Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23780, for Benjamin Lyon, New Jersey
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(3-1776)

Service
New Jersey

Lyon, Benjamin

Number S.23780
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Transferred to Pittsburg June 20, 1831

See No 11.466

No. 11.358

Pittsburg
Pennsylvania

Benjamin Lyon
Greene Co. in the state of Penn. who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Crane of the Reg. commanded by Col. Spencer in the N. Jersey Mil.

Time for 11 months       $36.66

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 36 Dollars 66 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 26, day of April 1833 and sent to J.B. Flennikin Union Town Pa.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833              73.32
Semi-anl. allowance ending 1, Sep. 1833  18.33
                                                                 $91.65
(Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832)

Recorded by D. Brown  Clerk
Book E. Vol. 5 Page 35
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Greene County
State of Pennsylvania Ss

On this 11th day of Sept 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common pleas for the County of
Greene State of Pennsylvania now sitting, the Revd [illegible] Lyon a resident of Greene County & State of Pennsylvania aged 
Seventy Eight years, who being first duly
according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed the 7th day of June 1832
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein stated

that he was born in Essex County New Jersey
in the AD 1754 that he lived three untill he entered the service of the state on the fall of the year 1777 as a volunteer in Capt Jacob Cranes Company of New Jersey troops for the term of three months, and was joined to Col Oliver Spencers Regt and were ordered to Elizabethtown to guard that place
against the British who were then on Staten Is
land that he performed his three months services 
were performed at this place.
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That he again volunteered volunteered for one month to go to New York at the time the British [illegible] came to that city and performed that months service principally at that place, but before it expired he was ordered back to guard the shores of Jersey.  who his officers were in this service he cannot now recollect.  
That shortly after this he was drafted to go to Elizabeth Town to assist in guarding that place against the British who were then in New York. This drafts was for one month & performed in Elizabethtown but he has no recollection of his officers. 
That was again drafted at the time Washington retreated through Jersey the British passed through to Philadelphia, this service was also performed at Elizabeth and drafted for one month. 
That he was again drafted to go to Elizabethtown at the time of the battle of Monmouth.  that this was for one month. - that he recollects that he was this time under the command of Col Freelinghouse [Freylinghuysen] 
That he was again drafted for one month and was on the coast from Elizabethtown to Egg Harbour he recollects that this was at the time the soldiers first got Rye Whiskey for Rations.
that he was again drafted and out at a place called the "Connecticut Farms" and engaged in a smart battle at that place.  This was for one month,
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That he was so repeatedly drafted, and his memory at this time so frail that it is utterly impossible for him to state the whole number of drafts or the names of his officers, or clearly note the terms of his different engagements, [illegible] that he well remembers he never refused a call during the whole period of the war, and can safely say that he served in all not less than eleven months of this he can speak positively, That he never recieved any [illegible], nor has he any documentary evidence of his services that he resided in Essex County for some years after the revolution, that he then removed to the western country and has resided where he now lives in Greene county has from that time until the present, that the Reverend Hagen that Nathaniel Jennings & Isaac Ross also certify as to his reputation
He hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to any pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension rolls of the agency of any state.

Benjamin Lyon 

Sworn and subscribed
Sep 11th 1839
Wm Hays Prothy
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[written vertically in margin] Declaration of Benjamin Lyon [crossed out John Lyon]

(Enut ?)
He Nicholas Hagen a Clergiman of Waynesburg [illegible] County  [illegible] & Isaac Ross & Nathaniel Jennings of the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Lyon of Greene County Pa who has subscribed & Sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy Eight years of age - that he reputed & believed in the neibourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur
in that opinion
Nicholas Hagan
Nathaniel Jennings
Isaac Ross

Sworn & subscribed
Sept 10th 1832
Wm F. (or T.) Hays [illegible]

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of matter & offer unto the interrogatories presented by the war department that Benjamin Lyon who has sworn & subscribed the foregoing declaration. that he was a soldier of the Revolution & served as he states. And the
[illegible] further certify that it appears to them that Nicholas Hagan
recent of (Hayworking ?) who has [illegible] the foregoing declaration is a clergiman. And that Nathaniel Jennings & Isaac Ross other residents of Greene County Penn who
have also [illegible] the above certificate are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit

Greene County
Pennsylvania
I Enos Hook Prothonotary of the Court of 
common pleas in for said County do hereby
certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said court in the matter of the application of Benjamin Lyon for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand & seal of said Court this
19th day of March AD 1833
Enos Hook
Prothy
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In reply to your request of -----, received -----
for a statement of the military history of Benjamin Lyon
a soldier 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.
S. File 23.780
Rev. Benj. Lyon

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT
Fall 1777
LENGTH OF SERVICE
3 mos
He claimed 8 mos in terms of one month each [crossed out] at various times 
(dates not given) 
[crossed out] during which he was stationed at New York City, Elizabethtown and (Corn Farms?), and was engaged in providing the charts of New Jersey. 
He served under Col. Frelinghuysen, no other officers mentioned
RANK
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED
CAPTAIN Joseph Crane
COLONEL Oliver Mercer
STATE N.J.
Battles engaged in, (Corn Farms?)
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Essex Co. N.J.
Date of application for pension, Sept 11, 1832 [illegible]
Residence at date of application, Greene Co. Pa.
Age at date of application, born 1754 Essex Co. N. J. 
Remarks: N Aud for death & heirs
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Revolution
23780
INVALID
File No. 23780
Benjamin Lyon
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7th 32
Index: - Vol 2, Page 237 
[Arrangement of 1870]

Feby 4 -1902
Wm Scott Lyon
N.Y. City
1908 Apl. 21. Hist to Chas. N. French c
1910 Aug 30. Hist to Edith E. Lyons M.B.H c
1910 Oct. 10. 20 Mrs. Susan Lyons Turner
1927 June 16 - Charles N. French - adv cost of photos - AUF
1927 - Aug 3 - Hist to Chas. N. French. MMNF
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W.D.G.
3-8713
RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior
BUREAU OF PENSIONS

Briefed by A. Mar. S, 26 /8 /10
Claim No. ----
Certificate No. ----
Claimant b. Newark N. J. 1750
Soldier Benjamin Lyon Lyons
Service N. J. 
Additional Service.
Rev
No. ---- claim, State records ----, 191
No claim, combination records, ---- 191
REMARKS:
Inv. F. 23, 780 (N.J.)
No other Inv. of any service
No Wid or Rej " " "
6-1944
Chief Division
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3 -- 595.
O. W. AND N. DIVISION
Record Division
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
April 18, 1908.
Searched by S. D. Lamparter
Original No. ----
Certificate No. ----
Claimant, ----
Soldier, Benjamin Lyon
Service, N. J. or Pa
Rev. War
Essex Co. N. J. 
Remarks: No claim as above
except Invd #23780 Esex Co N.J.
Invd #40105 Pa. line, res. Pa.

Chief of Division.
27498b4m2-07
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3 - 871.
RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.

Briefed by A. Mar. D. 8 /10 /10
Claim No.
Certificate No.
Claimant
Soldier Benjamin Lyons
Service N. J.
Additional Service. Rev.
No --- claim, State records. ---191.
No claim, combination records ---191 -
REMARKS:
No Inv., Will or Rej as
above
There is Benjamin Lyon
Inv. F. 23, 780 (N.J.)
No other Inv. (Lyon) (N.J. line)
No Will or Rej (Lyon (N.J. line)
6 -- 1944
Chief Division
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SUBMIT IN DUPLICATE.
1-681
PHONE Branch 476
All inquiries regarding this job should refer to Requisition No. 16772
Requisition for Duplicating, Addressograph, Photostat, and Blue Print Work.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
WASHINGTON
CHIEF, Division of Publications,
Room G 137.
July 29 1927
Please furnish work specified below.
Bureau ordering PENSION
Deliver to Room No. 5033
(ALL COPY FOR DUPLICATING WORK SHOULD BE PLAIN AND WRITTEN IN ELITE TYPE,
EXACTLY LINE FOR LINE AS IT IS TO APPEAR ON FINISHED JOB.)
Title and description of job photostat copies of four pages from Rev. War
pension claim of Benjamin Lyon, S.23780

No. of copies 1 of each page
Shall form be kept standing? ----- ----- days

For further information see M. M. H. Finch
Room No 5033 Phone No 541
Approved: O. L. Ganbird Chief Clerk of Bureau
Chief Clerk of Bureau.
G
Margaret M. H. Finch
Acting Chief of Branch
NOTE: No order made "SPECIAL" unless statement showing necessity is written
below and approved by Chief Clerk of Bureau ordering
[stamped]
DIVISION OF PUBLICATIONS
DEPT. OF THE INTERIOR
RECEIVED JUL 30 1927

CHIEF WORK DESIRED
Duplicate
Multigraph single or double space? ----- Facsimile signature? -----
Mimeograph one side or both sides? ------ Facsimile signature? -------
Folding once or twice?
Assembling
Stapling Once? Twice? Side? End?

Electric typewriter Fill in addresses? ----- Dated? -----
Addressograph from lists -----
Envelopes, size -----
Cards, size ----
Proof list ----
Pay rolls ----
Labels (submit sample) ----
Corrections ----
Fill in letters ----
Tabulation sheets ----
Photostat X Size actual Official use? yes Repay? yes $.60
Blue Print Size  --- Official use? --- Repay ---$
Remarks ----
(OVER)
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through or initialing of chiefs of branches or chief clerks of bureaus.
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15822
3-2233

BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Finance Division
July 27, 1927
Chief Rev War Section Division
I have this day received from 
Charles N French
M.O. in the amounty of $85/100, requesting
photostat copy as per letter herewith

O. J. RANDALL
Chief, Finance Division
[initial]
H.C.L.

[Note]
Copies mailed and Finance Div
[illegible]
Aug 3 1927

to C.C.
July 30 1927
ctf
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[stamped]
FINANCE DIVISION
BOOK-KEEPER'S DESK
JUL 28 1927
BUREAU OF PENSIONS

CHARLES NEWTON FRENCH
LAWYER
19 SOUTH LA SALLE STREET SUITE 1205
TELEPHONE DEARBORN 5699
CHICAGO

June 21, 1927

Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Honorable Winfield Scott, Com'r
Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:

Please prepare and certify for me the PHOTOSTAT COPIES OF ORIGINAL PAPERS IN ORIGINAL CLAIM OF BENJAMIN LYON,
FOR PENSION, Sur. File 23780, Certificate 11358, in accordance with your letter of June 16, 1927, herewith enclosed, four ( 4 ) pages @ 15c [cents] per page and 25c for certificate, total,
85c. I enclose Money Order, 85c.
Yours truly

Charles N French
Two enclosures.
FB
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CHARLES NEWTON FRENCH
LAWYER
19 SOUTH LA SALLE STREET SUITE 1205
TELEPHONE DEARBORN 5699
CHICAGO
May 25, 1927
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, District of Columbia
Gentlemen:
In matter of the Revolutionary Soldier, BENJAMIN LYON, Private in Captain Christopher Marsh's Troop, Light Horse
and other military units, /Essex County
New Jersey Militia, Pension Certificate
11358, kindly send me the following:

( a ) Estimate of /cost of Photostat copies of all papers in application of said Benjamin Lyon for pension under law of 183_.

( b ) Estimate of cost of Photostat copies of all papers in application of Gartrey (or Gartery) Lyon, widow of Benjamin Lyon, aforesaid, if she made such an application.
Please give estimates of ( a ) and ( b ) separately; I may not order (b).
Yours truly

Charles N. French
[initialed]
FB
[stamped]
US PENSION OFFICE
R MAY 28 1927
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Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C
Gentlemen
Have you a record of my great grand father Benjeman Lyons, and if he did any Service for American Indpendence at the time of
the American Revolution I have heard he was
from New Jersey, Also have you any war record
of my great grand father Ebenezer Chase, whoes home I have heard
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was at Tauton, Mass
at one time,
would be much pleased
with any information
Respectfully
Susan Lyons Tower
Chana
Illinois
"Ogle Co" 
Chana, Ill. Oct 4" 1910

[stamped]
OCT 7-1910
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101 Congress St.
Bennington, Vt.
Aug. 21, 1910
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:-
Kindly send me
the records of service of
my great-great great
grandfather Ichabod l 
Stratton, and of his son
Joel Stratton, both of Mass
who served in the
War of Independence.
These men served a "minute men."
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I would also like the
record of service of
Benjamin Lyon (or Lyons)
who was born in Newark
N.J. 1750. Therefore I think
his service must have
been for New Jersey
and oblige
(Miss) Edith E. Lyons

[stamped]
AUG 24 1910
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TELEPHONE
CENTRAL 5242
REFER TO FILE NO. 100

CHARLES N. FRENCH
ATTORNEY AT LAW
906  ASSOCIATION BUILDING
153 LA SALLE STREET
Chicago
April 15th, 1908.

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:

Will you kindly inform me when and where Benjamin Lyon, a private in Captain Christopher Marsh's Light Horse
Troop, Essex County, New Jersey, was bron, and where and when he died. It is my understanding he was a pensioner and that he died in either Washington or Green county, Penn., less than
100 years ago.
Thanking you in advance for the information I seek, I am
Very truly yours,
Chas N. French

[initial]
F/B
[stamp]
U.S. PENSION OFFICE
A APR 17 1908

[stamp]
RECORD DIVISION APR 18 1908
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Church & Dwight Co
Soda Manufacturers
63 & 65 Wall Street,
New York
Jan 11, 1902

Bureau of Pensions: Washington D.C.

Dear Sir:
I am a descendent of Benjamin
Lyon referred to in copies of accompanying
correspondence with Adjt General Office
State of New Jersey and am desirous of
obtaining as much information of
record as possible concerning him
hence this letter
Do you find record of date of his death?
Respectfully
William Scott Lyon
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This Deponent thus commits a part of his
declaration and states that after his months
service at the Connecticut from, he was out
one month at the time of a skirmish at Springfield in Essex County, and at another time
he was out at the time the Springfield at
house was burnt by the British making
in all Eleven months for which he claims
a pension.

Benjm Lyon

Sworn & subscribed
before and March 15, 1833
Evan Hook

[additional note]
[illegible] 11 mos $36.66
I. B. Flemiken union [illegible]
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[initialed] AWF

v. and 1812
rs Section.

June 16, 1927
Charles N. French
19 S. LaSalle St. Suite 1205
Chicago, Ill
Sir:
I have to advise you that in the papers in
the Revolutionary War pension claim of Benjamin Lyon ( Sur. File No. 23780, Certificate No. 11358) it is not stated whether he was married.
If you desire photostat copies of the original
papers in the above mentioned claim, the same will be furnished you, under the Act of August 24, 1912, at the rate of fifteen cents a page, with twenty- five cents extra for certification, if that be desired. The number of pages to be copied is four.
The proper amount should be forwarded to this Bureau, by money order drawn to the order of the Secretary of the Interior.
Respectfully,
[unsigned]
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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[initialed] AWF
IN REPLY REFER Rev. and 1812
Wars Section.
3 - 1865
UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
WASHINGTON
June 16, 1927
NOTE: Please return this to
Charles N. French
19 S. LaSalle St. Suite 1205
Chicago, Ill
Sir:
I have to advise you that in the papers in
the Revolutionary War pension claim of Benjamin Lyon (Sur. File No. 23780, Certificate No. 11358) it is not stated whether he was married.
If you desire photostat copies of the original
papers in the above mentioned claim, the same will be furnished you, under the Act of August 24, 1912, at the rate of fifteen cents a page, with twenty -five cents extra for certification, if that be desired. The number of pages to be copied is four.
The proper amount should be forwarded to this Bureau, by money order drawn to the order of the Secretary of the Interior.
Respectfully,
Winfield Scott
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.