Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 28008, Zephaniah Halsey, Continental New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental New York
Halsey, Zephaniah Rebecca
W. 28008
CONTENTS
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Hrs. H. M. Shaw Com. Rev. Pensions Not Reps Enclosing paper Feb. 11. 1858
1219 New York. Albany Rebecca Halsey, widow of Lephiariah who served in the Revolution war, as an Officer ,
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate 420 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March  July 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 th day of Augt 1857 and sent to
Abad Jay Orion N. York
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act July 29, 1848, Page 4. Vol. 16.
Special Act of August 18 th 1856.

Power 10
G. Halsey
110 West St
W. Cole
Essex St 107
Feb 19 52

State of New York COUNTY OF Tioga } ss. Rebecca Halsey — being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that She is the widow — of Stephen Halsey deceased, to whom a pension was probably due, & who was — an applicant for a pension from the State of New York — that this deponent is directly interested as one of the claimants in said claim.
Rebecca Halsey
Sworn and subscribed before me this 16 th day of September — 1851, and I do hereby certify that the said Rebecca Halsey — is a respectable person, and that I have full faith in the truth of the above statement sworn to by her as being directly interested in said claim. Thomas J. Duryee Justice of the Peace
Know all Men by these Presents, That I Rebecca Halsey Widow — of Stephen Halsey — deceased, to whom a pension was probably due, & who was an — applicant for a pension from the State of New York — do hereby constitute and appoint ARAD JOY, of Ovid, N. Y., my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name as one directly and personally interested, as also for and in behalf of all others interested in the claim or application for a pension as above mentioned.
Witness my hand and seal, this 16 th day of September — 1851
SEALED AND DELIVERED IN THE PRESENCE OF
Rebecca Halsey
STATE OF New York County of Tioga — Be it known that on the 16 th day of September — 1851, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and State, duly authorized by law to administer oaths and take acknowledgements, personally appeared Rebecca Halsey — above named, and duly acknowledged the above Power of Attorney and affidavits to be her act and deed.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand the day and date above mentioned.
Thomas J. Duryee Justice of the Peace

State of New York Troy County Clerk's Office
I Moses Stevens Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Thomas J. Ferguson Esq, before whom the foregoing declaration and acknowledgment were made, was when the same bears date a justice of the Peace of said County duly commissioned and sworn, authorized to take the same, and that his several signatures within subscribed are
genuine. Witness my hand and seal of Office this first day of October A.D. 1851
M. Stevens. Clerk

State of New York COUNTY OF Tioga } ss. Rebecca Halsey — being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that She is the widow — of Stephen Halsey deceased, to whom a pension was probably due, & who was — an applicant for a pension from the State of New York — that this deponent is directly interested as one of the claimants in said claim.
Rebecca Halsey
Sworn and subscribed before me this 16 th day of September — 1851 and I do hereby certify that the said Rebecca Halsey — is a respectable person, and that I have full faith in the truth of the above statement sworn to by her as being directly interested in said claim.
Thomas J. Deyongson justice of the peace
Know all Men by these Presents, That I Rebecca Halsey  Widow — of Stephen Halsey — deceased, to whom a pension was probably due, & who was an — applicant for a pension from the State of New York — do hereby constitute and appoint ARAD JOY, of Ovid, N. Y., my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name as one directly and personally interested, as also for and in behalf of all others interested in the claim or application for a pension as above mentioned.
Witness my hand and seal, this 16 th day of September — 1851
SEALED AND DELIVERED IN THE PRESENCE OF
Rebecca Halsey
STATE OF New York County of Tioga — } Be it known that on the 18 th day of September — 1851 before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and State, duly authorized by law to administer oaths and take acknowledgements, personally appeared Rebecca Halsey — above named, and duly acknowledged the above Power of Attorney and affidavits to be her act and deed.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand the day and date above mentioned.
Thomas J. Deyongson justice of the peace

State of New York
County of Tioga - { ss I Charles P. Murray County Judge of the Surrogate in and for the said county, do hereby certify, that at a Surrogate's Court held before me in my office in Owego in said County, that satisfactory evidence was then exhibited & taken before said court, that Leophearick Halsey late an applicant for a pension of the State of New York, died in Seneca County New York on the 15 th day of August A D 1847 leaving at his death his widow, to wit, Rebecca Halsey who still survives, & who still remains his widow & Arad Joy is her attorney. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand; and affixed my official seal at Owego aforesaid this 20 th day of January 1852
The word "that" on 5 th line erased before execution -
Charles P. Murray
County Judge of said County - discharging the duties of the office of Surrogate of said County

Rev d Benoni Bradner was born May 7 th 1733
Departed this Life Jan'y 24 - 1805 Aged 71 years and 8 months
Miss Rebecca Bridges born March 7 th 1733
Morried to Rev d Mr Bradner Dec r 20 th 1760
She departed this Life March 22 d 1777 Aged 44 years and 15 days
John Bradner born Sept r 20 1761
baptized by Rev d C. Grahams
Elizabeth born Sept r 6 th 1766
baptized by her father Died Nov r 9 1766 aged 2 months
Rebecca born June 11 th 1768
baptized by her father
Elizabeth born May 7 th 1770
baptized at a week old by her father
Mary born Nov r 30 th 1775
baptized Dec r 15 th by Rev d D. Garrand
Rebecca married Mr. Nicholson March 12 th 1797
Mr. Nicholson died in N. York Jan'y 5 th 1792 aged 24 years
His Daughter Eliza M. Nicholson born May 9 th 1792
Mrs Nicholson married Mr. Walby Feb. 15 th 1798
Rebecca T. Walby born June 6 th 1800
J. Nicholson Walby born June 26 th 1802
Mary Walby born July 26 th 1804
baptized by Rev d Mr Grahams

Elizabeth Married Rev. R. Andrews April 18 th - 1800 Departed this life July 26 th 1824 aged 64 yrs 2 months Thomas N. Andrews born April 22 nd - 1802
baptised by Rev. Mr. B. Lewis
James T. Andrews born July 12 th - 1803
Died of a lingering illness April 8 th 1806 aged 9 months
Mary Andrews born May 13 th 1805. baptized by her father
Elizabeth Andrews born Feb. 2 nd 4 th 1807. b. by Mr. B.
Lydia Ann Andrews born Sep. 16 th 1808. b. by Mr. B.
Susan T. born Feb. 7 th 1811 baptized by Mr. Andrews
Frances Jane born Oct. 14 th 1812. b. by her father

State of New York COUNTY OF Tioga } ss. Rebecca Halsey — being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that She is the widow — of Lephaniah Halsey an applicant for a pension deceased, to whom a pension was probably due, — who was — an applicant for a pension from the State of New York — that this deponent is directly interested as one of the claimants in said claim.
Rebecca Halsey
Sworn and subscribed before me this 4th day August 185 3 and I do hereby certify that the said Rebecca Halsey — is a respectable person, and that I have full faith in the truth of the above statement sworn to by her as being directly interested in said claim.
Charles P. Avery County Judge of Tioga County
Know all Men by these Presents, That I Rebecca Halsey  widow — of Lephaniah Halsey — deceased, to whom a pension was probably due, who was an applicant for a pension from the State of New York — do hereby constitute and appoint ARAD JOY, of Ovid, N. Y., my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name as one directly and personally interested, as also for and in behalf of all others interested in the claim or application for a pension as above mentioned.
Witness my hand and seal, this 4th day of August 185 3
SEALED AND DELIVERED IN THE PRESENCE OF
Charles P. Avery
Rebecca Halsey
STATE OF New York County of Tioga — } Be it known that on the 4th day of August 185 3 before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and State, duly authorized by law to administer oaths and take acknowledgements, personally appeared Rebecca Halsey — above named, and duly acknowledged the above Power of Attorney and affidavits to be her act and deed.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand the day and date above mentioned.
Charles P. Avery County Judge of Tioga County

Declaration
Halsey, Zephaniah Post - N.Y. 628008

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 29th July 1845
State of New York
County of Tioga ss On this 4th day of August 1853 personally appeared before the subscriber, the County Judge of, in & for said county Rebecca Holsey a resident of said county & State aged eighty five years after being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 29th July 1845. That she is the widow of Lephanah Holsey who was an officer in the war of the Revolution, that he was an assistant to, & for, Alexander Church, the superintendent of the "Quarters at Home Yards" that he served as such, at the discretion of said from him, & believes from two to three years, that he was mostly under the general command of Col. Timothy Roderick, Quarters Master General.
She further declares that she was married to the said Lephanah Holsey on the 15th day of February 1795, that her said husband the said Lephanah Holsey died on the 6th day of August 1847 and that she still remains a widow.
Sworn and subscribed before me the day & date above mentioned.
Rebecca Holsey
Charles P. Morris
County Judge of Tioga County
I certify that the above named Rebecca Holsey is a respectable person that she cannot attend the court from bodily infirmity, that she is the identical person that she represents herself to be, that she in person executed the above declaration, & I further certify that I have no hand in the agency of this case, & that I have no interest whatever in the result of the case.
Charles P. Morris County Judge of Tioga County

State of New York Troy County ss
In testimony whereof I Charles P. Avery County Judge of the said County of Troy "performing the duties of the office of Surrogate" under Section 14 th Article 6 th of the Constitution of the said State of New York, have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of the Surrogate Court of said County of Troy; and I hereby further certify that said Surrogate Court has no clerk & that I have the custody of & control over the said Seal & duly execute the several papers hereunto annexed this 4 th day of August 1853
Charles P. Avery County Judge of Troy County, performing the duties of the office of the Surrogate Court of said County

State of New York
County of Tioga } ss Doctor Lewis Oakley & Sarah E. Oakley affirming first duty sworn according to law, depose & say that they were intimately acquainted with Lephaniel Walry deceased the late husband of Rebecca Walry who executed the declaration in person, on the first page of this sheet, that the said Lephaniel Walry had the reputation of having served as an officer in the war of the rebellion, and that he died on the 6th of August 1847 in the County of Seneca & State of New York, & that the said Rebecca Walry who executed the declaration on the first page of this sheet, is the identical person & widow of the said Lephaniel Walry deceased, & that she is still a widow - That these deponents were present and saw her execute the said declaration, their deponent's residence is in the County of Tioga & their post office address is Owego New York Sworn & subscribed before me this 4 th day of August 1853
Lewis Oakley Sarah E. Oakley
Charles P. Morris
County Judge of Tioga County
I certify that the above named Doctor Lewis Oakley & Sarah E. Oakley are highly respectable persons, & reliable witnesses, that their post office address is Owego New York, that they are residents of this County of Tioga. I further certify that I have no hand in the agency of this claim or case, & that I have no interest what ever in the results of the claim or the case, that he is not "intruded or concerned" in the case.
Charles P. Morris County Judge of Tioga County

Stephanie Halsey Declaration
N o 2
bound by the
July 13 1882
Linton Office

State of New York
Cayuga County } ss. on this third Day of July in the year 1832 before me the subscriber first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Cayuga in said State personally appeared Stephen Halsey aged seventy two years Resident in the Town of Fayette in Seneca County in said State who being by me first Duly sworn according to law. Doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by a late act of Congress Entitled an act supplementary to the act for the Relief of certain surviving officers and Soldiers of the Revolution
Born 22 Feb 1760 at Suff. Co. } Cay Island } has a record of } service in the } Famly Bibles
He lived in Blooming Grove Orange Co. N.Y.
Moved from Blooming Co. to Fayette Jan. 26 in 1825.
3. S. & M. No. C. Ration, for his service in 1783 Rank of Lieutenant of the line -
That he the said Stephen Halsey at the town of New Windsor he entered the Quarter Masters Department in the service of the United States about the month of October Seventeen hundred Seventy nine. That he was an assistant keeper of the continental horse under Captain Alexander Church Yards so called. That he served in that capacity under General Nathaniel Greene Quarter Master General of the Continental Army for about the term of one year. Then continued  continued under Colonel Pickering immediately after his appointment of Quarter Master General and continued to serve under him to the close of the Revolutionary War and was Discharged at Newburgh in the year 1783 about  the the month of February - that his pay as such assistant keeper was During the whole time was thirty five Dollars per month. He further Declares that he has now no other evidence of his said services except the accompanying papers
Sworn to & Declared before me { the Day and year first above written } Stephen Halsey J. L. Nichols Clerk first Judge of Court

I Joseph L Richardson first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Cayuga and State of New York. Do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Stephen Halsey did serve in the war of the Revolution against the common enemy as stated in the preceding Declaration and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary of War pursuant to the provisions of said act of Congress. Dated July 3 rd 1832 J. L. Richardson
State of New York Cayuga County } ss I Michael S Myers Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Cayuga do certify that Joseph L Richardson before whom the within declarations were made and by whom the above certificate was made was on the day of the date thereof and still is the first Judge of said Court duly commissioned and sworn and that full faith and credit are to be given to his acts in that capacity - that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Judge and believe his signature to the foregoing certificate & the within declaration to be genuine - In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court & subscribed my name the 7th. day of July AD 1832 M. S. Myers, Clerk

39 That in 1867  during last session he forwarded to Hon. Mr. Doubleday  to Congress a petition for relief accompanied by affidavits of his services from Christopher Ming of Huntington Brookship , Suffolk Co. New York formerly Storekeeper of the Camp Equippage with the Main Army - which he presumes is now on file in the Pension Office - also one from Judge Joseph Morrill of New Windsor in Orange Co.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
O. W. & N. Div.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
P. S.
M. E. C.
WASHINGTON, D. C., February 26, 1896.
Sir:
Replying to your request for information concerning the services rendered by Zephaniah Halsey during the Revolutionary war, you are advised that he applied for pension on October 6, 1832, at which time he was residing at Fayette, N. Y., and seventy-two years of age, and in his declaration he made the following statement concerning his services: that about the month of October, 1779, at New Windsor, N. Y., he was appointed, in the Quartermaster's Department, as an assistant keeper of the Continental horse yards, under Capt. Alexander Church; that he served in that capacity under Gen. Nathaniel Green, Quartermaster General of the Continental army, for about one year; that he remained in the same capacity under Col. Pickering, and continued under his command until the close of the Revolutionary war, and was discharged at Newburgh about the month of February, 1783; that he ranked as a lieutenant of the line but never received a commission; that his pay was $35 per month, two rations per day, and forage for one horse.
In a subsequent declaration, dated October 12, 1843, he

mentioned the following services in addition to those referred to above: that he entered the service at Bloominggrove, N. Y., under Capt. Moffett, went to Ft. Constitution and served one month; that he went out again under Capt. Tuttle, marched to Jersey line, Ramapo, etc., and served one month; went out again to Ft. Montgomery, under Capt. Tuttle and served one month at the time Ft. Montgomery was taken; was in service when Kingston and Esopus were burned and served one month under Capt. Tuttle; served one month at West Point under Capt. Tuttle; was out again under Capt. Tuttle, or Capt. Moffett, and served one month near the Jersey line; joined the Light Horse under Capt. Eleazer Woodhull, and was out in actual duty one month; that in all of these services last mentioned he was out in actual duty more than six months.
His claim for pension was rejected by the Commissioner of Pensions on the ground that the service he rendered was not of a military character, and he died August 6, 1847. Afterward, however, his widow was granted a pension by a special act of Congress, approved August 18, 1856, for his services as assistant keeper of the Continental horse yards.
He married Rebecca Nicholson, a widow, on February 15, 1798.
Very respectfully,
Mr. F. W. Catlin, 309 Broadway, New York, N. Y.
Commissioner.

The Sephaniah Halsey case law 1832 Rebecca Halsey d " 1848
Her power of Attorney of 16. Sept 1851 on file -
Certificate of Court of his death
6. Augst 1847 & of Rebecca being his wid
Certificate dated 20. Jan. 1852
Power of Attorney dated 4th Augst 1853
Declaration under law of 29. July 1848
Ancient family record, I wish to refer to date of her birth - date of her marriage to Nicholson, his death, & date of her marriage to Halsey, & date of the birth of their children
From Brad Joy -
August 10. 1853
I refer to the extracts, & brief containing 6 or 8 pages, with Mr Cole's certificate on it on the 5th page -

1 provision return Q.M.Gen. Dept. from Jan 1 to 10. 1783. 2 letters relative to his duties from Alexander Church, Supt. Continental Hoese Yard to Col. Pickering, Q.M.Gen. 5 orders.
Halsey, Zephaniah, Cont. N.Y.
W 21,2148
W 28008
Sent to War Dept. Jan. 16, 1913.

Ovid Augt 21. 1856
Sir Will you please forward to me a pension certificate for Rebecca Walsey, widow of Lepharnish per a special act of Congress passed on the 16th -
Oblige
Your Most Ob st Servt
Adad Sory
How I Mind Con d .

Ovid N.Y. Nov 15 th 53
Sir
Will you please forward to me copy of the Comptroller of New York (it is but short) certificate of the Revolutionary Service of Lefferts Walrey, papers on file under the law of 1832
Oblige
most Respectfully
Your Ob d Servt
Brad Jay
Hon L.O. Waldo
Con!

See Secretary's decision within
52 20 72-565 29955 821
Brief Evidence in the Case of G. Halsey Let to A Joy 2/11/57

Ovid N. Y. Oct 14. 1853
Dear Sir
I know that you will pardon me, for reminding you of my "Holsey" case, since it has been over two months on file, ready for examination
You placed it in about the centre pigeon hole at your left
I informed you, that it was the most important case that I had ever had in hand, & as fully & as well made out as any case that I ever filed
Will you please report to me on the case, of course I can have no doubt, but that you will allow it
I would not dear Sir, call in this way, but I know that you have so much to do, that you may well forget a case on file, this is my apology
Your Ab le Serv t
Hon L. P. Waldo cont.
Abad Joy

Miss Shaw. M.C. Washington D.C.
Ms. A. 9. 2. 20

New York Zephaniah Walsy
Rejected
See letter to
Hon. N. Walsy
19. August 1834
Hon N. Walsy 8 Oct 1835
Let. to Hon. A. Dana May 11: 1844. do. to L. & A. T. Smith Oct. 8. 1845. do. to Sec. War, Oct. 24. 1845
Act 7. June 1832

N o 38,669
Zephaniah Hallock NY
Adad Jay 17 Feby 1851
Same Octo 19/1853
" Nov. 3/53
Same Nov 28. 1853
Same Jany 23/54
Same Feb 5/54
Same March 11/54
Same April 1/54
Adad Jay 25 th May 1854.
Hon Geo. W. Jones, Feb. 12/55
Hon. H. M. Shaw of Comm ee Rev. Pensions Feb. 11. '58 enclosing papers.
Act June 7/1832

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28.008 Rev  WIDOW, &c.
File No. Rebecca Halsey Widow of Zephaneah Halsey Asst Superintendent of New York N Y Rev
Act _____
Index: Vol. _____, Page _____
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Feb. 26 '96. Hasty to Mr. F.W. Catlin New York City.
R H - Valuable Papers

Return of Col. Horses rec. & exchanged from the 1 st Oct. 1780 to Nov. 1 st
   when rec. of whom rec. their Letter To what Brig. e Horses belong when del. d or when bound No. when del. d To whom del. d      

Nov. 1 st 1780 by Alex r Church, keeper of the Cow Horn yard at Camp
    D. their Litter To what B: or corps belong: when det: or when bound N o with whom each? their Litter To what B: or corps belong: when det: or when bound N o By whom order   

   No Years old Hand high Colour marks artificial No of marks When marked old marks When marked      
Horse Return No 1
From
Church
Form of return to name church in it
Oct 1780
No 1

Natural Marks
Buyer's Name
Price

A BILL
For the relief of Rebecca Halsey, widow of Zephaniah Halsey, an officer in the revolution.
1856—MARCH 24.—Read and passed to a second reading. Papers Rep No. 45

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES,
March 24, 1856.
Mr. SEWARD, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted a report, (No. 45,) accompanied by the following bill; which was read and passed to a second reading.
An BILL  Act
For the relief of Rebecca Halsey, widow of Zephaniah Halsey, an officer of the revolution.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 2 of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 3 That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, 4 directed to place the name of Rebecca Halsey, widow of 5 Zephaniah Halsey, deceased, an officer of the revolution, on 6 the list of revolutionary pensioners, and pay to her a pension 7 at the rate of thirty-five dollars per month, from the fourth 8 day of July, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, to continue 9 10 during her natural life.
Approved Aug t 18. 1856
Dept of State Aug t 26. 1856
A true copy carefully collated with the original Rose
W. Hunter, Chief Clerk.

H. R. 829.
A BILL
To place the name of Zephaniah Halsey, of New York, on the pension roll, under the act of June 7, 1832.
FEBRUARY 13, 1857.—Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.

ZEPHANIAH HALSEY.
[To accompany bill H. R. No. 829.]
FEBRUARY 13, 1857.
Mr. BROOM, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, made the following
REPORT.
The Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Rebecca Halsey, surviving widow of Zephaniah Halsey, beg leave to report:
That the petitioner's husband, Zephaniah Halsey, deceased, served in the war of the Revolution three or four years as assistant superintendent of the continental horse-yard, (established by Congress,) in the quartermaster general's department. The fact of his having served a period of more than two years as assistant superintendent of the continental horse-yard, established by Congress during the war of the Revolution, is proved beyond question, and admitted as established by the Pension Bureau. The real ground upon which the decision of the Pension Bureau rejecting the claim is based, is that the service rendered was not of a military character. Since the action of your committee upon the Senate's report in this claim, there has been presented to your committee for personal inspection and examination, as further proof, two old revolutionary war-worn manuscript volumes, genuine and authentic , beyond dispute, in one of which, letter A, pages 26, 27, 28, and 29, is the original record of the names of the appointment of a large number of officers, many well known, viz: "Christopher Meng, storekeeper; Thomas Cogswell, wagon-master; Lieutenant Colonel Dearborn, deputy quartermaster main army; Colonel Samuel Miles, quartermaster of Pennsylvania; Colonel Nicholas Long, quartermaster North Carolina; Major Richard Claiborne, quartermaster Virginia; Colonel Hugh Hughs, quartermaster New York; Alexander Church, superintendent continental horse-yard; Zephaniah Halsey, assistant superintendent of continental horse-yard; Lieutenant John Hughes, brigade quartermaster first Pennsylvania brigade; Lieutenant George North, brigade quartermaster second Pennsylvania brigade; Henry Emanuel Luthertoh, commissary of forage; Major Richard Platt, deputy quartermaster for main army; Lieutenant Philip Hill, brigade quartermaster to the Maryland brigade; Robert Dunn, William Dunn, and Moses Lyon, express riders, &c. October, 1780." Of the military character of the officers above named there has been no doubt; some of them have received pensions. The other volume mentioned is marked "Estimates," and the following are extracts from it:

Page 51.—“ Estimate of the horses for whom forage must be provided at the posts in the highlands of New York.
“ 51. Major General Heath, commanding the army..... 8 Colonel Hull, deputy adjutant general..... 3 Judge advocate..... 1 Commandant of artillery..... 1 “ 53. Keeper of the horse-yard and assistant, and horses at the yard..... 4 “ 69. A list of the officers still pertaining to the army, to whom forage for their riding horses has hertofore been allowed, or who may have pretensions thereto, by the regulations of Congress, general orders, long usage, or the nature of their service. Brigadier general and family ..... 6 Colonel of infantry or artillery ..... 2 Chaplain ..... 1 Adjutant, quartermaster and paymaster..... 1 each. “ 71. Superintendent of the horse-yard..... 1 Assistant superintendent of the horse-yard..... 1 “ 70. Chaplain, surgeon and storekeeper..... 1 each. “ 76. A return of officers employed in the quartermaster general's department with main army , March 1, 1782. Lieut. Colonel Dearborn, deputy quartermaster. Lieutenant Peter Auspach, paymaster. Christopher Meng, storekeeper. H. E. Luthertoh, commissary of forage. Alexander Church, superintendent horse-yard. Zeph. Halsey, assistant superintendent horse-yard. Andrew Coldough, deputy commissary of forage. “ 106. An estimate of the pay and rations of the persons employed in the quartermaster's department, June 27, 1782.
   Pay per month. Rations per day. Value of rations per month. Amount of pay and rations per month.     One storekeeper ..... $50 00 2 $6 30 $56 30   One superintendent of horse-yard 45 00 1 3 15 48 15   One assistant to ditto..... 35 00 1 3 15 38 15   One deputy commissary of forage 40 00 1 3 15 43 15   One clerk to the storekeeper.... 35 00 1 3 15 38 15  
It then appears that Zephaniah Halsey was called and classed with military officers, officers well known as military, his name for more

than two years appearing under the head of military officers, and in the list of military officers from time to time, for over two years. The act of Congress of May 15, 1780, directing the establishing of a continental horse-yard, would seem to determine its character as military; an army establishment, the officers taking charge of it, must bear a military character, and especially when such as the following named officers are called military: geographer to the army, hospital commissary, clothier general, storekeeper, commissary of military stores, commissary of hides. It thus appears to your committee that the character of the service of Zephaniah Halsey (the only point to be determined) must have been of a military character. This admitted, the original claim set up in the first petition of the said widow, Rebecca Halsey, (a part only of which was granted,) seems to be just and right—a claim that should have been paid to her said husband in his lifetime; but as it was not, and as the widow received no pension back of 1848, the amount of pension so justly due to her late husband at his death should certainly be paid to his surviving widow, Rebecca Halsey; and your committee therefore respectfully ask leave to report a bill for her relief, and recommend its passage.

[Report No. 212.]
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
FEBRUARY 13, 1857.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. BROOM, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill:
A BILL
To place the name of Zephaniah Halsey, of New York, on the pension roll, under the act of June seven, eighteen hundred and thirty-two.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 3       That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and 4       required to place the name of Zephaniah Halsey, deceased, on 5       the pension roll of the State of New York, at the rate of 6       thirty-five dollars per month, to commence on the fourth day 7       of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, and to 8       continue to the sixth day of August, one thousand eight hun- 9       dred and forty-seven, when he died, and that the said pension 10       shall be made payable, and be paid, to his surviving widow, 11       Rebecca Halsey, or, in case of her death, to her surviving 12       children.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.
MARCH 24, 1856.—Ordered to be printed.
Mr. SEWARD made the following
REPORT.
[To accompany Bill S. 181.]
The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Rebecca Halsey, widow of Zephaniah Halsey, deceased, beg leave to report:
That the petitioner's husband, Zephaniah Halsey, deceased, served in the war of the revolution three or four years as assistant superintendent of the horse yard, an office in the quartermaster general's department. That her said husband made application in his lifetime to the proper department for the pension to which he was entitled under act of June 7, 1832, as an officer of the continental army, and filed therewith satisfactory proof of his alleged services and rank; but that his application was rejected by the Commissioner of Pensions on the ground that the service which he rendered was not of a military character; that he did not serve in a military capacity, and therefore was not embraced by the pension laws. The grounds of this decision were, first, that Congress did not by law fix the rate of the pay of the officers of the horse yards, but left the quartermaster at liberty to contract for their services at such wages as they mutually could agree upon. Secondly, that the same resolutions that recognizes horse yards as a branch of the quartermaster's department, also fixes the amount of forage to be allowed each officer entitled to a horse; that nothing is therein said of superintendents of horse yards, and that no pension has heretofore been allowed to any class not embraced in that list. The widow now petitions Congress to grant her the pension which her husband would have been allowed under the act of Congress of the 7th June, 1832, had he succeeded in establishing his claim under said act, at the rate of $35 per month from the 4th of March, 1831, to the 6th of August, 1847. She also asks Congress to grant her a pension as his widow, at the rate of $35 per month, under the act of Congress of July 29, 1848.
The fact of Zephaniah Halsey's service for a period of more than two years as assistant superintendent of the horse yard established by Congress during the war of the revolution is proved beyond question, and admitted as established by the Pension Bureau. The real ground

upon which the decision of the Pension Bureau rejecting the claim is based, is that the service rendered was not of a military character, deducted from the one fact that the pay was not fixed by law. It seems to your committee that the objection of the Commissioner of Pensions was, to say the least, a reasonable one; and the fact that the rate of pay received by Mr. Halsey was a matter of private arrangement between himself and the quartermaster, would throw additional difficulties around the adjudication of his claim, or that of his widow, to a full pay pension under the act of June 7, 1832.
Your committee, therefore, are not disposed to go so far as to set aside the decision of the bureau in relation to the claim for the pension to which Mr. Halsey believed himself entitled, under act of June 7, 1832, of $35 per month from the 7th March, 1831, to the 6th August, 1847, when he died. But in view of the fact that he did serve the country in the war of the revolution under a military commission, in a responsible position, exposed to all the dangers and hardships of that bloody struggle for national independence, that his aged widow now survives, and is a suppliant for the bounty of government in her declining age, your committee think that the spirit of the legislation of the country in regard to revolutionary pensions and the demands of gratitude and justice, if not of the letter of the law, call upon Congress to act liberally and promptly for her relief. They regard the circumstance that the pay of her husband was not fixed by law as of no consequence, so far as her petition for relief as the widow is concerned. The fact that her husband did render arduous and perilous services in behalf of the country, as an officer of the continental army, embraces the whole argument from which the general legislation relative to revolutionary pensions has resulted.
They therefore report the accompanying bill.

State of New York } ss. Cayuga County } on This Third Day of July one Thousand Eight hundred and thirty two before me the subscriber John Grover one of the Justices of the Peace in the town of Auburn in said County personally appeared Moses Lyon aged seventy five years who being first duly sworn according to law Deposes and says that he became acquainted with Stephen Halsey in the month of January in the year seventeen hundred and eighty at Morris town in the State of New Jersey. and that he knew him to be assistant keeper of the continental horse yards so called, that he served in that station under General Greene for one year, then commenced under Colonel Pickering immediately after his appointment of Quarter Master General in the continental Army, and Remained in the service with the same rank till the close of the Revolutionary War and was Discharged at New Burg in the State of New York in the year seventeen hundred and eighty three and that his pay was thirty five Dollars per month Sworn before me this } 3 rd Day of July 1832 }
Moses Lyon
John Grover Justice of the Peace
I certify that I am personally acquainted with Moses Lyon and believe him to be a man of unquestionable truth and veracity Auburn July 3 rd 1832 John Grover Justice

Moses Lyons Affidavit
State of New York Cayuga County } ss
I Michael S Myers Clerk of said County do certify that John Grover Esquire was on the third day of July instant a justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned & sworn & that full faith and credit are to be given to his acts in that capacity, that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said justice and believe his signature to the foregoing within affidavit and certificate to be genuine. In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court and subscribed my name the 7th. day of July AD 1832
M. S. Myers, Clerk

State of New York } Seneca County } ss
On this Sixth day of October 1832 personally appeared in Open court, before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, now sitting, Le- phamiah Halsey, a resident of the Town of Fayette, in the County and State aforesaid aged Seventy two years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated: That about the month of October in the year 1779 at the Town of New Windsor, in Orange County New York, he was appointed in the Quarter Master department an assistant Keeper of the "Continental Horse Yards" so called, under Captain Alexander Church; That he served in that capacity under General Nathaniel Greene, Quarter Master General of the Continental Army for about the term of one year; That he remained in the same capacity under Colonel Pickering after he was appointed Quarter Master General; and continued under his command until the Close of the Revolutionary War, and was discharged at Newburgh about the month of February 1783; That he ranked as a Lieutenant of the Line, but never received a Commission; That the pay he was entitled to receive during his said service, was Thirty five dollars per month, two rations per day and forage for one horse; That he has no documentary evidence of his service; That during the last session of Congress he forwarded to the Hon. Mr. Doubleday except the affidavit of Moses Hays hereto annexed now in his possession

a member or  or of the House of Representatives from this State, an affidavit of his services as above set forth made under Oath by Christopher Ming of Huntington in Suffolk County New York, formerly "Storekeeper of the Camp Equipage" with the Main Army, also a Statement to the same effect made by Judge Joseph Morrill of New Windsor in Orange County New York, which papers he presumes are now on file in the Pen- sion Office or with the papers of the Committee of the House and to which he begs leave to refer; That he was born in Suffolk County on Long Island the 22 d day of February 1760; That at the time of his join- ing the Army he resided at Blooming Grove in Orange County and continued to reside there until the year 1825 when he removed to Fayette, in Seneca County in New York where he now resides; and that he has a record of his age in his Family Bible - That He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and de- clares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State or Territory.
Sworn to and subscribed, the day Lephaniah Halsey and year aforesaid in Open Court Seba Murphy Clerk of Seneca Co. S.C.
We Lucas Seely and Seba Murphy of the County of Seneca
hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Lephaniah Halsey , who has subscribed and sworn to the above de- claration; that we believe him to be Seventy two years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neigh- bourhood where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.

In the matter of the application of Stephaniah Balsy for a pension
3 3/4 4 1/2
R. M. Farley agent

Sworn and subscribed the 8 th day and year aforesaid in open court Seba Murphy Clerk of the County of Seneca N.Y.
Jonas Seely Seba Murphy
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interro- gatories 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 ap- pears to them that Jonas Seely and Seba Murphy who have signed the preceding Certificate are residents in the County of Seneca and that they are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Seba Murphy Clerk
State of New York Seneca County } ss.
I Seba Murphy clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Lephaniah Halsey for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 8 th day of Octo- ber 1832 Seba Murphy Clerk.
(Turn over)

And the said Lephaniah Halsey hereby further declares in addition to the foregoing declaration that he joined the main army at New Windsor in 1779 under General Washington and marched to Morris Town and there went into Winter quarters; that the Spring following they were employed in different places in New Jersey near the North River until the ensuing Fall when they were ordered into Winter Quarters at Newburgh. That in 1781 in the Spring about the month of May they marched from Newburgh to White Plains in West Chester County, remained there until July or August, at the time when the French Army joined our Army at that place, then marched through Jersey, Pennsylvania & Maryland to York Town in Virginia and was there when Cornwallis surrendered his Army as prisoners of War on the 19 th day of September (October) 1781, was ordered to receive in charge all the horses taken with the British, delivered what were fit for service to the different Brigades and went with the invalids to Richmond in Virginia. Overtook the Army at Bowling Green on their March to Newburgh to go into Winter quarters, remained at Newburgh during the Winter in 1782, remained with the Army during the Summer in New Jersey and New York near the North River returned in the Fall to Newburgh & remained there until discharged in July following. That he was acquainted with the following named Officers viz Colonel Bourtland of New York Troops, Col. Lamb of the Artillery, Capt Stevens and Captain Fleming

of the Artillery - General Hand of Pennsylvania, and General Wayne
Sworn and subscribed in Open court this 5th day of October 1832 - Deba Murphy clerk.
Lephaniah Halsey

In the matter of the Application of Leah Halsey for a Pension
14403.
Th s Maxwell agent Elmira N. Y.

14403. Zephaniah Hogle James Stryker
No. 1. at Fullers N.Y. act. 7 June 32
3 witness
dup. 18 mar. 1818.
Hon N Halsey H. Q.

State of New York,
Tioga County ss } Ebenezer Bartlett of the Town of Elmira in the said County of Tioga aged seventy four years & upwards being duly sworn says that he is well ac- quainted with Zephani ah Halsey now of Parnetha in the County of Seneca in said state - that he knew him in the County of Orange before & after the revolutionary war: that in October 1779 the said Halsey entered the service of the United States as a deputy Quarter Master under Capt Alex- ander Church in the Quarter Master's Department then as the deponent is informed under com- mand of Genl. Greene: that he knew him in the service until the part of the Army to which he was attached removed to the South in the Summer of 1781 on the expedition against Cornwallis: that he also knew him in the service after his return from the South to the Quarter Master's Department until the winter or spring of 1783 when he left the service at Newburgh.
Ebenezer Bartlett
Sworn & Subscribed the 17 Decemr 1833 before me Wm Drown S.P.
I consider the above named Ebenezer Bartlett to be a credible & disinterested witness - Wm Drown S.P.

State of New York Tioga County } }
Matthew Carpenter of Elmira in the said County of Tioga aged Seventy four years & upwards being duly sworn deposeth that he is well acquainted with Zephaniah Halsey named in the foregoing affi- davit. that he knew him in the County of Orange before and after the Revolutionary war, they being at the time both residents of the said Orange County & were school boys together - that he recollects that the said Halsey was in the Service of the United States attached to the Quarter Master's Department as an assistant or Deputy to Capt. Alexander Chinch; the year in which he entered that Dep- artment he does not recollect, but does recollect that it was before the expedition against Cornwallis in 1781: he has always understood that said Halsey accompanied that expedition - and also recollects that said Halsey after the capture of Cornwallis was in service at Newburgh where he remained until the Spring of 1783 as he sup- poses where according to the best recollection of the deponent he was discharged in February or March of that year - He also knows Ebenezer Bartlett who has made the foregoing affidavit & has been acquainted with him before since his youth -
Mat t Carpenter
Sworn & Subscribed the 17 th Dec. 1833 } before me. }
Wm Drown J.P.
Sworn

I consider the above named Matthew Carpenter to be a credible & disinterested witness -
Wm Dunn Esq.
State of New York, Troy a County ss.
I Green M. Tuthele Clerk of the said County do hereby certify that Wm Dunn Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavits of Ebenezer Bartlett & Matthew Carpenter were severally made was on the day when they bear date a Justice of
the peace in & for said County duly qualified. That I am acquainted with his handwriting & hereby believe the signatures subscribed to the said affidavits purporting to be his are genuine -
Witness my hand & Seal of office
The 17 th December 1833 -
Green M. Tuthele

Copy N o 43 Stephanie Walter Pension application

State of New York Seneca County ss } On this sixth day of October 1832 Personally appeared in open Court before the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County now sitting Zephaniah Halsey a resident of the County, Town of Haver- in the County & State aforesaid aged Seventy two years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated: That about the month of October in the year 1779 at the Town of New Windsor in Orange County New York He was appointed in the Quarter Master's Department an assistant Keeper of the "Continental Horse Yards" so called under Capt. Alex- ander Church: that he served in that capacity under General Nathaniel Greene Quarter Master General of the Continental Army for about the term of one year: That he remained in the said capacity under Colonel Pickering after he was appointed Quarter Master General, and continued under his command until the close of the Revolutionary war and was discharged at Newburgh about the month of February 1783: That he ranked as a Lieutenant of the line, but never received a commission; that the pay he was entitled to receive during his said service, was Thirty five Dollars per month, two rations per day and forage for one horse: That he has no documentary evidence of his service, except the affidavit of Moses Lyon hereto annexed now in his possession - That during the last Session of Congress he

Forwarded to the Hon. Mr. Doubleday a member of the House of Representatives from this State an affidavit of his services as above set forth, made under oath by Christopher Ming of Huntington, in Suffolk County New York, formerly Store Keeper of the Camp Equipment with the main army: also a statement to the same effect made by Judge Joseph Mound of New Windsor in Orange County, New York, which papers he presumes are now on file in the Pension office, or with the Papers of the Committee of the House, and to which he begs leave to refer. That he was born in Suffolk County on Long Island the 22 nd day of February 1760: that at the time of his joining the army he resided at Blooming Grove, in Orange County & continued to reside there until the year 1825 when he removed to Fayette in Seneca County New York where he now resides. and that he has a record of his age in his family bible. That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State or Territory.
Sworn to & subscribed this day & year aforesaid in open Court
Stephania Halsey
Seba Murphy Clk of Seneca Co. N.Y.
We Jonas Seely & Seba Murphy of the County of Seneca hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Stephania Halsey who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration: that we believe her to be Seventy two years of age: that she is reputed & believed to be in the neighborhood where she resides, to have

been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion. Jonas Seely Sworn & Subscribed the day & year Seba Murphy aforesaid in open Court.
Seba Murphy Clk of the County of Seneca &c.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Depart- ment, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier of Genl. Washington: and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Jonas Seely & Seba Murphy who have signed the preceding certificate are residents of the County of Seneca, & that they are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Seba Murphy Clk
State of New York
Seneca County ss) I Seba Murphy Clk of the County of Seneca
Plus of said County, do hereby certify that True the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Stephaniah Halsey for a Pension. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 5 th day of October 1832
Seba Murphy Clk
And the said Stephaniah Halsey hereby further declares in addition to the foregoing declaration that he joined the main Army at New Windsor in 1779 under Gen. Washington, and marched to Morris Town & there went into winter quarters. That the Spring following they were employed in different places in New Jersey

near the North River, until the ensuing fall when they were ordered into winter quarters at Newburgh. That in 1781 in the Spring about the month of May they marched from Newburgh to White Plains in Westchester County; re- mained there until July or August, at the time when the French Army joined our army at that place, then marched thro' Jersey, Pennsylvania & Maryland to York Town in Virginia, & was there when Cornwallis surrendered his army as prisoners of war on the 19 th day of October 1781. was ordered to receive in charge all the Horses taken from the British, delivered what were fit for service to the different Brigades, and went with the Invalids to Richmond in Virg a . overtook the army at Browning Green on their march to Newburgh, to go into winter quarters; remained at Newburgh during the winter. In 1782 remained with the army during the
summer in New Jersey & New York near the North River. returned in the fall to Newburgh & remained there until discharged in Feb y . following. That he was acquainted with the following named officers viz: Colonel Couston of New York Troops, Col Lamb of the Artillery. Capt s Stevens & Captain Fleming of the Artillery. General Hand of Pennsylvania & General Wayne.
Zephaniah Haly
from Spencerville
In open Court this 5 th day of October 1832
Hezekiah Murphy

State of New York,
Cayuga County ss 3 On this third day of July 1832 before me the subscriber John Grover one of the Justices of the peace in the Town of Auburn in said County personally appeared Moses Lyon aged 75 years who being first duly sworn, according to law deposes & says that he became acquainted with Zephaniah Haldy in the month of January 1780 at Morristown in the State of New Jersey and that he knew him to be a prison keeper of the Continental Horse Yards so called: that he served in that station under Gen. Rains for one year: then commenced under Col. Pickering immediately after his appointment, of Quarter Master General in the Continental Army, and remained in the service with the same rank until the close of the war Revolutionary war & was discharged at Newburgh in the State of New York in the year 1783 & that his pay was 35 Dolls. per month.
Sworn this 3 d day of July 1832
Moses Lyon
before me John Grover Justice of the Peace
I certify that I am personally acquainted with Moses Lyon & believe him to be a man of unquestionable truth & veracity.
John Grover. Jus. Peace.
The usual Certificate from the Ch. of Cayuga County M d . M c Man. dated 7 July 1832 with seal of office annexed.

State of New York
County of Seneca 36 Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County, Lephanah Halsey of Fayette in said County aged Eighty three years, after being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith that he is the identical person who made application for a pension under the law of June 7th 1832, Soon after the passage of that act, and as this deponent has reason to believe his said application and proof is now on file in the war or pension office, this deponent deposeth and saith that he entered the Service of the United States, in the war of the Revolution as a citizen of Blooming Grove, Orange County New York, under Capt. Moffett, went to Fort Constitution in the year 1777 served one month, went out again under Capt. Tuttle marched to Jersey line Ramapoo &c. Served one month Lieut. Brewster and Strong took the command, went out again to Fort Montgomery under Capt. Tuttle one month, was in service when Fort Montgomery was taken, was in service when Kingston and Esopus was burned under Capt. Tuttle and served one month, was out again and at West Point at the commencement of that Fort under Capt. Tuttle served one month, was out again under Capt. Tuttle or Capt. Moffett went to Peramys near Jersey line and served one month, had a skirmish and took the British guard, joined the light horse under Capt. Elazar Woodhull was out in actual duty one month, in all of the above service was out in actual duty more than six months - in the year 1777 & 1778 and Summer of 1779 on this deponents way home from his service in the light horse from Fishkill he sold his horse and equipage, this deponent in Oct 1779 was appointed by Genl. Green Quartermaster General an assistant to Capt. Alexander Church in the Quartermaster Generals department, under the rank of Lieutenant or Quartermaster and received pay at thirty five dollars per month and rations of a Lieutenant and forage of a quartermaster, his name was entered accordingly on the quartermaster Generals book, with the rank and pay of a Lieutenant or Quartermaster, they were quartered a short time in Orange County at New Windsor and Smith Clove, where the army lay at that time, this deponent and the army in November or first December 1779 took up their march for Morristown in New Jersey, arriving there in Dec 1779 where the army and this deponent took up winter quarters, during the winter of 1780 Captain Alexander Church to whom this deponent acted as a Lieutenant or assistant was court martialed for a considered breach of his office in withholding his assent to surrender up a horse to an officer, without the required formality of a certain form of order, that Capt. Church was tried by the officers of the Standing Army or Continental line as one of them, and as coming under their cognizance and was honorably acquitted, this is stated to show that this deponent was considered as belonging to the standing army being associated with Capt. Church or Quartermaster, that this deponent was constantly employed in the quartermaster Generals department and moving about from place to place as the Continental Army were moved about; in the Spring or Summer of 1780 the army returned to along the North River and at Tappan and this deponent was there when Maj. Andre was executed in the fall of 1780 Quartermaster General Greene was sent to the South, and Col. Timothy Pickering succeeded him and was Quartermaster General and this deponent continued on under him as before, the said Genl. Pickering came on and took the command, on Genl. Pickering coming on and taking the command, a different order or arrangement of things were ordered and made and this deponent was furnished a horse and equipage as a quartermaster in the

Quartermaster General's department and continued on in the service under Genl. Pickering and was ordered and did move about from place to place with the General Army doing the duties of a quartermaster of said Quartermaster General's department, yet not exactly under that name, but let the name have been called what it may, this department did the duties and rec d the pay and rations of a quartermaster, in the Quartermaster General's department, that this department took up winter quarters with the army in the winter of 1780 and 1781, and in the summer of 1781 this department still in the same office and in the same service and with the army at White Plains, Peekskill, Kings Ferry and in the fall of 1781 this department as an officer of the Continental Army, as above mentioned moved on to the South & was there and in the battle at York in Oct 1781, was considered a Staff officer; about the 1 st Nov 1781 this department was sent on Official business of his office to Richmond, with a drove of 1400 horses from there he followed on and overtook the main army at Basinggreen in Virginia, near Alexandria, continued on with the main army to Newburgh in the State of New York, was from 28 to 30 days in performing the journey from York Town took up winter quarters at Newburgh or near Windsor the winter of 1781 & 1782, then he continued in the same office and under the same pay as quartermaster of quartermaster Genl's department through the winter of 1782 was still at or near Newburgh and New Windsor the winter of 1782 & 1783 this department continued on in the same office and in the service till Feby 1783 when he made a settlement and his wages were rec d at thirty five dollars per month for all his service from Oct 1779 up to Feby 1783 when this department was honorably discharged from the army, having served as such officer three years and five months that this department was not fully paid off at the time of the settlement, but the balance was paid to him by Genl. Pickering in his office in Philadelphia, that this department understood and believed that the books containing the entry of this department's name as a Staff officer, together with numerous accounts were burned and entirely destroyed in Philadelphia, that this department was from his commencement in the service in the Continental Army associated with one Archibald Ramsay who with this department kept a Journal, that the most of it up to 1 st July 1781 was kept by said Ramsay, that after that date it was kept by this department, that this department served in the war of the Revolution in the capacity of a quartermaster in the quartermaster General's department (although under a different name for distinction sake) for three years and five months, was paid as a quartermaster, rec d forage and rations, as a quartermaster for the whole term of three years and five months; that this department as stated in the first part of this deposition served in the militia and in the horse six months; that this department's duty as Quartermaster for the three years and five months, was to furnish forage for the horses, the Cavalry, and to exchange horses, sell and buy others, and to fulfill all the requisitions of that office, that this department sought and rec d from Col. or Genl. Pickering a certificate of his services as quartermaster of his department, as here set forth and a certificate as having been a faithful officer, and as having performed the duties of that office very acceptably and to the satisfaction of all - Sworn and subscribed before me this 12 th day of October 1843
Stephen L. Lee a justice of the peace of Seneca County
I certify the above named Stephen Halsey is highly respectable person - and fully to be relied on in deposition above -
Stephen L. Lee justice of the peace

State of New York
County of Seneca 3 rd Personally appeared before the subscribers a Justice of the peace in and for said County Esther Conklin of Fayette in said County aged Seventy five years, after being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith, that she has been from a child, intimately acquainted with Lepheneah Halsey, who is applying for a pension, that this deponent now lives a near neighbor to him, that she lived a near neighbor to him in Blooming Grove, Orange County, sixty five years since, that she well recollects of his entering the service in the fall of 1779 in the Quarters-Master General's department as an under officer in that department - and that he took up his quarters with the Standing Army, that this deponent occasionally saw him, but always as an officer of the Army, that this deponent well recollects that the said Lepheneah Halsey moved on to the South with the General Army and that report said at that time that he was at the battle of York Town that after that battle he returned the same fall with the General Army to Newburgh, this deponent saw him after his return, that he continued on in and with the Army till the winter of 1783, that he was in the Army of the Revolution, in the Quarters-Master General's department more than three years, that from the long and intimate acquaintance of this deponent with the said Lepheneah Halsey she is bound to say that he is a man of high Moral Character, and of a high Christian Character, that she should feel bound to believe any history of his under his oath of his revolutionary services -
Subscribed and sworn before me this 12 th day of October 1843.
Esther Conklin
Stephen Seeber { Justice of the peace of Seneca County
I certify that the above named Esther Conklin is a highly respectable person -
Stephen Seeber { Justice of the peace
State of New York
County of Seneca 3 rd Personally appeared before the subscribers a Justice of the peace in and for said County Pierson Dey of Fayette in said County aged fifty sixty three years, after being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith that he has from a boy and from his first recollection, been intimately acquainted with Lepheneah Halsey who is applying for a pension, that this deponent has for more than Forty years understood and believed that the said Lepheneah Halsey had been for several years a Soldier in the war of the Revolution, having served in the Quarters-Master General's department as an under officer, that the said Lepheneah Halsey is a man of high moral character and high Christian character and exemplary good man and worthy to be believed in all that he says and this deponent would feel especially bound to believe, fully believe any history of his, under his oath relating to his services in the war of the Revolution, that this deponent at this time lives a near neighbor to him, and considers him of sound mind and of good understanding and capable of giving a correct history of his Revolutionary services -
Subscribed and sworn before me this 12 th day of October 1843
Pierson Dey
Stephen Seeber { Justice of the peace of Seneca County
I certify that the above named Pierson Dey is a highly respectable person
Stephen Seeber { Justice of the peace

State of New York
County of Seneca 3/4 Personally appeared before the Subscribed a Justice of the peace in and for the said County Doctor Lewis Oakley of Fayette, after being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith that he has for more than eighteen years been personally and intimately acquainted with Zephaniah Halsey who is applying for a pension, this deponent deposeth and saith that from his first acquaintance he has been informed and understood and fully believed that the said Zephaniah Halsey had been a soldier in the war of the Revolution, that he had served in the Continental Army, General department for several years, that this deponent has been very intimately acquainted with the said Zephaniah Halsey living a near neighbor to him, and that he has had occasion to respect him most highly as a man of truth and integrity, as a man of high moral character and Christian character, and that from this long and intimate acquaintance with him, he must believe, he should feel bound to believe every history of him under his oath giving an account of his Revolutionary services that the aforesaid Zephaniah Halsey retains his mental faculties and is capable of giving a minute and correct history and which this deponent has no doubt he has done.
Subscribed and sworn before me this 12 th day of October 1843 3/4
Lewis Oakley
Stephen Sedgwick Justice of the peace of Seneca county
I certify that the above named doctor Lewis Oakley is a highly respectable man, and bears a high Christian character.
Stephen Sedgwick Justice of the peace
State of New York
County of Seneca 3/4 Personally appeared before the Subscribed a Justice of the peace in and for the said County Rev. Hanson Scofield of Fayette in said County, after being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith that he is intimately acquainted with Zephaniah Halsey who is applying for a pension, this deponent has often heard the subject bit upon, of the Revolutionary services of the said Zephaniah Halsey and has from the manner and matter, always been led fully to believe that he had been in the service in the war of the Revolution, this deponent deposeth and saith that the said Zephaniah Halsey is a member of his church and a worthy member, that he is a man of high moral worth of high moral and Christian character and man of entire truth and this deponent would feel bound to believe any history of Revolutionary services, sworn to by him as fully true and fully to be relied upon, this deponent further deposeth that the several witnesses viz, Mrs Esther Conklin, Doctor Lewis Oakley, & Nelson Halsey are each fully to be believed, that they are all persons of high standing and of high moral character and some of them of high Christian character.
Subscribed and sworn before me this 12 th day of October 1843 3/4
Hanson Scofield
Stephen Sedgwick Justice of the peace of Seneca county
I certify that the above named Rev. Hanson Scofield is a worthy and exemplary minister of the Gospel of high moral and Christian character.
Stephen Sedgwick Justice of the peace

State of New York Seneca County } Subscribed & sworn the 12th day of October 1843 before me Stephen L. Seelman } Justice of the Peace
Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in & for Said County Stephanah Halsey of Fayette in said County, aged eighty three years, after being duly sworn according to law, deposes & saith, that the first years service pay as Quarter Master in the accompanying depositions was received in Continental Money, worth very little, & that from the urgency of his wants, he this deponent was obliged to sell the Certificates with which he was paid for the last two years & three months of his service, before they were redeemable by Government, & to sell them at such prices as he could get & that the amount of wages which he received for the whole term of his service did not differ materially from ten dollars per month instead of thirty five dollars, according to the terms of his contract contract. So that from the inability of the Government to fulfil its contracts he the deponent lost about two-thirds of his pay.
Subscribed & sworn the 12th day of October 1843 before me Stephen L. Seelman } Justice of the Peace
Stephanah Halsey
Justice of the Peace of Seneca County
This deponent further deposes & saith that an excellent team of four horses, with good wagon & harness all his own private property, worth at least $100, together with the expense of a journey from Sussex in New Jersey to Baltimore in fruitless pursuit of said team was lost by him that he never has received one cent of compensation for said loss. Said team being sent away to remove the baggage of the French Army. That being the last he ever heard of said property, after due diligence to recover the same.
Stephanah Halsey
Sworn & subscribed the 12th day of October 1843 before me
Stephen L. Seelman } Justice of the Peace

State of New York } Seneca County ss: } I do hereby certify that Stephen Ludlum Esq, whose signatures appear to the within foregoing proceedings, was at the dates of the within proceedings a justice of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned and sworn, and that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said justice and verily believe that his several signatures to the within Justats & Certificates, are genuine in his own handwriting. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said County this 14 day of October 1843. Cyrus D. Hanks Clerk of Seneca Co.

Proof 9 witnesses
Paid
C. D. Hanks Esq County Clerk Waterloo New York
Yrs: N

State of New York County of Seneca 3/6 Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County, Rev. Thomas Lounsbury of Ovid in said County, aged fifty years, after being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith that he became acquainted with Stephen Halsey, now of Fayette in said County and who is applying for a pension, in the year 1816 twenty seven years since, that this deponent boarded in the family of the aforesaid Stephen Halsey two years, consequently was very intimately acquainted with him, from that long and intimate acquaint- ance with him, this deponent had every reason to consider him a man of sterling integrity and truth, that during the acquaintance of 1816 & 1817 this deponent had heard the aforesaid Stephen Halsey speak of having been a Staff officer in the Quarter-Master General's department and of his having served a long time and for some years in such office in the war of the Revolution, of which fact at that time and at the present time this deponent had and has no doubt; this deponent deposeth and saith, that he should feel bound to believe, and that he could not disbelieve any history made by the aforesaid Stephen Halsey of his Revolutionary services under a dep- osition of his, he should feel a Confidence that it must be true - that he sustains a high moral and high Christian character - this deponent further saith, that he (this deponent) has been a minister of the Gospel in the Presbyterian Church over twenty years -
Subscribed and sworn before me This 27th day of October 1843 James Foster Justice of the Peace in & for Seneca County
Thos. Lounsbury
I certify that the above named Rev. Thomas Lounsbury is a minister of the Gospel of the Presbyterian order and is of high standing as a Minister in his Church, is a Gentleman of undoubted truth and veracity, of high moral and Christian character, and is fully to be believed - James Foster Justice Date Oct. 27th 1843
State of New York County of Seneca 3/6 Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County, Hon. Judge Jonas Seely of Rom- ulus, aged Sixty Seven years, and after being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith that he is personally acquainted with Ste- phen Halsey of Fayette in said County, who is applying for a pension - that his first acquaintance with him was fifty years since, and from that time to the present day he has known much of him and that this de- ponent has for a great number of years, for twenty to thirty years heard and believed that the said Stephen Halsey had served in the war of the Revolution several years, as an under officer in the Quarter Master General's Department that this deponent from his long and intimate acquaintance with the aforesaid Ste- phen Halsey who is applying for a pension has had at all times occasion to admire his upright character, that this deponent considers him one of the most correct, upright men in the great State of New York, that he considers him a man of sterling truth and integrity and that he should feel bound to believe and could not disbelieve any history of the said Stephen Halsey even without his being under oath and that he should feel as confident of the truth of any statement of his made under the solemnity of an

oath, as if he had been an eye witness to the particular stated in such deposition - that he has always been an irreproachable character, has held the first office in his Town and had the confidence of all who knew him - Subscribed and sworn before me this 24th day of October 1843
Jonas Seely
Benz B Sutton Justice of the peace of Seneca County
I certify that Hon. Judge Jonas Seely above named is a highly respectable man, that he has held the office of Judge in the aforesaid County ten years, has represented the said County in the State Legislature several times & was a member of the Convention of the State of New York in 1821 to alter and amend the Constitution of said State, that he has the confidence of his fellow citizens & is a God-fearer of truth & veracity
Benz B Sutton Justice of the peace of the County of Seneca
State of New York
County of Seneca 3p Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County Hon. Judge John Sayre of Romulus in said County aged Seventy six years, after being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith, that he has since he was a boy of ten or twelve years of age been personally acquainted with Zephaniah Halsey of Hayette in said County, who is applying for a pension, this deponent deposeth and saith, that the said Zephaniah Halsey entered the army in the fall of 1779 that he continued in the army in the service in the war of the Revolution more than three years that this deponent living a neighbor to him at that time, recollects of his being absent in the army more than three years, that he saw him home on a visit for a few days, a few times during more than three years, whilst he was in the service that this deponent understood and believed that the said Zephaniah Halsey was at and in the battle of York Town, this deponent further saith that from an acquaintance of sixty five years with the said Zephaniah Halsey he has always had reason to consider him a man of sterling truth and integrity, that so high does he esteem him as a man of truth, that he would fully believe any history of his as to his service in the war of the Revolution even without being verified by his oath, and so confident would this deponent feel as to the truth of any statement of his, under the solemnity of an oath, that he should place the same confidence in it, as he would if he had been an eye witness to all the incidents stated in it, Subscribed and sworn before me this 24th day of October 1843
John Sayre
Benz B Sutton Justice of the peace of Seneca County
I certify that the above named Hon. Judge John Sayre is a highly respectable old gentleman, that he has held the office of Judge of Seneca County fifteen years and that he has held other offices and that he has the confidence of his fellow citizens - Benz B Sutton Justice of the peace of the County of Seneca

State of New York } I do hereby certify that James Foster Seneca County ss: } and Benjamin B. Sutton Esquires, whose signatures appear to the foregoing Depositions, jurats, certificates & pro- ceedings were Justices of the Peace on the days of the dates of said proceedings, duly commissioned & sworn & authorized to take & certify the said proceedings in manner within contained. And further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of each of said Justices, & verily believe that their several signatures to the within proceedings are sev- erally & respectively genuine in their own proper hand writing. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County this 30th day of October 1821.
Cyrus D. Hanks Clerk of Seneca County.
Seal
Will C. D. Hanks Esq please with his certificate of impress his seal on the upper part of this page, & not fail to mail it to me to morrow, Saturday, as I want it being about to leave home. As it be directed to me as a single letter Truly Yours Arad Joy

Rebecca Halsey Petition for Revolutionary Pension Jan 31. 1857 To be referred to The Committee on Revolutionary Pensions
1857 Feb. 13, Bill 829
Dec. 18. 1857 Referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions
1858 March 26 aov't
H. Miller Mr Parker E

The petition of Rebecca Halrey, widow of Lephaniah Halrey deceased
Your petitioner represents that her late husband was an officer in the Revolutionary war, that he made application for a pension under the act of the 7th June 1832 established his claim by the evidence of twelve or fifteen witnesses, but was refused a pension at the pension office, since his death an old authentic record of his appointment as such officer, has been found & is now on file, or a certified copy of it - Your petitioner is herself a pensioner for the service of her late husband, her pension commencing in 1848, she makes this petition, asking that Congress will grant her from the 4th of March 1831 up to the date of the death of her late husband (the pension due to him at that date) the same amount of annual pension that she is now receiving for which as in duty bound your memorialist will ever pray - Washington Jan. 31. 1857 for Rebecca Halrey Abad Joy her agent

Error for correction
See yours of the 19th in the case of Leph Walrey
Quid N. Y. Oct 25th 1853
Sir
Not an item of the long list of proof that I filed about the 10th of Augt last, was before the Secretary of the Interior when he made his decision, therefore I do not see how his decision, has any bearing upon this new proof, or should have upon your decision; as the clerk that examined the case, makes in the letter no mention of this positive proof that I filed, I apprehend it had no bearing at all in his decision - I am confident, that had this proof been before the Secretary of the Interior, his decision would have been in favor of allowing the claim; a strong point of objection mentioned in your the letter "It has not been shown by any competent testimony what was the rate of pay per month received by him for his service" had the clerk, (made in conformity to the directions of the Commissioner) examined examined the 5 pages of extracts, cert- ified by S. Cole Esq, he would have noticed the rate of pay at $35. per month, I now refer to it, he would have also seen a copy of Lepherrah Walrey's original appointment made at the same time, & connected with the appoint- ments of Col Samuel Miles, Col Nicholas Long, Donaldson Yeats, Col John Nielson, Col Hugh Hughes, Ralph Pomeroy Col Iaber Hatch, Maj Richard Platt, Peter Anspatch, Major Thos. Cogswell, Christopher Merrig, Henry Emanuel Lutterloh Hughes, George North, are not there recognized as Military,

if Maj Cogswell is military, is not Halrey. The rec d for Rations that you mention, if both sides of the paper be examined, I think on the one side will be seen a certificate of Timothy Pickering as to the office Halrey held, & this after more than 2 years had gone by, subsequent to his appointment to that office — As to the right of Mr Pickering to appoint such officers, I refer to the act of Congress of the 15 th July 1780, and of his direction to establish a "Horse Yard" under the same act, so that by law the Horse Yards were established & the officers of them appointed by law & must have been military — I inclose a memorandum purporting to be, & as I judge is, in the hand of Hon Timothy Pickering, you will see the "Horse Yard" mentioned, & its officers as military & of Mr Halreys belonging to the Horse yard, you have sufficient proof
Most Respectfully Your Ob ed Serv t
Abad Jay
Hon L P Waldo Coun t

List of Officers in the quarter master general's department to be provided with cloathing.
1 Q.M. G. 1 D.M. 2 A.D.M. 3 Clerks 1 Paymaster 1 Storekeeper 1 Asst. D. 2 Clerks 1 C. of Forage 2 Asst. C. of F. 1 A.D. of F. 1 Keeper of Magazine 14 foragemasters 1 W.M. G. 2 D.W.M. 1 A.D.W.M. 2 clerks 22 conductors 1 buyer of horseyard 1 Asst. D. 1 Asst. D & Clerk 5 Officers of artificers
Add also Major Jones, D.M. } his Assistant Capt. Paine }
67 In all sixty seven persons
Camp Oct. 30. 1781.
Tim Pickering D.M.
Additions
1 Geographer to the army 1 Assistant to ditto
T.P. D.M.

Officers List of persons , in the Quarter Master General's department to be provided with cloathing
 1. Quart r M. Genl.  1. D. M. G.  1. A.D. 2 M.  1 } clerks  2 } paymaster  1 } storekeepers  2 } assistants to do.  1. Com y of forage  2. Dy. of commissaries of forage  1. A.D. Com y of forage  1. keeper of v d magazine  14. forage masters  1. W.M.G.  2. D.W.M.  1. A.D. 2 M.  2. clerks  22. conductors  1. keeper at Horseyard X _____  1. deputy - do. X _____  1. assistant - do. X _____  5. officers of artificers  33      66
 1. geographer  1. assistant to do. 
draw cloathing in Philadelphia Turner D.W.M. Bartley do. Col. Delough. D.L.F. 10 conductors & forage masters of the park
Boyd Davis Barby
List of officers in the Q.M. Genl's department for cloathing Oct. 30. 1881. Copy
Oct 30. '81 No 9

Extract from a "List of all the persons belonging to the Quarter Master or Generals Department in the Army from January 1778."
   Num rs Names of each Person. Character They Served in. Character They had before Their coming. Stationed by. By whom appointed. Dates of their appointments. Their present Monthly pay. Their Rations. List of Artificers.     1 Col t Sutterlok. Colonel. Served Major in Brunswick Guard. Deputy Quarter Master General. General Mifflin. 1777 14 th of June 75 Dollars 6 Capt. Seth Barks Company 1 Captain   2 Mr r Craig Deputy Quarter Master General Over Stores. Brigade Quarter Master General Conway. The Quarter Master General Stores. Colonel Sutterlok 50 4 2 Lieuts. 2 Sergeants   3 Mr r Smith Served as Store Keeper. Guide Assistant to the Store Keeper. Ditto 40 3 2 Corporals 25 Privates.   4 Capt t Pasky Assistant Deputy Quarter Master General. Lieut. in The Artillery. Assistant The Quarter Master General. Ditto 5 th October 40 3 32 Total.   5 Pay Master Pay Master 40 3   6 Mr r Shute Assistant Deputy Quarter Master General. Assistant Deputy Quarter Master General. In The Continental Yard. General Mifflin and Colonel Sutterlok. 16 th June 50 4   7 Mr r Williams Assistant to the Continental Yard. Assistant to the Continental Yard. Colonel Sutterlok. 7 Decem r 40 3   8 Mr r Under The Store Keeper. Sergeant Store Keeper Ditto 20 2   9 Mr r Clerk to The Quarter Master General. Clerk to The Quarter Master General. 40 3   10 Four Hostlers to The Continental Yard. assistants in The Yard. Countrymen. Continental Yards. Colonel Sutterlok. 64 4   X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X  
Feby. 3 rd 1778.
A. E. Sutterlok Col. Q. M. Genl.

[Persons making application at the Comptroller's, or Secretary of State's Office, for searches, or certificates of service of any person, in the army of the U. S. during the revolutionary war, should give the name and ranks held by such person; the nature of the service; whether in the Infantry, Cavalry, or Artillery &c.; in the regular army or militia; the names of the officers commanding the regiments and companies at the time of enlistment, service, and discharge, as near as can be given.]
In pursuance of a law passed the 27th of April, 1784, entitled "An act for the settlement of the pay of the Levies and Militia, for their service in the late War, and for other purposes therein mentioned," the following certificates have been issued, bearing interest at five per cent per annum, viz:
  No. cert s 5195. Service from Aug 3. to Sep 2. 1779. Zepheniah Holsey Lt. Serag. L. / 1 8 4 
STATE OF NEW-YORK,
COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, Albany, January
1854.
I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Book No. 2. page 13 now remaining in this office, and that the service for which the certificates above named were issued, were performed under the following officers, viz:
  First — under Sgt. Maj. Moses Phillips Detachments of Col. Hattorn's, Ellison's, Woodhull's Reg't.   Second " " " " McLaughry's & Johnsons Reg't.   Third " " " " of Militia   Fourth " " " " "   Fifth " " " " "   Sixth " " " " "   Seventh " " " " "   Eighth " " " " "   Ninth " " " " "   Tenth " " " " "   Eleventh " " " " "   Twelfth " " " " " 
W. D. Hasbrouck Examining Clk.
J. M. Brooks Comptroller
I wish the date of the time of service, I have it Augst '79 if that be correct, date under the number 5191 — the date of the time of his service as Lt is quite important

Rebecca Halsey Mrs. of Joseph Halsey
Abstract of Prof. Halsey

Case of Zephaniah Halsey's widow Rebecca Halsey for Pension under Act of 7 June 1832. Evidence
Affidavit of Zeph: Halsey made Oct 6th 1832. sets forth
That he served in the Army of the Revolution as Asst Keeper of the Cont Horse Yards.
That he entered the service in the fall of 1789 & continued in it until the Spring of 1785 when he was discharged at Newburgh.
That his pay was $35. per month.
Another Affidavit of said Halsey made 12th Oct 1843 to the same import.
Affidavit of Moses Lyon made 3rd July 1832. proves the same facts.
Affidavit of Jno Tuthill made 18 Oct 1843 proves the same.
Affidavit of Jno Sayne made 24th Oct 1843 proves the same.
Good character of Halsey and the other deponents regularly proved.
Testimony in regard to Halsey's services confirmed by certain Revolutionary journals etc.
Halsey died 6th Aug 1847 leaving a widow Rebecca Halsey Halsey who was still living on the 20th Jan 1852.

Rebecca Halsey; Affidavit. claiming under the act of July 29. 1848. makes oath that she is the widow of Jeph Halsey, that she was married to him in Feb, 1798. & that Halsey, died on 6 Aug 1847 -
Aff. of Doct Lewis Oakley & Sara E Oakley to prove that Rebecca H. is the widow of J. H.
By the Special Act approved Aug 18. 1856 - Rebecca Halsey is in the enjoyment of a Pension of $35 per mo. from 4th July 1848 to continue during her natural life -
The service is well established & the proof of Rebecca Halsey being the widow of Jeph Halsey perhaps sufficient though not absolutely regular -
Then the case turns upon the character of the service of said Halsey - Was it Military?
Has been passed over since 1832. Owing Stuart & McLellan - appeals taken from the uniform decision of the several Comrs of Pensions and always decided that the service was not Military -
Am't claimed is about $8000.00 -

ad ew in case of G. Walsey M sw '32
A. J. E. G. Present.

Vol 63 Page 11
"Estimate of the Number of Horses & Oxen wanted with the main Army for the Campaign 1781 and the cost of forage requisite for their support

Vol 1 } Page 26
" Deputy Quarter Master for the States - when appointed
" Col Samuel Miles Pennsylvania Augt 10. 1780
" Col Nicholas Long North Carolina Augt 21. 1780
Page 27 " Henry Emanuel Lutterloh Esq } Augt. 8. 1780
" Commissary of Forage
" William Reese Dept. Com. of forage } Augt 23. 1780 " to Genl. Heath's Army
Page 28 " Christopher Mung Stonekeeper } " of the main Army at 45 dollars } Sept 27. 1780 " Specie per month
" Major Thomas Cogswell of the 1 st Mass Regt. Waggon Master Sept 30. 1780
Page 29 " The Horse Yard
* " Alexander Church Superintendent
* " Lephemick Halsey ass't to ditto
" Archibald Ranney Clerk to ditto
" Clothier
" Joseph King Oct 1. 1780
" Express Riders
" Robert Dunn, William Dunn, James Gore
" Peter Mison John Combes Mary Lyon
Vol 6 } Page 76
" A Return of Officers employed in the quartermaster
" Generals department with the main Army on
" the 1 st March 1782
   Names Character of the Line not of the Line     " Timothy Pickering Quarter Master General /   " Lt Col Dearborn deputy quarter master /   77 Page " H. E. Lutterloh Commissary of forage /   " Martin Roberts Forage Master & Conductor of Waggons for the Com te in chief /   78 Page " Bartho Fisher Waggon Conductor at Park /   * " Alexander Church Superintendent Horse Yard /   * " Leph Halsey assist da /  

Vol 6 3 Page 106 3
"An estimate of the pay and rations of the persons employed in the quartermaster's department June 27. 1782
   " Main Army Pay per month rations per day value of rations per month amount of pay and rations per month   Dollars 80ths Dollars 80ths Dollars 80ths     " The quarter master general 281 " 12 38 " 329 —   " 1 deputy for the main army of line 35 35   " 1 Clerk to the Store Keeper 35 1 3 15 38 15   " 1 Commissary of forage 75 2 6 30 81 30   " 1 Deputy Commissary of forage 40 1 3 15 43 15   " 1 Keeper of the Magazine 40 1 3 15 43 15   " 1 Clerk to ditto 35 1 3 15 38 15   " 15 Conductors of Ox teams 35 1 47 45 572 45   " 150 Waggons 10 1 475 1975   " 300 Teamsters 10 1 1108 30 4608 30  
Vol 6 Page 107
   " 4 Expresses 30 1 12 60 132 60   " 4 Guides 60 1 12 60 252 60   * " 1 Superintendent of the horse yard 45 1 3 15 48 15   * " 1 assistant to ditto 35 1 3 15 38 15  
Vol 6 Page 110
   " 1 Purchaser & issuer of forage 35 1 3 15 38 15   " 1 Superintendent of boats 40 2 6 30 46 30   " 1 Foreman of boat wrights 45 1 1/2 4 67 49 67  
Nov 1 Index
"O" Officers in Dr Mc Guire's department appointed 26"
Vol 3 Page 273
"1783 January 4 Zephaniah Halsey 13 Horses 41 " Zeph Halsey 12. 5. 3
Vol 3 Page 257
"1785 Feby 8 To dop c Zephaniah Halsey in full of his pay not due 105 48,62 c
Treasurer Office, March 11, 1854
I certify that I have compared the foregoing with the original and find it to be a true copy.
J. Cole Ch. Clerk

" Comfort Sands Esqr H on Contractors
" New Windsor January 30th 1782
" Gentlemen.
" I will certainly set out for Philadelphia " next Friday morning. If I can I will see you before I " go; but this is uncertain
" If the list of Officers & rations they are entitled " to which you inclosed, was intended to comprehend " all my department in the field, tis very defective.
" Besides those, there are,
" A Store Keeper & his Clerks
" A Superintendent of the horse yard & his assist. & horsemen
" A Keeper of the forage Magazine & Clerk
" Forage Master
" Artificers and their directors during the Campaign
" and in my office
" a paymaster
" An auditor of accounts & returns and Clerks
" Among all these one only is from the line of the Army and " he is a Clerk in my office & being a Subaltern in the " line is entitled to two rations; but the other persons in " my office are certainly on as good a footing as Subaltern " officers and require equal subsistence. The subsistence " also named for some in your list is evidently too small.
" I shall endeavor to have these matters fixed in Philadelphia.
" If I am not at Fishkill by Thursday noon I shall " not be able to see you there & wish your letters may be sent " over that afternoon. In my absence all provision " returns for my department attached to the field Service " & which I have hitherto countersigned will be countersigned " by Mr P Arnsbach or Mr John Mix who are employed in my " office, upon which you will please to make the issue as usual
" I am Gentlemen
" Your very humble Servt
" Jim Pickering
" 2 M G

Vol 6 after 1780 Nov 10th an order on Mr King Clothing page 206 Page 407 to deliver the three following persons Mr Alexander "Church Sup r Horse Yard Mr Lepphanick Walsey "his Assistant, & Archibald Ramsay his Clerk "Cloth and materials for a suit of Cloaths, pair "of shoes - each
Pension Office March 29. 1854
I have compared the within & above with the original manuscript & I find them to be a true copy
S. Cole Ch. Clerk
Filed as like this march 13. 54 Leff. Walsey

Extracts from an original, authentic, Manuscript Vol 3 Page 106 presented by Adad Soy of Ovid NY
"Comfort Sands Esq V o C o Contractors
"New Windsor January 30 th 1782
"Gentlemen
"I will certainly set out for Philadelphia "next Friday morning. If I can I will see you before "I go; but this is uncertain
"If the list of Officers & rations they are entitled to which "you inclosed, was intended to comprehend all my "department in the field, 'tis very defective.
"Besides those, there are
"A Store Keeper & his Clerk
"A Superintendent of the horse yard & his assis t . & hostler
"A Keeper of the forage Magazine & Clerk
"Forage Master
"Artificers and their directors during the campaign
"And in my office
"A Paymaster
"An auditor of accounts & returns and Clerks
"Among all these one only is from the line of the Army and "he is a Clerk in my office, & being a Subaltern in the "line is entitled to two rations; but the other persons in "my office are certainly on as good a footing as Subaltern "officers and require equal Subsistence. The Subsistence "also named for some in your list is evidently too small. "I shall endeavor to have these matters fixed in Philadelphia.
"If I am not at Fishkill by Thursday noon I shall "not be able to see you there & wish your letter may be sent "over that afternoon. In my absence all provision "returns for my department attached to the field service "& which I have hitherto countersigned, will be countersigned "by Mr P. Anspach or Mr John Mix who are employed "in my office, upon which you will please to make the issues as usual
"I am Gentlemen
"Yours very humble Serv t
"Jim Pickering
"Q. M. G

f 6 after Page 206 - Page 40 } " 1780 Nov 10 th An order on Mr King Clothing to deliver " the three following persons Mr Alexander Church " Supt s Horse Yard, Mr Lepaniah Halsey his Assistant " & Archibald Ramsay his Clerk Cloth & materials " for a suit of Cloathes, pair of shoes each

Extracts from a book, purporting to be an original book of the entries of the Department of Genl. Timothy Pickering Quarter Master Genl. of the U.S. from the 5th Augt. 1780 to the 5th Nov 1780 containing 270 pages relating to the appointment of officers & men of his Department, copies of letters & various other things All having the appearance of antiquity & genuineness
Page 26 "Deputy Quartermasters for the States"
"Colonel Samuel Miles Pennsylvania August 10. 1780"
"Colonel Nicholas Long North Carolina August 21. 1780"
"Donaldson Yeates Esq Maryland & Delaware August 22. 1780"
Major "Richard Claiborne Virginia January 1. 1781"
"Col. John Neilson New Jersey Sept 18. 1780"
"Col. Hugh Hughes New York Sept 1. 1780"
"Ralph Pomeroy Esq Connecticut Jan'y."
"Col. Iabez Hatch Massachusetts Bay } Rhode Island } New Hampshire } Sept 21. 1780"
"David Wolf auditor of accounts at 50 dollars per month Oct 17. 1782"
"Major Richard Platt Q.M. for the main army Oct 1. 1780"
"Peter Anspach Clerk Sept 1. 1780"
"Henry Emanuel Lutterloh Esq } August 3. 1780"
"Commissary of forage"
"Charles Tillingham Q.M. Jan'y. 1. 1783"
"Lieut Eben Davis Q.M. 3rd Mass Brig Jan'y. 1. 1783"
"Lieut Samuel Seeley Q.M. Jersey Brig Feb'y. 25. 1783"
"Capt Heart Q.M. Huntington's Cont. Brig Nov 1782"
"Lieut Luther Frobridge Q.M. 1st Mass Brig Nov 1782"
"Lt Col Dearborn dep'y. quarter master Main Army July 1. 1781"
"Col Hughes dep'y. quarter master to Genl. Heath's Army Augt 25. 1781"
"Peter Anspach appointed paymaster Sept August 1. 1781"
"Capt Haffield White Q.M. Master Jan'y. 6. 1783"
"Christopher Meng Storekeeper"
"with the main Army at 45 { Sept 27. 1780"
"dollars per month"
"Thomas Cogswell } Waggon Master Sept 30. 1780"
"of the 1st Massachusetts regt."

" James Barkley deputy waggon master Oct 5. 1780 "
" Alexander Turner D. Q.M. "
" John J Skidmore D. Q.M. "
" Capt. Ralfield White D. Q.M. July 9. 1781 "
" James Withnell Waggon Conductor } Oct 1. 1780 "
" Forage master of the Spare Column }
" Henry Moffett waggon conductor to the 1st } Oct 5. 1780 "
" Pennsylvania brigade — }
" David Porter Waggon Conductor to the 2nd } Oct 5. 1780 "
" Pennsylvania brigade — }
" Brigade Quarter Masters "
" Lieut John Hughes 1st Penna. brigade Oct 4. 1780 "
" Lieut George North 2nd ditto Oct 4. 1780 "
" Jon a Cass New Hampshire do Dec 20. 1780 "
" Abraham Zuckerman 1st Mass. brigade Jan'y. 1. 1781 "
" Hershiah Ripley 2nd do Do 1. 1781 "
" Joseph Williams 3rd do July 10. 1781 "
" The Horse Yard "
" Alexander Church Superintendent "
" Zephaniah Halsey assistant to ditto "
" Archibald Ramsey Clerk to ditto "
" Express Riders " " Clobbin "
" Robert Dunn " " Joseph King Oct 1. 1780 "
" William Dunn "
" James Gore "
" Peter Miserer "
" John Combs "
" Moses Lyon "
The names copied onto these 2 pages 1 st & 2 nd , are only a part of the names entered upon the 4 pages of the book, of which these are a part only

Extracts from a book, purporting to be an original book of the entries of the Department of Genl Timothy Pickering Quarter Master Genl of the U.S., from the 5th August 1780 to Nov 5. 1780 containing 270 pages relating to the appointment of officers of his Dept. copies of letters, & various other transactions
All having the appearance of antiquity & genuineness
Page 28 "Jerbrock Clerk at 35 doll s "
"Thomas Falconer Clerk 35 do"
Page 29 " The Horse Yard "
"Alexander Church Superintendent"
Book 3
"Lephanick Halsey Assistant to ditto"
"Archibald Ramsey Clerk to ditto"
Page 201 "Mr Church Sup t of Horse Yard"
Book 2
Extracts (as above) from an original order book, for horse from the Horse Yard, & a book of letters & various entries, from Sept 28. 1780 to August 13. 1781 containing 78 pages
"Japan Sept 28 th 1780"
"Sir Please furnish Mark Garrett A.C. of Horse
Page 1 with one riding horse for the use of the left wing of
"the Army Timothy Pickering Q.M. Genl"
"To Mr Church"
"Oct r 10. 1780"
Page 12 "Gave an order on Mr Church. S. H. Yard to deliver one good riding horse to Col Shepard in exchange for one now in his service"
Page 67 "Mr Church Superintendent of Ye Horse Yard"
"Exchange One horse for Simeon De Witt Esq Geographer to the Army, giving him a riding horse in lieu of one he will send you" J. Pickering Q.M. Genl
"Newburgh June 11. 1781"
34 like orders on the same book

Extracts from another book, same as first mentioned, only containing "Estimates" of various things relating to the army, for the "campaign of 1781" 208 pages
Book 1
Page 13 "Superintendent of Continental Horse Yard and assistants"
"Page 14 "Superintendent of Horse Yard Ass't & Clerk"
"Page 58 "Keeper of the horse yard & assistant & horses at the yard"
Page 78 "Alex o Church Superintendent Horse Yard"
(April 1782) - "Leah Walsey assis n " do do " "hay per month"
Page 107 "1 Superintendent of the horse yard 45" (July 1782) "1 Assistant to ditto 35"
Book 4 209
Extracts from another book, same origin, mostly letters, directions, instructions from March 15. 1781 to June 26. 1781 Containing 263 pages
Page 249 "Mr Alexander Church - Newburgh June 22. 1781
"Sir I have advised with Major Cogswell & after considering of the matter, we are both of opinion that the care of the spare teams & of the horse yard may be committed to the same person, this person to have no other help than one assistant who is also to procure forage for the spare teams & horses If it will be agreeable to you to take charge of both business we shall be satisfied, you will be pleased to inform me whether it will or not
I am Sir Your Most Ob st Serv t J. Pickering D. M. G t
I refer now to the 2 d book named of 78 pages
Page 72 "Newburgh June 22 d 1781"
"Mr Archibald Rarrey late a clerk at the horse Yard is discharged this day from the public Service, because the office is deemed unnecessary & not for any fault or neglect, which I have ever heard objected against him - His character for ought I know or have heard remains unimpeached"
"Jim Pickering D. M. G t

5 Extracts from another like book, only made up of more of a variety, being accounts, paym- ents, rolls, transfers, names of officers, &c. such a bound book, having 118 pages up to 1785
Book 5 Page 4 - 1781 Augt 10 - "L Halsey" To Dr p L Halsey"
"for Sundry did him by D Anspach 1.08 "
" " for Do the Cloth General 6. " "
Page 14 "Lephaniah Halsey 13 Horses 41 " "
"January 4th 1783"
Page 26 - "1785 Febrn 8"
"To Dr p Alexander Church in full of his pay"
"N o of voucher 164 - 284 "
"To Do p Lephaniah Halsey in full of his pay"
"N o of voucher 165 48 62 "
Pension Office
August 11, 1853
I have this day compared the foregoing, from 1 st to 5 th pages inclusive, with the original books, and certify that it is a true Copy
S. Cole

Lephaniah Halrey in his declaration, & in an affidavit, refers to the old books that I filed, one a journal & the other a receipt book, 180 or more receipts, he alleges that Ramsey & himself kept them till June or July '81 & then that he wrote all in them -
I refer to Ramsey's appointment, & discharge noted on this sheet for the truth of all Halrey states
We here shew the appointment of Lephaniah Halrey Oct 1780 -
In March 1782 we show him in Service
In Jan'y. 1783 We show him in Service, selling off Continental horses.
In Feb'y. 1785 We show he was settled with & paid off at the same time, & with Church
Jan'y. 26, 1783 Maj Cogswell mentions in his letter filed, of Halrey
We show fully by three old papers Service from 1 Oct 1780 to 26 Jan'y 1783, at least 2 years & 4 months, beside other Service admitted, see his papers on file, to make 3 years, he alleged 3 1/2 more
I also refer to the attached Statement
On the first book referred to, we have the appointments of
 " Deputy Quartermaster for the State when appointed"  " Colonel Samuel Miles Pennsylvania Augst 10. 1780"  " Colonel Nicholas Long North Carolina Augst 21. 1780"  " Donaldson Yeats Esq Maryland & Delaware Augst 22. 1780"  " Major Richard Claiborne Virginia Jan'y 1. 1781"  " Col o John Neilson New Jersey Sept 18. 1780"  " Col Hugh Hughs New York Sept 1. 1780"  " Ralph Pomeroy Connecticut Jan'y "  " Col Saber Hatch Massachusetts Rhode Island & New Hampshire Sept 21. 1780"  " Major Thomas Cogswell { Waggon Master Sept 30. 1780"  " of 1- Massachusetts Regt { 
There is on the book 4 pages of the names as above } many of them are copied on the 1 st & 2 nd pages of this paper }

1 In his declaration, he alleges he was assistant to the Superintendent of the Horse yards, & with, to Alexander Church, & that Archibald Ramsey was Clerk & assisted them, he alleges a new order of things took place under Col Pickering in 1780.
2 } I file a printed plan for conducting the Quarter master Genl Department, just as Halsey stated it, note the contents on 9th 11th & 15th pages
General appointment of officers on 26, 27-28 & 29 pages see the names
3 } On book No 3 Page 29. read as follows
The Horse Yard -
Alexander Church Superintendent }
Lephaniah Halsey assistant do }
Archibald Ramsey Clerk do }
Dated 1 Oct 1780
All of the above proves just as Halsey alleges
4 } On book No 2 is 34 orders on Church for horses, the first dated Sept 28. 1780 see 1 page - under
5 } Campaign of '81 book No 1 page 13 read "Superintendent of Continental Horse Yard" & Assistant"
Also allusion to it on 45, 46 & 53 pages
6 } On book No 1 page 78 read Leph Halsey assistant of Horse yard, dated March 1782
7 } On book No 1 page 107 read "Assistant to Horse Yard" pay per month $35 June 27. 1782
8 } On book No 4 page 249 See letter to Alexander Church dated June 22 d 1782, relating to his & his assistant doing all the business of the Horse Yard; See this letter adopted book No 2 page 72 where it reads, June 22 d 1782 Archibald Ramsey late Clerk at the horse yard is discharged - This exactly agrees with Halsey's statement, relating to keeping the 2 books that after July 1782 he Halsey wrote all that was in them
9 } See on book No 5 page 14 - read Sale of 13 horses by Lephaniah Halsey which took place Jan y . 1783
10 } See on book No 5 on page 26. the final Settlement & payment of Alexander Church Superintendent of Horse Yard & Lephaniah Halsey Assistant, both paid same date Feb y 85 neither noted under their titles See 87 page Archibald Ramsey paid $35 per month as clerk
11 } No 8. an old paper filed, form of Horse return, with Churches name in it as Superintendent dated October 1780 -

Letters filed - to wit -
No 2 } Letter from Maj Thomas Cogswell, referring to the Church, & the horses dated Jan'y. 8. '81 No 3 } Letter from Alexander Church, filed Sup t intendant of Horse Yard, of his worthy deputy H C H. June 22 '81 4 } Letter from Maj Cogswell, alluding to Church & the arrangement of horses 5 } Letter from Maj Cogswell, mentioning Church and horses etc Sept 17 '82, this made out 2 years since Church & Halrey were appointed 6 } Letter from Maj Thos. Cogswell, referring to Church and horses, dated 9 Sept '82 7 } Letter from Maj Cogswell, of Church, horses & of Turner etc - dated Oct 26. '82 - over 2 years after Church's appointment 8 } Letter from Alexander Church of horses etc - dated Nov 9. 1882 - he had then been 26 months in service 9 } Letter from Maj Thos. Cogswell, mentioning his horse or horses put out by Halrey, dated Jan'y. 26. '83 (This was 2 years & 4 months after Church's appointment in Boston) ? Depreciation certificate No 13,515 is owed to Halrey & 13,526 to Church, I found possibly there may be bound recorded in State Department
See the laws of Congress 3 Vol 492 page, near the foot of it of Horse yards, & of orders on Horse yards, under Dr Mather Genl Quarters master Genl to fix the pay, & pay of assistance 496 all to take the oath of allegiance & to be liable etc before they are intrusted to act
Statement of Halrey
Moses Lyon one of Halrey's witnesses appears as an express rider see on 2 nd page of these papers, he it seems was pensioned, & many others who are named on 1. & 2 nd page, their was called Military, & so we think of Halrey's

23 Nov -- No 2 Major Logwell Jan 7 th 1881
Mr Church
Jan. 8. '81
No 2
Newburgh
Major Platt 8274

Sir
M c Coleman has arrived with Line
Our teams five of them will cross the river to day the others will remain here to be shod Those that cross will want shoeing and the sooner it is done the better as they are to bring out flour from Ringwood my horse is still at head Quarters Col. Pickering informs me that he has ordered M c Church for to bring in some horses and directed me to write to you to send one of them to exchange and bring my to your Quarters that I may have him again
I am sir your obedt Servt
Thos. L. Lewis
Thos. Logswell
Fishkill
8 th Jan y 1881

Washington D. C. March 30th 1854
Sir
If I am correct in my construction of the attached service in this case, after having shown the original appointment of
Alexander Church Superintendent of Horse Yard Lephanian Walby Assistant to do do Archibald Ramsey Clerk to do do
If I had no other, no other evidence of the fact that they acted in a military capacity than the above attached extracts, I should consider that fact established
It would seem the clerk required a discharge from this military service, as much as any officer or soldier of the main Army or the line; he is discharged "because the office is deemed unnecessary" from public service
But I am not driven to the above facts alone, the proof of its being military service is ample, is called Military, admitted & classed as military service from time to time, referred to as military with other military service, treated as military * &c &c, & discharged from public service , like other officers, I am Most Respectfully
Your Obed Servt Thos Joy
Hon L. P. Walda
Cons.
* authorized by law as military

Extracts from an original authentic manuscript presented by a son
Vol 7 Page 249
" Mr Alexander Church " Newburgh June 22. 1781
Sir
" I have advised with Major Cogswell & after " considering of the matter, we are both of opinion that " the care of the Spare Teams of the horse yard may be " committed to the same person, this person to have no " other help than one assistant who is also to procure " forage for the Spare Teams & horses. If it will " be agreeable to you to take charge of both business we " shall be satisfied You will please to inform " me whether it will or not
I am Sir Yr Most Obed Servt J. Pickering D.M.G
Vol 6 2 d part page 72
" Newburgh June 22 d 1781 " Mr Archibald Ramsay late a clerk at the " horse yard is discharged this day from the " public service, because the office is deemed " unnecessary; and not for any fault or neglect " which I have ever heard objected against him. " His character for ought I know or have heard " remains unimpeachable
Jim Pickering D.M.G Pension Office March 30 th 1854
I have compared the above with the original manuscripts, & find it to be a true copy Richd W. Clarke Clerk

State of New York } County of Chemung } ss. Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, Col John my Tuttle of Erin in said county aged eighty three years, after being duly sworn according to law deposeth & saith that he is a person of the county of Chemung & that he was before the the Revolutionary war, personally acquainted with Zephaniah Halsey, now of Fayette Seneca County who is applying for a pension that this deponent well recollects that the said Zephaniah Halsey was out & in the service of the Revolution in the militia & in the light horse, this deponent further deposeth & saith that the aforesaid Zephaniah Halsey entered the regular Army in the fall of 1779 in the quarter-master Generals department, that he continued in that department as an under officer for several years and that he was absent from home & in the service and with the army at the south in 1781 two years after he entered the army, that after the battle of Yorktown the aforesaid Zephaniah Halsey returned with the main Army to Newburgh & New Windsor, when the army took up winter quarters the winter of 1781 & 1782, that the aforesaid Zephaniah Halsey continued on in the service through the summer of 1782 & till the winter of 1783, this deponent understood at that time & fully believed that the said Zephaniah Halsey was an under officer in the Quarter- Master, Generals department, that the aforesaid Zephaniah Halsey was gone from home & in the service in the Quarter-master Generals department more than three years, this deponent is & has from a boy, been intimately acquainted with the said Zephaniah Halsey & can say that he has always maintained an irreproachable character that this deponent would feel bound to believe any history of his, under his oath as a matter of fact business, not to be controverted, that the said Zephaniah Halsey was elected Supervisor of his town, by the vote of his fellow citizens. Subscribed & sworn before me } this 18 th day of October 1843 }
Simeon Root Justice of the Peace
John Tuttle
I certify that the above named Col John Tuttle is a highly respectable old gentleman, } Simeon Root Justice of the Peace
State of New York } County of Chemung } ss. Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in & for said County Green my Tuttle of Elmira in said county aged forty nine years after being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith that he has from a child been personally acquainted with Zephaniah Halsey now of Fayette in the county of Seneca, who is applying for a pension this deponent deposeth & saith that from his boy hood he has been informed & believed, that the said Zephaniah Halsey had been a soldier in the war of the Revolution, that he had served several years in the Quarter Master Generals department, as an under officer in that department, that this deponent has always had occasion to esteem the aforesaid Zephaniah Halsey as a man of high moral worth, of high moral, & christian character a man of truth & integrity, Such character this deponent considered he has in the community where he resided, that he held the first office in the town of Blooming Grove where he resided, that this deponent could not deny, but should feel bound to believe any history of the revolutionary service made by & under the oath of the aforesaid Zephaniah Halsey Subscribed and sworn before me } this 18 th day of October 1843 }
Simeon Root Justice of the Peace
Green M. Tuttle

I certify that the within named Green Ad Tuttle is a highly respectable person. Simeon Root Justice of the Peace
Champlain County Clerk's Office
I S L Root Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Simeon Root Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken, was at the time of taking the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County Commissioned and sworn and duly authorized and qualified to act as such: and further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Simeon Root and verily believe his signature above written to be genuine
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hands and affixed my official Seal at Elmer this 19 th day of October A.D. 1843
S. L. Root Clerk

Brief Case F. Halsey act June 7 1832.

Case of Zephaniah Halsey. on an appeal from the decision of the Commissioner, under the act June 7 th 1832.
Zephaniah Halsey in October 1832, claimed a pension under the act of June 7 th 1832. as assistant Keeper of the Horse Yards, stating that he held the grade of Lieutenant and received pay at the rate 35$ per month — See his declarations from No. 1 to No. 4 — See also affi- -davit of Moses Lyons dated July 3 rd 1832-Ad. 8. Stating that he knew Halsey to have performed the Service as stated and to have been in receipt of pay at 35$ per month, — There is no other evidence either of Commission, Record or parole as to his grade or Service — The Case was suspended by the Commissioners of Pensions on the ground that Service was not mil- -itary — Halsey died Aug st 1 st 1847 — See paper No. 8 — The Claim now appears to be as- -serted by his widow for the arrears of pension There is however no proof of her being the widow of Zephaniah Halsey than her own.

affidavit marked No-16 - Nor is there any evidence establishing the marriage - The question at issue is presented in the Commissioners Report No. (161) as to military service & argued by Mr. Fry in his letter marked No 7 - If the question as to character of the service should be established as "military" further testimony is still necessary to be produced to establish the kinship &c.
Respectfully Submitted M. Cleary.

28008
Department of the Interior Washington October 23 d 1852.
Sir
I have examined the case of Zephaniah Halsey and affirmed your decision therein, it being in accordance with the principles established by the Secretary of War in the adjudication of such claims, - The claimant must look to Congress for any relief to which she may be entitled. The papers in the case are herewith returned and you will please advise Mr. Joy of the action of this Department in the matter.
I am very respectfully Your obedient servant Alex r H. H. Stuart Secretary
James E. Heath Esq. Commissioner of Pensions

81. Washington 14 July 8/57
Dear Sir,
Rel to his appeal in the case of Zephaniah Balsley. from the late Comm of Pensions —
Truly
Referred to Comm of Pensions for reexamination & reply. Dist. Bts 5 July 8/57 }

Washington Feb 8th 1851
Sir
The first days of March 1850 I made an appeal in the case of Lepheniah Halrey, of N. York I presented the case with the papers, & two old books of receipts & records kept by Mr Halrey during the Revolution, with journals etc. kept by him at that time; the state of the case & the reason for the appeal was fully explained - I have heard not a word in answer to the appeal, the letter accompanying the appeal was written by Hon R. S. Conger, but it was done in my behalf in the hope of procuring an earlier report, I delivered the papers, old books etc. at the office of the Interior with my own hands
May I be allowed very respectfully to ask under the circumstances if I may not receive soon, the decision upon the appeal
Address me at Ovid New York
Most Respectfully Your Obt Servt Abad Joy
Hon Alex H. H. Stewart
Secy. of the Interior Washington DC

Orion N.Y. Sept 27/52
Dear Sir,
Rel: to the case of Zephaniah Halsey -
Sep 30/52
Kirby File
Respectfully referred to the Commission of Pensions for approval left with } Sept 30/52 }
C Recd Sept. 29. 1852.

Ivrid N.Y. Sept 27. 1852
Dear Sir
The case of Stephen Halsey appealed 19 Feby. last, and called up by Hon H. S. Walbridge for part of August (5th) as per your answer to him
If I may, I would beg leave mark respectfully to ask, if I may not receive a report soon
Most Respectfully Your Most Obl Servt Fred Joy
Hon Alex r H. H. Stewart Secy. of the Interior Washington DC
N.B. Yours to Hon H. S. Walbridge of Aug 5th

And N.Y. 12 Oct 4/52
And Jay.
Rel: to the case of Zephaniah Hattaway.
Referred to the Commis- -sion of Pensions for im- -mediate report.
Dept Int Oct 6/52
Rec Oct 7, 1852. A. H. H. Stewart Hobbs Carr

Ovid N.Y. Oct 4th 1852
Dear Sir
I beg you will pardon me for respectfully asking you to please report on the case mentioned in the attached letter
The case was appealed by me on the 19th Feby. last, it is an important case, and the widow is in great need of the amount justly due to her -
Most Respectfully Your Ob dt Serv t Brad Joy
Hon Alex r H H Stewart Secy. of the Interior

Department of the Interior Washington August 5. 1852.
Sir.
In reply to your letter of the 2 d inst. in relation to the appeal of Isaac T. Ely in the case of Zephaniah Kelsey I have to inform you that the case has not yet been decided by me, the report of the Commissioner of Pensions not having been received until within the past week and there being on the appeal docket a large number of cases which have precedence.
The case however will be disposed of at the earliest moment practicable.
I am very respectfully Your obedient servant
Rev H. S. Walbridge House of Representatives
M c K. Stuart Secretary.

Orad N.Y. Jan. 17. 1854
Sir
I inclose Comptroller (N.Y.) Certificate of the fact that "Lephaniah Halrey" was a Lt of Dragoon, though the records shew but a little service, for the reason probably that the most of the records were destroyed in Washington by fire, but the fact is shown that he was a Lt - Of course it will follow that he was not asked to accept of a lower grade, and therefore when appointed Assistant to the Superintendent of the Horse Yard, he held the same grade of office
Of his having been appointed as such assistant by Genl. Timothy Pickering in Sept 1780 you have sufficient proof in the papers that I filed in your office the 18th of August last, please allow me respectfully to beg leave to refer you to those papers, at least 5 pages of them, Also to refer you to proof filed Sept 16. last, a certificate of Genl. Timothy Pickering of L. Halrey, being in service as the same assistant in Jan. 1783, on the back of the paper see L. Halrey name Re - You have then proof that he was Lt in Augt '79 and assistant to Superintendent of Horse Yard in Sept 1780 and still in service as such in 1783 making from 2 to 3 years actual service, you have also a copy of the certificate of the fact that he rec d $35 per month, the wage is all clear at $35 -
I have given you honestly my views of the case, but I claim only what the proof on file supports, I refer you entirely to that, & not to what I here say
Most Respectfully Your Ob dt Serv t
Adad Joy
Hon L. P. Waldo Com d

I refer to the ancient printed "Plan for conducting the Quarter- master General's Department," & to several old letters that I filed, speaking (one of them) of Halcy as a faithful & trustworthy man, or something like it, & other letters naming him &c.
N.B. You have on file Certificate of Court of his death

Washington Feb 9 th 1855
Sir:
I am directed to refer the enclosed petition of Rebecca Holsey, widow of Ephraim Holsey, an officer of the revolution, to you, and request that you will furnish the Com. on Pensions with such information in regard to it as the rolls & files in your office afford: Also any suggestions in reference to the case you may deem it proper to make.
Respectfully &c Groom Jones Chf of Com on Pensions
Hon S P Waldo Com's Pensions Present

Brief in the case of Rebecca Halsey, widow of Zephaniah, Tioga County and State of New York, Special act of 18 Augt 1856
Claim, ("original," or " for increase. ")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Special Act, approved 18 Augt 1856
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Abad Joy Name and residence of Agent
Osia NY
S. C. D. Examining Clerk.

Washington March 8th 1850
In the matter of the application of Lephenish Halsey of New York for a pension, as Assistant Keeper of the Continental Horse Yards in the War of the Revolution, an appeal is taken from the decision of the Commissioner of Pensions, as announced in his letter of the 8th of October 1845. Your special attention is called to the correspondence, & to one letter of Messrs Smiths of 25th Sept 1845 on file with the papers. The proof on file, and the admission of the Comd. in his letter of the 8th Oct 1845 is here particularly referred to, where he seems to admit Mr Halsey's service & his subjection to martial law, & his accountability for public property, ought to be all sufficient to admit the claim.
With this admission and the proof that he was subject to the penalties of martial law by an express resolution of Congress, (See Resolution appended), it is passing strange that the Comd. should come to the conclusion that "the employment of Keeper of a Horse Yard was one purely of a civil character". The fact that he was subject to martial law, performing duties that were specifically defined by law (See Resolution appended B), placed under the command of the Quarter Master General with every attribute that could make his service military, except that of being regularly a combatant diverted him of all civil character, as much so, as that of a Paymaster of the Army, or a Purser of the Navy, or of any of the other grades that have never been disputed to be military, though they were non combatants. In the Comd. letter of 11th May 1844 he rests his whole objection

upon the following solitary point. - He says, "the pension laws provide alone for military service under the penalties of the law martial" After furnishing him with the resolution of Congress of 1780 which brought the service directly under the penalties of Court Martial we could not believe that another argument would have been attempted to set aside this highest grade of proof and again pronounce it civil service, when the law so positively makes it Military . The general rule of the Department in granting pensions is in direct contravention of the decision of the Court in other cases. Pensions are granted to persons, Stewards whose whole duty it is to deal out provisions & clothing - A Pension was granted to the widow of a man who was taken from the line of Mariner and attached to the Clothing Bureau at Phil d in the subordinate duties of that office, taking care of the marine Clothing, which service was not as strictly military as the service of the Keeper of the Continental Horse Yards. It will not do to say that these were granted under different laws regulating distinct branches of the public service, the principles which govern both are the same for "the pension laws provides alone for Military service under the penalties of the law martial "
The Court says, "but as it is somewhat difficult to draw a proper line of distinction in that Department (the Quarter Master) between those who are strictly military men and those who are not, the law and regulations have designated all who are considered Military men and among that class the Keeper of a horse yard is not known".
He makes no reference to the either the law or the regulation in order that its applicability or not to the case in point may appear; and with all due deference to the Court, it is asserted that

there there was neither law nor regulation at the time of this Service that defined it to be merely civil Service; on the contrary the law creating the office makes it in the highest degree military by subjecting the Keeper in certain cases to the punishment of death, or to any other punishment which a Court martial may think proper to inflict.
It will not do for the Com d to apply any law or regulation that has since been adopted for the government of the Army as it now exists to this case. This claim is for Revolutionary Service , and that as every one knows is to be decided by laws as they existed at the time - by the laws creating the service, and not by the laws regulating the peace establishment or any other as that would be clearly ex post facto . And moreover any existing law or regulation in the classification of the Quarter Master, Department, or any other branch of the Army in designating who are to be considered military and who are not, cannot possibly regulate this case, as there is now no such officer as Keeper of the Horse Yards, and of course could not be brought into the Classification, consequently is not within the rule. This issue is joined with the Com d upon every principle he lays down to exclude this case from its military character, judging it either by reference to its appreciation in the revolutionary period, or by any standard of the present. The resolution of Congress of 1780 creates the office of Keeper of the Continental Horse Yards, defines its duties, prescribes its accountabilities and names its penalties, making them all military, and as much so as any other grade of office in the Army with the only exception that he was in the class of non combatants and every man knows that that does not divest it of military character, as there are various grades of non combatants in the Army who are as strictly military in the eye of the law as the

Commanding General, such as Surgeons, Paymasters &c &c &c
The class of Officers under the present organization of an army to which the Keeper of the Centennial Horse Yard is assimilated, & with Wagon & Forage Masters, &c is specifically recognized by law as Military.
Under the act of Congress of 28 March 1812 to which the Quarter Master Department and for other purposes the 13th section prescribes the duties and restrictions of the Wagon Master; Sect 14 fixes his pay; Sec 15 authorizes Forage Masters & specifies their duties Sec 16 fixes their pay, and Sec 19 says "that all persons attached to the public service by virtue of this act shall be subject to Military law except the Deputy Commissioners". It is thus seen that this grade of Officers has always been & is now considered Military not civil.
In this opinion all must agree as being sustained by the highest Military authority at the Seat of Government - all are respectfully submitted, asking for them, a deliberate examination of the case.
N.B. Two Manuscript books are on file with the large amount of proof, to these books, as well as to the proof you are respectfully referred. One of the books contains a journal, the other 182 receipts for horses, both books are sworn to by the claimant, the journal contains a history of the execution of Maj Andrie, the surrender of Cornwallis &c &c.
Resolution of Congress August 22. 1780
"Resolved That every person in any of the said Departments (including the Quarter Master Department) intrusted with the care of provisions, or military or hospital stores, or other property of the United States, who shall be convicted at a General Court Martial, of having sold, without a proper order for that purpose, embezzled, or wilfully misapplied, damaged or spoiled, any of the provision, horses, forage , arms, clothing, ammunition or other military or hospital stores or property belonging to the United States of America, shall suffer death , or such other punishment as shall be directed by a general Court Martial, according to the nature and degree of the offence at the discretion of said Court; and every person in any of said Departments intrusted as aforesaid, who shall be convicted at a General Court Martial of having through negligence suffer any of the articles aforesaid to be wasted, spoiled or damaged, shall suffer such punishment as the said court shall in their discretion direct according to the degree of the offence."
Resolve of Congress 15th July 1780. (B)
"Resolved That the Quarter Master General establish a Horse Yard with the Army, for the purpose of receiving and issuing all public horses; and that the person appointed deliver none from the yard but by order of the Commander in Chief, the Quarter Master General, or his deputy, or the Wagon Master."
The same regulation to take place with a separate Army.
That an exact register be kept of the receipt & delivery of all horses, from whom recd to whom delivered and by whose order; and also of all horses that may die, be stolen or stray from the yard or that are ordered to be sold by the Quarter Master General, as unfit for further service; and that returns of all transactions of the yard be made to the Quarter Master General's office monthly, and as much oftener as the Quarter Master General may direct."
See the manuscript books for the carrying out of the laws & Resolutions.

64.
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Washington Mar 6/32
S. A. Pugh
Appeals from the decision of the Comr of Pensions in the case of Zephaniah Halsay; act June 7. 1832.
Triplett
Ref. d to the Comr of Pensions for a report.
sent into March 8/32

Washington City D.C. Nov. 30. H. H. Stuart Secretary of the Interior.
In the Case of Gershon Van Vorst, of N. Y., the Commissioner of Pensions refers me to his decision in the Case of Gephewah Halsey, of N. Y., by his letter of 17 th February 1851, rejecting the Claim on the ground that the service for which pension is claimed not of such a Military Character as to entitle him to a pension under act of 3 rd June 1832, The only question presented in, the Case is whether the Keeper of the Continental Stables , shall be entitled to pension.
This Officer was as much under the Control of the Dr., Mus., Geol., as the Dr., Mus., Geol. was subject to the Control of the Com- mander in Chief, during the Revolution,
A simple reference to the act itself, will at once convince the Secretary, that by the provisions of the act of 7 th June 1852, it is clearly embraced as any officer in the Staff of the Army , all of whom, within the last 8 years have been admitted to pension, viz Commissioners of Pensions

Ward Masters, Clothiers & their assistants, Teamsters Wagon Masters, Wagon Conductors, Clerks to the Com- Missaries & Qrs Masters, all of whom were originally rejected, but since 1842 have been admitted to pension
I respectfully request a reference of this question to your Department, to determine whether this service shall be admitted under said act, there being no question as to service I am very respectfully in this case
Yrs & C. J. V. Pugh
P.S. This I believe is the only case in the Mr. Grafton's Department not now pensioned I know of but 2 cases that can be recognized in their service.
JVP
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Washington March 8, 1830
Sir
I send herewith papers & documents in the case of Zephaniah Halsey which were sometime since withdrawn from the Pension office to be presented to Congress. The decision of the Commission of Pensions was against the application of Mr. H. & from that I had appeal to you. I beg leave to send herewith something in the way of an argument in the case.
I have the honor to be very respectfully Yours A. S. Beman
Hon T Ewing Secy of the Interior

State of New York
County of Cayuga 3 rd Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County Rev. Doct. Luther Halsey, after being duly sworn according to law, deposeth & saith that as early as 1815 or 1816, this deponent was a Pastor of a Church in Blooming Grove, Orange County New York, where Lepheneah Halsey, now of Fayette, who is applying for a pension, then resided, that the aforesaid Lepheneah Halsey was at that time a man of first standing in the community, that he was a man of high moral character, much esteemed for his uprightness, truth & integrity & that he at that time made a publick profession of religion and that he was esteemed as an exemplary Christian, that the aforesaid Lepheneah Halsey had the reputation of having been a soldier in the war of the Revolution, of the truth of which this deponent had then & has at this time no doubt, that this deponent would place full credit, & confidence, in any representation of his under oath, as to his revolutionary services -
Sworn & subscribed before me this 1 st day of November 1843
Luther Halsey
J. H. Perry
Justice of the Peace of said County.
I certify that the above named Rev. Doct. Luther Halsey is a highly respectable, worthy & pious man, that he is one of the professors in the Auburn Theological Seminary, very much respected & esteemed -
J. H. Perry
State of New York
Cayuga County Clerk's Office, Sp: William Richardson Clerk of the County of Cayuga do hereby certify that J. H. Perry Esq. was on the 1 st day of November A.D. 1843 a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly appointed & qualified; and that I am well acquainted with his handwriting & verily believe the above to be his genuine signature In testimony whereof have hereunto set my hand & seal this 1 st day of November A.D. 1843.
W. Richardson by E. Hubbell Deff.

Ovid N.Y. May 19. 1854
Sir
You proposed that I might take the long brief written by my son in the 2 nd Zephaniel Walrey case, I ask you to please inclose it
As all the last proof filed in that case, was not considered as strengthening the proof in the case, or in any way altering former decisions, I beg leave to ask for the 9 manuscript letters filed, dated about 1780 to '80, also for the 6 extracts from old records, that is extracts in 6 different parcels, containing a dozen sheets of paper each separately certified, please inclose them all
Most Respectfully Your Ab le Serv t Abad Joy
Hon L. P. Waldo
Com!

Savannah Congress. July 15. 1780 Quartermaster's Department
"That the wagon-master, a deputy in a "separate army, give all the orders on the "horse-yard for horses to equip the teams, "and orders on the store for harness: (as) "every deputy or assistant, receiving horse, "or harness upon such order, shall be "charged with the same in his books, "and be made to account, by his weekly "or monthly returns for the horses or harness "delivered him."
"That the Quartermaster-General establish a "Horse-Yard with the army, for the "purpose of receiving and issuing all public "horses, and that the person appointed "deliver none from the Yard but by order "of the Commander in chief, the Quartermaster General "or his deputy or the Wagon Master."

August 22 o 1780
11 Resolved, That any person in any of the said # Departments, intrusted with the care of provisions, or military stores or other property, of the United States, who shall be convicted at a General Court Martial , of having sold, without a proper order for that purpose, embezzled, or wilfully misapplied, damaged or spoiled any of the provisions, horses, forage, arms, clothing, ammunition, or other military or Hospital stores, or property belonging to the United States of America, shall suffer death or such other punishment as shall be directed by a General Court Martial x x x x x x x x x
# Quaita Martin Generals Dept. Comms Generals Dept. of Purchas. & Issue Clothier General Comms Genl of Military Store Paymaster of Hospitals, & Genl Dept.

Ovid N.Y. Sept 16. 1853
Dear Sir
As the time for my turn has arrived, relating to the examination of the Lepernich Halrey case, to make the case if possible still clearer, I inclose a receipt for rations, also the same paper contains a certificate of Jim Pickering D. M. G. of the fact that L t Halrey was assistant to the Superintendent of Continental Horse Yard, and was in service in January 1783 - You have in your hands a copy of his original appointment to that office 10 Oct 1780 thus you have the best, & most positive evidence of two years and three or 4 months service
The Halrey case, you placed in a pigeon hole at your left, about the centre pigeon hole, please let the inclosed paper be placed in the bundle before laying it down, or putting it out of your hands
I presume you will allow me, respectfully to ask for an examination at once of the Halrey case since my turn in course has arrived, & since it is one of the most important cases that I have ever had in hand, and one that has been put off almost an age
Five minutes will decide the Thomas Harvey case the pension is admitted , I only wish to know to whom it will be paid, the widow not now being a widow, I talked with you about this case
Hon L. P. Waldo
Card
Your Ob d Serv t
Abad Joy

5 Zephaniah Halsey Rebecca Halsey from Abad Loy
Summing up the conclusion Aug 10. 1853
Important papers

Letters received since the accession of the Secretary of the Interior October 23, 1852

(Copy)
Pension Office,
October 8. 1845.
Gentlemen,
At your particular request I have again very carefully examined the case of Zephaniah Halsey, who, it is alleged, was an Assistant Keeper of the Centauntal Horse Yard. That he was accountable for public property entrusted to him, there can be no doubt. It would be strange if he had not been held accountable. Every person in the public service is responsible for property committed to his charge, whether in civil or military employment, commissioned or otherwise. And it is equally clear that he was subject to martial law when with the troops. Every camp follower, from sutlers to camp color boys, are under martial law. But it is equally clear to me that the employment of Keeper of a Horse Yard was one purely of a civil character. He never had a commission; but if he had held one, the character of the employment could not have been changed by such an instrument. It is very true that a Quarter Master's Department is made up principally of non-combatants; but as it is somewhat difficult to draw a proper line of distinction in that Department between those who are strictly

military men, and those who are not, the law and regulations have designated all who are considered military men, and among that class of persons the keeper of a horse yard is not known. I cannot allow the claim.
I am respectfully,
Your obed. servt.
(signed) J. L. Edwards.
Com. Col. Oct. 8. 1845
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Messrs J. L. & A. J. Smith, Present.

CATLIN & NEKARDA, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW, MUTUAL RESERVE BUILDING, 309 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. FREDERICK W. CATLIN. FRANCIS J. NEKARDA.
TELEPHONE No. 1157 L.
28008-24
January 27 th 1896.
To The Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.
Dear Sir:
I am anxious to obtain for the benefit of my wife, who has an application pending for admission to the Society of the Daughters of the Revolution, the following facts: Did Rebecca B. Halsey , wife of Zephaniah Halsey , receive a pension from the government from about 1852 to her death in 1859 (about)?
Zephaniah Halsey was "Keeper of the Continental Horse Yards" in the Revolutionary War. It is thought that the pension, which was paid to his widow after his death, was obtained through special act of Congress.
If you would give me this information at your earliest convenience I should be very thankful.
Yours very truly
F. W. Catlin
(formerly connected with the Department of State.)

1. A copy of the letter from the Department of Justice to the Attorney General, dated Jan. 30, 1854.
I pray that I may be pardoned for replying to yours of 23 rd in the case of Stephenick Walrey
The act of Congress of the 15th July 1789 authorises the The Master Genl to appoint various officers & fix their pay 489 Page He may "take such and so many officers from the line of the Army, to serve in his department as he may find necessary, and as are willing to engage in the business" 492 page
That the quartermaster general establish a horse yard with the army for the purpose of receiving and issuing all public horses. &c
You will observe that at least some of these officers were to receive ten dollars per month in addition to their pay in the line.
Deputy waggon master (484 page) by land war to receive $45- per month
Alexander Church Superintendent of the Home Guard It would seem "received $4.50 per month" and
Lephernah Halrey Assistant received $35 per month his grade may have been only equal to a Quarter master or Lt of the line, & still his wages may by law have been more
2. Halsey, like other officers by law (486 page) was bound to have taken the oath of office before entering upon its duties.
The act of 22 Augt 1780 obliged all persons in official employ as Halsey was, to be subject to "court-martial" (5th para), thus at once making it Military & not civil Service.
Lebanon Balsey's appointment as assistant to the Gov. of Ind.

(Or a copy) of it) you have, connected as it is, with the names of 20 or more officers, whose service I believe has always been admitted to be Military, some of these appointments of Officers, perhaps were taken from the ranks, but not so with L. Halrey, as you have proof that he was Lt, it could not have been expected that he would have been asked to take or offered a lower grade of officer.
We show this appointment to have been made Oct 1780, we show him to have been in service from time to time up to Jan 1783 when (under a certificate of the same Genl Timothy Pickering who appointed him to this office), we show he held the same office & was then in service, his own & both of their names signed to the certificate.
We show him to have been finally paid off at the same time with Alexander Church Superintendant of the horse yard, both having been appointed at the same time & paid off at the same time after the close of the war I beg leave to refer to the ancient "Plan for conducting the Quartermaster General's Department" filed by me 10 Aug
You have I think a certified copy viz "A Return of Officers employed in the quartermaster General's department with the main Army on the 1 st March 1782" with you in & without "Timothy Pickering - Quartermaster General" "Lt Col Deareborn Deputy quartermaster" "Lt Peter Auspach Paymaster" "Thomas Cogswell Waggon Master" "H E Lutterloh Commissary of Forage" "Darius Learned Waggon Conductor"

" Bartholomew Waggon Conductor " William Archibald ditto ditto " Abraham Rand ditto ditto " Alex s Church Superintendent of Horse Yard " Leff Halrey asst do and 20 or 30 other names
" An estimate of the pay and rations of the persons " employed in the quartermaster's department
June 27. 1782
   Rations per day Value of rations Annual pay & rations     Quartermaster General 291 1.12 .38 329.   Commissary of forage 75 2.6.30 81.30   Deputy do do 40 1.3.15 43.15   Waggon master General 60 2.6.30 66.30   Deputy Waggon Master 45 1.3.15 48.15   Waggon director 35 1.3.15 38.15   Conductor of Ox teams 35 1.3.15 38.15   Superintendent of Horse Yard 45 1.3.15 48.15   Assistant to do do 35 1.3.15 38.15   Expresses 30 1.3.15 33.15   Guides 60 1.3.15 63.15   Store Keeper 50 2.6.30 56.30   Clerk to the Store Keeper 35 1.3.15 38.15   Clerk to Waggon Master General 35 1.3.15 38.15  
You have sundry letters, unauthenticated, relating to the officers of the Horse Yard, & of the Superintendent's high estimate of his assistant; if any of the names that I have here mentioned served in a military capacity, then I must presume that Halrey did, as I think you will —

I filed a letter of Maj Thomas Gage's dated January 26. 1783 mentioning Halsey's name, & something in Service
Most Respectfully
Your Obs. Servt.
Adad. Jay
Hon L.P. Waldo
Court of Pres.
N.B. We find Stephen Halsey an officer in service (our proof in your hands) in Augt. & Sept. 1779.
We find him transferred, or his name with a long list of officers appointed in October 1780.
We find his name mentioned in 1781 & 1782 in connection with a large number of other officers then in service, many of them well known
We find his name under the head of officers, with the names of many who were of the same batch of appointments with him all in Service in 1780, 1781, & 1782
I have intended to state nothing but the truth, & if the truth will not sustain the case, then I say let it fall.
I refer to the certified copy of the papers filed by me Augt 10. last

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15 Feb: 23 1852
Abad Loy - appeals in case of Zephaniah Walsey.
Triplet
Ref'd to the Comm. of Pensions for a Report Sept Mtd 3 July 21/52
Recd Feb. 20. 1852

Washington Feb 19th 1882
Sir
I had the honor of an introduction to you this morning by my friend Judge H.S. Walbridge, and I was allowed to hint at the importance of the case of Lepherniah Walsey, Revolutionaries of New York, I mentioned the loss from the Pension Office of two important manuscript books belonging to the case, one a journal from '79 to '83 the other a book of receipts for Continental horses, the loss of these books, the frequent applications from numerous pension agents for the Walsey case, offering for a large sum to get it through, has caused on my part, alarm, least by delay the case might vanish with the books mentioned, these are some of the reasons that prompted me respectfully to ask for speedy action. The claim is for some $6,000 if I have calculated correctly.
I therefore appeal from the decision of the Commissioner of Pensions, & deny that Lepherniah Walsey's service was civil service, but I contend that it was Military Service. I beg leave to refer you to the inclosed history of the case; with references to the laws. See Congressional Journals published in 4 Vol from '75 to '89 in 38 vol - year 1780

My residence is Ovid Seneca County New York I am Sir Respectfully Your Most Abt Servt Abad Lory
Hon Alex o H H Stuart Secy of Interior Washington DC

Stephen Halsey - Revolutionary
He served from '79 to '83 more than 3 years, this is admitted
He acted as Quartermaster, as an assistant Q.M. in the horse yards, took charge of receiving & delivering Continental Horses, kept a daily receipt book, & daily journal - The rec d book contained some 200 receipts, both of said books were filed in P. Office, but cannot be found
He rec d pay of a Quartermaster, $35 per month, which is proven
He was subject to Martial Law & all its penalties
He was at the battle of Yorktown & kept a daily journal of it
He returned from the South, with a drove of horses, Nov 11 th 1781
He was always called a Staff officer & acted as Dr Master & rec d $35 per mo
The pension laws provide alone for military service, under the penalties of the law martial - We judge our man to have been such
His service is proven by 304 Revolutionaries & his good christian character is established by the affi d of 2 Rev D. D. one Rev, 2 Judges and 4 other highly respectable witnesses 12 witnesses, all worthy of belief
The fact that he was subject to Martial Law, performing duties that were specifically defined by law (See 492 page 3 Vol Cong Journals) placed under the command of the Dr Master Genl, with every attribute that could make his service military - Some of his squad were court martial? as journal of it He kept
The Comd. in his of 11 May '44 rests his whole objection upon the following point. He says "The pension laws provide alone for military service under the penalties of the law martial" the laws here referred to we think establish the service of Mr Halsey as alone military
Widows of Clerks in Clothing Stores &c. have rec d pensions, as Military
Vol 3 489 page Each Deputy Dr Master to appoint as many assistants as the service requires - Clerks, may be military men
490 Duty & authority of Dept Commissary
492 Directions to establish horse yards, to receive & deliver horses
493 Directs an exact register to be kept & report monthly; this one man did
494 Deputy Dr Master pay fixed at $35 - one man rec d that
496 Oath of allegiance to be administered
499 Holding all officers accountable, under penalties
511 Accountable to Martial Law & all of its penalties
547 Dr Masters duty defined & his directions
273 All Staff officers to be allowed pay &c &c
227 All warrant officers on the same footing as others, to pay &c
Halsey was associated with Capt Alexander Church & Mr Runnery under Dr Master Genl Green & lastly, under Genl Pickering, their rolls & pay will show it

Stephanie Halsey Revolution From Brad Joy Quid 91