Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 345, Daniel Babcock, Conn.
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SERVICE   Conn.
* Babcock, Daniel
Tryphena
NUMBER  R. 345
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I Samuel Babcock of Bridgewater in the County of Windsor & State of Vermont aged seventy years depose testify & say that in the year 1775 I lived in Mansfield Connecticut about the time of the battle of Bunker hill my brother Daniel Babcock who then lived at home with our father (he the said Daniel being married) volunteered in to the service of the United States & went to some place in the vicinity of Boston, & was gone about six weeks, and some time in the year 1776 the said Daniel Babcock volunteered into Capt Amariah Williams Company & went to Bennington Vt. & was gone three months & in the year I should think he the said Daniel volunteered into the said Capt Amanah Williams Company & was in the service three months.  I am very sure that he the said Daniel was in the service full six months in the two last campaigns.  
Saml Babcock 
State of Vermont 
Windsor County ss Woodstock Sept 22 1837  Then Samuel Babcock personally appeared & made solemn oath that the above Affidavit by him subscribed contains the truth & nothing but the truth & I hereby certify that the said Saml Babcock is a credible witness.   
Walter Palmer Just Peace
The words & in the year 1777 were written on record before signing Walter Palmer Justice Peace
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I Abagail Ladd of Woodstock in the County of Windsor & State of Vermont aged 85 years depose testify & say that I was formerly acquainted with Daniel Babcock then of Mansfield in the State of Connecticut & also with his wife who was the daughter of Simeon Scripture (her name was Triphena) and same time in the fall of the year 1774 (according to my best recollection I was present when Daniel Babcock & Triphena Scripture were married by Jane Root, Justice of the Peace, at the house of the said Simeon Scripture in Coventry in said State of Connecticut & further say not her 
Abagail Ladd x her mark 
Witness Susan D. Ladd
State of Vermont 
Windsor County } ss Woodstock September 26th 1837  Then Abigail Ladd personally appeared & made solemn oath that the above Affidavit by her subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth 
Before Walter Palmer Just Peace 
I hereby certify that the above named Abigail Ladd is a credible witness- 
Walter Palmer Just Peace
The words before marriage added before signing
Walter Palmer Just Peace
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State of Vermont 
Windsor County } ss I Benjamin Swan Clerk of Windsor County Court hereby certify that Walter Palmer who has affixed his name to the foregoing is a Magistrate duly commissioned & qualified & that the same is his genuine Signature.   
In witness whereof I hereunto affix the seal of said Court and subscribe my name at Woodstock in said County this 26th day of September AD 1837  
Benj. Swan Clerk
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V No 5660
Tryphena Babcock
Widow Daniel
N.Y.
Act 4 July ‘36
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State of New York 
Sixth Circuit of the Court of Chancery Chenango County SS: 
On this 1st day of September 38. personally appeared before Hon Robert Monell Chancellor of the 6th Circuit of the State of New York (a Court of record now sitting at Norwich in Chenango County) Tryphena Babcock of the town of Greene in said County aged 81 years and upwards, who being duly sworn doth depose and say in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of the act of Congress of July 4, 1836.  
That she is the widow of Daniel Batecock who was a private in the Army of the Revolution and who served for a period of six months and more in the Connecticut troops,  for the particulars of which service she refers to the testimony accompanying her declaration.  
She further says that she was married to her said husband Daniel Babcock at Coventry in the State of Connecticut on the 16th day of November 1774 by Esquire Root a Justice of the peace of that town she had no certificate of Marriage from the Justice & the certy of the fact in the family Bible is long since destroyed or lost: that her aforesaid husband died in the town of German in the County of Chenango on the 5th day of February 1827
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and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed: and that her maiden name was Scripture. 
Tryphena Babcock x her mark
Sworn to before me this 1st day of September 1838  
Robt Monell Vice Chancellor 
Chenango County ss: Orrin Babcock of Greene in said County being duly sworn says that he is 48 years old; that he knew the above named Daniel Babcock and Tryphena his wife that the said Daniel died in German in said County on the 5th day of February 1827 and he knows that the said Tryphena has not intermarried with any person since, but has been ed his widow and further saith not.   
Orrin Babcock
Subscribed & sworn  to before me this 1st day of September 1838 and I certify the said Orrin to be a credible person 
Robt Monell Vice Chancellor 
State of New York 
C. the Chancery Circuit ss  I Robert Monell Vice Chancellor of the said Circuit do certify that I am satisfied from the affidavit of the said Tryphena Babcock that she was married to the said Daniel Babcock as above stated that he was a revolutionary soldier of more than six months service, that he died as above sworn to and that she has remained his widow ever since.   
Robt Monell Vice Chancellor
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I Robert B. Monell, Clerk in Chancery for the 6th Circuit of said State hereby certify that the annexed declaration and affidavit signed to Robert Monell Vice Chancellor were made in open Court on the day of the date thereof and that they are the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Tryphena Babcock for a pension.   As witness my hand and seal of office July 26. 1842 
R. B. Monell Clerk C. Circuit
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Oxford Chenango Co NY Sept 9. 1842 
Sir
I send the application and papers of Tryphena Babcock for a pension. 
The papers who mislaid by Philander B. Prindle Esq who drew the declaration and in consequence of his absence have been but recently found.   
The widow requests that you will address me at the place above stated.  
I have the honor to be. Very Respy Your Obt Sert 
Henry R. Mygatt
J. L. Edwards Esq Court of Pensions War Depart Washington City
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Ex’r  INVALID
REJECTED
Tryphena Babcock