Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 571, Job Barstow, Conn. New York.

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Conn. New York
Barstow, Job
P. 571
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Job Barstow Declaration
X 15935
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Miss P. Granger of Morrisuth, Madison County, N.Y.

State of New York
original declaration.
County of Madison ss On this ninth day of October 1832 personally appeared in open court, before James B. Eldredge, William K. Fuller, Sylvanus Seber, Elias Randall & Barak Burkwith, Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Madison in the State of New York, now sitting, Job Barstow , a resident of the town of Eaton in said county, aged Eighty years on the seventeenth day of March 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 entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein stated. In the month of July or August in the year 1775, at the town of Lebanon (Connecticut) he entered the service of the United States in the Revolutionary war, he thinks as a drafted soldier, for the term of Eight months, in a company of militia commanded by Capt. Skinner, Lieut. John Vaugn & Ensign Elias Bliss - He does not recollect the name of the Colonel of his regiment. He marched down to Boston with several companies of Militia & were stationed at Roxbury, until we went to Dorchester Heights. He recollects that it was on a dark & rainy night that the troops marched from Roxbury to Dorchester - At this time, the British had possession of Boston - We went to Dorchester that night, with ox teams loaded with fascines & palisades - We then dug an entrenchment & built a fort, to fortify the hill against the British shipping - He remained at Dorchester until the British evacuated Boston which was on the 17 th day of March 1776 - We then marched into Boston, led by General Washington, under a waving flag upon which was written in capital letters "Death or Victory" - He remained in Boston until some time in April & was then discharged. He does not recollect of having a written discharge - He served the full term of eight months & then returned home.
Soon after he returned home, there came orders to raise men to go to Rhode Island to guard the sea board - He enlisted soon after he returned from Boston

at the town of Lebanon afterwards for two months in a company of Militia & went down to Rhode Island & staid there two months, but he cannot recollect the name of a single Officer of his company - The name of the Colonel of the Regiment was Spencer, frequently called Granda Spencer on account of his cowardice - He thinks that only object of the Militia being called out this time was for the purpose of going on to the Island of Rhode Island, & that it was owing to the Cowardice of Spencer or his mismanagement that they did not go on.
Soon after his expedition to Rhode Island, he moved to Spencer town in the State of New York & in the fall of the year 1776 at Spencer town afterwards he was enlisted into the service of the United States for one year by Sergeant White & went from Spencer town with said Sergt. White & a number of soldiers, most of them strangers to him - we marched to Albany, & up the Mohawk River to Herkimer & he thinks he then joined his company commanded by Capt Harrison & the Regiment commanded by Col. Willet - At Herkimer we went into winter quarters & remained there during the winter - He there saw two soldiers shot for desertion & for stealing from Col. Willet - The next season he served in all the forts on the Mohawk - He was at Fort Plain, German Flats, Fort Daton, Fort House, Stone Arabia, Fort Hunter & to Cherry Valley - He recollects that an Indian Chief, by the name of Butler was shot by another Indian at Canada creek & he saw his scalp when brought into camp - At the news of the taking of Burgoyne, he recollects that an ox was roasted whole - He thinks that he was discharged at Fort Plain on the Mohawk in the fall of the year 1777 soon after the capture of Burgoyne, having served the term of his enlistment, one year - He does not recollect of having had any written discharge & if he had he has lost it - He has no documentary evidence of his service & he knows of no person who can testify to any part of his services, except a man by the

name of Isaac Richardson, of Westmoreland, Oneida County N.Y., who says he frequently saw applicant in Capt Harris own company. He was born in old Lebanon Connecticut on the 17 day of March, 1752. He has no record of his age He was living at Lebanon & Spencertown as of now & when he was called into the service & since the Revolutionary war he has lived at Spencertown of now & Charlottes bush. & Cherry Valley in the State of New York & in Eaton of now his present place of residence. In the neighborhood in which he lives, he is well known to Micajah Cloyes, Eleazar Martin, Thomas Anderson Denson Stillwell, Bennett Baskerville Alfred Cornell & many others, who can testify as to his character for truth & veracity & as to their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn to & subscribed the day Job Barstow & year first of said.
A.S. Sloan Clk.
We Alfred Cornell & Thomas Anderson residing in the town of Eaton in Madison county State of New York hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Job Barstow , who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration: that we believe him to be Eighty years of age: that he is a patriot and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, & that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn & subscribed the day & year first of said.
A.S. Sloan Clk
Alfred Cornell Thomas Anderson
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states. And the court further certifies, that

It appears to these that Alfred Cornell & Thomas Anderson who have signed the preceding Certificate, are residents of the town of Eaton aforesaid & are credible persons & that their statement is entitled to credit. I
Andrew S. Sloan, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Madison county aforesaid do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Job Barstow for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office. This 9th day of October 1832
A. S. Sloan Clerk.

Job Barstow original declaration & amended declaration
15933 H. N. Miller Home Depot N.Y.
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Otto P. Granger of Morrisville Madison County N.Y.
Joseph...
15933

State of New York
Madison County ss Be it remembered that on this 25 th day of May 1833 personally appeared before me Royal B. Root a Justice of the peace of the town of Eaton in said County of Madison. Job Barstow of said town of Eaton who being by me duly sworn before says, that some time last fall while on a visit to his daughter in Westmoreland Oneida County in said State, he became acquainted with Isaac Richardson & in conversation, he learnt that they both served in Col. Willett's Regiment during the revolutionary war, & the said Richardson, on learning the name of the deponent, mentioned that he believed that he had frequently seen the deponent serving as a soldier in Capt Harrison's company in said Regiment. And the deponent further says, that the said Richardson went before Truman Enos, Esq. a Justice of the peace of said County of Oneida, & made an affidavit as to his belief of having seen the deponent in said Capt Harrison's Company, which affidavit has been returned, as the deponent has been informed, because the Justice did not certify as to the credibility of the said Richardson. The deponent, yesterday, carried said affi- davit of said Richardson to said Enos, before whom the same was taken & requested him to certify as to the credibility of said Richardson, which the said Enos not refused to do, alleging that he could not certify that Richardson was a man of truth & veracity. And the deponent further says, that he knew nothing of Richardson's character for truth & veracity, at the time he made his affidavit, & has no rec- ollection of ever having seen him previous to the interview above mentioned. That it was owing to the accidental interview above mentioned, that his affidavit was obtained. The deponent is informed & believes that said Richardson is a United States pensioner & he returns his affidavit to the Pension Department, hoping that the rights of the deponent may not be prejudiced by the want of character on the part of Richardson, & the deponent rests his claim for a pension upon his own statement of his services as made in his original declaration as he knows of no person who

can testify to the same. And this opponent further says, that the reason why he did not produce in court a clergyman's affidavit as to his age & revolutionary services, was, that no clergyman lived in the immediate vicinity of this opponent.
This opponent being now upwards of eighty years of age & being infirm & by reason of loss of memory, cannot state the names of any officers or regiments in addition to those set forth in his original declaration, nor can he state any thing more of the general circumstances of his services.
Sworn & subscribed by the said Job Barstow before me this 25 th day of May 1833.
Job Barstow
Royal B Root Justice Peace
We David Blakeslee, a clergyman residing in Eaton Madison County, State of New York, & Bennett Bicknell Post Master at Morrisville in said town of Eaton do hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Job Barstow who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration or affidavit. That we believe him to be eighty years of age & upwards. That he is up to date & believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion. - And we further state that said Barstow is a member of the Baptist Church & is a man whose character for truth & veracity is good.
Sworn & subscribed before me this 25 th day of May 1833
David Blakeslee Bennett Bicknell
Royal B Root Justice Peace
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Job Barstow, who has signed & sworn to the above affidavit & that he is a man whose character for truth &

veracity is good & that his statement is entitled to full credit. And I further certify that David Blakeslee who has signed & sworn to the above certificate is a Clergyman residing in Eaton in said county & that Brant Brinknell is Post master at Morrisville & that they are such the persons & their statement is entitled to full credit. Dated May 25. 1833.
Royal B. Root Justice Peace
State of New York Madison County Clerk's Office
ps: I Andrew S. Sloan, Clerk of the said County, do certify that Royal B. Root before whom the two preceding Affidavits purport to have been sworn, And also whose name appears to the above Certificate, was, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County, at the date of the same - And that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said Affidavits and Certificate to be his proper hand writing and signature - Witness my hand and Seal of Office this 25 th day of May 1833 - A. S. Sloan Clk.

Otis P. Granger Dec 24 th 1835
Mr. H. H. Fuller H.R.
Hon. M. H. Fuller M.C. Washington D.C.
Dear

Morrisville Dec 24. 1835.
My Friend
I have three Pension applications hanging up, in the Pension Department, & I desire that you will, at your leisure, look to them personally at the Department & endeavor to obtain a favorable decision in behalf of the claimants - The first case is that of Job Barstow - He was an early applicant & is in my Judg t , entitled to a Pension from the Papers on file - He is quite old, resides in this town, & is a member of the Baptist Church here; but his memory is quite poor & cannot give a very distinct account of his services - He alleges that he served at Boston & on the Nohawk in Col. Pillsbury's Reg t - that he served in Pillsbury's Regiment one year - A man by the name of Richardson his brother Michael Barstow both swear that he served in Pillsbury's Reg t , but they differ as to the period & length of time he served & hence the Department suspended his application - That Barstow served in Pillsbury's Reg t there can be no doubt, & it certainly does not look like design, that the witnesses differ as to time - If the Department allow him for the time his brother swears he served, if they can go no further - Job Barstow is an honest, poor man, & his wife the charity of his son in law & in my Judg t , is as much entitled to a pension as any one who draws it - I hope you can induce the Department to do some thing for him -
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Next is Jonathan Frendell -
He is one of Morrey's pensioners & Mary has gone to Michigan to get him a the  credit -
If a man of business , had undertaken Frendell's case in the beginning , he would have had a pension ere this -
Frendell's name is found on the rolls for 3 months service, & the residence of his service was as a minute man - He was on the lines during the War - His brother swears as to his minute service , but the Department says that the applicant must specify each term of service & the time when - The very notice of his service renders this impossible & the Department an unreasonable in requiring it - Please look at his Papers & get something for here if you can -
The next case is that of Joseph Chafee -
His name is found on the rolls at Berlin for 3 or 4 months service. The same service is sworn to by one witness, & the residence of his service is also sworn to by one witness, all the testimony is on file - still the Department requires further Proof - Chafee cannot get any further Proof & if he cannot get his pension on the Papers now on file, he must entirely fail - If the Department are governed at all by the Rules they originally established they will grant pension in these three cases - But it appears to me that unreasonable requirements are made of late - The innocent ought not to suffer because rogues have imposed upon the Pension Department - Truly yours
Otis P. Granger

Ex'r.
INVALID.
291
RECEIVED
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
Job Barstow
P.O. _____
Service: _____
Test: _____, 18
Charged: _____, 18
Printed list 1852 gives as cause of dismission:
Application filed: _____, 18
"The mistakes are apparent in his account through-
out, and he is also discredited by the Comm.
Re-enlisted: Records _____
Attorney: _____
P. _____
571

New York Revol.
Job Barstow suspended
See letter to
Otis P. Granger
10 Augt '33
See let Hon W.H. Fuller Apr 11. 34
let. to same Jan. 30. 1836
Act 7 Jan 1 1832
let to Hon. Mr. H. Fuller 15 Feby 1837 5 1/2 4-1/2 2 3/4
Job Barstow
  1775  0. 8. 0  Capt. Minna, Roxbury     0 2 0  no officers collected    1776  1. 0. 0  Capt. Garrison Col. Willett  

Job Boston
New York add end
Monday 31st
St. Cloud, Ga
Comprise of Denies
Washington
18. c.
  1100  91.66    800  66.66  

Morrisville Madison County N.Y. July 21. 1876.
Sir. Enclosed I send you some "direct proof" in relation to the service of Job Barstow as applicant for a Pension, whose Papers are on file -
Barstow may be mistaken as to the name of his Captain, while he served a Col. Willets Regt, but that he served a Col. Willets Regt, cannot be doubted after hearing from him the affidavit of his brother. He has had much trouble in finding out the residence of his brother in order to procure his affidavit.
It must be remembered, that the applicant Job Barstow , is a very old man 82 & it is not surprising that he should have forgot many things in relation to his service. He is very feeble & mind & memory much impaired -
He is not able to produce any further proof in relation to his service at Boston, than the enclosed Certificate from Mr Huntington the New Comptroller of (Comr) -
I think Barstow may be mistaken as to the length of his service while at Boston, but that he served there cannot be doubted -
I hope this claim will be taken up immediately, as it is now more than two years since it was presented - He is an honest man & a member of the Baptist Church in this town & the whole town would testify as to his credibility if it were necessary - If he has a pension, he must have it quickly in order to be of any service to him -
Respectfully &c
Oris P. Granger

State of Connecticut Comptroller's office
Hartford July 10 th 1834
On examination of the Books and files in this office the name of Captain Skinner is not found for the year 1775. That Captain John Skinner commanded a company ordered to escort Governor Brown, Governor Hene and other prisoners of war to New-York in Sept th & October 1776 of which service there are no payrolls in this office, the accounts were settled by the committee of pay table, and charged to and allowed by the United States - is all that can be found in relation to the service of Captain Skinner or Job Barstow.
Certified by Roger Huntington Comptroller of Public Accounts

State of New Hampshire Grafton County ss }
Haverhill 10 th Jun 1834.
I Michael Barstow aged 80 years do testify and say that in the War of the Revolution & according to the best of my recollection in the year 1779 my Brother Job Barstow enlisted into the Service for the term of Six or Eight months, we lived in Spencer Town, in the State of New York at the time of his enlistment, and that I your deponent took care of my Brother's Family while he was in the Service, and hearing of his being Sick, I went to the German Flats, where he was stationed, to see him and expected to take him home, but he had so far recovered his health, that he concluded to stay out the time for which he enlisted; I do not positively know but according to the best of my recollection, he was in Col. Willets Regiment, I do not recollect any other officer,
Michael Barstow
State of New Hampshire Grafton ss. Haverhill Jun 23 d 1834.
Then the above named Michael Barstow Sub- scribed and made solemn oath to the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed.
Before me Benj Murrell Justice of the Peace
That I have been acquainted with the said Barstow for a number of years and do certify that he is a man of truth and veracity and that his oath is to be taken in any Court. —
Benj Murrell Just of the Peace

State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss.
I Stephen P. Webster Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature within and for said County of Grafton do hereby certify that Benjamin Merrill Esquire, before whom the within Deposition was taken, is an acting Justice of the Peace duly commissioned, and authorised by law to take depositions, that his attestation as such are entitled to credit, & that his signature within written is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said Court at Haverhill in said County this 23 rd day June Anno Domini 1834.
S. P. Webster Clerk

State of New York } Onondaga County ss }
Personally appeared before me Isaac Richardson and being duly sworn deposeth and saith, That this deponent was a soldier in the army of the Revolution, that in the year 1780 this deponent was a private in Capt Chamberlains Company in Col Dubois Regiment, that in the year 1781 he was private in Capt Right Company in Col. Gilletts Regiment, that this deponent, verily believes he was acquainted with Job Barstow in one of the above years, yet cannot be positive as his memory fails very much, that he has conversed with the said Job Barstow recently, that he mentioned a number of circumstances that this deponent thinks he could not if he had not have been out in Gilletts Regt in one of the aforesaid campaigns, particularly the execution of Burbidge & Diden who were shot for desertion at Herkimer on the Mohawk River, as this deponent believes in 1780 the said Job Barstow mentions many particulars which if he had not been present he would have had no knowledge, and further saith not.
Isaac X Richardson his mark
Sworn & subscribed This 18 th day of August
1833 before me the words "mentions" & "had" interlined
before signing M c Intosh Justice of the Peace

Onondaga County ss
I certify that I have been acquainted with Isaac Richardson who made the within affidavit for the last 20 years & that I believe his statements are entitled to the fullest credit
18 th August 1833
J. Miley M c Gowan Justice ss
State of New York
Clerk's Office Onondaga County ss: I Geo. Brown Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Pomeroy Jones Esq. before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn & was at the date of the same a justice of the peace in and for said County and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed thereto to be genuine.
Witness my hand and Seal of Office this 20 th day of August 1833
Geo. Brown Clerk For J. Read Dy Clerk

Comptroller Office
Aug. 29 th 1833
I Elisha Phelps, Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Connecticut, do certify that upon the accounts of the Pay Table there was a charge made to Capt. John Skinner under date Sept 1776 & in October of the same year, also in 1777-1778 1780 & 1784. There is no pay roll of his company to be found, nor any evidence showing who belonged to it, or the regiment to which it belonged.
E. Phelps
Mr. Phelps says in his letter to me, that the rolls of Capt. Skinner's company were sent to the seat of government in the year 1788.
Otis P. Granger

State of New York Oneida County ss.
Isaac Richardson, of Westmoreland in said county, being duly sworn deponeth and saith, that he served near three years as a soldier in the revolutionary army, in Col. Wittet's regiment of the New York line, that he verily believes that he frequently saw Job Burston (none of Madison county N.Y.) serving as a soldier in Captain Garrison's company, in said regiment, that he said deponent is now in his seventy first year, and his memory frail therefore will not testify positively.
Sworn and subscribed Isaac his Richardson before me this 13 September 1832 mark
I, Jeremiah Ennis Justice of the Peace - I certify that I am well acquainted with Isaac Richardson, who has signed & sworn to the above affidavit & that he is a man of truth & veracity & that his statement is entitled to credit. Data May 23 d 1833.
State of New York
Clerk's Office Oneida County ss: I Geo Brown Clerk of the said County do certify that Jeremiah Ennis before whom the within affidavit purports to have been taken was on the day of the date of the same one of the justices of the peace in and for the said County duly authorized by law to act as such and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to said affidavit to be his proper hand writing and signature
Witness my hand and seal of office this 28 th day of September 1832 Geo. Brown Clerk.
The Department will observe, that the State has omitted to certify as to the credibility of the witness Richardson. If the department thinks the affidavit of Richardson - (over)

add much to the declaration of the applicant Barton. I will get the Justice to certify as to his credibility - The Justice lives some distance from this place, & not desiring the testimony of Richardson of much conseq- -uence to the applicant as the reason for not getting the certificate of the Justice as to his credibility now-
Yrs P. Granger