Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2346, for Jacob Richards, Connecticut
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SERVICE   Conn.
Richards, Jacob
Mary
NUMBER  W. 2346
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1731 
New York 
Jacob Richards 
of Milton in the State of New York who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain  - of the Regt commanded by Col Mead & others in the Connecticut line for 2 years and more.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York the rate of  80 Dollars  - per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 9th day of November 1832 -- and sent to A Goodrich.   
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $120.00
Semi-nnl. allowance ending 4 Mar ‘33 40.00 
$160.00  
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}  
Recorded by Geo. C. Stiles 
Book D Vol 5 Page 132
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1641 
New York Albany 
Mary Richards 
widow of Jacob who served in the Revolutionary  Conn war, as a private 
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February 1833 
Certificate of Pension issued the 31st day of Aug / 53 and sent to Elihu Wing Greenfield Centre Saratoga Co N. York 
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act FEbry 3d / 53  Page 82 Vol A 
1832
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1 Brief  No. 7989
Jacob Richards
Admitted
2 years 
$80
A. Goodrich 
Agt
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No 7989
BRIEF in the case of  Jacob Richards of Milton 
County  of Saratoga   in the State of  New York
(Act 7th June, 1832.) 
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?   Before a Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? 
3. How old is he?  73 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
Period.  In 1776 31 March or April 1   Duration of Service.  1 Months  Rank.  private  Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Colo John Mead
Period.  1776 May or June  Duration of Service.  6 Months  Rank.  Private Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.  Colo Swift
Period.  1777 Duration of Service. 1 Year   Rank.  private  Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Col. John Mead
Period.  1778 March 1   Duration of Service. 1 year  Rank.   private Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.  Colo Graham
Period. 1779   Duration of Service. until close of war    Rank.  private  Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.  Colo John Mead, Major Talmadge
5. In what battles was he engaged?   at Sacktick Bridge & Ridgefield, Voluntines Hill & Dobo Ferry
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?  at Norwalk, Conn.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?   By 2 living witnesses (see Declaration of Seymour Talmadge) & Traditionary evidence
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?   They appear to be correct (except 2 affidavits relative to Seymour *Talmadge annexed thru mistake)
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
James Ord
Examining Clerk 
*see No 7988
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Jacob Richards
7989
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State of New York 
Saratoga County }  ss on the 6th day of September 1832 personally appeared in open court before the court of Common pleas of the County of Saratoga now sitting Jacob Richards of the Town of Milton County of Saratoga and State of New York aged seventy three years old 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 passed June 7th 1832.   
Saith that he was born in the town of Norwalk County of Fairfield and State of Connect west on the Eleventh day of December 1758 as he has understood by information and that he resided in the said Town of Norwalk until the year 1776 in the last of March or first of April was drafted from the militia of the State of Connecticut and was mustered in a company commanded capt Seth Seymour in a Regiment commanded by Col John Mead of Horseneck, and immediately marched to New York which was then threatened to be invaded by the Enemy and there continued in served one month until the troops arrived from Boston when he returned home with Capt Seymour and company and was discharged.   
And in the month of May or June in the same year he enlisted in the Town of New Canan [Canaan] County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut for six months in a company commanded by Capt Beach in a Regiment commanded by Col Swift, afterwards General Swift, was mustered in the Town of Danbury, and marched to Scheensborough and served there and down Lake Champlain until the expiration of his enlistment and was discharged.   
And in the year 1777 he enlisted for one year in a company commanded by Capt John Carter in a Regiment commanded by Col John Mead and was mustered in new Canaan in the State of Connecticut in the militia of said state and was marched on to the seacoast and actually did duty on the lines and and in the defence of the frontiers until the Expiration of his Enlistment. 
And in March 1778 he enlisted in a company commanded by Capt John Drake in a Regiment commanded by Col Graham nigh Crum pond in Dutchess County for one year was stationed a part of the time at Tarrytown and a part of the time at the White Plains and faithfully served out his Enlistment and was discharged, then went home to the place of his nativity.   
And in 1779 he volunteered into a company commanded by Capt Reuben Scofield in a Regiment commanded by the said Col John Mead, and continued in the service of the Revolutionary War until the close thereof when he was discharged from serves at Horseneck, and that Nathaniel Seymour and Seymour Tallmadge were in the same company with him a considerable part of the time who are now in court, was in the Battle of Compo and in a battle at Sackstick
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Bridge and in the battle of Ridgefield when General Wooster was killed which was the time the Enemy burned Danbury,  was in the Battle nigh [near] Roten Islands, the officer that then commanded was a Lieutenant Weed,  was at the battle at a place called Voluntines [Valentine’s]  Hill nigh Kings Bridge, was in the battle at Dobbs ferry, Major Tallmadge Commanded.   Interrogatories by the Court 
1st was Born the Eleventh day of December 1758 in Norwich Fairfield County aforesaid & State of Connecticut.  2 - has no Record of his age the same was burned by the Enemy when they burned Norwalk where they burned his fathers house.  
3 I lived in the Town of Norwalk County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut and after the revolutionary war lived there until April 1787 and then removed into the now town of Greenfield County of Saratoga and State of New York, lived there two years and moved into the now town of Milton County of Saratoga where he now resides.  
4  was first drafted into serves then enlisted, and the last volunteered until the close of the war.  
5  General Gates, General Waterbury, Col Swift,  Col Mead,  Col Bradley,  Col Starr,  Col Matt,  Major Talmage [Talmadge],  Capt Benedict,  Capt Couch,  Capt Seymour and Capt Herrick and Capt Scofield.  
6 never received a written discharge from any officer 
7 and he further saith that he is acquainted with Charles McCabe a Clergyman Residing in the Town of Milton and is also acquainted with Nathaniel Seymour and Seymour Tallmage Residents of said town of Greenfield in the County of Saratoga who can testify to a part of the services above stated and to the Character and verasity of this deponant and also to his age. 
And further that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever or annuity except the present and that he declared that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State.  
Jacob Richards x his mark
Sworn and subscribed to the day and year aforesaid in open Court  
Thomas Palmer Clerk 
We Charles McCabe a clergyman residing in the Town of Milton and Nathaniel Seymour and Seymour Tallmadge of the Town of Greenfield all in the County of Saratoga do hereby certify the we are all well acquainted with Jacob Richards who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and that we believe him to be seventy three years old, and that he is reputed 
Affection  
A Goodrich Justice
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and believed in the Nechborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolutionary war and that we concur in that opinion and the said Nathaniel Seymour and Seymour Tallmadge further states that they were well acquainted with him during the revolutionary war and ware actually in the same company with him when commanded by Seth Seymour and Capt John Carter and Capt Reuben Scofield in the regiment commanded by Col John Mead and that he actually did the duty as stated by him.    
Charles McCabe
Nathaniel Seymour
Sworn and subscribed to the  day and year aforesaid in open Court 
Thomas Palmer Clerk
And the said Court do hereby declare there opinion after the investigation of the matter and after the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant, was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he stated and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Charles McCabe who signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman Resident in said Town of Milton and that Nathaniel Seymour and Seymour Tallmadge who have also signed the same are Residents of the Town of Greenfield and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to Credit.   
I Thomas Palmer Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Saratoga do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of  Jacob Richards for a pension.  
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this Sixth day of September 1832 
Thomas Palmer Clerk
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State of New York 
Saratoga County ss}  Personally appeared before me Alpheus Goodrich Esqr one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said County Jacob Richards a Resident of the town of Milton in said county who being by me duly sworn according to Law, Deposeth and saith that he is intimately acquainted with Seymour Tallmadge a Resident of the Town of Greenfield in said County and was also intimately acquainted with him during the Revolutionary war, and further that in the last of March or first of April 1776 the said Seymour Tallmadge together with this deponent were drafted from the Militia of the State of Connecticut in the now town of New Canaan in the County of Fairfield and was mustered in a company commanded by Capt Seth Seymour in a Regiment commanded by Col John Mead of Horseneck and immediately marched to New York which was then threatened to be invaded by the Enemy and the said Seymour Tallmadge did duty as a soldier there until the Troops arrived from Boston which was one month when they were marched back to where they ware mustered and were discharged by the said Capt Seth Seymour.   And in 1777 the said Seymour Tallmadge and this deponent Enlisted or volunteered into the service of the Revolutionary war for one year in a company commanded by Capt John Carter in the Regiment commanded by the said John Mead and was mustered in the now town of New Canaan County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut and was immediately marched to the defence of the sea coast and did duty there and on the lines and actually served the time of his Enlistment when he was discharged with this deponent.  And in 1779 he the said Seymour Tallmadge and this deponant volunteered into the servise of the Revolutionary war in a company commanded by Capt Reuben Scofield in the Regiment commanded by the said Col John Mead, and the said Seymour Tallmadge continued in the servise of the Revolutionary war in the company and Regiment aforesaid until the close thereof which was in 1783 when he was discharged together with this Deponent.  
Jacob Richards x his mark 
Sworn to & Subscribed the 19th day of September 1832 before me  A Goodrich Justice 
And I certify that the above named Jacob Richards is a credible person, and his statement entitled to credit, and further that he subscribed his name to the above affidavit by making his mark, being unable to write by reason of a severe nervous affliction.
A Goodrich Justice
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State of New York 
Saratoga County } ss  Personally appeared before me Alpheus Goodrich Esq one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid Nathaniel Seymour a Resident of the Town of Greenfield in said County who being by me duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he is intimately acquainted with Seymour Tallmadge of the said Town of Greenfield in said County and was also well acquainted with him during the Revolutionary war, and further that the said Seymour Tallmadge was drafted from the Militia of the State of Connecticut in the last of March or first of April 1776 and was mustered in a company commanded by Capt Seth Seymour in a Regiment commanded by Col John Mead of Horseneck, and was immediately marched to New York which was then threatened to be invaded by the Eneny and continued in the service until the Troops arrived from Boston which was one month, when he returned home to the new town of New Canaan in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut with the said Capt Seth Seymour and was discharged by him together with this deponent.  And in 1778. the said Seymour Tallmadge Enlisted or volunteered in a company commanded by Capt Reuben Scofield in the said Regiment commanded by the said Col John Mead and he served in said company in Guarding the sea coast and an the lines and frontiers from the time aforesaid until the close of the Revolutionary in 1783 when he the said Seymour Tallmadge was discharged together with this deponant who also served in the same company and Regiment from the time the said Tallmadge Enlisted in 1778 until the close of the Revolutionary war.   
Nathaniel Seymour x his mark
Sworn to and subscribed the 19th day of September 1832 before me A.  Goodrich Justice 
And I certify that the above named Nathaniel Seymour is a credible person, and that his statement is entitled to credit. And I further certify that he subscribed the above affidavit by making his mark, being unable to write his name, on account of a severe nervous affection.  
A Goodrich Justice
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State of Connecticut
Saratoga County } ss  I Thomas Palmer Clerk of the County of Saratoga do certify that Alpheus Goodrich before whom the foregoing affidavits of Jacob Richards and Nathania Seymour purport to have been sworn, was at the date of the same one of the Justice of the peace, in and for the said County and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice & verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavits to be his proper hand writing and signature.   
Witness my hand and seal of Office the 19th day of September 1832.   
Thomas Palmer Clerk
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State of New York Saratoga County ss 
I Mary Richards of the Town of Milton in the County of Saratoga and State of New York being duly sworn deposeth and Saith that she is the widow of Jacob Richards late of the said Town of Milton County & State aforesaid Deceased, and that she was married to the said Jacob Richards on the twenty fourth Day of April One thousand Eight hundred and twenty one by Elihu Wing Esqr a Justice of the peace and that they lived together as husband and wife in the same House where she now resides in said Town of Milton until the Twenty third day of February One thousand Eight hundred and thirty five at which time he died leaving me his widow and that I am still his Widow not having remarried and further this deponent saith that some few years  previous to his death, my Husband Jacob Richard was placed on the Pension Roll list of the United States of America for Services rendered as a soldier during the war of the Revolution and that he received said pension from the time he received his pension certificate until the fall before his decease, and further this Deponent saith that after the death of her husband as stated above the she was Executrix & Elihu Wing Esqr as an Executor named in the last Will and Testament of the said Jacob Richards, deceased, and the we as such Executor and Executrix Settled the said Estate agreeable to said Will, and further that after the Decease of her husband she as his widow made application and obtained whatever sum which accrued from the fourth of September previous to his decease until the time of his Death and further that this Deponant believes that she is entitled to a pension from an act passed, and approved February third one thousand Eight hundred and fifty three in the words following Sec 2 Be it  further enacted that the widows of all officers non commissioned [unreadable]
State of New York, Saratoga County Clerk's Office  
I, JAMES W. HORTON, CLERK OF THE SAID COUNTY, do hereby certify, That Ezra Westcott whose name is subscribed to the annexed affidavit, was, at the date of said affidavit, a  Justice of the Peace of the County of Saratoga, dwelling in said County, duly qualified; and that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Westcott and verily believe that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine. 
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my name, and affixed the Seal of said County, this 12 day of April in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty three
James W. Horton CLERK
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State of New York Saratoga County ss 
I Mary Richards of the Town of Milton in the County of Saratoga and State of New York being duly sworn deposeth and Saith that she is the widow of Jacob Richards late of the said Town of Milton County & State aforesaid Deceased, and that she was married to the said Jacob Richards on the twenty fourth Day of April One thousand Eight hundred and twenty one by Elihu Wing Esqr a Justice of the peace and that they lived together as husband and wife in the same House where she now resides in said Town of Milton until the Twenty third day of February One thousand Eight hundred and thirty five at which time he died leaving me his widow and that I am still his Widow not having remarried and further this deponent saith that some few years  previous to his death, my Husband Jacob Richard was placed on the Pension Roll list of the United States of America for Services rendered as a soldier during the war of the Revolution and that he received said pension from the time he received his pension certificate until the fall before his decease, and further this Deponent saith that after the death of her husband as stated above the she was Executrix & Elihu Wing Esqr as an Executor named in the last Will and Testament of the said Jacob Richards, deceased, and the we as such Executor and Executrix Settled the said Estate agreeable to said Will, and further that after the Decease of her husband she as his widow made application and obtained whatever sum which accrued from the fourth of September previous to his decease until the time of his Death and further that this Deponant believes that she is entitled to a pension from an act passed, and approved February third one thousand Eight hundred and fifty three in the words following Sec 2 Be it  further enacted that the widows of all officers non commissioned officers musicians and privates of the Revolutionary army who were married obsequent to January 1800. shall be entitled to a pension in the same manner as those who were married before that date.
Approved February 3d 1853 
and further the tenant saith not 
Mary Richards
State of New York 
Saratoga County}  ss Sworn to and subscribed before me this 15 day of April 1853 and I hereby certify that I know the said Mary to be the widow of the Jacob Richards deceased and believe she is of the age above stated.   
Ezra Westcott Justice of the peace
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State of New York Saratoga County ss 
I Elizabeth White of the Town of Milton in the County of Saratoga and State of New York being duly sworn deposeth and saith that she is a daughter of Jacob Richards and Mary Richards, of said Town of Milton County and State aforesaid and further that her father Died Eighteen years ago the twenty third day of the February last, and that her father while liveing was a pensioner of the United States for services rendered the United States as a private Soldier in the War of the Revolution, and that she in the life time of her father has often seen his pension certificate and that she now resides in the same house with her mother Mary Richards and that her Mother Mary Richards is still the widow of my deceased father Jacob Richards and that she has not since the death of my father remarried and further this Deponant is the wife of William White of the said Town of Milton County and State aforesaid and that this deponent is now of the age of Thirty One years 
and also that her father Jacob Richards at the time of his death was about seventy seven years of age agreeable to the Record and that her mother Mary Richards is in her sixty seventh year of her age.  
Elizabeth White 
Sworn to and subscribed this 12th day of April 1853 
before me Ezra Westcott Justice of the peace
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In reply to your request of – received – for a statement of the military history of   Jacob Richards 
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.   W. File 2346
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT   March or April 76   LENGTH OF SERVICE  1 mo.  RANK.    OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.  Captain Seth Seymour, Colonel John Mead   STATE.  Conn.
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT  May or June 76   LENGTH OF SERVICE  6 mos.  RANK.  OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.  Captain Beach, Colonel Swift   STATE.   Conn.
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT  1777  LENGTH OF SERVICE   1 year  RANK.  OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.  Captain John Carter, Colonel John Mead   STATE. 
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT  Mch 1778   LENGTH OF SERVICE  1 year.   RANK.  OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.  Captain John Drake, Colonel Graham   STATE. 
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT   1779 to 1783   LENGTH OF SERVICE  RANK.  OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.  Captain Reuben Scofield, Colonel John Mead  STATE. 
Battles engaged in,  Compo, Saugatauk Bridge, Ridgefield, near Roten Island
Residence of soldier at enlistment,  Norwalk Conn.
Date of application for pension,  Sept 6 1832, allowed
Residence at date of application,  Milton, Saratoga Co. N.Y.
Age at date of application,   b. Dec 11 1758 at Norwalk Conn
Remarks:  Sol. [soldier] m. [married] Apl 23, 1821, Mary, he d. [died] Feb 23, 1835.
& she was allowed pens  [pension] on her appln ex [executed] Apl 12, 1853 while in her 67 year & residing with their dau [daughter] Elizabeth, at 31 yrs, wife of William White.
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Revy WIDOW, &c. 
File No. 2346 
Mary Richards 
Widow 
Jacob Richards 
Pri Rev War 
Act: Feb. 3, 1853 
Index: -- Vol. M. Page 161 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Mch. 23. 1897. History to Mrs. C. L. Poole, 1492 Locust St. Dubuque Iowa 
1911 Mch 24. Mrs. C. L. Ellsworth c
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Pension Office, 22 August 1853
Sir, 
Be  pleased to inform to what time the within named pensioner was paid  or the date of his death. 
I am Sir Respect &c  
S. Cole 
for the Commissioner 
Jacob Richards, Act 32 $80 p. an. [per annum] -- Died 23d Feb. 1835 paid to his death.  
F. Bush Auditor. 
Francis Burt Esqr Chief Auditor, Treasy
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ADF
3-871
RECORD DIVISION
Department of the Interior
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Briefed by A. Mun d. 21/3/11
Soldier Jacob Richards, alleged pensioner
Service   N.Y.
Additional Service   Rev.
REMARKS:
No Wid aty service from 14,000
No Wid Revy at all
No Rev below W. 14000 except
S. 40334 Va cl
W. 2346 Conn & N. Y.
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May 2d 1855
No. 2153
Appl of Mary Richards widow of Jacob
Saratoga
N.Y. 
1731
Act 3d Feby 1853
$80.00 per annum
Com Feb 3d 1853
Rev.
Elihu Wing
Greenfield Centre
Saratoga Co N York
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Pension Office, Official Business
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State of New York Saratoga County }  ss Personally appeared before me Alpheus Goodrich Esq one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Saratoga Nathaniel Seymour a Resident of the Town of Greenfield in said County who being by me duly sworn according to Law Deposeth and saith that he is intimately acquainted with Jacob Richards of the Town of Milton in said County of Saratoga and was also acquainted with him during the Revolutionary War, and that the said Jacob Richards was drafted from the militia of the State of Connecticut in the Last of March or first of April 1776 and was mustered in a company commanded by Capt Seth Seymour in a Regiment commanded by Col John Mead of Horseneck and was immediately marched to New York which was then threatened to be invaded by the Enemy and continued in the servise of the Revolution one month until the troops arrived from Boston when he returned home to the now town of New London  in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut with the said Capt Seth Seymour and was discharged.  As this deponant was in said company and did actual duty with the said Richards, and in the month of May or June 1779 the said Jacob Richards Volunteered in a company commanded by Capt Reuben Scofield in Regiment commanded by the said John Mead and continued in the service of the Revolutionary war until the close thereof in 1783 as this deponent belonged to the same company and Regiment with the said Jacob Richards and was knowing to the servise being actually done which was more than three years servise.  
Nathaniel Seymour x his mark
Sworn to & subscribed the 19th day of September 1832 before me A Goodrich Justice
I certify that the above named Nathaniel Seymour is a credible person & his statement entitled to credit, & further that he subscribed to the above affidavit by making his mark being unable to write his name on account of a severe affection of the nerves.  
A Goodrich Justice
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State of New York 
Saratoga County } ss  Personally appeared before me Alpheus Goodrich Esq one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said County of Saratoga Seymour Tallmadge who being by me duly sworn according to Law Deposeth and saith that he is intimately acquainted with Jacob Richards of the Town of Milton in the County of Saratoga, and that he was intimately acquainted with him during the Revolutionary war, and that in the last of March or first of April 1776 the said Jacob Richards together with this deponant were drafted from the petition of the state of Connecticut in the now Town of New Canaan in the County of Fairfield and was mustered in a company commanded by Capt Seth Seymour in a Regiment commanded by Col John Mead of Horseneck and immediately marched to New York which was then threatened to be invaded by the Enemy and the said Jacob Richards did duty as a soldier there until the troops arrived from Boston which was one month when they were marched back to where they was mustered and were discharged by the said Capt Seth Seymour.  And in 1777 the said Jacob Richards and this Deponent enlisted or volunteered into the servis of the Revolutionary war for one year in a company commanded by Capt John Carter in a Regiment commanded by the said Col John Mead and was mustered in the Town of New Canaan and was marched immediately to the defence of the sea coast and on the lines and actually served the time of his enlistment when he was discharged.  And in 1779 he the said Jacob Richards and this Deponant volunteered into the servis of his country in a company commanded by Capt Reuben Scofield in the said Regiment commanded by the said Col John Mead, and the said Jacob Richards continued in the servis of the Revolutionary war in the Company and Regiment aforesaid until the close thereof which was in 1783 when he was discharged with this Deponant.   
Seymour Tallmadge 
Sworn to & subscribed the 19th day of September 1832 before me, 
A Goodrich Justice 
I certify that the above named Seymour Tallmadge is a credible person, & his statement entitled to credit- 
A   Goodrich Justice-
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State of New York 
Saratoga County } ss I Thomas Palmer Clerk of the County of Saratoga, do certify that Alpheus Goodrich before whom the foregoing affidavits of Nathaniel Seymour and Seymour Tallmadge purport to have been sworn, was at the date of the same or of the Justice in & for the said County, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verity believe his name subscribed to the said affidavits to be his proper hand writing and signature.  
Witness my hand and seal of Office the 19th day of September 1832- 
Thomas Palmer Clerk
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State of New York Saratoga County ss  
I Elihu Wing of the Town of Greenfield in the County of Saratoga & State of New York Deposeth and saith that I am intimately acquainted with the widow Mary Richards of the Town of Milton County and State aforesaid widow of Jacob Richards late of Said Town of Milton County and state aforesaid deceased a pensioner of the United States of America a pensioner of the war of the Revolution.   I further certify that on the twenty fourth of April 1821 this Deponant as a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Saratoga in due form of Law married the said Jacob Richards & Mary Richards together as husband & wife, and that they lived together as husband & wife until February 1835, at which time the said Richards died leaving the said Mary Richards a Widow and previous to his death the said Jacob Richards made a Will in due form of law and in said Will he appointed his said wife Mary Richards Executrix and this deponent Executor to his last Will and testament in that we were duly qualifyed as executors to said Will and that we settled the Estate accordingly and this deponant further certifies that he was employed as an agent by the said Jacob Richards one year previous to his death, to make application at the War office of the United States for him to obtain a pension as a soldier for servises rendered in the war of the Revolution and that he was placed on the pension list Roll of the United States of America and Received a certificate for the same as a private soldier, and that he drew such pension until the time of his death as stated above, and this Deponant further Saith that the said Mary Richards is now living and is still the widow of the said Jacob Richards and is not remarried and now resides in the same House where her husband lived at the time of his death owned by him at the time.  
Elihu Wing
The above named Elihu Wing this 14th day of April 1853. subscribed & sworn to the above affidavit or certificate before me and I certify that I have long been acquainted with said Wing and that his statement is reliable.
A. Bockes Sar Co. Judge
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Greenfield Centre N.Y. 
July 21st
W. 
Geddes
1833
Paid 3
Loren P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington
District of Columbia
Mary Richards
widow Jacob
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Greenfeld Centre Saratoga County New York July 8th 1853 
Honorable Loren P Waldo Esqr 
Commissioner of Pensions 
Dear Sir
[unreadable] as a [unreadable] of Mrs Mary Richards a widow of Jacob Richards late of said County deceased, a pensioner the war of the Revolution, at her request, I made application to the pension office of the United States to place her as the widow of Jacob Richards late a pensioner of the United States deceased on the Pension list Roll of the United States of America agreeable law approved February 3d 1853.   
Accordingly I made out her papers showing her claim to a pension as the widow of the said Deceased and mailed them to you as the Commissioner of pensions supposing you to be the proper officer to have the charge of [unreadable] to Direct them to,  not knowing any other person to apply to obtain the same.  
Therefore if her papers have been received in your office and [unreadable]  or was Directed Wrong or to the wrong office I on her behalf do Request you to place them in the proper office so that she can obtain her pension as she is verry feable in health and her measure of Sustenance is verry limited.
Perhaps the Secretary of the Interior is the proper law to make application if to please to be so kind as to place her claims before that Department a compliance on your part will confer a favor on her and oblige yours sincerely while I remain &c Elihu Wing 
Loren P. Waldo Esq 
P.S. 
On the recceipt of this communication be so kind as to inform me relative to the receipt of the papers in your office of Mrs. Richards claim, as a pensioner and the probable result and transmit the same to me.   Direct your communication  to the post office Greenfield Center Saratoga County New York.   Mrs Richards is verry feable at present from a poverty that so much so that she cannot [unreadable] without assistance
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Mary 1833
Free
Loren P. Waldo Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington City 
District of Columbia
Greenfield Centre NY
29th April
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Greenfield Center Saratoga County State of New York April 17th 1853 
To the Hon Loren P Waldo Commissioner Pensions of the United States of America at the City of Washington District of Columbia 
Respected Sir 
At the request of Mrs Mary Richards, widow of Jacob Richards late of the Town of Milton County Saratoga & State of New York Deceased pensioner of the United States of America for Services rendered as a Solder of the war the Resolution thereby transmit to you her papers showing that she is entitled as the widow of Jacob Richards Deceased to a Pension agreeable to an act passed by Congress, and approved February 3d 1853, Placing the widows of Revolutionary soldiers who were married Since 1800 on the Pension list Roll on the same footing, as those who were married previous to that date 
As the old lady is very feeble on account of Shock that she has recently had makes her almost helpless consequence of which she sent for me to assist her in obtaining her pension, as I made the application for her husband to obtain his pension, which made her the more anxious that I Should assist her to obtain the hers.  
As it is a long time since I have undertaken to do any publick business I have all most forgotten how or where to make application in the above case. You will pardon me as I am bordering on an Eighty years of age yet I can distinctly remember the Facts and Argument of the poor soldier of the revolution was though not enough to partake of the same yet my friends and connections were partakers in that line of trial & hardship even my father though long Since Deceased was for a long time a prisoner incarcerated in the British Dungeons During the revolutionary war for his faithful [unreadable] to the cause of the Revolution sufficient for the present.   
Dear Sir on the receipt of these papers you will please to have her the widows claim presented to the proper Department for Examination and action, as you [unreadable] Mrs. Richards  husbands name Jacob Richards Enrolled in the pension list of the United States as a pensioner about the year 1831  according to my recollection.  I would not be positive
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a compliance on your part will be duly appreciated by and will confer a lasting favor on the widow Mary Richards, 
[unreadable] I remain Yours Sincerely   Elihu Wing
Loren P Waldo Esqr 
P. S. on of Please Direct your communications to me at the Post office at Greenfield Center Saratoga County New York 
Loren P Waldo Commissioner of Pensions E Wing
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Brief in the case of Mary Richards, widow of Jacob,  
Saratoga County and State of  New York 
act 3d Feby. 1853 
Claim ("original," ) 
Proof exhibited, (if original.) Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance. 
Husband was a pensioner, under the act of 7 June 1832 
Parole proof of marriage
(If for increase.) 
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim?  If so, what?  
Elihu Wing, Esqr 
Greenfield Centre Saratoga Co. N.Y. 
Name and residence of Agent 
S.C. Baynton 
Examining Clerk.
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B. B. RICHARDS, 
1492 Locust Street. 
Dubuque, Iowa, February 15th 1897 
The Honorable Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington D.C. 
Dear Sir 
Does the name of Jacob Richards appear on the Revolutionary pension list? He was from Connecticut originally, later moved to Milton, Saratoga Co. N.Y.  Is there any record of his services etc?   He was born Dec. 1758 and died February 1835. Is there and record relation to James Richards of Norwalk, late of N. Canaan Connecticut.   He was born 1748, died 1806. I shall be very much obliged for any information on this subject.  
I am very truly 
Evelyn Richards Poole 
Please address Mrs. C. L. Poole 
1492 Locust St.
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[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE FEB 18 1897
[stamp] U.S.P.B. OLD WAR & NAVY FILES FEB 19 1897
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B. B. RICHARDS 
No. 1492 LOCUST STREET 
DUBUOUT, IOWA March 18 1911 
To the Hon Commissioner of Pensions, 
Washington, D.C 
Dear Sir: 
Will you kindly furnish me with the war records of Jacob Richards, who fought in the War of the Revolution from New York State,  and received a pension from the Government thereafter   
I wish to become a member of the D.A.R. and such information as you can give will aid me materially.   
Thanking you in advance for your trouble, I am truly yours, 
Theodora Richards Ellsworth 
(Mrs. Clyde L. Ellsworth )
1492 Locust Street Dubuque, Iowa
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[stamp] RECORD DIVISION MAR 20 1911
[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE  D MAR 20 1911
[stamp] 1911
None but 40 334 Va cl.
Prob. W. 2346 Connt N.Y.
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This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services. Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department . Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States. 
O. W. & N. DIV. 
REVOLUTIONARY. 
L. W. B. 
W. 2346, 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, 
BUREAU OF PENSIONS. 
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 23, 1897. 
Madam: 
Replying to your request for information concerning the military record of Jacob Richards, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, you are vised that he made an application for pension on September 6, 1832, at which time he was 73 years of age and residing at Milton, N. Y. and his pension was allowed for two years' actual service as a private in the Conn. troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt. Seymour and Col. Mead. He enlisted at Norwalk, Conn. 
His widow, Mary, made application and received a pension for the service of her husband as above set forth. 
Very respectfully, 
Commissioner
Mrs. C. L. Poole, 1492 Locust St., Dubuque, Ia.