Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 19475, Joshua Turner, Continental Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
continental Mass-
Turner, Joshua Lydia
W 19475
CONTENTS

Dead Letter to Hon. J. C. Schuyler 83 rd Am. div. 17. Feb. 1840
8361 4
New York Roll
Joshua Turner of Hadley in the state of New York who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Sam l Jackson of the Massachusetts line, for the term of Three Years
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 18 th of April 1819.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 th of March 1819 and sent to Hon. Jeremy Rockwell Judge Ballston Spa. N.Y.
Arrears to 4th of March 1819. 10 mo \frac{13}{30} \times 8 — 84:49 Semi-ann. all ce ending 4 th Sept. 1819 — 40:
Dead — $ 132:49
Cont d { Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. } Notice sent Dec. 7 th 1820 to Aaron Nash, Ballston Spa, Saratoga Co.

Reported
576.
New York Albany Lydia Turner widow of Joshua Turner Mass who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of June 1848 and sent to
Adriel Ely Watertown N.Y.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 225 Vol. 4

Joshua Turner copy
Cadillac 8361 NY 29 Mar '19
on
Aaron Nash Ballston Spa - Saratoga Co NY
Mark agent

State of New-York, } ss. County of SARATOGA, }
ON this 22 nd day of August 1820 personally appeared in open Court, in the Court of Common Pleas of the said County, the same being a Court of Record for the said County, proceeding according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Joshua Turner.
aged sixty seven years, resident in the said County, in the State aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows: for the term of three years in the Company commanded by captain Hastings in the regiment commanded by colonel H Jackson in the line of the State of Massachusetts.
That his original declaration was made on or about the eighteenth day of April 1818 and that his Pension Certificate is numbered 8361 and is dated the 24 th day of March 1819.
AND I 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 bring myself within the provisions of an 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," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
Sworn to and declared on the twenty second day of August , Joshua Turner 1820 before me in open Court
Thomas Palmer Clerk
I, Thomas Palmer Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Saratoga hereby certify that the foregoing Oath and 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 five dollars and Eighteen cents.
IN testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this seventy second day of August - 1820
Thomas Palmer
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Saratoga.

A schedule of the Real and Personal estate of Joshua Turner, the openamer, in the affidavit hereto annexed named his necessary clothing and bedding except made in pursuance of the Act within mentioned Real estate I have none
Personal Estate I have    1 wash tub  $ 00. 25  cts    3 old chests  00. 50     1 Meal chest,  00. 12 1/2     4 Empty baskets  00. 50     1 meal barrel  00. 25     1 Soap do  00. 12 1/2     1 butter Tub  00. 25     1 Iron Tea Kettle orah?  00. 50     1 Iron pot  1. 00     1 do Kettle  1. 00     1 old broken Spider  0. 06     1 do no legs or handle  0. 06     3 old pails  0. 50     2 small baskets  0. 06      $5.78 3/4   
The said Joshua Turner is by occupation a labourer he is disabled from pursuing it: His family residing with him consists of his wife Lydia Turner aged fifty seven years weakly and unable to support herself. My son Lucas Turner aged 19 years Able to support himself. as Alden 31 Turner aged 13 years weakly and unable to support himself: In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name the twenty second day of August 1820.
Joshua Turner

2127
14421
The Declaration is of Mrs Lydia Turner of Antwerp Jefferson County N. York for the benefit of the act of bankruptcy of the 7 th July 1838
E. Fowler Atty Atty Jefferson County N.Y. Admitted Prate 2 years
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Hon. J. A. Bronson H. M.

State of New York
Jefferson County ss: On this eleventh day of January 1839 personally appeared before the Hon. John M c Moran one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Jefferson Lydia Turner a resident of the town of Antwerp in the County of Jefferson aged seventy five years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 7. 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." That she is the widow of Joshua Turner who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution and a pensioner of the United States under the act of March 18 th 1818 and was on the roll of the New York Agency. She further declares that she was married to the said Joshua Turner in the town of Grafton County of Worcester Massachusetts on the twenty second day of August in the year seventeen hundred and eighty one by the Rev. Daniel Grosvenor pastor of a church in that place. That her husband the aforesaid Joshua Turner died on the twenty first day of December one thousand eight hundred and twenty. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four viz: at the time above stated.
Sworn to and subscribed on the Lydia Turner
Eleventh day and year above written
Before me - J M c Moran Judge of Jefferson County Courts
Thereby certify that Mrs Lydia Turner who has this day made the above declaration before me cannot attend Court in consequence of bodily infirmity.
11 Jany 1839
J M c Moran Judge

Jefferson County ss. Prince Jerome being duly sworn says that he was well acquainted with Joshua Turner in his life time. That the said Joshua Turner died at his resi- dence in the town of Hadley in the County of Saratoga and State of New-York on the twenty first day of December 1820 and left a widow surviving whose name is Lydia Turner. That Lydia Turner of the town of Sackett's Harbor in the County of Jefferson State of New- York is the widow of the said Joshua Turner. That she has not been married since the death of her hus- band the aforesaid Joshua Turner but still remains his widow.
Prince Jerome
Subscribed and sworn to
This 18th day of Jan'y
1839 J. M. Macomber Judge
I hereby Certify that the person making the above Affidavit is entitled to credit & belief.
J. M. Macomber, Judge
STATE OF NEW-YORK Jefferson County Clerk's Office,
I, PELEG BURCHARD , Clerk of said County, do hereby Certify, that John Macomber before whom the annexed affidavit purports to have been sworn,
was at the date of the same a Judge of the Court in and for the said County, commissioned and sworn, and duly authorised to take the same.—and further, that I am well ac- quainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the same to be his proper hand writing and signature.
Witness my hand and seal of said county, this twelfth day of February in the year 1839
P. Burchard Clerk.

August. Twenty second - Seventeen hundred and eighty one. - Joshua Turner and Lydia Dorr, both of Grafton were married P r Daniel Grosvenor, Pastor
A true copy from the Record of the Town of Grafton of the marriage of Joshua Turner and Lydia Dorr, with the exception of the date which is expressed in the record in fair legible figures. "August. 22. 1781"
Charles Prentice { Clerk of the Town of Grafton
I Charles Prentice of Grafton in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, do depose and say, that I hold the Office of Clerk of said Town of Grafton, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Town. - with the exceptions above named as certified by me, -
Charles Prentice { Clerk of the Town of Grafton
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, County of Worcester ss December 3 1838. Then personally appeared Charles Prentice above named who is known to me as a man of truth and made oath that the above deposition by him submitted is true. Before me
Samuel Woods, Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts - Worcester ss. I, Jos. G. Kendall, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, within and for said County, certify that Samuel Wood, within named, is a justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly qual- ified, and that the signature of his name, within written, appears to be in his own hand writing -
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at Worcester, this third day of December 1838. — Jos. G. Kendall, Clerk.

Joshua Turner
Affidavit
The date of the declaration is wrong - the claimant could not have made the declaration on the same day that the law passed. The enclosed affidavits will show how the mistake in the original declaration took place & when the same was in fact made.

State of New York } Saratoga } ss County }
On the fourth Day of February in the year 1819
Personally appeared before me John Prior one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County —
Jeremy Rockwell late one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County being duly sworn doth depose and say that the Declaration and affidavit of Joshua Turner hereto annexed was testified and subscribed to before this deponent as then one of the Judges as aforesaid on the 18 th Day of April and not on the 18 th day of March as is stated and that the word (March) instead of (April) was by Mistake
Sworn and subscribed before me Jeremy Rockwell John Prior one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Saratoga
State of New York Saratoga County ss
On the sixth Day of February in the year 1819
Personally appeared before me William Stillwell late Clerk of said County and being duly sworn deposeth and saith that the within Certificate purporting to be made by him was made by his Clerk and that he has no doubt that there was a mistake in the date and that it ought to have been dated on the same day or subsequent to the date of the above affidavit of Jeremy Rockwell
Sworn and subscribed this 6 th Day of July 1819 before me John Prior Esq.
William Stillwell

Present to an act of Congress of the United States of America, Entitled "An act, to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval Service of the United States in the revolutionary war" Passed March the 18 th 1818 ~
To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of war of the United States ~
Joshua Turner of the Town of Hadley in the County of Saratoga and State of New York; Being duly Sworn doth depose and Say that he this deponent enlisted in the Revolutionary Service on the Continental establishment in the Massachusetts line for the term of three years, Some time in the Month of August in the year of our Lord one Thousand Seven hundred and Seventy Seven, and this deponent further deposeth and Says that Some time about the First of October in the year last aforesaid he this deponent join the Continental army and was placed in the Sixteenth Regiment of the Massachusetts line then laying in Cambridge in the said State of Massachusetts, and then commanded by Colonel Henry Jackson, and was annexed to a company in said Sixteenth Regiment commanded by a Captain Hastings (to the best of this deponents Recollection) And this deponent further deposeth and Says that he this deponent continued in the said Revolutionary war under his said enlistment in the said Massachusetts line in the said Sixteenth Regiment and in the said Capt. Hastings Company doing duty as a privet Soldier against the Common Enemy of our Country untill Some time in the Month of August

in the year of our Lord one Thousand Seven hundred and eighty When this deponent further deposith and says that at a place called Verplank's Point on the East Side of the North River in the State of New York he this deponent was Honorably Discharged from the Continental Army by a Discharge Signed by the Said Colonel Henry Jackson — And the Said Joshua Turner further deposith and says that he this deponent is Now an actual resident of the United States and has continued so to be ever since he had been discharged from the Said Continental Army, and further this deponent says that by reason of his advanced age, and infirmities he this deponent is in a great Measure unable to labor, and this deponent further says that he is much afflicted with the rheumatism and has been for a number of years, and this deponent further says that what little property either real, or personal this deponent now possesses is under judgment and so incumbered that this deponent is reduced and much incumbered with debts, and this deponent further says that he has a Wife and family to support and is in such reduced circumstances that he this deponent sincerely believes that he comes under the provisions of said act —
And further this deponent says Not — Subscribed before me on the 20th day of March 1878 State of New York 18th day of March 1878
Saratoga } County } I, Jeremy Packard Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Saratoga of record do certify to the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War that Joshua Turner the person named in the foregoing affidavit

abid appeared before me and after being duly sworn according to law subscribed and testified to the foregoing declaration and it appears to me on examination that the said Joshua Turner has served in the Revolutionary war as stated in the foregoing declaration against the common Enemy of our Country.
Henry Rockwell
State of New York Saratoga County ss. I William Stillwell Clerk of said County do certify that Henry Rockwell is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for said County and that the foregoing are his high returns.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the said Court this 18 th Day of March 1818.
William Stillwell Clerk
State of New York County of Saratoga ss. I John Prior one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that from testimony had before me this 9 Day of December 1818 I am fully satisfied that Joshua Turner the above named Defendant is in the reduced circumstances that he really stands in need of the assistance of this County for Support.
John Prior
State of New York Saratoga County Clerks Office ss. In testimony that John Prior
whose name is subscribed to the above Certificate was at the date thereof a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County acting under the Authority of this State and that the above is his signature. I subscribe my name and affix the County Seal this Twelfth day of December in the Year 1818.
Thomas Palmer Clerk

information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
Joshua Turner A.F. 19475
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Aug. 1777 Aug. 1780 Pvt. Hastings Henry Jackson Mass                                                   
Battles engaged in, _____
Residence of soldier at enlistment, _____
Date of application for pension, Apr. 18. 1818. His cl. was al.
Residence at date of application, Hadley, Saratoga Co. N.Y.
Age at date of application, 65 years. He died Dec. 21. 1820 at Hadley N.Y.
Remarks: Soldier married at Grafton Mass. Aug. 22. 1781 Lydia Dury. She was allowed pension on an application executed Jan. 11. 1859 while a resident of Auburn Jefferson Co. N.Y. aged 75 years. In 1820 Soldier bequeathed to his sons, Alden H. 13 years and Lucas 19 yrs of age. Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

New York Roll
Colt D. Jackson } Joshua Turner 16 th Reg t } Mass s Line } Private
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 18 th of March 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 th of Dec r . 1818 and sent to John Prior Esq r Ballston Spa N o York
Arrears to 4th of Sept r . 1818. $ 1 / 31  14 / 30 — 44:67 Semi-ann. all ce ending 4 th March 1819 — 48:—
$ 92:67
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
See Date of Dec.
Three years

Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 th April 1838 from 4 th March to 4 th Sep 1837 age Notified 20. Oct 1840
Albany 2,127
Lydia Turner widow of Joshua Turner
who was a pensioner under the Act of 18. March 1818 and who died on the 21. December 1820 of Jefferson Co. in the State of N. York who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt. commanded by Col. Jackson in the Mass. line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 80 Dollars _____ Cents per annum. to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 th day of March 1838 and sent to Hon. J. H. Bronson, Watertown, N.Y.
Arrears to the 4 th of March '39 240.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 6 th Sep r 40.00 $ 280.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, Book A. Vol. 2 Page 106

Watertown NY. Nov. 19. 1843
Sir
I send herewith the application of Mrs Lydia, the widow of Ezekiel Turner for a pension under the act of March 3 rd 1843 & Am Yr Obed Servt
Admiral Ely
Col. S. H. Edwards Sec'y Pensions

Washington Feby 21. 1839
Sir
I enclose herewith the papers of Lydia Turner of Jefferson Co N.Y. the widow of a Rev. Sold? who ask, for a pension under the act of July 7. 1838. Your early attention will much oblige
Your obed Servt J. H. Monson
To Jas L. Edwards Esq

Payable semi-annually---the first pay- ment on this certificate will be made on the 4th of March ————— next, At the U States Branch Bank N. York

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY That, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818, _____
Joshua Turner _____ late a Private _____ in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pen- sion List, Roll of the New York _____ Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to commence on the _____ 18 th day of March _____ one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this 28 th day of _____ December one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.

4929
Reported
New York Albany
Sydia Turner
widow of Joshua Turner
who was a Private
in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13th day of Feb. 1844 and sent to Adriel Ely Watertown, New York
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1. Page 109.

D. G.
(THIS SIDE OF CARD IS FOR ADDRESS ONLY)
Commissioner of Pensions Bureau of Pensions Washington D. C.

1st Rev
Warren Pa. July 1-1911
Dear Sir. Please send me as soon as possible a full copy of the pension application of my Great Grandmother. Mrs Lydia Denny Turner. Widow of Capt. Joseph Turner of Mass. and N.H.
Yours sincerely -
Phoebe Elizabeth Chapman Howard No. 14-3-31. Warren Penna

42541
INVALID.
Rey
File No. 42,541
Joshua Turner via Rev. Geo
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 577
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1911 July 7 Hist. Soc Phoebe E. C. Howard
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. _____
19475
Lydia Turner
Widow of
Joshua Turner
Rev. Rev. War.
Act: Feb. 2 nd
1/48
Index:—Vol. _____
M
Page _____
286
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Record Division.
July 7, 1911.
Mrs. Phebe E. C. Howard,
# 14 Third Street,
Warren, Pa.
Madam:
In reply to your letter dated the 1" and received the 3" instant, you are advised that the Revolutionary War pension records fail to afford any information in regard to a Captain Joseph Turner whose widow was
? (Elizabeth) Drury Turner.
You are herewith furnished the record of Joshua Turner who left a widow by that name, and she received a pension, Wid. File No. 19,475, Rev. War.
Very respectfully,
Acting Commissioner.

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of the 3 d March 1843, granting pensions for one year to certain widows who have received pensions under the act of July 7. 1838
State of New York
Jefferson County
On this thirteenth day of October 1843 personally appeared before the undersigned a justice of the Peace in and for the County of Jefferson aforesaid Lydia Turner, to me personally known a resident of the town of Antwerp in the County of Jefferson in the State of New York aged Eighty nine years, who first being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3 d March 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war.
That she is the widow of Joshua Turner, who was a private in the war of the Revolution for whom pension this declarant was pensioned under the act of July 7. 1838 for five years at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum
She further declares that she is still a widow Sworn to a subscription on the day and year above written before me
Horace Hamlin
Justice of the Peace
Lydia Turner
STATE OF NEW-YORK, } ss. Jefferson County Clerk's Office, }
I, DANIEL LEE, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify, that Horace Hamlin Esquire before whom the annexed affidavit purports to have been sworn,
was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, commissioned and sworn, and duly authorized to take the same; and further, that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the same to be his proper hand writing and signature.
WITNESS my hand, and seal of said County, this 18 th Day of November in the year 1843
Daniel Lee
CLERK.

Sylvia Dunn
Adriel Ely
Watertown
N.Y.
Aug
Admitted
Adriel Ely Watertown N.Y.

State of New York Jefferson County ss
On this 29 th day of April 1848 personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid Lydia Sumner a resident of the town of Antwerp in the county of Jefferson in the State of New York aged 84 years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 2 nd day of February 1848 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war; That she is the widow of Joshua Sumner who was a Private in the army of the Revolution, and served in the Continental line of the army That she was pensioned under the act of June 17. 1844. at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum, which pension she has received to 14 th March 1848. She further declares that she is still a widow
On the day and year first here Lydia X Sumner above written came before me Lydia Sumner and Lydia Sumner, to whom I distinctly read the aforesaid declaration & who subscribed the same by her mark and made solemn oath to the truth of the same
John Marshall Justice of the Peace of said County

I certify that John Marshall before whom the within affidavit purports to have been taken was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace duly authorized by Law to administer Oaths & that his signature thereto is genuine Dated June 13. 1848
J. Williams Me @
John Marshall Justice of the Peace