Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20665, Aaron Barlow, Conn.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Conn.
CONTENTS
Barlow Aaron
Rebecca
NUMBER
W. 20665
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See let to Hon T. T. Whittlesey Feb. 17, 1837 
Connecticut 352
Rebecca Barlow
of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut who was a -  in the - commanded by Captain - of the - commanded by   - in the – 
widow of Aaron Barlow decd late a Sgt., Ensign, &  Lieutenant in the revolution 
Inscribed on the Roll of Ct at the rate of 211 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 31 day of Dec 1836 and sent Hon G. Tomlinson Senate US
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1836  $1160.50 
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar ‘37 105.50 
$1266.00  
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7 1836.} 
Recorded by D. D. Addison 
Book A Vol. 1 Page 75
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Aaron Barlow
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I Aaron Sanford of Redding, Fairfield County, State of Connecticut in the Eightieth year of my age, Deposeth and saith that I went into the service of the United States of America (or Connecticut) to Canada,  Montreal in the nineteenth year of my age, in the Summer and fall & of 1775.  I was at the Siege and taking the fort St Johns.  Zalmon Read was Capt of the Company, Ezekiel Sanford Lieut.,  Nichols Ensign,  Aaron Barlow one of the Sergts.   I was Clerk of the Company,  It being the tenth Company in the fifth Regiment of Connecticut Troops raised for the defence of the same and commanded by Col David Waterbury Junr Esqr.   
By Sergt Aaron Barlows Diary or day book it appears we marched from Redding the 2d day of June which I think is likely to be correct to Stamford.   I got home to my Fathers at Redding from Canada the 10th of December about 8 O Clock at night, I expect Sergt Aaron Barlow got home the same day and night as I was in company with him crossing lake Champlain and lake George & and we set off together on foot from Rhinebeck or near it, perhaps about 60 or 70 miles Northerly of Redding and about South of Albany, I expect we parted some where the last day as I borrowed a horse of my Uncle Coley and Rode home a lone.   
I here transcribe a writing I put in or on my Cyphering book after I got home, Viz,   [ December 7th AD 1775, I went a shore from the Sloop and we went to a Dutch house and hired his (I suppose)  Waggon (the word, Waggon, is a little [unreadable]) and he carried us to the lower part of Ryan bec (or Rhinebeck) to Mr Mulfords & we lay there that Night & next morning three of us Viz Sergt Barlow,  Jonathan Allabin and myself, and I reached home December, the 10th AD 1775 ]  I have no other writen account of that Campaign, Except of my warrant (or Commission) from Col. David Waterbury Junr Esqr as Sergeant of Captn Zalmon Reads company, my Capt took away my Clerk book after I got home. Thus I have wrote down as I seem to remember and gather otherways and Judge from circumstances, and there is no reason to doubt of Sergt Aaron Barlow being in service beginning June 2d and ending December 10th 1775, and I have no remembrance of his being absent from the Regt and Army any part of the time. 
One other tower [tour] -  In the Summer Season it is likely it was in the year of 1778 or 1779, I went with a draft of Militia to guard the coast on long Island Sound about 14 Miles Southerly of Redding, said Aaron Barlow had the command of the guard, of from perhaps 15 to 30 men,  I suppose our service was two weeks, not more. I do not recollect what office Aaron Barlow held at this time.   
Aaron Sanford 
State of Connecticut
Fairfield County } S.S. Redding 14th October 1836 
On the day and date herein specified before me a Justice of the Peace for said County personally appeared Aaron Sanford who subscribed and made oath to the truth of the above deposition, and I hereby certify that I know him to be a man entitled full credit.   
Before me Thomas B. Fanton Justice of the Peace
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State of Connecticut 
Fairfield County }  SS On this 9th day of December 1836, before the Court of Probate within and for the District of Danbury in the said County and State the same being a Court of Record, personally appeared Rebecca Barlow aged Eighty nine years, a resident of Reading in the said County who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the pensions made by the Act of Congress passed July 4th 1836, That she is the widow of Aaron Barlow, formerly of said Reading deceased, who was a Soldier and Officer in the Army of the Revolution and served as follows according to the best knowledge and belief of the said Rebecca to wit - 
In the spring of the year 1775 he enlisted the term of seven months in the Regiment at of the State Troops Commanded by Colonel Waterbury and in the Company by Commanded by Captain Zalmon Read.   Soon after his enlistment  he was appointed a Sergeant in said Company and he served as such  throughout the whole campaign.  In this term of Service he served at New York, on Lake Champlain, at St. Johns and Montreal in Canada and returned home on the 15th of December as near as this Declarant can remember.  And he served in his Company at least seven months, having entered the Service as the declarant believes in April or May – He was employed at drill until he marched with his Company from Reading which was on the 2d of June.
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That in the month of October 1777 and about the 15th of said month, the said Aaron Barlow  belonged to the Company of Connecticut Militia commanded by Capt John Gray and was Ensign of  said Company, the that Regiment to which he said Company belonged was then called into service of the United States and ordered to Peekskill in the State of New York. That said Aaron marched with said Company from Reading aforesaid where he then resided and served his said Company as such Ensign at the said Peekskill, Red Hook and other places on the Hudson River – the tour of six weeks.  In June or July 1778, he served as Ensign at Fairfield in said County two weeks in a Corps of Guards & had the Command of said Corps.
That in the month of August 1778 he still being an Ensign in said Militia Company commanded by Captain John Gray, the said Aaron Barlow was drafted into the Service of the Untied States and served two months as an Ensign in Captain Thomas [unreadable] Company of Coast Guards at Bridgeport & Fairfield in said State of Connecticut on Long Island Sound, two months, to [unreadable] from said time until month of August until some time in the month of October of said year.
The said Aaron Barlow also served three weeks as an Ensign at Norwalk, Fairfield and Milton in the month of July 1779 when said Town of Norwalk and Fairfield in the State of Connecticut were destroyed by the British Troops, on this tour he served in said militia company commanded by Captain John Gray.  
In the month of September of the same year 1779, he was drafted and served as an Ensign two weeks in said Militia Company at a place called Gregory’s parish in the County of Putnam and State of New York.  And in the Month of November 1779 he was drafted and served six weeks as Ensign of said Captain Gray’s Company at Fairfield
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on Long Island Sound in guarding the Coast.  
The Commission of said Aaron Barlow as Ensign in said Company is hereunto Annexed.   
That in April 1780 he was appointed Lieutenant in a company commanded by Captain Bell in a Regiment of State Troops by the State of Connecticut for the term of nine months - and the said Aaron Barlow served as Lieutenant in said Company the full term of Nine Months from the 1st day of April 1780 until the 1st day of January 1781.  He entered the Service as before stated in the 1st of April as a Lieutenant and served the whole campaign as a Lieutenant, although his commission bears date in June.  And this it is believed bears the date with the Commissions of all the other officers of the Regiment to which he belonged, Said regiment was commanded by Col Bezeleel Beebe & she believes the said Commission is hereunto annexed.
She further declares that she was married to the said Aaron Barlow on the 17th day of December in the year Seventeen Hundred and Seventy two, and that the said Aaron Barlow died on the 12th day of August 1800; and that she has remained a widow every since that period as will more fully appears by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Sworn to and Subscribed on the 9th day of December 1836 in Open Court
Rebecca Barlow x her mark
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and the said Court of Probate do hereby declare their opinion that said Aaron Barlow was a Revolutionary officer and served as stated in the foregoing declaration; that Rebecca Barlow the Applicant was married at the time she states and is now his widow and I Ira R. Wildman Clerk of the Court of Probate aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of Aaron Barlow for a Pension.
In testimony whereof in I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 9th day of June AD 1836.   
Ira R Wildman Clerk 
I Nathaniel H. Wildman of Danbury in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut Judge of the Court of Probate within and for the District of Danbury in the said County and State do hereby certify that Ira R. Wildman Esq. who hath subscribed the above certificate is Clerk of said Court of Probate duly appointed and sworn that the signature above written is in the proper hand writing the said Ira R. Wildman, and that full faith and credit are due to his official acts as Such.
 In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 12th day of December 1836 
Nathaniel H Wildman
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Aaron Sanford
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I Ebenezer Sanford of the Town of Redding in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut of the age of seventy three years depose and say that previous to the Revolutionary war and during the same I was well acquainted with Aaron Barlow and Rebecca his wife, and that they were married before the revolutionary War, and lived together from that time during the Revolutionary war in the Town of Redding as man and wife and for a number of years after in the same neighbourhood where I then had and now live.  
Said Aaron Barlow and his family left Redding for a few years, and while absent inteligince [intelligence] came that said Aaron Barlow was dead, and soon after he died, Rebecca Barlow came back to Redding and has lived in the Family of her son Daniel Barlow in the Town of Redding a widow ever since and is now still living there with her son a near neighbour of mine. In the month of September 1779 said Aaron Barlow was with me in a tour of service when the Militia were called, and went to a place in the State of New York called Gregory Parish (now Cornell) and he was the Ensign of our Company and served through the tour which was as near as I can remember not less than two weeks, also in the year 1780 I enlisted under Lieutenant Aaron Barlow in said Redding and served with him at Horseneck through the campaign of nine months.    
Ebenzr Sanford 
State of Connecticut 
Fairfield County } S.S. Redding 11th November 1836 On the day date herein specified before me a Justice of the Peace for said Farfield County Eben’r Sanford subscribed and made oath to the truth of the above deposition and I hereby certify that he is well known to me to be a man of truth and veracity.   
Thomas B. Fanton Justice of the Peace
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I Jonathan Bartlett of Reading in the County of Fairfield and State by Connecticut aged seventy years years being duly sworn do depose and say that I am now Clerk of the Congregational Church in said Reading of which the Rev’d Nathaniel Bartlett now deceased was formerly the minister and Pastor the said Nathaniel was my Father and died in 1810; and previous to that time, for as long a period as I can remember, he was the minister of said Church and congregation and it appears by the records of said Church kept by him that he was ordained over said Church and Congregation on the 23d day of May 1753.   
The said Nathaniel during his ministry, kept in the Record of said Church a Record of all the marriages, celebrated by him and I find upon said records an entry in his hand writing in the words and figures following – 
“December 17th AD 1772. I Joined in Marriage Aaron Barlow &  Rebekah Sanford” 
Jonathan Bartlett
State of Connecticut  
Fairfield County } ss Redding 10th December 1836  
On the day and date herein named personally appeared before me the  subscriber a Justice of the Peace for said Fairfield County and subscribed and made oath to the truth of the above deposition and I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with him and know him to be a man of truth and veracity.   
Thomas B. Fanton Justice of the Peace
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I Joel Marchant of the Town of Redding in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut of the age of Seventy four years depose and say that that previous to the Revolutionary War and during the same I was well acquainted with Aaron Barlow and Rebecca his wife of said Redding, and I well remember that I was present when said Aaron Barlow and Rebecca Sanford was married at her Fathers House; and that the Revd Nathaniel Bartlett of said Redding married them; and that they were married before the Revolutionary war and lived together from that time during the war in said Redding as man and wife except in his absence on the service, and for a number of years after, as I lived in his family for a time after the war.   He and his family left Redding between thirty and forty years age and soon after inteligence [intelligence] came that said Aaron Barlow was dead and the said Rebecca Barlow came back to Redding and has lived in the Town of Redding with her son Daniel Barlow one of my near neighbours ever since as the Widow Barlow and is now still living at her sons aforesaid. In the month of November 1779 said Aaron Barlow was the Ensign of the company commanded by Capt John Gray and went to a place in Fairfield called the Farms on Long Island Sound to guard the coast being held in reserve there, and served there during the time of six weeks, I was with him in the same Company through the service, also in the month of September the same year previous to the aforesaid service I was in company with said Aaron Barlow who served as Ensign in a tour to a place called Gregory Parish in the State of New York for fourteen days. (now Cornell).   
Joel Marchant 
State of Connecticut 
Fairfield County } Redding 11th November 1836 on the day and date herein specified before me a Justice of the Peace for said Fairfield County Joel Marchant subscribed and made oath to the truth of the above deposition and I hereby certify that he is well known to me to be a man of truth and veracity.
Thomas B. Fanton - Justice of the Peace
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I Joel Marchant of the Town of Redding County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut having given my deposition heretofore on the other side have been called on by Daniel Barlow son of Widow Rebeca Barlow of said Redding to testify relation to another question not before asked and do herein depose and that on the first Monday of May 1780 it being training day I enlisted under Lieut Aaron Barlow who was a recruiting officer in Redding at that time,  and a Lieutenant.  And the company were ordered to Horseneck where we did the service, which was nine months.  Then we joined the Regiment and I served as waiter and was with him through the campaign. The condition that I enlisted on, was that my time should commence from the first of  April previous when the enlistment commenced and were paid up accordingly.  
Joel Marchant 
State of Connecticut 
Fairfield County } ss Redding 18. November 1836 
On the day and date herein specified before me Justice of the Peace for said Fairfield said Marchant subscribed and made oath to truth of the above addition to his former deposition.
Thom B. Fanton Justice of the Peace
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Joel Marchant
Ezra Bates
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I Ezra Bates of the Town of Redding in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut of the age of seventy seven years being duly cautioned and sworn, depose and say that previous to and during the Revolutionary War I was well acquainted with Aaron Barlow of said Redding who was Lieutenant in the Company commanded by Capt Jesse Bell of the Regiment commanded by Col Barzillo Beebee [Bezeleel Beebe] that commenced the service on or about the first of April 1780 in said Redding where I enlisted under Lieutenant Aaron Barlow who conducted the detachment to Horseneck where we joined the Regiment aforesaid and I served as a private in the said Company with said Aaron Barlow until our service expired which was on the first of January 1781 and he was the Lieutenant of the company through the whole of the service which was nine months, also I was well acquainted with his wife Rebecca when I enlisted and came to his house when came home from the service aforesaid where they both resided, Also in July in the year 1779 I was with the said Aaron Barlow when Capt John Grays Company was called out to go to Norwalk at the time that said Norwalk was burnt and said Barlow was ensign of the Company.  After Norwalk  State of Connecticut  was burnt we came to [unreadable], staid there a short time and then we had orders to march to Middletown (near Darien) in Fairfield County where we were dismissed.  The campaign lasted three weeks and said Aaron Barlow served the whole of said time.   
Ezra Bates 
State of Connecticut 
Fairfield County } SS. Redding 10th November 1836  On the day and date herein stated appeared Ezra Bates who subscribed and made oath to the truth of the above deposition and I hereby certify that I am acquainted with him and believe him to be a man of truth and veracity.
Before me 
Thomas B. Fanton Justice of the Peace
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Asahel Salmon
Zalmon Hull
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I Zalmon Hull of the Town of Redding in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut of the age of seventy seven years, having been duly cautioned and sworn, depose and say that in the 1778 in the month of August my Father was drafted to guard the coast on Long Island Sound in said Fairfield County in a detachment of Connecticut militia and I went and served as a substitute for him at a place called Newfield (now Bridgeport) a part of the time and a part of the time at the Farms so called in said Fairfield County and served for the term of two months in the company of Capt Thomas Nash and that Aaron Barlow of said Redding was the Lieutenant or Ensign of said Company and served in said company as a Commissioned officer the whole of two months aforesaid, I rather think that he was Ensign of the Company.   
Zalmon Hall 
State of Connecticut
Fairfield County }  Redding 10th November 1836 O On the day and date hereof appeared before me Thos B. Fanton a Justice of the Peace for said County Zalmon Hull who signed and made oath to the truth of the above deposition and I hereby certify my knowledge of him that he is a man entitled to credit in his testimony fully before me.   
Thomas B. Fanton Justice of the Peace
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I Asahel Salmons of the Town of Redding in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut of the age of Seventy eight years, having been duly cautioned and sworn depose and say that I was well acquainted with Aaron Barlow of said Redding before the Revolutionary war and during the said war and that about the first of October 1777 I went in company with said Aaron Barlow to a place called Peekskill in the State of New York in a company Connecticut Militia commanded by Capt John Gray and said Aaron Barlow was the Ensign and Nehemiah Hall Lieutenant of said Company at said Peekskill.  The company joined the army,  marched to a place called Red-hook, there we had information that General Burgoin [Burgoyne]  had surrendered. From there we were ordered to Fishkill and remained there until we were discharged, which was six weeks service; and the said Aaron Barlow served as Ensign during the time of service above stated.   Previous to the first of October 1777 above, the said Company was called to a choice of Commission Officers and John Gray was chosen Captain,  Nehemiah Hull Lieutenant and Aaron Barlow Ensign but did not get the commission until the session of the Legislation in January following.   
Also in the year AD 1780 on or about the first of April I enlisted under said Aaron Barlow who was the recruiting officer of the Company commanded by Capt John Bell when we joined the Company at Horseneck of the Regiment commanded Col Barzilla Beebee [Bezeleel Beebe],  and said Barlow served as Lieut in said Company until our service ended which was on the first of January 1781.  I was with him in said Company during the whole time and served as Corporal. I was well acquainted with said Barlow and his wife Rebecca and that they lived together previous to the war and that the said Rebecca his widow is now living and has never married since his death which was as near as I can recollect about thirty years ago.   
Asahel Salmon
State of Connecticut  
Fairfield County } S.S. Redding 9th November 1836 
Personally appeared Asahel Salmons who subscribed and made oath to the truth of the above deposition, and I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with him and know him to be entitled to full credit in evidence. 
Before me Thomas B. Fanton Justice of the Peace
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Thereby certify that for several years past, I have known Thomas B. Fanton as a highly respectable man and an acting Justice of the Peace for the County of Fairfield, in the State of Connecticut and that his official signatures appearing on the foregoing affidavits of Aaron Sanford, Ebenezer Sanford, Jonathan Bartlett, Joel Marchant, Ezra Bates, Zalmon Hull and Asahel Salmon, are undoubtedly genuine and entitled to full credit. 
G. Tomlinson
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Rebecca Barlow
widow of Aaron
Connt
30
6.0
120
210
Original Case
Admd [admitted]
6 mo. 8 days Sergt
5 mo 29 days Ensign
9 mos Lieut.
No deduction
Hon. G. Tomlinson
Senate US
A. Barlow
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Comptrollers Office 
Hartford Connecticut 
December 5th 1836 
I certify that Capt Zalmon Read is credited on the pay table Books now in this Office April 13th 1776, Waterbury Regt "By account rendered his Company, viz, Enlisting Bounties 91 men @ 40 / £  182 – 
95 Blankets &c 14  57  
92 Stands arms / [unreadable] 13 Boxes 10/  44 -1 
Billiting   63-4-6
Wages 1250-6-3   
Milage home 76-5-  
Commission at 1 ½ per Ct  25-1-9-  
He is also credited on the same books Aust  27th 1784  "By amount of account rendered £ 310-1-7
By Cash paid Treasurer   289-12-2" 
I further certify that the name of Aaron Barlow appears on a pay roll in this office, headed as follows, to wit, “Return of Capt Reads Company in Col Waterbury Regt for back rations commencing 26th June 1775 and ending 29th Nov following” in which said Barlow is credited 
£1-1-4, said pay roll is & sworn to before Andrew Rowland Justice of Peace, and contains the following Receipt, to wit, “Hartford Nov 28th 1776, Recd of Pay Table Committee order
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on Treasurer of this State for the sum of Ninety three pounds nineteen shillings money on account of the within, for Capt Read, for David Dimon" 
I further certify that Capt Jesse Bell is credited on the payable books, May 30th 1777. Whitings Battalion, to wit, By premiums paid 60 men £ 120-  
By balance ch’d Co per Whiting 52-  
Feby 2d 1780 … By his account rendered 17739-2-9.
Jany 18th 1781… By account rendered for bounties paid his Company Coast Guards £ 480- 
Wm Field Comptroller
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JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Esquire, 
Captain-General, and Commander in Chief, of the State of CONNECTICUT, in AMERICA.
 To Aaron Barlow Gent. GREETING. 
You being by the General Assembly of this State accepted to be Ensign of the ninth Company Train and in the fourth Regiment in this State  
Reposing special Trust and Confidence, in your Fidelity, courage, and good Conduct, I do, by virtue of the Law of this State, me thereunto enabling, appoint and impower you to take the said Company into your Care and charge, as their Ensign carefully and diligently to discharge that Trust; exercise your inferior Officer and Soldiers in the use of their Arms, according to the Discipline of War; keeping them in good order and Government; and commanding them to obey you as their ensign for the Service of this State. And you are to observe all such Orders and Directions, as from Time to Time you shall receive, either from me, or from other your superior officer, pursuant to the Trust hereby reposed in you. 
Given under my Hand, and the Seal of this State, in Hartford the 1st Day of January Anno Domini 1778
John Trumbull
By His Excellency's Command,  
George  Wyllys Secry
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JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Esquire, 
Captain-General, and Commander in Chief, in and over the State of CONNECTICUT, in AMERICA.
 To Aaron Barlow Gent. GREETING. 
You being by the Governor and Council of Safety of this State appointed to be Lieutenant of Company in a Regiment raised in this State for the service of this and the United States.  
Reposing special Trust and Confidence, in your Fidelity, courage, and good Conduct, I do, by virtue of the Laws of this State, me thereunto enabling, appoint and impower you to take the said Company into your Care and charge, as their Lieutenant carefully and diligently to discharge that Trust; exercise your inferior Officer and Soldiers in the use of their Arms, according to the Discipline of War; keeping them in good order and Government; and commanding them to obey you as their Lieutenant  for the Service of this State and you are to observe all such Orders and Directions, as from Time to Time you shall receive, either from me, or from other your superior officer, pursuant to the Trust hereby reposed in you. 
Given under my Hand, and the Seal of this State, in Hartford the 27th  Day of June Anno Domini 1780
John Trumbull
By His Excellency's Command,  
George  Wyllys Secry
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Aaron Barlow  7.22
6-8
75 Capt Zalmon Read Col. Waterbury – 2d June to 10 Decr Lake Champlain, St John’s, Montreal 7 month service
[unreadable] 77 Capt Gray – witness – Peekskill &c 1.12 days Ensign
Aug 78 Capt. Nash, Coast Guard, witness – Bridgeport  2 weeks Ensign
July 79, Capt Gray, witness, Norwalk &c, 21 days Ensign
Sept 79, Capt Gray, witness, New York, 14 days Ensign
Nov 79, Capt Gray, witness, Fairfield, 1 12 days Ensign
Commission June 5. 29 days
Apl 80, Capt Bell, Col Beebe, from 1 Apl. To Decr 80, witnesses, 9 Lieut.
+ 2 weeks Ensign Connt of Coast Guards – no proof from records that he & his company were paid
6 mo. 8 days Sergt
5 mo 29 days Ensign
9 mo Lieut
21 mo 7 days
30
50
9.67
1.33
120.00
211.00
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May 16-1903. Hist to Chas Barlow Bridgeport Conn 
20,665 
Revy WIDOW, &c. 
File No. 20665 
Rebecca Barlow
widow of Aaron Barlow 
Lieut Rev War  
Act: June 7th / 36 
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 30
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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David Truber President        Capital $200.000.     J. B. Prindles Cashier 
Sequannock National Bank of Bridgeport 
Bridgeport, Conn MAY 12 1903 
Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C. 
Sir - Will you kindly furnish the military record of Aaron Barlow
[stamp] U.S.P.B. OLD WAR & NAVY FILES MAY 15 1903
Born in Redding Conn 1750
Died in Norfolk Va  1800 
You favor will greenly appreciated 
Very truly 
Chas C. Barlow 
Bridgeport Ct
Box 265