Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File [Blank], for David Squire, Connecticut
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(3-1776)
Service   Number
√  Squire, David   Dic.
No Papers
Conn Agency
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NorthHaven, Conn.
June 19th, 1934     June 21  1934
U. S. Dept. of Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen:
I am interested in knowing if you have any record of one David Squire who was baptised in Durham, Conn. Feb. 18, 1738/9, and who was pensioned in Machester, Conn. in 1781.
He married Huldah Bishop of Durham, Conn. Feb. 9, 1761.
In addition to the war record, if any, I would like to know if a pension was paid to the widow, and where.
Alao in regard to Abithar Squire, born Nov. 15, 1740, served in the war of Revolution Co. Baker, date of enlistment may 5, 1777 Married Mary Dudley Mar. 9, 1763 in Durham, Conn. Where did he receive a pension, and if his wife survived him, where she received a pension and where she died, or where the pension was last paid to them.
Yours truly,
Mabel E. Squire
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Mabel E. Squire            DAVID SQUIRE
North Haven
Connecticut
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the record of David Squire who was baptized in Durham, Connecticut, in 1738 or 1739, married in 1761, Huldah Bishop, of Durham, Connecticut, and was pensioned in Machester, Connecticut, in 1781, also, that of Abithar Squire who was born in 1740, married in 1763, in Durham, Connecticut, Mary Dudley.
There is no claim for pension or bounty land on file based upon service of an Abithar Squire (under any spelling) as described by you.
In a report of the Secretary of War, printed in 1835, in regard to the military establishment, the name of one David Squire is borne on the list of invalid pensioners who had been in receipt of pensions at the Connecticut agency, but whose residence could not be ascertained in consequence of the destruction of papers when the War Office was burned in 1800. He is recorded in that  report as having served as sergeant in the Revolutionary Army, received pension of $60 per annum, from March 4, 1789, under the Act of June 7, 1785, and died in 1795.
This office has no further information in regard to that soldier because of the destruction of papers, as stated above, in such early applications.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Admin istrator