Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6,457, for James Losley, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Losley, James
R. 6457
CONTENTS

14357
In the matter of James Losley Application for pension New York

State of New York } Dutchess County } ss
On this twenty fifth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Dutchess now sitting James Losley a resident of the Town of Pleasant Valley in said Dutchess County and State of New York aforesaid, aged seventy one years on the twenty fifth day of December last past, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed June 7. 1832.
That he enlisted in the army of the United States, at Brooklyn in the County of Kings in the State of New York, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty six, in the month of June or July - in a company under the command of Captain Gordon, and served in the sixteenth Regiment of the line of the United States, under the following named officers, General Leetman having command of the Detachment, and the Regiment, to which his company was attached being under the command of Colonel Day. The other, not now recollecting - and That he continued in service, under said enlistment, until the termination of the war - That when he entered the service he resided in the Town of Brooklyn in the County of Kings and State aforesaid - That the first battle in which he was engaged, was the one commonly known by the battle of Long Island, fought sometime in the month of August one thousand eight hundred and thirty six as near as he recollects.

From thence returned to the City of New York and was marched with Captain Gordan's Com- pany to Harlem Heights, where they remain- ed a short time - and from thence to White Plains, and was engaged in the battle at or near White Plains, in the fall of the same year - From thence they returned to Harlem Heights, where they remained a short time - When they passed once into Newark, in the State of New Jersey - through New Jersey by New Brunswick Princeton & Trenton and crossing the Delaware river, into Pennsylvania, having been closely pursued by the enemy during the whole march from Harlem Heights to the Delaware River - That they remained at different places in the State of Pennsylvania not now recollec- ted - until the month of December, when they crossed the Delaware river to Trenton, in New Jersey in the night, and was engaged in the battle fought there, with the Hessian in the month of December seventeen hundred and seventy six, That in the month of January following he was engaged in the battle at Princeton, after which they entered into winter quarters at Morris Town - and remained there until some time in the month of May - When they marched from Morris Town to Middlebrook, where they were encamped for some time - From thence they crossed the Delaware River in the month of August, passed through Philadelphia Marched southerly, and encamped on the eastern bank of the Brandywine, where they were attacked by the British Army - and a battle ensued where General La Fayette was wounded and the loss on both sides con-

They were attacked by the British Army - and a battle ensued where General La Fayette was wounded and the loss on both sides con- siderable - From Brandywine they were marched to Philadelphia, and from thence to Red Bank - and soon after, went into Winter Quarters, at the Valley Forge, in Pennsylvania, where they remained, until the spring of seventeen hundred and eighty eight. From their Winter quarters at the Valley Forge, they were marched, into New- Jersey, and was engaged in the battle of Monmouth - which took place about mid- summer - in which battle Captain Gordon was killed - and Captain Garrison was appointed in his place - That he was en- gaged in the battle of Germantown, in the fall of the same year as he believes. After the battle of Germantown, they went into winter quarters at Middlebrook in New Jersey where they remained until the spring of seventeen hundred and eighty nine. That from the time of the taking of Cornwallis he was continually with the army under Genl Washington in different parts of New Jersey & in the vicinity of New York City until Genl Washington determined to march the whole body of troops under his immediate command to York Town in the state of Virginia where the army arrived some time in the fall of 1781. That he was at the battle in which Cornwallis was taken prisoner & clearly recalled to have witnessed the ceremony of the delivery of the Sword by Cornwallis - After this battle returned with the army to the North & encamped at Newburgh in the state of New York, where the whole force was afterwards discharged at the termination of the war which he thinks was some time in the year 1782. He hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or any annuity as well the interest & he declines

that his name is not on the pension roll of the army in any state.
In witness to & subscribed James W. Lasley the day & year aforesaid March
David Wilson Clerk
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served in the state.
I Henry G. Tamm clerk of the court of Common Pleas now sitting in & for the said county of Butcher, do hereby certify that the fore- going contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of James Lasley for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this twenty fifth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty two.
David Wilson Clerk
44357 James Lasley petition for pension

State of New York Dutchess County } ss: James Losley, a man of colour, residing in the town of Pleasant Valley in the said County of Dutchess, being duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say, that he is the same person of that name described in an ap- plication and papers for a pension or annuity under the Act of Congress of June 7, 1832, made before the court of com- mon Pleas of the said County of Dutchess on the twenty fifth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty five, which is hereto annexed. That this deponent is unable to read or write and being ignorant of the manner of doing business of like nature, trusted the management of said application heretofore entirely to his Attorney and agent employed for that purpose. This deponent has been in- formed that his said papers have heretofore been forwarded by his said Agent to the Pension office at Washington for examination and decision thereon, and that the same have been sent back for explanation or further proof, but this deponent cannot now ascertain from his said agent what were the particular objections made to his said application other than he was informed generally that his proofs were not sufficient; And this deponent says that he has since endeavoured to find proof of his service or a part thereof and now produces the evidence of Isaiah Burch, whose affi- davit is hereto annexed. And this deponent further says that he does not know, to the best of what state the regi- ment belonged, in which he first enlisted as stated in his said declaration, but he says that his then Captain's name was Gordon and the first Lieutenant was named Garrison, that Gordon commanded the company until he was killed at the battle of Monmouth when Garrison as next senior officer became captain & commanded the company until the discharge of the Army at Snake Hill, that

This deponent continued and served in the same company from the time of his first enlistment in 1776 to the time of his discharge at the disbanding of the Army at Snake Hill near Newburgh at the close of the war.
Sworn and subscribed before me } the 7 th day of February 1838 } Silas G. Haight Justice of the Peace
his James K. Losley mark

State of New York
Dutchess County ss: Isaiah Burch of the town of Pawling in the said County of Dutchess being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is aged seventy eight years and upwards, that he has always lived in the same town except during the time he was with the Army, that he belonged to the Continental line of the State of New York in the Revolutionary Army and served in the first regiment commanded by Colonel Van Schaick for three years preceding the disbanding of the Army at Snake Hill near Newburgh in the State of New York at the close of the war, that he is a pensioner of the government for his said service, and among the earliest grantors under the law of March 1818. This deponent further says that he knows James Losley a man of colour now here present and knew him during the revolutionary war, and knows and now well recollects that the said James Losley served as a soldier in the Continental line of the Army of the United States in the Revolutionary War. Deponent was at the taking of Cornwallis at York Town in Virginia, and saw the said James Losley then there a soldier, and often saw him and knew him and heard his name called and answered by him at roll call as a soldier of the Army, from that time until the discharge and disbanding of the Army at Snake Hill aforesaid. This deponent further says that he has frequently seen the said James Losley since the Revolution and been sufficiently acquainted with him to depose with certainty that he is the same person that this deponent knew in the Army and who was discharged at the same time with this deponent at Snake Hill aforesaid.
Sworn and subscribed before me this 7 th day of February 1838
Isaiah Burch mark
Silas E. Haight Justice of the Peace
And I the said Silas E. Haight Justice of the peace as aforesaid do certify that I have received satisfactory evidence that the said Isaiah Burch is entitled to full credit as a witness. Dated Feb. 7. 1838.
Silas E. Haight

Daniel W. Beadle Clerk of the County of Dutchess in a Syringe in the State of New York do certify that Silas E. Knight of the Peace for the said County duly elected and qualified, and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of Office and subscribed my name this eighth day of February one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight.
Danl W Beadle

14,357 James Posley, N.Y.
See Let. to Alex. Forbes, 21 st June 1838.
6457

June 21, 1838
Letter to Alex r . Forbes Esq.
in claim of Isaac Hailwood R. 4759 - N.Y.

P. O. _____
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____ 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____ _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

Poughkeepsie February 12, 1838.
James L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions
Sir.
I send the papers of James Losley, a man of colour, for a pension. The original papers, I am informed, have heretofore been sent to your office, and returned to the applicant. But the agent heretofore employed being sick, I have not been enabled to learn the particular objections of the department to the claim, other than the general allegation that the proofs were not sufficient. Losley now adds the affidavit of Isaiah Purvis, a soldier, to his original papers.
I also send the papers of Isaac Hailand on an original application for a pension. When the case was first mentioned to me I was strongly impressed that this was a case not provided for by the act of June 7, 1832, but on looking more attentively at the Rules of Evidence &c. of June 27, 1832, I thought a distinction was intended to be made between seamen , as in this case, who enlisted in the service of the United States and those who served or were employed occasionally on a civil contract. Hailand states to me, that he has understood that some one or more persons from his neighbourhood have received pensions for services similar to his own.
Returns or communications in relation to these cases, it is requested, may be made to me.
Respectfully Your obedt Servt
W. L. Pigeon