Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36362, Robert Warner, Conn. Continental
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(3--1776)

SERVICE
Conn.
Continental

Warner, Robert

NUMBER
S. 36362
{B. L. Wt. 2340-400-Major.
{Issued Apr. 8, 1796
{No papers.
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CONTENTS
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386
Connecticut Roll
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Robert Warner 
Colo Grovenor
Major                 4
Connecticut line  1782   1 year
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
at the rate of Twenty Dollars per month, to commence the 17th of April 1818
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Certificate of Pension issued the 5 of May 1818 and sent to S. T. Hosmer Esqr 
Middletown, Con.
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Arrearages to Septr. 4th 1818
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4 months 19/31                        $92.33
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{Revolutionary claims,}    
{Act 18th March, 1818}

Continued on the roll under the law of the  1 May 1820.  Notification just to John  Fisk Esq  5th July 1820
Middletown, Connecticut    

(Second Page)        
Examined with Orig. Rolls
Sept. 1883   M. G.    

[ ]   June 10, 1824
Agency book,
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No  61
Robert Warner

MIddletown

No.386
issued 5 May 1818



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State and Distract of Connecticut, 88/ss

On this 20th day of June 1820, personally appeared in open Court before the [?] county court holden at Middletown within and for the county of Middlesex in said state on the 20th day of June 1820, the same being a court of record, proceeding according to the course of common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having power of fine and imprisonment, Robert Warner aged Seventy Six years, resident in the town of Middletown in said state, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war, as follows; that he the said Robert Warner entered the army as Lieutenant in the fall of the year 1775 in Capt Ebert Somners company
[?]
Connecticut line on the continental establishment was made a [?] in Nov 1776 and doing his [?] 1777 at West Point

in the regiment commanded by Colonel Samual Wyllis in the line of the state of Connecticut on the continental establishment: that he continued to serve in said corps until the fall of the year 1783 when he was discharged from the said service in West Point in the state of New York
That he made a declaration to obtain a pension under the law of the 18th of March 1818 as nearly as he can recollect having no minutes on the 17th day of April 1818 and had transmitted to him a Certificate for a pension from the Secretary for the Department of War
No. 386

And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that. have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent to thereby 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;" 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.

I do further solemnly swear that I was in the battle at [?] when I was a Lieutenant and in the state service July 1776 at Long Island, at the Battle of Flatbush and [?] Plains Aug 27 1776. In the retreat from New York to Harlem Heights - Sept 1776 - at White Plains and in many skirmishes during which times i served as private [?] under sergeant ensign lieutenant captain and brigade major and [?] under the appointments of the state of Congress of Gen Huntington of Baron Stinben

[?]
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That the number of my family residing with me is  none,  That I board with Mr. Henry Fouthmayed and pay him with the proceeds of my pension. That I am much troubled with the gout and that without my pension I must depend on Public or private charity.

Robert Warner

Sworn to and declared                                  on the 20th day of June 1820, before the Court of Common Pleas for [   ] County.  

J. W. Fisk  Clk of said Court
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SCHEDULE annexed to the Declaration and Oath above made and taken before the                 Court aforesaid.

4 ord chairs                                         .75
2 chest, $2.  1 candle stand 25          2.25
1 lamp 20ct  Shovel and tongs $1     1.20
1 Small Looking glass                           .25
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                                                            4.45

Robert - Warner
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I, J. W. Fisk Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas  for  [           ] Ct aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath and Schedule annexed, are truly copies from the record of said Court.    And I do further certify, that it is the opinion  of the said Court, that the total mount in value, of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is Four dollars and Forty five cents.     

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto  set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this 20th day of June 1820.

J. W. Fisk   Clerk of  [    ] Court
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I Robert Warner of Middletown of county Middlesex and State of Connecticut do [?] and say that I entered into the service of the United States (then Colonies) in the year One Thousand, Seven Hundred, and Seventy Five in the month of April, and continued therein until the termination of the war of the revolution in One Thousand, Seven Hundred and Eighty Three. On the 11th day of October One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Six, I was appointed and commissioned by John Hancock, then President of and by order of Congress, a Captain in the Regiment commended by Samuel Wyllis Edq in which I served until the sixteenth day of March One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Nine, at which time I received a captains commission from the United States of America in Congress [?] signed by John Jay, [?] by the secretary of the board of war, appointing me a Captain in the third [?] regiment in the army of the United States, to take rank from the first of January One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Seven, which Regiment was commanded by Samuel Wyllis Edq, and was in the Connecticut line of the continental army, in which regiment
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I served in said office until the twenty seventh day of November One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty [?] when I was appointed and commissioned a Major in the Connecticut line in the army of the United States, to take rank as such from the twenty seventh day of May proceeding in the third regiment commanded by Thomas Grosvenor Edq in which I served until the ninth of December One Thousand and Seven Hundred and Eighty Three, when the army was disbanded and [?] from service. I do further testify and declare that I am entirely destitute of property and by reason of my reduced circumstances in life, have need of assistance for my support and may that I may attain the pension made by the late act of Congress for soldiers in the Revolutionary War. 

Robert Warner

A. State of Connecticut, Middlesex County, Middletown, March Nineteenth AD 1818

Personally appeared Major Robert Warner of said Middletown, signer of the preceding written declaration, and made solemn oath to the truth thereof [?]

S Titus[?] a Judge of the [?] Court for the State of Connecticut

J Nehemiah Hubbard of Middletown, County
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of Middlesex, and state of Connecticut do testify that I have been acquainted with Major Robert Warner of said Middletown, signer of the preceding deposition from before the war of the revolution to the present time, that he early went with the army, and served as a Captain in the Regiment commanded by Samuel Wyllis Edq in the Connecticut line and was [?] appointed as a Major and continued on in service [?] the war was at [?] and [?] the army was disbanded. That the said Robert Warner served in the war of the revolution [?] years, the precise time and dates of service I am [? to [?] that he now is poor and entirely [?] in his [?] I believe wholly destitute [?] That I now live and for many years prior have lived within a few [?] of him. [?]

Middletown Maru 28th 1818
Nehemiah Hubbard

B. State of Connecticut, Middlesex County, Middletown March 28th 1818. Personally came Nehemiah Hubbard Edq of said Middletown, signer of the preceding Deposition, before me Stephen Titus [?] Judge of the Superior Court for the State
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Connecticut, and made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition
S Titus [?]

C. I Stephen Titus [?] a Judge of the Superior Court for the state of Connecticut to [?] that it appearing to my satisfaction that Robert Warner the signer of the first deposition above served in the revolutionary war against the common enemy in said deposition he has testified. Therefore, [?] the preceding testimony

S Titus [?]

Middletown Connt, March 28th 1818
To the honorable the secretary for the department of war 

I John Fisk [?] of the Superior Court for the state of Connecticut do certify that the Honorable Stephen Titus Hosmer of Middletown in the State aforesaid is one of the Judges of the said Court, and that his name [?] to [?] marked A.B.C. is by proper hand and [?] In testimony whereof I have had to set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court of Middletown aofresaid on this 27th day of April 1818

[?] Fisk Clerk
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In reply to your request of Jany 5, receieved Jany 8, for a statement of the military history of Robert Warner, a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension on file in this Bureau.
S file 36,362

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment
Length of Service
Rank
Officers under whom service was rendered (Captain or Colonel) 
State

April 1775 Private Sergeant Ensign Connecticut
Fall 1775 Lieutenant Ebenezer Sumner, Samuel Wyllys
October 11 1776 Captain Samuel Wyllys
May 29 1782 Major Thomas Grosvenor
Discharged December 1783

Batles engaged in, Dorchester Heights, Flatbush, Jamaica Pl, White Plains, and [?] from N.Y. to Harlem Heights

Residence of soldier at enlistment, (checkmark)

Date of application for pension, March 19 1818. His claim was allowed

Residence at date of application, Middletown, Connecticut
Age at date of application, seventy four years
Remarks: He died June 10, 1824. No family data on file

Respectfully, Commissioner
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The United States of America in Congress Assembled.
For Robert Warner. [Illegible]
Greeting [Illegible] trust and confidence in your [illegible] and [illegible]. Do by [illegible] constitute and appeal you to be a [illegible] in the Army of the United States [illegible]. [Illegible] from the day of [illegible].

You are the [illegible] and diligently to discharge the duty of [illegible] by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging.

And [illegible] charge and require all officers and soldiers under your command to be obedient to your orders, as [illegible] and you are to observe the follow such orders and directions, from time to [illegible] States or Committee of Congress for that purpose appointed [illegible] Commander in chief for the time being of the Army of the United States or any other [illegible] superior officer [illegible] to the rules and discipline of War, in pursuance of the trust reposed in you.

This Commission to continue [illegible] until revoked by this, or a future Congress, the Committee of Congress before mentioned, or a Committee of United States.

Entered in the War Office and examined by the Board [Illegible].

[Illegible] President of [illegible] the Congress of the United States if America at [illegible] the 16th day of March [illegible] and in the [illegible] year of our independence. 

Secretary of the Board of War [Illegible]
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his obneto
THE UNITED STATES of America in Congress ASSEMBLED
To Robert Warner Esquire
in
We Reposing official trust and confidence in your Patriotism, but content and Fidelity, by his present
plate and appoint you to be a man in the Connecticut line
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in the time of the United States, to take rank as surefrom
the
twenty ninth day of May 1782 for are therefore fully and diligently to discharge the duty of a
Mae
by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging. And we do
Sidly charge and require all officers and Soldiers under your command to be patient to your orders as
Major
And you are to observe and follow such order and dirations from time to
time you shall have from there or a future Congress of the United States or Committee of Congrefs first purpose appointed, committe of the Sister Commander in chief for the time being of the 11th of the
United States in any other your superior officer acording to the rules and disipline of War in pursuance
of the net reposed in you this commission continue in force until read by this or a future
the Committee of Congress before mentioned, or a Committee of the Rates
Witness His Honey Elias Plant
the Congress of the United States of American Philip
twenty sixth day of November A.D. and in the Smith
far for Independence
in
By Order of Congress
in
Suretary at War
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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 
Robert Warner [?] Greeting

We, repofing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct, and Fidelity, DO by [?] Presents, constitute and appoint you [?] Captain in the Regiment commanded by Samuel Wyllys [?]

in the army of the United States, raised for the Defense of American Liberty, and for repelling every hostile invasion thereof. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of 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 superior office, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in the pursuance of the Trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue in Force until revoked by this or a future Congress. Dated at [?] the 11th day of October An Dom 1776

By Order of the Congress,
Attest. [?]
John Hancock President
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H. V. DE HART,
ELIZABETH, N. J. 

May 30th 1907

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.

Dear Sir:

Have you on file any record of the service of Major Robert Warner, who I understand served on General Washington's staff during the Revolution.   He was in action at Bunker Hill.  I believe came from Connecticut, probably Middletown.  My information is vague and I would be very grateful if you will send me any further information you may have on record.

Yours very truly
H. V. De Hart
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Josephine G. Nichols
(Mrs. L. N. Nichols)
1915 Daly Ave.
New York City

dated Jany 5
read Jany 8

Letter in W.20111
Charles Warner
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36362
Revy

INVALID
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File No.  36,362
Robert Warner
Major  Rev War
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Act:  18th March 18
Index:-- Vol.  2,   Page 440

[Arrangement of 1870.]

1907 June 10 - Hist to H. V.  DeHart   c
1916 Jan 17,  Hist. to Mrs. L. N. Nichols
letter in W.20111 Charles Warner.