Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 45284, Joseph Bisby, Conn.

SERVICE
Conn.
Bisby, Joseph
NUMBER
S. 45-284
CONTENTS

No 19.676
New York
Joseph Bisby
of Herkimer Co in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Prior - of the regiment commanded by Colonel Andrew Ward in the Connecticut line, for the term of one year from 1776 to 1777
inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 12th day of October 1826.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20th of Oct 1825 and sent to David Holt, Esq. Herkimer, New York
Arrears to 4th of Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 March 1827 $38-19 $38-19
{ Revolutionary claim, Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820. }
Dead. See letter June 16. 1830 to D. Van Horn. do June 11. 1831 to Pension Agent at Albany New York

20,036.

State of New York § 55
Herkimer County §
On this fifth day of June, 1826 personally appeared in Open Court, vix. the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County aforesaid, the said Court being by law constituted a Court of record, Joseph Birby, resident in said County, aged ninety-one years, who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress, of the 18th March, 1818, and the 1st, May, 1820 That he the said Joseph Birby enlisted, for the term of one year, in the month of May (or June, the precise day and month is not recollected by the deponent) in the year 1777, at Tolland in the County of Tolland, and State of Connecticut, in the Company commanded by Captain Abner Prior, in the regiment commanded by Colonel Andrew Ward, in the line of the State of Connecticut, on the U. States Continental establishment; That he continued to serve in the said Corps until the month of May or June in the year 1778, at the expiration of the year aforesaid, for which he enlisted, when the said regiment was disbanded or discharged at Chatham in the State of New-Jersey That he was in the battle of White Plains; That he has no other evidence now in his power, of his said services, except the depositions of Samuel Aboon and Elisha Huntington, which are hereto annexed. —
And, in pursuance of the act of the 1st May, 1820, I do solemnly swear, That I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner nor disposition of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" passed on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed

Schedule. &c.
Excepting my necessary wearing apparel, I have no property real or personal, in possession; and the only articles of property to which I have or might have any claim, are, two beds and necessary bedding, a chest of drawers, a table, and a few chairs, worth perhaps from thirty to forty dollars which articles I left in possession of one of my sons, in East Windsor in Connecticut, about twelve years ago, at which time I removed from them; but where the said property is, or in whose possession, I have not known for several years. I never had a mechanical trade or profession, but was once a farmer; am now upwards of ninety-one years of age and from my extreme age and consequent debility am totally unable to support myself by labor. I have no family and am entirely dependent upon one of my sons for support, which he furnishes me gratuitously.
Sworn to and declared on the 15th day of June, 1826 before me Thiam Kolton first Judge Hersh. Com. Pleas.
Joseph Birby
The Court is of opinion that the value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule may be, to the said Joseph Birby Ten Dollars
Thiam Kolton Sanders Lanning Marcus Brain John Mahon
Herkimer County ss
I Abijah Munkwith Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath (or affirmation) and the schedule hereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the foregoing schedule is Ten Dollars. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 18th day of June 1826 Abijah Munkwith Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas

Joseph Bisby Pension Papers

State of New York } ss.
(Forkimer County } On this second day of October 1826. personally appeared in open Court, viz the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid, the said Court being by law constituted a Court of Record, Joseph Bisby resident in said County, aged Ninety one years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18 th March 1818. and the 1 st of May 1820. as
That he the said Joseph Bisby enlisted for the term of one year, in the month of May or June (the precise day and month is not recollected by the deponent) in the year 1776, at Holland in the County of Holland and State of Connecticut, in the Company commanded by Captain Abner Prior in the regiment commanded by Colonel Andrew Ward, in the line of the State of Connecticut, on the United States continental establishment; that he continued to serve in the said Corps until the month of May or June in the year 1777, at the expiration of the year aforesaid for which he enlisted, when the said regiment was disbanded or discharged at Chatham in the State of New Jersey; that he was in the battle of White Plains; that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services except the depositions of Samuel Alborn and Elisha Huntington, which are hereto annexed.
And in pursuance of the act of the 1 st May 1820. I do Solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March, 1818. and that I have not by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War, passed on the 18 th day of March 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts or debts, due to; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
That in the fall of the year 1818, I made a declaration according to law, under the act of 18 th March 1818, to obtain a pension and procured one or two affidavits touching my revolutionary services which papers were left by me in the hands of my attorney, from whom I have understood that the evidence of my service proved insufficient, and that the said declaration and affidavits have been lost or mislaid; that the reasons why my endeavors to procure a

Pension were not persisted in, were the difficulty and Expense of procuring sufficient proof of my said services and the willingness of my son, with whom I have lived for more than ten years to support me, so long as he could do it without overburdening himself.
Schedule
Excepting my necessary wearing apparel, I have no property real or personal, in possession; and the only articles of property to which I have or might have any claim are - two beds and necessary bedding, a Chest of drawers, a table and a few chairs, worth when I last saw them perhaps from thirty to forty dollars, which articles I left in possession of one of my sons in East Windsor, in Connecticut, about twelve years ago, at which time I removed from thence; but where the said property is, or in whose possession, I have not known for several years. For the last ten years I have had no property excepting the above, nor any title or claim to any real real Estate, nor has there been any change made in the same or anything excepting my wearing apparel relating to my Estate, within my knowledge, since the 18 th of March 1818.
I never had a mechanical trade or profession but was bred a farmer; am now upwards of Ninety one years old, and from my extreme age and consequent debility am totally unable to support myself by labor. I have no family, and am entirely dependant upon one of my sons for support, which he furnishes me gratuitously.
Joseph Bisberg.
Sworn to and declared on the 2 nd day of October 1828. before me
Heiram Nollen Judge. Herk Com. Pleas.

The Court is of opinion, that the Value of the property exhibited in the foregoing Schedule may be to the said Joseph Bisby, Ten Dollars, And that it appears to the satisfaction of the said Court, that the said Joseph Bisby did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common Enemy for the term of Nine months under one Engagement on the Continental Establishment.
Hiram Norton. Sanders Lansing Judges John Mahan }
State of New York } Herkimer County } ss Clerks office }
I, Abijah Breckwith Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Herkimer, do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said Joseph
Bisby did serve in the revolutionary War as stated in the foregoing declaration, against the common Enemy, for the term of Nine Months, under one Engagement, on the Continental Establishment, I also certify, that the foregoing oath and the Schedule annexed, are truly copied from the records of the said Court; And I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in Value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, is Ten dollars.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and Affixed the Seal of the said Court on this Twelfth day of October One Thousand Eight Hundred and twenty Six
For Abijah Breckwith Clerk John Mahan Dep. Clerk

45284
Rev INVALID.
File No. 45284
Joseph Bisby Pio Rev War
Act: 18 March 1818 1 st May 1820
Index:—Vol. 3, Page 43
[Arrangement of 1870.]

20,036.
Joseph Bisby, Herkimer, N.Y.
David Holt, Herkimer, N.Y.
Recd. 20 Oct. 1826.
Home Recd

Dear Sir, James Burbon Secretary of War, Washington City.

Herkimer, N. Y. Oct. 14, 1826.
Sir, I herewith transmit an amended Declaration of Joseph Bisby, together with an explanatory affidavit of my own, and the evidence of his revolutionary service which has once been before you. I also enclose Mr. Edwards letter, and the original declaration of Mr. B. made in June last.
As the error in the date of Mr. B.'s enlistment, &c. is corrected, and explained by my affidavit, and the time now stated agrees with that previously sworn to by the witnesses; — as the reason why he has not sooner passed his application for a pension (for he did sooner apply for it) must now be satisfactorily accounted for; and as there has been no change in his property, by sale, gift or otherwise, since 18 March, 1818, I trust there will now be no impediment in the way of his receiving a Pension Certificate, to take effect from the 5th of June , the date of his late Declaration — which I send again, in order that the time may be before you, as it will be officially.
Of the necessity of accounting for the lateness of the present application, we were not apprized, as there had been no alteration in his property for some years antecedent to the passage of the act of 18th March, 1818, or subsequently, as appears from his schedule, we could not anticipate any difficulty on that account, or from the omission to mention that fact specifically; — as the term of service appears

by the depositions of Aborn and Huntington (which accompanied the declaration before) to be within the time of the service of Col. Ward's regiment on the continental establishment, and corresponds with your statement of the discharge of said reg't;— and as the error in the statement was mine, and not Bisby's, I presume there can be no objection to his being placed on the Pension Roll, as on the 5th June, the day when he in fact made the declaration.
In your goodness and promptitude in replying to my last, accept the thanks of the old veterans (who spent almost the whole period of the revolutionary war in militia and other public service) as well as my own. Let your answer be directed to me, and, if you please, return with the Certificate (if one is granted) Mr. Edwards' letter of 26th June.
I am, Sir,
Very Respectfully,
Yours &c,
David Holt,
Hon Jas Barbour Living at Mr.

State of New York } ss Mexico May 13 th 1826 - Grenco County }
Be it known, that before me Perry Allen Esq. one of the justices of the Peace in and for said County personally came Elisha Huntington of Mexico aforesaid, who being duly sworn, doth depose, testify and say, that he was personally acquainted with Joseph Bigby, who in the year 1776 belonged to & resided in the town & County of Tolland in the state of Connecticut where he now resides the deponent knoweth not; That the said Joseph Bigby in the Month of May or June in the year 1776 at said Tolland enlisted as a private soldier for the term of one year in the Company commanded by Capt. Almon Pierce in Col. Andrew Ward's Regiment, being the first Company in said Regiment. (Said Bigby was enlisted by Elijah Chapman then a sergeant in said Company; that the said Joseph Bigby entered the service under s d enlistment and continued to serve in s d Company and Regiment for the term of one year to the deponent certain knowledge; that he was with the rest of said Bigby honorably discharged in the Month of May or June 1777 at Chatham in the state of New Jersey That the deponent enlisted and served in the same Company and Regiment with said Bigby and well knew him before his enlistment, in the ser- -vice & since his return, and that the facts of s d enlistment, service, return & discharge are well known to the said deponent; and further the deponent saith not; Elisha Huntington
Sworn and subscribed before me this 13 th day of May 1826 - Perry Allen Justice of the Peace

Guadalupe Co. { p. Mexico May 15 1821
Personally appeared before me Perry Allen Esq one of the justices of the Peace in and for said County, Elisha Huntington of said Mexico and being duly sworn doth say that the within Deposition by him subscribed contains the truth the whole truth, and nothing but the truth
Perry Allen justice of the Peace
I further certify that said Elisha Huntington is to me well known and is a creditable witness
Perry Allen justice of the Peace

State of New York
Oswego County
Clerks Office
— J. Philipus J. Morgan
Clerk of the County of Oswego, do hereby certify, that Philip Allen Esq. the Officer, before whom the annexed depositions, were taken, and who hath subscribed his name thereto, is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Oswego, duly Commissioned and sworn as such according to Law —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of said County and subscribed my name this 15 th day of May 1826
J. J. Morgan

State of Connecticut } ss. Holland April 28 th AD 1826 - Holland County . . . }
Be it known, that before me Jonathan Barnes one of the Justices of the Peace within the said County, personally came Samuel Moore of the same County, who being duly sworn doth depose & testify as say, that he was personally acquainted with Joseph Bisby who in the year 1776 belonged to & resided in the Holland; that some time after the Revolutionary war he remained from the Holland, where he now resides the Department knows not. The Department knows that in the month of May or June in the year 1776 the said Joseph Bisby at the Holland enlisted as a private soldier for the term of one year in Company commanded by Capt. Abner Dyer in Col. Andrew Ward's Regiment, being the first Company in the Regiment; that Bisby was enlisted by Elijah Chapman then a Lieutenant in the Company; that the said Joseph Bisby entered the service under his enlistment & continued to serve in the Company & Regiment for the term of one year & the Department has certain knowledge when he was with the rest of the Regiment honorably discharged in the month of May or June 1777 at Chatham in the State of New Jersey - that the Department enlisted & served in the same Company & Regiment with the said Bisby & well knows him before his enlistment & in the service & after his return - & that the facts of his enlistment & service & return & discharge are well known to the Department; & further the Department saith not -
Samuel Moore

Holland County N. Holland April 20 th AD 1826 -
Personally appeared Samuel Atborn of N. Holland & made solemn oath that the within & foregoing Deposition by him subscribed contains the truth the whole truth & nothing but the truth
Before me Jonathan Barnes Justice of Peace -
I further certify that to Samuel Atborn in to me well known to be an credible witness Jonathan Barnes Justice of Peace.

Tolland County ss Clerks office
I Jeremiah Parish Clerk of Tolland County Court Do certify that Jonathan Barnes Esqr before whom the fore- going affidavit was made is duly inrolled in this office as Justice of Peace in and for Tolland County Duly appointed & legally authorized to discharge the various duties of said office and that his signature to the foregoing affidavit is in his own proper hand writing —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the public seal of said Court at Tolland this 28 th day of April A D 1826 —
Jeremiah Parish Clerk

State of New York Herkimer County
David Holt, being duly sworn, saith, that he read the declaration of Joseph Bisby under the acts of Congress of 18th March 1818, and 1st of May 1820, concerning revolutionary pensions, which declaration was made before the court of Common Pleas in and for said county, on the 5th day of June, 1826; that the time of the enlistment of the said Joseph, as related to the deponent, was in May or June, in the year 177 6 , and not 177 7 , as stated in the said declaration; that the insertion of the year 177 7 , as the commencement and 177 8 as the termina- tion of the said Joseph's service, was an error of the deponent, and not of the said Joseph, but that the same was not discovered until the return of the certified copy of said declaration from the department of War to the said deponent.
Subscribed & sworn this 9 th day of October 1826, before me, Alfred Putnam Justice of the peace of said county -
David Holt
I certify that the deponent is a credible witness
A. Putnam Justice of the peace -

State of New York Herkimer County Clerks Office
vs. I, Elijah Beckwith Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Herkimer, do hereby certify that Alfred Putnam whose name is subscribed to the affidavit hereto annexed, was on the day of the date of taking said affida- vit aforesaid, a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Herkimer, duly commissioned and sworn. And further that I am acquainted with the hand writing of Alfred Putnam and verily believe the signature of Alfred Putnam subscribed to the affidavit aforesaid, to be the proper hand writing of the said Alfred Putnam.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court of Common Pleas aforesaid the twelfth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty six.
For Elijah Beckwith Clerk
John Mahon Dep. Clerk