Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10,789, Daniel Tyler, Conn. N.H.
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SERVICE:
Conn.
N.H.

Tyler, Daniel

NUMBER:
R. 10.789
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Power of Attorney.

State of Connecticut
County of New London }ss.

Colchester June 16, 1854

Know all Men by these Presents,
That I, Abagail Webster of the Town of Lebanon
do hereby authorize, constitute and appoint L. M.  Drury of Canandaigua State of New York my true and lawful Attorney to prosecute for me and on my behalf, all and singular, claim or claims, I may have against the General Government of the United States, on account of my Father Daniel Tyler deceased, in the war of the Revolution; the said power of Attorney to be irrevocable for the space of three years from the within date; and the said L. M. D [illegible] is hereby authorized to take all necessary and proper steps in the prosecution of said claim or claims on my behalf.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 16th of June 1854.

A. M. [illegible]  J.P.
Jos. T Ashton

Abigal Webster L. G.

State of Connecticut
County of New London } ss. Colchester June 16th 1854

Be it Known, That on the 16th day of June 1834 before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, named, and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be [illegible] act and deed.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, the day and year last above mentioned.
A. M. [illegible] Justice of the Peace

State of Connecticut
County of New London } ss. Colchester June 17th 1854

I, A.M. [illegible] Town Clerk of the County and State aforesaid do certify, that A. M. [illegible] Esquire is now, and was at the time of the date of the foregoing, a Justice of the Peace, July commissioned and qualified to act as such in and for said County; and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his, is genuine.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and Official Seal, this 17th day of June, 1854.

A. M. [illegible]
Town Clerk
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Power of Attorney

State of Connecticut
County of New London} ss.
Colchester June 16, 1854

Know all Men by these Presents, That I, Hannah Wilson of Colchester do hereby authorize, constitute and appoint L M Drury of the town of Canandaigua State of New York my true and lawful Attorney to prosecute for me and on my behalf, all and singular, claim or claims, I may have against the General Government of the united States, on account of the service of my Father Daniel Tyler deceased, in the war of the Revolution; the said power of Attorney to be irrevocable for the space of three years form the withing date; and the said L M Drury is hereby authorized to take all necessary and proper steps in the prosecution of said claim or claims on my behalf.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 16th day of June 1854.

AM [illegible] J. P.
Jos T Ashton

Hannah T. Wilson L.S.

State of Connecticut
County of New London} ss.
Colchester June 16, 1854

Be it known, That on the 16th day of June AD, 1854 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorised by law to administer oaths, personally appeared Hannah Wilson above named, and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be his [illegible] act and deed. 

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, the day and year above mentioned.

A M [illegible] Justice of the Peace

State of Connecticut
County of New London} ss:
Colchester June 17 1854

I, AM [illegible] Town Cler of the town of Colchester of the County and State aforesaid do certify, that A M [illegible] Esquire is now, and was a the time of the date of the foregoing, a Justice of the Peace, duly commissioned and qualified to act as such in and for said County; and the foregoing signature purporting to be his, is genuine.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and Official Seal this 17th day of June 1854

AM [illegible] Town Clerk
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7005
Daniel Tyler

Return this -- j

D. Wattles
Lebanon 
Ct
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office
June 10th 1833

Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined and the papers are herewith returned.  The following is a statement of your case in tabular form.  On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed.  The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done.  These points to which your attention is more particularly directed,  you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: } ).  You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and  you will by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
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A Statement, shewing the Service of 
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Period when the service was rendered.
   1775 - June to Dec 1778
   April 1781 to Sept, 1781

Duration of the claimant's service.
   Years.           Months.         Days.
      2                     6                ----
                             5
      2.11

Rank of the claimant.
     Captain

Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served.
     not given
     Col. Ledyard
     Capt Palmer

Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service.
      88
       Piermont
       N. Hampshire

Proof by which the declaration is supported.
      Blank

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.

Mr. Daniel Tyler
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7 1832.

The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of Staff of the Army and to include under the terms "Continental Line,"  "State troops,"  "militia," and  "volunteers,"  all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c.  Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in the actual military service. 
    Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
  1. The Regular Troops.
  2.  The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
  3.  Persons employed in the Naval Service.
  4.  Indian Spies.
     As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all person claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides,  And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.

DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, of District of}
    County of                         } ss.
    On this        day of        personally appeared (a) before           A. B. a resident (b) of            in the county of           and State, Territory  or District of             aged (c)     years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed  June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d)           , with       and served in the        (e) regiment of the           line, under the following named officers':
  [Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers;  the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service;  the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and country through which he marched.   --- This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and  persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
     He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of                     .
      Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.             A. B.
                [And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]  
    And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
       I              of the Court of                do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of                 for a pension.  
      In testimony whereof,  I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this             day of             &c.
     If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
    Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
    (k) We, A. B., a Clergyman residing in the          and C. D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with                , who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be        years of age;  that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been soldier of the Revolution,  and that we concur in that opinion.
      Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid.
    [And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
    And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.  And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the                          and that C. D.,  who has also signed the same is a resident in the           and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. 
    I,                Clerk of the Court of              do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of                       for a pension.
          In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this              day of               &c.

        Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power.  This the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.  
     If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his-

The reasons given for declarant not having received a commission as a Captain are not satisfactory.  Further proof is necessary to substantiate the claim.
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alleged service, as they are known at the Department.  A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case.  The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one  be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected.  All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
     The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
     1.  Where and in what year were you born?
     2.  Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
      3.  Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
      4.  How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute?  And if a substitute, for whom?
       5.  State the names of some of the Regular Officers,  who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
    6, {To a Soldier, {  Did you ever receive a discharge from the service,  and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
        {To an Officer, { Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
      7.  State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your service as a soldier of the Revolution.
     The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
      The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him,  two respectable persons---one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion.  If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
     The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important,  in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party.  And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
     Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the  declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein request to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from  bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
     Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
     No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
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     {a} The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
     {b} The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
     {c} The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
      {d} The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
       {e} Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination  of the claim cannot be had.  Every claimant must state , with precision, the length of his service and the different grades in which he served, in language so defluite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled.  In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
    "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of Memory, He cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his [not readable] recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: --For ___ year _____ months and ________ days, I served as a ____________.  For ________ months and _________ days, I served as a _________;  and for such service I claim a pension."
          It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service.  The use of the phrase, three or four months, is too indefinite , and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.  Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service.  This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place of places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
     {f} The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
     {g}  The opinion of the Court is always required.
      {h}  The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
      {i}  The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal or if he has no public seal of office the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature  of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

Mode of authenticating papers.
     In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on same sheets of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or  narrow ribbons, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

Proof of Service.
[j]  In a case where the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses  who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. (The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify  to the credibility of the witnesses, and official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seat of office.
     [  ]  The Rules from [a] to [  ] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militiamen, Volunteers and State Troops.  The proof required by rule is 
note [j] applies to continental troops only.
     [k]  This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
     [l]   If a witness cannot be found the declarant must state the fact.
     [m]  The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration
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7005.
Capt Daniel Tyler's
Applications for a
Pension
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State of Connecticut}
New London County}
Probate Court district} ss.
of Lebanon}

On this 20th day of August AD 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate in and for the district Lebanon aforesaid now setting Present Dension Wettles Judge, Captain Daniel Tyler a resident of said Lebanon. county and state aforesaid, aged eighty seven years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.  That at the commencement of hostilities, he was a farmer living in the town of Piermont, County of Grafton and State of New Hampshire.  That a volunteer infantry company was formed and that he was chosen Captain by the unanimous vote of said Company.  Jonathan Ring was his Lieutenant and George Moor was Ensign.  The Royal Governor John Wentworth had absconded and no authority existed to grant commissions.  [        ] he took and held command without any,  Caring more for the whig [     ] than for property and personal  [         ].  In preparations for defence a  Fort was [     ] in said Piermont of which he had command from (1775 crossed out) 1777 until 1780 inclusive.  The [     ] Piermont Fort included a large dwelling found near the bank of the Connecticut river and many people of the opposite of the said river were [     ] therein
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The Head Quarters of Major General Jacob Bailey (who commended the northern lines) were at his home in Newbury the next [illegible] Piermont [illegible]
Bailey had under his command less than a full regiment of Continental soldiers, his main support for the [illegible] term of his extensive line were volunteers and militia the troops readily [illegible] out of his call in one instance
their number exceeded four thousand
this [illegible] was in that campaign and in many others at the call of General Bailey the outcry of the [illegible] either that British army as approaching or that the [illegible] area [comprised?] of refugees and indians were killing burning and destroying the frontier settlements. [history?] of [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] (in his [illegible] Piermont is [illegible]) that the inhabitants are much more frequently alarmed during the war than any other section of frontier 
In all campaigns [illegible] by alarms at [illegible] and its vicinity this applicant marched. Therefore the services [illegible]
the and its receivity this applicant
marched therefore the services which he
performed in the year of the recolection
in commanding Piermont Fort [illegible]
in this compaigns patrolling [illegible]
[illegible] placing centinels at each
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posts to watch the approach of the enemy and to detect [illegible] who were mistaken [illegible] of [leading?] and deserting [illegible] & must have accompanied his [illegible] and [illegible] so from [crossed out]/1775/[crossed out 1777 until 1780 [illegible] more than equal to three years in regular encampments His [illegible] [illegible] his private [illegible] from 1780 to this time 200 miles distance from [illegible] and [illegible] of no one except General [illegible] [illegible] who can tell any story about the [illegible] [illegible]-he was born in the town of [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] on the [illegible] day of August 1745 [illegible] he has no record of his age but that some years since  he received a letter from his father stating his birth at [illegible] on said 6 day of August 1745 from which he said are [illegible] his age. That [illegible] called into service he was residing in said town of Piermont where he resides [illegible] 1780 where he remains to the [illegible] in Connecticut where he [illegible] [illegible] that he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person who can testify to his service [illegible] than his father aforesaid
he hereby relinquishes any claim to [illegible] [illegible] to a Pension or annuity except this
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Present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State and further states that the following named persons, living near and being well acquainted with him can testify to his [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] and their belief of his service as a soldier of the revolution [illegible].
[illegible] Rev. Esek Brown and [Lieut.?] Absolom Peters
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Daniel Tyler
[Illegible] Esek Brown clergyman residing in said Lebanon County of New London and State of Connecticut and Absolom Peters residing in the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Captain Daniel Tyler who has subscribed and sworn to the above declarations that we believe him to be eighty seven years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides & has been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that [illegible] sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Esek Brown
Absolom Peters
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[illegible] after the investigations of the matter [illegible] reading the [illegible] affidavits of [illegible] Absolom Peters and after putting the interrogatories [illegible] by the War Department that the above named applicant was a soldier of the revolution and served as he states and the Court further certifies that  it appears to said Court that Rev. Esek Brown who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in [illegible] Lebanon and that [illegible] Absolom Peters who has also signed the same is a resident in the same place and is a credible person and that this statement is entitled to credit.
I John Wattles Clerk Pro Tem of the Court of Probate in and for the district of Lebanon aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Captain Daniel Tyler for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office and of said Court this [illegible] day of August 1832 Attest John Wattles Clerk Pro Tem
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On this 20th day of August 1832, personally appeared in New Canan before the Court of Probate in and for the [illegible] of Lebanon [illegible] Presents Dension Wattles Judge Absalom Peters of said Lebanon aged seventy eight years and hearing from first [illegible][illegible] D Lee and his [illegible] oaths [illegible][illegible] saying that he was born in Hebron in the State of Connecticut but that during the revolutionary war he resided in the state of New Hampshire near the town of Piermont located in the [illegible] of [illegible][illegible][illegible] that I knew Captain Daniel Tyler [illegible] of said Piermont now of said Lebanon [illegible] that said Tyler was engaged in the service of the Revolution [illegible] that he was a [illegible][illegible][illegible] but the particulars of his survival was not [illegible] with.  I was [illegible] with the [illegible] warfare [illegible]with many of the particulars of said warfare mentioned by said Captain Tyler in his statement that said Tyler was personally engaged in the [illegible] warfare said furhters [illegible][illegible][illegible][illegible][illegible][illegible][illegible][illegible][illegible].
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Connecticut
Revo

Daniel Tyler
Suspended

let. to JL Skinner
26 Aust 1833

do. to Rev. R. R. Gurley & claimant
Nov. 26, 1835
L. M.  Drury  July 6, 1854
Same  July 13, 1854

10789
Act 7 June 32
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873 (crossed out)

REJECTED

10.789.
P.O. _______________________________________
Daniel Tyler
Service: ___________________________________

Enlisted: _____________________________, 18  .
Discharged: __________________________, 18  .

Application filed: _____________________, 18   .

Alleges: _____________________________________
______________________________________________
Re-enlisted: _________________________________

Attorney: ____________________________________
P.O. __________________________________________

____________Recognized.   ______________Contrac
__________ Cert. of Dis.  Searched for _________, 18
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Canandaigua, N. Y. July 8, 1854

Sir;

I beg leave to submit to your inspection the letter on the other page of this sheet which I have received from the Pension Office.

I was [illegible] to say that [illegible] the [illegible] of the office have recently been changed. This letter strikes me as an extraordinary communication.

If I had in person produced the powers of attorney to you or sent them to any gentleman in Washington you would not have hesitated (I think) to have at once submitted the papers in the case to my inspection.  At least such I believe to have been the practice in thousands of instances, or I have never had the request denied to me before.  You know that where the list of suspended claims was published, the office was flooded with powers of attorney giving to requests in Washington to examine the papers and they were permitted to [illegible].  It is done daily unless, the rules have undergone a change.  

The clerk who wrote this letter
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has entirely misapprehended the point upon which tests of identify are required.  It is the curious thing in the world to prove that these persons are the children of Daniel Tyler.  The certificate of a court and one witness is always sufficient.  

The children can't be expected to know much about their parent's service.  But he has himself furnished a statement of them in his application for a pension and I desired to know what service he alleged that he performed in order to ascertain whether the records in Hartford or any where, sustained that statement.  And it is only when the record evidence is compared with his statement that the action of the office is invoked to decide whether a pension is due.

The question I respectfully submit to you is, whether on a power of attorney from an heir properly authenticated is presented, an inspection of the papers filed by the parent is not always permitted.  If it would be allowed me in in person as it always has been it is certainly proper that I should have a [illegible] by letter.

I await your action in this matter.

Yours respectfully, 
L. M. Drury

[illegible] L.P. Walden, Washington, D. C.
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Pension Office
July 6th 1854

Sir, 

Your letter of the 30th [illegible] covering Powers of Attorney from Abigail Webster, and Hannah F. Wilson, has been filed with the papers of Daniel Taylor, dec of Ct. under Act June 7th 1832.  A compliance with your request to be furnished with a description of Tylers service as given in his declaration, would be to deprive this case of one of the most certain tests by which to establish the identity of these claimants as the children of the person who rendered the service.  If the claimants will first furnish the most accurate statement they can, in regard to their father's service, their claim to arrears will be considered, 

I am respectfully your Obs. Ser.,
L P Waldo
Commissioner

L.M. Drury Esq,
Canandaigua, N. Y.
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P. S.  An inspection has always, I believe, been allowed of papers on procurting powers of attorney without the office looking into the papers at all.  It is given at once.
L. M. D.
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Canandaigua, N. Y.  June 30 1854

Sir:

I enclose power of attorney in the case of Daniel Tyler of Conn. and I beg leave to ask for a description of his service as given in his declaration under act of 7th June 1832.
The case was suspended

Very respectfully
Your obt servt.
L. M. Drury


Hon. L. P Waldo
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[illegible] M Webster of Lebanon, [illegible][illegible] of New London and Connecticut aged sixty four years [illegible][illegible]having been clearly sworn deposes and says that he has been
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said he has done good deal of business with said Tyler and has always found him an honest man and further the deponent saith not
Sworn to and subscribed this 10 day of August 1833
Simeon M Webster
Amos Fowler of Lebanon in the County of New London and State of Connecticut aged seventy five years the 17th day of March last having been duly sworn deposes and says that he has been acquainted with Daniel Tyler of said Lebanon for about forty years that about twenty years ago he heard said Tyler state that
he was [illegible] a Captain in New Hampshire during the revolutionary war by the unanimous vote of the company but did not receive any commission the reason stated by him why he received no commission was that the Governor of New Hampshire [illegible] to the British
he has repeatedly heard said Tyler make the same statement since. He has done a great deel of business with said Tyler and has always found him an honest and upright man and says that his character stands fair for ought he knows
Sworn to and subscribed
this 10 day of August 1833
Amos Fowler
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State of Connecticut, New London County ss.
At a Court of Probate holden at Lebanon within and for the district of Lebanon on the 10th day of August AD 1833, Present Denison Wattles Judge, the foregoing depositions of Simeon M Webster and Amos Fowler were duly taken, subscribed and sworn to before said Court and said deponents are personally known to said Court and are both men of credibility.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office and of said Court this 10 day of August AD 1833

Attest   John Wattles
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Lebanon   Oct 27th  1835

Hon. J. L. Edwards,

Dear Sir,  Being rather disappointed in the rejection of my claim for pension, I take the liberty of addressing you once more on the subject.  Although I can not furnish positive evidence of my services during that important and momentous struggle for our Independence yet from the circumstances attending the case, I think that it must appear evident to you and to everyone that my declaration and my claim to a pension is not all a mere fabrication.  And it must appear evident, also, that it is next to impossible that I can remember  so as to state exactly the exact number of months & days or the exact length of time that I did serve, yet I think you must be satisfied that I did the service for which I claim a pension and it is the opinion of all those best acquainted with me and those the most influential men in town and vicinity that if anybody ought to have a pension, I ought to have it.  I wish you to take the subject into consideration once more and if consistent with the law (as it is with justice) to grant me a small remuneration for the time and money which I expended for the salvation of my country.  
Rev. Mr. R. R. Gurley will be the bearer of this to you, who will state & explain this matter more fully to your honor than I can by writing.
Very Respectfully
Daniel Tyler
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that he is nearing the eighty ninth year of his age.  He was born in the Town of Bedford in the State of Massachusetts in August AD 1745.  That his father moved to Lebanon in the state of Connecticut in 1751.  That he himself settled at Piermont in the State of New Hampshire in 1767, where  he had resided at the commencement of the Revolutionary war and until 17[  ].
In the spring of 1777 the Committee of Safety of the state of New Hampshire  (which he has mistakenly called the Convention of Delegates in his former declarations) advised and directed the Inhabitants of that section of the state so much exposed to the incursions of the Tories and Indians, to form a Volunteer military company and also to erect a fort for the defence of it, both of which were accomplished without delay.
A military company was formed (in
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in pursuance of the direction of Committee of safety, consisting of from eighty to an hundred men, of which this affirmant was chosen Captain, Jonathan King Lieutenant, and George
Moore Ensign; all of whom accepted of their respective offices, and [illegible] therein, and the said Company was otherwise duly organized, and armed, and drilled for service.
The fort likewise which the Committee of safety had directed was built upon the [illegible] of the Connecticut River, enclosing a dwelling house for the Garrison. It was begun in May or June 1777, and completed in the fall of that year, when it was inspected by Col Atkinson, who had been sent by the Committee of safety for that purpose. He pronounced the fort well built, except that it wanted watch houses which were afterwards put up by this affirmant according to Atkinsons direction. Soon after which a number of small arms, and a small field piece were sent by the Committee of safety, on the authority of the State of New Hampshire, for the use of the Garrison. And this affirmant recollects having repaired some of the small arms which had been so sent, to render them fit for use.
This affirmant further says that
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he had charge of the fort while it was in building and had the command of the fort, and lived in it after it was built during the time he held [crossed out]/the command/[crossed out] he said 6 months til December 1779, when he left it to the command of his lieutenant Before  however, for some length of time, he had lost his health in consequence of the labour and had no member of this family while living in the fort and [illegible] to which he had been subjected. [illegible] was he [illegible] during said time except in alarm and [scouts?] against the enemy on any business inconsistent with the command of said fort. His men were drilled from time [illegible] to [illegible] [illegible]for service, and frequently, especially the [illegible] of the time, sent out in [scouts?] against the enemy and the tories, and many of the latter were taken and [illegible] [illegible] or otherwise punished, or confined to their own farms as a penalty of death if they were found off them. For it was found that they kept up a scout and constant intercourse with the enemy. In some instances we found they had built cabbins in the woods where they met and
fed the enemy received and sent letters to them. These and other circumstances made it necessary to keep a constant force stationed in this position; which was during the times
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time stated in this declaration kept up by General Jacob Bailey and others in the Vermont side of the River, and by this affirmant on the New Hampshire side. [crossed out]/I do/[crossed out] He does not [illegible] 
that [crossed out]/my/[crossed out] his whole company was constantly within the fort. Some 
times they were out on Scouts, and excursions. In one instance one of [crossed out]/my/[crossed out] his scouts was killed by the enemy, and two others were taken and [illegible] into Canada, who were supposed to
have been killed they returned in an exchange of prisoners, And situated as they were, it was necessary to keep out part of the men [crossed out]/constantly/[crossed out] on [illegible] from time to time for the purpose of [illegible] and collecting provisions; not however at any time, so as to leave the [Garrison?] destitute of 
sufficient number of men, to man the fort in case [crossed out]/against/[crossed out] an alarm. [crossed out]/I/[crossed out] His company was during the whole of [illegible] an 
[illegible] [illegible], and subject to martial law. 
In the year 1779, this affirmant had a bad state of health, which in the latter part of it rendered
him unfit for duty; and in December he left the fort and during the following winter he [illegible] as to be able in the spring to remove to Hebron in the State of Connecticut, and in the fall of that year he was drafted as a soldier for a tour of military service to WestChester near New York in a corps commanded by
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Colonel Hosford of Hebron; but upon his making it appear that he had held a captain's commission in New Hampshire he was dismissed as not being by law subject to draft.  He was however the next spring enrolled in the alarm list  or cripple roll as it was called; and was therefore drafted in April of that year, and sent to New London in a company commanded by Captain Stephen Palmer, Lieutenant Capt Trumbull, and Ensign John Gillet.  This company was stationed at Fort Griswold opposite New London which was burnt by Arnold sometime after the same fall.  He is not able to state the precise length of his New London service, but it was he supposes between five and six months. Nor can he state the length of his service in New Hampshire from a recollection of dates, but from [    ] events,
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State of Connecticut
New London County
Probate Court 
district of Lebanon
On this 3 day of May AD 1833 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate in and for the district of Lebanon aforesaid now sitting present Denison Wattles Judge
Captain Daniel Tyler resident of said Lebanon County district and State aforesaid aged
Eighty Eight years on the 6th day of August
[illegible] according to old [illegible] be back on the 17th of said August next according to the [illegible] [illegible] who having been first duly sworn according to Laws doth on his oath make the following supplemental declaration
in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 that at the commencement of hostilities between the United States of America and Great Britain
[according?] to the best of his recollection
in the month of June 1775 whilst he resided
in the town of Piermont in the County of Grafton and State of New Hampshire said town
laying upon the East bank of Connecticut
river that region of country being then
[illegible] a wilderness and [illegible] [illegible] to the incursions of the enemy from Canada and by the way of Lake Champlain and being also occupied by many tories and indians who were friendly to the enemy Soon after Governor Wentworth absconded from New Hampshire and went to England. In the spring of 1775 according to his recollection a convention of delegates chosen by the people of New Hampshire made at Concord in said last mentioned state and said convention recommended to the inhabitants residing in the vicinity of this
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applicant to erect a Fort in said town of
Piermont upon the margin of Connecticut river 
pursuant to said reccommendation this applicant together with other inhabitants of that section of County commenced the building of said Fort in the month of June 1775  which was completed in the Autumn following. prior to the commencement of the building of said Fort and pursuant to the  reccommendation of said Convention and he is confident that no such officer as a President of New Hampshire [illegible] has [illegible] (at the time) the men in that section of County
where this applicant then resides as aforesaid [illegible] to perform military duty to the number of [illegible] eighty - one hand said 
[illegible] and formed themselves into volunteers [illegible] company and by their 
[illegible] [illegible] this company and by their unanimous vote this applicant was chosen Captain and accepted Appointment. That he never received any commission nor [illegible]
of any authority to apply to [illegible] prior to the recommendation of said Convention
and a [illegible] by said company an [illegible] of its [illegible] be [illegible]- that he lived far in the interior remote from news and no news
[illegible] being [illegible] at [illegible] where he resided and the roads nearly impassable he never received nor heard of any Commissions being [illegible] and he was well acquainted with the [illegible] officers of the companies in that region who received no commission but were chosen and acted upon the same authority that this applicant did - he says that he was mistaken in relation to the time in his first statement that [illegible] of being [illegible] at said Fort from 1775 to 1780 [illegible] he was there only from
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June 1777[crossed out]/5/[crossed out] to December 1779[crossed out]/8/[crossed out] being in said Fort according to his best recollection that two years and a half during short intervals of which last mention period [illegible] which he [illegible] at this length of time particularly points out he was absent on [illegible] [illegible] whilst at said Fort as [illegible] he was constantly employed in doing garrison duty in drilling and exercising there under his command whilst the men were employed in building the Fort as aforesaid this [illegible] furnished them with a large quantity
of provisions at his own expence for which he never received one cent whilst said Fort [illegible] Piermont was in building as aforesaid sent to Portsmouth in N.H. for military arms and obtained a number of old markets and one [illegible] & was under the necessity of doing it and did put the muskets in repair himself [illegible]
Addn to 78 & 79

In March 1780 [crossed out]/79/[crossed out] according to this applicants best recollection he removed from New Hampshire on account his ill health having been worn down in the aforesaid services to the town of Hebron in the State of Connecticut where he resided [crossed out] sometime whilst in said Hebron [illegible] in November 1780 [crossed out]/79/[crossed out] 1779 his name was entered in one of the Militia companies of said Hebron and he
was drafted as private to go on [illegible] tour of military duty to New York as near there but declined on account of having been a Captain in New Hampshire and was therefore excused
His name was then added to the [illegible] claim list or cripple roll in said Helen said list being comprised of old [illegible]
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officers invalids &c &c and as such in April 1781 he was drafted as private and went to New Londen in Connecticut and was stationed a part of the time in said New Londen [illegible] a fortnight and then was stationed at Fort Griswold opposite New Lendon till the September following [illegible] untill within six or eight days of the time of the [illegible] at said Fort and the burning of New London by [Arnold?] he thinks he was at this last [campaign?] not less than five months [crossed out] his Captain during this [campaign?] was Stephen Palmer Lieut Asaph Trumbull Ensign Isaac Gillet all of said [illegible] [illegible] all of 
he thinks commanded the Fort he was [illegible] principally in [illegible] at said Fort and also at a [illegible] Fort in the New Londen side-this applicant knows of no living witness except Absolum Peters whose [sworn?] deposition is annexed to his original statement to his services New Hampshire he sometime ago started to go to N.H. to see if he could possibly find living witnesses [illegible]
He got as far as Hadley in Massachusetts a [illegible] of 70 miles from home and was taken into and returned home being [illegible] [illegible] a [illegible] carriage and over a rough and hilly country and myself old and somewhat infirm the only person living to my knowledge who was witness to my service at New Londen & Fort Griswold as aforesaid is one Sylvester Sommers who resides in said Hebron and [illegible] when recently called upon and whose mind and recollections are [illegible] entirely gone that he is incapable of testifying this deponent Jacob Lonnie Isaac Gillet [illegible] Webster and James Sebastian Rosswell Clark are persons with whom I have been long acquainted and their depositions 
are annexed [illegible] [illegible] that by [illegible] of [illegible] for [illegible] the [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] of [illegible] he can [crossed out] to [illegible] [illegible] to the justice [illegible] his service [illegible] but from the best of his recollection [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] was [illegible] [illegible] as a captain and four months as a private
Sworn to and subscribed 
the day and year aforesaid
Daniel Tyler
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[   ]  Jacob Lonnis and Isaac Gillet both of Lebanon in the County of New London and State of Connecticut, the first aged seventy eight years and the second aged eighty three years, under oath depose and say that they have both been acquainted with David Tyler of said Lebanon, who is applying for a Pension for revolutionary services, for more than forty years.  That they consider the said Tyler's statement in relation to his revolutionary services as entitled to credit.  That they believe him to be a man of truth and veracity and further they say not.
Jacob Lonnis
Isaac Gillet

Sworn to and subscribed the 30th day of June 1833.

Roswell Clark of Hebron in the County of Tolland and State of Connecticut under oath deposes and says that he was seventy years of age last October, that he resided a number of years in Lebanon in the County of New London and state aforesaid in the immediate neighborhood of Daniel Tyler of said Lebanon, who is applying for a Pensions for revolutionary services, that forty years ago while residing as aforesaid he has heard said Tyler relate his revolutionary service and then heard him say that he was employed in building a Fort in Piermont , N. H.  That he was [     ] a Captain of said Fort and served there between two and three years and heard him state the manner of obtaining muskets  and [      ] from Portsmouth, N. H and putting the muskets in repair himself.  That he considered the said Tyler a man of veracity and his statement entitled to credit.
Roswell Clark

Sworn to and subscribed this 30th day of [  ] 1833.
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Erastus Webster of Colchester in the County of New London and State of Connecticut aged forty four years last February under Oath deposes and says that from a boy he has been acquainted with and lived in the neighborhood of Daniel Tyler of Lebanon in said County and State who is applying for a pension [crossed out] for revolutionary services that twenty years ago he heard said Tyler relate the particulars of his service during the revolutionary war whilst in the State of N.H. among these things heard him state that he was chosen the Captain of a Fort at Piermont N.H. - heard him state the method of his obtaining muskets and [illegible] from Portsmouth N. H. and putting the muskets in repair himself said Tyler during his residence in Connecticut has often [illegible] muskets he also stated that he served for a time at Fort Griswold in Connecticut
he considers said Tyler a man of veracity and his statement entitled to credit Erastus Webster
Sworn to and subscribed the 30 day of May 1833

James Webster of Lebanon in the County of New London and State of Connecticut aged forty years next September under oath depose and says that from a boy he has resided in the neighborhood of Daniel Tyler mentioned in the in the foregoing deposition a part of the time in the family of said Tyler
that he has often heard said Tyler relate the same facts many years ago in relation to his
Revolutionary services as are mentioned by this deponents brother Erastus Webster in the 
foregoing deposition and also as to his services at Fort Griswold in Connecticut and he concurs with him [illegible] to the character of said Tyler and further saith not.    dent other 
Sworn to and subscribed
the 30th day of May AD 1833
James Webster
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Col Jacob Loomis Jean Gillet Erastus Webster
and James Webster duly subscribed and were
sworn according to Law to the truth of the depositions them respectively subscribed and are known to this Court and this court are of opinion that this [illegible] with [illegible] is [illegible] Webster & Gillet
is [illegible] [illegible] as [illegible] of truth and veracity [crossed out]
Rosswell Clark is not personally known to the Court except from [illegible] and whilst 
whilst [illegible] his depositions and from the foresaid witnesses who were presents and from such in the Court is [illegible] this Court is 
of opinion that his character for veracity is upon a par with mankind in general 
[two crossed out lines]
said Tyler duly subscribed and has sworn by said Court to the truth of his foregoing supplemental statement 
I John Wattles Clerk of the Curt of Probate in and for the district of Lebanon do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the supplemental proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Daniel Tyler for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and seal of office and of said
Court this 30 day of May 1833
Attest John Wattles Clerk