Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8,363, for Francis Postle, New York
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(3-1776)

Service
New York

Postle, Francis

Number R. 8363

Contents
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35.047

Francis Postle

Pension Paper
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832
State of New York
Allegany County ss
On this third day of October 1838 personally appeared in open court before the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Allegany now sitting Francis Postle a resident of the town of Friendship in the County of Allegany and State of New York aged Eighty three 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 enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1778 as a private in a company commanded by a Captain Moody whose Christian name the declarant does not now recollect which company belonged to Col Antony Lambs Regiment General Knox's Brigade.
This declarant enlisted in the early part of the year 1778 at Fishkill in the State of New York, the period of his enlistment was for during the war. This declarant was born in the city of Prague in Bohemia and came to America in the year 1777. He was a tailor by trade and previous to his enlistment was working at his trade at Fishkill, soon after his enlistment and he thinks in the spring or summer of 1778 he was marched with a detachment of the American Army to Danbury in the State of Connecticut and thence to a place called White Plains in the State of New York where he remained till in the month of October of that year, when by order of Col. Lamb he was transferred to West Point in the State of New York and attached to the garrison where he was employed in his capacity as a tailor in the manufacture of clothing for the American Army. 
That he continued at West Point in that employment with the exception of occasional calls on
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his perform garrison duty until the year 1783 when he was regularly and honorably discharged. He has forgotten the name or names of the officers who signed his discharge. His discharge was many years since worn out and lost not supposing at the time that it was of any consequence to preserve it. He was not in any battle during the period of his service. While at West Point he recollects a Captain Stevens of the artillery and a Col. Livingston of the infantry being there for some time. He recollects Genl. Arnold and was at West Point at the time of his treason and desertion. He recollects that he saw General Washington once or twice at West Point during the time of his service and on one occasion he remembers that there was a dissatisfaction among the American troops on account of their being poorly clothed, fed, and paid. And that there was talk of a meeting and general desertion and that they were appeased and became quiet by a speech from General Washington. The declarant has no record of his age but recollects that according to the account given him of his age by his parents he was twenty eight years old when he was discharged in the year 1783. After the close of the revolution the declarant resident about two years in Middletown in the State of Connecticut from which place he removed to Schuyler (now Utica) in the State of New York and resided at different places in said state till about fifteen years ago when he removed to the town of Belfast in the County of Allegany in the vicinity of his present residence. And has continued his residence in said county from the time he first came into it. He is acquainted with the Hon. Ransom Lloyd first Judge of Allegany County with the Revd. Mr  Fuller, Samuel Carter Esquire and Col. Joab B Hughes of Friendship are with many other respectable citizens of the said County. This declarant applied
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for a pension several years ago through the Hon. John Magee the late representative in Congress for this district and procured proof of his service by the affidavit of the late General Baily of Geneva in this state which affidavit Mr Magee informed the declarant he had lost and that the same was never present to the department. 
This declarant believes that there is a letter now on file in the department from Mr Magee stating the loss of the affidavit and this declarant states that he has been informed and believes that General Baily died very soon after making the said affidavit and that he has been deterred from making a formal application under the act of June 7th 1832 under a supposition that his application would be rejected for want of proof of his service by living witnesses. And this declarant states that being a foreigner he was destitute of acquaintances in America who knew him prior to his entering the service as above stated and that the acquaintances he formed during the war were but few and most of them belonged to parts unknown to him that upon his being discharged he separated from them and has known none of them since with the exception of General Baily whose death is above stated; and he further states that there is no person to his knowledge now alive who was acquainted with his service. The declarant 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. 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. 
his
Francis x Portle
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Mr. Timothy Fuller a clergyman residing in the town of Friendship in the County of Allegany and Samuel Carter and Joab B. Hughes residing in the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Francis Portle who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be eighty three 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 the above opinion. 
Timothy Fuller
Samuel Carter
Joab B. Hughes
Sworn and subscribed
the day and year aforesaid 

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 stated. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Timothy Fuller who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the town of Friendship in the County of Allegany where the applicant resides an that Samuel Carter and Joab B. Hughes who have signed the preceding certificate are residents of the same place and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit. 
E Horton
John Collins 
Josiah Utter Judge 

I Samuel Van Wickle clerk of the court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Allegany in the state of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Francis Postle for a pension 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this third day of October 1838
Saml Van Wickle Clerk
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section 
MM & F

June 30, 1926

Addie M. Potter
Waucoma, Iowa 

Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim R. 8636 it appears that Francis Postle was born in 1755 in Prague, Bohemia and came to America in 1777.
He applied for pension September 16, 1838 while living in Belfast, Allegany County, New York, and stated that while working at his trade, that of a tailor, in Fishkill, New York he enlisted in 1778 as a private in Captain Moodie's Company, Colonel Lamb's Regiment of Artillery and in the fall of that year, by order of his Colonel, he was transferred to West Point, New York and attached to the garrison where he was employed making clothes for the American Army until 1783. 
His claim was not allowed as he did not render six months actual military service as required by the pension leave, his duty at the garrison not being considered as such. 
In 1838 he was living in Friendship, Allegany County,
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New York. 
There is no data on file as to his family.
Respectfully, 
Winfield Scott
Commissioner. 

Miss Wilson said as this was a rej. claim & she did not find the soldier's name in the N.Y. book, she would not write Continental on the jacket.
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H
N.York
Francis Portle

Rejected

8363

Act June 7 1832
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Hon. L C. Peck
Feb 17 1840

ans'd Feb 19 1840

Francis Postle 
NY 
32
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H of R Feby 17 1840

Sir
I send herewith a communication of William Colwell Esq. making certain inquiries in relation to the application and papers of Francis Postle, an applicant for a pension. 
Your attention to the same is respectfully solicited. 
Very Respectfully
Your obt servt 
L.C. Peck

Hon. J.L. Edwards
Com Pensions
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W. G. Angel 
22 May 1840 
OC
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Pension Office
22 May 1840

Sir
The papers of Francis Postle an applicant for a pension under the act of June 7th 1832 have been examined and filed. It is alleged by the claimant that he served in Capt. Moody's company Col. Lamb's regt from 1778 till the fall of that year after which he was employed as a Tailor at West Point untill the close of the war: The roles of Capt Moody company bear no evidence of the service of the applicant nor is his name on the list of the  officers and jurats in Col. Lambs regt who continued in service until the close of the war. The claim is therefore rejected. 


W.G. Angel
Angelica
New York
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W.G. Angel 
Per 2/62
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Pension Office
Oct 2 1852

Sir
Nothing has transpired to alter the condition of the claims of Francis Postle and Jonathan Walker of NY since you were corresponded with upon the subject by this office

W.G. Angel Esq. 
Angelica
NY
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Pension Office
APR 11 1926
US

Waucoma, Iowa April 11 1926

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir
Please let me know if our "Francis Postle" who fought in the Rev. War, drew a pension. if so, we wish a copy of his pension certificate. 
He was born in Prague, came to American and enlisted under Washington. Born in 1756, Died 1841. Lived in Friendship, N.Y. after war. Wife Lydia b-1766 d-1833. Will pay charges
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for copying same 

Daughters of the American Revolution 

I searched Rawson only 

Waucoma, Iowa   192

II.
Also 
a copy of one Nathaniel Rawson if he drew a pension- b 1716- d 1803- m 1740 "wife Rachel Daniel"-Stockbridge Mass. 
Will pay charges for copy of above
Codially yours, 
Addie M. Potter
Registrar
Waucoma Clk of the D.A.R
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Pension Office
APR 14 1926
U.S.
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Daughters of the American Revolution

Waucoma, Iowa June 7 1936

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C. 

Dear Sir, 
Will you kindly let me know if the Rev. War Records contain the name of Francies Postle supposed to have enlisted from N.Y. 
Cordially yours
Addie M.Potter
Registrar

If he drew a pension What is the fee for a copy of the record?

Pension Office
JUN 9 1926
U.S.
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1926-June 30-Hist- co-
Addie M. Potter

8363

P.O. Francis Postle

REJECTED

Service:
Enlisted:   ,18
Discharged:   ,18
Application filed:   ,18
Printed list of 1852 gives as cause of rejection "He did not serve six months in a military capacity."

Attorney: 
P.O  

Recognized   Contract
Cert of Dis.  Searched for    ,18
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Mar 31, 1840
7 June 1832
Francis Postle 

Angelica NY
May 24

James L. Edwards
Comm Pensions
War Department 
Washington
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Angelica Allegany Co NY

Sir
The enclosed pension papers were put in a package a year ago last Oct and addressed to you. By accident the packet got mislaid and has just been found, if there should be any objection as to the lapse of time since the business was done in Court I can by affidavit account for the delay in sending the papers. I wish that the papers might be examined and the case decided on its merits. The applicant is still living and has given me much trouble by his repeated enquiries about this business. Pleas to cause an examination of the case to be made and send me as early an answer as possible.
Respectfully your
Obt Servant
W.G. Angel

J.L. Edwards Esq.
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Francis Postle Pot. 
Col. Lambs Regt

New York
Ref File no 8363
or 
Evidence insufficient 
Act 1828
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ON Rej
#8363
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Francis Postle
Declaration
Power to A Ogden
Jno R Neven sub
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Revolutionary Claims

[B.]

Form of a Declaration to be made by the Non-Commissioned Officers, Musicians, and Privates.

For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th of May, 1828, I, Francis Postle of the town of Belfast do in the county of Allegany in the State of New York do hereby declare, that I enlisted in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued in its service until its termination; at which period, I was a soldier in Captain Moody's Company in the Col Lamb Regiment, of the Albany New York Line. And, I also declare that I afterwards received certificates for the reward of eighty dollars; to which I was entitled, under a resolve of Congress, passed the 15th of May, 1778. 
And I further declare, that I was not, on the fifteenth day of May, 1828, on the Pension List of the United States nor never have been on the pension list.

Witness my hand, this 16th day of September, in the year 1828 
his
Francie x Postle 
mark

Sworn before me this above month 
Samuel Haight 

Before me Samuel Haight a Com of the Supreme Court in the county of Albany in the State of New York personally appeared, this day, Moses Van Campen and H Mogee of the said county, who did severally make oath that Francis Postly by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been a soldier in the Army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated. 
Witness my hand, this 16th day of Sept. in the year 1828
Moses Van Campen 
H Mogee

I, Amos Peabody Clerk of the Court of the County of Albany in the State of New York do herby certify, that Samuel S Haight before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was at the time a Comm of the Supreme Court and duly empowered to administer oaths. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, this 16th day of Sept 1828
Amos Peabody

*Seargant, Corporal, Musician, or Private, as the case may be
t The claimant though not on the pension list on the 15th May, 1828, may have been on the list on or since the 3d of March, 1826, and afterwards stricken off: if so, he will add, and that I have received of the United States, as a pensioner, since the 3d of March 1826, the sum of      dollars, paid to me by the Agent for paying pensions in the State of  
+ Here insert a Justice of the Peace, or other Magistrate duly empowered to administer oaths. 
s Justice of the Peace, or otherwise, as the case may be.
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Revolutionary Claims. 

Treasury Department
12 Nov 1828

Francis Postle of Belfast in the County of Allegany in the State of New York has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Private in captain Moody's company in Col. Lambs regiment of the Artillery line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May 1778; and further, that he was no on the 15th of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing. 

The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office. 
By order of the Secretary F.A. Dickens 

Treasury Department,

Third Auditor's Office
14 November 1828

It further appears that Francis Postle is not now on the pension list of any agency and has not been so since the 3d of March 1826.
The name of Francis Postle cannot be found among those of Col Lamb's artillery to whom certificates for the gratuity of Eight Dollars were issued. 
Peter hagner Amd
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War Depart. Bounty Land office
29 April 1829
The records of this office do not show that Francis Postle of Lambs artillery ever received or is entitled to bounty land of the United States
Robert Taylor
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District of Columbia, 
Washington County, SCT. 

Know all men by these presents, That I, Aaron Ogden the Attorney mentioned in the annexed power from Francis Postle do hereby constitute and appoint Jno R Nourse my true and lawful Attorney and substitute, to effect all the purposes for which the power from the said Francis Postle was granted. 

Witness my hand and seal the twenty fourth day of October 1828. 


Aaron Ogden

Witness: 
Alex McDonald

Be it known, that on this 24th day of Oct 1828, personally appeared before me, Michael Nourse, Notary Public, the above named Aaron Ogden, and acknowledged the foregoing power of substitution to be his act and deed. 
Michael Nourse
Noty Pub.
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1212
Revolutionary Claims.
[C.]
Form of Power of Attorney.

Know all men by these presents, that I, Thomas [illegible] of the town of Belfast in the County of Allegany in the State of New York ---- do hereby constitute and appoint [illegible] Ogden --- my true and lawful attorney, with a power of substitution, for me, and in my name, to receive from the United States the amount of pay now due to me, under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828, as a private in [crossed out] the [/crossed out] [illegible] regiment of the [illegible] N. York line of the army of the Revolution.

Witness my hand and seal, this 16th day [illegible] in the year 1828 Sealed and delivered in the presence of Tom [illegible] his [illegible] [L.S.]
mark

Before me, Tom L. Haught [crossed out] a Justice of the Peace [/crossed out] [illegible] of the Supreme Court in the County of Albany in the State of New York personally appeared, this day, [illegible] whose name is subscribed to the foregoing power of attorney, and acknowledged the same to be his act and deed, and also declared that the same was not given by reason of any transfer, or of any attachment, levy, or seizure, by any legal process whatever, of the pay therein authorized to be received, but that the said pay is intended to enure wholly to his personal benefit. Witness my hand, this 16th day of Sept. in the year 1828. 
[illegible] [illegible]

I, Amos Peabody Clerk of the Court of the county of Albany in the State of New York do hereby certify that [illegible] before whom the foregoing power of attorney was acknowledged, is a [crossed out] Justice of the Peace [/crossed out] [illegible] of the Supreme Court in [illegible] N. York. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the [L.S] said Court, this 16th day of Sept. in the year of 1828. Amos Peabody

[D.}
Form of Affidavit to be taken by Attorneys.

Before me, [illegible] [crossed out] a Justice of the Peace [/crossed out] in the County of Washington in the District of Columbia personally appeared this day [illegible] the attorney named in the foregoing power of attorney, and made oath that the same was not given to him by reason of any transfer, or of any attachment, levy or seizure, by any legal process whatever, of the pay therein authorized to be received, but that the said pay is intended to enure wholly to the personal benefit of the person by whom the said power was executed. 

Witness my hand, [illegible] the 26th day of October in the year 1828. 
[illegible]
[illegible]

I, Clerk of the Court of the County of [blank] in the State of [blank] do hereby certify, that sworn, was, at the time, a Justice of the Peace, and duly empowered to administer oaths. 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, this [blank] day of [blank]
[L.S.]
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12 - 5 - 41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
Name Postle, Henry GRADE Private LINE Pennsylvania
WARRANT NUMBER 10201 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED March 14 1793 to Gideon Merkle, assignee

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of ""Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800"" which are
registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent
dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.