Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13,003, Joseph Farnham, Conn.

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Conn.
Farnham, Joseph
S 13.0003
Carded

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2656
New York
Joseph Farnham
Olsego in the State of New York
who was a Private in the  Camps commanded
by Captain Collins of the Regt commanded 
by Col. Richards in the
line for 12 months 2 weeks

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Conn. Line
Records corrected Jan'y 5/06

Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 42 Dollars 10 Cents per annum, 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of Nov.
1832 and sent to

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Ser. to Issac Lawren. 
20 Sep. 1833

Ser. to Hm. G.A.Starkweather- 
wile 22 .'48.

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Joseph Farnham pension papers

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State of New York
Otsego County ss
On this 15th day of November 1832 personally appeared before me James O Morse First Judge of Otsego County in the State aforesaid Joseph Farnham who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose and declare for the purpose of amending (according to the instruction of the War Department) his declaration heretofore made by him in open Court before the court of common Pleas of said county on the 20th of June last past in support of his claim to a pension under the act of June 7 1832 and exemplification of which said declaration is hereunto annexed as follows.
That in July 1778 this deponent volunteered as a substitute for an Hiel Parmelee into a company of militia under Lieut. [lieutenant] Pearson and marched to Gilford an served through 4 [four] months. In the forepart of the month of June 1779 he volunteered into a company of Militia at Killingsworth under Ensign Francis and served in said company 5 [five] months guarding the harbor at that place. Sometime about the month of July 1780 he volunteered into a company of Militia under Capt. [captain] Collins in Col
[colonel]  Richards regiment and marched to New London where he served 3 [three] months was verbally discharged and returned home. This deponent further says that afterwards during said war he was called out on alarms at follows. In the year 1781 at Guilford he was called out on alarms twice and was as near as he can recollect engaged each time 1 [one] week. At the time New London was [strike through "taken"] burned and Fort Griswold was taken he was called out and served 1 [one] week. This deponent further declares that he foregoing are the only services performed by him in the said war.

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as to which he can specify any particular time of actual service.
He hereby relinquishes his every claim whatever to a pension except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any state.
[signed] Joseph Farnham
Sworn and subscribed this 15th [fifteenth] day of November 1832 before me James O Morse First Justice of Otsega County

State of New York
Otsega County ss
Hiel Parmelee of Springfield in said county being duly sworn doth declare and say that in the war of the Revolution he resided in Killingsworth in the State of Connecticut and that Joseph Farnham resided at the time in the same place. This deponent says that he recollects that said Farnham about the month of July 1778 went into service as a substitute for this deponent (who had been drafted into [strike through "Capt"] Lieut [lieutenant] Pearson's company [illegible strike out] but on account of family concerns was unable to serve at that time) and served in said company at or near Guilford in Connecticut about 4 [four] months He also recollects during the next summer 1779 said Farnham served as a volunteer in a company of Militia under Ensign Francis guarding the harbor at Killingsworth about 4 [four] or 5 [five] months. He also recollections that about the month of July 1780 said Farnham volunteered into a company of Militia under Captain Collins in Col [colonel] Richards regiment and

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marched for New London and was absent as much as 3 [three] months and returned with said company and this deponent understood at that time that said Farnham served faithfully the whole time he was absent on this last mentioned service.
[signed] Hiel Parmelee
Sworn and subscribed this 15th day of November 1832 before me James O Morse First Justice of Otsego County

State of New York
Otsego County ss
I James O Morse First Judge of Otsego County do hereby certify that I have been acquainted with Joseph Farnham who has made the preceding affidavit before me and also with his witness Hiel Parmelee for a number of years and that they are both men of good character and in my opinion entitled to the full credit on oath or otherwise
Dated Nov [November] 15th 1832
[signed] James O. Morse

State of New York
Otsego County ss
I  Horace Lathrop, clerk of the said county do certify that James O. Morse before whom the foregoing Affidavits of Joseph Farnham and Heil Parmelee purport to have severally sworn was at the date of the same First Judge of the said County of Otsego and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavits to be his proper hand writing and signature. In testimony wheereof I have hereunto sat my hand and Seal of Office this 17th day of November 1832.
Horace Lathrop, Clerk

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Questions proposed to Joseph Farnham by James O. Morse First Judge of Otsego County in relation to his claim to a pension under the act of Jun 7 1832 and the answers of said Farnham thereto on oath Nov [November] 15 1832
Ques - Where and in what year were you born?
Ans - In April 1764 at Killingsworth (in the county of New London since County of Middletown in the State of Connecticutt
Ques - Have you any record of your age and if so where is it?
Ans - I have at home in my Bible
Ques - Where were you living when called into service? Where have you lived since the Revolutionary war? and Where to you now live?
Ans - When called into the service I lived at Killingsworth. After the Revolution I resided in the same town until about 11 years since when I removed to Springfield in Otsega County State of New York where I now live.
Ques - How were you called into service where you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom?
Ans - I volunteered into every service but one  I never was drafted. I volunteer as a substitute for Heil Parmelee who would have otherwise been drafted in July 1778 into Lieut [lieutenant] Pearson's company
Ques - State the names of some of the Regular officers who were with the troops when you served such continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service.
Ans - [strike through "to the best of my"] If there were any Regular officers stationed at any of the places where I performed service I am unable to state their names from the fact that I have

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forgotten them nor can I remember any regiments stationed at those places other than the regiments in which I served except Col. [colonel] Willis regiment of Militia which was stationed at New London at the time I was there in 1780 under Capt. [captain] Collins. The circumstances of my service are to the best of my remembrance fully stated in my affidavit hereto annexed.
Ques - Did you ever receive a discharge?
Ans - I never did receive a written discharge
Ques - State the names of person to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
Ans - Hiel Parmelee can testify as to my actual service and James O Morse First Judge of Otsego County can certify as to my character for veracity
[signed] Joseph Farnham
Sworn and subscribed this 15th day of November 1832 before me James O. Morse First Judge of Otsego County

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Revolutionary War Records Section   3-525
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C. [blank date], 19[blank]
S.F. 13003
In reply to your request of [blank] received [blank] for a statement of the military history of Joseph Farnham a soldier of the Revolutionary War you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
[Column titles]
Dates of Enlistment or Appointment | Length of Service | Rank | Officers under whom service was rendered/[subtitles] Captain Colonel | State
July 1778 | 4 mos | Pvt | Lieut Pearson | [blank] | Conn.
June 1779 | 5 mos | {blank] Ensign Francis | guarded harbor | [blank}
July 1780 | 3 mos | {Capt] Collins | [Colonel ] Richards | [blank]
Latter part of [illegible] | 12 mos at various times | minute|man on alarms| and guarding coast
Battles engaged in [blank]
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Killingsworth (then New London Co. Conn.
Date of application for pension, June 26 1832 [illegible]
Residence at date of application, Springfield, Otsego Co NY
Age at date of application, born Apr 1764 at Killingsworth, Conn
Remarks: to family data
Respectfully
[blank] Commissioner

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Farnham
13.003
Invalid
File No. 13.003
Joseph Farnham
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7th 32
Index [blank] Vol [blank] Page [blank]
(Arrangement of 1870)
1914 Aug 5 to 220 West 42nd St N.Y City cannot decipher name.

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Washington 11 April 1848
Hon. [honorable] J. L. Edwards
Sir,
Joseph Farnham who is in the pension roll and draws $42.10 per annum claims that he is entitled to an additional [illegible] on account of services as a minute man. His friend writes me that he served as a minute man for three years by order of Governor Trumball. That the widower of this service is on file in the war department Wil you cause an examination to be made in order to determine whether he is entitled to pay for such service.
I am sir respectfully yoours
[signed] Geo [George] A. Starkweather

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In the matter of Joseph Farnham, a soldier of the Revolution
Exemplification
h 1173
July 21 1832
Pension Office
Additional affidavits
James O Morse
Attorney
Cherry Valley

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The People of the State of New York by the grace of god freed independent To all to whom these presents shall come or may concern Greeting Know ye that we having inspected the records and proceedings remaining in the Clerks office of our Court of Common pleas for our County of Otsego and find therein the record of certain evidence and proceedings in the words and figures following to wit
Otsego Com pleas of June Term 1832
State of New York 
Otsego County ss
Be it remembered that on the 26th day of June 1832 personally appeared in open Court being the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Otsega and State of New York a Court of Record proceding according to the principles of the Common law with power of fines and imprisonment Joseph Farnham of the Town of Springfield in said County of Otsega aged 68 years who being duly sworn doth deposed and declare in order to obtain a pension under the provision of the act of Congress approved June 7 1832. Entitled an act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution that at the commencement of the revolution he resided at Killingsworth in Connecticut and that about the middle of July 1778 he went into service as a  volunteer in a Company of Militia Commanded by Lieutenant Pearson and continued in said service about 4 months and that the place of service was at or near Guilford in Connecticut he further declares that during the next summer he served as a volunteer at Killingsworth under one Ensign Francis about 5 months and that the duty of this service was to watch and guard the harbor at Killingsworth  This deponent further says that about the month of July 1780 he joined a Company of Militia under Capt [Captain] Collins that he marched for New London and was absent on this service about 3 months he further declares that during the last 3 years of the war he belonged to a portion of the Militia called minute men whose duty it was to repair  to certain places at a moments warning and always hold themselves in readiness for services that during this period he was often called out sometimes to walk all night on the beach and watch for the enemy to give alarm should they attempt to land and at other times to go under arms to various places and he further declares that he thinks such active service performed by him as a minute man amounted at least to 12 months and [strike out "that"] the said Joseph Farnham further declares that he hath not at any time heretofore received any annuity or pension

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under any Law of the United States for services rendered by him in the war of the revolution Joseph Farnham  sworn and subscribed in open Court this 26th day of June 1832 
Horace Lathrop Clerk
State of New York
Otsego County ss
Hiel Parmelee of Springfield in the County of Otsego in said state aged 77 years being duly sworn says that at the commencement of the war of the revolution he resided at Killingsworth in 
Connecticut that Joseph Farnham then lived at the same place this deponent further says that he recollects that the said Farnham about the month of July 17778 went into service as a volunteer in a company of Militia commanded by Lieutenant Pearson and continued about four months in such service and that the place of service was at or near Guilford in Connecticut and that during the next summer he recollects that said Farnham served as a volunteer at Killingsworth under one ensign Francis for about four months and that he frequently saw him in the service and that the duty of this party of Militia was to watch and guard the mouth of the harbor at Killingsworth  This deponent further says that he recollects that in the year 1780 and about the month of July the said Farnham joined a Company of Militia commanded by Captain Collins and that he march for New London and was absent about three months and returned with said Company and this deponent understood at the time and verily believes that he served the whole time and this deponent further says that during the last three years of the war the said Farnham belonged to a portion of the militia called minute men whose duty it was to repair to certain places at a moments warning and also to watch the beach of the sound that during this period the said Farnham was very frequently called out sometime to ride on horseback to the  beach and walk on it all night to watch the enemy and give an alarm in case they should attempt to land and at other times to go under arms to different points on the sound and at other places during which time this deponent verily believes said Farnham was in actual service as much as twelve months including some alarms that he was called out before the minute men were formed this deponent further says that he has known said Farnham ever since during

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which time he has sustained a fair and unblemished reputation and further saith not
Hiel Parmelee
Sworn and subscribed this 10th day of June 1832 before me James O Morse one of the Judges of Otsego County Courts
Otsego County Ss. I James O Morse a Judge of the County of Otsego do certify that I am acquainted with the said Joseph Farnham who has made the preceding declaration and oath and that this said Joseph Farnham is a person of good character entitled to full credit on oath or otherwise.
State of New York
Otsego County Ss.
We the Judges of the County of Otsego do certify that Joseph Farnham appeared before us in open Court at the present June teem of said Court and made his declaration and oath in manner and form as above specified for the purpose of obtaining a pension under the provision of the act of congress of June 7, 1832 and at the same time produced the deposition of Hiel Parmelee duly taken before James O Morse on of the Judges of this Court and which is hereto annexed which is to us satisfactory evidence of the declaration of the said Joseph Parmelee aforesaid 
In witness whereof we the said Judges have hereunto set our names in open Court at the Courthouse in Coopertown aforesaid this 27th day of June 1832.
J. O. Morse
J. C. Walworth
Elisha Foote
County of Otsego Ss. Livi Redfield of the town of Otsego aged 86 years being duly sworn says that he know the said Joseph Farnham in the year 1778 and has known him ever since and recollects that said Farnham went into the service in the war of the revolution in that year and he verily believes that the time and manner of said services are the same as is stated and set forth in the said declarations of the said Joseph Farnham preceding and further saith not
Levi Redfield
Sworn and subscribed this 27th day of June 1832 before James O. Morse one of the Judges of Otsega County Courts
I certify that I am acquainted with te above named Levi Redfield and consider him a man of integrity and truth and a credible witness
J.O. Morse on of the Judges of Otsega Co. Courts
Filed June 27th 1832

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All which we have caused by these presents to be exemplified the seal of ours and Court of Commons pleas to be hereunto affix-ed WitnessWitness George Morell Esquire first Judge of our and Court at Cooperstown in the County aforesaid this 27th day of June 1832

Horace Lathrop, Clerk

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All Star Feature Corporation
Presenting in Motion Pictures
America's Most Distinguished Stage Celebrities and Greatest Plays
Cable Address "All Star" A.B.C. code phone Bryant 7762
Harry R. Raver, President
Archibald Selwyn, Vice President
Philip Klein, Treasurer
George J. Cooke, Secretary
Augustus Thomas, Director General of Productions
Executive offices
Two Twenty West
Forty Second St.
New York, U.S.A., July 29th, 1914
Commission of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen:
Will you be good enough to let me have such information as you can with regard to the record of service and ancestry, if possible, of Joseph Farnham of Killingworth, Conn., whom I believe was a member of the Picket Guards during the Revolutionary War?
If this information is sufficient, will you be good enough to advise me?
Yours very truly,
.......

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Rev. War Section.
August 25, 1914
All Star Feature corporation
220 West 42nd Street
New York City
Sirs
On July 29. 1914 the person whose signature is 
traced on the enclosed envelope wrote from your office
for the information hereto attached, and as he inquired for on "Joseph Farnaham"  it is probable that his name is also Farnham.
Will you not make an effort to indentify the writer as on of the "All Star" actors.
Very respectfully,
E. C. Tieman Acting Commissioner
Former letter returned "informed"