Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43357, Joshua Combs, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Combs, Joshua
S. 43357
CONTENTS

8,583
New York Roll.
Joshua Combs, 4
of Manhattan in the state of N. York who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Tupper of the Massachu- setts, for the term of three years . 1781
inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 9 of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 th of Mar. 1819, and sent to Seth Baldwin, Jr. Esq. Caldwell, N. York.
Arrears to 4th of March 1819... 86. 89
Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4. Sept. 1819.. 48. "
Cur. 10m. o 22/30-4/31 $134. 89
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Copy of Roll of New York, 1818, to 1819, for the term of three years, 1781.

Joshua bombs 9 April
2
Returned for further evidence of service

State of New York County of Warren } ss.
Joshua Combs, of the Town of Warrenburgh in the county of Warren aforesaid, being, duly sworn doth depose and say that he was born in the Town of Douglas, in the county of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts, - that he is now aged about Fifty four years, - that he is now and ever has been a resident citizen of the United States, - That on the 18 th day of March 1781. this Deponent enlisted for three years, under Capt. Othniel Taylor, in the 10 th Massachusetts Regiment, commanded by Col. Tupper, in which company, this deponent served regularly, until the month of November 1782. when this regiment was reduced to the 6 th Mass.
the 10 th Massachusetts Regiment, when the 6 th Massachusetts Regiment was formed, with a few exceptions, the officers and men of the 10 th Regiment, who were not discharged, were transferred to the 6 th Regiment. Enlisted during the war, were discharged, and in June 1783. the company under Capt. Jackson, passed into the 2 nd Massachusetts Regiment, commanded by Col. Sprout, - this Deponent continued in this service until the 24 th day of April  March 1783. when this deponent received an honorable discharge signed by Genl. Knox, at West Point, - That this deponent, during the whole of the term aforesaid served as a private soldier - And this deponent in 1785 gave the discharge aforesaid, to one Samuel Upham who undertook to get the pay due to this deponent and from whom, he never received the same, that he does not know if the said Upham is now alive and this deponent, verily believes that he can never

Discover the same - And this Deponent further saith that he is poor and has a family to support and is in need of assistance from his country for support, and that he this deponent has not received any thing as a pension from the government of the United States, for his services in the War of the Revolution -
And further this Deponent saith not -
Subscribed & sworn to this Joshua Combs Ninth day of April 1818
Before Me. Wither Bishop
one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Warren
for a number of years past - and do hereby certify him fully and minutely with regard to the facts menti- oned in the above affidavits, and do believe that they are substantially correct and true - And that the said affidavits were read before me on the day aforesaid, and in presence of the "Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the revolutionary war." Passed 18 th March 1818
Wither Bishop

State of New York
Clerks Office Warren County } -
I certify that by Letter Patent, and qualification roll, now in this Office, Mitchell Bishop, whose signature appears to the above affidavit and certificate was a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Warren on the next day of April 1818. I further certify that I am acquainted with the said Mitchell Bishop and do believe the above to be his signature. In testimony whereof I have caused the seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed this 8 th day of May 1818.
MYRON BRACK Clerk

Joshua Combs.
8583
Sept 11 1819
5th B. Baldwin St. Caldwell Franklin Co. N. Y. - Agent

STATE OF NEW-YORK :
At a Court of Common Pleas held at the Court-House, in the town of Caldwell, in and for the County of Warren, on the 13 th day of September, 1820 :
PRESENT, their honors, Healey Rogers — Esquire, First Judge,
Norman Fox } Esquires, Judges. Henry Spencer }
(A copy of the foregoing is in the hands of the said Joshua Combs) Personally appeared in open court, being a court of record, held in and for the said county of Warren, Joshua Combs residing in Warrensburgh in said county, and being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare, that he is now a pensioner of the United States, under the act of Congress of the 18th of March, 1818: that his Pension Certificate is numbered 8583 . and that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows,
In March 1781. he enlisted as a Soldier for the term of three years, under Capt. Nathaniel Taylor, Col. Tupper's regiment, which was the 10th Massachusetts regiment, in which he continued to serve until November or December 1782. when this regiment was reduced to the 6th Mass. regiment, where this deponent served under Capt. Jackson, Col. Tupper, and in June 1783. the company to which he belonged was passed into the 2nd Mass. regiment, after the dicing arms men were discharged - And in December 1783. he was honorably discharged at West Point - his discharge was signed by Genl. Knox at West Point In 1795. this deponent gave his discharge to one James Alpheus to get his pay, and it has not since been seen by him.
His application under the pension act was made in the said county of Warren, on the ninth day of April 1818. and the certificate issued to him thereon, is dated the 29th day of March 1819. by which he is entitled to draw at the rate of Eight dollars per month and has drawn in full to the 4th of March 1820.
And in pursuance of the Act of Congress of the 1st of May, 1820, I Joshua Combs 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 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.
Subscribed and sworn, this thirteenth day of September A. D. 1820, in open court.
Joshua Combs his mark
John C. Baldwin Clerk

A schedule or account of the Estate and circumstances of Joshua Combs within named a Pensioner of the United States, under the act of Congress of the 18 th of March 1818 as to occupy 89. acres of land which belongs to the state, & for which I have a certificate - I have never paid any thing but the original payment of $14.00 made on taking the certificate and the interest on it - the principal is now due and I have no means of paying it except by my pension money or such part of it as I can spare from my immediate necessities. - four years of the interest I have paid with the pension money. The improvements are a log house & a small barn, about 25 acres cleared, some part of the land is pretty good, light soil, & the rest is mountainous - If my pension money is continued, I hope I can pay for it - if not the whole will revert to the state -  I have in possession a span of horses worth about $50.00. which belong to George Pattison taken by him on an execution against me - If I pay him $13.00. & interest I expect they will be mine - my right in them here. $35.00  1. cow which I value at $12.50. 1. yearling heifer at $5.00 17.50  5. shoats $10.00. 1. sheep $7.00. 20. fowls $1.25. 18.25  4. chains $1.00 - 2. old tables $1.00. 1. old chest $0.50 - 1. iron pot $0.50 - 3.50  1. iron kettle $1.00 - 1. tea kettle $1.00 2.00  1. tea pot. 1 set tea cups & saucers - 6 bowls, 5. spoons - 1 set knives & forks - 3 pails - all worth not more than 3.50  I have no more clothing or bedding than is absolutely necessary. $79.75  I am indebted to the state of New York for the above land $101.20  to D. Warlin on note for goods - about 30.00  to D. M c Donald on note 12.00  to Thomas Pattison on note for medicine &c - 15.00  to Enoch Reynolds for schooling children - 8.00  to Stephen Goffey. 2.50  to Pitcairn Richards. 3.00  to Lucius Leavitt - about 5.00  Family - wife 53. y rs old - has been sick for 2 years past and unable to do any thing - 6 children, 5 boys the oldest is 19. y rs old - 1. girl 7. y rs old, all in good health, & 5 other children of age and in no circumstances to assist me - & my mother 79. y rs old and very infirm - 1. daughter 26. y rs old lives with me, and 1 son about 22. y rs old also lives with me - I have to pay them for their labor -  I was born in the town of Douglas in Massachusetts & am now 56. years old - my health is quite poor, I can labour but little, by occupation a farmer -  Joshua Combs
STATE OF NEW-YORK, WARREN COUNTY, ss.
Joshua Combs.
I, SETH C. BALDWIN, Junior, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, Do hereby Certify, that the foregoing Oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court - And, by order of the Court 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 Seventy nine Dollars Seventy five Cents - and also, that this is the first Court of record held in and for said County, at which this application could have been made, since the knowledge of the Act of Congress of the 1st of May, 1820. - IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this Thirteenth day of September 1820.
Seth C. Baldwin Clerk.

43 357 INVALID.
Rev
File No. 48.357
Joshua Combs His Pen Test
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 3 , Page 95
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Caldwell Ct. S.W. Feb 4 th 1819
Free
Mr Edwards
Old Case
The Hon; John C. Calhoun Esq. Secretary of War Washington City
Adams

Caldwell N York Feby 4 th 1819
In return to the War Office the application of Joshua Combs under the Pension Act of the 18 th of March 1818, which was sent back for further Evidence of service - The Affidavits of service required by the note from the War Office, which accompanying the papers when returned are herewith enclosed.
An Early Attention to this application would be very gratifying to the applicant, as his family would be much benefitted & relieved by its speedy and successful issue.
Respectfully I am Yours at Service J. H. Baldwin
The Honble Secy of War Washington City

State of New York County of Warren
Is James Haskins of a School in the said county, being duly sworn deposes & saith that he was well acquainted with Joshua Combs formerly of Greenfield in the State of Massachusetts - etc but now of Warrenburgh in the County of Warren aforesaid - that this deponent lived in Greenfield aforesaid, and within one quarter of a mile of said Combs - That this deponent well knows that the said Combs, about the year 1781. Enlisted in United States service as a common soldier; for the term of three years, as he was then informed, and did then believe and now believes - that this deponent resided in Greenfield aforesaid for about one year & a half after said Combs enlisted as aforesaid during which time he frequently heard from the said Combs, that he was in the army during that time - & has since understood from many and credible sources that the said Combs regularly served in the army, the term of three years aforesaid, and was then Honorably discharged - all which this deponent verily believes - & further this deponent saith that at the time the said Combs enlisted as aforesaid two other soldiers enlisted with him viz George Loveland & Frederick Loveland, who together with the said Combs were marched from Greenfield aforesaid at the same time -
Subscribed & sworn to this 27 th day of November 1811 Before Me J. H. Baldwin Justice of the Peace James Haskins Mark

Warren County ss. I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the within named Defendant James Hastings, and do believe the facts sworn to in the within affidavit by him subscribed are correct and true. J. H. Baldwin Justice of the Peace for the said County.
State of New York Warren County ss. I do certify that by Letter Patent and qualification I do now in the Clerk's office of the said County J. H. Baldwin Just. above named was a Justice of the Peace in & for the said County on the Twenty Seventh day of October 1818 - & that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and do believe the above to be his signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Warren this 3 rd day of February 1819 - MYRON BRADLEY Clerk

William H. Carrington affidavit

Warren County Pa.
William Harrington of Luzerne in the said County of Warren being duly sworn both before and now, that he was well acquainted with Joshua Combs now of Warrenton in said county, during the revolutionary War — that he well knows that the said Combs, was a Common soldier in the service of the United States in the 10 th Massachusetts Regiment - Captain Haydon's Company — that this deponent belonged to the same regiment in Captain Francis's company that said Combs, was in the service as aforesaid, for at least two years, according to the knowledge of this deponent — and has understood from differ- ent and credible sources, that said Combs served for more than two years — Further this deponent saith William his Harrington deaf
Subscribed & sworn this 18 th day of December — 1818 Before me — Joel Otis
Justice of the peace of the said county
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above deponent — and do believe the facts contained in the above affidavit to be true —
Joel Otis — Justice peace

State of New York } Warren County ss } I do certify that by Letter Patent and Qualification roll now in the Clerk's Office of the said County Joel Orton within named, was a Justice of the peace in & for the said County of Warren on the Eighteenth day of January 1818 - And that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and do believe the within to be his signature.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Warren this 3 rd day of February 1819.
MYRON BRADY Clerk

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Combs, Lawrence GRADE Private LINE New Jersey
WARRANT NUMBER 8192 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED October 28, 1791 to — not shown —
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.