Gideon SALISBURY
Pension Application for Gideon Salisbury S.28863 Pension was granted $22.00 per annum, arrears $286.00 -- http://morrisonspensions.org/salisbury.html



1843
State of New York


County of Cayuga SS.


Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in & for said county born named Salisbury of Ledgyard in said county aged eighty two years in Nov’r last past, & on being duly sworn according to law deposeth & saith that Gideon Salisbury of Potter, Ontario County New York who is applying for a pension as a soldier of the war of the Revolution is this deponents brother, & that he is better than two years younger than this deponent, that this deponent well recollects that his said brother Gideon Salisbury went out in the Militia & went with the Army to Boston, he thinks in 1777—that this deponent well recollects that his said brother the said Gideon Salisbury enlisted under Capt. Christopher Miller, this deponents thinks in 1780, that he marched with the company to the south & that this deponent well recollects of the company returning to old Shoharrie [Schoharie] & this deponent well recollects of his said brother serving under Capt. Miller four months, & that his sais brother the aforesaid Gideon Salisbury then enlisted under Capt. Joseph Harrison in the fall of the year & this deponent thinks it was in 1780—that his said brother the said Gideon Salisbury went at as a soldier & acted as waiter to Capt. Harrison, that the company & this deponents brother went with them to Fort Stanwick & after a while returned & were stationed at Fort Plain on the Mohawk River, that this deponent well recollects that his said Gideon Salisbury served six months or more under Capt. Harrison, & that he then served under Capt. Wright more than one year, that this deponent being confined at home in charge of the farm & its cares, knows well of his said brother the aforesaid Gideon Salisbury being engaged in the service more than two years, over & above the three months served in the militia in 1777 or 1778—that this deponent will recollects that his said brother the aforesaid Gideon Salisbury was absent in the service of the war of the United States more than two years & that he never came home to see his parents except by permission & on furlough & that this deponent well recollects that his said brother the aforesaid Gideon Salisbury did come home on furlough, that he came home several times on furlough, & that this deponent well recollects that his aforesaid brother came home on furlough soon after the defeat of Corn Wallis & that they held a day of rejoicing, but that he returned again & the army that this deponent well recollects that his said brother received an honorable discharge.

(Signed with his mark) Bennauel Salisbury


Subscribed & sworn before me this 28day of Augt 1843. H. W. Taylor Justice of the Peace of Ledyard.



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