Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 22264, Joseph Gibbs, New York
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See letter to P. Agt. May 20. 1836
22,667
Pennsylvania [double underlined]
Joseph Gibbs
of Bradford Co. in the State of Penn who was a Private in the Co. commanded by Captain Wepes. of the Rgt commanded by [blank] in the [Penn crossed out] N.Y. line for 9 mos.

Inscribed on the Roll of Penn at the rate of 30 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 29. day of Nov 1833 and sent to David Cash. Towanda. Penn.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1833. 75.-
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 34. 15. [double underlined]
$90.- [double underlined]
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Wm. R. Palmer Clerk,
Book E Vol. five Page 21.
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27.767
Joseph Gibbs
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on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid} Joseph Gibbs [signature]
J P Bull Prot [Prothonotary]

Mr. Julius Russell and Jeptha Brainerd residing in the township of Windham in the County of Bradford and State of Pennsylvania hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Joseph Gibbs who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy one years of age the sixth day of this last April; that he is reputed & believed in the neighbourhood [sic] where he resides to have been a soldier in the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Julius Russell [signature]
Jeptha Brainerd [signature]
Sworn to and Subscribed the day & year aforesaid}
J P Bull Prot [Prothonotary]

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories 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 to them that Julius Russell and Jeptha Brainerd who have signed the preceeding [sic] certificate are credible persons & that their statement is entitled to credit. By the Court. 
J P Bull Prot [Prothonotary]

I, James P Bull Prothonotary of the court of Common Pleas of the County of Bradford do hereby certify the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Joseph Gibbs for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 10th day of Sept. 1833
J P Bull
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State of Pennsylvania}
Bradford County ss.}
On the tenth day of September A.D. 1833 personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Edward Herrick President and his associates, judges of the court of Common Pleas of said county, now sitting, Joseph Gibbs a resident of the township [of the township [repetitive] crossed out] of Windham in the County of Bradford [underlined] in the State of Pennsylvania [underlined] aged about seventy one years [underlined] who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, [depose and say crossed out] make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress papers June 7th 1832
That he entered the service of the United States and served as hereinafter stated - He was born the 6th of April 1762 in Andover in the State of Connecticut [underlined] and when he was about eleven [underlined] years old his father's family (embracing this declairant [sic]) moved to Wilmington Vermont, where he resided about five years [underlined] from there your declairant [sic] moved into Cambridge Washington County N. York when your declairant [sic] resided until he, at the age of 19 years enlisted for nine months in the service of the United States about the last of ^[insert] March. [April crossed out]  or the first of ^[insert] April [March crossed out] 1781 - He enlisted under Capt Welps whose company was then stationed at Saratoga. Capt. Welps was a muster master, his given name is not recollected nor does he recollect what Regiment Capt. Welps's company was attached to - declarant remained at Saratoga about five weeks during which time there was a man hung ^[insert] there who had been condemned as a spy - From Saratoga the nine months men, who had no land to defend in that vicinity, were ordered to join Genl. Washington's Army there in New Jersey, declarant with fifty other of the nine months men left Saratoga ^[insert] and went to the Fishkill twenty five of whom were sent to West Point and twenty five with your declarant [illegible crossed out] men put under the command of a Lietenant [sic] or an Ensign of the regular service (name not now recollected) & taken to the Pompton huts in Jersey, Genl. Washington not there
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from the Huts of Pompton, after declarant had joined the army it marched to what was called Pompton Plains, from the plains the army marched to Verplank Point, - while at the latter place the nine months men engaged in cutting & boating wood to West Point for the use of the troops the next winter - they continued in this business until about five or six weeks before their term of service expired, when the nine months men were sent to New Burg when they were engaged also in cutting wood for the hospital until they were discharged - your declarant received a written discharge at that time, and afterward let a man by the name of David Ayers have the discharge to take to John Williams to enable him to draw my monthly wages which had not then been paid. Since that time he has not seen or heard any thing of his discharge he supposed it is lost - As your declarant does not now recollect or know in what Regiment his name may be found he deems it proper to State that after delivering the fifty, nine ^[insert] months men to the regular officers as before mention [sic] at Fishkill, Capt. Welps, as your declarant was informed,  returned to Saratoga and was afterwards broke of his commission
He was in no battles - From New Bury he returned home to Cambridge - from there he moved to Whitehall & from there to Lake George, from there to Greenwich where he resided until he moved to Windham Bradford County Pa. Six year ago last November where he now resides. As he has no records to refresh his memory by he cannot state positively the days of the month that he entered and left the service but he believes the days mentioned to not be far if any from the true time that in consequence of your declarants with others agreeing to cut a cord and a half of wood a day, and complying with that agreement he received a ration and a half a day and received his discharge about ten days [underlined] before it would otherwise have expired and that he got home somewhere about Christmas & New Year seventeen hundred and eighty one making the time of his service nine months
He has no documentary evidence, nor does he know of any person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service and that no Clergiman [sic] resides in the township where this declarant now resides & is compeled [sic] therefore to offer the certificate of others - 
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office
19th Nov. 1833

Sir:
The evidence in support of our claim under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by compling [sic] with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

A Statement, [bold print] showing the service of Joseph Gibbs
|Period when the service was rendered.|
1781
|Duration of the claimant's service.|
9. [months]
|Rank of the claimant.|
Priv
|Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served.|
Capt. Welps.
|Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service.|
71. years Washington County N. York
|Proof by which the declaration is supported.|
Traditionary. -

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
JAMES L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.
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Towanda Pa. Sept. 26th 1833

Sir
Inclosed [sic] I send you the application of Joseph Gibbs - From Mr Gibbs" respectable standing in Socieity [sic] there is no doubt entertained that he served nine months as he states. - but from the nature of his service & being transferred from place to place he does not know ^[insert] at this distant day to what Regement [sic] he belonged - but as he belong to, or enlisted in, Capt. Welps' company, you have the means of ascertaining what regiment Capt. Welps was attached to - 
I also herewith return to you the papers in the applicat[illegible] of Abraham Whitaker - by refference [sic] to your brief in the case of Whitaker you will receive the objection to his claim
Mr. Whitaker states, that after he was discharged as an invalid (as per his declaration) & sent home, there was sent to him a settlement note (then so called) for the balance due to him for monthly pay while in the service - which induces him to believe his name must be on the rolls of some of the companys or regiments - that the United States had no other guide than the records in their possession by which to ascertain the time he served & the balance due to him, - By your brief it would appear that the rolls of Butter's & Sherman's regiments only had been examined for the name of Whitaker - By Whitaker's declaration you may observe that he served also in Col. Swift's regiment & Capt. Cleft's company - If his name should not be found upon any of the rolls, Mr Whitaker whould [sic] esteem it as a favor to an old
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Soldier to be informed of the names & places of abode of the applicants, if any, for services in the Regiments of Cols. Butter, Sherman & Swift so that he may thus be enabled if possible to prove his services - Mr. Whitaker assigns as the reason why he did not get a clergyman to certify for him, that there is no clergyman whose attendance he could procure at court whithout [sic] an expense & inconvenience which he is not able to own -
I am resply. Your ob. Servt.
David Cash

J. L.  Edwards Esqr.}
Com. of Pensions
Washington City}
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3-595
O. W. AND N. DIVISIION.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.

Searched by [blank]
Claim No. [blank]
Certificate No. 2267-32
Claimant [blank]
Soldier Joseph Gibbs
Service Rev.
Additional service [blank]
Remarks Res. 1840 Pa.
f drawing pension then.
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22.264 [underlined]
Joseph Gibbs [underlined]
Sept. 10.1833 - 71
Bradford Co Pa.
Born Apl 6. 1762
Andover Conn.
H - Cambridge N. Y.
[?] Capt. Welps
[?] 9 mos
No But moved to Bradford Co. Pa. about 1827
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THE BRADFORD STAR,
C. F. HEVERLY, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
TOWANDA, PA.

July 3, 1902.

Eugene F. Ware,
Commissioner of Pensions,


My dear Sir, -
As one of a committee, engaged in competing the military history of Bradford county, I request your kindness and assistance in furnishing us with the record of service of Joseph Gibbs and John Plum, Revolutionary soldiers. Both were living in Windham, Bradford Co., Pa. in 1840 and drawing pensions. It is barely possible that Plum was a soldier of the War of 1812. Whatever other information, connected with the history of these patriots, the records may show, we will be pleased to have.
Thanking you in advance for courtesy, I am, 
Very truly,
C. F. Heverly

U.S. PENSON OFFICE JUL 5 1902 [stamped]