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HomeMy WebLinkAboutBiographies of Revolutionary War Veterans of Tompkins Co Abraham Losey Name: Abraham Losey Date of birth: 1767 Birthplace: NY Spouse: 1) Unknown 2) Sena N. Brink b. 1789 NJ daughterof George Brink of Tioga Co.,d. c. 1868NY Parents: John Losee and Mary Renny Brother: Cornelius Losey Marriage date: 1)2)Dec. 30, 1832 Place of marriage: 1) Dutchess Co, NY2)Cayuta, Chemung, NY at the home of Lewis Brink by Nathan Ogden, JP Occupation: tailor Date of death: May 10, 1851 Place of death: Cayuta, Chemung, NY Place of burial: Children: (Probably others as well) 1)Susan b. 1808 2)Joanna b. 1818 Pension Application File #:W9142 Place of enlistment: Newburg,Orange County, NY Service record: State of New York Saratoga County On this thirteenth day of May 1818 before me Abraham Moe, one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Saratoga personally appears Abraham Losey, aged about fifty seven years, resident of the town of Malta in the county of Saratoga aforesaid who being by me first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the late act of Congress. That he the said Abraham Losey enlisted in the county of Orange in the town of Newburgh in a company commanded by Capt. Stewart as a private in the Artillery in Col. Crane’s Regiment in the Continental Army in the year 1780 for three years and served during the war in the line of the Massachusetts Troops and was honorably discharged after serving my country three years and eleven months at West Point. My discharge is last and I do not know what has become of it and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said service His Abraham X Losey Mark State of New York Tompkins County On this twenty seventh day of Sept. 1820 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, by the laws of said state, with power to hear , try and determine all actions real, personal and mixed arising in the said county and also all transitory actions, although the same may not have arisen within the said county and with other powers, Abraham Losey of the town of Enfield in said county of Tompkins. The he enlisted in Orange County in the State of New York in the year 1780 in the company of Artillery commanded by Capt. Stewart in the Regiment commanded by Col. Crane in the Massachusetts line of Continental Troops to serve during the war. That he served his said term and was discharged at West Point in the year 1783, that his declaration to obtain his pension was made on the thirteenth day of May 1818 and has certificate numbered 1954 and dated nineteenth of March 1818. That he has a wife and two children to support. To wit: Susan who is twelve years of age and Joanna who is two years of age, the they are not able to support themselves and that his wife is very weakly and unable to labor much of the time. That by occupation he is a tailor, that his eye sight is so bad that he cannot follow his trade. That he is unable to support himself if his pension is taken from him. Abraham X Losey 21 day of September 1820 State of New York Tompkins County I, Abraham Losey of Enfield in said county of Tompkins, aged sixty four years, do upon oath testify and declare that in the fore part of the year 1780 I enlisted for the term of during the war, in a company commanded by Col. Captain Steward in a regiment commanded by Col. Crane in the Massachusetts Line and that I continued in the service aforesaid until the close of the war, when I was regularly discharged from the aforesaid regiment at West Point-I further declare that I have never received a warrant for the bounty land promised to me on the part of the United States, nor have I ever assigned or transferred my claim in any manner whatsoever. That soon after my discharge I delivered my discharge to one Hubbard to see if he could get my land but gave him no other writing in relation to it. Therefore , know all men by these present that I Abraham Losey aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint Stephen Mack of Ithaca in said County of Tompkins my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War, a warrant for the quantity of land due me as aforesaid and my attorney is hereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more attorneys under him for the purpose expressed above. Dated July 1, 1826 Abraham X Losey Received Bounty Land Warrant #7186 -100 acres- in 1827. New York Pensioners, 1835: Abraham Losey Private Tompkins Co. Annual Allowance: $96 00 Sums received: $1,517 93 Massachusetts line When placed on the pension roll: 19 Mar 1819 Commencement of pension: 13 May 1818 1780 Pension Application –brother Cornelius testifies he lived with Abraham at the home of John H. Van Vlack in Fishkill, Dutchess, NYduring the war. 1790 US Federal Census: Living in Fishkill, Dutchess , NY 1818 Pension Application-Living in Malta, Saratoga, NY 1820 Pension Application –Living in Enfield, Tompkins, NY (declares he has problems seeing and can no longer follow his trade as a tailor.) 1830 US Federal Census: Living in Enfield, Tompkins, NY 1840 US Federal Census :living in Cayuta, Chemung, NY with one child . Head of household. 1850 US Federal Census: Abram 82 and Sena 60 living with Joshua and Parmelia Tompkins in Cayuta, Chemung, NY Note: Abram listed as blind, age 82. Will or Administration of Estate: Notes: Pension file says Abraham Losey resided at Fishkill, Dutchess, NY at the home of John H. Van Vlack with his brother Cornelius Losey during the Revolutionary War. Applied for pension 1818 while a resident of Malta, Saratoga,NY. and reapplied in 1820 while a resident of Enfield, Tompkins, NY. Sold land in Lot 52 in Enfield and moved to Cayuta, Chemung County after he married Sena Brink of Cayutain 1832 where he died in 1851. Sources: J.R.Tompkins Family Tree Import Losie#2 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. 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.