Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2719, Isaac Burton, Conn. N.Y.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
Conn. Burton, Isaac W. 2719
N. Y. Abigail B.L.Wt 26393-160-55
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8878
New York
Isaac Burton
of Columbia in the State of New York was a private in the company commanded by Captain Boardman of the Eighth commanded by Col Smith in the (??)

Inscribed on the roll of New York at the rate of 23 dollars 33 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 2 day of May 1833 and sent to Henry Hogeboom (?)

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833         $46.66
Semi-anl. allowance ending ? Sept         11.66

                                                              $58.32

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk, 
Book E Vol. 4 Page 43
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941
New York - A.
Abigail Burton
widow of Isaac Burton
who served in the Revolutionary Con.
War as a Private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension, issued the 10th day of May, 1852 and sent to 
Sam H. Mark
Canaan 4 Corners
N.Y. 

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act July 29, 1848, Page 69 Vol. A
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[left side of document]
119.459 
clerk 3/50
[illegible] 6/55
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Abigai Burton W. of
Isaac Burton
Pvt
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Rev War
______________
Pensioner
MS July 48-941
[illegible possibly catalog information]
[illegible signature]

_________________________
Sam'l H Marks
Albany
N.Y

[right side of document is cross written with]
No 26393 if May 24/56

[right side of document]
Cir. S. H Marks Jany 22/56

Vol B2 _ 143
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Pension Office

12.728
Isaac Burton

admitted
_____________
7 mos Private
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State of New York. Columbia County SS. On this 24th day of September 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Justices of the Justices Court of the City of Hudson in said county being court of record from sitting. Isaac Burton, a resident of the Town of New Lebanon in the County of Columbia & State of New York aged seventy six years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of this act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States in the Militia of the State of Connecticut under the following named officers and served as herein stated to wit.
That when this deponent was first called into the said service which was in the latter part of the summer of 1776 in the month of August he resided in the Town of Preston in the County of New London & State of Connecticut & was drafted into said service. That the names of the officers of the company to which this deponent belonged so far as this deponent recollects them were Captain Joseph Boardman, Lieutenant Alexander Stewart, Ensign John Stanton & Orderly Sergeant Eleazer Herrick. That said company was attached to the regiment of Colonel Smith of Stonington in the State of Connecticut. That the said company mustered in New London in the State of Connecticut from which place they went by water to New Haven then by land to New Rochelle & Horseneck to Morrisena [sic] the State of New York. Then to near Fort Washington. Thence by water several miles up the River Hudson. Thence to White Plains. At White Plains we staid [sic] some time and assisted in building some fortifications. Our army then had some engagements with the British but this deponent was not in any of them usually engaged being stationed with others according to orders behind the [illegible]. We lay at White Plains in Company with some continental troops but their names or the names of their officers this deponent does not now recollect if he ever knew. We tarried at White Plains until the beginning of winter when we were dismissed & sent home sometime in the month of December 1776.
That in the fall of the year 1779 in the month of September this deponent was again drafted into the service of the Connecticut militia for the term of three months
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and mustered in New London in said State of Connecticut. That the names of the officers of the company to which this deponent at that time belonged which this deponent recollects are Captain Alexander Stewart, Orderly Sergeant Isaac Herrick - the name of the Colonel this deponent does not recollect. We were employed in building fortifications & in garrison duty. We remained at New London & were dismissed in the month of 
December 1779.
That this deponent having subsequently removed to the Town of New Lebanon in the County of Columbia and State of New York again entered the service of the United States being drafted into the New York Militia in the month of September 1781 for an expedition against the Indians. The company to which this deponent was attached was commanded by Capt. Elisha Gilber & the regiment by Col. Whiting - said company mustered in said Town of New Lebanon & marched to Albany & thence to Schenectady near Schoharie. This service lasted about three or four weeks until October 1781 when he were dismissed. We were during this service principally engaged in scouring the country, marching & keeping sentry. This deponent further states that he has not any documentary evidence to substantiate his claims in relation to any of the periods of service before mentioned knows of no person whatever whose testimony he can procure to testify to his said service. 
And this deponent hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state & that he has never had any pension whatever.
And the said Isaac Burton does further depose & say and answer to the Interrogatories prescribed by the War De. pertinent to wit_
Question 1. Where & in what year were you born? Answer. I was born in Preston in the County of New London in the state of Connecticut on the 25th day of April 1756.
Question 2. Have you any record of your age & if so where is it. Answer.
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I formerly had a record of my age but I lost it several years since.
Question 3. Where were you living when called into the service where have you lived since the Revolutionary War & where do you now live? Answer. I lived in the Town of Preston aforesaid when first called into service. I moved to the Town of New Lebanon Columbia County New York during the war of the Revolution & have resided there ever since & now reside there. 
Question 4. How were you called into service - were you drafted. Did you volunteer or were you a substitute? And if a substitute for whom. Answer. I was drafted during each of the time periods of service before mentioned.
Question 5. State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops when you served. Such continental and militia regiments as you can recollect & the general circumstances of your service. Answer. I recollect no regular officers or officers with the continental troops except one Major Herr who I believe was connected with the troops at or near Fort Washington. I recollect no other officers except those which I have specified above in this declaration was during my first service Col. Smith of Stovington, Capt, Bowman. Lieutenant Stewart, Ensign Stanton & Orderly Sergeant Eleazer Herrick all of Preston aforesaid. During my second service Captain Stewart & Orderly Sergeant Isaac Herrick of Preston aforesaid. During my third service Col Whiting & Captain Elisha Gilbert of the Town of New Lebanon aforesaid. I can recollect no continental or militia regiments except Col. Troup at or near Fort Washington during my first & second periods of service I was principally employed in the building of fortifications & breast works in garrison duty & in marching during my third period of service principally in marching & in keeping guard & in scouting the country. 
Question 6. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service & if so by whom was it given & what has become of it? Answer. I never received any written discharge from the service at any time. I was only honorably dismissed.
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Question 7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood & who can testify to your character for veracity & good behavior & your services as a soldier of the revolution. Answer. As to my actual services as a soldier of the revolution I know no perosn now living who can speak of them from actual knowledge. as to my character for veracity & good behavior I refer to Hon John King Member of Congress. Elam Tilden Josh Master. Rev. Silas Churchill. Paul Roberts Esquire Gale Bigelow Benoni Sherman, Moses Cole, Asa Cole all of New Lebanon aforesaid & many others

And this deponent further says that New Lebanon is a distance of about thirty miles from the City of Hudson the nearest Court of Record in said County of Columbia & that he cannot without too much inconvenience & expenses prove the statements of the facts & opinions in regard to his age & reputed services in the revolution from Rev. Silas Churchill & some oher resident of that town by producing them in open court

Isaac X Burton
his mark

Subscribed and sworn to before me in open court Sept [illegible] 1832
Hiram Wilbur, Clerk [signature]

State of New York Columbia County

Silas Churchill a clergyman residing in the town of New Lebanon in the county of Columbia & State of New York & Gale Bigelow residing in the same place do hereby certify under oath that we are well acquainted with Isaac Burton who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy six years of age_ that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a solider of the revolution & to be a man of good charcter & veraity & that we concur in that opinion.

Silas Churchill [signature]
Gale Bigelow [signature]

Subscribed & sworn to before me on this [fifth?] day of September 1832
Paul Roberts
Justice Peace
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of this matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant Isaac Burton was a Revolutionary solider & served as he states in his above declaration. And the said court further certifies that it appears to them that Silas Churchill who has subscribed & sworn to the preceeding certificate is a clergyman resident in the Town of New Lebanon Columbia County New York & that Gale Bigelow who has also subscribed & sworn to the same is a resident of the same place & that both are credible persons & that their statements are entitled to credit.

I Hiram Wilbur Clerk of the Justices Court of the City of Hudson being a Court of Record do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Isaac Burton for a pension. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this fifteenth day of September 1832.
Hiram Wilbur, Clerk [signature]

Columbia County

I Joseph D Monell Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Paul Roberts whose signtaure appears to the preceeding certificate signed & sworn to before him by Silas Churchill & Gale Bigelow is & was on the fifth day of September is & was a Justice of the Peace of said county & that said signature is his genuine signature. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of the said county this 17th day of September 1832.

Jos D Monell [signature]

[physical seal affixed]
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State of New York
County of Columbia

On this seventeenth day of January in the Year One thousand Eight hundred and fifty two Personally appeared before me, Judge of the County Court of the County of Columbia in the State of New York Abigail Burton, a resident of the Town of New Lebanon in said county, aged eighty one years who being duly sworn according to law doth, on her oath, make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed February 2d 1848 entitled "An act making further provision for the surviving widows and soliders of the Revolution"

That she is the widow of Isaac Burton, who was a private in the service of the United States in the war of the Revolution, and was at the time of his death, a pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress, passed June 7th 1832, at the rate of Twenty three dollars and thirty three cents per annum_ She further declares that she was married to the said Isaac Burton on the eleventh day of October, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety eight.

That her husband the aforesaid Isaac Burton died on the twelfth day of April in the year one thousand eight hundred and Thirty eight.

That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but that the marriage took place previous to the second day of January Eighteen hundred

She further declares that her name, previous to her said marriage, was Abigail Rea and that the marriage ceremony was performed at her fathers (Daniel Rea) in the Town of Preston in the State of Connecticut by the Rev. Levi Hart a minister of the Gospel and pastor of a church in said Town and that the annexed paper or certificate was written & signed by the said Levi Hart, and is his genuine hand writing and Signature_
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This may certify that Isaac Burton of Canaan in the State of Newyork [sic] & Abigail Rea of Preston in Connecticut were joined in marriage on the 11th Day of Oct'r 1789 by me
Levi Hart
Minister of the gospel
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She further Declares that ever since the death of her said Husband, Isaac Burton, she has remained and now is a widow, and that she has never until now applyed [sic] for a pension_

Abigail X Burton
her mark

Subscribed and Sworn to on the day & year first above mentioned before me

Jno T Hogeboom [signature]
County Justice
Col. Co.

I certify that owning to age & infirmite [sic] the above named Abigail Burton is unable to attend and make the above Declaration in open court and that the same was made before me at her residence in the Town of New Lebanon & County of Columbia and State of New York on this 17th day of January A.D. 1852

Jno T. Hogeboom [signature]
County Justic 
Col. Co.

State of New York
County of Columbia

I John R. Currie, Clerk of the County Courts of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that John T. Hogeboom Esquire is the county judge in and for said county, duly qualified to act as such: that his term of office commenced on the first day of January 1852 and will expire on the 31st day of December 1855 and that his signature to the Jurat of the foregoing affidavit and also his signature to the above certificate are genuin.

Given under my hand and the seal of said county the 21st day of January 1852
John R. Currie
Clerk
[imprint of physical seal]
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State of New-York, } SS.
Columbia County Clerk’s Office.
I, D. C. Neefus, Clerk of the County of Columbia, do hereby certify that
Marvin Sackett whose name is 
subscribed to the certificate of proof or acknowledgment of the annexed instrument,
was, at the time, a Justice of Peace, in and for said County, and duly authorized
to take the same ; and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said
Justice, and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate is genuine.  And
that said instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the laws of the State
of New York.

In TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my name, and affixed the seal of said County, this 2d
day of May  A.D. 1865
D. C. Neefus Clerk.
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[Revolutionary Widows.]
DECLARATION.
State of New York, } SS.
County of Columbia

On this twenty seventh day of March A.D. 1855
before me, Marvin Sackett a Justice of the Peace in and for the county and state aforesaid, personally appeared Abagail Burton aged Eighty four
years, a resident of the town of New Lebanon in the State of New York
who, being duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to
obtain the Bounty Land to which she is entitled under the Act of Congress approved March 3d, 1855.
That she is the widow of Isaac Burton who was a private
in the Revolutionary War; that, on account of the services of her husband, the aforesaid Isaac
Burton in said war, she now receives a Pension at the rate of
$23.33 per annum, under the act of 29th July 1848, (Act of Congress,) [crossed out]
as will more fully appear by reference to the evidence now on file in the Pension Office at Washinton.
She further declares that she is now a widow ; that she has never before applied for nor received any
Bounty Land under this or any other Act of Congress.
Claimant’s Signature.
Abagail X Burton
[illegible]
WE, Allen S Wheeler and Elisa Burton residents
of New Lebanon in the State of New York upon our oaths declare
that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Abagail Burton
in our presence, and that we know her to be the identical person she represents herself to be, and
that she is now a widow
Allen S Wheeler
Signature of Witnesses.
Elisa Burton
The foregoing declaration and affidavits 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 identical
person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
Magistrate.
Marvin Sackett
Justice of the Peace
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No 12,728
Isaac Burton
admitted
7mo Private

Henry Hogeboom
Apt
Hudson
[illegible]
N. York
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No 12,728
Brief in the case of Isac Burton of New Lebanon County
of Columbia in the State of New York
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?
Before a Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by body infirmity?
3. How old is he? 
76 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period. | Duration of Service | Rank. | Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Years, Monts, Days. | As a | (Gen.) [crossed out]
In 1776 Augt | until sometime in Dec. making (3. 9)[crossed out] 9 | private. | Capt. Jos. Boardman - Colo Smith
1779 Sept | 3 mo: | “ | Capt. Alex Stewart - (Colo)[crossed out]
1781 Sept | about 3 or 4 weeks | “ | Capt. Elisha Gilber – Colo Whiting
7. mo
5. In what battles was he engaged?
none stated
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
in Preston Count
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by
incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
By traditionary Evidence
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
X Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above
mentioned.
James Ord Examining Clerk.
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12 - 5 - 41
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Burton, Isaac
GRADE Private
LINE Maryland
WARRANT NUMBER 11008
ACREAGE. 100
ISSUED August 14 1795
to Francis Sherrard, assigned
The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of ""Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800"" which are
registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent
dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Burton, Jacob
GRADE Private
LINE Delaware
WARRANT NUMBER 10706
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED September 2, 1789
to not shown
The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of ""Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800"" which are
registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.