Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 6432, John Waterbury, Conn.
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(3--1776)

SERVICE
Conn.

Waterbury, John
                   Hannah

NUMBER
W. 6432.
B. L.  Wt - 51762-160-55
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CONTENTS
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1731
Connecticut
Hannah Waterbury
widow of John Waterbury
Conn
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Lieutenant 
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 186 Dollars 66 [written over "62"] Cents per annum, to commence on the ["4th day of March, 1848" crossed out] 3d February 1853.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3d day of Septr/53 and sent to Wm T. Minor
Stamford 
Ct.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act ["July 29, 1848" crossed out], Febry 3d/53, Page 67 Vol. A
1830[?] [written over "1818"[?]]-32
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Bundle no 20
no 14

Apr 15/76 to Jan 11/77

10 aug 1829

902
Connecticut
John Waterbury
Lieutenant
Connecticut line 1776 1 year
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of Twenty Dollars per month, to commence on the 2d of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 8. of June 1818 and sent to Hon. Saml. W. Johnson, Stamford, Con.

Arrears to 4th of Septr. 1818
["semi-anl. all'ce ending" crossed out]
5 months 3/30
$102.00

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}

Stamford, Fairfield Co
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256.973
act mar 3. '55
Sept. 15. '56[?]

Hannah Waterbury, wid.
John Waterbury, Lieut.

51762 Jany 5/57

["Private" crossed out]
Lieutenant
Ct Line

Revy. war.
Pensd. Act Feb. 3. '53
Feby 53 - 1731
ad. 160 acs Decr 30/56
Dodge

M[?]

Sands Seely,
Stamford, Conn.

End[?] P

Vol W=1=30
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John Waterbury Lt.
2 Apl
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District of Connecticut ss Stamford the 2nd day of April AD 1818 
I Sam. W. Johnson Esqr Judge of the County Court for Fairfield County in said District do certify That the Testimony & proceedings had before me on the application of John Waterbury for a Pension under an act of Congress approved the 18th day AD of March AD 1818 appear at large on this & the following pages of this sheet 
Sam W Johnson 
District of Connecticut ss Stamford April the 2nd AD 1818 John Waterbury of Said Stamford doth on oath declare before Sam W. Johnson Esqr. Judge of the County Court for Fairfield County in said District That in the month of April AD 1776 he entered into Service of the United States, as a Lieut under his Commission hereto annexed, & continued in said Service & Served under said Commission against the Common enemy untill the month of June AD 1777 when he resigned his Office & was Honorably discharged from Service- That from his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his Country for Support 
John Waterbury
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District of Connecticut ss Stamford the 2nd day of April AD 1818 
Personally appeared John Waterbury above named & having been duly sworn made oath that the foregoing Declaration by him subscribed is true before me 
Sam W Johnson Judge of the County Court for Fairfield County 

District of Connecticut ss Stamford the 2nd day of April AD 1818 
Personally appeared Jacob Bishop of Norwalk in said District 
before me Sam W. Johnson Esqr. Judge of the County Court for Fairfield County in Said District who being duly sworn doth depose & say that he is well acquainted with John Waterbury Signer of the foregoing Declaration & that he now is & for many years now last past has been a resident Citizen of the United States in the District of Connecticut & that from his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his Country for Support- This deponent further says that he was a Soldier in the Continental army in Capt. Albert Chapmans Company in a Regt. Commanded by Col. Elmore from the Spring of the year AD 1776 untill the the [sic] Spring following & that the said Waterbury was a Lieutenant in the same Company for the same time & had the reputation of a good & faithfull [faithful] officer 
Jacob Bishop
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State of Connecticut ss Stamford in the County of Fairfield 
I Sam W Johnson Judge of the County Court for the County of Fairfield do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that John Waterbury the above named applicant Served in the revolutionary War against the common Enemy, as stated in his foregoing Declaration. 
In testimony whereof I have subscribed the same & affixed the Seal of said Court this 2d day of April 1818 
Sam W Johnson
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Hannah Waterbury
applicant for Bounty Land 
under act of March 3. 1855

216.[?] 973

Sands Seely
Stamford
Connt
Attorney
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State of Connecticut 
County of Fairfield SS
On this 9th day of September AD one thousand eight hundred and fifty six before me a Notary Public within and for the County and State aforesaid personally appeared Hannah Waterbury aged Seventy Six years a resident of Darien in said County and State who being duly sworn according to law declares that She is the widow of John Waterbury deceased who was a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary war and was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States 
She further States that she was married to Said John Waterbury on the 16th day of March 1817 by the Rev Frederic Smith at Stamford and that her name before such marriage was Hannah Stevens That her said husband died at said Darien on the 10th day of August 1829 and that she is now a widow 
And she farther states that she is now a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States having applied for a pension under the law of February 3, 1853 in conformity with the 2d section thereof 
She cannot State the Service performed by her Said husband the Said John Waterbury in the Revolutionary war but for proof of the Same would refer to his application on file in the pension department at Washington and the Evidence accompanying the Same 
For proof of her marriage to Said John Waterbury and of his death and that She was his widow on the 3d day of February 1853
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She would refer to her application on file at the pension department and the evidence accompany the same 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" 1
Hannah her X mark Waterbury 
In presence of 
William T. Minor 

We Martha A Weed and Charlotte M. ["Harriet J" crossed out] Weed residents of Darien in the State of Connecticut upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by the Said Hannah Waterbury 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 We have known the Said Hannah Waterbury Since two years past having been in her immediate neighborhood and know that she has not married fist sill [still] continues a widow. we have known the Said Hannah Waterbury for more than one years last past 
Charlotte M Weed 
Martha. A. Weed 
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were Sworn to 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 presents herself to be and that I have no interest in this claim and I certify that the said "Harriet J" was erased and "Charlotte M." interlined before Execution 
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal the day and year above written
Edwin Scofield Jr.
Notary Public
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State of Connecticut. 
By his Excellency WILLIAM T. MINOR, Governor of said State. 
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: 
Know ye, That Edwin Scofield Jr was at the time of subscribing the within and annexed attestation and now is a Notary Public 
in the said State, duly constituted and commissioned, and that to his acts and attestations as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court; that the annexed attestation is in due form and by the proper officers; and that I believe the signature of said Edwin Scofield Jr- thereunto to be genuine. 
William T. Minor 
In testimony whereof, I have caused the public Seal of the State to be hereunto affixed, at Hartford, in said State, this 11th day of September A. D. 1856, and in the 81st year of the Independence of the United States of America. 
J J Dimock clk for ND Sperry
Secretary of State.
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Hannah Waterbury
Widows Pension
application for under act Feby 3. 1853
John
rev

William T. Minor
Stamford Connt
Attorney
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State of Connecticut 
County of Fairfield 
Probate Court
District of Stamford 
On this 4th day of May AD 1853 before William T. Minor Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Stamford personally appeared Hannah Waterbury a resident of the Town of Darien in said District and County aged Seventy three years who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration for the purpose of obtaining such a rate of pension as may be due to her under any of the laws regulations or decisions that have been or may hereafter be adopted That she is the widow of Lieutenant John Waterbury formerly of said Darien now deceased who was a Lieutenant in the war of the Revolution and a pensioner of the United States ["at the time of his death" crossed out] at the rate of $240 per annum as this applicant believes And She refers to the application of her Said husband and the evidence accompanying the same on file at Washington for proof of the Services of her said husband That she was married to said Lieutenant John Waterbury on the [blank] day of March ["November" crossed out] AD 1817 ["1816" crossed out] at what was then a part of Stam[ford]
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[Stam]ford now the Town of Darien by the Rev Frederic Smith a Baptist minister of Said Stamford and that her name at the time of such marriage was Hannah Stevens That her Said husband died at Said Darien on the 10th day of August AD 1829 
She further swears that she has not intermarried since the death of her said husband but that She is now his widow and that she has not before made any application for a pension 
Hannah Waterbury
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open Court Before me 
The word November was erased and March interlined before Execution and also the figures 1816 were erased and the figures 1817 interlined before Execution and also the words "at the time of his death" were erased before Execution 
William T. Minor Judge
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I Mary Waterbury of Darien Fairfield County Connecticut depose and say That I was well acquainted with Lieutenant John Waterbury in his life time, he died at Darien in the month of August 1829 I was present at his death. I am also well acquainted with this applicant for a pension Hannah Waterbury. She is now the widow of Said John Waterbury and has been since his death I am now Sixty two years of age 
Mary Waterbury 
I Samuel Hoyt of Stamford Fairfield County Connecticut depose and Say That I am now fifty nine years of age I am well acquainted with Hannah Waterbury this applicant for a pension and have known her from the time of my childhood The Said Hannah was married to Lieutenant John Waterbury in the Spring of the year 1817 by the Rev Frederic Smith a Baptist minister of said Stamford This deponent was present at the wedding and saw them married. the name of the Said Hannah at the time of her marriage was Hannah Stevens The said John Waterbury is now dead and has been dead for a great many years the exact number this deponent
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cannot recollect and the said Hannah has been ever since his death and still is his widow 
Samuel Hoyt 

I Sally Hoyt of Stamford Fairfield County Connecticut depose and say that I am now fifty seven years of age I have known Hannah Waterbury this applicant for a pension ever since I can remember She was married to Lieutenant John Waterbury Sometime in the year 1817 the precise time this deponent cannot now recollect by the Rev Frederic Smith a Baptist minister of Stamford I was present and saw them married 
Sally Hoyt

State of Connecticut 
County of Fairfield 
Probate Court 
District of Stamford 
On the 4th day of May A.D 1853 in open Court before William T. Minor Judge of Said Court of Probate personally appeared Mary Waterbury maker of the foregoing deposition by her subscribed and on the 10th day of May in open Court before said William T. Minor personally appeared Samuel Hoyt and Sally Hoyt each maker of the foregoing deposition by each subscribed and each signed the Same in my presence and made oath to its truth before me and I certify that I am well acquainted with each the Said Mary Waterbury, Samuel Hoyt and Sally Hoyt and that each is credible person 
William T. Minor Judge
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State of Connecticut 
County of Fairfield 
Probate Court 
District of Stamford 
I Sands Seely clerk of Said Court of Probate and Keeper of the seal and records thereof hereby certify That William T. Minor is the sole presiding Judge of Said Court of Probate and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are his own proper hand writing and signatures 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal at Stamford on this 12th day of May 1853 
Sands Seely Clerk of Sun Court of Probate for Stamford District
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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, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina and Georgia, TO John Waterbury Gentleman 
WE, reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, DO, by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be the second first Lieutenant in the Regiment whereof Samuel Elmore Esqr. is Colonel 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 Lieutenant 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 second first Lieutenant 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 

Albany 15th april 1776.
Ph: Schuyler
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In[?]: Gen: Com g
In the Northn Depart.

By Order of the CONGRESS, 
John Hancock PRESIDENT.

ATTEST. Chas Thomson Secy
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Stamford Aug 27th 1853 
Hon Loren P. Waldo 
Commissioner of Pensions 
Sir
Yours of the 8th Instant and the 17th Instant in relation to the claim of Hannah Waterbury widow of John Waterbury for a pension under the act of Feby 3. 1853 have been received I suppose it will be impossible at this late period to obtain any other proof than is on file in your office with the original application of John Waterbury. Will you therefore please have the certificate issued for the 14 months since which your letter of the 17th Instant says is then proved. And if I can at any time hereafter ascertain that any proof of further service exists will have another application made out 
I remain Respectfully Yours 
William T. Minor
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No 1793
Hannah Waterbury
widow of John 
Let to Agt. August 8th 1853
Gray

Act of Feb 3rd 1853

Letter to Wm. T. Minor
august 17, 1853.

$140
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Stamford Aug 12th 1853 
Hon Loren P. Waldo 
Commissioner of Pensions 
Dear Sir 
Yours of the 8th Instant in relation to the claim of Hannah Waterbury widow for a pension, for the Services of her husband John Waterbury decd. has just been received In this letter you Say that 
"She will nevertheless be entitled to receive 
"an amount bearing such proportion to 240 
"per annum as his whole time of Service 
"in the Revolutionary war bears to two years" 
When Mr Ferris and I were in Washington in May last the amount that the widows would be entitled to was the subject of conversation between you and us and it was remarked that in any event the widow would be entitled to receive the Same amount of pension drawn by the husband during his life, And that if the evidence accompanying the husband's claim showed that she was entitled to more she would receive more and an instance was mentioned of more than was claimed by the widow being allowed to her in this County - Permit me in reply
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to your last letter to call your attention to one or two of the pension laws in order to see if Hannah Waterbury the applicant is not entitled to 240 per annum. The language of the law of Feby 3, 1853, is "who were married subse- 
"sequent to Jany AD 1800, shall be entitled to a pension 
"in the same manner as those who were married be 
"fore that date" The law giving pensions to widows married previous to Jany 1. 1800 was approved July 29. 1848. Now in order to ascertain in what manner and to that extent widows married previous to Jany 1800 obtained pensions we must look to the laws that have been enacted by Congress upon this subject 
And the law to which I would particularly call your attention is the law of July 1. 1848 which provides that if the husband were[?] a pensioner, the evidence accompanying his claim shall be conclusive in the application of his widow and upon proof of her marriage prior to Jany 1. 1794 and that she is a widow she shall be placed upon the pension rolls at the same rate, that her husband received in his life time 
This law was in operation when the law of July 29. 1848 was approved and as I have always understood has been regarded by the Department as conclusive of the services of the husband and the rate of pension to which
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the widow was entitled. What possible difference can the fact, that the husband was dropped from the rolls, make in the construction to be given to the law of July 1. 1848 The department has evidence furnished with the application of the husband John Waterbury which was sufficient to give him a pension of $240 per annum. and this evidence on the application of Hannah Waterbury his widow, the law of July 1. 1848 declares shall be conclusive- When I left her application at Washington I mentioned the fact that in this application the husband had been dropped from the rolls because he could not make the affidavit of indigence required by law and referred to some erasures made in the application on account of this 
Will you do me the favor to look over again this application with the laws referred to and do whatever may seem right in the premises I remain Very Respectfully Yours 
William T. Minor
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51.762

160 Acres
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Pension Office 
Aug 1/53 
Sir
Please report the time to which the within named pensioner was paid as also the amt. of last payment and if possible the time of his death
Very Respectfully 
S. Cole
For Commr. 

F. Burt Esqr 
3 Auditor 
Present.

(See other side.)

 (Gray)
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John Waterbury, Act 1818 $20 p. am.
Paid to the 4th March 1820, and dropped from the Roll.
F Burt
Auditor.
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Pension Office
Aug 30/53

Sir
Please report time of last payment to or death of within named pensioner
Respectfully &c
S. Coles
[illegible] Commr

F. Burt Esqr
3 Aud
Present

John Waterbury, Act 1818.
Paid to 4th March 1820, then dropped from the Roll.-
F Burt
Auditor.
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May [illegible]/55
Hannah Waterbury
widow of John 
S[?]. 18

Connt.

3 Feb 1853

Revy war

allowed $186 66/100
Com. Feb. 3_ 1853

Wm T Minor
Stamford 
Fairfield Co
Ct.
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Waterbury
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Brief in the case of Hannah Waterbury widow of John 
Fairfield County and State of Connecticut 
act of Feb. 3- 1853 
Claim ("original," or ["for increase" crossed out]) 
Proof exhibited, (if original.) 
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance. 
Husband a pensioner under act of 1818 at $240 per annum 
Lieut. 
Marriage proved - by cr.[?] illegible]
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Death cr.[?] [illegible]
Identity cr.[?] [illegible]
["Add" crossed out]

Name and residence of Agent
William T. Minor
Stamford
Conn.

Examining Clerk.
JL Gray
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Mch 20, 1905 His to Mrs. Fanny K. Earl, Lake Mills - wis

Revy WIDOW, &c.

File No. 6432
Hannah Waterbury
Widow
John Waterbury
Lieut. Rev. War

Act: Feby. 3, 1853
Index:- Vol. M, Page 307
(Arrangement of 1870.)
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O.W.&N.
R

Lake Mills, Wis.
Feb. 21, 1905.

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir, Will you please inform me whether or not John Waterbury - Ensign, brother of Gen David Waterbury - of the Revolutionary War - is entered upon the pension rolls - I believe there were several by the name in the Rev.
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army, but the one of whom I wish information was from Stamford Conn. and was 58 years old at the beginning of the War - 
There was also a Peter Waterbury, son of Ensign John Waterbury - who belonged to the Connecticut Coast guards; and was taken prisoner, In the Connecticut records is a [originally written as "an", "n" crossed out] requisition from the assembly for his exchange. He was nineteen years
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old at the time 1779. If there is any record of him in the pension list, I would be glad to know that also-
Respectfully yours
(Mrs.) Fanny K. Earl

Lake Mills
Wisconsin -

PENSION OFFICE
U.S.
A
FEB 24 1905