Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3195, Joseph Earls, [ILLEGIBLE]

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Service New York
Earls, Joseph [star symbol]
Number R. 3195

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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1878 [this whole line of text is crossed out]
3195
P.O. Joseph Earls
Service: [blank line]
Enlisted: [blank line] , 18
Discharged: [blank line] , 18
Application filed: [blank line] , 18
Alleges: [blank lines]
Re-enlisted: [blank lines]
Attorney: [blank lines]
P.O. [blank lines]
[blank line] Recognized
[blank line] Contrac [cut off]
[blank line] Cert. of Dis. Searched for [blank line] , 18

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[appears to be a paper once folded and mailed as a letter, with text written both horizontally, and at a 90-degree angle]

[horizontal text]

[illegible] May 29
PA
Hon. Jas Buchanan
[illegible place?]

[written across the page when turned at a 90-degree angle]
James L. Edwards Esq
Commission of Pension
Washington City

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Washington 28 May 1838
My dear Sir,
I would thank you to examine the records of the revolution & ascertain whether the name of Joseph Earles, mentioned in the within letter, can be found upon them. I have no doubt many cases will occur in which old soldiers justly entitled to pensions will be deprived of them because they have survived all their comrades.  Please to return me W. Larain's [?] letter with such information as will enable me to give him a satisfactory answer.
from your friend
  James Buchanan 

James L. Edwards Esq.

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Joseph Earls
Pennsylvania [underlined]
Suspended [underlined]
Let 13 Feb 1837
Hon J. Henderson
let: 30 May 1838
to Hon J. Buchanan

3195

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State of Pennsylvania
Clearfield County ss
On this thirtieth day of January Anno Domini
one thousand Eight hundred & thirty seven Personally appeared in open Court before His Honorable Thomas [illegible] Present Judge of the Court of Common Pleas and the Honorable [illegible] Boggs and Hugh Jordan his assistant now sitting in the Town of Clearfield in this said County of Clearfield State of Pennsylvania Joseph Earls of the said County aged seventy five years who being first duly sworn according to law doth in his oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed the fourth of June 1832.
That he Entered the Service of the United States under the following named officers and Served as herein stated
That he the said Joseph Earls enlisted about the first of May one thousand seven Hundred seventy Six at a place called Owego (Oswego) near about ninety six miles from New York & was soon marched to New York City & joined the regt [regiment] of Col: Richmond & never saw Col: Richmond but once, the Regiment being commanded severally by [such?] Cols: Weisenfelt who remained near New York until the British landed on Long Island. We then were marched up the Sound after fleeing Caves [?] for several days, we were marched to the White plains and were in that Battle. Genl Washington was the Commander in Chief. I cannot remember the Genl under whose immediate command I was but I was in Col: Weisenfelts regiment and my Capts [captain's] name was Riker. I was engaged in getting the wounded off the ground the day after the battle. Was after that marched to Peaks Kill [Peekskill] I was Enlisted for nine months while at Peaks Kill my time expired and I was discharged. It was in writing and is long been lost. I was pressed into the Service in 1777. when the british lay in New York & drove a team from near Poughkeepsie to Peaks Kill we hauled the grain off farms between the lines of the [illegible] William Gifford was the Conductor of this Cany [company?].
 And the said Joseph Earls as his Solemn Oath further declares that towards the close of the war he cannot state the Years

[Vertically in the left margin] 33975 Joseph Earls Pennsylvania

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He entered as a [?] on board the [?] schooner Peggy Capt. Gard Wells from Nantucket. We were at sea some time when we were captured by a British Frigate the name I cannot recollect were taken to Halifax & [?] until after Cornwallis was taken. Deponent has no documentary evidence of his service nor does he know of any [?] whose testimony he can produce of his actual service.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the payment roll or the agency of any state.
The court [?] the following questions to the said applicant Joseph Earls.

Where and in what year was your [?]?
Answer: As near as I can recollect it was in 1759 or 1760 in Oswego where I was enlisted [?] the state of New York.

Have you any record of your age?
Answer: I have none.

Q. Where were you living when called into service? Where have you lived since the Revolutionary war & where do you now live? 

A.  I have stated where I lived when I enlisted the service. After I got off from the British, I went to the [?] & was [?] in clearing a channel in the river above [?] South then I went to West Chester [?] & resided there several years. Then I went to the East Indies- retired to West Chester again. Then went to [?] in [?] county then I went to [?] remained two years & a half. I then went to [?] Valley New Perry County. I then came up to Tuckahoe in Huntingdon County & have lived there & his [?] Chesterfield County seven years.

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State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops when you served, such continental & militia regiments as you can recollect & the [?] circumstances of your review?
I can [?] but little to what I have [?] Col. Smallwood of the Virginia rifle men or Virginian troops charged on our with at the battle of White Plains. There was a [?] then. I am certain I was [?] commanded by Col. Weisenfelt & Capt. Riker.

Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it?

I did receive an honorable discharge at Peekskill. I cannot tell who issued it. Capt. Riker gave it to me. I cannot tell what became of it I took it home by I do not remember seeing it since. 

Joseph Earls 
his X mark

Sworn & subscribed in open court the 3 Jany 1837. Ellis Irwin


And the said applicant further produces to the Court here [?] Henry Lorain and James Reed two respectable citizens will [?] to the court. There being no resident clergyman in or near the residence of the said Joseph Earls, who being duly sworn did depose and declare that they verily believe that said Joseph Earls is of the age he represents and that he & has long been [?] & believed in the neighborhood to have been a revolutionary soldier & that they concur in that opinion & that they verily believe the said Joseph Earls is a man of strict truth & veracity. 

Henry Lorain
James Reed

Sworn & subscribed in open court the 3 Jany 1837.

Ellis Irwin

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And the said [?] do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant Joseph Earls was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. Certified in open court the 3 Jany 1837

Further
and the said court do certify that the said Henry Lorain & James reed require a [?] well known to them and that they are [?] witnesses men of high character & respectability in the counties in which they live. Certified in open court this 3 Jany 1837.

Th Burnside Judge
Moses Boggs
Hugh Jordan 

State of Pennsylvania
Clearfield county

I Ellis Irwin [?] of the court of common pleas in and for the county of Clearfield do hereby certify that the [?] preceeding of the said court in the matter of the application for Joseph Earl for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this first day of February in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven (1837)

Ellis Irwin