8. | Newland Joseph was born in 1755 in Saratoga. Albany County, NY (son of Newland Joseph and Babbitt Abigail); died on 12 Jan 1848 in Fleming, Cayuga County, NY; was buried in Kelloggsville Cemetery, Niles Twp. Saratoga County, NY.. Notes:
Joseph was in the 13th Reg. of NY in the Rev. War. (New York in the Revolution as a Colony and State. Vol. 1 , Extracts.)
March 2n, 1779 Saratoga District Tax List, p. 11.
West side-1786 Saratoga District Tax List and 13th Albany County Militia. p. 115.
At age, 77 years, Joseph petitioned the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions, for his Revolutionary War pension. He was a resident of Sempronius at the time of his application. In the application he states he enlisted in Stillwater on June 1, 1775 for eight months, rank of Private, under the service of Captain Marvin and Col. Benedict Arnold. In November, 1775 for seventeen months, and served under Captain Moses Knapp and Col. Joseph Read in Roxbury, near Boston, MA. His other terms of duty are discribed in his war record that is attached.
Joseph, giving his age as 89 years, was a pensioner in Niles, Cayuga County, NY on June 1, 1840. He resided with son, Lemuel A. Newland. They left Stillwater in 1803 and moved first to Sempronius,(.Kelloggville.) Cuyuga Co. NY.
Lemuel A. married Mrs. Flora B. Snider, widow of Edward R. Snider. She was the daughter of Pettit and Huldah Smith, born in Galway, Saratoga county, NY.
Joseph married Austin Sibyl in 1777. Sibyl was born on 17 Nov 1757; died on 13 Jun 1822 in Sempronius, Cuyuga County, NY; was buried in Kelloggsville Cemetery, Sempronius, Cayuga County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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