Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42902, for Joseph Lung, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conw.
Lung, Joseph
S 42902
CONTENTS
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New York Roll.
1,238
Joseph Lung Conn't line Sp. 4 '76 close of Private War Capt Warner
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 28. of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30. of June 1818, and sent to the Pensioner at Goshen, N. York.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818.
Semi-annual allowing
4 months 7/30. $ 33.86
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Wyllis Lead - see Roll

42 902
INVALID.
Rey
File No. 42 902
Joseph Lung By Rev. Dad
Act: 16 March 16
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 308
[Arrangement of 1870.]

John P. [unclear] [unclear] The Secretary of the Depart- =ment of War — City of Washington,
Mayhew Compt. P. 209. P.
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State of New York Orange County ss. on this 28 th day of April 1818 before me the Subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of common pleas in & for the said County of Orange, personally appeared Joseph Lung aged eighty years resident in the Town of Thompson in the County of Sullo- van and State of New York, who being by me first first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his Oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the pavi- sion made by the late act of Congress. Entitled an act to provide for certain per- sons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war — That the said Joseph Lung enlis- ted in Middletown in the State of Connec- ticut, some time in the Spring of the year 1776 according to his deponants best recollection, in the Company commanded by Captain Robert Warner's Company of the 1 st Regiment commanded by Col. Willis in Gen. Persn's Brigade in the line of the Connecticut troops to serve during the war, and served in said Company and Regiment until the close of the revolutionary war, during which time the said Company was commanded, a part of the time by a Captain under which this

deponent was discharged, whose name this deponent cannot recollect, and this depo- -nant saith that the said Regiment was - Commanded at the time that this deponent was discharged, by Col. Grouner, and this deponent further saith, that he received a discharge at the close of the Revolutionary war, which discharge this deponent saith he has lost, and further saith that he was discharged at West-point on the north-river or Hudson-river, in the State of New York, and that this deponent was in the Battle at Flat-bush on Long Island, and was also in the battle at Spring-field near Elizabeth Town in the State of New Jersey, and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the Assistance of his country for - support, and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said service —
Sworn to and Declared before me the day & year his Joseph + Lung aforesaid — mark
James Finch Jr
Orange County ss. I James Finch Jr. one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the said County of Orange, do certify that it —

Appears to satisfaction that the said Joseph - Lung, did serve in the Revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy, for the term of about six years on the continental establishment - and I now transmit the proceeding and testimony taken & had before me, to the - Secretary of the department of war, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress, April 28 th 1818 -
James Finch Junr.
State of New York Orange County
I David M. Westcott Clerk of the Court of Com- mon Pleas in and for the said County of Orange do hereby certify that James Finch Junr. is one of the Judges of the said Court - and that his name set to the preceding Affidavit and certificate is the proper hand writing of the said James Finch Junr. In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the said Court the eighth day of May 1818
D. M. Westcott