Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13819, for Joseph Marshall, Connecticut

SERVICE
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Conn. R. I.
Marshall, Joseph
S. 13819
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8974 New York
Joseph Marshall
of Cayuga in the State of New York who was a private in the Comy commanded by Captain Wills — of the Regt commanded by Col. Putnam in the Rhode Island line for 2 years
★ Conn. and R.I.
Records completed Aug 4th 1831
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 80 — Dollars — Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 nd day of May 1833. and sent to A. Gould Auburn NY
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $ 1 60 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sep. 1833 . . . 40 $ 2 00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by George Taylor Clerk, Book 6 Vol. 4 Page 25

N o . 226 Joseph Marshall
A. Gould Auburn N.Y.

BRIEF in the case of  Joseph Marshall  County of Gayuga  in the State of Ky  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 75  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     In 1775 1 — — Private Gen. Richmond, Capt. Atkinson   " Jan'y — 6 — 2 d Col. Tappan, Capt. Fay   " Aug. — 3 — Volunt. Col. Salomon, Capt. Hewett   " 79. March — 4 — 2 d St. Burdock (Guards)  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none.  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Hopkinton R.I. Stonington C.C.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Depositions  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Levin Bell Examining Clerk.

Joseph Marshall
12.226

Town of DeRuyter Madison County } Personally came before me this 14 th day of August 1832 Stephen Mayson of DeRuyter and upon oath deposed & says that Joseph Marshall was a private soldier & served one year in the Rhode Island Infantry in the revolutionary war, the said Stephen further says that he is seventy five years old this present month
Sworn & subscribed before me this 14 th day of August 1832
Abraham Hart                      Stephen Mayson Commission
I certify that I am well acquainted with Stephen Mayson and believe him to be a Man of Truth & veracity
August 14 th 1832
A Hart Commissioner
State of New York } Madison County }
I, Andrew S. Sloan, - clerk of said County do certify that Abraham Hart was on the 14 th day of August instant a commissioner of deeds in and for said County duly authorised & empowered by the laws of this State to take affidavits, and that full faith and credit are to be given to his acts as such commissioner - that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said commissioner and believe his signature to the above affidavit and certificate to be genuine. In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said County the twenty third day of August AD 1832 and subscribed my name -
A. S. Sloan Clk.

State of New York
Cattaraugus County } I
Stephen Pendleton, aged Twenty four Years, of the Town of Solon, in the County of Cattaraugus & State of New York - do testify and declare, that I am well acquainted with Joseph Marshall of Auburn, in the County of Cayuga, & State of New York, and do know that he is the identical person he represents himself to be - I say that said Joseph Marshall Enlisted in the Town of Hopkinton in the State of Rhode Island, under Captain Thomas Hills, of the Rhode Island Militia, in the Month of November Seventeen hundred & Seventy five, & belonged to the same Company & the same Mess with him - the Regiment was Commanded by Colonel William Richmond, we both Enlisted for the term of one Year - from Hopkinton & Westerly, in said State we Marched together with said Company directly to Connecticut Island in said State - I was stationed with him there, & Rhode Island, & on Long Island, and at New London in the State of Connecticut the whole Year when he & I was honorably Discharged in November Seventeen hundred and Seventy Six - he having served honestly & faithfully, the full term of one Year for which he Enlisted - I say, that I saw said Joseph Marshall again in January Seventeen hundred and Seventy Seven as a Soldier at Limerick in the State of Rhode Island in Colonel John Lippins Regiment, and should say that I knew him as a Private Soldier in said Regiment, at least one Year and Six Months - I think I saw said Marshall at Limerick aforesaid in March Seventeen hundred and Seventy Nine - and I have no hesitan- cy in saying that he served as a Soldier in

the Rhode Island Militia of the Army of the Revolution at least two years & six months in all —
Stephen Pendleton
sworn and subscribed before me this 18 th day of August 1832, Liger B Canfield Justice Peace
I certify that Stephen Pendleton is a person of truth and veracity, who has subscribed & sworn to the within Affidavit
Liger B Canfield Justice Peace
State of New York Cortland County Clerks Office ss.
Samuel Hotchkiss & Clerk of the said County do certify that Liger B Canfield Esqr. before whom the within Affidavit purports to have been sworn and also before whose name is subscribed to the above certificate was at the time of the date of the same a Justice of the peace in and for the said County, And that I am acquainted with the handwriting and truly believe his name subscribed to the said Affidavit and Certificate to be his proper handwriting and signature
Witness my hand and seal of Office this 6 th day of September AD 1832.
Sam Hotchkiss by Clerk

State of New-York, Cayuga COUNTY, } ss.
On this 18 th day of September A. D. 1832 personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Cayuga and state of New-York, now sitting, Joseph Marshall a resident of Auburn in the County of Cayuga and State of New-York, aged 75 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 act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832: — That on or about the first of November A D 1775, then being a resident of the town of Hopkinton in the County of Little Nest and State of Rhode Island he enlisted into the company of Rhode Island State Troops or militia com- manded by Captain Thomas Wells in the Regiment com- manded by Col William Richmond for a term of one year , that soon after said enlistment he marched with said company to Conianicut Island near the Island of Rhode Island under the command of Lieut Col Giolum Hoxie as he believes to protect the property on said Island, that he remained on said Island about two or three months when he returned to Rhode Island , where he remained under the command of Col William Richmond aforesaid until the fall of 1776 when he marched with said company to New Haven in the State of Connecticut where he remained about one week and removed from thence to Long Island and took a company of storrs and returned with them to New Haven , from thence he removed to New London where he was discharged at the expiration of said term of one year. He further declares that in the month of January A D 1777 at the town of Hopkinton aforesaid he again enlisted into the company of State troops commanded by Captain Fry , in Col John Poppin's  Regiment for a term of six months that he marched with said company to Tibetown in the State of Rhode Island where he was stationed during the whole of said term of six months , when he was discharged. He further declares that in the month of August A D 1777 he again entered the service of the United States as a volunteer in the company commanded by Captain Richard Hewett in the Regiment commanded by Col Latinus for a term of three months , that he marched with said company to Saratoga in the State of New York where he was at the time of the capture of Gen Burgoyne , that he continued to serve during the whole of said term of three months when he was discharged, that he at this time re- sided in Storington in the State of Connecticut . He further declares that about the month of March A D 1779 he again entered said service in the company of Militia

commanded by Lieut Wait Bendock (no captain) and no field officer) that he marched with said company to Ribertown where he was stationed as a guard during the term of four months - that he was some times under the command of a sergeant. He further says that he was frequently in said service as guard and in cases of alarm at other times than above set forth that he is unable to state the number of times or the length of each time but thinks that his whole term of service in said short tours must have been six months months or more - that he never received a written discharge from said service. That he is not able to produce in court any living witness of said services - that whilst in said service he saw - Gen Gates, Gen Arnold, Gen Poor and others - that he has no other proof of said services than the accompanying
He hereby relinquishes all claim to a pension except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any state or territory - Sworn & subscribed the day 8 year aforesaid Joseph his Marshall mark

We, Ulysses F. Doubleday member of Congress residing in Auburn in Cayuga County and John Grover hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Joseph Marshall who has subscribed and sworn to the preceding declaration; that we believe him to be 75 years of age; 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, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
U. F. Doubleday John Grover
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 further certifies, that it appears to them, that Ulysses F. Doubleday who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Member of Congress resident in Auburn and John Grover who has also signed the same, is a resident in Auburn and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, Michael Myers Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Cayuga and 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 Joseph Marshall for a pension.
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court this September 18 th 1832
M. Myers

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Fort Preble, Me. May 30 th 1892.
To the
Official in charge of Records: of the Revolutionary Pensioners; of Applications for such Pensions; or of the War of the Revolution.
Sir:
I have the honor to request that I may be furnished a memorandum of the service in the War of the Revolution of Benjamin Wood, a resident of Connecticut, and of the vicinity of Hartford, Conn. who served in the war of the Revolution - He was my father's father's father.
Very respectfully, Your obedient servant.
W. W. Wood -
Capt & Asst. Surg d . U. S. Army -

Address: "Chief of the Record and Pension Office, War Department, Washington, D. C."
Record and Pension Office,
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington, October 25, 1892.
Respectfully returned to forwarded to the Commissioner of Pensions and the writer so informed.
BY AUTHORITY OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:
Colonel U. S. Army, Chief of Office.
(300a) Per

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Me
OCT 27 1892
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Fort Preble, Portland, Maine,
October 21 st 1892
Col. J. C. Ainsworth, U. S. Army.
Sir:-
In the matter of the Revolutionary service of my great-grandfather Joseph Marshall of Rhode Island or Conn: concerning which I made application May 30 th last, through you, to the Pension Office, I have the honor to state that I have ascertained that he was placed on the Pension Roll May 2 d , 1833, Private R. I. Continental Service - Pension $80. per annum - to commence March 4 th 1831, under act of June 7 th 1832. But I have not been able to learn the Co. and Regt in which he served, nor the dates of such service, and have the honor to request, that, if practicable, this may be furnished me, to aid in establishing my eligibility for the order of "Sons of the Revolution."
Very respectfully,
M. W. Wood-
Capt & Asst. Surg. U. S. Army

Fort Preble, Me.
May 30 th 1892 -
To the
Official in charge of Records: of the Revolutionary Pensions; of Applications for such Pensions; or of the War of the Revolution.
Sir:
I have the honor to request that I may be furnished a memorandum of the service in the war of the Revolution of Joseph Marshall, who, I am informed, was a Revolutionary Pensioner. He was born in Rhode Island, and lived after the Revolution in or near Stonington, Conn. and was in the War of 1812 from Conn. He was my mother's mother's father.
Very respectfully, Your obedient Servt,
M. W. Wood-
Qtr Master. Eng d . U. S. Army

I found the data in an old volume of Senate documents - Pension Roll 1 st Session 23 rd Congress -
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Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Washington, D. C., Jan. _____, 1892.
Sir,
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Joseph Washall , a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will please find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     1775 1 yr Pvt Wills. Richmond R. I.   Jan - 1777 6 mos. " Fay. Tippins. "   Aug " 3 " " " Newitt Latimer. Conn   Mar 1779 4 " Guard Lieut. Wait Burdock. "  
Battles engaged in, None mentioned Residence of soldier at enlistment, Washington R. I. Stonington Conn Date of application for pension, Sept. 18 - 1892 Residence at date of application, Auburn N. Y. Age at date of application, 75 years. Remarks: Pension was allowed He.
Very respectfully,
M. W. Wood Capt. & Asst. Sun. U. S. A. Fort Pueblo, Colo.
Commissioner.

Ans. Jan. 16/93 Heid. D. M. U. Wood Co. Foot Pueblo, Ne
Clearance
13819 INVALID.
File No. 13819
Joseph Marshall Enr. Rev. war
Act: June 7 th 1852
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 289
[Arrangement of 1870.]

N o 12.226 Joseph Marshall
A. Gould Auburn      Ny

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Joseph Marshall 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? yes 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? yes VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes 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? Supplied XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? 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? XIV. † If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? yes If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? yes Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? yes 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? yes XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? yes XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? yes
 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 each 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. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
† 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 official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
‡ QUERE XVI.  Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates 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 ends 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.
¶ In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.