Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 28793, for Joseph Libbey, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Libbey, Joseph
S. 28793
CONTENTS

28793 Rey  INVALID.
File No. 28793
Joseph Sibley St. Louis Mo.
Act: June 7 th 1891
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 248
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Maine 27. 521
Joseph Libbey
of Washington On the State of Maine who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Dyer Duttons commanded by in the of the Mass'ts Troops line for
7 months 20 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 25 Dollars 53 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 d day of July 1834 and R K Porter Esq Machias Me
Arrears to the 14th of Mar 34 86.60 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 6/8 12 76 99.36
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by B E E Clerk. Book E Vol. 1 Page 32

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, June 27 th , 1833.
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 the name of Joseph Libby , as a Private, is borne on a Pay-Roll of Capt. Reuben Dyer's Company, raised for an expedition against St. Johns, Province of Nova-Scotia, and continued in the service at and for the defence of Machias in 1777, - where he engaged July 5 th , and was discharged November 27 th , - and was allowed four months and twenty-five days. - [There is great reason to conclude that this service was in 1776, as others on the same roll have sworn to that effect, and have obtained as under the year 1776; - and unless it be thus considered, it will clash seriously with other rolls.]
Joseph Libbee's name, as a Private, is borne on a Pay-Roll of Capt. Stephen Smith's Company, in Col. Benjamin Foster's Regiment, called on for the defence of Machias, between July 16 th , and October 10 th 1777, - where he is allowed two months and twenty days service.
Joseph Libbey's name is borne on a Pay-Roll of Capt. Stephen Smith's Company, in Col. Benjamin Foster's Regiment, - said Company having
[over.
5 7.20

been on duty between the 4 th day of December, 1778, and the 4 th day of January, 1779, - where he is allowed five days' service.
Said Libbey claims for service under Capt. John Hall, - the roll or rolls for which are not found in this Office.
Edward D. Bangs, Trsz

Joseph Sibbey - No. 44 application for Pension Octo 16 th 1832
10825
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20 353 220 2553
10 7 in 20 deg pirate $ 25.53 8659
R K Porter Esq Machias Me

State of Maine Washington ss
On this 16 day of October, 1832, personally appears in open Court now held by Hon. John Dickinson, Judge of Probate in & for said County,
Joseph Libby of Bangor in said County, aged seventy four years, who being first sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832:
That he entered the service of the United States under the following officers & served as herein stated, viz:
In May or June 1776 or 1777, he resided at Machias in said County & enlisted in a Company commanded by Capt. Reuben Dyer, of which Abner Allen was Lieutenant & Nathan Longfellow Ensign, all of whom are now deceased. He served under said Enlistment six months, stationed at Machias, when also he was discharged. The Company aforesaid was under orders of Col. John Allen, but whether it belonged to his Corps the declarant knows not. He was under the pay of Massachusetts.
He was also a volunteer man holding himself constantly in readiness for service, and frequently during the war of the revolution in actual service for short periods both before & after his said six months service, - chiefly first in a Company commanded by Capt. Stephen Smith & afterwards under Capt. John Hall (both deceased) - in all seven ten months - which service was at & near Machias. He was in no battle except in the taking of the Chesapeake when he was a volunteer under General O'Brien, - the attack upon the British armed vessel commanded by Capt. Dawson,

and driving her off, - I also when the small battery (near Indian Room so called in old records) where he was stationed then under command of Major Stillman, was decimated, was surprised by the British - army
He has no documentary evidence of his said service. He hereby relinquishes all claim to any pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on any pension roll.
Joseph his Libby mark
Subscribed & sworn to the day & year aforesaid
John Dickinson Judge
- We Joseph Moore of Addison, & Daniel Small of Penn- nington, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Joseph Libby who has signed the above declaration, that we are knowing to his having served six months as a soldier of the revolution in Capt. Dyer's Company as he has above stated, that we were also knowing to his serving at then Sandy Hook, during the war of the revolution, in the Militia & on volunteer, as he has above stated, and verily believe that he so served the length of time by him stated
Daniel Small Joseph Moore
Subscribed & sworn the day & year aforesaid,
John Dickinson Judge.

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after an investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier as he states. And the Court further certifies that Josiah Moore of Addison and Daniel Small of Hampton who have signed the preceding certificate are creditable persons and that their statement is entitled to credit. —
John Dickinson Judge
Washington ss — State of Maine.
I Aaron S. Raymond Register of the Court of Probate within and for the County of Washington. do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court. in the matter of the application of Joseph Libby for a pension. —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal official this seventeenth day of October A.D. 1832 —
Aaron S. Raymond