Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 1535-100, Jedediah Tracy, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Tracy, Jedediah
B.Y.M.E 1535-100
CONTENTS

No. _____
ACT OF Revolution
Received _____, 18____
Jedediah Tracy
Warrant No. 1535
FOR 100 ACRES.

Bounty Land
Bounty Land Office 30th June, 1829.

Bounty L d Office 30th June, 1829.
Bounty L d

Sedediah Tracy N o 1535

State of New York County of Greene } Sp
County of Greene Co. Pa. I Levi Tracy aged seventy five years, Brother, and heir at Law of Sedediah Tracy deceased, do upon oath testify and declare that to my own personal knowledge my brother Sedediah Tracy aforesaid enlisted in the service of the United States in the Connecticut line, about or in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven as a or private musician for the term of "during the war" And further I do believe that my said Brother served in that Regiment of the Connecticut line commanded by Col Meigs, and that he continued in the service aforesaid until the close of the war when he was regularly discharged from the same regiment of the Connecticut line commanded by Colonel Meigs and when he was a musician I do further declare that my said brother died in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety — that he was never married nor had other heirs to his property than his brothers and sisters and further I do believe he has never obtained a Warrant for the Bounty Land promised him on the part of the United States , nor ever assigned his claim in any manner whatsoever In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand this eighteenth day of June one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine Levi Tracy
In the 8th line from the top words "or private" were inserted in my presence before signing also "Notaries" below A. Fleming

We the subscribers do severally on oath declare that we have been long acquainted with Levi Tracy who has subscribed the foregoing declaration in our presence and do well know him to be the identical person he therein represents himself to be; and further we know or do believe the statements made in the said declaration to be strictly true.
Wm Dryer Levi Tremain
State of New York County of Greene } ss
Before me Abner Flowers a Justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid personally appeared Levi Tracy subscriber to the foregoing declaration - also William Dryer and Levi Tremain subscribers to the above certificate of identity all of whom are well known to me to be men of respectability and truth and made solemn oath to the truth of the depositions by them respectively subscribed this eighteenth day of June 1829
A. Flowers J.P.

State of New York County of Greene } ss } p
In testimony that the before written Abner Flowers was a magistrate duly authorized to administer oaths in the State of New York at the foregoing date and that his name there subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature I have hereunto affixed the County seal and subscribed my name at Coalskell this 19 th day of June - 1829 in my capacity as clerk of the County aforesaid
Chas. R. Allen Clerk

Greenville September 1st. 1829
I have received Land Warrant N o 1535 issued from the War Department August 17th 1829 to Levi Tracy brother and the other heirs at law of Jedediah Tracy late a private in the Con- necticut Line of the Army of the Revolution
Lewis Wakeley " "
To the Hon Secretary of War War Department Washington City

From Wm B. Goff respecting the Heirs of Sedediah Tracy
Hartford July 30 Hon.:
John H. Eaton Esquire Secretary of War of the United States City of Washington
John H. Eaton P.O. Box 100 Washington D.C. July 31 1839
Pension 3.0 Aug 4 1839

[Decorative flourish]
To the Hon.
John H. Eaton Esq. Secretary of War of the United States
Dr. Sir Enclosed are the
papers of Rufus Tracy one of the heirs of Judah Tracy late a private in Col. Mige's Regt. Conn. Line - he thinks that Judah Tracy was a Minuteman but did not like to swear to that fact - will you have the goodness to send his Warrant Direct to me - & Oblige Yours -
Wm B. Goff
Herkimer July 29th 1829 -

State of New York Columbia County Surrogates office Certificate &c
To Levi Tracy

State of New York,
Columbia County ss. I certify that satisfactory evidence has been advanced to me to prove that Levi Tracy is Brother and an Heir at Law in fee to Prediah Tracy late a Soldier in the Infantry of the Connecticut line of the Army of the Revolution.
Given under my hand and seal of office at the Surrogate's office in the town of Kinderhook this twenty seventh day of July one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine.
A. J. VAN BUREN Surrogate

To the Hon Secretary of War
Enclosed you will find the application of Levi Tracy for the Military Land due to him and others as the heirs of Sed. edrah Tracy deceased. The present applicant Levi Tracy was personally knowing to his brother Sededrah having enlisted for "during the War" as appears from his declaration and further says that during some part of his service his said brother was a fifer but whether he was such at the close of the War, does not certainly know
Mr Tracy has also preserved and placed in my hands part of an original correspondence with his said brother during his lifetime, together with a letter from his nephew received in the year 1791 containing particulars of his brother's death - his last directions concerning his estate &c These letters are much worn but contain within themselves incontestable evidence that they are genuine and probably do furnish as conclusive proof of his identity as can be had in any case Two of these letters, the one from his nephew and one from those of his deceased brother I transmit enclosed The returns please direct to the applicant at this place With hys resp t
Grenville 26th June 1829
Yours &c Lewis Wakely for Levi Tracy

Wm B Goff
August 4 th 1829
Rev Wm
1535
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Record P358 Vol 8-

War Dept. Bounty Land Office August 14 th 1829
Sir
Your letter to the Sec'y of War, enclosing Papers in support of the Claim of Rufus Tracy, as one of the heirs at law of Sedediah Tracy, who was a Soldier of the Connecticut line, for Bounty Land, is received & referred to this Office - In answer thereto, I have to inform you that a previous Application from another individual for the same Bounty Land, is now on file in this Office
The Certificate of heirship you have sent on, simply states, that Rufus Tracy "is one of the legal and lawful heirs of Sedediah Tracy", under the Circumstances of the Case, it becomes necessary, that Rufus Tracy should, in an authentic manner, state, the degree of relationship in which he stands towards the deceased Sedediah, in order to enable us to render a just decision on the rights of the respective Claimants - I herewith return you the Certificate of heirship, to be replaced by another conforming to the foregoing instructions
Respectfully Yrs
W.G.
M c W. W m B. Goff
Herkimer N. York

From Lewis Wakely on the Claim of Sedediah Tracy
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By L d Office. Revenue Office 8 th Aug r 1824.
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Greenville 4th August 1829
Hon d Secretary of War
Herewith transmit the Surrogates Certificate in the case of Levi Tracy, Heir of Jedediah Tracy of the Connecticut Line. Mr Tracy's Declaration &c, is now at the War Dept. having been forwarded some weeks since Please direct the Returns to me at this place
With high respect Yours
Levi Wakeley