Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 10,659, Joseph Felt, Continental Mass.

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Continental                   Felt, Joseph            S 10659
Mass                 
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Massachussetts 27,107
Joseph Felt 27,107 of Springfield in the State of Mass who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain King of the Reg commanded by Col Ward in the Mass& Continental line for 18 Month private To New York 
Incribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 60 dollars ----Cents per annum to commence on the 4th Day of March, 1831
Certificate of Pension issues the 23'd day of Jan'y 1834 and sent to Samuel Lathrop Esq West Springfield Mass
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833        $150
Semi-an'l allowance ending 4 Mar 34 30
                                                            ------

Recorderd by George Taylor Clerk
Book E Vol 2 Page 26                                                          $180

Transf'd to N York Aug't 1834 from 4 Mar 1834
 A transfer & letter to Hon Sam'l Lathrop 27 Jan'y 1838 
(?) to Pen Acts 15 March 1838
                                               (IN PENCIL :76 Hampden Ulster Co N York)

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Commonwealth of Massachussetts
 County of Hampden

On this tenth day of December in the year of our Lord 1838 personally appeared in this Court, before the Hon Oliver B Morris, Justice of the Court of Probate for said County, now sitting. Joseph Felt, a resident of West Springfield in said County of Hampden & Commonwealth of Massachussetts. He is aged Seventy five 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 dated June 7th 1832
  That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named officers, he served as herein stated vis that on the first of January 1777 he entered the service of the United States service under an enlistment for one year, that he was enlisted by Serjeant Samuel Chapin of said West Springfield & that David Day & John Allen both of said West Springfield but since deceased, enlisted at the same time & that he the said Felt with the said Day & others went on to Dorchester in Massachussetts together & were there attached to the company commanded by Cap't King who (?) at Great Barrington in this State One Allen was Lieutenant of the company & one Watson was second Lieutenant. The company (?) to one Ward Regiment Tupper was Lieut Colonel That Gen'l Washington was Commander in Chief & had his headquarters at Cambridge near Dorchester that some time after the British army evacuated Boston, Col Ward's regiment was ordered to New York, that they marched to New London & there went on board (?)(?) & sailed to New York he thinks they arrived in New York not far from the first of May, that they were quartered for a time in the city & afterwards a little out of the city on the east river, that in the month of August, there was a battle on Long Island between the American troops under Gen'l Sullivan & Lord Sterling & the British Army, in which our troops were defeated, that the Regiment under Col Ward was not in the encampment but had been stationed at Flat Bush as a picket guard & when the firing commenced betweeen the two armies, Col Ward's regiment was marched towards the scene of the action, but did not get there till after our troops had begun to retreat, that when the American left Long Island

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Col Ward's regiment returned to their old encampment near the city & remained there till the city was evacuated by the American Army. This was in September & he is pretty confident that it was on his birthday the 15th of September 1776 when he was 18 years old that when the American Army reytreated from the city, they made a short stand at Harlem Heights then at King's Bridge then at White Plains that Col Ward's Regiment & he thinks one other was sent to Pekeskill & remained there sometime before July 1777 that while they were stationed at this (?) place, the REgiment went over into New Jersey & went down as far as Hackensack & a few of them were sent to a place called the English neighborhood & were gone a few days on this excursion in pursuit of the enemy that he served as one of the flank guard on the night of this mach from Hackensack to the English neighborhood & that they arrived there about day break in the morning but the party of British troops had left the place before the Americans got there. The said Felt further declares that on the first of January 1777 he was dismissed, his term of service being then completed. That day & Allen, who enlisted with him was dismissed at the same time & returned to West Springfield, though he thinks that Day got home one day sooner than he & Allen as he was in a greater hurry than they were because he had a wife.
     The said Joseph Felt further declare that about the fifth of February 1777 he again entered the service as a substitute for one Stephen Morgan who had been drafted as one of the militia of this town to go to Ticonderoga for the term of three months. Col John Morgan of this town was Cap't of our company Col David Leonard commanded our Regiment. Cap't Wayne was commander in Chief Col Leonard's regiment was stationed at Mount Hope, a short distance from Ticonderoga. That nothing of particular importance occurred during this winter. That for the latter part of the time while he was on this tour of duty he was (?) at the public store house to assist in dealing out the rations to the troops. The said Felt says he cannot state the day on he commenced this tour of duty, nor the day on which it ended. He is quite confident that the engagement was for three months & that he was dismissed some time in May, after his term of service was completed. Doctor Reuben Champion, also was from West Springfield & was surgeon of our Regiment, died at Mount Hope

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The said Joseph Felt further declares that in the autumn of the year 1778 he again turned out for the term of three months to go to Dorchester i the State. He cannot recollect the month nor the day of the month on which he 
entered into the Service for this tour of duty, but he well recollects that the period for which he engaged was three months, that he was (?) some time in the winter That he turned out & served under Leiut Israel Willington of this town that they were stationed at Dorchester point that he does not recollect having had any Service to perform during this time, except that of having occasionally to stand sentry that Eno Ray Ev Taylor, Lemuel Felt fathers then of this town were with him in their service that after the three months were out he was discharged with the others & returned home
The said Joseph Felt says he does not recollect having ever received a written discharge on any occasion
     The said Joseph Felt Further declares that he was born in Danvers in the State of Connecticut on the 15th day of September in the year 1758 that he does not know whether there is any record of his age or the records of said town of Danvers or elsewhere that he lived in the town of West Springfield when he the said Joseph was about four years old That hecontinued to live in West Springfield until about the year 1757 where he went to Newark in New Jersey & lived there five or six years That he then went to Saugerties in the State of New York That he now resides at West Springfield with a daughter who is married there
     He  hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a Pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State
     That Charles Ball Esq Homan Day Esq Samuel Lathrop Esq Simeon Smith Esq Jube Ely all of said West Springfield can testify to his character for veracity & to their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution
     he further states that the Clergyman of the Parish in which he now resides has been settled there but a few years that he now resides about four miles from him & that having been in West Springfield but a few months since the Clergyman was settled there he is not known to him and cannot testify to his reputation or to the general belief of his veracity
 Sworn & subscribed the day and year aforesaid      Joseph Felt

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We the subscriber Simeon Smith & Samuel Lathrop
residing in West Springfield, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with 
Joseph Felt, who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that
we believe him to be seventy five years of age that he is reputed & believed
in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion
                             Simeon Smith
                             Sam'l Lathrop
         Sworn to & subscribed the day and year aforesaid
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter & after writing the interrogations prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed Joseph Felt was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states And the said Court do further certify that Simeon Smith and Samuel Lathrop who have (?) the preceding certificate are both resident in said West Springfield & are credible witnessess & that their Statement is entitled to Credit
     I Justin Willard Clerk of the Court of 
     Probate written in & for said County
     of Hampden do hereby certify
     that the foregoing contains the 
     original proceedings of the said
     Court in this matter of the
     application of Joseph Felt
     for a Pension
   In testimony whereof & hitherto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court at Springfield this tenth day of December 1833
Justin Willard 
     Clerk

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State of Massachussetts
County of Hampden
On this fith day of March 1838, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Hampden, personally appeared Joseph Felt of West Springfield in said County, who, on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Cap't King in the Regiment commanded by Col Ward in the revolutionary war. That his name was placed on the Pension Roll of the State of Massachussetts from whence he removed to the State of New York, because he then expected to spend the remainder of his days in the State of New York, that he has again returned to Massachussetts where he intends to remain & wishes his pension to be there payable in future, that in the latter State of West Springfield, he has a daughter living, with whom he can find himself better accommodated than with his friend in the State of New York
       Joseph Felt
    Sworn&subscribed before me the day and year aforesaid in the name of Sam'l Lathrop 
     Sam'l Lathrop Justice of the Peace

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I Samuel Lathrop of West Springfield Hampden County & Commonwealth
of Massachussetts testify & say that I am well acquainted with the
Joseph Felt within named & know that he is the identical person he
therein describes himself to be as his original declaration on application
for a pension was written in my office & his original pension certificate
passed through my hands        Sam'l Lathrop

Hampden Co March 8 1838    Personally appeared 
Samuel Lahrop above named & made oath to
the truth of the above affidavit by him described
Before me John Ingersoll Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachussetts 
Hampden Co I john Ingersoll Esq of the Common
Pleas Court being a Court of Record within & for the
County of Hampden do hereby Certify that Samuel
Lathrop & John Ingersoll are Justices of the
Peace within the County of Hampden and
All full fath and Credit are & ought to be given
all deeds done by them in said capacity
and that the signaturezs above are their true & genuine hand writing
                          In testimony whereof I have honestly and to the best of     
                          set my hand & affixed the seal of
                          this said Common Pleas Court at Springfield    
                          on this Eighth day of March AD 1838
                                     John Ingersoll Clerk

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                                     West Springfield, Mas Jany 23 1838
J L Edwards Eq
Sir
I have again returned to this place, in
the expectation of keeping my remaining days with my
daughter. I therefore rquest that the payment of my pension
may be transferred to Boston & that my pension certificate
with the certificate of transfer may be returned to Samuel
Lathrop of this place
               Your obed't serv't
               Joseph Felt

The foregoing application was written by me at the request 
of Joseph Felt & was signed by him. I know that he lives 
in this town with his daughter & presume you will not be again
called upon for a transfer         I am yours respectfully
                                                  Sam'l Lathrop
Jany 23 1838

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RevWar 10659
INVALID arm

File number 10,695
Joseph Felt
Priv Rev War

Act: June 4th, 1832
Index:-Vol. A, Page 123

arrangement of 1870

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Massachssetts                                                             
Joseph Felt 
of Springfield in the State of Massac (document damaged)
who was a private in the Company o(document damaged)
by Captain King of the Reg
by Geo(?) Ward in the State
line for 18 months       &
                                  Continental
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachussets
at the rate of $60 ---cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March 1834

Certificate of Pension issued the 23rd day of January
1834 and sent to Samuel
Lathrop Esq West Springfield
Arrears to the 4th of Sep 1833  $150
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 March 1834 30

Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7 1832       
recorded by George Taylor clerk
book E vol 12 page 26

From N York City to
M a stts fr 4 Sept 1837 Note
7 a declaration sent to Hon Sam'l
Lathrop West Springfield
Mas 29 March 1838

Letter to S Lathrop 6 April 1838

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                        West Springfield 2 April 1838
D Sir
        I have rec'd your certificate of the transfer of
Joseph Felt, Pension from N York to Ms When he 
first made the application, if my recollection is right
I enclosed to you his Pension Certificate. I suppose
that a return of it to him will be necessary to enable
him to draw his pension
                                       Yours very respectfully
                                                 Sam'l Lathrop

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Sauggerties July 21st 1834

Sir 
      Enclosed is a pension certificate and application to have this certificate of Joseph Felt transfered and made payable in the city of New York please direct you answer to me

J. L. Edwards                       I am respectfully
                                                Your obedient
                                                Henry Wynkoo

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                    West Springfield Ms Dec 19,1833

J. L. Edwards Esq
   D Sir
    I enclose you the papers
of Abraham Rising & Joseph Felt, who are
affiants for the benefit of the Act of Congress
of June 1832 I am informed that felt made
out his papers more than a year ago, while he
lived in the State of New York & caused them
to be forwarded for your office, but that he has
been informed, that they were never received
& that in consequence of this information
he has made them out again
                  I am very respectfully
                   your obid't srvt
                   Sam'l Lathrop

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Mechanics Bank
New York 17th March 1838

Sir,
     Joseph Felt, a Private at $60 per annum
under the act of 7 Jan 1832, mentioned in your 
Letter of the 15th Inst was last paid at this Agency
to the 4th of September 1837, or the 18th of the same month
                                        I am very Respectfully
                                          your Obt Srvt
                                                  J L Willard

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To whom it may concern
This may and does certify that Ev Taylor
town of Longmeadow in the County of
Hampden and Commonwealth of Massachus-
sets now aged 75 years that in the Autumn 
of 1777 I was a private soldier was drafted & Marched from West Springfield
under command of Lt Israel Wiliston
of said West Springfield to Boston in the 
state of Massachussets and during the full
term of Three Months served and
was stationed on what was called
Dutch(?) Point & I further certify that
Joseph Felt then of West Springfield 
served as a private soldier in the same
comany as my self during the full term of 
three months when we were discharged
and returned home          Ev Taylor

Commonwealth of Massachussetts
Hampden Longmeadow Nov 15,1833
Personall appeared the above named Ev Taylor
and Made solemn Oath that the foregoing declaration
By him subscribed is true
               Seth Taylor Justice of the

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I Medes Champion of West Springfield in the County of
Hampden & Commonwealth of Massachussetts of the age of Seventy 
testify and say that in the year 1777 & in the month of February,
I went into Service of the United States as waiter to my Father
Dack Reuben Champion, who was one of the Surgeons of the Regiment
then commanded by Col. David Leonard. We went to Ticonderoga in the 
month of February, but I cannot recollect in what part of the month
We were stationed at Mount Hope, one or two miles distant from 
Ticonderoga. My father was taken sick in a few weeks after our
arrival at that place & died & some time in the month of April, I returned home to this town, where I have always lived. When I 
was on the way to Ticonderoga with my father, & about two days march before we arrived, we overtook Joseph Felt there of this
town&several others who were on this march who belonged to the 
company commanded by Cap't John Morgan of this train. During
the remainder of our march, I kept in company with the said Felt
& other soldiers. The said Joseph remained in the Service
under Capn Morgan during the whole of the time that I was at
Mount Hope & when I came home, he remained behind. If I
recollect right, the said Felt, at the time of my setting out for home
was in the company store at Ticonderoga, asisting the Commisary Department in dealing out provisions to the troops Medes Champion

Commonwealth of Massachussetts
Hampden On the second day of December in the year of our Lord
1833, the above named Medes Champion, well known to me as a gentle=
man of reliability, truth and veracity personally by him subscribed
     Before me Sam'l Lathrop, Justice of the Peace
I further certify that I am well acquainted with Eli Taylor whose
deposition accompanies this & which was taken before his son Seth Taylor Esq
and that he sustain the reputation of being a man of strict truth and
veracity Dec 2 1833 Sam'l Lathrop Justice

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29174
Joseph Felt
Springfield Ms


Private
18 months
(?)
Sam'l Lathrop
West Springfield
MASS

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I Charles Ball of West Springfield in the county of Hamp-
den and state of Massachusetts depose and say that
I am well acquainted with Joseph Felt of Saugerties 
in the county of Ulster and state of New York and 
that in the year 1776 and for ten or twelve years previous
to that time he had been an inhabitant of the town of 
West Springfield aforementioned and a next door neighbour of 
mine and that in the beginning of the year 1776 he
enlisted into the service of the United States as a private
for the term of one year and that at the close of the
year he returned to West Springfield
                                                 Charles Ball

Hampden December 7th 1833
Then Charles Ball Esq above named A person with 
whom I am well acquainted and whom I know to
be a man of truth and veracity personally appear-
ing made oath to the (^) truth of the (^) foregoing affidavit by him sub-
scribed before me                  Henry Ely Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Masachusetts
    County of Hampden
                                  I Justin Willard Clerk of 
the Court of Probate the same being a court 
of record within the said county of Hampden
do hereby certify that Henry Ely before sworn
the preceding deposition of Charles Ball,
Seth Taylor before sworn the preceding 
deposition of S Taylor & Samuel 
Lethrop before sworn the preceding 
deposition of Medes Champion, severally 
purport to have been executed are respectively
Justices of the Peace with & for said County
& that I believe their names severally
enscribed to the certificates of same
executors are their proper hand writing
& genuine signatures respectively
          The testimony whereof I have
          hereto set my hand and 
          affixed the seal of said Court
          at W Springfield this 10th day of Dec
mbr 1833 Justin Willard Clerk

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State of New York
Ulster County On the 8th day of July in the year one thousand Eight hundred & thirty four personally appe=
=eared before me Henry Wynkook one of the judges of the County Courts of the County of Ulster Joseph Felt of the town of Saugerties of said County of Ulster who being first duly sworn deposeth and saith that he obtained the enclosed pension certificate deponent resides in the  
town of Springfield County of Hampden and State of
Massachusetts that said cerificate is made payable in the city of Boston by the the President of the Commonwealth bank, that deponent had drawn or received pay on said certificate from the 4th of March 
1831 to the 4th of March 1834, that shortly after
deponent moved to the town of Saugerties County
of Ulster and State of New York where deponent now
resides and that therefore deponent is desirous of
having said pension transferred and made
payable by the agent for paying pensions in the
city of New York and that he is now seventy five years of
age                                    Joseph Felt

Present
Jeremiah Reynen to
The signature of
Joseph Felt
Sworn and Subscribed before me
the day and year afore said
Henry Wynkoop one of the Judges of the County Courts of the County of Ulster
J. Jacob Snyder Clerk of the Court of Common Judges of the County of Ulster certify that Henry Wynkoop is a sworn judge as above and the foregoing 
signature purporting to be his is genuine
In testimony whereof I have affixed my seal of office and subscribe my name this eighteenth day of July in the year 1834    
          Jacob Snyder Clerk