Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44,993, Bazaliel Gurney, Conn.

SERVICE
born.
Gurney, Bazaliel
NUMBER _____
NUMBER 8,44,993.
CONTENTS

(2,497) New York.
Barachiel Gurney Capt Spalding Private - 4 Connecticut Line
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 10 th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 th of September 1818 and sent to Thomas H. Hamilton Esq re Rom Oneida County N.Y.
  Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818 - 1 mo. 25 3/4  38 61    Semi-ann. all ee ending 4 th March 1819  48  
Quincy $ 86-68
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
2 Years 1776
Continued. 14 Aug 23 Oneida
Notwithstanding that the above is the amount of the pension to which the said Barachiel Gurney is entitled, the sum of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 10th of April 1818, is the amount of the pension to which the said Barachiel Gurney is entitled.

# N o 11 Maurice Gurney aff d Notary Public New York

Portrait Gurney C.H.

State of New York Brick County
Personally appeared before me Thomas H Hamilton a Judge in said County. Nathan Gurney known to me to sustain a fair character for truth and veracity and Daniel Owen who was satisfactorily well known to me as such person and after being duly sworn did say that they did reside at said Wyoming in the State of Pennsylvania in the year 1778 and continued to reside there until driven off by the enemy at the defeat Col. Butler that they were personally acquainted with Boreluel Gurney (an applicant under the Act of Congress of 5th March 1815) - at that time - that they knew of his enlisting for during the war - that he was ordered to join the main army under Genl Washington and march in the winter of 1777 - that they saw several letters sent from him to his family while from home for which reason they very believe he served as stated by him in his affidavit - that he came home some time in the winter of 1778 - was afflicted with a fever soon at his return which disabled him for some consider- able time afterwards - that they fully believe the facts as stated by him to be strictly true that the said Boreluel is in extreme indigent circum- stances Being aged eighty years and upwards and that he has been blind for several years past and that they have no interest whatever in the said Boreluel's obtaining a pension
Given the 13th day of August A.D. 1813 before me T. H. Hamilton Judge
Nathan Gurney Daniel Owen

To the Honorable John C. Calhoun Secretary at War
State of New York Onondaga County } I certify that it appears to my satisfaction that Baraboo Gurney (a Claimant under the Act of Congress of 8 th March 1818) is in Indigent circumstances and that he served in the War of the Revolution as stated by him in his affidavit - and the Affidavit of Nathan Gurney and Daniel Owen which testimony and proceedings are herewith transmitted to the Department of War
Dated the 15 th August A.D 1818 -
H. H. Hamilton Jr.
Clerks office } Onondaga County } I certify that Thomas H. Hamilton was a Judge in and for the County of Onondaga at the time of making the annexed Affidavit and Certificate, and that his signature to the same appears to be of his own proper hand writing. Witness the seal of said County of Onondaga this 21 st day of August 1818 Glenn H. Woodgood Dk

State of New York Onondaga County 3
Benedict Gurney being duly sworn deposeth and saith
That he is now a Resident of the town of Fulton in the County of Onondaga and State of New York and that he served in the Army of the United States in the war of the revolution against the common enemy. That he enlisted for during the war in September 1778 for the purpose of guarding the line at Old Wyoming in the State of Pennsylvania where he then resided but in January A.D. 1779 was ordered to join the Army then under the immediate command of General Washington and was put into the company commanded by Capt. Spalding in Col. D. Morgan's Regt. Connecticut line and then did duty until the latter part of February A.D. 1779 at which time he was permitted to return home in consequence of a fever sore he had on his leg (on Fulton) that in July after at the defeat of Col. Richard Butler he with the other inhabitants of Scyenehamack had to flee. He went to Connecticut and in consequence of his disability never afterwards joined the Army for which reason he never received a regular discharge and that by reason of his ruined circumstances in life he needs the assistance of his Country for a Support
and further with that I swear the 10th day of April
A.D. 1818 before me 3
J. Steele
G. Gurney
John Hamilton one of the Judges in & for 3 d County
[Handwritten signature]

David Chapin being duly sworn deponeth and saith that he has been personally acquainted with Beriah Gummy the foregoing deponent for a number of years past and now resides in the same neighborhood that the said Beriah sustains an unblemished character and is considered a person of strict truth and veracity and for this saith not
David Chapin
Sworn the 10th day of April 1810 before me
Thos. Hamilton Judge
State of New York Oneida County
Clerks office } I certify that Thomas H. Hamilton is an Oneida County }

State of New York. Oneida Common Pleas. ss.
On this twelfth day of December 1820 personally appeared in open Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, being a Court of Record, Bazel Gurney aged 82 years, residend in Trenton in said County, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: That he enlisted in the fall season of 1776 at Wyoming in the State of Pennsylvania in Capt. Samuel Ransom Company of Infantry (soon after Commanded by Capt. Spalding) in Col. Durgess Regt. and continued to serve in said Corps until Feb y 1778, when he was permitted to return home from the place call d Valley Forge in consequence of a fever sore which disabled him for further service during the war. —
That he has received a pension, and the number of his pension Certificate is 2.497. That he is by occupation a Farmer: —
That the number and names of his Family residing with him: their ages and capacity to contribute to their support is as follows, viz. — has no family. — that he has been wholly supported by private Charity, for more than twelve years before he obtained a pension, — and is totally blind: —
And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand, eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever disposed of My property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War." passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. —
Bazel his Gurney marks
Sworn to & declared the 12 th day of December 1820. before me
H. H. Hamilton Judge

Schedule, Containing the whole estate and Income of Bazaliel Gurney — has no property of any kind
Sworn to and declared on the } 12 th day of December 1820. } before Th. H. Hamilton, Judge of Oneida
his Bazaliel Gurney mark
State of New York. Oneida Common Pleas } Of the Term of December 1820. }
The whole of these proceedings were had in open Court: and in the opinion of this Court the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the Above Schedule is no value dollars and no more. —
Francis A Bloodgood, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Oneida, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court: And I further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value, of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is "no value", : — In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this 12 th day of December 1820.
Francis A Bloodgood Clk
fees 6/6 2
[Signature] Bazaliel Gurney
No. 2492
Mar. 19

44993 Rey  INVALID.
File No. 44993
Nathaniel Gurney
Priv. Rev. War
Act: 18 th March 1815
Index:—Vol. 3 , Page 218
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Passaic post office Passaic County N.Y. - 2
5
Recd 19 Jan
John C. Calhoun Secretary of War
Washington

Ordnance Bureau Jan 28 th 1821
Sir
Inclosed I forward to the war office the paper showing the situation of Bazalil Gurney a pensioner under the law of Congress of 18 th March 1818. -- the reasons why he did not apply at 18 th term was in consequence of ill health - the extreme benevolence of Mr. Gurney and of those of his friends on whom he has principally relied hitherto for a subsistence - induces me to request if possible should he be continued on the Pension Roll. that he may have the notice in season to draw his pension in March next
I am Sir yours Respectfully
W. H. Hamilton
Hon. J. C. Calhoun