Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 768, Jesse Upson, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
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Upson, Jesse
8768
CONTENTS
Barded

New Jersey 9887.
Jesse Upson of Morris Co in the State of N. J. who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Porter of the Reg t commanded by _____ in the Militia line for Conn. 16 1/2 months
Inscribed on the Roll of N. J. at the rate of 55. Dollars a Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24. day of June 1833. and delivered to Condit - present
Arrears to the 14th of March 1833 - 110. 00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept r " - 27. 50
$ 137 50.
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Francis T. Fancion Clerk. Book E, Vol. 3 d Page 134.

Declaration de of Ipsa Upson
No 4. 664
claims for 18 mo.
Respectful
he does not specify from whom received
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The Statement of Jesse Upson who says he performed Service as a Soldier in the Revolutionary War who claims a Pension under the act of Congress passed the 7th June 1832 for the relief of certain Surviving officers and Soldiers of the Revolution made out by himself. I was born in the State of Connecticut in the County of Litchfield and Town of Plymouth on the 27th day of May 1756 according to the record kept by my Parents of the births of all their Children which was ten in number which record I have by me and I lived in that Town until peace was made with England except what time I was in the service of the United States and after that except one year I lived in the Town of Bristol in the County of Hartford and in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty five in February I came into the State of New Jersey into the County of Morris and Township of Mendham where I have lived ever since and where I now live and I was Seventy six years old the twenty seventh day of last May. In the latter end of the year of Seventeen hundred and seventy five in December or January Seventeen hundred and seventy six there was a Sergeant I think and several Privates was drafted out of the militia company in which I belonged and I was one we was to join a company at Watertown in Sussex County Commanded by Capt Pater of that place and Bronson of the same place was the Lieut and after joining the company we marched to Fairfield a Town in Connecticut on the water called the Sound which divides Long Island from Connecticut for what purpose I did not find out then nor have I since but such was the case and I do not recollect of any other militia being there except Capt Partus Company and after lying there some time I can't say how long I think two or three weeks and we all went home by Waparilus I know not but we was not dismissed I remember right but to be ready to march when called upon and in a short time we was called to New York and went a cross the east River on to the west end of Long Island now called Brookline and I think we must have been there about ten weeks we stayed longer than we was to by the request of Lord Shelburne who commanded there for the Troops which he expected had not yet arrived and the Asia and Phoenix two British Ships of war lay at the narrows and after his Troops arrived we returned home I think the first part of May in the year 1776 New York was said to be 100 miles from the Town where I lived and when we was near there we went from Watertown through Derby Fairfield Norwalk and Stamford and over what was called Kings Bridge and when we returned home we went by water up the Long Island Sound to New Haven within forty miles of where I lived Soon after my return home Capt David Smith and Lieut Schenck Prayce had been raising a company called State Troops to serve for either nine or eleven months they was to serve until the next February in 1777 and my Brother took three years younger than I was and a boy had enlisted and wished me to and I found that a number of my neighbours were going and the Capt and Lieut and two of the Sergeants belonging to the same Town I did I enlisted we soon marched through Litchfield New Britain Torrington etc to Greenbush the east side of the North River a little below and South east from Albany there we joined the Regiment called the Connecticut Regiment Commanded by one Elmer who was Col and one Colkin was the Major and after the Regiment was complet and the Troops had all come in that was expected we received orders to go to New York and was put a board of Sloops and sailed for that purpose but after sailing a few hours we received orders to stop and return to Albany and we encamped on the hills west of Albany and after lying there three or four weeks we were ordered to the German flats we march to Schenectady and up the Mohawk River to the flats the North side of the Mohawk and we remained there for some time perhaps three or four weeks until Col Dayton who commanded a Jersey Regiment was ordered from Fort Schuyler some times called Fort Stanwix which he had been repairing and building some Barracks was ordered to Pelsenville and our Regiment ordered to take his place we marched there and completed the Barracks which was partly built and in November or latter part of October

when our company was ordered to the German flats the South side of the Mohawk to guard a fort and there we remained until the first of February 1777 the time for which we enlisted we received our pay which was five and sixty Dollars per month in continental money which was then equal to gold and silver and we returned home without any written discharge and that was all the pay that I ever received for services rendered to my Country in the Revolution that I can recollect of a Man by the name of Hughs was Second Lieut in our company Timothy Tuttle Samuel Shaw Aaron Matthews and John Peck was our Sergeants
In the latter part of the next March that is in 1777 the Captain of the company in which I belonged was drafted and a part of this company and I was one of them as it might have been the forpart of the April to go to Peks- kill about eighty miles from where I lived we marched through Woodbury New Town Danbury and Salem to the Peks-kill where we served two months according to the best of my recollection I do not remember the name of the Colonel who commanded the Regiment of Militia troops but there was some Conti- nental troops there and General McDougle was commander of the whole Three things took place while we lay there one was there was two Men that belonging to the continental line there came was said to be deserters but they never owned it but denied it to the last and I always thought they were wrongfully executed but be that as it may the Melancholy Sight left a lasting impression on my mind another was while we lay there General Tryon with about two thousand British troops marched to Danbury and burnt the stores with all their contents and a part of the houses in the Town and made their way back this took place the latter part of April the other was I had a severe turn of the Pleurisy while there so that I was not able to go home when our time of service was out my father came after me and took me home and I did not recover my health until some time in August when the fever and chough left me so that I was able to do business and in the latter part of September following the militia received orders to make their most speedy way to the Peks-kill every officer and soldier the best of their way until here reach there and our Clergyman who was a great whig and a very able headed Man led us on almost night and day until we arrived at the place appointed and he stayed as long as any of us and how long that was I cannot tell but I think the militia was detained until after Sopus was burnt Burgoyne taken and the British returned to New-York I cannot recollect who commanded there and after that I had no particular time of service the militia was often called out upon sudden emergencies but not to stay long at any one time I remember being called to New-Haven when the British landed there but we could not have been gone long not above twelve or fifteen days for the British did not stay long there I have no distinct recollection about any other times of service I think I must have served full eighteen months or more in the whole I do not know of any Person living who was with me in any of the foregoing services my Brother who was with me in the State service and younger than myself has been dead above twenty years so that it is entirely out of my power to make any proof except my own affidavit of the foregoing services our discharges without certificate
State of New-Jersey } On the 26th day of July A.D 1832 - Personally County of Morris } appeared in Open Court before William Brissell Stephen Dail the judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the county of Morris now sitting Jesse Pison resident of the Town of Mendham in the County of Morris and State New- Jersey aged Seventy six years last May who being first duly sworn said under oath doth on his oath declare and say that the foregoing statement made out and taken down by himself in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the 7th of June 1832 is true according to the best of his knowledge recollection and belief 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 and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Stephen Vail "
Jesse Upson
We Daniel Drake and Thomas Homan residing in the same Town County and State hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the Jesse Upson and have been for more than forty years who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be sixty five years of age that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides to be a Man of truth and integrity and from his own statement and affidavit we believe him to have been a Soldier of the revolution
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Daniel Drake
Stephen Vail "
Thos. H. Homan
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investiga- tion 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 Daniel Drake and Thomas Homan who have signed the preceding certificate are residents in the Township of Mendham County of Morris and State aforesaid and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit
William Britton
Stephen Vail
I David Day Clerk of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Morris do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the origin- al proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of said Jesse Upson for a pension In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of office this 28th day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two
David Day Clk

I do hereby certify to the Secretary of War, that I have been personally & intimately acquainted with J pe Upson Esq r the within applicant, ever since the year 1795. That he has uniformly sustained an unblemished character in all the walks of life - is universally respected & esteemed by all who have known him. I feel the most perfect & entire belief of the truth of his declaration, knowing that in a matter which relates to his own personal views, he would sooner undervalue than over rate them. For many years he has been, & still is, one of the judges of our Common Pleas Court - was the sole representative of Morris County in the Legislative Council of N. Jersey, for some 10 or 12 years, & for several successive years, the Vice President & Presiding officer of that body. - Public confidence in his integrity & purity, is not in the least degree diminished, as I firmly believe. Morris town, N. Jersey, Aug t 15 th 1832.
Lewis Condict one of the Representatives from N. Jersey.
I have been acquainted with J pe Upson for more than thirty years and can fully confirm all that Doctor Condict has said in his favor - indeed I do not know a man in whom more entire confidence - August 20 th 1832.
Nathaniel Dickerson.
(Mr. Dickerson - the Senator from N.J.)

State of New-Jersey Morris County } p
Be it known that on this 31 st day of May 1833
before the subscriber a Justice of Peace in the County aforesaid personally came Jesse Epsom well known to me as a man of good standing for integrity and veracity in the County and being duly sworn saith that he is the same Jesse Epsom who made and subscribed the annexed Declaration before the Court of Common Pleas of said County on the 28 th day of July 1832 for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the act of Congress of June 7 th 1832. That at the time of making said Declaration I had no written memoranda nor have I any now but I endeavored then to reflect well on the subject and so I have since and according to the best of my recollections knowledge and belief in the time spent and services rendered to the United States in the revolutionary war was as follows. The first time of duty as stated in my Declaration was in the month of December 1775 under Capt. Porter to Fairfield that is I left home I believe in December and from that time until I returned was one month the next time was upon Long Island under the same officers and from the time we left home until we were dismounted I surely believe was eleven weeks for I am confident we served upon the Island ten weeks then after my return home and finding Capt. Smith had enlisted a company called State Troops which has always rested upon my mind were for eleven months and I still believe it to be the fact. what time in the year 1776 we were dismounted on the Island I cannot precisely ascertain the weather was moderate and I do not recollect that farmers had begun their Spring ploughing so that I do expect it must have been the first of April and shortly after my return from the Island I enlisted under Capt. Smith I believe within a week or ten days for I think he had mustered his company and was ready to march when ordered and we were soon marched to Greenbush and joined the Regiment and served at the different places stated in my former in my former Declaration until the first of February 1777 when we were finally dismissed two hundred miles from home to get home the best way we could upon our own expense but we were paid as stated and from the time I was first called into the service in December 1775 until the first of February 1777 I was in the service of the United States doing duty as a private soldier full thirteen months and in the Spring of the same year 1777 I performed a tour of duty under Capt. Coates at the Poughkeepsie two months; I am clear in that from the circumstances mentioned in my former Declaration which would make fifteen months service; then in the fall following in the same year I performed a rather tour of service at the Poughkeepsie but the exact time I served I feel more at a loss about this than the one at Poughkeepsie but from the circumstances which called us there made it necessary that we should remain there for sometime. The British when they started up the North River to meet Burgoyne soon began their depredations and the Militia was called to guard the stores the inhabitants and their property the British kept up their devastations on the North River until after Burgoyne was taken and General Gates moved forward with his army in order to stop their career, they hearing of it and the fate of Burgoyne, they returned to New-York and I think at the least calculation have taken one month which will make my services fourteen months the whole of the Militia being called into actual service for eighty miles east of the North River which was the distance from

where I lived to the Fishkills would form a line from New York to the Fishkills the Capt and all the officers of our company were there and they commanded us but who commanded them I cannot tell The next time of duty was at Newhaven the British landed there and the Militia was called and our company went to Newhaven the British did not tarry long in the Town but they did not move off immediately with their shipping if I remember right my belief is that from the time we marched from home until we returned was two weeks which added to my 148 services at different times before makes sixteen and Months and a half the Militia was often called upon, the British would attempt to land at some of the Sea ports and the Militia would be rallied and march but before they reached the place the British would be off and the Militia return home: one thing I am sure of that is I never was called upon to do Military duty in the revolution but what I did it and cheerfully to but the above sixteen Months and a half is all that I can specify although my impression has been and still are that I served as a private Soldier in the revolutionary contest full eighteen Months but as I cannot specify any more particular times then I have done I shall leave it as it is. If the Clergyman who went with me to the Fishkills in that alarm was living I could prove that I had been a Soldier of the revolution but as he is dead and every other person that served with me is either dead or out of my knowledge so that is out of my power to make any proof of my services in the revolution. The Clergyman in our parish is a young Man and has not been with us but a few years and knows nothing of Revolutionary services I concluded that it would be more satisfactory to call two reputable neighbours who has been acquainted with me ever since I have lived in Mendham both of whom belong to the same Church that I do. Daniel Drake and Thomas H. Hemen are lives about four rods from me only the road divides us the other about one mile my neighbour who lives by me is younger than I am but remembers the Revolution and performed services as a Soldier towards the close of it and we have talked on the subject and he has heard me relate the different times of duty which I performed during the Revolution more than once, long before it was even heard of the old Soldiers receiving a pension and the other one had been a Soldier of the Revolution and he had told me where he served and I had told him my services and what place, so that neither of them had the least doubt of my being a Soldier of the Revolution I also have been well acquainted thirty years or more with the Honble Mahlon Dickerson late of the U.S. Senate and with the Honble Lewis Candelet late of of the House of Reps and I would refer the Secretary of War and the Commissioner of Pensions to their respective certificates as to my standing in Society for veracity and integrity Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me
Jesse Upson
Wm Babbit Justice of Peace
State of New Jersey
Morris County ss
I David Day Clerk of the Court of Common
Plains and for the County of Morris aforesaid do hereby certify that William Babbit Esq before whom the foregoing testimony was taken, was at the time of the taking thereof a Justice of the Peace

of the said County of Morris, commissioned and sworn, and that full faith and credit is due to his official acts and that the signature W m Babbit thereto annexed is his genuine signature —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court at Morris Town the fifth day of June A. D. Eighteen hundred and thirty three
David Bayliss

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Jesse Upson a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. S. J. 768.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Dec 1775 3 mos Pvt. Porter Conn   Apr 1776 Feb. 1. 1777 " David Smith Elmore "   Apr 1777 2 mos " Burtis "   Sept 1777 1 mo " Stationed at Fishkill "   2 mos Stationed at New Haven "  
Battles engaged in, None stated
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Plymouth, Litchfield Co. Conn.
Date of application for pension, July 28. 1832. His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Mendham Township, Morris Co. N. J.
Age at date of application, born May 27. 1756 in Plymouth, Conn.
Remarks: Soldier died July 18. 1838.
date of death is taken from Agency Book
but.
omit - Nov 22. 1916
He is referred to as a doctor in 1838, at which time he had moved to Posey Co. Indiana from Morris Co. N. J. where he had resided 45 or 50 years.
See letter of Aug 14. 1838 in claim relative to his change of residence and also report from Aud. Ins. saying date of death not shown
Respectfully,
If any inquiry is made about death as given in letter of 1914 we will have to write an explanation of this.

1914. Mch. 25: Hist. to Mr. J. B. Upson. M. B. H.
1916. Nov. 16. Aud. Dist. for date of death. Out. 1916. Nov. 23. Hist. to J. B. Upson. 1917 Feb. 26 Hist. to Raymond E. Van Syckel
Rev. Wm
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June 7, 1832.
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UPSON & BURROWS Flour and Feed, Hay and Grain
113 N. COURT ST.
ROCKFORD, ILL., March 14th 1914
Pension Bureau
Gentlemen; Would like information as to the application of Dr, Jesse Upson for a pension; he may have been a Revolutionary soldier from Waterbury Conn. or From Mendham New Jersey; later in life he lived in Indiana.
Yours Very Truly
J. B. Upson

Rev see 1721
THE MICHIGAN SOCIETY SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
PRESIDENT GEORGE H. BARBOUR DETROIT
VICE-PRESIDENT MAJOR FREDERICK M. ALGER DETROIT
VICE-PRESIDENT CHARLES H. LEONARD GRAND RAPIDS
SECRETARY RAYMOND E. VAN SYCKLE DETROIT
REGISTRAR FRANKLIN S. DEWEY DETROIT
CHAPLAIN REV. JOSEPH A. VANCE, D. D. DETROIT
HISTORIAN PROF. WARREN W. FLORER, PH. D. ANN ARBOR
TREASURER FRANK G. SMITH DETROIT
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 1729 FORD BUILDING DETROIT, MICHIGAN
October 22, 1917.
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Sir:-
Please furnish statement concerning Revolutionary services and family data of Jesse Upson, pensioned.
Application dated July 28, 1832. Residence, Plymouth, Litchfield County, Conn.
Yours truly,
Raymond E. Van Syckle Secretary. D
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OFFICE OF AUDITOR FOR INTERIOR DEPARTMENT IN REPLYING QUOTE INITIALS
TREASURY DEPARTMENT WASHINGTON
November 21, 1916.
The Commissioner of Pensions.
Sir:
In reply to your letter of _____ the 16th instant you are informed that, according to the latest account rendered by the U. S. Pension Agent, at Trenton, N. J. the records of this office show last payment to have been made to Jesse Upson, Private, Army Rev., certificate No. 9887 at $ 55.00 annum per month to March 4, 1838, to Lewis Condict, Attorney. Said pensioner resided in Mendham, Morris County, N.J. for over fifty-years, and previous thereto he resided in Con- necticut, but the date of his death is not shown.
Letter herewith returned.
Respectfully,
Alvin A. Price
Auditor.
By
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Deputy Auditor.

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October 26, 1916
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
If available, I would appreciate a statement of the military record of Jesse Upson who enlisted in the Connecticut militia, from Plymouth, Richfield County, in December, 1775, and had various periods of service.
He applied for a pension from New Jersey on July 28, 1832.
Thanking you, I am
Very truly yours,
[Signature] Director.
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OFFICE OF THE EX-REC'D NOV 18 1918
Rev. War Section Division. S. File No. 768 Jesse Upson Rev.
AW Ex'r.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Washington, D. C., Nov. 16, 1906
SIR:
For use in the above-entitled claim for pension, you are requested to furnish this Bureau with a report in the case of
Jesse Upson pensioned under the Act June 7, 1832, from Mar. 4, 1831 by certificate No. 9887, issued June 24, 1833, rate $55 per m. New Jersey Agency, showing date of last payment of pension, name of person paid and date of soldier's death.
Very respectfully,
[Handwritten signature: G. M. [?]]
Commissioner.
THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT,
Treasury Department.

Mr Evans, Aug '7.
J. J. Edwards Esq. Pension Commission Washington.

Morris-town New Jersey, Aug. 14 th 38.
Dear Sir,
Doctor Sylvester Upson, a highly respected citizen of this County, after a residence here of 45 or 50 years from Connecticut, has removed to Lagrange 6 th Ind a & desires to be transferred from the N. J. Pension roll, to that of Indiana. — At his request, I have forwarded to him a deposition, such as the instructions of your office require, which he will execute before a Magistrate & forward to you. — I believe in such cases, the old Certificate is not exchanged for a new one, but a certificate of transfer to the new office is issued, & payment made there, upon the old one. — The old one is at the Newton Agency now, & if there be a necessity for sending it to you, then I will request it to be done .. if not — I will direct Mr. Dickinson to enclose it to the Pensioner at Lagrange. — Will you be kind enough to notify Upson by letter at Lagrange, after receiving his application, & inform me also of the result, that I may send the old Certificate? Very respectfully your ob d serv t . &c: Lewis Bondiet.