Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42571, Obadiah Vaughan, New York
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(8-1776)
SERVICE                                             NUMBER
New York---     Vaughan, Obadiah---S. 42571
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CONTENTS
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[LEFT SIDE OF DOCUMENT]
5,124
5,122
New York
Obadiah Vaughan [illegible]
Col. Wynkoop
New York [illegible]
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary W
Inscribed on the Roll of New-York at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence o the 23d of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 of Decr. [December] 1818 and sent to Hon David McCraken Batavia Genesee Co'y [County] N. York
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818 [illegible] $87.99
Semi-anl. all.ce ending 11 March 1819 120.00
$207.99
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}
one year 1776
[signature illegible due to fading]
Issue, Cataraugus [Cattaraugus]

[RIGHT SIDE OF DOCUMENT]
The Judges certificate of the circumstances of this Pensioner in in Allen Nelson's papers on file
Lit. Rob Robt. [Robert] Campbell Mch [March] 8/53
[illegible due to fading] sent to James Lake Esq. 5 June 1821
Batavia NY
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State of New York }
[illegible due to fading] County } ſs [ss]
On this 23 day of April 1810 [illegible due to fading] of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County aforesaid [illegible due to fading] Obadiah Vaughan has [illegible due to fading]

[document almost entirely illegible due to fading]
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Obadiah Vaughan
[several lines illegible due to fading]
Obadiah Vaughan
The commiſsion [commission] must [illegible] with the [illegible]
23 April 1818
will be admitted and evidence of his indigent circumstances to which the Judge will certify as the Credulity of them certifying the same.
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State of New York }
Genesee County } ſs. [ss]
I Simeon Cummings clerk of the county aforesaid do certify that David McCraken before whom the within Proceedings appear to have been taken is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for said County acting under the authority of the State and that the within are his signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this 12 day of May A.D. 1818.
S. Cummings
[written perpendicular along the bottom of the page] Lieut.
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Obadiah Vaughan
Inventory Copy
Returns to be made to Saml. [Samuel] Lake Agent
Batavia, N. York
5124
Con. I. L. G.
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At a court of Common Pleas held as the Court House in the Village of Ellicottville in and for the County of Cattaraugus in the State of New York on the twenty seventh Day of February of the term of February 1821 being a court of Records in pursuance of the 41st article of the Constitution of the State of New York which has unlimited Jurisdiction Keeps Records of its proceiding [proceedings] and has [illegible] exercised the power of [illegible] Imprisonment-- Present the Hon. [Honorable] James Adwin Esquire first Judge Royal Taft Esquire and Ira Norton Esquire, Judges.
Cattaraugus County. ſs. [ss.] On this twenty seventh day of February 1821 Personally appeared in Open Court being a Court of Records Obadiah Vaughan, aged seventy three years, Resident of the Town of Ischua in said county who being first duly sworn according to the law Doth on his Oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows about 3 years in the [illegible] served as a Lieutenant one year in Capt. C. Van Sanford's company in Col. Wincoop's Regt. of the [illegible] Lines was discharged in March 1777 at Albany that his declaration was made April 23d 1818 and his pension Certificate is Annexed-- And I do solemly [solemnly] swear that I was a Resident Citixen [Citizen] of the United States on the Eighteen day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner whatever disposed of my Property or any part thereof with Intent thereby so to diminish is as to being myself within the provisions of an act of Congreſs [Congress] Entitled An act to provide for certain pensions engaged in the Land and Naval Services of the United States in the Revolutionary War paſsed [passed] on the  Eighteen day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that I have not nor has any
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Person in trust for [illegible] any property or [illegible] or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is continued in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed
Property or Schedule
Real Estate I have none
Personal Property
1 Cone [illegible] $14.00
1 10 Gallon Kettle bought with Pension 5.00
1 5 Quart Iron Pot 0.15
1 Iron tea kettle 1.00
1 old and poor frying pan 0.38
1 Kitchen shod & tongs 0.50
2 common chairs 0.50
1 common low chest 0.75
6 common Knives & Forks 0.50
1 tramel 1.00
1 small crane tramel 0.25
$24.63
And the deponent further says his neceſsary [necessary] [illegible] and [illegible] for himself and family do not exceed the sum of Eighty dollars in value and also that he is a Carpenter by profeſsion [profession] but is not able to do any kinds of hard Labor on account of the Rheumatism in the Right Shoulder he has a wife named Elizabeth Aged Seventy one years who is not able to do any kind of Labor not even the necessary work about Home. And the deponent further says that he lives with his son Obadiah Vaughan 2d on whom he is totally dependent for the [illegible] of himself and wife except the little property above mentioned and the little work in and about the House which he is able to do.
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Sworn to and subscribed this twenty second day of February 1821 Before me in open court Obadiah Vaughan 
Ebenezer Lockwood Clerk of Cattaraugus Com. Pleas
I Ebenezer Lockwood Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Cattaraugus do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath [illegible] the schedule therein annexing [illegible] copied from the Record of Said Court Index. [illegible] further certify that it is the Opinion of the said court that the local amount in Value of property Exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is twenty four Dollars and sixty three cents.
In testimony tohereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this twenty seventh day of February AD 1821
Ebenezer Lockwood Clerk of the Court for Cattaraugus County
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Eagle Village Wyoming Co. NY
Feb 21 1855
Dear sire, I take the liberty as one of the heirs at law of Obadiah Vaughan, a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary Army to address you by way of enquiry [inquiry] whether there is or is not money due his heirs for his services in the Army also I wish you to inform me how much bounty land is due his heirs for his [written above] services and also what proof is necessary to obtain said claims.
The said Vaughan drew a pention [pension] before he died which was near thirty years since his agent was Mr. Lake of Buffalo said Vaughans discharge and other papers having been destroyed by fire some years since and time has destroyed so much of living testimony that we are aware that our task is a dificult [difficult] one and our circumstances forbid employing an attourney [attorney] but knowing that you had the records of all the officers of the army, also of their claims I have taken the liberty to address you on the subject and hope you will favor me with an answer and assist us in abtaining our honest claims we want no more. 
Yours Truly, Robert Campbell
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RECORD DIVISION
3-525.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Washington, D. C., ... 19...
S F 42571

In reply to your request of ---, received --- for a statement of the military history of Obadiah Vaughan [name handwritten] a solider of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
Dates of enlistment or appointment - Feby 1776 [check and asterisk below]
Length of service - 1 year, 2 yrs
Rank - Lieut.
Officers under whom service was rendered
Captain Cornelius Van Santvoord
Colonel Wynkoop
Battles engaged in, [check mark]
Residence o solider at enlistment [check mark]
Date of application of pension, April 23 1818, His cl. was al.
Residence at date of application, Ischua, Cattaraugus Co., N.Y.
Age at date of application, 70 yrs.
Remarks: In 1821, his wife Elizabeth was 71 years old. [illegible] Obadiah was alive in 1821.
Very respectfully, Commissioner
5-2856
*The  years is not mentioned on [illegible] that was sent out Oct. 6, as there was absolutely no date relative to it and the claim was allowed for 1 year. ai
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Batavia N. York
April 2d 1821
Sir
I enclose you a Schedule of Property for Obadiah Vaughn a Revolutionary pensioner with a certificate of of continuance forwarded in due time-
I am extremely anxious to hear the final descision [decision] of the Claim of Cary Marcellus of the U. S. Volunteer Corps. The claim was one decided by the war Depart. but [illegible] think incorrectly as others of the Same Corps were included on the pension List- The Hon. A. H. Tracy presented to the pension Department during the last Session a Statement of the claim referrin to the laws & other descisions [decisions], and was promised that an examination should be made, and that the Error if any should be rectified. He omutted to enquire on leaving the city.-
Sir your [ilegible] Sert. [Servant]
Sam. Lake

Hon. J. C. Calhoun.
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1913 Oct. 6 Hist. Lo - Adelbert Tymeson to V. L. M.
1915 July 11 Hist. Lo- Mabel Shaw
1916 June 23 Hist. Lo- J. Y. Vaughan.

42571
INVALID
Revy [handwritten]
File No. 42571
Obadiah Vaughan
Lieut Rev War
Act 18th March 1817
Index:- Vol. 3, Page 324
(Arrangement of 1870)
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Stamped env. retd. CLW [handwritten]
[multiple illegible handwritten notations across the top of the page]
Idaho Falls City Schools
Benj. [Benjamin] R. Crandall, Superintendent
Idaho Falls, Idaho
Principals
High School - J. S. Best
Junior High School - Mabel Shaw
Central - B. R. Crandall
Riverside - O. E. Bell
Eastside - F. E. Lord
Eagle Rock - Janet Bertram
Payne - Vinnie Van Pelt 
Supervisors
Manual Training - F. G. Springsteen
Music and Art - L. Laurette Smith
Home Economics - Elise M. Pride
Dept. of Hygiene - L. May Helmer 

Idaho Falls, Idaho 1/30 '15
To W. S. Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.
Dear Sir:--
I wish to verify my claim to being a descendant of Obidiah [Obadiah] Vaughn, 2nd Lieutenant under Capt. Cornelius Van Santvoord and Col. Winkoop in New York in the Continental Army during the War of the Revolution. His claim for pension was allowed April 23, 1818 at age of seventy years, then living at Ischua Cattaraugus Co New York.
Obidiah [Obadiah] Vaughn was born Feb 21, 1748 and his wife Elizabeth born July 9, 1749. They had thirteen children.
Kindly send me legal evidence of the service and pension of Lieut. Vaughn.
Very respectfully yours,
Mabel Shaw
L. B. 446
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Rev Sec [illegible]

320 Market St. Newark, NJ 6/16/16
Commissioner of Pension
Dear Sir

Kindly send me the record of Obadiah Vaughan.
He was 2nd Lieutent [Lieutenant] in the 4th Company Col. Cornelius & Wynkoop of Albany County NY.
At a later date 1781 [year underlined] first Lieut. [Lieutenant] in Wm. [William] Dyeres Company in Vermont.
Yours truly
John G. Vaughan
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9778
The First National Bank
Albert Tymeson, Jr. Pres
R. D. Ward, Vice Pres
D. P. Robinson, Cashier
J. Oscar Boeck, Asst. Ashier
Garrison, North Dakota

September 30th, 1913

Commissioner of Pension,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:--
I am trying to trace one Obadiah Vaughn (or Vaughan) who served in the Revolutionary War from New York or Connecticut.
His date of birth was February 21, 1748.
Also one Benjamin Ford whose date of birth I do not have.
Will you please tell me if the names appear on your rolle [roll], and such information as you may have concerning either? 
Thanking you for the courtecy [courtesy] of your reply in the enclosed envelope, I am
Very truly yours, 
Albert Tymeson [signature handwritten]
President.
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W. Randall [written sideways along the left side of the document]
Pension Office
March 5 [year illegible]
The Third will place [illegible] the date to which the within named pension was paid.
Very respectfully
S. Cole
Chief Clerk

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Obadiah Vaughan paid to 4 March 1826.
Robr. [Robert] Jamison
[illegible]
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IN CONGRESS.
The DELEGATES of the UNITED COLONIES of New-Hampſhire [Hampshire], Maſſachuſetts [Massachusetts] Bay, Rhode-Iſland [Islandſ, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jeſsey [Jersey], Pennſylvania [Pennsylvania], the Counties of New-Caſtle [Castle], Kent, and Suſſex [Sussex] on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, to Obadiah Vaughan, Gentleman [name handwritten]
We repoſsing [reposing] eſpecial [especial] Truﬆ [Trust] and Confidence in your Patriotiſm [Patriotism], Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, Do by theſe [these] Preſents [Presents], conﬅitute [constitute] and appoint you to be Second Lieutenant of the first Company [text illegible due to fading] of New York [text illegible due to fading]
[typing resumes] in the Army of the United Colonies raiſed [raised] for the defence [defense] of American Liberty, and for repelling every hoﬅile [hostile] Invaſion [Invasion] thereof. You are therefore carefully and diligently to diſcharge [discharge] the Duty of Second Lieutenant [rank handwritten, extremely faded] by doing and performing all Manner of Things thereunto belonging. And we do ﬅrictly [strictly] charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your Command, to be obedient to your Orders as
Lieutenant [rank handwritten] -- And you are to obſerve [observe] and follow ſuch [such] Orders and Directions from Time to Time, as you ſhall [shall] receive from this or a future Congreſs [Congress] of the United Colonies, or Committee of Congreſs [Congress], for that purpoſe [purpose] appointed, or Commander in Chief for the Time being of the Army of the United Colonies, or any other your ſuperior [superior] Officer, according to the Rules and Diſcipline [Discipline] of War, in Purſuance [Pursuance] of the Truﬆ [Trust] repoſsed [reposed] in you. This Commiſſion [Commission] to continue in Force until revoked by this or a future Congreſs [Congress].  Dated the Twenty ninth day of February 1776. [date handwritten]
By order of Congreſs [Congress]
Atteﬅ [Attest], [text illegible due to fading] Ju. 7
John Hancock [name handwritten] President