Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10,077, for Thomas Starkweather, Vermont
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
Vt. Starkweather, Thomas R. 10.077
or Starkwether,
Sally
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1878.
REJECTED
10077
P. O.
Sally Starkweather
Service:
Enlisted: , 18.
Discharged: , 18.
Application filed: , 18.
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P. O.
Recognized. Contract.
Cert. of Dis. Searched for , 18.
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STATE OF VERMONT.
Office of the Secretary of State,
Montpelier, Sept 10th 1853
I certify that there is on file in the
records of this office a "Pay Roll of Capt William Dyer's
Company in the service of the State of Vermont from Oct 12th
to the 6th day of Nov 1780 both days included", in which
appears the name of "Thomas Starkweather', with an allowance
for twenty five days service as private in D Company
Also, a "Pay Roll of Capt William Hatch
ins Company of Provincial Troops in the service of the
United States of America commencing May 1st, ending
Nov 30th 1778", in which appears the name of "Thomas
Starkweather", with an allowance for seven months as priv-
ate in D Company.
Given under my hand and the
Seal of this Office this 10th day of September 1853
Ferrand F. Merrill
Secretary of State
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State of New York
County of Genesee ⎬ Whited M. Starkweather being
duly sworn depose and says that he resides in the town of
Phelps, Ontario County and State of New York, that he
is aged fifty eight years and is a son of Thomas Stark-
weather, late of the town of Attica, (now) Wyoming County,
N.Y. by his first wife. That this Deponent a having
understood from his said father that he was a soldier
of the Revolution, that he was in the battle of Bennington
and served about four years in all, that he was
engaged in scouting and on patrol and was a
Rifleman. He has often heard him speak of Capt
Hutchins as his Captain And this deponent
further says that he this deponent was present at
the marriage of his father with his second wife, [illegible]
maiden name was Sally Rose; that they were
married in what was then called the [illegible]
but is now called the town of Pavilion, in the
County of Genesee and State of New York, by a Pres-
byterian minister on the twenty second day of
June in the year eighteen hundred and nine.
That he remembers the time from other facts
connected therewith: That they continued to live
together as man and wife until his death - that
the said Thomas Starkweather died in the said
town of Attica on the 19th June 1829 and left
his widow surviving him, Sally Starkweather
and that she died on the 29 April 1848
and remained unmarried until her death;
and this deponent further says that he does not know
of any family or other Record of his said marriage
and he does not believe that there is any such Records.
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He hereby makes this declaration for the purpose
of obtaining any bounty land or Pension that may
be due the heirs of the said Thomas Starkweather
on account of the sons of the said Thomas Stark-
weather in the Revolutionary war or on account
any pension due the said Sally Starkweather at
her decease. He hereby further declares that he
never received a Warrant for Bounty land nor do I
believe any was ever received, therefore, Know all
men by these presents that I, Whited M. Starkweather
aforesaid do hereby constitute and appoint Horace U.
Soper of Batavia, Genesee County, N. Y. to be my true
and lawful attorney for me and in my name to demand
and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States
a Warrant for said Bounty and to prosecute any claim
for a [illegible] that may be due the said heirs.
Sealed and Delivered
in the presence of W.M. Starkweather
[illegible] [illegible]
Personally appeared the above named Whited M.
Starkweather, subscriber to the foregoing declaration
and made oath to the same, and in my presence acknowledged
the power of attorney thereto subjoined to be his free act and
deed for the purposes therein mentioned and I certify
that I have no interest in the result of the case and
are not concerned in its prosecution.
M. W. Hewitt
Justice of the Peace
of Genesee Co
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STATE OF NEW YORK,} ss
Genesee County Clerk's Office, 
I CERTIFY, that M. W. Hewitt Esqr before
whom the annexed Instrument in writing was proved or acknowledged, was, at the time of
taking the same, a Justice of the Peace in
and for said County, duly authorized to take the same; and that I am well acquainted with
his hand writing, and verily believe that the signature to said certificate is genuine,
and that the annexed DEED is executed and acknowledged according to the laws of this State.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official Seal, at
Batavia, in said County, this 31st day of Dec.
1853.
Geo. H. Holden Dep Clerk.
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Batavia, Genesse Co. N.Y.
December 31, 1853
Hon L. P. Waldo Com. of Pensions, Sir, you will papers
enclosed are the application of heirs of Sally Stark-
weather for Pension. If there is a Pension due
I was in doubt who was entitled to it and have
therefore named all the heirs. Again, I have
some hope, that the Rolls in your office will
furnish proof of more services than I have been
able to obtain. I have been informed that a
portion of his services were performed in
R.I. troops.
I am Very [illegible],
H. U. Soper
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No. 4037
Sally Starkweather, 
wife: of
Thomas
rejected
Hon. H. U. Soper 7th January 53,
10077
[illegible]
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State of New York}ss
Genesee County I, Merrill G. Soper Clerk of the
County Court of the County of Genesee holden at Batavia in
and for said County, do hereby certify that satisfactory
proof was made in open Court by the oaths of William Bradfield
and Eunice Bradfield, who reside in the town of Batavia
in the said County, that Thomas Starkweather, late of the town
of Attica in the County of Wyoming deceased, was a Revolutionary
soldier, that he died on the 19th June 1829 and left his
widow, Sally Starkweather, who was his second wife and
that the said Sally Starkweather died in the town of
Shelby in the County of Orleans, while she was living with
the said witnesses, William Bradfield and wife, who then
resided in the said town, on the twenty ninth day of
April 1848. That at the time of her death there was
living children of the said Thomas Starkweather by his first
wife, Whited M. Starkweather, Sally Sayre, Horace
Starkweather and Laura Holden, all of whom are now living
and were the only children he had by his said first wife.
And that at the time of the death of Sally Starkweather, she
left surviving her, the following named children she had had
by the said Thomas Starkweather, Viz - Eunice Bradfield
her oldest child aged 42 years. Matilda Covey who is now
dead and has left surviving her, her husband Richard Covey,
and two infant children, Ara & Walter Covey and
Timothy Starkweather - And further that the said
Sally Starkweather, widow of the said Thomas Starkweather,
remained unmarried until her death. And I further
certify that I have no interest in said application.
In Testimony whereof I hereunto
subscribed my name and affixed
my official seal this 31 Dec 1853.
Menile G. Soper Clerk
By G. H. Holden Dep Clerk