Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 10,384, Oliver Barrett, Continental (Vt.) N.Y.
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(3-1776)

Service
Continental (Vt.)
N.Y. 

Barrett, Oliver
Elizabeth 

Number
W. 10.384
B.L. Wt 80.200 Lt. 
of Warner's regt. 
Issued June 4, 1793.
No papers

Contents
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Vermont
Oliver Barr
New Hampshire Line
of Windsor in the State of 
who was an Ensign in the 
by Captain and the Regt
by Colonel Sethe Warner in the N.H. 
line, for the term of two years
from    17 to   

Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont
at the rate of Twenty Dollars per month, 
commence on the 11th day of April. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of Novemb 1818 and sent to the Hon Wm Hunter in the Ho. of Rep from Vermont

the Roll on   day of 
182 and notification sent to
at
Pension commencing on the 
of    182

Amount due on 4th of Sept 1818     $96
Semi anl ending 4 March 1819   120
$216.00

Arrears 4 mo 24/30

{Revolutionary Claim 
Acts March 18, 1818
May 1, 1820.}

Discontinued 
(illegible) decision confirmed Sec.
(illegible) 20 March 1822
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State of Vermont
Windsor County ss} On the 11th day of April AD 1818, Before me the subscriber one of the Judges of Windsor County Court personally appeared Oliver Barrett aged sixty three resident in the Town of Windsor in the county of Windsor and State of Vermont who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the late Act of Congress entitled An Act to Provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War. That he in the month of December 1776 enlisted in Captain William McCane's company Col Seth Warner's Regt for three years entered the service in March following. On the 14th day of November 1778 while in the service he receive the appointment of ensign on said Regiment as per commission herewith enclosed will show. And that he continued in actual service until the 11th day of October A.D. 1780 when he was taken prisoner at Fort George  State of New York by the British force commanded by Major Carlton and was paroled. Returned home on parole and remained unexchanged untill the end of the Revolutionary War. Altho he made frequent application to the exchange. And that he is reduced in his circumstances and stands in need of assistance from his Country, for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power for his said services except his commission heretofore referred to. 
Elihu Luce Assistant Judge
of Windsor County Court

State of Vermont
Windsor County 
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid now I Elihu Luce assistant Judge of Windsor County Court aforesaid do certify that is appears to my satisfaction that the said Oliver Barrett did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy. And that he has produced evidence to my satisfaction that he is reduced in his circumstances and stands in need of assistance from his country for support as stated in his declaration. And I now transmit the preceding and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the department of war pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned Act of Congress. 
In witness whereof I have caused hereunto the seal of said court to be affixed. 
Elihu Luce Assistant Judge 
of Windsor County Court
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State of Vermont
Windsor County 
Woodstock County Clerks Office
July the 8th AD 1818
I Benjamin Swan Clerk of Windsor County Court do hereby certify that Elihu Luce is one of the Assistant Judges of Windsor County Court, and that the written signatures are his hand writing. 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court the day above
Benj Swan
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156
Oliver Barrett

1373

7 Aug 1820
No 2
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State of Vermont,
Windsor County...SS} At a special term of the Supreme Court of Judicature, begun and holden at Woodstock in the County of Windsor, on the last Monday in July, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and twenty.
On this second day of August 1820, being the third day of said term, personally appeared in open Court, (the same Court being a Court of record agreeably to the laws of this State, having the power of fine and imprisonment, &c.) Oliver Barret aged sixty five years, resident in Windsor in said County of Windsor, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the revolutionary war, as follows: In the month of December 1776, he enlisted into the Company of William McCune in the second regiment of the Continental Establishment commanded by Col. Seth Warner for the term of three years and entered on service the March following & served regularly during said three years in Nov. 1778 I received the appointment of Ensign in said Regiment as my commission heretofore forwarded to the War Office will show, on the 11th of October 1780, I was taken prisoner by the enemy, returned home on parole & remained unexchanged till the Close of the War. 

that he made his original declaration on the Eleventh day of April 1818 has received a Pension Certificate No. 4505 And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or in any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818;- and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed
About 4 acres of Land the value of                                                                            100.00
1 Horse 40.00 1 Waggon 10.00 1 Cow 15.00 1 Hogs &d 4 pigs 10.00                        76.00
Several Carpentry tools 10.00 1 Axe .75 1 Hoc .25 2 Rakes .335 1 Pitchfork .33          11.66
2 Bootle rings .33 1 Wedge .10 1 Old Chain .75 1 Old Table 1.00 8 Old Chairs 2.67      4.85
Several Articles Iron Ware 8.00 Crockery 2.00 5 Andirons & shovel & tongs 3.00       13.00
House and Barn and fifteen acres land                                                                       300.00
4 Milkpans 1.60 1 Desk 5.00 2 Pewter Platters 1.33 1 Gridiron 1.00 Knives & forks 50  9.50
                                                                                                            $515.01
I further state that I have no debts due to me and that I owe to the estate of Oliver Barret Junr about 1150.00, Isaac Green 200.00.                                                                                  1350.00
Nathan Mills 64.00 Vermont State Prison 45.00 Hubbard & Root 86.00                 195.00
Bank Windsor 150.00 Joel Lull 42.00 Asa Cummings 100 Several Small debts 20   312.00
                                                                                                                          $1857.00
The said four acres is mortgaged to said Green for said $200 and the said House, barn, and fifteen acres was deeded more than eighteen months since to Asa Cummings and Samuel Burnham for the security of said one hundred dollars & to the said Cummings for the $42 to said Lull and the one hundred and fifty dollars to the Bank aforesaid the said Asa and Samuel being my endorsers to said Bank, which land is to be redeemed on the payment of the same aforesaid.
My occupation is that of a carpenter but I am & have been for several years wholly unable to labor. I have no family but my wife aged sixty  years much out of health and unable to do the necessary labor on my hands.
Oliver Barret
Sworn to and declared on the second day of August 1820, before said Court. 
Attest, Benj. Swan Clerk. 

State of Vermont,
Windsor County...SS.} I Benj. Swan Clerk of the Supreme Court for the County of Windsor do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court:- And I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Nothing dollars (crossed out)
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, at Woodstock, this Seventh day of August 1820. 
Benj. Swan Clerk of the Supreme Court for Windsor County.
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233

Albany, New York
Elizabeth Barrett

leans in the State of New York
was a    in the     commanded
by Captain    of the    commanded
by     in the 
Widow Oliver Barrett dec late a Lieutenant in the Revolution 
N.H.

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany
the rate of 320 Dollars 00 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. and 
[illegible] to 12 March 1832 [illegible] '28 

Certificate of Pension issued the 24 day of Nov. 
1834 and sent Adriel 
Ely Watertown N.Y.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1836         $1760.00
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Mar '37   160.00
                                                           $1920.00

{Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by D.D. Addison Clerk, 
Book A Vol. 1 Page 127
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Mrs. Elizabeth Barret
application made Act July 4 1836

address
Adriel Ely
agt
Watertown
N. York

171

aomd
2 years S.T

320 $

deduc died 12 Mar
1832 was pensioner 
Act 1818 and widow 
rec'd his pay act 1828
up to 12 Mar 1832
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State of New York
Jefferson County ss On this 13 day of September 1836 personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in the County of Jefferson Elizabeth Barrett a resident of the town of Orleans in said county and state aforesaid aged seventy six year the 9th day of July last, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4, 1836. That she is the widow of Oliver Barrett who was a Lieutenant of Infantry in the Continental line in the Army of the Revolution and served during the Revolutionary War. That he was a Lieutenant will appear by the letter of the Secretary of the Treasury of the 1 February 1834 which will be sent herewith. She further declares that she was married to the said Oliver Barrett on the 30 day of December in the year seventeen hundred and seventy eight. That her husband the aforesaid Oliver Barrett died at Windsor VT on the 13th day of March 1833 and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by subpeona to the proof hereto annexed. 
Sworn to and subscribed on the 
day and year above stated
before me
G. Brown Judge
Jeff 
County Courts
Elizabeth Barrett

I George Brown a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Jefferson and State of New York do hereby certify that Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett the above deponent is unable by reason of bodily infirmity to appear in Court. Dated this 13 day of September 1836.
the words cut Windsor NY interlined before
signed
G Brown Judge
Jeff County Courts
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State of New York
Jefferson County ss
I Peleg Burchard Clerk of said County do hereby certify that George Brown Esq. before whom the proof or acknowledgment of the within instrument was taken, was at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment a Judge of Jefferson County Courts in and for said County and duly authorized to take the same. And further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Judge and verily believe that the signature subscribed to the certificate of the said proof or acknowledgment is genuine. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this 15th day of September 1836.
P. Burchard Clerk
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section. 

August 23, 1922.

J.A. Shaw
Ferndale
Chief. 

Sir:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 10384, it appears that Oliver Barrett enlisted in 1775 and served in the spring and summer of 1776 in Captain Benedict's Company, Colonel VanSchaick's New York Regiment, and was in expedition to Canada. 
He enlisted in December 1776 and served in Captain William McCune's Company, Colonel Seth Warner's Continental Regiment, he was appointed, November 14, 1778, Ensign, and on October 11, 1780 was taken prisoner at Fort George, New York, was paroled and returned home, and remained unexchanged until the end of the war. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 11, 1818, at which time he was living at Windsor, Vermont, aged sixty-three years. He died March 13, 1832 at said Windsor. 
The soldier married December 30, 1778 at Kingsbury, New
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York, Elizabeth, daughter of William High, she was born July 9, 1760. 
She was allowed pension on her application executed September 13, 1836, at which time she was living at Orleans, New York. 
Children are referred to, no names given. 

Respectfully, 

Winfield Scott
Commissioner
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4595
Vermont Roll
Oliver Barrett
N.H. line (crossed out) Continental 4
Ensign
Seth Warner's Regt 1778 2 years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont
at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on the 11th of April 18

Certificate of Pension issued the 26 of Nov. 1818
and sent to the Hon. Wm Hunter
in the Ho. of Reps from Vermont

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1818 $96.00
Semi-anl all'ce ending 4 Mar 1819 120
$216.00

Arrs 4 mos 24/30

Revolutionary Claim,
Act 18th March, 1818

Honor decision confirmed to Hon Wm Nish 20 November 1822
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Rev Widow & c

File No. 10384
Elizabeth Barrett
wid. 
Oliver Barrett
Lieut. Rev. 

Act: June 7th 1832

Index:- Vol. B., Page 32

Arrangement of 1870.

1886 Feby 13 brief mention of Wm Barrett of Windsor as not identical with his inquiry   Prior
Mar 31 96 sold p to AD Albert se 
this bureau
Por. 16/97 Mrs. James G.
Boston, Mass
 June 25, 1902
JB 
Sweatt, Freeport
May 18, 1094- His
Ada L. Sweatt Fr
1914 Mch 10 Hist Ls Geo
S. Stewart
1928 Aug 23 Hist to
J.A. Shaw Aug
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11 acres land   10
15 " herewith 30     O. Barrett
4 acres mortgaged to Isaac Green
15 acres deeded to Cummings for the following with
Cummings    42
Benjamin   100
Lull 150
292

Letter of the Bank
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Personal property $115 of
Real Estate $400 
which was mortgaged more than 1 month [illegible fined or fixed] for $494 for of within- Wm Hunter formerly of Congress, says in a Letter "that the pensioner is not worth 10 dollars, and if not re-initiated must become a Town Pauper."
His age 65-a Carpenter- wife aged 60-no family- 
served from 1776 to Oct 1780, when he was taken prisoner at Fort George and remained unexchanged at the close of the War
Hon. C. Rich H. Rep

Restore
May 4 1822
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The United State of America, In Congress Assembled
No. 5 To Oliver Barrett Gentn. Greeting. We, reposing especial trust and confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct, and Fidelity, Do by these presents constitute and appoint you, to be an Ensign in the Regiment commanded by Col. Seth Warner in the Army of the Unites States to take rank as such from the 14th day of Novem. 1778. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of an ensign by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your command to be obedient to your orders as Ensign and find you are to observe and follow such orders and actions from time to time, as you shall become from there a future Congress of the United States or Committee of Congress for that purpose appointed a Committee of the States or Commander in Chief for the time being of the Army of the United States, or any other your superior officer, according to the rules and discipline of the War, in pursuance of the trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue enforce until revoked by this or a future Congress, the committee of Congress before mentioned, or a Committee of the States. 

Entered in the War Office and examined by the Board
Attest
Ben Stoddart Secretary of the Board of War 

Witness his Excellency Saml Huntington Esq. President of the Congress of the United States of America at Philadelphia the 12th day of November 1779, and in the fourth year of our Independence. 
Saml Huntington President
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Payable semi-annually--the first payment on this certificate will be made on the 4th of March next, at Bennington Vermont by D. Robinson Esq. agent for paying U.S. Pensioners

Recorded
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War Department.

Revolutionary Claims

I Certify That, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March 1818
Oliver Barrett late an Ensign, in the Army of the Revolution
is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Vermont
Agency, at the rate of Twenty dollars - cents per month, to commence on the eleventh day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. 

Given at the War Office of the United States, this twenty sixth day of November one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. 
J. C. Calhoun
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Windsor Nov 13th 1820

Dear Sir
It being but a week today since I wrote a letter to you, and directed it to Shoreham which I suppose you received before you set off for Washington, I should not at this time trouble you with the perusal of another were it not at the earnest request of Capt Oliver Barrett of this place- He has made his application to be continued on the pension Roll, and failed on account of owing real estate. He intends to make a second application and Judge Hunter will write to Judge Strong on the subject and also transmit the Papers to him. He (Barrett) requests me to solicit your assistance in his behalf as far you shall see proper. 
I will take the liberty of giving you my opinion of his property. A piece of land (broken) containing 15 acres with an old house and barn thereon both out of repair land poorly fenced and in a bad state of cultivation. One half of said premises mortgaged to Dr. Isaac Green for a sum equal to the value of the Land before the pension law was enacted; and before it was amended, the other half was deeded to Asa Cummins and Saml Burnham as security for endorsing with him to a considerable amount. How large this debt is or how large the Doctor Green debt is I cannot now recollect, but I once did know so far as to make up my mind that the two demands were as much as the farm would fetch. I am still of the same opinion and believe he cannot nor never will redeem
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the form neither does he intend it any more than he would had he made a bona fide sale; and his title to it I consider nothing more than his being the present occupant. 
He is also involved in other Debts to the amount of six or eight hundred dollars which he never can or will pay whether he obtains the pension or not. 
His personal property is so trifling I think he could not subsist twelve months without the assistance of either public or private charity.
I will further add that he is so infirm he is unable and cannot perform any kind of labor whatever. The health and situation of his wife is no better than his. Could you after consulting with Judge Strong grant him any assistance, you would confer on him a lasting obligation; and I think I am warranted in saying that should he obtain it would be congenial to the feelings of almost every individual in this town. 
I have the honor to remain
Sir, your Friend and humble sev.
Rufus Root Jun

Hon. Charles Rich
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Windsor November 13th 1820

Dear Sir,
At the request of Capt. Oliver Barrett a neighbor of mine I am induced to trouble you with a few lines and seek your assistance in his behalf. It appears that under the law of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 he was placed on the revolutionary pension list and that under the Act of the 1st of May 1820 and the regulations of the war department thereon he is stricken from the pension list. It is here that he is in possession of a small hill of land (15 acres) with poor buildings thereon barely sufficient for a comfortable shelter the land also being of a very ordinary quality, one half of which was under a mortgage for its full worth previous to March 18th 1818, the other half soon after receiving his pension certificate he was under the necessity and actually discovery by deed to raise a small sum to relieve his then unavoidable wants, He has it is  twice been suffered to continue the possession to their time best more from the feelings of pity than from any right or title he actually has in the premises. The truth is that there has not been a time for these ten years past that Capt. Barrett has actually been worth ten Dollars. He is a man of about 64 years of age and a confirmed cripple, unable to help himself by his labor and must if unsuccessful in  his attempt to get reinstated on the pension list become an actual pauper. The gentleman who appraised his property or which the schedule he exhibited was founded felt themselves bound to consider the land to be his as he was in the possession when in fact no person thoroughly acquainted with the
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situation of that land would give a single dollar for all the right or title Barrett has in it. 
I have for many years been well acquainted with Capt. Barrett and the situation of his property, from which I feel authorized to state as I do on the subject. 
I am confident that if the honorable Secretary of War could be induced to believe the foregoing statement of Barrett's property to be true he would not hesitate to order his name to be reinstated on the Pension list. 
Seven years actual service in the Revolutionary War by a man who is now destitute of property, 64 years of age and so entirely a cripple that he is wholly unable to labor, it seems would be abundantly sufficient to render him a fit subject of the Benevolent Law of Congress of the 18th March 1818.
Sir your early attention to the foregoing subject will be considered as a great favor to a poor unfortunate old man, of yourself, I presume you know nothing of Barrett, or his situation, bur sir rest assured I would not request you to be at the trouble of laying this letter before the Hon. Secretary of War if I did not consider it an act of great kindness which I am sure you will always be ready to perform. 
Whatever the result may be at the War Office, be so good as to communicate the same to me as soon as may be, with the reasons if any are given in case of its being unsuccessful. 
Judge Rich being personally acquainted with the Hon. Secretary of War, his assistance may be of service in the case, as he is well acquainted with me and some what acquainted with Barnett.
I am Dear sir with great respect
Your Obt. Servt. Wm Hunter

Hon. Wm Strong
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House of Reps 28th Nov. 1820

Sir, 
The enclosed letters (one from Judge Hunter late a member of Congress, and the other from a respectable magistrate of the County in which he resides) will sufficiently explain to you, the reasons which have induced to ask that the case of Oliver Barrett late a revolutionary pensioner, and who, under the act of the last session as been stricken from the roll, may be reconsidered. 
We do not ask that the rule applied to others, should be released in person of Barrett, but simply, a careful reexamination of his schedule, in the full belief that, altho it may be couched in terms somewhat ambiguous, it will still be found to exhibit a case in substance, like the one represented by Judge Hunter and Geo. Root and that if so, he must be clearly within the rule under which others in similar circumstances are admitted. 
We are respectfully
Sir,
Your Obt servants
Charles Rich
William Strong

J. L. Edwards Esq. 
Pension Office
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We Samuel Burnham and Asa Cummings both of Windsor in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont of lawfull age testify and say that on the 2nd day of November AD 1819 we received a warrantee deed of Oliver Barret of said Windsor of fifteen acres of land on which the said Barret then and now lives it being the same fifteen acres of land which is mentioned in his schedule of property transmitted to the Department of War appraised at $300 and that at the time of Deeding of said premises to us we told said Barret that if he would pay us the sums of money which we were holden to pay for him and all accruing trouble and expense we would redeed said premises to him again but never give him any security to redeed nor did we feel ourselves bound by law to deed to him any more than to any other persons said Barret at that time was very much pressed to meet the demands against him and we through friendship and not for any gain to ourselves became bound to pay the demands as stated in his said Schedule which said sums were have since paid and still let him remain in possession for no other purpose than to help him to a subsistance as a deed of charity the said Barret being wholly unable to labour and support himself and wife. And we further say that the sum of money we paid is more than the premises will bring in money .
Samuel Burnham
Asa Cummings 


Land deeded to Cummings and Burnham
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State of Vermont
Windsor County ss} At Windsor in said County on this 13th day of April AD 1821 personally appeared Samuel Burnham and Asa Cumming and after being lawfully examined and duly cautioned made solemn oath to the foregoing affidavit by them subscribed that it contained the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth. And I hereby certify that the said Burnham and Cummings are well known to me to be credible witnesses. 
Elihu Luce Chief Judge
of the Windsor County Court

I Allen Wait of Windsor in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont and overseer of the poor of said Windsor of lawful age testify and say that I am personally acquainted with Oliver Barret of said Town and have been for many years. And I am well knowing that said Barret has no property except his household furniture and Beelery with necessary clothing and that I further say that I am well knowing that his neighbors have contributed this last winter for his relief which if they had not I considered myself as Overseer of the poor in duty bound by law to have contributed for his relief.
Allen Wait
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State of Vermont
Windsor County ss
At Windsor in said County this 13th day of April AD 1821 personally appeared Allen Wait and after being carefully examined and duly cautioned made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavits by him subscribed contain the truth and nothing but the truth before me
Elihu Luce Chief Judge of Windsor
County Court

We the undersigned selectmen for the town of Windsor and State of Vermont, do hereby certify that Oliver Barrett of said Windsor in our opinion and belief, possesses no property except small pittance of household furniture and one cow and that he is in debt beyond his ability to pay, being advanced in life and perfectly unable to do any kind of business by which there would be any reasonable prospect of acquiring a living. And it further is fully in our opinion, that unless he receives immediate aid from government under the pension law, humanity will require that he be assisted under our laws requesting support of the poor. 
April 13 1821

Luther Mills
Allen Wardner
Allen Wait 

State of Vermont
Windsor County ss}
At Windsor in said County this 13th day of April AD 1821 personally appeared Luther Mills Allen Wardner and Allen Wait Selectmen of the town of Windsor and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by them subscribed before me
Elihu Luce Chief Judge of 
Windsor County Court
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I Alex Aikens Town Clerk of the town of Windsor in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont do hereby certify to whom it may concern, that there is of record in the Records of town a Deed of Bargains and sale with comments of session and warranty executed by Oliver Barrett of Windsor for the consideration of two hundred and fifty dollars to Asa Cummings and Samuel Burnham of the same Windsor, of custom land in Windsor of which  the following is the description contained in Deed viz " Bounded southerly on the highway heading from Levi Bishops to Matthew Patrick's now dwelling house and William Barret's Land"; rest on land of the Asa Cummings and worth and case on lands of the William Barrett being all that form of land on which I now live containing the acres be the same more or less it being hereby repressing understood that three undivided four part of the said premises are hereby conveyed to the Asa Cummings and one undivided fourth part through to the said Samuel Burnham. 
That the Deed was duly executed according to the laws of this state on the second day of November eighteen hundred and nineteen and was recorded in this office on the same day. And that the later through as appears by Record still remains in the Cummings and Burnham
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and private seal there being no seal of office by here establishing this 13th day of April 1821. 
Alex Aikens Town Clerk 
of Windsor

to the first of land deed Cummings and Burnham
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This certifies that we have been acquainted for a number of years with Capt. Oliver Barrett of this town. That he has been severely afflicted for a number of year with lameness of the hip joint. Which an examination appears to be a partial dislocation of the joint- gendered perhaps by the severity of the pain he has suffered from a blan on the part. From the duration of the lameness, and the advanced age of the O Barrett, we are of opinion that it will be permanent. 
Nahum Frask
Erastus Torney
Windsor, 13 April, 1821

State of Vermont
Windsor County ss} At Windsor in said County this 13th day of April AD 1821 personally appeared Nahum Frask and Erastus Torney well known to me to be two of the most eminent practicing surgeons and physicians in this county and made above oath to the foregoing affidavit by them subscribed and also are credible witnesses.
Elihu Luce Cheif Judge of
Windsor County Court 

Surgeon's Certificate
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I Matthew Patrick of Windsor in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont of lawful age testify and say that I have been well acquainted with Oliver Barret of this town for many year and that he is very poor wholly unable to labor and stands in need of either public or private charity for a support.
Matthew Patrick

State of Vermont
Windsor County ss} At Windsor in said County on this 13th day of April 1821 personally appeared Matthew Patrick of said Windsor Gentleman and made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth.
Before Elihu Luc Chief Judge of
Windsor County Court
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To whom it may concern- I Isaac Green of Windsor in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont, hereby certify that on the ninth day of September 1817 I took a mortgage deed of Oliver Barrett of this town, of a lot of land then estimated at five acres and a half, lest I estimated much being the same acres of land named in this schedule of property rendered the deponent Court of this state on the second day of August 1820- being the 3d day of said term- said mortgage was out on the ninth day of March last and I do not consider the property worth to me what it is mortgaged for- but according to my best knowledge of his circumstances, he can pay me no other wise, and I must take the land. When I took the mortgage, I gave him from September 1817 to March 1821 to pay the demand with a view not to oppress him under his unfortunate bodily infirmities and distress situation and property to live on, and with a further view of getting security
Windsor State of Vermont
Isaac Green

State of Vermont
Windsor County ss} At Windsor in said County this 13th day of April AD 1821 Personally appeared Isaac Green Esq. well known to me to be a credible witness and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed before 
Elihu Luce Chief
Judge of Windsor County 
Court

State of Vermont
Windsor County ss} I Elihu Luce Chief Judge of Windsor County Court do hereby certify that Asa Aikens is Town Clerk and Register of deed for the Town of Windsor in said County
Elihu Luce
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State of Vermont 
Windsor County ss} Woodstock County Clerks Office April the 14th AD 1821
I Benjamin Swan Clerk of the County Court within and for the County of Windsor do hereby certify that Elihu Luce is Chief Judge of the County Court within and for the County of Windsor and that the written signature is his hand writing.
In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said County Court the day and year above
Benj Swan
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To the Honorable John C. Calhoun Esq. 
Secretary of War
Washington City

The humble position of Oliver Barrett of Windsor (Vermont) late a pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 Respectfully represents that his absolute necessities comfort him most earnestly to solicit the Secretary of War to take his case under reconsideration. Your petitioner is well aware that his case may be thought by those who are strangers to him to have received all the consideration to which he is entitled; and it is therefore with great and painful deference that he presumes again to trouble the Secretary. But the consciousness which went and suffering impose is to him an argument which would others feel most enforce a conviction of the Justice of his decision under the oath which the application of no general rule of instruction would be able to stifle or surmount. 
When your petitioner made the schedule of his property now in the war office, under the act of the first of May 1820, he applied to John C Thompson Esq. then a counsellor of Law in this vicinity for instruction and advice. He was informed that whatever property your petitioner had any cautionable right in or claim to whether the interest was in fact a beneficial one or not, ought to be inserted in the schedule, and the claims when it also stated. He accordingly attempted to pursue that course, but he is now aware that the facts were not in the hurry of the occasion so fully and distinctly stated as to convey to a stranger a just view of his situation. And believes that no decision founded on error or misconception of  facts will be holden by the Secretary as find irreversible against a suffering individual, your petitioner has asked for and been favored with the explanatory affidavit of the Honorable William Hunter a gentleman who has always lived a near neighbor to your petitioner, is intimately acquainted with his life circumstances
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and was a member of the Congress which passed the law under which he claims. 
Your petitioner has for a number of years struggled under a load of debt which his long continued and severe infirmities had rendered him unable to discharge. His creditors, however, as by common consent, have humanely suffered him to hold the ten acres of land mentioned in his schedule, and mortgaged to Isaac Green up to the time he was placed on the pension list. But no sooner was the necessity of their humanity on a measure superceded by the generosity of the Government than they became clamorous for their pay; and your petitioner was so harassed with judgments, expectations, and consequent costs that he deemed it his only course to sell the said land, including the small house thereon standing in which he has long lived, and to apply the avails thereof as far as they would go, to the discharge of these debts. This he effected in November 1819 through the friendly interference of two of his neighbors, Messrs. Cummings and Burnham, who purchased the land and house, and paid their full value on the assumption and subsequent payment of some of those debts. But your petitioner feeling a partiality for the place, and wishing to continue to reside there, asked the privilege of repurchasing the amount they had paid with interest, and a reasonable compensation for their trouble. This they readily, verbally assented to, as their only enduement to purchase originally was their desire to relieve your petitioner while the only hope of your petitioner of ever being able to avail himself of that favor, rested on the future avails of his pension. The suspension of that has not only swept away that hope, but placed your petitioner in the character of a tenant, at sufference to the said Cummings and Burnham, without the means of paying the rent they demand, for this last and only place to lay his head. 
Your petitioner feels it his duty further to state that this place never afforded to him the means of a necessary support. It was only a home and a shelter. That he was a Millwright and builder of bridges by occupation, by which laborious calling he
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earned his subsertance, till his infirmities rendered him incapable of pursuing it longer. 
In relation to the other five aces of the land mentioned in his schedule, your petitioner will only observe that it was mortgaged to Isaac Green for the security of a bona fide debt long before the passage of the4 act of the 18th of March 1818 and he believes long before it was even conceived of in Congress. That he has never been able to pay that debt and that the land is not now worth the sum due on that mortgage. It is true the equity of redemption is not foreclosed against him; but your petitioner is truly unable to conceive what sort of a support he can be reputed to realize from such an interest. 
As it regards the personal property enumerated in that schedule the horse and waggon, the most valuable articles entered therein were then situated in a measure similar to the ten acres of land; but with this unfortunate difference, that the right of redeeming them was soon after not only lost to your petitioner, but both the articles themselves and the debt assumed by a Mr Bishop on the strength of their security were also lost to him, by the subsequent attachment of another creditor. 
With an understanding of these facts, the attention of the Secretary is respectfully called to he said affidavit of the Honl. William Hunter  and to the testimony heretofore forwarded to the department of war by Judge Luce which is herewith re-transmitted. From all which your petitioner most humbly conceives that the following facts will satisfactorily appear. That his revolutionary services we long, arduous, and meritorious. That at the time he was placed on the pension list, he was poor past the days of usefulness to himself, and stood in need of the assistance of his country for support. That he is now old and decrepit, hobbles on crutches to his grave, without the aid of any beneficial interest, whatsoever wherewith to subsist himself and his wife through the remainder of life. 
Believing all which, he most humbly prays that his case may be considered as having been passed upon imperfect
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information, and that he may be relieved, by a restoration to that bounty, which his Country most graciously endeavored to extend to those soldiers of the revolution, who are surviving in indigence and want. 
And your petitioner, as in duty bound will ever pray.
Windsor (VT) July 12th, 1822

Oliver Barrett

Oliver Barrett's Petition

12 July 1822
6
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28 July 1821
5
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State of Vermont
Windsor County...ss} To all people to whom these present shall come, 
Greeting, 
Whereas Oliver Barrett of Windsor in the county aforesaid, a prisoner in the custody of John Prull Esq., keeper of the jail in Woodstock, in the county of Windsor aforesaid, on an execution at the suit of Samuel Patrick Junior
of Windsor in the county of Windsor and state of Vermont for the sum of three
Dollars and eighty eight Cents damages, and for the sum of one Dollar and seventeen Cents costs of suit, signed by Samuel Shuttlesworth Just of the Peace and dates at Windsor the 21st day of May Anno Domini 1821, has this day taken the oath prescribed in an act relating to levying executions and to poor debtors, passed November 11, 1818, the said Samuel Patrick Junior
having been duly notified, did not attend; and in our opinion, the said Oliver Barrett ought to be discharged, 
Witness our hands, at Woodstock, this 28th day of July
Anno Domini 1821
Benj Swan
Daniel Perris 
Commissioners of Jail Delivery
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I William Hunter of Windsor in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont of lawful age do testify and say that I have been personally acquainted with Oliver Barrett of said Windsor ever since the year 1775. And have from that period to the present time had a general and in many instances a particular acquaintance with and knowledge of his circumstances and property having always lived in the same town and most of the time in the same neighborhood with him. I further say that for these ten years past, I have known him to have been insolent and to owe much more than he was worth. That from a severe lameness and cronic rheumatism which has afflicted him for several years and which now compels him to go upon crutches, he has been able to do but with and in my opinion, will never be able hereafter to do but a very little, if any thing towards obtaining his necessary support. That from my knowledge of his services, property and ability to labour at the time he first applied for a pension under the Act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818. I then thought and still believe that he then was and ever since has continued to be a proper and worthy subject of the benefits intended to be conferred on poor and needy soldiers of the revolutionary war by that act. That at the time of that application he was possessed of about fifteen acres of poor land with a small old house thereon, situated within one mile of my own house, the fair value of all which I should judge to be about two hundred dollars- 
about
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About five acres of this land however was mortgaged to one Isaac Green as early as 1817 for the security of the payment of a debt, which debt is still due, tho the mortgaged has become absolute; and the debt is in my opinion equal to the full value of the land. 
That as it related to the other ten acres, the facts as they have come to my knowledge are these- After the said Barret had obtained his pension certificate, several of his creditors procured proofs of attachments against him and put him to much cost to stop which he procured two of my neighbors, Asa Cummings and Samuel Burnham to go forward and assume the payment of several of his debts which were thus pressing him. And as security to them he on that occasion conveyed to them the other ten acres of his land. This transaction took place about six months before the passage of the act in addition to the act aforesaid of the first of May 1820. The debts thus assumed by those gentlemen I consider fully equal to the value to of the land they received. This last conveyance tho absolute on the face of it, was I understand, given with a verbal assurance back that if he the sd Barrett would pay to the sd Cummings and Burnham the amount thus paid by them for him, with a reasonable compensation for their trouble, they would reconvey the promises back to him. That favor was requested by him and granted by them, in continuation of his pension, the suspension of which has placed the benefit of it wholly out of his power. 
In relation to the horse and waggon mentioned on his schedule of property nos in the war department 

Land mortgage of Cummings and Burnham

Land mortgage to Post granted in 1817
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my knowledge of the situation of them is this
That
a Mr Bishop a near neighbor of mine, had become responsible for another of the said Barrett's debts and had taken the said horse and waggon as a security to him, but as the said Barrett was lame and unable to get about on foot, he suffered then to remain in Barrett's possession and they were afterwards attached by another creditor of Barrett's whole in that situation, so that they are gone both from Barrett, and Bishop the equitable answer of them. 
I further say that the poverty of the said Barrett is so well known in this vicinity that within these last six months he has admitted to the poor debtors oath and discharged from prison by the commissioners of Govt delivery in this county where he was committed on execution of no more than five dollars and fifty nine cents, damages and costs and theft too, in a case where he was well known both to the condition and one of the Commissioners and when if the condition cold have shown that he was worth enough to have paid the damages and costs for which he was committed, in addition to the few necessaries which the law of this state allows poor debtors to retain (most of which I know him to be destitute of) he could not have been discharged. 
I further testify and say that as it respects my knowledge of his revolutionary services- I know that he engaged in the service of the united States in the year 1775- in Benedict's Company in Van Schaick's Regiment in what was then called the Second Battalion of Yorkers- That he went into Canada the same year in the Northern expedition and remained

Horse and waggons
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then after the fall of Genl. Montgomery until the spring or summer of 1776 (I being at the same time in the same expedition in Warner's Regiment. In the fall of the same year if I remember right, he engaged in Warner's Regiment for three years, or for during the War, which I do not certainly recollect, and received a commission. He served through the war, the last part of the time he was a prisoner according to the best of my remembrance taken by the British at Fort Anne or Fort George. He performed long service and suffered great hardships. He is now I consider a confirmed cripple is sixty seven year of age, has a wife dependent on him for support, and who is really an infirm woman, unable to do her necessary work without assistance, and they have no children who are of ability to render them assistance.
And further I say not.
Wm Hunter

State of Vermont
County of Windsor ss} At Windsor on this twelfth day of January 1822 William Hunter personally appeared before me Asa Aikens a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, and made solemn oath that the facts contained on the above affidavit by him subscribed are the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth. 
In testimony whereof I have hereto subscribed my name the day and year above written. 
Asa Aikens

I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Asa Aikens of Windsor Vermont and I know him to be a Justice of the Peace for the county of Windsor in that role and have no doubt that the above is his signature.
Charles Rich
House of Reps Jany 23rd 1822
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House of Rps
March 5th 1822

Sir, 
I find I should be unable to present the view which I wish in the case of Oliver Barrett unless I can prove the schedule of his property now in the office. I have therefore to ask that you will enclose it to me. It shall be returned with the other papers in the course of a few days. 
Yours respectfully
Charles Rich
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9- 
7 March 1822
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House of Representatives
March 7th 1822

Sir
Terrible as I am, of the purpose of business upon the hands of the Secretary of War, and the perplexing nature of that part of it relative to the execution of the laws on the subject of revolutionary pensions; it is not without regret that I have to ask his attention to the claim of Oliver Barrett, who desires to have his name restored to the pension list from which it has been dropped upon the evidence of his schedule under the act of May 1820. 
The amount of property exhibited appears to have been $515 91/100 of which $400 is for land and am here of which is declared to have been mortgaged to Isaac Green for the sum of $200. The 9th of Sept. 1817 is shown by the affidavits  of the said Green and of Judge Hunter (late a member of Congress) to have been the dates of the mortgage; and they also testify that the sums for which it was mortgaged was the full value of the land. The balance of the land mentioned
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in the schedule, appears to have been conveyed by an absolute unconstitutional deed, on the 2nd of Nov. 1819 on the certificate of the Town Clerk and the affidavit of Judge Hunter and Samuel Burnham and Asa Cummings the two latter of whom were the granties and state that the consideration for the deed, was the debts mentioned in the schedule which were partly due to themselves and partly to other creditors of Barrett whom they have since paid, and all write in saying that the debts for which the deed was given, amounted to the full amount of the land.
From this view of the case, which appears to me to be clearly established; it would seem that the account should stand there.
Amount of property lands in otherwise  from which deduct the amount of lands leaving of that to which he could be said to have within a legal or equitable right of the statements of the witnesses are to be relied on as I am confident they are from what sources within my own knowledge; I cannot perceive but the law of 1820 would have been strictly complied with the 

$515 01/100
400
115 01/100
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had his schedule have been silent on the subject of the land; for altho he was in possession, he could only be regarded as a tenant at will. In that event his schedule would only have exhibited the above sum of $115 01/100.
This sir, is the state f the case, which appears to me to be fully warranted by the facts  exhibited and which, through you, I wish to present to the Secretary of War, and to have the favour of his decision thereon.
I am very respectfully
Sir
your Obt Servant
Charles Rich 

J.L. Edwards
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Revolutionary Claims,
Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828

Treasury Department 
1 Feb 1834

Madam,
The claim of your late husband under the above mentioned act has been examined, he is found to have been entitled to the pay of a Lieutenant of Infantry, in the continental line. The amount of which may be due accordingly will be remitted to you by the Treasurer of the United States. 
I am very respectfully
Your obedient servant, 
R.B. Taney 
Secretary of the Treasury 

Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett
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Revolutionary Claims, 
Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.

Treasury Department, 
1st Feb. 1834
Sir:
I have the honor to inform you, that Oliver Barrett, formerly a Lieutenant in Col. Warner's Regiment of the - line of the Continental Army; and who has heretofore received a pension as an Ensign at the Vermont agency, has been admitted to the benefits of the abovementioned act. 
I have the honor to be, 
Very respectfully, 
Your obedient servant, 
R.B. Taney
Secretary of the Treasury

The Hon. The Secretary of War
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Rec 13 Jany 1834

5685

Ho of orig Payt 1158 2101

Revolutionary Claims. 

Treasury Department. 
14 Jany 1834

The name of Oliver Barrett late of Windsor in the County of Windsor in the State of Vermont has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th of May, 1828. She states that he was an officer on the Continental line, and served as such to the end of the war 
at which period he was a Lieutenant  in Col. Warner's regiment of the lien; and that he received commutation certificates for the five years full pay granted by the resolve of 22 March 1783; and, further, that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, twenty dollars, paid to him by the agent in the State of Vermont. 
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far these several statements are corroborated by the records in his office. 
By order of the Secretary
Francis Dickins

Treasury Department, 
Third Auditor's Office, 
15th January 1834

It appears by the records in this office, that final settlement certificates have been issued for the commutation of five years full pay to Lt. Oliver Barrett in the Regt of Col. Seth Warner, amounting to Sixteen hundred dollars. 
It further appears that Ensign Oliver Barrett is now on the pension list of the Vermont agency, and has been since the 3rd March 1826 at the rate of Twenty Dollars per month and has been paid at that rate to the 4th of March 1832. 
Peter Hagner Am
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Rec 13 Jany 1834

Hardwick Vt. Jan 3 1834  

5685

Rec 13 Jny 1834

5686

Hardwick Vt. Jan AM 1834

Sir
Respectfully I announce myself to you, and over that I am the widow of the late Oliver Barrett of Windsor, and State of Vermont, deceased, a Lieutenant in the army of the Revolution, in the Regiment of Col. Seth Warner. 
I am deeply obliged Sir by your attention to my case on the representation of Thomas Tolman Esq. who to my personal knowledge and recollection was the paymaster of said Regiment. 
My husband had just made his pension, in March 1832, and on the morning of the 13th of the same  month was found dead in his bed, supposed from apoplexy. For the few days of his Pension due at this decease, we made no application.  For evidence of this last payment and no further application I refer to the records of the pension office so that his full pay as Lieutenant seems to be due for these 2 days. To you Sir, it must be wholly referred can or cannot be paid, on what he ought but from pure misfortune to have received, from March 4th 1826, to day of his death.
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The communication, Sir, with which you shall honor me, I desire enclosed, and directed, to the Thomas Tolman Esq., Hardwick VT. 
I am very respectfully & c, Elizabeth Barrett

To the Hon. Secretary of the 
Treasury Department
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Rec 13 Jany 1834

5685

Hardwick, VT Jan 3 1834

Sir, 
I hope you will in able to read my tremulous hand. 
Enclosed are the Papers of Mrs. Barret, who is now here, from Windsor, on a visit. For this Lady, Sir, I vouch from more than 50 years, personal acquaintance, that she was the wife, the only wife and now the Widow of Mr. Barret, deceased. That he was in the rank of Lieutenant, I refer you to the Roll of Col. Warner's regiment of 1779 or 1780 and afterwards, especially to the final settlement Book of Mr. Pierce, commissioner of Congress, with whom, as I Master of the Regt. I made the final settlement (culled) on behalf of the officers in the City of N.Y. after the close of the war. 
I hope, sir, you will perceive sufficient evidence of the identity of Mr. Barret of his rank, of the identity of this Lady as his widow, and of the time of his decease. If any question remains, sir, to prevent the possibility of imposition, I refer you, on my behalf to the Hon. Mr. Swift, of the Senate and on his to Mr. Everett (of s. Windsor) now in the House of Representatives. 
I have the honor to be with very respectful consideration, Sir, your obedient and 
humble servant
Tho. Tolman

Hon. Secretary 
of the Treasury
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Revolutionary Claims, 
Under the act, entitled, "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution, " approved 15th May, 1828.

Treasury Department, 
22 Nov. 1833

Sir, 
In answer to your letter of the 24th Sept. I have to inform you that the claim of Oliver Barret, under the abovementioned act will be paid to his widow on her transmitting to this Department evidence of his identity, that she is his widow and of the time of his decease. 
I am, sir, very respectfully
Your obedient servant,
R.B. Taney 
Secretary of Treasury 

Thomas Tolman, Esq. 

list of the Vermont agency, and has been since the 3d March 1826 at the rate of twenty dollars per month and has been paid at that rate to the 4th of March 1832. 
Peter Hagner Am
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We Seth Shaw and Mary Hunter both of Windsor in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont of lawful age, do depose, testify and say that we are personally acquainted with Oliver Barrett, late of this town, now deceased, who in his lifetime was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, drawing a pension of twenty dollars per month and that we are also personally acquainted with Elizabeth Barrett now widow of said Windsor. We further say that the said Elizabeth is the widow and relief of the said Oliver Barrett. And the said Seth Shaw for himself further testifies and says that he is a near neighbor to the sd Elizabeth and was so to the sd Oliver during his life time; and further that the said Oliver died at his own home in Windsor on the night of the 12th day of March A.D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty two. And further the said deponent say not. 
Seth Shaw
Mary Hunter 

State of Vermont
County of Windsor ss} At Windsor in said County on this 23 day of December A.D. 1833 the above named Seth Shaw and Mary Hunter personally appeared and made solemn oath that the facts on record in the above affidavit by them subscribed are the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth. 
Before me
Asa Aikens
Justice of the Peace

I Certify that the above named Seth Shaw and Mary Hunter are personally known to me and are known of credibility. 
Asa Aikens
Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont
Windsor County ss} I Benjamin Swan Clerk of Windsor County Court, Do hereby certify that Asa Aikens is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County duly commissioned, and that the within are his signatures. 
I Testimony whereof I hereto affix the seal of said court, and subscribe my name this twenty sixth day of December AD 1833.
Benj Swan
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I Thomas Tolman of Greensboro in the County of Orleans and State of Vermont residing for the time being in Hardwick an adjoining town and County of Calidonia; a Lieut. and paymaster in the Regt. of Col Warner in the Revolutionary army, receiving my stipend semi-annually under the Act May 15th 1828 on a Treasury certificate No. 424 in my 80th year, do testify and say that in this state, but now of Orleans County of Jefferson State of NY is a Lady of whom I have had entire personal acquaintance these 57 years. Early in the year 1779 and very recently after her marriage I knew her to be the wife of Oliver Barrett in Col. Warners Regt who continued in sd Regt to the end of the war and was entitled to the provisions of the sd act of May 15th 1828. And by personal knowledge and other evidence the most unquestionable I know that the sd Elizabeth Barrett hath remained to this time the widow of the sd Oliver Barrett from his demise which was March 13th 1832. Of this officer and this widow

Here
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There is documentary evidence in both the War and Treasury Departments in the Pension office he will be found to be a pensioner a few days before his death. And in the Treasury Office when Mr. Tanney was Secretary will be found a settlement of what was due to sd officer at the time of his decease under the sd Act of May 1828 in which settlement I had an agency on behalf of the sd widow. And as I was mostly an eye witness and a partner in the services and sufferings of Mr. Barrett and his wife, particularly of hers in the Garrison of Fort Geo and at the capture of sd Fort, and their escape from the same thru an ambush of Indians, with the loss of all but life. Though this is not the place for (unknown) or narration- I am bound in Justice to say, that few can have so well merited the scenery and greatful remembrance of their country. 
Tho Tolman 

State of Vermont
Caladania County 
Subscribed 25th August 1836 Them personally appeared Thomas Tolman under solemn oath made the above deposition by him subscribed I witness the truth. 
Before me Harvey Shepard Master of the Law
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State of Vermont
Caledonia County ss}
I Samuel B Mattock Clerk of the County Court of said County do hereby certify that Harvey Shepard Esq. is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Caledonia aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and his comma from is dated do 10 day of above 1835 and will expire on the last day of Nov. 1836. That his signature to the foregoing certificate is his own proper hand writing. 
Witness my hand and the seal of said court this 30th day of August AD 1836.
Saml. B Mattock 
Clerk
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Watertown Jefferson County 
New York Sept. 14 1836

Sir
I herewith enclose the declaration of Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett for a pension under the act of July 4 1836 with the necessary proof and a letter of the Hon. R.B. Taney showing the rank her late husband sustained in the army of the Revolution and on her account hope for an early decision in her pension. Very Respectfully yr ob sev
Adriel Ely

Hon. J.L. Edwards 
Com of Pensions
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Fort Edward NY
Sep 19th 

18 3/4

Chesterfield Person Esq. 
Town of Orleans Jefferson Co. 
NY
There's a "Post Office"
The post master will please deliver this
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State of New York
Washington County ss

Charles Baker town of Kingsbury in said County being duly sworn *** that during the War of the revolution he was acquainted with Oliver Barett who was an officer in the Regt commanded by Colonel *** Martin that he was also acquainted with Elizabeth High at that time in the town of Kingsbury in which time she and this deponent then resided. – that the said Oliver Barett and Elizabeth High were married to each other some time in thelast of December **  (the year 77) at the *** ** of **** 1779 at the house of William High.  Together the said Elizabeth in the town of Kingsbury.  **** the pe*** ** at the war,  The **** the day and certain of their marriage *** ** believe they were married y the father of [illegible ] who [illegible] [illegible] that he has [illegible] acquainted with Oliver Barrett and his wife that has continued by live together as man and wife and that he [illegible] certain that he was [illegible] took {illegible] about the time above mentioned and further deponent saith not.

Charles Baker
 
Subscribed and sworn before me this 15th day of September 1836
Milton E. Shaw
Justice of the Peace
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State of New York}
Washington County}ss
I Edward Dodd Clerk of said county hereby certify that Milton E. Shaw Esq. whose name is subscribed to the within certificate is a Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly qualified  And that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said justice & verily believe the signature to said certificate to be genuine.  Given under my hand and the seal of said county Sept. 15th 1836
Edward Dodd Clk
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Fort Edward September 19th 1836

Dear Sir
As a private of Mr Baker contains all he can recollect on the subject
Your Milton E. Shaw

C Person Esq.
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Watertown Dec 23 1836

Sir, 
Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett of Jefferson County N. York received recently a pension certificate from the pension office under the act of July 1836.
She has executed a power of attorney to a gentleman in Albany to receive the money for it. He represents that her name has not been forwarded to the pension office in Albany. In her behalf I request that if her name is not sent on before this reaches you, that it may be done without delay.
Respectfully
Yr Obed Sevt
Adriel Esq
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Watertown New York Nov 3 1836

Sir
On the 14 Sept. last I sent you the application of Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett for a pension. I now forward to you herewith the affidavit of Charles Baker in proof of his marriage and the time when. 
Mrs Barrett is solicitous for a sum of her application 
Respectfully yr obed servt
Adriel Esq

J.L. Edwards Esq
Comm of Pensions
Washington
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Record pension Office
561857

Watertown, N.Y. 
Oct 12 1899

Oliver Barrett
NY
Col. Seth Warner's Regt VT
Capt in Revo War 

Address: "Chief of the Record and Pension Office, War Department, Washington, D.C."

Record and Pension Office, 
War Department, 
Washington. October 14, 1899

Respectfully referred to 

The Commissioner of Pensions, 

to whom the communication is addressed. 

O.W. & N. Division 
OCT 16 1899
Received 

Pension 
Office
US
D 
Oct 16 1899

By authority of the Secretary of War:
f Chinworth
Chief of Office
Per a 
(300b) 

O.W.&N. Division
Oct 16 1899
Received
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Rev 
B 197
Boston November 2d
U.S. Pension Office
I wish information as to Lieut. Oliver Barrett Adjutant of Warners Regiment of Green Mountain Boys. 
Lieut. Barrett widow received a pension for some years before her death. her name was Elizabeth Barrett and she died some where about eighteen 

Old War & Navy
Nov 8 1897
Files
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hundred and thirty five. 
Lieuty. Barrett was my fathers grandfather and I wish the facts will enable me to join the "Daughters of the American Revolution"
Address:
Mrs. James G. Paxson
Metropolitan and
Maynard Streets
Roslindale
Boston 
Mass

Pension 
Office
US
Nov 4 1897
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2 Cr Starch attached

Daughters of the American Revolution

Tho Winthrop 
Watertown NY
To the Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Revolutionary Records

I have the evidence of the service of the War of the Revolution for Oliver Barrett. He enlisted first in N. York State at Albany, afterward under Col. Seth Warner in Vermont. Our family has always believed him
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" Elizabeth- widow of Capt. Oliver Barrett of the Revolutionary War died May 25th 1843" Will you kindly inform me if there is any record of a pension having been viewed to the widow of Capt. Oliver Barrett. I want proof that he was a Captain. Oliver Barrett was a prisoner at the end of the war at Fort Grange this state
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have been a captain though I can't prove it. Older members of the family say that his widow Elizabeth Heigh Barrett (who resided at LaForgeville N.Y. after the death in Windsor Vermont of Oliver Barrett) received the pension of a Captain's widow. The papers are lost but I visited an old burying ground a few days ago and find on a head stone that
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as have his statement to that effect. I will be greatly obliged with a relief. If there ny costs I will be glad to pay them.
Flora S. Peck

October 12th 1899
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Form 538

Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. 

Freeport, Ill., June 5, 1902.

First Commissioner
Jun 9 1902
Pension Office

Hon. J.L. Davenport, 
Acting Commissioner, 
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:-
In regard to the within pension record of Oliver Barrett, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, I beg to state that it does not correspond with the record I have from the war department nor with my own - records, as the Oliver Barrett whose pension record I wish to obtain was from Windsor, VT. and the latter years of his life were passed in New York state, where he died. 
I quote the following record from the war department: "It is shown by the records that one Oliver Barrett served as a member of Captain Weight Hopkin's Company, of a battalion of Continental troops commanded by Colonel Seth Warner, Revolutionary War. He was appointed sergeant December 4, 1776, and was promoted to the grade of quartermaster sergeant July 1, 1777. His name last appears on the company roll to June 17, 1779, without remark. 
No further official record of this soldier has been found. The following, however, appears in an unofficial publication entitled "Heitman's Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army in service during the war of the Revolution," Barrett, Oliver (N.H.) Ensign of Warner's Additional Continental Regiment, 14th August, 1778; retired 1st January 1781." Although not official, this publication is regarded as entitled to credit."
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Form 538

Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. 

My own records show that Oliver Barrett was from Windsor, VT., that he married a miss Burnham of a prominent family of that town, and that he died at a small place called Louisville, near Waddington, St. Lawrence County, N.Y. and was buried there. He drew a pension during the last years of his life but I do not know the date nor year of his death. 
With the above information I trust you will be able to find the records I want without trouble, and thanking you for the favor, I remain 
Yours very truly, 
J.B. Sweatt

Enc.
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Navy
May 6
1904
Files
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Freeport, Ill., May 2, 1904

Commissioner of Pensions, 
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:
Please send me the pension record of Oliver Barrett, who served in the Revolutionary War. His home was at Windsor. VT., where at the close of the war he married a Miss Burnham. He afterwards moved to Louisville, St. Lawrence County, New York, a small village near Waddington and Ogdensburg; both he and his wife died and were buried at Louisville. He was near eighty years old at the time of his death but I do not know the year he died. 
Kindly look this up carefully, as there seems to have been several men of this name in the Revolutionary War. 
Thanking you in advance, I remain, 
Your truly, 
Ada L. Sweatt

Pension
A
Office
May 4 1904
US
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Pension 
D
Office
Feb 27 1914
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Concord, Mass Feb 26 1914

Commissioner of Pensions
Dept. of the Interior, Washington

Dear Sir, 
Will you kindly send me the military history of the following Revolutionary pensioners,
Ensign Oliver Barrett Windsor Vt. who was in Col. Seth Warner's Regt. pensioned 1818
Sylvester Cobb, of Lower Canada in 1833 who served in Mass. militia
Andrew Harrington of New London County, Conn.
pensioned in 1818. 
John Frost of Washington Co. Maine in 1819 
midshipman, Continental Navy
& greatly oblige
Yours Respy, 
George S. Stewart 
Concord, Mass.
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[illegible]
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Ferndale, Calif.
Oct 11th 1927

Mr. Winfield Scott,
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:

I understand that I have ancestors who fought in the Revolutionery [sic] war which would entitle me to join the Sons of the American revolution and I have been informed that you are the one who is able to give me the information I require: viz., the place and time of their enlistment and their Revolutionary war record as it stands on the Records which you have.

My father's paternal grand-father's [inserted hand writing 'not a'] name was Stephen W. Shaw, born in Raynham, Mass. on Aug. 28th. 1751 and died at Windsor Vt. on Dec. 27th. 1839 said to have fought under Gen - Warren at Bunker Hill.  [handwriting - 'only one Mass Serv. died June 16, 1807']

My father's maternal grand-father's name was Oliver Barett born in ______ on April 17th. 1755 and died at Windsor Vt. on March 13th. 1832 said to have fought under General Washington at Valley Forge.

Any information that you are ablet o give me regarding either of my above mentioned ancestors will be greatly appreciated by yours as ever.

Very truly,
J. A. Shaw
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION. 
3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
W. F. 10. 384
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., ______________, 19___
______________
______________
_______________
In reply to your request of ____________, received _____________________ for a statement of the military history of __Oliver Barrett___ as 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.
_____________________________________
[Column Headers}
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
LENGTH OF SERVICE.
RANK.
OFFICERS UNDER WHO SERVICE WAS RENDERED.  CAPTAIN.   COLONEL..
STATE.

Dec. 1775  1776
[illegible too faint] 1776
William McCune     Benedict
Seth Warner   Vandehouse
N.Y.  Continental

Nov. 11 1778 [arrow to] on Oct 11 1780
[illegible rank]
He was taken prisoner at Ft. George N. Y. 
was paroled & returned home & reassigned
unexchanged until the end of the war.

Battles engaged in, __________________
Residence of soldier at enlistment, __________________
Date of application for pension __
Residence at date application, __Hudson, Vt.__
Age at date of application, __62[?] yrs.  He died at Hudson Vt. Mch 13, 1832.  
Remarks: __ He was Dec 30 1778 at Kingsburg N. Y.  Elizabeth daughter of William Hick who was of July 9, 1760,  She was at pens. on an application executed Sept 13, 1836 while a resident of Orleans N. Y. __

Respectfully,
but his old county land is allowed a lien &
The rank of Lieut is omitted because the p**** records of Vt. and William only have him as an Ensign , the widow is the only one  that calls him a Lieut.

Commissioner
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
     Form VAM-51
     12-5-41

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

   BOUNTY AND WARRANT RECORD CARD*


NAME Barrett, Peter     GRADE Private
                          LINE New York

WARRANT
NUMBER  6792      ACREAGE   100.


ISSUED  July 30, 1790
              to John W. Wendell, assignee


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*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land warrants Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16. 1776, and subsequent dates.  Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.  Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.