Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 5150, Samuel Abbey, Conn.
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SERVICE
Conn.

Abbey, Samuel
Mitchell, Margaret
Former widow

NUMBER
W. 5150
B.L.Wt 101726 - 160 - 6'6'

CONTENTS
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14149 New York  14058

Samuel Abbey
of Yates Co in the State of New York
who was a Private in the Company commanded
by Captain Cook - of the Regt commanded by Col. [illegible] in the ch ma 
zone for 17 mo 11 ds

Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 57 Dollars 87 Cents per annum
to commend on the 4th day of March, 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 9th day of May
1833 and sent to
Saml Abbey, Penn Yan

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $115.74
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept $28.93

$144.67

Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk,
Book 6? Vol. 4 Page 14
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State of New York}
County of Yates ss}
On this 29th day of September 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Yates now sitting Samuel Abbey a resident of Milo in the County of Yates and State of New York, aged seventy two 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 he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. That he enlisted under Captain Amos Cook of Wallingford in the County of New Haven and State of Connecticut on the first day of March 1776 for two months, that he went to New York and from thence to Brooklyn and there remained and assisted in building a fort, that at the end of two months from the time of his enlistment he was discharged and returned home, that in June 1776 Fourteen men of which he was one were drafted from Capt. Cook's Company to make partridges bit which they were employed for fourteen days and at the expiration of that time he enlisted under Capt ___ Couch of Meriden in the County of New Haven and State of Connecticut for six months. That on the fourth day of July 1776 they marched to New York and were then ordered to cross the Hudson River and from thence to Bergen in New Jersey where the company joined the regiment of Connecticut militia commanded by Colonel Burr Bradley of Ridgefield in the County of Litchfield & State of Connecticut that from then they marched to Bergen Point in New Jersey and there remained till the taking of New York by the British army in September 1776, that they were then ordered to march to Fort Lee where they remained till the landing of the British army four miles north of the fort in November 1776, when they retreated into New Jersey marching principally by night and lying by in the daytime till they came to Trenton from whence they marched to Philadelphia the company to which he belonged being detached immediately on their arrival at Trenton to guard the ammunition waggons, that he remained at Philadelphia till the expiration of his time of enlistment which was January 1, 1777, that during part of his remaining at Philadelphia there being no barracks his company were stationed in the upper story of the State House, during which time he was taken sick, that at the time of his discharge he returned to Wallingford, that in October 1777 he was drafted to go to Fishkill in New York for one month that he does not recollect the names of his officers, that they intended to go to Albany marched as far as Red Hook and there received intelligence of the capture of Burgoyne's army and he was discharged having been on duty twenty seven
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days, that in November 1778 he then living Chatham, Hartford County State of Connecticut he was drafted for two months to go to New London under the immediate command of a Lieutenant whose name and the names of the other officers he does not recollect, that they were principally engaged in getting wood on Fishers Island during their stay that on the first day of January 1779 his time having expired he was discharged. That in May 1779 he then living in Wallingford he enlisted in a company of artillery under the command of Capt John Osborne of Wallingford for six months being promised half pay-, they were furnished with two brass cannons by government, that they were enlisted as minute men, that during this period an alarm was given that the British were landing at New Haven that they marched for that place and having marched within three miles of New Having when they received counter orders and returned to Wallingford and were discharged about the first of December 1779. That he was in no battle or engagement during the above mentioned periods, that he has no documentary evidence, that he has resided in the state of New York for upwards of forty years past and has resided in the town of Milo aforesaid for upwards of sixteen years - and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure in relation to the period of his service. 
He 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 or Territory.

Sworn to and Subscribed in open}
court the day & year aforesaid}
TJ Nevins
Dep. Clerk.

Samuel Abbey

We Abraham Wagener of Milo and William Babcock of Dresden Yates County New York Member of Congress hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Abbey who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy two years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood  where he resided to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion

Sworn & Subscribed the day}
& year aforesaid}
Thomas J. Nevins
Dep. Clerk

Abraham Wagener
William Babcock
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14149
In the matter of the application of Samuel Abbey for a Pension
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and putting the interrogatories required by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he stated. And the Court further certify that Abraham Wagener who has signed the preceding certificate is a resident of the Town of Milo in the county of Yates and that William Babcock, Member of Congress who has also signed the same is a resident of the Dresden in said county that they are both credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit

State of New York}
Yates County ss:} I George Shearman Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said county do hereby certify that the foregoing contained the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Samuel Abbey for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 29th day of September 1830

George Shearman 
Clerk

T. J. Nevins Dep. Clerk
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14,149

Samuel Abbey
Yates Co N York

Admitted
17 mo 11 days Private



40
10
6.66
1.21
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57.87



Samuel Abbey
Penn Yan
Yates Co. NY
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Dec 22 1862
PENSION OFFICE
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Treasury Department,
Third Auditor's Office,
Decr 19. 1862.

Sir:

I comply with the request contained in your letter of the 17th inst by enclosing the vouchers on which the last payment was made of the pension of Samuel Abbey, on June 7. 1832, Albany N. Y. roll.

Very Respectfully
[illegible]R J Mi[illegible]
Auditor 

Joseph H. Barrett Esqr.
Commr of Pensions

(9.7.hr)
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
WIDOW'S PENSION.
7.300

I certify that, in conformity with the 2d section of the act of February 3, 1853, Margaret Mitchell formerly widow of Samuel Abbey
who was a Private in the revolutionary war
is inscribed on the Pension List, at the rate of Fifty seven dollars and Eighty seven cents per annum, commencing on the [text crossed out and "27th of August 1862" written above]
and continuing for life, unless she should
again marry; in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.

Given at the Department of the Interior
this 23rd day of December one thousand eight hundred and Sixty two
Caleb B Smith
Secretary of the Interior.

Examined and countersigned.
Joseph H. Barrett,
Commissioner of Pensions.