Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 16752, Levi Farnam, Continental (Conn.)
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SERVICE                                            
Continental (Conn)     
Farnam, Levi      
or Farnham
Tayler, Dorias
(Former widow)

NUMBER
W 16752

The woman's second husband Ebenezer
Perry. Conn. or Mass. also served in the Revolutionary War. See paper within.
 Her third and last husband was
pensioned on account of Revolutionary 
War  service, See claim of Thomas 
Taylor, Conn,  S 46202
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                  "South Brimfield   April 6th 1780
  Ebenezer Perry of Windham & Dorcas Farnham of South Brimfield were joined in wedlock
                        Ps Elijah Coddington  Pastor"

South Brimfield April Sixth Seventeen hundred and eighty Ebenezer Perry & Dorcas Farnham of sd South Brimfield were joined in wedlock
                       Pr  Elijah  Coddington  Pastor

Town Clerk's Office  Wales (formerly South Brimfield) Mass
March 7th AD 1853
        I hereby certify that the Above is a true copy of record, recorded in the "book of records of marriages" in this office, except the date which was there expressed in figures ad which I have written in words at full length
   [Signed]  Attest  Ferdinand L. Burley} Town 
                                           Clerk of Wales

Hampden Js          Wales March 7 AD 1853
Then personally appeared the above Ferdinand L. Burley Known to me to be the acting Town Clerk of said Town of Wales and signed the above Certificate and made oath that the same is correct and true before me
     [Signed]  John Smith, Justice of the Peace
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    The Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Hampten, SS.
I, George B. Morris, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth, for the County of Hampten, do certify, that ..................... Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the certificate on the paper hereto annexed, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned, and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth; and that full faith and credit is, and ought to be given, to his acts and attestations, done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the hand-writing of the said .................. and believe his signature to the said certificate is genuine:  also that the instrument hereto annexed, purports to be fully executed and acknowledged, according to the laws of this Commonwealth, for the purpose therein expressed.

    In Testimony whereof, I have hereinto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court, for said Commonwealth, this                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              thirteenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four.
           [Signed]  George Morris   Clerk
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Note pensioner  Augt. 8, 1837
let to H. R. Mygatt Oct 20 '45 [year ?]
Same Feby 10 1833
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New York ..... 1291

Dorcas Taylor, formerly
widow of Levi Farnham, Decd
who died the 25th Decr. 1776; 
of Chanango Co in the State of New York
who was a Corporal in the company commanded by Captain Trowbridge of the Regt. commanded by Col. J. Huntington, in Connecticut for 12 months  Corporal
                                     Conn.

Inscribed on the Roll of New York (Albany)
at the rate of 44 Dollars - per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate pf Pension issued 7th day of August,
   1837 and sent to H.R.
Mygatt, Esq., Oxford, N.Y.

Arrears to the 4th of March '37    $ 264:00
Semi-anl. allowance ending               22:00
                                  4 Sept.   "    _________
                                                     $ 286:00

                             {Revolutionary Claim,
                              Act July 4, 1836.
                              Section the 3d.}
Recorded by S.A. Elliot Clerk
Book A,   Vol.2    Page 119.
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State of New York
Chanango County} Js.

On this 11th day of July 1837, personally appeared before the subscriber Lieutenant .... of said Stat and a Judge of the Court for the Correction of Errors of said State of New York, Dorcas Taylor, a resident of Oxfords in the County of Chanango and State of New York, aged 86 years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to attain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4, 1836, ad the act explanatory of said act passed March 3d 1837.  That she was married to Levi Farnham who was a corporal in the war of the Revolution and that the said husband enlisted in December 1775 into a company commanded by Captain Trowbridge in Colonel Jedediah Huntingtons Regiment, and that soon after his enlistment he left home, and joined the army,  that they resided in Windham, Connecticut when her said husband enlisted and entered the service, that said town known by the name of [Windham is crossed out] Hampton.  That her said husband never returned home after he enlisted and entered the service under Captain Trowbridge, but that he continued in service absent from home [next 15 words inserted} except 2 days in March 1776, when he was about at home two days for [illegible word] as deponent believes and was informed soon after his death on the 25th December one thousand seven hundred and seventy six (1776) on board the Jersey prison ship on which he was removed from there, to be exchanged.

She further declares she was married to the
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said Levi Farnham in the fall of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy four, that her husband the aforesaid Levi Farnham died on the 25th December 1776, that she was afterwards in the year 1780 married to Ebenezer Perry who died on the 20th March 1787.  That she was afterwards in the year 1799 married to Thomas Taylor who died on November 1826: and that she was a widow on the 4th July 1836, and she still remains a widow, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.  That deponent has no documentary evidence except the letters annexed. 
  That the two letters annexed signed by Levi Farnham were received from her said husband, whilst he was in the army.  The one dated Roxbury, March 12th [17th ?] day 1776, the other dated New York May 13th 1776, and have ever since deponent received the Same, remained in deponents possession.
    That her husband was in service as a corporal from the time he entered the service until he died soon after he arrived at New York in May 1776 as deponent believes and after he  served at New York until his death he was an orderly sergeant as deponent believes true.
                                          her
                           Dorcas      X        Taylor
                                         mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written, and I certify that I reside in said County of Chenango, and that said Dorcas Taylor in my opinion, in consequence of bodily infirmity is unable to attend the Court of which I am a judge or any Court of record in said County of Chenango
   [Signed]  John Tracy  Judge of the Court
                    for the Correction of  Errors
                            State of New York
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I, Thomas Farnham of Hampton, Windham County, Connecticut, aged eighty two years, being duly cautioned and sworn according to law, do depose and say: - that my brother Levi Farnham enlisted with me into the Army of the Revolution, into a Company commanded by Capt Trowbridge then belonging to Col. Jedediah Huntington's Regiment near the close of the year seventeen hundred seventy five, and joined the Army at Roxbury at the commencement of the year seventeen hundred seventy six.  Soon after the evacuation of Boston by the British, the said Levi marched to New York and was immediately stationed at Brooklyn on Long Island. And on the 27th day of August seventeen hundred and seventy six the said Levi was, by the British taken prisoner and put on board of what was called 'The Jersey Prison Ship", where, I was informed, he remained until the month of December, 1776; at which time he was taken from the said Prison Ship, and put on board another Vessel to be exchanged - but before he was exchanged, to wit on the 25th day of said December, he died.

Before my brother the said Levi entered the service as aforesaid, he was married to Dorcas Moulton and resided at the time of said marriage in that part of town of Windham called 'Canada Society".,  and which is now, and for more than forty years hath been, the town of Hampton.  And I have understood that the said Dorcas, his widow, is now living in Chenango County New York.  The said Levi enlisted and served as a Corporal during the time before mentioned. -        
   [Signed]  Ths. L. Farnham
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State of Connecticut, Windham County, Js
                       Hampton, April 24. 1837.

There personally appeared Mr. Thomas Farnham and made solemn oath to the truth  of the statements made by him and contained in the within deposition by him subscribed, before me,-
James A. Hovey, Notary  Public within & for said State. And I, the said Notary, do hereby certify that the said Thomas Farnham is a credible witness. -
  In testimony whereof I have hereunto
subscribed my name and affixed my Seal of Office at the time and place above written.
   [Signed]  James Albert Hovey,
               Notary Public
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              State of Connecticut  Js.
                      Secretary's Office
 Hartford, May 15, 1837.
   I, Royal R, Hinman, Secretary of said State of Connecticut do hereby certify, that James Albert Hovey of Hampton, in Windham County, is now, and for more than six months past has been a Notary Public, duly commissioned & sworn, and is by the laws of the State authorized & empowered to administer oath, take depositions etc. within the State.  And I further certify that the signatures here unto annexed, purporting to be his are genuine -

    In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the public Seal of said State at the time and place above written.
   [Signed]  Royal R. Hinman  Secretary

[Two seals are affixed to the left side of this document]
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State of New York
Chenango County} Js
      On tis thirteenth day of May
1854, personally appeared in open court before the County Court of the said County of Chenango, now sitting at Oxford in said County of Chenango present Roswell Judson County Judge .John Perry a resident of Oxford in the County of Chenango and State of New York aged seventy three years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed July 7, 1838, and the subsequent acts of Congress, amending or in addition to the same.  that he is the only surviving child of Dorcas Taylor, who was pensioned about the month of July 1837, under the act of July 4, 1836. a the rate of forty four dollars per year for the services of her first husband Levi Farnham, that Ebenezer Perry, the father of the deponent was the second husband of the said Dorcus Taylor, that as deponent has always understood in the family and believes true, the said Ebenezer Perry was a soldier of the Revolution and in service as a corporal and afterwards as a Sergeant for about two years, that the said Ebenezer Perry resided in the town or Windham in the State of Massachusetts during the Revolution, and was married to said Dorcas Taylor then Dorcas Farnham, as deponent is informed and believes true on the sixth day of April, 1780, that the Revolutionary services of said Ebenezer Perry were rendered prior to said marriage, that the said Dorcas Taylor died at the house of deponent at Oxford aforesaid on the (date forgot) day of January or February in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight 
This deponent further saith that he makes this
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declaration to obtain in addition to said pension of forty four dollars the amount due the said Dorcas Taylor at her death for the Revolutionary services of the aforesaid Ebenezer Perry
Subscribed and sworn to the 
day and year aforesaid by
the said John Perry who is
well known to this Court and
who is a credible person.}     John Perry
   [Signed}
         Roswell Judson
          County Judge of Chenango County

State of New York
Chenango County } Js       The above named John Perry being further sworn at a County Court held at Oxford aforesaid, Present, said Court Judge, on the twenty sixth day of December in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty four deposeth and saith that the said Dorcas Taylor, the mother of deponent, died at his house in January or February, 1838,that he made no record of the time of her death, and can not state with accuracy whether she died in January or February, but he believes that she died on or about the twenty eighth day of January 1838; that soon after her death he made proof thereof in Court and the certificate thereof was left at the office of the Pension agent of Albany on drawing the balance of the pension due to her at the time of her death.  He refers to the returns made from the Pension office at Albany to the Pension office at Washington, for proof of the precise time of her death, that deponent was present at the death of hi father Ebenezer Perry, who died at Willington in the State of Connecticut; that he well recollects of hearing his father talk about his Revolutionary services, and that he lived in the Society of Hampton in the town  of Windham
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in the State of COnnecticut, as deponent has been informed by is mother and other members of his family and believes true.  that he is the only child now surviving of the said Dorcas Taylor.
   ]Signed]  John Perry
Subscribed and sworn to
in open court the day and 
year last aforesaid,
        [Signed]  Roswell Judson
               County Judge of Chenango County

State of New York
Chenango County} Js      Lydia Ann [last word inserted] Allen being duly sworn in open court before the court aforesaid, on the twenty sixth day of December 1854, saith that she is thirty one years of age and resides in Oxford in said County of Chenango, and that she was present at the death of Dorcas Taylor who died at the house of John Perry in said Oxford on February 1838, but she does not recollect the precise day of her death, that she was acquainted with said Dorcas Taylor for some years previous to her death and had resided with said John Perry and had been a member of his family for some years previous to her death, that she always understood in the family of the said John Perry and believes true that the said John Perry is the only surviving child of the said Dorcas Taylor deceased.  that she believes that she can state with certainty that the said Dorcas Taylor did not die before the seventeenth day of January 1838.
  [Signed]  Lydia Ann Allen
Subscribed and sworn to before
me the day and year aforesaid,
and I certify that the said Lydia Ann Allen is a credible person.
   [Signed]  Roswell Judson
     County Judge of Chenango County
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State of New York
Chenango County} Js.   On this twenty sixth day of December, 1854, personally appeared before me in open court aforesaid Lydia Perry, who being by me duly sworn says that she is sixty three years of age and is the wife of John Perry above named and resides in Oxford aforesaid, that she was well acquainted with Dorcas Taylor, the mother of said John Perry, and that she was present at her death in January or February 1838, but that she can not recollect the precise day of her death, but that she did not die previous to the sixteenth day of January 1838.  that she left her surviving said John Perry her only child, that she always understood in the family and believes true that Ebenezer Perry who was the second husband of the said Dorcas Taylor was as soldier in the Revolution
   [Signed]  Lydia Perry
Subscribed and sworn to
before me in open Court the 
day and year aforesaid, and I
certify that the said Lydia Perry
is a credible person.
          [Signed]  Roswell Judson
               County Judge of Chenango County
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State of New York
Chenango County}  Js     I, Roswell Judson, County Judge of said County hereby certify that at the Court aforesaid, it satisfactorily appeared to said Court by the examination of said John Perry as well as said Lydia Perry, that Dorcas Taylor who was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States died in Oxford in said County of Chenango in January or February 1838, and not before the seventeenth day of January of that year, leaving said John Perry her only surviving child.  That he is satisfied from the examination of said John Perry that his father Ebenezer Perry is the same person referred to in the Certificate of the Comptroller of Connecticut dated February 24th 1846, and that he was a corporal and sergeant in the Revolution from the town of Windham.  I further certify that I have been for many years acquainted withe the said John Perry and that he s a credible person
   [Signed]  Roswell Judson
                  County Judge

Chenango  County Js   I Horace S. Read Clerk of said County and of said County Court hereby certify that the above proceedings were had in said Court and that the signature of Roswell Judson County Judge thereto is genuine.

In witness whereof I shall here unto set 
my hand and the seal of said Court 
this twenty seventh day of December in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty four.
   [Signed]  Horace S. Read                      
                  Clerk of Chenango County and
                            of said County Court.

[NOTE: A stamp appears on the left of this last paragraph]
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                                           May 10, 1939,

                                         BA-J/CC
                                         Levi Farnam or Farnham
                                         W.16752
Mr. Charles W. Farnham
24 George Street
Providence, Rhode Island.

Dear Sir:

 Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Levi Farnham, who married Dorcas Moulton, who later married Daniel (?) Taylor and resided in New York.

The record of Levi Farnam (also spelled Farnham) follows as shown on file in the claim for pension W.16752, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War and that also of Thomas Taylor as shown in pension claim S.46202, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.

Date and place of birth of Levi Farnam, and names of his parents are not shown. His mother was living during the Revolutionary War.
Levi Farnam married in the fall of a774, Dorcas Moulton. At the time of his marriage he resided in Windham (later Hampton) Connecticut.

While residing in Windham, Connecticut, he enlisted in December, 1775, served as corporal and orderly sergeant in Captain Trowbridge's company, Colonel Jedediah Huntington's Connecticut regiment; on August 27, 1776, he was taken prisoner by the British and was placed on board the prison ship "Jersey", and held until sometime in December 1776, when he was placed on another vessel to be exchanged but before being exchanged he died, date of death December 25, 1776.  His age is not stated.

His widow, Dorcas, married April 6, 1780, Ebenezer Perry.  He was then of Windham, Connecticut, and she of South Brimfield (later Wales), Massachusetts. It was stated that Ebenezer Perry served two years as corporal and sergeant in the Connecticut
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Troops.  There is no claim for pension on file on account of the services of the above named Ebenezer Perry.

Ebenezer Perry died March 20,1787, at Willington or Wellington, Connecticut, and his widow Dorcas, married in the spring of 1789 or 1799 (both dates appear in the claim), in Wellington or Willington, Thomas Taylor, who died in Richland, New York, November 25, 1826.

Dorcas Taylor was allowed pension on account of the services of her former husband, Levi Farnam, on her application executed July 11, 1837, at which time she was aged eighty-six years and resided in Chenango County, New York.

She died January 28, 1838, at the home of her son, John Perry and his wife, Lydia, in Oxford, Chenango County, New York.

It was stated that she had children by her marriage with Levi Farnam, no names are given  In 1854, John Perry, them aged seventy-three years and a resident of Oxford, New York, stated that he was the sole surviving child of Dorcas Taylor. No other names of children by Ebenezer Perry are given and no names of children by Thomas Taylor.  Said Thomas Taylor had children by a previous marriage, name of his first wife not stated, nor names of children designated.  One Ira Taylor was a resident of Richland, Oswego County, New York in 1837, and stated that he was present at the funeral of this Thomas Taylor; no relationship shown.

In 1837, Thomas Farnham was a resident of Hampton, Windham County, Connecticut and aged eighty-two years.  He was the brother of Levi Farnham and served with him in the Revolutionary War.

One Abiel Farnam was referred to in 1776, his relationship to Levi is not stated.

In 1854, one Lydia Ann Allen was a resident of 
Oxford, New York and aged thirty-one years.  Relationship to the family not stated.
*********************

Thomas Taylor   S.46202.

It is shown in the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S.46202, that Thomas Taylor, 2nd, was at the battle of Bunker Hill, no further details of that service given.
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              Thomas Taylor enlisted at Union, Connecticut, about May 20, 1777, served as private to Captain Thomas Abbe's company, Colonel Samuel Wyllys' Connecticut Regiment, was in a "Number of skirmishes" and was discharged in May 1780.

   He was allowed pension on his application executed April 10, 1818, at which time he was aged seventy-two years and resided in Rich land, Oswego County, New York.
  
                                  Very truly yours

                                      A.D. HILLER
                                      Executive Assistant
                                      to the Administrator.
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                                  To
Mr.
    Levi Farnam
             in
     So:h Brimfield
      with Care
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Loving wife I take this opportunity to let you know that I am well and in good health at presnt through DIvine Goodness and hope these times will find you and all my friends  the same.  I have nothing strange to write but our people have set upon Dorchester hill and got well fortified they right [word inserted] on the Depoint ]?] Left Saturday Night to intrench and was fired upon and killed four the first shot and that was all that was killed or wounded  the Regulars seem to be in a moveing [sic] posture and tis Generally thought they are a going of they have brought all the cannon of Bunkers hill if they go of [off?] our Regiment Expects to go to New London  I cant send you no money left now for I hant took no wages Sense I came down but I expect to take some Money in a few Days if our Ridgement goes to New London  I shall be at home sooner then I talk'd of you neednt Send my Great Coat Down for I Can Do without till I Come home
I could not get No trimming for it when uncle fred Moulton was Down for I Did but [illegible]
See him and had not time So you need not trouble yourSelf about it   My pen is poor and I am in a great hurry  So you must Excuse My writing
So No more at present but I remain your ever Loving Husband
             [Signed] Levi Farnam 
Remember my love to all friends tell them I hope to see them before Long I would have
Send me a letter as Soon as you can
Dated Roxbury March 11th Day 1776
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FARNUM, LEVI
(CONT., CONN.)
   W - 16752


                                                  To
    Mr
          Levi Farnam
                at
        So:th  Brimfield
              with Care
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New York  May 13th  1776
Loving wife I write these few lines to Let you know that I am well through Gods Goodness and hope these lines will find you and all friends  I have nothing strange to write at present  I wrote a Letter Dated May 10th and Sent it By Abial Farnam to Canada and Sent a pound of tea with it and wrote to mother to keep it Safe for you and if she had a good opportunity to Send it along with the Letter and if not to keep it Safe till you could get it. So I wrote this letter because I had a chance to Send it Direct to the union and thought it might likely get to you before tother that you might know Certain where your tea was   I would ave you write to me every opportunity  So No move at Present but I remain your Constant Loving and effectinate [sic] husband
          [Signed] Levi Farnam
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     Rev   WIDOW, etc.

File No.  16,752
   Dorcas Taylor
Former Wid of
Levi Farnham
    Corpl. Rev War

Act:  July 4th, '/36
Index:- Vol.  M,  Page 264
  [Arrangement of 1870.]
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                   Sept. 1 '99
Mrs. M F Webster
Galesbury Ills
  Mch 24, 1904 to above, date of soldier's
death & particulars of service

1931 - Mar. 30 - Hist
to Helen R. Lukens
Letter in case Thos.
Taylor S. 46202 EEL

1939 - May 10 - Hist to
Chas. W. Farnham   cc
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State of New York
Oswego County, Js}

On this 3d day of July, 1837, before me one one  [sic] of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County personally appeared Ira Taylor of Richland in said County who being sworn says that he was well acquainted with Thomas Taylor, the husband of Dorcas Taylor who now resides in Oxford in said state as he is informed and verily believes - That said Thomas Taylor was a Revolutionary Pensioner and died at Richland aforesaid on the 25th day of November eighteen hundred and twenty-six (1826) and that he the said Ira Taylor was at his funeral
                               [Signed]  Ira Taylor
Sworn to & subscribed this 3d day
of July 1837, before me - And I certify
that said Ira Taylor is a credible person and his statement entitled to credit. 
        [Signed]   Hiram Hubbell Judge

State of New York
Oswego County, Js}    I Marinus W. Matthews Clerk of said County do hereby Certify that Hiram Hubbell whose name is above subscribed was on the 3d day of July instant a Judge of the County Courts in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn as such. And further that I am acquainted with the hand writing of said Judge and believe his signature above is genuine.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said County this 7th day of July 1837.
  [Signed]  Marinus W. Mathews Clerk


of July 1837, before me - and I certify
that the said Ira Taylor is a credible person and his statement entitlted to credit.
   [Signed]   Hirma Hubbell   Judge
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                        2299.
Dorcas Taylor
formerly widow
of Levi Farnham


admd
12 mo. Corpl.
     44 PA

No deduction - died Decr
'76- 


H.R. Mygatt Esq
                       Oxford
                          N.Y.
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State of New York
Chenango County} Js     On this eleventh day of July personally appeared before John Tracy, a Judge of the Court of the Correction of Errors of the State of New York, John Perry of Oxford in said County of Chenango, who being duly sworn says he is 56 years of age  That he is the son of Ebenezer Perry and Dorcas his wife, and that the deponents father Ebenezer Perry, died at Wellington in the State of Connecticut on the 20th March one thousand seven hundred & eighty seven, and that deponent was present at the time of said fathers death.
              And deponent further saith that his mother Dorcas, after his fathers death and as deponent believes, was married at Wellington, in the State of Connecticut by Elder Lillybridge of the Baptist Church to Thomas Taylor in the spring of seventeen hundred & eighty nine (1789) and that they lived together several years they were married more than 21 years and in May or June 1816 said Thomas Taylor left his wife Dorcas and deponents mother at deponents house in Oxford aforesaid, and Thomas Taylor at that time said he was going to Cortland in Oswego Cunty, in this State, where he had children living by a former wife.   And that said Thomas Taylor never afterward returned to live with his said wife Dorcas.  That his said wife has resided and lived with deponent more than 24 years last past, [last two words inserted]  That it is reported and deponent believes true that said Thomas Taylor died at
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married since the death of her said husband
Thomas Taylor. And she was a widow on the 4th July 1836, and she still remains a widow.
                              [Signed]   John Perry
Sworn to and subscribed
on the day and ear
above written before me,
and I certify that I
am well acquainted
with said John Perry,
that he is a credible
man and his state-
ment entitled to credit

   [Signed]   John Tracy  Judge of
the Court for the Correction of
Errors State of New York
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State of New York
Chenango County} Js
   I, Perez Randall, Clerk of said County of Chenango hereby certify that, John Tracy is the the Lieutenant General of the State of New York and a Judge of the Court for the Correction of Errors of said State and that the signatures above purporting to be his are genuine.
                             In testimony whereof I
                             have hereunto affixed
                             my hand and the seal of
Seal                      office July the eleventh
affixed                  in the year one thousand
here                      eight hundred and 
                             thirty seven.
                     [Signed]  P Randall Clerk
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State of Connecticut
County of Windham} Js  Windham  April 27, 1837
   I hereby certify that I have examined the records of marriage for the town of Windham  
State of Connecticut
County of Windham

State of Connecticut
County of Windham}  Js  Windham April 27, 1837

   I hereby certify that I have examined the records of marriage for the town of Windham (of which Hampton was a part until after the Revolutionary War) and do not find therein the marriage of Levi Farnham.
  {Signed]  Thomas Gray Town Clerk of sd
                         town of Windham
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State of Connecticut Windham County Js
    Hampton April 27, 1837

I, James A. Hovey, Notary Public within and for said State do certify that on the said 27th day of April, Thomas Gray formally appeared before me and made solemn oath to the truth of the within certificate by him subscribed : and I the said Notary further certify that the said Thomas Gray is now and for six months past has been Town Clerk of the town of Windham within named and keeper of the records thereof  & is a credible witness.   In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of my said Office on the day & year above written.
              [Signed}  James A. Hovey
                                Notary Pub
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Oxford, Chenango Co  NYork  July 11, 1837
  Sir, 
I send declaration etc. of Dorcas Taylor for a pension,. She claims a pension for the service of her l1st husband Levi Farnham.
    Their marriage is proved by her declaration and the affidavit of Thomas Farnham to have taken place before the Revolution; The town clerk certifies that there is no record, and the 2 letters sent to her during the war form strong proof of marriage.
    The service from Decr. 1775 to his death Decr 125, 1776 id proved by Levi Farnham, and the deceased husbands letters show service. As he belonged to a Continental regiment I suppose you will find his name on the rolls. Thomas Farnham says he served as a Corporal and the widow thinks he served as a Corporal until May 1776 and the remainder of his term as Sergeant (orderly)   Do not the rolls of Col Huntingtons regiment show what office he held and the time,
               Levi Farnhams death is proved by her  [illegible] and Thomas Farnham    The second husbands death (Ebenezer Perry) id proved by John Perry. The last husband
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Thomas Taylor death is proved by Ira Taylor.
                    That she was a widow on the
4th July 1838 and has not since remarried
is proved by John Perry.
                           You will address me at the 
place above dated.
                                  Very Respec Yours
                           [Signed]  Henry R. Mygatt


J.L. Edwards Esq
              Comr Pensions
                        Washington City
                                      D.C.
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County Ct
              July 7th
                     1846


Henry R. Mygatt Esq
   Oxford
          N.Y.
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                              Comptrollers Office,  Connecticut
February 24   ..46

On application for evidence of the service of Ebenezer Perry in the war of the Revolution in addition to what I certified Jan 6, five months & seven days as corporal in Capt Abijah Browleys Coat '75 in Boston, I find a paper headed "An Alphabetical record of the names of those who have received supplies from Town their value, at the stated price of 1776, and the value of the money lodged [?] by the soldiers together with name of the Town to which they belonged", containing the following -
Names, Perry Ebenezer Sergt [last word inserted], Town Windham, Supplies to Family. L20-10 money  lodged 4-10-7-
Ian Haskell under head of Family supplies is a corresponding entry, stating that the Bal  15-19-5 paid by the State. No roll is found in this office showing the length of service Ebenezer Perry as Sergt, but from the amount of family supplies furnished it must have been no doubt all of one year and probably more -
  [Signed]  A Carrington, Comptroller
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Sir
    I send you an other certificate in the case of Ebenezer Perry, his service in 75 being 5 months & 7 days not sufficient for a pension, how long Mr Perry served as a sergt our Books do show, but that he so served there is no doubt.   I hope the Conn mission will not refuse the claim - there is service sufficient  for a pension - and hope the widow will get one or she ought - I have  spent about three days since I sent you the first certificate in searching for this last service
                                 Respectfully
                    [Signed]       A Carrington, Comptl

You state in your letter Mr Perry enlisted from the Town of Hampton, there is now a Town by that name, but in 1782 there was no such Town.  Mr. Perry is stated to have received family supplies from the Town of Windham. Windham and Hampton are adjoining Towns, and were I believe formerly one Town.  if you have said in your declaration any thing respecting his enlisting from Hampton, and his supplies being from Windham, there will be an  apparent contradiction   this however can be closed up by stating that what is now Hampton was formerly Windham - or a part of it -
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County Ct
   Jany 6, '46

Henry R Mygatt Esq
                     Oxford
                         N.Y.
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                Comptrollers Office, Connecticut    
                         Hartford   January 6 - 1846}

On application for evidence of the service of Ebenezer Perry in the war of the revolution I certify that I have examined the documents in this office relating to that war and find a paper headed "A Pay Roll of the 6th company, 8th Regiment raised per order of Genl Assembly Connt 1775 "  whereof Abijah Browley is entered as Capt. containing the name of Ebenezer Perry the entry is there
Ebenezer Perry Corporal, Time enlisted,  July 8th - Time discharged, December 15 - months & days in service: 5 months & 7 days -
     [Signed] A. Carrington, Comptroller
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Dear Sir
       Since writing you I have succeeded in finding 5 months and & days service of Ebenezer Perry. I regret it is not more, but this is all I do find.  Perhaps by petitioning Congress with a statement that Mr Perry did more service but it cannot be found in this office as small pension may be granted - it the service found [last three words inserted] lacks but 23 days of  6 months which ought to be allowed the family. Should anything more be found, which I think will not, I will inform you.
                     Respectfully yours
              [Signed] A Carrington, Compl
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                     Oxford, Chenango Co.  N.Y.
                                   Feb'y. 3, 1855.

Sir
             Within I send declaration of John Perry for the pension due him as the surviving child of Dorcas Taylor who was pensioned on or about July 1837, under the act of July 4, 1836, at the rate of $44 per year for the services of her first husband Levi Farnham.
   Ebenezer Perry the second husband of said Dorcas Taylor was the father of the applicant, and you will read in the witness papers that said Ebenezer Perry was married to said Dorcas on the 6th of April  1780, and that prior to said marriage said Ebenezer Parry was both a corporal and sergeant in the Revolution  That he was a Corporal for 5 months and 7 days in 1775, and in and about 1776, one year services as Sergeant.
  You will please in due time send me a Certificate for such amount as you may find just having regard to the former pension
                   I have the honor to be
                                   Your obt. Servt
              [Signed]  Henry R Mygatt

S. P. Waldo Esq
   Comr. of Pensions
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                                         2299     July 17
Dorcas Taylor
Levi Farnham        OXFORD        N.Y.
                                 JULY             4 July 36
                                   12                    3d Sec.
                                   NY


    Chenango Co
               N.Y.


[NOTE: This appears to be an addressed envelope.]

                      FREE
      L. Edwards
           Commissioner of Pensions
                 War Department
              Washington City
                               D.C.  


H.R. Mygatt
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         Oxford, Chenengo Co.  NY,  Oct 17, 1845
Sir,
    Levi Farnham died whilst a prisoner during the Revolution. His widow Dorcas Taylor was pensioned in August 1837 and has since died.
    The children of Levi Farnham have been recently informed that they are entitled to a seven years half pension for their fathers services inasmuch as he died in service.
     Are they correctly informed? And if so will you please send me the form to procure said pension for them.
                 I am
                   Your obt Sevt
          [Signed]    Henry R, Mygatt


J.L. Edwards
                  Comr. of Pensions.
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                                                       OWth
                                                            EOL

                          284. North Academy Street
Galisbury Illinois.                   [Stamp]
March 14"  1899                   PENSION
                                                 MAR
                                                   16
                                                 1899
                                                OFFICE

Hon. H. Clay Evans
Pension Dept. Washington D.C.
                                                Dear Sir:-
                                                   Will you
kindly look up the records concerning Levi Farnham of the army of the Revolution?
   He served during the first part of the Revolutionary war.
  He is supposed to have belonged to the Massachusetts troops, although I do not know where he enlisted.
He was my great-grandfather. I [illegible word]  for your information from a written statement left by his son,
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my grandfather - who named Levi - as follows: ".... my father, who served in the first part of the Revolutionary war. in the years of 1775-76, and was taken prisoner, at the battle on Long Island, and thus taken to New York, and died in consequence of starvation. My mother drew  pension on his service, a few of the last years of her life.
    My fathers name was written I suppose, in those days, Levi Farnam.  I suppose he belonged to the Massachusetts line of troops;   his name can probably be found in the records."
    I would suggest that, if you cannot find him on the records of Massachusetts, you might [word inserted] look for him in Connecticut, as I have always supposed that my great -
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grandmother emigrated from Connecticut to New York.   That however is simply a belief.

I have always known {last word underlined] that my great-grandfather was a Revolutionary soldier, and have always supposed that he was an officer in that army. But I have no other means of proving my claim than the statement of my grandfather, as above quoted.
This lack of evidence is owing to the fact that my grandfathers family was broken up and scattered when his children were quite young, owning to the death of their mother, and his own enlistment and disablement in the war of 1812.

I now desire to establish my great-grandfathers identity, and to thereby establish my right to become a member of the D.A.R.
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Will you therefore kindly look up the matter at once, and inform me of any facts which will be of interest to me, or which will help to establish my claims.
   Thanking you in advance for any service which you may render me in the line of your official duties, I am,
                 Yours very truly,
  [Signed   (Mrs. CA)   Martha Farnham Webster

 [A partially legible rectangular stamp follows]  
                          MAR 18 1899
                                FILES
[Round in-take stamp]
         PENSION
             MAR
    U.        16       S.
             1899
            OFFICE
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                               WTN
Commissioner of Pensions
       Washington  D.C.
    Dear Sir:-  
    Will you kindly examine the records of your department to ascertain if possible the date of birth [underlined] and death [word underlined] of Corporal Levi Farnham, or Farnam [word underlined], of the Connt troops.

Under date of September 1" 1844 I received the following information from you office:-
"In response to your recent communication you are advised
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that Dorcas Taylor former widow of Levi Farnham made an application for pension on July 11- 1837, at which time she was 86 years of age and residing at Oxford, New York, and her pension was allowed for the actual service of her husband (Levi Farnham) as a corporal in the Conn. troops Revolutionary war for a period of one year. He enlisted at Windham Conn. and served under Capt. Trowbridge and Col. Huntington"



[A Pension office intake stamp dated Mar 12 1904 appears on the latter part of the above  paragraph.]
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Would not the date of his birth and the approximate date of his death be necessary to the securing of her pension?
The actual date of his death could probably not be given as he was one of the victims of starvation on board the prison ships after the battle of Long Island August 27- 1776.
I have proof of his service in the "Record of Service of Connecticut men in the War of the Revolution" but the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution requires the dates [word underlined] of birth


[A Pension Office intake stamp is placed on the above document, dated Mar 12 1904]
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and date of ancestor.
A certificate of membership in the organization was granted to me, but now three years afterward, they reject the application of a relative with exactly the same record, because dates of birth and death of ancestor are lacking!
  Hoping that you may be able to secure for me the desired information, I am
     Yours very truly.
   {Signed] (Mrs)  Martha Farnham Webster
                  284. North Academy Street
                          Galisbury Illinois
March 9- 1904
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                                          3-871.

RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.

Briefed NO ..............................................
Claim No ..................................................
Certificate No..........................................
Claimant ..................................................
Soldier   Ebenezer Perry 
Service ......................................................
Additional Service ...............................
No..... claim, State records .......... 191....
No claim, combination records ......191....
                  REMARKS
nO sURV. OR rEJD.
CLAIM BASED ON
SERVICE OF ABOVE
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          stamp gone 
          when   rec., in rev.
 

                                    Providence, R. I.
                                    March 17, 1939

Pension Department
Veterans' Administration
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sirs:-
   If your records are indexed so that this inquiry can easily be answered I would be grateful for information which may clear up a mystery in my family.
    Levi Farnham, or Farnam, or Farnum, son of Zedediah and Mary Farnham of Windham co., Conn., born aug,13,1747-8, served in the Revolutionary was as orderly sergeant and corporal under Capt. Trowbridge and Col. Jedediah Huntington.  He was captured at the Battle of Long Island Aug. 27, 1776, was confined in the prison ship "Jersey" and afterward transferred to another where he died of starvation while awaiting exchange.

   He married Dorcas Moulton of Brimfield, Mass., who later married Daniel (?) Taylor and resided somewhere in New York State.

  Do your records show that a pension was granted to Levi Farnham's widow after his death, and if so does it give her place of residence, either in Connecticut or New York state ?  I have felt that your records alone may hold the clue to her whereabouts after the death of Levi.
  Thanking you very much for the courtesy, I remain
                    Sincerely yours
          [Signed]       Charles W. Farnham

24 George St.
Providence, R.I.
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                       See Case of Thomas Taylor
                                              S 46202

                                           March 20, 1921

                                      Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
                                       KEL
Helen R. Lukens
437 West Price Street , Germantown
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Dear Madam:

    You are advised that it appears in the Revolutionary War pension Claim, W. 16752, that Levi Farnam (the name also appears as Farnham) married in the fall of 1774, Dorcas Moulton.   At the time of his marriage he resided in Windham (later Hampton), Connecticut.  His mother was living during the Revolutionary War, names of his parents not stated.

   While residing at Windham, Connecticut, he enlisted in December, 1775, served as a corporal and orderly sergeant in Captain Trowbridge's Company, Colonel Jedediah Huntington's Continental Regiment; on August 27, 1776, he was taken prisoner by the British, was placed on board the prison ship "Jersey", and was held until sometime in December, 1776 but before being exchanged he died, date of death, December 25, 1776.  His age is not stated.

   His widow, Dorcas, married April 6, 1780, Ebenezer Perry. He was then of Windham, Connecticut, and she of South Brimfield (later Wales), Massachusetts. It was stated that Ebenezer Perry served two years as a corporal and Sergeant in the Connecticut Troops. There is no claim for pension on file on account of the services of the above named Ebenezer Perry.

  Ebenezer Perry died March 20, 1787, at Willington or Wellington, Connecticut, and his widow Dorcas, married in the spring of  1789 or 1790 (both dates appear in the claim), in Willington or Wellington {last three words inserted] Thomas Taylor, who died at Richland, New York, November 25, 1826.

Dorcas Taylor was allowed pension on account of the services of
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her former husband, Levi Farnham, as her application executed July 11, 1837, at which time she was eighty-six years and resided in Chenango County, New York.

   She died January 28, 1838, at the home of her son, John Perry and his wife, Lydia, in Oxford, Chenango County, New York.

    It was stated that she had children by her marriage with Levi Farnham, no names were given.  In 1854, John Perry, then aged seventy three years and a resident of Oxford, New York, stated that he was the sole surviving child of Dorcas Taylor. No other names of children by Ebenezer Perry are given, and no names of children by Thomas Taylor.   Said Thomas Taylor had children by a previous marriage, name of his first wife and children not stated, nor names of children designated. One Ira Taylor was a res. of Richland, Oswego Co N.Y. in 1837, and stated that he was present at the funeral of this T.T.; no relationship shown - In 1837, Thos. Farnham was a res. of Hampton, Windham Co, Conn and aged 82 yrs. He was the brother of Levi Farnham & res. with him until Rev war -

    It appears from the papers in the Revolutionary war pension claim, S.46202, that Thomas Taylor, 2nd, was at the battle of Bunker Hill, no further details of that service given.

    He enlisted at Union, Connecticut, about May 20, 1777, served as a private in Captain Thomas Abbe's Company, Samuel Wyllys' Connecticut Regiment, was in a "number of skirmishes" and was discharged on May, 1780.

   He was allowed pension on his application executed April 10, 1818. at which time he was aged seventy-two years and resided in Richland, Oswego County, New York.

     The above is the history of the only soldier named Thomas Taylor, who served with the Connecticut Troops (and died in Oswego County, New York, as stated in the pension claim of his widow, Dorcas)  found on the Revolutionary Was records of this bureau and said records fail to show a claim for pension on file on account of the services of Alexander Valentine or Phineas Barnes or Barns.

                  Very truly yours,


                  S.S. MORGAN
                 Acting Commissioner.

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