Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6559, for Joseph Lyons, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Lyons, Joseph
R. 655-9
CONTENTS

Daniel Lyons

Westchester County, ss
Daniel Lyons a resident of the Town of North Castle in the County of Westchester and State of New York to me personally known Being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is seventy three years of age. That he is well acquainted with Joseph Lyons late of the County of Westchester and Now of the County of New York. And deponent further says that he well recollects that the said Joseph Lyons in the Year one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine was on the lines in the American Service and continued so until the close of the Revolutionary War.
Subscribed and sworn before me
November 28 th 1833
Catharine Green Justice of the peace
Daniel Lyons

34.628.
to the Mother of Joseph Lyons a Revolutionary Soldier at Pigeon June 7 - 1832
July 1 p 48. p 8.90 - 1780 " " 8.90 " 37.80 memo 5 + 20 days

Declaration of Joseph Lyons a Revolutionary Soldier in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 to the Marine Court of the City of New York.
Present John B. Beekman } Esqrs Justices of Dudley H. Brown } the Marine Court of the City of New York
State of New York City & County of New York
On this 2 nd day of August A D 1838 personally appeared in open Court before the Justices of the Marine Court of the City of New York now sitting Joseph Lyons a resident of the City & County of New York in the State of New York formerly of the County of West- chester aged seventy three years or upwards 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 th 1832
That he entered the service of the United States as a private soldier under the following named officers and served as herein stated as wit h
Some time in the fall of the year 1779 as near as deponent now recollects he was enrolled in a Company of Militia in the Township of North Castle County of Westchester State of New York under the command of Captain David Hobbs and continued under his command attached to his company except as herein after stated until the close of the war in 1783 this company

was attached to the Regiment of Colonel Thomas Thomas, Samuel Banks, the of the Township of North Castle was one of Captain Hobby's Lieutenants during the whole or part of the time deponent was attached to his company. Deponent although attached to Hobby's Company was frequently detached from said Company & served under other officers as a volunteer in various & particular expedi- -tions against the enemy. In October 1781 he accompanied Captain Jacob Varnhagen as a volunteer in an expedition against the enemy then lying at Morrisania Point in the same country under the command of Colonel Delancy. Captain Varnhagen's company were Cavalry & were most of the time located on the lines between the American & British Armies, Captain Varn- -hagen's command consisting at that time of thirty three men of whom this deponent was one. Had an engagement with the enemy at Morrisania Point where Varnhagen attempted to surprise them, his object was to capture certain officers of the enemy who escaped that night by being absent that night attending a Ball at Harlem in the County of New York. — says that at the time the expedition marched to sur- prise Delancy as before stated they started from Bedford in Westchester went through North Castle & from there to White Plains then to Eastchester & from thence crossed the Bronx River over the Bridge opposite to Mr Briggs house from thence went down the the West side of the River to Delancy's Mills from thence to Morrisania Point where the expedition arrived at one o'clock in the morning & surprised the enemy while asleep in their camp. The expedition succeeded in capturing seven men and seven horses with which they retreated fur- -ther by a very superior force of the enemy's cavalry to their first encampment at Bedford,

a distance of about thirty miles. The prisoners then were sent to West Point & before they again rejoined Capt. Hobbs. This expedition lasted but about forty eight hours. On other occasions deponent accompanied Captain Pritchard of the Continental - also he made various expeditions against the enemy. His company consisted of about sixty men who were sent from West to Patank on the lines. These services were frequent sometimes as often as once in a week & some times every day. Deponent knew General Washington General Scott Colonel Jameson & recollects the time & particulars of Andre's capture. At the time Andre was captured deponent was quartered under Captain Hobbs in Middle Patank in North Castle Township. Besides Colonel Thomas deponent knew Lieutenant William Mosher. Lieutenant Martine, Lieutenant Wright Carpenter. Martine belonged to Colonel Benedict's Regiment. He other to Colonel Thomas Regim- ent. Pervilly was a partisan officer. & deponent does not know that he was attached to any Regiment. says that at the time of the Battle at White Plains deponent was with the rest of Hobbs's company at Middle Patank about eleven miles distant. The company were called together on the occasion to go to the Battle as deponent believed but why they did not go deponent does not know during the whole period of the time from 1779 when deponent first entered the service until the close of the war in 1783 deponent was kept constantly on duty on the lines between the two armies. (Hornimans Point) being the farthest distance deponent was ever engaged or called during the period of his services. At the expiration of the time when the Americans Army lay at White Plains, West Point was the lower fort then the Americans occupied. The British lay

at Fort Washington, Fort Lee & King's Bridge & in those vicinities, deponent does not recollect that he ever received a discharge from the services if he did it has been lost, he never received a commission, depo- nent is personally known to William Price Esq U S District Atty Philip Hamilton Esq Matthew Miller Esq James Smith Esq Mr. Elizabeth Smith Esq and says that in 1833 he intended to make an application for the favor he now solicits to obtain the accompanying documents signed by different individuals & dated in the year 1833 at that time he was employed by James W. Hamilton Esq as a messenger in the office of the U S District Attorney after the appointment of Mr. Price to that office he was continued in his situation as messenger while by a violent attack of the Rheumatism he was compelled to relinquish his duties by which his place became occupied by another & he has from that time been in a destitute & suffering condition. The lapse of time since his first visit to this to apply has been productive of the loss of testimony by the deaths of individuals who then could have testified to his services. Deponent says he was brought up in the County of Westchester but has lived in the City of New York for 8 or 9 years last past.
Deponent has no documentary evidence of his services & that he knows of no other person than those whose official acts are hereto annexed whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his services. He hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state except that that the Pension Office of the United States is hereby advised of the only claim to a pension to which he is entitled and knowledge of his services.
Joseph Lyons
sworn to from Court - 2nd March 1838 J. M. Wilson Judge of Court

City Court State of New York
We David Fuchs & John J. Ellison residing in the City & State of New York at present but formerly residing in the County of Westchester Township of North Castle State of New York being County Natl we are well acquainted with Joseph Lyons who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy three years of age that he was reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he formerly resided in Westchester County to be reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he now resides to wit in the City of New York to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion
sworn to from Court 1 st August David Fuchs 1838, D r John B Scott J. J. Ellison Justice of the Court
I John Barberie Clerk of the Marine Court of the City of New York do hereby certify that Mr. B. Scott is one of the Justices of the said Marine Court and that the said Court is a Court of Record and that the signatures to the above affidavits are his genuine signatures and that the said affidavits were sworn to in open Court
In Witness whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the said Court this second day of August in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight and thirty eight
John Barberie

34,628
Saspender
for Mr. C. C. Nagle,
August 17, 1838.
New-York
Q559
Oct. 7 th June 1838.

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 2, 1873.
6539
P. O.
Service: Joseph Lyons
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____ _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Westchester County, ss
I, Nathaniel Bayles Clerk of the County of Westchester and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County Do hereby certify that Nathan J Green and Saber Robertson whose names are subscribed to the Jurats of the five annexed affidavits and to the ten annexed certificates that is to say the name of the said Saber Robertson subscribed to the affidavit of Abijah Harris dated on the twenty seventh of August 1833 of One Fountain dated the 20 th day of August 1833 and to the ten certificates on the said last mentioned affidavits of the re- spective dates last mentioned and the name of the said Nathan J Green subscribed to the Jurats of the affidavits of Daniel Lyon Israel Inverness and Samuel Lyon respective- ly bearing date on the 28 day of November 1833 are Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Westchester aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn and that full faith and credit are due to their official acts.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court the Sixteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four
N Bayles Clerk

Israel Townsend

Westchester County. ss
Personally came before me Nathan J Green Justice of Israel Townsend of the Town of North Castle County of Westchester late Justice of the peace for said County to me personally known (and being sworn in due form of Law) says that he has been for many years acquainted with Joseph Lyon formerly of the County of Westchester and now of the County of New York, and considers him to be entitled to full credit on his oath or affirmation Subscribed and sworn before me
November 28 th 1833
Israel Townsend
Nathan J Green Justice of the peace

Hijah Harris Affidavit —
for Joseph Lyon

West Chester County ss. Elijah Harris aged seventy eight years residing in the Town of Bedford in the County of Westchester and State of New York being duly sworn doth depose and say, that he is well acquain- ted with Joseph Lyon, now a resident of the City of New York, and was also well acquainted with in the the said Joseph Lyon in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three who then resided in the Town of North Castle in the County afore- said, and well recollects that the said Joseph Lyon was with him the said Harris and others at a time he thinks in the month of October 1781 In an excursion from the Town of Bedford to Morrisania at which time they took seven Prisoners and seven Horses then returned to the Town of Bedford. and this deponent further saith he knows of no other service rendered by the said Joseph Lyon but has always understood understood that he served as a private in the American Service Viz on the lines in Westchester County. and further this deponent saith not. Subscribed and sworn this 27th day of August 1833. before me, Isaac Robertson Justice of the peace
Westchester County, ss. I Laban Robertson Justice of the peace in and for the County of Westchester, residing in the Town of Bedford, do hereby certify that Abijah Harris named in the foregoing Affidavit is of reputable character and that full credit is due to his testimony. Given August 27. 1833. Laban Robertson Justice.

Affadavit of Rev d Ezra Gount
for Joseph Lyon

Westchester County ss. Rev d Ezra Fountain aged Seventy years a resident of the Town of Bedford in the County of Westchester and State of New York, being duly affirmed doth depose and say that he is well acquainted with Joseph Lyon now a resident of the City of New York and was also well acquainted with him in the time of the Revolutionary War and this deponent well recollects at or near the close of the war that Joseph Lyon and Moses Golden came to his House he thinks in the Spring of the year 1783. Under Arms, he then resided in the Town of Westchester in the County of Westchester as to further service of the said Joseph Lyon he has no knowledge, but as to common report he was active in the American Service during the Revolutionary War and further this deponent saith not - Subscribed, and affirmed this } Ezra Fountain. 28 th day of August 1833. before me. Jabaz Robertson Justice of the peace.
Westchester County ss. I Jabaz Robertson a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Westchester, residing in the Town of Bedford, do hereby certify that the Rev d Ezra Fountain named in the above Affidavit is of fair unblemished and reputable Character and that full faith and credit is due to his testimony.
Bedford August 28. 1833.
Jabaz Robertson Justice of the peace

New York February 8th 1838
Doctor Craig, Esquire,
Surveyor of the Customs for the Port and District of the City of New York -
The undersigned respectfully recommend Mr Joseph Lyons for the appointment of a revenue night watch.
The annexed testimonials have been afforded him, to establish that he served in the War of the Revolution, and conducted himself as became a soldier at that trying period.
He has for several years been employed as a messenger in the United States District Attorney's Office where he uniformly conducted himself with fidelity; on leaving that Office, he was appointed by the Democratic Corporation as the Keeper of the Park, although zealous efforts were made to retain him as an exception when the Democratic Officers were generally removed, based on his revolutionary services and uniform honesty, still those claims did not protect him from universal proscription by the present Whig Corporations.
He is now destitute and will cheerfully exert himself, faithfully to discharge his duties if the Collector should think proper to confer on him the appointment of night watch.
Richard Smith John D. Miles Smedcor
William M Price Philip Hamilton John O'Greenfield John Root

Westchester, County. ss
Personally came before me Nathan J Green Justice &c, Samuel Lyons of the Town of North Castle, County of Westchester late Justice of the peace for said County to me personally known and being sworn in due form of Law says That he has been for many years acquainted with Joseph Lyons formerly of the County of Westchester and now of the County of New York and considers him to be entitled to full credit on his oath or affirmation
Subscribed and sworn before me
November 28 th 1833
Nathan J Green Justice of the peace
Samuel Lyons

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Lyons, Josiah GRADE Private LINE Massachusetts
WARRANT NUMBER 4569 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Oct. 3, 1791
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*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.