Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 6189, for Tryal Tanner, Connecticut
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Conn.     Tanner, Tryal     S6189
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(left side)  Reported, see letter
Let to H. H. Sylvester
Oct 4th 1843

(right side)
160
Ohio, Pittsburgh Agency
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Tryal Tanner, deceased
of Trumbull Co. in the State of Ohio who was an Adjutant in the ____ commended by Captain ____of the regt. commanded by Col. Swift in the Connecticut line for 2 years
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Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburth at the rate of 480 Dollars ___ Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831 Heard 22d November 1833 when he died.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of July 1845, and sent to Hon E. Whittleny of Ohio, Present
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Arrears to the 4th of
 Semi-annual allowance ending
Increased from $320
Payable to Polly Tanner
widow of Tryal Tanner
{Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by D. Brown  Clerk
Book E. 2 Vol. 5. Page 156
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169
Ohio
Pittsburgh Agency
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Tryal Tanner of Trumbull Co in the State of Ohio who was an adjutant in the ___ commanded by Captain ___ of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Swift in the Connecticut line, for the term of three years from _____ 1777 to _____ 1780
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Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 320 Dollars per month to commence on the 4 day of March 1831
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Certificate of Pension issued the 4th of August 1832 and Sent to Hon E. Whittlesey Canfield Ohio
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Arrears to 4th of March 1832  $320
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept  160
$480
{Revolutionary Claim Acts March 18, 1818 and May 1, 1820}
7 June 1832 Rec Book D Vol 143
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Tryal Tanner decd. Adjutant
Act 7 June 1832
(Ohio) Pittsburgh Roll
Increase to $480 per ann
Payable to Polly Tanner, widow of Tryal Tanner, up to Nov. 22, 1833 when he died
Sent to
Hon E. Whittlerey of Ohio Present
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To what time was Tryal Tanner on the Roll of the Pittsburgh Agency last paid?  He was a resident of Ohio - see roll act 1832 Pension Office July 11, 1845 J. L. Edwards
He died 22 Nov 1833 (illegible) to day of his Death  W. T.
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832.
State of Ohio
County of Trumbull ss
On this sixteenth day of July in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, before me Eli Baldwin one of the associate Judges of the Courts of Commission Pleas of Trumbull County (illegible) State of Ohio, personally appeared Tryal Tanner, a resident of Canfield in the County of Trumbull and State of Ohio, aged eighty years, who being first duly sworn according to Court with, on his oath, under the following acclamation in order to obtain the benefits of the provision service the the acts of Congress, passed June 7th 1832, 
That on or about the Twelfth of April A. D. 1775 in Cornwell Lutenfield County, State of Connecticut he enlisted and was  commissioned officer in  the Regiment commanded by Col. Benjamin Hermann for seven months and that he (illegible) through Albany in the State of New York to Canada, and was (illegible) to the seize and (illegible) St. Johns and that he marched from St. Johns to[Laseramie] and while remaining there for the term of enlistment expired. That he then enlisted in the army of the United States, as a sergeant in the company commanded by Theodore Woodbridge in the Regiment commanded by Gen. David Wooster.  His term of enlistment was five months.  From [Laseramie] he marched to Montreal and after Montgomery was (illegible) and the army defeated in the attempt to storm Quebec, he was releived with his company from Montreal to that place under these remained in keeping up the blockade until about the sixth of May 1776. His second enlistment expired on the fifteenth of April 1776. That's on the fifteenth day of April 1776 he was appointed an Ensign in a company commanded by the said
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Headon Woolbridge in the Regiment commanded by Col. Samuel Ellmore for one year and served in the first day of July of that year that in of the same year he was appointed a Lieutenant in the same Regiment to fill in vacancy occasioned by the resignation of John Hitchcock and  served in that Regiment in that capacity till the 28th day of March 1777.  He then recounted another from Col. Hermann Swift that he was appointed because enlistment in a company commanded by Headon Woodbridge and in the regiment commanded by the same Hermann Swift in the Seventh Connecticut Regiment in the army of the United States, in which capacity he served till November or December.  Learning he was in Col. Swift's Regiment he marched into Pennsylvania, and then the Gulf of Mills he was appointed Adjutant in the same Regiment and (illegible) in Captain Jay.  This appointment took place in November or December 1777 and that he continued to and the (illegible) of Adjutant till Congress resolved that the staff should belong to Line of the Regiment, and that he was therein  appointed as Lieutenant in the same Regiment and annexed to a company commanded by Capt. Aaron  Stevens and from that time until he was discharged which took place in 1780 11th of April, he had the duties of Adjutant and Lieutenant and acted in those two grades and received the pay for Captain.  Also that he received a commission as  Lieutenant to take rank as such from the first day of September 1777 and that during the time he acted as adjutant. He was in the battle of Monmouth.  
He hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or an annuity, except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any State.  Tryal Tanner
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Sworn to and subscribed to the day and year aforesaid before me
Eli Bates in Court of the U. S. A. and Judges of the Court of Connecticut of Turnbull County (illegible) Ohio.

I the waid Eli Batesin do hereby declare that the above named applicant in my opinion was a revolutionary soldier and officer as herein states.  I have (illegible) him in Connecticut and in the State of Ohio more than thirty years last past and he has always been reported as man of the (illegible) necessity as well as a very respectable member of Society and shown his extreme age it would be very inconvenient to otherwise a regular content especially as the (illegible) Court and (illegible) at a considerable distance from this place and his age eighty has almost left him and he is otherwise very   (illegible) and (illegible) oppression he is unable to attend Court. 
Certified 16 July 1832.
Eli Batesoun associate judge
The State of Ohio Trumbull County
I George Punors Clerk of Court of the court of Common Pleas for said County etc hereby Certify that Eli Baldwin Esquire whose signature is his won proper hand writing is affixed to the foregoing certificates is and was at the home of Subscribing the Same, an associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Said County of Trumbull. Duly Commissioned and sworn  agreeably to the Laws of said state of Ohio.  In testimony whereof I have  hereunto set my hand and the Seal of Said Court at Warren the 24th day of July 1830
George Pearsons Clerk
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To the Honorable Secretary of War
The application of Polly Tanner of Canfield Trumbull Count Ohio respectfully showeth that she is widow of Tryal Tanner late of said Canfield now deceased that said Tryal Tanner was a pensioner under the act of Sum seventh thousands eight hundreds and thirty two as a Lieutenant in Colonel Swifts Regiment in the Connecticut lines, that the same Lieutenant Tryal Tanner served in said Regiment as Adjutant and Lieutenant as she has been informed and verily believes, and refers to his application in the war office and to the Rolls of said Regiment in said office as to the service he performed during the American Revolution. That he was only pensioned as a Lieutenant when as your applicant believes he was entitled under said act to a pension as Lieutenant and Adjutant and whe never applied for what she believes to be the balance due to him for having served as adjutant.  
Confides  April 14th A D 1845  Polly Tanner
State of Ohio Trumbull County
Court of Common Pleas
April Term, A D 1845
I Elen Newton President Judge of the third judicial circuit in Ohio in which is the County of Trumbull do certify that I have had satisfactory evidence that Polly Tanner who both above subscribe her name is the foregoing application is still living and that she is the widow of Tryal Tanner deceased.
Eben Newton Pr. Judge
(over)
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The State of Ohio  Trumbull County
I Clayton Hennington Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said county certify that the Hon. Eben Newton by whom the foregoing within certificate was made was at the date thereof President Judge of said Court duly qualified; to whom acts as such full faith & credit an ought to be given. I further certify that I am acquainted with the handwriting of said Justice & Known this signature to said certificate to be genuine.
In testimony whereof I hereto (illegible) hand & the seal of said Court the 17th day of April A. D. 1845
Clayton Hennington Clerk

State of Ohio
Trumbull County (illegible) April 17th 1845 
I Eban Newton Presiding Judge of the Third Judicial Circuit in Ohio in which is Trumbull County do certify that the above attestation of Clayton Hennington as Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in Trumbull County is in due form and that on the day of its date the said Clayton Hennington was Clerk of said Court and the proper officer to make same attestation.
Eban Newton  Pr. Judge
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Reoward
6189
INVALID
File No. 6189
Tryal Tanner
Adjt Rev War
Act: June 7th 1832
Index:-- Vol. M, Page 368
[Arrangement of 1870]
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Lieutenant  Tanner of the 7th Connecticut Regt is hereby as this own request discharged from the (illegible) this United States.  His (illegible) Pension (illegible)
Head Quarts Morris Town 11th August 1780

Tryal Tanner
S 76189 Conn
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The United States of America In Congress Assembled
To (illegible) Gentleman Greeting.  We Reposing expectant trust and confession in your Patriotism, Patriotic Conduct and Fidelity, DO
 by these presents (illegible) and appoint you to be Lieutenant in the seventh Connecticut Regiment in the Army of the United States to take the rank in such (illegible) from the first day of September A. D. 1777.  You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of Lieutenant by being and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging. And do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your command, to be obedient to your orders as Lieutenant. And you are to observe and follow such orders and directions from time to time, as you shall (illegible) from this or future Congress of the United States, or Committee of Congress for that purpose appointed as Committee of the United States, 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 pursuation of the trust reposed in you. This Commission is to continue inforce until revoked by this or a future Congress, the Committee of Congress before (illegible) a Committee of the States.
Witness his Excellency, John (illegible) Esq. President of the Congress of the United States of America at Philadelphia, the 16th day of March 1779, and in the (illegible) year of our Independence.
Secretary of the Board of War. 
Entered in the War Office (illegible) the Board (illegible)
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June 1832, Tryal Tanner decd late of Ohio, who was an Adjutant in the Revolution, was entitled to a pension at the rate of Four Hundred and eighty Dollars per annum, and having received only Three hundred and twenty Dollars per annum, died on the 22nd November 1833, the amount due from the 4th March 1831 to the time of death, is payable to Polly Tanner, widow of said Tryal Tanner decd.
The amount heretofore paid is to be deducted.

Given at the War Office of the United States this 11th day of July one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. 
Secretary of War
Examined and Countersigned.
Commissioner of Pensions.
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Canfield July 24 1832

Lin  
(illegible) this you will find Tryal Tanner's application for a pension under the late law together with his commission as Lieutenant, and his discharges on the backs of his commissions. He says the reason why his commission bears date in 1779, is that by a result of Congress or by a rule of the Army, the officers at that period were recommissioned on parchment their former commissions having been on paper, and that his first commission having been much worn and defaced, he took no measures to preserve it after the commission on parchment was received, and that it was considered of no use and was destroyed on last. He supposes he will be entitled to the pension of a Captain, now having ranked, and drawn the pay of a Captain, while he served as adjutant, and when by the regulations of the army, the staff was not of the line of the army; as well, as from having had the appointment of Adjutant when he was Lieutenant when the regulations required the Staff to be taken from the line of the army. From which service in the double capacity, he also drew the pay of a Captain. He wishes a decision of his case as soon as your (illegible) will permit, with information as to the necessity of his pensions. Very respectfully yours. A. Whittenous
I. C. Edward Esq. Pension Agent.