Solomon Taladay Pension Application
Court of
Common Pleas
S.40557
At a Court of Common Pleas holden at the Courthouse in the Town of Elmira for
the County of Tioga on the second Tuesday of August in the year of one thousand
eight hundred and twenty-two. Present: Gamaliel H. Bardstow, Esq., First Judge;
and Judges Benjamin John McConnel, and Henry Miller.
District
of New York
Tioga County.
On this
16th day of August, 1822 personally appeared in open court before the Judges
aforesaid of the same Court of Pleas in and for the County of Tioga aforesaid
being a Court of Record because it is a Court which proceeds according to
the course of common law with jurisdiction in point of amount keeping a record
of their proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Solomon
Taladay age sixty-four years on the sixteenth day of February last past,
who being duly sworn according to the law doth on his oath make the following
declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the Act of Congress
on the 18th of March 1818 and May 1820 and that the said Solomon Taladay
enlisted for the term of nine months commensing in the month of April in
the year in which Fort Montgomery was built which he believes to have been
built in the year 1776 or 1777 in the State of New York, the Company commanded
by a Captain Rosencrants in the Regiment commanded by Col. Dubois whose first
name he does not recollect in the New York Line on the Continental Establishment
as he believes and that he continued to serve in the same Corps for the space
of 9 months when his term of enlistment having expired he was discharged
from the said service at Fort Montgomery in the State of New York. That
he afterwards continued in said service at different periods for the space
of three years and rising, during which time he was in the battle of Monmouth
in which action he had his left arm broken. That he was also in the battle
of Brandwine in which action he was shot through the left thigh and that he
was also in the expedition against the Indians commanded by General Sullivan
Tweed in the battle of Hog Back Hill so called in the County of Tioga State
of New York aforesaid and that he has no other evidence now in his power of
his said services except an affidavit made by Jemima Talladay before John Hannah,
Esq. which said affidavit that deponent believes are ___ at Tioga Point State
of Pennsylvania and which said deponent expects to be able to secure; and in
pursuance of the Act of first of May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a
resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and I have
not since that time by gift, sale or in any other manner disposed of my property
or any part thereof with intent thereby to so 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 ___ ___ service of the United States in
the Revolutionary War: passed on the 15th day of March 1818 and that I have
not nor has any person in trust for me and property or security contracts or
debts due to me nor have I income other than what is contained in the schedule
hereto annexed --- -- --- which is as follows viz. two tin cups, one
wash bowl, two table spoons, one iron pot,one frying pan,one leather bed, one
strawbed,two blankets, one sheet, two feather pillows, one ___, two tight-bodoed
coats, two pair pantaloons, two shirts, one hat, onepair showes, two case knives,
fork, one pocket knife, and one suit of clothing for my wife and two sets of
clothing for my children who are now living with me. That I have a wife
and two children aged as follows: viz: my wife aged 38 years and upwards, cynthia
aged three years the 3rd day of May last. Miley age one year the 11th day of
March about and that my occupation is that of a laborer but that my reason
as well as my advanced age as the wounds received in the course of my service
as aforesaid I am unable to pursue the same as I would otherwise be able to.
(Signed with his mark) Solomon Taladay
Sworn to & subscribed on the sixteenth day of August in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred twenty two.
Gamaliel H. Barstow first Judge State of New York Tioga County. I hereby certify that the above foregoing are truly copied
from the record of the said court and that it is the opinion of the said Court
that the amount in value of the property contained in the above schedule is
twenty dollars. Witness my hand and seal of the said ____ this 22nd August
1872. Thomas Maxwell, Jr of tioga
Common Pleas
S.40557
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