Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42,833, for Joseph Leavens, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental
Leavens, Joseph
S 42,833
(regt raised in Mass)
N.Y. res. after war.
CONTENTS

15 590 New York R
Joseph Seavens of Chester in the state of New York who was a private in the regiment commanded by colonel Patterson of the Massachusetts line, for the term of one year
scribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 5 th of June 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 th of Oct r 1819 and sent to J. Bell Esq r Albany New York
  Arrears to 4th of Sep r 1819 -  $ 120 -    Semi-ann. all ce ending Sept r 1820  48.    15 mo -  $ 168 -  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
the line
1818 to 1820
Chester N. Y.

No of My Certificate 15 5/90
Joseph Lawrence
15.5/90
Comptroller
1820
[Signature]
Gloucester
Chas. Fox
2 o Mr 1890

State of New York } Warren County } ss
Schedule
On this twelfth day of September 1820 personally appeared in Open Court Being a Court of Record for the said County which proceeds according to the course of Common Law with Jurisdiction unlimited in Point of amount and keeping a Record of its proceedings and possessing power of fine and Imprisonment. Joseph Leavens Aged Sixty three years Resident in Chester in said County who being duly sworn according to Law took on his Oath Declared that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows I enlisted and joined the army in the month of January 1776 in Captain Samuel Hoans Company Colonel John Pattersons Regiment in the Massachusetts Line and served in said Company until January 1777 when my time enlisted for was out and at the Generals Request I volunteered to continue in service six weeks longer at the at Morristown end of that time I was discharged with the Generals thanks was in the Battle of Trenton & Princeton And I solemnly swear that I was a Resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 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 to diminish it as to bring myself within the provision 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 18 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

STATE OF NEW-YORK, WARREN COUNTY, ss.
Joseph Leavitt
I, SETH C. BALDWIN, Junior, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, Do hereby Certify, that the foregoing Oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court, by order of the 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 ninety two — Dollars one one — Cents—And also, that this is the first Court of record held in and for said County, at which this application could have been made, since the knowledge of the Act of Congress of the 1st of May, 1820.—IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twelfth day of September 1820.
Seth C. Baldwin Clerk.

Annexed and by me subscribed
I have no Real Property Nor no trade - I live in a Poor Log House and have a small Possession of about 10 or 11 Acres of Improvement
  2 Cows $26.00  1 Spinning Wheel - $1.00  2 Earthen Platters -    2 Yearlings $12.00  2 flat Irons - .50  7 do Plates 3 Powder do    1 Hog & 3 Pigs - $8.00  1 fine shovel & tongs - 1.00  3 do Bowls & Spoons    1 ax 1 Cythe $2.00  2 Iron Pots 1 Kettle - 1.50  1 Tea Pot 4 Cups & Saucers    2 Hay Rakes - $4.20  1 Bake Kettle 1 Bason - 1.00  6 knives & 3 forks    2 do forks - 1.00  1 tea Kettle 1 frying Pan - .50  3 Earthen Milk Pans    2 Hoes - .75  1 Churn 2 Pails -  5 Kitchen Churn Stable    1 Barrel - .50  1 Old Brass Kettle -     Amount in the whole $92.01. with which is mentioned below
1 Old Broken Desk 1 Trunk & Box which is all of any of any value
I Have a Bible & Prayer Book and a few old Books of Little value I have Eight Dollars Due to me No Money I have also Hay for my Cattle and about 2 Sacks of Indian Corn and No other Grain I am in a poor state of Health and not able to do but little else My wife is 47 years old in a Poor state of Health Not able to do but little
Elizabeth I is 18 years old Lives at Home part of the time Maria is 14 years old John I is 9 years old Nathan 7 years old Leander 4 years old which Live at Home with me my pension certificate is numbered 15590 - and is dated October 29th 1819 - application was made under the pension act in the said county of Warren, on the 5th day of June 1818. by the certificate I am entitled to draw at the rate of eight dollars per month and have drawn in full to the 4th of March 1820
Subscribed & sworn to this 12th day of September 1820 in open court
Sign? Joseph Leavens
With Balchwick Clerk

Joseph Leavens, first Colonel. Patterson's Regt Majst June 1776 - 1 year
The applicant must prove by 2 Credible & disinterested persons in the opinion of the Judges that he served in the Army of the Revolution, as stated in his declaration (on)
Petition to J. Bell Albany N.Y.

DECLARATION.
State of New-York. } ss.
ALBANY COUNTY.
PURSUANT to an Act of the Congress of the United States of America, passed March 18th, 1818, to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the said United States, in the Revolutionary War, I
Joseph Leavens aged 61. of the Town of Castleton in the County of Warren and State of New-York aforesaid, DO HEREBY make the following solemn Declara-
tion under oath, before the Hon. William Robards Esquire, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of Warren and State aforesaid, in the terms following, to wit:—I do solemnly and sincerely swear and declare, that I am a resident Citizen of the said United States, to wit, in the town, county and state aforesaid; and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life, I am in need of assistance from my country for support. I do further declare, that I served in the War of the Revolution, against the common Enemy, in the capacity of a Private and that I served in the said War until the term of one year
that I belonged to Captain Samuel Stevens Company, in Colonel John  Watterson's Regiment, in the Massachusetts line—That I entered the, said service on or about the first of January in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six one
and was discharged on the twelfth of February  that I left the said service by reason of an honorable discharge at the close of my enlistment. I was in the battles at Trenton & Princeton in 1776. I enlisted for one year and served faithfully at New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, and the Northwest Territory. I am not worth fifty dollars.
And I do further declare, that in addition to my former Declaration, and pursuant to the restrictions of the aforesaid Act, I do hereby freely relinquish every claim I have to any and every Pension which might or has been allowed me by the said United States. in pursuance of this act.
IN WITNESS whereof, I have subscribed this Declaration, in presence of the Judge above mentioned, at Castleton in the State of New-York, this 5th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
I swear this 5th Day of June 1818 Joseph Leavens before the Robards first Judge of Warren Common Pleas
Judge's Certificate.
State of New-York. } ss.
CITY AND COUNTY OF ALBANY.
William Robards Esquire, a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Warren and State of New-York, (the said Court being a Court of Record within the said State) do hereby CERTIFY , to the Honorable the Secretary of War of the United States, agreeably to the provisions of an Act of the Congress of the said United States, passed March 18th, 1818, 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 Joseph Leavens
named in the foregoing Declaration, personally appeared before me the said Judge, on this fifth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen,

and in my presence subscribed the same Declaration; and at the same time, in due form of law, took an Oath before me, on the holy evangelists of Almighty God, that the said Declaration was true—And I having examined the said Joseph Lawrence touching the matters in the said Declaration contained, and having also taken the Deposition of the said Samuel H. Lawrence — which accompanies this Certificate and the said Declaration, and being satisfied that the facts stated therein are true, and the only evidence in the power of the said Joseph Lawrence to produce, I do further Certify, that it appears to my entire satisfaction, that the said Joseph did actually serve in the Revolutionary War aforesaid, against the common Enemy, in the manner and for the time by him stated in his said Declaration, and that the said Declaration is in other respects true. All which said proceedings had before me, and the testimony produced in the case, I do certify and transmit to the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War, according to the direction of the Act of Congress aforesaid.
IN TESTIMONY whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed my Seal , at Caldwell in the State of New-York, this 10th  5th day of June — in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
W. H. ROBERTS, first State of New-York  Judge of Common Pleas Warren County. Clerk's Office
I hereby certify that William Roberts the signa- ture instruments is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Warren and that the signatures appear to be in his own proper hand writing in witness whereof I have signed my name and affixed the Seal of said Court the 5 th day of June 1818
Myren Brach  Clerk

Warren County ss Affidavit
Samuel H. Landan being duly affirmed saith that he has been personally and intimately acquainted for a number of years with Joseph Leavens who signed the foregoing declaration that he considers him a man of truth in very low circumstances and one who ought to have assistance from his country in his old age and further the deponent saith that - Samuel H. Landan Affirmed this 5th Day of June 1818 before Me W. Hobart first Judge of Warren Commonwealth.
Judges Certificate
I hereby certify to the hon Sec. of the dept of War that from positive from Satisfactory evidence that the aforesaid Joseph Leavens is in Indigent Circumstances and that the act of Government for his support therefore I have examined all the evidence and declarations I have stated 5th June 1818 W. Hobart first Judge of Warren Commonwealth

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January 5, 1927
Mrs. Fred J. Strain Shelby, Nebr.
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 42833 it appears that Joseph Leavens was born January 12, 1757, place not stated.
He enlisted, place not stated, January 1, 1776, served twelve months and six weeks in Captain Samuel Sloan's Company, Colonel John Patterson's Massachusetts Regiment and was in the battles of Trenton and Princeton.
He was allowed pension on his application executed June 5, 1818 while a resident of Chester, Warren County, New York.
In 1820 he stated that his wife, name not given, was aged forty-seven years, and named the following persons who were living with him, but did not give relationship, .... Elizabeth, J., Mana, John J., Athan? or Allian? (not clearly written), and Leander, aged eighteen, fourteen, nine, seven, and four years respectively.
The above noted is the only soldier by that name found

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on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau(all spellings of that surname searched.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.

Return to J. B. D. Albany, N.Y.

I Henry Green of Williamstown County of Berkshire Do Testify that Joseph Leavens was an Enlisted Soldier in Cap Samuel Hoans Company Colonel John Pattersons Regiment in the Massachusetts Line the year One Thousand Seven Hundred & seventy six & that he servd one year faithfully I being in the same Company & Regiment & I have Been Personally & Intimately Acquainted with him Ever since and know him to be the same Joseph Leavens that served as above described I have Ever found
Him a man of Truth & Veracity in Williamstown April 10 th 1889 then personally appeared Henry Green the signer of this Affirmation, and made oath that the above is true according to the best of his knowledge Before me Nathan Phelps justice of the peace
Henry Green
I David Johnson an Ensign in the above described Regiment & Company Enlisted the above named Joseph Leavens and that he served faithfully a Continental Soldier One year was never to my knowledge absent from his duty a single hour & have been Acquainted with him Ever since & believe him to be a man of Truth and
Veracity in Williamstown April 10 th 1889 then personally appeared the above named David Johnson and made oath that the above is true according to the best of his knowledge & belief Nathan Phelps Before me Nathan Phelps justice of the peace
David Johnson

old base of Joseph Leavitt map — Washington City Md. 1851
Dear Washington.

Albany Oct 18 th D r
Rever. the within applicant is extremely poor. I am informed by Mr. Samuel Kake, one of our first ministers here, that he has labored for him a number of years. Says that he is an honest, faithful upright man, entitled to full credit - and in very low cir- cumstances. Yours &c.
J. Bell

Shelby, Nebraska.
November, 5, 1926.
Dept of Interior, Bureau of Pensions, Revolutionary War Records Section. Washington, D.C.
Dear Sirs.
Can you verify the War Record of Joseph Levins or Leavens ? Taken from The Leavens Name, compiled by Philo French Leavens, printed by Passaic Daily News, Passaic New Jersey, 1803.
As it reads:- There were levies enlisted for short terms in the 3rd regiment 1779-1780. Among them served Levins (later spelled Leavens) Joseph . July 15 '80 to Dec 12 '80. This regiment was with the main army on the Hudson during the campaign of 1780 and wintered 80-81, at Connecticut village.
Taken from Massachusetts Records: Levins, Joseph, Private, Capt. Israel Harris's Co. Col Benjamin Symonds's (Berkshire Co.) Regt; enlisted Oct 12, 1780; discharged Oct 15, 1780; service 6 days, including 7 days (60 miles) travel home; company marched to northern frontier by order of Gen Fellows on alarm.
Also: Lieut. Alexander Sloans detachment from Capt. Samuel Clarkes Co. Col. Barnes Regt; enlisted Oct 22, 1781, discharged Nov. 2, 1781; service 12 days; detachment marched from Berkshire Co. to Northern Frontier.
Also: Enlisted man, Joseph Leavens, in the "Dutchess County Militia". Fifth regiment, entitled to "Land Bounty."
The man belonged to the Orthodox Quakers and was a minister of that Society forty years.
These are the records as we have them, can they be officially verified? I would appreciate any information you could give me.
Yours truly,
Mrs. Fred G. Strain Shelby, Nebr.

1927 Jan 3 - List to Mabel J. Elaine - MNST
42833
INVALID.
Rev
File No. 42,833
Joseph Leavens His Rev Iss
Act: 15 March 15
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 292
[Arrangement of 1870.]