Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4,108, Joseph Goodhue, Mass. Vt.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE                                NUMBER
Mass.    Goodhue, Joseph      R. 4.108
Vt.
CONTENTS
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(3-1776)
SERVICE                                NUMBER
Mass.    Goodhue, Joseph      R. 4.108
Vt.
CONTENTS
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State of Vermont 
Windham County 
Probate District of Westminster ss

At a Probate Court holden at Brookline in and for said District, on the 11th day of September A.D. 1834 being a Court of record and having by law a seal and Clerk 
Presiding, Peter R. Taft, Judge 
On this 11th day of September A.D. 1834, Personally appeared in open Court, at Brookline in said District, before the said Court within and for said District now sitting, Joseph Goodhue now a resident of Putney, in the Probate District aforesaid and State of Vermont, aged Seventy 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 provision made by the act of Congress [illegible] June 7th 1832, That he entered into the service of the United States, under the following named officers, and served as herein after stated. He declares and says that on or about the 25th of August 1775 at the town of Dunstable in the State of Massachusetts, he left his father's house and went to Cambridge and joined the American Army and to ^take the place of his elder brother Josiah Goodhue, who was an Eight months man, and had left the army on account of ill health, and entered the Company commanded by Captain Ebenezer Bancroft in the Regiment commanded by Col. Bridges of the Massachusetts ^[illegible] and served in said Company as or private soldier for the time of nine weeks as substitute for his said Brother, and at the expiration of said time of nine weeks, his brother returned to the Army at Cambridge, in the Company aforesaid the Declarant left the army and returned home having performed nine weeks service - And that afterwards on or about the 10th of June 1780 at Putney in the State of Vermont, he inlisted [enlisted], and entered the Company of Capt. Blakeley and the Lieutenants were Rice and Joseph Joy-- and marched immediately across the Green Mountain to the Hudson River and descended the said River to Peekskill, and recollects of Governor Clinton's revising the Company and of hearing him speak to Capt. Blakely in praise of his Company, and that the Company was attached to the Regiment commanded by Col. Malcomb ^of the New York Troops and that they descended the River to Westpoint and after remaining there two or three weeks, Malcomb’s Regiment was ordered up the River to Albany, and from thence marched to Skenectady [Schenectady] and thence up the Mohawk to Fort Plame [Plain]-- and were stationed there and at Fort Hunter, and remained there till about the last of October and was dismissed or discharged at Fort Hunter, having served in said Blakeleys Company four months and a half or more-- and that he has some evidence to prove his services- --- He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever 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. And in Answer to the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department he says that he was born in the town of Dunstable, in the County of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts in the year 1762 
He has no record of his age in his possession, but presumes there may be a word of his age in the town of Dunstable, aforesaid
And he answers and says, that since the Revolutionary War he ^has resided in the town of Putney Vermont till 1803 when he joined the American Army as Surgeon's mate and served
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as surgeons mate, nearly twenty one years and since leaving the army has resided in Deerfield Massachusetts and in Putney aforesaid, and the last and present years has spent the summer or his farm in Putney and the Winter in Deerfield-- He went as a substitute in the first mentioned campaign as stated in the body of his Declaration - and the last campaign he volunteered and enlisted- He never received any [illegible] discharge- He recollects, in the first tour of duty Lieut. Holden and Ensign Brown as the lieutenants of Capt. Bancroft - does not recollect other field officers, Col Bridges’ Regiment being stationed pretty much alone.
 Joseph Goodhue 
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Peter R Taft Jus
We Theophilus Crawford residing in the town of Putney in said County and Phineas White of Putney in said County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Doct. Joseph Goodhue who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration, that we believe him to be seventy one years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in the opinion
Theophilus Crawford 
Phineas White
Sworn and subscribed the day & year aforesaid 
Peter R Taft – Judge
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states, And the Court further certifies that it appears that Theophilus Crawford Esquire signed the preceding [illegible] is a resident in the said town of Putney and that Phineas White [illegible] who has also signed the same is a resident in the town and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit. Peter R Taft Judge 
I Epapheo. Ransom Register of the Court of Probate within and for the said District of Westminster do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the of the said Court in the matter of the application of Joseph Goodhue for a Pension- 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 16th day of September AD. 1834 Epaphro. Ransom Prob. Regr
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May 19, 1936
Mr. George McK. Roberts
570 Lexington Avenue
New York City, New York
BA-J/ILL
Joseph Goodhue
R. 4108

Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information regarding Dr. Joseph Goodhue (1763-1849) who served as a surgeon in the United States Army from 1803 to 1824; you state, further, that he resided in Dunstable and Deerfield, Massachusetts, and in Putney, Vermont.

The data furnished herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, R. 4108, based upon service of the above noted Joseph Goodhue in the Revolutionary War.

Joseph Goodhue was born in the year 1762, in Dunstable, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and lived there with his father, Reverend Josiah Goodhue, at the beginning of the Revolutionary War. The name of his mother was not given.

Josiah Goodhue, Joseph's older brother, enlisted in 1775 as private in Captain Ebenezer Bancroft's company, Colonel Bridges' Massachusetts, regiment. and, while stationed near Cambridge became ill, returned to Dunstable; Joseph Goodhue went then as a substitute for this brother about August 25, 1775 and served in said company some weeks, until said Josiah returned to complete his service of eight months, for which he had enlisted.

Reverend Josiah Goodhue moved in the fall of 1776 from Dunstable, Massachusetts, to Putney, Wyndham County, Vermont, and resided with his family. Joseph Goodhue enlisted there about June 1, 1780 as private in Captain James Blakeley's company, marched across the Green Mountains, thence by water to West Point, where said company was attached to Colonel Malcolm's New York regiment, afterwards, marched to Fort Hunter and Fort Plain on the Mohawk
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River, and continued until expiration of service of four months and twenty days.

Joseph Goodhue returned to Putney, Vermont, where he resided until 1803, where he joined the American Army as surgeon's mate and served nearly twenty-one years, stationed at Deerfield, Massachusetts. He made no statements whatever regarding this service other than length and place, as given.

September 11th, 1834, Dr. Joseph Goodhue, then of Putney, Vermont, applied for pension which might have been due on account of his service in the Revolutionary War. His claim for pension was not allowed as he did not furnish proof of service of six months in the Revolutionary War, as required by the pension law under which he applied.

In December 1833, Mrs. Elisabeth Aiken, a sister of Dr. Joseph Goodhue, was a resident of Putney Vermont, then aged sixty-eight years. The name of her husband was not given.

There is no other claim for pension on file based upon any of the service of Dr. Joseph Goodhue cited above, nor record of issuance of a bounty land warrant.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
Dr. Joseph Goodhue - Hertman's Reg. Req. _-
1803-1824
Searched all U.S.A. - 1812 Act
160-55- and Registry of 1850.
2.
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George McK. Roberts
Of Lexington Avenue 
New York City

[Circular stamp] RECEIVED May 12 1936 
Mail Sub-Div, Vets. Adm. Reader # 25

May 11, 1936
United States Veterans Bureau
Washington D.C.
Gentlemen:
Will you kindly inform me if you have a record of a pension claim or grant that Dr. Joseph Goodhue (1762-1849) who served in the United States Army as a surgeon from 1803 to 1824. 

He was a resident of Dunstable and Deerfield, Mass., and Putney, Vt.

For the purpose of incorporating his pension record in a family record, and of utilizing the facts in a applying for membership in the Society of the Second War the Great Britain, it will be much appreciated if you will kindly furnish any data available.
Very truly yours
George McK Roberts
GMcKR:Q
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 8, 1879 [Crossed out}
Rejected
4108
P.O.
Joseph Goodhue
Service:
Enlisted: __________, 18  .
Discharged: _________, 18  .
Printed Volume - Rejected + Suspended
Pensioner -  printed1854 - Vermont - page 30 -
Application filed:________18  [crossed out]
Reason for rejection
"He did not serve six months"
5/19/36 - JLL
Alleges:
Re-enlisted: 
Attorney:
P.O.
____ Recognized.  _____ Contract.
____ Cert of Dis.  Searched for ______, 18  .

1936 May 19 Hist. to George McK. Roberts, JLL
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The affidavit of Salathiel Harris of Brattleboro in the County of Windham and State of Vermont, aged 74 years, being duly sworn, deposeth, testifieth and saith, that in the latter part of the month of May or first of June 1780, according to his best recollection, he volunteered and inlisted [enlisted] at Brattleboro, aforesaid and joined the company commanded by Capt. James Blakely, and the Lieutenants were, Rice and Joseph Joy-- and that [illegible] Joseph Goodhue then of Putney in the County aforesaid was a private Soldier in the same company and immediately, after joining the company, marched across the mountain to the Hudson River and took water passage down to Peekskill and soon proceeded down near Westpoint, where by order of Govr Clinton, Capt. Blakeley's Company was attached to Col. Malcolm Regiment of the New York troops -  and after remaining at West point for the space of six or eight weeks, and by order of Gen. Arnold helped dismount the cannon. Deponent with several others were detached from Blakeley's Company and were attached to the company commanded by Capt Delevan and were sent into the ferries -  leaving the balance of said Company, with whom [illegible] the said Goodhue behind and as Deponent was informed on his return, Capt. Blakely with his company were soon after Deponent left the Point, ordered up River to Albany and from thence up the Mohawk – And when Deponent returned to Brattleboro in the month of December the next following - Capt. Blakely was there, and told Deponent that he had been at home several days.  
And further deponent saith not Salathial Harris

State Vermont 
Windham County SS 
June 9th 1834 sworn and submitted, in due form Before me Phineas White Justice of Peace 

I do hereby certify that Salathiel Harris above named, is known to me as a man of undoubted truth and veracity - Phineas White
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The affidavit of Mrs. Elizabeth Aikin of Putney in the County of Windham and State of Vermont aged sixty eight years, who testifies and ^[illegible ] that in the summer of 1775 she lived with her late father Rev. Josiah Goodhue in the town of Dunstable in the state of Massachusetts, and that her brother [illegible] Joseph Goodhue, late of Putney aforesaid, and now residing in the town of Deerfield in the state of Massachusetts, resided in her father's family also and that she well remembers that, some time, about the last of August of the said year 1775, an elder brother who was a soldier in the [illegible] service, so called, came home sick, when the said Joseph Goodhue, left home to go to the Army, then at Cambridge and the vicinity of Boston to satisfy the place of his brother, and that according to his best recollection, the said Joseph was gone from home in the army; as she then understood, nine weeks when her elder brother returned to the army and served out his term. And she further testifies, that in the fall of 1776, her siad father with his family moved into the town of Putney aforesaid and that some time after, the particular year she does not distinctly remember, she was knowing to the said Joseph Goodhue enlisting, and going again into the army and that he left home early in that summer, about the first of June and was gone till sometime late in that fall of the year - and that she lived in her brother's family when he came home [illegible] and visited from the army.
Elizabeth Aiken

State of Vermont
Windham County ss
From & subscribed the 14th of [illegible] 1832
Before me Phineas White Justice of Peace
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Ms. Aikin [Aiken] and know her to be person of undoubted truth and veracity
Phineas White Justice Peace

The affidavit of Capt Amos Joy of Putney in the county of Windham and state of Vermont, aged seventy [illegible] years, who testifies and says, ^[illegible] in the year 1780 he was well acquainted with [illegible] Joseph Goodhue, then of Putney afore and now residing in the town of Deerfield and State of Massachusetts and was knowing to the said Goodhue inlisting [enlisting] as entering by a private soldier, on or about to the tenth day of June 1780, at said Putney and entering the Company of Capt. Blakely in the Regiment commanded by Col. Malcomb, of the N. York  Militia and immediately marching to the Hudson River, and there taking  shipping down sd river to Berkshire, and after a short stay there to West Point and after a short stay at West Point the Regiment was ordered up the River to Albany thence to Skenectody [Schenectady] and up the Mohawk [illegible] Fort [illegible] where the Regiment was stationed till about the last of October when they were discharged and the Deponent with the said Goodhue returned home together having served together in the same company for and during the [illegible] of said campaign - having served according to Deponent's best recollection [illegible]
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and twenty days and that the said Goodhue was a good soldier and was honorably discharged or dismissed Amos Joy

State of Vermont 
Windham County ss
From and subscribed in due form this 31st of Dec. 1833

Before me Phineas White Justice of Peace
I hereby verify that the above deponent, is well known to me -is a respectable citizen of undoubted truth and veracity
Phineas White Justice Peace
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Hon H Hall VT
3 Jan 1835
P. B.
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War Dept 
P.B
Jany [January] 3 1835 
Sir
From the papers of Dr Joseph Goodhue to which the letter of P. White Esq which is herewith enclosed refers, the ^claimant does not appear to have been to have been in actual service for 6 months. Born in 1762 he cannot be recognized as having been in the military service in 1775 unless the rolls of that service among the archives of Massachusetts shall show it or the fact shall be established by ^very satisfactory proof.  His serving in 1780 was according to the course of the [illegible] quite temporary.  The claim is rejected & the papers placed on file.

On re-examination of the papers of James Bernen his claim is found to be of such a character as to require further specification of the company and field officers under whom he served to and proof of his actual service before the [illegible] requested can be issued. Unless such additional proof shall be furnished his name will be dropped from the list under the Act of 1832 
Hon H Hall 
HR
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Vermont
Joseph Goodhue
Rejected [crossed out]
[illegible] Hon H Hall [crossed out]
3 Jan 1835
1832
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J L Edwards Esq
4108
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Washington Dec 8, 1834

[Dear] Sir I send for your examination the accompanying application0 of Dr Goodhue for a pension.
very respectfully yours
Heland Hall

J. L. Edwards Esq.