Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20621, John Anderson, Conn.
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Conn
 Anderson, John
Linda
W20621
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Connecticut [illegible]
Linda Anderson
widow of John Anderson, dec 
Con
who died Nov 1825 
of Hartford in the state of Ct
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Loomis of the Regt commanded
by Col Wolcott in the CT line for 9 months and 6 days

Inscribed on the Roll of [blank]
at the rate of 30 dollars 67 cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of April 1837 and sent Jesse Charlton East Windsor Ct

Arrears to the 4th of March 1837 $184.02
Semi Anl allowance ending 4 Sept 1837 15.33
                                               $199.35

Revolutionary  [illegible]
Act July r, 1835 Section 3
Recorded by D D Addison
Book A Vol 1 Page 74
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Comptroller Certificate
[seal]
723 3 Sec
original
[illegible]
9 mo 6 [illegible]
no deduction

Jesse Charlton Esq
E. Windsor, Conn
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Comptrollers Office
Hartford, Connecticut
October 29 1836
I certify that the name of John Anderson appears on a payroll in this office as a private soldier, which payroll is headed as follows, to wit: 
Net pay roll of the 6th company of the 6th regiment raised per Order General Assembly Colony Connecticut May 1775, said Anderson is named as having served from May 12th to Dec 15th, making seven months and three days.  Amount of wages L14-14-1 said company appearance to have been commanded by Capt Waterman Cleft.  I further certify that the name of Colonel Erastus Wolcott appears on the pay table books in this office and he is credited June 24th1776 for his regiment 2 mo service, for amount of wages till Marched, Billeting, Equiping, Blankets and est @838-3-5-1/4, the names of Captains in this regiment do not appear in this account.
Wm Field, Comptroller
And I further certify that the name of John Anderson appears on the roll of Capt Amasa Loomis' company in the rolls for the Lexington alarm, where he is credited for three days service.
And I further certify that the name of
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Capt Amasa Loomis is found in [illegible] receipts in this office under the following head on page 93.
Expenses of the Post at New London continued 1781.
Dec 22 Capt Amasa Loomis posts at New London [illegible] 352-4-10
I know of no rolls of said Loomis Company in the office.
Wm Field, Comptroller
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Lem Brooke
for
Linda Anderson
Jesse Charleton Esq
East Windsor, Con.
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State of Connecticut
Hartford County         To East Windsor

On this 22nd day of November 1836, personally appeared before the subscribing authority Augustus Mills Esq a resident of said East Windsor and one of the most substantial inhabitants of the same, aged 73 years, a credible person, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on oath declare that he was well acquainted with John Anderson, before the Revolutionary War and from that period down to the time of his death
The deponent was out himself toward the close of the War but not as early as the year 1775. But in that year a neighbor of his, Lieut  Samuel Bancraft enlisted men for the service. As deponent was then young, he does not remember whether it was state troops or the continental line but has since understood that it was for the Connecticut line, he has since learned it was the former.
That John Anderson was one of the troops he enlisted, he fully believes he understood at the time that John Anderson, the beforementioned, was one of the troops who composed our Army at Bosbury in the year 1775 but not being there himself he does
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not recollect the length of the period which the enlisted troops served in that campaign.  He heard of tricks being played upon Anderson, by the lovers of fun and frolic, calculated to deepen the impression that he was there, as a soldier.
And in the year 1776 the whole company under Capt Amasa Loomis was draft out and Anderson, viz the said John Anderson, I have not the least doubt went with them.  I have heard him tell many particulars of the service which fully satisfied my mind that he performed a tour of duty at New York in that campaign for how long of time he does not exactly know.
Augustus Mills
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Before me, Joshua Risley, Justice of Peace
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I, William Howard, Town Clerk for the Town of Windsor in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, hereby certify that I do not find in said records the marriage of John Anderson and Linda Loomis entered under any dates and I further certify that previous to the year 1820 the entry of marriages in the public registers of this place were irregular and few in comparison to the whole number.  I further certify that some thirty or thirty five years since the dwelling house of Jedediah Loomis was destroyed by fire together with its contents.
Attest  Wm Howard, Town Clerk
dated at Windsor aforesaid the 4th day of Nov 1836.

I, Charles Walker. Pastor of the Congregational Church and Society of Windsor in Hartford County, hereby certify  that on examining the records of my predecessors in the ministry I do not find the entry of the marriage of John Anderson and Linda Loomis and that the records of the  [illegible] Mr. Russell formerly of this place appear not to have been kept regularly except by the [illegible] David J. Rowland and by my predecessor Revd Henry at Rowland, the latter terminated his ministry on or about the 25th day of November 1835.
Dated at Windsor the 4th day of Nov 1836.
Attest Charles Walker
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State of Connecticut
Hartford County   to Windsor
On this 12th day of November AD 1836 personally appeared before me the subscribing authority William Howard Esq of Windsor aforesaid, a credible person aged 55 years, who is Town Clerk and register of the said town of Windsor and made solemn oath to the truth of the facts, declared by him in the written certificate by him [illegible]. And at the same time and place also appeared the Rev Charles Walker who is a clergyman, Pastor of the Congregational Church in said Windsor a credible person aged 40 years who then and there made solemn oath to the truth of the facts declared in the written certificate by him subscribed.
Before me, Giles Ellsworth, Justice of the Peace
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state of Connecticut
Hartford County/East Windsor

On this 22nd day of November personally appeared before the court of Probate for the district of East Windsor in said Hartford Count , widow Linda Anderson, a resident of said East Windsor, aged 81 years, a credible person, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on oath declare that she is the widow of John Anderson, late a resident of said East Windsor, who was a soldier in the army of the Revolution and who served according to her best knowledge and belief at three distinct periods, first he enlisted in a company of state troops in the spring of the year 1775, and went to [illegible] near Boston and remained in the service this time until December, a period of not less than seven months.  She does not fully remember the name of the Capt he went under, but has heard it was Capt Cleft, and supposes it was so.  That he went and [illegible] out his time was well known,
And again he was out in the year 1776 in the company of militia commanded by Capt Amasa Loomis, all the company were called out and went to New York on a tour of two months from the middle of August until the middle of October.  Col. Erastus Wolcott of East Windsor she thinks was col. of the regiment.
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And again in the fall of the year 1781 he went with the militia to New London about the time it was burned he went with Capt Loomis.  At this time he [illegible] a tour of two months.
It was [illegible] that Nathaniel Strong of his town would have testified but he died suddenly two weeks ago, he was a piper in the company, at that time, she understands.
She further declares that she was married to said John Anderson at the house of her father in Windsor in said County on the [blank] day 
 of February 1773 by the Rev Mr Russell of said Windsor.  The record of it was in her fathe'rs Bible where she has seen it but that is destroyed.  His house was burned some twenty five years ago or more, with all its furniture and other contents and the Bible which contained the record was one of the articles destroyed. She does not know that there is now any record of the marriage.  Her husband was an easy careless man, who kept little records of anything.
But there are people still living who know the [illegible] married at that time and she will endeavour to procure their evidence.
Her said husband John Anderson died at said East Windsor on the day of November 1825.  And she still remains is widow and have never again intermarried.  All which will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereunto annexed.
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In presence of: Chauncey Belknap,
                          John Pittson, writing
                          Linda Anderson 
                           [illlegible]
Sworn and subscribed the day and year beforementioned.  Before said court of Probate.
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter [illegible] the subscribed interrogation as they are appropriate to this case.  That the aforesaid applicant widow Linda Anderson is the surviving widow of John Anderson of said East Hartford, that the said Anderson served as a private soldier in the army of the revolution, that the present applicant was married to him before any of his periods of service in said army, that the said John Anderson died at said East Windsor on the 
 [blank] day of November 1825, and that the said Linda Anderson still remained the widow of the said John Anderson and that she has never again married.

I, Henry S. Kinsley, Clerk of the Probate Court for the District of East Windsor in said Hartford County hereby certify that the forgoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Widow Linda Anderson of said East Windsor for a pension under the 3rd section of the Act of July 4 1836 and I 
Lemuel Drake was taken as a lawful Justice
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and Stephen Elmer were takeenry
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State of Connecticut
Hartford County - East Windsor
On this 22nd day of November 1836, personally appeared before the court of probate for the district of East Windsor in said Hartford County and State of Connecticut, Timothy Anderson, a resident of East Hartford in said county of Hartford, aged 73 years, a credible person who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on oath declare that he has been well acquainted with John Anderson from his, the deponents, childhood, that he is his brother, that the said John Anderson was 12 years older than deponent, that he, the deponent was well knowing to the fact that his said brother enlisted in the army in the  year 1775, he believes it was in the spring of the year, he thinks, it was in the State troopers, he went to Roxbury and other places, in the eastern service near Boston and continued with the army for the term of seven months, or more; he the deponent was then young, and did not enter the service until two years after this period and does not distinctly remember the officers he served under, he heard that he was in Capt Cleft's company but cannot certainly declare the facts of his enlistment, and of his absence and from hearing from him while in the army and of his returning home, he will know and unhesitatingly declares.
And again he went into the service in the summer of 1776 when the enemy invaded New York; he went in Coll Erastus Wolcotts regiment and Capt Anasa Loomis' company which
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was a company of militia.  It was a tour of two months and I well remember that my said brother performed duty as a soldier during that tour; that the whole company went and left nobody but the women and the old men to gather the crops; the hay, grain and other crops, which made the period memorable.
He is well knowing to the fact that his said brother John, married Linda Loomis, who is still his widow, before the breaking out of the revolutionary war and that his oldest child if living, would be as much as 61 years old or more.  He does not know and believe that there is any record of the marriage.  His said brother was not a careful man about keeping a record of anything; but deponent well remembered it was as early as he stated.  He, the said John Anderson, died at East Windsor Nov 1825 and left the present widow Linda Loomis, his surviving widow and she has never again intermarried.
Timothy Anderson
Sworn and subscribed the day and year before mentioned.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my name and affix the seal of said court this 22 day of November 1836.
Henry S Kinsley Clerk
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State of Connecticut
Hartford County - East Windsor
On this 22nd day of November 1836 personally appeared before me the subscribing authority Stephen Elmer, a resident of East Windsor, aged 83 years, a credible person, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on oath declare, that he was well acquainted with John Anderson, late a resident of said East Windsor before the Revolutionary war. through the war and since to the time of his death. That in the year 1775, a company or more, how many more he does not know were enlisted by a neighbor of his, Lieut Samuel Bancraft.  He understood that John Anderson was one, he did not see his enlistment and was not with him, but from circumstances and anecdotes which I have heard him tell and which I have heard others tell in relation to the service at Roxbury and its vicinity, I fully believe and have for years believed that said John Anderson performed a tour of military duty at Roxbury for how  many months deponent does not know.
And again in the year 1776 the whole company of militia from this place were called out and went to New York under the command of Capt Amasa Loomis, as he well knew; he the deponent was then under enlistment to go onto our lines at the North and two days after Capt Loomis' company marched, viz on the 16th day of Ajugust I marched
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from East Windsor with other soldiers for Queensborough.
That John Anderson was one who marched in Ca[t Loomis' company, I have not the least doubt both from the circumstance that all the said company went; but because I have heard Anderson and others tell of circumstances relating to himself, which could not fail to satisfy my mind that he was present at New York.  It was understood in the time of the war and ever since that said John Anderson performed a tour of duty in the said company at that time, but as deponent was (as he has stated) himself absent in the Northern Campaign, under Gen Gates (or Gen Arnold was also there in command) he cannot say for how long time said Anderson served in that campaign.  I am also acquainted with the widow Linda Anderson and according to my best recollection, she was married to said John Anderson before he went into the service and she is still his widow and has never again intermarried.
Stephen Elmer
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Before me  Joshua Risley, Justice of the Peace
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State of Connecticut
Hartford County - East Windsor
On this 22nd day of November 1836 personally appeared before the court of probate for the district of East Windsor in said Hartford County, Cornelius Burnham esq. a resident f said East Hartford in said county, aged 61 years, a person who being first duly sworn according to law doth on oath declare that he has been well acquainted with the family of John Anderson, late a resident of said East Windsor, near sixty years, that the eldest daughter of the said John Anderson and Mrs. Linda Anderson, his wife who is now his surviving widow and was Eunice Anderson who is now dead and who living would be between sixty one and sixty two years of age. He has been a schoolmate with the said John Andersons eldest children and is fully acquainted with the act of the eldest being older than himself. He has understood from his childhood that said John Anderson served in several campaigns in the revolutionary war.  He, the said John Anderson, died at East Windsor aforesaid on the [blank] day of November 1825. And left a widow, Linda Anderson, who has never again married.
Cornelius Burnham
Sworn and subscribed on the day and year aforesaid
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In testimony whereof,
I, Henry Kinsley clerk of the probate court for the district of East Windsor in Hartford County hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said court of probate this 22nd day f November 1836.
Attest Henry S Kinsley, Clerk
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State of Connecticut
Hartford County - Windsor
On this 19 day of November 1536 personally appeared Lemual Drake, a resident of said Windsor aged 82 years, a credible person who being first duly sworn according to law doth on oath declared that he was well acquainted with John Anderson of East Windsor, he is well knowing to the fact that said John Anderson married Lenda Loomis, daughter of Jedediah Loomis the deponent lived from his childhood in the neighborhood of said Loomis and was intimate in his family.  I have no [illegible] of the marriage but distinctly recollect that it was before the breaking out of the revolution.  I visited at his house several times after he removed his said wife over to East Windsor and before the commencement of the war.  Anderson was several years older than myself.  I went in company with him and know fully the facts I have here declared.  The said Jedidiah Loomis, father of Widow Lenda Anderson had his house burned in the night and all its contents more than twenty years ago.
Lemuel Drake
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Before me, Giles Ellsworth, Justice of the Peace
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William T. Moffett, Loami Illinois,
Dear Sir : I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 20621, it appears that John Anderson enlisted and served as a private with the Connecticut Troops, as follows: From the spring of 1775, seven months in Captain Cleft's Company; from the middle of August 1776, two months in Captain Amasa Loomis' Company, Colonel Erastus Welcott's Regiment; and in the fall of 1781, two months in Captain Loomis' Company. He died at East Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut in November 1825. the date and place of his birth are not stated.  Soldier married in 1773 at Windsor, Connecticut, Linda or Lenda, daughter of Jedediah Loomis. It is stated that they married at her father's house in said Windsor. She was allowed pension on her application executed November 22, 1836, while a resident of East Windsor, Connecticut, aged eighty-one years.
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Their eldest daughter, Eunice died prior to 1836. There are names of no other children given.
Very truly yours, Earl D. Church Commissioner.
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Revy
WIDOW, &c.
File No  20621
Linda Anderson
Widow of John Anderson
Priv, Rev, War
Act: July 4th 1836
Index: Viol A Page 15

1927 Oct 2 -Hist [illegible]
Mary Francis Aery
1929 Hist to William Moffett 9 Loy
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Letter in
Lenda Anderson
case
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East Windsor November 24th 1836
Sir,
I herewith transmit the application of the Widow Lenda Anderson, of said East Windsor for a pension under the 3rd section of the act of July 4,1836.
I have had occasion, in several applications previous to this, to speak of the extreme difficulty of getting such proof of the marriage of the applicant as the regulations seem to require.
As no licences are required for marriages in this state and there are no full records of marriages in any towns in this vicinity previous to 1820, it is in some cases impossible to produce any stronger evidence than the general opinion of the neighbors and of the community generally that the parties were married as long ago as they themselves declare it to be and this confirmed by the ages of the children.
If this is not allowed to be sufficient, many widows whose cases are sound in all respects must fail from the impossibility of producing either a record or an eyewitness to the fact of their marriage.
The present applicant is a very worthy woman, "tho now very poor".  She could obtain the opinion [illegible] in affadavitts of the whole community (if that would strengthen her claim) that she was married before her
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husband went into the service; but it seems to me that it is useless after the proof she has produced.
I am, Sir, very respectfully 
Your obdt servant,
Jesse Charlton
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Sixty-Ninth Congress
R. Hart Fenn Conn., Chairman
Clarence J. McLeod, Mich.
Robert L. Bacon, N. Y.
Hays B White, Kans.
 Lloyd Thurston, Iowa
William R. Johnson , Ill.
Frederick W. Mabrady, PA.
Henry L. Bowles, Mass.
Flordice P.Kahn, Calif.
Edward Voist, Wis.
John W. Rankin, Miss.
Arthur H. Greenwood, Ind.
George C. Perry, VA.
Ralph F. Lozier, Mo.
Meyer Jocobstein, N. Y.
Virgil Chapman, Ky.
Samuel Rutherford, Ga.
J. Robert Conroy, Clerk
Committee on the Census House of Representatives Washington, D. C.
183 Ann St., Hartford, Conn., Oct. 4, 1927.
Hon. Winfield Scott, Commissioner of Pensions. Dear Mr. Scott:- The enclosed letter of Miss Mary Francis of this City is self-explanatory. I will appreciate it if you will return same to me with such information as is available as to the revolutionary war record of John Anderson, W 20621. 
With kind regards, I am, Very truly yours, E Hart Fenn
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Loami, Illinois August 26, 1929
Commissioner of Pensions Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir: I am informed that my ancestor, John Anderson, rank not stated, served in the Revolutionary War in Captain Waterman Clift's Company, parson's (6) Connecticut Regiment. Can you give me his war record or any information concerning him? 
Very truly yours, WM. T. Moffett Capt. Wm. T. Moffett
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October 8, 1927 
Honorable E. Hart Fenn 183 Ann St Hartford, Conn.
My dear Mr. Fenn In response to your letter of the fourth instant, enclosing letter from Miss Mary Francis, Hartford, Connecticut, in which she requests the record of the Revolutionary War soldier Anderson, W. 20621. I have the honor to advise you from the papers in said pension claim, it appears that John Anderson enlisted and served as a private with the Connecticut Troops as follows- From the spring of 1775, seven months in Captain Cleft's Company, from the middle of August 1776, two months in Captain Amasa Loomis' Company, Colonel Erastus Welcott's Regiment, and in the fall of 1781, two months in Captain Loomis' Company, He died at East Windsor, Hartford County, Con-
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necticut in November 1825. The date and place of his birth are not stated. Soldier married in 1773 at Windsor, Connecticut, Linda or Lenda, daughter of Jedediah Loomis. It is stated that they married at her father's house in said Windsor. She was allowed pension on her application exeouted November 22, 1836, while a resident of East Windsor, Connecticut, aged eighty-one years. Their eldest daughter, Eunice died prior to 1836. There are names of no other children given. The letter of Miss Mary Francis, is herewith returned. 
Very truly yours, Winfield Scott Commissioner.