SOLOMON TALADAY REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION, TIOGA COUNTY, NEW YORK

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This is a copy of the Petition of Solomon Taladay For a pension for service in 
the Revolutionary War

At a Court of Common Pleas holden at the Courthouse in the town of Elmira in and 
for the County of Tioga on the second Tuesday of August in the year of Our Lord 
one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two.
Present--Gamaliel H. Bardstow, Esq., First Judge; and Judges Benjamin Jennings, 
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 Common 
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 of the 18th of March 1818 and May 1820; 
that the said Solomon Taladay enlisted for the term of nine months commencing in 
the month of April in the year in which Fort Mongomery was built which he 
believes to have been built in the year 1776 or 1777 in the State of New York in 
the Company commanded by a Captain Rosecrants 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 affdavit made by Jemima Talladay before John Hannah, 
Esq. which said affidavit that deponent believes are___at Tioga Point in the 
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 straw bd, two 
blankets, one sheet, two feather pillows, one____, two tight bodied coats, two 
pair pantaloons, two shirts, one hat, one pair showes, two case knives and one 
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 aged 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. 
his

(signed) Solomon x Taladay

mark

Sworn to & ____on the sixteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one 
thousand eight hundred twenty two,

(signed) Gamaliel H. Barstow first Judge State of Nwq 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