Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7067, for Abraham Mays, New York

SERVICE
New York Penn
Mays, Abraham Maze or
NUMBER _____
P. 7067
CONTENTS

No 31.599 Abraham Elaiy

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the 7 th of June 1832
State of New York
Ulster County ss
On the fourteenth day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and thir- ty four personally appeared before me Henry Weyukovh one of the Judges of the County Courts of the County of Ulster Abraham Mays a resident of the County of Greene town of Lexing- ton and State of New York aged Eighty Three 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 Con- gress passed the 7 th of June 1832
That he entered the service of the United States and served as herein after stated
That On or about the first of May in the year 1775 this applicant entered the Military service of the revolutionary war in the town of Pittsburgh in the State of Pennsylvania as a private Soldier in Captain James Wrights Com- pany of volunteers or rangers Lieutenant Simon Thomas Colonel Wm Crawford & Colonel Stinsons Regiment and the  the whole army there  regiment was commanded by General Mc Intosh the whole army was about two thousand men that he with the said Company and Regi- ment was stationed in the said Town of Pittsburgh during the Summer of 1775 and in the fall went to Fort Mc Intosh and continued there at until sometime in the Summer of 1776 and he with the said Army under the command of Genl Mc In- tosh marched to the Muskingum river and there built a picket Fort called Fort Lawrence and con- tinued there until late in fall of said year of 1776 and from there returned to Fort Mc Intosh and continued about one month and was discharged after a Service of Eighteen Months or more received a written discharge and has lost it
That on or about the first of May he again entered

the aforesaid service as a private soldier in a company of Rangers for the term of Six Months in Captain Joshua Wright Wrights Company Lieutenant John Wright, that he does not recollect any other company engaged in the same service at the same time that he with the said Company of about one hundred men first met together at Pittsburgh at the Fort remained there about one month then went to Fort McIntosh remained there sometime then marched through the stations in that vicinity scouting almost continually for the protection of the inhabitants in those sections of country until in the fall of said year of 1777 or until the end of said term of Six months or more, and was discharged at Pittsburgh received no written discharge.
That in all the aforesaid service he suffered much hunger and cold and had frequent frequent skirmishes with the Indians that in one of those engagements in the year 1776 near the Muskingum River they had two men killed and this applicant opined in their buries that in the said campaign they had an engagement in which this applicant was wounded by a ball in his leg the scars are still to be seen.
That immediately after the last mentioned service he said applicant removed into the County of Westchester in the State of New and there in the town of North Salem and was there acquainted with a number of his acquaintances who were in the same service and but has since been informed that they are all dead that he now knows of none alive to testify to the above mentioned services.
That he has been in a number of different services since the above of short period, during the revolutionary war but owing to his extreme old age the lapse of time and the consequent loss of memory he does not recollect any except those stated below viz that he entered the service of the revolution in the Summer of 1775 in Captain Wrights Company Coastal Corps

Colonel Crawford's Regiment General Mcintoshes Brigade and served at least eighteen Months or months or more as a private soldier
That in the year 1777 he again entered as aforesaid in Captain Joshua rights Company for the term of Six months or more all of which he positively swears to be true
And this applicant further declares that the reason he has not made application for a pension one more is because he is a poor man and not able to employ a judge as he resides in a remote part of the County of Greene and in consequence of his bodily infirmity not able to go to the County County Court house he was informed that Judge Wynkoop was in the immediate neighborhood in which he lives and within a few rods of the County line and was advised to make application to him
To the interrogatories prescribed by the war department he answers
1 st That he was born in the County of Baltimore in the State of Maryland in the year 1744 in the month of September
2 nd That he has no record of his age
3 rd That he lived when he entered the service in the town of Pittsburgh in the State of Pennsylvania and also in the town of North Salem in the County of Westchester & State of New York that he has lived since in the County of Delaware State of New York that he now lives in the town of Lexington County of Greene State of New York
4 th That he always volunteered
5 th That he knew no other officers except those stated in the aforesaid declaration
6 th That he had a written discharge signed by Colonel Crawford - and has lost it
7 th That he knows Thomas Smith Post Master

Heiman Landon Esquire formerly a member of the Legislator and Paul Hathaway Esquire Justice of the Peace all respectable inhabitants residing in his immediate neighborhood and and who can testify to his character for truth and veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolutionary war
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares his that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any State
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year of onesaid before me Henry Weykroop one of the Judges of the County Court of the County of Ulster
N. Schenck

We James Mead and Michael Vandebogart residing in the town of Shandaken County of Ulster do certify that we are well acquainted with Abraham Mays who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration that we believe him to be eighty three years of age 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
Sworn and Subscribed before me
the 14 th day of May 1834
James Mead Michael Van Deboogart
Henry Wynkoop one of the Judges of the County Courts of the County of Ulster
And I the said Judge do hereby declare my opinion after investigating 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 I do further certify that James Mead and Robert Townsend residents of the town of Shandaken of said County of Ulster who have signed the preceding certificate are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to full credit And I do further certify the said above named applicant through bodily infirmity cannot attend court and that although he resides in the county of Greene in consequence of his location and the adjacent mountains his chief communication is with the inhabitants of the County of Ulster
Henry Wynkoop one of the Judges of the County Courts of the County of Ulster
And I do further certify that I have satisfactory evidence that no clergyman resides within the acquaintance of said applicant — Henry Wynkoop one of the Judges &c.

State of New York
Ulster County Clerks office Esq: I. Jacob Snyder Clerk of the County of Ulster and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Ulster do hereby Certify that Henry Wynkoop Esquire was on the day of the date of the foregoing annexed proceedings in the matter of the application of Abraham Mays for a pension One of the Judges of the County Court for the County of Ulster and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Judge and verily believe his signatures to the foregoing proceedings to be genuine—
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this eighteenth day of July 1831
Jacob Snyder Clerk

State of New York Ulster County
Robert Townsend of the town of Shandaken County of Ulster and State of New York aged Fifty Six years who being duly sworn upon oath, saith that he is well acquainted Abraham Mays of the town of Lexington County of Greene that he has been acquainted for about twenty years that he has had frequent conversation with him about the revolutionary war that he has often related his Military services in the western part of the United States under Col Crawford and other Officers the names he does not now recollect that he has often told of the battles or skirmishes with the Indians in said service and that he was wounded in one of those engagements with the Indians. And this deponent further says that previous to his acquaintance with the said Abraham Mays he was well acquainted with Jonathan Reynolds, William Dikins and Libius Mead (who are now dead) with whom he has frequently conversed about the revolutionary war and that they have often told deponent that the said Abraham Mays was a good soldier that they had served in the same corps for at least two years or more in the western part of Pennsylvania and Ohio under Colonel Crawford in the revolutionary war in which they had also been engaged for the same length of time under Col that deponent does not now recollect particularly the time the said war commenced but as near as deponent recollects they then told deponent they first volunteered about the commencement of the revolutionary war
And this deponent further says that the said Abraham Mays is a poor man but believes him to be a man of truth and veracity and his statements entitled to full credit
And this deponent further says that although

the said Mays does not reside in the same County with deponent yet the division line of the Counties of Greene & Ulster runs so near his house so that all his principle neighbors reside in the County of Ulster and but few in the County of Greene. And this deponent further says that he was informed that the said Mays had no living witness to prove his Military revolutionary services yet the general opinion of his neighborhood is that the said Mays was a revolutionary soldier and that he is deserving of the bounty of his Country and entitled to a pension and further saith not
Sworn and subscribed the 11 th day of May 1834 before me
Robert Townsend
Henry Weykoop one of the Judges of the County courts of the County of Ulster
State of New York
Ulster County
James Mead of the town of Shandaken County of Ulster and State of New York being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is 77 years of age that he is well acquainted with Abraham Mays of the County of Greene that he has been acquainted with him for several years and has had frequent conversation about the revolutionary war with the said Mays, that he has read the affidavit of Robert Townsend and fully concurs in the sentiments contained in said above affidavit and further saith
Sworn and subscribed before me the 11 th day of May 1834
James Mead
Henry Weykoop one of the Judges of the County courts of the County of Ulster
I do hereby certify that Robert Townsend and James Mead who have subscribed the above affidavits are credible witnesses and their statements entitled to full credit
Henry Weykoop one of the Judges of the County courts of the County of Ulster

State of New York
Ulster County Clerk's office ss: I Jacob Snyder Clerk of the County of Ulster and Clerk of the Court of Commonpleas of the County of Ulster do hereby certify that Henry Wynn Koop Esquire was, on the days of the dates of the two foregoing annexed affidavits of Robert Townsend and James Mead one of the Judges of the County Court for the County of Ulster duly authorised to take affidavits &c and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Judge and verily believe the signatures to the aforesaid two affidavits and Certificate to be genuine —
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this eighteenth day of July 1834 —
Jacob Snyder Clerk &c

Abraham Maye New York
Suspended
Per let 2 nd Ant. 1838 R. Hosford.
7068

New York Rev.
Abraham Mays Suspended
let to H. Wynn Koch Aug. 5. '34
7067

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 2, 1873.
REJECTED
7007.
P. O. _____
Abraham Hays
Service: _____
1834 Greene Co Ky age 89
May 1, 1875 Pittsburgh Pen ca Capt n Wright
Enlisted: Col n Grady _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

110. Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
7008
P. O.
Abraham Mauge
Service: Consolidated Oct 13 1882 with reg d 7.067
Enlisted: In riot , 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

34, 587 Abraham Mage New York
See Deeds Certificate on the other side W. W. Newman Esq
Reuben Hosford Esq Lexington Heights New York

Declaration
In Order to Obtain the Benefits of the Act of Congress passed June 4 th 1832 or  or other previous acts of Congress & the Marine State of New York
Green County Ss. On the Eighteenth day of November 1837 personally appeared before me Henry Gable Esquire one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Greene and State of New York. Abraham Maze , a resident of the Town of Lexington in the County of Green and State of New York aged Ninety three years old, who being first duly sworn according to Law on his oath  make  affidavit the following declaration. In order to obtain the Benefits of the act of Congress passed June 4 th 1832. And he says that on or about the first day of April in the year 1876, or 1877, He dare not say for certain which, but firmly believes that it was the year 1879. He Entered the Service of the United States, In the revolutionary War, under the following Officers, Hereafter named, and served as is hereafter stated, He swears that he Entered the Service at a place, the Name of which, He has entirely forgot, being a stranger from his native State Maryland, on a Disel to see some of his friends there, however it was a place on the Monongahela river, said to be fifteen Miles distance from Pittsburgh in the State of Pennsylvania, that He there solemnly vowed His Services for the time of one year and six months, In the Company commanded by Captain James Wright, In the Regiment commanded by Colonel Crawford, believes His Christian Name was William, Went from that place to a place called Fort McIntosh, and to a place called Fort Lawrence, on the Ohio or what is called the Allegany river there they were stationed to guard the frontiers and to

works and build there two forts, where we continued until my Eighteen Months Expired, Colonel McIntosh was there at the time, and there was also a Colonel Simson then the Surgeon of our Regiment, Name was called, Doctor Knight, that there continued to do duty in said Company, and Regiment, until some of the first days of October, in one of the aforesaid years, of 1780 or 1779, which depends on the year that I commenced my services, when I was Honourably discharged at fort McIntosh, by a written discharge, from my Colonel, Crawford, which I have lost many years ago. And I further swears that on the first or some of the first days, in April in the year next year after I ended my Eighteen Months Service, and received my discharge from Colonel Crawford, I again Entered the same Service, at the same place, as before, on the Monongahela River, Volunteered my services for Six Months, under Colonel Crawford, there was a Company raised of something like forty Men, and Colonel Crawford Himself took the Command of them, as Captain, only for the purpose of guarding the frontiers against the ravages and Barbarities of the Indians on the defences Inhabitants, of men, Women, and Children, and Colonel Crawford immediately marched on from place to place, on the Monongahela River, and on the Allegheny River, then called Ohio, was continually on the Alert from place to place, wherever we heard of the Enemy, making their appearance, and during this Six Months Summer Campaign, we

Went to a place Called Muskingum, If he Des Not Not mention, In the Name, that during this Six Months Campaign, we Were In Many Skirmishes with the Indians, In one of these Skirmishes I had a shot In my right arm, and broke the bone In two. We Were In No great Battles, and at the Expiration of the time of Six Months from the time I Commenced We returned to the place from whence We first Marched, When Colonel Crawford, discharged us With His Many thanks, for our Soldier Like Service, this was on some of the first days, In October In the Same Year, and he further Says that Soon after his Six Months Service Ended, he went from there to a place Called McClellan Town, In Maryland State His birth place from there he Came to the State of New York Into the County Called Butcher New Brunswick County In the Town of Cannal And there he again Entered the Service, was drafted for the time of Six Months on the first day of April If he remembers right, In the Year 1781, In the Company the Capt ains Name he Has forgot, went to a place Called the fish kill on the North River, and as he was a Black Smith and Gun Smith by trade, he was taken out of the Company and put Into the Blacksmiths or Gunsmiths Shop, to mend and repair Guns Gun Socks, and other work for the army, and on or about the first of the October after he was discharged at fishkill with the rest of the Com pany, And he further Swears that he faithfully Served In the Service of the United States, In the Revolutionary War, Two Years and Six Months for which he Claims a pension, And he further Says that He Has no documentary

Evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony He can procure, who can testify to his services, and that He relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity Except the present, and he further declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State, And he further Says that the reason that he has not sooner made his Application to the board of War for a pension was this that soon after the first Law of Congress establishing pensions and Since the Enlistment I have often in my life been described by age now more than ninety three years old, walked over good more than twelve miles, to Council with His Honour Harry Forlee Esquire and Reuben Hosford Esq about getting my pension, they both informed me that from my statement no soldier in America was better entitled to a pension than I was but said that I must try to procure some testimony of my services, and if I could not then make my application and each of them promised promised to assist me, I then informed them that I might as well give up the thing of getting a pension, as I was a perfect stranger, where I did the service, and perhaps no person living would remember me in that distant country and where all the troops were strangers to me, Still during this lengthy time since the first act of Congress I have taken all the pains that a poor old man like me could to procure testimony but cannot find any, but I have been informed that my old Colonel Crawford has since been burned, or killed, by the Indians, And I do further beg and pray that the Honourable Commission may believe that I have spoken the truth in this my statement and send me a pension as soon as may be consistent, and he further says that in consequence

of his advanced age and bodily infirmity. His memory Is not good as it once was that he has stated the times of his entering and being discharged from service to the King best of his recollection and belief. Says that he may be mistaken in the exact times of entering and ending his services but he says that as to the length of the times that he served and the places that he served at and the officers that he has stated that he served under that is not mistaken In any particular. And to close I do further repeat and say that I faithfully served two years and six months In the service of the United States in the revolutionary war Sworn and subscribed this 18 th day of November 1837 before me — Abraham Mays Henry Cooke a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas In and for the County of Green State of New York
In view of a Resignation Certificate, the affavids of others, have been taken to supply this place — State of New York
Green County ss We, Adam S. Sagendorph and Andrew S. Steele Sagendorph and Andrew Cole, have long lived Neighbors to the Western Village of the Town of Lexington In the County of Green and State of New York, being duly sworn according to Law on their several oaths depose and say, that we are well acquainted with one Abrahm Mays, who is now about making his application to the Board of War for a pension, We do say that the said Abrahm Mays Is a man of truth and sincerity, as we have always been informed and as we believe, and We do further say that we do sincerely believe that he is now ninety four years old, and that he is

Reported and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and that we do severally concur in that Opinion, and we do further State that the Said Abrahame Maze Since In a very remote corner of the Town of Jessington a number of miles from where any settled Minister or Clergyman lives, something like twelve miles from Jessington Heights, and that he is a very Old man and is not much abroad and not acquainted with the Clergymen of the place.
Thomas Sargent Esq.
Andrew Sargent Esq.
Andrew Cole
Sworn and subscribed this
21 st day of December 1837
Before Mr Henry Goshorn
Judge as aforesaid.
Interrogatories of the Judge
Question 1 st Where and In what year were you born and have you any record of your age If so when it is.
Answer I was born In the year 1744 as I believe I have no record of my age, I was born In a place Called Mt. Chobite Town In the State of Maryland
Question 2 nd When were you living When Called Into Service Where have you lived since the Revolutionary War and Where do you now live.
Answer When I first Entered the Service I was on a visit to some of my friends living not far from Pittsburgh, I Enlisted at a place something like fifteen miles from Pittsburgh on the Monongahela River the name I have forgot. After my two years Service Expired I Came Into the Town of Carmel In the then County of Butcher now In County of Putnam where I performed my part six months. I went a visit to Jessington where I have

Served many years and Where I now live, Green County State New York,
Question 4 th How were you Called Into Service were you drafted did you Volunteer or Were you a Substitute and If a Substitute for Whoom?
Answer my first and Second Powers I Volunteered by Enlistment the last six months I was drafted.
Question 5 th State Some of the names of the Regular Officers who were With the troops, Where you Served Such as Continentals and Militia Regiments as you can recollect and the General Circumstances of your Service.
Answer I do not remember any other officers, but Colonel Crawford, my Colonel Captain James Wright my Captain, there was a General or Colonel McIntosh and there was a person called Colonel Hinson there, our Surgeons name was Called Doctor Knight our business there was building these forts and guarding the frontiers.
Question 6 th did you ever receive any discharge from the service and If so by Whoom was they given and What has become of them Answer at the close of my two first Powers of duty I received a written discharge from Colonel Crawford my last six months - Power at Liberty I was discharged by my Officers when my time expired.
Question 7 th State the names of persons to Whoom you are known In your present neighbourhood who can testify to your character for truth and veracity and their belief of your services as a Soldier of the Revolution.
Answer I am well acquainted with

Certificate of the Judge
I the said Henry Gouke Judge as aforesaid do declare that my opinion was 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 I do further state that those persons who have sworn to his character and belief of his services in view of the clergymen are men of respectability truth and veracity, and I do further certify that the applicant lives a number of miles from a clergymen and believes no one of them are acquainted with him as he is an old man and lives at the most extreme part of the town of Jessington he is not often seen by the clergymen, I do further certify that I have known old Mr. Abraham Maye the applicant for a number of years do consider him an old gentleman of truth and veracity and entitled to full credit as a witness under oath or otherwise. And I do further certify that the said applicant in my opinion is through bodily infirmity cannot attend court and I do further certify that it is my belief and the general belief of his neighbours when he resides that the said applicant served in the Revolutionary War as he states and I do further certify that when I put the interrogatories to the applicant he was under oath administered by me
Henry Gouke Judge as aforesaid
I do certify that I am acquainted with those persons who have subscribed their names and swore to the affidavits on the other side of the paper will know them to be persons of truth and veracity and will entitled to credit as witnesses under oath or otherwise -
Henry Gouke Judge as aforesaid

State of New York Greene County ss
I William T. D. Herrmance Clerk of the said County do certify that Henry G. Lee Esq. before whom the foregoing documents were sworn, was at the date of the same one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County & that his signature to said documents is genuine.
Witness my hand and official seal this Eleventh day of April 1838
William T. D. Herrmance Clerk