Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 11,504, for Isaac Tarbell, Vermont
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SERVICE
Vt.
Tarbell, Isaac
NUMBER
S11504
carded
CONTENTS
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20988
New York
Isaac Tarbell
of Jefferson Co in the State of New York who was a private in the Comp commanded by Captain Benjamin of the Regt commanded by Col Wart in the Vermont line for 7 months and 6 days

Inscribed on the Roll of New York 
the rate of 24 Dollars   Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March,1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 23r day of Oct 1833 and sent to N. Rathburn Brownsville

Arrears to the 4th of Sep. '33  $72
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 M211  12
$84

(Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832)

Recorded by Go. C Stiles Clerk
Book E. Vol. 4. Page 81
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State of New York
Jefferson County
On this fifth day of December 1832
personally appeared in open Court in the Judges there
of the Court of Common for now sitting, Isaac Paull
resident of Pownall in the County of Jefferson & State of
New York aged 70 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration
in order to obtain the limits of the act of Court paper
June 7th 1832.
that he entered the service of the United States under the
following named officers & served as herein stated
Dont recollect the commanding Genl. My lColonels
name was Wait who resided in Windsor Vermont
Capts name was Benjamin Joshua Church was
my Lieut:  under whom I enlisted, who resided in the
town of Chester, Vermont. My Ensigns name was Hall
Orderly Sergeants name was Burchard or Burchy
Corporal Tilden. I Inlisted as a volunteer under Joshua Church
in the town of Chester County of Windsor, Vermont
about the last of April or first of May 1779. when I was
17 years of age. I went about sixty miles to First Bethel
about seven miles from Royalton. When I was not
called to do duty I went from first Bethel on a
cont with my Corporol Tilden & on Smith, to Dag
River, then to Onion River then to Mad River & then
we returned to Bethel after a[illegible] seven days
Dont recollect how long I remained at first Bethel
[illegible] on another scout; but during the time, I went
down to Royalton after it was burnt, (That [illegible] had him
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burnt the season before, there was a Block house at
Royalton, remained at Bolton about two weeks then
thence to First Bethel I remained at First Bethel
as I now recollect, seven months & six or seven days
when I get a furlough to go home, I went home about the
tenth of Decr 1779, & I then hired a substitute of the name of Philip Bacon, whom I paid to serve out the nine months, from which time I enlisted who went and at
my time & knight me back a Discharge under the
have, I think of Capt. Benjamin. This discharge is but
I have no documentary evidence in my possession & know of no person now living, whose testimony I can procure
who can testify to my service. I was born according
to the Record in my age, Oct. 9. 1762
there is a record of my age I expect in the town of West
Minster, County of Windham Vermont, but of this I have only been informed. I never saw it & do not know it.
When I enlisted I resided in the town of Chester County of
Windsor State of Vermont. I cannot say positively whether
it was then called Vermont or New Hampshire, I always resided in Vermount, until nine years ago, where I removed
into the State of New York. Brownville Jefferson County where
I now reside. He is no clergyman in my neighborhood
to whom I could apply for a certificate

Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
[signature] P. Burchard Clerk
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We, Artimas Earl, residing in the town of Brownville
in the County of Jefferson & State of New York & William S. Kimball of the town of Hounsfield County  & State aforesaid
hereby certify. Artemas Earl for hiring that he is well
acquainted with Isaac Tarbell who has subscribed
Sworn to the above declaration: that he has known
him upwards of sixty years, & William S. Kimball for
[illegible] that he is well acquainted with said Isaac Tarbell
that he has known him upwards of twenty six years &
that we believe him to be Seventy years of age; that he is
reputed & being in the neighborhood when he made
to have been a revolutionary
Soldier & that in concur
in that opinion.

[signature] Wm S. Kimball
[signature] Arltimas Earl

Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
 
[signature] P. Burchard Clerk

and the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories presented by
the war department, that the above named applicant was a
Revolutionary Soldier, & served as he states. And the Court further
certifies, that it appears to them, that Artimas Earl & William
S. Kimball, who has signed the above certificate, anreresidents the
County of Jefferson & State of New York an credible persons, & that
their statement is entitled to credit

I Pelig Burchard Clerk of the County of Jefferson of the Court
common pleas in said County do hereby certify, that the
foregoing
contains the original from in the said Court, in the
matter of the application of Isaac Tarbell be a person
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & seal
in this fifth day of Dec 1832
[signature] P. Burchard Clerk
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239.48
Isaac Tarbell's
Revolutionary Claims
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Jefferson County  Isaac Tarbell
in addition to what he
has already stated in his Declaration under date of 5th December
1832, which declaration is hereto annexed,
further declares
that he enlisted as a volunteer in the town of Chester,
County of Windsor State of Vermont about the last of April
or the first of May & on reflection he is quite position it was
on the first of May 1779, when he was seventeen years of age,
under Joshua Church who was a Lieutenant,
Benjamin was Capt of the Company, &
Wait was
Colo. He is very positive that he was in the service as a
Volunteer militiaman seven months & six or seven days.
from the best of his recollection I positive that he enlisted for
the term of Nine months. That during the 7 months & 6 or 7 days
he was in the service, he was not in any civil employment
but was wholly in the military service. that he returned
home on a furlough from
Fort Bethel in December
& he thinks about the tenth, 1779
that he did not serve out
the remainder of his term of
Nine months himself; he
hired a substitute of the name of Philip Bacon, who
was 19 or 20. years of age & was an able bodied man. that he
paid him for the time he served as such substitute, that the
said Bacon went, was accepted as such substitute, served out
the term of the nine months for which he had enlisted
& after the said Bacon had served out the said term, he
brought to him this deponent a regular full honorable
Discharge in the name of Isaac Tarbell under the
hand of (as he thinks) Capt Benjamin, which discharge
is now lost
that Philip Bacon died as many as 15 years ago. The said Isaac Tarbell hereby
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relinquishes all right & claim  to a grant or Pension, for Services as a
soldier of the Revolutionary War, to which he may be
entitled by virtue of any law of the United States of America
heretofore passed.
the can say nothing in addition to
what he has already stated in his part declaration
in relation to his services. That Artemas Earl, who
testimony has been procured, was a near neighbor of this deponent & knew him both before & after he was in the service
but not being present when this deponent enlisted, & not
having see this deponent while in the service he cannot
testify positively to said service. That the said Earle is
the only man now living who can, to this deponents
knowledge, testify to said services.

[signature] Isaac Tarbell

Sworn & Subscribed
this 27 day of May 1833
before me
[signature] G Brown Judge
Jeff County Court
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Jefferson County ss. I, Artemas Earle of the town of Brownville
Jefferson County & State of New York, being first duly sworn
doth depose & say; that I was, on the 23d day of January
1833. Seventy one years of age. That I was born in the
town of Chester, County of Worcester in the State of Massachusetts
that when I was 5 years old my Father removed to the town
of Chester County of Winsor State of Vermont; that I have
be intimately acquainted with Isaac Tarbell, the within
applicant for a Pension, for a period of more than sixty
years, that we were boys together, have been to school
together & I have always understood that I was about one
year older than he was . That in 1779, when the said
Tarbell was said to have been a solder or
Malitiaman during the Revolutionary War, I resided
within a half a mile of his fathers house. That in the
year 1779. it was said, & have always understood, & I
have no doubt of the fact that the said Isaac Tarbell
went as a volunteer into the service what precise time
he entered the serve or left it, I am unable to say,
but I have always understood that he enlisted for nine
months. Not he have understood & this information I
get about the period of 1779. that before the Nine months
had expired Tarbell returned home & I then heard that
he hired a man to go & take his place to serve out his
time. That said Tarbell, during the poor he states in
his declaration as having time in the same, was absent
him home & did not return until sometime in the
month of December 1779. as I think & I have no doubt he
was in the service as a soldier during that time not
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I knew Philip Bacon mentioned in Tarbell's declaration
in the year 1779 he was then a young man, but has been
dead as many as 15 years as I have understood &
believe. That I removed from the State of Vermont to
Brownville Jefferson County State of New York nine
years ago, when I now reside.
I further say on my oath aforesaid,
That I have stated in this affidavit all my knowledge of
said Tarbell's services as a soldier with as much [illegible] as I am able to do

[Signature] Artemas Earl

Sworn before me this 25th day
of May 1833
[signature] G. Brown Judge
 
Jefferson County ss. I certify that Actimas Earl
who has subscribed & sworn to the above affidavit to me known, is
in my opinion a man of truth & veracity. Subscibed
this 27th day of May 1833
[signature] G Brown Judge Jeff county Court

State of New York
Jefferson County Clerks office of Peleg Burchard Clerk of the said County do
certify that Geo. Brown Esqr before whom the foregoing
Affidavits purport to have been sworn was at the date of the same
one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in
and for the said County and that I am acquainted with
his handwriting and verily believe his name such
affidavit to be his proper handwriting and signature
my hand and the seal of the said County this 28th day July 1833
Witness
[signature] P. Burchard
Clerk
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23948
Isaac Tarbell
NYork

C.F.
Admitted
Private 7 mo & 7 days

60
233
2399

N Rathboun
Brownsville NY
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WAR DEPARTMENT
Pension Office,
May 17 1833
Sir
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has
been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of
your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules and
the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed
before a pension can be allowed. the notes and the regulations will shew what is
necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed,
you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: )
You will, when
you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and
you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your
claim.
[Chart]
A Statement, shewing the service of Isaac Tarbell
Period when the service was rendered
Vol enlisted 1779
 
Duration of the claiment's service.
Years
Months 
7
Days
6 or 7 days

Rank of the claiment

Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served.
Col Wait
Capt Benjamin

Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service.
70 years
Vermont

Proof by which the declaration is supported.
Traditionary evidence 
certificate of 2 citizens
can get no other evidence
he has not relinquished,

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
branch of the Staff of the Army,
This law has been created "L" st"i" and wolunteers, all
persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who
were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to
Store Keepers, &c, Teainsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are
also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged
in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual inilitary service.
The Regular Troops.
Q.
The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
Persons employed in the Naval Service.
4
Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claimofficers
, mucicians or privates, will, in the first
ing the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned
instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of
Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk
considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
Sta, Territors
County of
On this
day of
personally appeared (a) before
A. B. a resident (b) of
in the county of
of
and State, Territory or District
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 provision made by the act of Congress, passed
June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d)
served in the
with and
(e) regiment of the
line, under the following named officers:
Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers, the time he left the service; (and if he serv-
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ed under more than
ten or eleven he entered the service; the battle, if any, in which he was engaged,
and the country through which he marched on his form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of offers and persons
who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he
declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of
the Agency in the State of
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
A. B.
And then will follow the certificate of the Court.)
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary
soldier, and served as he states.
of the Court of
do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of
the application of
for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this
day of
& c.
If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be
found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia,
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scribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
and C. D. residing in (the same)
WALES
hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with
who has
subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be
years of age, that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier
of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid.
And then will follow the certificate of the Court.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after
putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary
Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B.
who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the
and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the
and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Clerk of the Court of
do hereby certify that the foregoing
contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of
for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal
of office, this
day of
& c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commisthe
party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if
but if neither of these are in detail his personal knowledge of the ser-
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rise of the teplicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light
upon the transaction.
witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, (l) and he will
whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful
in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his
alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case The facts stated will afford one of the principal
of corporating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted
; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be exexpected
. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and
there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his
CASE.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of
service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State
troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war
, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute?
And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such
Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
The Soldier.
.
To an Offcer has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify
as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are
requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court,
without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons--one of whom should be
the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from
their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed
and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion.
If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character
or other persons giving such certificates.
and stating
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct
proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the
enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before
required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper
county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform,
and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record,
or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper
Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a
Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is
his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before
in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the
the taking effect of the stated will transmit such evidence as they can prohim
in all the
missus
cari, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period
of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the
opinion of the Court upon the whole matter
The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily warmity, in which case the declarant with a
by a fine new war on
the line as my servants of the war when he served.
Every sentimental cancer of soldier must give the date of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise
claim cannot be had. Every lame a en van wins in
away how and was a mere men
of old age, and the amount loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the one fourt or the nerve, but, according to the best of his
Recollection he served not forth the periods mentioned below, and in the following year
For months in and for such service I claim a pension."
T
as we were
to debate, and all such quality the expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state the
men without using the fours one name of the Ameers, and other particular rests their service. This form of a declaration
two performed that the allies served with an embodied corn called into service by competent authority
that he was cheer in the old or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed to any civil
⌨ The law makos the relinquishment indispensamis. )
The opinion of the Court is always required.
The Clerk must give his certificate in every one.
that it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no pub-
THAT the veteran nature of the certifying ones should accompany
papers.
Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the continents of the certifying omcer who authenticaton the parake not written on the same sheet of paper which contains
the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate
pass under the seal of sage of the carrying officer, so as to prevent any paper from the improperly attached to the seat
Proof of Service.
as by two credible witnesses.
and the time
In a case where the name of the mendicant is not found on
time
manner of his leaving the same as well
who are required if that while he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the creation of the who
As the Prime
tauranter and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper under
is the only passable reme
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The traditionary evidence is indispensable in
readers will at the War Department, with the declaration.
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Rev War
14504
Isaac Tarbell
Pri Rev War
Act June 7th 32
Index:-Vol. X, Page 369
{Arrangement of 1870.}