Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt.297-100, Jack Anthony, Conn.
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(3 - 1776)

SERVICE
Conn.

Anthony, Jack (colored)
or
Antony

NUMBER 
B.L. Wt. 297-100
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No 297

Jack Anthony
private
Connecticut

[illegible] 18th Dec 1806 & Del
to L. B. Sturges Esq. Atty 
to Anthony
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Know all men by this presents that I Jack Antony of Danbury in the County of Fairfield State of Connecticut, for divers good causes
& considerations me thereunto moving, have appointed and by these presents do appoint make & constitute The Hon Lewis B. Sturges Esq of Fairfield State & County aforesd and now a member of the Hon Legislature
of the United States, my true & lawful Attorney for me and in my behalf and name, and to my use, to ask demand and receive of and from the Sd United States of America (or from any person or persons by them legally authorized for the purpose ) the Title or Warrant to or for all the Lands which I am intitled to for serving as a soldier in the Army
of the United States during the late revolutionary war with Great Britain, to have use and take all lawful ways & means in my name or otherwise, for obtaining the premises aforesd and to do all other acts and things whatsoever that shall be necessary concerning the premises as fully in every respect as I myself might or would do were I personally present-- and I the sd Jack Antony do hereby ratify and confirm whatsoever my
sd Attorney shall lawfully do or cause to be done in the premises in my name or otherwise by force of these presents-
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In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this day of Jany 1806
In presence of
Eli Dibble [signature]
Nathan Dibble [signature

Jack Antony X his mark

Fairfield County ss.
The above named Jack Antony personally appeared before me and acknowledged the foregoing Instrument to be his free act and deed -
James Clark Justice of Peace [signature]
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No. 92

Jack Anthony

Log. by Mr. Sturges

[illegible]
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Abigail Dibble, of Lawfull age, testifies and says that Jack Anthony was a slave for life to her Husband Nathan Dibble, now dead, that he went into the continental service as a soldier in the year A.D. 1777 and cleared her said Husband and son Eli Dibble from Drafts and actual service from that time until the close of the revolutionary war. That said Jack returned at the conclusion of the war. Had a discharge and some Notes and that he obtained his freedom by that service.										Abigail Dibble

Eli Dibble of Lawfull age testifies and says that agreeable to an act of [illegible] of the State of Connecticut freeing from Drafts or acts of service any two men that should procure a good able-bodied man to serve for three years or during the war that we, the deponent, together with his father Nathan Dibble now decd. procured Jack Anthony a black man to inlist for during the war and that the said Nathan now decd. and me the deponent took the benefit of the said resolve and were exempt from drafts or military duty to the close of the revolutionary war, that the said Jack obtained his freedom from Slavery by that service, that when the said Jack returned we the deponents saw his discharge which he then and now considered as standing on the same ground as all other discharges, that the said Jack had notes which was considered as payment in part or in full for his service.						Eli Dibble


Jack Anthony of Lawfull age Testifies and says that he inlisted with Capt. Bill into the Continental service as a Soldier the next Summer after the Town of Danbury was burned for and during the war, that he served until the Army was disbanded, that he with a number of others were discharged together which discharge he has now lost.
			Jack Anthony X His Mark

Fairfield county, Danbury March 29th 1806 Personally appeared Abigail Dibble Eli Dibble & Jack Anthony the above named deponents and made oath to the truth of the above written depositions by them respectively signed. the sd. Abigail & Eli are both respectable citizens of the Town of Danbury and worthy of credit Jack Anthony is an African old infirm & weak both in body & mind, but have never heard his Varacity called in Question. Sworn before me James Clark Justice of the Peace
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July 15, 1931

Rev.& 1812 Wars Section
Wt. #297-100
EEL

You are advised that it appears from the Revolutionary War records of this bureau that Jack Anthony (the name also appears
as Antony), a black man, was a slave for life and belonged to Nathan Dibble.

He enlisted in the summer following the burning of Danbury, Connecticut, place of enlistment not stated, and served as a substitute for his master and his master's son, Eli Dibble, until the close of the war, a part of the time in Captain Bill's Connecticut
Company, and after his discharge was given his freedom for his services.

He was allowed one hundred acres of bounty land on warrant Number 297, issued December 18, 1806.

In 1806, the soldier was residing in Danbury, Connecticut.  His age is not given and there are no data as to his family.

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This hist. to be furnished if ever called for.
It was written just to have a record of negroes