Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44216, Zenas Wyllys, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
or Wullys, Zenas Willis
S. 44216
CONTENTS

8740 / New York Roll.
Zenas Willis,
of Hoosick in the state of N. Hk. who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Sergeants of the Massachusetts line, for the term of one year.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 10. of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1. of April 1819 and sent to Joseph Dorr, Esq. Hoosick, New York.
Arrears to 4th of March 1819... 86. 63 Semi-anl. all'ce ending Sept. 4. 1819.. 48. " Am d 10 m s 21/30-4/31. $134.63
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued on the Roll Under the Act 1 May 1820
Notification sent to Mr. Marcy Esq. 28 June 1820.
Troy New York

State of New York } On this 10th day of April 1818 before me the subscriber Rensselaer County } one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the } County of Rensselaer personally appears Zenas Willis 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 he the said Zenas Willis is a resident of the Town of Hoosick and County of Rensselaer that he enlisted in the State of Massachusetts in January 1776 on Bunker Hill near Boston in the company commanded by Captain James Perry in Colonel Paul Dudley Sergeant's Regiment for the term of one year and marched to New London from thence by water to New York and continued to serve in the said corps the full term of his enlistment and six weeks over and then received a written discharge which he has lost, and further that while in said service in removing timber to erect a breast-work at White Plains his exertions caused a breach in the lower part of the Abdomen from which he has not recovered, 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.
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid.
I Joseph Dorr one of the judges as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Zenas Willis did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the aforesaid act of Congress —
Joseph Dorr
I Do hereby Certify that in my Opinion Zenas Willis the above named applicant in Reduced Circumstances and that he stands in need of his Country Assistance for support
Joseph Dorr Judge

Zenas Willis
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State of New York } Newpels County } ss. I certify that Joseph Dorr Esquire whose signature is affixed to the within dec- laration was on the tenth Day of April last past. One of the Judges of the Court of common Pleas of said County in full Witness Whereof I have here unto set my name and affixed the seal of said Court this 27 th Day of May, 1848
Joseph D Selden Clerk

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampshire ss. I Josiah Dwight Clerk of the Superior Judicial Court in the County of Hampshire certify that Ezra Stockwell the Orgain is a Justice of the peace in & for said County & that his signature to the within Certificate is his proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name & affix the seal of said Court this sixteenth day February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & nineteen —
Josiah Dwight

I Timothy Meark of Worthington in the County of Hampshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful Age testify and say that in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy five I was personally acquainted with Lucas Willys then of Worthington and now of Dutch Hosack in the State of New York; and that in the month of September following 1776 I joined the American Army in West Chester and there saw the said Lucas Willys who was serving as a soldier, but in what company, or regiment I do not now recollect; and I have no interest in his obtaining the pension for which he has applied & to which this deposition alludes — And further the deponent saith not
Timothy Meark
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampshire ss. February 16 th 1819. Then personally appeared Timothy Meark and made solemn Oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed Before me Ezra Harkness Justice of peace
And I hereby certify that the testimony of the above Deponent is in my opinion entitled to full credit. — Ezra Harkness Justice of peace Febry 16 th 1819.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire ss. I Josiah Dwight Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court in the County of Hampshire certify that Ezra Storer Storer Esquire is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County & that his signature to the within Certificate is his proper hand writing —
In testimony whereof hereunto set my hand & affix the seal of said Court this sixteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one Thousand eight Hundred & nineteen —
Josiah Dwight

I Newcom Cleveland of Worthington in the County of Hampshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age testify, and say - That in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred & seventy five I was personally acquainted with Linus Willy then of Worthington aforesaid, and now of Dutch Hoosack in the State of New York; and that in the month of December in the year aforesaid he set off for Easton in the Commonwealth aforesaid, the place of his nativity, with a view, as he said, to enlist into the Army of the United States - And I further testify that in the month of September following 1776 I joined the American Army, in West Chester, where & where I saw and conversed with the said Willy, who was then a soldier in Capt. James Ferry's Company in the Regiment commanded by David Dudley Sergeant; and in the month of February then next 1777 he returned to Worthington aforesaid, and I have ever since been acquainted with him, and I have no interest in his obtaining the pension for which he has applied & to which this deposition alludes - And further the Deponent saith not. -
Newcom Cleveland
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire ss - February 16 th 1819 Then personally appeared Newcom Cleveland and made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed
Before me Ezra Starkweather Justice of Peace
And I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Newcom Cleveland the above Deponent and that full credit is in my opinion to be given to his testimony
Ezra Starkweather Justice of Peace
Feby 16 th 1819.

Thomas Wyllie's Duberation
Continued
8740
10p 1819

State of New York.
City of Troy in the County of Rensselaer ss
In the Court of Common Pleas called the Mayors Court in and for the City of Troy
On this Sixth day of June 1820 personally appeared in open court, (being a court of record in and for the said City of Troy in the County of Rensselaer according to the solemn adjudications of the Supreme Court of this state, and being a court which proceeds according to the course of common law; with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount; keeping a record of its proceedings; and possessing the power of fine and imprisonment) Donas Mylly aged Sixty Four years, resident in the Town of Hoosick in said County who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the revolutionary war as follows:— from 1776 to 1777 a period of 13 1/2 Months in a Regiment in the Massachusetts line commanded by Col. Sargeants and in a Company commanded by Capt. James Perry—The Original duration for a pension was dated about the Tenth day of April 1810 and the Number of my pension certificate 8740
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 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,
Sworn to and declared on the Sixth day of June 1820 in open court
Joseph D. Selden Clerk
Donas Mylly
State of New York, City of Troy in the County of Rensselaer ss
I, Joseph D. Selden called the Mayors Court
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas
do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath & affidavit 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 property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is Seventy dollars and Seventy Eight cents. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this Sixth day of June 1820
Joseph D. Selden Clerk.

A schedule of the personal & Real property necessary bearing & clothing excepted of Thomas Mylllys a pensioner of the United States
Real property none
Personal property
  2 Swine 0.00   1 Old horse aged 21 years 0.00   1 Sheep 1.00   1 Yearling 5.00   1 plough 3.00   1 harrow 2.50   1 hoe 0.37 1/2   1 axe 1.50   1 shovel 1.00   1 Old crosscut Saw 1 Handsaw 3.00   1 Shaving knife 1.00   1 Scrowel 0.50   1 Old Waggon 10.00   1 chain 2.00   1 Old Shigh 4.00   1 shovel & Spoons 1.00   1 Loomen Wheel & wool in wheel 2.00   3 knives & forks & 6 spoons 0.62 1/2   3 Bath tub plates 0.25   6 Old chains 0.50   1 Old chest 0.50   1 Old pan of hand Spoons 0.25   1 Glass Tumbler 0.08   4 Scabufs & Samars 0.25   2 Iron pots & 1 Tea kettle 3.25   1 Buft one pork Barrel with 1 lot of pork 7.00   1 Ceyth & Sable 1.00   1 Old saddle $ 2.00 70-58 3/4 
I am a Labourer unable to get a living in consequence of a break and pain in my breast I have a Wife sixty five years Old in May last named Katy in a weakly state & unable to work One Daughter named Betty aged Eight & twenty not enjoying a good state of health has a cough and inclined to the consumption — I do solemnly swear that the property in the above schedule is estimated at its true value according to the best of my knowledge & judgment —
Sworn this 6 th day of June 1820 in Open Court
Thomas Mylllys
Joseph Dildin Clerk

44 216 INVALID. Rey
File No. 44 216
Zenas Willis P. Rev. Day
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 3, Page 570
[Arrangement of 1870.]

General Willie Maxwell
Name of Soldier not furnished 44.216
Sumner after Nov 18th. Washington
J. E. Duer as Ag.
Ans. Oct. 1, 1832

Mechanics & Farmers Bank
Albany Sep 25 1832
J L Edwards Esq Sir
Payment of the enclosed pension is suspended because the letter of attorney does not contain an express power of substitution Believing the objection not to be a valid one I appeal to your decision
I have the honor to be
Yrs Atty
Geo. W. Abbott