Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36,797, for Jacob Starling, Connecticut
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
Conn. Starling, Jacob S. 36,797
CONTENTS
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3533
Connecticut Roll
Jacob Starling 4
Capt Jewett
Private
Connecticut line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 2nd of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 10th of Oct 1818
and sent to Jeremiah G. Brainard
Esqr New London Connecticut
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818 40.80
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4th Mar 1819 48.00
Arrears 5 mo 3 /30 $88.80
(Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
1 Year
Lyme, New London County
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36797
Revy INVALID
File No. 36.797
Jacob Starling
[illegible] Rev War
Act: 18th March 18
Index:- Vol. 2, Page 398
(Arrangement of 1870.)
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I Samuel Phelps of Lyme in the County of New London
do testify depose & say that some time in or about the first of
January 1776 I was personally acquainted with & knowing to Jacob
Starling of said Lyme Inlisting into Captain Joseph Smith
Company Col. Jedediah Huntington Reg that the time
of his Inlistment was for one year & that at the battle at flat
bush on Long Island said Starlin was taken a Prisoner by the
enemy & that I have always understood that he remained
Prisoner untill about the time our Regt was discharged he
belonging to the same Regt with me & Starling understood
he was exchanged & returned home about the same time
the Regiment was discharged
Saml Phelps
I Peter Way of Lyme in the County of New London Do testify
and say that I Inlisted into Capt Joseph Jewitts Company
on or about the first of Jany 1776 & was well acquainted 
with & knowing to Jacob Starling Inlisting into said company
& do agree with Samuel Phelps in all the facts stated in
the above deposition by him subscribed
Peter Way
State of Connecticut New London County May 25 32
personally appeared Samuel Phelps & Peter Way
and made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit
by them subscribed contains the truth the whole
truth according to their best knowledge & belief
Sworn before me Calvin Selden Justice of the Peace
This certifies that the foregoing Deponants Samuel Phelps
& Peter Way are persons of credibility and I think full
confidence may be found in their testimony
Certified for Calvin Selden Justice of the Peace
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State of Connecticut
I do hereby certify that on the 20th day of May
1818 Calvin Selden of Lyme in New London
County Esquire, was and ever since hath been a
Justice of the Peace in and for the County of New
London in said State of Connecticut, duly qualified
and acting under the authority of said State, and that 
the signature to the within affidavit and certificate
are his signatures. In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the
County Court New London County at New London
this 22 day of September AD 1818
Charles Lathrop Clerk
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State of Connecticut
ss Lyme April Second AD 1818
Be it remembered that at said Lyme on this 2nd day
of April AD 1818 before me Jeremiah G. Brainard a
Judge of the Superior Court of the State of Connecticut
Personally came and appeared Jacob Starlin of said
Town of Lyme in New London County State of Connecticut
and being duly and solemnly sworn according to Law and the usage
of said State did on his said Oath by me to him administred
declare depose and say that some time in the month of April
1775 at said Lyme he enlisted into a Company
then raised by Col. Samuel H. Parsons David F. Sill Lieu Comd
Col Samuel H. Parsons Regiment in the Connecticut line on
the Continental Establishment for the term of Eight Months
that he soon joined his company and faithfully served as a
soldier until the expiration of his Enlistment which was on or
about the last Day of Decr 1775 that soon afterwards in January
1776 he again enlisted as a soldier [illegible] in Capt
Joseph Jewetts Company Col. Jedediah Huntingtons Regiment
in the Connecticut line in the Continental Establishment that he
soon after joined his Regiment at Roxbury in the State of Massachusetts
that some time afterwards the Regiment went to New York & that
at Flatbush on Long land on or about the 27th day of August
1776 while in the line of his duty he was taken a prisoner by the Enemy
that he remained a Prisoner more than four months when he was
exchanged & landed at Milford in Connecticut some time in
January 1777 that he served as a soldier
in the Army of the United States in the Revolutionary was about
Twenty months that he is now in the 75th year of his age & that
he now is and ever has been a resident Citizen of the United States
that as to a discharge he thinks he received no written one
that the Regiment was discharged without, that if he
had any it is lost or distroyed by time or accident
that from his reduced circumstances he needs the
assistance of his country for support
Jacob Starling
Sworn before me the Day and Date
aforesaid
In witness along I have caused
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the Seal of the Superior Court of the
State of Connecticut to be [illegible]
affixed at New London in said state
the day month and year
aforesaid
Jeremiah G Brainard Judge of the
Superior court of said State
I Jeremiah G Brainard Judge & as aforesaid
do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said
Jacob Starling did serve in the Revolutionary 
war as stated in the preceeding declaration against
the common enemy and I now transmit the
proceedings and testimony taken & had before me
to the Secretary of the Department of War
pursuant to the direction of the after mentioned act
of Congress-- The foregoing declaration was made
to me as the aplicant declared 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 & naval service of the
United States in the Revolutionary 
War
Jacob Starling 
Witness the seal aforesaid
New London
April 2d 1818 Jerimiah Brainard Judge
of Superior Court
State of Connecticut
State of Connecticut
July 8 1818.
I Jeremiah Brainard Judge as
aforesaid do certify that Jacob
Starling the applicant in this case
is in [illegible]
Jeremiah G Brainard Judge as
apresaid
hering