Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 14699, for Joel Tiffany, Massachusetts
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Continential Mass Tifanny, Joal S. 14699 Carded
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[written, left page]
Lett to Hon J Fornance
January 22nd 1842
Letter to T.W. Olcott
Pension Agent same day
suspending the pen-
sion of the Pensioner
to J. L. Grover May 13,1842
[illegible] July 3 1851

[written and printed, right page]
Joel Tiffany
14108
New York
of Livingston in the State of New York
who was a Private in the Company commanded
by Captain Bolster of the Regt. commanded
by [?] Larned in the [illegible]
line for 17 mo            Mass. and
                                   Continental
                                      aw.
                                      May 2. 08
Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 54 Dollars 44 Cents per annum
commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certifricate of Pension issued the 7 day of May
1833 and sent to
J L. Grover [illegible]
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833         $113.32
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept '33     28.33
                                                                ________
                                                              $141.65
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No 14620 R. 
Joel Tiffany Livingston 
County  New York 
admitted 
17 mo. Private 
vol 10 p 155. 
S G Grover
Springwater
Livingston Co
N York
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Brief in the case of Joel Tiffany County of Severy Star in the State of New York (Act 7th June, 1832.) 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? a Court 2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity ? 3. How old is he? 72 4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. [Column Headings] Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. [Sub-column headings] In 17 Years, Months, Days. As a Gen. Enlist was [illegible ] In 1775 Oct 2 Private
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Truman Tiffany
Brady
Mid Apr 1850

wrote you, probably no
[illegible], but if I succede
you will be advised
May 1, 1850
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Joel Tiffany Pension as of N. Y. Suspended from Brad Joy [on side of paper] N. Y. Brach MS April 23 [At bottom in faded] 4 lych Joy Feb 5 [black circular mark on side]
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[written]
Brady  April 24th 1850
Sir thought of wrighting to you to no if there
was any prospect of ever getting my fathers
pension. I recevd a letter from you about two
years ago it was remailed in Springwater and
sent to where I now live in Michigan you wrote
if you had the place of residance and the perticklers
you thought you could get his pension restored
the place of residance I cannot remember all his
papers and writing were sent to the war office before he died he has been dead fore years last
January. If you could get wat is behind it
would help me if you should go to washington to search the reckards look for the name of William
Bishop who was a Capt in the Revolution
war was father of my wife he died before the
pension law was past and his wife died about 
the same time. There was no one [illegible] for his
pension I can tel you no more about him his 
mom may be there  how long he was in the war
I cannot no  i cannot give any mor information
in the matter if you should write to me
direct your letter Brady Kalamazoo Co
Michigan
Yours Respectfully
Arad F Joy             Truman Tiffany
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Joel Tiffany 
14820
S. G. Grover
Agent Springwater
Livingston Co  NY
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[written]
Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress
Passed June 7th 1832
State of New York
Livingston County
On this 28th day of September 1832 personally appeared in
open c
Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas and 
General  Session held in and for Said county now sitting Joel Tiffany,
A resident of the Town of Springwater in said County aged 72
years the 7th day of February last 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 under
the following officers and served as herein stated that at the commence of the revolutionary war he resided in the town of
Levensey, Cheshier County in the state of New Hampshier. that in
the month of October 1775 one Wescott who belonged to the Army
obtained a furlough [illegible] home to the neighbourhood where he
the said Tiffany resided and made arrangement with him
to go to the Army then Stationed at Bunkerhill and take
the place of a soldier in the 8 months service and was sick he
does not now recollect the soldiers name that he the said
soldier had two months to serve. that he entered the Army
at Bunkerhill as a substitute for said soldier and served
Two months. that he was in Captain not recollected Company
in Col Larnards regiment and remained at Bunkerhill
during the Two months and that immediatly after he was
discharged to militia for one year the 1st Day of January 1776. that the Following were his officers according to the
Best of his reccollection SS Lieutenant Staton Capt Isaac Bolster
Maj Sproat Lieutenant Col Shepherd Col Larnard & Adjutant
Bannister he thinks in the Massachusetts Line he remained at
Bunkerhill & Roseburg during the  winter recollects marching
into Boston next day after the British Troops evacuated that place
and thus soon after his Regiment was ordered to New York and
assisted in building Fort Washington. remained there till the British
forces entered New York he then marched to Peeckshill and remained
in that neighbourhood during the Campaign and was discharged
he received a written discharge which was lost. And that soon
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[hand written]
after his years Service was ended he again enlisted under Captain
Bolster in Col Samards regiment for and during the War
and that immediately after he enlisted into service for/during the 
war his Regiment went into winter quarters at Westfield in
the State of Massachusetts and remained there 'till March
when on account of an attack of the Rheumatism he obtained
a furlough to go home and there remained on account of
ill health 'till the following fall when he joined his regiment
at Providence in Rhode island & remained there with the
Army about three months but not being able to do his
duty on account of the Rheumatism he obtained a furlough
to return home was not able again to join his Regiment
and that the rheumatic complaint came when his in consequence
of exposure to heat & cold in the army during the revolutionary war
that he has been afflicted with said complaint ever since the Revolutionary
War and that he suffers extremely in the decline of life in consequence
of said complaint and that he does not know of any person
whose Testimony he can procure who can Testify to his Services
he herby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or
annuity except the present and declares that his name is
not on the Pension role of any State   Joel Tiffany
Sworn to & subscribed the day [illegible] aforesaid in open court
S. G. Haven Dep Clerk

We Alvah Southworth a Justice of the Peace & Reuben Gilbert
residing in the Town of Springwater in the County of Livingston
and State of New York do hereby Certify that we are well acquainted
with Joel Tiffany who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration
That we believe him to be 72 years of age that he is respected
and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have
been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in
that opinion       Alvah Southworth
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid  
in open court  S. G. Haven Dep Clk   Reuben Gilbert
And the Said Court do hereby declare their opinion after putting
The interogations prescribed by the War Department that the
above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as
he states. And the Court further Certify that it appears to
[crossed out]
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[hand written]

Them that Alvah Southworth & Reuben Gilbert are
residents in the Town of Springwater in the County of Livingston
and State of New York who has signed the preceding certificate
are credible persons and that their Statement is entitled to credit

I, Chauncey R Bond Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas & general [illegible] of the County of Livingston do hereby
certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings
of the Said Court in the matter of Joel Tiffany as an
applicant for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
Seal of office this 28 day of September 1832

Chauncey R Bond Clerk
by S. G. Haven Dep clk
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Examination
of
revolutionary Papers
Joel Tiffany

New York Rolls

Act 1832

filed 31 March 1852
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[hand written and typed]

POWER OF ATTORNEY
For ascertaining whether any increase or arrears of Pension are due the Widow or heirs of Revolutionary
Pensioners, &c.*
State of New York}
County of Livingston} 
Be it known that before me
Orson Wabridge a Justice of the Peace personally appeared
Betsey Zielie aged 55 years, who being duly cautioned and
then sworn in due form of law, states that she is the daughter of Joel Tiffany
who was a Revolutionary Soldier, or Pensioner of the State of New York
and that he died on the 21st day of January 1844 and that her mother named
Elizabeth died on the 3rd day of April 1842 and that they were
married on the [blank] day of January in the year 1783 and that they were residents of Springwater
in the State of New York and that they resided there about 26 years, and that
she resides in Canadice Ontario Ca and that furthermore BY THESE
PRESENTS, constitutes, appoints and fully empowers and authorises irrevocably and with powers of
substitution--F. E. Hassler of Washington City, D. C., as her true and lawful Attorney for her and in
her name and stead, to examine into, to prosecute, to demand, and to receive from the U. S. Government
Officers her rights in all and in any manner of claim for increase or arrears of Pension or Land, that may
be due her as daughter of Joel 
Tiffany who died leaving
the same undrawn, as in right of law, custom, or equity she is or may be entitled.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF she has on this 28 day of February 1852,
hereunto signed her name and affixed her seal.
Betsey Zielie   [illegible seal]
Witness:  David Phillips}
Witness: Oscar Norton}
Signed, Sealed, acknowledged and Sworn to before me, on this 28th day of February 1852
Orson Walbridge J. P. {seal} [illegible]
At the same time personally appeared before me Orson Walbridge
a Justice of the Peace two credible and disinterested witnesses named Salmon G. Grover
and John B Norton residents of the aforesaid County and
State, who having been by me cautioned and then duly sworn according to law, do depose and say such for
himself, that he has always heard it said and it is generally believed by the community that [crossed out]
Joel Tiffany was a Revolutionary soldier and that Betsey Zeleis
was by him always treated as and is by the witnesses believed to be the
daughter of the said Revolutionary Soldier.  Joel Tiffany
Salmon G. Grover {seal} [illegible]
John B. Norton {seal} [illegible]
Sworn to before me the day and year
first above written.
Orson Walbridge J. P. {seal} [illegible]
State of New York}
County of Livingston}  to wit:
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That Orson Walbridge Esq.,
before whom the foregoing affidavits and acknowledgment were made, and who has thereunto subscribed his
name, was at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned
and sworn, and that his signature above written is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed
the seal of the County Court
this 22d day of March
one thousand eight hundred and fifty two
[illegible seal]
Israel D. Root Clerk.
* If a Widow [obscured by bottom of seal] "the date of marriage, and date of death of her husband."
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Springwater N. Y. May 07/42

S. G. Grover
Joel Tiffany wishes his 
pension restored to him
[illegible]
Pension Office
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[hand written]
N. Y.
Springwater May 9th 1842
Sir
I am desired to write to you in
behalf of Joel Tiffany who has been recently
discontinued from the Pension Roll he thinks that
he is "justly entitled to a pension and is anxious to
enquire the reason why he does not receive his pension
he is above eighty years of age and quite destitute
of the Comforts of Life. He obtained his Pension
through my agency and to gratify the old 
Gentleman
I have consented to write for Him.
I recollect that when the first application
for his pension returns came that the rolls
of the US stated that he deserted at such a time [illegible]
It was however explained It seems that he received
a furlea [sic] at a certain time and in consequence
of a rheumatic complaint he was unable to return as soon
as he should do according to the tenure of his [illegible]
 I would thank you as early as convenient to
inform me what will be necessary to restore him if he
is entitled
Respectfully Yrs [illegible]
S G Grover
Hon John C. Spencer
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[hand written]
To the court of Pensions  Sir I have appointed Arad Joy of
Ovid my agent to try to collect a pension due to my late
father Joel Tiffany once a pensioner of New York and
suspended  Dated March 20, 1857
Truman Tiffany
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[hand written]
Jan 10 1842
N. Y.
Joel Tiffany
J L Edwards [illegible]
Commissioner of Pensions
Present
J. Fornance 
WR
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[hand written]
January 10th 1842
To J L Edwards Esq
Com. of Pensions

Dear Sir
The petition of Joel Tiffany
of the State of New York--has been refered [sic] to the
Com on Rev Pensions -- his petition states that
he served
2 months in 1775 in Captain Bolsters Company Col Larnards
regiment of Massachusetts troops
1 year in same company & Reg. after the expiration of the
first term
And on 1 Jan 1777 after the expiration of the above terms
he listed for during the war in Capt. Fisher Com.  Col
Shepards Reg.
Will you do me the favour to inform me whether
there [crossed out] any evidence of his services in your department.
By order of the Committee

With great respect
Yours,
J Fornance
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[hand written]
Ovid N. Y.  Oct 28th '50
Sir
Joel Tiffany of New York was a
pensioner at 56.66 No 14,108.  In 1841
 he was stricken from the pension roll,
as I am informed; also as I am informed
and believe, his papers must have been
re-examined by a clerk, & the word may
have been seen "deserted" at least the result
would seem to confirm this belief
I beg leave at least to suppose that
if this clerk, had have examined all the
proof on file, he would have found all right
and the destructive word deserted, all well
explained, and cured. I ask therefore
a re-examination of the whole papers
in the case & a report made to me.
Much Oblige
Your Most Ob. Servant
Arad Joy

Hon J L Edwards
Com. of Pensions
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[hand written]
[illegible]
[illegible]
Joel Tiffany
[stamp] [illegible]
FREE [stamped]
Hon J L Edwards
Com. of Pensions
Washington
D C
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[hand written]
April 15, 1857
Arad Joy's agency
in case of Joel
Tiffany
[illegible]
Arad Joy 
Ovid
New York
Hon Jas E Heath
Com. of Pensions
Washington
D C
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[hand written]
Ovid N. Y. April 10, 1851
Sir
I inclose my agency in the case of Joel Tiffany
who was a pensioner of New York, & suspended, he only
drew a part pension. I notice from his decla-
ration that he alledged long service, & you may
find the service confirmed by the Mass. rolls
as to that however I do not pretend to know, I only
beg leave to ask you to examine & [illegible] report
to me the objection to allowing a full pension
Most Respectfully
Your Obt. Servt
Arad Joy
Hon Jas E Heath
Coms. of Pensions
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Perhag
14699
INVALID.
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File No. 14,699
Joel Tiffany
Priv. Rev. War
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Act: June 7th 1832
Index: - vol. 1, Page 376
[Arrangement of 1870.]