Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8183, Isaac Causten, Continental New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
continental New York
Causten, Isaac
S 8183
CONTENTS
carded

For Coaster, March 21/57
Same Aug 31/57
4645 Maryland
Isaac Causten of Baltimore in the State of Maryland who was a private in the Company comman- by Captain Abel of the Regt. comman- by Col. Lashlee in the Maryland was for Milia for two years from 1776
No. 4645
★ N. Y. Continental. Records corrected Jan'y 1/65
Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of January 1833 and sent James H. Causten Esq
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 120 00 Pemi-ant. allowance ending March 1833 40 00
Doll 160.00
{ Revolutionary Claims, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Henry H. Sylvestor Clerk Book D Vol. 7 Page 28

State of Maryland Baltimore County } to wit
On this 31 st day of December One Thousand Eight hundred and thirty two, Before the Orphans Court of Baltimore County, being a Court of Record, personally appeared Isaac Causten a Resident of the City of Baltimore, in Baltimore County State of Maryland aged Seventy four years or thereabouts who being duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Provisions made by the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 - That he enlisted in the Army of the United States early in the Month of June One thousand Seven hundred and Seventy six, in a Company of Infantry commanded by Captain Abail, in Colonel Lashers Regiment in the New York line, that he deponent was with said Regiment on Long Island in the State of New York in the summer of said year and while there was several times engaged with the Enemy, that he was in the Retreat of the American Army from said Island to the City of New York, and also in the evacuation of said City, that on the occasion last mentioned deponent was on the Main-guard, and not called off until too late to make a retreat, and was in consequence made prisoner by the British, that he was kept in close confinement for more than four Months during which time he suffered every privation that cruelty and inhumanity could suggest, at the expiration of which time he was released from close confinement by the interposition of the Mayor of the City (who was well acquainted with his Father) but still detained in New York as a Prisoner, and so continued until the spring of One thousand Seven hundred and Seventy seven when he availed himself of the first opportunity that presented itself to make his escape from New York by crossing the North River in a small punt Boat, and immediately joined the American Army at Fishkills in the State of New York, that it was found, that the Regiment to which deponent belonged was cut up by Killed, wounded and Prisoners, and he was thereupon transferred to Major Reudicks Company of Artificers in which he served for Six Months, and was then transferred to a company of Artificers under the command of Major James Byas at Philadelphia in which he served Eight Months, that in the Month of June One thousand Seven hundred and Seventy Eight, by order of the Board of War, deponent was detailed and appointed an Officer, with the Rank, pay and Rations of Captain to take charge of and conduct

conduct Military Stores from the Commissary General's Department to the various branches of the Army, and in said Capacity under Command of Colonel Hodgson he was constantly and actively employed until some time after the Surrender of the British Army under Lord Cornwallis in York Town Virginia, when the Commissary General's Department was transferred to the Quarter Master General's Department, which left deponent out of Active service and without further inducement to serve longer, the War being by that event virtually closed; that in the Capacities before mentioned he served (and was on constant duty) in the American Army from Early in June one thousand seven hundred and Seventy Six to the close of November one thousand seven hundred and eighty two, being a period of Continued service of upwards of six years, of which period he served in the line of the Army more than two years and as conductor of Military Stores upwards of four years, — And he the said deponent hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an Annuity except the present, and he declares that his Name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State
Isaac his Coarston mark
I Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year aforesaid owing to said Coarston being lame in his right hand he could not write his name
And the said Court Do Hereby declare their opinion that the above named deponent applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states
I Sworn to Henry Layson Benj. Ridgate
Judges of the Orphans Court for Baltimore County.
I David M Perine Register of Wills for Baltimore County Do Hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Isaac Coarston for a pension
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 31 st day of December one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
D. M. Perine - Reg d

Personally appeared Elizabeth Morry of Philadelphia Widow of the late Captain Lewis Morry of said city Deceased who being duly sworn according to law said declare and say that she is about 64 years of age and has always resided in said city except about five years that she resided within a few miles of it That she became acquainted with Isaac Coarsten in Philadelphia in the early part of the year one Thousand Seven hundred and eighty and that he was about that time married to the Widow Jane Rinnicut and has been intimately acquainted with him ever since an uninterrupted Friendly intercourse having been cherished by their respective Families throughout the whole period that when she was first acquainted with said Isaac Coarsten as before mentioned he was to her knowledge in the Army of the united States as Conductor of Military Stores with the rank pay and Rations of a Captain the reason as such she knew him to draw from time to time that he was reputed at that time to have held said Station in the Army long before said date and she knew that he held said Station and performed the duties of it long after said date to wit not less than two years and probably considerably more for how long a period he served or how long he served as Conductor of Military Stores before the date first mentioned she either never knew or does not now recollect. though she does well recollect that he was then and always since considered and believed to be a Soldier of the Revolution and she also well recollects the zealous devotion he always manifested for the promotion of the American Cause that about the close of the Revolutionary war said Isaac Coarsten with his family removed to Baltimore where he has ever since resided and now resides that said Coarsten was always considered by said deponent as a man of strict Integrity and veracity and knows that such has always been, and now is his general Character
Elizabeth Morry

Before the Subscriber, a Notary Public for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, residing in the District of Southwark, in the County of Philadelphia, personally appeared the within named Elizabeth Mory, and on her solemn Oath, according to Law, deposes and says, that the contents of the within written Deposition, according to the best of her Recollection and Belief, are perfectly true.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed my Notarial Seal at South- wark aforesaid the eighteenth Day of January Anno Domini one Thousand eight hundred and thirty three -
Rich Newhaw notary Public
For many years I have known the Deponent, M rs Elizabeth Mory, who has always been highly respectable and supported a most excellent character.
Rich Newhaw

Interrogatories put by the Court to Isaac Coe and his Answers, Viz -
1 Question, Where and in what year were you born, _____
Answer. — I was born in the City of New York in the year 1758 —
2 Question. Have you any Record of your age and if so where is it —
Answer. I have not any Record of my age —
3 Question. Where were you living when called into the service where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live —
Answer — I lived in the City of New York when I entered the service and shortly after the War, Settled in the City of Baltimore in the State of Maryland, where I have lived ever since and where I now live —
4 Question. How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you Volunteer, or were you a Substitute, and if a Substitute for whom —
Answer — I first enlisted in a Company of Infantry Commanded by a Captain Abail, from which I went voluntarily into a Company of Artificers at Fort Kill  then in New York then into another Company of Artificers Commanded by Major James Byas at Philadelphia, & was afterwards appointed a Conductor of Military Stores —
5 Question. State the Names of such Continental some of the Regular Officers who were with the troops where you served, such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service
Answer — when I went first in the Army and was at Long Island. I was much with Colonel Lasher Regiment to which I belonged and had not any opportunity to see and become acquainted with other officers, I recollect to have seen General Washington and suit there, and on one occasion saw him, when in his presence one of his Aids addressed the Regiment, some time afterwards when Conductor of Military Stores, I knew and was acquainted with —

with Colonel Flower, the Commissary General, also with Major Hodgson, who was at first a deputy and afterwards the Commissary General.
6 Question. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what become of it
Answer. I never did receive any written discharge. I passed from the Infantry to the companies of Artificers, and was then promoted, or advanced to be conductor of Military Stores, and after filling that station several years ( until after the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Little York) the a modification of the Commissary Generals Department then took place which left me out of active service.
7 Question. Did you ever receive a commission, and if so by whom was it signed and what has become of it
Answer. I believe I did receive, a commission, a Warrant or some other document, when I was appointed conductor of Military Stores, which was signed by Mr. Peters President of the Board of War, but have not any recollection what become of it.
8 Question. State the names of the persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
Answer. I am generally known to all the old inhabitants of the City of Baltimore, who would I verily believe testify as to my character for veracity, and many of them of their belief of my services in the Revolutionary War, among them I will name — General Samuel Smith, now in the Senate of the United States, James H. McCulloch Esq Collector of the Port of Baltimore The Honourable Elias Glenn Judge of the United States District Court, for the District of Maryland, The Honourable Henry Payson one of the Judges of the Orphans Court for Baltimore County, Isaac McKim, Robert Oliver, Robert Barry and Thomas Tenant Esquires.
Isaac Coar M. A. M.
Henry Clayson Benj. Ridgate.

We Stephen Williams, a Clergyman Residing in the City of Baltimore, and John M c Faden, Residing in the same City do hereby certify that we are now acquainted with Isaac Causten who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration, that we believe him to be Twenty four years of age or thereabouts — that he is Reputed and believed in the Neighbourhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion — And I John M c Faden for my self do further certify that in the years 1784 and 1785 I was intimately acquainted with Majors Ryan and Brown, and Captains Scarritt and M c Faden then late of the United States Army who were at the time on terms of Intimacy with the above named Isaac Causten, and they were I verily believe perfectly satisfied that the said Causten had served in the Army of the United States in the Revolutionary War, that they associated with him, and always spoke of him in my presence as a fellow Soldier —
Stephen Williams
John M c Faden
Sworn and Subscribed to the 17 th day of January 1893 —
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the Interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Stephen Williams who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman, Resident in the City of Baltimore and that John M c Faden who has also signed the same is a Resident of the same City and is a creditable person (and that their statement is entitled to credit —
Henry Layson Benj. T. Tidgate

I David M. Perine Register of Wills for Baltimore County, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Isaac Causton for a pension
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 17 th day of January in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty three
(Seal) D. M. Perine Reg
D. M. P.

Groff Craig 11 th Smith

Washington March 10. 1857
To Samuel Cole Esq. For Commr of Pensions
Sir -
My father, Isaac Coanston, obtained a pension of $80, on the Maryland (Baltimore) Roll in 1832, for his Revolutionary Service in the army; and died at Baltimore on the 10 th of May 1833. By the papers in this case and now on your files, it will be found that he entered the service in the New York line in 1776 and continued in the service until after the surrender of Cornwallis in 1781, being virtually the end of the war, and was then legislated out of office.
His service was therefore a period of more than 5 years, viz 1 st In the New York line of the army, } where it is presumed were in the Continental service. 2 d Artificer 3 d As Captain Conductor of Military Stores
On granting the pension referred to, it was decided that the service of Artificer and Conductor could not be included, and in consequence the pension was reduced to the small sum of $80, which I apprehend excluded also for the period in which he was a prisoner .
I understand that since the issue of said pension, the Department has decided that Artificers and Conductors of Military Stores are entitled to pension - and I therefore respectfully request a review of the case, and that such further pension may be granted - and also Bounty Land - as the party claimant is entitled to.
I have the honor to address you in the capacity of Son and only surviving heir of said Isaac Coanston, and beg to be informed what is incumbent on me to do in the case. I am, with great respect, your Obedient Servant
James H Coanston

Rev. & 1812 War Section
MS
October 2, 1929
B. F. Fisher Jr. 9 N. Church St. Schenectady, N.Y.
Dear Sir:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 8183, it appears that Isaac Causten was born in 1758 in New York City.
While a resident of that place he enlisted in June, 1776, served in Captain Abeel's Company in Colonel Lasher's New York Regiment; he was in engagements on Long Island and was captured in the retreat from New York City. He made his escape in the spring of 1777 and joined Major Readick's Company of Artificers and after serving six months was transferred to Major James Byas' Company of Artificers and served eight months. In June, 1778, he was appointed conductor of military stores in the Commissary General's Department with the rank of captain under Colonel Hodgdon and so served until November, 1782.
He was allowed pension on his application executed December 31, 1832, while living in Baltimore, Maryland, where he had settled soon after the Revolution.
See Heitman, p. 773.

He married the widow, Jane Rinnicut, date not stated.
He died May 10, 1833, in Baltimore, Maryland, and was survived by a son, James H., who stated that he was his only surviving heir.
There are no further data on file as to his family.
Very truly yours,
EARL D. CHURCH Commissioner

Revman
8183
INVALID.
1823 Oct. 2. List to Albert Buckingham, ad. 1929 Oct. 2. List to B. F. Fisher Jr. N.C.S.
File No. 8183
Isaac Causton ★ Dis. New York
Act: June 1 th 32
Index: —Vol. 102 , Page 58
[Arrangement of 1870.]
★ Isaac Causton Records corrected Jan'y 10, 1905. J.S.

August 11th, 1923.
Com. of Pensions, Washington, D.C. Sir:-
Kindly give me whatever record you have of one Isaac  Causten who served in the Revolution , I believe from Maryland . any information regarding the date and place of his birth will be appreciated, too.
This data is for a family tree and is not to be used

against the Government.
Very truly yours Albert Buckingham Box 127 Lovelock Nevada

RECORDER & AUDITOR PERSHING COUNTY LOVELOCK NEVADA
September 11th, 1923.
From: Albert Buckingham, Box #127, Lovelock, Nev. To: Commissioner of Pensions, Washington. Subject: Information as to one Isaac Causten.
1. I have been looking up my family and find one Isaac Causten mentioned as having served in the Revolutionary War, from Maryland I believe. I don't know in what capacity, but am told he drew a pension for whatever service it was. Will you please give me the record you have of him, also the place and date of birth if possible.
2. This information is to be used in compiling a family tree and is not to be used against the Government.
Respectfully,
Albert Buckingham Albert Buckingham.
Ans. Oct. 2/23

November 26th, 1923.
From: Albert Buckingham, Box #127, Lovelock, Nevada. To: Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C. Subject: Rank of one Isaac Causten, Revolutionary War soldier and pensioner.
1. With further reference to one Isaac Causten, Revolutionary War soldier and pensioner, who served in the Commissary General's Department as a conductor of military stores: would like to know if this appointment carried a rank of any kind and if so what rank. This information will not be used against the Government.
Respectfully,
Albert Buckingham Albert Buckingham.

9 N. Church St., Schenectady, N.Y., July 15, 1929.
Pension Office, Department of Interior, Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen:
Will you kindly let me have such record as you have of the military service of Isaac Causten?
I am a direct descendant of Mr. Causten and I am very anxious to get his military record.
Any information you can give me will be greatly appreciated.
I understand that his record is under Pension Claim S-8183.
Respectfully submitted,
B.T. Fisher Jr.
BFF:GM

MAZDA SERVICE
RESEARCH LABORATORY GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY SCHENECTADY, N. Y.
Please address reply to:
October 8, 1929
Mr. Earl D. Church, Commissioner of Pensions, Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Dear Mr. Church:
In answer to your Rev. & 1812 War Section of October 2nd giving me the information in your files in regard to Isaac Causten, I appreciate very much the information you have given me and thank you very much for the trouble you have gone to.
Yours very truly,
BFF:MS

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.
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Jan. 14, 1924.
Albert Buckingham, Box 127, Lovelock, Nev.
Sir:
I have to advise you that the appointment of the Revolutionary War pensioner, S. 8183, Isaac Causten, in the Commissary General's Department as Conductor of Military Stores carried with it the rank and pay of Captain.
Respectfully,
Washington
Commissioner.

Rev. War Section.
Oct. 3, 1923.
Albert Buckingham, Box 137, Lovelock, Nev.
Sir:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the pension claim, S. 8183, it appears that Isaac Causten was born in 1758 in New York City and while living there he enlisted in June 1776 served in Capt. Abeel's Company Col Lasher's N. Y. regiment, was in engagements on Long Island and captured in the retreat from New York City, escaped in the spring of 1777 and joined Major Readick's Company of Artificers and after serving six months was transferred to Major James Byas' Company of Artificers and served eight months. In June 1778 he was appointed Conductor of military stores in the Commissary General's Department and so served until November 1782.
He was allowed pension on his application executed December 31, 1832, while living in Baltimore, Md. and he died there May 10, 1833.
He married the widow Jane Kinnicut date not stated, and he had a son James H. There is no further data on file as to family.
Respectfully,
Washington Gardner Commissioner.