Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42894, for Samuel Loomis, Rhode Island

SERVICE
R.I.
Loomis, Samuel
NUMBER
S 42894
CONTENTS

Reinstated March 13. 1822 in order to Hon. R. H. Walworth, N. York
1410 New York
Samuel Loonis
of Malone in the state of New York who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Sherman of the Rhode Island line, for the term of three years
scribed on the Roll of New York the rate of 8. . . . Dollars per month, to commence on the 15 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 th of Sept r 1819 and sent to Com d Andrew Esqr Malone, New York
Arrears to 4th of Sep r 1819 $133. 33
Semi-ann. all ce ending 4 Mar 1820 48.
$181. 33
16 mo 20/30
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Reinstated
Hon. R. H. Walworth

Copy of Schedule Death of Samuel Loomis
14.763
March 1820
not entitled

At a Court of Common Pleas holden at the Court-House in Plattsburgh , in and for the County of Clinton , and State of New-York, on the fourteenth day of June 1820 Present: Albion M. Carr Judges of the said Court.
COUNTY OF Franklin ss: On this fourteenth day of June 1820 personally appeared in open Court, it being a Court of Record proceeding according to the course of the common law, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, and keeping record of their proceedings in and for the County of Clinton , Franklin Samuel Loonis aged sixty two years resident in the town of Malone in the said County of Clinton , who being first duly sworn according to law; doth on his oath de- clare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows:
That he enlisted as a private soldier in April in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven into the Company commanded by Captain Abijah Savage in the Regiment commanded by Colonel  Henry Sherburne in the Connecticut or Rhode Island Line of Conti-  nental troops and that he did serve as a private in the said com- pany & Regiment in the war of the revolution against the Common- wealth for the term of three years when he was honorably dis- charged having served out the term of his enlistment
that his original declaration to obtain a pension under the Act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 was made the fifteenth day of April 1818 that he has received a pension certificate Numbered 14783 and dated the sixth day of September 1819 And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule, hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
Real Estate I have a deed for fifty acres of land situated in Malone aforesaid of which I am possessed on which is a barn and about 20 acres are under improvement but that the said land is incumbered by a mortgage executed by me on which there is now due to the mortgagee about five hundred and twenty dollars which sum is more than can be obtained for the whole of the said land
  Personal estate one horse $30, one span Steers $30  $60.00    2 Cows $35, one 2 year old heifer $10  45.00    2 yearling heifers $14, 2 Calves $4  18.00    4 Swine $8, 1 Sheep & 1 Lamb $1.50  9.50    one old plough $2, one harrow $2  4.00    1 five pail Kettle 2.50, one Iron pot $1  3.50    1/2 earthen plates, 24, 1 tea cups & saucers 25  0.49    4 earthen Bowls 40, one platter 25  .65    3 milk pans & a cream 40, one was bowl  .71    1 Chest one Chair 2.75, 1 Draft Chair 1.50  4.25     $147.00  
Personal estate excepting necessary bedding and clothing.

  4 Chairs 147.10   1 broken looking glass 3.00   1-table & 1 stool & 3. 3.00   1 jug one shovel one slice & tongs 1.50   1 old sleigh & an old harness for one horse 7.00   a few other trifling articles of little or no value say 3.00 
That I am a farmer and depend upon my labor for support. My family consists of my self & my wife I am aged sixty years - that my health & constitution are somewhat impaired that I am unable to perform hard labor.
There is due to me for my pension up to the fourth of March 1820 $181 which I have not yet received, and there is due to me from Robert Wilson $15.50 that I owe to several persons in debts now due over and above what I owe upon the mortgage aforesaid - $142.78 - Same Loomis
Sworn to and declared on the fourteenth day of June 1820 before the Court - Asa Wheeler Clerk
I Charles Platt , Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas Franklin held in and for the County of Clinton; do certify that the foregoing oath & declaration and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said Court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is one hundred & sixty four dollars & sixty Cents exclusive of the debts due to him & those due from him
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court, on this twenty ninth day of June 1820
Asa Wheeler Clerk Clerk of the Court for the County of Clinton by Thos. A. Townsend Dep. Clerk

Samuel Lotins application for proof for a pension certificate
Affidavit of May D. Lotins & Mrs R. Lotins
Adm re
Malone, N.Y.

State of New York Franklin County —
Be it known that on the fifteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me Ebenezer Andrews one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Franklin in the State of New York personally appeared Samuel Loomes of the Town of Malone in the said County and then and there before me took and subscribed the following oath or affidavit to wit:
Samuel Loomes being duly sworn deponeth and saith that he is a native of Bolton in the State of Connecticut now aged fifty nine years and this Deponent further saith that he is now a resident Citizen of the United States residing in the Town of Malone in the County of Franklin in the State of New York and that by reason of his recent circumstances in life he stands in need of assistance from his Country for support, and this Deponent further saith that on the twentieth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven according to the best of his recollection that he this Deponent regularly enlisted as a private Soldier into the army of the United States to serve against the Common Enemy for the term of three years in a Company commanded by Capt. Abijah Savage in the Regiment commanded by Col. Henry Sherburne which Regiment as this Deponent believes belonged to the Rhode Island Line of Continental Troops, that this Deponent enlisted at Bolton in the State of Connecticut, and this Deponent further saith that he did serve as a private Soldier in the Company and Regiment aforesaid in the war of the revolution against the Common Enemy for and during the said term of three years and was regularly and honorably discharged at Morristown in the State of New Jersey on the month of April in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven and

Application & proof of Samuel Loomis for a pension
Sherburne
R. Island Ref t
1777 - for 3 years -
15 th April 1810 -
The testimony of two dis- interested & credible witnesses to prove Appli- cant's services, duly to be taken & authenticated, is required -

State of New York Franklin County — } Be it known that on the fifteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thou- sand eight hundred and eighteen before me Ebenezer D. Dyer one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Franklin in the State of New York personally appeared Samuel Loomes of the Town of Malone in the said County and then and there before me took and subscribed the following oath or affidavit to wit:
Samuel Loomes being duly sworn deponeth and saith that he is a native of Bolton in the State of Connecticut now aged fifty nine years and this deponent further saith that he is now a resident citizen of the United States residing in the Town of Malone in the County of Franklin in the State of New York and that by reason of his recent cir- cumstances in life he stands in need of assistance from his country for support, and this deponent further saith that on the twentieth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven according to the best of his recollection which he this deponent regularly enlisted as a private soldier into the army of the United States to serve against the Common Enemy for the term of three years in a Company commanded by Capt. Abijah Savage in the Regiment commanded by Col. Henry Sheburne which Regiment as this deponent believes belonged to the Rhode Island Line of Continental Troops, that this deponent enlisted at Bolton in the State of Connecticut, and this deponent further saith that he did serve as a private soldier in the Company and Regiment aforesaid in the war of the revolution against the Common Enemy for and during the said term of three years and was regu- larly and honorably discharged at Morristown in the State of New Jersey in the month of April in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty

and this Deponent further saith that at that time he obtained a regular written discharge which discharge this Deponent says he has since lost so that it cannot now be produced. And this Deponent further saith that there is no person in this vicinity by whom he can prove any of the above mentioned facts relative to his service and that the above is the best and only evidence now in his power.
Sworn and subscribed before me this fifteenth day of April 18.82
Samuel Loomis
Comr. Andovers Judge
And I the said Comr. Andrew Osborn do certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Samuel Loomis, that the above is the only evidence which has been exhibited to me in this case, that it appears to my satisfaction that the above named Samuel Loomis served in the revolutionary war as is set forth in the above affidavit against the Common Enemy, and further that it appears to my satisfaction that the above affidavit is in all respects true.
Comr. Andovers Judge
State of New York
Franklin County ss.
I Asa Wheeler Clerk of said county do hereby certify that Comr. Andrew Osborn before whom the above affidavit was made, & who made the above certificate at the time the same were made, was one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said county, duly commissioned & qualified, and acts in that capacity, and that his signature above are his own hand writing.
In testimony whereof I have set my hand & the public seal of said county this 2 nd day of May 18.18 at Malone in said county.
Asa Wheeler Clerk

State of Vermont } ss Samuel Saylor of the Town of Salisbury Addison County } in the County of Addison and State of Vermont aged fifty, nine years being duly sworn deposeth and saith that in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven he this Deponent was a soldier in a Company commanded by Captain Abijah Savage in the regiment commanded by Col. Henry Sherburne in the Rhode Is- -land line (as he believes) of Continental Troops, that he this Depo- -nent continued to serve in the said Company and Regiment until the month of April in the year one thousand seven hun- -dred and eighty during the whole of which time this Deponent was well acquainted with Mr. Samuel Loomis now of the Town of Malone in the County of Franklin and State of New York that the said Samuel Loomis did serve as a private soldier in the Company Regiment and line before men- -tioned with this Deponent in the War of the revolution against the common enemy for the term of three years that is to say from the month of April in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven to some time in the Spring of the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty according to the best of his recollection and belief when the said Samuel Loomis was regularly and honorably dis- -charged at Morristown in the State of New Jersey having served out the term of his enlistment
Samuel Saylor
 Approved and Subscribed Before me this 17th 17th day of

State of Vermont Addison County ss I William Slade Jun - Esquire one of the Judges of the County Court within and for the County of Addison in the State of Vermont do certify that on this seventeenth Day of July 1849 Samuel Taylor of the Town of Salisbury - in the said County personally appeared before me and there and then subscribed and made solemn oath to the foregoing deposition; and I further certify that I am personally acquainted with the said Samuel Taylor and that his character for integrity and veracity is good and that his deposition is entitled to full credit - William Slade Jun -
State of Vermont Addison County ss I Saml Swift Esquire Clerk of the said County of Addison in the State of Vermont do certify that the Honorable William Slade Jun whose signature appears above was at the date of the above certificate one of the Judges of the County Court within and for the said County of Addison duly commissioned and qualified to act as such and that the above certificate is subscribed with his own proper hand In testimony whereof I have caused the public seal of the said County to be hereunto affixed this seventeenth Day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty - Saml Swift Clerk.

State of New York Columbia County ss. I Daniel Fowler of the City of Hudson in the County of Columbia & State of New York being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with Mr Samuel Loomis now residing in the Town of Malone in the County of Franklin and State aforesaid. That this Deponent is now aged fifty seven years. That in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & seventy seven and before that period the said Samuel Loomis and this Deponent both resided at the Town of Bolton in the State of Connecticut at which time & place he this Deponent was well acquainted with the said Samuel Loomis and this Deponent further testifies that he well recollects that in the Spring of the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy seven the said Samuel Loomis enlisted as a soldier into the Army of the United States as this Deponent then understood for the term of three years in the Regiment as this Deponent believes commanded by Col. Sherburne and this Deponent further saith that he frequently saw the said Samuel Loomis during the three years next after his enlistment as above mentioned and always understood that he belonged to the Col. and Sherburne's Regiment in the Army of the United States That in the year one thousand seven hundred & eighty the said Samuel Loomis returned to the Town of Bolton leaving as this Deponent then understood and now believes having out the term of his enlistment and being honorably discharged as a soldier in the Army of the United States and this Deponent further saith that he has always understood

understood and believed by information received from various sources during the war of the revolution as well as by his own personal observations and does now verily believe that the said Samuel Loonis did serve as a Soldier in the Army of the United States on the Continental establishment against the common enemy for the term of three years that is to say from the Spring of the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy seven until the Spring of the year one thousand seven hundred & eighty Sworn & subscribed before me this 14 th Day of May 1819 Daniel Fowler Seth Jenkins
I Rachel Fowler wife of the above named Daniel Fowler and sister to the said Samuel Loonis of Wallingford in the County of Franklin aged fifty six - years do hereby and say that in the Spring of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven according to the best of my recollection & belief my brother the said Samuel Loonis enlisted at Boston in the State of Connecticut where we then resided into the army of the United States and served as I have always understood and believed and do now believe in the said Army in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Sherburne for the term of three years not after his enlistment when he was honorably discharged and I further say that after the return of my Brother the said Samuel Loonis from the Army I frequently saw in his possession an Instrument purporting to be a regular discharge from the Army and which I believe the said Samuel Loonis obtained at the expiration of his term of Service and I further say that I have perused the foregoing affidavit subscribed & sworn to by my husband and that the same is true according to the best of my recollection & belief Sworn & subscribed before me this fourteenth Day of May 1819 Rachel Fowler Seth Jenkins

State of New York } Is it known that on the fifteenth day
State of New York } of Seth Jenkins Esq Columbia County
One of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Columbia do hereby certify that on this fourteenth day of May 1819 Major Daniel Fowler of the City of Hudson and Rachel Fowler his wife both of whom are to me well known personally appeared before me and then & there solemnly subscribed and made solemn oath to the foregoing Deposition and I further certify that they are both persons of integrity and veracity and that their Depositions are entitled to full faith and credit
Seth Jenkins
State of New York } Cornelius Miller Clerk of Columbia County
the County of Columbia do hereby certify that Seth Jenkins Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavits were taken and who subscribed the above certificate at the date thereof a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County duly sworn qualified and that I am a quorum with his hand missing that the above is his own proper signature of the said Seth Jenkins In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name & the Public Seal of the said County this fourteenth day of May 1819 Corn: Miller Clerk

Clerks Office Franklin Co. NY 22 Feb. 1822
I Elmer Brownson, Esquire Clerk of the County of Franklin aforesaid, do certify that an examination of the Books of Mortgages remaining in this Office I find recorded in Lib N o 1 at the 7 th page a Mortgage executed by Sam l Loomis to Richard Harrison, a copy of which is within contained. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the public Seal of the said County.
Elm Brownson Clerk

This Indenture made the twenty eighth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & eight between Samuel Loonis of the Town of Esreville in the County of Franklin and State of New York yeoman of the first part and Richard Harrison of the City of New York Esquire of the second part witnesseth. That the said party of the first part for and in consideration of the sum of two hundred and ninety Dollars and seventy cents - Dollars Money of Account of the United States to him in hand paid by the said party of the second part the receipt whereof is hereby confessed and acknowledged hath granted, bargained, sold, released, aliened & confirmed & by these presents doth grant, bargain, sell, release, alien and confirm unto the said party of the second part and to his heirs & assigns all that certain piece or parcel of Land situate in the Town of Esreville aforesaid in that part thereof commonly called Malone. Being part of Lot Number two as said Malone was surveyed into Lots by Joseph Beausan - Beginning twenty chains west from the South east Corner of said Lot Number two, in the South line thereof, running thence east, twenty five chains thence west twenty chains, thence south twenty five chains, thence east twenty chains to the place of Beginning. Containing fifty acres of Land, together with all and singular the erections thereon now being or belonging and the reversion and reversions, remainders & remainders unto if used and profits thereof - To have and to hold the said premises hereby released and confirmed with the appurtenances unto the said party of the second part and to the sole and only proper use benefit and behoof of the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns forever. Provided always and these presents are upon this express condition that if the said Samuel Loonis his heirs, executors and Administrators shall well & truly pay or cause to be paid unto the said party of the second part his certain Attorneys or Attorneys, heirs, executors, Administrators or assigns the sum of two hundred and ninety Dollars and seventy Cents in manner following, that is to say, one half of that sum together with the interest on the whole principal sum on the first day of September next ensuing & the remaining half with the interest that may then be due on the first day of September next thereafter, which will be in the year then next one thousand eight hundred and ten in the manner particularly specified in the Constitution of a certain bond or obligation bearing even date herewith executed by the said Samuel Loonis to the said party of the second part that then and from thence forth these presents and everything herein contained shall cease & be void any thing herein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding; but in case default shall be made in the payment of all or any part of the said principal sum of two hundred ninety Dollars and seventy cents or the interest thereof at the time or times when the same ought to be paid as aforesaid, that then and in such case, the said party of the first part for his heirs, executors & administrators doth covenant, grant, promise and agree to and with the said party of the second part his heirs, executors, Administrators & assigns that it shall and may be lawful for the said party of the second part his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns at any time or times thereafter to sell and dispose of the said premises hereby granted or any part or parts thereof at public Vendue to any person or persons whomsoever, and in such sale to make sign seal & deliver any Deed or Deeds of Conveyance in the Law for the said premises or the part thereof so sold to the purchaser or purchasers his or their heirs or assigns forever, and out of the monies arising from such sale or sales to keep and retain in his hands the said two hundred and ninety Dollars & seventy cents or so much thereof, or the interest thereof as shall be then due, together with all costs, charges or expenses that shall or may be due, accrued, arise or happen by reason or an account of such sale or sale or sales, and the overplus money (if any there be) shall be paid to the said party of the first part his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns - In witness whereof the said parties have hereunto interchangedly set their hands and seals the day & year first above written
Sealed & delivered in presence of William Bailey Joseph Jones
Copy
Sam l Loonis S.S.

To the Honorable N. C. Calhoun Esquire the Secretary of War of the United States.
The Memorial of Samuel Loonis of Molaw in the County of Franklin and State of New York, begs a pension upon the pension- List of the Revolutionary Army humbly & respectfully states, that about 18 months since he received a notice from the Office of the War-Department, that his name by your Honor's decision had been stricken off from the list of pensioners.
Your Memorialist apprehending that this decision has been made under misapprehension of his real necessitous situation, humbly states that his case may be reconsidered and he restored to a participation of that bounty designed by a munificent Government, for the aged & needy Soldiers of the Revolutionary Army.
That your Memorialist is poor will be truly sufficiently appear by a reference to the last Schedule of his Estate forwarded to the Office of the War- Department under the acts of Congress, and under the authority of which his name has been stricken from the Roll. Your Memorialist apprehends that your Honor's decision was predicated upon the circumstance of his being in the possession of a Lot of Land of 50. Acres in Molaw under a purchase from Richard Har- ison Esquire. But by a reference to the same Schedule in which this lot appears, it will also be found to appear, that the Land was charged by Mortgage, with almost the whole purchase money, with an annuity of a

large amount of interest, exceeding the value of the Lot with the whole improvements - That at the time his last inventory or schedule was made, he was but a tenant at sufferance only - and that the suspension of his pension, has put it completely out of his power to pay the principal or interest of the said mortgage - That since the since the stop of his pension, the residuary Agent of the Mortgagee, John L. Fuller, has called upon your Memorialist, to make payment or surrender his right to the premises - and that being unable to pay, he has been obliged to recede his Equity of Redemption , which was the only interest your Memorialist has had in the premises (for a number of years) to Mr. Harrison, or submit to the encroachments & costs of a Foreclosure at Law or in Equity - That your Memorialist is aged and infirm, without a home or the means of subsistence, with a wife dependent upon him for support, and without a son to sustain the weight of his years & his growing infirmities - Under these circum- =stances your Memorialist humbly hopes that your Honor, whom he has a right to consider as the soldier's friend, will reconsider his case, and restore him to the bounty of his Government, without which he must sooner or later suffer for the necessaries of life or be a dependent upon the public for support, which would be very humiliating to the feelings of a Soldier - And your Memorialist as in duty bound will ever pray &c Sam l Morris Meadow 13 Dec. 1821

State of New York
Franklin County. John L. Fuller the resident Agent of Richard Harrison Esquire the Original Proprietor of the Town of Malone in said County & Proprietor of the Fifty Acres of Land sold to Samuel Loonis on or about the twenty eighth day of October A.D. 1808. and who has until late a Pension upon the Pension List of the Revolutionary Ar- my of the United States. being duly sworn doth depose and say that at the time the said 50 Acres were sold to Mr Loonis a mortgage was executed by him to the Proprietor to secure the payment of the purchase money $290.70 pay- able in two annual and equal installments with interest. And this Deponent further saith that the whole principal and a considerable part of the interest remaining due & unpaid, he this Deponent in pursuance of discretionary in- structions from the Mortgage his principal, more than a year since called upon the said Samuel Loonis and required him either to pay the purchase money above mentioned and the interest, or to release and surrender the premises with the improvements, and that the said Samuel on the 8 th of October 1821. surrendered the said 50 Acres with the improvements to the Mortgage by Deed of Release being attested and executed on that day - This Deponent further saith that he verily believes that the said Samuel was and is wholly unable to pay for the said 50 Acres of Land, and that he is in indigent cir- cumstances, and stands in need of assistance from his country for support in his declining years. and further saith not.
Sworn this 22 nd of December 1821 John L. Fuller Before me. Alvan Wheeler a Commissioner D.D.

J. L. Edwards Esquire War Department Pension Office Washington

Malone Frank. Co. N.Y. 23 Feb. 1822
Sir
The last southern Mail brought me a note ad- dressed from the Pension Office to the Hon. R. Walworth of the House of Reps. in answer to enquiries relative to the case of Samuel Loonis, late a Pensioner &c. in the following words
"War Department Pension Office
Feb. 8. 1822
Sir
"In answer to your inquiry relative to Samuel "Loonis of Franklin County, I have to state that he must exhibit "a certified copy of the Mortgage mentioned in his Schedule before "a final decision can be had in his case.
I am respectfully your ob. Servt.
J. L. Edwards
"The Honorable R. H. Walworth House of Reps."
Enclosed you have a certified Copy of the Mortgage mentioned in the Schedule; and I cannot help to express my hopes that the same will be satisfactory in his case and induce a restoration of Mr Loonis to the Pension List without delay.

I have enclosed the Mortgage to the War Depart. t I have an apprehension that Mr. Watrous may be absent from the City of Washington before this note will reach that City.
Will you have the goodness to communicate the final Decision of the Department to Simon Wheeler. P. M. Malone, who is a friendly agent of Mr. Loomis in the premises.
Ever much obliged Sir your humb. Servant
© Simon Wheeler
J. S. Edwards Esquire Pension Office.

H. Waterhouse Cortez

This may certify, that for thirteen years last past I have been well & intimately acquainted with Mr. Sam- uel Loonis of this town, & know him to be of slender bodily strength & infirm in health, able to perform only a small quantity of labor.
Dated at } Henry S. Waterhouse, Malone, N.Y. } Asst Hospital Surgeon June 10. 1820 } 42nd. Brigade, New York Militia.

House of Rep Jan 2 1822
Sir
I send enclosed a memorial of Samuel Loomis for a reconsideration of his case will you have the goodness to submit the same & inform me the result as soon as may be convenient
yours &c
NH Wallcutt
H. Edwards Esq

42894 INVALID. Recy
File No. 42894
Samuel Loomis P. O. Box 123
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8, Page 298
[Arrangement of 1870.]