Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2841, for Joseph Muzzy, New Hampshire

SERVICE
NUMBER
N. H.
Muzzy, Joseph Anna
N 2841.
CONTENTS

1559
Albany
Joseph Murray
of Rensselaer Co. State of New York do hereby certify that the within copy is a true copy of the original now on file in the office of the Secretary of War
Given under my hand at Albany the 27th day of Decr 1831 to commence on the 1st day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6th day of November 1832 and paid to S. Haight
  Arrears to date of death 1832  56.62    Annual allowance during 1833  18.87     $75.49  
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { due June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by McDuffie Clerk Book 5 Vol. 4 Page 73

921
erment in M.
Anna Muzzy re
Widow of Joseph Muzzy who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Private Penn Sine
scribed on the Roll at the rate of 37 Dollars 75 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 th day of March 1852 and sent to
H. H. Sylvester Present.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act July 29, 1848, Page 30 Vol. A

no 8407
Admitted
Plate 11. m o 10 D.
$37.75.

BRIEF in the case of Joseph Muzzey of Rockingham  Rockingham in the State of Vermont (Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?
In the Probate Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he?
69 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     In 1779 June 1 * As a Gen.  M. H. Cook  Genl. Poor  Capt. Rowell, Col Reed   
* Found on N.H. Rolls for 11 Months and 10 days
5. In what battles was he engaged?
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
Fitzwilliam N.H.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
By two living witnesses, one of whom, however, does not prove the whole of his service.
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
Correct
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
J. Muffield Examining Clerk.

Naathaniel Mu 334 Died April 14: 1817 In the 82 years of his age in Rockingham Co. Va. Sarah Mu 334 Died In Fitzwilliam N.H. Feb y 3: 1821 In the 61 year of her age
Mother Anna Fisher Died Sept 1786
Father Fisher died Nov r 1818 In the 80 th year of his age.

Joseph & Anna Muzzey Married Sept 26: 1794

Joseph Muzzey and Anna Fisher married September 26 1794

I Noah Fisher of Rockingham in the County of Windham and State of Vermont of lawful age being duly sworn depose testify and say that in the year 1793 I became acquainted with Joseph Muzzey who married my sister Anna in the year 1794 & that previous to their being married house burnt in 1832 I have frequently seen her certificate of Marriage signed by Silas Howard of Jamaica a Justice of the peace in & for the County of Windham and although I was absent from home on the day of their marriage I came with them to the town of Rockingham where they have resided the most of the time since in the connexion of husband & wife until the death of Joseph Muzzey on the 7 th day of December 1841 and I further say that I have been acquainted with said Muzzey's hand writing & have specimens of it in my possession at this time and say with confidence that the record of their marriage written in a Flynn Book now in possession of said Anna Muzzey which words and figures are as follows - - to wit " Joseph Muzzey and Anna Fisher Married September 26 th 1794 and that the said letters and figures were made and written by said Joseph Muzzey in his life time and that the same have not been in any way erased or altered or amended since his decease and I further say that I am now residing with said Anna Muzzey in said Rockingham
Noah Fisher
State of Vermont } at Rockingham in said County this fourteenth day Windham County ss } of March March A D 1851 Then personally appeared Noah Fisher and made oath to the foregoing Deposition or instrument by him signed
Before me
Enoch Wetherbee Justice of the Peace

State of Vermont Windham County Court Clerk's Office Rejoice March 31 st A.D. 1851
I Marshall Miller, Clerk of said Court certify, that Enoch Wetherbee was on the 14 th day of March instant, still is, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commis- sioned and qualified, and authorized by the laws of this State to administer oaths, that said Court is a Court of Record, and that the within signature of the said Enoch Wetherbee is his genuine signature
In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand and affix the Seal of said Court, The day and year first above written
Attest Marshall Miller, Clerk

Anna Murray
†
Dec 22, 48
H. H. H. H. P. P. P. P.

State of Vermont District of Westminster
On this 14 th day of July 1857 personally appeared before the undersigned judge of the Court of Probate for the District aforesaid Anna Muzzy, a resident of Rockingham in the County of Windham in said district aged seventy seven years, who being duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 29 th 1848: That she is the widow of Joseph Muzzy who was a private in the Revolutionary Army of the United States that according to her best knowledge recollection and belief the said Joseph Muzzy entered into the service from Fitzwilliam in the County of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire when he then resided and that he served for the term of one year. That she is unable to state the time when he entered said service or when he left the same or whether he was draughted, was a volunteer or substitute, by reason of the imperfection of her memory. but she has an impression that he enlisted as a volunteer. That she has no documentary evidence in her possession to aid her in making this declaration & if her husband ever had any documentary evidence the same must have been destroyed by fire at the destruction of their house about twenty five or thirty years ago when all his papers and effects in the house were burned.
She further declares that she was married to said Joseph Muzzy on or about the 6 th day of September in the year seven hundred and ninety four and that her husband the

aforsaid Joseph Muzzey died on the fifth day of December in the year Eighteen hundred and forty one. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the second of January, Eighteen hundred. viz. at the time above stated. She further swears that she is now a widow, and that she has never before made any application for a pension, unless she may have made a declaration for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the act aforesaid, and if she has before made such declaration she does not know where the same now is or what, if any use has been made of the same.
Witness Pliny B. Parker
her Anny Muzzey mark
State of Vermont
District of Westminster } In Probate Court for said District the day and year above written the declarant Anny Muzzey personally appeared and made oath that the foregoing declaration by her subscribed is true, and I further certify that the said Anny Muzzey is personally known to me as a person of good reputation for truth and veracity.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my hand and caused the seal of said court to be hereunto affixed this 14 th day of July A.D. 1857
Abisha Stoddard Judge of Probate for the District of Westminster

State of Vermont.
Office of Secretary of State Montpelier July 23 d 1851
I hereby certify that the honorable Abishaï Stoddard, whose name is subscribed in his proper hand writing to the forgoing certificate, is and was at the date thereof Judge of Probate within and for the District of Westminster in said State, duly appointed and qualified; that the seal affixed to said certificate is the genuine seal of his said Office; and that full credence is due to his official acts and attestations as such.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of this Office this 23 d day of July A.D. 1851.
Fernand F. Merrill Secretary of State

to the ... house ...
8407.
Joseph Morris Declaration

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 1832
State of Vermont
Windham County ss.
On this 25 th day of July 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Probate Court for the District of Westminster in said State now sitting Joseph Murray a resident of Rockingham in the County of Windham and State of Vermont said Rockingham being in said Westminster District aged sixty nine years 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 intended the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War under the following named officers to wit. - he enlisted in Fitzwilliam Vt on the 26 th day of June 1779 for one year in the New Hampshire Troops he marched the first part of July following to Fishkill N.Y. to join the army he was there ordered to Newburgh Landing and was there put on a stationed guard commanded by Sergeant Joseph Hassell which he continued till about the first of December following, when the New Hampshire Brigade returned from the Indian Country with Genl. Sullivan & he was then relieved from guard & he was ordered to Danbury Conn. for winter quarters where he joined the New Hampshire Brigade commanded by Genl. Poor and he continued there till about the first of April when he was ordered to go to with a detachment to the lines between West Point and New York he went there and continued there till his time was out then went to West Point & was there discharged, thinks he was discharged the 26 th day of June 1780 he served for the term of one full year at least when he served he belonged to Capt. Rawles Company in Col. Reed's Regt. he had a discharge but does not know what has become of it, he was not drafted nor was he a substitute but voluntarily enlisted he was born the 16 th of April 1763 at Rutland Mass but has no record of his age when he entered the service he lived at Fitzwilliam Vt after the close of the War he lived at said Fitzwilliam about two years at Wincoudeu Mass about two years and at sundry other places in Vermont for short periods and now lives in Rockingham Vermont and has lived

there about twenty nine years ensign Brannan has com- manded the company to which he belonged a part of the time when he went on to the lines he was commanded by Capt. Smith the commanding officer on the lines was Col. Millens he knows of no testimony that he can produce to prove his service except the testimony of Dorse Campbell and Jonathan Lake he hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the pension and allowances that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state
Joseph Muzzey
Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid
Before - Peter B. Tuft Judge
We Alexander Campbell residing in the town of Rocking- ham Vt and Eber M c Ilvain residing in Rockingham hereby certify that the above well acquainted with Joseph Muzzey who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be sixty nine years of age that he is re- spected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we con- cur in that opinion
Sworn and subscribed this day a year aforesaid.
Alx. Campbell Eber M c Ilvain
Before Peter B. Tuft - Judge
And the said Council hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the in- terrogatories presented by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the Council further certi- fies that it appears to them that Alexander Campbell who has signed the foregoing certificate is a resident in Rockingham Vermont and that Eber M c Ilvain who has signed the same

is a resident in Workington and that both of them are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit and that no clergyman lives in the immediate vicinity of the said Joseph Murray Peter R. Saff - Judge
I the undersigned Clerk of the Probate Court for the District of Westminster aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Joseph Murray for a pension In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 25 th day of July A.D. 1832
Cora Mayes 2 nd

Anna Muzzy
for Thomas

I Samuel Jackson, of Ludlow, in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont, of lawful age being duly sworn, depose, testify and say that, in the life time of Joseph Murry, formerly of Rockingham, in the County of Windham and State aforesaid, I was well acquainted with him and with his hand writing and I verily believe that the words and figures written on a leaf of a book attached to these papers are written in the proper and genuine hand writing of the said Joseph Murry in which words and figures are as follows - to wit, "Joseph Murry and Anna Fisher married September 28-1794" - And that the said letters and figures were made and written by the said Joseph Murry in his life time, and that the same have not been in any wise erased, altered or amended since his decease - I further say that I lived near neighbor to him for more than twenty years, have often seen him write & have now in my possession specimens of his hand writings.
Samuel Jackson State of Vermont, } At Ludlow in said County this twelfth day of Windham County, ss. } March A.D. 1851 - Then personally appeared Samuel Jackson and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition or Instrument by him signed,
Before me,
Fredrick Dunbar Justice of Peace.

STATE OF VERMONT, } I, Norman Williams, Clerk of the County Court of the County Windsor County, ss. } of Windsor in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify that
Frederick Dunbar
is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the 30 th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty and will expire the thirtieth day of November next, and that his signature foregoing on the paper annexed is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said County Court, at Woodstock, in said County of Windsor, this 3 rd day of April A. D. 1851
Norman Williams Clerk.

State of Vermont
District of Westminster } 13
I Abisha Stoddard Judge of Probate within and for the District of Westminster aforesaid do hereby certify that the paper herunto annexed, and which is written the following, and no other, words and figures viz.,
"Joseph Muzzy and Anna Fisher married September 26. 1794" was by me cut from a book entitled "The Psalms of David imitated in the language of the New Testament and applied to the Christian State and worship. Together with Hymns and Spiritual Songs. In three Books. 1. Collected from the scriptures II. Composed on Divine Subjects. III. Prepared for the Lord's Supper. By Isaac Watts D.D. And that satisfactory evidence is given to this court that said book has been for a long time owned and possessed, and now is owned by the said Anna Muzzy
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said court at Grafton in said district this 14 th day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty one.
Abisha Stoddard Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Westminster

State of Vermont District of Westminster
Probate Register office in Westminster March 20 1851.
I hereby certify that the Hon Abishaï Stoddard of Grafton in said State is the Judge of Probate in and for said District duly commissioned. That he has taken the oath of office required by law, and is per- forming the duties of said office.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court the day and year above written.
N. J. Sheafe Register of Probate

See Cambridge Edition

I Jabez Campbell of Claremont in the County of Sullivan & State of New Hampshire do hereby certify that Joseph Muzzey of Rockingham in the County of Windham - State of Vermont was in the service and stationed at Danbury in the State of Connecticut from the month of December 1779 to the month of April 1780 - that he was in the same company with me during that Winter
Attest Asa Holton Jabez Campbell mark
State of New Hampshire } Claremont July 31. 1832 Sullivan ss - } Then Jabez Campbell signer of the above affidavit personally appeared and made oath the above statement by him made is true Before me Asa Holton Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that I have been acquainted with the above named Jabez Campbell many years & that his character for truth & veracity is good - Asa Holton
I, Benjamin R. French, Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the County of Sullivan in the State of New Hampshire do hereby certify that Asa Holton is a Justice of the Peace, and that the above signatures, purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony of which I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court August 16th. 1832
B. R. French

Jonathan Same

Jonathan Lake of Springfield in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont. aged Seventy one doth depose and say that I am well acquainted with Joseph Murry now resident of Rockingham in the County of Windham & State of Vermont. and know him to be the same Joseph Murry who served in the same Regiment with me, commanded by Col. Reed. That I recollect the s d Joseph Murry served as a private in s d Regiment one year, in the year 1780. That I am was then well acquainted with Jesse Campbell now resident of Claremont N. Hampshire who has testified to the service of s d Joseph Murry, that s d Jesse Campbell was Steward of the Company in which we served & messmate with me.
Jonathan Lake
State of Vermont } Be it known that before me Amos Heald Windsor County ss } a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Windsor aforesaid. on the 4 th day of August 1832. Personally appeared Jonathan Lake and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed contains the truth & nothing but the truth.
Before me Amos Heald Jut. of the Peace
I hereby certify that, the above named Jonathan Lake is well known to me & is a credible Witness.
Amos Heald Jut. of the Peace
State of Vermont } I Benjamin Swan Clerk of Windsor County Windsor County ss } Court, do hereby certify, that Amos Heald who has offered his name to the within, is a Magistrate, duly qualified, & that his I believe the same to be his genuine Signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Woodstock this tenth day of August 1832
Benj. Swan

Know all men by these presents that I Anna Muzzey of Rockingham in the County of Windham and state of Vermont do hereby constitute and Stephen Thomas West Fairlee in the County of Orange and state aforesaid my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to prosecute my claim against the Government of the United for a pension which would have my late husband of member Joseph Muzzey if now living for services during the Revolutionary War hereby ratifying and confirming whatsoever my said attorney may lawfully do or cause to be done in the premises
Witness my hand and seal this 7 th day of April A D 1851 sealed and delivered in presence of Pliny Parker Enoch Wetherbee
her Anna Muzzey mark

No 902
Anna Howzy widow of Joseph Vermont
Act 29 th July 1848
To H. H. Sylvester July 20 th 1857

Anna Muzzey, widow of Joseph.
W
Act 29 July 1838.
Married 1790
Her decease 1841
Adm o 11 1 / 3 mos per $37.75 per annum. Comg 4 March 1848
Montpelier.
Mr. H. Sylvester Present

Washington Nov 26 1887
Sir,
Enc d you will find the declaration of Anna * Muzzey, ex-d of V.P. of V. A. T. of June & 29 July 48, in place of one filed some time ago. As it is hoped that inasmuch as the first declaration has been lost, that the case may now receive an immediate attention.
Truly Respectfully H. H. Ingleton
J. H. Heath Esq.
* See letter from Office 25 July 57.

Brief in the case of Sara Muzzy, widow of Joseph, Wardham County and State of Vermont act 29 July 1848.
Claim, ("original," or "for increase." )
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditional, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband was a Newcomer Rec d proof of marriage
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Name and residence of Agent
N. W. Sylvester Present
S. C. C. Examining Clerk.

N o 902
Anna Muzzy Wid of Joseph Vermont
Ad 29 July '48
See H H by letter July 20/57.

Washington May 11. 1851
Sir
Enclosed, I have the honor to submit some papers in behalf of Anna, the widow of Joseph Muzzey Esq. I have examined and upon the case to me.
I am the respectfull
H. H. Sylvester
De. Heath Esq.

Tracy
WIDOW, &c.)
File No. 2841
Anna Nuzzy Widow
Joseph Nuzzy Bi. Rev. War
Act: July 29, 1848
Index:—Vol. M. , Page 71.
[Arrangement of 1870.]

5407
B'ham VT Sept 0
Gen
Sept. 25.
Hon Lewis Cass
Secy of War
Washington City

Bellona Hall, Hammet Sep 6 1832
Sir I enclose the application of Joseph Murry for a pension together with the depositions to prove the service.
I am yr. ob t serv t
Alexander S. Campbell