Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11,944, Joseph York, N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
N. H.
York, Joseph
R 11,944
CONTENTS

8959 Joseph York
Rejected
5.16.17
28 th Nov. 1832
5109
James H. Wright Angelica Alleghany Co N.Y.
York, Joseph N.H. R#1944

8959
BRIEF in the case of  Joseph York  of  Cuba  in the State of  New York  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? a judge  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? yes  3. How old is he? 76 years  4. State his service as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days,     Enlisted In 1775. afterwards 5 As a Gen. Washington Gen. Putnam Gen. Greene Gen. Shelton Gen. Clinton Gen. Wayne Gen. St. Clair Gen. McArthur Gen. Harbor Gen. Dearborn Gen. Scott Gen. W. H. Harrison Gen. Tippecanoe Gen. Madison Gen. Monroe Gen. Adams Gen. Quincy Gen. Van Buren Gen. Polk Gen. Taylor Gen. Fillmore Gen. Pierce Gen. Fremont Gen. Winfield Scott Gen. John C. Fremont Gen. John C. Calhoun Gen. James Buchanan Gen. Abraham Lincoln Gen. Andrew Johnson Gen. Ulysses S. Grant Gen. Rutherford B. Hayes Gen. James A. Garfield Gen. Chester A. Arthur Gen. Benjamin Harrison Gen. William McKinley Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Gen. William H. Taft Gen. Woodrow Wilson Gen. Warren G. Harding Gen. Calvin Coolidge Gen. Herbert C. Hoover Gen. Franklin D. Roosevelt Gen. Harry S. Truman Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower Gen. John F. Kennedy Gen. Lyndon B. Johnson Gen. Richard M. Nixon Gen. Gerald R. Ford Gen. Jimmy Carter Gen. Ronald Reagan Gen. George H. W. Bush Gen. Bill Clinton Gen. George W. Bush Gen. Barack Obama Gen. Donald Trump   Enlisted 1776 2 -   Enlisted 1777. 2  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? None stated  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? not stated  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
W. H. Harrison
Examining Clerk.

8959 Joseph York pension papers
on rolls. Rollers Hugh Ashley, comp. - 11 days in '77

State of New York
Allegany County ss on this twenty seventh day of August one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared before Adm S. Allen Esquire a Judge of the court of the court of Common Pleas of the county of Allegany State of New York at his of- fice in the village of Angelica in the said county Joseph York a resident of the town of Cuba in the said county of Allegany aged seventy six years. Who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following decla- ration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers shown as herein stated.
That he enlisted as a Minute man to turn out when ever he & his associate might be called for at the town of Claremont in the state of New Hampshire (County of Cheshire) in the month of April January one thousand seven hundred & seventy six five that in the month of January one seven hundred & seventy six he was called out & his company marched to Montreal under the command of a com- pany Committee chosen by the company. when he arrived at Montreal they found a garrison left as he was informed by Genl Montgomery. but who commenced is he can not now recollect. that his company was informed his company must choose a Captain or that they could not draw provisions & that they then chose Samuel Wellesley Captain and that his election was ratified by the commanding officer or officers. that he was marched under the command

of the said Samuel Withers to Quebec & then that the said company was annexed to the Regiment under the command of Colonel Seth Warner & that he remained at Quebec until as he believes the sixth of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and and that the part of the American Army there then commenced their retreat under Genl Thomas, that he was marched up the St Lawrence to St Johns, that from thence his company of this  they made the best of their way home, that during the time he was in the Army as aforesaid he was under the command of Genl Benedict Arnold, that he saw Genl Worcester & Major Brown & garrison when the British set it on fire, that he then served a few days over five months & that he has no documentary evidence nor knows of no person living who can testify to his service as aforesaid - at Johns that his company was dismissed at Montreal boats were formed then to cross the Lake Champlain -
And this deponent he further declares that he a second time entered the service of the United States by enlisting in the Militia in the State of New Hampshire in the month of September one thousand eight hundred and seventy six for the term of two months that he was marched to Ticonderoga and that he remained at Ticonderoga for two months that he was in the Regiment commanded by Col Benjamin Bellows & in a company commanded by Capt Oliver Ashley, that the company was dismissed at Ticonderoga & returned home - that he enlisted at the Town of Claremont aforesaid & that he has no documentary evidence nor knows of

any person living who can testify to his Service as of oresaid -
that in the month of June one thousand Seven hundred & Seventy Seven he again entered the Service of the United States at the Town of Claremont of oresaid. by enlisting in the Militia of New Hampshire in a Regiment commanded by Col Benjamin Bellows and in a Company commanded by Capt Oliver Ashley for the term of two months. that he was again Marched to Ticonderoga the garrison of which was then commanded by Genl Arthur H. Clair. that he remained at Ticonderoga & Mount Independence until the retreat of the garrison. that he was discharged with his company at White Creek that he served two months and that he knows of no person living who can testify to his Service nor has he any documentary evidence and 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 & Subscribed the day & year of oresaid -
Joseph L. York

State of New York Albany County ss. We Thomas M c Elhany of the Town of Haight in said county Justice of the peace & Post Master & Jacob Baldwin of Cuba in said county do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Joseph York who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy six years of age, that he is reputed & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion & we further certify that no clergyman resides in the neighbourhood of the said Joseph York
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Tho s M c Elhany
Jacob Baldwin
And I the said Aba S c Allen judge as aforesaid does hereby certify that the said Joseph York is sick & infirm & resides at some eighteen or twenty miles from where the said Court is held & that I believe he would not be able to attend the said Court -
And I the said judge, do hereby declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states and I the said judge, do further certify that it appears to me that Thomas M c Elhany who has signed the preceding certificate is a

resident of the Town of Haight in the county of Allegany that Jacob Baldwin who has signed the same is a resident of the Town of Cuba in the county of foresaid and that they are both credible persons that their statement is entitled to credit. & further that no clergyman resides near the said Joseph York. & I the said judge do further certify that the foregoing are the original proceedings had before me in the matter of the application of Joseph York for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 30 th day of August 1832
Lea Allen Judge of Common Pleas of Allegany County

State of New York Allegany County Clerk's office } I, Hudson W. Sherman Clerk of the county of Allegany & Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County do hereby certify that Asa C. Allen before the within proceed- ings purports to have been instituted is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County & that I am acquainted with his handwriting & that his signature subscribed to the within declaration  proceedings certificate is his proper handwriting & Witness my hand & seal of office this 31 st day of August 1832. J. W. Sherman

State of New York } ss County of Allegany }
On this 28 th day of Aug 1833 personally appeared Cuba before Josiah Utter a judge of the court of common pleas in and for the said county of Allegany Joseph York a resident of the Town of Cuba in the county and state aforesaid aged Seventy six years who being first duly sworn according to law, etc. on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
Born 1756 That He was born at Stonington in Connecticut on the 6 th day of September 1756 — In the fall of 1768 his Father whose name was Joseph moved with his family from that place to Claremont in New Hampshire where he died about the year '90
first 1776 In 1775 being then a resident with his Father in the 19 th year of his age he enlisted in the service of the united states as a minute man in the militia of the state of New Hampshire at Claremont under the authority of Capt. Oliver Attky. Joseph Hubbard acted as Lieutenant and Samuel Hubbard ensign. They all lived in Claremont and acted as a town committee of safety (Merrimack County)
In the month of January '76 on the receipt of the news of the failure of Genl. arms at Quebec under Arnold and Montgomery he was called into actual service. Mustered at Charlestown an adjoining town in N.H. and marched immediately under the above named officers in a deep snow through Springfield, Saltas, Cavendish & Rutland in Vermont thence down the Otter creek crossed Lake Champlain on the ice and went to St Johns. There made choice of Samuel Wetherby for Capt. from thence marched through Chamblee to Montreal where he staid four days and thence to Quebec where he arrived on or about the first of February — ensuing
Was first stationed two or three miles from the plains of Abraham under Col. Seth Warner of Vermont. General Arnold was then in command but was afterward succeeded by General Wooster — Thinks it was about the first of March when he with much of his company as were able to do duty were sent eight miles down the St Lawrence and stationed there as an advance guard but were soon ordered back by General Wooster and was then stationed near that General as his body guard
On the 6 th of May left the plains of Abraham by order of General Thomas who had succeeded Wooster in command and

marched to Claremont in nearly the same route on which he went - At St Johns met Col Starks regiment and recognized many of his officers and men among whom was Lt Col Poor of N.H. Arrived home at Claremont on the 27th day of June - Was gone and in actual service probably over five months but surely five months during which time he was not employed in any civil pursuit. Remembers to have seen Lieut Col Joseph Wait and Capt Jason Wait of N.H. at Dubec also Major Brown Brown of Connecticut who in understood went with Arnold across the mountains - On the receipt of the news of Arnold's flight
on Lake Champlain On September following again volunteered and went into the service of the U.S. Mustered at Claremont in the militia of New Hampshire and immediately marched for Ticonderoga through nearly the same route as before. Benjamin Billings of Walpole Col. Samuel Hunt of Charlestown Lt. Col. John Billings of Walpole Major. Oliver Ashley Capt. Samuel Ashley first Lieut. and Asahel Jones 2nd Lieut. (the last were of Claremont).
Was stationed at Mount Independence opposite Ticonderoga (General Gates being in command) and assisted in building a fort at that place called "Pike's fort". Marched from there in the fore part of November following back the same route to Claremont and was discharged about the middle of the same month. Was in actual service this tour two months during which time he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
While he was at Ticonderoga (or Mt. Independence) frequently saw Col Starks of N.H. and his Regiment - Remembers Capt Jason Wait and his company were there in Starks regt.
Early in the Spring of '77 he thinks in April again volunteered under the same officers Mustered at Claremont + marched on the usual route for Ticonderoga in the militia of N.H. Stationed in the fort on the Ticonderoga side of the neck (General St Clair in command) till the 6th day of July at which time the army under that general retreated and surrendered the garrison to the enemy.
On the 7th his company after marching and countermarching agreeable to the orders of General St Clair between the battle ground on the hill of Hubbardton and Castleton arrived at Rutland at evening and the next day went southwardly toward White Creek and on the 9th marched with his regiment for N.H. through Clarendon and some part of the same route above described. Was discharged at Claremont about the 20th July - Thinks he must have been

in actual service this town nearly three months but but will say only two months during which time he was not employed in any civil pursuit This year Peter of N. H. mentioned above as Lieut Col under Stark acted as a brigadier general & he frequently saw him at Ticonderoga
From this time to the close of the war nothing his name was constantly entered as a minute man at Claremont so that although he expended much time and money in equipping & drilling he still the duration of his services for which he claims a pension is nine months and no more. Continued in Clare- mont till in March 1784 when having a small family he moved to Randolph in Vermont and from there in 1810 to Hurstetta near Rochester in this state and from thence to Cuba in 1824
Thinks he never had a written discharge from the service and if he had it is long since gone from him
Has no documentary evidence unless his name can be found on the rolls of the militia of the state of New Hampshire as above stated nor does he know of any person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and desires that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid at the Town of Cuba aforesaid before me
Josiah Utter Judge of Court Pleas of Allegany County
State of New York Allegany County Clerk's Office
I Judson W. Sherman clerk of the said County of Allegany and also clerk of the court of common pleas of the same do hereby certify that Josiah Utter before whom the above Affidavit purports to have been taken is a judge of the said court and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and that his signature hereunto subscribed is his own proper hand writing
Witness my hand and seal of office this 25 day of
June 1833
J W Sherman

We Abraham Folsom a clergyman residing in the said town of Cuba in the county & state aforesaid and John Griffin a member of the senate of the state of New York of the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Joseph York who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be Seventy six years of age; that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion Abraham Folsom Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid at Cuba
in the State of New York before me Josiah Utter Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegany County The State of New York Allegany county Clerks Office I Hudson M Sherman clerk of the said court of common pleas of the said county do hereby certify that Josiah Utter is a judge of the said court and I know the above to be his own proper signature Witness my hand and seal office
I the said Josiah Utter judge as aforesaid do hereby certify that the above named Joseph York is confined to his house by reason of sickness and old age and in my opinion he is not nor never will be able to attend our county courts which are at all times held about twenty miles from his place of residence
Dated at Cuba this 20th day of May 1833
And I the said judge do hereby declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter and after perusing the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named ap- plicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and I the said judge do further cer- tify that it appears to me that Abraham Folsom who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman residing in the town of Cuba aforesaid & that John Griffin who has also signed the same

John Griffin who has also signed the same
is a resident in the same place and a member of the Senate of this state and a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit - And I the said judge do further certify that the foregoing are the original proceedings had before me in the matter of the application of Joseph Cook for a pension in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 28 th day of May 1833
before me
Josiah Utter Judge of Common Pleas of Allegany County
State of New York } Allegany county clerk } Office Ye
I Jason W Sherman clerk of of the said county of Allegany & also clerk of the court of common pleas of the same do hereby certify that Josiah Utter before whom the within proceedings purport to have been instituted is a judge of the court of common pleas of the
said county and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and that his signature - subscribed in three different places to the within proceedings is in his proper hand writing - Witness my hand and seal of Office this 25 th day of June 1833
J W Sherman Clerk

State of New York Albany County
On this 22 nd day of June 1855 personally appeared before me John Paver, a justice of the peace of the said county of Albany at my office in the town of Cebu Jeremiah Parrish of the town of Farnersville in the county of Cattaraugus and state of New York who being duly sworn deposes and saith that he is seventy four years of age - That in the year 1786 he lived in the town of Bethel in the state of Vermont and then became acquainted with the above named Joseph York who lived in about four miles from him in Randolph an adjoining town in the same state - That he has been intimately acquainted with him ever since - That he was always reputed and believed to have been a soldier of the Revolution -
And further this deponent saith on hearing the declaration of the said Joseph York which is herewith attached that he distinctly remembers to have heard the said Joseph York state many of the circumstances related in the said declaration frequently and at different periods of time since his acquaintance with him and he always believed them to be true and still believes that he served in the war of the Revolution as stated in his said declaration.
Jeremiah Parrish
Sworn and subscribed the day and year first above written before me at my office in Cebu John Paver, justice
And I the said justice hereby certify that it appears to me that the said Jeremiah Parrish who has subscribed and sworn to the above is seventy four years of age - a respectable citizen of the town of Farnersville in the county of Cattaraugus and state of New York and that his statements are in all respects entitled to credit Dated at Cebu 22 nd June 1855
John Paver, justice

N ew York Albany County Clerk's Office
Judson W Sherman Clerk of the said county of Albany do hereby certify that John Pavers before whom the above affidavit of Wilhelm Por- -risto purports to have been taken is a justice of the peace in the
Town of Cuba in the said county of Albany that I am acquainted with his hand writing and that his signature subscribed thereto is in his own proper hand writing.
Witness my hand and seal of office this 25th day of June 1833 J W Sherman Clk
All communications to be directed to Daniel Raymond or Cuba Albany County NYork To J S Edward Esqr Esqr of Pensions
In I have sent both of Mr Yorks declarations. The first was inserted as Anglican till after the other was made out - Should not have sent back the first one now if I could find the letter which came with it which it appears Mr Haight his former atty has lost - You will by perusing both of them which were made at different periods & places perceive but one small variation in his story The first says he was discharged with his company at or near Secondarogueso, in the last he says he was dis- charged at Clarmount - His explanation is that his company was discharged as first stated but he was not dis- charged from the company till they arrived at Clarmount

You will also notice that the County Clerk has not filled up one blank left for him so to do - This was not noticed till I rec d the papers back to curfew from his office which is 20 miles distant - as his seal is on the same sheet in another place certifying the the same thing there included to be shown again I conclude it will not be required
I am Respectfully yrs &c
Daniel Raymond

Power of Attorney to Examine Papers
Joseph York Rev. Lucia's dmn and Elsa York, Wid dmn N. G. Suckmard Roll
I desire to examine papers in both cases
J. G. Austin attney
McGill May 4/52

Know all men by these presents, That I Betsey Baldwin of the county of Albany and State of New York have constituted and appointed, and by these presents do constitute and appoint James G. Austin of Washington City, my true and lawful attorney, irrevocably for me and in my name to receive from the United States all such sum or sums of money as may be due me on any account whatsoever,
To examine the Pension papers on file at the city of Washington at the pension office, in relation to the Revolutionary claim of my late father, Joseph Lock, and of my late mother Elsa Lock, and to prosecute the said claim until the same shall be allowed.
And I do hereby Revoke all other powers of attorney in the premises
and in my name to execute such receipts and acquittances for the same as may be necessary, and generally to do all lawful acts and things touching the premises; and an attorney or attorneys under him for the purposes aforesaid, to make and at his pleasure to revoke; hereby confirming all and whatsoever my said attorney shall lawfully do or cause to be done in the premises, by virtue of these presents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 25 th day of March 185 2
Betsey Baldwin 
State of New York } to wit: County of Albany }
On this 23 rd day of March 185 2 at Cohoes in said County, personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, and acknowledged the above power of attorney to be her act and deed for the purposes therein expressed
S. B. Lown J. P.
State of New York } to wit: County of Albany }
I hereby certify that S. B. Lown Esq., before whom the above acknowledgment was made, and who has hereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the County Court, for the County aforesaid, this 30 th day of April A.D., 185 2 .
John J. Rockefeller Clerk.

REJECTED
11.949
P. O.
Joseph York
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Cor
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____,

Let to J. L. Lynde. June 25. '40
Rev. New York
Rejected
act 7 Jan '32
letter 12 Oct '33
To
J. S. Haight
Hon. A. Smith cap 10 1841. at 100 Lynde  Anglo-Saxon

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abt 7 June 18...

FREE
J. S. Gilmore Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D.C. (on behalf of the author of the work)
Free

Warsaw N. York June 5. 1844
Hon S. H. Giddings Sir
Some few days since I troubled You with a short communication relative to the Pension claim of Mrs Tombs widow of James Tombs deceased who was a Pensioner of the United States
Will You permit me to trespass upon Your patience again with a short communication in behalf of another revolutionary widow
Joseph York served in the New Hampshire militia 5 months in 75. 2 months in 76. & 11. days in 77. as will appear from his declaration on file in the pension office
Mrs York his widow has applied to me to aid her in obtaining a pension but her memory is so far off that she cannot remember the names of the officers under whom he served neither the places of service. All she can state is that he served and resided at the time at Claremont N. H. The name of Mr York is not borne on the rolls except for the lost service of 11. days.
You will see at once the perfect impracticability of my prosecuting her claim with any prospect of success until I can be informed on these points
Will You do me the kindness to go to the pension office and examine the declaration of Mr York. and inform me where the alleged services in 75. 76. & 77. were rendered and the officers under whom he served at each particular period and confer a great favor upon the old Lady
Most respectfully Yours
C. S. Lynde

Wassa N.Y. June 18. 1844
J. L. Edwards Esq. Dear Sir,
In answer to your favor of the 12 th inst. I would state that Joseph York was not a pensioner but an applicant for a pension and resided at the time of his application and death at Cuba Allegany Co. New York. Mr. York died shortly after his application for a pension. Your early answer is desired.
Very Respectfully Yours S. A. L. Synde
1844

Washington City June 10. 1844
Sir
I herewith enclose to you a letter from Mr Lynde. Will you have the goodness, to answer the inquiries of consistent with your practice directed to him at Waverly New York. as I may leave the City before you will answer this. Very respectfully A. Smith
J. L. Edwards Esq