Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30513, for Jedediah Joy, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Joy, Jedediah
S. 30513
CONTENTS

15005 Massachusetts Isaaciah Goy
as Amg in the State of Mass who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Lapham of the Regt. commanded by Col Jackson in the War time for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 th day of May 1833 and sent to Y. G. Town Plymouth Mass.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $160.00 Semest. allowance ending 4 Sept. 40.00 $200.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by H. D. Addison , Clerk, Book E Vol. 2 d Page 38
80 Plymo

11072 Incident Log -
Private 2 yrs
J. H. Lord Esq. Weymouth. Mass

BRIEF in the case of  Isaac Log  of  Winstone  in the State of  Ala  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Gen Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 78 years  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     Column In 1775- 8 Private Gen. Lord Loftham Col. Jackson   1776 8 " Col. H. H. H.   Spring 1777- 2 " Col. Chambers   July 1777 3 28 " Col. Wood   July 1778 6 " Col. Beal  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? None  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Hughson Alab.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? By living witnesses  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?  Papers not attached as required 
X  Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Richard Gantt  Examining Clerk.

Federal Toy
Evidence To Clerk's certif. of baptism Edmund Hobart's deposition Mary Beal's deposition with documents Canterbury Barnes's depo:
Massachusetts Nov 72

he enlisted in a Company in Boston commanded by - Chauncy - a sergeant in the Company was named - Caboose. In this Company this applicant served eight months according to his best recollection - he does not now recollect the names of any of the men - The Company was employed in guarding the Prison Ships then lying in Boston Harbour. At the expiration of the term he was discharged. He now recollects that Jedediah Beals late of said Hingham now deceased, was a private in said Company -
In July seventeen hundred Seventy seven, he resid- ed in Rutland in this Commonwealth in the family of Joseph Blake Esq. - His son John Blake was drafted and this Ap- plicant went as his Substitute to Stillwater and Ben- nington in a Company commanded by Capt Woods. Do- not recollect to what Regiment the Company belonged not the name of the Commander of the Regiment. A Capt Stone commanded one of the other Companies. Was pre- sent and on guard at Saratoga on the day Burgoyne surrendered. A few days before the surrender Genl hin- coln was wounded in the leg. In the two actions with Burgoyne of the 17 September & 7 October 1777 this appli- cant was on guard. Jeremiah Ripley, John Lincoln and - Sanford late all of said Hingham know all closed were on guard with this applicant. The whole time of this service did not exceed sixteen weeks. The time the Company was discharged he does not recollect but it was not till after the surrender of Burgoyne.
In July seventeen hundred Seventy eight this ap- plicant again enlisted in Boston in a Company Com- manded by Benjamin Beal of Hingham for six months. It was employed in guarding the town, the military stores
and Gaol - It barracked on Fort Hill. Of the members of this Company this applicant recollects Joshua Stow- " " " " " and Joseph Jones all of said

It was incorporated in January.
and Genl. It barracks in Fort Hill. of the members of this Company his applicants recollects Joshua Stone, Joseph Hubbard and Joseph Jones all speak Hingham and now dead. Capt: Beal is also dead. At the expiration of the term the Company was disbanded & this deft Applicant returned home.
He has no written discharges. Whether he ever had any he cannot now recollect. All his papers were lost in a fire which consumed the Alms house in said Hingham the last winter of which he was an inmate.
The precise time of his birth he cannot state but from a copy from the diary of the late Dea. Gay minister of the parish in Hingham to which he belonged, it appears he was baptized the sixth day of January seventeen hundred & fifty four - He was personally known to the late Genl. Benjamin Lincoln deceased.
  Terms of Service -  He was known by Col. Nathan Rice    1 st - - - -  8 mo of Major Hodijah Brayley formerly    2 - - - -  8 - aids to the General. He was born    3 - - - -  8 in Hingham & has always resided    4 - - - -  4 still resides there -    5 - - - -  6  
as additional evidence of his service under the Command of Capt. Beal he begs leave to refer to a list of the Company under date 28 July 1778 & a pay abstract of the same Company for the

month of August in the same year, on both of which his name is borne, and which lists and abstracts are verified by the affidavits of Benjamin Deal, son of the late Capt. Neal - hereunto annexed
With respect to his services at Bunkerhill as a Sub- stitute for John Blake, he has no traditional or do- cumentary evidence to offer - The said Joseph Blake Esq., John Blake and every member of that family who was then old enough to remember any of the events of that period being dead; nor is there to his knowledge any person living who was with him in that expedition -
His service of eight months at Nantasket under Capt. Hanson he trusts is fully established by the testimony of Edmund H. Good & Cantu- bury Barnes whose depositions are hereto annexed -
Isaac H. Jay mark
Witnesseth my hand
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Attest Jacob H. Lord
Register

REVOLUTIONARY PENSIONERS.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
COUNTY OF PLYMOUTH, ss.
ON this thirtieth day of August 1832, personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Probate now sitting at Hingham within and for said County of Plymouth, Jedediah Joy a resident of Hingham in said County of Plymouth, and Common- wealth of Massachusetts, aged Seventy eight 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 Congress passed June 7, 1832. He hereby relinquis- hes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State. That is to say, that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. —
In the autumn of the year seven- teen hundred and seventy five he enlisted for eight months as a private in a Company of Infantry in Hingham aforesaid Commanded by John Lapham in the Regiment Com- manded by Col. Jackson. He marched to Cambridge said duty there the whole term when the Company was dis- charged he returned home. On the day of the battle of Bunker Hill he was on guard at Cambridge aforesaid. In the year seventeen hundred and seventy six the precise time of the year he cannot recollect, he enlisted in Heng- ham aforesaid in a Company Commanded by Seth Howes - was stationed with said Company in Nantasket and did military duty there eight months in the course of that time was employed in building the fort there. Command- ers of the said Company both of said Hingham were man- bers of the said Company, Joseph Wilder was a Sergeant, and Nathaniel Nichols was a Lieutenant. While there a British Ship & Brig were fired upon from the fort. The rebels were taken back to Boston. At the expiration of the term of enlistment the Company was disbanded & he returned to Hingham. In the Spring of seventeen hundred seventy seven

We, Charles Brooks a clergyman, residing in the town of Hughes and Martin Lincoln Esq residing in the said town hereby certify, that we are well ac- quainted with Isediah Joy who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy eight years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion. Chas. Brooks.
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Martin Lincoln Attest Jacob H. Lord Register
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Charles Brooks who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the town of Hughes and that Martin Lincoln Esq who has also signed the same, is a resident in the same town and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
By the Court, Attest Jacob H. Lord Register
I, Jacob H. Lord Register of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Isediah Joy for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this thirteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two .
Jacob H. Lord

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth ss. I Jacob H. Lord Register of the Court of Probate for said County being a Court of Record do hereby certify that Ebenezer Gay Esq before whom this & the annexed affidavits were made is a Justice of the Peace in & for the County aforesaid & that I believe his name subscribed to the same are true & genuine signatures.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the Seal of said Court this twenty sixth day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty two.
Jacob H. Lord

Jedidiah, Son of Jedidiah Joy, baptized by Doctor Gay January 6. 1754.
I certify the above to be a true copy from said: Gay's records -
James S. Lewis. Town Clerk.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth ss: August 27. 1832
Then personally appeared before me the Subscriber, the above named James S. Lewis, Town Clerk of Hingham, and made solemn oath that the preceding memorandum is taken from a record of births, deaths & marriages kept by the late Rev. d Ebenezer Gay, who was then Minister of the Congregational Society in Hingham & that he verily believes it to re- fer to Jedidiah Joy of said Hingham who is an applicant for a pension for military revolutionary service under the act of the United States passed in June last - And I hereby certify that I personally know the said James S. Lewis & that he is a man of truth
Ebenezer Gay Jas: Pease

I Benjamin Beal of Hingham in the county of Plymouth and Com- monwealth of Massachusetts testify and say that the papers hereto annexed, One purporting to be a list of men in a Company commanded by my late father Benjamin Beal deceased, in July in the year seventeen hundred seventy eight and the other "a pay Abstract" of the said Company in August of the same year, on both of which the name of Jedediah Jay is borne, were found by me among the papers of my said late father the said Benja- min Beal deceased, who was a Cap- tain in the service in the war of the Revolution I that I believe them to be genuine papers
Benjamin Beal
Plymouth ss. 22 August 1832 Then the above named Benjamin Beal personally ap- peared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace for said county & made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed. And thereby certify that said Deponent is perso- nally known to me, is a creditable person that his testimony aforesaid is entitled to full credit
Abel Gay Jus: Peace

I Canterbury Barnes of Kingham aforesaid in the seventy third year of my age, testify and say that Jedediah Joy of said Kingham was a soldier in the revolutionary army - that he was a private in a Company Command- ed by Seth Stowers in the year seven- teen hundred & seventy six, which was stationed in Charleston at the entrance of Boston harbour - How long said Joy served in said Company I do recollect, but the enlistments were for eight months.
21 Aug 1872
Canterbury Barnes
Plymouth ss: 2 August 1872 Then the above named Canterbury Barnes per- sonally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace for said County & made solemn oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is true - And I the said Justice hereby certify that the said Canterbury Barnes is personally known to me - that he is a creditable person & that his testimony aforesaid is entitled to full credit
Wm Gray, Jus: Peace

I Edmund Hoback of Hingham afore- said in the twenty eighth year of my age, testify and say that Jedidiah Coy of said Hingham was a private in the Company Commanded by Seth Stoney stationed at Nantasket from early in the Spring of the year seventeen hundred & twenty five for the term of eight or nine months I did military duty in said Company the whole of that time - I was a sergeant in said Company at the same time
Edmund Hoback
Plymouth ss 21 August 1892
Then personally appeared before me the Sub- scribed one of the Justices of the Peace for said County, the aforesaid Edmund Hoback & made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed - And I the said Justice hereby certify that the said Edmund Hoback is personally known to me, that he is a cre- ditable person & that his testimony aforesaid is entitled to full credit.
Ellis Gray Jus: Peace

A List of Men in Capt. Benj. Heat Company And When Marched & Where from Boston July 25 th 1778
   Mens Names When Marched Where From Distance Traveled     1 Benj. Heat July 27 Hingham 21 Boston July 25 th 1778   2 Joseph Wite 27 Wrentham 16 We the subscribers acknowledge Silver to be paid for in the Service of the United States under the Command of Maj. Genl. Heath As guards in the town of Boston on the breach of conventions till the first of Jan y . Next as witness our hands   3 Peter Dunbar 7 Hingham 21   4 Simon Shurcliff 7 Ditto 20   5 Thos. Wells 21 Weymouth 16   6 Luther Coan 7 Hingham 17   7 Ezra Morrison 21 Wrentham 14   8 Elisha Wallbrook 21 Weymouth 16   9 Samuel Whitmore 21 Hingham 21   10 Oliver French 21 Ditto 21   11 Samuel Dinsmore 7 Hingham 21 38 Joshua Beak Sep t 10 th 1778   12 Henry Bangs 7 Ditto 21 39 Caleb Marsh Sep t 10   13 Wm. Little 7 Ditto 21 40 John Wheelwright 15   14 Nathaniel Little 7 Ditto 21 41 Daniel Sherburne Oct r 8   15 Daniel Curtis 7 Ditto 21 42 Hosea Dunbar Oct r 8   16 Samuel Wells 21 Weymouth 18 42 Melzar Dunbar Oct r 8   17 Elisha Wells 21 Ditto 18   18 Ebenezer Brickett 21 Ditto 18   19 Asa D. Wells 21 Ditto 16   20 Elisha Thayer 21 Ditto 16   21 Edward Bird Ditto Dorchester 5   22 Wm. Clapp Ditto Ditto 5   23 David Clapp Ditto Ditto 5   24 James Hunt Ditto Ditto 5   25 Thomas Conulus Ditto Ditto 16   26 John D. Wells Ditto Ditto 16   27 Joshua Merrill 27 Hingham 21 miles   28 Joseph Hubbard 28 Ditto 21   29 Stephen Mansfield 28 Ditto 21   30 Moses Gardner 29 Ditto 21   31 Jacob Ladd 16 Wrentham 23   32 John L. Ladd 8 Milton Aug t 5 Discharge Aug t 13   33 Joseph Jones 13 Hingham 21   34 David D. Jones 13 Ditto 21   35 David H. Hovey 17 Ditto 21   36 Simon Hovey 26 Milton 10   37 Seth D. Wells Sept. 10 Ditto 10   Hingham 21  

A Pay Abstract of Capt Benj. Beal Company in Col. Garish Regt in Maj. Goodwin's Defenses in Boston for the Month of Augt 1878
   Remark Time Engage Time in Service Wages per month Wages per month due to Date Whole Amount     1 Capt Augt 1 st 1878 one month 12.00.0 12.00.0 12-0-00   2 Lieut Ditto Ditto 8.2.0 8.2.0 16-4-0   3 Sergt Ditto Ditto 2.8.0 2.8.0 7-4-0   3 Corps Ditto Ditto 2.4.0 2.4.0 6-12-0   23 Privets Ditto Ditto 2.0.0 2.0.0 46-0-0   1 Joseph Jones Augt 13. 17 Days 2.0.0 2.0.0 1-2-10   1 Isaaciah Joy Ditto Ditto 2.0.0 2.0.0 1-2-10   1 Simeon Hadley Ditto 26 4 Ditto 2.0.0 2.0.0 0-5-4   1 Joseph May Ditto 26 4 Ditto 2.0.0 2.0.0 0-5-4   1 John Spear Ditto 1 12 Ditto 2.0.0 2.0.0 0-16-0   1 Isaac Augt 1 one month 2.4.0 2.4.0 2-4-0   1 Trumer Ditto 17 13 Days 2.4.0 2.4.0 0-18-11   91-12-40   2-4-0   0-18-11   94-15-3  
29 Stephen Merrill

Jedediah Joy

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Sep 26 1832.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that Jedidiah Jay served as a private soldier, in Capt Seth Stowes Company Col. Whitneys Regiment, at Wautasheet seven months & five days from May 6 m 27/1776 to Jan'y 1. 1777 0-7-5
Also that he subsequently was drafted and served as a private in a Company commanded by Capt Benj. Beal, Col. Gerrish's Regt, in guarding the Convention troops of the Stars in & about Boston for the term of four months & one day from the 13th August, 1778 4-1 0-11-6
Edward D. Bangs Secretary

30 573 Rely INVALID.
File No. 30, 518
Jedediah Joy His Rev me
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Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 215
[Arrangement of 1870.]