Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 5277, Asa Foster, Conn. New York
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SERVICE
Conn.
New York

Foster, Asa
Sarah

NUMBER 
W. 5277
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Ohio Rolls.
1902

Asa Foster,
Private
Connecticut line, 3 years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 21st of April 1818

Certificate of Passion issued the 30 of June 1818, and sent to Jno [Jonathan] Lee Williams, Esq. Cinicnnati, Ohio.

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818.
[crossed out, illegible]
4 months 14/30.  $35.73.

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}

Hamilton Co. Ohio
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Notification sent November 9 1826 to Samuel F. Hunt Cincinnati, Ohio
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5504
Ohio Cincinnati
Sarah Foster, [illegible]
Widow of Asa Foster
Conn
who served in the Revolutionary war as a private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars [crossed out:  Cents] per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
endg [ending] 28th July 1849
Certificate of Pension issued the 27th day of August 1850
and sent to 
E. Easton Esq
Cincinnati  Ohio

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 342 Vol. 4
Hannah Allen, Mary Barlow
Chloe H. Cortelyou and Edward Foster, only surviving children.
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State of Ohio
Hamilton County}  Ss
Asa Foster being duly sworn deposeth & saith that he enlisted into the service of the United States about April 1776 in a company commanded by Capt. David Pierson in a Regiment commanded by Col. Drake and was discharged at the expiration of six months.  About the beginning of the year 1777 he again enlisted for during the War into a company commanded by Capt. Samuel Hoit [written above:  Hoyt], 5th Connecticut Regiment Col. Bradley, but his enlistment having been [illegible] at Danbury when the town was burnt, he was returned for three years, but served seven months, after the three years expired, was discharged about Sept. 1780 that his honorable discharge was signed by Col. Swift of the Connecticut Light Infantry.  That his Discharge together with a Corporals warrant were lost many years ago he does not know in what manner but that he never made sale of the same.  And further he saith that he served as a Volunteer about three months after he was discharged from the regular Army.  He further declares under Oath that from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his Country for support.

Asa Foster
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Sworn and Subscribed too before me one of the Associates Judges of Hamilton County and State of Ohio.
William Burke Associate Judge
Cincinnati
21st April 1818}

Connecticut line

This is to Certify that from the best information that I am able to Collect the within named Asa Foster is in Such Reduced Circumstances that he Requires the aid of his Country.

William Burke Asst [Associate] Judge for H.C.
Cincinnati Ohio
April 21, 1818--}

The State of Ohio
Hamilton County Ss}
I, John S. Gano Clark of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Hamilton aforesaid do hereby certify that the Honorable William Burke before whom the within Deposition was taken and whos [whose] certificate is thereto attached is and was at that time one of the associate Judges for the County of Hamilton in the seventh circuit of the State of Ohio duly elected, Commissioned and sworn into office all of which appears of Record in m office and that full faith & credit are due and ought to be given to all his official acts as such as well within all Courts of Record as thereout
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of our said Court at Cincinnati this 22nd day of April AD 1818
John S. Gano  Clerk
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160.
Asa Foster
1902
30. June, 1818

Sep '18
[illegible]

Samuel F. Hunt, 
Cincinnati, Ohio

Clerks fees $2.40
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I Daniel Gano, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton County in the State of Ohio, do hereby Certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly Copied from the Records of the said Court; And I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is Ninety dollars and [crossed out:  thirty seven] twelve and a half cents
In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and affixed the seal of our said Court this 14th day of September 1820

Dan'l [Daniel] Gano  Clerk
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State of Ohio,
Ham. Comm. Pleas [Hamilton Common Pleas]}Ss
Expressly made so by the laws of this State
On this 30th day of August 1820 personally appeared open court, being a court of record for the said County Asa Foster aged Sixty two years resident in said County--who, being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the revolutionary war, as follows, that he the said Asa Foster enlisted for the term of three years on the 16th day [crossed out:  month] of April in the year 1777 in the state of Connecticut in the company commanded by Captain Sam Hoyt in the regiment commanded by Colonel P.B. Bradley in the line of the state of Connecticut on the continental establishment.  That he continued to serve in the said corps until the year 1780 when he was discharged from the said service in the State of New York [crossed out:  in the state of]  that his original declaration was dated on the 21st day of April 1818 that he has received a pension certificate, given at the Warn Office of the United States on the 30th day of June 1818 which said certificate is numbered 1902  And in pursuance of the act of the 1st May, 1820, I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, one thousand eigh hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by givt, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not, nor has any person, in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is containd in the schedule [struck through, illegible] by me subscribed.  And I further declare under oath that I am a Farmer by occupation that I have a wife who is sixty years of age who is of an infirm and sickly Constitution.  I am disabled by a dangerous rupture in the groin which prevents me from earning any part of my living by labour.  For the greater part of the time I am totally disabled and can do no work at all at other times I can labour for half an hour at a time but in no kind of work unless I can keep an erect posture.  This disability afflicts me very much in riding on horseback.  I declare that I am unable to earn a living by my industry.  For my support I am greatly indebted to my Son in Law and Brother, who are neighbours of mine.  They collect my firewood for me and till my Corn and in other respects materially assist me.  I solemnly declare under oath that I am unable from age and bodily infirmity to maintain myself and that I need the assistance of my Country.
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for support and further I declare not

Asa Foster

Sworn to and subscribed this 30th day of August 1820 in open Court
Danl [Daniel] Gano Clk [Clerk]

Schedule of Property belonging to Asa Foster, a Ud [United] States Pensioner on the Ohio agency made sworn to and subscribed this 30th day of August 1820 namely
I own 1/8 acre of land purchased March 1816 on which there is a small log house and small barn:  for this I contracted to give this sum $60.00
1 Single Cow--                        7.00
4 Swine--                                3.00
2.3 of an acre [crossed out:  of barn] and half of barn in the fields--              5.00
2 old Chairs $1.50 and table of $.75 and Chest of $.75--                                  3.00
Fire shovel & tongs $0.50 an old axe 50cts--
                                             1.00
1 hoe $.25 and Iron Pot $.50 and teakettle $.50--
                                             1.25
1 set plates, bowls tea trays &c &c--   
                                             1.25
1 Old Iron pot 50 cnts  1 set of knives & forks 25 cts--                                   .75
Old barrels and tubs--         1.00
The brass of an old kettle--     .75
The undividehalf of a Plough--2.00
1 Small keg--                           .25
1 Tin and one woodden [wooden] bucket--
                                                .37 1/2
Old Iron--                               3.00
                                             _______
                                           $90.12 1/2

I am at this time indebted in the following sums
For the house and lot on which I live--  $56.20
To Doctor Hagerman--                           $11.00
                                                                _______
                                                               $67.20
Asa Foster

Sworn to and subscribed this 30th day of August 1820 in open Court
Danl Gano  Clk
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The Superior Court of Cincinnati
April Term 1840
County of Hamilton & State of Ohio}Ss.
On this 15th day of April in the year of our Lord 1840 personally appeared in open Court,(being a Court of Record for the said City of Cincinnati and County of Hamilton, Sarah Foster the widow of Asa Foster late of said County decd [deceased], she being a resident in said County, aged seventy nine years, and being duly sworn according to Law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by act of Congress of the 7th day of July 1838;--that in the month of July in the year 1782 or 1783 (she cannot from age and infirmity now recollect) she was lawfully married in New Milford in the State of Connecticut, to Asa Foster who had then been but recently (a year perhaps) discharged from the United States Army in which he had served as an enlisted soldier, as she has been informed and verily believes;--that the continued
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in New Milford with her said husband until the year 1811, when they removed to the County of Hamilton and State of Ohio, where they resided as man and wife until the 15th day of December 1827 when he died and she has resided there ever since as his widow;--that she knows nothing personally of her said husband's services in the Army of the Revolution, but has always since her acquaintance with him heard and verily believes, that he had been an enlisted soldier for and during the war, but was returned an enlisted soldier for three years only, in consequence of the lossof the Muster rolls, at the burning of Danbury in said state of Connecticut;--and she further states, that she knows personally that her said husband was a Revolutionary Pensioner for seven or eight years, at eight dollars per month or ni six dollars per year, until his death, and since his death, she has caused his pension certificate to be delivered up to the Agent for paying pensions in Cincinnati.--And finally, she states that she has never until this time, applied for a pension, nor has her name ever been placed on the Pension roll of the Agency of any state;
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and she now therefore prays for the benefit of the Act of Congress aforesaid and that she may receive the pension under the provisions therein mentioned. 
Signed
Sarah Foster X her mark

Signed & sworn to on the 15th day of April 1840 before me & in open Court}
Danl [Daniel] Gano Clerk of the Supr [Superior] Court of Cincinnati

Also came Philander Allen of said County of Hamilton, aged sixty years and a witness enlisted to credit for truth and veracity, who being duly sworn in open court according to law, deposeth & saith that he was well acquainted with Asa Foster and Sarah his wife named in the foregoing declaration of the latter, from the year 1806 until the death of said Asa, which occurred on the 15th day of December in the year 1827, and well knows that they lived together as man and wife until separated by death as aforesaid, and that she has remained a widow ever since; And he the said affiant further states that he well knows that
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said Asa Foster was a Revolutionary Pensioner and received ninety six dollars per annum for seven or eight years previous to his death;--and that this affiant delivered his Pension Certificate after his death to the pension agent in Cincinnati.

Philander Allen

Sworn to and subscribed before me in open court Apl [April] 15th 1840
Danl [Daniel] Gano Clerk of the Supr [Superior] Court of Cinti [Cincinnati]
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State of Ohio,
Hamilton County,
City of Cincinnati}ss.
On this 18th day of Apl [April] in theyear one thousand eight hundred and fifty personally appeared before me, the undersigned, Henry E. Spencer, Mayor of the City of Cincinnati, and a Justice of the Peace for the city, county and State above mentioned, Hannah Allen, Mary Barlow, and Cloe F. Courtleyou who being duly sworn according to law declare that they are the identical Hannah Allen, Mary Barlow, and Cloe Courtleyou, children of Asa and Sarah Foster deceased--Revolutionary Pensioner who was [struck through:  in the company commanded by Captain....letter] in the Connecticut Line [struck through:  Regiment of] commanded by Col. Heman Swift that he enlisted on the     day of    184    for the term of     and was honorably discharged at   one the   day of    18    by reason of
This deponent's application is for the purpose of procuring from the United States the full amount of Pension due their said Mother Sarah Foster under the act of Congress of 2nd of February 1848
that is due for the above referred to
services Deponents are the only children (with the exception of Edwd [Edward] Foster who lives near the City of Iowa, State of Iowa, and is not now present) of Asa and Sarah Foster who were Revolutionary Pensioners at Cincinnati office Agency formerly from Lichfield [Litchfield] State of Connecticut.--Deponents father died on the 15th of Decr [December] 1827 in Hamilton County Office, and then Mother died in February 28, 1849 in said County--Deponents are all residents of said County--Hannah Allen aged 67, Mary Barlow aged 55, and Cloe Courteyou [Courtleyou] aged 54, and absent Brother Edward Foster aged 61 years--Deponents father at time of death was aged 69--, and their mother was aged 88 years.--Deponents now claim the amount due their said Mother Sarah Foster, from 2nd February 1848 to 28th February 1849 the time on which she died--and they ask same be paid them at Cincinnati the Agency for paying Pensions--

The undersigned appoints Eliphalet Easton, of this city, his Agent, to settle the above claim, in the best way he can.  All allowances and correspondence in reference to this application are to be directed to this place, care of said Eliphalet Easton, and no one else.  All orders or receipts given by said Eliphalet Easton, in this matter, is and will be as binding on the deponent as thought given by the undersigned in person.

Hannah Allen   Mary Barlow   Chloe F. Cortleyou
(Attest.)  Richard Hile
[illegible] Commr [Commissioner] of Pensions
Washington City, D.C.

Sworn to and subscribed before me, the day and year above written as witness my hand and Corporate Seal of the City of Cincinnati, O.

H. E. Spencer
Mayor
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State of Ohio
Hamilton County, 
City of Cincinnati} ss.
On this 18th day of April in the year one thousand and eight hundred and fifty personally appeared  before me, the undersigned, Henry E. Spencer, Mayor of the City of Cincinnati, and a Justice of the Peace for the city, county and State above mentioned, Philander Allen, aged 70 years, and albert Courtleyou aged 59 years, who being duly sworn according to law, and whose testimony is worthy of credit, declares that they are well [crossed out:  acquainted with] the within named Hannah Allen, Mary Barlow and Cloe F. Courtleyou, and that they are now present and they did sign the within application for the use and purposes within stated, and the undersigned are fully satisfied that the within statement is true.

Deponent Philander Allen has been intimately acquainted with the family of Asa and Sarah Foster since the year 1806, upto the time of their Respective deaths.  He as the admin of the estate of Asa Foster drew from the Pension agent at Cincinnati, Ohio the amount of Pension that was due from Septr [September] 1827 to the 15th day of Decr [December] 1827 and he then surrendered the original Pension Papers to the Pension agent at Cincinnati office.  He also aided Mrs. Sarah Foster in procuring the Original Pension Certificate on which she has drawn pension as widow of the Husband the said Asa.  And he knows that the said Asa Foster and Sarah Foster died as stated by the children within, and he also knows that the within named Hann Allen, Mary Barlow and Cloe Courtleyou, and the within named Edward Foster are their only children.
Deponent Albert Courtleyou has known the family of Asa and Sarah Foster for 20 years.   He knows that they were Pensioners at the Cincinnati office agency and died as within stated.  He also knows that the within named Hannah Allen, Mary Barlow, Cloe Courtleyou, and Edward Foster are their only surviving children.  Deponents are perfectly disinterested.

Philander Allen
Albert Cortleyou
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City of Cincinnati
County of Hamilton & State of this
This day Sarah Foster, widow of
Asa Foster late of said County of Hamilton
deceased came before me H.P. [illegible], a notary
Public in and for the said County of Hamilton, and being duly sworn
states that
she is the same person who sent on to the
War Department, some months since, an
application and accompanying proofs, in order
to obtain a pension in pursuance of a
late act of Congress granting pensions to the
widow of deceased Officers and soldiers of
the war of the Revolution; and in answer
to a requisition from J. L. Edwards Esqr the
Commissioner of Pensions, that she the said
applicant should furnish from the family
record the proof of her marriage & the births
of her children respectively, she says that the
paper hereto attached, purporting
to be a registry of the births of her late
husband and herself, and of her children,
is the only record of the family which she
ever knew of or can now recollect, that
there never has, as she believes, been any
family registry of her marriage, and lastly
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that the registry hereto amends and now sent is without exception of any part in the hand writing of her late husband and in fact, she was present and saw him write the whole of it, nearly or quite forty years ago, to further she sayith not.
    Attest                                             Signed
Benjamin Wilson & Sarah  + Foster Her Mark

At the same time came Philander Allen, aged sixty years in June last, who being duly sworn, says that he was well acquainted with Asa Foster, named in the foregoing affidavit
of Mrs Sarah Foster, his widow, and was also well acquainted with her the said Sarah- that his acquaintance with both extends as far back as the year 1806; and he well knows that the said Sarah is the widow of the said Asa, and has  never married since his death; and he the said Philander Allen further says that in the lifetime of the said Asa Foster, he often saw him write , and well knows his hand writing, and the annexed paper purporting to be a family record of the birth of himself and his wife, and children, seven in number & marked A is in his genuine hand writing.   -        Signed Philander Allen
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Asa Foster was born October 24th AD 1754
Sarah Foster was born November 12th AD [ink blot]
Hannah Foster was born November the 4th 1792
Dolly Foster was born October the 29th AD 1794
Betsy Foster was born November the 1st 1790
William E. Foster was born September the 19th 1788
Chloe Foster was born April the 12th AD 1794
Thomas A. Foster was born February 13th AD 1796
Daniel Foster was born April the 24th AD 17[paper tear] and died Feb. the 3rd AD [paper tear]
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.
W.F. 5277
3 -- 525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C.
In reply to your request of
received
for a statement of the military history of Asa Foster
a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired
information as contained in his (or his widow's ) application for pension
on file in this Bureau.
Column Headings: DATES OF
ENLISTMENT OR
APPOINTMENT| LENGTH OF SERVICE| RANK | OFFICERS UNDER WHO SERVICE WAS RENDERED | CAPTAIN | COLONEL | STATE
Apr. 1776 | 6 mos | Pot | David Pierson | Drake | NY
Apr 16, 1777 | Sept 1780| [blank] | Samuel Hoit | P. B. Bradley | Conn|
[check mark] | 3 mos. \ [blank] | no officers stated

Battles engaged in, none stated
Residence of soldier at enlistment, not stated.
Date of application for pension, Apr. 21. 1818. His cl. was al
Residence at date of application, Cincinnati, Hamilton Co, Ohio
Age at date of application Oct 24, 1758 d. Dec. 15, 1827 in Hamilton Co. Ohio
Remarks: He mar. in July 1782 in New Milford Conn. Sarah daughter of Daniel Trowbridge, she was b. Nov. 12, 1760, and was allowed
pens. on an app. ex Apr. 15, 1840 while a res. of Hamilton Co. Ohio where she died Feby 28. 1849. In supplement herewith for
names of children.
Respectfully, Soldier's brother Luke
6 -- 2856
Commissioner.
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Rev. War Section. January 20, 1931.
Mrs. M. B. Holloman,
Santa Fe,
New Mexico.
Madam:
In addition to the military history of Asa Foster
W. File No. 3,277 Revolutionary War you are furnished the
following data as to his children:
Hannah
born November 4, 1782.
Polly
October 29, 1784.
Betsy
November 1, 1786,
William C. or E.
September 18, 1788.
Chloe
April 12, 1794.
Thomas F.
February 13, 1796.
Daniel
April 24, 179- (torn) died February 3. -- (torn)
In 1850 Hannah Allen, Mary Barlow, Chloe F. Cortleyow and
Edward Foster were the only surviving children. Edward was
then a resident of Iowa.
Very respectfully,
F D Byr[illegible]
Commissioner.
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Sarah Foster
to proofs [illegible]
The United States
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City of Cincinnati
Hamilton County, Ohio
I H.P. Gaines, a notary Public in and for said city and county, do hereby certify, that the foregoing affidavits of Sarah Foster and Philander Allen were sworn to and subscribed by them at my  office in said city of Cincinnati before me and in my presence; and that both of them are of respectable characters for truth and veracity.
I witnessed hereof, I have here unto subscribed my name and affixed my notarized seal, this 18th day of August 1840-
H.P. Gaines
Notary Public
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6944
Sarah Foster

Luke Foster (Struck through)
Dept
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Superior Court of Cincinnati
April Term, in the year 1840
Hamilton Ohio
This day appeared the Honorable Luke Forster, one of the former Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for said county of Hamilton and state  of Ohio, and being duly in open court sworn states as follows; viz- that his age will be seventy seven years, on the 20th day of the present month and he is a brother of Asa Foster late of said county decd, (deceased)who was an enlisted soldier for the term of the war, with England which terminated in the Independence of the United States;- that he the said affiant well knows that said Asa Foster was a six months militia man in the United States service, on Long Island in the state of New York, in the same year in which that Island was in possession of the British, and immediately thereafter, he enlisted in the state of Connecticut, to serve in the United States Army for and during the war, of which fact this affiant was immediately afterwards informed and verify believes;
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that the company in which he the said Asa enlisted is not recollected, but the Regiment was commanded by Col. Weigs- that after he the said Asa had served to the close of the war & been discharged, he intermarried in the township of New Milford in said state of Connecticut, with Sarah Trowbridge, a daughter of Daniel Trowbridge of said state last mentioned, and continued to live  with her as his wife from that time until his death in the month of December in the year 1827, as he verily believes;- that the said Sarah, who will be eighty years of age in October next, has to this affiants knowledge, remained a widow ever since the death of her said husband, - and finally this affiants states what he had omitted above, that the marriage of the said Asa with said Sarah, his widow at this time, took place in the --(Ink blot) 1782 or 1783, after his last term of service with  United States Army & further saith not.-
Signed 
Luke Foster
Affirmed to and Subscribed April 14, 1840, in open court
Daniel Gano Clerk of the Superior Court of Cincinnati
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The State of Ohio
Hamilton County

Daniel Gano Clerk of the Superior
Court of Cincinnati Hamilton
County Ohio, Do hereby certify
that the within named Sarah
Foster on the 15th of April 1840
Luke Foster on the 14th same
month and Philander Allen
on 15th Apl 1840 appeared Severally
in open Court and made oath
to the truth of the contents of the Depositions by them
severally subscribed and annexed.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court 
at Cincinnati this 15th of April AD 1840
Daniel Gano Clerk of the
Superior Court of Cinn.
The State of Ohio 
Hamilton County
it
I David K. Este Sole Judge of
the Superior Court of Cincinnati, do hereby
certify that the attestation of Daniel Gano
who is clerk of the said Court above given
is in due form of Law
to
Given under my hand and
Seal at Cincinnati this 15th of April 1840.
A K Este
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State of Ohio
At a court of Common Pleas held for Hamilton county, 15th August, 1850 satisfactory evidence was adduced in court, to prove that Hannah Allen, Mary Barlow, and Cloe F. Courtieyow all of Hamilton County Ohio and Edward Foster now residing in Iowa , are the only children and only heirs at law in fee to Asa & Sarah Foster late Pensioners at the Cincinnati Ohio Agency, for the Services in the Revolution of the said Asa Foster, and that the said Asa Foster died on 15th Dec 1827, and the said Sarah Foster died on 28th Feby. 1849, both in Hamilton County Ohio
I, Edward C. Roll Clerk of the court of Common Pleas aforesaid do certify, that the above evidence is taken from the records in my office.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my official seal, this 19th day of August 1850.
Ed Roll, clerk
by Wm. W. Warden , Deputy
The above form will answer for the States of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and other western States.
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Cincinnati Ohio
5th July 1850
The Commissioner of Pensions
Sir,
On 18th April last I sent you an application on part of Hannah Allen, Mary Barlow, and Cloe F. Counrtleyow for arrears of Pension due their mother *Sarah Foster deceased who was a Pensioner at Cincinnati Agency for Revolutionary Service of her husband Asa Foster. I believe the papers were perfectly drawn up, and the Claimants will be obliged by your attending to the Matter by fast [unclear]
yrs Respf
E Easton
*[unclear] She had received her application under the act of July 1848 The children are applying for what the Mother could have drawn - (See Application)
Resp. E
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Cincinnati Ohio
20th August 18??

The Comm of Pensions,
Sir
On 18th April last I forwarded the application of Hannah Allen (and other children and heirs of Sarah Foster dec'd, for the means of pension due their said father, on 28th July last you required the certificate of the Clerk of the Court of the County that evidence had been addressed that they were the only heirs.
I now forward again that Certificate and shall thank you to send me such a certificate as will draw the arrears of pension.
Yours Respectfully
E. Easton
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Sarah Foster, dec'd
dec'd 2 Feb. 1848
Adm $80 per annum 
com'd 4 March 1848 and
terminating 28 Feby 1849
payable to
Hannah Allen
Mary Barlow
Chloe F. Cortleyow, &
Edward Foster, only
surviving children
on Roll
E. Easton
Cincinnati, Ohio
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6944
Sarah Foster
of Asa.
Ohio
admitted
Pr: 2 Rs $80.-
Cap Hoit Col Bradley
[illegible]

died 15 Dec, 1827.
Act of July 1838
H.P. Gaines
Cincinnati 
Ohio
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Cincinnati, Ohio
October 18th 1840.
Sir:
The Certificate No. 580 gives favor of Mrs. Sara Foster, widow of Asa Foster dec'd for a pension, has been duly received.
At her request, I write this letter, suggesting that, according to the law of Congress of 7th July 1838, her pension should have ben $96 per annum, instead of $80, which last would have been right if her husband had been a militia man instead of a regular in the Continental
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army as you will find that he was, by reference to his papers, on file in your office.
If Mrs. Foster be entitled, under the law referred to, to $80. more, please send a certificate for that amount, in addition to the amt already sent - or send on for $480, ($90 for 5 years) payable on the 4th of March next, and I will send back the former.
I am very respectfully
your Hbl Servt
H.P. Gaines
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The commissioner of Pensions will please direct his communications to the subscribed Springdale Hamilton Co. Ohio and if the appetition is informal in any thing Please inform us
Philander Allen
Springdale Hamilton
County, Ohio 1843
April 29
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Aug 31. 1840
Ohio,
Add army
Sarah Foster
James L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington
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Aug 31. 1840
Ohio,
Add army
Sarah Foster.
James L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions.
Washington.
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Cincinnati, Ohio
August 26th 1840
Sir
In pursuance of your direction Mrs. Sarah Foster, the widow of Asa Foster deceased has produced the only family registry which was
in her power to procures.-- As it is presumed
that the evidence now sent, will, when [illegible]
to that which I sent three or four months since,
be deemed sufficient, I hope you will send
her certificate as soon as possible -- she is a
very old and infirm woman, and delay may
be tantamount to a rejection of her claim.
I am respectfully yours &c
H. F. Gainses
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House of Rep
12 May 1840
Dear Sir,
You will oblige my stating whether application, for pensions, have been filed in your place rightfully of [illegible] [illegible] of Boston & in Clermont County, Ohio & Joseph Herkenelder and Sarah Foster of Hamilton County, Ohio -- I will also thank you at the same time to state, that if any [illegible] [illegible] against their application - The request is made at the [illegible] on acquaintance in wherein which to [illegible] on hearing from you

Very respectfully [illegible]
Wm. Key Bond

J. L. Edwards
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6944 Apl 20l 1840
Ohio
7 July 1838
Col. James L. Edwards,
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City,
D.C.
K.N.
N.R.
Foster
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6944
Apl. 20, 1840
Ohio
7 July 1838
Col. James L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington City,
D.C.
K.N. 
N.R.
Foster
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Cincinnati, Ohio
April 18th 1840.
Sir
I send you the enclosed application of Mrs. Sarah Foster, widow of Asa Foster dec'd, for a pension. - the proofs are also enclosed.  I presume that you will find in your office the certificate of said Asa Foster, proving him to have been a solder of the Revolution.
I had directed that a duly authenticated copy from the Marriage Registry should be procured from Connecticut, in which states, the parties were married; - but it appears from the enclosed letter, that no record of the marriage can be found.  But you have the affidavit of a witness who was present at the marriage, which is, or ought to be, sufficient, especially when so strongly corroborated by other testimony of Judge Foster & Philander Allen. - 
Please send on the Pension Certificate, without delay. - Have you ever yet received the papers of Joseph Heckelbander? - I sent them to Dr. Duncan two or three months hence, & requested him to deliver them to you. - Please inform me whether you have rec'd them. - 
Respectfully
H.P. Gaines.
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Free
The Honorable J.C. Calhoun
Secretary of the Depart of
War
Washington City
Correct
Asa Foster
21 April
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Free
The Honorable J.C. Calhoun
Secretary of the Depart of
War
Washington City
Correct
Asa Foster
21 April
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Free
The Honorable J.C. Calhoun
Secretary of the Depart of
War
Washington City
Correct
Asa Foster
21 April
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Cincinnati 25 April 1818
The Honorable Secretary of
the Department of War
At the request William Burke a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton County in the State of Ohio, I do myself the honor to enclose two Depositions relating to the claim of Asa Foster an old soldier of the Revolution who observed to be enrolled on the Pension List agreeably to a late law of the Congress of the United States.
With due difference
I am your honorable servant
John Lee Williams
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Asa Foster
with proof of
Marriage.
Sarah Foster.
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New Milford Sept 14th 1839
Sir
I have searched the records of this town of which I am Clerk but cannot find any record of the marriage of the Foster- They were not as particular then as now to have marriages recorded - I think it might have been Bushnell Bostwick instead of Col. Elisha Bostwick who married them - the Col. was Town Clerk at the time and perhaps a Justice of the Peace.
Yours Respectfully
Joel W. Northrop
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Asa Foster
28 April
Correct DN
April 1818
on roll
3 ys for 1779 Pr
Capt Hoit Col Bradley
John S. Gano Clerk
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State of Ohio
Hamilton County    SS
Luke Foster being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he well recollects the time that his brother Asa Foster entered the service of the United States in the Revolutionary war with Great Brittan.  that he recollects to his return at the close of six months service.  that he is well [illegible] of his reenlistement and service during [illegible] years after that time and has good reason to believe that he served at the Battle of Long Island Stoney Point & Monmouth & that his is at this time greatly disabled from labor on account of a [illegible]  & that his is in indigent circumstances.
Luke Foster
Sworn and Subscribed too before me one of the Associate Judges of Hamilton
County & State of Ohio
Cincinnati
21th April 1818
William Burke Associate Judge 
H.C.
This my certify that it has been made appear to my satisfaction that Asa Foster mentioned in the annexed documents [illegible] during the Revolutionary war against the Common enemy.
William Burke Associate Judge
H.C: O.
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The State of Ohio
Hamilton County } Set
[circular seal]
I John & Jane Clerk of the Court of Common
pleas in and for said County do hereby
certify that the Hon William Burke Esq
before whom the within deposition was
as stated taken & whose certificate
is thereto attached, is and was at that
time an acting associate Judge of said County of the 7th Circuit in the State of Ohio, duly elected Commissioned and sworn into office all of which appear of record in my office and that full faith and credit are due and ought to be given to all his official acts as such,
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of our said Court at Cincinnati this 22d of April AD 1818.
[signed] John S. Gano Clerk
[sideways to the left] Asa Foster [illegible] Correct DN
[sideways] on [illegible] 3 [illegible] for 1779 p.n. Cap [illegible] col Bond
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Sarah Foster
of Asa
Ohio
Suspended
Set 14 May 1840
Hon: W. K. Bond
Act 7 July 1838
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Sarah Foster due widow of Asa
Ohio
Suspended
Set [illegible] 20 to July 1850
& Easton
Act 2 Feb 1848
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Reported 1145
Ohio, Cincinnati
Sarah Foster
widow of Asa
who was a Private
in the Revolution
inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
80 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on 
the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the
27th day of July 1843
and sent to Philander Allen
Springdale, Ohio
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A.
Vol 1. Page 158.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Rev Sec
[Stamped: Circular seal showing an ermine shield on a chevron]
NATIONAL WOMAN'S LIBERTY LOAN COMMITTEE

Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen: -
Your letter of Dec 6th in response to an enquiry of mine of Nov. 12 th is just received. The William Thomson - or Thompson of Westmoreland Co., Va., whose Rev. record I am desirous of finding in Washington Parish, Westmoreland Co. in 1785 - before June of that year. His wife was Ann Thomson and their children Richard, Betsey, Lovel, Maria and William; His wife's mother was Margaret Thomson and his mother a Hales.
Asa Foster, son of Timothy and Bethiah Howell Foster, served in a Conn. Reg. during the Rev. The Foster family were Redugees from Long Island -Southampton. Asa M. Sarah Trowbridge and went to Ohio but I do not know to what place: if he [crossed-out] he [/crossed-out] or his family drew a pension, I might find the place as I am desirous of tracing that branch of Fosters.
Thanking you for this information, I am,
Respectfully
Mrs. Thr. B. Holloman
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Dec. 10, 1920.
[circular stamp: [around the edge] U. S. PENSION OFFICE [in the center] DEC 14 1920]
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1921 Jany 20 Flist to the M. B. Holloman 
Revy WIDOW, &c. File No. 5277 Sarah Foster ┃ Wid, Ada Foster Pot. Rev. War Act: Feby, 24948 Index: -- Vol. A Page 245 (Arrangement of 1870.]
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[left-hand side]
Ohio
5809
Sarah Foster 
widow of Asa Foster, decd.
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818-
and who died on the 15 December 1827,
of Hamilton Co in the State of Ohio
who was a private in the Compy commanded
by Captain Hunt of the regt commanded
by Col. Bradley in the Connecticut line for 2 years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Cincinnati
at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 day of Sept
1840, & sent to H.P. Gaines
Cincinnati, Ohio.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1840 $360.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar 40.00
[total of] $400.00
Act July 7, 1838.
Recorded by
D. McCurdy, clerk,
Book A. Vol. 2. Page 217.

[right-hand side]
Set [illegible] H. P. Gaines Oct 14. 1840
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State of Ohio
Hamilton on this 22nd day of Apl 1843
Personally came before me Dnl M Fleming
a Justice of the Peace in and for County
Sarch Letter a resident to county Aged listing
two years who being first duly Sworn
according to Law doth on her oath make
the following declaration in order to obtain
the Benefits of the provisions made by the
act of Congress passed 3d of March 1843
granting pension to widows of persons
who servd during the Revlutionary war
that she is the widow of Asa Foster
who was a privet-- the deponet does not
recolect the Regiment her sd. Husband Belonged to But that he got his discharge from
Col. Heman Swift of the Connectect Line
and that she has recived Eighty dollars
or year under the act of Congress of
July 7th 1838 She further declairs that she is still the widow of the servd. Foster [illegible]
Signed
Sworn and Subscribed to the day and year
above written and I further certify that
I am personaly acquainted with the
Applicant
Dnl. M Fleming I P. Seal
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[stamped] STATE OF OHIO, Hamilton County, 88.
I, JACOR W. PIATT, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County of Hamilton, do hereby certify that Daniel M Fleming Esquire -- before whom the [illegible] or foregoing affidavit of Sarah Foster appears to have been made was [illegible] the this
Postakings & subscribing the same, an ACTING JUSTICE OF THE PEACE in and for said county, duly commissioned and qualified, and that full
faith and credit are due to all his official acts as such.
In Testimony Whereof, I, the Clerk
aforesaid, have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the Seal of the said Court, at [illegible]
Cincinnati, in said county, this day of
April A.D. 1843
[signed: Jacob W. Piatt]
Clerk H. C. C. P.
by [illegible]
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Sarah Foster of Asa 
Ohio
THE APPLICATION OF
Hannah Allen, Mary Barlow and Cloe F. Cortleyow
For Pension due their Mother as widow of Asa Foster
of [Co. is crossed out] Colonel Swift's
Reg'nt of Connecticut Line,
ELIPHALET EASTON,
Agent for Claimant,
CINCINNATI, O.
Act of July 1848
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Cincinnati, 18th April 1860
Commissioner of Pensions 

Washington City, D. C.
Dear Sir:
I herewith send you the application of Hannah Allen, Mary Barlow and Cloe F. Cortleyow for Pension due their mother Sarah Foster decd under the act of Congress of the 2nd of February 1848. As soon as you can examine the claim you will please advise me, as the Agent of the claimant.
They (with Edward Foster who lives in Iowa) are the only surviving children of Asa and Sarah Foster, Revolutionary Pensioner at Cincinnati agency- they wish to procure the Pension which their mother was entitled from the passage of the act of 2nd February 1838 to 28th February 1849, when she died-
Resp yours
[Signed] E.. Easton
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I Lucy Andrews of Danbury Fairfield
County and State of Connecticut aged
72 years being duly sworn doth depose
and say, That I was well acquainted with
Asa Foster a Revolutionary
Soldier, who recently died in
Hamilton County, State of Ohio, and
who has received a pension from the
United States for several years prior to
his death, as she has been informed, and
believes. That she is also well
acquainted with Mrs Sarah Foster
the widow of said Asa Foster, who is a
sister of the deponent. That she
was present at the marriage of said
Asa and Sarah, which was solemnied
at my Fathers house in the year 1782 or
1783 by Bushnell Bostwick Esq. then a
Justice of the peace in & for the County of
Litchfield in said State, My Father at
that time lived in the Town of New Milford
in said County of Litchfield said
marriage took place after, said Asa had
performed his last term of service in the
United States army & been discharged
and further the deponent saith not her

Lucy Andrews mark
State of Connecticut
Fairfield County
Danbury Probate Office

on this 23d day of March 1840 personally appraised the above named
deponent Lucy Andrews, who hath subscribed the foregoing deposition, in open Court before the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury
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within and for said County and State who made solemn oath being duly sworn [illegible] truth of the foregoing deposition by her subscribed, and I Gilead G Taylor Clerk of said Court of Probate doth certify that the above named deponent is well known to said Court as a person of good character and a credible witness In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my said office at Danbury in said District
on this 23d day of March 1840
Gilead G. Taylor Clerk
[seal]
I Edward Taylor of Danbury Fairfield County
and State of Connecticut Judge of the Court
of Probate for the District of Danbury in said
County & State do hereby certify to all whom
it may concern that Gilead G Taylor who
hath subscribed the foregoing certificate
is Clerk of said Court of Probate duly appointed, and sworn, and was such clerk at
the date of said certificate, and that the
signature subscribed to said certificate
purporting to be his, is in the proper handwriting of the said Giliad G Taylor, and
that full faith and credit are due to his
official acts as such clerk-- and that the
seal impressed upon said certificate
is the seal of said Court of Probate
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand at said Danbury on this
23 day of March 1840
Edward Taylor Judge
The words "made solemn oath" in the above certificate was [illegible] before signing. Edward Taylor Judge