Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42579, John Vaughan, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Vaughan, John.
NUMBER
S 42579
CONTENTS

14.820 L New York
John Vaughan of Winfield in the state of N. York who was a Sergeant in the regiment commanded Colonel Jackson - of the N. Y. S. line, for the term of 8 years
inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 5 - Dollars per month, to commence the 25 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 th of Sep 1819 and sent to Almond Luce Esq. Winfield New York
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1819 $130.66 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Oct 1820 48.
16 mo 10 / 30 $178.66
Continued on the roll Oct 20 { Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. } Amount due as Rev Pen to the 4 Sep 1819. . . . . $130.66 Amount paid as an Inv d pen e at $2 per mo: from the 25 th April 1818 to 4 Sep 1819 — $ 32.66 2 / 3 08
Certificate sent to Almond Luce Esq. 1820 Winfield New York

one) that in the end The Vaugan Application to be Placed on Pension List
John. Vaughan prior Jackson, Mass Reg 1775 to 1783
Service Admitted
In a quo Certificate of the Indegent Cir- cumstances of the applicant wanted Certif on Back -

Memphis, No. 4.
The certificate of Pension, which claimant now holds, must be returned to this Office, before one, under the Law of March 1818 can issue.
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Winnsboro S.C.
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I John Vaughan of the town of Winnsboro in Said County and State of South Carolina having by an act of Congress received a Pension from the United States in consequence of having been wounded on the 7 th of Oct: 1777. At the request of my wife I do hereby relinquish all Claim to Said Pension or any portion thereof from the United States or any individual State in Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal this 25 th day of April 1818
John Vaughan
Jonathan Edgcomb

At the Town of P'keepsie in the County of Dutchess On the 25-day of April 1888 before me Almond Luce one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County. personally appeared John Vaughan aged Twenty One Years resident of said County who being first sworn according to Law doth on his Oath make the following statement in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and naval Service of the United States in the revolutionary War. That I the said John Vaughan enlisted in the Town of P'keepsie in the County of Dutchess in the State of New York in the year 1775. in the Company commanded by Capt. Ephraim Cleveland in Col. M. Jackson's Regiment and that I continued to serve in said Corps and in the said Service of the United States against the Common Enemy until the close of the War at which time was discharged in the Town of Newburgh was in the Battle of St. Johns. White Plains Saratoga and that I am very sedate - Circumstances and stand in need of the assistance of my Country for support and that I have no other income now in my own right than my said Service

John Vaughan
Sworn to and Subscribed the 25-day of April 1818
Almond Luce Judge of Askin Conn Place
I Almond Luce Judge as above stated do Certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said John Vaughan did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the Proceedings Declaration against the Common Enemy and I now transmits the Proceedings and Testimony taken and had before to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the direction of the above mentioned Act of Congress dated and passed the 25 th day of April 1818
Almond Luce Judge of Askin Conn Place

State of New York
Herkimer County ss Peter Raymington of the Town of Winfield County aforesaid being duly sworn saith that he is personally well acquainted with John Vaughan the Applicant above named and has been so acquainted with him the said John Vaugh- an for Ten Years and during that time the said John Vaughan has sustained a good character for truth and veracity and in this deponent's verily believes that full credit ought to be given to the declarations of the said John Vaughan who under Oath Sworn & subscribed before me on this 25-day of April 1878 Almond Lee Judge of Asylum Court Pleas
State of New York
Herkimer County ss I Almond Lee one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid do Certify that I am satisfied that the said John Vaughan served in the Revolutionary war as aforesaid against the Common Enemy for a longer time than Six Months as stated in the affidavit of the said John Vaughan herunto annexed and I do hereby certify that full credit is due to the depositions of the above named Peter Raymington and also that the Evidence on which I have formed my Judgment is contained in the affidavit of the said John Vaughan
Almond Lee

State of New York Herkimer County ss }
I Almond Luce one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Herkimer and State of New York, do hereby certify, that I am well acquainted with John Vaughan the above applicant and know him to be poor, and in very indigent circumstances, and that he comes within the provisions of the act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war. Given under my hand this 20 th day of April 1819 Almond Luce
State of New York Herkimer County ss }
John Vaughan the above applicant being duly sworn deposes and says, that the certificate of pension which he formerly received is lost, that this deponent has not had it in his possession for a number of years, and that this deponent cannot return it to the war department as was required. John Vaughan
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 17 th day of April 1819 Almond Luce Judge of Herkimer Com Pleas

State of New York Herkimer County
I Walter Fish Clerk of the Court of Common pleas in and for said County do hereby certify and make known that the said Court is one of the Courts of Records in said State and that Almon Duce Esquire whose signature is affixed to the foregoing certificate is one of the Judges of said Court In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said court at Herkimer this 9th day of May 1818
Walter Fish Clerk
to it h. d.

John Roughton Certificate of Exemplification
No 24
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14820 7 Sept 1819
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State of New York Wutkins County ss. To. On this 4th day of July One thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty personally appeared in Open Court to wit the court of Common Pleas in and for said County, said Court being a court of Records thus constituted by laws of the said State John Vaughan Agst Seventy Three, resident in the Town of Winfield County aforesaid and who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows that he enlisted in the year 1775 in a company commanded by Captain  in a Regiment commanded by Col Eason in Genl Montgomery 3rd Brigade of the Massachusetts line of Con- tinental Troops and that he afterwards in the year 1777 he enlisted in a company commanded by Captain Ephraim Cleveland in a regiment commanded by Col. Michael Jackson Genl. Arnold, brigade of the afores- aid Line and served under said Enlistment for the said Term of three years and was discharged according to Law, and that he the said John Vaughan did on the twenty fifth day of April 1818 make a Declaration in full of his said Services and did obtain from the War Department a pension Certificate Dated on the Seventh day of September One thousand Eight hundred & Nineteen and numbered with 14820 And I do Solemnly Swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of My property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to Diminish it as to being Myself within the Provisions of the act of Congress Entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Services of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or Security Contracts nor debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto Annexed and by me Subscribed
 Schedule hereunto annexed containing the following described One Sow and two pigs $3 " Use of One Cow yearly hired 3 " One watch the property of My son Ansel 3 " One axe ————— 1 " One scythe and backling ————— 0 50 One hoe 1.9 pail Kettle & 1 Tial Kettle ————— 2 25 Two Iron Wedges & Bettle rings ————— 1 00 Some cooking ware and other kitchen furniture in the whole 5 25 $21 00 

And that I the said John Vaughan have ever been in the Occupation of a Farmer & My infirmities are so great that I am entirely unable to Labour having been disabled by reason of a wound received in the Revolutionary War I have a wife Name Mary Age Sixty Two Years who is Scarcely able very much with the Rheumatism and it is with considerable difficulty she accomplishes the Ordinary business of the family I have a son residing with me, Aged Twenty Years who is the Only person to whom I have to look for the necessaries of life the Said Son is afflicted with pain in his Stomach Supposed to have Originated in time of his having the Measles John Vaughan
The court is of Opinion that the Value of the property enumerated in the foregoing Schedule is twenty One Dollars
W. Willoughby
D Hall
John P. Pundegast Judge
State of New York
Clerk's Office
Herkimer County
I Walter Fish Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid do certify that the foregoing oath & the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the Record of the said Court, and I do further certify that it is the Opinion of the said Court that the total amount in Value of the property Exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is twenty One Dollars In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court On this 13th day of July 1820.
Walter Fish Clerk Of the Court for the County of Herkimer

aw Oct. 22 o 1906 B.H.

Vaughan, John
His name appears on a list of applicants for invalid pension returned by the District Court for the District of New York, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on December 31, 1794, and printed in the American State Papers class 9, pages 145 and 172.
Rank: Sergeant,
Regt: Col. Brooks's
Disability: Wounded by a ball, which passed through his body.
When and where disabled: October, 1777, Bunker's Heights.
Residence: Hudson, county of Columbia.
Enlisted April 24, 1777: joined invalids December 9, 1779.
Evidence incomplete, viz: No evidence of examining physician to prove the nature and degree of his disability: no evidence when or how he left the service.
On page 172 it is stated that the evidence had been completed. See List of 1835 Harkness Co. 7711, act 1818 p. 158.

Rev. and 1812 War Section. S. 42579
Ans
May 18, 1926
Mrs. F. W. Redhead 31 Vine St Ashtabula, Ohio
Madam:
I have to advise you from the records of this Bureau, it appears that John Vaughan enlisted at Partridgefield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts in 1775 in Colonel Easton's Regiment (Captain not stated), General Montgomery's Third Brigade of the Massachusetts Line, and was in the battles of St. Johns, and White Plains, length of service not stated.
He enlisted April 24, 1777 and served as sergeant in Captain Ephraim Cleaveland's Company, Colonel Michael Jackson's Regiment, October 7, 1777 at the battle of Bemis Heights, he was wounded by a ball, which passed through his body; December 9, 1779, he was transferred to the corps of Invalids and continued in service until the close of the war, when he was discharged at Newburgh.
He was allowed pension on account of disability,

resulting from the above mentioned wound, from September 4, 1793.
In 1820, soldier was a resident of Winfield, Herkimer County, New York, and stated that he was seventy-three years of age, his wife, Mary, was sixty-two years old, and son, Ansel, was twenty years old.
Soldier died June 23, 1842.
There is no further data on file as to family.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.

John Vaughan has lost his old pension certificate -
Sergeant
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MRS. F. W. REDHEAD 31 VINE STREET ASHTABULA, OHIO
Mar. 19 1926.
The Pension Bureau Rev. War.
Can you give me any material concerning the Rev. War. records of John Stafford listed as a pensioner in N.Y.
state in 1820. Also of John Vaughn who was a pensioner in N.Y. sergeant service in Mass.
Yours sincerely Hettie Stafford Redhead. D. A. R. 196483.

42 579 INVALID.
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42.579
John Vaughan Day Rev. Dr.
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1914 Oct. 16 Hist. to Hon. Roy O. Woodruff & 1914 Oct. 17 Do and for date of death, last payment of pension & to whom paid. & 1926 May 18 Hist to Mrs. J. W. Redhead

Rev. War Section Division. S. File No. 42,579 John Vaughan Mass. Troops Rev. War.
J. S. C. Ex'r.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Washington, D. C., October 17, 1904.
SIR:
For use in the above-entitled claim for pension, you are requested to furnish this Bureau with a report in the case of
John Vaughan, Sergt. Mass. troops, pensioned under the Act of Mch. 18, 1818, by certificate No. 14,820 issued Sept. 7, 1819 at the Albany, N. Y. Agency, showing date of soldier's death, last payment of his pension and to whom it was paid.
Very respectfully,
E. P. Sieman Acting Commissioner.
THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT,
Treasury Department.

OFFICE OF AUDITOR FOR INTERIOR DEPARTMENT IN REPLYING QUOTE INITIALS
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
WASHINGTON
November 17, 1914.
The Commissioner of Pensions.
Sir:
In reply to your letter of the 17th ult. (Rev. War Section) you are informed that, according to the latest account rendered by the U. S. Pension Agent, at Albany, N. Y., the records of this office show last payment to have been made to John Vaughan, Sergt., War Rev., certificate No. 14820, at $ 8.00 per month. to June 23, 1842, the date of his death, to Timothy Fitch, attorney for John W. Vaughan, administrator.
Letter herewith returned.
Respectfully,
[Handwritten signature: J. M. W. Valley] Auditor. [Handwritten initials: mfe] [Handwritten signature: R.] Deputy Auditor.
By

ROY O. WOODRUFF 10 TH DIST. MICH.
Rev. War House of Representatives U. S. Washington, D. C.
October 12, 1914.
Hon. Gaylord H. Saltzgaber, Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
My dear Mr. Commissioner:
I enclose herewith a request from H. A. Wolff, of Muskegon, Michigan, for the Revolutionary War record of John Vaughan, who was at one time a pensioner.
From the data given therein, I trust you will find it possible to locate the record in question and give it to me in full as shown by your books.
Thanking you for your usual prompt attention, I am
Very truly yours,
Roy O. Woodruff
Mr Wolff's enclosure was returned to M.C. He requested a Sgt. pensioned for wounds, who was at Burgoyne's surrender. Col. at Partridgefield, born Feb. 20, 1745 - died in 1827

REV. WAR SECTION
OCT 1 6 1914
PENSION BUREAU

enlisted April 24, 1777, as a Sergeant in Captain Ephraim Cleaveland's company, Colonel Michael Jackson's regiment, and on October 7, 1777, at the battle of Bemis Heights he was wounded by a ball which passed through his body; on December 9, 1779, he was transferred to the corps of invalids and continued in the service until the close of the war when he was discharged at Newburgh. October 16, 1914.
Hon. Roy O. Woodruff,
House of Representatives.
My dear Mr. Woodruff:-
In response to your letter dated the twelfth and received the fifteenth instant, requesting information for H. A. Wolff of Mushegon, Michigan, I have the honor to advise you that the records of this Bureau show that John Vaughan, (Sur. File No. 42579 Rev. War) enlisted at Partridgefield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, in 1775 in Colonel Easton's regiment (Captain not stated), General Montgomery's Third brigade of the Massachusetts line, and was in the battles of St. Johns and White Plains; that he enlisted April 24, 1777, as a Sergeant in Captain Ephraim Cleaveland's company, Colonel Michael Jackson's regiment, and on October 7, 1777, at the battle of Bemis Heights he was wounded by a ball which passed through his body; on December 9, 1779, he was transferred to the corps of invalids and continued in the service until the close of the war when he was discharged at Newburgh.

John Vaughan was allowed a pension on account of his wound from September 4, 1793.
In 1820 he was a resident of Winfield, Herkimer County New York, and stated that he was seventy-three years of age, his wife many Mary was sixty-two years and son Ansel was twenty years of age. He d June 23. 1842
There is no further family data on file.
For the date of the soldier's death and name of the person to whom the arrears of his pension were paid, application should be made to the Auditor for the Interior Department, U. S. Treasury Department, giving him all of the following data: "John Vaughan Certificate No. 14820, issued September 7, 1819, for $8 per month from April 25, 1818, under the Act of March 18, 1818, at the Albany New York Agency".
Very truly yours,
E. C. Tienan
Acting Commissioner.