Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 11,592, Daniel Tyler, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Syler, Daniel
NUMBER _____
D. 11592
carded
CONTENTS

27160 Massachusetts
Daniel Tyler of Windsor in the State of Mass who was a private in the Comp y commanded by Captain Davis of the Reg t commanded by Col. Frye in the Mass line for 24 Months
M r . M r
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 th day of Feb y 1834 and sent to B. H. Bishop Lenox. Mass
Arrears to the 14th of Sep 1833. $200. Semizant. allowance ending 4. Mar 34. 40
$240
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by George Taylor Clerk, Book C Vol. 2 Page 85
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 th April 1838, to 4 of the 5 children from 4. Sep 1839 to 3 rd Feby 1840. Agent ha- bitat 23 rd July 1
Dead.
17 Berkshire

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Berkshire ss. Windsor July 22 nd 1833
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the peace for the County of Berkshire Daniel Tyler who being duly affirmed deposeth & saith that by reason of old age & consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise time of service under each of his enlistments but that he recollects that he served in different Periods during the Revolutionary war not less than the periods mentioned below & in the following states. For two years & nine months I served as private & for such service I claim a pension
Before me James Brailsford Justice of Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Berkshire ss. Charles Sedgwick Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court being a Court

of Record in the County of Berkshire do certify that James Beale Esq before whom the foregoing affidavit was executed is a Trustee of the Deeds in & for said County, that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court this tenth day of September A.D. 1833. Chas. Loquemiller

Daniel Tyler Middletown Mass Application for Pension Aug. 28. 1832
Admiral 2 Years private Capt Davis boat Boy
H. W. Bishop Esq. Lancaster Mass

I Simeon Tyler of Camdell in the County of Waldo, State of Maine aged seventy seven years, do testify and say, that on the nineteenth of April in the year 1775 Daniel Tyler, then of Methuen in the county of Essex commonwealth of Massachusetts, but now of Gibbonville in the county of Albany State of New York, was a private Soldier in a minute company commanded by Capt. John Davis and did on that memorable day march with said company to repel the murderous attack of the British troops on our citizens at Lexington, and was with said company stationed at Cambridge in a Regiment commanded by Col. James Frye until the 10 th of December the same year when the said Daniel Tyler was discharged — And I further testify and say that the said Daniel Tyler on the first of July 1776 entered as a private Soldier in a company command- ed by Capt. Eliphalet Doodwell and marched for Picendero- ga and was stationed at Fort Independence until the last of November of the same year when he was disch- arged. I further testify and say, that the said Daniel Tyler was a private Soldier in the American army at the memorable battle near Saratoga when General Burgoyne surrendered his Army as prisoners of war, and that the said Daniel was one of the guard to the captured troops to Cambridge in Massachusetts.
I further testify and say that about the first of

November 1777 the said Daniel Tyler enlisted as a private Soldier in a company commanded by Capt. John Davis and was stationed at Boston until the first of April 1778 when he was discharged.
The deponent is enabled to be thus circumstantial in the facts detailed as he served with said Daniel in the two first and last companies during the whole period of his enlistment, and the deponent frequently saw the said Daniel at and near Saratoga in October 1777 and often saw him on the march from Saratoga to Cambridge. And I further testify that whenever I heard the character and conduct of the said Daniel mentioned, it was that of a brave faithful Soldier. Simeon Tyler
Waldo Co. State of Maine On this thirteenth day of December A.D. 1831 personally appeared the aforesaid Simeon Tyler & subscribed said affidavit & made oath to the truth of the same with the addition that the statements therein made were true according to the best of his remembrance
Before me
Charles R. Porter, Justice of the Peace
Waldo Co. State of Maine July 1 st 1833 I hereby certify that the statements of Simeon Tyler deserve credit - Charles R. Porter Just. Peace
I R. D. Anaudon Clerk of the Judicial Court of Waldo County hereby certify that Charles R. Porter is a magistrate as above and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas this ninth day of July A.D. 1833.
R. D. Anaudon Clerk of Judicial Court of said County

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Berkshire, ss.
ON this twentieth  eleventh day of August A. D. 1832 personally appeared in open Court, before the Honorable WILLIAM P. WALKER, Judge of the Court of Probate, within and for said County of Berkshire, now sitting, at dinner Daniel Tyler a resident of the town of Windsor in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 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, passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. — That he was born in  Dracut in the County of Essex  Middlesex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts in Sept 1756. That he will be seventy five years of age in Sept next that he has lived in Dracut Methuen Wyndham in the State of New Hampshire in Windsor in the County of Berkshire in which last place he has lived about thirty years — That he served during the Revolutionary war in the State Troops of Massachusetts as follows. — That he enlisted as a private soldier or minute man in the Company of Capt John Davis in April 1775 at Methuen aforesaid in the Regiment commanded by Col. James Frye, that he was at the battle of Lexington on the 19 th of April after said battle that he was stationed with said Company at Cambridge until about the 19 th day of December 1775 that he served under said enlistment for eight months at the end of which term he was discharged that several persons belonging to said Methuen & the neighborhood among whom were Joseph Morse Dudley Hoyer William Russ were soldiers with him & served in said Company & Regiment — That on or about

The first day of July 1776 he enlisted as a private soldier in a company commanded by Capt. Eliphalet Bodwell the Regiment I can not recollect nor the place where I enlisted but I believe it was at Methuen - That he marched with said company to Fredericksburg where stationed at Fort Independence until the last day of November of the same year when he was discharged That on the first day of August 1777 he enlisted in a company commanded by Capt. Whitcher marched in said company & joined the army at Saratoga where remained until after the capture of the British Army under Genl. Burgoyne when he was detailed as a guard & marched with the captured troops to a place called Winter Hill near Boston where he was discharged. That the precise period of this enlistment he does not recollect - That in the latter part of the year 1777 he joined a company commanded by Capt. John Davis as a private was stationed at Boston until about the first of April 1778 - That he served out every period for which he was enlisted until regularly discharged the said Tyler further states that he can not to his knowledge furnish any other evidence of his services than what is contained in the foregoing declaration that he recollects that he served in all thirty three months - That he does not know the present residence of any person who served with him nor whether they are living & that his age & infirmities prevent his getting any information except that of his brother Silvan Tyler which is herewith furnished to his Hon. William Walker Esq. Judge of Probate -

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State
a. sworn  affirmed to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Daniel Tyler W.P. Walker J. Probate
We Gordon Dorrance a Clergyman, residing in the town of Windsor and Asahel Wright residing in said Windsor hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Daniel Tyler who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy five years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Gordon Dorrance Asahel Wright
Sworn and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
W.P. Walker J. Probate
And the said Court do hereby 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 revolutionary soldier, and served as he states And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Gordon Dorrance who signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman, resident in the town of Windsor in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts and that Asahel Wright who has also signed the same, is a resident in the town of Windsor in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
W.P. Walker J. Probate
I, HENRY W. BISHOP, Register of the Court of Probate within and for the County of Berkshire in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Daniel Tyler for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office of said Court of Probate, this twenty eighth day of August in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty two .
Henry W. Bishop Register of Probate

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
July 16 th 1841.
Sir :
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Four of the Five child ren of Daniel Tyler, dec d a Pensioner on the Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of Eighty Dollars and Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept r 1839, to the 3 rd Feby 1840.
Respectfully yours,
Edward B. Parsons
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

Rev has
11592 INVALID.
File No. 11,592
Daniel Tyler
Pris Rev war
Act: June 14th 1832.
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 382
[Arrangement of 1870.]

according to the with memoranda it appears that Daniel Tyler must do 3 things 1 st state more distinctly the period of his services in the army & which he served. — 2 nd produce the official character registration of Boston the year was in Maine — 3 rd tie up his papers into a neat thing C. S. C.
9690 Daniel Tyler Windsor Mass
Application should be made to E. D. Bangs Esq Secy of the State of Mass for evidence of the claim ants service
Pension Office Dec 17 1833 Ad. 2 years pri Capt Davis Colo Freg
A. W. Bishop Esq Lenox Mass

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims , of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Daniel Tyler which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes
Clerk's objection V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? not distinctly
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? yes
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? Living witness
XIV. † If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? yes
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? yes
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? yes no
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? yes
XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? no
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? yes
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
C. B. Logmire
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
†QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
†QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.  31.

Chas Sedgwick Esq. Lenox Mass.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Jan. 17 1834
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Daniel Tyler, as a private, is borne on an Abstract Roll of Capt. Eliphalet Doodwell's Company, Col. Edw d Wigglesworth's regiment, in 1775, where he is allowed for 220 miles travel £1. 11. 6 d But no Pay Rolls of Captain Doodwell's Company are found in this office.
Daniel Tyler also claims for services under Capt. John Davis, in 1775 and 1777, and under Capt. Witcher in 1777. But the rolls he describes are not found in this office.
Edward D. Bangs. Secy

J. L. Edwards Esq. Com r . of Pensions Washington City

Senne Mass. Jan'y 23. 1834.
J. C. Edwards Esq.
Sir I transmitted to Washington some time ago the application of Dan d Tyler for a pension — The paps s were rec d with an endorsement at the War Office and date Dec. 17. 33 "that application sh d be made to E. D. Bangs Secy of State of Mass for evidence of the claimant's service" — I rec d yesterday from Secy Bangs the enclos d certif t which with the orig l papers, I now forward — By the certificate it appears that Tyler did serve in Capt. Dorrill's Comp y but the time does not correspond exactly with that stated by the claimant — From the appearance statem t of Mr. Tyler who is an old infirm but respectable man I have no doubt that he served at duery time in the Rev y war & from the interest which his friends have since taken in the matter I am satisfied that they are convinced he is entitled to a pension — If the add l evidence now furnished is sufficient I shall be extremely glad — If not will you have the goodness to inform me that there may be no further susp e —
I am Sir
Respectfully your Servt
Chas. Sedgwick