data you have on the pension application of Joseph Tucker of Madison Co. New York, who was a Revolutionary soldier, and served in the Mass. Militia.
I shall be very grateful to you for this courtesy.
Yours Very truly,
Emma B. Hawley

(stamp-Received Feb. 25, 1932-Recept. Section
Pension Files Sub Division)