Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 34822-160-55, for Timothy Miner, Connecticut
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Service
Conn.
Miner, Timothy,  Number: B.L.Wt. 34822-160-55
Mary
Polly
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81.988 Act March [illegible]
July 2/[18]55
Polly Miner-widow of Timothy Miner
Private
Colonel Sills Company
General Washington 
Connecticut militia
Private 
Connecticut militia
Revolutionary War
180 Papers
admitted 160 acres July 18/[18]56
Dodge
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Alvah Smith Lempster New Hampshire
Alvah Smith
Volume M=2=43
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181.788
P. Miner   4
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State of New Hampshire
Sullivan Jo
On this 30th day of May A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty five  personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid Polly Miner aged eighty two years a resident of Lempster in the State of New Hampshire who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Timothy Miner deceased who was a Private in the Revolutionary army formerly of Lyme Connecticut where he enlisted into a company called Colonel Sills Company, for six months, and served the time out to the acceptance of General Washington, he with others being detached to cut wood for the barracks as he often told me and that General Washington told them that if they would cut so many cords of wood they should have their discharge with full pay to the end of their enlistment, they worked nights by moon light and gained a number of days, and were honorably discharged as having served out their full term of six months.
She further states that she was married to said Timothy Miner in Lempster on the eighth day of November 1789 by the Rev Elias Fisher, that her name before her said marriage was Polly Ames (by some called Mary) that her husband died at Dunstable Mas on a journey on the 26th day of March 1816 and
over
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was buried in this place Lempster and that she is now a widow-she makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the "act approved March 3, 1855
Polly Miner

We David Thornton & Truman Smith residents of Lempster in the state of New Hampshire upon our oaths declare that the fore going declaration was signed and acknowledged by Polly Minder in our presence and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be 
David Thornton
Truman Smith

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn and subscribed before me on the day and year above written and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons, that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and I have no interest in this claim. 
Alvah Smith Justice of the Peace
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"The marriage of Timothy Minder and Polly Ames was November eighth seventeen hundred and eighty nine."
The date of the record is entered thus "Novr 8th 1789"
A true copy attests Abner Chase Town Clerk 
I Abner Chase of Lempster in the County of Sullivan and State of New Hampshire depose and say that I hold office of Town Clerk in the town of Lempster aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town
Lempster June 22, 1855
Abner Chase Town Clerk 

State of New Hampshire 
Sullivan Jo-June 22-1855
Sworn to before me
Alvah Smith Justice of the Peace
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EW
Rev. War Section.
May 16, 1922
O.C. Eastman M.D.
29 Paddock Arcade,
Watertown, New York.
Sir:-
In response to your letter dated April 6, 1922, you are advised that from the records of this Bureau, it appears that Timothy Miner lived in Lyme, Conn. when he enlisted July 1, 1780, and served 6 months under Lieutenant Colonel Sill. he died March 26, 1816 in Dunetable, Mass. while absent from his home in Lempster, N.H.

 He married November 8, 17889 in Lempster, Polly or Mary, Ames, and she was allowed 160 acres of bounty land on Warrant No. 344822, on her application executed may 30, 1855 while residing in Lempster, N. H. aged 82 years.

It is not stated whether they had children.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
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Office of 
O.C. Eastman, M.D.
29 Paddock Arcade
Office phone 1738-J
Residence phone 941-W
Watertown, N.Y. Apr 6 1922

Pension Office 
Washington DC
Please inform me if the Revolutionary pension rolls contain the name Timothy Miner of Woodbury Conn.

I think he was with Col. Ethan Allen at the capture of Fort Ticonderoga. Also at Danbury Conn. at the burning of the town and stoned by the British, where he was taken prisoner and carried to New York. Sometime after the war he removed to some place in New Hampshire, where he might have lived when he applied for a pension
If he was a pensioner, I would (over)
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very much like a copy of his application for pension.

Thanking you in advance for any information you may be able to give me, I remain
Very Truly Yours
OC Eastman

(stamped)
Pension Office US
AApr 8 1922
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Seal (illegible)
State of Connecticut 
Comptroller Office 
Hartford April 7th 1854

I certify that on application for evidence of the service of Timothy Miner in the war of the Revolution I have examined the documents remaining in this office, and find the name Timothy Miner on a Pay Roll under the following heading se'r
"Pay Roll for the New Levies, in Lieut. Col. Sills Company "1st Connect. regt 1780."  where the said Minder is credited with service as a private from July 1st to December 9th 1780, 5 months 9days. He is entered on the Roll as belonging to the town of Lyme.

R.G. Pinney Comptroller
by Geo. Robinson Clerk
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Comptroller Certificate
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R Miner
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I, Rachel Miner of Walpole in the County of Cheshire & State of New Hampshire depose & say that I am now eighty eight years old, & am the widow of Charles Miner, deceased, who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States - that I was married to said Charles Miner on the 6th day of March 1784 at Lyme in Connecticut, where we then both lived. That I was well acquainted with Timothy Miner of said Lyme, who in the spring of 1780 enlisted into a Connecticut Regiment & shortly after wen t into service. That a few days before Christmas in 1780 the said Timothy Miner & Charles Miner both returned to said Lyme from the army, I recollect the time from the circumstances that said Charles Miner broke his leg by an accident on Christmas day of that year. I heard the said Charles say, soon after his return, that he & said  Timothy & others were detached to cut wood for the barracks, & were told by General Washington that when they had cut a certain number of cords of wood they should have their discharge, with full pay to the end of their enlistment & that they worked night & day to complete the job & that they got it done before their time expired, & were then honorably discharged, it being considered the same as if they had served out their full time. I often heard the said Charles Miner speak
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afterwards of the said circumstances under which he & said Tomothy were discharged. 
In the year 1784 I removed with my husband to Lempster, New Hampshire, and in a year or two after that, the said Timothy Miner also removed to said Lempster, & continued to reside there until he died, about the year 1816. Shortly after said Timothy moved to Lempster he married Polly Ames who survived him & now lives in said Lempster.
Rachel Miner
State of New Hampshire
Cheshire ss April 8 1854. Subscribed & sworn to before me a notary public in & for the County & State aforesaid, as witness my had & official seal.
Federick Vose
I certify that the above deponent is a credible witness, possessing remarkable clearness & accuracy of recollection for a person of her age,
Frederick Vose Notary Public
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State of New Hampshire
Sullivan County ss.
J. T. W. Gilmon Clerk of the
Superior Court of Sallisale
for said County hereby certify that Alvah Smith Esq was on
the 30th day of May last & still is an acting Justice of the
Peace in and for said County duly commissioned & qualified
and that the signatures of the said Justice to the papers hereto
annexed are genuine and also that hadrich Rose
of Walpole is a Notary Public for our County of Clerkan
duly commissioned & qualified, and that his
signature hereto is genuine-
Given under my hand & the seal of the
Court the 27th day of June A D 1850
J. W. Salmon Clerk
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I, Martin Beckwith of Lempster in the County of Sullivan and State of New Hampshire aged seventy six years, depose and say that I have been acquainted with Polly Miner of said Lempster from my earliest recolection (recollection) that to be married Tomothy Miner and lived with him as husband and wife until his decease which occurred when he was from home on a journey. That said Timothy & Polly, came from Lyme Connecticut to Lempster before they were married that said Polly resided before her marriage with Charles Miner who married her sister Rachel in a part of my fathers house that her name before her marriage was Polly Ames and that she still remains the widow of said Timothy Miner.
Martin Beckwith
State of New Hampshire
Sullivan Js-June 25th 1855
Sworn to before me
Alvah Smith Justice of the Peace
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I Milton Bingham of Lempster in the County of Sullivan and State of New Hampshire aged sixty seven years depose and say that I have been acquainted with Polly Miner widow of Tomothy Miner from my earliest recolection (recollection), that I always understood that they came from Lyme Connecticut before they were married that they even lived together as husband and wife until his decease which took place when he was on a journey from home that she still remains his widow and resides now in Lempster aforesaid
Milton Bingham

State of New Hampshire
Sullivan Js June 23 1855
Sworn to before me
Alvah Smith Justice of the Peace
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Lempster N.H. June 28th 1855
L.P. Waldo Esq
Dr Sir
Herewith I forward to you the declaration and evidence of Phebe Wilder and Polly Miner from Bounty land.
If there is any defect in the evidence or more needed please inform me in due time 
Yours Respectfully
Alvah Smith
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181.78809
L.P. Waldo Esquire
Washington
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Lempster N H
June 29
Paid
L.P. Waldo Esquire 
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

181.788
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34.822
Revolutionary Army