Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 22782, for Joseph Judson, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Judson, Joseph Clark, Lydia (Former widow.)
N. 22782.
CONTENTS

Connecticut - 1723
Lydia Clark, family widow of Joseph Judson, deceased; Conn who died on the 29 th of April, 1782; of Hartford in the State of Conn. who was a Sgt. in the company commanded by Captain D. Barnes of the reg t commanded by Col. G. Cline in the Connecticut line for 2 years Sergeant.
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 120 Dollars 50 Cents per annum to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 th day of Feb- ruary, 1838 and sent to Hon J. T. Whittlesey, A. R.
Arrears to the 4 th of Sept. 1837 = $780:00 Semi-annual allowance ending 4. 11. '38 = 60:00
$840:00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 d }
Recorded by S. A. Elliot Clerk Book A o Vol. 2 Page 66.

Thomas J Whittier Et
letter
to Lydia Johnson At Chatham clothes with room
Hon. T. J. Whittier W.R.

3807
Lydia Clark formerly widow of Joseph Judson
on Rolls
Lease 1 May 77 - 3 years - 1 May 80
ADM D
Two years Lease
120 £
No deduction
Hon. J. J. Whetsey
Ho. Rep.

State of Connecticut } Southington Probate District County of Hartford } Sept 1 may 77 3. 400 1 may 80
On this 5 th day January A.D. 1838 personally appeared before me Timothy Jones Judge of the Court of Probate for the District aforesaid Lydia Clark a resident of the Town of Southington in the County of Hartford and state of Connecticut aged Eighty five years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4. A.D. 1836
That on the 21 st day of November 1769 she was married to Joseph Judson Jun of Stamford in the State of Connecticut, that she was married in the Town of Bethlehem in said State of Connecticut, as will appear by an ancient record herunto attached marked A. which was made soon after the the time of our marriage, and which I have kept in my possession for the last Sixty years. That after our marriage we resided in Bethlehem for a short time and then removed to Stamford, where our third son Joseph was born, while my husband was in the service, that in consequence of the troubles from the British, in the neighborhood of Stamford I was removed to Cheshire in the County of New Haven, Ct where I was

residing when I heard of the death of my husband
That very early in the Revolutionary war my husband enlisted into the army, the exact time I cannot recollect but know that it was as early as the begining of March 1777 That on the 12 th day of March 1777 he was appointed a Sergeant in the third Company of the regiment of Continental Troops commanded by Col Samuel Elmore as will appear by the accompany warrant marked B. and continued in that Regiment as the supposed until the fall of 1779 when he enlisted for the term of three years as Sergeant in a company of which Daniel Barnes was Captain and Giles Ruperl was Colonel, as will appear by the accompany warrant marked C. - She further says that after the expiration of the first term of service he returned home as she thinks in the latter part of the summer of 1779 and had the small pox, that there was not more than one or two months between the first and second term of service, which he remained at home and as soon as his health permitted he again entered the service and continued in it until the 29 th day of April 1782 when he was killed, by a musket ball, while boarding a British vessel in Long Island Sound, under Capt Jones, according to her recollection. she does not know why he was engaged in taking said vessel

for it was at the time when he was in the Continental service in the Regiment aforesaid for farther information respecting the time and place of his death she would refer to a letter which she recd soon after the event from her father in law Joseph Gredson her husband's father - which is herunto attached marked D She is unable to state particulars respecting the places where he was stationed during the war, but recollects that he was at Fort Stanwix, and at the battle of Germantown in 1777.
She farther states that afterwards in the year 1785 in the month of December she was married in Cheshire to Amasa Clark and lived with him until his death which took place December 30 th 1833, that she has since been married and is now a widow as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed. She farther states that she has no other record of her first marriage except the accompanying record marked A, unless what is contained in the blank leaf of a family bible which was copied a great many years since from the accompanying record subscribed to and subscribed on the day and year above written Before me
Timothy Jones Judge
Lydia Clark
And the said Court hereby declares its opinion that the said Lydia Clark was the wife of said Joseph Gredson and aforesaid mother

That the facts stated by her in her affidavit aforesaid are true - said be it as the further states that from personal knowledge of the aforesaid applicant, her statement is in his opinion entitled to full credit.
Timothy Jones Judge

I Samuel Atwater of Cheshire in the county of New Haven and state of Connecticut being in my Eighty first year of my age depose and say, that I have from my childhood been well acquainted with Lydia Clark now residing in Southington in the county of Hartford and state of Connecticut, her maiden name was Lydia Hull, she is older than I am and I should think she was Eighty four or Eighty five years of age. When she was young she was married to Joseph Judson of Stamford, the exact time of their marriage I cannot recollect but know that they were married some years before the commencement of the Revolutionary war - during the war the said Joseph Judson died either from sickness or by a musket shot while he was in the army so long a time has intervened that I cannot recollect the manner of his death. I always understood that said Joseph Judson was engaged in the service of the revolutionary war most of the time from the commencement of the war until the time of his death.
I further state that after the death of the said Joseph Judson his widow the said Lydia Clark remained in Cheshire aforesaid until her marriage with Amasa

Clark of said Cheshire which took place several years after the death of her first husband Joseph Judson - and that she continued to live with the said Amos Clark until his death which took place about four years ago - and since that she has never been married and is now a widow. I further state that the said Lydia Clark is a woman of integrity and that the utmost reliance can be placed upon her statement
Sworn and subscribed This 5 th day of Jan'y A D 1838.
Samuel Atwater
Before me Timothy Jones Judge
And said Court further states that he is personally acquainted with the said Samuel Atwater, and believes that full credit can be placed in his statement
Timothy Jones Judge
Hoover

I John Kirby Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Southington in the state of Connecticut do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Lydia Clark for a pension, and also that Timothy Jones who has subscribed his signature to the foregoing certificate is the Judge of said Court, that said Court is a Court of Record and that said signatures are genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office This 6 th day of January A. D 1838
John Kirby Clerk
Judge

Joseph Judson Junr. of Stamford
and Lydia Judson of Bethlehem
Married at Bethlehem November 21 st = 1769
In 25 th & 18 th years of their Age December the 13 th then born to them Zephaniah 1770 our first born
Dec. 24 th 1773 there was borne our second son Jeremiah July 25 th 1775 then Was Borne Joseph our third son
November 17 th 1778 then Was Born Herman our fourth son November the 19 th 1780 then Was Born Abimad our fifth son
Joseph Judson Died April the 29 1782
Abimad Judson Died March 14 th 1782
Lydia Judson Born 1752 Jan. 23 rd
Jenny Judson was born December 2 nd 1792
Nancy was born July 9 th 1794
The two last are the Children of Zephaniah Judson A Judson
Lydia Judson Born 1752 Jan. 23 rd

To Joseph Judson Granting.
By Virtue of the Power and Authority to me Given
I, do by these Presents, Reposing Especial Trust and Confidence in your Loyalty, Courage, and Good Conduct Constitute and Appoint you the S t Joseph Judson to be the Fourth Serjeant in the Third Company of the Regiment of Continental troops raised for the Defense of the United States of America, and Commanded by Col o Samuel Elmore Esq.
You, are therefore carefully and Diligently, to Discharge the Duty of a Serjeant and your Self to observe and Follow Such orders, and Instructions as you shall from Time to Time receive from me or any of your Superior Officers According to the Rules of War. For which this shall be your Sufficient Warrant. Given under my hand and Seal this 12 th Day of March 1777 at Fort Schuyler alias Fort Stanwix
Sam a Elmore Col o

Giles Ruspel ESQUIRE, Colonel, Of the eighth Connecticut Regiment, in the Service of the United States, To Joseph Judson GREETING.
BY Virtue of the Power and Authority to me given, in and by the Delegates of the United States of North-America, in General Congress assembled, I do, by these Presents, (reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Courage and good Conduct) constitute and appoint you to be the first Serjeant, in a Company, of which Daniel Barns Esq; is Captain, in a Regiment, of which Giles Ruspel Esq; is Colonel; raised for the Defence of the United States;---you are, therefore, carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of a Serjeant, in said Regiment. You are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions, as you shall, from Time to Time, receive from me, or other your superior Officers, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in pursuance of the Trust reposed in you; for which this shall be your sufficient Warrant.
Given under my Hand and Seal, at Robinsons farm this 18 th Day of September 1779.
Giles Ruspel 60v

Stamford April 30. 1782
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Loving know Rite a few Lines to you with Grief to let you know your husband is a Corp now in The house and he was brought in yester day and we are to attend his funeral this day may God to his may preserve you for so heavy a stroke of his Providence that you may not faint nor despy his char ity ment now his hand is heavy upon you but give you to realize it is God that has given and it is god that has taken away and blessed be his name may give enabled you hear by to learn the frailty of man the unsearchability and the inscrutability of all things below to make you happy and since god is going out in his Providence the outlines of all below to make us happy may we all of us see the one thing needful the better part may we choose god for our god and Jesus Christ our Redeemer and the holy ghost our leader and sanctifier that we may be led to gods will in all things that he may bring out all things for us and that we may give thanks to him in all his dealings towards us and that we may see the rod and the hand that lifted it up and may truly say it is god for us that we have been afflicted and all those that afflictions be not for our for the present but for our yet may they be the useful fruits of righteousness and may you be enabled to your trust in the god that he will be the widow god and fatherless that he may be your god and the god of yours and a father to the fatherless may he strengthen you and support you under his affliction hand that you may give glory to his name here and be glorified by him for ever through the Redeemers blood and the merit of his death spray god to thy and all his dealings to wards us for our best good who are all at present in health and I hope to remain your loving Father until death and if we may not see one another here may heavens blessing descend upon us all Joseph has something coming and I shall endeavor to take care of it and send to you in a proper time I do no more for the present Joseph Judson
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March 10, 1931.
Etta C. Holbrook 1310 Emerald Eugene, Oregon.
Rev.& 1812 Wars Section ILL
Dear Madam:
You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 22782, that Joseph Judson was the son of Joseph Judson of Stamford, Connecticut, who resided there after the Revolutionary War.
While a resident of Stamford, Connecticut, he enlisted in 1775, was appointed March 12, 1777 sergeant in the 3rd Company, Colonel Samuel Elmore's Connecticut Regiment and served until the summer of 1779; during this period he was at Fort Stanwix and was in the battle of Germantown. He enlisted in the fall, 1779, was appointed sergeant September 18, 1779, in Captain Daniel Barns' Company, Colonel Giles Russel's Connecticut Regiment. He was killed April 29, 1782 by a musket ball while boarding a British vessel in Long Island Sound; no details in regard to his death given.
Joseph Judson, when twenty-five years of age, married on November 21, 1769 in Bethlehem, Connecticut, Lydia Hull of said Bethlehem, aged eighteen years. They resided there for a short time, then moved to Stamford, Connecticut. At the time of soldier's death, his wife had moved from Stamford, Connecticut, to Cheshire, Connecticut, because of hostilities in the vicinity of said Stamford.
Lydia Judson, soldier's widow, married in December, 1785 in Cheshire, Connecticut, Amasa Clarke of Cheshire. He died there on December 30, 1833.
On January 5, 1838, Lydia Clarke, widow of Amasa Clarke, while a resident of Southington, Hartford County, Connecticut, applied

for pension on account of the services of her former husband, Joseph Judson. The claim was allowed.
She died July 29, 1840.
Joseph Judson and his wife, Lydia, had the following children:
Zephiniah Hull ..... born December 13, 1770. Leman ..... " December 24, 1772 Joseph ..... " July 25, 1775. Herman ..... " November 17, 1778. Ahimaaaz ..... " November 19, 1780-died March 14, 1782.
Zephiniah Hull Judson, soldier's son, had two children, Fanny, born December 2, 1792 and Nancy, born July 9, 1794.
Very truly yours,
E. W. MORGAN, Acting Commissioner.

UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY
CONDON HALL EUGENE, OREGON
1310 Emerald, Feb. 11, 1951.
United States, Dept. of Interior, Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Rev. and 1812 War Sections.
Dear Sirs:
In the Report of the 66th Congress, First Session 1919, Sen. Doc. Vol. 6, and D.A.R.'s 21st Report, Mar. 1917-18, page 170, is the following statement:
W. 22782. Lydia Clark, former widow of Joseph OK Judson, applied for a pension.
Can you tell me where she was living and the date when she made this application. Did she state the name of her second husband, Mr. Clark.
more - (3 in file - R2-) Also can you give me any information regarding, William Tanner, born Aug. 6, 1760 in R.I., was discharged Mar. 11, 1783 and was pensioned. Where was he living at the time.
Very truly yours,
Etta C. Holbrook

710 W. Wildwood Ft. Wayne, 2d. Sept. 26, 1931.
Dept. of the Interior Bureau of Pensions Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
I should like to know what record you have of Joseph Judson  of Conn. who was pensioned for Revolutionary service and lived in N.Y. in 1818; do the records give name of wife or children?
Very truly yours,
Mrs. A. V. Flint

Rev WIDOW, &c.
1931 - Mar. 10 - Hist. to Eda C. Holbrook - ILL.
1931 - Oct. 9 - Hist. to Mrs. A. V. Flint. ILL.
File No. 22, 182
Lydia Clark widow of Joseph Jackson Sergt. Prov. Mar.
Act July 11 th 36
Index: Vol. 4 , Page 139
[Arrangement of 1870.]

WASHINGTON
October 9, 1931.
Mrs. A. V. Flint 710 W. Wildwood Fort Wayne Indiana.
BA-J/ILL
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter relative to Joseph Judson, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
The data which follow are obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, W. 22782, based upon his military service in that war.
Joseph Judson was the son of Joseph Judson of Stamford, Connecticut, who resided there after the Revolutionary War.
While a resident of Stamford, Connecticut, he enlisted in 1775, was appointed March 12, 1777, sergeant in the 3 rd Company, Colonel Samuel Elmore's Connecticut Regiment and served until the summer of 1779; during this period he was at Fort Stanwix and was in the battle of Germantown. He enlisted in the fall, 1779, was appointed September 18, 1779, sergeant in Captain Barns' Company, Colonel Giles Russel's Connecticut Regiment. He was killed April 29, 1782 by a musket ball while boarding a British vessel in Long Island Sound, no details in regard to his death given.
Joseph Judson, when twenty-five years of age, married on November 21, 1769, in Bethlehem, Connecticut, Lydia Hull of said Bethlehem, aged eighteen years. They resided there for a short time, then moved to Stamford. At the time of soldier's death, his wife had moved from Stamford, Connecticut, to Cheshire, Connecticut, because of hostilities in the vicinity of Stamford.
Lydia Judson, soldier's widow, married in December, 1785, in Cheshire, Connecticut, Amasa Clarke of Cheshire. He died there on December 30, 1833.

On January 5, 1838, Lydia Clarke, widow of Amasa Clarke, a resident of Southington, Hartford County, Connecticut, applied for pension on account of the services of her former husband, Joseph Judson. The claim was allowed.
She died July 29, 1840.
Joseph Judson and his wife, Lydia, had the following children:
Zepheniah Hull .... born December 13, 1770. Leman ..... " December 24, 1772. Joseph ..... " July 25, 1775. Herman ..... " November 17, 1778. Ahimaas ..... " November 19, 1780- died March 14, 1782.
Zepheniah Hull Judson, soldier's son, had two children, Fanny, born December 2, 1792 and Nancy, born July 9, 1794.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER, Assistant to Administrator.