Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3,691, Peter Foster, Conn. Conn. Sea Service
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Conn
Conn Sea Service
Foster, Peter
R.3.91
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Declaration of Peter Foster for Revolutionary Pension
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Ret of Congress June 7, 1832, or other law
State of New York
County of Suffolk Sp On the thirteenth day of October 1832 personally appeared as of before David Warner Esquire a Judge of the Court of  Common Plead in and for the said county of Suffolk Peter Foster, a resident of the town of Riverhead in the County of Suffolk 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 dated June 7 1832.
That he entered the service of the United Staes under the officer named and served as stated in the declaration, a copy of which is hereto annexed which copy has been returned to deponent from Washington for the reason as deponent understood that no pension could be allowed to him unless he could procure the testimony of an officer or of two privates who served with him in his favor.
Deponent further says that he has been unable to find any such officer or private living and he knows of but one or two who can of this personal knowledge testify as to his (deponent) services. Deponent further saiths that the spelling of the name of the ship in which he served as set forth in his former declaration was taken only from the sound of such name when pronounced. That the said name he has reason to believe was spelled "Raleigh" but in every other respect he confirms the declaration of which a copy is annexed. 
To the interrogations prescribed by the War Department he answers the following,
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To the first he says he was born in the town of Southhampton in the year 1759 in the said county of Suffolk. 
To the second he says he has not now any record of his age his father kept one which he has often seen but which has been destroyed or lost as he believed in the state of Connecticut when he entered naval service and
 To the third, he said he lived in the said town of Southhampton when he entered the land service, and he lived there until about 1807 when he removed to the said town of Riverhead where he has resided ever since. 
To the fourth, he says he voluntarily enlisted and was not drafted nor a substitute. 
To the fifth, he says he does not recollect the names of any other officers than those already named.
To the sixth, he says he never received a written discharge. He has already stated relative to his Commission-He has no documentary evidence of his service.
To the seventh-he gives the names of Selden Herrick, Samuel Fanning, Walter Shidmore, Benjamin E Warner, Jabez Corwin and John Clark. 
If that pension shall be granted, he hereby relinquishes every claim to any other annuity and he declared that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any states. 
He is unable to attend a court of record by reason of bodily infirm. 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and the year foresaid.  Peter Foster, Judge David Warner
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State of New York
Suffolk County  Personally came before me, Selden Herrick, Walter Skidmore, Benjamin E Warner and Jabez Corwin and made Oath that they are well acquainted with Peter Foster, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and that they believe him to be seventy three years old, and that he is reputed, and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Lieutenant in the navel service of the United States, in the war of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion and belief. 
Sworn and Subscribed
November 6th day 1832 before me David Warner one of the Judges of the court of complies in for Suffolk County aforesaid. 
And I the said Judge do hereby declare my opinion after a full investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary officer, a Lieutenant in the Naval service of the United States. And I further certify that Selden Herrick, Walter Skidmore, Benjamin E Warner Jabez Corwin, residents of the said town of Riverhead, who have severally taken and subscribed the preceding oath are residents as aforesaid, are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to a full belief and given under my hand at the town of Riverhead in the County of Suffolk this sixth day of November 1832 David Warner, Judge
State of New York 
Suffolk County  Personally appeared before m. John Clark of the town of Sourhole in Suffolk County aforesaid and made oath that he is well acquainted with peter Fowler the above applicant for pension-that he often saw him in the ports of Connecticut  in the time of the Revolutionary War and that he was in high repute-he saw him wearing the Graulette and acting as Lieutenant on board of the armed Schooner Mifflin, commanded by Capt Carr-he was often on board of the said Schooner-she was employed in transporting soldiers and giving intelligence concerning the enemy and in such other services as became a continental vessel. He was the dehousant at that time a Soldier in the Governor's guards I had an opportunity to know, and do fully believe, that the declaration of Peter Foster is true.
Sworn and Subscribed the 10th day od November-1832 before me David Warner Judge
I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above-named deponent, John Clark, who resides about three miles from the residency of the said Peter Foster the applicant, and have known him for more than thirty years, and do believe him the said John Clark to be a man of strict verasity  Witness my hand as the town of Riverhead November 10th 1832 David Warner Judge
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State of New York
Suffolk County -Joseph E Huntting Clerk of the court of common times in and for the said county of Suffolk do hereby certify that David Warner, who's name is abundant at declaration, has sworn affidavits and certificates hints any nixed on the days of the detention was and still is a Judge of the said court of common Tries. I am appointed with the handwriting of the said Judge and only believe that his name embossed to the said
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State of New York
County of Suffolk To: On the fifth day of October one thousand eight hundred and thirty personally appeared in open court in the court of common Plains in and for the county of Suffolk being a corner of Bronx and is constituted by an act of the legislature of the State of New York Peter Foster, resident in said county aged seventy one years who bring forth clearly sworn according to the law oath on his own makes the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and 1st of May 1820. That he said Peter Foster sometime in the fall of year one thousand one hundred and seventy-nine in the state of Connecticut enlisted for the term of one year as Lieutenant on board the Schooner Miflin commanded by Captain Carr on the Continental establishment which Schooner carried one carriage gun and curisere from New London in the state of Connecticut up and down Long Island Sound where she took and destroyed many vessels belonging to the enemy. That he continued to move as Lieutenant on board the said Schooner a little more than nine months when he was transferred to the Frigate Rolla thus being at Boston and commanded by Captain Berry on board of which ship he was to serve as Midshipman. He was employed as a recruiting officer for said ship and for that purpose went through several places in Connecticut and enlisted twenty-nine or thirty men that before he arrived at Boston for his recruiting tour the said Frigate Rolla sailed on her cruise. That he took command of a small boat as New London which was employed against the common enemy in the
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sound and on Long Island that under the orders and direction of General Larsons of Lyme in Connecticut he ? over onto Long Island to ascertain the views of it's British time on the sound under the command of Sir William Erskine that he entered the British redoubt as Lou Thurfton and the British fort at canoe Place and returned safely with the information desired That shortly after, he in a boat with eleven more men under his command went round into the Lovett Bay on the Lovett side of Long Island and captured eleven vessels that were taken in those vessels arose and marauded in making himself and his comrades prisoners and carried them to New York where he remained a prisoner of war twenty six months when he was discharged on June that his companions Lieutenant of the Schooner Miflin together with all his other papers was destroyed after he was taken prisoner that he hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension yet the pension that his name is not on the roll of any state excerpt in the State of Connecticut that he knows of no juror now alive or had been living within the last thirteen years who has any knowledge of his service as Larsons before stated that he had no further evidence in his possession of his naval service The only reason for not an earlier application for a pension is his desire to support himself by his own labor until age and infirmity have compelled him to work at other means of support
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1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not mine that time by gift rule or in any manner dispose of my property or any just thereof with intent thereby as to diminish it us to bring myself within the provisions of our Act of Congress entitled "as act to provide for certain jurors engaged in the course and navel service of the United Staes in the Revolutionary War" Before or on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any juror in trust for me and property or annuities contacts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is continued in the Whidule hereto annexed and by me subscribed that 18th of March 1818 no material changes have been made in my property. I having owned no property of value except that mentioned in the schedule this or at any time mine. That I have no family That I was by occupation a miner and have no means of support by daily labor which by reason of the infirmities of age I am poorly unable to perform and that I was in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to support myself without the assistance of my country except by public or private charity. 
Liburd and sworn in open court before Judge Thorp on day your above written

Peter Foster
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Schedule of all property both real and personal of Peter Foster above named.
An estate of life only in a small house and half an acre of land situated in the town of Riverhead in Suffolk County valued as one table $1.00 Four chairs $1.00
$50.00
    2.00
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$52.00

Peter Foster

 Joseph R Huntting Clerk of the Court of common place in appeals to the notification of the court that the said Peter Foster did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the Judiciary declaration against the common enemy for the turn of nine months under one engagement on the continental establishment.
  I also certify that in forgoing oath and it's schedule that's unmatched and truly from the words of the court and do further certify that it is the opinion of said court that the total amount of value of the property exhibited in aforementioned is fifty-two dollars.
Entering where I have had to from my hand and sufficed, I take of the said court on this thirteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty
Joseph R Huntting
Clerk of the Court of Common Laws
in the fourth county of Suffolk
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Peter Foster
New York
Act 7th June 1832
Rejected Sec letter to S Herrick
April 8th 1833
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3691
Peter Foster
Rejected