Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 6573, David Barker, Conn Privateer Conn Sea Service And Vt.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE | | NUMBER
Conn | Barker, David | S.6573
Privateer | |
Com Sea Service & Vt.
CONTENTS
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North Carolina No 29.816
David Barker
of New Hanover in the State of N.C
who was a pr: in the -- commanded
by Captain --- of the Rgt commanded
by Col Douglass in the Con*
line for 9 months
Conn
Conn, Vt, Privateer June 7 1904,
& Sea Service. Records completed. SJ
Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina
at the rate of 30 Dollars -- Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 4- day of Mar. 35.
McKay, M: C.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept . 34 105.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending Dollar: 55 15.00
$120.00

⎨ Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.         ⎬
Recorded by Nath. Rice Clerk,
Book E Vol. 6 1/2 Page 47
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State of North Carolina }
County of New Hanover }
Court of Pleas & Quarter
Sessions - September
Term 1834-
On this ninth day of September in the
year one thousand eight hundred & thirty
four personally appeared in open Court
before the justices of the court of Pleas &
Quarter Sessions of the County of New Hanover
now sitting in Wilmington North Carolina
David Barker a resident of the County
of New Hanover & State of North Carolina
aged Seventy five years, who being first
duly sworn according to law, doth on his
oath make the following declaration, in
order to obtain the benefit of the act of
Congress passed June the 7th 1832.-
That at the time he entered the service of
the United States he resided in North
Branford in the State of Connecticut
That he enlisted for the term of nine
months at Branford aforesaid in the service
of the United States about the last of March
or first of April in the year Seventeen
hundred & seventy six in the company
commanded by Captain Samuel Baldwin
That he marched from there to New Haven
Connecticut in said company where he
joined the regiment commanded by Colonel
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Douglass (his christian name not recollected) Lieutenant Col Arnold (not the traitor) & Major Porter. That he went from there in said regiment by water to the city of New York where he joined the continental army commanded by General George Washington. There he remained for some time inactive until he together with a part of the company to which he belonged was detached to go on board of the Whiting Galley from New Haven, lying at that time abreast of New York, commanded by Capt MacClieve. There were at that time lying there twelve American Gallies about the same time there were lying at Staten Island two British vessels, the Phoenix & Roebuck which getting under way to pass up the North river or Hudson. The Whiting Galley on board of which he was, together with the other eleven went out from the east river in which they were lying for the purpose of resisting their passage, an engagement ensued & continued for several miles up the river. The british vessels however escaped without sustaining any damage. one american only was killed, Saml Frickey from New Haven whom he knew, several were slightly wounded. The Americal Gallies then
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returned & anchored between the city of New York & Governors Island where they lay about three weeks until the return of the Phoenix & Roebuck which the americal gallies again engaged & fired upon until they had nearly reached the British fleet at Staten Island. In this second engagement the americans lost not a man; the loss on board the British vessels he believes was considerable. The american Gallies the returned to their place of anchorage in the east river where being ordered ashore he joined the army in the same company which he had left. he then immediately afterwards passed over with the whole army to Brooklyn. After remaining there a short time, the regiment under Col Douglass to which he belonged was ordered down to the red Bank Fort where he remained until the British under Genl Howe landed at Flat Bush long Island. He then marched together with the whole army under Genl Washington to meet the enemy. An engagement ensued between the two armies in engagement he was, which continued without cessation for three days & nights. In which engagement, the american army
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continuing to retreat until they arrived at Brooklyn, there passed over, on the third night or nearly the dawn of [crossed out text - day of] the fourth day from the commencement of the battle to the city of New York under cover of a thick fog. From thence he was marched to tustle off Kip's Bay three miles distant from New York in company with three regiments of the army, where he remained until the British landed there at which time a severe  engagement ensued in which Major Porter was made a prisoner together with a part of the regiment to which he belonged. From there he with the balance of the american forces retreated to Harlem Heights where the american troops were under Genl Washington. On Monday the day following, the British again attacked the americans but were defeated with the loss of their cannon & a great number wounded & made prisoners in which engagement he was from thence he was marched with the whole army to the White Plains New York except a remnant that was left to guard fort Washington. He there remained until Genl Howe with his army marched
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to the White Plains. At which time an engagement ensued between the two armies. In which engagement he was wounded in the right arm. The British Troops remained there for three days & then retreated. From thence he was marched [crossed out text - to] with a part of the army under Genl [illegible - Lee?] to North Castle in New York, where he remained until he was discharged on Christmas day. From thence he returned to North Branford & enlisted again in the month of January 1777, in the regiment commanded by Col Edmund Russell & Brigade commanded by Genl Wooster. From Thence (Branford) he marched to the Saw Pits in New York, where he remained for three months the term of his enlistment & was discharged. In which time nothing occurred except a skirmish with the British troops stationed at a fort on Palentines Hill. From thence he returned to Branford where he remained until some time in April, when receiving a letter from his Father who was then Deputy Governor of Vermont under Chittenden & who resided in a Town there called Nechovy distant fifteen miles from Ticonderoga, he was induced to repair thither. There he enlisted for twelve months in a company styled the Vermont Rangers
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commanded by Capt Joseph Stephens & Lieutentant Jabesh Olmsted. He was there principally employed in scouting parties after tories, between Brown's camp on Otter Creek & Lake Champlain. There having taken about 17 tories he went with the company to which he belonged to deposit them in Fort Ticonderoga commanded at that time by Genl St Clair. He was then marched from Ticonderoga over a floating Bridge to Mount Independence, three days before Ticonderoga was evacuated for the purpose of proceeding to his old stand between Brown's Camp & the lake. But receiving intelligence of the evacuation of Ticonderoga, he then marched together with his company in pursuit of the army that had left the fort. But being overtaken at Hubbardton Vermont by the british rear Guard, an action ensued in which he was wounded in the right foot & taken prisoner from the effect of which wound he has not entirely recovered to this day. In which situation he remained until the capture of Burgoyne. The above account contains all the land service that he was engaged in during the revolution. After this he returned to Branford the place of his nativity, from
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thence he went to New Haven in March 1778 & not being able in consequence of his wound to travel with the army, he went on board of a privateer a sloop of war mounting ten guns called Wooster commanded by Capt Ebenezer Peck. He cruised in her six months without doing any thing, then returned in her to New London where he went on board of a 14 gun sloop of war the American Revenue, commanded by Capt William Leeds, after cruising in her eight days they took a prise a brig from Demarara bound to ireland, on board of which he was placed. after being on board her three days he wan retakin by a letter of Marque Capt Bailey & carred to NewFoundland St Johns. There he with fouf or the american prisoners was placed [crossed out text - as seamen] on board the British ship Pallas of 44 Guns. From thence he went to Cadiz in Spain, from thence to Gibralter, from thence up the straights & back to Cadiz in Spain. From thence to Ireland in the cove of Cork. From thence to Portsmouth, From Thence to [illegible - Fortune or Forton] Prison three miles back of Gasport where he remained three years four months & six days, at the expiration of which time, in the year 1782 being exchanged he went to Boston in the ship Glover Capt Brown. He there entered on board the Jack Lartar a forty gun ship, commanded by Capt [illegible - Kithcart] on board of which he cruised three months & returned to Boston. Then Being discharged
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he returned to Branford his native place on New years day 1783. The above constitutes the whole amount of his service in the revolutionary war. For the last twelve months of his land service he never received any discarge, being wounded & taken prisoner, for the nine month & three month tours he received discharges which were taken way from him & thrown into the sea by the British when he was taken on board the prise as stated above. From Branford Connecticut he came to Wilmington North Carolina, New Hanover county in November 1783, - in which county he has resided ever since. That he has no documentary evidence of his service, nor does he know of any person now living who can testify to any part of it. That there is no minister residing in his neighbourhood which is the reason that the certificate of one has not been procured. That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not in the pension roll of the agency of any state & further declares as a reason of his not applying sooner. that in consequence of bad health he was unable to procure any person who would draw up a declaration for him. 
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid - David Barker
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David Barker
32.003
NC

$30 per ann

Hon. Je. McKay 
M. C
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State of North Carolina - County of New Hanover
Personally appeared, on this 14th day of October A.D. 1834, before the Subscriber one of the justices of the court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for the county of New Hanover & State of North Carolina David Barker who has subscribed & sworn to the within declaration, who being first duly sworn according to the law doth on his oath further Declare that in the year 1777 when he marched to the Law Pitts he was not drafted but Enlisted with Col Edmund Russell himself who paid him at the time 40 shillings bounty money in Branford CT that he marched to Law pitts under Russell, that during the three months service he was commanded sometimes by Genl Wooster, but mostly by Russell, that under officers names he does not recollect, that the only Captain he recollects was Samuel Eells from Branford who joined them with a company some time in March & to whose company he is certain he did not belong. He further declares that in April 1777 when he went to Vermont, that the Towns of Tinmouth, Nechovy, Rutland, Pittsford & all the country adjacent was subject to great depradations committed by the Indians & Tories in carrying off their cattle, horses, ect. To such an extent were the depradations carried that his Father Timothy Barker addressed Chittenden the Governor of Vermont on the subject. That Chittenden authorized his Father to raise a company for the protection of that portion of country from the depradations above stated. That a
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Company was raised to serve Twelve months, if necessary, of which Joseph Stephens was captain & Jabesh Olmstead Lieutenant, that he joined said company, in which he served until he was taken as stated in his declaration. That the company rendevoused at a stockade Fort at Rutland Bridge on Otter Creek. That the company belonged to no regiment, as he knows of, being raised for a specific service - That the above are all the particulars that he can give relative to the subject. -
Jas. Howard JP
State of North Carolina
County of New Hanover

I Thomas F Davis Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for the county of New Hanover do hereby certify that James Howard who has signed the above deposition was at the time of signing the same acting justice of the peace for the county of New Hanover
That the signature above is his genuine hand-writing & that as such, the same is entitled to full confidence -
Thos F Davis Clk
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We Charles Montague & Evan Larkins  residing in the county of New Hanover do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with David Barker who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be Seventy five years of age, that he is reputed & believed where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution. & that we concur in that opinion.
sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
[signatures} Charles Montague
Evan Larkins

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter. & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states, & the court further certifies, that it appears to them that Charles Montague & Evan Larkins who have signed the preceding certificate are residents of the county of New Hanover & are credible persons & that their statement is entitled to credit. 
I Thomas F Davis clerk of the court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions of the county of New Hanover do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court the matter of the application of David Barker for a pension - In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & seal of office this ninth day of September A.D. 1834 -
Thos F Davis Clk
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Rev War 6573
INVALID
File No. 6573
David Barker 
Pri Rev War
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Act: June 7th 32
Index:  Vol. A, Page 19

[Arrangement of 1870.]