Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8526, for Joshua Purdy, New York
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(3-1776)
Service: New York
Purdy, Joshua
Number: R.8526.
Contents
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34,267
In the matter of
the application for
a pension__

of New-Yk

Joshua Purdy
under act of June 7th
 1832__
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit 
of the act of Congress passed June 7 1832

State of New York}
County of Westchester} SS

On this twenty seventh day of September
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Westchester (being a court of record) Joshua Purdy a resident of the town of Yorktown in said County, aged (according to the best information in his possession derived from his parents and old people) seventy six 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 act of Congress
passed June 7th 1832

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers
and served as herein stated that is to say he 
entered the said service as a private some time in the spring of the year seventeen hundred
and seventy nine in the company of drafted troops commanded by Captain Abraham Hyatt in the Regiment commanded by Colonel 
Drake, for the term of eight months that 
he served out said term of eight months in 
said Company under the command of said
Hyatt and was honorably discharged from said 
service at the expiration of said term of eight 
months. That that the time he entered said service as aforesaid he resided in the town of Yorktown in the said County of Westchester and belonged to a company of militia commanded by said Hyatt and was drafted out of the same for said term of eight months: that he was drafted to serve
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on the lines in said County to protect the 
same that he served on the lines in said 
County and was stationed at Bedford, New
Purchase, and New Castle in said County 
for the purpose of defending the lines in said 
County. 

And the declarant further saith that 
he again entered said services as a private 
some time in the spring of the year seventeen
hundred and eighty two in the company of drafted troops commanded by Captain Martin Post in the Regiment commanded by (as the declarant thinks) Colonel Drake, that at the time he entered said service as last aforesaid he resided in said Yorktown and belonged to a 
company of militia commanded by Captain
Hyatt and was drafted from said Hyatts 
company for the term of eight months and 
served the same on the lines in said County
under the command of Captain Martin
Post and at the expiration thereof was honorably discharged

And the Declarant saith that he was
in actual service during both of said terms and
did not pursue any civil employment

That in answer to the interrogations pro-
pounded to him agreeably to the direction of the Wart department he on his oath saith

1st
He was born in the town of Yorktown in said 
County in the year one thousand seven hundred 
and sixty one
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2nd
That he has no reccord of his age but his parents and old people with whom he is acquainted in his neighborhood always informed him that he was born at the time above stated

3rd
That he lived during the revolution in Yorktown aforesaid and has always since lived in
the town of Yorktown aforesaid with the exception of about six years a part of which time he lived in the County of Rockland and part of it in the County of Putnam in said State

4th 
That he was drafted into the service as aforesaid and served for himself and not as a substitute

5th 
That the only officers with whom he served whose names he recollects besides those above stated were Lieutenant John Moshier and James Tuttle, that the general circumstances of his service are as before stated.

6th 
That he never received a written discharge from the service

7th 
That he has no documentary evidence of his said service but that it is proved by the affidavits of John Vredenburgh and Abraham Purdy hereto annexed

That the names of the persons to whom he is known in his present neighborhood and who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution are Daniel Baker and James Geroin of Yorktown in Westchester County
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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to 
a pension except the present and and declares 
that his name is not on the pension roll of the 
agency of any state.
Joshua Purdy
His  X  mark

Sworn to in open Court 
this 27th day of September 1837
John H Smith Clk We_ Cy
Com pleas

We Daniel Baker ____residing in the town of Yorktown in the County of Westchester and the State of New York and James Geroin ___ residing in the same place

hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Joshua Purdy who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy six 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 that  opinion
James Geroin
Daniel Baker

Sworn to and subscribed this 27th day of} September 1837 in Open Court}
John H. Smith  Clerk Wes
C of Com pleas
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And the said Court does hereby declare its opinion after the investigation of the matter and after 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 that it appears that Daniel Baker and James Geroin who have signed the preceding certificate are residents of the town  of Yorktown aforesaid
and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I John H. Smith Clerk of the said Court do hereby certify that the foregoing are the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Joshua Purdy for a pension Dated at White Plains in said County of Westchester the twenty seventh day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven

In Witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court the day and year last aforesaid.
John H. Smith Clerk
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State of New York}
County of Westchester} ss.

John Vredenburgh of the town of Philipstown in the County of Putnam and State aforesaid being duly sworn on his oath saith that he is now sixty nine years of age that he resided in the County of Westchester during the revolutionary war and was then well acquainted with Joshua Purdy now a resident of the town of Yorktown in the County of Westchester aforesaid: that the said Joshua Purdy was drafted into the service of the United States the Deponent thinks some time in the spring of the year 1778 or 1779 the Deponent is not certain which, for the term of eight months and served out said term of eight months in the Company of drafted troops commanded by Captain Martin Post, and was attached the Deponent thinks to the regiment commanded by Col Samuel Drake, that the said Purdy at the time he was drafted as aforesaid resided in the town of Yorktown in said County of Westchester and served out said term of eight months in said County in guarding the lines in said County, then so called.  The deponent thinks said company was raised for the purpose of protecting the inhabitants bordering on the frontier in said County that the whole of said Regiment was not in service during said term but only occasionally when the presence and force of the enemy required that the regular military posts in said County should the reinforced and further saith not

John Vredenburgh
His  X  mark

Sworn to and subscribed this 10th day of June} 1837 before me}
John Mattocks  Justice of the Peace
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I certify that John Vredenburgh who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing affidavit is in my opinion a credible witness
Dated June 10th 1837
John l. Mattocks  Justice of the Peace
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State of New York}
County of Westchester} ss

Abraham Purdy of the town of Cortlandt in the County of Westchester aforesaid being duly sworn on his oath saith that he is in the sixty fourth year of his age:  that he is the brother of Joshua Purdy of Cortlandt in said County and recollects that said Joshua was drafted to serve as a soldier in the latter part of the Revolutionary war he thinks in the year 1782 for the term of six or eight months he is not positive which, thinks it was eight: that he well recollects that said Joshua went from home to serve out his draft:  recollects his parents were unwilling said Joshua should go from home to serve as a soldier when drafted as aforesaid: but the Deponent well recollects that said Joshua served out said term and well recollects the time of his return home after the expiration of said term and how his parents rejoiced at his discharge and safe return at the expiration of said term and that the deponent has often in later years heard his parents discourse of their
son the said Joshua having been in the service during the revolutionary war, and has often heard them speak of his having been twice drafted and having served two terms -- and the deponent further saith that his and said Joshua's parents have been dead a good many years: their father about twenty years and further deponent saith not

Abraham Purdy

Sworn to and subscribed}
this 23d day of September}
1837 before me}

John L. Mattocks, Justice of the Peace
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I John S. Mattocks the Justice above named do hereby certify that Abraham Purdy who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing affidavit is a gentleman of respectability and good character and entitled to full belief. Dated September 22. 1837
John S. Mattocks, Justice of the Peace

State of New York}
county of West Chester} SS.

I John H. Smith Clerk of the said county and clerk of the Court of Common pleas in and for the said county do hereby certify that John S. Mattocks before whom the foregoing affidavit of John Vredenburgh and Abraham Purdy was taken was on the day of the date of taking the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County duly commissioned and sworn and that the foregoing signatures to the Jurats and Certificates of Character purporting to be his are genuine. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed this seal of the said county this twenty seventh day of September 1837
John H. Smith, clerk
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New York
Rejected

see let. to Albert Lockwood
Nov. 17, 1837

85267
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[Begin crossed out] Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.[End crossed out]
8,526
P. O.
Joshua Purdy
Service:
Enlisted: Rejected
Discharged:
Application filed:
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P. O.
Recognized. Contract.
Cert. of Dis. Searched for
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Hon. J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.

Free
[Post Mark] Sing Sing N.Y. Oct 2

[Written on left margin]

N.Y. Oct 5
Act 1832
Josh. Purdy,

Original Application
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Sing Sing New York Oct. 2nd 18** [cut off]

Honl. J.L Edwards

Sir,

Enclosed are the papers in purport of the claim of Joshua Purdy a soldier of the Revolution, to a pension. Be pleased to express his claim and oblige.

Your Obt. servant

Albert Lockwood