Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44354, Enos Bussey, New York

SERVICE
New York
Bussey Enos
NUMBER
S. 44354
CONTENTS

18.951
New York
Enos Bussey
of Dutchess Co in the State of New York who was a Private in the Comp y commanded by Captain Wairican of the Regiment commander by Colonel Livingston in the Monk line, for the term of 18 months
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1 of March 1823
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 of May 1823 and sent to Alexander Forbus Esq r Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Arrears to 4th of March 1823 . £ 3 Semi anl. all ce ending 4 Sept 1823 . 48
$ 49.3
{ Revolutionary claim, Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820 } March 1. 1823

At a Court of Common Pleas held at Poughkeepsie in and for the County of Dutchess in the State of New York of January Term in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty three
Present The Honorable James Emott First Judge
Daniel C. Kippland } Judges
Albert Akin } Judges
Dutchess County ss: On this twentieth day of January in the same Term personally appeared in open Court Enos Busey of the Town of Poughkeepsie in said County aged eighty two who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he enlisted and served in the American Army of the revolution in the manner and for the time particularly set forth in the declaration of service hereto annexed made before the Honorable James Emott first judge aforesaid and bearing date the 18 th day of April 1818 that the said declaration with the oath of Felix Lewis thereto annexed was sent to the Honorable the Secretary of War and the same was afterwards sent back for further evidence, the Deponent then procured the affidavit of Henry Hoffman annexed to the said paper and the same were again sent to the War Department and again set back with objections to Hoffman's affidavit he being at the time an applicant for a pension - This Deponent has since procured the affidavit of Thomas Jones hereto annexed and again prays the provision made by the acts of the 18 th March 1818 and 1 st May 1820 - And in pursuance of the said last mentioned act I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that I have not since that time 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 Revolution"

any war passed on the 18 th day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contract or debt due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed
Real Estate
Lot in the Town of Poughkeepsie of one fourth of an acre with a small dwelling house thereon eighteen by fourteen feet one story high very slightly built old and not of much value - an old stable 14 feet square of little value
Personal property wearing apparel and bedding except 2 old horses, one bought one year since for ten dollars the other bought two years ago for fourteen dollars they are very old and almost past service - 1 old waggon 1 Rea 20 years old, 1 set of old harness cost two years ago two dollars and fifty cents one cow one pig -
  6 chairs (common)  Shovel & tongs     3 Pots  6 tea cups & saucers  2 hoes, 1 shovel    1 common cherry table  6 knives & forks  1 Crowbar, plough  
The Deponent is indebted to Enos Bussey Esq of Bridgeport in Connecticut in the sum of ninety dollars for money lent for which he holds a note -
The Deponent is a laborer by occupation but from his advanced age cannot do much hard work, his family consists of himself his wife aged about sixty years, one son aged twenty years who is unable to contribute to his support by reason of rheumatism - two daughters aged twenty one and fifteen, the eldest is a Tailor capable of maintaining herself, the youngest is dependent -
Sworn in open court this 3 20 th day of January 1823 Jacob Van Klief Clerk
Enos X Bussey mark

To the Honorable James Emott first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Dutchess which is a Court of Record of the State of New York
The declaration upon oath of Enos Bussey formerly a soldier engaged in the service of the United States during the revolutionary war and now a citizen of the United States and resident of the town of Poughkeepsie in Dutchess County and State of New York
Respectfully sheweth that the said Enos Bussey in or about the month of June in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six enlisted in a company in the American Service commanded by Capt Waiscum in a regiment in the New York line com- manded by Col James Livingston for during the war of the revolution and continued to serve in the same company as a private soldier until about the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight at Providence Rhode Island the said company was broken up and distributed among the other companies of the same regiment, the said Enos was put in a company commanded by Capt John Livingston and served in the same until the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty one when the said regiment was broke up at Albany and one part attached to Col Vanschaick's regiment and the Canadian Frenchmen were placed in Col Hazen's Congress regiment the said Enos instead of joining the said Congress regiment was directed to attend Major Nicholson who was then sick to Burlington where he remained and attended upon the said Nicholson until he died and until the spring following when he was ordered to join his regiment then at Philadelphia on his arrival there at the request of General Peter Martin he was attached to the Commissary Department as an assistant that after the taking of Cornwallis still in the Commissary

apartment he accompanied the French troops to Boston & Providence and continued with General Martin until the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty five when he was discharged by him at Philadelphia - that about two years thereafter the said Enos in crossing the north river near Poughkeepsie was overset in a boat and his said discharge was wet defaced and lost - And this Declaration further representeth that the said Enos Bussey is now a Citizen of the United States and residing in Poughkeepsie aforesaid and is by reason of his reduced circum- stances in life in need of assistance from his Country for support and that he has never received any pension from the government of the United States Therefore he conceives himself entitled to the benefit of the act of the Congress of the United States entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary war" Approved March 18. 1818 and requests that your Honor will examine into the truths of the matters aforesaid certify and transmit the testimony in this Case and that the proceedings had thereon to the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War to the end that such relief may be had in the premises as is by law in such case pro- vided - And in support of the facts above set forth he refers to the affidavit of himself and hereafter set forth - Dated the 18 th day of April 1818 Enos his mark Bussey
County of Dutchess p: Enos Bussey being duly sworn says that the matters by him set forth in the foregoing Declaration are in all respects just and true Sworn the 18 th day of April 1818 before me James Mott -

Dutchess p: Felix Lewis of Poughkeepsie being duly sworn says that he knows Enos Bussey the above Declarant and that he knew him during the revolutionary war that he saw the said Enos while he belonged to the American Army as a Soldier and dealt out provisions to him, that the said Enos has resided in Poughkeepsie since the year after the war and it has always been understood in the place that the said Enos was a Continental Soldier Sworn this 18. April 1818 Felix Lewis before me
James Emott
State of New York
County of Dutchess p: Be it remembered that on the eighteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me James Emott First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Dutchess which is a Court of Record of the State of New York personally appeared the aforesaid Enos Bussey applicant for a pension under the act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war and made oath as is hereunto annexed and produced Felix Lewis who swore as appears by the affidavit also herunto annexed. Whereupon I being satisfied that the said applicant did serve in the army of the United States or the Continental Establishment in the Revolutionary war against the Common Enemy for the term of nine months and longer to wit for the term and in the manner stated in the declaration of the said Applicant and that he is fairly and justly entitled to the benefit of the Act aforesaid. Therefore I do hereby certify and transmit the testimony in the case and the proceedings had thereon as before set forth to the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War -
Given under my hand and seal of the said Court

the day and year last above written
James Emott
I Jacob Van Ryp Clerk of the County of Dutchess in the State of New York do hereby certify that James Emott before whom the preceding affidavits were taken is first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Dutchess acting under the authority of this State and that the above is his signature
L.S
In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court this eighteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Jacob Van Ryp
State of New York Dutchess County
On the twenty seventh day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me James Emott first Judge of Dutchess County came Henry Hoffman of the Town of Clinton in the said County who I think is entitled to credit and declared on oath that he knows Enos Bussey and that he knows the said Enos to have served in a regiment in the New York line in the war of the revolution commanded by Col Livingston for nine months and upwards this deponent having served as a private in the same company with the said Enos
Sworn this 27 th June 1818 before me
Henry Hoffman his mark
James Emott
I the above named James Emott first Judge of Dutchess County do certify in addition to the within certificate that Enos Bussey is well known to me and I am satisfied that he belonged to the American Army in the war of the revolution and served in the continental line for nine months and upwards and that he is in need of assistance from his County for support -
June 27 th 1818

James Emott
State of New York Dutchess County p: Thomas Jones of New Paltz in Ulster County being duly sworn say that in the year 1776 he enlisted in the revolutionary army in a New York Regiment comman- ded by Col Lewis Dubois for during the war and served in such regiment and a regiment commanded by Col Van Cortlandt until the close of the war - that in the year 1777 at the taking of Burgoyne his regiment was at Stillwater and that he then saw Enos Bussey serving as an American Soldier in the line of the army: that in 1778 the Deponent was with the regiment at White Plains about four months during which time the said Enos was also with the regiment in which he served at White Plains. And the Deponent being a non commissioned officer frequently saw and posted the said Enos on guard as a soldier belonging to the American army: that in or about the year 1781 when part of the army lay at Poughkeepsie this Deponent saw the said Enos with such part of the army at Poughkeepsie for some months acting as a soldier in the army standing sentry and doing the other usual duty
Sworn this 20 th January 1823 before me
Thomas Jones his mark
James Emott first Judge of Dutchess
Dutchess p: I the within named James Emott first Judge of Dutchess do further certify that I am satis- fied the preceding Deponents Felix Lewis, Henry Hoffman & Thomas Jones are entitled to credit January 20 th 1823 James Emott -

I Jacob Van Neps Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Dutchess in the State of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing papers and schedule 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 one hundred and fifty dollars chargeable with a debt of ninety dollars leaving the net value thereof to be sixty dollars
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this thirtieth day of January in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty three
Jacob Van Neps

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Rev INVALID.
File No. 44 3 54
Enos Bussey Rev. Rev. War.
Act: 18 th March 1818, 1 st May 1820 21 st March 1823
Index:—Vol. 3 , Page 69
[Arrangement of 1870.]

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
WASHINGTON, March 2nd, 1892.
To the
Commissioner of Pensions.
Dear sir:-
I inclose herewith Revolutionary War claims Numbers 3892, 7106, 12,361, 18,685, 22,755, and 44,354, asked for some days ago.
Very truly yours,
A handwritten signature in cursive script, reading "Cyrus Bussey", written in dark ink.
Assistant Secretary.

18,723.1
Enos Pusey, Dutcher's 6° N.Yk.
Alex r Horbus, Poughkeepsie, N.Yk.
Rec d 5 Feb. 1823.
Rev d J. P. Pabst Adm l Secretary of War Washington J. Meigs Q.M. Clerk

Hon. J. C. Calhoun Secty of War.
Enclosed are the papers of Enos Busey on his application for a pension as a Revolutionary Soldier. His original declaration was made before Judge Pratt of this County on the 18 th of April 1818 and sent to the war department, the same twice returned for further testimony. Busey was unable to obtain that testimony until he lately discovered and procured the evidence of Thomas Jones. He has since exhibited a schedule of his property according to the act of May 1. 1820.
He presumes that if the evidence is sufficient to entitle him to a pension, he will receive it from the date of his original application, the 18 th April 1818.
The determination on his case, he requests may be sent to me at Poughkeepsie.
Respectfully Your obedt Servt
W. FORBES
Jan'y 30. 1823