Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44,317, Abel Barnes, Conn.
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Service - Conn.
Barnes, Abel
Number S 44,317
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INVALID.

File No. 44317

Abel Barnes
Priv. Rev. War

Act:  18th March 1818
Index: - Vol. 3, page 23

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Notification sent to Stephen Phelps, Esq., 29 Sept. 1890 (or 1870)
Canandagua, New York (handwritten along side of document)

7648

New York
Abel Barnes of Ontario in the state of New York who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Butler of the Connecticut line, for the term of Nine Months 1782.

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 dollars per Month, to commence on 7th of May 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 15 of Mar [uninteligible] and sent to Judge Phelps.

Arrears to 4th of March 1819 [tally of amount]
Semi-anl. all'cr ending 4th September 1859.

Total:  $125.55

Revolutionary claim,
Act. 18th March 1818

Continued
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Declaration of 
Abel Barnes
May 16, 1818

Private - Butler's Regiment
Connecticut [?] 82 Nine months

9 months
aam [?]
The Honorable
Secretary of War
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State of New York
Ontario County

On this 16th day of May 1818 before me Stephen Phelps a judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county personally appears Abel Barnes aged 52 years resident in the town of Canandagua in said County who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth in his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the late 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 that he the said Abel Barnes enlisted in the town of Wallingsford in the state of Connecticut in the Company commanded by Captain David Starr in the 4th about the month of April 1782 for nine months that he continued to serve in the Corps aforesaid in the Continental Establishment with the expiration of the aforesaid nine months when he was discharged from service at West Point in the state of New York in the month of January 1783 that he was in no battles and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.  

Abel Barnes

Sworn to and declared the day and year aforesaid before me.  Stephen Phelps
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Ontario County

Stephen Phelps a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas and for said County do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Abel Barns did serve in the Revolutionary War and stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months or more on the Continental Establishment and from satisfactory proof I have no doubt of his been in reduced circumstances and entitled to the provisions of the aforementioned Act of Congress and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned Act of Congress.  Canandagua May 10th 1818
Stephen Phelps
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The [honorable?] the Secretary for the Department of War will pleas [sic] forward my certificate if allowed to Stephen Phelps Esq. at Canandagua who is my agent. May 16, 1818.
Abel Barnes
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Declaration of Abel Barnes
May 16, 1818
Private.  Butler's Regiment
Connecticut. [?] Nine months

9 months
[unintelligible]

The Honorable Secretary of War

State of New York
Ontario County
Clerks Office

In Testimony that Stephen Phelps whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate was on the day of the date of the same one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Ontario and that the same ice his signature, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the county seal at Canandaigua this 5th day of June A.D. 1818.

[?] McNair, Clerk
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Case of Abel Barnes

Case of Abel Barnes
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and that he made application for a Pension on the Sixteenth day of May, 1818 and that he received a Pension Certificate no. 7.648 And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen,, and that I have not since that time, by gift, 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, 1818 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 contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed, viz.

One Cow $20.00 - One old Saddle & Bridle 
$2.00 = $22.00
One five Pail Kettle = $5.00
Two Hoggs = $10.00
One pot $2.50  One Dish Kettle $1.25 = $3.75
One Frying Pan $0.75.  Two Old Chairs $3.00 = $3.75
One Tea Kettle $1.50    Shovel & Tongs $2.50 = $4.00
Three old Chairs $1.12   1 Meatt [?] $1.25 = $2.37
Two pails $0.60.   One Old [?] $0.30 = $.90
One Cover Box $0.50.  One Wooden [?] $.18 = $.68
One Table $2.00.   Two Platters $1.50  Two [?] 
= $1.86
Three Earthen Plates $0.37   Sett Knives & Forks $1.00 = $1.37
One set Cups & Saucers $0.25. One Ax $1.00 = $1.25
 Total $56.94
Abel Barns
And I do further swear & declare that I am by occupation a Farmer much afflicted with the 
Rheumation and my family consists of my wife And for the last nine years subject to fits and most of the time quite Insane, and my son Collin Seventeen years of age, daughter Clarissa Fifteen years of age, Alexander aged 12 years, Elmina aged ten years, Almyra 8 years of age very weakly and a dwarf.   Abel Barns
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Sworn to and declared this 21st day of August 1820 in open Court before me, William Rogers
A Judge of Ontario Common Pleas

ONTARIO COUNTY, ss.
I, John Van Fossen Clerk of said county, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; and I farther 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 Fifty-Six dollars and Ninety-four cents.  In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this 22nd day of August 1820.
J. Van Fossen, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, in and for said County.