Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44,908, John Hallsted, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Hallsted John Holsted
S. 44,908
CONTENTS

0163
New York.
John Hallsted
of Livonia in the state of New York who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Durkee of the Connecticut line, for the term of Six Years. 1776. war
Inscribed on the Roll of New York. at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 14 of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 of March 1819 and sent to Stephen Phelps Esq. Canandaigua New York
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 $85.50 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819 48
$133.56
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued

Notification sent to Stephen Phelps Esq 29 Sep r 1820. Canandaigua, New York.

Claims of John Notstead
April 14 th 1818
Correct "
The Honorable
Secy of War
Leonia

State of New York } Ontario County }
John Notstad of the Town of Livonia in the County of Ontario and State of New York formerly of the County of Luzern in the State of Pennsylvania being duly cautioned and sworn doth depose say and declare that he the Deponent is a Citizen of the United States and that he served this Country in the Revolution ary war against the common Enemy that he Deponent enlisted on the 17 th day of September 1776 in the first Connecticut Regiment and then Mustered in Captain Robert Durkee's Independent Company afterwards in Capt Simon Spalding Company in Col. John Durkee's Regiment. and served as a private Soldier in said Regiment until the 7 th of June 1783 and Received an honor- able discharge herewith Transmitted and the Deponent further declares that he is Sixty years of Age and in Indigent circumstances and in Need of Support Support from Government and therefore prays that he may be placed on the Pension list pursuant to an act of Congress passed March 18 th 1818 entitled an act to pro- vide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary war - and further saith Not
Stated and Subscribed this fourteenth day of April 1818 before me Stephen Phelps a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Ontario
John Hallsted

Orde
Ontario County ss
I Stephen Phelps a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said John Hallsted did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common Enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary of the War department pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned Act of Congress.
Canandaigua April 14 th 1818
Stephen Phelps
Ontario County ss
I Stephen Phelps a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify from satisfactory proof exhibited before me that John Hallsted the forementioned applicant is in reduced circumstances and in need of assistance from his County for support — Canandaigua July 7 th 1818
Stephen Phelps

The Honorable Secretary of War if my Claims are allowed will please to forward a certificate of the same to Stephen Phillips Esq r of Canandaigua who is my Agent John H. Norton

State of New-York Ontario County Clerk's Office
In Testimony that Stephen Phelps whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate was on the day of the date of the same one of the Judges of the court of common pleas in and for the County of Ontario and that the same is his signature I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the county seal at Canandaigua this 24 th
day of April A D 1818
Thos M c Naughton

In the matter of John Holstead
x Hallsted
C
8103
23 March 1819
MP 15

STATE OF NEW-YORK,
ONTARIO COUNTY, ss.
On this Twentieuth day of August 1820 personally appeared in open Court, (being a Court of Common Pleas in and for said county, and constituted a Court of Record by proceeding according to the course of the Common Law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping a record of its proceedings, and recognized as such Court by the laws and judicial decisions of said State,) John Holstead aged sixty two years, resident in the town of Livonia — 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:
Enlisted under Capt Robert Durkee in Sep r 1776 who commanded an independent company which was afterwards commanded by Capt. Simon Spalding and in Jan y 1781 transferred to Col o John Durkeys Regiment of the Connecticut line where he served till June 1783 at which time he was regularly discharged
and that he made application for a Pension on the 14 th day of April 1818 and that he received a Pension Certificate, No. 8.163 And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth 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 Revolutionary War," passed on the 16th 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, viz.
 Ten Shep 8.75 one cow 12.00 1 hog 1.50 — $22.25  6 old Chains 1.50 one table 75 two old Chests 1.00 — 3.25  one iron pot 75 1 tea kettle 75 1 small kettle 50 — 2.00  one smoothing iron 50 one tin pail 25 one tin pan 25 — 50  one old pail 12 2 tubs 13. — 25  one shovel & tongs 87 2 spinning wheels 3.00 — 3.87  one barrel — 75 
$32.87
John Holstead
I do further swear and declare that I am by occupation a farmer and that by means of dropsy am unable to perform any labour and that my family consists of my wife aged fifty four years very infirm and not able to do any kind of work my daughter aged 15 years and that I have not the means of subsistence except by husbandry or private charity
John Holstead
Ser 1820
ONT

Sworn and declared  subscribed this 19 th day of August 1820 in open court before me
Wm Rogers a Judge of Ontario Wm Rogers
ONTARIO COUNTY, ss.
I, John Van Hosen Clerk 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 I 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 thirty two dollars and eighty four cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this 22 nd day of August 1820
John Van Hosen Clerk of the Court aforesaid, in and for said County.
not
as
except

April 6, 1933.
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John Hallsted S.44908 BA-J/ADY Am
Mrs. L. Russell Park, 826 Taylor Avenue, Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter relative to one John Halsted, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
The data contained herein are obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, S.44908, based upon his military service in that war.
John Hallsted enlisted September 17, 1776, served in Captains Robert Durkee's and Simon Spalding's Independent Companies, in January 1781 he was transferred to Colonel John Durkee's Connecticut Regiment, served as a private, and was discharged June 7, 1783.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 14, 1818 while a resident of Livonia, Ontario County, New York, aged sixty years. He had formerly resided in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
He died January 8, 1824, place not stated. On A.B.
In 1820 soldier's wife was aged fifty-five years, and his daughter was aged fifteen years, their names not given. There are no further family data.
The Revolutionary War records of this office fail to afford any information in regard to Richard Halsted or William Knap as described by you.
The War of 1812 records of this office fail to show that pension was ever claimed on account of the services of John Halsted as described by you or of

Richard Halsted, all spellings of the surname searched.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator.

BY HIS EXCELLENCY GEORGE WASHINGTON, Esq; General and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the United States of America.
THE BOARD OF OFFICERS CERTIFY that the Bearer hereof in the _____ Regiment, having faithful- ly served the United States _____ and being enlisted for the War only, is hereby DISCHARGED from the American Army.
GIVEN at HEAD-QUARTERS the _____
Geo Washington
By HIS EXCELLENCY'S Command,
Thomass Mifflin
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
Adjutant.
THE above John Walter has been honored with the BADGE OF MERIT for Six Years faithful Service.
Healed Discharged After
L...

HEAD-QUARTERS June 1783.
THE within CERTIFICATE shall not avail the Bearer as a Discharge, until the Ratification of the definitive Treaty of Peace; previous to which Time, and until Proclamation thereof shall be made, He is to be considered as being on Furlough.
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
John Hallsted 1st Regt
Hallsted, John Conn. S44908
THE bearer has been honored with the Bearer of Manner for his faithful Service

MRS. L. RUSSELL PARK 826 TAYLOR AVE. SCRANTON, PENNA.
March 18, 1933
Bureau of Pensions, War Dept. Washington, D. C. Dear Sir:-
Have you the record of service Richard Halsted (Orange Co. N.Y.), a private (I believe) in Col. Albert Pawling's Regiment? Did he serve in any other regiment in the Revolutionary War? Also War of 1812?
Have you the record of service of John Halsted (Orange Co. N.Y.) private in 1st. Conn. Regiment in Capt. Robert or 1812 Durkee's Independent Co. (Westmoreland Conn. then, but now Luzerne Co. Pa.). Do you find that he was in service

in the War of 1812 as well as the Revolutionary War?
Have you record of a William Knap of Orange Co. being in the Revolutionary War & settling in Westmoreland Co. ? He died last of 1814 or 1st 1815.
Would appreciate any information that you might find on the foregoing questions.
Yours truly.
(Mrs. L. Russell) Margaret Hallstead Park

44 908
Pay INVALID.
File No. 44 908
John Wallstead Pensioner, Rev. War.
Act: 18 th March 1818
Index:—Vol. 3, Page 213
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1933 apr. 6. Hist. to Mrs. L. Russell Park. A.P.7.