Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7,063, for Elisha B Maynard, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Maynard, Elisha B.
R. 7063
CONTENTS

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York.
Maynard, Elisha B.
R. 7063
CONTENTS

32.809.
Elisha B. Maynard N.Y.
Vol. 3. p. 7- 3 days Jany 81 " " 9. 5 - Nov. 80 " " 12. 6. Oct 80
E. B. Maynard Delaware

Declaration in order to obtain benefit of act of Congress. Passed June 7 th 1832
State of New York Westchester County } ss. on this twenty- sixth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four per- sonally appeared in open Court before the Court of Common Pleas. of the said County of Westchester and State of New York Now sitting at White Plains in said County. Elisha Bellay- nard a Resident of the Town of Harrison in the said County of Westchester - aged Seventy one years on the twenty fourth day of January last who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to ob- tain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June passed June Seventh 1832 -
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated that is to say that in the month of March in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and Seventy eight this declarant was residing in the Town of Harrison aforesaid (then called Harrison's Purchase) in the said County of Westchester within the Militia beat of a Company of Militia in Colonel Thomas Thomas's Regiment of Militia in said County Commanded by Captain Thomas Carpenter and being then over fifteen years of age and constantly exposed to attacks from parties of the Enemy. This declarant volunteered to serve and did serve as a private in the afore- said Company of Militia in Regular Military service under arms on Guard and Patrolling parties within the said County wherever they were ordered by their

officers from the Month of March aforesaid till about the first day of November in said last mentioned year That during this declarants aforesaid service in the aforesaid Militia Company as a private from the exposed situation of the said County of Westchester and their vicinity to the British lines this declarant with his said Company were in almost constant military service under arms by day or night on guard within the said County inasmuch that this declarant could not nor did during said last mentioned period follow any civil employment whatever but was for different periods of time from the month of March aforesaid to the month of November aforesaid in the year 1778 in actual military service under arms as a Private in his aforesaid Company of Militia in the service of the Americans four months That while this declarant was serving as afore- said as a private in his aforesaid Company of Mi- litia while this Declarant and part of his afore- said Company with his said Captain and Lieu- tenant of said Company (James Brindage) were doing duty under arms as a guard at the house of Colonel Thomas Thomas the Colonel of this said Regiment at the Town of Harrison aforesaid a party of British horse and infantry under the Command of Colonel Simcoe before daylight at- tacked the said party on guard at Colonel Thomas as aforesaid and killed their said Lieutenant (James Brindage) and Gilbert Slater a private in said Company dangerously wounded their aforesaid Captain Thomas Carpenter and took their aforesaid Colonel Thomas Thomas this Declarant and all the rest of the party (but one of them) Prisoners That the said British party made the attack afore- said and took this Declarant prisoner on or about the first day of November in the year 1778

but this Declarant cannot recollect the particular day of said Month. That this Declarant was immediately taken by the said British party under the command of Colonel Simcoe to the City of New York and lodged there in the "Provost Jail" where this Declarant remained a prisoner of War for the space of three months and was then removed as such prisoner to the "Sugar House" in the said City then used as a Jail by the British for the American Prisoners where this declarant remained as such prisoner till his exchange which took place about the first day of April in the year 1779 but the precise day this Declarant cannot now recollect but according to this Declarant's present recollection he was confined as such prisoner as aforesaid in the said Provost and Sugar House for the term of five months in the whole That when this Declarant was exchanged as aforesaid he recollects that with this Declarant there were several others and among them some continental soldiers they were landed at Elizabeth Town Point in New Jersey - and this Declarant was obliged to walk on foot from there and cross the Hudson River near Tarry Town to Bedford in the said County of Westchester where this Declarant's father then resided That this Declarant after his return as aforesaid continued to reside with his father at Bedford aforesaid and was enrolled as a private in a company of Militia in Bedford aforesaid then commanded by Captain Isaac Miller in Colonel Thomas Thomas's Regiment of Militia in the said County of Westchester That on or about the fifteenth day of May in the year 1779 but the precise day of that Month this Declarant cannot now recollect this Declarant with his aforesaid

Company were called out by their said Captain and did actual duty under arms in the said County of Westchester as a private in his said last mentioned Company as a Guard on the American Lines and on parties against the enemy whenever an occasion offered till the first day of November in the last mentioned year when this Declarant with his said Company were discharged verbally by their said Captain That during the said last mentioned service of this Declarant in Captain Isaac Miller's Company of Militia their principal duty was to act as patrolling parties and Guards along the American lines in small parties and each man did duty every other night in rotation by order of their said Captain regularly during the said last mentioned time That it is impossible for this Declarant now to recollect or state every time and occasion and the length thereof, that he was in actual service under arms in said Isaac Miller's Company of Militia in said last mentioned year but this Declarant is confident that he served as a private in actual military service under arms in said last mentioned Company during said last mentioned year in the whole for the space of three months and drew provisions during said service from the Continental stores that in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and eighty this Declarant was residing at Bedford aforesaid and was enrolled as a private in a Company of Militia commanded by Captain Hezekiah Miller in the said last mentioned Regiment of Militia and was called out and did duty as a private in said last mentioned Company in said last mentioned year in the same manner as last above mentioned on different occasions which he cannot now particularly

recollect for the reasons above stated except that during said last mentioned year this declarant with his said Company were for the space of one month and upwards stationed at Robbins Mills in the said County of Westchester with Sheldon's American Lighthouse That this declarant ser- ved as a private in actual military service under arms in said last mentioned Company during said last mentioned year from the month of May to the month of November in that year four months - That during the years 1781 & 1782 This Declarant belonged, was enrolled, and did duty as a private in a company of Militia commanded by Captain Moses St John in Colonel Thomas Thomas's Regiment of Militia in the said County of Westchester that during each of the said last mentioned years this Declarant was during the winter seasons, called out occasionally and did actual military duty under arms as a private in said last mentioned Company for short periods of time as their services were (temporary) required, but in the summer of each of the said last mentioned years, this Declarant was out under arms and did actual duty under arms as a private in said last mentioned company constantly and regularly from the month of May to the month of November in each of said last mentioned years, under command of their Captain as Guards on the American Lines, and patrolling parties to protect the persons and property

of the Inhabitants above and near the lines friendly to the American cause, from the attacks and marauding parties of the British who had a large force at Morrisania in the lower part of said County of Westchester. That this Declarant cannot now particularly specify and state each occasion when where the Declarant served as aforesaid but recollects and states That in the month of March 1781 This Declarant with his said Captain Mores St John (and a part of his said Company) were ordered and did con- vey and guard a number of British Prisoners from Bed- ford aforesaid to the American Prison at Fishkill in the County of Dutchess and were in actual service under arms on that occasion for the space of Ten days. That during the said last mentioned year this Declarant with his said Company were stationed and did duly as infantry under arms to Colonel Sheldon's Regiment of horse in the Town of North Castle in said County for the space of Six weeks That during each of the said last mentioned years this Declarant served as a private in his last mentioned Company in actual service under arms for the space of four months in each of said years - This Declarant in answer to the several interrogatories prescribed by the War Department and put to him by the Court states - That he was born on the twenty fourth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Sixty three at the Town of Harrison in the said County of Westchester that this Declarant has a

record of his age in his pension which he now produces in Court which he believes to be correct and by which it appears that he was born as he has above stated and is of the age above stated. That this Declarant was living in the Town of Harrison aforesaid when he was called into service in the year Seven hundred and Seventy eight and was afterwards living in the Town of Bedford in the said County, when he entered the service at the several times above stated during the rest of the Revolutionary War. That since the Revolutionary War this Declarant has resided for the first eight years in the Town of Harrison aforesaid. He then removed to the County of Delaware where he continued to live for the space of about thirty six years he then removed to the Town of Harrison aforesaid where he has ever since lived and still now lives. That this Declarant was never drafted into service nor was he ever a substitute nor did he ever volunteer except while he served in Captain Thomas Carpenter's Company of Militia as aforesaid. And during the rest of this Declarant's aforesaid services this Declarant was enrolled and did duty by the order of his Captain as he has above stated that some of the regular officers who were with the Troops where this Declarant served were Colonel Sheldon, Colonel Meigs, Major Talmadge and Colonel Garrison.
That the Continental and Militia Regiments which this Declarant recollects were Colonel Sheldon's Regiment of horse, Colonel Meigs' Regiment of Infantry and Colonel Garrison's Regiment of the Infantry. Colonel Thomas's Regiment of Militia and Colonel Hammonds' Regiment of Militia. That the general circumstances of this declarant's service are full set forth in the his

preceeding Declaration
That this Declarant never received any written discharge from the service - but always verbal discharges from the aforesaid officers under whom he served - That this Declarant has not any written or documentary evidence of his said services. And the only living witnesses of his aforesaid services are Simeon Tyler of the Town of Harrison aforesaid, Samuel Miller of the Town of Mamaroneck in the said County of West Chester and Thomas Lane of the Town of Greenwich in the State of Connecticut - That the names of the persons to whom this Declarant is known in his present neighbourhood and who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a Soldier of the Revolution are Jeremiah Anderson and Simeon Tyler both residents of the Town of Harrison aforesaid. That there is not any clergyman residing in the neighbourhood of this Declarant to give the aforesaid Certificate As to this Declarant's character for veracity and belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution
That this Declarant claims a Pension under the act of Congress aforesaid for his aforesaid services as a private in the Militia during the Revolutionary War viz
For his aforesaid four months actual service under arms in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy eight in Captain Thomas Carpenter's Company of Militia
For his five months imprisonment by the British as an American Prisoner of war taken under arms in November 1778 as aforesaid in the Provost and Sugar house in the City of New York

For his three months actual service under arms as aforesaid in the year 1779 in Captain Isaac Miller's Company of Militia -
For his four months actual service under arms in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty in Captain Zechariah Miller's Company of Militia. For his four months actual service under arms in Captain Moses St. John's Company of Militia in the year 1781 as aforesaid -
And for his four months actual service under arms in the year 1782 in Captain Moses St. John's Company of Militia as aforesaid
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 to in open Court the day & Elisha B. Maynard and year aforesaid -
M c Rayles C lk
State of New York Westchester County } ss. W 2 . Jeremiah Anderson and Simon Gylfer, both residing in the town of Harrison in the said County of Westchester, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Elisha B. Maynard who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration. That we believe him to be seventy one years of age. That he is a man of truth and veracity. That he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the

Revolution and That We concur in that opinion sworn & subscribed } Jeremiah Anderson in open Court the day } Simeon Tyler afore said } N. Bayles Clerk
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigations 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 that the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Jeremiah Anderson and Simeon Tyler who have signed the preceding certificate are residents of the the Town of Harnish aforesaid and that they are credible persons and that they are that their statement is en- titled to full credit
I Nathaniel Bayles Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of West- chester in the State of New York, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original pro- ceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Elisha B. Maynard for a pension In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office the twenty sixth day of May 1831 N. Bayles Clerk
Elisha B. Maynard written on erasure by me in the certificate of the Court above N. Bayles

State of New York Westchester County } ss Simon Tyler of the Town of Har- rison in the County of Westchester aforesaid being duly sworn doth on his oath depose and say that he is now aged Seventy Two years and upwards and is a Pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress passed 7 th of June 1832 That Elisha Wellaynard now residing in the Town of Harri- son in the said County of Westchester is well known to this Deponent and he has been personally acquainted with the said Maynard from the month of April 1779 That in the fall of the year 1778 this Deponent was living in the Town of Bedford in the said County and belonged to the Company of Militia in the said Town Commanded by Captain Isaac Miller and in Colonel Thomas Thomas's Regiment of Militia in said County That this Deponent well recollects That in the fall of the year and as near as this Deponent can recollect in the Month of November in that year it was reported and believed uniformly in the said County of Westchester that a party of the British under the Command of Colonel Simcoe had in the night time made an attack upon a party of American Troops at Colonel Thomas Thomas's House in the Town of Harrison aforesaid and had taken prisoner their said Colonel Thomas Thomas and a number of the Soldiers and carried them to the "Provost" in the City of New York That shortly after this attack Isaiah Maynard the father of the said Elisha Wellaynard (who was then some times)

called Elisha Budd Maynard) removed to the Town of Bedford near to where this Deponent then resided and continued to reside there till the close of the Revolutionary War. That this Deponent was informed by the said Isaiah Maynard that his son the said Elisha B. Maynard in the aforesaid attack on Colonel Thomas Thomas's house had been taken prisoner with the said Thomas Thomas and taken to the "Provost" in the City of New York where he then remained a British Prisoner. That in the Spring of the year 1779 the said Elisha B. Maynard returned to his father's Residence in Bedford aforesaid (as was then understood and uniformly believed to be true from the the City of New York where he had been such British Prisoner as aforesaid and had been exchanged). That this Deponent from the best of his recollection states that the aforesaid return of the said Elisha B. Maynard was in the Month of April 1779.
That the said Elisha B. Maynard continued to reside in Bedford aforesaid near to this Deponent's Residence till the close of the Revolutionary War. That in the Spring of the year 1779 the said Elisha B. Maynard was enrolled and served as a Private with this Deponent in a Company of Militia Commanded by Captain Isaac Miller in Colonel Thomas Thomas's Regiment of Militia till the Spring of the year 1780 when the said Elisha B. Maynard with this Deponent (as Sergeant) was enrolled and served as a private in a Company of Militia in Bedford aforesaid Commanded by Captain Nehemiah Miller in Colonel Thomas's Regiment.

aforesaid till the Spring of the year 1781 and until sometime in the month April in that year when this Deponent enlisted as a Private in Captain Sacketts company of Levies in said County for Nine months and served out his time in that Company That on or about the first day of January 1782 this Deponent aforesaid returned having returned to his former residence in Bedford aforesaid and found the said Elisha B Maynard still belonging and serving as a Private in the same Company of Militia which this Deponent left him serving in in April 1781 which had been since the time last mentioned under the Command of fellow S t John who had in the Spring of 1781 Succeeded Captain Hezekiah Miller in the Command of that Company That during the nine months that this Deponent served in Captain Sacketts Company as aforesaid this Deponent did not serve in the immediate neighbourhood of said Elisha B Maynard but most of the time within the said County of Westchester - and recollects seeing said Elisha B Maynard during said nine months in actual service under arms as a private in said Captain Moses S t Johns Company of Militia and on this Deponents return was informed and has no doubt of the truth thereof that the said Elisha B Maynard during said nine months had continued to belong and serve as a Private in said S t Johns Company of Militia -
That shortly after this Deponents return as aforesaid in January 1782 he commenced serving again with the said Elisha B Maynard as a Private in the said Company of

Militia Commanded by Captain Moses St. John as aforesaid and well recollects that the said Elisha B. Maynard served as a private in said last mentioned Company with this Deponent to the close of the Revolutionary War.
That in consequence of lapse of time and the frequent occasions during the years 1779 1780, to the spring of 1781 and from January 1782 to the close of the war this Deponent with the said Elisha B. Maynard were called out and were in actual service under arms. This Deponent cannot now now specify the precise period of each term of service but well recollects that during said years the said Elisha B. Maynard was always out doing duty as a private and a good and faithful soldier whenever the company to which he belonged was out on duty. And that from their exposed situation they were almost continually out in actual service under arms. And this Deponent states that in the year 1779 the said Elisha B. Maynard served as a private in actual military service under arms in the aforesaid Company of Militia Commanded by Captain Isaac Miller for the space of four months and upwards and that the said Elisha B. Maynard in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty also served as a private in actual military service under arms in the aforesaid Company of Militia Commanded by Captain Keziah Miller for the space of five months. That the said Elisha B. Maynard also served as a private in the aforesaid Company of Militia Commanded by Captain Moses St. John in actual military service.

under arms in the year 1782 four months and upwards That from the month of April 1781 to the month of January 1782 This Depo- nent well recollects as he has above stated that the said Elisha B. Maynard was in actual military service under arms in the aforesaid Company commanded by Captain Moses St- John But this Deponent is unable to state how long the said Elisha thus served by reason of his enlistment and service during that time in Captain Sackett's Company as aforesaid And this Deponent further saith that all of the aforesaid services of the said Elisha B. Maynard and this Deponent in the aforesaid Companies were done by command of their officers who were regularly commissioned by the Governor or authority of the state of New York And further this Deponent saith not Sworn and subscribed before me this 26 th day of } Simeon Tyler of May 1834
The above is a true copy of the original as of the original
M. Bayles M.R.

I Nathaniel Bayles the Clerk of the County of Middlesex Justice of the Peace before whom the preceding affidavit was subscri- bed and sworn to certify that the said Lemuel Tyler who made said affidavit is known to me and is a credible person
N. Bayles

32809
New York
Elisha B. Gayman Suspended
Letter to Hon. A. Ward
3 March 1835
Let. to J. W. Tompkins, 10 July 1835
7063

Elisha B. Maynard
vol 3 p 7- 3 days Jan 81- 9-5 Nov 80- 12-6 Oct 80
Capt Carpenter (Miller) & St John - 78.9-80.1.2.
Josiah
vol 9.28
Aug 79 - not on vol 2, 82.
Capt Jacob Putnam -
Vol 4 p 44-45 Frederick Lepper

Acts of July 11, 1862, and March 3, 1870.
REJECTED
70063
P. O. Eliza B. Maynard
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

1 st 78. Carpenter Thomas - from March to Nov. 4 mo 1 st Nov. taken prisoner with Col. Thomas while serving as a guard at Thomas House } 5 mo plus 2 nd 79. Miller Thomas did duty every other night from March to Nov. } 3 " 1 month stationed at Robbins mills 1. 8 1882 regular service from May to Nov. each year under Capt. St. John }
Specification
81. coming in prisoner 10 days & 6 weeks at North Battle under Col. Sheldon

Sir
Do me the favour to give this your earliest attention. The Sopra is now by orders of Ireland be glad to take the contents with me
Yours Alma
Dr. Cummins of the P.O.
H. J. R. Feely. 21 st 1835

32809
Feb: 21
Declaration & Proofs of Elisha Bellamy for a Pension under act of Congress of the June 1832
J. W. Sompkins.
11 th Ward. M.C.

State of New York } Westchester County } ss Thomas Lane of King Street in the Town of Greenwich and State of Connecticut being duly sworn doth on his oath depose and say that he now resides at King Street aforesaid near the State line between the State of Connecticut and the said County of Westchester That he is well acquainted with Elisha B Maynard now of the Town of Harrison in the said County of Westchester and has been well acquainted with him since the (commencement of the) Revolutionary War. That this Depo- nent has no record of his age but according to the information of his family which he believes to be correct this Deponent was seventy two years of age on the fifteenth day of last October. That during the Revolutionary War in the fall of the year seventeen hundred and seventy eight this Deponent was working for and living with Colo- nel Thomas Thomas of the Town of Harrison in the said County of Westchester who comman- ded a Militia Regiment in said County. That this Deponent well recollects that in the fall of said last mentioned year, but the day or month in said last mentioned year he cannot now recollect an attack was made in the night time upon the house of the said Thomas Thomas in the Town of Harrison aforesaid by a party of British horse and Infantry under Colonel Simcoe. That this Deponent was not enrolled or engaged in any military service at the time but was living as a labourer with said Thomas Thomas and sleeping in his house when said attack was made. That after some firing the British entered the house and in said attack wounded Captain Thomas Carpenter who commanded a Militia

Company in said Town of Harrison and killed Lieutenant James Brundage and Gilbert Slater a Private in said Company and took James Sniffen said Elisha B. Maynard and several others whose names this Deponent does not now recollect and the said Colonel Thomas Thomas Prisoners and carried them off and as this Deponent was informed and has no doubt is true carried them prisoners of war to the City of New York, but this Deponent does not know how long the said Elisha B. Maynard remained such Prisoner. That the said Party under the command of the said Thomas Carpen- ter including the said Elisha B. Maynard were on guard at the time of said attack at the house of the said Colonel Thomas Thomas where a quantity of Provisions and stores were deposited at the time. That this Deponent shortly after the said attack returned to his fathers house in the State of Connecticut and there remained during the rest of the Revolutionary War, but did not take up arms on either side neither did he do any Military duty during the Revolutionary War nor had he any oppor- tunity of becoming acquainted with the military services of the said Elisha B. Maynard during said war other than at the time and place above mentioned Sworn & subscribed this 13 th day of Feb- ruary 1835 before me his Thomas + Lane mark Note the words "commence- ment of the" interlined on the first page before signing Augustus Purdy Justice of the Peace
I Augustus Purdy the Justice of the Peace before

whom the preceding affidavit was subscribed and sworn to do certify that the said Thomas Lane who made the said affidavit is known to me and is a credible person -
Dated February 13 th 1835-
Augustus Purdy justice of the Peace
State of New York County of Westchester ss
I John H. Smith
Clerk of the said County Do hereby certify, That Augustus Purdy before whom the pre- ceding affidavit purports to have been taken sworn and also by whom the certificate here- of was made was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County. And that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Augustus Pur- dy, and verily believe his name subscri- bed to the said affidavit and certificate to be his proper hand writing and signature
Witness my hand and Seal of office this 16 th day of February 1835
John H. Smith

State of New York Westchester County & ss. Samuel Miller of the Town of Mamaroneck in the said County of Westchester being duly sworn doth on his oath depose and say. That he is now aged seventy six years upwards. That Elisha B. Maynard now resid- ing in the Town of Harrison in the said County and who has made the preceding Declaration is well known to this Deponent, and he has been personally acquainted with him from the commence- ment of the Revolutionary war to the present day. That in the year of our Lord 1778. this Depo- nent knew the said Elisha B. Maynard. & recollects that he served, during the Summer and fall of that year as a private in a Company of Militia belonging to Harrison Pursuant to the said County Commanded by Cap n Thomas Carpenter in Col l Thomas Thomas's Regiment of Militia and this Deponent frequently saw said Maynard in actual service under arms doing duty as a Private in said Com- pany. That this Deponent well recollects. That in the Month of November 1778. This Deponent was coming from North Castle & met this Deponent's father near North Castle line in the said

County who also belonged to the aforesaid Company of Militia commanded by Cap n Thomas Carpenter as aforesaid. who informed this Deponent That during the night previous a Party of British Horse under Col Simcoe had attacked a part of said Company on Guard at Col Thomas Thomas's house in the said Town of Harrison taken their said Col Prisoner. Killed Lieutenant Jas Brundage and a private Gilbert Slater. of said Company wounded their said Cap n Thomas Carpenter & took most of the others Prisoners among whom were the said Elisha Bellaynard, who was had been a near neighbour both to this Deponent & his father. That the British had carried the said prisoners to the City of New York, this Deponent accordingly on his Return to Harrison Town aforesaid Repaired to the scene of Action the House of the said Col Thomas Thomas & there this Deponent saw the said Cap n Thomas Carpenter. Laying wound- -ed in the house also Lieu- -tenant James Brundage and Gilbert Slater killed - and heard that said Maynard with the others had been car- ried a Prisoner of war by the

British to the City of New York. That this Deponent does not know or recollect at what time the said Elisha Bellaynard was Released & Exchanged from his said imprisonment, but then understood & has always believed it to be true that the said Elisha B. Maynard Remained imprisoned till the next Spring (being the Spring of the year 1779). That from the Spring of the year 1779 to the close of the Revolution, the said Elisha Bellaynard resided with his father in the Town of Bedford in the said County, and this Deponent recollects seeing the said Elisha B Maynard during the year 1779 & the year 1780 doing duty under arms in a Company of Militia in said County at various times but this Deponent cannot recollect the name of the Captain of said Company but recollects that it was a Company of Militia belonging to the Town of Bedford in the said County. That during the years 1781 & 1782, this Deponent lived in the Town of Bedford aforesaid with the said Elisha Bellaynard & was enrolled and did duty each of them as a private

in a Company of Militia of the Town of Bedford aforesaid Commanded by Cap n Moses St John, till the close of the Revolutionary war And this Deponent further saith That from the Month of May to the Month of November in each of said last mentioned years the said Elisha Bellamy was in actual military service doing duty under arms as a private in said last mentioned Company of Militia Commanded by Cap n Moses St John Belonging to the Regiment of Militia Commanded by Col l Thomas Thomas in said County for more than four months in each year... in constant & regular service under the orders of the said Captain of said Company, beside frequent services for short periods of time during the muster seasons of each of said years. And this Deponent further saith That the said Elisha B Maynard from the com- -mencement to the close of the Revolutionary war was always known to this Deponent as an undeviating

friend to American Independence - and one of the most faith- -ful soldiers in the Militia of said County - in Repelling and Resisting the attacks and inroads to which said County was always ex- -posed during said war from the British & Tories at Morrisania
Sworn & subscribed this 11 th day of February 1835 before me
Augustus Purdy Justice of the Peace
Samuel Miller
I Augustus Purdy the Justice of the Peace before whom the preceding affidavit was sub- scribed and sworn to certify That the said Samuel Miller who made the said affidavit is known to me and is a credible person Dated February 11 th 1835
Augustus Purdy Justice of the Peace
State of New York County of Westchester
ss. I John H. Smith Clerk of the said County do hereby certify that Augustus Purdy before whom the preceding affidavit purports to have been sworn and also by whom the Certificate thereof was made, at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said county and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Augustus Purdy and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit & Certificate to be his proper hand writing & sig- nature. Witness my hand and seal of office this 11 th day of Febru- ary 1835 John H. Smith