Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4871, for Benjamin Lyman, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Lyman, Benjamin Mary
N. 4871
CONTENTS

5438.
Ohio Pitts
Mary Lyman, widow of Benjamin Lyman who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Guiratz .
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 21 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of May 1850, and sent to Lewis Elliot , Hampden Genaga Ohio
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 352 , Vol. 4
W.E. Robinson

12326 Mary Lyman b. Aug 12, 1845. M rs of Benjamin Ohio died 7 July 1838

I Sylvester Sudd of Northampton in the County of Hampshire Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged fifty six years on oath depose and say that I was personally acquainted with my late Grandfather the Rev. Jonathan Sudd deceased who was the Pastor of a Church in Northampton in said County of Hampshire from the year A.D. 1743 to A.D. 1803 - That I now have in my possession his diary containing among other memoranda lists of marriages solemnized by him - I am well acquainted with his handwriting and know beyond all reasonable doubt that the entries in said diary were made by him and in his own handwriting - In said Diary I find the following entry in his handwriting June - Seventeen hundred eighty four - thinketh
"Married Benj m Lyman and Mary Wright" and that the same is a true copy of the

record or entry in said diary with the exception of the date which is expressed in the handwriting of my said grandfather in fair legible figures as follows To wit "June 1784 30" and I further depose and say that the foregoing included within marks of quotation are true extracts from the diary or record of said Martha Ladd deceased with the exception above named as certified by me Sylvester Ladd
Hampshire ss. October 20 th A.D. 1845 Who personally appeared before me the subscriber the Clerk of the Court of the Peace within and for the County of Hampshire aforesaid Sylvester Ladd Esquire of Northampton in said County and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed - I further certify that I

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
HAMPshire ss.
I, Samuel Wells, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth, for the County of Hampshire, do certify, that Samuel Wells Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the certificate on the paper hereto annexed, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned, and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth; and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Samuel Wells and Esquire. and believe his signature to said certificate is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said Commonwealth, this twentieth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty .
Clerk.

am personally acquainted with the said Cyrus Ladd and that his testimony is entitled to full credit and belief. I also certify that the diary mentioned in the foregoing affidavit has been exhibited to me and purports and appears to be an ancient record of marriages deaths and other matters of church record and that I believe the same to be genuine.
C. Wells
Justice of the Peace

THE STATE OF OHIO, } Cuyahoga County, ss
J. Whittlessey
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas
in and for said County, do hereby certify that
Gary Dake Esq
before whom the foregoing declaration
Deposition
was taken, and who has thereunto subscribed
his name officially, in his own proper hand writing, was at the
date of the said Instrument and now is an
Acting Justice of the Peace
duly commissioned and qualified, and to all whose official acts
full faith and credit are due and ought to be given throughout
the United States and elsewhere.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the Seal of said Court, at Cleveland, this 7th day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty five
J. Whittlessey Clerk.
By D.D. Corcoran Deputy

• Widow Mary Lyman Declaration

State Of Ohio Cuyahoga County ss
on this 27 th day of march A D 1845 personally appeared before me Gary Gales a justice of the peace for said County of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio Mary Lyman a resident of Brick- -ville in said County of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio aged 81 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the Benefit of the provisions of an act of Congress passed on the seventh of July A D 1838 also the act of Congress passed on the third of March 1843 and seventeenth of June granting pension to widows 1844 that she is the widow of Benjamin Lyman a revolutionary soldier that her said husband Benjamin Lyman at the time of the Revolutionary war resided in the Town of Southampton Hampshire County and State of Massachusetts that she thinks his first tour in the Revolutionary war was in 1777 up at Saratoga in the State of New York when Burgoyne was taken how long he was gone she can not tell that in 1780 or 1781 he was in the army at West Point and was one of the guards which took Andre the Spys some place after he was taken prisoner that she thinks he was in the army three tours in all and that it would make a year or more in all that she was married to said Benjamin Lyman in June A D 1784 By the Rev Jonathan Luel in the Town of Southampton County and State aforesaid and that her said Benjamin Lyman died A D 1823 that her name before marriage was Mary Wright that she rem- ains his widow and prays that a certificate may be granted her to draw a pension under each of the above acts also refers to the annexed proofs

Her Mary Lyman Mark
The within declaration sworn to and subscribed the day and year before written and I hereby certify that Mary Lyman the declarant is a person of truth and veracity and from bodily infirmity unable to attend court
Ezra Dakes Justice of the Peace

I Dorus Lyman of Briarville in the County Cuyahoga and State of Ohio of Lawfull age after being duly sworn according to Law do on my oath testify and say that I am a son of Benjamin and Mary Lyman that my father was from Southampton Hampshire County and State of Massachusetts and was a Soldier in the war of the Revolution for a year or more as I believe and as is set forth in my Mothers declaration and that I have frequently heard my father relate his services in the Revolutionary war and that my father and Mother were married as I believe in the year 1784 and that my father died in AD 1823 and that my mother has not been married since his death
Dorus Lyman
State of Ohio Cuyahoga County ss
on this 14th day of march AD 1845 personally appeared before me Gary Oakes a Justice of the Peace within and for said County and before said Dorus Lyman and made oath in due form of law to the truth of the above affidavit and I hereby certify that this affidavit is a person of truth and veracity
Gary Oakes Justice of Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston;
June 11 1845
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 Benjamin Lyman is borne as a private upon a pay roll of Capt. Salmon White's Comp y . in Col. David Wells reg t ; for service on an expedition to Tienderoga, from May 10 to July 10, 1777, including allowance for travel, 2 months, 10 days; roll sworn to in Hampshire County; — Upon a pay roll of Capt. Lemuel Pomeroy's Comp y . in Col. John Dickenson's reg t ; for service on an expedition to Saratoga, from Sept. 20 to Oct. 14, 1777 including allowance for travel, 30 days; — roll sworn to in Hampshire County; — Upon a pay roll of Capt. Elijah Clapp's Comp y . in Col. John Dickenson's reg t ; for service on an alarm to Bennington, as far as New Providence, from Aug. 17 to 22, 1778, 5 days, and 44 miles travel; — roll dated at Southampton; — Upon a pay roll of Capt. Eben Sheldon's Comp y . in Col. Seth Murray's reg t to re-inforce the Continental Army, from July 13 to
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30
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3-15 Oct. 10, 1780, including 7 days allowed for travel, 3 months, 5 days; 3-8 the Comp y was from the County of Hampshire, by other rolls of Capt n Sheldon's, one of which is at Southampton. The name of said Lyman is upon a descriptive list of men detached from Comp y . for 3 months service, mustered July 10, 1780, as a private from Southampton. The preceding is all the evidence of service of any one of the name shown by the records in this office.
6-20 And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Palfrey. Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Reported
11019
Ohio
Mary Lyman Widow of Benj. W. Lyman who was a pensioner under the Act of — and who died on the — in 1823 of Cayahoga in the State of Ohio who was a Privt in the Company commanded by Captain — of the Regt commanded by — in the Regular line for 6 Mo. 15 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Pillsbury at the rate of 21 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 day of July 1846 and sent to Elizabeth Waltham Champaign
Total amount, $ 21 66
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Th. S. [unclear] Clerk, Book D Vol. 1 Page 391

Ohio 7851 Pills 6
Reported
Mary Lyman widow of Peter Lyman who was a Private in the Revolution husband died in 1823
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 21 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 day of July, 1846 and sent to
Elliot + Hathaway Cham, Geauga Co Ohio
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book 6 Vol. 2.
Hyde June 44 Page 206

12326.
Nov. 12/48
C May Lyman. B
July 7. 1895
Hon. J. B. Edwards Comm. of Pensions Washington City D. C.
Mr. Palmer

Chardon Geauga Co Ohio
November 6 th 1845.
Dear Sir
We herewith send to your office the Declaration & proofs of Widow Mary Lyman praying that a pension may be granted her on account of the Revolutionary service of her husband the late Benjamin Lyman deceased, when acted upon Please to make returns to us
Respectfully your A.B. Servants
Hon J. L. Edwards Comm
of Pensions
Washington City
D. C.
Elliott & Hathaway

Hampden George County Ohio May 16th 1850
Hon J L Edwards Sir I have the honor of transmitting you the declara- tion of widow Mary Symon please make return to me directed to the above place Respectfully yours Lewis E. Crott
Hon J L Edwards Commissioner of Pensions

V No 12326
Mary Lyman Ohio
W. Elliott & Nathan ay Dec 11th 1838
Act 7 July 1838

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 4871
Mary Lyman Wid.
Benj n Lyman Port Rev. War
Act: Feb. 2 nd 18
Index:—Vol. et , Page 449
[Arrangement of 1870.]

State of Ohio } ss Cuyahoga County
On this 26 day of April A.D. 1850 personally appeared Before me G.W. Oakes a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio Mary Lyman a Resident of the Township of Brecksville in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio aged 86 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed on the 2nd February 1848 granting pensions to widows of Persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Benjamin Lyman deceased. That she has drawn a pension under the act of Congress of 1838 and subsequent acts which terminated on the forth of March 1848. That the amount of pension which she received if she remembers wright was about twenty dollars per year. She further declares that she is still a widow.
Signature in presence of { Dorus Lyman
Meigs for Lyman
Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year above written Before me and I certify from my own personal knowledge that she is a person of truth and veracity and has drawn a pension under a prior act
G.W. Oakes Justice of the Peace
The State of Ohio Cuyahoga County ss.
I Robert G. Paine Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that George W Oakes, before whom the foregoing oath & affidavit were taken was at the date of said affidavit and now is a
Justice of the Peace of said Cuyahoga County duly commissioned & qualified as such & that I am acquainted with the signature of said George W Oakes & that his signature to said affidavit is genuine. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at the City of Cleveland this 13th day of May A.D. 1850 Robert G. Paine Clerk as aforesaid

act 43 8939 act 44 688 12. 326
Mary Lyman Ohio
Act 7 July '38.
adn.
6 mo: 15 do private $21.66
Also Acts '43 & '44.
Elliott & Hathaway Chardon, Geauga Co. Ohio

State of Ohio } ss. On this 28 th day of March A.D. 1846. Cuyahoga County }
Before me Joseph Hargrave an Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, Personally appeared Mary Lyman a resident of Bricksville in the County and State aforesaid aged 82 years being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on her said Oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the acts of Congress passed on the 7 th day of July, 1838, March 3 rd 1843, & June 17 th 1844, granting pensions to widows of Revolutionary soldiers. That She is the widow of Benjamin Lyman who was a Revolutionary soldier that her said husband was a resident of South Hampton Hampshire County and State of Massachusetts and went into said service from said South Hampton that she has heard her said husband relate his Revolutionary service heard him say as she now believes, that he served three tours, in all a year or more heard him say that in 1777 he was at Tienderoga in the State of New York when Burgoyne was taken and in 1780 or 81 he was with the army at Westpoint and was one of the guards to guard Maj Andre the British spy that she believes that her said husband served one tour under Capt Ebenezer Sheldon and one tour under Capt Solomon Allen one tour the following persons served as privates with said Benjamin vizt Samuel Burt, Samuel Clark, Aaron Bates, Perry Sheldon, Isaac Pomeroy, Ebenezer Burt, & Levi Clapp, he was out at the Bennington alarm. That she was married to her said husband in June 1784 by the Rev. Mr Jonathan Inadd in the Town of said South Hampton in the County of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts, and that the said Benjamin died in in East Hampton in the year 1823 aged 63 years when he died that her name before married to the said Benjamin was Mary Wright, that she has not intermarried since the death of her said husband and now remains a widow and that she made a Declaration for a pension in March 1845 before Cary Oakes Esqr a justice of the peace which is now on file in the Pension Office at the City of Washington that she refers to said Declaration and proofs on file in the Pension Office and the proofs

herunto attached and prays that the pension due her on account of the Revolutionary service of her said husband may be granted her
Mary her X Syman Mark
Sworn to and subscribed before Me the day and year above written, and I hereby certify that from common report the said Mary Syman is a person of truth and veracity and from bodily infirmity and being totally blind she is unable to attend Court and I further certify the following words was interlined in the above declaration before signing (viz) oath - and that he signed -
Joseph Hayward - Associate Judge of Cuyahoga County Ohio
The State of Ohio, Cuyahoga County ss.
I Frederick Whittlesey Clerk of the court of Common Pleas in & for said County hereby certify that the Hon. Joseph Hayward whose signature is written above with his own hand - was at the date of said affidavit & now is one of the associate Judges of the said court of Common Pleas duly commissioned & qualified according to law & to all whose official acts full faith & credit are sought to be given here & elsewhere -
Witness my signature & the seal of said court at the City of Cleveland this 24 th day of April A.D. 1846 -
F. Whittlesey Clerk
By Jas. Clark Deputy

I Sylvester Judd of Northampton in the County of Hampshire and Commonwealth of Massachu- setts aged fifty six years do hereby depose and say that I am a grandson of Rev. Jonathan Judd late of Southampton in the County and Commonwealth aforesaid and who was the only Clergyman in said town of Southampton from A.D. 1743 to A.D. 1801 that I have in my possession his diary or journal which I personally know to be made in his own handwriting for nearly the whole of that period and which was left by him in chronological order. Said record contains memorandums of baptisms marriages deaths &c in said town with his own private memoranda. In said journal or record I find the following entry to wit - Given the line said seven hundred and eighty four thirties - Married Benjamin Lyman and Mary Wright - and that the foregoing is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed in the record in fair legible signs as follows
"June 1784"
"30"
Married Benj r Lyman & Mary Wright
I Sylvester Judd above named further depose and say that the above is a true extract from the diary or record of my said Grandfather certified by me
Sylvester Judd

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampshire ss.
At a Court of Common Pleas begun and held at Northampton within and for the County of Hampshire aforesaid on the first Monday of March A.D. 1846.
Personally appeared in open Court Sylvester Sudd Esquire of Northampton in said County and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed. I further certify that at the same time and place and in open Court said Sylvester Sudd exhibited to me what purports to be a record of the marriage of Benjamin Symonds to Mary Wright as mentioned in said affidavit and from the ancient appearance of said record and the affidavit of said Sudd who is a credible witness I have no doubt that the said record is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this twenty fifth day of March A.D. 1846.
Darius Wells. Ch. Jus. C. C. Pleas for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampshire ss.
I Samuel Wells Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth for

The County of Hampshire aforesaid do certify that Hon. Daniel Mills whose signature is affixed to the foregoing certificate was at the date thereof and is the Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said Commonwealth duly commissioned and acting under the authority thereof: and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to all his acts and attestations done in that capacity - That said Court is a Court of record and that I am acquainted with the handwriting of the said Daniel Mills and know his signature to said certificate to be genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said Commonwealth this Twenty Sixth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty six Daniel Mills Clerk

Application for certificate of Revolutionary Services made by the widow of the party who rendered the service
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the rolls in his office of the service of my husband in the war of the revolution his name was Benjamin Lyman he went from Southampton.
Hampshire County Massachusetts in 1777 was in the army at the North taking Burg wine and in 1780 or 1781 was in the army at White Plains and was in the army when Andre the spy was taken and when Arnold went to the British I think he was in the army three tours in all a year or more I am now 84 years old and my memory does not enable me to state my husband's services more fully. Then above stated witness my hand this 17 th day of March 1845
Here Mary Lyman Mark
Signed By Said Mary Lyman in my presence
Gary Oakes Justice of the Peace