Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44,697, Josiah Bugbee, New York

SERVICE
New York
Rugbee, Josiah or Buckbee
NUMBER
S. 44,697
CONTENTS

3056.
New York Roll
Isiah Bugbee Capt Dubois
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private New York line. 175 3 years. the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
enrolled on the Roll of New York at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 22 of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 of Sep 1818 and forwarded to Micah M Gregory Sand Lake N. York
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1818. $ 35.46 semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Mar. 1819. 48.00 Arrears 4 Mar. 1820. $ 83.46
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 19th March, 1818. }
Dubois M. M. Gregory
Sand Lake New York
Attention sent to Isaac McPhee, 15 day in Note of death rec on 20-21

Journals Bingham 22 April
not on Roll Adm. 11. 21

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
State of New-York. COUNTY OF Albany
} TO WIT:
IN conformity with the provisions of the Act of the Congress of the United States of America, passed March 18th, 1818, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States, in the REVOLUTIONARY WAR," the following DECLARATION , in writing, is made under Oath, by Joseph Brughes of the Town of Grafton in the County of Rensselaer in the State of New-York before the Honorable Stephen Esquire, one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the said State, which Court is a Court of Record of the County and State, in which the said Joseph Brughes doth reside, that is to say:
DECLARATION.
I Joseph Brughes of the Town of Grafton in the County of Rensselaer in the State of New-York on this 22 day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen—Do solemnly, sincerely and truly swear and declare, that I served against the common Enemy in the Army, in the War of the Revolution,
and that I am a resident Citizen of the United States, to wit, in the Town County and State aforesaid; and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life, I am in need of assistance from my country for support.—I do further swear and declare, that I served in the said Revolutionary War, in the capacity of, and being a Private that I belonged to the Army, to wit, I belonged to Capt. L. & D. Lewis Company, Col. Lewis' Dir. Regt. Regiment and continental Line—That I entered the said service about the 1 st day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty six and left it about the 1 st day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine in the manner following, to wit: I left it by reason of the expiration of my term of service; that I received one document concerning the same service and discharge, which has been lost
and that there is no other evidence in my power to my knowledge, concerning the matters deposed by me than John Brughes, whose deposition is hereto annexed —And I further declare, that in pursuance of the requisitions of the aforesaid Act of Congress, I do hereby freely and absolutely, and to all intents and purposes, relinquish all claims to any Pension, under any of the Laws of the United States, except the Pension contemplated to be allowed me under the Act of Congress aforesaid mentioned, and under which this Declaration is made.
IN WITNESS of the truth of this Declaration, I have subscribed the same in presence of the said Judge, and have solemnly deposed to the truth thereof, on the day herein before, for that purpose, specified.
Sworn before me, this 22 day of April 1818. }
Stephen P. Hildreth  Joseph Brughes

United States of America.
By the Honorable Ambrose Green Esquire, one of the Judges of a Court of Record in the State of New-York, to wit, of the Court of the Supreme Court in the said State.
To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States of America.
SIR,
I do respectfully certify to you, in pursuance of the Act of the Congress of the United States of America, passed March 18th, 1818, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," that Jonah Bugglee of the Town of Sand-Lake in the County of Rensselaer and State of New-York, personally appeared before me, at the Say of Albany in the said State, on the 22 d day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and then and there was carefully and minutely interrogated and examined by me, under oath, touching the facts stated in his foregoing Declaration, and thereupon he then and there subscribed the said Declaration in my presence, (after the same was deliberately read and explained to him by me) and at the same time made solemn oath before me, on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, that the said Declaration was, in all respects, true—Whereupon, I required of him to produce such other evidence as was in his power, to support the truth of his said Declaration—Accordingly, he produced as testimony, the affidavits accompanying this certificate
(and which accompanies this Certificate)—And I having duly considered the said Declaration, and the said testimony produced in support thereof, DO CERTIFY to you, Sir, that I am fully satisfied that the said Jonah Bugglee did serve in the Revolutionary War, against the common Enemy, for the time and in the manner by him stated in his said DECLARATION; and I am likewise satisfied, that the other facts in that Declaration stated, are, in like manner, true—I do therefore, respectfully transmit to you the testimony in the case, and the proceedings had thereon, according to the Act of Congress aforesaid.
GIVEN under my Hand, and the Seal of the said Court, at Albany the 22 d day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Ambrose Green

State of New York Jr. John Groat Being duly sworn saith, that he was private soldier in Capt. Rensselaers Company Col. Dubois Regi ment & that he knows the said Josiah Breslan to have been in the said Regiment in the manner stated in the preceding Af fidavit by him made that the same Declaration is true in all its parts.
Sworn the 22 d day of April 1818.
Ambrose Spencer John his H Groat mark
I certify that Ambrose Spencer is one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Judicature in and for the State of New York - In witness whereof I have caused the seal of the said Court to be hereunto affixed this twenty second day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
M c Woodford Clk

Josiah Bushnell Durham
N o 3056 28 Sept. 1818
Direct to Isaac L. Smith Troy N. York

State of New York. City of Troy & County of Rensselaer
In the Court of Common Pleas called the Mayors Court in and for the City of Troy
On this fifth day of July 1820 personally appeared in open court, (being a court of record in and for the said City according to the solemn adjudications of the Supreme Court of this state, and being a court which proceeds according to the course of common law ; with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount ; keeping a record of its proceedings ; and possessing the power of fine and imprisonment) Josiah Bushbee aged Sixty Six years, resident in the Town of Sand Lake in said County who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the revolutionary war as follows:— Devid that he enlisted as a private soldier in Capt. Thomas Lewis Company of Infantry in the Fifth New York Regiment commanded by Col. Lewis Dubois on the first day of January 1777 and was afterwards transferred to Capt. Henry Dubois Company & was honorably discharged on the first day of April 1780 that application was made for a pension on the 22 April 1810 that his certificate is Number 3056 dated 20 Sept. 1810 & payable in NYork
AND 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, 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 18th 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,
Sworn to and declared on the fifth day of July 1820 in Open Court
Josiah Bushbee
Joseph D. Selden Clerk
State of New York, City of Troy Rensselaer County
I, Joseph D. Selden the Mayors Court
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas called
do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath & Affidavit and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record 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 property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is $35.25 that he owes Twenty Six dollars and fifty six cents. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this fifth day of July 1820
Joseph D. Selden Clerk.

Schedule or Inventory of all the property Real and Personal of Josiah Bucklin in the annexed affidavit named - Sworn
  One Cow Value 18 0   Five Small pigs 1 25   Five Chickens 1 75   Two pairs Cows & Calves 1 50   One Shovel & Spade 1 50   No Sack 1 0   One Looking Glass 1 0   Other Kitchen furniture 3 0   Debt against Joseph Carr which is 6 25 good for nothing   35 25 
I owe $76.56 to D. M. Gregory
I have no Real Estate I have a Wife to maintain who is 65 years and upwards old am a laborer but am unable to labor on account of my age and being hurt and am such in diligent circumstances as to be unable to support myself without the assistance of my country
Sworn and subscribed this 3 rd July 1820 in Open Court
Josiah his Bucklin mark
Joseph D. Selden Clerk

February 4, 1937
Mrs. William B. Traynor 6936 Bennett Avenue Chicago, Illinois
Josiah Bugbee S. 44697 BA-J/AWF aw
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to Josiah Buckbee, soldier of the Revolutionary War, died in 1839 at Sand Lake, New York.
The data furnished herein relative to Josiah Bugbee or Buckbee were obtained from pension claim, S. 44697, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
The date and place of birth of Josiah Bugbee was not given , nor were the names of his parents stated. His father was living, during the Revolutionary War in Green Bush, Rensselaer County, New York.
While living with his father, Josiah Bugbee enlisted sometime in 1776, served as a private in Captains Thomas Lee's and Henry Dubois' company in Colonel Lewis Dubois' 5th New York Regiment, length of service three years.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 22, 1818, at which time he was living in Sandlake, Rensselaer County, New York. He was living in 1820 at said Sandlake, then aged sixty-six years, and stated that his wife was sixty-five years, old but did not give her name, and there are no data

relative to their marriage, + no reference to children
Richard Buckbee (as he signed), brother of the soldier, Josiah Bugbee or Buckbee, was fifty-four years of age in 1818 and living in Clinton, Dutchess County, New York.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D. C., and give the following-
Josiah Bugbee (as he was pensioned) Certificate # 3056 Issued September 28, 1818 Rate $8.00 per month Commenced April 22, 1818 Act of March 18, 1818 New York Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

Histy to Miller mich
44 697 INVALID.
Recy
Nov. 6-1908. Mrs. Mary Co Kalamazoo
1908 Feb 4 - list to Mrs. Wm. B. Scaynor
File No. 44 697
Josiah Bagbee Priv. Rev. War.
Act: 18 th March 1818.
Index: — Vol. 3, Page 76
[Arrangement of 1870.]

State of New York 3 Dutchess County 3
Richard Buckbee of Clinton in the said County on this twenty second day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred & eighteen came before me James D. Smith first judge of the said County and upon his affirmation declared that Josiah Buckbee of Greenbush in the County of Rensselaer in the State of New York in or about the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six enlisted in a company commanded by Captain DuBois in a regiment in the New York line of the Continental army of the revolution war commanded by Colonel Lewis DuBois for the term of three years; that this deponent is a brother of the said Josiah Buckbee and is now aged fifty four years that the only knowledge this deponent has of the enlistment and service of the said Josiah, is derived from the fact of the said Josiah at the time aforesaid leaving the house of his father to join the army, and it was understood that he had enlisted as aforesaid, that during his continuance in the service he visited his father, family, and communicated with them by letter, and in particular this deponent well remembers that the said Josiah, shortly after the taking of Fort Montgomery by the enemy, visited his father, family and remained with them for some time, until his company was recruited and he was ordered to rejoin the same. that this deponent well recollects the time that the said Josiah returned home at the expiration of his term, it was understood in the family that the said Josiah had a written or printed discharge but this deponent has no recollection of having seen the same, that from the time the said Josiah first entered into the service to his final return home as aforesaid was about four years - that this deponent well recollects that while the said Josiah was in the service as aforesaid the father of this deponent received a letter from the said Josiah, which this deponent then read, in which he stated that the company or regiment was billeted out among the farmers of Old Schoharie for the winter, the particular year not now recollected by this deponent further saith not.
Richard Buckbee
Affirmed this 22 nd day of August 1818 before me
James D. Smith

I W m Henry W m Henry Buckley Dep. Clerk of the County of Dutchess in the State of New York do hereby certify that James Emott before, whom the within affidavit was made was at the time first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County acting under the authority of this State and that the within is his signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this twenty second day of August one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
W m Henry Buckley Dep. Clerk

Sand Lake. Rensselaer Co., N. York
Sept. 14. 1818. —
Hon. J. Calhoun Esq. Secretary at War
I again inclose the petition of Josiah Bugbee for a pension under the act of Congress of 18 March last - with additional testimony - & if, Sir, the testimony should not be deemed sufficient, he wishes the earliest notice of it, consistent with the convenience of your department - that he may, if possible, obtain other testimony - The applicant is in real want - and whatever I do or can do for him is certainly done & will be done without fee or reward -
With much respect, Hon. Sir,
I am your obed Servt.
Uriah M c Gregory

Uriah M c Gregory of lawful age being duly sworn testifyeth & saith that he has been well acquainted with Josiah Buggie for twelve or fifteen years past & that he has always considered him as in low or needy circumstances - and for two or three years past extremely so - being as the deponent really believes - almost entirely destitute of every kind of property, and by reason of age and infirmities unable to labor, but very little - The deponent further saith that the part of the Town of Sand Lake, where he & the s d Buggie then lived, was - a few years since, a part of the Town of Green Bush. Further the deponent saith not -
sworn the 12 th day of September 1818 before me A. Sprague
Uriah M c Gregory
I certify that as well from the Affidavit of Josiah Buggie heretofore made before me, as from the Affidavit of his son M c Gregory, known to me to be a man of fair character; I am perfectly satisfied that the said Josiah Buggie is in very reduced circumstances, and that he stands in need of aid from his County for support. Sept. 12. 1818.
Andrew Sprague

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Pension Bureau, Revolutionary War Division, Washington, D. C.
Will you please advise me the cost of a copy of the pension application of
Josiah Buckbee , who died 1839 at Sand Lake, N. Y.
Thanking you, I am
Yours truly,
Dean K. Traynor - no signature Mrs. Wm. B. Traynor, 6836 Bennett Ave., Chicago, Ill.
Jan. 18, 1937