Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13299, Joseph Hand, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Hand, Joseph
S 13299
CONTENTS
learned

930
New York
Joseph Hand
of New Lisbon in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Goodrich of the Regt. commanded by Maj. Gady in the Massachusetts line for 9 Months
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per Annu. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of Octbr. 1832 and sent to H. C. Walworth
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832 $34.99 Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 Mar. 33 11.66 $46.65
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Geo. C. Hiles Clerk, Book D Vol. 5 Page 99

Elijah Adams Joseph Hand
P 8 N o 1592
admitted

State of New York
Otsego County ss Be it known that
that on this 7th day August 1832 personally appeared before James C. Hawthorne one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Otsego in the being aware of Recoord having a Black and Seal Joseph Davis of the Town of Litchfield in the said County of Otsego for the purpose of obtaining the benefits of the provisions of Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 being first duly sworn maketh the following Declaration and says that he was born in the town of Guilford in the State of Connecticut in the year 1747 and is now 85 years of age that in the town of Hancock Berkshire County Massachusetts in the year 1775 in the same town about the first of October he enlisted under into Captain David Goodrich's Company of State Troops George Darrel was his first Lieutenant and Benjamin Goodrich was his 2nd Lieutenant and Major early Battalion in detachment and was Mustered immediately at the town Hancock aforesaid and did duty there until about the first of December then marched to Albany Albany in the State of New York stayed there about a week then marched

by the way Fort Concord and Lake George thru  and Rivers to Nashed or in the neighborhood of Nashed under the same officers and there served under the command of General Arnold for first then under the command of General Worster and then General Thomas and was discharged by Gen Thomas verbally at Nashed on the 11th of May 1778 the applicant had the Small Pox while at the siege of Nashed and did not get home to Hancock until the first of June and that he does not know of any documentary evidence of his service or of any living witness to prove it by that he was never received any written discharge and since then near he has lived in the in the towns Hancock and Mil- -chester in the State of Massachusetts and from for the last 20 years has lived in the town of New Lisbon in the State of New York where he now lives and that there is a record of his age in the town of Guilford in Connecticut State where he was born that at the time he was enlisted at Hancock he then enlisted

enlisted for 5 months but served 7 months
for five months but could not get discharge until he had served more than seven months was not in any engagements that General Montgomery was defeated and killed before he got to Quincy
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a Pension or an Annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Rolls of the agency of any State
and from his advanced age and bodily infirmities is not able to attend the courts it being more than 15 miles to the court house of said county
Subscribed and sworn to the day and year after said Before me Samuel C. Mansworth a Joseph Hand Judge of Otsego County Court

We Lacharia Flower residing in the town of New Lisbon in the county of Otsego and David M Harris of the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Joseph Harris who has subscribed the foregoing Declaration and we believe to be 80 years of age that he is reputable and believe in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolutionary War and that we concur in that opinion and that from his advanced age and bodily infirmities is unable to attend the County courts and that he is a person of the strictest veracity and entitled to full credit and belief
Lacharia Flower David M Harris
Subscribed and sworn this 8th day of August 1832 before me
James B Marmore JUDGE of Otsego County courts
Joseph Harris New Lisbon

Ottsego County, ss
Elijah Allens of the town of Lawrence of the said county being first duly sworn according to Law deposes and saith that he is 80 years of age and that he is well acquainted with Joseph Hark Hote has made the foregoing declarations in his presence that he is a man of the strictest veracity and is entitled to full credit and belief and that he has been well acquainted with him for nineteen years past and he has ever been reputed and believed in his neighbor- hood that he was a Revolutionary soldier and served in Revolutionary war and I believe he did so serve and I believe that he is as much as eighty five years of age and that he is so infirm that he cannot attend the county courts      Elijah Allens
Subscribed and sworn this 8th day of August 1832 Before me James C. Mansfield a Judge of Ottsego County courts

State of New York Otsego County ss. I James C. Mansfield a Judge of the County Courts of the County of Otsego the being Courts of Sessions having a Clerk and Seal Do certify that at the town of New Lisbon in the said County after having a full investi- gation of all the matters and after putting all the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that Joseph Darr the above named Applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and that he did so serve as he states and so declare it is my Opinion and I the said Judge Do certify and declare it my Opinion that from a personal acquaintance with Richard Downer and David M. Darr that they are residents of the said town of New Lisbon in said County and that they are persons of standing and respectability and entitled to full credit and belief and that they signed the above certificate in my presence and further declare it is my opinion that the above named Applicant from his advanced age and infirmities is unable to attend the Courts In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 9th day of August 1832
James C. Mansfield a Judge of Otsego County Courts

State of New York vs. I Horace Lathrop Clerk of the said Otsego County do certify that James M c Walterworth before whom the preceding affidavit, purporting to have been sworn over at the date of the same a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for said County that I am acquainted with his hand writing & verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper handwriting & signature Witness my hand & seal of office this 13 th day of August 1832 —
Horace Lathrop By Thos. H. Cury Dep.

BRIEF in the case of Joseph Hand of New Lisbon in the State of New York (Act 7 June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Judge of the Court of Common Pleas  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? it does so appear  3. How old is he? Eighty five years  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days. As a Gen.     October In 1775. to May 6 th 1776 7. Private Capt. Goodrich Major Cady. } Militia  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Richfield  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Hancock, Massachusetts  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional evidence  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? the papers are correct in form and authentication 
* Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Wm Gordon Examining Clerk.

Retrans
13299 INVALID.
File No. 13 299
Joseph Heard Am. Rev. and
Act: June 7th 1852.
Index:—Vol. _____, Page _____
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Reiman
13299 INVALID.
File No. 13 299
Joseph Howard Amis. Rev. and
Act: June 7th 1832.
Index:—Vol. _____, Page _____
[Arrangement of 1870.]