Iowa County WI Archives Military Records.....Tyrer, Luther October 19, 1850 Warof1812 - Pension ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/wifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nancy Poquette npoq@hotmail.com January 1, 2007, 4:58 am Bounty Land Application State of New York, County of Erie: “On this 19th day of October, 1850, personally appeared before me, a justice of the peace, authorized to administer oaths for general purposes, within and for the county and state aforesaid, LUTHER TYRER, aged 62 years, a resident of Collins in the state of New York, who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that he is the identical LUTHER TYRER who was a private soldier in the company commanded by Colonel Philetus Swift in the War with Great Britain declared by the United States on the 18th day of June, 1812.” “That he enlisted at Concord on or about the last of May 1812 for the term of one year, and continued in actual service in said war for the term of six months until the 16th day of November following, when he enlisted for five years into the 5th Regiment U.S. Infantry, as will appear by the muster rolls of said company. That he had no discharge. That he was, after his enlistment last mentioned, mustered into Captain William H. Waterbury’s company [aka Wharterby in the Documentary History of the Campaign: Niagara Frontier in the Year 1812]; Lieutenant Hook was one of the lieutenants of the company.” “That after his last enlistment for the term of five years, he continued in actual service in said war for the term of about eleven days when he was taken prisoner near Fort Erie in Canada on or about the 27th day of that month, November 1812. That he was taken to Fort George in Canada where he was retained a prisoner over two months when he was paroled and taken to the American side of the Niagara River and reported himself to his officers at Flint Hill near Buffalo. That he was sent to Greenbush and from thence to Boston, when he was paid three months pay. That he there obtained permit to return home until called on. That he arrived home the 21st of April 1814, where he remained during the war and never was exchanged to his knowledge. That he never received any bounty land.” “He makes this declaration or the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which he may be entitled under the ‘Act granting Bounty Lands to certain officers and soldiers who have been engaged in the military service of the United States. Passed September 28, 1850.” LUTHER TYRER “Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written. And I hereby certify that I believe the said LUTHER TYRER to be the person who performed the military service aforesaid, and to be of the age above stated.” Morris Fosdick, Justice of the Peace Samuel Lake is hereby appointed my legal agent or attorney to whom I request all communications made relating to this claim. LUTHER TYRER File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/iowa/military/warof1812/pensions/tyrer14gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/wifiles/ File size: 3.2 Kb