Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7935, for Ashael Parker, Connecticut
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(8-1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
Conn. Parker, Ashael R. 7935
CONTENTS
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State of Ohio }
Ashtabula County } Before me Silas P Collar
Justice of the peace in and
for said County Personally
came Irene Warren who being duly
Sworn according to law upon her said
oath deposes and says that she was eighty
four years old the twenty third day of
Last February and that she is the Daughter
of John Parker and that she was born in
the Town of Watertown Litchfield 
County & State of Connecticut and
that one Asahel Parker her Brother and that
Asahel Parker was born in the same town
that she was born in and is seven years
younger than herself and that Asahel
Parker was Drafted once or twice during 
the Revolutionary War and went into
the Army as she Supposed he was for some
time before he returned dont recollect what
year or what time in the year it was
recollects that Asahel Parker went once into
the army as teamster dont recollect have
long he served as teamster Recollects that he
was to home with his Mother wo was a
Widow the hard winter their Father having
Lost his life in the Army previous
And further this deponant saith not
Silas P. Collar Irene Warner her X mark
Sworn and Subscribed to before me this
13th day of September AD 1839
Silas P. Collar
Justice of the Peace
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The State of Ohio }
Ashtabula County } Ss  I Saml Hendry Clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas, within and
for said County of Ashtabula do hereby
certify that S.P. Collar Esquire whose
name appears subscribed within in his
own proper hand writing (to me well known)
is and was at the time of his subscribing
the same, one of the Justices of the peace of the said
County of Ashtabula duly commissioned and sworn agreeably to
the Laws of the State of Ohio- In testimony whereof I
have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said
Court at Jefferson the 13th day of September AD. 1839
Saml Hendry Clerk
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The State of Ohio
Lorain County ss: } On this 17th day of September Anno Domini
1839. personally appeared in open court
before the Court of Common Pleas now sitting Asahel Parker
a resident of Elgin in said County & State aged seventy
seven years, who, being 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 he lived in the Town of Waterbury New Haven County in the State of
Connecticut during the year 1778 & that in the month of
October in said year he was draughted in the Militia 
of  said Town then commanded by Capt Elijah Weston &
Lient Samuel Brown, that said Lieut. Brown commanded
the detachment into which he was draughted consisting in all of
about Eighty men besides noncommissioned officers & musicians
that said detachment with him the said Parker Marched
to New London in said State of Connecticut, that there
were no other troops at that time stationed in New London,
that he does not remember to what Colonel said Lieut
Brown was subject, that he was the highest office then stationed
at that place, though there were frequent arrival & departures of
other officers where names this declarant knows not, that he
with the said company remained at said New London six or
Eight weeks (exact time not remembered) until the River was frozen
up when the said company was discharged & returned home
This declarant further says that during the month of
June A.D. 1779 next following he was again draughted as a private from said
Waterbury and sent to Horse Neck situated in the South West part of
the State of Connecticut in Say Island Sound, that there were
two regiments of Militia then stationed at Horse neck commanded the
on by Colonel Mead & the other by Colonel Wells the regiment
to which this declarant belonged being commanded by said Col.
Mead, that he belonged to a scouting party under the
immediate command of Adgt Mc Dowel, that said scouting party
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when in camp was stationed at the barn of one Titus Mead who
usually acted as guide in their scouting excursions, that he the said
Parker continued in active service as one of said scouting party during
the time of three months being the full time for which he was draughted,
that said party was employed in scouting near the enemies lines 
& had frequent scirmishes with the enemies scouts, that then
was no other commissioned officer in said company except the
said Mc Dowel but on Stevens was the orderly serjant, said company
consisted of about sixty men but the whole who were never out as scouts at
the same time, that he the said Parker with others who were draughted
from said Waterbury were discharged & returned home at the Expiration of
said three months, but did not receive any written discharge he
further says that during the time he was at Horseneck, the Regiment
to which he belonged under the command of said Col. Mead were ordered
to West Point but after marching one day returned again to Horseneck
being as he suppars admit back.
This declarant further states that he has no documents whereby
to show his service & that he knows of no person, whose testimony
he can procure who can testify to his service except the deposition of
Irene Warren hereto attached.
He further states (tho' he does not claim a pension for such service)
that he was engaged as teamster for the army from the time he left
the service at Horseneck (Sept.1779) it hauling from Hartford Ct to
Fishkill N.Y. till the army went into winter quarters-
He the said Parker hereby relinquishes every claim whatever
to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that
his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State
Asahel Parker
Subscribed & Sworn to in open }
Court September 17th AD 1839 }
E H Leonard Clerk
L. C. B.
The State of Ohio }  Personally appeared in open Court Herrick Parker of Elgin in
Lewis County ss } said County who being duly sworn doth on his oath say. That he is the son of the
within applicant Asahel Parker, that he is well acquainted with the within deponent
Irene Warren, has always known her as the sister of said A. Parker & further says that 
the said applicant Parker is the person refered to by the said Warner in her
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deposition hereto attached }
Subscribed and sworn to in open } Herrick Parker
Court September 17th AD 1839 }
E H Leonard Clerk }
L. C. P.
We, Joshua Phillips a clergyman residing in Berlin
Huron County Ohio & Edward Durand residing in Elgin
Lorain County Ohio, hereby certify, that we have been well
acquainted with Asahel Parker who has subscribed & same
to the above declaration for about twenty years last part
during which time the said Parker has resided in Havana
Milan & Clarksfield in said Huron County until within
a few months past when he has resided in said Elgin. I the said
Phillips Certify that I was the regular Preacher to the Baptist
Congregation in said Havana and an occasional Preacher to the
Baptist Congregations in said Milan & Clarksfield & the said
Parker was a regular number of said Congregations. Furthermore
we certify that we believe him to be seventy seven years
of age; that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhoods
where he resided & resides to have been a soldier of the
Revolution, and that we fully concur in that opinion
Joshua Phillips
Edward Durand
Subscribed and sworn to in }
open Court September 17. 1839 }
E H Leonard Clerk }
L. C. Pleas }
Lorain County Common Pleas September Term AD 1839
Asahel Parker }
application for a Pension }  This day came Asahel Parker in open Court and in
oath made his declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of
Congress passed June 7th 1832 entitled an act supplementary to an act for
the relief of the surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Revolution, and
thereupon came Joshua Phillips Herrick Parker & Edward Durand
and made then depositions relative to the matters set forth in
in said declaration, together with the Deposition of Irene Warner
then produced, whereupon the Court declare their opinion after
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investigating the matter and putting the interrogatories prescribed by
the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary 
Soldier as he states. And the Court further certifies that
Joshua Philips who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman
resident in Berlin Huron County Ohio and that Herrick Parker
and Edward Durand are credible persons and their statements
entitled to credit-
The State of Ohio } I G H Benham Clerk of the Court of Common
Lorain County ss } Pleas within and for the County aforesaid do
hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original
proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of
Asahel Parker for a pension - and that the preceding Depositions and
papers are the same produced in Court and by me attached
In Testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand
and affix the seal of said Court at my Office
in Elyria this 17th day of October AD 1839 -
G H Benham Clerk
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
7.935
Asahel Parker
Service:
REJECTED
Enlisted: , 18
Discharged: , 18
Application filed: , 18
leges:
-enlisted:
Attorney:
P. O.
Recognized. Contract
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4
Asachel Parker
Ohio
Rejected
See let 18 Jan: 1840
Alex Bliss
did not serve six
months in a military
capacity
7935
Act 7 June 1832
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The State of Ohio }
Lorain County ss: }
Before me Ozias Long an associate Judge of the
Court of Common Pleas of said County personally
appeared Asahel Parker who being duly sworn doth on his
oath say, that he made his declaration at the September Term
of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, to obtain a pension
under the act of Congress of June 7, 1832, that in since declaration
he stated that he was draughted as a private into the service of
the United States in the Revolutionary War from the Town of Waterbury
New Haven County, Connecticut, and this deponent then produced
in Court the deposition of Irene Warren his sister to [illegible]
his declaration & said Irene testified that this declarant was
born in the town of Watertown Litchfield Co., Connecticut, Now this
deponent saith, that until the year 1780 the town of Watertown was
included in the Town of Waterbury which was in said New Haven County
that in said year 1780 said Waterbury was divided & said
Watertown was then incorporated from the north part of said
Waterbury & attached to said Litchfield County, & that this deponent 
lived in that part of said Waterbury in the years 1778 & 1779 when
he was draughted into the service of the United States, which was
afterwards (A.D.1790) included in said Watertown as aforesaid
Asahel Parker
Subscribed and sworn to before
me this 28th day of Oct 1839
Ozias Long { County Judge
{ of Lorain County
Common Pleas
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The State of Ohio } Clerks Office
Lorain County ss } Elyria Oct. 28th AD 1839
I. G H Benham Clerk of Court of Common
Pleas within and for the County aforesaid do
hereby certify that the Hon Ozias Long is a
member of the Court aforesaid duly commissioned
and qualified associate Judge of the Lorain
Common Pleas and to all whose official acts and credit may
and ought to be given, and that his signature within subscribed
I believe to be genuine. In Testimony whereof I hereunto set my
hand and affix the seal of said Court at my Office in Elyria
the day and year aforesaid
G H Benham
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Elyria Ohio Oct 28/39 
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
I herewith enclose you the
Papers relating to the application, hereby made, of Asahel
Parker for a Pension under the Act of June 1832
It will be seen that in addition to the evidence
submitted to the Court is an affidavit of the applicant to
reconcile an appoint variation between the deposition of Irene
Warner & his declaration. by that it appears that said
Warner gave the present name of the Town, & the applicant
the name at the time he was draughted so there is no
[illegible] Variation,
It will also be noticed that the Clerk who administered
the oath is not the same who administer certified to the proceedings
of Court. E. H. Leonard resigned his office at the close of the
September Term & G.H. Benham chosen to fill the vacancy
Very Respectfully
Yours
Ale Bliss
for P. Bliss