Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29512, Jeremiah Townsend, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
NUMBER _____
Townsend, Jeremiah
S. 29512
CONTENTS

2638 New York
Jeremiah Toontsema of Osego in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Pool — of the Regt. commanded by Col. Brany in the Massachusetts line for 12 Months & 20 days a M ch 11 " " 10 " a Private — — — — —
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 88 Dollars 42 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st day of Dec. 1832 — and sent to J. C. Vial in Burlington
Arrears to 4th of Apr. 1832 $132.63 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4th '33 44.21
$176.84
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Geo. Cromwell Clerk, Book D Vol. 3. Page 144
Dead
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of 4 April 1838 from 14 th Sep 1840 to 14 th Feb 1841. Act Notified, 5 Dec 1844 1882 Jan'y 31 Hon J R Buck Military Personal history (for M c Townsend)

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Mr. Calh Jeremiah Townsend
5.616
Aug 22 1832 Nov 8 1832
P-25.
James C. Walworth Burlington New York.

No 6269 County of Otsego
BRIEF in the case of Jeremiah Townsend of Butternuts in the State of New York (Act 7 June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Before a Judge  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? It does  3. How old is he? Seventy five years - 75  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.     Enlistment Near the close part of the war, year not recollected — 3 — private Officers not recollected   Spring of 1776 - enlisted until the Fall or Winter. — 6 or 9 — " Col. Crary's regt. Capt. Jacob Pool's Compny Massachussetts troops   February 1777 Enlistment — 13 — private on board the Hancock Men of War   Spring of 1778 — 3 — private Capt. William Menden   Spring of 1779 — 2 — do in Genl. Sullivan's expediton, Officers not recollected   July 1st 1780 enlisted — 11 — private Waiten & Col. David Jones Genl. Lord's Brigade of Continental troops  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? 
not any
 6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? 
at Abington. Massachussetts
 7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? 
By living witnesses as to his service - by the belief or oath as to his tradition of a Glasgow & three respectable citizens whose character & credibility are verified by the Judge
 8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
no defects
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Chas. G. Wilson Examining Clerk.

Answered Dec 1832
State of New York Ulster County ss
I hereby appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the Peace of the town of Wallkill in the county of Ulster Jeremiah Townsend assistant of the said town of Wallkill who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is now of the age and the consequence loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades for the term of one year and eight months and twenty days served as private in the State Troops and continued so long and for the term one year and
20 months & 20 days
and he only served as a private in the State service of the United States including the time he was prisoner with the enemy at Halifax and for such service & compensation and further that I have been totally blind
12 mos & 28 days
for two and a half years past and that all my papers and memorandums have been lost or destroyed or so far destroyed that I cannot now tell what officers I served under in the State of Rhode
Island Subscribed and sworn to this 3rd day of December 1832 Before me Sam l C. Gilbert a justice of the Peace
Jeremiah Townsend mark

State of New York Otsego County
I, Horace Sathrop Clerk of the said County do certify that Samuel C. Gilbert before whom the preceding affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in for said County that I am acquainted with his hand writing & verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his own proper hand writing & signature Witness my hand & seal of office this 7 th day of Dec r 1832 -
Horace Sathrop By J. K. Cory Deputy

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 State of New York Otsego County ss on this 15 th day August 1832 personally appeared before Samuel C. Mawdsell esquire one of the Judges of Otsego County Common Pleas to being a court of record hearing a black and sack Giovanni Londond a resident of the town of Butternuts in the said County and State aged 75 years who being first duly sworn according to law upon his oath maketh the following Declaration in order to obtain the bene- fits of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 that he was born in the town of Abington in the State of Massachusetts in the year 1757 and has a record of his age in his possession that near the fore- part of the year 1775 was recruited was in the summer at the town of South Kingston in the State of Rhode Island he enlisted in the Continental troops for the term of 3 months officers note near New- Bedford and served out the term a Guarding the shores and watching the movements of the enemy and the said was discharged in the same town and there returned again to the same town and there returned again to Abington aforesaid in the spring of the year 1776 at the said town of Abington in the State of Massachusetts he enlisted in
Amso "

to the Company of Captain Jacob Took band Col. Barrys Pennsylvania State Troops and was mustered in immediately and joined the Regiment at the City of New York early in the Spring and with Garrison and Gardner the City this enlistment was for 6 or 9 months not sure recollects which and stayed there until after the Battle of Long Island then retreated to White Plains recalls that he went into under the house Captain Took led a scouting party and took 50 of the enemy prisoners in a day in successive attacks losing men and was discharged with the Regiment at White Plains later in the fall or beginning of winter and then returned again to Wilmington then again in the year 1777 at the town of Boston in the month of February he enlisted under Commodore William Moultrie a board of the 32 gun Ship Hancock of the Main State Ship and the said Commodore Moultrie went out of Boston with 15 sails of vessels and was parted in a storm and there largest vessels the Hancock Hancock & Boston the Boston as was the Hancock taken were taken by a 50 gun Ship and 18 gun Brig of the enemy and were then taken into Halifax N. Scotia and there was kept prisoners for 8 months was aboard 5 months before taken in the
6 mo
the Boston ^

months of March 1778 was put aboard of the Conway ship with 50 other prisoners to be sent to New York to be exchanged and after after they had been out to sea two days the prisoners rose and took the ship and 12 day after brought her into Boston this was a transport ship started under the command of a 74 gun ship and part of the crew in a storm Lieutenant Hill was commanded after the prisoners took her the ship until they got into Boston & then said Lieutenant Hill was discharged here after he got into Boston he was out at this time 13 months from his enlistment then again at the town of Abington for and he enlisted the same spring of 1778 for the B. term of 3 months to go to Rhode Island and went immediately to New York and there built a breakwater was there in General Sullivan's Expedition was in that engagement and was the only one the officers he was then under retreat to Bristol and was discharged at the end of the 3 months verbally, then again at the town of Abington as above said in the year 1779 in the spring he enlisted under an Lieut. Col. David Jones as his captain for 9 months and was marched to Boston harbor and was on guard till William

3 mo
all of the term of 3 months doing Garrison duty and at the end of the term returned with Col. Jones to Abington forward then again in the town of Worthington in the State of Massachusetts in the month of July the 17th 1780 into enlistment for 6 months service in the continental service into Genl. Lord Howe's Brigade and marched to West point in N.Y. was there 8 or 9 weeks then was marched to St. Jersey at Orange town and then to Hackensack then again at Brunswick was there and saw Major Andross hung and saw Adjt Genl. Mowat there and was discharged at Westpoint some of the last days of December something in writing and the
6 months discharge
is it neither lost or destroyed and that he does not know of any document or evidence to prove his service and since then where he has lived in Massachusetts and in Washington County and Otsego County in the State of New York and that he now lives in the town of Butternuts in the County of Otsego and has been here for 34 years

He hereby relinquishes every claim what ever to a pension or an Annuity except the present and that his name is not on the Pensions Roll of the army of any State
And that from his advanced age and bodily infirmities is unable to attend the courts and that he is totally blind
Sworn and subscribed this year and day, as fore said
Before me his Jeremiah Townsend James C Wauverth a his Clerk Judge of Old Age Pensions Courts

State of New York - Ulster county
Beeth known that one Alexander Bryant of the town of Rotheram in said county being duly sworn according to law before James B. Maunsell a justice of the Judges of the said county courts and deposes and saith that he is 71 years of age that in the year 1780 he well remembers that he well knew Jeremiah Townsend that has made the foregoing declaration in his presence that he was then a doing duty in the Continental Army in General Learmards Brigade at White Plains and in New Jersey and knows that he did as much as 6 months service at that time and that he was present at the time Major Amara was being in New Jersey and that he has lived within 8 miles of his house for 35 years past and that he is a man of standing and entitled to credit and that he has ever been respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he lives and to have served in the Revolutionary Army

and that he has for several years and that he believes that he has so served as he states and that he is as much 75 years of age - and that his deponent real in the Review with him at West Point and in New Jersey aforesaid and further saith not Subscribed and sworn this 15 th day of August 1832 Alex s Boyd Before me James C. Mowatt a judge of Otsego County
State of New York
Otsego County ss Be it known that Edmund
Pittsburgh of the town of Butternuts in the said county being duly sworn according to law before James C. Mowatt a judge of the said county courts deposeth and saith that he is 68 years old that he was recalled that he was acquainted with Jeremiah Townsend that has read the above declaration in his presence and he knew him at his return from Halifax and that what he has stated in his declaration about his imprisonment and escape from the enemy at Halifax and the rising of the prisoners -

and taking of the enemy's ship and bringing it into Boston to be all true and that he the deponent resided in the town of Worthington in the State of Massachusetts at the time of General Leonard's brigades went to West Point in the year 1780 and and that it was then there reported and believed that the said General Leonard was entitled for 6 months and had gone to West Point under the Gen Leonard and that he is a man of the strictest veracity and entitled in his statements to credit and that he thinks he is as much as 75 years old and that he is so blind and so infirm that he cannot attend the courts Subscribed and sworn to this Edward of Pettibone 16th day of August 1832 Before me James C. Waverth a Judge of Otsego County

State of New York Otsego County
We Samuel Wakfield a clergyman and a resident of the town of Butternuts and Hazard Burwick a clergyman residing in the town of New Berlin and Calvin Davenport residing in the same place do testify that we are well acquaint- ed with Jeremiah Townsend who has sworn and subscribed to the above declaration and that we believe him to be 75 years of age and that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he has resided to have been a Revolutionary Soldier and that we concur in that opinion
Subscribed and sworn this Samuel Wakfield
15th day of August 1830 Jeremiah Davenport
Before me James
Wadsworth a Judge of Otsego County Court
Calvin Davenport

State of New York Otsego County ss. Be it known that Jacob Morris a resident of the town of Butternuts in said county, being duly sworn, according to law, deposes and saith that he is well acquain- ted with Jeremiah Townsend that has made the above declaration and that he has been well acquainted with him for 22 years past and that he has ever been reputed and held to have been a soldier of the revolution and that he this deponent concurs in that opinion and that he is a man of cred- ibility and entitled to belief in his statement and that he thinks he must be over 70 years of age and further saith not Jacob Morris Subscribed and sworn this 16th day of August 1832 Before me James C. Wainwright a judge of Otsego County courts

James Freeland
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Jeremiah Townsend N o 6069.
admitted
12 mo. 20 days. Mariner
11 mo. 10 days privates
24 mo. "
J.C. Walworth Burlington

State of New York Otsego county, ss.
I James C Munro the Judge mentioned in the above caption do certify and declare it my Opinion that after a careful investigation of the matters and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war Department that the above named Applicant was a Soldier of the Revolution and did there serve as he states and the said Judge further states and certifies that it appears to him that Alexander Bryant Edmund Pettibone Samuel Wakefield Timothy Harrison and Calvin Danison and Geo. Jacob Morris are all of them resid- ents of the town of Butternuts and are creditors like persons and that each of them entitled to full credits in their statements and further it is my opinion that the above named Applicant from blindness and bodily infir- ties is not able to attend the court In testimony whereof I have here sub- scribed my name this 16th day of August 1832
James C Munro Judge of Otsego county,

State of New York } Otsego County } Sr. I Horace Lathrop Clerk of the said County do certify that James C. Walworth before whom the preceding affi- davit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same a Judge of Otsego County Court whom I am acquainted with his hand writing truly believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper hand writing & signature Witness my hand & seal of Office this 20 th day of Aug t , 1832
Horace Lathrop By J. R. Cory Deputy

In reply to your request of Apr. 17 , received Apr. 21, 1909 for a statement of the military history of Jeremiah Townsend a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his ( or his widow's ) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Summer 1775 3 mos. Private ✓ ✓ R. I.   Spring 1776 6 mos. Captain Jacob Pool Cary Mass.   Feby. 1777 13 mos. Commodore John Manly Ship "Hancock" was captured by "Rainbow" & "Victor", carried to Halifax N. S. and held 8 mos. - while on transport the prisoners took possession of the ship, and Lieut. Hill brought her to Boston in Mch. 1778. Navy.   Spring 1778 3 mos. ✓ ✓ Mass.   Spring 1779 3 mos. as waiter to Lt. Col. David Jones Mass.   July 1, 1780 6 mos. ✓ Genl. Learned's brigade Mass.  
Battles engaged in, + Rhode Island.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, ✓
Date of application for pension, Aug. 15, 1832  Allowed.
Residence at date of application, Bethlehem, Ossipee Co. N.H.
Age at date of application, Born in 1757 in Abington, Mass.
Remarks: He enl. first at So Kingston R. I. & afterwards at Abington Mass. Died Feb. 14, 1841. Names of wife & ch - not stated.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
Nov. 13, 1843,
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, The children of Jeremiah Townsend, dec d , a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany, N. York Agency, at the rate of eighty eight Dollars and 42 Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept. 1840, to the 14 th Feby 1841.  Respectfully, yours,
Comptroller.
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.

W Cazenovia, N.Y.
April 19th 1909.
Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions, Washington D.C. Gentlemen,
Will you kindly send to Mrs. Anson G. Draper - 902 7 Street Washington a Certif- icate of the services of Jeremiah Townsend who served in the Revolution-

War, he enlisted six times. He was born Dec 28, 1758 died Feb. 14th, 1841 married Sarah Pettengill 1788.
I do not know about the charges for certificate if any. We are in a hurry about the acceptance of an ap- plication of a descend- ant. It why I ask to have it sent to Mrs Draper.

Hoping you can do that I am very truly
Frances C. Sigabroat, [Mrs. E. T.]

Jeremiah Townsend - In 1832 of Butternut Otsego Co NY aged 75 years
Born in Abington, Mass in 1757 died Feb'y 14, 1841
In for part of Rev War in the Summer he enlisted at Kingston R.I. for 3 mos year & officers not recalled was employed guarding the shores & watching the movement of the enemy & Tories - When discharged returned to Abington In the Spring of 1776 he enlisted for 6 or 9 mos under Capt Jacob Pool the Grays  Mass regt & joined Col Crary Mass regt in NY City, forming part of the garrison & guard of the City
After the Battle of Long Island (Aug 1776) retreated to White Plains & was out scouting the 20 capt Pool captured 50 of the enemy in two days in succession without losing a man & was discharged at White Plains late in the fall or beginning of winter
In Feb'y 1777 he enlisted at Boston under Commodore 77th Mowat on board Ship Hancock 32 guns which accompanied  convoy  by the Boston sailed with 18 15 vessel from which separated in a Storm - The Hancock was captured by a 50 gun ship & a brig of 18 guns of the British, carried to Halifax N.S. he where he served
a prisoner for 8 mos - In March 1778 he with 50 others was put on board a transport  ship to be taken to NY in the convoy of 44 gunships to be exchanged but 2 days after starting the prisoner rose, captured the vessel & in 12 days brought her into Boston - The vessel parting from the convoy in a Storm, a Lt Hill was in Command of the Captured Ship having been about 13 miles
In the Spring of 1778 he enlisted at Abington for 3 mos marching to R.I.  Newport  where Sullivan was in command  where they built Great work off David In the Spring of 1779 enlisted at Abington for 3 mos  under  as waiter to Lt Col Jones of Weston marched to Boston Harbor at Castle Wm as part of the garrison

In July 1780 enlisted at Worthington Mf for 6 mos in the Continental in Genl Larned's brigade going to Wtphart N Y, but in 2 or 3 weeks marched to N.J. frontier - Saw Andre hung - Has resided since the war in Mass, & in Washington & Otego Co N Y & in Butternuts for the past 54 years
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THE SPACE ABOVE IS RESERVED FOR POSTMARK.
POSTAL CARD
THE SPACE BELOW IS FOR THE ADDRESS ONLY.
Pension Bureau Washington D. C.

Will you please send me the Military Service of Jeremiah Townsend who was a pensioner in the Revolutionary War. I am very anxious to join the D.A.R. at once, and will appreciate a prompt answer. Yours truly (Mrs.) Emma P. Vane Canastota, N.Y. Feb. 4, 1907

O. W. AND N. DIVISION.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Feb. 7, 1907
Searched by Mill
Original No. _____
Certificate No. _____
Claimant, _____
Soldier, Jeremiah Townsend
Service, _____
Rev. War
Remarks: _____
No claim except No. 29,512.
_____ Chief of Division.

RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by L. D. L.
Claim No. _____
Certificate No. _____
Claimant _____
Soldier Jeremiah Townsend
Service _____
Additional Service Rev. War
No. _____ claim, State records _____, 190_____
No claim, combination records _____, 190_____
REMARKS:
No claim except J. # 29512

29 512 Key INVALID.
1907 Feb. 16 - History to e Mrs. Emma P. Vanf- 1909 May 1. Hist to Mrs. E. T. Eijabrodt % Registrar Genl. D.A.R.
File No. 29, 512
Jeremiah Townsend His Rev. Wm
Act: June 7 th 89 th
Index: - Vol. 9 , Page 21
[Arrangement of 1870.]