Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33004, for Joseph Longley, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Longley, Joseph
S. 33004
CONTENTS

13-946 Q Massachusetts
Joseph Longley
of Hawley in the state of Massachusetts who was a Corporal in the regiment commanded by Colonel Bigelow of the Massachusetts line, for the term of Three Years
scribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 11 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 of June 1818 and sent to Elijah Paine Ashefield Massachusetts
Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1819. 86.36 Semi-ann. all'ce ending Sep. 1819. 48.00 12 Mo. \frac{20}{30} \frac{4}{31} $134.36
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued.
Massachusetts Pension Roll Joseph Longley Ashefield Massachusetts 1821

Corporal Lon Discharge

This Certifieth, that Joseph Longley Corporal has Served three years, in the 15 th Massachusetts Regiment, being the full term of his Enlistment has Conducted himself, as a good and faithful Soldier, and is hereby Discharged the Service, Given Under my hand, at Highlands This 18 th Day of May 1780
Silasanus Smith Capt. Comm d . 15 th Mass s Regt.

Declaration & Path of Joseph Longley yry to P.O. Bigelow Map. Reg. Amitted
Swamp certificate as to claim to certain circumstances wanted
Amitted
11 Ap l 1813

I Joseph Longley a citizen of the United States resident in the Town of Hawley in the County of Franklin and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do on Oath declare that I belonged to the Army of the United States in the revolutionary war I enlisted into the service of my country on the nine- teenth day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and Seventy Seven as a corporal for the term of three years into a Company commanded by Captain Silvanus Smith of Shirley in the Commonwealth of Mass in a Regiment No. 15 of the Massachusetts Line commanded by Colonel Timothy Bigelow. and I continued in the service of my country during the said three years and I faithfully discharged the duties of a corporal against the common enemy; during the said three years I was taken prisoner by the British and remained in captivity seven months part of the time in the Gaol in Philadelphia and part aboard of a Prison ship. and at the expiration of the said three years I received an honorable discharge from my Captain which is herunto annexed. Also that by reason of my reduced circumstances I stood in need of the assistance of my country for support, and I was Seventy Three Years Old last August
Dated at Ashfield in the County and Commonwealth of eleventh  seventh day of April in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Joseph Longley
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Franklin J r April 11 - 1818
The above named Joseph Longley, subscriber to the foregoing Declaration personally appeared and made Oath that the same is true Before me Elijah Paine a Session Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas the County of Franklin

To the Secretary of the Department of War
I the subscriber a Session Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the County of Franklin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania do hereby certify, that from the testimony of record it appears to my satisfaction that the within named Joseph Langley served in the revolutionary war against the common enemy as he has set forth in his declaration of pension - Dated at Ashfield and sealed with the Seal of the Court aforesaid this eleventh day of April in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Elijah Paine Judge as aforesaid
Joseph Langley within named do further declare on Oath in addition to my former declaration that I do not own any real Estate, and that all my personal Estate consists of about one hundred and fifty Dollars in in notes, and I verily believe I can never collect fifty Dollars of the above notes, and I am supported at present by my children.
Joseph Langley
Franklin Pa - May 13 - 1819 personally appeared Joseph Langley signed to the above declaration and made solemn Oath that the same is true.
Before me Elijah Paine a Session Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas

To the Secretary of the war department
The Subscriber a Session Judge as of now, from the further declaration of the said Joseph Langly, and the evidence now before me; it is my opinion that he is in reduced circum- -stances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support, and did so at the time of his first declaration
Elijah Paine Judge of the Court pursuant

13946
Joseph Longley
13946
Sept 1819
Can

I Joseph Longley of Houlton in the county of Franklin & Commonwealth of Massachusetts do on oath declare that I have no property real or personal excepting what is hereinafter mentioned to wit ~
Fourteen years since being unable to labor by reason of a distressing stoppage of my urine caused by hard labor & taking a severe cold I conveyed my property consisting of a small real estate & my farming utensils &c in all worth between Seven and eight hundred dollars to Levi Holden my son in law and took from him a writing or bond for the support of myself and wife during our lives but I being soon after the conveyance aforesaid much more feeble and he being possessed of little or no property at that time he has been with great difficulty barely enabled to support himself and family and us - He having a wife and eleven children cannot support us comfortably and the expense we have already been to him is more than the value of the property conveyed to him as aforesaid - The obligation which I took of the said Levi is worth nothing as he is poor as above stated ~
I also hold a note of hand against Thomas Longley and Joshua Longley on which there is now due sixty four dollars which note was given for a part of my pension money which I received from Congress ~
I owe several small debts to divers persons amounting in all to about one hundred dollars ~
Joseph Longley ~

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
FRANKLIN ss.
At a Special Session of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Western Circuit, began and holden at Greenfield, within and for the County of Franklin, on the second Monday the tenth day of July  November in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, et de die in diem to the seventh  fifteenth day of the same month,
PERSONALLY appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record, within and for said County of Franklin, established as such by the Constitution and Laws of said Commonwealth, Joseph Langle
aged seventy five years, resident in Hawley
in said County, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows:
I entered the service on the nineteenth day of May A.D. 1777 to serve for the term of three years in the company commanded by Capt. Sylvanus Smith and the Regiment commanded by Col. Timothy Bigelow in the Massachusetts Line and service in the same until my term of enlistment had expired and was discharged at the Highlands in the State of New York. May 18 th A.D. 1780. My certificate is dated June 28 th A.D. 1819 The pension to commence April 11 th A.D. 1818 and is number 13,446 - I am by occupation a farmer but have been unable to labor for twelve or thirteen years owing to a distressing stoppage of my urine - My family consists of myself and wife Lucy aged sixty nine years who is at times severely afflicted with the rheumatism

and I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th 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 so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions 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 18th 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 annexed, and by me subscribed.
Joseph Longley
Sworn to and declared, on the thirteenth day of July  November A. D. 1820, before the said Court.
Attest, E. Alvord CLERK.
I ELIJAH ALVORD, Clerk of the aforesaid Court, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court ; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is sixty four dollars
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this thirteenth  fifteenth day of November  July , 1820.
E. Alvord CLERK.

33 004 Rev INVALID.
File No. 33,004
Joseph Longley Esq Rev War
Act: 18 th March 1818 th
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 247
[Arrangement of 1870.]