Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 14,105, for John Parker, Connecticut
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Conn.   Parker, John  S.14105  Carded
R.I.
Vt
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Sent to E. T. Englesly P. agt [pension agent] M 1834 Copy of B. [unreadable] certificate sent to Hon H Hall [unreadable] 17 1836 to Hon H. [unreadable] April 22 [unreadable] To same May 22 to same June 17 to same Jany 12 184 [unreadable]
See letter to [unreadable] Cowell May 7 1841 Providence R.I. 
to Hon Hiland Hall July 13 40
Joseph Parker Feby 12 / 55
Death not in A.B. [agency book]
28.090 – Vermont
John Parker
of Rupert in the State of Ver. who was a private in the Com commanded by Captain – of the Regt commanded by Col Moll &c in the *Vermont [unreadable] line for 7 mo Corporal 9 mo. 
Conn*, R. I. & Vt.
Records completed Aug 20 1906 JS
Inscribed on the Roll of Ver at the rate of 57 Dollars 34 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15th day of Feb 1834 and sent to Hon H. Hall.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833   $143.67
Semi-anl allowance ending Mar 4 ’34  28.67
$172.34
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by E. D. Bullock Clerk
Book E Vol 3 Page 85
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State of Vermont 
Bennington County ss} On this sixth day of August AD 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Hon the Probate Court for the District of Manchester in said County of Bennington now sitting at Manchester within & for said district John Parker a resident of Rupert in the District County & State aforesaid, 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 7, 1832. 
That he said John was born in West Greenwich in the County of Kent & State of Rhode Island on the 26th day of May AD 1757 and there resided till the year 1780, when he removed to Pownal in the County of Bennington & State of Vermont where he resided five years from which place he removed to Rupert in the County of Bennington aforesaid where he has ever since resided & now resides, & that he suposes believes that his birth is recorded in the Town Records in the Town of West Greenwich aforesaid & that he has always from his youth kept a record thereof in his family Bible.   
Said John further declares & says that he entered the service of the United States & continued in the service in the War of the Revolution at the times and under the officers & for the periods of time herein stated to wit – 
That at Bennington in the County of Bennington & State Vermont, about the last of July AD 1776 he enlisted into the service of the United States Company commanded by Capt Robinson, Regiment commanded by Col Motts of the Connecticut State forces that they marched thence by way of Manchester, East Rupert & so on to Skeensborough & there remained some weeks.  Many of them took sick there, that in October or November following he with some
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others who had been left in charge of the sick at Skeensboro took boats & went down the lake to Mount Independance & there joined the regiment which went some few weeks before that said troops were employed in making log huts for shelter, clearing land & making forts, that while there. Gen Arnold fought battle with the British down the lake on Rougallies & was lost by the British who came up the lake to Crown Point & then landed & soon after returned.  That he continued there in said service till about the middle of AD 1777 when he was discharged & returned home & arrived at home some time in February following.  That he had a written discharge from the Captain but gave it to his father on his return home & has not seen it & knows not where it is, if living.  
Said John further says that immediately after his return aforesaid, at West Greenwich in the State of Rhode Ilan he enlisted as a substitute for one John Stanton in the Rhode Island Militia for one half months & served during that to period at Greenwich, Newtown.  Draper Captain, Tilness Col. of the Regiment.  At the end of which time he returned home, being dismissed.  
Said John further says that immediately on his return home as last aforesaid he was drafted to serve in the Militia of Rhode Island for another half month, & immediately marched from West Greenwich to Greenwich Newtown in said State & there served during the period aforesaid.  Austin Captain & Tilness Col of the regiment & that at the end of the time he was dismissed & returned home.   
Said John further says that on or about [unreadable] day of June AD 1777 at West Greenwich aforesaid [unreadable] as a recruit in the Rhode Island State Troops commanded by Capt Hopkins, Regt. by Col. [unreadable]  Brigade by Brig. General Cornell,  that the [unreadable] marched from West Greenwich through Greenwich then on to Warwick neck where they joined the [unreadable].  While stationed there the said John with Sixty others, two Lieutenants & Gen Cornell. crossed over on to a small Island where the British had a watery place, in [unreadable] or twelve boats in the night & concealed themselves in the
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& the Americans not to many. The British were compelled to retreat. The American forces were commanded by Gen Sullivan.  The Battle ended six miles from where the attack was made on the advanced guard about 2 oclock afternoon, that the said John was engaged in this battle from break of day in the morning till it ended, & fired sixty four rounds.  The next night after the aforesaid Battle Gen Sullivan effected a safe retreat from the Island of Newport remained there till the sixteenth [unreadable] AD 1779, when his term of Service Expired [unreadable]  & went home to West Greenwich.   
Said John further says that in the month of October 1780 after he had removed to Pownal in Vermont, he was drafted at said Pownal on an alarm from Castleton.   Company commanded by Capt. Briggs.  Marched on to Castleton, a detachment of the British army approached so near the Americans that their scouts were seen.   When Gen Ethan Allen who commanded, mounted a pine Stump  & harranged [harangued] the troops, the British fled & no fighting took place. That said John remained at Castleton during the term of seven for which he was drafted being one half months & then was dismissed & returned home.   
Said John further declares & says that he never [unreadable] written discharge from the services except above [unreadable] named & that he has no documentary evidence whatsoever relating to the same & he knows of no person living who is personally acquainted with his said services, whose testimony he can procure to prove said services. But [unreadable] the Rev. David Wilson & the Hon Josiah Rising, [unreadable] are well acquainted with the
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boats near the springs.  That about sunrise the British took 28 in number, came across from their shipping in boats to the watering place & landed & rolled their casks to the Watering place, that the American troops rose from their ambuscade & demanded a surrender, but were fired on by the British, the fire was [unreadable], killed one British soldier, wounded another & took 27 prisoners whom they hurried aboard the boats under a heavy fire.  [unreadable]  Shipping & rowed across to the neck [unreadable] heavy fire of Musketry  from the British [unreadable]  landed on the Island. The prisoners however secure & no lives lost on the part of the Americans.   From Tranook neck said forces marched to Tiverton in the State of Rhode Island & there remained till the 16th of March when said John's term of service expired & he was dismissed  from the service & went home.   
Said John further declares & says that on or about the first day of June AD 1778 at West Greenwich afore said he enlisted as a recruit in the Rhode Island forces under the same Captain, the same Colonel,  the same General as the year before & immediately marched to Tiverton, through Providence, that while at Tiverton in the month of July as said John thinks [unreadable] fleet came into the harbor of Newport.  When the French Fleet came in the British [unreadable]  fire 74 gun ships.  The explosion [unreadable]  conflagration occasioned by it.  Said John [unreadable] which ships the crews Escaped into Newport [unreadable] British head quarters. That said John with three hundred others volunteered about the last of July 1778, to have [unreadable] advanced guards close under the British lines being 3 companies, commanded by Col Marquis, a French officer, that in the 17th  of August the
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of the Revolution.
Said John hereby relinquishes every claim whatever [unreadable] of any agency of any State whatsoever 
John Parker 
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid 
Henry Robinson Register 
We David Wilson a Clergyman resident in Rupert in the County of Bennington & State of Vermont & Josiah Rising of the same Rupert hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Parker who has Subscribed & sworn to the above declaration & that we believe him to be 75 years of age, that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and we fully concur in that opinion 
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid- 
Henry Robinson Register  
Rev David Wilson
Josiah Rising  
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, & served as he states. And this Court further certifies that it appears to them that David Wilson who has signed the preceding certificate, is a [unreadable] in the Town of Rupert & [unreadable] who has also signed the same
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[unreadable]  in said Town of Rupert & that their statement is entitled to credit.  
Myron Clark Judge of Probate Court 
State of Vermont 
I Henry Robinson Register of said Court of Probate, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Parker, for a Pension. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & have affixed the seal of said Court, at Manchester, this sixth day of August A.D. 1832. & of the Independence of the United States the Fifty Seventh. 
Henry Robinson Register
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John Parker, the above named declarant, personally appeared fore me the undersigned, Judge of Probate, within & for District of Manchester in the State of Vermont, and being duly Sworn deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he can not swear positively as to the precise length of all the periods of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below & in the following grades to wit
In the year 1776 & the month of January 1777 I served as a private soldier six months. 
In the year 1777 I served during two short periods of one half month each, making together one mouth as a private Soldier 
From the first day of June 1777 to the 16th day of March 1778 I served nine months and a half month as a private soldier, and the residue of the time as a corporal    
From the first day of June 1778 to the sixteenth day of March 1779 I served nine & a half months as a corporal   
In the year 1780 I served as a private Soldier one half month. 
Making in all not less than twenty six and one half months for which services I claim a pension.
The said John further declares & says that he has  no discharge or other documentary evidence to prove his  said services, & that he never had any written discharge except for the first period of his service, which on his return home in 1777 he gave to his father, & has not seen since, & has no knowledge or belief that the same is in being.  Said John Further declares that he knows of no person living who is personally acquainted with his said services or any of them, except Elijah [unreadable] of Bennington, who is said to be living, at a very advanced age, who if he retains his intellectual powers will recollect the first enlistment above referred to and
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[unreadable] Peleg Green, who is said to reside at [unreadable] the State of Vermont, & who if living and if he  claims his recollection sufficiently can testify in relation to the said John's Service in 1777.   
John Parker
Subscribed & Sworn in  Open Court this 20th of  July AD. 1833 
Attest. H Robinson Register 
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- 
Myron Clark Judge of Probate 
I Henry Robinson Register of the Probate Court for the District of Manchester, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Court in the matter of the application of John Parker for a Pension- 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto Subscribed my official signature, & affixed the Seal of Our Said Probate Court at Manchester this 20th day of July 
Henry Robinson Register
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John Parker 
[unreadable] mo private 
9 mo corporal 
Service in 1777 
[unreadable] not command Regt that year and name is not shown on [unreadable] Rolls of that year 
Hon H Hall 
J. Aiken
Vt
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WAR DEPARTMENT 
Pension Office, 
May 15 1833
Sir. 
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed before a pension can be allowed. the notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by compling with this request greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim. 
A Statement, showing the Service of
Period when the service was rendered.  Last July 76 to 7 Feby 77 }  Duration of Claimant’s Service.  7 Months   Rank of claimant.  Priv   Names and rank of the Officers under whom he served.   Cap Robinson Vt. Mil.   Age at present and place of abode when he entered the service.  Bennington   Proof by which the declaration is supported. 
Period when the service was rendered.  Apl 77    Duration of Claimant’s Service.  15 days  Rank of claimant.  Names and rank of the Officers under whom he served.  Cap Draper R. I.  Age at present and place of abode when he entered the service.  W. Greenwich
Period when the service was rendered.  Immed after aforesaid   Duration of Claimant’s Service.  15 days     Rank of claimant.   Names and rank of the Officers under whom he served.   Cap Austin Col Tilness    Age at present and place of abode when he entered the service.  W. Greenwich
Period when the service was rendered.  June 77  Duration of Claimant’s Service.  8 months  Rank of claimant.   Names and rank of the Officers under whom he served.   Cap Hoppin,  Topham 
Period when the service was rendered.  March 78  Duration of Claimant’s Service.  12 months   Rank of claimant.   Names and rank of the Officers under whom he served.  Cap Briggs Proof by which the Declaration is supported  [unreadable] 1. 1-10 June 78 to 16 Mar 79 
Period when the service was rendered.  80   Duration of Claimant’s Service.  15 Days   Rank of claimant.    Names and rank of the Officers under whom he served.   Cap Briggs  Castleton
I am respectfully 
Your obedient servant 
JAMES L. EDWARDS, 
Commissioner of Pensions.
Mr. John Parker
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.            
The following regulations have been adopted:                  
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.              
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:  
1. The Regular Troops.  
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.    
3. Persons employed in the Naval service.             
4. Indian Spies.                 
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first in stance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.             
DECLARATION.                        
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.           
State, Territory, or District of 
County of } ss.
On this day of A.B. a resident (b) of personally appeared (a) before in the county of and State, Territory or District years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the in the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) served in the (e) regiment of the line, under the following named officers:    
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]            
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever 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, or (if any) only that of Agency in the State of    
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. A. B. 
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]            
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. 
I of the Court of hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of for a pension.               
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this day of & c.            
If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.          
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz: (k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be and C.D. residing in (the same) who has years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.                 
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.                 
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]     
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.               
I, Clerk of the Court of contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of for a pension. do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this day of & c.         
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission ; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.            
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his
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alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted ; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County, in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.            
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.    
1. Where and in what year were you born?                
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?          
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war , and where do you now live?               
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?              
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.           
6. To a Soldier. { Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it? 
To an Officer. {Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what Town officer has become of it?              
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.                 
The Court will see that he answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.         
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons -one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify, to the character and standing of other persons, giving such certificates. 
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject     
Applicants unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.        
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed his genuine signature.          
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can cure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the person of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.        
[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.    
[b]   The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.     
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.    
[d]  The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served. 
[e]  Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had.        
Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: 
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:--For---year - months , and days , I served as a - months and --- days, I served as and for such service I claim a pension."   
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months, is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority ; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.    
[f]  The law makes the relinquishment indispensable. 
[g]  The opinion of the Court is always required.  
[h]  The Clerk must give his certificate in every case. 
[i]  The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.               
Mode of authenticating papers.              
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.         
Proof of Service.         
[j]  In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. 
The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops, The proof required by rule in note [j]  applies to continental troops only.     
[k]  This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases. 
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact. 
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
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Power of Atty from Jos Parker to R W Bates
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I Joseph Parker of Rupert County of Bennington and State of Vermont, Son and kin of John Parker late of said Rupert Deceased, do hereby constitute and appoint R.W. Bates of Washington City District of Columbia my true and lawfull attorney for me and in my name to ask of the pension agent an arrears of pension due said John Parker, and also power to examine the papers on file in the pension office in Washington, in relation to the right of a pension due said John Parker.  
In witness whereof I do hereby set my hand and this 24th day of January 1854. signed and sealed in presence of us 
Silas H. Moore 
Nathan Burton
Joseph Parker  
State of Vermont 
Bennington County ss   January 24. 1854 these personally appeared the above named Joseph Parker Subscribed and made oath to the foregoing power of attorney in due form of Law before me, 
Nathan Burton Justice of the peace  
State of Vermont 
Bennington County ss}  I Henry Kellogg County Clerk of said County of Bennington do hereby certify that Nathan Burton Esqr. before whom the foregoing power of attorney was made and who has subscribed his name thereto as Justice of the peace, was at the date thereof a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature above written is genuine 
In testimony whereof I of have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of Bennington County Court this 26th day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred & Fifty four 
Henry Kellogg Co Clerk
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April 3, 1939
BA-J/MOS
John Parker, S. 14108
Mr. Edwin E. Ellis
239 Huntington Avenue
Buffalo, New York
Dear Sir: Reference is made to your request for information relative to the Revolutionary War soldier, John Parker, who was placed on the pension roll in Vermont on February 15, 1834. You state he was born
in 1756 in Newport, Rhode Island, and died in West Rupert, Vermont, September 26, 1842.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, W.14105, based on the Revolutionary War service of John Parker whose pension certificate was issued February 15, 1834. 
John Parker was born May 26, 1757, in West Greenwich Kent County, Rhode Island. The names of his parents are not shown. 
While living at West Greenwich, Rhode Island, he enlisted at
Bennington, Vermont, about the last of July,1776, as private in Captain Robinson's company in Colonel Mott's Connecticut regiment and served until about the middle of January,1777.  Immediately after his return home he enlisted and served one half month as private in Captain Draper's company in Colonel Tilness' Rhode Island regiment.
Immediately after this service he enlisted and served one half month as private in Captain Austin's company in Colonel Tilness' Rhode Island regiment.
He enlisted about the first of June, 1777, in Captain Benjamin Hoppin's company in Colonel John Topham's Rhode Island regiment and was discharged March 16, 1778, having served as private and corporal.
He enlisted about the first of June, 1778, and served until March 16, 1779, as corporal in Captain Benjamin Hoppin's
company in Colonel John Topham's Rhode Island regiment and was in the
battle of Rhode Island. He moved from West Greenwich, Rhode Island, to Pownal, Bennington County, Vermont, in 1780, and in October of that year he enlisted and served one half month as private in Captain Briggs' Vermont company.
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John Parker was allowed pension on his application executed August 6, 1832, at which time he was living in Rupert, Vermont, having moved there from Pownal, Vermont.
In 1854 Joseph Parker of Rupert, Vermont, stated that he was the son of John Parker, late of Rupert, but he did not give the date relative to the soldier's family.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension of John Parker, the name and address of the person to whom it was paid and possibly the date of soldier's death, it is suggested that you address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Officer, Records Division, Washington, D.C., giving the following data:
John Parker, Certificate 28090, issued February 15, 1834 rate $57.34 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Vermont Agency
Very truly yours
A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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1920 May 24 Hist. to Mrs. P. [unreadable]  
1836. Jan. 21. Hon. Daniel [unreadable] ask cost of photos 
1936. Feb. 8. Hist. to  Daniel A Reed. 
1934 Feb. 12. Photos to Daniel A. Reed 
1939 Apr. 3. hist to Mr. Edwin E. Ellis – 
Rev War
14.105 
INVALID
File No. 14,105  
John Parker 
Pri. Rev. War 
Act: June 7 1832 
Index: -- Vol. Page 290 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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(totally black, unreadable)
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Hon Hiland Hall MC
Washington City D. C. 
1066.10
1013.60
56
106960
Joseph Parker
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West Rupert March 2d 1842 
Dear Sir 
As I have not received any communication in relation to my fathers pention I have come to the conclusion that Judge Cowell has not visited Washington this winter & through the multitude of confused business than it has escaped your mind. I have left it with your Judgment to manage not doubting your ability & willingness to do it and I doubt not that the papers show an incease of pention, & when carefully & fully presented will be obtained.  I will not to urge a burthensome business upon you without compensation & should your business he such that you could not give it a propper investigation I recommend to your assistance Hon B. Blair of Salem NY is a friend of mine but Sir I leave it all to your wisdom in hopes that he will yet receive something in Justice.
With respects is your most Obedient & humble Servant 
Joseph Parker
Hon H. Hall
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Benj Cowell Esq Providence May 3 1841
CC
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113
Pen Off May 7th ’41 
Sir
In answer to yours respecting the case of John Parker of Vermont.   I have to inform you that the facts set forth in the certificate & deposition were already on file, and were duly considered in the various letters to Hon Hiland Hall upon the several applications for an increase from Dec 17 ‘36 to 12 Jany ‘41 the respective dates of the first & last communication to that Gentleman.  The rolls of Tophams Regt are in this Office and the records of Vermont shew the service in that state.    He served but 4 mo & 20 days in Tophams Regt in ‘78 & 7 months in 77 - He is not entitled to any increase and after close examination of his paper he has been so informed repeatedly 
Benja Cowell Esq 
Providence R. I.
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Jno Parker 
July ’76 6 ½ Capt Robinson Col. Mott Conn
½ sub [substitute]  R. I. service
½ sub [substitute] R. I. 
June 77 8 ½ Hoppin, Topham
June 78 8 ½ Hoppin, Topham
Oct 80 1 ½ Briggs Vermont
76 – 6 / 
77 – 1 / 
1 June 77 9 ½ pri
1 June 78 9 ½ Copl } x
On Hoppers roll as priv from  + 10 Apl 78 to Sept 78 4 mo 20 
Bundle No. 1
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Mr Joseph Parker
West Rupert
Bennington Co
Vermont
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Providence Sept 20 1841 
Dr Sir
I received yours of 15 inst on Saturday & in answer have to say that I have not the least objection to your employing any one else in obtaining increase of your fathers pension.  My own impression is that he is entitled to a greater pension than he now draws and I think the amount of depreciation proves it beyond all question.   He was allowed almost $100 for depreciation only.   This clearly shews he performed more service than has been allowed.   I think you had better get Mr Hall your Member of Congress to whom Mr Edwards refers in his letter to call on him on his return to Washington & examine
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the case with him & all the facts & statements particularly those I sent him - I myself expect to be in Washington some time in December next  & will render all the assistance I can if you Mr Hall should desire.
I am respectfully yr Obt Svt 
Benj Cowell
Mr. Joseph Parker
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State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. 
Secretary's Office April 10. AD 1841 
I certify, that at the session of the General assembly of said State holden in June seventeen hundred seventy seven (1777) Benjamin Hoppin was appointed a Captain in Col. Stanton's Regiment in the Brigade raised for fifteen months.  I also certify that at the session holden in December seventeen hundred seventy seven (1777) an act was passed for raising and equipping Fifteen hundred men, to serve until the sixteenth day of March seventeen hundred seventy nine (1779) and that Benjamin Hoppin was appointed a Captain in the Second Battalion thereof: and that at February Session following (1778) John Topham was appointed Colonel of said Battalion. I further certify that at the February session seventeen hundred seventy nine (1779) an act was passed for raising and equipping Fifteen hundred men for one year unless sooner discharged, and that John Topham was appointed Colonel of the Second Battalion, and Benjamin Hoppin a Captain in the same all which appears of record in this office. 
Henry Bowen Secry
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Providence April 21 1841

Sir
I have been requested by Mr Joseph Parker a son of Mr John Parker of Vermont whose name is on the pension Roll of Vermont to send you the enclosed testimony & to make a statement in his behalf with a view to have his pension increased. He now draws I understand but 57.34 per annum but if he served 18 months as Corporal & 6 months as a private his pension aught to be about $91 per annum. That he did serve 18 months as Corporal there cannot I think be a single doubt, as to his service of 6 months I know nothing about it. The "fifteen months" service began in December 1776 soon after the British took possession of Newport in this state but in June 1777 further enlistments & appointments of officers were made to serve out the remainder of the term to wit until March 16 1778 - It was in June 1777, that Capt Hoppin was appointed a
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Captain in Stantons regiment (see Secretarys certificate) & John Parker enlisted for 9 months & served out his time, Before the time expired however for which this regiment was raised, to wit in December 1777 it was again ordered to be raised & equipped to serve until 16 of March 1779 & again was Capt Hoppin appointed Captain & Col John Topham. Colonel & it will appear by the enclosed testimony that John Parker again enlisted as Corporal & served in Capt Hoppins Company until said 16 of March 1779 - The regiment was again raised for the third time for another 12 months & Capt Hoppin was again appointed Captain & Col Topham the Colonel but under this third enlistment John Parker does not make any claim He did not serve nor does it appear his witness Ezek Roberts did, - But they both served the two first terms of service & these statements are fully confirmed by the records of this stated allowing depreciation on their wages, to which record evidence
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I now beg leave to call your particular attention

John Parker was allowed for depreciation of 18 1.1 equal to $93.52. It will appear at once that this sum proves more than could have been performed, as Corporal under any one enlistment for 9 months, the service that John Parker performed must therefore have been done under two enlistments at least, Is this not a fair conclusion? But this conclusion is made much stronger by looking to the scale of depreciation of paper money during these enlistments - By turning to the "Far (illegible)" of Washingtons acts against the United States for his services as Commander in Chief, you will find the side of depreciation was but about 29 or 30 per Ct during the year 1777 - The depreciation therefore as a Corporals pay for 9 months would be about $25 In 1778 & to March 79 it was perhaps on an avarage 75 or 80 per cent hence
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the depreciation on a Corporals pay for 9 months would be about 65 there two same amount almost to what was allowed him by the Committee in 1785, not knowing the exact scale the Committee adopted we cannot ascertain precisely. It is near enough, however, to corroborate, fully the parol testimony of the witness.

It will be perceived that the witness Ezek Roberts corrects some mistakes which he made in his former affidavit -They are however but trifling considering the great length of time that has elapsed since the facts took place - 

In behalf of John Parker I have to request that his claim may be again examined & allowed 

I am respectfully
Your obt svt
Benja Cowell

J L Edwards Esq
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Ho Reps
Washington Jany 4, 1841

Sir,
I enclose additional testimony of additional service of John Parker at present a pensioner under the act of 1832, for a small sum. May I ask you to examine his case as connected with the testimony now furnished, & inform me whether he may not be allowed further service --John Parker of Bennington Co, Vt.

Respectfully yr
H. Hall

Col Edwards
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I Ezek Roberts of Cranston, in the County of Providence and State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, do certify and say that I am eighty years old in the month of May or June 1777, I enlisted as a private in a company commanded by Captain Benjamin Hoppin and in a regiment of Rhode Island State Troops under the command of Col. John Topham, I enlisted in what was called the fifteen months service which commenced in December 1776, and ended in March 1778 my time ended in March 1778 I served nine months, and I further certify and say that during all the time I was in said company I well remember a man by the name of John Parker, he used to be called [unreadable] “John"  he was a corporal, and he served during all the time I did in that grade and capacity. After my time was out I again enlisted in Captain Dyers Company or rather, I enlisted again in Captain Hoppin's company but served in Captain Dyers company in the same regiment for one year ending March 1779.  I have a distinct recollection that John Parker Continued to serve in said company of Captain Hoppin during said year. In our second enlistment he served in different companies but served in the same regiment. I believe that John Parker served as corporal in his second enlistment.
Ezek Roberts
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Providence  ss}  In Cranston on this twentieth day of August A. D. 1840, personally appeared before me Ezek Roberts, Subscribed to the aforegoing deposition, and made solemn oath of the truth of the same and I do certify that said Ezek Roberts is a credible witness, and that his statements are entitled to full credit. T
Gamaliel L. Dwight Public Notary
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State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations 
Secretary's Office Aug. 24. 1840 
I Henry Bowen Secretary of said State and keeper of the Records and the Seal thereof Do Certify, that at the session of the General assembly of said State holden in June seventeen hundred seventy seven (1777) Benjamin Hoppen was chosen Captain in Col. Stanton Regiment in the Brigade raising for fifteen months: 
That at the December session on said year the said Hoppen was chosen Captain in a Brigade ordered at said session to be raised, whose term of service should expire on the sixteenth day of March seventeen hundred seventy nine, unless sooner discharged by the assembly, as appears by the form of Enlistment. 
I further certify, that at the date of the official certificate by him annexed, Gamaliel L Dwight was a Public Notary within the County of Providence, duly elected and commissioned; all which appears of record.  
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the Seal of said State at Providence, the day and year first above written. 
Henry Bowen
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Vermont Ret’d 
18 Dec. 1833
Manchester Vt. 
Dec. 9
Free
Hon J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Manchester 5 Dec 1833 
Enclosed I send the declaration of John Parker, you will perceive he has made a supplemental declaration, & has found the witnesses by whom his services are proved.   I presume therefore all difficulties in regard to be application are removed.  Be so good as to cause the necessary Examination to be made, & to advise me of the result as soon as the business of the Department will allow.   
I am Your Very Most  Obt Servant
 John Aiken
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Copy for Hon  H. Hall W. Cowell's certificate case of Mr Parker
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Joseph Parkers affidavit
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I Joseph Parker of Rupert in the County of Bennington & State of Vermont of lawful age depose testify & say that at the request of my father John Parker of said Rupert, I went to Bennington to see one Elijah Fay of said Bennington to get his testimony in relation to the enlistment of my Father in the service of the United States during the war of the Revolution. I further say that I found said Fay a very aged & infirm man being as this deponent was informed by him & verily believes about ninety years of age. This deponent further says that said Fays mental powers especially this memory very much impaired, so much so that he could tell no consistent story about the business on which I wished to consult him.  After some conversation with him said Fay told this deponent that he had some recollection that a man [unreadable] with him enlisted into the service but what his name was he could not recollect.   
Joseph Parker 
State of Vermont 
Bennington County ss }   Personally appeared Joseph Parker the above named deponent and made solemn oath that the facts set forth in the above affidavit by him subscribed are true, and I further certify that the said Joseph Parker is a credible witness & sustains a good moral character 1833-  
John Aiken Justice of peace
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State of Vermont   I Henry Robinson Clerk of the  County Court for Bennington County do hereby certify that John Aiken Esq whose signature appears to the foregoing is a Justice of the peace in & for County duly commissioned & qualified that his In Signature is genuine 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of our Court at the Chester this 7th day of September A.D. 1833 & of the Independence of the U.S. the Fifty Eighth 
Henry Robinson
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Peleg Greens Affidavit
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I Peleg Green of Clarendon in the County of Rutland & State of Vermont being eighty five years of age do testify & say that I was born in North Kingston in the State of Rhode Island & laid in said State in the town of West Greenwich in the year 1777 was well acquainted with John Parker then of that town that he enlisted into the United States service in the Rhode Island Sound as near as I can recollect he enlisted in the spring of the year 1777 but from the great length of time which has since elapsed I can not recollect the officers under which he enlisted with nor can I recollect the length of time for which he enlisted.  
Witness Daniel S. Ewing 
Peleg Green his mark 
State of Vermont 
Rutland County ss}  Clarendon July 23 AD 1833 then personally appeared Peleg Green the signer of the above affidavit & after being duly cautioned & carefully examined made solemn oath that the same contains the truth & nothing but the truth before me. 
Daniel S. Ewing Justice Peace 
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Peleg Green the person who is named above & I consider him entitled to full credit as a man of truth & veracity.  
Daniel S. Ewing 
State of Vermont Rutland County I Robert Pierpoint Clerk of the County Court for the County of Rutland certify that Daniel S. Ewing is a Justice of the peace for said County duly commissioned and that his signature above is genuine.   
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Rutland this 25th day of November A.D. 1833 
R. Pierpoint
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Samuel Atwoods Affidavit
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State of New York 
Washington County ss  Samuel Atwood of Whitehall in the County and State aforesaid aged seventy seven years being duly sworn saith that in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six this Deponent enlisted at Bennington in the State of Vermont in Captain Robinson's Company in Col Motts Regiment of Connecticut State troops & served in said Company and Regiment from some time in May to the last day of November in that year.  That a few days after this Deponent had [unreadable] the said service and he thinks some time in the month of May 1776 it might have been the forepart of June, he engaged two or three men among whom was one John Parker who then resided in Bennington aforesaid to enter the said service with him and this Deponent Saith that the said John Parker did enter said service in May or June 1776 in the same and Regiment with this Deponent & that he served therein in company with this Deponent from that time until the last day of November in the same year in which day said company and Regiment was discharged at Mount Independence near Ticonderoga, that this Deponent has since been informed and believing that the said John Parker now resides in Rupert in the State of Vermont.
Samuel Atwood
Subscribed & Sworn this 29th day of August 1833 before me & I hereby certify that said Samuel Atwood is a credible witness & sustains a good moral character. 
W. H. Parker Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Washington County } ss  I, Jeru S Leigh Clerk of the said County do certify that William H. Parker Esq. before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same a Justice of the peace of the said County and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit, to be his proper hand writing and signature.  
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the said County this 30th day of August 1833 
J.S. Leigh Clk
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(Copy) 
Rhode Island District &c Clerks Office U.S. District Court
Providence Jany 28, 1834 
I certify that it appears from the Roll of a Regt name in this office raised by the State of Rhode Island during the Revolutionary War first commanded by Col Joseph Stanton in the year 1777 & subsequently in 1778 & 1779 by Col John Topham that the name of “John Parker”  is borne on said roll as a corporal.  It does not appear how long he served. It appears said roll was made up in the year 1785 & [unreadable] amount of depreciation wages due each & that £28. 1S. 1d was found due said John. 
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & affixed the seal of said office this 28th day of Jany 1834 
Benja Cowell Clk
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Rhode Island District

Clerks office U. S. District court, Providence
Jany 28 1834

I certify that it appears from the roll of a regiment now in this office raised by the State of Rhode Island, during the Revolutionary was first commanded by Col. Joseph Stanton in the year 1777, and subsequently in 1778 & 1779 by Col John Topham that the name of "John Parker" is borne on said roll as a Corporal, It does not appear how long he served. It appears said roll was made up in the year 1785 to ascertain the amount of depreciation of wages due each & that £28 .1 .1 was found due said John.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said office this 28th day of Jany 1834
Benja Cowell Clerk

This of course includes only service in Topham 1778
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Vt
Memorandum


 Hon H. Hall
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Wish to call the attention of the Com of Pensions to the case of John Parker Suspended papers returned with additional testimony Vt. Roll 
Hiland Hall 
This case among papers rec’d by mail RL  
Manchester Co. Vt.
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[illegible] only

Joseph Parker Esq
West Rupert
Bennington Co
Vermont
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Providence Sept 12 1840

Dear Sir

[illegible] of the said [illegible] enclosing $12 for payment of my Bill for which accept my thanks for prompt payment. The evidence shows 21 months service clearly & conclusively as Corporal - & so does this amount of dispensation allowed him the pay of a Corporal was $84 per annum.
21 months would amount to $147. The dispensation on this was as allowed by the Committee L28 | | equal to $93.52 I have not now the table of dispensation before me but in 1777 it was not great, in 1778 it was greater but allowing it to be $65 percent for [illegible] years and it would not be more about the dispensation would amount to the sum allowed by the Committee Mr John Parker pensioner ought to be for 21 months service as a Corporal $73.91 per annum or thereabouts. 
You desire me to finish the business at the Pension office at Washington this I could not do unless I had Mr Parker certificate which must be sent in with
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the evidence before a new one will be granted and besides this, inasmuch as I have spent a great deal of time in searching ancient records & collecting rolls of Revolutionary soldiers & also in making myself familiar with all the Pension laws & regulations respecting them I should charge a for their compensation in case of [illegible]. I have therefore concluded to send you the evidence I have taken. If however you wish for my further assistance you may return it to me at my expense for the postage. If the Parkers pension is now only for 12 months he has something like 300 dollars back arrearages due him.

I am respectfully your obt svt
Benja Cowell

My charge was to be $200 in case the pension was increased & nothing unless it was

J. Parker Esq
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I Ezek Roberts of Cranston, in the County of Providence and State of Rhode Isl. and aged eighty-one years do further certify in correction of my former affidavit in reference to the service of John Parker, a corporal in the company in which I served as I before testified I enlisted in Captain Hoppin's company in 1777 in what was called the fifteen months service ending March 1778. I distinctly remember the year of my enlistment from the circumstance that it was in the year of Gen. Spencers expedition, our regiment was then stationed at Howland's ferry. Col. Stanton commanded the regiment, and not Col. Topham, as I before stated, and this is the correction I wish to make. Col. Topham commanded the regiment when I enlisted a second time the year following on my second enlistment in 1778. enlisted in the same Captain Hoppin's company but was put into Captain Dyer's company. I distinctly remember the year of my second enlistment from
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the circumstance that it was the year of Sullivans expedition in which I was taken prisoner and was kept a prisoner for twenty days and was exchanged in November, until which exchange I was permitted to go upon parole after which I joined my company and served out my time. The said John Parker was a non commissioned officer in the regiment all the time I belonged to it. My second enlistment expired March 1779.  Of the above facts I have a most distinct recollection. 
Ezek Roberts 
Providence SS} In Providence on this 26th day of March, A.D. 1841 personally appeared before me Ezek Roberts subscriber to the aforegoing, and made solemn oath of the truth of the same, and I do certify that said Ezek is a credible witness. 
Gamaliel L Dwight Justice of the Peace
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Providence April 20 1841 I hereby certify that I have in my possession a copy of a roll of those officers & soldiers belonging to Col John Topham regiment of Rhode Island State Troops during the war of the revolution who were allowed depreciation on their wages as reported by a [unreadable] in October 1785 & that on said roll the name of John Parker appears as Corporal & the sum of  £28 .1 .1  allowed as due him for depreciation. 
Benja Cowell 
Providence SS} In Providence on this twentieth day of April A. D. 1841 personally appeared before me Benjamin Cowell subscriber to the aforegoing and made oath to the truth of the same, and I do certify that I have been during the greater portion of my life acquainted with said Benjamin Cowell and that no man's character stands higher in their community for truth and veracity. 
Gamaliel L Dwight Justice of the Peace
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State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations
Providence SS}

I Albert G. Greene Clerk of the Municipal Court of the City of Providence in the state aforesaid do hereby certify that Gamaliel L. Dwight before whom the aforegoing depositions of Ezek Roberts and Benjamin Cowell were given, was at the time of the Laws thereof a Justice of the Peace within and for said City, duly elected: and that his signatures [illegible] are genuine.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto at my hand & the seal of said Court this 21st day of April A.D. [illegible]
Albert G. Greene
Clerk
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Pension Office
February 12, 1855.

Sir,

I have [illegible] and duly considered your communication of the 5th instant, claiming our increase of the pension in the case of John Park, a Revolutionary pensioner. A similar application was made in 1841 and rejected for the reasons assigned in a letter to Benjamin Cowell, of Providence R. I. dated May 7, 1841, a copy of which I herewith enclose. It will then be seen that there does not appear to be any foundation for a claim for increase of pension in this case.

Very respectfully
[illegible]

Joseph Parker esq}
West Rupert}
Vermont}
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West Rupert Vt Feb 5 1855

Commissioner of Pensions

Dear Sir

Several communications from different sources have come to me ( a son & heir of John Parker a Revolutionary pensioner late of Rupert) stating that there was still due him or his heirs: for his service in the Revolution.

As I have not much an [illegible] in there [illegible] I have directed this to you. Please therefore give a statement whether there is anything due & if so to what amount & whether his services in 1777 ought not to be allowed & whether there is any land due him to. Please answer the above & it will much oblige

Yours respectfully
Joseph Parker

I am of Pensions
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DANIEL A REED
43RD Dist. New York

Congress of the United States
house of Representatives
Washington, D.C.

January 20, 1936.

Veterans Administration,

Attn: Revolutionary and 1812 Wars Section.

Confirming telephone conversation with Mrs. Finch this morning, I wish to request six photostatic copies of an affidavit made out by John Parker, of West Ruppert, Vt., before his member of Congress, stating his service in the Revolutionary War.

This affidavit Mrs. Reed saw in his pension file some eighteen years ago.

If there is any expense I shall be very glad to bear it.

Yours sincerely,
Daniel A. Reed
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January 21, 1956

BA-J/[illegible]:MLB
John Parker S. 14105

Honorable Daniel A Reed
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C.

My dear Mr. Reed:

Reference is made to your letter of January 20, in which you request six photostatic copies of an affidavit made by one John Parker, of West Rupert, Vermont, before his member of Congress, stating his service in the Revolutionary War, this affidavit having been read by Mrs. Reed about eighteen years ago.

The record has been found of only one John Parker, of Rupert, Vermont. The papers in his claim for pension, S. 14105, have been examined and no record found of his having made an affidavit before a member of Congress.  The records show that his affidavits in his application for pension were made before the Judge of the Probate Court in the District of Manchester, Bennington County, Vermont.

The number of pages including his affidavits is eight. The cost of the photostatic copies is twenty-five cents a page, making the cost of a single set of copies $2.00, and the cost of six sets, $12.00. You will kindly make remittance by check or money order drawn to the order of the Treasurer of the United States. The copies will then be made and mailed to you.

It may interest you to know that there are approximately twenty five pages more in this claim; also, that all the papers will be examined carefully and the data found in regard to residences, service, family, etc., incorporated in an official report for you, for which there will be no charge.  These reports have been accepted by many historical, patriotic and genealogical societies as [illegible] and might prove to be just what Mrs. Reed needs in her research.

Very truly yours

A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator

ordered hist. also 7
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#304
Rev. & 1812
BA-J/MCS

February 10, 1936
Rev, & 1812 Wars Section
War & Navy 970

Rev. War pension claim of John Parker S. 14105 Actual 
1 of each page
Congressional
$2.00

8 pages

Kindly leave margin of 1 1/2 inches at top of each page and return papers in each case in folder with corresponding name and number.

Chief of Rev. & 1812 Wars Sect.

handwritten note:
Soldiers decl. Aug 6 1832 continuing with affidavit of David Wilson, Josiah Rising, the court, ending with sig. of "Henry Robinson Register" = 6 pages 
Soldiers decl. beginning: "John Parker , the above named declarant personally appeared"  just one page & continuing on 2" page dated July 20, 1833. Myron Clark  - Judge of Probate & Henry Robinson Register  - same date - = 2 p
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Hon. DANIEL A REED
43D DIST. NEW YORK
ada
Congress of the United States
House of Representatives
Washington, D. C.

January 29, 1936. BA-J

BA-J/MMHF:MLB
JOHN PARKER
S 14105
Mr. A. D. Hiller,
Executive Assistant to the Administrator,
Veterans Administration.
Dear Mr. Hiller:
12582
Thank you for your letter of January 21st.
I am enclosing check for $2.00 and should appreciate one set of the photostatic copies.

Referring to the last paragraph of your letter, I
should also like to have a copy of the official report.
Yours sincerely,
Davis A. Reed
check for $200/100 enclosed
[stamp in lower right corner]
RECEIVED
JAN 30 1965
MAIL SUB-DIV.
VETS ADM 1
CONG #
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February 8, 1936
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
BA-J/MCS
John Parker, S. 14105
Honorable Daniel A. Reed
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C.

My dear Mr. Reed:
Reference is made to your letter of January 29, 1936, requesting a copy of the official report on the Revolutionary War pension claim of John Parker, S. 14105, and enclosing check for $2.00 for photostatic copy of eight pages of this claim.

The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, S. 14105, based upon the military service of John Parker.

This soldier was born May 26, 1757, in West Greenwich, Kent County, Rhode Island.

While living at West Greenwich, Rhode Island, he enlisted at Bennington, Vermont, about the last of July, 1776, as private in Captain Robinson's company in Colonel Mott's Connecticut regiment and served until about the middle of January, 1777. Immediately after his return home he enlisted and served one half month as private in Captain Draper's company in Colonel Tilness' Rhode Island regiment. Immediately after this
service he enlisted and served one half month as private in Captain Austin's company in Colonel Tilness' Rhode Island regiment. He enlisted
about the first of June, 1777, in Captain Benjamin Hoppin's company in Colonel John Topham's Rhode Island regiment and was discharged March 16, 1778, having served as private and corporal. He enlisted about the first of June, 1778, and served until March 16, 1779, as corporal in Captain Benjamin Hoppin's company in Colonel John Topham's Rhode Island regiment
and was in the battle of Rhode Island. He moved from West Greenwich, Rhode Island, to Pownal, Bennington County, Vermont, in 1780, and in
October of that year he enlisted and served one half month as private in Captain Briggs' Vermont company.
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John Parker was allowed pension on his
application executed August 6, 1832, at which time he was living in Rupert, Vermont, having moved there from Pownal, Vermont.
In 1854 Joseph Parker of Rupert, Vermont, stated that he was the son of John Parker, late of Rupert, but he did not give the date of soldier's death. The papers in this claim contain no further data relative to the soldier's family.
The photostatic copies will follow.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.    3-525
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
S. F. 14.105
Washington, D. C. , _________________, 19____

In reply to your request of ________________, received _______________
for a statement of the military history of John Parker a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
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DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.  |  
LENGTH OF SERVICE.  |  RANK.  |  OFFICERS UNDER WHO SERVICE WAS RENDERED
SERVICE.  CAPTAIN.  |  COLONEL.  |  STATE.
July 1776  |  Jan'y 1777  |  Pvt.  |  Robinson  |  Mott  |  Conn.
1777  |  1/2 mo.  |  "  |  Draper  |  Tilness  |  R.I.
1777  |  1/2 mo  |  "  |  Austin  |  Tilness  |  "
June 1. 1777  |  Mch. 16.1778  |  Pvt. & Corpl  |  Benjamin Hoppin  |  Joseph Stanton  |  "
June 1, 1778  |  Mch. 16.1779  |  Corp'l  |  Benjamin Hoppin  |  John Topham  |  "
Oct. 1780  |  1 1/2 mo.  |  --  |  Briggs  |  to alarm to Castleton  |  Vt.
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Battles engaged in, Rhode Island
Residence of soldier at enlistment, West Greenwich, Kent Co. R.I. thru until 1780
Date of application for pension, Aug. 6. 1832. His et. al.
Residence at date of application, Rupert, Bennington Co., Vt.
Age at date of application, b. May 26. 1757 at West Greenwich, Kent Co. R.I.
Remarks:  Lou Joseph was a resident of West Rupert, Vt. in 1855. No other family data.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
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Fredonia NY
Apr. 3 -. 1920
Rev War
Bureau of Pensions
Dear Sir -
Can you assist me in verifying the fact that John Parker from R I. was a Rev. Soldier & pensioner?
Also please send me any family data. His wife
was _______ Cole & he died in Rupert Vt I think
Very Resp fully
Mrs S.T.   Ella S Crocker
Fredonia NY
Registrar Benj. Prescott
Chapter D.A.R.
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Sons of the American Revolution
Buffalo Chapter
EDWIN E. ELLIS
REGISTRAR
238 HUNTINGTON AVENUE
BUFFALO, N. Y.
March 25th, 1939.

Mr. A. B. Hiller, Executive Assistant
To the Administrator
Veterans Administration
Washington, D. C.

My dear Mr. Hiller:
At the suggestion of Kenneth F. Cramer, Acting Adjutant General of Connecticut (Hartford), I am
writing you for detailed service which he did not have in his office. So much time has elapsed in hearing from his office that I am asking, as a special favor, that you give this inquiry special and immediate attention.

From your files will you kindly give me what records you have on the pension claim of -
JOHN PARKER
Records show that he was born in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1756, and died in West Rupert, Vermont, September 26th, 1842. He was placed on the Pension Roll in Vermont on February 15th, 1834 and saw Service with the Connecticut
Troops during the Revolutionary War.

I will appreciate your making a precedent of this request, and let me have an immediate answer.
Very truly yours
Edwin E. Ellis
Registrar.
[seal on bottom right]
RECEIVED
MAR 27 1939
[illegible] SUB-[illegible] 
VETS. ADM 21
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