Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20,899, Daniel Collins, Conn. Continental
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Service
Conn.
Continental

Collins, Daniel
Anna

Number
W. 20.899
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Connecticut
2051
Daniel Collins,
Lieutenant,
Connecticut Line 4
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut,
at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 7th of April, 1818. -
Certificate of Pension issued the 1st of Augt. 1818.
and sent to Elias Perkins, Esq. New London, Ct.
Arrearages to 4th Sept. 1818.
4 mo 28/30 $98.66

{Revolutionary claims, Act 18th march, 1818, }

76 War Two Years

Stonington New London Con
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[left side of page] Vermont 1848
Montpelier -
Anna Collins
widow of Daniel Collins
who was a Lieutenant -
in the Connecticut line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
320 Dollars -
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the
6th day of September '43
and sent to Sanford Plumb
West Halifax
Vt
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1 - page 25 -

[right side of page] Ret 6th Sept 4
Let to Asa Fis[k] Sept 23 1844.
"  " M Mine[r] Jan 16 1847
JD Woodward Jny 11 1856
Date of widow's death not on AB

2141
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State of Connecticut
County of New London
Town of Stonington
On the Seventh day of April in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred & Eighteen before me Elias Perkins Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of New London personally came & appeared Daniel Collins of Stonington and being duly Sworn made Solemn Oath that he was born in the Town of New London in said County & State, that he is a resident and a native Citizen of the United States That in the Spring Seventeen hundred & Seventy five he entered the service of the United States against the Common Enemy at Roxbury near Boston in Capt James Eldridges Company, Col Samuel Prentices Regiment Gen Zeab Huntingtons Brigade of the Connecticut Line in the Continental Establishment Soon after which he received a Second Lieut Commission that in April Seventeen hundred Seventy Six he embarked for New York and that in the Year Seventeen hundred Seventy Seven as near as his memory will Serve he received a first Lieut Commission in Capt James Eldridges company & Col Prentices Regt and there remained on the Connecticut Line & Continental establishment Army untill the Year Seventeen hundred Seventy Eight when he returned to Connecticut with Listing Orders
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to enlist new recruits - That by different arrangements in the Line and Company to which he belonged he joined the army no more - That by reason of time and accident the commissions he held have been lost, and that now by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his Country for support & that he doth hereby relinquish all claims to any Pension which may have been allowed me if any under the laws of the United States -
Daniel Collins
Sworn Before me
Elias Perkins Judge of the Court of Com Pleas for the County of New London
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I Elias Perkins Judge of the County Court or Court of Common Pleas for the County of NewLondon Do certify that it appears to my Satisfaction that the said Daniel Collins did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceeding declaration, against the Common Enemy & that said Collins is about Eighty years of age -

and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken & had before me to the Secretary for the department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned Act of Congress, the foregoing declaration was made to me as the applicant declared in order to obtain the Provision made by the late Act of Congress intitled an act to provide for certain Persons engaged in the Land & Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War

Witness the Seal of the County Court of this County of NewLondon aforesaid, which I have caused to be hereunto affixed
[seal affixed at left]

I Elias Perkins Judge of the County Court or Court of Common Pleas do further certify under the seal of said Court that I am satisfied that it appears to my satisfaction that Daniel Collins the foregoing applicant from reduced circumstances stands in need of assistance from his Country for his support. Indeed Lieut Collins is very poor & needy
Elias Perkins Judge of the Court of Com Pleas for Newlondon County
enquire of Conl Richards -
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The Deposition of William Richards of the Town & County of NewLondon a Captain in the late revolutionary army is as follows That he was in the revolutionary army from the beginning to the end of the war & that Lieut Daniel Collins the declarant was a Lieutenant in the regiment commanded by the then Conl Jedh Huntington Conl Samuel Prentiss Lieut Conl so that the sd Danl Collins to his knowledge served as a Lieutenant in sd Regiment for more than two years under the Continental establishment with reputation to himself & usefullness to his Country & that afterwards in the different arrangements of the army Lieut Collins was discharged from his Service & that this Deponant & the sd  Lieutenant Collins served together in the same regiment while the sd Daniel was in service as aforesd 
Wm Richards

NewLondon May 7th 1814
Personally appeared Wm Richards the above deponent & being duly cautioned, sworn, made solemn oath to the truth of the aforegoing deposition before me Elias Perkins Judge of the County Court and Court of Com Pleas for NewLondon County This may certify that I found Lieut Collins in a very debilitated state of body & mind that his recollection is much impaired which may account for some inaccuracies & want of specification in his declaration
Elias Perkins Judge
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1041
1870

Act. July 7. 1838

1st Regt Connecticut
Line - Col Huntington
Admitted
Lieut 2 years

Samuel Elliott Esq
Brattleboro
Vermont
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State of Vermont
Marlboro Probate District Ss}

On this 17th day of September A.D. 1838 - personally appeared before the Probate Court within and for the district of Marlboro aforesaid, Anna Collins a resident of Halifax in the County of Windham and State aforesaid, aged eighty three (83) 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 July 7th 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows"
That she is the widow of Lieut. Daniel Collins, late of Stonington, New London County & State of Connecticut, deceased, who was an Officer in the Army of the Revolution, and was placed on the pension Roll under the Act of Congress passed March 18. 1818 - the evidence of whose service she believes to be on file in the pension office to which she begs leave to refer.
She further declares that she was married to the said Daniel Collins at Stonington afsd on the 13th day of September A.D. 1787 - and that her husband the said Daniel Collins died on the 6th day of November A.D. 1819.
That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four, to wit, at
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the time above stated
Anne Collins
Sworn and subscribed the day and year above written before
Dana Hyde Judge

I Samuel Elliot Clerk & Register of the Court of Probate, in & for the District of Marlboro in the State of Vermont - hereby certify the foregoing are the original proceedings of said Court & signed by the Judge of said Court, - in the matters therein contained. -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this 17th day of September A.D. 1838.
Samuel Elliot, Clerk & Register of sd Court

[seal affixed at left]
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Heir of Lieut
Daniel Collins
Conn. Line Continental
Army.
Pensioner under
act 1818. Connecticut

Passed
2 [illegible]

J. D. Woodward, Atty
Present
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State of Connecticut County of New London SS.
On this twenty-fifth day of December 1854 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared Gilbert Collins a resident of the town of Stonington in said County aged Sixty-four years and made oath according to law that he is directly interested in a claim against the United States for certain arrears of half pay or increase of pension, supposed to be due to him as one of the Heirs of Lieut Daniel Collins a pensioner under the act of 1818 Connecticut, and he hereby appoints J. Douglas Woodward, Counsellor at Law, of Plattsburg, N.Y., his Attorney to prosecute said claim, and examine all papers and documents in relation thereto, on file in any of the Departments at Washington City or elsewhere, and to receive from the officer authorised to issue the same, a certificate for any arrears or increase of pension and half pay for life as Depenont might or could do, were he personally present at the doing thereof; and he hereby revokes all former powers if any inconsistent with the above, and authorizes his said Attorney to appoint Attorneys, one or more, under him, for any or all the purposes aforesaid, hereby ratifying and confirming whatsoever Deponent's Attorney or those appointed under him shall lawfully do or cause to be done in the premises. In witness whereof the said Deponent has hereunto set his hand and seal the day and year first above written.
Gilbert Collins
In the presence of
Elias P. Randall
Benjn F. Palmer }

Sworn to, Subscribed and Acknowledged, before me, on the day and year first above mentioned, and I believe the Deponent to be directly interested in the claim above mentioned, and the identical person therein alleged and described, and I have no interest in the result of said claim and am not concerned in its prosecution.
Elias P. Randall, Justice Peace.

State of Connecticut County of New London SS. I, the subscriber, Clerk of said County, certify that Elias P. Randall before whom the above affidavit and Power was sworn and acknowledged on the twenty fifth day of December AD 1854 was at said time a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly qualified, and that I verily believe his signature above written to be genuine; and I have no interest in the result of the claim to which the foregoing paper relates, and am not concerned in its prosecution. Witness my hand and official seal at Norwich in said County this 29th day of December 1854.
James Stedman Clerk
[L.S.]

[seal affixed at left]
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These may Certify that Daniel Collins and Anna Hillard both of Stonington were lawfully joined in marriage - September Thirteenth One Thousand Seven Hundred Eighty Seven
Witness
John Dean
Wilthyan Gallup

I John D Noyes Town Clerk of the Town of Stonington in the County of New London and State of Connecticut hereby Certify that the above is a true Copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows "Sep 13. 1787"
John D Noyes Town Clerk

I John D Noyes above named Depose and say that I hold the Office of Town Clerk of the town of Stonington in the County of New London and State of Connecticut and that the above is a true extract from the Records of Marriages of said Town of Stonington with the exception above named as certified by me -
John D Noyes T. Clerk

State of Connecticut New London County Ss
Probate District of Stonington
August 13. 1838 Sworn before me Asa Fisk Judge
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I Amos Gallup of Stonington in the County of New London & State of Connecticut, aged Eighty three years - being duly sworn according to Law before the Court of Probate for the District of Stonington, in the State aforesaid do on my oath certify declare & say, that I have been acquainted or was acquainted with Lieutenant Daniel Collins late of sd Stonington, forty years before his death, which happened at Stonington in 1819 that I always lived in the same neighborhood with said Collins & was ever intimately acquainted with him - That ever since I was eighteen years of age I have been acquainted with Anna the widow of said Daniel Collins. I was acquainted with her when a Girl Anna Potter, and during the time she was the wife of John Hillard, who died in the year 1786 - and at the time and ever since the sd Anna became the wife of Daniel Collins aforesd that sd Daniel Collins & said Anna Hillard were married in 1787 - that I well remember that my wife Wilthyan Gallup now deceased went to attend to attend the wedding of sd Daniel & Anna & that I always understood & believed said Daniel & Anna were married on the 13th September 1787. That said Anna has never intermarried since the death of said Lieutenant Daniel Collins according to the best of my knowledge & belief - that the said Anna has removed from Stonington & as I believe now resides in the Town of Halifax State of Vermont & Said Anna I believe to be about Eighty three years old She being born in July & myself in August 1755 - That I believe said Anna now resides with her son Robert in said Hartford Vermont & further Deponent saith not
Amos Gallup
State of Connecticut NLondon
County Ss Probate Dist Stonington
Aug 13 1838 Sworn before me
Asa Fisk Judge
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State of Connecticut, County of New London Probate District of Stonington Ss -
August 13 - 1838 -

I Asa Fisk Judge of the Court of Probate for the District aforesaid hereby certify that John D. Noyes Esq., who has signed the certificate preceding is Town Clerk of the Town of Stonington in the County & District aforesaid and that the signature purporting to be his is in his own proper hand writing. And that Amos Gallup Esquire who has signed & made oath before me to a certificate herein & next preceding is to me well known and is a credible person & that in the opinion of this Court his Testimony is entitled to full credit.
Asa Fisk Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Stonington

I John D. Noyes Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Stonington, in the State of Connecticut hereby certify that the foregoing are the original proceedings of said Court (& signed by the Judge of said Court) in the matter therein contained.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this thirteenth day of August AD One Thousand Eight hundred & thirty eight -
John D. Noyes Clerk

[seal affixed at left]
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July 8, 1938

XXXXXXXXX

Mr. Paul W. Ellis
2507 Midland Avenue
Syracuse, New York

Daniel Collins
W. 20899
BA-J/MLB

Dear Sir:

You are furnished herein the record of Daniel Collins as found in pension claim, W. [number obscured], based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.

Daniel Collins was born in New London, New London County, Connecticut; the date of his birth and names of parents are not shown.

He entered the service in the spring of 1775 at Roxbury near Boston, in Captain James Eldridge's company, Colonel Samuel Prentiss' Connecticut regiment, soon after which, he was commissioned Second Lieutenant, and in 1777 was commissioned First Lieutenant under the same officers and served until sometime in 1778 then returned to Connecticut.

Daniel Collins was allowed pension on his application executed April 7, 1818, at which time he was aged about eighty years and a resident of Stonington, New London County, Connecticut, where he died November 6, 1819.

Daniel Collins married September 13, 1787, in Stonington, Connecticut, Mrs. Anna Hillard or Hilliard, widow of John Hillard or Hilliard who also served in the Revolutionary War and died in 1786. No claim or pension was ever made on account of his service. At the time of marriage, Daniel Collins and his wife, Anna or Anne, were both residents of Stonington, Connecticut, where their marriage was recorded in the Town Clerk's Office. The maiden name of soldier's wife was Anna or Anne Potter. She was born about July, 1755, place of birth not given, nor names of her parents.

Anna Collins, widow of Daniel Collins, moved from Stonington, Connecticut, in January, 1820, to Halifax, Vermont.
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Anna Collins, widow of Daniel Collins, was allowed pension on account of his service in the Revolutionary War, on her application executed September 17, 1838, at which time she was a resident of Halifax, Windham County, Vermont, and was still living there in May, 1843. She died August 17, 1843, in Halifax, Vermont, at the home of her son, Robert Collins, with whom she had lived since moving to that place; his age was not stated. No other names in the claim were designed as those of children.

In 1854, one Gilbert Collins, aged sixty-four years, a resident of Stonington, Connecticut, stated that he was one of soldier's heirs but did not designate the relationship to him.

In 1844, reference was made to Anna Collins' grandchildren who were residing in the Probate District of Mystic Bridge, Connecticut, but no names or other details were given.

In order to obtain date of last payment of pension and name of the person paid, you should write to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following date:  Anna Collins, widow of Daniel, certificate #1848, issued September 6, 1843, rate $320 per annum, commenced March 4, 1843, Act of March 3, 1843, Vermont (Montpelier) Agency.

Very truly yours

A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator

-2-
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Fullerton Neb.
May 3rd 1915
Bureau of Pensions.
I would like to have the Military History of Daniel Collins 2nd. Lieutenant of the twelfth infantry of Conn He enlisted at Stonington Conn. I believe. Of the Revolutionary Army.
Mrs. Sarah J Collar
Fullerton
Neb.

RR No 3
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J. D. Woodward
Jany 16/55
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Pension Office
Jany 16 1856

Sir
Daniel Collins said that in consequence of "different arrangements" from those existing in 1778 when he was in service, he did not serve after that time, but does not intimate that he was "deranged" by that arrangement or that he became a Super-Numerary - Our Rolls are silent upon the subject, -
His widow Anna war pensioner at $320 a year,

1838

J. D. Woodward Esq
Plattsburg [crossed out]
Present
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Anna Collins of Conn
widow of Daniel.
Act July 7. 1838 -
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Washington D.C. Jany 4: 1856.
Sir
Anna Collins of Conn. widow of Daniel was pensioned under the act of July 7. 1838. What amount of Pension per annum did she receive? Does your office contain any evidence of the services of said Daniel Collins as Lieut in the Connecticut line, and that he was a deranged or  supernumerary officer. He was a pensioner under act 1818, on the Conn Roll, & died Nov 15 1819. I am under an impression that a power of attorney in my favor is on file with the papers of Mr or Mrs Collins.
Respectfully yours
J. D. Woodward.

Hon James Minot
Com. of Pensions

She recd $320
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283

Pension Office
Jan 16. 1847

Sir,
In reply to your letter of this 11th inst. I have to inform you that in inquiring at the Third Auditor's Office, where the vouchers are deposited, I learn that the pension of Anna Collins, under the act of March 3. 1843, was paid from the 4th March 1843 to the 17th of August 1843, the day of her death.

Manasseh Miner, Esq
Mystic Bridge,
Connecticut
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A Fisk
Sept 23 1844
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416

Pension Office
Sept 23. 1844

Sir
In reply to your enquiry respecting Anna Collins, widow of Daniel Collins, decd. I have to inform you that she was pensioned under the acts of July 7. 1838, and March 3 1843, at the rate of $320 per annum. The pension under the first named law commenced on the 4th of March 1836 and terminated on the 4th of March 1841; and under the act of 1843 she received one year's pension from the 4th of March 1843 to the 4th of March 1844.

Asa Fisk Esq
Mystic Bridge
Ct.
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Mystic Bridge
Sept 20th [illegible]

free

J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Pension Office
Washington D.C.

[written vertically at left] Sept 23 44
Anna Collins
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Mystic Bridge, Connecticut
September 20 1844.

Respected Sir
I take the liberty to address you for the purpose of obtaining information as to the amount of Pension or Pensions, obtained by Mrs. Anna Collins, late of Halifax, County of Windham, State of Vermont, deceased. She was the widow of Daniel Collins, when she died - and was at the time of her intermarriage with Collins the widow of John Hilliard decd - both her said husbands served in the army of the Revolution, both were residents of, and died at Stonington Conn. Some of said Anna's grandchildren, reside in this Probate District (a part of whom are minors) and are poor, and it is for their behalf that the information is respectfully solicited
With consideration of esteem 
I am yr Obt Servt
Asa Fisk

Hon J L. Edwards Comm
Pensions Washington }
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2146
Vt June 21 1843
Mar 3 1843
Anna Collins 
$320 per anm

Sanford Plumb
West Halifax

[written vertically] West Halifax Vt. Free
June 10th
Hon J L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington DC
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J L Edwards Esq.
Inclosed I send you the declaration of Widow Anne Collins She has failed so much in her mental faculties since she made the declaration to obtain her former pension that she cannot relate the facts of the regiment in which her husband served as she did then If any thing is wanting to complete her claim to the pension please send the request to me directed to this office - If it is all right Mrs. Collins wishes to have her certificate forwarded to me at this office
Your obedient servant
Sanford Plumb

Hon J L Edwards

West Halifax Vt June 10th 1843
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State of Vermont Windham County Ss
On this 24th day of May AD 1843 personally appeared before me Sanford Plumb a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid Anna Collins a resident of Halifax in the county of Windham aforesaid aged eighty seven years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of congress passed on the third of March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war - That she is the widow of Daniel Collins who was a Lieutenant in the army of the revolution (the regiment I do not now recollect but his residence was in Stonington and State of Connecticut) and the annual amount of the pension which she received under the act of July 7th 1838 was three hundred and twenty dollars She further declares that she is still a widow of the said Daniel Collins
Anna Collins

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me Sanford Plumb Justice of the peace

State of Vermont
Windham County Court Clerk's Office
New Haven May 26 AD. 1843
I Marshall Miller, Clerk of said Court certify, that Sanford Plumb is a Justice of the Peace duly commissioned & qualified, within & for said County & that his signature above written is genuine - In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court this day & above written Attest Marshall Miller, Clerk
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I hereby certify that the within named Anne Collins is personally known to me and has been for the last fifteen years
Sanford Plumb Justice of the peace
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Putnam Conn. Feb 9. 1910

Department of Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Will you please give me a copy of the pension record of my ancestor in the Revolutionary War.
John Gould -
a pensioner in 1818 found in Conn. Men in Revolution page 639 residing in Vermont, and oblige
Sincerely -
(Miss) Ernestine Sherman
Putnam. Conn.
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Putnam Conn. Feb. 9. 1910
Rev Enc
Department of Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.
39605
W 20899
Will you please give me a copy of the service or pension record of my ancestor in Rev. War Daniel Collins, who was pensioner in 1818. found in Conn. Men in the Revolution page 633, and oblige
Yours truly. -
(Miss) Ernestine Sherman
Putnam, Conn.
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Vermont }
Bellows Falls } 1041
Anna Collins
widow of Daniel Collins
who was a pensioner under the Act of 18 March 1818
and who died on the 6. November 1819
of Windham Co in the State of Vermont
who was a Lieutenant in the company commanded
by Captain Eldridge of the Regt. commanded
by Col. Prentice in the Connecticut
line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Bellows Falls
at the rate of 320 Dollars - Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17. day of Nov. 1838 and sent to Samuel Elliott, Brattleborough, Vt.
Arrears to the 4th of Sep. '38 800.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar. '39. 160.00
$960.00

{Act July 7, 1838.}

Recorded by D. Brown Clerk,
Book A. Vol. 2 Page 36
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Vermont Roll
Anna Collins, widow of Daniel Collins, Lieut, $320 per annum.
Was she paid under the act of 1838, the five years pension? and to what time was payment made under the act of March 3. 1843?

Pension Office }
Jan 15. 1847. } Paid 5 years pension per act of July 1838, and paid per list 1843 to 17th August 1843, the day of her death.
BB
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Jan 11 47

Mystic Bridge Jan 11 Paid to

James L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington 
DC

M.
Anna Collins
Ct 43
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James L Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir
In your Letter of Sept 23 1844 to Hon Asa Fisk of this place, respecting the Pension of Anna Collins Wd of Daniel Collins - you said that she received one years pension from the 4th of March 1843 to the 4th 1844 I was present at a Court respecting the Estate of Anna Collins at Halifax Vermont in 1845 where it was proven conclusively that Anna Collins was pension August 9th 1843 Robert Collins son & Administrator to the Estate of Anna Collins testified that neither Anna Collins nor the Estate of Anna Collins has received one years pension under the act of March 1843 as was stated in your letter - I wish you to inform me as soon as possible the amount of Pension paid to Anna Collins on the Estate under the act March 1843 - also the total amount of Pension paid to sd Anna Collins also whether she ever received any pension as Wd of John Hilliard
Yours Respectfully
Manasseh Miner

Mystic Bridges
Jany 11th 1847 }
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[left side of page]
Aug 22 Hist
Elon R Brown
Watertown N.Y.
Feb 23, 1910
Miss Ernestine Sherman
1911 Aug. 1 Hist to Mrs. E.E.
Holtzer V.L.M.
1915 May 7: history to Mrs
Sarah J. Collor M. 13 H

1936 July 28 - Hist to Mrs. Samuel
Fisk ([illegible] in clm. P.43350 of
William Collins) MD
1938 July 7 - Hist. to Paul W. Ell[illegible]

[right side of page] Revy Widow, &c.
File No. 20899
Anna Collins
Wid of
Daniel Collins
Lieut Rev. War
Act Mrch. 3d /43
Index: Vol. A. Page 187

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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3-485 b.

____________________________ Div.
____________________________ Ex'r.
_______________ No. __________
______________________________
______________________________

Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions
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Copies of all original papers forwarded Elan R. Brown of Watertown, NY thru Hon. C A Chickering [illegible] Jany 5, 1897

F P White
[illegible]
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Brown & Adams
Law Office
Watertown, NY June 29, 1893
Hon William Lochren
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington DC

Dear Sir,
Your reply of June 21 to my inquiry of May 8th in relation to Ebenezer Brown, a pensioner of the Revolution, is just received, for which I thank you very kindly.  You omitted to notice that I desired a copy of his pension papers on record.  I stated that I would remit fees for same as soon as advised.
You did not give similar information in relation to Daniel Collins, a revolutionary soldier of Stonington, Conn. which I also requested.  Perhaps you have none.
I trust you will pardon the annoyance caused by these inquiries as they are made to gratify my curiosity in relation to the history of my own family.
Very respectfully,
Elon R Brown

There is a bare possibility that it was William instead of Daniel Collins and I may be mistaken in the given name.  He had the title and I think the commission of a Colonel.
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Brown & Adams
Law Office
Watertown,, N Y May 8, 1893
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington DC
Dear Sir,
Ebenezer Brown, a pensioner of the revolution, died in Lorraine, Jefferson County about 1833.  I wish to get certified copies of his pension papers. Daniel Collins of Stonington, Conn. may also have been a pensioner.  I believe he was a colonel.  If there are any pension papers on record in your office in relation to him, l I would like them also.
If I cannot get the information I desire through getting copies of their pension papers, can you tell me where I can learn in what organizations they served, their length of service, &c, &c, in the Revolutionary War?  As soon as advised of fees for copies of papers requested, I shall be glad to remit them.
Yours very truly,
Elon R Brown


20899
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M. D. Moore
Buyer and Shipper 
of Life Stock
706 W. Broad Way
Sedalia, Mo
July 12, 1911

Bureau of Pensions
Washington, DC

Sir,

I am hoping to become a DAR and have been advised by the War Department to write you for information concerning my ancestors:
(1) Daniel Collins was a member of 6th Regiment Conn. troops, also later ranked as Lieutenant in 1st regiment Conn. troops.  Was from Stonington, Conn. I think.
(2) William Collins, Sergeant in Capt. Allyn's Co., Col. Mead's regiment, I think, was from Connecticut and
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M D Moore
Buyer and Shipper 
of Live Stock.
Cole Camp, Mo.

received discharge at Morristown NJ,  He applied for a pension and his claim was allowed.  He lived in Jefferson Co., N Y where his application was sent in.
I also wish to become a Daughter of 1812 and have been referred to you by War Department concerning Eleazer Boardman, who was from New York.  He applied for a pension June 1871 and at that time lived in Orleans, Jefferson Co., N Y.  He died in 1876.  His second wife is still living and I think receives a pension

Very respectfully 
Mrs. E E Holtzen
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Date stamped Received, June 20,, 1938
 2507 Midland Ave.
Syracuse, NY
June 16, 1938

Veterans Administration
Bureau of Revolutionary Pensions
Washington, DC

1 - Daniel Collins, Born March 10, 1732. 
Died April 6, 1819 at Brownville or Stone Mills, NY

2 - William Collins, Born October 25, 1759. (yes). Died September 23, 1850 (no) at Stone Mills, NY

Gentlemen:
Concerning the above, can you furnish me with such information as is available from your records?

The first-mentioned, namely Daniel Collins served in the First Regiment of Connecticut Line Formation of 1776 as First Lientenant, enlistment presumably from Stoningham, or Stonington, Connecticut, later migrating to Brownville, NY after the Revolutionary War.
The second soldier, William Collins served as a private, regimental connections unknown.  Inasmuch as they were father and son, Daniel being the father, perhaps William served in the same regiment.
I will greatly appreciate your courtesy in this matter.
Very truly yours,
Paul W. Ellis

PWE:E
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July 7, 1938.

Mr. Paul W. Ellis
2507 Midland Avenue
Syracuse, New York.

BA-J/ILL
Daniel Collins
W. 20899
William Collins
S. [illegible]

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Daniel Collins who was born March 10, 1732, served as 1st Lieutenant from Connecticut in 1776 and died April 6, 1819 in New York State, and the record of William Collins who was born October 25, 1759 and died September 23, 1850 in Stone Mills, New York. You state that they were father and son.

There is no claim for pension on file based upon service in the Revolutionary War of a Daniel Collins identical with your description. The record of Lieutenant Daniel Collins of Connecticut and that of a William Collins who was born in October 1759 are furnished you herewith.

Very truly yours,

A. D. Hillard,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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April 22, 1937.

Mrs. Samuel A. Fisk
Prospect Hill Road
Brimfield, Massachuseetts.

BA-J/MMF/ILL
William Collins
S. 4[illegible] - her letter

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you furnish the record you have of William Collins who, you state, was the son of Daniel Collins, W. 20899, the Revolutionary War soldier whose record was furnished you July 28, 1936, in whose record you are not interested. You state that William Collins served in the Connecticut troops, married Polly Rose, received a pension in 1818 while a resident of Jefferson County, New York, died in 18[illegible] and was buried in Stone Mills, New York.

The record of the Jefferson County, New York, pensioner, William Collins, is furnished you herewith. This office has no means of determining whether or not he was the son of Daniel Collins, cited above. There is no claim for pension on file based upon service in the Revolutionary War of the Thomas Walls who was born in 1723 in Hopkinton, Rhode Island, where he died, whose record you requested also.

Very truly yours,

A. D. Hiller,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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July 28, 1936

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Mrs. Samuel A. Fisk
Prospect Hill Road
Brimfield, Massachusetts

Daniel Collins, W.   20899
William Collins, W.  C. 8202
BA-J/MLB

[arrow drawn pointing to William] Not the one she wanted. We sent RevWar MC - S43350, in Apr. 1937 F

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Daniel Collins, who enlisted from Stonington, Connecticut, and was buried at that place, and in which you request any information that this office might have in regard to his son, William Collins, who was buried at Stone Mills, Jefferson County, New York.

The Revolutionary War records of this office were searched and no claim for pension found based upon service in that war of a William Collins who could have been the son of Daniel, the Revolutionary War soldier; however, a War of 1812 pension record has been found for a William Collins based upon his service in the War of 1812 which may be the soldier in whom you are interested. That record and the Revolutionary War record of Daniel Collins are furnished as follow:

Daniel Collins
W. 20899

The data herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, W. 20899, based upon service of Daniel Collins in the Revolutionary War.

Daniel Collins was born in New London, New London County, Connecticut; the date of his birth and names of parents are not given.

He entered the service in the spring of 1775 at Roxbury near Boston, in Captain James Eldridge's company, Colonel Samuel Prentiss' Connecticut regiment, soon after which, he was commissioned Second Lieutenant, and in 1777 was commissioned First Lieutenant under the same officers and served until sometime in 1778 when he returned to Connecticut.

The soldier was allowed pension on his application executed April 7, 1818, at which time he was aged about eighty years and a
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resident of Stonington, New London County, Connecticut, where he died November 6, 1819.

Daniel Collins married September 13, 1787, in Stonington, Connecticut, Mrs. Anna Hillard or Hilliard, widow of John Hillard or Hilliard who also served in the Revolutionary War and died in 1786. No claim for pension [illegible] on account of his service. At the time of marriage, Daniel Collins and his wife, Anna or Anne, were both residents of Stonington, Connecticut, where their marriage was recorded in the town clerk's office. The maiden name of soldier's wife was Anna or Anne Potter. She was born about July, 1755.

Anna Collins, wid. of Daniel Collins moved from Stonington, Connecticut, in January, 1820, to Halifax, Vermont.

Anna Collins, wid. of Daniel Collins, was allowed pension on acct. of his ser. in the Rev War on her application executed September 17, 1838, at which time she was a resident of Halifax, Windham County, Vermont, and was still living there in May, 1843. She died August 17, 1843, in Halifax, Vermont, at the home of her son, Robert Collins, with whom she had lived since moving to that place; his age was not stated. No other names in the claim were designated as those of children.

In 1854, one Gilbert Collins, aged sixty-four years, a resident of Stonington, Connecticut, stated that he was one of soldier's heirs but did not give the relationship to him.

In 1844, reference was made to Anna Collins' grandchildren who were residing in the Probate District of Mystic Bridge, Connecticut, but no names or other details were given.

********

William Collins
W.C. 8202. 

You are furnished below the record of William Collins as found in pension claim, W.C. 8202, based upon his service in the War of 1812.

William Collins was born July 10, 1792; the place of his birth and names of parents were not shown.

William Collins enlisted in Orleans or Brownville in Jefferson County, New York, and served from March 4, to March 24, 1813, as a

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private in Captain Azariah Thomas' company of New York militia. He stated that he was called out several different times during the War of 1812, that he served in the summer of 1812 in Captain Brown's company of New York militia, also, that he belonged to Captain Thomas Loomis' company of New York cavalry, that he was at Sackets Harbor the morning after the battle there and helped carry in the wounded, and that he assisted in building a fort at Perch River; no further details of these services were given. At the time of his service the soldier was known as William Collins, Junior.

In 1855, the soldier was a resident of Orleans, Jefferson County, New York, where he was still residing in 1871 with post office at Stone Mills, in that county. He died May 8, 1875, in Brownville, Jefferson County, New York.

William Collins married June 21, 1816, in Brownville, New York, Sally Crawford who was born May 10, 1799; the place of her birth and names of parents not given. Neither the soldier nor his wife had been previously married.

Soldier's widow, Sally Collins, was allowed pension on her application executed April 16, 1878, while a resident of Orleans, Jefferson County, New York, with post office at Stone Mills.

No names in the claim were designated as those of children.

In 1871, one Henry Collins was a resident of Clayton, Jefferson County, New York, and one James L. Collins was living in Orleans, in the same county; their ages were not given, nor was their relationship to soldier's family or to each other shown.

Very truly yours

A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant 
to the Administrator

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sion on file in this Bureau. Daniel Collins - W. File 20.899.

[five column table] Dates of Enlistment or Appointment./ Length of Service./ Rank./ Officers under Whom Service was Rendered. Captain. Colonel./ State.

Spring 1775/ 2d Lieut 1 Lieut} James Eldridge Samuel Prentice/ Conn.
served until 1778.

Battles engaged in, [check mark]
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Stonington, Conn.
Date of application for pension, Apr. 7. 1818. His cl. was al.
Residence at date of application, Stonington, New London, Co., Conn.
Age at date of application, b. in New London, Conn. date not mentioned.
Remarks: d. in Stonington, Conn. Nov 6, 1819 - m. in Stonington Conn. Sept. 13, 1787 Anne or Anna (Potter) b. July 1755, widow of John Hilliard or Hillard She was al. pension on an application dated Sept. 17, 1838, while residing in Halifax, Windham Co. Vt. with her son Robert Collins. She died Aug. 9 or 17. 1843.
No further data as to family.

Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
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O.W. and N. Division. F.S.
Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D.C., ___, 189_

Sir: -
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Daniel Collins, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will please find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension on file in this Bureau.

[five column table] Dates of Enlistment./ Length of Service./Rank./ Officers Under Whom Service was Rendered. Captain. Colonel./ State.

His pension was allowed for two years actual service as a Lieut in Capt Eldridge's Co Col Prentice's Con Regt. he having first entered the service in the spring of 1775.

Battles engaged in, None mentioned
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Probably New London Conn.
Date of application for pension, April 7 1818
Residence at date of application, Stonington Conn
Age at date of application, Not given in declaration
Remarks: Married at Stonington Sept 17, 1787 to Anna Hillard and died Nov 6 1819.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

Elon R. Brown
Watertown, N.Y.
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State of Vermont }
Marlboro District Ss } I Robert Collins of Halifax in the County of Windham, Vermont, of lawful age depose and say that my father Daniel Collins late of Stonington, Connecticut died as I have always understood on the sixth day of November A.D. 1819 - that my mother Anne Collins came from Connecticut in January A.D. 1820, to reside with me in Halifax aforesaid, and has continued to live with me up to this date - that she the said Anne Collins is the widow of my father the said Daniel Collins, and has never intermarried since the decease, as above related, and further the deponent saith not.
Robert Collins

Sworn and subscribed this 17th day of September A.D. 1838 Before Dana Hyde Judge
I further certify that I am acquainted with Robert Collins Esq - the above subscribing deponent, and that his character for veracity is unimpeachable.
Dana Hyde Judge

I Samuel Elliot Clerk & Register of the Court of Probate in & for the District of Marlboro in the State of Vermont hereby certify that the foregoing are the original proceedings of said Court & signed by the Judge thereof, in the matters therein contained - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the aforesaid Court, this 17th day of September A.D. 1838
Atty Samuel Elliot Clerk & Register

[seal affixed at left]
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It is requested that the return on the within application of Anne Collins be directed to
The Register of Probate for the
District of Marlboro
Brattleboro Vermont.

Anne Collins