Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 28863, for Gideon Salisbury, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York.
Salisbury Gideon Salisbury or
S. 28863
Born in Eng.
CONTENTS

Reported
3216
New York Gideon Salisbury
Middlesex in the State of N. York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain M c Cluskey for the Reg t comman- ded by Col. M c Cluskey the 1 st Reg t Vols. for 6 months & 18 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 22 Dollars — Cents per annum to commence on the 1 st day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 th day of March 1844 and sent to Mrs. B. Green, Mother of the Deceased to the 1 st of March 1844 $256.00 Pensionant allowance ending
$286.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by H. Van Klief, Clerk, Book E 2 Vol. 4 Page 68

FAMILY RECORD.
BIRTHS.
BIRTHS.
BIRTHS.
June
1847 1781 66 1847 1784 63 1847 1777 70
Benanuel S Salisbury was born in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and sixty on the twenty first day of November.
Grace Salisbury was born on the thirteenth day of March in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and sixty two
Robert Salisbury was born on the 13 th day of April A D 1751.
Albert B s Salisbury was born on the seventeenth day of December A D 1783.
Joseph Salisbury was born on the 22 nd day of August A D 1755.
Mary Salisbury was born on the 4 th day of November A D 1755.
Elizabeth Salisbury was born on the 28 th day of February A D 1791.
Almedia Salisbury was born on the 26 th day of March A D 1793.
Eleazar S Salisbury was born on the 24 th day of January A D 1778.
Marion Salisbury was born the 1800

FAMILY RECORD.
MARRIAGES.
FAMILY RECORD.
MARRIAGES.
R D.
MARRIAGES

FAMILY RECORD.
BIRTHS.
DEATHS
W T V
Warren Salisbury was born on the 13 th day of Februa- ry A D 1800. Seybilla Salisbury was born on the 2 nd day of October A D 1802.
1800 1802 1804 1806 1808 1810 1812 1814 1816 1818 1820

FAMILY RECORD.
DEATHS.
DEATHS. DEATHS.

Gideon Salisbury Was Born January 12 th 1763 Elizabeth Salisbury was Born July 7 th 1767 Betsy Salisbury was born July 20 th 1785 Phoebe Salisbury was born December 6 th 1787 Frederick J. Salisbury was born Nov 6 th 1789 Mararet Salisbury was born May 8 th 1791 Samuel Salisbury was born May 6 th 1792 John Salisbury was born April 30 th 1795 Gideon Salisbury Jun. was born November 15 th 1798 Remus Jun. Salisbury was born Feb 1 st 1802 Alfred Salisbury was born July 15 th 1804 Samantha Salisbury was born Aug 6 th 1807 Wilkins J. Salisbury was born Januay 6 th 1809

State of New York
County of Cayuga } ss Personally appeared before the Subscribed Justice of the Peace in & for said county Ben- -named Salisbury of Ledyard in said county aged eighty two years in Nov r last past, & on being duly sworn according to law deposeth & saith, that Gideon Salisbury of Potter, Ontario County New York who is applying for a pension as a soldier of the war of the Revolution is this deponents brother, & that he is better than two years younger than this deponent; that this depon- -ent well recollects that his said brother Gideon Salisbury went out in the Militia & went with the army to Boston, he thinks in 1777 = that this depon- -ent well recollects that his said brother the said Gideon Salisbury enlisted under Capt Christopher Miller, this deponent thinks in 1780, that he marched with the company to the south & that this deponent well recollects of the company returning to Old Skaneate- & this deponent well recollects of his said brother serving under Capt Mills four months, & that his said brother the aforesaid Gideon Salisbury then enlisted under Capt Joseph Harrison in the fall of the year & this deponent thinks it was in 1780. that his said brother the said Gideon Salisbury went as a soldier & acted as waiter to Capt. Harrison, that the company & this deponents brother went with them to Fort Stanwix & after a while returned & were stationed at Fort Plain on the Mohawk River, that this deponent well recoll- -ects that his said Gideon Salisbury served six months or more under Capt. Harrison, & that he then served under Capt. Wright more than one year, that this deponent being confined at home in charge of the farm & its cares, knows well of his said brother the aforesaid Gideon Salisbury being engaged in the service more than two years, over & above

The three months served in the Militia in 1777 or 1778 - that this deponent well recollects that his said brother the aforesaid Gideon Salisbury was absent in the service of the war of the United States more than two years & that he never came home to see his parents, except by permission & on furlough & that this deponent well recollects that his said brother the aforesaid Gideon Salisbury did come home on furlough, that he came home several times on furlough, & this deponent well recollects that his aforesaid brother came home on furlough soon after the defeat of Com Wallis & that they held a day of rejoicing, but that he returned again to the army, that this deponent well recollects that his said brother received an honorable discharge -
Subscribed & sworn before me, this 2 d day of Augt. 1843 (Bennamuel his Salisbury mark)
H W Payson
Justice of the Peace of Ledyard
I certify that the above named Bennamuel Salisbury is a highly respectable person & entitled to credit in his deposition above
H W Payson
Justice of the Peace
State of New York, County of Cayuga ss Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in & for said County Grace Salisbury of Ledyard aged eighty one & on being duly sworn according to law deponeth & saith that she has carefully heard read over the deposition above subscribed by her husband Bennamuel Salisbury & that it is all true, that being the wife of the aforesaid Bennamuel Salisbury at the time of the Revolutionary services of the said Gideon

Salisbury & residing at the same place of the said Gideon Salisbury when he was at home, was well acquainted with all his services as set forth in the deposition of his returning home only on furlough as set forth & of his coming home after the defeat of Gen Wallis & of their holding a day of rejoicing & that the said Gideon Salisbury again returned to the army;
Subscribed & sworn before me
This 22 day of Augt. 1843 { Grace his Salisbury mark H. W. Taylor
Sister of the Rev. of Scryan
I certify that the above named Grace Salisbury, is a respectable person & entitled to credit in her deposition -
H. W. Taylor
Sister of the Rev.
State of New York
Cayuga County Clerk's Office } ss. J. William Richardson Clerk of said County Do hereby certify that H. W. Taylor Esq, was on the 22 nd Day of August 1843 a Justice of the peace of the said County duly qualified to act as such. And that I know his hand writing, and verily believe the signatures on the within and above instruments in writing, purporting to be his are genuine. In Testimony Whereof and further that the within & above depositions were taken & in accordance with the laws of the said State. In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County, this 10 th Day of August A.D. 1843.
J. W. Richardson Clerk

PAID
Paid 37 1 3/4
County Clerk Auburn Cayuga Co New York

02338 Russian Papers of Gideon Salibury of Middlesex, Catskill N.Y.
act 7. June 1882 communicate with Thos. A. Herrin
Randolph Catskill New York.
advised
6 mo 1883
Most convenient place of pay for the business at Rushville, Dutchess Co. New York.
Hon. B. Green
Handwritten signature
32 P. 1404

State of New York 3 County of Yates - SS. On this day of January in the year one thou- sand eight hundred and thirty five (1835) personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the court of Common Pleas of said County of Yates now sitting, being a court of Record - Gid- eon Salisbury a resident of the town of Middlesex in the said county of Yates and State of New York aged seventy three years the fourteenth day of Janu- ary instant - who being first duly 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 has been informed by his mother and believes that she was born in the month of January in the year one thousand seven hundred & sixty two (1762) at Salisbury Plains, in England - that he was brought by his parents, at the age of three or four years, into Emigration to this country, and settled in Rhode Island - that when he was about eight years old he left Rhode Island with his parents who removed to Dutchess County in the State of New York fourteen miles from Poughkeepsie - that when he was about thirteen years of age he left Dutchess County with his Parents who removed to Nobletown

then in the county of Albany - now called Hillsdale in the county of Columbia in the State of New York, near the line of Massachusetts. where he resided until after the close of the Revolutionary War -
2 That he has not now in his possession any original Record of his age - but that his brother Benjamin Salisbury now living in the town of Scargard in the county of Cayuga in the State of New York, has in his possession the Original Record (kept by his father Gideon Salisbury, now deceased, in his family Bible) of the time of the birth of the above named applicant and of his brothers and sisters - that he has frequently seen the said family Record - and that by the said Record he the said Gideon Salisbury was born the year 1762 as above stated -
That he the above named applicant entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and service as hereinafter stated -
3 That in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven (1777) at Noblestown then in Albany County, now called Hillsdale in the county of Columbia - in the State of New York in the month of October, about the time of Burgoyne's Surrender, he enlisted as a private soldier in Captain Thomas
4

5 6 9 m. McIntosh's (or McKittrick) company of Infantry - in Colonel John McIn- tosh's Regiment - (Samuel Mallory was his Lieutenant) - for nine months - was sent as one of the Gneiss of Burgoyne's Army, to Boston, Massachusetts - and remained at Boston under the said Captain McIntosh during the winter and spring of 1778 - and then returned in said company under said Captain McIntosh, to Albany in the state of New York, and was there discharged by the said Colonel John McIntosh, by a written discharge on the last day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight, (1778) after having served as such private soldier in said company for the whole of said term of nine months - which said discharge has been lost -
3 4 5 5 That in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty (1780) in the month of August or September he the said Dick son Salisbury the above named appli- cant again enlisted at Nobletown aforesaid as a private soldier in Cap- tain Joseph Harrison's Company of in- fantry in Colonel Maximus Willett's Regi- ment, for one year - was immediately marched in said company to Ticonderoga, on the North River and there joined the regular American Army of twenty five thousand men, under General Wash- ington - was there put under the com- mand of General Wayne, four days

after he had taken Stony Point from the British - while at Ticonderoga, the said company belonged to Colonel Morris Graham, Regiment of the Major Andrew, was taken as a spy about this time - After remaining at Ticonderoga about three weeks Gener- al Wayne orders the said Regiment to March, under Colonel Willett, up the Mohawk River - was stationed a part of the time at old Schoharie where he was engaged in a battle a- gainst the Indians in which four hun- dred Indians were killed, - this was in the fall of the year (1780) seventeenth hundred and eighty - Some seven or eight of the American Army were kil- led in this engagement - He was sta- tioned in said Regiment during the following winter at Fort Stanwix, now called Rome in the county of Onondaga and State of New York that in the Spring of the year seventeenth hundred and eighty one (1781) he was marched in said company to Fort Kimmer and there built a fort, called Fort Herkimer, and he was verbally discharged at Fort Plain by the said Captain Harrison in the month of August or September in the year last aforesaid (1781) after serving as such private soldier in said com- pany for the full term of one year - that during said year said company was at different times under Col. Willett - Col. Ward
6-
12/yr.

5 Schaeck - and Col. Dubois - that thereupon he the said Gideon Salisbury went home to Nobletown aforesaid and in the Winter or Spring of the following year (1782) he again Enlisted as a private Soldier at Nobletown aforesaid in Captain Wrights Company of Infantry in Colonel Matthews Willetts Regiment, for the term of Nine Months - Marched thence to Albany - thence up the Mohawk River to Old Schoharie Middle Fort, was then under Cap- tain or Colonel Dubois. When the Fort was attacked by the British & Indians under Colonels Butler & Brant who were repulsed, and we followed them to Onondaga Lake where they got out of our reach - Afterwards at Stony Arabia in the State of New York he the said applicant was in said Company Engaged in a Battle against the British and Indians when Captain 5. Butler of the British Army (the son of the said Col. Butler) and Colonel Brown of the American Army were killed - In that Engagement there were Six Ameri- can Soldiers belonging to the same company with the said Gideon Salisbury killed - to wit - Cole - Sparebeck - Lyon - Soonis and two others were killed - and he the said Gideon Salisbury had five Ball holes made through his garments in said Engagement - and had the belt of his Cartridge box shot off by a Musket ball -

And that he the said Gideon Salisbury during the time of the said last enlistment at different times was under different Captains to wit, Captain Wright and afterwards Captain Miller - that the said Captain Wright belonged to Connecticut - and the said Captain Miller resided at Claverack about five miles from Hudson, in the State of New York - that during the said last mentioned campaigns Captain Harrison - Captain Clark & Major Rowley belonged to the same Regiment with said applicant -
That by reason of old age consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the dates and times of his services above set forth but according to the best of his recollection he served as a private soldier in the War of the Revolution in the American Army not less than the period herein after mentioned, to wit: Nine months under Captain James  Harrison  Thomson as Mc Intosh in the years 1777 - & 1778 - One year under Captain Joseph Harrison, in the years 1780 - & 1781 - And nine months under Captains Christopher Miller and Wright - Making in the whole Two years and six months service as a private soldier - for which he claims a pension - That he remained in such service under the said last mentioned enlistment until the month of December in the said year Seventeen hundred
(True)

and eighty two (1782) when he was discharged by the said Colonel Dubois by a written discharge, either at Albany or at Fort Plain but does not recollect at which place it was that he received said discharge - which said discharge is lost -
That he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure as to his said services - except Truman Spencer and Wendell Salisbury whose affidavits accompany this application and the affidavit of Archibald Armstrong which was some years ago forwarded to the War Department and which he presumes now remains on file in the Pension office -
That there is no clergyman residing in his neighborhood whose evidence he can obtain in relation to his age and general belief in the neighborhood relative to his Revolutionary service.
That he is personally acquainted with Chester Soomie, who is a Senator in the Legislature of the State of New York - Enos Palmer & Hiram Torry, Merchants - and Augustus Torry a Justice of the Peace who are all his neighbors - and with R. M. Bailey of Geneva N. York who has been an agent for procuring pensions - and with Joshua Ely of Mills in said County of Yates who is elected to Congress whose names are subscribed to a certificate which is herunto attached. That he is also well acquainted with

Truman Spencer of Benton in said county of Bates - and John Patten of Polton in said county of Bates -
That at the September term of the said court in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty two he presented to the said court his declaration in this behalf together with such proofs as he could then procure - That the said court then passed his claim and the papers were sent by R. M. Bailey Esq. of Greene to the Pension office and they have been returned as inconclusive - and therefore he now presents a new declaration & proofs which he supposes are complete -
That his brother Brannan Salisbury whose affidavit is hereto attached resides in Cayuga County, a distance of sixty miles from the court house in said county of Bates by the road which is most frequently travelled, that the said Brannan Salisbury is seventy four years of age and by reason of infirmity is unable to attend the said court in the said county of Bates -
He the said Gideon Salisbury 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
Signature of Gideon Salisbury
That I do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original now on file in my office.

That he the said Gideon Salisbury about the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty four (1784) removed from Hoback town aforesaid to Wyoming in Pennsylvania - About three or four years, then after he removed from Wyoming to the head of Seneca Lake in the State of New York - and about the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine removed to Big flats in the State of New York - and thence in three or four years then after he removed into the town of Preston then in the county of Ontario. Now in the said county of Yates - where he resided until about the close of the last War, say about twenty years ago he removed to the village of Middlesex where he has ever since resided and where he now resides. Sworn and subscribed the Gideon Salisbury day and year aforesaid in open court -
George W. Sherman Clerk
removed to Hobacktown

We Truman Spencer & John Potter both of the County of Linn — do hereby certify that we are well ac- quainted with Gideon Salisbury of the town of Middlesex in the County of Linn. Who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declaration. that we have been acquainted with him for many years — that we believe him to be seventy three years of age — that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides & has been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in Open court
George Shearman Clerk
Truman Spencer John Potter
And the said court do hereby de- clare their opinion after the inves- tigation of the matter — and after put- ting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that Gideon Salisbury the above named ap- plicant was a Revolutionary sol- dier and served as he states And the court further certify that it appears to them that Truman Spencer and John Potter who have

Signed the preceding certificate are residents of the said County of Yates and that they are both credible persons and that this statement is entitled to credit -
By order of the Court
George Tharmann Clerk of said Court
State of New York County of Yates ss - I, Norman Spencer of the town of New Yor in the County of Yates aforesaid being duly sworn says that he is and has been, for many years even from boyhood, acquainted with Hiram Salisbury now of the town of Middlesex in said County of Yates - That he knew him when he resided at Habbertown Albany County - now called Hilles dale, Columbia County in the State of New York in the years 1781 - and 1782 - That said Salisbury was in the year 1781 - in the service of the United States in Captain Harrison's Company - in Colonel Wilkes Regiment - Saw him at Schoharie and supposed that enlistment was for four months - That the year following - to wit - the year 1782 said Salisbury was again in the service of the United States.

in Captain Wrights Company of infantry in the same Regiment and thinks it must have been for nine months as the Regiment was raised that year for nine months service - saw him re- spectably - was in the same Regiment but not in the same Company - and as the companies were generally detached - they were only occasionally together - they were stationed at different points on the Mohawk River during the last New York Campaign - That he this deponent draws a pension under the act of June 7- 1832 - and that he this deponent is seventy years of age -
Subscribed and sworn to this 13 th
Frederick Spencer
day of January 1838. by the above named Frederick Spencer whom I certify to be a credible person - before me
Thomas J. Nevins - Commissioner of deeds for said county of Yates -
State of New York County of Yates ss. I George Shear man Clerk of the said county of Yates do hereby certify that Thomas J. Nevins

ins before whom the above affidavit of Truman S/Reen cer purports to have been taken sworn on the day of taking the same Forwit on the thirteenth day of Janu- ary A.D. 1835 a commissioner of deeds for the said county of Bates - duly com- missioned and authorized by law to administer oaths. That I am ac- quainted with the hand writing of the said Commissioner and do verily believe that his signature subscribed to the foregoing affidavit is genuine Given under my hand & seal of office this 13 th day of January A.D. 1835. George Mearman Clerk

State of New York Sag Harbor
Personally appeared before me Lewis Sloan a Justice of the Peace in said County by B. Manuel Salisbury of the Town of Sag Harbor in the County aforesaid, to me well known as a man of truth and veracity and a credible witness, who being duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say that, he is elder Brother to and well acquainted with Gideon Salisbury of the Town of Middlesex, County of Bates in said State of New York, that the said Gideon Salisbury was a soldier and served in the War of the Revolution, to the knowledge of this deponent two cam- paigns, one under Captain Harrison and the other in the under Captain Mills, that he has seen his brother's dis- charge which stated that he was honorably discharged and this deponent is now twenty four years of age
on the 21st of December 1831
Sworn and subscribe to the fourteenth day of
B. Manuel Salisbury
April 1834 before me Lewis Sloan Justice
Sag Harbor County Clerks Office
I certify that Lewis Sloan Esq. was on the fourteenth day of April 1834 is a Justice of the peace of said County; and I am ac- quainted with his handwriting & verily believe that his signature subscribed to the forego- ing Affidavit is genuine.
In under my hand & the Seal of said County. this 19th day of April 1834. "Was on the fourteenth day of April 1834." interlined
W. L. Myers Clerk

Personally acquainted with all the individuals whose names appear subscribed to the above certificate - and that they are persons of reputable character - and that their statement is entitled to credit - that the above named Chester Loonis is a Senator in the Legislature of the State of New York - that the above named Augustus Torrey is a Justice of the peace for said County - and that the above named Joshua Srr is elected a Member of the House of Repre- sentatives of the next Congress - that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Chester Loonis, A. Torrey and Joshua Srr and that I verily believe that their signatures to the said certificate are genuine - Given under my hand and Seal of office this thirteenth day of January in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty five - George Sherman Clerk

State of New York Tayoga County ss.
Personally appeared before me Lewis Toan a Justice of the Peace in said County by Emanuel Salisbury of the Town of Ledyard in the County aforesaid, to me well known as a man of truth and veracity and a credible witness, who being duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say that, he is elder Brother to and well acquainted with Gideon Salisbury of the Town of Middlesex, County of Vates in said State of New York, that the said Gideon Salisbury was a soldier and served in the War of the Revolution, to the knowledge of this deponent two campaigns, one under Captain Garrison and the other in the under Captain Mills, that he has seen his brother's discharge which stated that he was honorably discharged and this deponent is now twenty four years of age
on the 21st of November last.
Sworn and subscribed to the fourteenth day of
April 1834
before me Lewis Toan Esq.
Emanuel Salisbury.
Tayoga County Clerks Office ss.
I certify that Lewis Toan Esq. was on the fourteenth day of April 1834 is a Justice of the peace of said County; and I am ac- quainted with his handwriting & verily believe that his signature subscribed to the foregoing Affidavit is genuine.
In under my hand & the Seal of said County. This 19th day of April 1834. - "Was on the fourteenth day of April 1834." interlined
W. L. Myers Clerk

Personally acquainted with all the individuals whose names appear subscribed to the above certificate - and that they are persons of reputable character - and that this statement is entitled to credit - that the above named Chester Loonis is a Senator in the Legislature of the State of New York - that the above named Augustus Torrey is a Justice of the peace for said County - and that the above named Joshua Orr is Elected a Member of the House of Repre- sentatives of the next Congress - that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Chester Loonis, A. Torrey and Joshua Orr and that I verily believe that their signatures to the said certificate are genuine - Given under my hand and Seal of office this thirteenth day of January in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty five - George Theurman Clerk

We the undersigned hereby certify that we have been personally acquainted with Mr Gideon Salisbury of the town of Middlesex in the County of Yates, for several years last past, and 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
Dated at Middlesex Nov. 15 th 1834.
Chester Loomis of Goshen N.Y.
Chas. Sumner of Pella N.Y.
Francis Torrey Do
A Torrey "
R W Day
Joshua Dye
State of New York - County of Yates ss. I George Shearman Clerk of the said County of Yates do certify that I am per

State of New York } Yates County S.S. I George Shear- man Clerk of the said County of Yates and of the court of Common Pleas thereof do hereby certify that the fore- going contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the appli- cation of Gideon Salisbury for a Pension -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this thirteenth day of January in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty five -
George Sheerman Clerk

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section.
April 2, 1937
Mrs. H. E. Whelan Tecumseh Mich
Madam:
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 28863, it appears that Gideon Salisbury or Salisbury (son of Gideon) was born January 14, 1762 at Salisbury Plains, England.
While residing at Nobletown, Albany County, New York, he enlisted and served as a private in the New York Troops, as follows-
From October 1777, nine months in Captain Thomas McKinstry's Company, Colonel John McKinstry's Regiment.
From August or September 1780, one year in Captain Joseph Harrison's Company, Colonels Marinus Willett's, Morris Graham's, VanSchaick's, and Dubois' Regiment, and was in the battles of Schoharie and Stone Arabia.
From early in 1782, nine months in Captains

Christopher Miller's and Wright's Companies, Colonels Marinus Willett's and Dubois' Regiment, and was in an engagement at Schoharie.
He was allowed pension on his application executed in January 1835, while a resident of Middlesex, Yates County, New York.
It is not stated whether soldier was married.
The above noted Gideon Salisbury (all spellings of that name searched) is the only soldier of that name found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.

77. 9 mo. Capt. McKinstry 60 d M c Kinstry 80. 12 " Harrison " Willett. 82. 9. " Wrights " "
Gideon Salisbury's claim

Suspended
attorney for the plaintiff in the above entitled matter

Orissa July 10th 1843
Hon J. L. Edwards
Sir
I have been written to by Gideon Salisbury of Ontario County, again & again wishing me to engage in his behalf to procure a portion due to him
May I therefore be allowed as his agent (as he has made me his agent) to state his case & to ask what disposition was made of it - Mr Salisbury informs me that he made application through his then agent Thomas J Nevins of Penn Yan - Mr Nevins having left the place, no clue can be got to your reply's to him; I am very desirous to learn what the correspondence was, that is, your answers to the application & proof, I beg I may be excused for asking this, as without it, I cannot take hold of his case with a proper understanding & as his former agent is absent, removed from the place, he cannot be called upon for this information
Respectfully your Ob d Serv t Aaron Doy

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Gideon Salisburg
Hon Byram Green M.C Washington D.C.
Wm B. Green H.R.

Ovid Jan. 13th 1844
Hon B. Green
My Dear Sir
I beg leave respectfully to ask you to present the following case - Gideon Salisbury, made application for a pension year since of the first proof I have no knowledge, except in a letter addressed to me, asking my assistance for Mr Salisbury, it is from Hon. Judge Lory of Yates County - in which he says, "I have no doubt of Salisbury's revolutionary services, and I have the the evidence of it from Capt. Truman Spencer late of this county, who told me he was in the service with Salisbury & that he had twice sworn to it, Spencer was a man of the most reliable character" I went to Rushville, to the residence of Judge Lory & Salisbury, I there took down from the mouth of Salisbury his simple tale, I took it down as he told it to me, nor did I dictate or direct in it, in the least degree - in this history he states he served under several officers, Capt. Harrison, Capt. Wright & Capt. Miller; I beg leave here to ask Hon Col Edwards to refer to this statement of Salisbury's, & I am greatly mistaken if it does not correspond with the Comptroller's certificate, only that the Comptroller calls it Capt. Muller, two names so near alike, as

to justify their being called by the same name, and I please myself as a Gnt. of honor & truth that the names as I put them down all originated in Salisbury's mind & that he & I were alone, this Statement of Salisbury is backed up with a deposition of Hon Judge Loomis of Ontario 60. whom you must know well & you may have been in the Senate of this State with him, he states he believes the history to be true, & believes that Salisbury was in the war of the Revolution, I also procured the deposition of Salisbury's brother (& his wife attested to the same) that Gideon Salisbury was in the Service, in the war of the revolution, & they give a data re -
How much other proof of his Service is in the department, I know not; I had reason to believe from what Judge Loomis & Judge Loomis (& I saw & talked with them both), & from what G. Salisbury swore to, in his history, & from the history of the Service given by Salisbury's brother his wife & this I took from his own lips & as he recollects it, I say I had reason to suppose Gideon Salisbury was in the Service more than two years - the Comptroller's Certificate out covers Six Months & 18 days, and if I have a correct copy of it, the Captain's names correspond with Salisbury's history, only in the spelling

of the name Muller, in stead of Miller; I have tried to get proof of the Service of an old man in Old water Michigan, but I have been unable to hear a word from him, I am therefore lead to submit the case upon the present proof, and begging Hon Col Edwards to review it & if a pension shall appear justly & honestly due to the poor old blind man, to grant it -
I beg leave most respectfully to ask that Hon Col Edwards will compare the Comptroller Certificate, with Salisbury's last history, & see if they do not chime - Respectfully I am
Your Ob st Serv t
Brad Joy
I respectfully beg leave to ask Hon Col Edwards, sir , taking all the circumstances of this case, the two histories of the old man, & the positive proof of his Service, & circumstantial proof, and general belief of Service, whether it is not a proper case to extend, and apply the following rule - "To require from the applicants positive proof of Service from a temporary Survivor, would, after the lapse of so many years, be to deprive many of them of the benefit of the law"

This would affect in favor of Gideon Salisbury

State of New York
Chemung County ss David Griswold being duly sworn according to Law deposes and saith that he is a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States - that he resides in the Town of Southport County and State aforesaid where he has resided fifty years last spring
That he was acquainted with Gideon Salisbury during the Revolutionary War and from the best of this deponent's information the same Gideon Salisbury now resides in Middlesex County of Yates and State aforesaid - And this deponent further saith that in the fore part of July 1780 the said Gideon Salisbury was a Private in Capt McKim's Company in Col Livingston's Com- mand - that he enlisted in Noblestown Columbia County and State aforesaid and was marched to West Point - this deponent was in the same Company with him at West Point - This expedition was over three months nearly four months before we were discharged - before this Campaign ended we were marched up to Albany and to Schoharie - This deponent understood that the said Gideon Salisbury did further service but how much this deponent cannot say as he was not with him save the one campaign above stated -
David Griswold
Sworn and subscribed by the said David Griswold by me known to be a credible witness this 6th day of October 1837
James Robinson Justice of the Peace Chemung Co

Gideon Salisbury Ny
Hon. J Lee HN

Knoxville 12 Dec 1836
Dear Sir
Gideon Salisbury requests me to write - to solicit you to assist him in obtaining a pension for Revolutionary Services - I do not know the state of his case - but he says J. J. Revis made out his papers more than a year since and forwarded them to the Department at Washington - and has not heard from them since. He is anxious that you find the state of his case at the Department & if there is any deficiency in the papers he will have it supplied. I have known Mr. Salisbury for a long time & he has always been reported to have been a Revolutionary Soldier.
If you should do anything for him please inform me
Respectfully Your Obt. Servt
A. Gossy
Hon Joshua Lee
Ps. I did not know the measure of living you during the days. which I much regret!
A.G.

State of New York Seneca County ss. I, Abigail Daggett being Abigail Daggett do hereby depose and saith that she resides in the Town of Jackson in the County of Seneca and State of Penn- sylvania that she is seventy five years of age the 18th day of March month that she is well acquainted with Gideon Salisbury of the Town of Middlesex in the County of Yates and State of New York and has been acquainted with him ever since his infancy that she re- sides the said Gideon Salisbury seventy six years of age and upwards that according to her best recollection as to time the said Gideon Salisbury was a soldier in the Revolution for the term of one year that she thinks he enlisted in the month of March in the year 1781 under Capt Joseph Harrison - that she was well acquainted with this Officer and it is her best impression that he belonged to Col. Wilks Regiment - that the said Gideon served out that year and again entered the service up the Scho- harie Country but cannot say how long he was gone in this last ex- pedition when he first entered the service under Capt. Harrison he lived in Middlesex Columbia County and State of New York and believes that he served out that year faithfully and received his discharge this deponent understands - Subscribed by Abigail Daggett the said Abigail Daggett to me known to be a credible witness before me this 23rd day of Dec 1837 James Wilson Justice of the Peace

State of New York Chemung County Clerk's Office
I hereby certify that James Robinson Esq. whose name is subscribed to the within affidavit was when the same bears date a magistrate of said County duly qualified and that his signature to the same is genuine —
Witness my hand Seal of office the 25 Dec 1837
H. Maxwell D. C.

State of New York
County of Yates { 11 Personally appeared before the subscriber a Judge of the court in & for said county Gideon Salisbury of Potter in said county aged sixty years & over & on being duly sworn according to law deposes & saith that he enlisted under Capt Christopher Miller he thinks in 1780 at a place called Old Cloversack, about five miles from Hudson, that the Company were called Genl. Wayne's Rangers, they marched down the north River to then point, & then down to Stony Point thence to Dippin where the company joined General Wayne, remained one week, thence were ordered & marched to a place called Middlefort in old Skoharie where they were stationed three months which must have been in June, July & August, or about that time, on this deponent & the company returning to Skoharie, they were at Westpoint & Saw Genl. Arnot, that during the time they had a severe battle at Old Skoharie at Middlefort, the fort was commanded by Maj Woolsey, after a service of some four months, this deponent enlisted under Capt Joseph Harrison in the fall of this deponent thinks of 1780, marched to Fort Stanwicks, now called Rome, where they helped to destroy the fort, & they then returned to Fort Plain on the Mohawk River where they were stationed & kept up a skulking party along the river, that there were stationed there Col Duboy, Col Willett & Van Schoick's Regiments, remained there all winter serving under Capt Harrison six months or more, all but perished with hunger, Capt Harrison having sickened, this deponent enlisted under Capt Wright, as Capt Harrison left that quarter on the sick list, this deponent continued at Fort Plain in the Spring & through the summer under Capt Wright & in the fall could not get discharged & this deponent continued on in the service through the winter of 1781 & 1782, in all under Capt Wright well on to a year, that this deponent well knows that he served more than two years after his first enlist- ment under Capt Miller, before he was discharged by Capt Wright, that this deponent received an honorable discharge from Capt Wright or Col Willett, or both - That this deponent volunteered he thinks in 1777 in the fall under Col John McKinsty & Capt Thomas McKinsty, at a place called Noble town, or Hillsdale, marched to help guard & protect the army on their way to Boston, that this dep- onent went with the army all the way to Boston, was kept in the militia at this town three months, (this deponent's father & uncle were both wounded in taking Targoyne) - That this deponent after his first enlistment served on till all was peace & quietness, that this deponent suffered all but death from starvation & from cold, that this deponent is confident of all the facts set forth in the above history -
Gideon his Salisbury mark
Sworn and Subscribed before { June 27. July 1843
A. Torrey Judge of the Yates County Court
I certify that the above named Gideon Salisbury is a respectable person, entitled to belief in his deposition above that he appears of sound mind & good memory -
A. Torrey Judge of the Yates County Court

Answer to this, with all the proof accompanying it, to be returned from Washington to Arad Joy Dvid

State of New York
County of Yates
ss
Personally appeared before the subscriber a Judge of the Court in & for said county Chester Loonis of Rushville & on being duly sworn according to law deposeth & saith that he is personally acquainted with Gideon Salisbury who made application for a pension some years since, that this deponent well recollects that at the time the said Gideon Salisbury made his application for a pension, he had been & was in the habit of drinking, & was called a hard drinker, & was seldom perfectly sober, a sane, & that this deponent can easily account in this way for any extravagance or misrepresentations made in his declaration, made at that time, that the said Gideon Salisbury was not capable of understanding & knowing what he then did & could not have been capable of stating things as they were, & as he would see them when sober, that the said Gideon Salisbury is at present a sober, sane man, and apparently sound in mind, & apparently of good memory & of good recollection, & capable of stating things as they are, that this deponent has from a long acquaintance with the said Gideon Salisbury always considered him a harmless, inoffensive man & this deponent has had good reason to believe & does believe that the said Gideon Salisbury was a soldier in the war of the Revolution & that he should consider him capable of giving a true history & he doubts not, but that in his present statement he has given a true history, he should feel bound to believe it - This deponent has for a long time, & has at this time great confidence in the belief that the said Gideon Salisbury was a soldier in the war of the Revolution
Subscribed & sworn before me this 27th day of July 1843
Chester Loonis
A. Tenny Judge of the Yates County Courts
I Certify that the above named Hon Chester Loonis is a highly respectable man, that he has been a member of the State Senate of the State of New York, & that he is at present & has from time to time for many years been a judge of the Courts of Ontario County. That he is fully to be believed in his deposition above.
A. Tenny Judge of the Yates County Courts
Geneva July 28th 1843
Dear Sir - I inclose one dollar, I wish you to credit to me & keep a/c of Certificates & scales, as I shall need take it all in them, you will be give with pleasure, with your certificate & impress your seal upon this sheet, to save postage, I ask this, fearing that you would add your printed certificate, when done, please mail it - single sheet to me as now directed - I shall soon want more of the same business done - please say signatures are all genuine, so as to cover all, but make out one certificate
Respectfully Yours Ob d Servt Fred Tenny
Please with your certif, on back of this half sheet -

State of New York } Yates County ss } I Samuel Stevens Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Augustus Toney Esquire whose signature is subscribed to the certificates of the within and annexed affidavits was at the date of the said certificates a Judge of the Yates County Courts dwelling in the said County commissioned and sworn and duly authorized by the laws of said State to administer oaths and take affidavits that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his said signature (A Toney) to be genuine
In testimony whereof I hereunto affix the Seal of said County and of the County Courts thereof my official Seal this 29 th day of July 1843
Sam Stevens Clerk

War Department, Pension Office
January 13 th 1837
Sir, The papers of Gideon Salisbury have a given term of criminal; the applicant states that in 1777 he served nine months in Capt McKinsty's Company, Col Mc Kinsty's reg't; In 1780 twelve months in Captain Harrison's Company Col Willets reg't; In 1782 nine months in Capt Wright's Company. Since the papers of authentication of this case, giving roles of Col Willets reg't have been obtained from the Arch of New York - The claimants name is not on the roles of Capt Harrison's Company nor does it ap- pear on the roles of Capt Wright - There is likewise no evidence in the Department that a Captain of the name of McKinsty was in the nine months service at the period mentioned - To sustain his claim to service in Col Willets reg't the claimant must pro- duce the affidavits of two credible witnesses acting for the time of entering at the time of leaving the reg't in

each term as well as the names of the officers
I have the honor to be
Respectfully
Your obed serv
J. L. Edwards
Hon Jas. Lee
Home Reps
MS

Aug 15. 43
My dear friend Gideon Saltonstall
Hon J. L. Edwards Com d of Pensions Washington D.C.

Ovid Aug t 10 th 1843
Hon J. L. Edwards
Sir
I inclose a further history of Gideon Salisbury, backed up by the deposition of Hon Judge Loomis - I also inclose the certificate of the Comptroller of this State in support of his services, & the deposition of his brother & his brother's wife in further support of the fact of his service; taking them all & adding to them the present proof in your hands, I hope you will as I do, consider the case as fully established; & a 2 year pension due to Gideon Salisbury -
I Am truly Your Ob dt Servt Abra d Joy

Comptroller G. Salisbury

In pursuance of a law passed the 27th of April, 1784, entitled "An act for the settlement of the pay of the Levies and Militia, for their services in the late War, and for other purposes therein mentioned," the following certificates have been issued, bearing interest at five per cent per annum, viz :
  31 st July 1780 Gideon Valsbury private 1 7 1   31 st Augt do do do 2 13 4   27 Oct do do do 5 1 5 3 mo   1 st Dec 1781 do do 9 10 3 3 mo 18 d   17 31 13 
STATE OF NEW-YORK, COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, Albany, July 28 th 1843.
I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Book No. 2. § 3. now remaining in this office, and that the service for which the certificates above named were issued, were performed under the following officers, viz :
  First—under Capt. Christian Muller in Col. Henry Graham Regt.   Second, " " do " " do "   Third, " " do " " do "   Fourth, " " Joseph Harrison " " Marcellus Willett "   Fifth, " " " " "   Sixth, " " " " "   Seventh, " " " " "   Eighth, " " " " "   Ninth, " " " " "   Tenth, " " " " " 
Philip P. Phelps Comptroller.

State of New York
Cayuga County ss } Benanuel Salisbury of the Town of Seldgard in the said County being duly sworn deposes and says - that he knows Gideon Salisbury of Middlesex in Dats County, who is a Natural brother of this deponent! That the said Gideon Salisbury was a Soldier in the Revolutionary War. That he lived in the same family with the said Gideon Salisbury in Noblestown, That the said Gideon Salisbury Enlisted into a company commanded by Capt Harrison in Col Willets Regiment, in the Spring (and think in the month of April) of the year 1781. That the said Gideon Salisbury served in the said company commanded by Capt Harrison til the last of March or first of February in the year 1782. That he frequently saw the said Gideon during the said term in the said company doing service under the said Capt Harrison. That the said Gideon Salisbury there, immediately after he left Capt Harrison's company enlisted into a company commanded by Capt Wright in a Regiment commanded by the said Col. Willets and served in the said company nine months and was honourably discharged, which discharge this deponent saw.
Sworn and subscribed before me. The said Benanuel Salisbury being to me known to be a credible Witness. This 6th day of December 1837
Benanuel Salisbury
Lewis Toan - - a Justice of the peace of the said County of Cayuga town of Seldgard

State of New-York.
CAYUGA COUNTY, } ss. CLERK'S OFFICE, }
William Richardson
I, Michael A. N. N. N. Clerk of the County of Cayuga, and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the said County : Do hereby certify, that Lewis Sloan Esquire, was on the 5th day of December one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and that full faith and credit are to be given to his acts in that capacity : And that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice of the Peace and verily believe the signature to the annexed affidavit to be his proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County, and subscribed my name this Eleventh day of January A. D. 183 8
William C. Thompson D. P. C. h. In the absence of Wm Richardson Clerk

28 863
Rev INVALID.
File No. 28,863
Gideon Salisbury
Rev. Rev. War
Act: June 7 th 182 nd
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 358
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1893 June 12. Night. At A. de M. Salubury Ave Hampshire. 2. " " mono. W. E. Whellan for J.

HOYT E. WHELAN
JOHN DEERE DEALER
TRACTORS, THRESHERS AND FARM MACHINERY, CAREY ROOFING
TECUMSEH, MICHIGAN
Feb. 8, 1927,
Pension Bureau, Washington, D.C. Dear Sirs;-
Please give me whatever information is at your command in regard to the services of Gideon Salisbury in the only Revolutionary War.
I find his name listed as one who was on the government pay roll during the war. I am anxious to know if his services were such as to entitle descendants to membership in the D.A.R.
His daughter Abagail, born June 18, 1764, married Edward Spalding who served in Capt. Jos. Tanner's Co., Col. Peter VanNess Regt., Aside from this I have no data in regard to him.
and oblige,
Florence S. Whelan (Mrs. H. E.)

1771
Holley, N. Y. Mar. 19, 1923.
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Sir, -
May I respectfully request that your office forward to me any data found in the records of Gideon Salisbury, who served in the Revolutionary War. His home subsequent to the War being at Middlesex, Ontario Co, N. Y.
War Department records a Gideon Salsbury, who served in the 3rd Regiment of New York, and Gideon Salsbury, Duboys' Regiment, New York Levies. It has been told by my family that he served under Gen. de la Fayette.
May I thank your office for any trouble incurred.
Albert de N. Salisbury Albert de N. Salisbury,
Captain Inf. U. S. R.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 192
In reply to your request of _____, for the history of  Gideon Salisbury or Salisbury , a soldier of the Revolutionary War, the following is taken from the _____ claim for pension.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Oct 1777 9 mos Pvt. Thos. McKinstry John McKinstry N Y   Aug Sept 1780 1 yr Geo. Harrison { Morris Willett Morris Graham Van Schaick Dubois   Early 1782 9 mos Christopher Wright Morris Willett  
Battles engaged in, at Saratoga Stone Arabia Oct 19 1780 Residence of soldier at enlistment, Nobletown Albany Co NY Date of application for pension, Jan - 1835 His cl. was allowed Residence at date of application, Middletown Yates Co NY Age at date of application, born Jan 14 1762 at Salisbury Plains England Remarks: Son of Gideon  It is not stated whether soldier was married
Respectfully,
Commissioner.