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Name: Daniel Clary
Date of birth: 1761
Birthplace: CT
Parent: Daniel McClary
Spouse:
Marriage date:
Place of marriage:
Date of death: abt. March of 1837 (end of pension benefits)
Place of death: Perhaps Onondaga Co. NY but pension sent to D. Barto , lawyer, of Trumansburg in 1836
Place of burial: Unknown
Children:
Daniel b. abt. 1800 m. Mary Lucinda Wilcox, lived 1826 Monroeville, Huron, OH
Miles b. abt. 1802 m. Olive who d. Aug. 1, 1830 age 28. Bur. Christian Cemetery, Enfield, Tompkins, NY He lived 1840 Orange, Steuben Co., NY
Eliza b. abt. 1805 (perhaps m.. ________Bostwick)
Harry b. abt. 1807
Putman b. abt. 1809 m. Mary b.1827 OH lived 1880 Census West Mill Grove, Wood, OH
6) David b. abt 1811
Invalid Pension Application File #:S23576
Place of enlistment: White Plains, Westchester, NY
Service record:
Tompkins County
On this 18 day of April AD 1818 before me the subscriber on of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Tompkins and state of New York personally appeared Daniel Clary,
aged fifty seven years, resident in the town of Hector in said county of Tompkins, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order
to obtain the provision made by the late 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.”
That he the said Daniel Clary enlisted at White Plains in the county of West Chester and state of New York in the Fourth Troop of Light Dragoons commanded by Captain Effius Bull in
the second Regiment of said Light Dragoons of the Connecticut Line in the year of our Lord on thousand seven hundred and seventy seven; that he continued to serve in said corps until,
as this deponent believes, one thousand seven hundred and eighty three when he was honorably discharged from service. That he was in the battle of Pound Ridge, besides several other
skirmishes and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said service.
Sworn and declared before me the day and year aforesaid.
Signed Thomas White
Judge of Tompkins Common Pleas
State of New York
Tompkins County
On this 29th day of January 1821 personally appeared in Open Court, being a Court of Common Pleas, holden in and for the said county in said state constituted a Court of Record, Daniel
Clary aged sixty years, resident in the town of Hector in the said county who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War
as follows:
He enlisted under Capt. Epaphras Bull in the fourth troop of Horse in the second regiment of Light Dragoons commanded by Col. Elisha Sheldon at Sharon in the state of Connecticut in
the year 1777 as near as he can recollect to serve during the war, that he regularly served his said time and was discharged in the year 1783 in Danbury, state of Connecticut, that he
made his declaration to obtain his pension on the eighteenth day of April, 1818. His pension certificate is named 11.633 and dated the seventh day of June 1819.
That he has a wife and six children to support. To wit, Daniel, aged twenty two who is quite unwell and not able to support himself, Miles aged eighteen who is also of poor health,
Eliza, aged fifteen years old, Harry, aged thirteen, Putman, aged eleven, David, aged nine years, that his children can do no more than support themselves, the two oldest being unable
the younger ones being too young to contribute towards their support. I am a farmer by occupation and am unable to support myself by labour.
Signed Daniel Clary
A Schedule of the property of Daniel Clary of the County of Tompkins, a Pensioner under the act of Congress dated 18th of March 1818 of all debts due him.
Real Estate-none No debts due
1 cow $10.00
2 hogs 3.00
2 axes 1.00
1 hoe, 1 pitchfork 1.00
1set tea cups and saucers .25
Tea pot and milk cup .35
4 plates, 6 knives and forks 1.25
3 chairs, 1 table 3.00
1 pot, 1 kettle, tea kettle 4.50
3 iron spoons .25
________________
$26.55
Estate valued at $25.00
Tompkins County
I the said Thomas White of the said Court of Common Pleas of the county of Tompkins do further certify that I am personally acquainted with the said Daniel Clary and with his circumstances.
He, the said Daniel Clary living about one mile and a half from me and that from the knowledge I possess of the said Daniel Clary and his circumstances I believe him to be in reduced
circumstances and absolutely in need of his country for support.
Signed Thomas White
State of New York
Tompkins County
Daniel Clary of Spafford in the County of Onondaga and state of New York, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith that he was a private in Captain King’s company of Dragoons in Col. Elisha
Sheldon’s Regiment being the second Regiment of the Connecticut Line, in the war of the Revolution, that deponent enlisted in said company and regiment, according to deponent’s recollection
in the fall of 1777, for during the war, and that he served in said company and regiment to the close of the war when he was discharged at Danbury in the state of Connecticut in the
spring of 1783, that his services were all performed in the same company and Regiment though our Capt. F.S. Burk of Stratford, Connecticut, commissioner of said company when deponent
enlisted. Captain Burk resigned on account of ill health and then one Captain Sturtevant of New London commanded said company until he died in consequence of a wound received from the
enemy in the groin at Tarrytown in the state of New York. Deponent was by the side of Captain Hurlburt when he received the wound of which he died. After the death of Hurlburt, Captain
King came into the command of said company and held it to the close of the war. Deponent is now and has been since the eighteenth day of April 18118 in the possession of a pension of
dollars per month and that he holds a certificate signed by J.L. Edwards in the absence on behalf of the Sec. of War entitling him to a pension of one hundred dollars per annum.
Signed Daniel Clary
23 day of May 1836
Before me Marvin Smith, Justice of the Peace
1836 H. D. Barto writes the Secretary of War asking for Daniel Clary’s new pension certificate in the amount of $100 per annum and a return of the old one be sent to him at Trumansburg,
NY.
1820 US Census Hector, Tompkins, NY Daniel Clary
1830 US Census Enfield, Tompkins, NY Daniel Clary
DAR Record:
CLARY, DANIEL
Ancestor #: A022813
NEW YORK
PRIVATE
Service: 1) DRAGOONS
New York Pensioners, 1835
Daniel Clary served as a Dragoon in the Connecticut line. He applied for a pension while a resident of Tompkins Co. and received an annual allowance of $96.00 with a total of $1,188.52
sum received. He was placed on the pension roll June 7, 1819 with pension commencing as of April 18, 1813.
Dragoon
Tompkins Co
Annual Allowance: 96 00
Sums received: 1,188 52
Connecticut line
When placed on the pension roll: 7 Jun 1819
Commencement of pension: 18 Apr 1813
American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI)
Daniel Clary b. 1750
Birthplace: Connecticut
Volume: 30, page 178
Record of Conn. Men in mil. And naval service during the Rev. war, 1775-1783. By Henry P.Johnston. Hartford. 1889. (17,779 p.):277, 542, 642 Gen. Column of the " Boston Transcript".
1906-1941. ( The greatest single source of material for gen. data for the N.E. area and for the period 1600-1800. Completely indexed in the Index.): 15 Dec 1926, 4899; 16 Mar 1927, 4899
Wills and Estates:
Andrew Bostwick will dated June 1845, probate date 20 Oct 1845 Enfield, Tompkins, NY
Coex: wife Irene
Ex son: Orson Bostwick (land in Newfield)
Dau: Caroline Van Vachten (land in Litchfield, CT, Winebago, IL and Genessee Co, NY)
Grandsons: Joseph Henry Clary, James Abel Clary, Charles Andrew Clary
Witness T. A. William, Silas Harvey, Moses Lovell, all of Enfield
Sources:
Ancestry.com. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
Original data: Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files (NARA microfilm publication M804, 2,670 rolls). Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Record
Group 15. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Ancestry.com. New York Pensioners, 1835 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1998. Original data: United States Senate. Report from the Secretary of War,
in Obedience to Resolutions of the Senate of the 5th and 30th of June, 1834, and the 3d of March, 1835, In Relation to the Pension Establishment of the United States. [New York Section].
Washington, D.C.: Duff Green, 1835.
DAR Genealogical Research System (GRS) online at www.dar.org
Jackson, Ronald V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp.. New York Census, 1790-1890 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.
Original data: Compiled and digitized by Mr. Jackson and AIS from microfilmed schedules of the U.S. Federal Decennial Census, territorial/state censuses, and/or census substitutes.
Godfrey Memorial Library, comp. American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) [database-on-line].
Provo, UT. USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc.1999.
Original Data: Godfrey Memorial Library. American Genealogical-Biographical Index, Middletown, CT. USA: Godfrey Memorial Library
Old Wills found in Schuyler County, NY Courthouse at www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyschuyl/oldwills.htm