Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36,073, for Lemuel Maxhom, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Maxhom Lemuel
S 36,073
CONTENTS

Notice sent to M c A. Buckley Poughkeepsie, Ny. 20 th July 1820.
Transferred to Connecticut January 7 th 1828 and Notification sent to Elisha Stirling, Esq. Furnace village P.O. Salisbury Connecticut.
17 180 Continued New York
Lemuel Nashorn
of Washington in the state of N. York who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Whitcomb of the Massachusett line, for the term of 1 year.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 28 th of May 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 th of May 1820, and sent to W m M c A. Buckley Esq. Poughkeepsie, N. York.
Arrears to 4th of March 1820, 170:83 Semi-annual all ce ending 4 Sep r 1820 48 21 4 3/4 months $218:83
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued page 144

On this Twenty fifth day of May in the year Eight Hundred and  one One Thousand Eighteen, before me Eliza Barlow one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Dutchess personally appears Lemuel Maxhorn aged Sixty Nine years resident in the Town of Haverstock  Washington who being by me first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, on order to obtain the provision made by the late Act of Congress entitled An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Na- val Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War That he the said Lemuel Maxhorn, enlisted in the Town of Brookline in the State of Massachusetts in the Month of January or February in the year the Winter next before the British Army evacuated Boston which he believes was in March in the year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Six, that he enlisted for the term of One year in the Company commanded by Captain Roger Lord, in Colonel Asahel Whittcomb's Regiment That the Colonel some time after was taken sick, and Major Traser took the com- mand of the Regiment, that he the said Lemuel Maxhorn continued to serve in the said Corps, or in the Service of the United States, until some time in December when he was discharged on account of his being sick by Gen- eral Schuyler at Albany, that his discharge has been destroyed supposing it useless to preserve it. That he was in the Battle on Lake Champlain when the American Army was defeated - That in the Town of Middlebury, in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts he enlisted again in the Month of April or May in the year One Thousand Seven Hundred Seventy Seven in the Company commanded by Captain Joshua Benson in Colonel Putnam Regiment. That he

he continued to serve in the said Corps or in the service of the United States until the tenth day of January then next following when he was discharged in Albany. That during this campaign he was in a number of Battles with the Indians and British, and particularly, he was in the Battle at Bemis Heights, where he was taken a prisoner and kept by the Enemy about four Weeks. That he en- listed again in the Town of Cold Brain in the Company commanded by Captain Thomas Pritchett in Colonel Gorton Regiment. The Third Regiment in the Massachusetts Line, that he then enlisted for three years, that he does not recollect the time he enlisted, but says he served in the said Corps or Army of the United States under his last enlistment about Eighteen Months when he was discharged at New Windsor in the County of Orange State of New York, and That he is so reduced in his circumstances as to stand in need of Assistance from his country for support. Sworn to and declared before me the Day and Year aforesaid.
Elisha Barlow

Dutchess County ss. Silas Leonard Silas Leonard -and of the Town of Kent in the County of Dutchess State of Connecticut, be- ing by me the subscriber duly sworn deposes That he was in the same Company and Regi- ment with the aforesaid Samuel Maxham during the term of his second enlistment, and that he knows the facts as stated by the aforesaid Samuel Maxham while in service during that time time to be true. Silas Leonard sworn and subscribed the 25 th Day of May 1818 - before me
Elisha Barlow one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Dutchess. State of New York
Dutchess County ss. I Elisha Barlow, one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Dutchess. do certify, that it ap- pears to my satisfaction that the said Samuel Maxham did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common Enemy; and I now transmit the proceed- ings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the department of War, pur- suant to the directions of the aforesaid Act of Congress. Dutchess County the 25 th May 1818
Elisha Barlow

I Jacob Van Riper Clerk of the County of Dutchess in the State of New York do hereby certify that Elisha before whom the preceding affidavits have been made is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Dutchess, and State of New York, of whose acts under the authority of his State and that the within are his signatures. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County this 22 nd day of May, 1818. — Jacob Van Riper
One Case Elisha Barlow Judge Poughkeepsie N. York Rec. June 3 rd 1818
J. C. Calhoun Secretary for the Department of War Washington

In the matter of Samuel Maxhom a Pensioner of the United States
17 189. Washington
29 May 1820.
Sept 1820
140
12 Nov 1820

At a Court of Common Pleas held at the Court House in the Village of Poughkeepsie in and for the County of Dutchess in the State of New York on Monday the twenty sixth day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty -
Present The Hon James Emott First Judge
Daniel O'Ver Planck
Abraham D Van Wyck Esquires Judges Thomas Sweet
Dutchess County ss: Be it remembered that on the 26 th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty personally appeared in the Court of Common Pleas in open Court the said Court being a Court of Record for the County of Dutchess in the State of New York - Samuel Markham aged about seventy one years resident in the town of Washington in the County of Dutchess aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary War as follows; That he enlisted on or about the first day of January one thousand seven hundred and seventy six at Roxbury (near Boston) in Massachusetts in Captain Moses Sibley's company in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Asa Whitcomb in the Massachusetts line for one year & that he served the whole term of his said enlistment in said Company and Regiment until January following when he was discharged at Albany in New York that he again enlisted afterwards at Colerain in Massachusetts in Captain Thomas Pritchett's company in the third Regiment of the Massachusetts line commanded by Colonel Gratten for three years - that he served under this latter enlistment one year and an half when he was dismissed by his Colonel on condition that if within the next eighteen months he was called for he should return and join the Army, but that he was never

called for - And that he received the aforesaid dismisal from his Colonel at New Windsor in the State of New York shortly after the news that peace was made had arrived - according to the deponents best recollection and belief; and that his original declaration is dated the twenty fifth day of May one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that his pension Certificate is N o 17.189 - And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 th 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 18 th day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen 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 to wit -
Real Estate I have none
Personal Estate
   one cow 1 small Iron Pot 1 scythe & snath old   2 Pigs 2 small Kettles 1 old hand saw   4 Hens 1 old Tea Kettle 1 scythe & cradle old   1 Old Table 1 Iron Basin 1 small looking glass   1 Dripser 1 Spider 1 Gun   2 Pails 1 old Frying Pan 1 p. Kentucky Wight   4 Wooden Bowls 1 old Shovel Horns 1 old linen Wheel   1 Small Churn 1 small brass Kettle old 1 Woolen Wheel   2 old barrels 2 Stone Jugs 1 Razor & Strop   6 Tin Pans 4 old Chairs 1 old Gridiron   1 lot of Crockery 1 low Chest 1 old Bake Pan   4 Pewter Spoons 1 pair bellows 1 Griddle   1 set Knives & fork old 1 axe   1 lot small tin ware 1 old hoe  

I have no debts due to me; but I owe the following debts to    John Marack  $10 —    Perry & White  10 —    R & S Haight  15 about    Mabbett & Davis  30 about    Back Rent to P. Howland  about 8 —     $73 —  
That the deponents family consists of himself and wife that the deponents wife is about sixty three years of age and severely affected by the Rheumatism. that he is a labourer has no trade and is now so weakly and infirm that he is unable to labour much —
Sworn and subscribed in open Court — Samuel his Markham mark this 26 day of June 1820.
W m Henry Buckley Depy Clerk
I John Johnston Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Dutchess in the State of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule 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 forty eight dollars and eighty two cents — In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this twenty sixth day of June in the year 1820
John Johnston Clerk

36 073 Rev INVALID.
File No. 86 073
Lemuel Maxhorn Rev Rev War
Act: 16 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 278
[Arrangement of 1870.]

100-5 Jan 1828
James Wilson St Jan 1828
General James Barbour Secretary of War Washington

Hon. James Garden Sir
I enclosed you the Applica- tion of Mr. L. Maxon to have his Pension transferred from the New York Agency to that of Conne- cticut as he has removed to the State of Connecticut with a view of spending the remaining days of his life in this State - Please have the goodness to attend to it & remit the evidence of the transfer to me (as he is a neighbor of mine) directed to the Furnace Village Post office Salisbury Conne- cticut - I am your obed Servt Salisbury Dec 29 Elisha Stetson 1827

Samuel Maxham, private Colonel Putnam's Reg't April 1877 to Jan'y 1878 Ariz
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Department of War
Washington
The services under the last mentioned account should be provided by a satisfactory notary public the theme of which is as will be stat'd
Secretary
Handwritten text in Arabic script, possibly a name or a short note.
St. Joseph's

State of New York 3 Dutchess County 3
vs. Ebenezer Knight of Poughkeepsie in the County of Dutchess being a person to me well known on this first day of December in the year one thousand eight hundred & eighteen appeared before me James Emott first judge of the said County and on oath declared that he knows Samuel Marshall now present of the town of Washington in the said County being present of that name who has made application for a pension from the United States and that he has known him for some years past having resided in the same town with him; that the said Samuel is a poor man and is so reduced in his circumstances as to stand in need of assistance from his country from which oath as well as the appearance of the said Samuel I am satisfied that the said Samuel is in such circumstances as aforesaid and is accordingly a fit object for the bounty of the country and I do further certify that Eliza Marshall the wife who certified the former paper is now out of commission and no longer one of the Judges of the County for which cause I have taken the above testimony. I make this certificate.
James Emott
I W m Henry Buckley Deputy Clerk of the County of Dutchess in the State of New York do hereby certify that the above named James Emott is first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County acting under the authority of this State and that the above is his signature -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this second day of December 1818.
W m Henry Buckley
Please forward the Pension Certificate to W m H enry Buckley Poughkeepsie

St. L. County I Ephraim Leonard of Sheffield in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do testify, that I was a soldier of the Revolutionary Army and enlisted & served during the whole of the year A.D. 1776 and am the same person to whom was granted the pension certificate N o . 3194 that I well recollect Lemuel Marsh who enlisted into the Company commanded by Captain Moses Soul, Col. Asahel Whitcomb, Regiment of the Massachusetts line, in the month of January A.D. 1776 - to serve for the period of one year. That I, Marsh & myself joined the company after at Roxbury in the month of April that we met together & were quartered in or about Boston until sometime in the month of August following when we were marched to Connecticut in the State of New York - where we continued to serve until some time the latter part of November following, when the said Lemuel Marsh was taken sick & was removed to Fort George - The deponent does not recollect, ever, after the said Lemuel was removed, of seeing him again, but always understood that he was regularly discharged from the service at the expiration of the term - A further says not - Ephraim Leonard
June 11 th 1819 -
I John Stannard of New Marlborough in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do testify & say, that I was a soldier of the Revolutionary Army, and enlisted & served during the whole year A.D. 1776, and am the same person to whom was granted the pension certificate N o 4230 - that I well recollect Lemuel Marsh who joined the same company to which I belonged commanded by Captain Moses Soul, Col. Asahel Whitcomb, Regiment of the Massachusetts line, on or about the same time that I

I always understood that S t Clement was regularly enlisted, & from his seeing I have no doubt of the fact. to seem for the whole year A.D. 1776-7. S t Clement continued to seem in S t Company at or near Boston until about the beginning of August when we march d together to Concord -roga in the state of New when we continued to seem for some time together. The deponent does not recollect at what time S t Marshom left the same but has no doubt he served out the whole year with the exception of suchness stated in Ephraim Leonard deposition - I further say not -
June 11 th 1819.
John Stannard
Berkshire ss June 11 th 1819
Then the within named and above named Ephraim Leonard & John Stannard personally appeared & made oath to the depo- -sitions by them respectively signed - I further certify that credit may be given to their declarations under oath -
Robert F. Dana and Just. of the Peace
Berkshire ss Janry 20 1820 -
I further certify that the above named Ephraim Leonard & John Stannard are personally known to the subscribers, & for aught I know or ever heard are men of truth & veracity, & are intitled to full credit
P. H. Dana and Justice of the Peace

I Zenas Wheeler of New Marlborough in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age Depose and say that I served in the army of the Revolution during the Year seventeen hundred and seventy-six in Capt. Moses Souths Company and in the Regiment Commanded by Col. Asa Whitcomb in the Massachusetts Line and that Lemuel Marshall served a private Soldier in said Company during the whole of said Year 1776 and further the deponent saith not.
Zenas Wheeler
Berkshire ss. New Marlborough June 9 th 1819 —
Then the above named Zenas Wheeler made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed
Before Benj. Wheeler Just. Peace
Berkshire ss. New Marlborough January 21 st 1820 —
I hereby Certify that the above Deponent Zenas Wheeler is a man of truth and veracity and his testimony may be relied as the truth in all cases —
Affidavit
Benj. Wheeler Just. Peace

I Seth Hubbard of Sandisfield in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age Depose and say that I served in the army the Revolution during the year Eighteen hundred and twenty six in Capt. Moses Dake Company and in the Regiment commanded by Col. Whiting in the Massachusetts Line and that Lemuel Mayham served in said Company during the whole of said year 1776 and further the Dependant saith not
Seth Hubbard
Berkshire ss Sandisfield June tenth A.D. 1819 then the above named Seth Hubbard made solemn Oath to the above deposition by him subscribed to be the truth.
Before Drake Mills Justice of Peace
I hereby certify that credit may be given to the declaration of the above named Seth Hubbard under oath. Attest Drake Mills Justice of the Peace

I the undersigned of New Marlborough in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of Lawfull Age Depose and say that I served in the Revolutionary Army the whole of the Gnare Switzer's hundred and twenty six, in Capt. Mosey South's Company, and Regiment commanded by Col. Asa Whitcomb, in the Massachusetts Line, and that Samuel Mathews a person to me well known, and has this day made affidavit to me for my deposition, served the whole of said year with me, and further the deponent saith not.
Asa Cole
New Marlborough - - - - - Berkshire June 10 th 1819 Personally appeared Asa Cole and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed
Before me - - - - - Jabez Warner Justice Peace
The Certificate on the back -

Dear Colk.
Deposition
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Northampton January 21 st 1828
I hereby certify that John Cole the within named Dependent is a man of truth and verac- ity and may be thus considered in all cases attest Levi Warner Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I, Joseph Woodbridge, Clerk of the Judicial Courts, within for the County of Berkshire, do certify & attest, that Robert H. Barnard, Benjamin Wheeler, Jason Warner, Drake Mills are Justices of the peace within for the same County, duly com- missioned & acting under the authority of this Commonwealth & that the foregoing are their Signatures.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said County this second day of July A.D. 1819.
J. Woodbridge C.M.

Lemuel Mathorn - Priv:
Col. A. Whicomb's Massachusetts Regt 1776 - 1 year - no rolls 25 May 1810
See testimony of the within witness in support of the above service.
"Wm H. Bulkley Esq Pukeepsie - N. York."
Admitted
Washington Dutches Co. N. York
Lemuel Mathorn
The Magistrates have not certified to the credibility of the witnesses. The magistrates have been contact for written

State of New York Dutchess County ss. I James Emott the judge within named do at the request of the within applicant do now return the paper of the applicant to the War Department with additional vouchers proving conclusively his service as a soldier in the revolutionary war for the whole of the year one thousand seven hundred & eighty six by persons who have obtained pensions for the same service and I do certify as before that the applicant is in reduced circumstances.
JAMES EMOTT first judge of Dutchess

Application for a Transfer
State of Connecticut - County of Litchfield p. Salisbury
On this 22 nd Day of December A. 1827, before me the Subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for said County of Litchfield Personally appeared Israel Hanson late of Washington in the County of Dutchess & State of New York now of Salisbury in the County of Litchfield aforesaid, who, on his Oath, declares that he is the same Person who formerly belonged to the Company comm- anded by Captain Pritchard in the Third Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Colonel Gaton in the Service of the United States; and that his Name was placed on the Pension Roll of the State of New York from whence he has lately removed; That he now resides in Salisbury in the County of Litchfield & State of Connecticut, where he intends to remain, and wishes his Pension to be there payable, in future; and that his Reasons for removing to Salisbury in the County of Litchfield & State of Connecticut were that he got entangled with Debts & had no Colateral in said Town of Washington; and that he had some Friends & Acquaintances living in Salisbury and Sharon in said State of Connecticut where he hoped he could and in part has gotten some assistance from his Friends about

about his affairs & the support of his Family -
Sworn & subscribed to before his Lemuel Mark Mayhew one the Day and year afo..
John G Mitchell Justice of Peace
I Elisha Sterling of Salisbury in the County of Litchfield State of Connecticut do hereby say that I have known Lemuel Mayhew the Deponent named & described in the afo. affidavit for more than twenty years last past & will know him to be the same person described in the afo. affidavit & further the Deponent saith as he.
Sworn & subscribed to Elisha Sterling before me this 22 nd day of December D. 1827.
John G Mitchell Justice of Peace
This may certify that I am acquainted with Elisha Sterling & know the Deponent last afo. & that he is a person of veracity Salisbury Dec. 22 nd 1827.
John G Mitchell Justice of Peace

I Frederick Wolcott Clerk of the County Court or Court of Common Pleas within & for the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut, certify to whom it shall or may concern, that John G. Mitchell Esq. was on the 22 nd day of instant December, & that he now is a Justice of the Peace within said County legally commissioned & qualified, that the signatures to the preceding Certificates which purport to be his own genuine & his proper hand writing, & that full credence is due to his official acts and attestations. Witness my hand & the Seal of said Court This 28 th day of December A. D. 1827. Frederick Wolcott

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Maxim, William GRADE Private LINE Pennsylvania
WARRANT NUMBER 9908 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED February 28, 1797 To Philip Schrader, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.