Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10724, Salmon Tryon, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Com.
Tryon, Salmon
R 10724
CONTENTS

Old Miller.
Mr Salmon
Oregon,
Paper

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of an act of Congress, passed June 7 th 1832 before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the City and County of New York on the first day of December 1832.
I Solomon Fryer of the City of New York do hereby declare and say that I enlisted in the Service of the U s States sometime in the Month of May in the year 1777 in the Town of Litchfield State of Connecticut under Sargent Chester , Coolin , who was the Sargent of the Guard, placed in said Town of Litchfield to Guard the Prison in said Litchfield, in which Prison Gov t Franklin of the State of New Jersey and several British Officers and Soldiers were confined - also to Guard the Continental Store kept in said Litchfield and I served the full term of Six Months from said Month of May, as a private in said Guard - the Corporal of said Guard was Whiting  Stanley - the said Guard was under the immediate direction of Lynde Lord Esq. then Sheriff of the County of Litchfield.
In the year 1778. I was draughted from the Company commanded by Capt n John Osborn of Litchfield, for a three months Tour, and Marched from Litchfield through the Towns of New Milford, Haverbury, and Ridgefield to the Town of Stamford in State, and was placed under the command of Capt n  Coleman  Couch - the other Officers - I do not recollect - Capt n Couch commanded the Guard of about 150 men, to Guard the Town of Stamford, against the British and Tories from Long Island and the said Guard House was in Town of Stamford - the picket Guard Marched night about 3 miles to the Town of Greenwich - the time I served the above three Months I then knew in the Summer Season - I did not as I recollect receive any written discharge, but was discharged by the said Capt n Couch - - - in the year 1779. I enlisted in a Guard
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for one year, and was stationed in Litchfield for the purpose of guarding the Prison and Continental Stores in said Litchfield, and was under the command of Lieut. Sam l Woodruff and Corporal, John Ruse, during said year & including the hard winter of 1779. & 80 - in the course of winter, I was very much frozen, which made unable for active service several days. Having frozen my feet Badly -
Sometimes near the close of the Revolution, I was employed to take charge of a large number of Baggage Horses, which were furnished by Moses Lymann, a commissioner of the United States, - and continued in that service six or seven months -
I have not my recollections at any time in a written discharge, but I served the official terms of service faith- fully, and was honorably discharged -
I rely principally on the above disputation of Elias Carlson Solomon Gilds and Samuel Lymann, together with my own declaration as above for the proof of my service as aforesaid, as I know of no other persons living who can testify -
I was born in the said Town of Litchfield 24 th March 1761, and am now 71 years of age -
I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and I declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State -
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court this 1 st day of December 1832.
Wm. Astor Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas City & County of New York
Salmon T. Tabor

As James B. Murray a Chieftain residing in the City of New York and James B. Murray one of the Aldermen of said City hereby certify that I am  were well acquainted with Salmon Tryon who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration - that I  we believe him to be upwards of seventy years of age - that he is reputed and believed in this City where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution was common in that opinion
Sworn and subscribed } this 1 st day of December } A.D. 1832 In open Court }
James B. Murray
Abm Astor Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, City & County of New York
Richard Piker of the City of New York & Recorder thereof do swear that he has known the applicant Salmon Tryon above named several years, & would repose full confidence in his deposition
Sworn and subscribed this } 1 st day of December 1832 } In open Court }
R Piker
Abm Astor Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas City and County of New York

And the said Court do declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War department, that the above named applicant was a Revolution- ary Soldier and served as he states - And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that James B Murray Alderman of the City of New York and Richard Riker Recorder of the same City who have subscribed and sworn to the foregoing affidavits are residents in the City of New York and are creditable persons and that their statements are entitled to credit
IMO I TRYON of Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the City & County of New York
J. Abraham Astor Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the City and County of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Salmon Tryon for a pension.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand Seal of Office this First day of December 1832.
John Astor, Clerk

State of New York Saratoga County } ss
Ebenezer Cook of the town of Galway in the County of Saratoga and state of New York aged sixty four years on the twenty sixth Day of February last, being by me Duly sworn Deposeth and saith, that his father Capt. Ebenezer Cook resided in the town of Washington in the County of Litchfield in the state of Connecticut, from the beginning to the end, or about the end of the Revolutionary war, that the said Ebenezer Cook was in the service of the United States a Capt. in the Militia of the state of Connecticut, from three to six Months for the greater part of the years during the said war, and this Deponent further saith that he has been acquainted with the said Salmon Ghyon for about forty two or three years, whose deposition in order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress passed the 7 th of June 1832 is herunto annexed, and that he this Deponent was a clerk in the store of the said Salmon Ghyon thinks, in the years of nineteen hundred ninety and ninety one, that it is his strongest impression and belief, that when he was a clerk as aforesaid, he heard the said Capt. Ebenezer Cook, and the said Salmon Ghyon say, that the said Salmon Ghyon was a soldier in the service of the United States in a Company commanded by the said Capt. Ebenezer Cook, but this Deponent does not recollect the place or time of service
Ebenezer Cook
Sworn and subscribed to the 26 Day of July 1832 before me Ransom Cook Justice
Saratoga County ss: I Thomas Palmer Clerk of the County of Saratoga do hereby certify that Ransom Cook whose name is subscribed to the jurat of the above affidavit, was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Saratoga, acting under the authority of the State of New York, and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and that the signature of "Ransom Cook" to the jurat of said affidavit is in the proper hand writing of said Justice. Witness my hand & seal of office the first day of September 1832 Thomas Palmer Clerk

I do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Ebenezer Cook Esq. of the town of Galway in the County of Saratoga, and that I have been so for many years past. That he is a gentleman of good moral character, and that his reputation for truth and uprightness is unquestioned.
P. S. ... Judge of Saratoga County Courts -

I Eliada Osborn of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut depose and say, that in year 1819. I was in the service of the United States a Guard, for the term of Six Months, in the Town of Litchfield, which Guard consisted of a Sergeant, Corporal and 12 men - the Sergeant of the Guard was Charles Collins - the Corporal was Whiting Starly - The Guard was under the immediate command of Lynde Lord Esqr. then Sheriff of the County of Litchfield - at which time Salmon Dyer then of Litchfield, now of the City of New York, was with me, and served in said Guard the full term of Six Months - At the time said Dyer and myself were belonging to said Guard. Gentry - Franklin of the State of New York, and several other British Officers and Soldiers were confined in the prison in said Litchfield, which prison and Continental Store, was Guarded by the said Guard - At the expiration of said Six Months, said Dyer, and myself were relieved by another Guard ordered for that purpose - I also depose and say that I am knowing that said Dyer, for some time had the care of a number of Baggage Horses, which Horses were furnished by Major Mear Lyman, then a Commissary, in the service of the United States, but how long I cannot tell - The year I cannot ascertain, but have the impression it was near the time that Connecticut was then ---
Eliada Osborn
State of Connecticut
Litchfield County ss. Litchfield 2 d October 1832 then personally appeared Eliada Osborn, the signor of the foregoing affidavit, and made oath to the same before me - Joseph Wadsworth Justice of the peace
I certify that I am personally acquainted with Eliada Osborn and full credit is to be placed on his deposition - Joseph Wadsworth Justice of the peace.

I Samuel Seymour of Litchfield. State of Connecticut before me Say that Salmon P. Chase then of Litchfield now of the City of New York, Some time towards the close of the war of the Revolution, was employed to take care of a large number of Baggage Horses belonging to the United States - said Horses were purchased by Moses Seymour then a Commissary of the United States - it is my impression that said Chase was in the employ as Muster five Months or more - and paid with net Samuel Seymour
State of Connecticut.
Litchfield County ss. Litchfield Oct. 3 rd - 1832 - Then personally appeared Samuel Seymour, known to the foregoing deposition and made oath to the truth of the same before me Joseph Adams , Justice of the peace -
I certify that I am personally acquainted with said Seymour the person of the foregoing deposition, and that he is entitled to full credit & belief - J. Adams Justice of the peace -

I Solomon Gibbs of Litchfield State of Connecticut hereby affirm that in the winter of the year 1780, I was a Guard in said Town of Litchfield, at which time Solomon Dyer then of said Litchfield now of the City of York, was also a Guard at the same time, and had been a Guard some time before I was placed as a Guard, - I was a Guard at that time two Months, and said Dyer was a Guard during that time, and how much longer I cannot tell - said Guard consisted of a Sergeant and Corporal, and twelve men - Samuel Woodruff of Litchfield was the Sergeant, and John Ruel of Litchfield the Corporal of said Guard - and the said Guard was under the immediate direction of Lynde Lord Esqr then Sheriff of Litchfield County - The duty of said Guard was to Guard the Prison then in Prison, in said Litchfield, and the Continental Store then kept in said Litchfield - I have the impression that said Dyer had the care of a number of Baggages boxes which were forwarded by Major Myles to my house then a Commissionary of the United States, for the use of the United States - but at the time I cannot recollect - Solomon Gibbs
State of Connecticut
Litchfield County Jr. Litchfield, Oct 3 d 1832 then personally appeared Mr. Solomon Gibbs, signer of the foregoing Affidavit, and made oath to the truth of the same before me - Joseph Adams Justice of the peace -
I certify that I am personally acquainted with Mr. Solomon Gibbs, signer of the above deposition, and that he is entitled to full credit and belief - J. Adams Justice of the peace -

I, Truman Marsh of The Town of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut, and a resident Clergyman of Litchfield, do testify. That I am well acquainted with Eliza  Heather Osborn, Samuel Symmes, and Solomon Gilels. - which three persons have signed an affidavit, which is hereunto annexed, and that they are all of them, Gentlemen of respectability and that their said affidavits are entitled to full credit and belief - And I also testify that I have for many years been acquainted with Salmon Dyer, who has sworn  signed the declaration annexed and that his character stands perfectly fair, and that his declaration is entitled to full credit and belief -
Truman Marsh
State of Connecticut
Litchfield County ss. Litchfield 3 d Oct 1832 - Then personally appeared Truman Marsh the Signer of the foregoing affidavit, and made oath to the truth of the same before me Joseph Adams - Justice of the peace
I Frederick

I Frederick Westcott Clerk of the County Court within and for the County of the Litchfield State of Connecticut
Certify that Joseph Adams Esq. now is and at the time of the affidavit herein offered being of full age number was a justice of the peace, within and for said County, Legally Commissioned and Qualified and as such has a right by law to administer Oaths, and that the Signatures to said Instruments which purport to be his are genuine and his proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix
the Seal of said Court at Rutland in said County this third day of October
A. D. 1832.
Frederick Westcott, Clerk.

Salmon Tryon act June 7. 1832 N. York.
Rejected. See letter to Hon. J. Q. Adams, April 22. 1837
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P. O. _____
Salmon Flynn
Service: Pro Cal Coast Comm
Enlisted: _____, 18
REJECTED
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Brooklyn 30 th May 1834
M rs Cass
Sir as I have heard nothing from my three letters to you the last of which was the 4 th of last March I am induced to request a hearing if it is only to know if I am to have justice done me without further trouble M rs Brady might write to me if it was not for the postage I hope Sir you will let me hear from you soon
I am Sir your obed t Servant
Salmon Troyon

Brooklyn 14 th Sept r 1834
M c Edwards
Sir
Last Sept r I inclosed to M c
Cass two certificates as he required from Connecticut with a request that he would notify M c Phineas Bready who I expected would attend with my papers and expected my attention — will you please inform me the cause of the delay for next mail
Yours &c
Salmon T. Patten

Salmon Tryon
application for a Pension
Sep 28 1833 Pension Office
Referred to the Comm ee of the Pension Office Sep. 28. 1833
Rec d . Sep. 28. 1833

Brooklyne 26 th Sept r 1833
M c Cass
Sir The within being what you required will now no doubt send me a warrant Please inform M c Phineas Bradley who will attend with my papers
Yours &c
Salmon Tryon

Home of Rep rs , Feb. 19. 1833.
I certify, that I am acquainted with Eliada Osborn, Samuel Seymour, Solomon Gibbs, & Rev. Jonathan Clark, all of Litchfield, in the County of Litchfield, & State of Connecticut; that they are gentlemen of respectability, & that reliance may be placed on any statements they may make. J. W. Huntington

War Department
Pension Office
June 3 d 1834
Sir,
In obedience to your order, I have the honor to report in reply to the letter of Salmon Tryon, herewith returned, that his claim was rejected, when he was in this Office, upon the ground that he had not rendered six months military service in the Rev. War. He alleged that he served in a Sergeants guard, at a jail under the Sheriff ; which was deemed conclusive, that it was not a military corps in actual service against the common enemy. He persisted in maintaining that it was military service, and avowed his intention of establishing it. He subsequently sent on two affidavits, establishing the fact, (which had not been questioned,) that such a guard had been organized; but in no respects changing the character of the service from his own description of it under oath. He was accordingly informed of the views of the Department in relation to the bearing of his additional evidence upon the ground theretofore taken of his case, and that it was again rejected. His subsequent letters, unaccompanied with any evidence which could authorize a reversal of the decision heretofore communicated to him, have not been answered; 1 st because he must have inferred, that the only reply which could be consistently given, would be a repetition of former communication,

communications, and 2 nd , because the amount of undetermined questions, in justice to others, claimed all the labors of the office to adjust, in preference to those whose claims had been formally decided, upon all the evidence they had adduced.
I have the honor to be
Very Respectfully Yr. Obt. Servt.
Hon Lewis Cass Secretary of War

The Comm. refused to sign the foregoing report and none other was drafted. G.W.C.

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Mr Lewis Cass Secretary of War Washington City D.C.
4 Nov. 1830. Pension Office.
Pension

Brooklyn 1 st Nov r 1833
Mr. Cass
Sir
On the 26 th Sept r last I enclosed to you two Certificates from Conn t as you requested with a desire that you notify Mr. Phineas Brady who had my papers Age Infirmities of myself & Wife has brought us to this time destitute of funds for food and necessaries which is the particular cause of my being in haste for a Warrant for my Pension at this time To save postage I have not written to Mr. Brady as yet hope it may be unnecessary
Yours truly
Salmon Stryon D.P.S.

War Dept Pension Office Sept 19. 1834
Sir,
In reply to yours of 14 inst. in which you state that you "enclosed in your letter of 26 Sept last two certificates from Boumetch cut as required by Mr. Chap" I have to inform you that two affidavits enclosed in the letter referred to were received on 28 th Sept. last, and a letter addressed to you on the 8 th of the succeeding month of which a copy is herewith forwarded. In addition thereto I would remark that the guards of jails employed by Sheriffs are not under military obligations and subject to military penalties, altho' their wages - rations & arms may correspond with those of soldiers in actual service. Unless they are so subject their cases are not embraced by the act of 7 June '32 which provides for actual service in a legally authorized & embodied corps - duly officered & disciplined &c. Your papers show that the guard of which you were a part was not detailed from such a corps, and it is apparent that the

Sheriffs guards for the safe keeping of prisoners, altho they may have occasionally guarded the public stores which are usually guarded by detachments of a part of the military force, does not in itself constitute a military corps in the contemplation of the act. There were no means of inflicting military punishment in case of desertion or other delinquency -
I am very respectfully Yr. mo obdt. Servt. J. L. Edwards
W. Salmon Tryon Brooklyn N.Y.

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War Dept Pension Office Oct. 8. 1833.
Sir.
Your claim has been again examina- -ed. The testimony enclosed in your letter of 26 ult. would go to shew that the service was considered military, and that the Witness was so considered it. But this is not deemed sufficient to destroy the character indelibly stamped upon it by your declaration on oath, that the service was rendered under "the direction of the Sheriff." The proof of the military character of that service, requir- -ed by the Hon. Secretary of course referred to the satisfactory establishment of it in connection with the papers on file - This can only be done by a certificate of the Comptroller of Connecticut & without it the Dept. adheres to its former decision.
I am Signed. J. L. Edwards
Salmon J. Lyon esq Brooklyn N.Y.

District of Columbia
Washington City D. C. Salmon Tryon in the annexed declaration named being duly sworn doth depose & say that although the Sergeant's guards mentioned in his said declaration, & in which he served as a private soldier for the term of six & twelve months as therein set forth, were under the direction of the Sheriff, yet he was an enlisted soldier under the command of his military officers for the safe keeping of the prisoners of war & military stores: That he signed enlisting orders for both terms, that he was subject to the articles of war, that he was regularly examined & mustered into service, that he was required regularly to answer to his name at roll calling night & morning, that he was subjected to military drill: that he was regularly detailed to stand sentry on his post: that the service was considered important & trusty, requiring tried friends to the American cause: that he does not know by what particular authority the orders to enlist

men for the service aforesaid were issued, whether by the militia officer in whose command the depot of prisoners was situated, the committee of safety or the continental congress, but he does know that his enlistment & service were military & not civil. The stores above mentioned were continental stores & among the prisoners were Gen. Franklin the British Governor of New Jersey & other British Officers & soldiers. One night some person attempted to pass the guard & was fired upon by the sentry. The person fired upon proved to be corporal Whiting Stanley. The matter was brought before the commanding officer & the conduct of the sentry was approved.
Salmon Tryon
District of Columbia, Washington County ss.
On this 16 th day of February 1833, before the subscriber a justice of the peace for said county, personally appeared Salmon Tryon and made oath in due form of law that the foregoing statements are strictly true. Sworn before A. B. N. Morse, J.P.

I have known Salmon Tryon the Applicant from my childhood. He lived many years in Ballston. His general character is good. I have never heard his veracity impeached. Washington Feb. 16. 1833.
John W. Taylor M.C.

Revenue Office
Salmon Frye
March 8 th 1836.
FILED
Mr Cass Secy of War Washington City D. C.
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Brooklyn 4 th March 1834
M c Cass
Sir on the 26 th last September I inclosed to you two certificates as according to your request and on the 1 st Nov r wrote to you on the subject but have not rec d one word relative there to Where shall I look for this neglect It is now more than a year since I first applied to it M c Edwards who neglects so he not a Government Officer under pay and will he not reflect that we like took up arms with our Father Washington laid the foundation for his and all other officers in the Union Is my title to a Pension any longer doubted can any one suppose that Congress had any other guard but Military I say there never was any doubt if my papers were well examined and rightly reflected upon I commenced and ended my writings with the law in my pocket and in my head (which you had a hand in deciding) and attended to every part myself Are any of my official certificates or vouchers doubted the most of them are more or less Allocated characters Esq r E. Couch Son of a Capt e I served under has been Magistrate and served two if not three years in our Legislator Capt e Osborn Son of John Osborn a Capt e when Danbury was burned Capt e L. Superior and M c Gibbs the latter are all well known in preached for by Parsons Marsh and I was pleased to see them particular in what was written for them to sign Esq r Huntington spoke well of those in Litchfield in a few lines which he added to you Vouchers for my character for the City and County of N. York where I then resided are Richard Biker Recorder & Col James B. Murray then M c Cass our acquaintances about twenty years Also John M c Taylor stated when we were in Washington that he had known me from his childhood &c in writing among my papers Capt e Linsford Sheriff at the time I served in Litchfield our Prisoners mentioned in my writings (viz) Governor Franklin of N. Jersey A Kings Officer and other British Officers were confined in his County jail and our Continental store was kept in the lower part of his County Court House of course he had the charge of them and no doubt was made acquainted with Congress by M c Woolcutt who was then in Congress and signer of Independence Afterwards

Governor & Father of the Governor Woolcutt since Also Father to the one in my papers Congress was unable as unwilling to go to the expending unnecessary officers A Sergeant and Corporal (which we had) was sufficient for twenty four men And what is more easy to see than that Congress serves not have the least use for any but a Military guard even without the two Certificates I sent on I make these remarks to you because per- haps you have not examined my papers which I wish you would condescend to do and also to inform you that all the names in my papers are eminent for veracity you Sir have a right and a very just one to be particular in granting Pensions for doubtless some are drunken Pensions unworthily but sir you very well know that you or any one have no right to doubt any ones Bata without a particular cause If any one in my papers are doubtful I wish to know it Mr Brady is knowing to many of the above statements and all this would seem needless and improper but Sir I am contending for my own just right granted by Government which ought to have been extended to me long since And I wish sincerely now Sir to have a just cause for the same opinion as the gentleman in N. York who advised me to write to the Clergy (viz) that he believes Mr Cass wishes justice to take place
I am Sir your Most Obedient and
Very Humble Servant
Salmon P. Chase

The petition of Salmon Tryon of Conn for a pension Capt. Tryon
Dec. 12 1836
Ref d to the Committee on Rev d Pensions
Dec r 23 1836 Report vs to lie - (1030)
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G. Lee 7 th Rev. Pens.

Brooklyn 4 th Sept r 1825
To the Honour Congress of the United States of America Gentlemen Whereas your petitioner served in the Revolutionary War one and an half years in a guard in the town of Litchfield State Connecticut and in the Foreign or Liberty master department six months also under a draught of three months in the town of Stamford as stated in my pension papers made out under the Militia Pension act which Mr. Edw ds seems to think does not exactly include my case therefore pleas pass a law for my case
Salmon Tryon

I believe Asa Dyer of Litchfield in the County of Litchfield State of Connecticut before me says, that I was in the Town of Litchfield in the time of the Revolutionary war, - I was frequently in the Guard which was kept at Litchfield, and always believed that that Guard was considered as Military Service - the pay was from the United States, and the rations were drawn from the United States Store kept in Litchfield - and for the South not -
Edward Osborn
State of Connecticut Litchfield County ss. Litchfield Sep. 16 th 1833 Then personally appeared Edward Osborn, the Signer of the foregoing Affidavit, and made oath to the truth of the same & I certify that I am personally acquainted with the said Edward Osborn and that full credit may be placed to his Affidavit as aforesaid Attest Joseph Adarn. Justice of the peace
I Samuel Lyman of the Town and County of Litchfield State of Connecticut before me says that I have been an inhabitant of Litchfield more than sixty years, and was in Litchfield nearly the whole time of the Revolutionary war and am personally knowing, to the Guard, being kept in Litchfield to Guard the Continental Stores, Prisoners &c - and I always believed and considered said Guard as Military Service - the Guard was paid by the U States - and the rations were drawn from the Stores belonging to the United States -
Samuel Lyman
State of Connecticut Litchfield County ss. Litchfield Sep. 16 th 1833. Then personally appeared Samuel Lyman, (with whom I am personally acquainted, the Signer of the above Affida- -vit) on whom testimony had been taken (who may be here) and made oath to the truth of his Affidavit - before me - Joseph Adarn. Justice of the peace

Frederick Wolcott, Clerk of the County Court within & for the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut, certify that Joseph Adams Esq. was on the 16 th day of instant September, and that he now is a Justice of the Peace for said County duly commissioned & qualified, & that the signa- -tures to the two preceding certificates of that date which purport to be his are genuine & his proper hand writing. —
Witness my hand & the Seal of said Court this 23 d day of September A.D. 1833.
Frederick Wolcott , Clerk