Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43168, for Wright Spalding, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Com.
Mass.
Shaling, Wright S. 43168
CONTENTS

10.960
New York
Wright Spalding
of Plattsburg in the state of N. York who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Vose of the Mass. line, for the term of 4 Years
inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 24th of Apr. 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 of May 1819 and sent to John Palmer Plattsburg
  Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1819  88.-    Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4th Apr. 1819  48.-     $136.00  
5 60. 6 40
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
That the Cont'd
Reserve Money
See letter to the pensioner 12 November 1827 in regard to his application for a new certificate
Duplicate Certificate issued 28th Jan. 1828, & sent to Pensioner, Plattsburg, Clinton County, N. York.
William ... of May 8th 1821 ...

Wright Spalding Cope with & Sussbury
78. 12
60 10.960
Est. 1819
Palmer & Walworth Plattsburgh
Palmer & Walworth Plattsburgh N. York

At a Court of Common Pleas held at the Court-House in Plattsburgh, in and for the County of Clinton, and State of New-York, on the Sixteenth day of January 1821 Present: Caleb Nichols  Levi Platt Nathan Larver and Allen R. Moore
Judges of the said Court.
COUNTY OF CLINTON ss: On this Sixteenth day of January 1821 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, Wright  Stratford aged Sixty four years resident in the town of Plattsburgh 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 for three months and went to Quebec in the spring of 1776 and about the month of April 1776 he enlisted at Quebec in Captain Satterlee's company, Col. Shmores Connecticut Regt for one year and just before the expiration of that term he re-enlisted at Williamstown in Captain Ashley's com- pany Col. Vose's Regt of the Massachusetts line for three years and continued to serve therein until the expir- ation of his enlistment and was discharged at West Point the highlands opposite West Point about the month of April 1780 Discharge is that his original declaration to obtain a pension under the Act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 was made the fourth day of April 1818 that he has received a pension certificate Numbered 10960 and dated the 22 day of May 1819
the highlands opposite West Point about the month of April 1780 Discharge is that his original declaration to obtain a pension under the Act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 was made the fourth day of April 1818 that he has received a pension certificate Numbered 10960 and dated the 22 day of May 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 Quit Claim deed of all the right of Roy- Spalding to one hundred and twenty acres of Land in the South East corner of Number five in Township etc. four Clinton County but the land is under a mortgage for the original purchase money given by him for the full value of the lot and which including the interest is more than the land is actually worth, so that it is worth nothing
Personal estate excepting necessary bedding and clothing.

  two sheep one yearling heifer & two calves — $12.50   Plough $2. Chains & clevis $8. Three old axes — 13.00   2 old scythes $2. 1 old side saddle $2. 4.   old cutter and tackling $5 old Loom $5 10.   woolen wheel $2. Linnen D. $1. Six old chains. 1.50 4.50   Pewter Platter & six plates $3. tin pail & milk pan 1.40 4.40   Three tin cups and basins. 75 Six cups and saucers. 25 — 1.00   Three old pails $1. Meal barrel washtub & churn, $1. 2.00   Old crow bar $2. two old chests $1. hatchet $2. — 5.00   set knives and forks & iron spoons lantern & canstick 1.50   shovel & tongs $1. Brass kettle & pan $4. — 5.00   Debt against Israel Spalding payable in four years work for $40. in 3 years he is insolvent but I may get something on it — 15.00   five hens — .62 \frac{1}{2}   $78.12 
I am by occupation a farmer & my family consists of my wife Martha aged sixty two years tolerably healthy and my mother Rachel aged ninety two and totally dependent on me for her support and an orphan grandchild Martha Reed aged twelve years —  Wright Spalding

Sworn to and declared on the sixteenth day of January 1821 before the above named judges in open court Charles Platt Clerk
I Charles Platt, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas held in and for the County of Clinton; do certify that the foregoing oath 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 Twenty Eight Dollars & Twenty Cents
S. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the seal of said Court, on this sixteenth day of January 1821
Chas. Platt Clerk of the Court for the County of Clinton.

Wight Spalding
Voss's Mafs. req.
correct by roll.
Adm.
Hon. J. Palmer, Plattsburg, N. Y.

State of New York
County of Clinton
I, Wright Spalding of the Town of Plattsburgh, in the County of Clinton and State of New York do solemnly & sincerely swear & declare that I was a private in Captain Ashley's company, the Regiment commanded by Col. Rose in the first Regiment of the Massachusetts line, in the service of the United States of America on the continental establishment in the war of the revolution, That I enlisted in the Army of the United States at Quebec in the army of Genl. Montgomery in the Regiment commanded by Col. Elmore & a company of Capt. Saterlee for the term one year, in the Month of April 1776. That I enlisted again before the expiration of the one year, at Williamstown in Massachusetts under the same Colonel Rose aforesaid for the term of three years That I was discharged therefrom some time in the month of April 1780, at the Highlands on the east side of the Hudson River opposite to West Point. That my discharge is destroyed, And that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life I am in need of assistance from my country for support.
Wright Spalding
I, Caleb Nichols a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Clinton & State of New York do certify that on the fourth day of April one thousand eight hundred & eighteen the above named Wright Spalding to me known made oath to the foregoing declaration of facts
Caleb Nichols

STATE OF New York Clinton COUNTY, ss. }
On this twenty seventh day of April 1818, before me the sub- scriber, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the county and state aforesaid: Personally appears Wright Spalding aged sixty one years, resident in Plattsburgh in the said county and state, who being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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:" That the said Wright Spalding enlisted in Williamstown in the state of Massachusetts in the company commanded by Captain Moses Ashley of the first Massachusetts Regt. Col. S. D. [?] that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States until the month of April 1780 when he was discharged from service in the Highland state of New York ; that he was in the battles of Monmouth at the taking of Burgoyne on Rhode Island and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services. his discharge is lost Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.
Caleb Nichols as Judge of Clinton Common Pleas
STATE OF NEW-YORK, } COUNTY, ss. }
of _____ in the county of _____ aged years, being duly sworn, says that he is acquainted with in the preceding declaration named and described, and know that he served in the army of the United States in the war of the Revolution, as is mentioned in the preceding declaration.
State of New York I Caleb Nichols as Judge of the court of Common Pleas of the county of Clinton and state aforesaid, DO CERTIFY, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Wright Spalding did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemies; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the secretary, for the department of war pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. Plattsburgh April 27th 1818  Caleb Nichols [L. S.]

State of New York County of Clinton
John T. Allen of the town of Stillborough in the county of Clinton State of New York being duly sworn says that he has lived for ten or twelve years or more past, a neighbor to, & is acquainted with the State & circumstances of Knight Spalding named in the within application, that he the said Spalding is advanced in years has a family of three children & his aged mother now about ninety years old, dependent upon him for support, that he owes wholly for the farm on which he subsists this small stock & personal property is also as this deponent fully believes at the mercy of his creditors to whom he owes as this deponent verily believes, to the full amount of all he possesses,
John T. Allen
Sworn before me this 14 th of September 1818 and I do further certify that I am acquainted with the above witness that he is in my opinion a person of credibility
Caleb Nichols
Judge of Common Pleas
State of New York Clinton County ss I Charles Platt Clerk of Clinton County do certify that Caleb Nichols before whom the above affidavits were taken is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for said County duly authorized by law and acting under the authority of this State in Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of said County & set my Name this 22 nd Day of September 1818
Chas. Platt Clerk of Clinton County

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Wright Spalding a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.      He enlisted and went to Quebec in the Spring of 1776 and there enlisted in April 1776 in Capt. Satterlee's Co. Col. Elnathan Dyer's Regt. for one year and just before the expiration of the year he re-enlisted at Williamstown Mass. as Pvt. in Capt. Moses Ashley's Co. Col. Vose's 1st Mass. Regt. and was discharged at the Highlands called Point in Apr. 1780   
Battles engaged in, at Taking of Burgoyne Monmouth Rhode Island
Residence of soldier at enlistment, not stated
Date of application for pension, April 4 1818 His cl. was al.
Residence at date of application, Plattsburgh Clinton Co. N.Y.
Age at date of application, 61 yrs.
Remarks: In 1818 col. relied to 3 children and his mother as 90 names not stated, and in 1820 to his wife Martha as 62 and his orphan grandchild Martha Reed as 12. There is no fur. data as to family. The above is the only Wright Spalding found on the Rev. War records of this Bureau
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

43168
INVALID.
File No. 43168
Right Spalding P. O. Box 100
Act: 18 March 18
Index:—Vol. 8, Page 88
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1916. Aug. 20. Rept. to Jemmet E. Lewis. and.

and any data that may be recorded.?
Yours very truly, (Miss) Jennet E. Lewis.

Rev. Sec K. T. H. 1 -
R.R.D.#1, Westport, Essex Co., N.Y. August 22, 1916.
G. M. Seltzaber, Com. of Pensions Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:-
Will you kindly inform me whether or not there is any record of Wright Spaulding as a Revolutionary soldier?
I believe he was a resident of Waitsfield, Vt. in Jan. 1794. His wife's name was Olive.
If you have his record, will you kindly forward me his military statement,

and any data that may be recorded.?
Yours very truly, (Miss) Jennet E. Lewis.

APPLICATION FOR A NEW CERTIFICATE.
State of New York
County of Clinton
88.
On this tenth day of January 182 8 , before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Clinton personally appeared Wright Spatburg who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Moses Ashley in the regiment commanded by Colonel Vose ( 1 st Massachusetts Regt. ) in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of New York that he received a certificate of that fact, under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War: which certificate, on or about the 1 st day of its date  182 , at or
near was received by Ruben H. Walworth as the agent of this deponent, and was left in his possession for the use of this deponent, and the said Ruben H. Walworth made out the proper papers time to time to draw the pension & the same has never been taken out of his possession & this deponent truly believes the same is lost.
Sworn and subscribed to. before me, the day and year aforesaid.
David Jos. Pease
Wright Spatburg
NOTES.—The last four blanks are left for the applicant to set forth the time, place, and manner of the loss or destruction of the original certificate.
The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official character and signature must be properly authenticated.
If the pensioner has never received a formal certificate, but has drawn his pension on a mere notification, as was the case in a few instances many years ago, he should leave out the above words in italics, and insert, in lieu thereof, "but has never received a formal certificate, and now wishes to obtain one."
The pensioner's oath must be supported by the evidence of another person as to identity. The person must swear that he well knows him to be the same person described in the above affidavit. The magistrate must certify that the deponent is a person of veracity. This oath must also be authenticated by the certificate of the proper officer, under his seal of office, setting forth that the officer before whom the affidavit may be made is a Justice of the Peace, Judge, or Notary Public, as the case may be.
When a person acting as an Agent or Attorney for a Pensioner, loses the certificate, the affidavit of that person is also required, which must be authenticated as above.

State of New York (under compulsion): Ruben H Walworth of Saratoga Springs County Judge of the fourth line of the State of New York being duly sworn deposeth & saith that he is well acquainted with Wright Spalding named in & who made the with in affidavit and that he is the same person to whom an original pension certificate was given the bearing date on or about the twenty second day of May 1819, at eight dollars per month, and commencing on the 4 th day of April 1818 (N o 10960) that this deponent made out the original papers and obtained the said certificate & that same was left by the said Wright Spalding with this deponent for safe keeping & to make out his pension papers from & to obtain his money from time to time. That this deponent sent the original certificate with others to an agent then residing here to present them some, with regular powers of attorney at the loan office, that the said agent received the several pensions & transmitted the funds for the use of the pensioners & the other certificates were all returned, but this deponent very likely believes that the certificate of Wright Spalding was lost by the person to whom the same was sent with Rudgork or by misadven- ture of the mail, & this deponent has never seen the same since. That this deponent wrote to the said agent who informed him the certificate would not be found by him & if the same had not been sent to this deponent the same was lost. And this depo- nent further saith the said agent who then resided in Rudgork has removed to some place unknown to this deponent; and this deponent has no doubt

The said original certificate is actually lost and further this deponent saith not Sworn this 10 th day of January - 1828 before me & I certify that the deponent is a credible witness.
R. Walworth
J. Lynde Jos. Pease
Second deponent: I certify that John Lynde before whom the preceding affidavits were made is a Justice of the Peace of said family & that his name subscribed thereto is in his own proper hand writing.
In witness whereof I have hereunto sub- scribed my name & affixed the seal of said family this tenth day of January 1828 -
John Walworth Clerk of Clinton County.
(Signature)

Plattsburgh Jan 10 th 1828
Sir
Enclosed I send you my affidavit and also that of Judge Walworth to obtain a certified copy of my original pension certificate which I wish you to enclose to me at the Post Office.
Plattsburgh Linden County N.Y.
J.P. Goddard Esq. Section of Pensions
Yours &c
Wright Spalding

War Department Pension Office
12 November 1897
Sir,
Your letter of the 18 th ultimo addressed to the Honorable R. H. Walworth in relation to the loss of your pension Certificate has been referred to this office, and in reply thereto I have to inform you that before a new Certificate can be issued for you, you must make an affidavit agreeable to the blank form herewith enclosed, and forward the same to this Department, accompanied with the proof required in the notes at the foot thereof and authenticated in the manner therein prescribed.
I am, respectfully Your Obedt Servt
J. L. Edwards
Mr Wright Spalding U.S. Pensioner Plattsburgh New York