Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43,809, for Aaron Parks, Connecticut
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SERVICE
Conn.

Parks, Aaron

NUMBER
S. 43.809

CONTENTS
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worth, H. R.

Date of death  rec'd on H. B.

Notification sent July 15th 1820 to
A. Wheeler Clk Malone, New York

Aaron Parks
of Franklin Co in the State of N York
who was a private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel S. B. Webb of the Connecticut
line, for the term of 3 years

Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 10 of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 21 of July 1819
and sent to Asa Hascall Esq
Malone, Franklin Co. NY.

Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819. 10 mos. 21/30 4/31 86.63
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819. 48 --
134.63

{ Revolutionary claim, }
{ Act 18th March, 1818. }

Not entitled
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Transcript of Aaron Parks
Schedule & oath ---
13.239
Sept 1819
not entitled
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At a Court of Common Pleas
holden at the Court-House in Malone, in and for the County of Franklin, and
State of New-York, on the fourteenth day of June
1820. Present: Albon Man, Cone Andrus
& Gates Hoit Esqrs. Judges of the said Court.

COUNTY OF Franklin ss: On this fourteenth day of June
1820 personally appeared in open Court, it being a Court of Record proceeding according
to the course of the common law, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, and keeping
record of their proceedings in and for the County of Franklin, Aaron Parks
aged fifty five years resident in the town of Malone in
the said County of Franklin, who being first duly sworn according to law; doth on his oath
declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows:

that he enlisted as a private
in the month of October 1780 into the Company commanded by
Capt. Parsons in the Regiment commanded by Col. S. B. Webb
in the Connecticut line of Continental troops to serve during the
revolutionary war and that he served as a private in the said
Company & regiment from some time in the winter next after his
enlistment till the close of the war and that he was honorably
discharged at West Point in the State of New York on the
the tenth day of June in the year 1783.

that his original declaration to obtain a pension under the Act of Congress of the 18th of
March 1818 was made the tenth day of April 1818,
that he has received a pension certificate numbered 13239 and dated
the twenty first day of July 1819. And I do solemnly
swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March,
1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property
or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of
an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval
service of the United States in the revolutionary war." passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and
that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts
due to me, nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule, hereto annexed,
and by me subscribed.

Real Estate I am possessed of fifty acres of land in Malone
aforesaid on which I have a small House and also Barn and
about ten acres under improvement the rest of which is wild land
and that the said land is incumbered by a mortgage executed
by me to John Barns on the ninth day of April 1813 [?] on which there
is now due to the said John Barns one hundred and sixty
dollars as security for the purchase money --- worth $140.00

Personal estate one pair of Oxen $50, one cow $18 --- 68.00
2 Calves $4, 15 Sheep & 5 lambs $17.50, 2 Swine $4 --- 25.50
4 Geese $1, 9 fouls 1.80, 7 Drag teeth $2 --- 4.80
1 old plough $2, 2 old axes $1, 1 Crowbar $1.50, 1 Shovel .50 --- 5.00
1 Chair $1.50, 2 Scythes $1, & a few other articles of husbandry $1 --- 3.50
1 5 pail Kettle 2.50, 1 small Kettle .75, 1 bake Kettle $1 --- 5.00 [4.25]
1 old brass Kettle $2, 1 pot 1, 3 milk pans .38, 20 plates $1 --- 4.38
10 tea cups & saucers .38, 2 tea pots .50, one looking glass 1.50 --- 2.38
a few other articles of crockery worth say $3.00 --- 3.00
1 Chest with drawers 3, 2 Trunks 2, 2 tables $2.50, 8 Chairs $4 --- 11.50
a few other articles of furniture worth perhaps $3 --- 3.00
there is due me from 3 men in this town --- 12.00
---------
$278.06 [actually adds to 288.06, the correct total is 287.31]
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that I owe to different persons in debts now due over and above
what is charged on my land as before stated --- $328.84
(Signed) Aaron Parks

my family consists of myself my wife Rebecca aged forty nine
years whose health is delicate, one daughter Susan Riscott aged 20 years
who has been sickly & unable to labor for two or three years past & one
Daughter Myra aged 16 years in good health, one son Hiram Parks aged
12 years in health, one other son Harry aged 10 years in health -- one other
Daughter Glinda aged 8 years who enjoys good health -- that by
occupation I am farmer and have no other employment and
that by reason of a breach I am unable to perform and labor
and stand in need of assistance for the support of myself & family
(Signed) Aaron Parks

Sworn to and declared on the fourteenth day of June
1820 before the Court
[signed] Asa Wheeler Clerk

I Asa Wheeler, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas
held in and for the County of Franklin; do certify that
the foregoing oath & declarations and the schedule thereto annexed
are truly copied from the record of the said Court, and I do further certify that it is
the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in
the aforesaid schedule is two hundred and Seventy eight dollars
and six Cents exclusive of what is due to different
person by the above named applicant for which nothing
has been deducted

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed
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Application & affidavit
of Aaron Parks for
a Pension

S. B. Webb's
Connect: Regt
1781 - War -

10th April 1818 -
21/30 - 5.60
4/31- 1.3
10 mos - 80 -
$86.63

[crossed out: The testimony of two disinterested
& credible witnesses
to prove the services of
applicant as within stated,
duly to be taken &
authenticated, is required. -]
[circled] Correct
[circled] on Roll
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State of New York }
Franklin County } ss. Be it known that on the tenth Day
of April in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and eighteen before me Cone Andrus Esquire
one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and
for the County of Franklin in the State of New York
personally appeared Aaron Parks of the Town of Marlone
in the said County and then there took & subscribed
before me the following oath or affidavit to wit

Aaron Parks being duly sworn deposeth and saith
that he is a native of Norwich in the State of Connecticut & is
now a resided Citizen of the United States residing in the
Town of Malone in the County of Franklin and State of New York
and this deponent further saith that by reason of his
reduced circumstances in life he stands in need of assistance
from his Country for support. And this Deponent further saith
that in the revolutionary war between the United States &
Great Britain he belonged to the army of the United States
that in the month of January or February in the year of our
Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty one he this Deponent
regularly enlisted into a Company Commanded by Captain Parsons
in the Regiment commanded by Col. Sam'l B. Webb in the
Connecticut line of United States Troops on the Continental
Establishment to serve during the war, that in the month of March or April in the same
year he this Deponent went into actual service in the said
Company & Regiment in the Continental army until the Close
of the said War, that this Deponent was regularly and
honorably discharged at West Point on the tenth Day of June
in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty three
and at that time obtained a printed discharge signed by
Gen. George Washington on the back of which it was proved
that the within discharge should be considered as a
furlough until the ratification of the definitive treaty
of peace And this Deponent further saith that he
has since lost the said discharge and although he
he has made diligent search cannot now find it
and this Deponent verily believes the said discharge is destroyed, and
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and this Deponent further saith that there is no person
residing in this vicinity by whom he can prove any
of the facts relative to his service as aforesaid and
that the above is the best and only evidence now
in his power to produce
[signed] Aaron Parks

Sworn & subscribed the tenth
day of April 1818 before me
the words "to serve during the war" in the
15th line of the foregoing affidavit
being first subscribed
[signed] Cone Andrus Judge

And I the said Cone Andrus Esquire do certify that
I am personally acquainted with the above named Aaron
Parks that the above is the only evidence which has been
exhibited to me in this case and that it appears to my
satisfaction that the above named Aaron Parks served in
the revolutionary war as is set forth in the above affidavit
against the Common Enemy and that the above affidavit is
in all respects true.
[signed] Cone Andrus Judge

State of New York }
Franklin County ss. } I Asa Wheeler Clerk of said County
do hereby certify that Cone Andrus Esquire before whom
the above affidavit was made, & who made the above
certificate, at the time the same were made, was one of the
Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County
of Franklin aforesaid, duly commissioned & sworn, and
acts in that capacity, and that his signatures above, are his
own handwrighting --
[county seal]
In testimony whereof I hereto set my
hand & the public Seal of the said County
this 2d day of May 1818 at Malone in said County.
[signed] Asa Wheeler Clerk
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February 6, 1931

Rev.A 1812 Wars Section
ANF:MLB

Rose Parks White
203 South University Street
Vermillion, South Dakota

Dear Madam:

You are advised that it appears from the papers in the 
Revolutionary war pension claim, S. 43809, that Aaron Parks,
a native of Norwich, Connecticut, the date of his birth not
stated, while residing in Ashford, Windham County, Connecticut,
enlisted January or February, 1781 and served as a private in
Captain Parson's company, Colonel Samuel B. Webb's Connecticut
regiment and was discharged June 10, 1783.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April
10, 1818, at which time he was living in Malone, Franklin
County, New York, having moved there from Sudbury, Vermont.

In 1821 he stated that he was fifty-six years of age and
referred to his wife, Rebecca, as aged forty-nine years, also
to the following children:

Daughter Susan Prescott, aged 20 years
Adopted daughter Myra Miriam, " 17 years
Son Hiram Parks, " 13 years
Son Harry, " 11 years
Daughter Olivia, " 9 years.

Very truly yours

E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner
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43809
INVALID.
Revy

File No. 43.809
Aaron Parks
Pri Rev War

Act: 18 March 18
Index:-- Vol. 3 , Page 384

[ Arrangement of 1870. ]
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203 S. University St.
Vermillion S. Dak
Jan 18, 1931

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

[stamp] U. S. PENSION OFFICE D JAN 20 1931

Dear Sir:

Will you kindly furnish me
the military history of Aaron Parks
who was made a Captain in the
Seventh Company in the first Regiment
and Second Brigade and Second Division
in Vermont in 1803? I have in my
possession the commission given
him. It is signed "Isaac Tichenor."

I think the same Aaron Parks
"served as a private in Captain
Parson's Company also known as the
8th Company and the 2nd Company,
3rd Connecticut Regiment, commanded
by Samuel B. Webb. He enlisted Nov. 26,
1780 for the war, and was paid to
the close of that war, Nov. 3, 1783."
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This last information came to me
from the War Department, and they
referred me to your department for
more information.

I am applying for membership
in D. A. R., and I wish to obtain
it through this ancestor. In our
family Bible his name is written
with the statement "a soldier in
the Revolutionary War."

I shall be greatly obliged for
and trouble you may take in my
behalf.

Yours truly
[signed] Rose Parks White

[stamp] U. S. PENSION OFFICE D JAN 20 1931
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House of Reps Dec 12 1822

D.. Sir

Aaron Parks of the County of Franklin
N. Y. on the 31st of Jan. had his case sent to your
office for reexamination - the last of April
you requested an exemplification of Mortgage,
which was furnished by him &
forwarded by me from Plattsburgh
soon after my return home. Since
which time he wastes he has not
heard from the business. Will you
have the goodness to inform me the
State of the Case

Yours with respect
R H Walworth

J L Edwards Esq
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House of Reps Jan 31 1822

D'r Sir

Enclosed I send you a petition for
Re-examination of case of Aaron Parks
will you have the goodness to inform
me the result after the examination
The subscribers are some of the most respectable
men in Franklin County

yours &c
R H Walworth

Mr J L Edwards
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House of Rep Jan 31 1823

Sir

Enclosed I send you some documents
in relation to the claim of Aaron Parks
in relation to whose case you wrote
me the fore part of the session. You
will percieve by the enclosed testimony
he comes within the rule adopted
by the department

Yours with respect
Reuben H Walworth

J L Edwards Esq
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Certified Copy of
Mortgage
Aaron Parks
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This Indenture made this ninth Day
of April One thousand Eight hundred and Eighteen Between Aaron Parks of Malone County of Franklin & state of New York of the first party and Johns Barns of the same place 
of the second part Witnesseth that the said party of the first part for & in consideration of the sum of five hundred & Seventy five Dollars to him in hand paid by the sd. party of the second part the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged hath granted bargained sold, remised released & confirmed & by these present doth grant bargain sell
remise, release & confirm unto the said party of the second part and to his heirs & assigns forever all that certain piece or parcel of Land Situate in Malone affd. being part of Great Lot No Sixty three
Bounded as follows beginning at the South west corner of said Lot affd. and running thence north twenty six Chains & thirty one links thence east thirty eight chains &
thirty seven links thence south twenty six chains and thirty one links thence west thirty eight chains & thirty seven links to the place of beginning containing one hundred acres of land the east half of sd. hundred acre lot is in (illegible) to be conveyed except public roads & highways together with all & singular the  
hereditaments & appurtenances thereto belonging or in any wise appertaining
thereby to reversions, remainers (illegible) issues & profits thereof & all the Estate right interest claim or demand whatsoever of the party of the first part either in Law or equity. Provided Always these presents are 
the express condition that if the said party of
the first part shall well & truly pay or cause to be paid unto the said party of the second part his heirs or Assigns the sum of five hundred & seventy five Dollars with the interest that may accrue thereon from the date hereof according to the condition & in the manner particular described in a certain indenture made & executed by the said party of the first
part to the party of the second part bearing
Date that then & from there forth that these present & every thing herein contained shall cease & be null & void any thing to the contrary not with
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standing, but of default shall be made in the payment of all or any of the principal sum of five hundred & seventy five dollars or the interest thereof at the time or times when the same ought to be paid that then and in such case the sd. party of the second part his heirs or assigns or any time or times hereafter shall & may sell or dispose of the sd. premises hereby granted or any part or parts thereof at public venue to any person or persons whomsoever and on such date to make sign & deliver any deed or deeds of conveyance to the purchaser his her or their assign forever and out of the monies arising from such sale to keep & retain in his hands the sum of five hundred & seventy five dollars or so much thereof as shall be then due together with all costs & charges or expenses that shall or may be due by reason of such sale & the overplus money if any there be shall be paid to the sd. party of the first his heirs executors administrators or assigns - In witness whereof the sd. party of the first part hath herewith set his hand & seal the day & year above written

Aaron Parks 

Signed sealed & delivered in presence of, the words of "the first party" in the 3d line, the words "bearing equal sale" in the 30th line & "and may" in the fifth line of this page being first underlined & the words "first & second" in the thirteenth line written on an erasure

Henry S Waterhouse
Asa Hascall
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State of New York on the twenty first Day of April in the year one thousand eight hundred twenty eight, Aaron Parks who is well known by me to be the person described in & who executed this Indenture personally appeared before me & then & there acknowledged that he did execute this Indenture for the uses & purposes therein mentioned & finding therein no material erasures or interlineations excepting those noted I allow it to be recorded.
Asa Hascall Master in Chancery

Clerks Office Franklin County
M[illegible] 18 May 1822

I Ebenezer Brownson Esquire Clerk of the said County of Franklin do certify that having executed
Liber of of Mortgages at the 225-6 pages thereof. I find there a certain Indenture recorded in the records & figures foregoing

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & the public seal of the said Office-
E. Brownson Clerk
By John Russell
Dep Clerk
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Joseph L Edwards Esq
War Department
Pension Office
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Plattsburgh June 1 1822

Dear Sir
I send you enclosed a Certified copy of the Mortgage mentioned in the schedule of Aaron Park as required in your letter to while at Washington. Please enclose the certificate when allowed to me at Plattsburgh

yours &c
Ruben H. Walworth

J.L. Edwards
Esq
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State of Vermont Rutland County 

I Stephen Long of [illegible] in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont
of Lawful age Depose and say that in the year 1781 I was in the Continental army and served in the Same Company and same Regiment with Aaron Parks he entered the service before me and I left him in the service when I return home and understood
and now believe that the said Aaron had engaged during the war over three years that we then belonged to Capt Persons Company and Col Saml Webb Regiment Connecticut Line that the said Aaron has lived since the revolution many years in the town of Sudbury with this deponent and that he now lives in the town of Maloan in the State of New York
and further this Deponent saith not
Stephen Long [signature]

Sworn and subscribed before me at [illegible] in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont this 31st Day of May AD 1819
Pliny Smith Chief Judge of Rutland County Court

I the subscribing authority hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Stephen Long the subscribing witness that he is a Practitioner of Physic and a man of unsullied Character that he lives in the same town in which I reside and I fully believe that his testimony may be safely relied on under every circumstance and in all cases
Certified by me
Pliny Smith Chief Judge of
Rutland County Court
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State of Vermont
I Robert Temple Clerk of Rutland County Court do certify that Pliny Smith Esq. before whom the foregoing depositions were taken, is Chief Judge of said Court, duly commissioned and that the foregoing are his signatures

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court at Rutland
this 2d day of June 1819
R. Temple
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State of Vermont Rutland County 

I Asahel Williams of Sudbury in the County of Rutland of Lawful age Depose and say that in the year 1780 I lived in the town of Union in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut and was acquainted with Aaron Parks who then lived in the town of Ashford in the same Windham County and but about three fourths of a mile from my residence
and the said Aaron Enlisted into the Continental army according to my best recollection the latter part of the year 1780 to serve during the war and joined the army the first part of the year 1781, he enlisted as I understood under Capt Parsons Colo Saml B. Webbs Regiment & served until the month of June in the year 1783 when he was Discharged and retuned home that the said Aaron has since lived in Sudbury in the same with this Deponent for the term of about Eighteen years that about twelve years since he removed to Malan in the State of New York where he now resides and further this deponent saith not
Asahel Williams [signature]

Sworn and subscribed in due form before me at Onsell in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont this 31st day of May 1819
attest Pliny Smith Chief Judge of Rutland County Court

I the subscribing authority hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Asahel Williams the subscribing witness that he lives in the town adjoining my residence that he is a man of unimpeachable character and strict Integrity that his  testimony may be safely relied on in all Cases
Certified by me Pliny Smith Chief Judge of Rutland County Court
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State of New York Frankin County ss

I Aaron Parks of the town of Malone in the county of Franklin being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is the same identical Aaron Parks who served as a private in the Army of the revolution and who obtained a pension certificate in pursuance of the act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 and whose name was stricken from the pension list under the act of the 1st May 1820. And this deponent further saith that in the month of April in the year 1818 being destitute of any real estate he contracted with Mr John Barns of the said town of Malone for the purchase of the fifty acres of town mentioned in and bound by the mortgage executed by this deponent to the said John Barns bearing date the 9th day of April 1818 and acknowledged before Asa Hascall Esquire Master of Chancery on the 21st day of April 1818 for the sum of five hundred seventy five dollars and that he then there purchased of the said John Barns the said fifty acres of land for the said sum and received from the said John Barns a deed of conveyance for the same and at the same time executed and delivered to the said John Barns the said mortgage to secure to him the payment of the said sum of five hundred & seventy five dollars
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dollars with the interest it being the purchase money due to the said John Barns for the said fifty acres of land and that the said mortgage was executed for no other cause or consideration whatever. That he never executed any other mortgage to the said John Barns and that the mortgage before mentioned is the mortgage mentioned in his schedule transmitted to the war department in the year 1820 a copy of which was transmitted in the year 1822 - and that the sum of money therein mentioned has never yet been paid to the said John Barns. And further this deponent saith not

Aaron Parks

On this tenth day of January 1823 before me Hiram Horton Esquire first judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the said County of Franklin in the state of New York personally appeared the above named Aaron Parks who is to me well known. I made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is in all respects true

Hiram Horton
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State of New York
Franklin County 

I, John Barns of the Town of Malone in the County of Franklin being sworn deposeth and saith that on the ninth day of April in the year 1818 he this Deponent sold conveyed by deed to Aaron Parks of the same place fifty acres of Land for the sum of five hundred & seventy five Dollar to secure the payment of which sum with the interest in pursuance of the terms of sale the said Aaron Parks executed to this Deponent a Mortgage upon the said fifty acres of land and that the said purchase money secured by the said Mortgage has not yet him paid and this Deponent further saith that he has perused the foregoing affidavit of the said Aaron Parks and that all that is therein stated respecting the said mortgage is true-
John Barns [signature]

On the Tenth Day of January 1823 the above named John Barns personally appeared before me Hiram Horton Esquire first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County & is to me well known & [illegible] made solemn Oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is in all respects true
Hiram Horton
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[sideways]
Affidavits of Aaron Parks and John Barns

[text]
It is not the common practice in New York to express in the mortgage that it is given for the purchase money although it is given for such purchase shown in some cases so stated it when I took mortgages of that kind to myself but never saw it expressed in any mortgage [illegible] by any one else though it probably has
been done
Rubin H. Walworth 
Member of Congress

Franklin County
Clerks office 10th⎬
January 1823

I Asa Wheeler Clerk of the County of Franklin, do hereby certify that Hiram Horton is first Judge of the court of Common pleas in this County regularly commissioned 
and sworn into office-- and that the signature to the within affidavits of Aaron Parks and John Barnes is his own hand writing-
Asa Wheeler
Clerk
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Aaron Parks
Rev Pensioner

Sept 1819

do reexamine his case
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To the Honourable J C Calhoun Esquire
Secretary of War

We the undersigned Inhabitants of the Town of Malone in the County of Franklin and State of New York beg leave to represent to your Honor that we are personally acquainted with Mr Aaron Parks of this Town, that we consider him to be an honest 
industrious and prudent man, but that owing to his advanced age, his infirmities and the incumbrance of a numerous and expensive family he is extremely poor and much embarrassed with debts, that in our opinion his pecuniary circumstances and the State of his health and the condition of his family are such that he is absolutely unable to render
them and himself a comfortable support, being entirely dependent upon his exertions

That he has once obtained from the War department a certificate entitling him to a pension under the act of the 18th March 1818 but that on exhibiting his schedule of property under the act of May 1st 1820 he was stricken from the roll of pensioners, that to our knowledge the principal part of if not all the property mentioned in that Schedule has been appropriated towards the payment of his debts. that he is still involved in debt and
nearly destitute of property, and that in our opinion (if we may be permitted to express one) the circumstances of the said Aaron Parks are such that his name may with the utmost propriety be continued upon the pension Roll under the act of May 1, 1820-

Dated Malone January 1, 1822
Hiram Horton first Judge of the Com. Pleas
Asa Hascall
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Almon Wheeler
John C. Fuller
Heratio Powell
Benjn Clark
Samuel Hyde
John Wood
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Copy o the oath and schedule of Aaron Parks

13.239
Cont
Sept 1819

Asa Hascall Esq
Malone NY

Sent to Mr. Edwards
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I have been for thirteen years last have well & intimately acquainted with Capt
Aaron Parks of this town. I know him to be somewhat infirm in health, & very much disabled in body by reason of bad Inguinal Hernia & an incurable lameness of the back & hips occasioned many years since by a fall
Henry S. Waterhouse
Adj Hospital Surgeon
42nd. Brig. N.Y. Militia
Malone, Franklin Co. N.Y. March 1,1821.
.
This may certify that Capt Aaron Parks in consequence of a hernia inquinates and other infirmities is unfit for hard Labor
Malone 3rd March 1821.
Horatio Powell Physician
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At a Court of Common Pleas holden at the Court House in Malone in and for the County of Franklin State of New-York, on the second day of February  1821 -- Present: Gates Hart, Alric Man & Cone Andrus Esquires Judges of the said Court.

COUNTY OF Franklin ss: 
On this second day of February personally appeared in open Court, it being a Court of Record proceeding according to the course of the common law, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, and keeping record of their proceedings in and for the County of Franklin ,Aaron Parks aged fifty six years resident in the town of Malone in the said County of who being first duly sworn according to law; doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows: 

that he served as a private in the Company commanded by Captain Parsons in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Samuel B Webb in the Connecticut line of continental troops from the
month of October in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty until the close of the revolutionary war and was honorably discharged at West point on the tenth day of June 1783-

that his original declaration to obtain a pension under the Act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 was made the tenth day of April 1818 that he received a pension Certificate Number 13339 and dated the twenty first day of July, 1819 -- And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818, and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled" An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary War, "" passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule, hereto annexed,
and by me subscribed.

Real Estate I am in the possession of fifty acres of Land on which are small House and a log barn and about ten acres of improved land but which land is incumbered by a Mortgage to
John Barns on which there is now due about one hundred seventy five dollars which sum I am unable to pay and are able to be dispossessed valued at $125,
personal Estate two swine $4 four [illegible] $2 ten bowls  $2  8.00
seven drag teeth $2 one old plough $1 two old axe $2.  5.00
one crowbar $1 one chain $2.50 two Scythes - $2 5.50
a few other articles of Husbandry not worth more than $1 00
one five gal Kettle $3, one small kettle 25 cts tea kettle$1  4.25
one bake kettle $1.50 one brass kettle $1 one pot $1  3.50
three milk pans, 75. twelve plates, 50 cts 1 tea cups saucers 37 - 1.62
two teapots, .62 one Looking glass $1.50   2.12
one chest with drawers $3 two trunk $2 two table $3  8.00
8 chairs & a few other articles of furniture worth perhaps 4.00
____
167.09
Personal estate excepting necessary bedding and clothing.
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my family consists of my self my wife Rebecca aged forty nine years who health is poor one Daughter Susan Prescott aged 20 years who has been sickly and unable to perform much labor for several years, an adopted daughter Myra Miriam aged 17 years who is in good health one son Hiram Parks age 13 years in health-- one other son Harry aged 11 years and one other daughter Amanda Parks aged 9 years. That by occupation I am a farmer & have
no other occupation and that by reason of a breach I am unable to labor but little which infirmity gives upon me and that I stand in need of assistance for my self and dependent family-- That within a few months past I have been called upon by some of my creditors for the payment of their demands and have been obliged to and have turned out in payment of
them all my cattle & sheep and that I now own over and above what charged upon my land more than two hundred Dollars $200
Aaron Parks [signature]

Sworn to and declared on the Second day of February 1827 before the Court
Asa Wheeler Clerk

Franklin County Ss
I Asa Wheeler of the Court of Common Pleas held in and for the County of Franklin to certify that the schedule hereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said Court, and I do further certify the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited to the aforesaid schedule without considering the debts due the applicant is one hundred sixty seven dollars and sixty nine cents $167.69

In testimony wherof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court on this seventeenth of March 1821
Asa Wheeler
Clerk of the Court for the County of Franklin

Debts due from the applicant-- $200.00
Amount of property contained in his Sched 167.69
Balance against the applicant $32.31