Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3034, Joseph Doty, Conn.

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Conn.

Doty, Joseph
          Mary

R. 3034

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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefits of the

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She thinks in the year 1777, and served nine months under Captain Mc Kinstry of said Canaan she thinks _ he was at the Taking of Genl Burgoyne _ thinks he went under Col Burrell, the second time — that she was married to the said Joseph Doty on the Sixth day October 1775 at Petersburg, in said Rensselaer County New York, by Elder Joseph Barns, her name was Mary Babcock, before she was married, she says, she knows of no one living that was present when she was married, that her Husbands Family Record is Destroyed or lost, that she never learned to write - that she has remained a Widow ever since the period of her said Husbands decease, as will now fully appear by the Testimony hereunto anexed
Mary Doty
her X mark
Sworn and subscribed before me this 3d day of September 1838
Wm Berry a Judge of Cortland Common Pleas
Witness - Lizur B Canfield Home
Cortland County New York

State of New York
Cortland County} Ss I Daniel Doty aged fifty one years
of the Town of Pomfret in the County Onandago & State of New York depose and say that I am the reputed Son of Joseph Doty and Mary Doty, the applicant for a Pension _ that I have been personally acquainted with her as long as I can remember & know that she has remained a Widow ever since the period of his Decease which was on the 11th day of April 1838 —
Daniel Doty
Sworn and subscribed before me this 3d day of September 1838 
Lizur B Canfield J. Peace
I certify that Daniel Doty is a man of truth and veracity and reputable in his neighborhood.
Lizur B Canfield J. Peace

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TESTAMENT
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[Partial document only. Torn and charred]
ctober the 6 day
agey doty was born
mber the 12 day 1763
doty was born
AD [?] 1782
was born the 
AD [?] 1785
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April [illegible] 1788
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Daniel Doty & Franklin Reiss
affidavit in the Case of Mary Doty for a Pension—
Joseph Doly - Pensoner [illegible]
Cedars —

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State of new York
Cortland County Ss } Daniel Doty aged Fifty two years next April & J. Franklin Rice aged Forty one years - said Doty of the Town of Pomfrey, County of Onandago & State of New York. & said Rice of the Town of [illegible] in the County of Cortland & State of New York - being both sworn according to Law. depose & say. that we were present this day, and saw Lizur B Canfield one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said County of Cortland & State aforesaid, cut out of the family Bible of Joseph Doty, the Family Record of said Joseph Doty & Mary Doty, Marked A. _ and the said Daniel Doty says, he knows the same to be the Record of the family of said Joseph and Mary ever since he can remember _ 
Daniel Doty
Franklin Rice
Sworn and subscribed before me this 13th day of February 1839
Lizur B Canfield J. Peace
I certify that Daniel Doty & Franklin Rice are both persons of truth and veracity & reputable in their neighborhoods —Lizur B Canfield J. Peace

[illegible] Cortland County N. York
Dear Sir - Mr Doty served in the same Company with Ebenezar Foot - think Capt John Stephens Company Infantry, Col Burrells Regt Continental Line - you mention in your letter on this application, a reference to the [illegible] of Connecticut, for facts of his service - I was at Hartford not long since, and I understood that Muster Rolls of all the Continentals of that State had been forwarded to Washington - Mr Foote has drawn a Pension ever since 1819, under the Act of 1818 [illegible], they both belonged to the Continental Line. if you have but Capt John Stephens Muster Roll, on Col

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State of New [illegible]
Cortland C [illegible] I Oren Stimson Clerk of Said County do hereby certify that Lizur B Canfield Esq before whom the within affidavits purports to have been taken was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in & for said County & that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice & verily believe his signatures within are genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said County this 14th day of February AD 1839
O. Stimson Clerk

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Burrells please inform me & oblige your humble servt- LB. Canfield
Honl J. L. Edwards Esq

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3034 REJECTED [stamp]
P.O. ___
Mary Doty
Service: widow of Joseph

Enlisted:___, 18
Discharged:___, 18

Application filed:___, 18

Alleges:___
Re-enlisted:___

Attorney:___
P.O.___
___Recognized. ___Contr [cut off]
___Cert. of Dis.  Searched for___, 18

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Cortland County
State of New York} Ss 
I Ebenezar Foote aged eighty four years of the Town of Preble in said County and State, being duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath say that he was personally acquainted with Joseph Doty, who was a Revolutionary Soldier that, said Doty & he Enlisted in the same Company commanded by Capt John Stephens of Canaan, Continental for the term of one year,  the Regiment was commanded by Col Burrel of said Canaan it was in the year 1776 in February, we started from Spencertown State of New York went to Albany, staid there sometime went to the Ciders & we were both taken Prisoner together with some hundred others by the Indians, we was liberated after about nine days, went home staid about two months, then we went back to Mount Independence and staid there til into February 1777 when we were both honorably Discharged by Capt Stephens or Lieutenant Patterson of the same Company we both belonged to the same company -all the above time, and that he never learned to write - 
Ebenezar Foote
his X mark
Sworn and subscribed before me this 3d day of September 1838
Lizur B Canfield Justice Peace
William Trowbridge, [illegible] Cortland County New York
I certify that I have been personally acquainted with Ebenezar Foote for twenty years past & that he is a Man of truth and veracity & reputable in his neighborhood
 Lizur B Canfield J. Peace
also, that when his family moved from said Petersburg they came to Truxton in Cortland County New York & that he belonged to Elder Parrington Church in good and regular standing til he died_ & that said Mary his widow belonged to same Church & does now, in good and regular Standing_ Sworn and subscribed before me this 6th day of September 1838.
Lizur B Canfield J. Peace
Polly Reynolds
I certify that Polly Reynolds is a Person of truth & veracity & reputable in [illegible] neighborhood 
Lizur B Canfield J. Peace

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State of New York
Cortland County} Ss 
I William Berry the Judge within named and before whom the Declaration of Mary Doty the applicant for a Pension within named was Made and before whom the proceedings were held, do hereby certify and declare my opinion after the investigation of the Matter that the said Mary Doty is the Widow of Joseph Doty Deceased and that her said Husband was a Revolutionary Soldier, and that her Declaration is just & true and I further Certify, that in my opinion the said Mary Doty, is utterly unable from bodily infirmity to attend Court for the purpose of  [illegible] ing her Declaration —
Wm. Berry a Judge of Cortland Common Pleas

Cortland County
& State of New York} Ss
I Polly Reynolds, of the Town of Lincklaen County of Chenango State of New York aged Fifty nine years, being duly sworn according to Law, doth on her oath say, that she is, as she believes the Daughter of Joseph Doty & Mary Doty his widow/-  She says that said Mary Doty has remained the widow of him to her personal knowledge ever since the Death of her Husband which was on the 11th day of April 1828, and that they were Man & Wife, she further says that the said Joseph Doty belonged to Elder Hull Church, also belonged to Elder Joseph Barns Church before he was married as stated by Mary Doty in her Declaration, in the Town of Petersburg #

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Sate of New York
Cortland County Ss}
I Oren Stimson Clerk of said County, do hereby Certify, that William Berry before whom the Declaration of Mary Doty was made and said proceedings were held [illegible] the date of the same a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for said County, duly qualified & that I am acquainted with his signature, & believe the same to be his - also that Lizur B Canfield, before whom Daniel Doty Ebenezar Foote & Polly Reynolds were sworn is now a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County & was at the time said affidavits were taken, duly Qualified & that I am acquainted with his signature, & believe the same to be genuine _ given under my hand and Seal of Office, at Cortlandvill this 1st day of October 1838
H. A. Walker Dep. Clerk
Home, Cortland County. N.York
October 4th 1838
Dear Sir— please examine this application & inform me the result — yours respectfully L.B. Canfield
J.L. Edwards Esq