Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22888, for Joshua Lynch, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Lynch, Joshua
S. 22888
CONTENTS

New York 28904
Joshua Lynch of Onondaga in the State of New York who was a private in the com manded by Captain Henshaw of the reg commanded by Col Peters in the Mays line for 6 months & 12 days private
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 21 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 day of Sept r 1834 and Gardner Lawrence Syracuse
Arrears to the 14th of March 64 00 Semi-ant. allowance ending Sept r 10.66 $74.66
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Dan d Bayd Clerk. Book 6 Vol. 4 Page 105

No 8298 Joshua Lynch
Sup Declaration to be looked for susp 2 -
4 5 6 12 13 14 15 17
19 Oct 1832 16 Nov 1832
P. 41.
Gardner Laurence Syracuse
adm d N.Y. G

No 8498
BRIEF in the case of  Joshua Lynch of Coicera  County of Coicera  in the State of  New York  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Before a Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? Sixty eight years - 68  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.     Entered the service April 18 in the same year that Major Andre was hanged and hanging in the following year — 19 — Private Gen. Col. Bigelow, Regt. Mass. Inf. Infants Maj. J. H. H. Johnson, Capt. Howland   Same year of his return home, was drafted — 1 — do Capt. E. Chaffin, Capt. Curtis, Lieut. Hoyt   Met at Spring after that was the fall of 1814 — 1 15 do same officers   Met at Spring after that was the fall of 1814 — 2 — Light horse Lieut. Austin    5. In what battles was he engaged? None
 6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? at Stockbridge, County of Berkshire, Mass.  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  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? As regards the period of service, date of enlistment & names of officers 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Chas. G. Miller Examining Clerk.

State of New York } ss: Abel Cadwell a resident Onondaga County } of the Village of Syracuse in the town of Salina and in the County of Onondaga and State of New York being duly sworn doth on his oath say that he is 70 years of age, that during the Revolutionary war he resided in the town of Stockbridge in the County of Berkshire and State of Massachusetts, that he was acquainted with one Joshua Lynch at that time who resided in Stockbridge aforesaid and in the same neighborhood with this deponent, and that the same Joshua Lynch now resides in the town of Cicero in the County of Onondaga and State of New York, and about fifteen miles from this deponent, and is well known to this deponent. That he knows that the said Lynch enlisted into the Revolutionary service as a private soldier, thinks it was in the year 1780, but the particular time or period that said Lynch served this deponent cannot remember, but knows that he left home to serve in pursuance of his said enlistment but that this deponent never saw him in actual service but has no doubt from the information which he then had and from his present recollection that he did serve during a part of the said war
Abel Cadwell
Personally appeared before me Abel Cadwell to me well known & subscribed and sworn to the foregoing affidavit. Dec. 3, 1832 John Dunford. Justice

I the said justice do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Abel Goodwill who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing affidavit, that he is a reputable person and a man entitled to credit, and of sufficient capacity to recollect said facts.
John Dunford Justice

State of New York Onondaga County }
ss: On this fourth day of November  December in the year 1882 personally appeared in open court before the judges of the court of Common Pleas now sitting Joshua Lynch a resident of the town of Cicero in said County and State aforesaid aged 68 years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
That he enlisted into the Massachusetts State troops in April in the year 1780 at Stock Bridge in the County of Berkshire in Massachusetts aforesaid, and served under one Captain, Hendang , that he does not recollect the names of the Lieutenant and Ensign, — But the Lieutenant Colonel's name, under which he served was Peterson in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Bigelow , that he was first mustered and inspected at Sheffield in Massachusetts, that he was marched from there to West Point in the State of New York, where they joined the Continental Army, that they were marched back and crossed the Hudson River and were stationed at a place called Robinson's farms and remained there until about June, then he was ordered to cross over to the west side of the River, and they crossed at a place called King's ferry, that he was marched to Orange town from there to a place called To-to-wa near

6-12 In Ed. B. ... affidavit New York, that he remained there a short time and was marched back to West Point at which place he arrived about the first of December, he was then ordered by Col. Bigelow to a place called the Nine Partners after horses and that he returned the last of January in the year 1781, and that he received a written discharge from Col. Bigelow the first of February or thereabouts, and that he served at that time ten months , But what became of his discharge he does not know, that he knew in the army at this time one Major Ashley and one Major Porter,
That in the Spring of the year of 1781, but the particular month he cannot recollect, he was drafted in the Militia at Stockbridge in the State of Massachusetts for Six months - and that he was placed under the command of one Elrathem Curtis Captain, and one Lieutenant Hyde, that he cannot recollect the names of the other officers in the company; and that he was marched from Stockbridge aforesaid to Stillwater in the State of New York, that he arrived at Still Water late in the same Spring and remained at that place a short time but the precise time he cannot recollect, and then marched to Fort Edward and remained at that place until some time in the same year but the precise time he cannot recollect when he was ordered to the State of Massachusetts to which place he was marched together with the rest of the company, and was there discharged at Stockbridge aforesaid by Elrathem Curtis the Captain under which he had served at the end of six months, but he did not receive any written discharge
That in the Spring of 1782 he was drafted again and placed under the com

drafted again and placed under the command of Elathan Lunt, Captain and one Hyde Lieutenant, at Stockbridge aforesaid and that he together with the rest of the company was called out and in readiness to march wherever they should be ordered for the term of one and a half months - and that he was then discharged by said captain, but he did not receive any written discharge, and the particular months in the spring which the said one and a half month was served he cannot recollect.
That soon after, he thinks in the summer of 1782, but the precise month he cannot recollect, he volunteered as a light Horseman and served under one captain Bristol and he was detached from Stockbridge aforesaid to the frontier along the seaboard, as a guard. That he does not recollect the name of any of the officers excepting the Captain, that he served as such guard two months but the particular two months he cannot name, and all of his said services in the Revolutionary war aforesaid was in the capacity of a private soldier, that he never received any other written discharge than the one above mentioned.
That he has no documentary evidence of his said services, but that all of his said services which he can recollect amount to 19\frac{1}{2} months.
That he knows of no living witness by whom he can prove any of his said services excepting Abel Leadwell who resides in the Village of Syracuse in the county of Onondaga.
That he was born in the town of Stockbridge in the county of Berkshire in the State of Massachusetts in the year 1764. that he has no record of his age.
That he resided in Stockbridge aforesaid several

years after the Revolution, from there he removed to Ballstown in the State of New York, from there to Rotterdam, from there to Lieros where he has resided about twenty five years and now resides, in the county of Onondaga and State of New York, and that he is acquainted with David E Shepard and Thomas Nathan residing in in his neighborhood who can testify to the tradition of his said services and that there is no clergyman near whom he can procure to testify for him that he has stated the facts set forth in this his declaration as particularly as it is possible for him so to do. that his memory is very much impaired, from old age and infirmity That he hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity whatever except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State Joshua Lynch
Subscribed and sworn in open court this 4 th day of December 1832 before me R. S. HESS clerk of Onondaga County
We David E Shepard and Thomas Nathan Residing in the town of Lieros in the County of Onondaga and State of New York, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Joshua Lynch who has subscribed the foregoing declaration, that he believes him to be Sixty Eight years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion,

Subscribed and sworn before me this 3 day of December 1832 George Walcup
(D. E. Shepard Thomas Mathews
a justice of the Peace in & for the town of Cicero in said County of Onondaga
And I the aforesaid Justice do hereby certify and declare that the  the above named David Shepard and Thomas Mathews who have signed and sworn to the above certificate, that they resided in the town of Cicero aforesaid, that they are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
(D. E. Shepard Thomas Mathews George Walcup
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation 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 do hereby further certify that it appears to them by evidence produced before them, that in consequence of the distance that the appli- cant resides from the court, and the badness of the Road which he would have to travel and his inability to pay the expense, that He could not produce in said court without too much expense and inconvenience to said applicant. the two witnesses as required by the War department, who have signed the above certificate and sworn to the same before George Walcup

Samuel L. Edwards
George Pettit Otis Bigelow
State of New York } Onondaga County } ss. I Reuben S. Hess Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings of the said Court in the Matter of the application of Joshua Synck for a pension. And I further certify that John Durnford and George Walkup were on the third day of December 1832 respectively Justices of the Peace in and for said County and that I am acquainted with the handwriting of the said Justices and verily believe the signature of "John Durnford" subscribed to the jurat of the preceding affidavit of Abel Cadwell, and to the preceding certificate and the signature of "George Walkup" subscribed to the jurat of the above affidavit of D. E. Shepard and Thomas Nathan and also to the above certificate, to be the genuine signatures of the said Justices. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 21. day of January 1833. R. S. Hess Clerk
Bigelow 8 July 80 665

New York Revs
Joshua Synck
Suspended Per Laurence 15 June 1833
Act 7 June 1833

New York Joshua Linch
Rev. Y.
Suspended let to G. Lawrence June 7. 1834. — Let Hon. W. Taylor 24 June 34
Set 7 June

New York
Joshua Lynch †
Disallured
In ltr. to A. Gould May 21 '36-
† now on roll-file this with his other papers

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, March 31 st 1834.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Joshua Lynch is borne on a Pay Roll of the Six Months Men. from the Town of Stockbridge where he is allowed from July 1 st 1780. to Jan y 8 th 1781. for services and travel six months and twelve days. — 6 = 12
Joshua Lynch claims for services under Capt. Hurdang. and Capt. E. N. Curtis in 1781, but the rolls which he describes are not found in this Office.
ex 1
Edward D. Bangs. Secy

add. qui. Johna Lynch.
Mer... April. 14. 1832
Free Edward Eng. Bonds of Pension Washington City

Syracuse, N.Y. April 8, 1834.
In Sir I Enclose you the certificate of the Secretary of State of Massachusetts in relation to the services of Joshua Lynch. I did not keep a copy of his papers and therefore am unable to conclude in my own mind whether it agrees with his statement or not,
The old man whom I last saw him told me for the first time, that the first term of his services were as done as a substitute — He said that he volunteered, but it now seems that his brother was drafted, or enlisted & Joshua volunteered to take his place & served 10 months, which fact ought to have appeared, I suppose, if it is material he wants will to amend, in that particular,
J. L. Edwards Esqr
Respectfully Yours,
Gardner Lawrence

Rev. Joshua Lynch New York
Suspended act 7 Jan '32
letter 6 Nov. '33
To G. Lawrence

Resolution
22 888 INVALID.
File No. 22,888
Joshua Lynch Rev. Rev. Me.
Act: June 7 th 92.
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 251
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Joshua Lynch
N.Y.R. NY Mar 21.
ans? May 21: '36.
Joshua Lynch
Room of pensions
Washington D.C.
[Faint signature]

Dubun N.Y. March 14 1836
Sir
Mr Joshua Lynch is now on the pension list under the act of 7 th June 1832. for 6 months & 12 days service as a soldier in the war of the Revolution. He says that in his original application he claimed for three months service in addition to the above as substitute for his brother. That during said three months he answered to his brother's name and at the expiration of the time his brother John returned, when he Joshua was ended for 6 months & continued to serve answering to his own name. Mr Lynch says he can now prove these facts by 2 or 3 witnesses and wishes to know if his pension can be increased provided he does make such proof.
I am Sir
Very Respectfully Your O bt Servt D Gould
Hon J. S. Edwards

Josiah Lynch "
1820

Manadaya Co. N.Y.
Syracuse June 19 th 1883
Sir Enclosed I send the papers originally sent to the department for Joshua Snyth
The reason that I did not return them was that they were made out in great haste & the first drawn by me — & I discovered they were very imperfect.
I am Respectfully,
Yours your Obedt Servt
Garner Lawrence

John Lynch America
1844
Lynch

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Joshua Lynch which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides ? Yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides ? Yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so ? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served ? No V. *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled ? No VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations ? No VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832 ? No VIII. Has the Court given their opinion ? Yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate ? Yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed ? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal ? Yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?
Two respectable citizens
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
No
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
No
XIV. † If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility?
No
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
No
XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?
No
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
No
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
‡ QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
“Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent 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 _____ year _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____. For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension.”

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
†QUERE XIV.  Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the affidavits must be properly authenticated, as above directed.
‡QUERE XVI.  Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

Joshua Lynch
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8498.
See relinquishment
Admd
6 mo. P2 ds

Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7. 1832.
State of New York
Onondaga County ss. On this 14th day of September in the year 1832, personally appeared in open court before Daniel Moseley Esq. Vice Chancellor of the at a court of chancery now sitting  at Onondaga  the Seventh Circuit, now sitting Joshua Lynch a resident of the town of Limer in the county of Onondaga & State of New York. Aged 68 years who being first sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7. 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated,
Under one captain, Huddang, & Lieutenant Col. Peterson, in Col. Bigelows Regiment, that he entered the service in April in the same year that Maj. Andre was hung. and that he was on guard over him, that he enlisted at Stockbridge in the county of Berkshire in Massachusetts State, in the Massachusetts forces. that he was mustered and inspected, at Sheffield. and that he with the rest of the company, some of which were Mathew Coddwell, Asa Markham, John Smith, John Synch, was ordered to Westpoint, where they joined the continental army. and that they crossed the north River and were stationed at what was called Robinsons farm, and remained there until about June, and from thence he crossed the north River at Kings ferry. and marched from thence to Orange town, and so down the River to a place called Tottowa, and that he marched from thence back to Westpoint at which place they arrived about December, and that he was sent by Col. Bigelows from thence to a place called the nine pastures to get four horses, and returned about the last of January, that he then received a written discharge, thinks from Col. Bigelow, but does not know what has become of it,

And that he then returned home after having served 10 months , that he knew one Maj. Ishley & one Maj. Porter,
And that the same year of his return home he was drafted in the Malitia, and that he was placed under one Ednathan Curtis captain. Lieutenant Flyde. and that he marched from said Stock bridge to Still water in the State of New York, and that they arrived at that place he thinks late in the Spring, and that he remained at Still water, and at Fort Edward, a short time and then returned home with the rest of the company, and was there dismissed by the said Captain & received no written discharge, and that it was as much as five  six months from the time he left home up to the time he returned, according to his best belief,
And that the next Spring after that he was drafted again and put under the command of Captain Ednathan Curtis and Lieut. Flyde, and that the rest of the company was called out and stood ready to march wherever they might be ordered, for 1 1/2 months , and that he was then discharged.
And that either the same year or the next year after he volunteered as a light horseman under Lieutenant Briston and served at that time as a guard and a minute man about two months, on the frontier at Stock Bridge aforesaid, and that he knows of no living witness by whom he can prove his said services any more particularly as fully than is set forth in the deposition of Abel Goodall unto arranged that he served as a private soldier through all his said services,
and that he was born in Stock bridge in the County of Berkshire in the State of Massachusetts in the year 1764. That he has no record of his age. That he is acquainted with Judd and Page & Ezra Heart of the town of Cien, and Thomas Nathan and that he relinquishes every claim to a portion or annuity except the present and future

the town of Cero, and Thomas Nathan and that he relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the army of any State, and after the Revolution he moved to Balstown then to Rotterdam then to Cero where he now lives.
Joshua Lynch
Sworn to this 14. Sept. 1832
Daniel Moseley Vice Chanc. Judge
That We the undersigned We Libellus Thomas Nathan and Ezra Hart a former residing in the town of Cero in the the County of Albany, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Joshua Lynch, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 68 years of age that he is reported and believed in the neigh- borhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we con- cur in that opinion
Sworn to this 14 Sept. 1832. Thomas Nathan
Daniel Moseley Ezra Hart Vice Chanc. Judge
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinions after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and that he served as he states - And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Thomas Nathan who has signed the preceding certificate is a resi- dent of the town of Cero and that Ezra Hart who has also signed the same is a resi- dent in the aforesaid town and are both credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Daniel Moseley Vice Chancellor

I Daniel T. Mooseley Deputy Clerk of the Court of Chancery of the Seventh Circuit, for the State of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Joshua Lynch for a pension—
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 14 th day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty two—
Daniel T. Mooseley Deputy Clerk in Chancery
Onondaga County } ss. Abel Leadwell of the town of Salina in said County being duly sworn doth on his oath say that

State of New York Onondaga County
ss. Abel Leadwell of the town of Salina in said County being duly sworn doth on his oath say, that he was a native of Stockbridge in the State of Massachusetts, and that he was then acquainted with one Jeremiah Lynch who was an iron man, who now resides in the town of Cicero in the County of Onondaga, that he knew that said Lynch enlisted in to the Revolutionary Service for the term of 9 months, that it was the same year that Maj. Andre was hung, and that a brother of this deponent enlisted at the same time and that they both went, under their enlistment in to the service. Abel Leadwell Subscribed and sworn before me this 11th day of September 1832 John Durnford Justice
State of New York County of Onondaga
ss. I. Reuben S. Heps Clerk of the said County do certify that John Durnford before whom the preceding Affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same one of the justices of the peace in and for the said County of Onondaga and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name above subscribed to be his proper hand writing and signature. Witness my hand and Seal of Office this 11th day of September 1832. R. S. Heps.
By N. Edwards Jr. Dep. Clk.