Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18,904, for Amos Joy, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
New York. U.S.
Joy, Amor
S 18904
Carded
CONTENTS .

Vermont 8277
Let. to Pen Agent - Apr 7, 1837 do to Same Apr 28, 1837
Amos Dyer of Windham in the State of Vermont who was a Pr. & Capt. in the _____ commanded by Captain _____ of the _____ commanded by Col. Malcomb in the Vt. Militia line for 7 mo. 20 days New York and Vt.
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 27 Dollars 16 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of June 34 Walt. R. P. and New York N. H.
Arrears to the 4th of March 81.30 Semi-ann. allowance ending Sept. 15.55 $14.87
Revolutionary Claim, June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Nath. Dyer Clerk, Book E Vol. 3 Page 71.

I
18904 INVALID.
File No. 18904
Amos Joy
Coupl Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 385
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Capt. Amos Jones Application for Pension
Re d 28 July
28.538
Admitted as a corporal 4 months and 20 days in the third mo nth as a private 8/27/11
Mr. H. Hall
Please to make return to P. White

State of Vermont } Probate District of Westminster ss. Windham County ss } At a Probate Court, held within and for said District, being a court of Record, having a seal and Clerk or Register. On the twenty seventh day of November A.D. 1833 Personally appeared in open court at Putney in said District Present Peter R. Trafton Esq. Judge
Before said Probate Court within and for said District, now sitting Amos Joy a resident of Putney in the said Probate District, in Windham County and State of Vermont, aged Seventy two years, who being first sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following Declaration in order to obtain a Pension agreeable to the Provisions made by the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 That owing to the infirmities of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his services or to the particular day he entered the service but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the period mentioned below, in the following grades - That he entered and entered the service of the Revolution at Putney aforesaid on or about the tenth day of June 1780 as a corporal in the Company of Capt. Blakeley - Lieuts. Rice and Joseph Joy were the Subaltern officers in the Company in the Regiment commanded by Col. Malcomb of the New York Militia, and immediately went from Putney across the Green Mountain to the Hudson River, there took shipping and descended the River to Poughkeepsie and Fishkill and after remaining there sometime were ordered down to Westpoint where we were stationed a while and from thence were ordered up the River to Albany, and from thence to Schenectady and up the Mohawk River and were stationed near said River at Fort Hunter and remained there late in the month of October; and was there dismissed, the precise day of the month he cannot state, recollects that it was cold weather and the ground was covered with snow. according to his best recollection he served at this time four months and twenty days as corporal in said Company - And that afterwards in the month of November 1781 the particular day of the month he cannot state but according to his best recollection on the twelfth day of said month at said Putney he volun- teered and enlisted for three months and joined the Company com- manded by Lieut. Hitchcock and went immediately up the Connec- ticut River to Haddam from thence marched to the road to the town of Plainfield, and was stationed in a fort there to guard the frontier - The Corps consisting of three companies was commanded by Col. Wart and remained there till the end of said term of three months about the 12 th of February and was dismissed. And he further states that in this tour he served as a private soldier -

And the said Declarant further states that in the month of November 1780 there was an alarm when he turned out and marched off as was supposed to meet the enemy and was gone several days - And that on several other occasions in the years 1780 & 1781 there were alarms when he turned out and was in service several days - And he says that the whole time of his service in the war of the Revolution was not less than eight months - and for such service he claims a Pension - And in answer to the Interrogatories, promulged by the War Department, he further declares and says - That when he enlisted he was a resident in the town of Dunstable  Dunstable aforesaid - That he volunteered and enlisted - That he has no record of his age in writing, was born 27 th of May 1761 that the place of his birth was in Rehoboth in the county of Bristol and state of Massachusetts - That he never received a written discharge - That when he served in Col. Malcolms' Regiment, the Regiment was a Corps by itself except a short time while at Westpoint of course he does not recollect the names of many officers - except those already mentioned - Where in the Northern Campaign at Red Bank  Red Bank , Col. Waite was the first in command, he believes that there was no other Field Officer belonging to the Corps - The names of the other officers he does not recollect - And he would name Col. Haver Esq. - and Doct. Alexander Campbell his neighbors and townsman, as being well acquainted with his character &c - And hereby relinquishes 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 -
Amos Joy
Sworn and subscribed the same day and year aforesaid Peter M. Taft Judge
We Col. Haver Esq. and Doct. Alexander Campbell both residing in the town of Dunstable in said District - hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Amos Joy who has submitted and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 72 years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood, where he resided to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion -
Otis Haver
Alexander Campbell
Sworn & Subscribed the day and year aforesaid - Peter M. Taft Judge
And the said Court do hereby declare that the said Amos Joy is entitled to a pension of the sum of ... per month for his services in the war of the Revolution

Sworn & Subscribed the day and year aforesaid —
Peter M. Taft Judge
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 above applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states, and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Otho Laven Goy and Doct. Alexander Campbell who have signed the preceding certificate are residents in the town of Putney in the said District and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit and that there is no Clergyman in the vicinity who has been there for any considerable length of time so as to be acquainted with the applicant.
Peter M. Taft Judge
I the undersigned Clerk & Register of the Probate Court within and for the District of Westminster aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Amos Goy for a Pension —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of Office this 24 th day of November 1833 Amos Goy Bnd
Handwritten notes on the left margin, mostly cut off and illegible.

The affidavit of Nilsnorth Rodney of Putney in the County of Windham and State of Vermont, aged 70 years - who testifies and saith that he has been well acquainted with Capt. Amos Joy of said Putney from his boyhood and has lived in the neighborhood with him for more than fifty years past, and well recollects that the said Joy went out in the service, in the Revolutionary War - and according to the best of his recollection the said Joy first went into the Army some time in the summer of 1780 and went in the company of his brother Joseph Joy who was Lieut. of the Company and that he went West or South - and was gone from home according to Deponent's best recollection three or four months and perhaps longer, the precise length of time he cannot state. And also recollects that the said Amos Joy went out a three months tour to the northward, and according to Deponent's best recollection left home in the fall of the year and returned the winter following Timothy Rodney, Deponent's brother went out with the said Amos Joy - and according to his best recollection they left home in November of 81, and were gone three months - He recollects that Capt. or Lieut. Fletcher of said Putney, commanded the company -
His Nilsnorth J. Rodney Mark
Witness Phineas White
State of Vermont
Windham County ss } Sworn and subscribed in due form this 14 th day of Nov. 1833
Before me Phineas White Justice of Peace
State of Vermont
Windham County ss } The affidavit of Ezekiel Pease of Putney in the County of Windham and State of Vermont aged 79 years who deponeth and saith that he has been acquainted with Capt. Amos Joy for more than fifty years and has lived in the neighborhood with him during said time and well recollects of the said Joy's going out in the Revolutionary Army but the particular time he went - or how long he was out - Deponent cannot state. Ezekiel Pease
State of Vermont
Windham County ss } Sworn and subscribed in due form this 14 th day of Nov. 1833 -
Before me Phineas White Justice of Peace
I certify that for more than twenty years, I have been acquainted with the above named Deponents and know them to be men of truth and veracity -
Phineas White Justice Peace

State of Vermont — Windham County. Probate District of Westminster 13 Register & Officer February 26 th 1833
I hereunto certify that Phineas White Esquire is one of the justices of the Peace within and for the County of Windham aforesaid and that the within are his genuine signatures —
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court —
Asa Hays 2 d Register Probate

Evidence for Capt. Jay

The affidavit of Doct Joseph Groves of Deer- field in the County of Franklin State of Massachusetts aged seventy one years who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that in the month of June 1780 he was well acquainted with Captain Amos Joy then and now of Putney in the County of Windham and State of Vermont and knew of the said Joy's enlisting into the company commanded by Captain Blakeley and Lieut Price and Joseph Joy were the Lieut s of said Company in the Regiment commanded by Col l Malcom of the New York militia and that the de- ponent with the same Amos Joy went from said Putney and entered said Company in the month of June aforesaid the par- ticular day of the month he does not now recollect but according to the best of his recol- -lection it was in the fore part of the month and were marched over the Green Mountains to the Hudson River went on board a ves- el and went down the River to Peks-Kill and Fishkill and after being stationed there for sometime were marched to West Point and after remaining a short time were ordered up the River to Albany from thence up the Mohawk river and were stationed at a place called Fort Place not far from the said River Westerly or South Westerly from Johnstown where the company remained

till we were dismissed some of the last days in the month of October after the snow had fallen and that he returned with the same Amos Joy to Palmer having been absent according to the best of his recollection some days over four months during all which time the said Amos Joy serv- ed in the capacity of Corporal of the said Company Joseph Goodhue
Franklin ss Dec 4. 1833 personally appeared Joseph Goodhue and made oath to the truth of the facts contained in the foregoing affida- vit - Before me Pliny Arms Justice of the Peace
I certify that Joseph Goodhue subscribed to the foregoing affidavit is a gentleman of truth and veracity and that he is personally known to me Pliny Arms Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Franklin ss. I Elijah Alvord, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas being a court of record in the county of Franklin do hereby certify that Pliny Arms Esq whose name is subscribed to the two preceding certificates is a Justice of the Peace for said county of Franklin duly commissioned and qualified and that the said subscrip- tions appear to me to be his true and proper signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Greenfield this eleventh day of December A. D. 1833 E. Alvord Clerk

The affidavit of Salathiel Harris of Brattleboro' in the County of Windham and State of Vermont, aged 74 years, being duly sworn deponeth, testifieth and saith that in the latter part of the month of May or first of June 1780 he volunteered and enlisted, at Brattleboro' aforesaid and joined the company commanded by Capt. James Blakeley, and the Lieutenants were, Rose & Joseph Joy - and that Capt. Amos Joy of Putney in the County and State aforesaid, was a Corporal in the same company and immediately after joining the company marched across the Mountain to the Hudson River and took water passage down to Pikeskill, and from thence down the River near Westpoint, where by order of Governor Clinton, Capt. Blakeley's company was attached to the Regiment commanded by Col. Malcolm of the New York troops - and after remaining at Westpoint for the space of six or eight weeks he Deponent, with seven others were detached from the company of Capt. Blakeley and were attached to the company of Capt. Delevan - and were sent into the Gaps - and when Deponent left, the said Corporal Joy with the balance of the company with Capt. Blakeley remained behind, and as Deponent was informed on his return, were soon after Deponent left Westpoint, ordered and sent up the River to Albany and from thence up the Mohawk - And Deponent returned to Brattleboro' in the month of December then next following - Capt. Blakeley was there, and informed Deponent, that he had been at home several days -
And further Deponent saith not -
Salathiel Harris
State of Vermont } June 9 th 1834 sworn and subscribed in due form Windham County ss }
Before me Phineas White Justice of Peace
I do hereby certify that Salathiel Harris above named, is known to me as a man of undoubted truth and veracity -
Phineas White
Phineas White whose signature appears above was at the date thereof an acting justice of the peace for the county of Windham in the state of Vermont Hulda Hall MG