Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13807, for Edmund Lucas, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Lucas, Edmund
S. 13807
CONTENTS
carded.

Vermont-
27.981
Edmund Lucas of Bradford in the State of Vt who was a pr. in the commanded by Captain of the R y commanded by Col. Wells in the Mass. time for 8 mo: 29 days -
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 29- Dollars 89. Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 th day of Oct 34 and with Simon Short- Thetford. Vt.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 34 $103 52 Semi-ant. allowance ending Oct 35 14 94 118 46
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Nath. Rice. Clerk, Book E Vol. 3 Page 75

Edmund Lucas Application 32.153.
Allow 8 mo 29 day pri- $29.89
3 mo claim n '79 w ell Chapman Prof. dis. A16f
Return to be made to Simeon Root Fitzgerald Royal County Vermont,

State of Vermont      On this 18 th day of Probate District of Bradford      February A.D. 1834 in the County of Orange      I Personally appeared in Open Court before the Probate Court within for the District of Bradford in the County of Orange now sitting. Edmund Lucas a resident of the in the County of Orange State of Vermont aged 73 years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following dec- laration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein stated. Viz. That in the year 1777, in the month of May as he believes a draft was made from the militia of Greenfield & the vicinity in the State of Massachu- setts, where this applicant then lived, for the purpose of going to assist our army at Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain. That one Reuben Wells of said Green- field was drafted for the term of two months on this service. & this applicant at the request of said Wells enlisted as his substitute & joined Capt Childs company of militia of said Wittensfield Greenfield & Col Wells (of Shelburne Mts.) Regiment; the names of the other company & Regimental officers he does not recollect, as he was not personally acquainted with them. he recollects the Drummey name was Allen Nichols lived in said Greenfield. That he marched in said company through Bennington in Vermont & Skeneborough in New York, where he went on board of a boat & sailed down the lake (Champlain) to Ticonderoga where he joined our army, & shortly after went over the lake to Mt. Independence & was then stationed until the fort was evacuated by our Gar- rison. (which he thinks was sometimes re- treated to Bennington in Vermont. Where he was dismissed, about the last of July or first of August 1777 or near as he can recollect, he knows it was a short time before Saratoga Battle; after serving out his full term of two months. He well recollects of having seen Genl St Clair & Col Warner at Mt. Independence. but he cannot be more particular as to officers & regiments at this time.

In 1778, about the first of July as near as he can recollect - a call was made for the militia of Westfield in Massachusetts where this applicant then lived (his father having moved from Greenfield to Westfield late in the fall of 1777) to go & assist an army in Rhode Island; & the requisition was for six months service. The towns of Westfield, West-Springfield & Granville in Massachusetts were required to furnish men for one company, but he could not obtain all the men in time, being about five or six weeks after the company was marched, which was on or about the first of July of the year 1778. This applicant enlisted or engaged to join said company & as soon after said enlistment as he could make preparation, which was a week or more he left said Westfield & passing through the towns of Worcester in Massachusetts - Providence in Rhode Island, joined the company at Tiverton in Rhode Island about 35 miles below Providence; where said company was stationed for the purpose of guarding the town - sea board from the incursions of the enemy then in possession of Rhode Island. He arrived at Tiverton two or three days after the battle on the Island. The company was commanded by Capt Nathan Rowley & belonged to Col Jacobs Regt. He thinks there was but one Regiment stationed at Tiverton & does not recollect of seeing any Continental soldiers at that place. He thinks they were mostly stationed at Providence after the retreat from the Island under Genl Sullivan who was the commander in Chief of that detachment as he understood. He also understood that a Col Wade was stationed at Greenwich. This applicant remained at Tiverton with his company until the army went into Winter quarters, at which time his company was ordered to Tiverton in Rhode Island, where his company were dismissed on the 2 d day of January 1779. He is confident it was at least four months & a half from the time of his enlistment to the time of his dismission.
In the year 1779. There was a company of militia (as he understood) raised in South Hampton & the vicinity in Massachusetts for the purpose as it

was said of joining an army at the West or South; this applicant entered or enlisted into a company commanded by Capt Clapp of North Hampton - Col (as he believed) Chapins Regiment. Timothy Lyman of Goshen was the Point of our company & our Serjeant was John Whiting the ensign. He enlisted for the term of three months & went directly to Albany in the State of New York, & remained there two months & was then dismissed about one month before the expiration of his engagement. The rest of the company was dismissed at the same time; but for what reason he has never known. He does not recollect, that there were many men at Albany at the time - he thinks he did not see any continental soldiers, nor any militia Troops except those to which he belonged. He is confident that he served at least two months at this time, though he cannot be particular as to the time of enlisting or leaving the service; he thinks however it was the latter part of the summer or fall of that year. He is quite certain he enlisted just after what is called
In the year 1781, a body of the militia in the town of Westfield & vicinity in Massachusetts when this applicant still lived were called for to go into the interior of New York & that he again enlisted for the term of three months in this service - joined a company commanded by a Capt Varnum of Col Wyllys Regiment. He marched through Albany to Schenectady where he was stationed about two weeks, & then went to Fort Herkimer upon the German Flats so called in the State of N.Y. where he was stationed during the remainder of his enlistment. & was engaged in guarding the Fort - & the inhabitants who were much exposed to attacks from the enemy. While there he went on a scouting party in pursuit of a party of British, Indians, & Tories who made an attack upon Johnstown on the Mohawk River - & burnt some buildings & destroyed the property of the inhabitants of that place. Took several prisoners. Col Wyllys headed this scouting party. We marched about three days nearly northwest, came up with the enemy, killed one British Captain by the name of Butler & two privates. Took several prisoners (16 as he thinks) mostly Tories; &

rescued one boy who had been taken prisoner by the enemy at Ithaca. While on this scout, he and his party consisting of about 150 men lost their way & wandered in the woods three days without food & suffered extremely with hunger & fatigue. He thinks there was not a whole Regiment stationed at Fort Schuyler. He cannot be more particular as to the names of Officers. He well recollects that he was there, when Lord Cornwallis was taken - & to the best of his recollection was dismissed about the last of November or the first of December. He is confident that he was absent at least three months or in half at this time, though his engagement was but for three months - making the whole amount of service, which he rendered during the war at least one year or 12 months.
He further states, that after the most diligent enquiry & an expensive journey into Massachusetts, he cannot find any person living who knew of his first tour of service at Ticonderoga. Capt. Child, who was an elderly man at that time, died several years since & every man with whom he had personal acquaintance is either dead or gone to parts unknown.
In answer to enquiries prescribed by the war department & propounded by the Court, he states that he was born in Bradford in the State of Connecticut in the year 1760. That he has no record of his age except in his family Bible, unless there is one in said Bradford. That he lived in Greenfield Mass. when first called into service & afterwards in Westfield as above stated. That he was a substitute for Nathan Wells, when he first enlisted & afterwards went as a volunteer. That he cannot be more particular as to names of Officers, Regiments & circumstances of service, than he has already been. That he never received any written discharge, that he now recollects, has no documentary evidence of his service. That he does not know of any person now living who can testify as to his service, except those who depositions are herewith transmitted. - And he hereby refers the Court & the war department to Captain John Tyler - now Lyman Fitch - Hon. J. D. D. I.

Burlington, as persons in his neighborhood who can testify as to his character for truth & veracity & their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution. He hereby relinquishes every claim to any pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid } Edmund Lucas
We Elisha G. Babcock a clergyman residing in the town of Milton in the County of Orange State of Vermont & Sylvester Rafter residing in said Milton hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Edmund Lucas who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration - that we believe him to be 73 years of age - that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, & that we concur in that opinion - subscribed & sworn to the day & year aforesaid }
Elisha G. Babcock Sylvester Rafter
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrog- atories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier served as he states - And the Court further certify that it appears to them, that Elisha G. Babcock who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman residing in the said town of Milton & that Sylvester Rafter who has signed the same is also a resident of said Milton & is a credible person & that their statement is entitled to credit - I Simeon Root Clerk or Deputy of the said Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Edmund Lucas for a pension -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court this 6 th day of February A 1834 - Simeon Root CLK

I Timothy Gibbons of Granville in the County of Hampden and Common- wealth of Massachusetts of Lawful Age Testify and say that I was a Soldier in the Revolutionary War and served a term of Three Months in the region of Fort Herkimer in the Company commanded by Capt Samuel Thrall - in the year 1781 And from circumstan- ces related to me by Edmund Lucas which transpired du- ring said term of service I have no doubt he was a Sol- dier in said Company during said Term although I do not recognize the man as ever having any acquaintance with him - He lives now at a dis- tance of One hundred & fifty miles or more from me in the State of Vermont
Timothy Gibbons

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampden Ss. Granville 9 th October 1833. Personally appeared Timothy Gibby and made Oath to the truth of the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed and I Cer- tify that said Timothy Gibby is personally known to me and I believe him to be a man of truth and veracity and his Deposition entitled to Credit James Cooley Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampden Ss. I John Ingersoll a Clerk of the Common Pleas Court being a Court of Record in the County of Hampden do hereby certify that James Cooley Esq. before whom the within deposition was affirmed is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Hampden And that this  James Cooley to subscribed is his true & proper signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of the said Common Pleas Court at Springfield on this Eleventh day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty three
John Ingersoll Clerk

I Levi Spelman of Granville in the County of Hampden and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of Lawful Age do hereby affirm and say that I was a private Soldier in the Service of the United States in the War of the Revolution in the Company commanded by Capt Samuel Thrall at Herkimer in the State of New York and at at Scruby other places in that vicinity in the same year of the Capture of Bermudez — I will remember a man by the name of Edmund Lucas who was also a private soldier in said Company and served in said Company at said time for the term of Three months — We were kept a few days over the three months and dismissed at Fort Her- kimer — Levi Spelman

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampden ss. Granville 9 th October 1833 Personally appeared Levi Spelman and made Oath to the truth of the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed - and I cer- tify that said Levi Spelman is personally known to me, and I believe him to be, a man of truth and veracity and his Deposition entitled to credit - James Cooley Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampden ss. I John Ingersoll a Clerk of the Common Pleas Court being a Court of Record in the County of Hampden do hereby certify that James Cooley Esq d before whom the within deposition was verified is a justice of the Peace for the County of Hampden and that his name thereto subscribed is his true & proper signature - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Common Pleas Court at Springfield on this Eleventh day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred thirty three John Ingersoll Clerk

I Asahel Lucas of Dorset in the County of Bennington and State of Vermont of Lawful age do hereby testify and say that in the year 1779 Edmund Lucas and myself enlisted at Southhampton in the State of Massachusetts for the term of three months and marched to Albany in the State of New York and were stationed in the barracks there about two months when we were discharged together with a number of other soldiers. I had been in the army before and immediately after and do not now recollect the name of the Capt who commanded the company to which we belonged while at Albany but distinctly recollect that my Brothers Edmund and Amariah were with me and discharged at the same time and further I say not.
Asahel Lucas
The above affidavit sworn to in due form at Dorset Nov 18 th 1833 Before me
Benjamin Amos Jewett Pease
I hereby certify that I have known Asahel Lucas for a number of years and know nothing why he is not a man of truth and veracity -- Benjamin Amos Jewett Pease

State of Vermont
To all to whom these presents shall come I Henry Robinson Clerk of Ben- nington County Court, hereby Certify, that B. Benjamin Ames Esq. whose signature appears to the foregoing Af- fidavit was at the date thereof a Justice of the peace within & for the County of Bennington aforesaid duly qualified by Law to act as such That his signature I believe to be genuine — In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the Seal of our said Court at Bennington this 30 th day of November A.D. 1833 — Of the Independence of the United States the 58 th —
Henry Robinson

I Gad Warriner of West Springfield in the County of Hampden & Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age do here by say that about the first of July 1778 I enlisted into the service of the United States for the term of six months, & joined the American army on Rhode Island before the battle with the enemy near Newport, & was in that engagement, that the battle was fought on the 29 th day of August, & on the night after the battle the American army retreated from the Island. - That he enlisted under Capt. Nathan Rawley then of this town, & belonged to Col. Jacobs' Regiment. The said Gad Warriner further testifies, that he was then well acquainted with Edmund Lucas of Westfield - but who many years ago removed from that town, to some place in Vermont, as it is said - The said Lucas joined with some others from Westfield did not join the army, till after the battle on the Island, but within two or three days after our retreat from the Island, they joined our company & the said Lucas was discharged, at the same time that I was, on the second day of January 1779 at Frostburg, near Fall River - I have not seen the said Lucas, for a great many years, until this day, but I now know that he is the identical person who was with me, in the above mentioned Service -
Gad Warriner
Commonwealth of Massachusetts -
Hampden County ss - On the tenth day of October 1833, the above named Gad Warriner Esq. well known to me, as a Gentleman of truth & veracity, personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him Subscribed, before me Sam Lathrop Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampden ss. I John Ingersoll a Clerk of the Common Pleas Court being at Court of Record in the County of Hampden do hereby certify that Samuel Lathrop Esq: before whom the within deposition was verified is a justice of the Peace for the County of Hampden and that his name there subscribed is his true and proper signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Common Pleas Court at Springfield on this Eleventh day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred thirty three
John Ingersoll Clerk

E. D. Bangs
Certificate
Inverness

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, September 8 th 1834.
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 Edmund "Lucas", as a private is borne on a Pay Roll of Captain Timothy Child's Company in Col. David Wells Reg t where he is allowed from May 10 th to July 8 th 1777, for services and travel two months and eight days. —
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Edmund Lucas' name is also borne on a Pay Roll of Capt. Nathan Rowles Company in Col. John Jacobs Reg t where he is allowed from Sept r 20 th 1778, three months and sixteen days. —
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Edmund Lucas' name is also borne on a Pay Roll of Captain Samuel Thrall's Company in Col. Williston's Reg t where he is allowed from August 21 st to November 9 th 1781 — for services and travel — two months and twenty

2. 29 twenty nine days —
8. 23. Edmund Lucas - also claims for services under captain Clapp in Colonel Chapins Regiment in 1779. The roll of Captain Joseph Clapp's Company in Colonel S. Chapins Regiment from October 14 th to November 25. 1779 - is found in this Office, but the name of Edmund Lucas is not borne thereon.
Edward D. Bangs. Secy

State of Vermont } On this 19 th day of Sept Probate District of Bradford } D 1834. Personally appeared in the County of Orange before the Probate Court within for the District of Bradford of Mr. Edmund Lucas of Thetford in said Orange County aged 73 years - (said Court being in session) who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the follow- ing additional declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of June 7. 1832 - That he has obtained the Certificate of Edward S. Bengs Esq. Secretary of the State of Alabama relative to his revolutionary services as was refused of him by the Commission of Pensions. He is at a loss to know why he was not allowed pay for a longer period in his tour to Rhode Island & to the return of New York unless it be that his pay did not commence until he actually joined the main body of the Army not allowing for the time which transpired between his enlistment & joining the Army. Gad Warren states in his Deposition & his Statement agrees with this declarant's recollection, that this declarant joined the Army in two or three days after the battle on Rhode I. which battle was fought on the 29 th day of Sept 1778 & this declarant is quite certain, that he enlisted at least 2 weeks before he joined the Army. If he & Warren are correct in their recollections as to the time of his join- ing the Army it would make his service 4\frac{1}{2} months at this time as stated in his declaration. He still feels confident that he served 4\frac{1}{2} months at this time but he may be mistaken & leaves the decision with the Commission of Pensions. He claims in his declaration 3\frac{1}{2} months for his services in 1781, when 2 months & 29 days are allowed him on the rolls in the Secretary's Office. He can only affirm that he has already stated in his declaration, that he is con- fident he was absent from home in the service at that time at least three months, can help - He is much surprised that his name is not found

on the roll of Capt Clapp's Company & Col Chapin's Regt in the year 1779 - as this term of duty is as distinctly recollated by him as any part of his service he may possibly be mistaken as to the length of time he was dismissed before the period of his enlistment expired but he is not mistaken as to the fact that he did enlist there in the Company & Chapin's Regt. (he believes Chapin's Regt.) as stated in his depositions & he refers the commission to the deposition of his brother Asahel who answered as witness of this service.
Edward Lucas
In testimony whereof I Simeon Root Clerk or Register of the said Probate Court do hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court this 19th day of Sept A D 1834
Simeon Root Clerk
Lucas Additional Declaration

Perman
13807 INVALID.
File No. 13. 807
Edmond Leuca
Ohio. Rev. war.
Act: June 7 th 1832.
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 289
[Arrangement of 1870.]