Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10,795, Primus Tyng, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass
Y. Young, Primus (Colored)
NUMBER
R. 10.795
CONTENTS

Probate Court Temple May 23 rd
Pyman Fyng
27.010
601 (100)

DECLARATION, in order to secure the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
COUNTY OF WORCESTER, ss.
ON this Twentyth day of August in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and thirty Three personally appeared in open Court, before Nathaniel Prindle Judge of Probate  for the County of Worcester now sitting Primus Tyng a person of color a resident of Petersham and in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy two years, as near as he can recollect 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 7th 1832.
THAT he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. to wit In May or June 1776 he enlisted as a private for the term of three months in a company of Infantry, commanded by Capt. Flint in Col. Samuel Parsons regiment. Serjeant Frazier and Ensign Francis Simonds belonged to the same company. His enlistment was at Salem, near Boston where he then resided. That he marched through Princeton and Warwick in this State to Stillwater in New York where he remained sometime where the term of his enlistment expired. That immediately afterward he again enlisted for the term of one year in the same company and regiment and commanded by the same officers; and was marched from thence to Stoney Point on the North river; was present in the engagement when Stoney Point was retaken. David Drury who then belonged to Framingham and I think belonged to Capt. Rice's Company was the first man that entered the fort - I knew him well. Brig. Genl. Glover was present and Genl. Patterson was the commanding officer. That during this period he was occasionally on scouting parties after cow-boys. His term of service expired when he was at Elizabethtown in New Jersey - and that he then immediately enlisted during the war in the same company and regiment, commanded by the same officers, and annexed to Genl. Patterson's Brigade; that he was in New Jersey during a part of the year 1777 and was at the Battle of Monmouth, where Genl. Washington commanded in person; that towards the fall of the same year, while he was marching up the North river to join the army of Genl. Gates he heard of the battle at Bennington; that he was in the battle at Saratoga, when Genl. Burgoyne surrendered; that previous to the surrender of Burgoyne and Capt. Flint was detached with volunteers including part of his company to reinforce Genl. St. Clair, and was killed; and that after that and Capt. Frazier, I think his name was Samuel, commanded the company to the close of the war - That after the surrender of Burgoyne he was marched back to Stoney Point, and that he was stationed there and in the vicinity to the close of the war; he was there at the time of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis; That he was discharged at that place at the close of the war; that he then deposited his gun in the Store House, and returned home to Salem, and that he kept his discharge many years, but has lost it. And that he faithfully performed his duty as a good soldier from the time of his first enlistment in 1776 to the time when he was regularly discharged at Stoney Point as aforesaid at the close of the war.
He further testifies and declares that after due enquiry, he knows of no one who knows of his services in the army, and of course he is unable to procure any evidence to that point - but refers to such evidence as may be found in the war office - Nor is he able to state the precise dates and times of his several enlistments.
He further testifies and declares that he was born in Salem in the County of Essex, near Boston, about seventy two years ago; he cannot recollect the precise time - Nor does he know whether his age is or is not there recorded - His father's name was Jack and his mother's name was Cecilia Crowningshield and was a Native of Guinea in Africa.
He testifies and says that he has been a Seafaring man for the most part of the time since the close of the war till five or six years ago; since which time he resided in Natick two or three years; and about two years in Dudley; and from thence he came to Petersham and has resided here about six months.
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.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
By me Nathl Prindle Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester
his Primus Tyng mark.
Witness Jared Weed

We Townsend Caswell a clergyman residing in the Town of New Salem and Hugh Moore residing in said New Salem hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Primus Syng two who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be about seventy years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion.
Worcester ss Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid sixth day of April A.D. 1833 - and I certify that Townsend Caswell and Hugh Moore are persons of truth and veracity, and that their place of residence from is so far from the place of Court renders their personal attendance inconvenient. Jared Weed Jus: Peace.
Townsend Caswell Hugh Moore
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 mentioned applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that Townsend Caswell who signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the Town of New Salem and that Hugh Moore who has also signed the same is a resident in the same Town and the credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Nathl Daine Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester
Worcester ss Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
I Theophilus Wheeler Regd, Clerk of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Primus Syng for a pension. That Jared Weed, is a justice of the Peace in Worcester County and commissioned therefor and that his signature as above is genuine and entitled to credit.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said Court this twenty first day of August in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty three.
Theoph l Wheeler Reg d of said Court.

Petersham, Mass. August 31 1833-
Hon. Secretary at War
Sir - I enclose the Declaration of Primes Tyng , a person of Colon - for a pension under the Act of June 7, 1832 -
Very Respectfully Jared Weed -

27010
Paymus Tyng. Map
Reynolds & Am 1833. Letter I think could not find
10795

REJECTED
P. O. 10790 Paymaster Paymaster Tyng Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: Printed list of 1852 shows cause of rejection: no proof of service - no
Re-enlisted: such colonel as he names -
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

February 3, 1933
BA-J/EEL Primus Tyng, R. 10795
The data given below are obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, R. 10795, based upon the military service of Primus Tyng in that war.
Primus Tyng, a man of color, was born in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, date not given. He stated that his father was named Jack and his mother was Priscilla Crowningshield, a native of Guinea, Africa.
After the Revolution he was a "seafaring man" until about 1827 or 1828, after which time, he resided in Natick for two or three years, and about two years in Dudley.
He applied for pension August 20, 1833, at which time he was aged about seventy-two years and resided in Petersham, Worcester County, Massachusetts, where he had lived for about six months, and alleged that while residing in Salem, Massachusetts, he enlisted in May or June, 1776, and served three months as a private in Captain Flint's Company, Colonel Samuel Tarlton's (possibly meant for Colonel Samuel Carlton) Massachusetts Regiment; after the expiration of that service, immediately re-enlisted, and served for one year in the same company and regiment, and was frequently out on scouting parties against the cowboys; and that upon the close of that service, he re-enlisted for "during the war", in same company and regiment and that after Captain Flint was killed, he served in Captain Samuel Frazier's Company; that he was at the battle of Saratoga, when Burgoyne was captured, at the battle of Monmouth and storming of Stony Point and served until the close of the war.
His claim was not allowed as he failed to furnish proof of six months service as was required by the pension laws.
There are no data as to wife and children.
This history to be sent if ever called for. It was written just to have a record of negro soldiers.