Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6126, for Joseph Lane, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
60m
Lane, Joseph
R. 6126
CONTENTS
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Concord Joseph Lane rejected
See letter to Ely Warner Feb 1834
6126

of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1872.
6126 6126 REJECTED
P. O. _____
Joseph Lane
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____ _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

Joseph Lane,
Declaration for a
Pension -
No 4030

State of Connecticut
Middlesex County Haddam Aug 7 th AD 1832
On the 7 th day of Aug AD 1832 Personally appeared before the Court of probate in and for the District of Haddam in said County Joseph Lane, a resident of Shillington in said County, aged Seventy the 11 th day of May last who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to attain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 That he enlisted in the Army of the United States on the 1 st of June AD 1780 and served in with John Lane Abner Green, Paul Elliot, Elias Rootfield all of said Shillington and served in Major Mather's Regiment of the Continental line under the following named officers - Huntington was Gen of the Brigade and Mather was Major of the Regiment that he does not recall their christian names - That on the 1 st of June AD 1780 he enlisted under Capt Aaron Stevens of said Shillington for the term of Six Months - That he immediately marched for Elden Point on the East Bank of the Hudson River in the State of New York - That after remaining there some time he marched down said Hudson River to Fish Kill and crossed the same into New Jersey - and marched to Hackensack from thence to Newburgh - where he returned back to Fish Kill and again crossed said Hudson River and marched up North of Elden Point - in the woods and commenced building barracks for Winter quarters

That after said Blankets term rec'd his said term of enlistment expired and he was discharged - it being the 1st of December AD 1780 that he resided in said Tillinghast when he entered said service - that he had a written discharge but that the same has long since been lost - by time and accident -
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity excepting the present and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Joseph Lane
State of Connecticut - ss. Middlesex County, Haddam Aug 7th 1832 Personally appeared Joseph Lane subscriber to the foregoing Declaration before the Court of Probate in and for the District of Haddam in said County now sitting and made solemn oath to the truth of the same
Ely Warner Clerk
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion from the foregoing Declaration and the Deposition of Eliza White Lawrence annexed marked H that the above named Applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and that he served as he states
State of Connecticut - ss. Middlesex County Haddam Aug 7th AD 1832
I Ely Warner Clerk of the Court of Probate in and for the District of Haddam in said County do hereby certify that the foregoing and the Deposition of

Elisha White herewith annexed marked H contain the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the Application of Joseph Lane of Shelling- worth in said County for a Pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 7th day of Aug CB 1832
Cly Maccar Clerk
marked H
I Elisha White of Haddam in the County of Middlesex and State of Connecticut do hereby age- reproduce and say that on the 1st of June CB 1780 I enlisted with Joseph Lane of Shellingworth in said County of Middlesex in the Army of the United States Continental Line under Col Colonel  Major Moses Hemen of said Shellingworth but soon deceased for the term of six months - That I marched with him to Nelsons Point- on the East Bank of the Hudson River - That after some time and then a while we encamped said Hudson at- Fish Kill into New Jersey after marching to Haverstraw N. Jersey where we returned again to encamp encamp- ed in the Woods North of said Nelsons Point for win- ter quarters - That we commenced building Block- houses after we had raised them over term of enlistment ex- pired which was the 1st of Dec CB 1780 - That the said Lane and myself were then discharged. Further the Depen- dant further rec- ollects that he was at Haddam the 1st day, Aug CB 1832 -
Elisha White

State of Connecticut
Middlesex County Haddam Aug 7 th AD 1872
Personally appeared before the Court of Probate in and for the County District of Haddam in said County Elisha White subscribed to the foregoing deposition and made solemn oath to the truth of the same and said Court certifies that the said Elisha White is well known to him and that he is a credible witness
Ely Wheeler Clerk