Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 24,026, Azariah Wright, Vt.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE Vt.
Wright Azariah
NUMBER
S. 24.026

Contents
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Vermont 1033
Azariah Wright
of Westminster in the State of Vermont
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Hutchins of the ___ commanded
by       in the Vermont State
line for 6 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont
at the rate of 20 Dollars - Cents per an.
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25th day of October
1832 and sent to W. C. Bradley
Westminster Vt.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832
-
30. 00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4th Mch 1833 10.00
$40.00
Revolutionary Claim, 
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by J. M. Duffield Clerk
Book D Vol. 4 Page 92
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No 1325
Admitted
Private 6 months.
$20.
to Mr C. Bradley
Westminster Vt.
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Brief in the case of Azariah Wright
of Windham County in the State of Vermont
(Act 7 June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?
In the Probate Court.
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he?
69 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
In 1779 Feb'y
Years,
Duration of Service.
Months,
6
Rank. As a private
Names of General and Field Officers
under whom he served. State [ineligible]
Capt. Hutchins non stated
5. In what battles was he engaged? None mentioned
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? not stated
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidential evidence, or by the rolls?  By two living witnesses
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
Correct

Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case
J. M. Duffield Examining Clerk.
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State of Vermont
County of Windham  On this twenty fifth day of July Anno Domini Eighteen hundred and thirty two, personally appeared before the Probate Court in and for the district of Westminster in the County of Windham and State of Vermont - Azariah Wright a resident of the town of Westminster in the District County and State aforesaid, aged sixty nine 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 7, 1832 - that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated that is to say - that in the fall of the year 1778 the company before that time commanded by Capt John Sessions and then commanded by Captain Jesse Burk was required to furnish two mens for the service of guarding the frontier from the enemy and was divided into two classes each of which was to furnish a man  - that this deponent engaged for one of the classes, being then about sixteen years of age, and the rest of the class paid this deponent's father their proportion therefor - this deponent was accepted and accordingly entered the company of State troops of which William Hutchins was Captain and Jason Duncan Lieutenant. In consequences of two companies coming to Rutland of the Continentals commanded by Captains Brownson and See respectively this deponent was not called for until the latter end of winter and in the mean time a man who had been engaged for the other class, whose name this deponent does not recollect, ran away - and the class was obliged on the sudden emergency to engage John Goold (then Junior) now of Windham to do their service with this deponent - very soon started and marched to Rutland where he joined Captain Hutchins' company and was employed in building barracks, scouting and keeping guard until the expiration of six months, being the term for which they were engaged when they were honorably discharged - this deponent does not remember whether any written discharges were given or not but if any were given it was probably delivered to his father who received the pay for his services - this deponent was born at Westminster on the 11th day of October 1762 as he has always understood & believed (??)appear by a record made by his father in his lifetime and still preserved in the family and has always resided in said Westminster - and he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any state.  Azariah Wright
Sworn to and subscribed
the day and year aforesaid
Peter R. Taft, Judge
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John Goold formerly of Westminster but now of Windham in the County of Windham and State of Vermont also personally appearing deposes and says that having marched with Azariah Wright (then ??) of said Westminster in the month of February 1779 to Rutland and with him having joined the company of Captain William Hutchins and served therein for six months and having returned with him thereof after his discharge he this deponent is well knowing to the said Azariah Wright having entered same company and performing said services and to his having been regularly discharged and further this deponent saith not - John Goold
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid. 
Peter R. Taft, Judge

Salmon Wright of said Westminster aged sixty six years deposes and says that in the commencement of the year 1779 he was a member of the family of his father the late Azariah Wright Sen. of said Westminster and he well recollects that while the snow was deep and while they were engaged in making maple syrup (being in February so he believes) his brother Azariah Wright now of said Westminster was called away to go and join the force at Rutland in compliance with an engagement he had made the fall previous and that John Goold of Westminster another (??) soldier departed on the same service at the same time and after the expiration of their six months service returned together and this deponent has no doubt as to the age of his said brother which is seventy years come next October.
Sworn to and subscribed 
the day & year aforesaid
Before Peter R. Taft

Mr. Sylvester Sage a Clergyman, residing in Westminster in the county of Windham and State of Vermont and Ellery Allbe of the same Westminster Esquire do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Azariah Wright who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be sixty nine years of age; that he is refuted and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Sylvester Sage Ellery Allbe

Sworn & subscribed 
Before Peter R. Taft, Judge
the day & year aforesaid
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(ineligible)
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And the said Court, doth hereby declare its opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states - and this court further certifies that it appears to said Court that Sylvester Sage, who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the town of Westminster aforesaid and that Ellery Allbe who has signed the same is a resident in said town and a credible person and that their statement is entitled to full credit. 
Peter B. Taft, Judge

I, Asa Keyes, Clerk and Register of the Probate Court in and for the said District of Westminster do hereby certify that the forgoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Azariah Wright for a pension. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the Probate office this twenty fifth day of July AD 1832. 
(?? Asa Keyes)
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O. W. and N. Division 3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, 
Bureau of Pensions, 
Washington, D. C., 190.....

(handwritten at top:) 8400
                                    400
                                _______
                                 8000

In reply to your request of..., received.... for a statement of the military history of Azariah Wright, a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information contained in his application for pension on file in this bureau. S. File 24,026

Dates of enlistment or appointment: ?? - 1779
Length of service: 6 mos.
Rank
Officers under whom service was rendered:
Captain William Hutchins, Colonel
State: Vt.

Battles engaged in: (checkmark)
Residence of soldier at time of enlistment: Westminster, Vt.
Date of application for pension: July 25, 1831. Allowed.
Residence at time of application: Westminster, Vt.
Age at date of application: 69 Son of Azariah Wright of Westminster, born Oct. 11, 1762 Westminster, Vt. 
Remarks:  1832 brother Salmon Wright at 55 Westminster Vt.
Very respectfully, ...... Commissioner. 
31793b5m1C-07
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February 1, 1911.

Hon. Carroll S. Page,
United States Senate.

My dear Senator:
In response to your letter date the 31st ultimo and received this day, requesting information for Judge W. H. Taylor of Hardwick, Vermont, I have the honor to advise you that from the papers in claim, Sur. File No. 24,026, Rev. War, it appears that Azariah Wright (son of Azariah of Westminster) was born October 11, 1762, at Westminster, Vermont, where he resided when he enlisted in February, 1779, in Captain William Hutchins' company of Vermont troops, and served six months. 

He was allowed pension on his application executed July 25, 1832, at which time he and his brother Salmon (aged sixty-six years) still resided at Westminster aforesaid.

There is no other family data on file. For the date of the soldier's death and name of the person to whom the arrears of his pension were paid, application should be made to the Auditor for the Interior Department, U. S. Treasury Department, citing the following data: "Azariah Wright, Certificate No. 1,033, issued October 25, 1832, under the Act of June 7, 1832, at the Vermont Agency."
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Elijah Page, Sur. File No. 28,839, was allowed pension on an application executed January 1, 18??, at which time he was seventy-six year of age and a resident of Niagara, Upper Canada.

The date and place of his brith are not shown. It is alleged that he was a resident of Walpole, New Hampshire where he enlisted in February, 1781, in Captain Dustin's company, Colonel Reid's 2nd regiment of New Hampshire troops in General Stark's brigade: that he was in the Battle of Valentine's Hill; was wounded in the foot in an engagement with the Indians near Fort Herkimer and sent to the hospital (name not stated) in Albany where his father Thomas Page visited him in July or August, 1788, and that he continued in service until within three or four months of the expiration of his term of three years when he was discharged at West Point, New York. 

In 1837, soldier's sister, Dorothy Wright of  Westminster ,Vermont and his brother Peter Page aged sixty-nine years, of Hardwick, Vermont, testified in the case. 

In 1842 the solider resided with this grandson Charles W. Page, in Norwalk, Huron County, Ohio; in 1843 he removed to Canada West, as the majority of his children lived in Canada -- their names are not mentioned.

The date and place of his death are not shown.  For date of last payment of his pension and name of the person to whom said pension was made, apply to the Auditor of the Interior Department, U. S. Treasury Department, citing the following data: "Elijah Page, Certificate No. 5,884, issued November 14, 1837, under the Act of June 7, 18??, at the New York Agency."

A careful search of the Revolutionary  War pension records of this
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 Bureau, fails to afford any further inforamation in regard to Thomas Page, or Captain Azariah Wright described by Judge Taylor.

Any person designated by you will be allowed to examine and make full copies of the papers in the above cited claims.

Very respectfully, 


Commissioner.
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24026
INVALID
Revolution

File No. 24,026
Azariah Wright
? Rev War

Act: June 7 ?
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 471

(Arrangement of 1870.)
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July 17 - 1902
Rodney P. Wright Cambridge Mass.

Hon. Carroll S. Page for Judge Taylor. ?
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24026.
Azariah Wright
August 25, 1832 - 69    Born Oct 11 1762
Westminster VT             same place

Feb 79 Westminster   ??
Capt. Wm. Hutchins
Col.
?? - 6 m

?? Bab
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Westminster Vt. 28 July 1832

At the request of some of my neighbors, I have taken down their statements and assisted them in making out their papers for the purpose of obtaining pensions. If there is any want form in the authentication, I shall esteem it a favor to have them immediately returned with the defect pointed out that it may be remedied. As to the substance, I have no doubt they have all stated truly to the best of their recollections. (??) are among our most respectable and independent men. Mr. Wright is a farmer and Mr. Abbe was formerly a Blacksmith and both have unimpeachable characters for honesty - They are all highly credible men. In addition you have the certificate of our clergyman who has preached here for more than 40 years and of our (??) magistrate. If more recommendations of their character is wanted I have no hesitation to add my own.

Lastly Gov Richards has also made out his own paper which with a letter to Mr. Edwards he has requested me to analyze. I think the latter gentleman must distinctly remember Mr. Richards who was a member of Congress from this state when the first pension was law under Mr. Monroe was passed. I believe he then little thought it wants can be extended to persons as wealthy as himself. It having been so, he probably finds objects whereas to bestow it more needy than the government in its present condition. 

Earnestly requesting as early a return as possible. 

I have the honor to be
your very respectful servant
Wm C. Bradley

To Gov. Cass. (??)
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Pension Offie U.S. July 11 1902
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(Center Stamp:) U.S.P.B. Old War & Navy Files, July 15, 1902

6 Granite Street
Cambridge A, Mass

Hon. E.F. Ware
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:
I am anxious to collect data from the military records relating to my great-grandfather, Azariah Wright, to be inserted in the Wright History Geneology.

According to the Census Report by the Secretary of War in 1835, Azariah Wright of Windham Co, Vermont, was granted a pension Oct. 25, 1832. He belonged to the Vt. militia. 

A copy, sent to me, of the above Azariah Wright's application, for a pension, will be duly appreciated. 

Very respectfully yours, 
Rodney P. Wright
July 8, 1902
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

Division of Veterans'  Administration Archives

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Name: Wright, Barruck  Grade Private  Line New York

Warrant Number 7958  Acreage 100  Issued July 16, 1790  
to Wm J. Vredenburgh, assignee

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-commission officers and privates under congression 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.