Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13444, Sampson Hosley, Mass.
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Service: Mass.

Holsey, Sampson

Number: S.13444
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8204
New York
Samson Holley
Of Saratoga in the State of N. York
who was a Private in the Infantry commanded
By Captain Childs of the Reg. Commanded
By Col. Woodbridge in the
Une for 10 months

 Inscribed on the Roll of New York
At the rate of 3 Dollars 33 Cents per annum,
To commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 15th of March
1833 and 

Arrears to the 4th of Mar. 33               $66.66
Semi-anl. Allowance ending 4Sep ‘33   16.66
                                                                   $83.32

Revolutionary Claim
Act. June 7, 1832

Recorded by Leo. Stily Clerk
Book     Vol. 4 , Page 21.
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19725
Sampson Hosley
Saratoga Co.
New York


John M McCrea
Ballston Spa
New York
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Sampson Hosley
Saratoga Co. New York
Court
79
Volunteer 1776 5 mos Private Capt.Tim.Childs 
                   1777 1 mo Under Col.Ruggles Woodbridge 
      1778 or 1779 August to last Sept. Same Captain 
       1781 3 mos Captain James Walsworth Captain O. Shaddock
  &All said service 10 months “

Surrender of Burgoyne
Middlesex co. NY

living witness as to part, and tradition.

Correct
JS Bradford
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Pension Papers 
  Of
Sampson Hosley
Under Act of Congress 
June 7,1832


aom &
10mo pri
$33.33
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Declaration of Sampson Hosley in order to obtain the benefit of act of congress, passed June 7,1832.
State of New York
County of Saratoga} Ss: On this sixth day of September one thousand eight hundred & thirty two personally appeared in open court before the judges of the court of common pleas of the county of Saratoga now sitting Sampson Hosley a resident of the town of Edinburgh in the county of Saratoga & state of New York aged Seventy nine years on the twenty eighth day of August now last past,who bring forth duly sworn according to law doth on oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress papers June 7,1832.
The said applicant saith he was born in the town of
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we had to perform during this last tour was to keep garrison & stand guard - The next tour I took in the service was in the year 1778 or 1779 & which I cannot remember, but we went in the month of August about the middle or a little after & returned the last week in the September following - We were engaged in keeping guard at New London with little other labor to Do - Captain James Walsworth commanded my company Lieutenant Benjamin Hastings was Lieutenant & the Ensigns name I do not remember - Asahel Webster Joshua Combs Solomon Root Renell Allen a sargeant were privates in said company - Major Dickinson had command of the whole - In the year 1781 I was on a tour of three months service at Saratoga in the Company of Capt Oliver Shaddock - Thomas Grover Lieutenant. Tartus French Ensign & Thomas Hosley my brother Ebinezer Hamilton Gideon Sage were privates whom I served with during the time aforesaid in said Company - all which service was about ten months in the whole I was also at the taking of Burgoyne bur not as a regular soldier. but as volunteer - We got to Stillwater in the County of Saratoga a few days after the battle at that place - at that place a number of volunteers who had collected there formed themselves into companies & went on to assist in the capture of Burgoyne but we were not present at his surrender altho engaged in the Country about him - This last tour lasted a month or a little better - We received pay along with other soldiers engaged in that enterprise in Continental money - I know of no witnesses now alive & of sane memory who can corroborate my statement as above - I do not know but I might find some perhaps by going to Massachusetts a distance of about three hundred miles But I am so old & poor as to render it exceedingly difficult for me to go there & make so uncertain an Inquiry -
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I have no records of my age but according the account I have kept of it I am of the age above mentioned - I was born in the town of Littleton as above stated & lived there untill my seventeenth year & then my Father Benjamin Hosley removed to Greenfield in the County of Hampshire State of Massachusetts & I lived with him untill I was twenty one - I then [illegible] out for a year & a half in towns adjoining Greenfield & then enlisted as aforesaid to go to Ticonderoga after that I went back to Greenfield & remained there during my following terms of service & lived in the Town of Shelburn in Massachusetts for several years & then moved to the town of Edinburgh in Saratoga County as it is now called & have reside there ever since being thirty seven years - I volunteered every time I served & was no substitute - I never received any discharge from the service except being dismissed by the commanding officer - I refer to Rev. Lebbeus Armstrong formerly of the town of Edinburgh & John Hamilton Esq & Ely Beecher of Edinburgh - as persons to whom I am known in my present neighborhood & who can testify to my character for veracity & their belief of my services as a soldier of the Revolution Jesse Sheppy of Hadley Saratoga County is the only person by whom I can prove my services I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state
[signed] Sampson Hosley
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid in open Court
[signed] Thomas Palmer Clerk 

We Lebbeus Armstrong - residing in the Town of Ballston County of Saratoga and State of New York and Eli Bucher residing in the town of Edinburgh in the said County, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samson Hosley, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we
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believe him to be about seventy nine years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion
[signed] Lebbeus Armstrong
[signed] Ely Bucher
Sworn & subscribed in open court
[signed] Thomas Palmer Clerk

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigating of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier & served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them, that Lebbeus Armstrong who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the Town of Ballston in the County of Saratoga. And that John Hamilton Esq is a resident in the town of Edenburgh in said County of Saratoga. And is a credible person that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Thomas Palmer Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Saratoga & 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 Samson Hosley for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have set my hand and seal of office.
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this sixth day of September, In the Year one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
[signed] Thomas Palmer
Clerk
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October 21, 1938
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BA-J/MCS
Sampson Hosley, S. 13444

Mr. Ralph M. Stoughton
R.F.D. Gill
Turners Falls, Massachusetts

Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your request for information relative to Sampson Hosley of Edinburgh, Saratoga County, New York, who served in the Revolutionary War.
The data which follows were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S. 13444, based on the Revolutionary War service of Sampson Hosley.
Sampson Hosley, the son of Benjamin, was born August 28, 1753, in Littleton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and lived there until the seventeenth year of his age when he moved with his father to Greenfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, where he lived until he was twenty-one from which he worked in towns adjoining Greenfield.
Sampson Hosley enlisted in 1776 and served five months as private in Captain Timothy Childs' company in Colonel Ruggles Woodbridge's Massachusetts regiment and after this service he returned to Greenfield. He enlisted in February, 1777, and served about one month in Captain Timothy Childs' Massachusetts company. He was at Stillwater, Saratoga County, New York, a few days after the battle there and he joined a volunteer company to assist in the capture of Burgoyne and served a month or a little more. He enlisted in August, 1778, or 1779, and served about one month in Captain James Walsworth's Massachusetts company under command of Major Dickerson and was engaged as guard at New London. He enlisted in 1781 and served three months as private in Captain Oliver Shaddock's Massachusetts company.
From Greenfield, he moved to Shelburne, Massachusetts, and from there to Edinbugh, Saratoga County, New York, about 1795.
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Sampson Hosley was allowed pension on his application executed September 6, 1832, at which time he was living in Edinburgh, New York.
He died February 21, 1844.
He stated that he had a brother, Thomas Hosley, who was in service with him in 1781. There are no further data relative to family.
Very truly yours
A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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13.444
Rev War

INVALID.

File No. 13.444
Sampson Cosley
Pri Rev War

Act: June 7th 32
Index:—Vol. 1, Page 179

[Arrangement of 1870.]

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38 Oct. 11. [hist?] to Mr.
Harold F. Porter Jr see
letter in War 1812 [illegible]
weeks Copeland W. C 34728
M.C.S.

1938 Oc 21 [hist?] to Mr.
Ralph M. Stoughton
M.C.S.
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I know Jesse Shippey written named.
He is a credible witness. March 13. 1833
John W. Fay Cor
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State of New York
County of Saratoga ss. Personally appeared on
the sixth day of September 1832 Jessee Shippee
before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas
of said County & made solemn Oath in open
Court that he was acquainted during the Revolution
with Sampson Hosley then of the town of Charlemont
state of Massachusetts County of Hampshire & that
he now resides in the town of Hadley in the County
of Saratoga - That in the year 1781 the said Sampson
Hosley volunterd in the Revolutionary Army in a
Company Commanded by Captain Shaddock
of the militia & served at Saratoga for three months
as a private soldier & this deponent served with
him Sworn & Subscribed in open court

Thomas Palmer
Clerk

Jese Shippee
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September 16, 1938

Veterans Bureau,
Washington, D.C.

According to the 1840 Census of Revolutionary War Pensioners, Sampson Hosley, aged 86, was a resident of Edinburgh, Saratoga County, New York:

Will you kindly send me any data concerning him contained in his pension papers.

Yours truly,

Ralph M. Stoughton

Ralph M. Stoughton,
R.F.D. Gill,
Turners Falls, Mass.

(Seal) Received Sep 19 1938
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October 11, 1938

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Mr. harold F. Porter, Jr.
1603 K Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C.

BA-J/MCS
Sampson Hosley, S. 13444
Weeks Copeland, W.C. 34728

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your request for information relative to
Sampson Hosley who served in the Revolutionary War and Weeks Copeland
who served in the War of 1812.

The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the
pension claim, S.13444, based on the Revolutionary War service of Sampson
Hosley.

Sampson Hosley, the son of Benjamin, was born August 28, 1753, in
Littleton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and lived there until the
seventeenth year of his age when he moved with is father to Greenfield,
Hampshire County, Massachusetts, where he lived until he was twenty-one
from which time he worked in towns adjoining Greenfield.

Sampson Hosley enlisted in 1776 and served five months as private
in Captain Timothy Childs' company in Colonel Ruggles Woodbridge's Massa-
chusetts regiment and after this service he returned to Greenfield. He
enlisted in February, 1777, and served about one month in Captain Timothy
Childs' Massachusetts company. He was at Stillwater, Saratoga County, New
York, a few days after the battle there and he joined a volunteer company
in combat in the capture of Burgoyne and served a month or a little more.
He enlisted in August, 1778, or 1779, and served about one month in Captain
James Walsworth's Massachusetts company under command of Major Dickerson
and was engaged as guard at New London. He enlisted in 1781 and served
three months as private in Captain Oliver Shaddock's Massachusetts company.

From Greenfield, he moved to Shelburne, Massachusetts, and form
there to Edinburgh, Saratoga County, New York, about 1795.
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Sampson Hosley was allowed pension on his application executed
September 6, 1832, at which time he was living in Edinburgh, New York.

Sampson Hosley died February 21, 1844.

He stated that he had a brother, Thomas Hosley, who was in service
with him in 1781. There are no further data relative to family.

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Weeks Copeland
W. C. 34728

The data which follow were obtained from papers on file under
claim, W. C. 34728, based on the war of 1812 service of Weeks Copeland
(surname also appears as Copelin) and on disability of this soldier,
which disability was incurred during service in said war.

Weeks Copeland was born in Brooklyn, Connecticut. The date his
birth and the names of his parents were not given.

While living in Salisbury, Addison County, Vermon, he enlisted
May 1, 1813, as corporal in Captain Simon Wright's Company in Colonel
Elias Fasset's 30th Regiment of United States Infantry. Due to exposure,
he became ill with a severe cold and fever on September 25, 1813, at Chateaugay Four Corners, Franklin County, New York, and the illness
resulted in the swelling and lameness of his left leg. When he was able
to be moved he was taken to his home in Salisbury. He was discharged May
1, 1814, at which time he was thirty-three years of age.

From Salisbury, Vermont, he moved to Edinburgh, Saratoga County,
New York, where he was living in 1830. He moved to Ohio in the autumn of 1831 and was living in Genoa Township, Delaware County, Ohio, in 1833.

Because of the disability incurred during his service in the War
of 1812, Weeks Copeland was pensioned from February 18, 1834..

He applied for bounty land on December 10, 1850, while living in
Genoa, Ohio, and received Warrant 9376 for 160 acres under the Act of
September 28, 1850. For information relative to the location of this
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land, it is suggested that you address The Commissioner of the General Land Office, Interior Department, this city, giving the warrant number, the acreage and the act under which the warrant was issued.

Weeks Copeland died January 2, 1861, in Harlem Township, Delaware
County, Ohio. In 1886 he was referred to as E. W. Copeland.

His first wife was Thankful. Her maiden name and the date of
marriage are not given but they were married when he became ill in
1813. She died about 1840.

He married at Genoa, Ohio, September 10, 1843, Sally Crane, the
widow of Alford or Albert Crane who died about 1839.

As the widow of Weeks Copeland, Sally Copeland was allowed pension
on her application executed March 1, 1887, at which time she was ninety-
two years of age and was living in Croton, Ohio.

She died December 18, 1888.

It was stated that Weeks and Sally Copeland had no children.

In 1834 one Eleazer Copeland was living in Genoa, Ohio, relation-
ship to the soldier not shown.

In 1861 one George M. Copeland was living a part of the time in
Franklin County, Ohio, and a part of the time in Delaware County, Ohio,
relationship to Weeks Copeland not shown.

Drusilla Crane and Albart or Albert Crane were living in 1853,
relationship to the widow, Sally, not shown. In 1887 reference was made to a daughter of Sally, the widow, but name was not given.

There are no further data relative to family.

Very truly yours

A. D. MILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator