Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41,039, for Jonathan Parker, Connecticut
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SERVICE NUMBER
Conn. Parker, Jonathan S.41.039
CONTENTS
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8753
4
Ohio
Jonathan Parker of Windsor in the state of Ohio who was a Captain in the regiment commanded by Colonel Webb of the Connecticut line, for the term of one year
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 20–Dollars per month, to commence on the 24 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 of April 1819 and sent to Judge Griswold Windsor, Ashtabula Co. Ohio
Arrears to 4th of March 1819. 10 Mos 7/38 4/31 207.24
Semi-anl. All’ce ending 4 Sep: 1819 —120–
$327.24
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
Discontinued.
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Notification sent May 21 1821, to T. R. Hawley, Esqr. Jefferson, Ohio.
Copy of Atty Genl’s opinion sent 4 Sept. 1827, to J. R. Gidding’s Wayne, Ohio
Date of death not on a3
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Windsor Ohio Ashtabula County April twenty fourth AD 1818     
I Jonathon Parker Late of Killingly in the State of Connecticut Testify & Say that I was in the Winter 1776 - 1777 was appointed Captain by the Delegates of the United States in Congress in a Regiment Commanded by Charles Webb Afterwords commanded by Isaac Sherman in General Jedediah Huntington’s brigade &c  my commission was signed by John Hancock President & Charles Thomson sec’d   I remained in the Continental Service untill the 14th day of June AD 1778 there being a surplus there of officers I obtained an Honorable Discharge & [unreadable] was entered on [unreadable] back of my commission. I further certify that I am eighty two years of age & in Low Circumstances & I am not able to support myself & aged and I have served four years in the Old French War and in Abby Combes [Abercrombie] & General Amherst at the Northward & General Lymon at Cuby [Cuba] & have never rec’d any Pention or pay from the  United States Except Continental Money 
Jonathan Parker
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Windsor Ashtabula County SS April 24th 1818 State of Ohio 
Personally Appeared Capt Jonathan Parker of said Windsor & made solemn Oath to the truth of the within certificate & signed with his own hand in my presents [presence].   
Sworn before me 
Solomon Griswold Associate Judge 
The State of Ohio 
Ashtabula County SS   
I hereby certify that Solomon Griswold Esquire is one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid duly Commissioned and sworn into office agreeable to the statute laws of this state—And that the above signature is in his hand writing. 
In testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand and affix my official seal at Jefferson in the County aforesaid the twenty ninth day of May AD 1818. 
T. R. Hawley Clk C. P.
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Jonathan Parker
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State of Ohio SS 
Ashtabula County }  Common Pleas June Term AD 1821   
I Solomon Griswold of Windsor in the County aforesaid being duly sworn as according to law depose & Say that I am well acquainted with Jonathan Parker of the Town  aforesaid his situation and with most of his concerns and transactions for some years past that at the time of the said Jonathan exhibiting a schedule of his property to the court aforesaid in November last,  I the deponent was one of the associate Judges comprising said court that the said Jonathan came to me for advice concerning the statement of his situation in the schedule which he exhibited at that time, that, I the deponent informed said Jonathan that I considered all that was necessary for the said Jonathan to do was for him to make oath to the schedule which he exhibited without any statement of the debts which he owed, that he, the deponent [unreadable] this  opinion from the returns of the secretary of war which was to effect as I understood them, this the deponent knowing that the said Jonathan is indebted to Zera Cook, to Orestus K Hawley,  to Doctor Newcomb and Daniel Parker but cannot now tell the exact amount that the property which the said Jonathan now possesses could not be sold for such support as is necessary for his sustenance And further I have no hesitation in saying that it would now be impossible for the Said Jonathan to subsist without public or private charity.  And I the said Solomon further say that I have no doubt from the statement of the said Jonathan that he was in the Abercrombie, that he was afterward at the taking of Ticonderoga under General Amherst and afterwards went to the Island 

Or private charity   
Daniel Parker 
Sworn to subscribed this twenty fifth day of June AD 1821 before me 
T. R. Hawley Clerk C. P.
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of Cuba under General Lyman,  was there shipwrecked and underwent nearly every Suffering and privation which human nature could endure,  all of this service was during the French War.  That the said Jonathan first applied for a pension before me in 1818 and that I there made A Statement of his services during the Revolutionary war which I suppose are now in file in the office of the Secretary of War.  And that I am well acquainted with Daniel Parker son of the said Jonathan, that his character for truth & veracity is good and full faith and credit is and of Right ought to be paid to his testimony when under oath, and further this deponent saith not. 
Solomon Griswold 
Sworn to and subscribed I before me at Jefferson this twenty ninth day of June AD 1821 
T. R. Bailey Clerk
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State of Ohio 
Ashtabula County}  June Term AD 1821 
Before me Timothy R Hawley Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the & County aforesaid Daniel Parker who being duly sworn  according to law deposeth and saith that he is the Son of Jonathan Parker formerly a Pensioner of the United States, but who has been lately stricken from the Pension list Roll.  The said Daniel further Saith that the said Jonathan is now sick and unable to leave his house, that he the said Jonathan has been unable to attend to his own business for the space of Eight years past that during that time he the said Daniel has had the charge of what little business his father has had to transact,  that he the said Daniel has for Eight years past had to provide nearly all the necessaries of life which the said Jonathan has Enjoyed during that time, that on the twenty fourth day of Nov the day on which the said Jonathan exhibited his schedule of property to the Court aforesaid, he the said Daniel was knowing that the said Jonathan was at that time indebted 
To Zera Cook                        1.25
To Doctor Newcomb          35 
To Orester H Hawley          69 
To the said Daniel Parker  218 
$337 
And the said Daniel on his oath aforesaid further saith that the property which the said Jonathan possesses could not be sold for such necessaries as are proper for his support and that it would now be impossible for the said Jonathan to Subsist except by public or private Charity. 
Daniel Parker  
Sworn to subscribed this twenty fifth day of June AD 1821 before me 
T R Hawley Clerk C.P.
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State of Ohio ss  
Ashtabula County}    Court of Common Pleas June  AD 1821 
I Timothy R. Hawley Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County aforesaid do certify that by the laws of the State of Ohio I am authorised to administer oaths and the oaths of Solomon Griswold and Daniel Parker were administered by me in my official capacity.   
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court of Jefferson this twenty ninth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and twenty one. 
T. R. Hawley Clerk
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Schedule of Property belonging to Jon’n Parker
Free
To Secretary of War 
Washington City
Jonathan Parker
Ohio
Rec’d 15 Jan 1821
Not entitled  S. 753 J. L. E.
Jonathan Parker  
Septr 1819
T. R. Hawley Esq
Jefferson
Ashtabula Coty Ohio
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State of Ohio  
Ashtabula County ss} Court of Common Pleas November Term AD 1820 
On this Twenty fourth Day of November AD 1820 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record for said County Jonathan Parker aged Eighty five years Resident in Windsor in said County who being first duly sworn as the law directs Doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war follows.  Two years as a captain in the Regt commanded by Colonel Isaac Sherman in the Connecticut line on the continental establishment.   That he applied for a pension the Twenty fourth day of April AD 1818 and received a pension certificate numbered Eight thousand seven hundred and fifty three, 
I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th Dec. 1818 and that I have not time that time by gift sale or in any man 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  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 the what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.   
Schedule 
Fifty three acres of new land 
One Cow bought with my pension money
One old brass Kettle 
Three articles of old Iron ware 
One old chest 
Two old plates 
Two old knives and forks 
Jonathan Parker  his mark 
Sworn to and Declared on this 24th day of November 1820 before
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Timothy R Hawley Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Ashtabula Do hereby Certify that the oath and schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the Records of said that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is three hundred twenty Dollars and fifty cents.  
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court on this Twenty fourth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and Twenty 
T. R. Hawley Clerk
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Free
To the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States City of Washington
Hanover Aug 5
Mr. Edwards
Rec’d 14 Aug 1820
1 Apl 1819
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Capt Jonathan Parker in 1814 exchanged his property in  Connecticut for 150 acres of land in this state, on comming here be paid to his only son Daniel 110 acres and to his Daughter 25 acres both were Deeds of gift.  In 1818 he permitted his son to sell 380 acres so that he now owns 55 acres of the first rate of bottom land well situated on the main road on the fifty five acres there are 20 of improvement with a framed barn 70 by 30 feet,  two of his friends have appraised the land the same as if in a State of nature that the improvement was made by the old Captains properly, the land is worth double what they have appraised it at,  all the farming utensils and house hold furniture are the old mans and are not appraised at all.  Capt Parker has lately lost his wife, she died suddenly and with out expense to physicians.  He is 85 years of age but very  healthy for an old man.  He has this year on his improvement ninety bushels of wheat corn and other crops in proportion.  He has a span of horses, 3 cows with a good supply of young cattle sheep and hogs.  His son in law and daughter wished him not to take the oath and offered to Support him through life for the improvement of what he has got and a great many other has offered the same and it is not the old mans wish to take the oath that he Cannot support himself but his son Daniel and Judge Solomon Griswold want pension money.  Griswold had a good share of it before for his influence in obtaining it and now if it can be obtained again Griswold is to have a still larger share of it. Capt Parker is not entitled to a pension and it is a fraudulent abusive thing in his son and in Griswold to this attempt to obtain it, it is hoped by the neighborhood that Skene D. Sacket will not try any more for a pension.  He is far better off every in point of property than Parker.
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beside Griswold have declared he will not help him any more as Sacket did not give him so great a share of the pension which Sacket has already had as he agreed to though it is expected by those who know the men that they will compromise and Sacket take the oath and Griswold give his assistance and so have the Pension money together.  Parker, Sacket and Griswold all live in the town of Windsor Ashtabula County State of Ohio.   I am willing on enquiry by letter to give a true statement of Sackets property but Letters  must be directed to me [unreadable] office Tumbull County Ohio for Griswold keeps the Windsor post office and might suppress the letters that I may not be suspected of  misrepresentation I refer you to enquire by letter others Live Nabors viz Daniel Morgan, Calvin Gibbs,  James Halderman,  Samuel Higley Esq and Jonathan Higley or any other nabor's.
Windsor August 1st 1820 
Eli Granger
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February 3, 1937 
Jonathan Parker S. 41039 
Bunyan Parker Wt. #2939-160-12 
BA-J/AWF
Mr. A. S. Hadley 
5025 Nebraska Avenue 
Tampa, Florida 
Dear Sir: 
The data relative to Jonathan Parker were obtained from pension claim, S. 41039, based upon 
Jos service in the Revolutionary War.
The date and place of birth of Jonathan Parker were not given, nor were the names of his parents stated. 
Jonathan Parker served in “the Old French War" four years, was at the taking of Ticonderoga under Lord Abercrombie, served under General Amherst and went to the Island of Cuba under General Lyman, was shipwrecked and suffered many hardships. 
During the Revolutionary War he was of Connecticut and was commissioned January 1, 1777, Captain, served in Colonels Charles Webb's and Isaac Sherman's Connecticut regiment, and resigned his commission, June 14, 1778 at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania . 
Jonathan Parker was allowed pension on his application executed April 24, 1818, at which time he was living in Windsor, Ashtabula County, Ohio; he was then eighty-two years of age and referred to his aged wife, but did not give her name and age. 
On August 1, 1820, it was stated that he “lately lost his wife.” Jonathan Parker was still living in
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1823 in Windsor, Ohio. He died February 26, 1824. 
Reference was made in 1820 to a daughter and son-in-law of Jonathan Parker, names not designated and in 1821, his son, Daniel Parker, was living in Ashtabula County, Ohio. 
It was stated in 1849 that there were then surviving children of the above noted Jonathan Parker, but no names were given. 
Bunyan Parker
 Warrant #2939-160-12 
The data which follow were obtained from claim for bounty land, based upon the service of Bunyan Parker in the War of 1812. 
The date and place of his birth, names of parents , and place of residence at time of his enlistment were not given. 
Bunyan Parker enlisted July 23, 1812 and served as a private in Captain Coon’s company in the 16th United States Infantry, and was discharged April 16, 1814 in Burlington, Vermont. 
He was allowed bounty land in full satisfaction for the service rendered. 
There were no data relative to his family.
In order to obtain information in regard to the location of the land referred to above, you should apply to The Commissioner of the General Land Office, Washington, D. C., and give the following -  
Warrant #2939 - 160 acres- Act of 1812. 
Very truly yours A. D. HILLER 
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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41039 
INVALID 
Revy 
File No. 41039 
Jonathan Parker 
Capt Rev War 
Act: 18 March 18” 
Index: -- Vol. 5 Page 582 
[Arrangement of 1870.] 
1937 Feb 3  hist to Mr. C. S. Hadley AWF
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date of his first schedule States however that his land is not worth more than $3 per acre.  
Caveat from E Granger filed within in which it was stated that in the year 1814 he exchaged his property in the State of Connecticut (150 [unreadable] )100 acres of land in the State of Ohio and deeded to only son 110 acres NO and to a daughter 25 acres, both deeds of gift made in the year 1818.  That he now owns 55 Acres of the first rate land well situated with the improvements thereon & &c 
Joshua M. Giddings 
Let to
Ohio
See letter 8 Aug 1823 to 
Jonathan Parker
Captain    
1777 – one year  
aged Eighty eight years 
occupation a farmer but from old age and infinities unable to labor 
Schedule dated 24 Nov 1820 
real property to wit 
53 Acres of new land 
Personal Property 
One Cow bought with his Pens Money
One old brass Kettle, three Articles old iron ware, one old chest, two old plates, 2 old knives & forks, 
Real and personal property value by the Court at  $320.50 
Schedule under act of March 1823 dated 23 June 1823 - no change has been made in his property [unreadable]
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State of Ohio
Ashtabula County ss }  On this 23d day of Jan AD 1823 personally appeared before me Solomon Griswold one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas within & for the County of Ashtabula Jonathan Parker resident in said County aged eighty eight year who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the act of Congress of the 18th of March & the first of May 1820, that he the said Jonathan Parker inlisted for the term of Three years on or about the fifteenth day of January in the year AD 1777.  
in the State of Connecticut & served as Captain during that [unreadable] the regiment commanded by Colonel Charles Webb in the line of the State of Connecticut on the Continental establishment, that he continued to serve in the said corps untill about the last of June AD 1778  when he was discharged from the said service in Valley forge in the State of Pennsylvania,  that his name has been placed on the pension list & dropt therefrom on account of his property.  
And in pursuance of the act of 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day  March 1818 & that I have not since that
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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 provision of an act of congress entitled "an act to provide a certain persons engaged in the land & Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war" passed on the 18th day of March AD 1818 & 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 & by me subscribed Schedule 
Fifty three Acres of New land 
One Cow bought with my pension money 
Old brass kettle 
Three articles of old iron ware 
one old chest, two old knives & forks 
Two old plates 
That since the exhibition of my first schedule changes have been to made in my property.  My Land will not fit more than Three Dollars per acre, it is all unimproved, Except a small [unreadable] & I fully believe that I am indebted more then my land is worth
Jonathan Parker x mark
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Sworn & declared on the 23d  day of Jan 1823 before me one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas within & for the County of Ashtabula in the State of Ohio  
I Solomon Griswold one of the Judges of the Court of common Pleas within & for the County of Ashtabula, where the declarant resides that the above named Jonathan Parker is from a disease called the Gravil & Other Infirmities of old Age with which I am credibly informed & believe he has been afflicted for the space of one year & is unable to attend the court of which am a Judge & I do not think from the present appearance that he will be able to attend the court above named at its next Session nor of any other time.   I have therefore in pursuance of an act of Congress passed the first of March 1823 attended at his place of abode and administered the fore going oath.   
Solomon Griswold Judge of the Court of Common Pleas 
State of Ohio ss 
Ashtabula Count} [unreadable]
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State of Ohio ss 
Ashtabula County }  I Timothy R Hawley Clerk the Court of Common Pleas certify that Solomon Giswold before whom the above affidavit of Jonathan Parker who is now sick & confined at his house was made is Judge as aforesaid, I also certify that the said schedule & oath have been admitted to the record of said court & that the same are truly copyed therefrom, and I certify that it is the opinion and Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is -  dollars & - cents.  
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal court on this – day of - in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty three 
T. R. Hawley
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Ashtabula
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Jefferson  Ashtabula Co Ohio July 7. 1823 
Sir   [unreadable] the Amended Schedule of Jonathan Parker who is now to my actual knowledge living upon the Charity of his son and neighbors & if immediate attention can be to be paid to it, it may likely serve to soothe his last moments of life. 
Yours Respectfully Joshua R. Giddings 
Hon J C Calhoun Secretary of war
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Haynes 2nd July 1821 
Sir
Enclosed is the affidavits of Solomon Griswold and Daniel Parker Respecting the circumstances of Jonathan Parker.  At the time he filed a Schedule of his property, the affidavits will show that it was for the want of proper information that a list of the debts which he owed were not attached to the Schedule, in consequence of which he has been stricken from the Pension Roll.  I hope you will peruse the affidavits and if Consistent with you, Reinstate him on the Pension List as I have no doubt but his situation warrants it and his services merit it.
Respectfully your Obt Svt
Joshua R. Giddings
Hon J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War
N. P. Please make Return to J. R. Giddings Haynes township Ashtabula County State of Ohio
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257  
Pension Office June 15 1849 
Sir
In answer to your letter of the 15 Feby last respecting the case of Jonathan Parker I have to state that as he did not comply with the requisites of the act of 1st May 1820, his Stipend under the act of 18 March 1818 was not continued to him there were therefore no arrears due him at his death which Are now be paid to his children. 
James Hathaway Esq Chardon Geauga Co
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Chardon Geauga Co. Ohio February 15th 1849 
Sir
The son of Jonathan Parker who was a Captain in the Revolution and a pensioner under the act of 18th March, 1818 at the rate of $20 per month on the Roll of Ohio, represents to me that his father, the said Jonathan, died February 26th 1824, and that it is now ascertained that his father drew his said pension up to March 4th 1820, and no further, and that the said Jonathan, was required to send to the pension office a schedule of his property in order to be continued on the pension Roll, which he thinks his father did not send in or if he did there were some defect in his papers therefore was not continued on the pension Roll. It is further stated that the said pensioner had no means of support (of his own) up to his decease except the pension he had drawn.   
Now sir provided the children of said Parker establish the proofs their father was required in the case are they entitled to his pension from March 4th 1820, up to his decease (said Jonathan left no widow), it is my opinion that said children are not entitled  but am not certain, therefore write for information, by answering this letter you will confer a favor on said Children and much oblige your
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Most O.B. T. Servant
 J. Hathaway 
Hon J.L. Edwards, Com of Pensions Washington City D. C.
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Jonathan Parker Ap 24th 1818 - Captain Colonel { Webb Sherman  Connecticut line 1776-77 till 78.   Wanted the Judge's certificate of the reduced circumstances of the claimant. 
Proof of indigent circumstance filed with Skeen Douglas Sacket & papers 
Correct
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IN CONGRESS
The DELEGATES of the UNITED STATES of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Counties of New-Castle, Kent and Sussex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, TO
Jonathan Parker Esq Greeting, 
WE reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, DO, by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be Captain of a Company in a Regiment commanded by Charles Webb Esqr  in the Army of the United States, raised for the Defence of American Liberty, and for repelling every hostile Invasion thereof you are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of a Captain by doing and performing all manner of Things thereunto belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your Command, to be obedient to your Orders as their Captain   And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions from Time to Time, as you shall receive from this or a future Congress of the United States, or Committee of Congress, for that purpose appointed, or Commander in Chief for the Time being of the Army of the United States, or any other your superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in Pursuance of the Trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue in Force until revoked by this or a future Congress. 
Dated at Hartford in the State of Connecticut the first day of January 1777 
By Order of the Congress, 
John Hancock PRESIDENT
4103
ATTEST  Cha Thomson Junr
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5025 Nebraska Ave,
Tampa Florida
Jan 23, 1937
Veteran's Adm'n., Washington, D.C., 
Dear Sirs:- 
O pension
We are very anxious to trace One BUNVAN PARKER, (my G. G. Father) in an effort to learn who his parents were. In tracing, I wrote the War Dept., Dec. 29, 1936 as per copy attached, and have their reply in part as follows; 
“… possibly the desired information can be obtained from the Veteran's Administration, Washington, D.C., which has custody of the U. S. Pension records…” 
We wish to learn the place of BUNYAN PARKER'S birth, date of which was Feb. 21, 1796 (and we do not know where).  He died at Rensselaer, Ind. Oct. 22, 1875 but whether he was pensioned or not we do not know, but think not.
[stamp] RECEIVED JAN 28 1937 MAIL SUB DIV VETS ADM READER #18
As you will note he enlisted at age of 16, in Ohio State Militia, Captain James Jeffries Company, McConnell’s Regiment, Aug. 22, 1812, and discharged Sep. 9, 1812.  The War Dept. says those records do not show place of birth or names of parents.  Some of our folks say he enlisted at Urbana, others claim Piqua.
Your very kind assistance would be highly appreciated in this matter. Or if any expense is incurred, or necessary we would gladly pay whatever is reasonable, as we cannot afford much. If you are unable to furnish any information we would much appreciate your suggestion as to how it could be had.  We believe Bunyan Parker's father was one Jonathan Parker who had a farm on the State Road between Urbane and Bellefontaine, O. around 1800, but cannot connect it as yet, so would thank you very much for any assistance or suggestion. 
very respectfully, A. S. Hadley
1 enclos’d
A. S. Hadley
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TAMPA, FLORIDA 
5025 Nebraska Ave.,
 Dec. 29, 1936 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Dept. of Records 
Washington, D. C., 
Dear Sirs  
It is very important that we know the antecedents of one BUNVAN PARKER who enlisted in the Ohio State Militia at the age of 16, for the war of 1812, presumably at Urbana, Ohio, where he was twice married at later dates. He enlisted as private in the Capt. James Jeffries Company of McConnell's regiment, Ohio State Militia, on Aug. 29, 1812, and was discharged Sept. 9, 1812. A very short enlistment, but why we do not know. 
We hope to uncover the names of BUNYAN PARKER'S parents, and where he was born. Would the enlistment records not show this, more especially since he was but 16? He was born on  Feb. 21, 1796, but where, we do not know. 
[stamp] RECEIVED JAN 28 1937 MAIL SUB DIV VETS ADM READER # 18
Can you advise us if these enlistment records exist, where they are, and how could this information be secured?  Would they show his parents, and place of birth? Information on this matter, very important to us will be deeply appreciated by yours very sincerely, 
A. S. Hadley
stamped envelope encl.
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February 3, 1937 
BA-J/AWF 
Mr. A. S. Hadley 
5025 Nebraska Avenue 
Tampa, Florida 
Dear Sir: 
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information relative to Bunyan Parker, who was born February 21, 1796, served in the War of 1812 in the Ohio Militia, and died at Rensselaer, Indiana, October 22, 1875.  You, further state that you think that one Jonathan Parker was the father of Bunyan Parker, and that said Jonathan Parker owned a farm in around 1800".
The War of 1812 records of this office have been searched and no claim for pension found based upon the service of any Bunyan Parker, and no claim for bounty land found on account of the service of Bunyan Parker in the Ohio Militia. 
The Revolutionary War record of a Jonathan Parker who served with the Connecticut troops and later lived in Ohio, has been found and is furnished herewith, as found in pension claim. 
The War of 1812 record of Bunyan Parker who served in the 16th U. S. Infantry and received bounty land on account of that service, is also furnished herewith, as found in claim for bounty land. 
It is hoped that these records will be of interest to you. 
Very truly yours A. D. HILLER 
Executive Assistant to the Administrator 
This letter not this claim.