REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION, SAMUEL TYREL, WASHINGTON COUNTY, NEW YORK

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Samuel and Eunice Tyrel,  of Hebron, Washington Co., New York,  Rev. War Pension # W19480  
following pages transcribed by Thomas L Dunne (decendant) 1999

State of New York
County of Washington                        On this 28th day of August One Thousand and Eight
hundred and Thirty Two personally appeared in open court, before the Judges of the Court of
Common Pleas of the County of Washington now sitting, Samuel Tyrel a resident of the town of
Hebron in the County of Washington and State of New York aged Seventy Four 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 was born on the twenty second day of February 1758, in the town of Woodbury  in
     the state of Connecticutt:  that there was a record of his age in a family bible which is
     now at home and he thinks still contains said record:  that when he was called into the
     service he lived in the town of New Perth (now Salem) in the county of Washington & State
     of New York & continued to live in said town until some time in the year 1777:  Since that
     time he has lived & now does live in the town of Hebron in the County an State aforesaid
  
     That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers &
     served as herein stated.

That in June seventeen hundred & seventy six, he went as a substitute for his brother William
Tyrel, in the company commanded by Captain McCracken, to Fort George:  is not certain who
commanded the Regiment, thinks it was Colonel Gansevoort:  that he was taken sick at Fort
George with the Camp Distemper in the latter part of June and continued sick I the hospital
until the latter part of July when he was taken out of the hospital and permitted to return
home, having been engaged in the service (including the time he lay sick) one month.

     In the month of June seventeen hundred & seventy seven he was called out in the company of
     Militia commanded by Captain John Hamilton in the Regiment Commanded by Colonel Williams,
     and marched in said company to Ticonderoga, remained there a few days & was then ordered
     to retreat in the night- they retreated through Castleton Poultney Pawlet VT - next day
     after the retreat from the Fort Colonel Warner was pursued by General Frazer: that he
     continued to serve in said company as much as one month

      That on the first of August seventeen hundred & seventy seven he enlisted for three
      months in the county of Dutchess in the company commanded by Captain Elijah Herrick of
      said county in the Regiment commanded by Morris Grakaues:  that he was marched in said
      company to Van Schaicks Island, South of Waterford and was there joined to the main army
      in General Glovers Brigade:  marched from there to Stillwater was there at the Battle
      with Burgoyne in General Glovers Brigade, which was stationed as a courps in reserve: he
      recollects that General Glovers Brigade Received the submission of the british troops
      when they surrendered to General Gates at Saratoga on the 17 October 1777 - that he
      continued to serve in said company until the expiration of said three months when he was
      dismissed in the county of Ulster in the State of New York

     In the year seventeen hundred and seventy eight he continued to reside in Hebron and was
     very often called out on Scouts & alarms in the company of militia commanded by Captain
     Hamilton:  cannot state the particular times & circumstances but is very confident that
     the whole time he spent that year on the different scouts & alarms amounted to as much as
     six months

     That on the first of April seventeen hundred and seventy nine he enlisted for nine months
     in the company commanded by Captain Levy Stockwell  Does not know what Regiment that he
     marched in said company from Salem to Skeensborough & continued to service at
     Skeensborough in said company until the expiration of said nine months in the capacity of
     Sergeant.

     That in the years seventeen hundred and eighty one & seventeen hundred and eighty two he
     resided in Hebron aforsaid and was obliged to be always ready to take up arms and was
     actually out & served in the company commanded by Captain Wilson, in the Regiment which he
     thinks was commanded by Colonel Webster, on alarms and in scouting parities during the
     years aforesaid more than six months.

     He never Received any discharge, has little or no knowledge or recollections of Officer or
     Regiments, other than those mentioned in his declaration;  that he has no documentary
     evidence of his services and knows of no person whose testimoney he can procure who can
     testify to the same.

     That he is known to Jacob Mastison and John Whedon both of whom reside in the town of
     Hebron in the said county of Washington, & who can testify to his character for truth &
     veracity and their belief of  his services as a soldier of the Revolution.