Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 28906, for Stephen Talmage, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Falmage, Stephen
S. 28906
CONTENTS

New York 30,934
Stephen Talmage
Suffolk Co. in the State of N. York who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Davis of the Regt. commanded by Col. Livingston in the N. York line for 11. months & one day
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 36 Dollars 75 Cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 rd day of Jany. 1837 and sent to George Miller Esq. Smithtown, N.Y.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. '36 202.12 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4. Mar. '37. 18.36
$220.48
{ Revolutionary Claim. Act June 7, 1832. 28.1836
Clerk
Recorded by D. Brown Book E. 2. Vol. 4.
Page 72
See letter to P. Agt. Jan. 12. 1837
Order to pay 21. Nov 1837.

State of New York
County of Suffolk } To: on the second day of October one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open court in the court of common Pleas in and for the County of Suffolk being a court of Record and so constituted by an act of the Legislature of the State of New York, Stephen Palmer resident in the said County aged seventy three years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18 th March 1818 and 1 st May 1820: That he the said Stephen Palmer some time in the month of April in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty six, as Bridger Hampton in the said County of Suffolk and State of New York, enlisted in the company commanded by Captain John Davis in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Henry B. Livingston in the line of the State of New York on the continental estab- -lishment that he continued to serve in the said corps until the expiration of the said term of nine months, at which time he was in Fort Montgomery in the State of New York then he then volunteered to continue in the said service two months longer and he continued to serve in Fort Montgomery under the command of General George Clinton during the said two months, and until some time in the fore part of the month of March in the year one thous- -and seven hundred and twenty seven when he was discharged from the said service at the said Fort Montgomery in the

State of New York, that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the pension, that his name is not on the roll of any State except the State of New York, that the only reason why he has not made an earlier application for a pension was his desire to live by his own industry, until the infirmities of age have driven him to make the application, which his friends and neighbors have been urging him to do for years -
and in pursuance of the act of the 18 th May 1820 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 any 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 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 that since the 18 th of March 1818 no material changes have been made in my property nor any changes at all except the change of cows and swine and perhaps some earthen ware, but the value thereof has not been materially

attend, That I am by trade a weaver but my principal occupation now is daily labor as a farmer which I am ill able to pursue by reason of the infirmities of old age. That my family consists of my wife aged sixty eight years and myself, and that I am in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to support myself except by the aid of public or private charity.
(Signed) Stephen Salnave
Schedule of all the estate both real and personal of Stephen Salnave above named, except his necessary bedding and wearing apparel -
Real Estate.
Homestead farm with house and barn and seven or eight acres of land situate in the Town of South Hampton in the County of Suffolk and bounded Easterly by the land of Lyman Hedges, Southerly by the land of Stephen Salnave Junior, Westerly and Northerly by the highway. Valued at — 300. 00
Personal property.
Two cows ————— 25. 00 Two hogs ————— 4 00 3 Tables ————— 2 00
(carried over) $331, 00

   (Branys is over)  $ 331. 00    9 Chairs —  2. 00    1 high chair —  50    chest of drawers —  1. 00    Clock —  10. 00    1 looking glass —  25    12 cups & saucers —  37 1/2    1 glass pitcher —  25    8 Tumblers —  37 1/2    1 Bruntin —  25    1 Deupot —  13 1/2    1 Milk Pot —  8    2 dozen Earthen Plates —  1. 00    1 Stank —  25     $ 347. 43   
(Signed)
Stephen Fulmer
Schedule of the assets owing by the said Stephen Fulmer -
   Samuel Hunting —  143. 29    Stephen Huley —  105. 64    Estate of Samuel H. Rose —  123. 00     $ 371. 93   
(Signed)
Stephen Fulmer

I Joseph B. Huntington Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Suffolk do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the court that the said Stephen Talmadge did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months under one engagement, on the continental es- tablishment. I also certify that the fore- going oath and the Schedule thereto an- nexed 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 three hundred and forty seven dollars & 43 cents and that the said Stephen Talmadge is justly in- debted to the amount of three hundred and sev- enty one dollars and ninety three cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and here- affixed the seal of the said Court on this Ninth day of October one thousand eight hundred and thirty two
Joseph B. Huntington Clerk

State of New York } County of Suffolk } ss.
I Joseph R Hunting Clerk of the said County of Suffolk do hereby certify that George Miller whose name is subscribed to the jurats of several affidavits hereto annexed was on the several days of the dates of those jurats, and still is a commissioner of deeds in and for the said County duly authorized to take affidavits and that I believe his name subscribed to the jurats and certificates hereto annexed is in his own proper hand writing I being acquainted with the same.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 15 th day of November 1833-
Joseph R Hunting

Suffolk County Jo.
Personally appeared Nathan Fordham who being by me duly sworn on oath, saith that he a soldier was in the army of the United States in the year 1776 in a Regiment Commanded by Col. Henry 73 Lexington and stationed at Montauk, and continued in said service until 10 th March 1777, being 12 months, and that he knows that Stephen Talmage of the Town of Southampton in said County was in the service and served in the same Regiment & Company with him, and that he verily believes the said Talmage did serve the same length of time in the aforesaid service and Regiment, that he the deponent did, and further the deponent saith as before me, the 5 th day of June 1832
Nathan Fordham
J.B. Havens Justice Peace
I Henry B Havens the justice of the peace before whom the above deposition was taken do hereby certify that Nathan Fordham above named is a neighbour of mine with whom I am well acquainted that he is a man of unquestionable veracity and worthy of belief on oath. Dated the 31 st day of May 1834-
J.B. Havens Justice Peace

Affidavit of Nathan Fordham

State of New York
County of Suffolk ss: Sylvanus Halsey of the Town of Southampton in the County of Suffolk the aforesaid being duly sworn doth depose and say that he was a soldier in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War in the year 1778 in the company commanded by Captain John Davis in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Henry B. Livingston, that this deponent served in the said company from March in that year till the last day of December, that Stephen Talmadge the applicant in the annexed papers named served in the same company with this deponent from March aforesaid until December the first day of January following to the personal knowledge of this deponent that this deponent then left the service and the said Stephen Talmadge volunteered to stay two months longer in the service which he did as this deponent understood and believes, that he did not return home until March following
Sworn & subscribed this 3 rd day of October 1822 before me
Sylvanus Halsey
George Miller
Commissioner of Bonds
I certify that I am acquainted with the above named Sylvanus Halsey, that he is a man of respectability and worthy of belief on oath - Dated November 6 th 1833,
George Miller
Commissioner of Bonds

State of New York } County of Suffolk } ss: Abraham Sherrill of the Town of East Hampton in the County of Suffolk being duly sworn swith he is aged seventy nine years that he was a Soldier in the Army of the Revolution in the Company commanded by Captain John Davis in the Regiment com- manded by Colonel Henry B. Livingston for the term of nine months, that he enlisted some time in the Spring of the year 1778 he thinks in the fore part of April and served until some time in January following but this deponent cannot state the exact time of his enlistment and discharge, that Stephen Talmadge of the Town of Southhampton was during the whole term of the service of deponent a soldier in the same Company and Regiment with this deponent and that he was regularly discharged from the said service at Fort Mon- mouth in the State of New York that after their regular discharge, at the solicitation of General Clinton the said Stephen Talmadge and this deponent continued to serve two months longer and they then left the service together being regularly discharged or dismissed again
Abraham Sherrill
On the 6 th day of November 1833 before me came Abraham Sherrill with whom I am acquainted and who is a person of respectability and worthy of belief on oath, and subscribed and made oath to the above deposition.
George Miller Commissioner of Courts.

Know all men by these presents that I Stephen Talmage of the town of Southampton, County of Suffolk and State of New York, for and in consideration of the sum of one hundred and two Dollars fifteen cents in hand paid to me by Samuel Huntington of the town aforesaid the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, have granted, bargained and sold, and by these presents do grant bargain and sell unto the said Samuel Huntington, his heirs and assigns forever, all that tract of Land, with the building thereon situate where the said Talmage now resides, bounded and contained as follows, North by the Highway, West by the Highway, South by the land of Richard, a black man, East by land owned by Jonah or Mr. Tarbell, being at a place commonly called Scuttle Hole, with all and singular the appurtenances and privileges to the same belonging, and I the said Stephen Talmage for myself my heirs executors and administrators do hereby warrant and defend the same to the said Samuel Huntington his heirs and assigns forever against the lawful claim or claims of any person or persons, whatever as witness my hand and seal at Sag Harbor the thirtyth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & eighteen - The conditions of the above written deed is such that if the aforesaid Stephen Talmage shall well and truly pay in Cash to be paid unto Samuel Huntington aforesaid, at or before the thirtyth day of April next, summing from the date of these presents, one hundred and two Dollars fifteen cents with the interest according to a certain note, given by me the said Talmage to the said Huntington at the same time with the date of these premises, then this deed to all intents to be void, otherwise to be and remain in full force and virtue -
Signed, Sealed, & delivered in the presence of Daniel Browne Benj m Huntington
Stephen Talmage

Suffolk County ss Be it remembered that on the 30 th day of April 1818 before me E Sage Master in Chancery for the State of New York, personally appeared Stephen Talmadge acknowledged he signed, sealed and delivered the within mortgage as his voluntary act and deed, for the uses and purposes therein named. And having examined the same, and finding no material erasures or interlineations do allow the same to be recorded -
6 Sage
Registered in Suffolk County Register of Mortgages Liber F pages 259 & 260 this 30 th day of April 1818. By H. P. Denny Asst County Clerk.

State of New York Suffolk County } ss Samuel Huntington of the town of Southampton in the County of Suffolk being duly sworn deposes and saith, that the annexed copy of a conditional Deed or Mortgage and the annexed copy of a note, are true copies of an original conditional Deed or Mortgage and note chose by the Defendant against the therein named Stephen Talmadge and the Defendant further saith that the amount due on the said note and mortgage or conditional Deed on the seventeenth day of September instant is one hundred forty three Dollars twenty five cents. And that the consideration for which the said debt was contracted to the best of the recollection and belief of the Defendant was for goods sold to Daniel Talmadge the son of the said Stephen Talmadge. And at a time long prior to the date of said note and Deed or mortgage and from the said Defendant saith not - Sworn & subscribed before me this 15 th day of September 1832. } Samuel Huntington
Hugh H. H. Commissioner of Deeds for Suffolk County State of New York -
State of New York Suffolk County } ss Samuel Huntington in the above deposition named being duly sworn deposes and further say that the goods sold to Daniel Talmadge which was the original consideration of the debt for which the before mentioned conditional Deed or Mortgage was given, were sold as early as the year 1808, that Stephen Talmadge the father became security to this defendant for the debt by giving his note either individually or jointly with his son more than a year before the date and time of giving the said conditional Deed, and this defendant thinks and believes it was given several years

before the date of the said deed, that the said deed was taken by this deponent in good faith as security for the said debt, that at the time the said deed was so taken the said Daniel Salverage was considered and believed by this deponent to be a poor man, and wholly unable to pay the said debt, and the said Daniel Salverage still is and ever since has been poor and unable to pay the said debt as this deponent truly believes.  Subscribed & sworn to the 14 th day of August 1874 before me } Samuel Huntting
George Miller Commissioner of Deeds.
State of New York,
County of Suffolk } ss: Stephen Salverage the above named applicant saith being duly sworn saith that he gave his individual note to Colonel Samuel Huntting above named for a debt due from his son Daniel several years before he gave the conditional deed to the said Samuel Huntting to secure the same debt, that this deponent first became security for the said debt at the request of his son Daniel and the said Samuel Huntting. That the said deed was afterwards given as security for the said debt at the request of the said Samuel Huntting. That his son Daniel at the time of his giving the said deed was and ever since hath been, and still is a poor man unable to pay the said debt or to indemnify this deponent for its payment, and that this deponent has never received any payment or indemnification for the said debt. And this deponent further saith that when the said deed was given he had no knowledge whatever of the pension law passed March 18. 1818 under which his application is made.
Stephen Salverage
Sworn & Subscribed this 14 th day of August 1874 before me }
George Miller. Commissioner of Deeds.

This indenture made the thirtieth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, Between Stephen Talmage of Southampton in the County of Suffolk, State of New York of the first part, And Stephen Halsey of the same place of the second part Witnesseth, That whereas the said Stephen Talmage the party of the first part by a certain writing sealed with the seal the date of which is on the thirtieth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, For value received the said Stephen Talmage did promise to pay the said party of the second part on his order, the sum of eighty five Dollars, fifty two Cents, lawful money of the United States of America, with the interest for the same, Now therefore this indenture further Witnesseth, That the said party of the first part for the better securing, and more sure payment of the sum mentioned in the said writing sealed as aforesaid according to the true intent and meaning thereof, And of these presents, And also in consideration of one Dollar to him in hand paid by the said party of the second part, at and before the sealing and delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, Hath granted, bargained and sold, aliened remised, released, conveyed and confirmed, And by these presents doth grant, bargain and sell, alien, remise, release, convey and confirm unto the said party of the second part and to his heirs and assigns forever, All that certain piece or parcel of Land Situate in the town of Southampton, Containing by estimation six acres and sixty rods of ground, be the same more or less & bounded as follows, On the west by the lands of Ellis Squire, On the North by the Land of Samuel Brown, On the South by the Highway And terminating at a point on the East - Together with all and singular the rights, members, privileges and appurtenances therein belonging, or in anywise appertaining and also all the estate, right, title, interest, dower, possession, claim and demand of the said party of the first part, of, in, or to the same and the reversion, and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents issues and profits thereof - To Have and to hold the Premises granted premises with all and singular the rights, members, privileges, hereditaments, and appurtenances, therein to belonging,

belonging unto the said party of the second part and to his heirs and assigns, the sole and only proper use, benefit and behoof of the said party of the second part his heirs & assigns forever. Provided always nevertheless, that it is the true intent and meaning of the parties to these presents, that if the said party of the first part, his heirs, executors or administrators, shall well and truly pay, or cause to be paid, unto the said party of the second part, his executors administrators or assigns the sum mentioned in the aforesaid writing, sealed as aforesaid, together with the interest due and to grow due thereon, and the whole, that is to say both principal and interest, in goods gold and silver coin only and not in paper money, bank notes, or bills of credit of any kind or description whatever, upon any occasion or pretence whatever, any law or laws hereafter to be made, or any custom or usage to the contrary thereof notwithstanding, according to the plain and true intent and meaning of the said writing sealed as aforesaid, and of these presents, at the time specified for the payment thereof, that then and from thenceforth, these presents, & every thing herein contained, shall cease, determine, and be absolutely void, otherwise, stand, be and remain, in full force, power, and virtue. And the said party of the first part, doth hereby authorize and impower, the said party of the second part, his heirs executors, administrators and assigns (in case default shall be made in the payment of the money above secured to be paid) to enter upon and sell all and singular the premises hereby granted, in manner and form as is directed and required in and by the act in such case made and provided, and out of the monies arising from such sale, to retain the principal and interest due on the said writing sealed as aforesaid, any right, or equity of redemption of the said party of the first part, his heirs or assigns to the same notwithstanding. The witnesses whereof the parties to these presents, have hereunto interchangeably set their hands and seals the day and year above written. Sealed & delivered in the presence of Hugh Halsey
William Talmage

State of New York
Suffolk County
Be it remembered that on the thirtieth day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty before me Hugh Halsey one of the Commissioners in and for said County personally appeared Stephen Talmadge to me well known, who acknowledged that he signed and sealed the within instrument of mortgage as his voluntary act for the uses and purposes therein mentioned, and having examined the same and finding no material erasures or interlineations, do allow the same to be recorded. Octo 30 th 1820
Hugh Halsey Comr.
Registered and the power of sale together with the acknowledgment recorded in Suffolk County Lib. II of Mortgages pages 356 & 357. this 8 th day of Nov r 1820 at 1 o'clock P.M.
Henry The Dering Esq. Atty.
$82.52 One day after date for value received I promise to pay Stephen Halsey or order, eighty two Dollars, fifty two Cents with the interest from date until paid, Witness my hand and seal, October 30 th 1820.
Witness Hugh Halsey
Stephen Talmadge

State of New York Suffolk County - § 8 Stephen Halsey of Southampton in said County being first sworn, depose and saith that the annexed copies of said Mortgage and note, are true copies of the Original Mortgage and note held by the deponent against the therein named Stephen Tolman. That the consideration for which the debt was contracted was for money lent by the said deponent to the said Stephen Tolman, and at a time long previous to the date of said Mortgage and note, but at what precise time the deponent does not recollect. And the deponent further saith that there is now at this date actually due on said note and mortgage the sum of one hundred and five Dollars and sixty four cents. And further this deponent saith not.
Sworn before me and subscribed by making his mark thereto this 17 th day of September 1882 Hugh Halsey Commissioner of Deeds for Suffolk County State of New York
Stephen Halsey Mark

State of New York,
county of Suffolk } to Abraham T. Rose of the Town of Southampton in the said county of Suffolk being duly sworn with that he is an Executor of the last will of Samuel H. Rose late of the said Town deceased that there is a judgment in favour of the Estate of the said deceased against Stephen Talmadge the affiant for a joint sum in the several judgments named and Daniel Talmadge his son, on which there is now due including interest the sum of one hundred and twenty three dollars, that the original consid- -eration of the said debt was merchandise sold and delivered and medical services as a Physician, that the said debt had been owing for a number of years before the giving of the said judgment this deponent cannot say how long but he believes ten or twelve years that the said Daniel Talmadge is a man worth little or no property this deponent believes he is worth nothing -
Sworn and subscribed this 4 th day of October 1832 before me
Abraham T. Rose
George Miller
Commissioner of Bonds -

Talmage Stephen & } Tamage Daniel } ads } Samuel H Rose }
Transcript Filed } September 2 } 1828 }
Indgement for Plaintiff Damages & Cost $95.57 100
19 June 1828

State of New York } County of Suffolk } ss:
I Joseph B. Huntington Clerk of the County of Suffolk and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the docket of a judgment now remaining of record in my office, I do further certify that Henry B. Slawson whose name is subscribed to the affidavit of Nathan Fordham hereto annexed was on the day of the date thereof a justice of the peace of the said County duly commissioned, that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe the said affidavit to be subscribed in his own proper hand writing. I do further certify that Hugh Halsey and George Miller one of whose names is subscribed to the several juries of the several other affidavits hereto annexed were on the several days of the dates thereof severally commissioners of Bails in and for the said County duly authorized to take affidavits that I am acquainted with their respective hand writing and verily believe that their names subscribed as aforesaid are in their own respective proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this tenth day of October one thousand eight hundred and thirty two -
Joseph B. Huntington Clk

I John P. Osborn late a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Suffolk, and now Collector of the Port of Long Harbor do hereby certi- fy that I am well acquainted with Abraham Sheril, Silvanus Halsey and Nathan Forthum, the former of whom has always resided in my native village and the latter of whom has been for several years a neighbor of mine That they are all persons of fair char- acter and unquestionable veracity and worthy of belief under oath - Butcher June 5 th 1834 -
John P. Osborn
I Samuel Miller of the Town of East Hampton in Suffolk County, a justice of the peace of the said County do hereby certi- fy that I am well acquainted with Abra- ham Sheril whose deposition is hereto annexed, that we have always resided in the same Town and village and that he is a man of fair character and res- pectability and worthy of belief on oath - Butcher June 5 th 1834 -
Samuel Miller

I Hugh Hulsey First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Suffolk do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Stephen Bulmage the applicant for a pension in the annexed papers and also with Sylvanus Hulsey and Nathan Fordham whose several depositions are annexed the two former of whom live in the same neighbourhood with me that they are all persons fair char- acter and credibility and fully to be believed on oath and I further certify that the said Stephen Bulmage is respected and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a revolutionary soldier and I concur in that opinion
Hugh Hulsey
I Abraham P. Rose attorney and counsellor at Law do hereby certify that I live in the im- mediate neighbourhood of the Hon. Hugh Hulsey above named and am well acquainted with all the three persons named in the above certificate and I fully concur in the opinions of Judge Hulsey as expressed in the said certificate. Dated June 6 th 1834 -
Abraham P. Rose

I Joseph B. Huntington Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Suffolk do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with John P. Osborn, Samuel Miller, Hugh Halsey and Abraham D. Rose, that they severally do or have held the offices or stations as stated in the said certificates - and that I believe the signatures to the said four certificates are in the proper hand writing of the said individuals respectively I being acquainted with them -
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand under seal of office this Twelfth day of June 1834 -
Joseph B. Huntington Clk

State of New York
Suffolk County } ss
Stephen Tahsage the Applicant for a pension in the annexed paper, named being truly sworn, deposes and saith that on the 18 th of March 1818. He proposed the following articles of personal property to wit,
Two Cows. worth about $ 25.00 Two Hogs worth about 4.00 Three Tables worth about 3.00 Nine Chairs worth about 3.00 One High chest worth about 0.50 Chest of Drawers worth about 1.00 One Looking Glass worth about 0.25 12 Cup. & Saucers worth about 0.37 1/2 1 Glass Pitcher worth about 0.25 6 Mugs worth about 0.37 1/2 One Decanter worth about 0.25 One Tea Pot worth about 0.12 1/2 1 Milk Pot " 6 2 Doy for the Platter worth about 1.00 One Stand worth about 0.25
That he proposed no other personal property at that time and the deponent further saith that since the 18 th day of March 1818. he sold one Cow. because he was old and purchased another of about the same value which he now possesses. that he sold and butchred one Cow that he possessed on the 18 th of March 1818. and purchased another of about the same value which he now possesses. that in the fall of each year since 1818. he has killed two hogs. and purchased two sheets. and now possesses two of about the value of those mentioned in the above schedule. That no change has been made in the Tables. Chairs or other articles above enumerated. except the earthen & Glass ware - many of which articles have been broken and others purchased of about the same value to supply their places. and two or three of the Chairs have been broken that in addition to the articles above enumerated which he possessed on the 18 th of March 1818. he now possesses one Clock of about the value of ten Dollars - And the deponent further saith that the value of all the personal property which he now possesses does not amount to more than the value of the personal property which he possessed on the 18 th day of March

1875. Except the Clock above mentioned. And further that it is impossible for him to state precisely the charges that have been made nor the times such charges were made. More particularly than he has set forth in this affidavit. That he has made no exchanges of property except as herein set forth. Sworn & subscribed before me this 17 th day November 1834 - { Hugh Halsey First Judge of Suffolk County  Stephen Saluage
State of New York, Suffolk Co. ss. I Joseph R Hunting Clerk of the said County do hereby certify that Hugh Halsey whose name is subscribed to the jurat of the above affidavit on the 17 th day of November last past was and still is First Judge of the County Court of the said County of Suffolk duly qualified to take affidavits & that I believe his name so subscribed to be in his own proper hand writing. I also certify that George Miller whose name is subscribed to the jurats of the supplemental affidavits of Samuel Hunt- ing & Stephen Saluage in the within papers on the 14 th day of August last past was and still is a Commissioner of deeds in & for the said County duly qualified to take affidavits and that I believe his name subscribed to the said jurats is in his own proper hand writing. I being accompanied with the same & also with the hand writing of the said Judge
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 23 rd day of December 1834 -
Joseph R Hunting Clk

Stephen Talmage.

24th CONGRESS, 1st Session.
H. R. 282.
FEBRUARY 4, 1836.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. LAY, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill:
An Act
A BILL
For the relief of Stephen Talmage.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 2 of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That 3 the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, directed to place 4 Stephen Talmage, of the county of Suffolk, in the State of New 5 York, on the pension roll of the United States, and that there be 6 allowed to the said Talmage, the sum of thirty-six dollars and 7 seventy-five cents per annum, during his natural life, to commence 8 on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one.
Approved 28 th June 1836
A true Copy compared with the Roll in this office
Alvan Britton Chief clerk
Dept. of State June 30 th 1836

Mechanics Bank New York 17 th Nov r 1837
Sir
I enclose for your examination the papers in the case of Stephen Salimago a Rivale at $36 75 per Annum, who claims his pension from the 1 st of Sept- ember 1836.
Very Respectfully Your Obed Servt J Rowland Jr
James L Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions Washington

Jan 12 James Carr
X Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
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Mechanics Bank New York 9 th Jan y 1837
Sir
I take the liberty of enclosing a Copy of your Letter of the 3 rd Inst t . being apprehensive that the amount of Pension has been by mistake overrated, and at the same time request that you will please inform me, upon which of the Rolls of this Agency, the Pensioner therein named is to be classed
Very Respectfully
Your O bt Serv t
St d Fleming Pres t of the Ag y
James N o Edwards Esq y Commissioner of Pensions

Copy
War Department Pension Office Jan'y 3. 1837
Sir
Be pleased to inscribe on your roll the name of Stephen Talmadge, Private, a Revolutionary Pensioner, at the rate of thirty six dollars and seventy five Cents per month , commencing on the 24 th of March, 1831, under the act of June 28, 1836, and pay his pension up to the time of the last Semi-annual payment, if he should be still living; and, if not, you will pay the money due up to the day of his death.
Pensions under the above act are to be paid immediately on the production of the proper vouchers.
I am, respectfully,
Your Obedient Servant,
(Signed) J. S. Edwards
To the Agent for paying Pensioners at New York.

Printhead. Long Island - December 17 th 1835 -
Hon: Abel Huntington. of the House of Representatives
Dear Sir -
Stephen Dalmadge of Bridge Hampton will forward to you a petition to congress that his name may be placed upon the pension Roll. I believe you are already somewhat acquainted with his case, but that all the circumstances of his application to the War Department may be fully understood, I beg leave to present to you the following statement -
The declaration with affidavits of his service and various documents proving his indigent circumstances, were forwarded to the department late in the year 1832. They remained there eight or nine months when the following letter was received by me -
(Copy)
War Department Pension Office
August 19 - 1833
Sir - The papers in the case of Stephen Dalmadge have been examined and they are herewith returned. The proof of service is not satisfactory. The witnesses should prove an actual service of at least nine months and the Magistrate who administered the oaths to them should certify to their credibility. The papers must be properly authenticated. The enclosed printed instructions will show more particularly what is required.
Very Respectfully
Your Obed Servt
J L Edwards.
George Niles Esqr
Support C. H.
N York -

In pursuance of the instructions of the foregoing letter additional proof of service was procured and the credibility of all the witnesses was certified by the proper magistrates except Mr Fordham but as there was as much pos- itive testimony as the rules of the department require without Mr Fordham's affidavit and as the certificate of the magistrates before whom he was sworn could not then be obtained without some extra trouble it was omitted. The papers thus prepared were again for- warded to the department in the latter part of the year 1833. where they remained until the May following when a letter was received of which a copy follows.
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War Department
Pension Office.
May 20 - 1834 -
Sir -
The papers in the case of Stephen Tallmadge are herewith returned. The credibility of all the witnesses must first be certified before a final decision can be had. This is considered a very doubtful claim. I am Sir
Geo Miller Esq Suffolk, C.H. New York -
Very respectfully Your obed. Servt J. L. Edwards
after the receipt of this letter the credibility of Mr Fordham was certified by the proper office. And having not the least suspicion but what the doubtfulness of the claim mentioned in this letter referred to the question whether the applicant had actually served or not; and having had not the least intimation but what the papers were in all other respects sufficient. additional certificates

as to the character of the applicants and the witnesses were examined in order to remove every shadow of doubt as to the actual service of the applicants as he had stated. With these additions the papers were again returned to the department by yourself and soon after you sent me the following letter addressed to you.
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War Department
Pension Off
June 28- 1834-
Sir. I have the Honor to return you the papers in support of the claim of Stephen Dabnedge, to the provisions of the acts of 18 May 1818 & 1 May 1820.
By referring to the notes subjoined to the accompa- nying printed form you will perceive that it is nec- essary to furnish a schedule of each article of property in possession on the 18 th March 1818 and the changes which have taken place since.
The schedule of estimated property in present possession amounts to $347 43/100 which is not reduced by the liability created by the mortgages or conditional deeds to Samuel Huntington & Stephen Hulsey; nor by the unexecuted Judgement in favor of the estate of Samuel H. Bove. The deed to Huntington admitted to record 30 th April 1818 appears to have executed in consideration of "goods sold to Daniel Dabnedge son of Stephen Dabnedge - long prior to the date of said note and deed or mortgage." No account of the origin of any debt from claimant to is given whereby he became involved in his sons debts. Until the estimated amount of property shall be actually reduced below its present estimate by sale, of the proceeds thereof accounted for agreeably to the regulations

had care for the claimant, that he must be driven from his little home where he has lived more than 50 years and which he occupies solely through kindness and forbearance of his creditors, in order that he may receive the bounty of the government, But his creditors utterly refuse to sell his property as long as he lives. it makes him a home it is true but it cannot afford him any thing like the comforts of life in his old age. I had supposed debts of the claimant were set off against the value of the property in his possession, Such has been the case in many instances particularly the cases of Goldsmith Davis Christopher Youngs and Richard Davis. Several affidavits were added to the papers to obviate the difficulties stated in the foregoing letter, and the papers were again returned to the department by yourself - and the following letter was returned
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War Department Pension Office January 12 th 1835--
Sir.
I have the honor to inform you that the claim of Stephen Dulmage under the act of March 18-1818 has been again examined and is suspended. He has not complied with the regulations which were returned with his papers. The Court should give a certificate as to the value of the land and the amount of his chattels and he should show satisfactory reasons for delaying his application to 1832. The date of the mortgage and execution when taken

in connection with the fact that he still holds and enjoys the property covered by the constitutes a considerable difficulty in deciding whether he should be deemed indigent in the contemplation of the law and the regulations his papers are filed on file.
Hon A Huntington } House of Reps. }
I have the Honor to be
Your Ob t Serv t
J. L. Edwards -
It will be seen by the papers forwarded after this letter was written that the court gave a full certificate as to the value of the land of the claimant. That the most ample evidence of absolute property of the claimant was shown and that further explanations were given as to his delay in not making his application until 1832. It is singular that this defect should escape notice until the papers had been before the department three years, while the claimant had been answering objections one after another as they had been made by the department. The regulation mentioned in the above letter as not complied with must be the mandatory required by note (g) We have before shown that that note requires only a inventory of articles deposited in 1818 and since parted with. The additional papers were forwarded together with a letter of which the following is a copy -
Supp the Court House May 30 th 1835
Sir. I have taken the first opportunity after the receipt of the letter to Hon. A Huntington of January 12 th to obtain a certificate of the court of common Pleas as to the value of the property of Stephen Talmadge. I have added the deposition

of Judge Halsey. If it is required testimony to almost any extent, and of the most unexception- able character can be procured to prove the absolute poverty of the applicant his personal honesty and the truth of the statements in his declaration and in the inventory of his estate. As this application has from various causes been so long pending we hope the department will feel authorized to grant the pension from near the time the application was first made.
I am Very Respectfully Your Obl Servt.
Hon: Lewis Cass. George Miller In reply the following letter was received.
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War Department
Pensions Office.
June 27. 1835.
Sir. The additional papers in the case of Stephen Dalmage enclosed in yours of the 30 th ultimo have been examined by reference to the letter of the 12 th January last to the Hon A Huntington upon which will find that it was objected that he had not complied with the regulations which had been forwarded to him They require a specific enumeration of each article of property in possession on the 18 th of March 1818 and a particular account of its subsequent disposition as well as of the property in possession now. This has not been complied with to this time. nor have the other object- tions growing out of the facts disclosed by his papers in relation to the date of his mortgages for his sons debts and his continued enjoy-

- much of the property covered by those mortgages been obviated. Under all the circumstances of the case his claim cannot be allowed -
I am very Respectfully
Gov. Mills Esq.
Your Ob t Servant
Smithtown
Geo. Wm. Crampton
Suffolk Co.
Acting Commissioner of Pensions
N York -
Thus has the claim of an admitted soldier of the Revolution been rejected after a suspension of three years and a half - And the main objection is that he did not comply with a regulation which in fact had no existence. The regulations require no inventory of the property in possession on 18 th March 1818, whatever, unless there have been changes - and then it is only of the articles then owned and since disposed of - The papers show that no changes have taken place since March 18-1818 except in cows and hogs which have been killed and eaten in the family and perhaps a few articles of clothing worn, the items of which article by article, it is impossible in the very nature of things he should be able to state after a lapse of fourteen years - It is also said that other objections growing out of the facts in the case are not obviated, these objections are not specified but it does seem to me that no person can read all the papers in this case, without being satisfied of the indigence of the applicant and the justice of his claim to a pension, unless he imputes perjury and fraud to several of the most respectable citizens of the Town of Smithtown - Such Sir I conceive to be the general facts

and merits of this case I hope his ap- -plication to congress may not be in vain.
I am very truly &
Respectfully Yours
ooh Sir
George Miller

State of New York
Suffolk County
ss: I Joseph R Hunting Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Suffolk do hereby certify that on the 27 th day of May 1835 - in open court in the said Court of Common Pleas it was proved to the satisfaction of the said Court, and that such is the opinion of the Court, that the real estate of Stephen Dalmage as stated in the schedule of his estate filed in this court on his application for a pension under the acts of Congress of the 18 th March 1818 and 1 st May 1820 does not exceed in value the sum of three hundred dollars, and that his personal estate as stated in the said schedule does not exceed in value forty seven dollars and forty three cents - and also that it was proved to the satisfaction of the said Court that the said Stephen Dalmage is very poor and in such straitened circumstances as to have been during the past winter scarcely able to obtain the necessaries of life
In Witness Whereof I have affixed my hand and the seal of the said Court this 27 th day of May 1835 -
Joseph R Hunting clk

State of New York, Suffolk County }
So: Hugh Halsey of the Town of Southampton in the said County being duly sworn, saith that he lives in the same vicinity with Stephen Dul- mage the applicant for a Revolution- ary pension in the annexed certificate named, and is well acquainted with him that this deponent had several conversations with him in the course of several years previous to his making his application for a pension, that he once requested this deponent to make the application for him and this deponent declined because he was then unacquain- ted with the laws and the method of proceed- ing to obtain the pension, but this deponent then and at every conversation he had with him advised him to get some one to make the application, that such advice was given from a knowledge of the circumstances of the said Stephen Dulmage and a belief that his poverty entitled him to it - and this deponent is positive from his knowledge of the character of the said Stephen Dulmage and of all the circumstances attending his application that nothing ought to be inferred unfavorable to the applicant on account of his delay in making the application, that the said Dulmage is very poor and scarcely able to obtain the necessaries of life -
Subscribed & sworn to
27 th day of May 1835 - }
before me. George Miller Commissioner of Pensions.
Hugh Halsey -

I do hereby certify that Hugh H. H. the defendant in the within affidavit is now Survivor, and also, First Judge of the County of Suffolk and State of New York -
George Miller Commission of Bonds -
State of New York } County of Suffolk } ss: I Joseph R. Huntington Clerk of the said County do certify that George Miller whose name is subscribed to the above certificate and to the joint of the within affidavit on the day of the date thereof was and still is a commis- sioner of bonds in and for the said County duly qualified to administer oaths, and that I believe his name subscribed as aforesaid to be in his own proper hand writing & being acquainted with the same -
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 27 th - day of May - 1835 -
Joseph R. Huntington Clerk

Jan 2 d 37
Stephen Talmadge 8p. act.
Smithtown NY 30-0822
James M. [?] Pays
13 d Redw the name among the June 1832 Passengers N. York roll (city roll) - act June 28 (1836) - $36:75 per ann.
Washington
Send cut: to Geo. Miller, Esq. Smithtown N. York
James M. [?] Pension
Free

Suffolk Court House December 21-1835-
In Enclosed I send you a affidavit of James Talmadge with his power of attorney agreeably to the instructions contained in your letter of the 24 th Nov last.
I am very Respectfully Yours Obe Servt
George Miller
James L Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions.

STEPHEN TALMAGE.
[To accompany bill H. R. No. 282.]
FEBRUARY 4, 1836.
Mr. LAY, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, made the following
REPORT:
The Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, to which was referred the petition of Stephen Talmage, report:
That it appears, from an examination of his petition and papers, that the said Stephen Talmage was a revolutionary soldier, and claims pay under the acts of 1818 and 1820. That he first enlisted into the company commanded by Captain John Davis, in the regiment commanded by Col. Henry B. Livingston, in the line of the State of New York on the continental establishment, in April, 1776, at Bridge Hampton, county, of Suffolk, and State of New York, for the term of nine months, and is now seventy-five years old. He served out his time, and was regularly discharged at Fort Montgomery, in New York. That he again went into the service for two months longer, and continued to serve at the said Fort Montgomery, under the command of General George Clinton until the end and expiration of the said two months, which was in March, in the year 1777, when he was discharged. That the reason he never made an earlier application for a pension, was because he had hoped to live by his industry until the infirmities of old age and poverty compelled him to petition for relief. The papers have all been before the Commissioner of Pensions, who pronounced the proof of service to be made out satisfactorily; but disallowed the claim, on the ground that he had not complied with the rules of the Department, as to the value of his property. The paper, furnish the most satisfactory proof of the poverty of the petitioner, and the statement of the petitioner is fully corroborated by the testimony of credible witnesses.
Proof of service.
Nathan Fordham swears that he was a soldier in the army of the United States in the year 1776, in a regiment commanded by Col. Henry B. Livingston, and stationed at Montauk, and continued in such service until March, 1, 1777, being thirteen months. That he knows Stephen Talmage, the petitioner, and that he was in the service, and served in the same regiment and company, with said Fordham. That he verily believes said Talmage did serve the same length of time in the said company and regiment that the deponent, Fordham, did.

Sylvanus Halsey, another witness, testifies that he was a soldier in the revolutionary war in the year 1776, in the company commanded by Captain John Davis, in the regiment commanded by Col. Henry B. Livingston. That witness served in said company from March in that year till the last day of December. That the petitioner, Stephen Talmage, served in the same company with witness, Halsey, from March aforesaid until the first day of January following, to the personal knowledge of witness. That the witness left service, and that said Talmage volunteered to stay two months longer in the service, which he did, as the witness understood, and believes that the said Talmage did not return until March following.
Abraham Sherril, of the town of East Hampton, in the county of Suffolk, testifies that he is seventy-nine years of age, on the 6th of November, 1833. That he was a soldier in the army of the revolution, in the company commanded by Captain John Davis, in the regiment commanded by Col. Henry B. Livingston, for the term of nine months, in the spring of 1776, thinks in April, and served until January following. That Stephen Talmage, the petitioner, was, during the whole term of the service of witness, a private soldier in the same company and regiment with witness, and was regularly discharged with witness at Fort Montgomery, New York. That, after their discharge, at the solicitation of General Clinton, the said Stephen Talmage and witness continued to serve two months longer, and they left the service together, being regularly discharged. Two of the aforesaid witnesses, Fordham and Halsey reside in the same town and county with the petitioner, and the third, Sherril, in the town adjoining, and in the same county, and are all certified to be men of unimpeachable truth and veracity.
The committee are of opinion that the petitioner does not come within the provisions of the acts of 1818 and 1820; but is, under the act of 1832, entitled to pay for eleven months' service, and have reported a bill to that effect.

NR. 282
Stephen Talmadge
Cam: on Pensions

State of New York,
County of Suffolk } ss.
Be Stephen Delmage of the Town of Southampton in the County of Suffolk being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is aged seventy seven years, that he was a soldier in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War, that he served in the company commanded by Captain John Davis in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Henry B Livingston in the line of the State of New York, that this deponent is the identical person named in an act of Congress entitled "An act for the relief of Stephen Delmage" passed by the Congress of the United States, and approved the 28 th day of June 1836. that the petition of this deponent for the passage of the said act was presented to the House of Representatives by the Hon. Abel Huntington a member from New York, and further the deponent saith not.
Subscribed & sworn to this 9 th day of December 1836 before me -
Stephen Delmage
A. Halsey Vice Judge Suffolk County
I Stephen Delmage in the foregoing affidavit named do hereby constitute and appoint George Miller of the Town of Southampton in the County of Suffolk my true and lawful attorney for me to receive from the War Department of the United States the pension certificate to which I may be entitled in the act of Congress referred to in the said affidavit. Witness my hand and seal this ninth day of December 1836.
Stephen Delmage
Subscribed & sworn to this 9 th day of December 1836 before me -
Abigail Topping
State of New York,
County of Suffolk } ss.
On this 9 th day of December 1836 before me came Stephen Delmage above named and acknowledged the execution of the above named power of attorney as his voluntary act and deed.
A. Halsey Vice Judge Suffolk County

State of New York
County of Suffolk
{ b. I Joseph R. Hunting Clerk of the said County of Suffolk do hereby certify that Hugh Haley whose name is subscribed to the within journal and acknowledg- -ment on the day of the date of the same was and still is First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Suffolk, and that I believe his name subscribed as aforesaid, to be in his own proper hand writing, I being acquainted with the same.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 22 day of December 1830.
Joseph R. Hunting Clk.

State of New York
County of Suffolk } b: I Joseph R. Hunting Clerk of the said County of Suffolk do hereby certify that Hugh Halsey whose name is subscribed to the within journal and acknowledg- -ment on the day of the date of the same was and still is First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Suffolk, and that I believe his name subscribed as aforesaid, to be in his own proper hand writing, I being acquainted with the same.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 22 day of December 1835-
Joseph R. Hunting Clk.

Stephen Talmadge.
January 8. 1836.
Referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions
Feb d 4 1836
Bill reported n o . 282
Huntington -

Petition of Stephen Talmadge
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To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress Assembled -
The petition of Stephen Talmadge of the Town of Southampton in the County of Suffolk and State of New York -
Respectfully shews that -
That your petitioner was a soldier of the Revolutionary War, that he enlisted for the term of nine months in the company commanded by Capt. John Davis in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Henry B. Livingston in the line of the State of New York, that he served out the said term of nine months, and then volunteered to continue in the said service two months longer and served out that time also. That in the month of October 1832 he made his declaration in the Court of Common Pleas of Suffolk County in order to obtain a pension of eight dollars per month under the acts of Congress of the 18 th March 1818 and 1 st March 1820 - which declaration with additional proof of the service of your petitioner, and of the value of his property was forwarded to the War department, that the proof of service was ultimately satisfactory, but after the claim had been pending before the department two years and a half it was disallowed on the ground that your petitioner had not complied with all the rules of the de- partment in relation to furnishing proof as to the value of his property; that your petitioner is very indigent in his circumstan- ces and is unable to support himself without

the aid of public or private charity which he thinks is most amply shown by the documents furnished to and now remain- ing in the Pension Office. That your petitioner humbly conceives that all the facts of his case, as disclosed by the said documents and the correspondence of the Department in relation to the same, are such as entitle him to the favorable regard of Congress, and call for their inter- -position to place him on the pension roll.
Your petitioner therefore respectfully prays that by an act of Congress his name may be placed upon the Roll as a pensioner of the United States to commence in the year 1832 about the time of his first application.
And Your petitioner will ever pray &c - Butch Southampton N.Y. } December 16 th 1835 } Stephen Palmage

Free-
Jan 6
Nov 24
James L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions. Washington
St. Albans Vt.
Thu Nov 24. 1856

State of New York -
Riverhead Nov: 19-1830-
To James L. Edwards Esq.
Sir
By an act of congress approved June 28-1830- (Chap: 154) Stephen Salmoegge of the County of Suffolk and State of New York was to be placed upon the pension Roll of the United States. I caused inquiry to be made at the Pension Office in the City of New York and learn that his name is not yet placed upon the list in that Office - I therefore beg leave to call your attention to the case -
I am Sir very Respectfully Your Obt Servt.
George Miller

28.906 INVALID. Ray
File No. 28.906
Stephen Talmadge Rev Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32 nd
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 113
[Arrangement of 1870.]