Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40734, Joshua Wyeth, Mass.
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Service-Mass.                      Wyeth,Joshua                          Number- S.40734
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40734
Revy(INVALID)
File No. 40734
Joshua Wyeth
PW Rev War

Act:18 March(Illegible)
Index:-Vol. 3, Page 593
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War Department, No12,007
  Pension Office
November14,1820

SIR:
  You are hereby informed that the schedule of your property has been examined; and the Secretary of War has directed your name to be continued on the Pension Roll.
  You will be paid at the next semi-annual payment in next. Funds for that purpose will be transmitted at the time; but no arrearages will be paid previous thereto.
                                   I am respectfully, Your obedient servant,
                                                              Q.L Edwards

To Mr. Joshua Wyeth,
Care of 
Geo.W.Jewett, Esq;
Springfield,Ohio
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OHIO. R         12,007

Joshua Wyeth of      in the state of Ohio who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Knox of the Massachusetts line, for the term of 12 months.

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 30th of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 17th of June 1819 and sent to John Runyon, Esq
Urbanna Champaign Co. Ohio

Arrears to 4th of March 1819 10mo 1/30 6/30=81,,29
Semi-anl.all'ce ending 4 Sep:1819                      48,,
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                                                                       $139"29
 Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818
No---cation sent November 14 1820 to Geo. M. Jeweth Springfield, Ohio
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Joshua Wyeth affidavit

Joshua Wyeth priv.
Knox Mass Reg'
1775-1776 30 April 1818
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The state of Ohio
Champaign County
                        Personally appeared before me  John Runyon Esquire an assosiate judge of the court of Common Pleas for the sixth judicial curcuit of the State of Ohio Joshua Wyeth and upon his personal oath made the following declaration(To wit)
That he the said Joshua Wyeth sometime in the latter part of the summer or the beginning of the fall of the year one thousand seven hundred& seventy five Enlisted
as a private soldier in the company of Captain --- Newell belonging to the first Massachusetts regiment commanded by Colonel Knox in the Massachusetts line on the continental establishment in the Revolutionary War and that he served in said regiment in the capacity of a private soldier for the term of 2 ___ months wherto he was permitted by his officers to become a Laborer in the artificers of the army in the Revolutionary War and that he served as a Laborer with the artificers as Knoxes Aid for the further time of 2 ____ Months when his time of service expired & when he was  honorably discharged at Springfield in the state of Massachusetts which said discharge has since been destroyed by fire and the said Joshua Wyeth further saith that he is near sixty years of age has had twenty one children born in Lawful Wedlock. Seventeen of whom are yet alive that he is a resident of the county of Champaign in the state of Ohio& from his measured circumstances he greatly needs the assistanse of his country for support.
                                             Joshua Wyeth
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is and was at the time of taking the same, one of the associate judges of the court aforesaid, legally commissioned and qualified; and to all his official acts as such full faith and credit are due.
         In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of our said court, as Urbana, this thirteenth day of May, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
                  Samuel Gibbs Clerk

I John Runyan Judge as within & have mentioned do further certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the within named Joshua Wyeth did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding Declaration & I do further certify that I am satisfied that from the reclusid  circumstances of the said Joshua Wyeth as to property he really needs the assistance of his country for support In testimony whereinto I have hereinto set my hand this 3rd day of May AD. 1819
John Runyon
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Joshua Wyeth
Decl n Schedule



Con
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State of Ohio   Clarke county  Ss~
Supreme court of the term of July A.D. 1820
On this twenty first day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred twenty, personally appeared in open court being a court of record for the said state and county, Joshua Wyeth aged sixty one years nine months & fourteen days resident in said county, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows- I was on board the East India Company's ships in the harbor of Boston in assisted in throwing the tea overboard on the 18 December in the year AD 1773, being then fifteen years of age- That I was a volunteer in the Battle of Bunker Hill in June AD 1775. I afterward enlisted and served in Capt Eliphalet Newell's company in Col Knox's regiment Massachusetts line in the artillery corps for twelve months in the continental service.
 I also after that period belonged  and served as Blacksmith in the corps of artificers- under Cap Faxon- I also further swear that during the time I was in service as 
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State of Ohio Clarke county Ss~
Supreme court of the term of July A.D. 1820
On this twenty first day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred twenty, personally appeared in open court being a court of record for the said state and county, Joshua Wyeth aged sixty one years nine months & fourteen days resident in said county, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows- I was on board the East India Company's ships in the harbor of Boston in assisted in throwing the tea overboard on the 18 December in the year AD 1773, being then fifteen years of age- That I was a volunteer in the Battle of Bunker Hill in June AD 1775. I afterward enlisted and served in Capt Eliphalet Newell's company in Col Knox's regiment Massachusetts line in the artillery corps for twelve months in the continental service.
I also after that period belonged and served as Blacksmith in the corps of artificers- under Cap Faxon- I also further swear that during the time I was in service as aforsaid I was in the battle of Flat Bush on Long Island and in the skirmish at Harlem Heights and at the battle of the White Plain in 1776- That my original declarations as appears by my certificate was made on the 30 th day of April AD 1818 and the number of my pension certificate is 12. 007.
  And I do further solemnly swear that I am a native born American that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March AD 1818, and that I have not since that time, by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with interest thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18th day of March AD 1818. and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contacts, or debts due to me, nor have I any other income than what is contained in the hereinto annexed
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annexed and by me subscribed.
I do also solemnly swear that I am by occupation a Blacksmith, but that from wounds age and debility, I am unable to pursue it for a livelihood. My family consists of a third wife by the name of Elizabeth and five children living at home the eldest named Anna eleven years old, next William aged nine years next Nelson aged six years next Adaline four years old last Amanda aged two years- these are of proper age to be schooled but can contribute little or nothing toward furnishing & support- And that the schedule of property referenced herein is as follows. to wit.
One horse $30
One cow     12
Seven chairs 4.50
Iron ware hallarn 3.00
Crockery ware 3.00
Earthen ware  1.00
1 Calf      1.50
1 sett of 2d hand blacksmith tools anvill
under Execution for debt} 15.00
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                                          $70.00
I also further state that I have had by two wives twenty one children but those not named have left my service and furnish no assistance. Joshua Wyeth
Sworn to declared on 21 day of July AD 1820.
Saul Henkle, clerk pro term. (Copy)
State of Ohio
Clarke County,Ss I Saul Henkle, clerk of the Supreme court of the state of Ohio, aforsaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copies from the record of the said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property
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(pro)perty exhibited in the said schedule is seventy dollars. Said supreme court is a court of record because, it is expressibly made so by the constitution of and Laws of this state which create it, proceeds according to the course of the Common Law witts a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of it's proceedings- possesses a Seal,with the power of time and imprisonment, H.
    In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court at Springfield, on this 26th day of July, 1820- Saul Henkle, Clerk
                                                                                 By his Deputy 
                                                                                   John H. Scott