Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 10601, Warren Estabrooks, R.I.
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Service R.I. [Rhode Island]
Estabrooks Warren Eastabrook
Number S10601
Carded
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Vermont 18.939
Warren Eastabrook of Windham in the State of Vermont who was a Pr [Private] in the Company commanded by Captain [blank] of the Regt [Regiment] commanded by Gen'l [General] Spencer in the R. [Rhode] Island [illegible] Militia.
Ctf 18939
23 Mo. Private $75.67
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 76 dollars 67 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of Nov. [November] 1833 and sent to James Elliot, New Fane Vt [Vermont]
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. [September] 1833 191.67
Semi-anl [Semi-annual] allowance ending 4 Mch [March] 34 38.33 1/2
$230.00
Revolutionary Claim Act June 7 1832
Recorded by J. T. Sprague Clerk
Book E Vol 3 Page 63
X
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Warren [illegible]
August 1832
No 2867
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[illegible] Vermont
[illegible] County ss.
Probate Court for the District of Marlboro
On this 1st day of August A.D. 1832
appeared in open Court Warren Eastabrooks
Court of Probate now sitting, a resident of Bratt[illegible] in the County of Windham aged eighty three 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 7th 1832 - That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and [illegible] as herein stated to wit-I Warren Eastabrooks and on oath depose and say that in the month of August 1775 into the service under Captain William Barton 
and Lieutenant [illegible] Martin. I enlisted as a Minute man to be ready whenever called upon. I enlisted at the town of Warren in the State of Rhode Island at which place I then resided Previous to this time I was drafted immediately on the news [illegible] of the 
Lexington battle in April 1775 and started for that place but the orders were countermanded and [illegible] and to Warren. During the last week of August I was ordered to New Port. We remained at Newport a few days
and were then ordered to Howland's ferry under a built fort & remained 44 days until the expiration of our term of enlistment which was then three months. The officer who gave me a discharge was Major Benjamin Bosworth of Bristol. This discharge I kept a number of years 
but it is now lost. About the 1st of May following I was drafted into a company commanded by Capt [Captain] John Kinnier [Kincaid?] for two months served out that time and until the month of January following I was drafted several times for different periods and served about half the time as near as I can recollect About the 1st of January 1777 I was drafted for three months into a company commanded by Capt [Captain] Ezra Armsbury or Ormsbee. During this three months I
was stationed at Bristol & Bristol ferry and served out the whole term. From this time till March 1778, I was drafted a number of times as alarms took place
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and was out in the service as near as I can recollect about two thirds of the time-- About the first of March 1777. I enlisted under Major Nathan Monroe our company made choice of a captain Silas Duval - The Lieutenant Stephen
Simmons - I enlisted for eight months. We were stationed at a fort in [strike out "Walton"] Bristol on Warren river until the middle of
July Our company was then ordered to pick up all the boats on Taunton, Lee & Coles rivers & bring them to certain place - During the eight months I was stationed at Warren, Howland's Ferry & Bristol fort. The regiment to
which I belonged had as field officers General Benjamin West, Colonel Benjamin Church & Major Benjamin Bosworth. I served out the eight months & returned home to Warren
I suppose that the troops to which I belonged were commanded by General Spencer from Connecticut though I was not
acquainted with him I recd [received] a discharge from Major Nathen Monroe
but I have lost it. I have mentioned that from about the first of July 1776 to the 1st of Jany [January]1777 I was out in various drafts several times about half of the whole [illegible]
Robert Carr commanded the company a part of the time and [illegible] stationed in Bristol & Warren  I was drafted a number of times for a month at a time and many of the times for two weeks or at a time. From the expiration of the three months commencing Jany [January] 1 1777 till March 1778, I was also drafted many times for one month or less comprising I should think on near [illegible] two thirds of the whole period. The distance of time
and the great number of the alarms to which
[illegible] subject and the numerous drafts on which I served [illegible] it impossible to  recollect or state them all particularly-- I hereby relinquish every claim [illegible] to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the pension
roll of the agency of any state-
The following questions were propounded by the court to the applicant
When and in what year were you born?
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At Warren R.I. in 1788
Have you any record of your age and if so where is it? Ans - I have in my family bible
How were you called into the service, were you drafted, did you volunteer or were you a substitute?
Ans - I was called into the same by draft except the two enlistment which I have already mentioned 
Where and you living when called into the service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary war and where do you now live?
Ans - I lived at Warren in the State of Rhode Island the time when I was called into the service since 1779 I have lived in the town of Battleboro and state of Vermont until this time. I [ilegible] to persons living in my neighborhood [illegible] know my character for truth and [illegible] believe that I served as stated in the war of the revolution to wit Samuel Whiting, Stephen Greenleaf, Hezekiah
Salisbury - Rutherford Hayes, Jedediah L Stark
I have no documentary evidence I know of no person [illegible] I can [illegible] to prove my service.
Sworn and subscribed to the day & year aforesaid. [signed] Warren Eastabrook
Marshall Miller Judge of Probate
We Jedediah L Stark a clergyman residing in the town of Brattleboro and Stephen Greenleaf residing in the same town hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Warren Eastabrook who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be eighty three 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
[signed] Jedidiah L Stark
Stephen Greenleaf
[illegible]
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And the sd [said] court doe hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting forth 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 Jedediah L Stark who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the town of Battleboro and that Stephen Greenleaf who has also signed the same is a resident in the same Battleboro and is a credible person and that this statement is entitled to credit.
I James Elliot, Register of the Probate Court for the District of Marlboro in the state of Vermont do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Warren Eastabrooks for a pension - In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 1st day of August AD 1832
[signed] James Elliot
Probate Register
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Warrent Eastbrook
Pension Case
New Declar'n [Declaration] and Affidavits
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State of [Strike out "Wind..] Vermont
Windham County ss
Additional Declaration and Statement by [illegible] Warren Eastabrooks
Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace within and for the said County of Windham Warren Eastabrooks, who being duly sworn, deposeth and saith tht 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 at least 10 days on my first drafting immediately after Lexington battle in April 1775 I served in the Rhode Island Troops or Militia as a private  months - 0 [zero], Days 10 [ten]
For at least 50 days, beginning the last week in Augt [August] 1775. I [strike out "served"] was ordered out and served in the Rhode Island State Troops or Militia as a private [months] 1, [Days] 20
For 2 months, beginning the 1st May 1776, I served on a drafting in said troops as a private 
[months] 2, [days] 0 [zero]
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For at least 2 months, beginning in July 1776 and ending January 1777. I served in said Troops, as a private on several draftings [months] 2, [days] 0 [zero]
For 3 months, beginning January 1, 1777 I was drafted and served in said Troops as a private [months] 3, [days] 0 [zero]
For at lease 6 months, beginning April 1 1777 till March 1, 1778 I [strike out "served'] served on several draftings in said troops, as a private [months] 6, [days] 0 [zero]
For at least 8 months beginning as early as the 15th of March 1778 I served on enlistment, in Rhode Island State Troops as a private [months] 8, [days] 0 [zero]
Total months 20 [days] [zero]
And for such services I claim a pension and he recollects that while out on one of the aforesd [aforesaid] drafting, Gen'l Prescott of the Brittish Army was take prisioner and that Capt Barton was slightly wounded at another time and that he has been unable to find the evidence of James [illegible] since his first declaration and
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that he is now rising of 84 years of age and has been blind in both eyes for more than ten years
Warren Estabrooks
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Warren Estabrooks
(new declar.n)
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State of Vermont
Windham County

Additional statement of Mr. Warren Estabrooks who claims a pension.

Personally appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the peace with in & for the said county of Windham, Warren Estabrooks being duly sworn deposeth & saith in further examination of his revolutionary services. That during the whole of the time he served & thro the revolution his home was at Warren Rhode Island and he belonged to Capt Ezra Anisbury or Ormsbee Company of militia and when he & others from the Company were drafted or short tours [illegible] was visual for a [illegible] or from non commissioned officer  [illegible]....was Benja Bosworth [illegible]...& Thomas Gray and during  [illegible] ...from Jany [illegible]... 1778 he recollects he served at Bristol to watch the enemy (who made,
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regiment attacks upon the shores for plunder) for about three months we were commanded by Robert Carr, Sergeant and William Arnold Ensign, officer of the Warren Company, to which he said Estabrooks belonged this was part of the time under the "General Allegation" of 6 months in his second declaration. 
Warren Estabrooks 

State of Vermont
Windham County
[illegible] Oct. 26, 1833
Personally appeared Warren Estabrooks above named who subscribed to the foregoing affidavit and made oath to the tenth of the same. 
Before me Samuel Elliot
Justice of the Peace

State of Vermont
Windham County Court Clerk Office
New Fare October 29 AD 1833
I certify that Samuel Elliot esquire is one of the justice of the peace within as for the county of Windham aforesaid  [illegible] abound is his signature. Witness said and the seal of the [illegible]
James Elliot Clerk
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April 18, 1936.

Nina F. Moore
New Milford
Pennsylvania
DA-J/ILL Warren Estabrooks S. 10601
Dear Madam
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Warren Easterbrook, a  pensioner. 
The record of Warren Estabrooks or Eastabrook (he signed both ways) is given herein as shown in the papers on file in his
claim for pension, S. 1[illegible], based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
Warren Estabrook or Eastabrook was born in the year 1748 in Warren, Rhode, Island, the name of his parents not shown.
While a resident of Warren, Rhode Island, he enlisted in April 1775, and served as a private  at various times until the latter part 1778, amounting in all to [illegible] months under [illegible] William Barton, John [illegible], and Colonel Benjamin Church, and Thomas Gray in the Rhode Island Troops.
He was allowed pension on his application [illegible] August 3, 1888, at which time he resided in Barttleboro, Windom County, Vermont he had moved there in 1779.
The soldier died June 30, 1838.
The are no data relative to the soldier's family in this claim.
Very truly yours,
A. D. Hiller Assistant to Administrator
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admitted 
23 months
 
J.L. Edwards Esquire, 
Commissioner of Pensions

Washington City
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State of Vermont
Windham County

Brattleboro
June 14, 1833

Personally appeared Warren Eastabrooks above named who subscribed to the foregoing affidavit and made oath to the truth of the same.
Before me Samuel Elliot
Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont
Windham County Court Clerks Office
New Fane
July 8 AD 1833

I certify that Samuel Elliot Esquire is one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the County of Windham aforesaid. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court on the day and year above written.
James Elliot Clerk
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State of Vermont
Windham County
Brattleboro 
July 8, 1833

All the subscribers being in habitant of said Brattleboro & having long known who has made application for a pension and some of is having been near neighbors  to him do cheerfully certify that we have ever considered him as an honest man and that he has been reported & understood to have been in the Revolutionary Service - that he was formerly an active industrious man, about 10 years as near as we can recollect been blind & somewhat infirm in body and mind - he is very aged and destitute of property. 
Reuben Stevens
Sam'l Bailey
Paul Chase
Samuel Clark
Stephen Greenleaf
Reuben Church
Leonard Whitney

State of Vermont - Windham 
Brattleboror July 8, 1833. Personally appeared the several subscriber to this statement & made oath to the same (except Mr. Bailey whose oath I forgot to require)
Samuel Elliot Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont
Windham County

I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the several person who have subscribed & sworn to the within statement in relation to Mr. Warren Eastabrooks that they are men of fair standing and reputation for truth & veracity - that I concur in their statement and the name of  said Eastabrooks was annexed to his within additional statement by his direction & in his presence and that his statement were fully read to him & understood by him at the time - given under my hand at Brattleboro in said county this 8th day of July 1833. 
Sam'l Elliot
Justice of the Peace
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James Chase
affidavit
[W. Eastabrooks case]
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I James Chase of Dummerston in the county of Windham & state of Vermont of lawful age testify & say that at the breaking out of the Revolutionary war I lived at Warren in the state of Rhode Island and lived there will 1780 and was well acquainted with Mr. Warren Eastabrooks now of Brattleboro in said Windham county that I was knowing to said Warren Easterbrooks being out in the service in the state troops of Rhode Island and tho I cannot say precisely how long but verity believe he served a considerable part of the time from the time of Lexington Battle for three years afterwards and I well recollect of seeing him in the service once or turin during his continuance in the army. 
James Chase

State of Vermont
Windham County
Brattleboro June 14, 1833
Personally appeared James Chase above named who subscribed to the foregoing affidavits and made oath to the truth of the same - & I certify that he is a credible witness.
Before me 
James Elliot
Justice of the peace
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State of Vermont
Windham County Court Clerks Office, 
New Fane June 15, 1833

I certify that Samuel Elliot Esquire is one of the Justices of the Peace with in and for the county of Windham aforesaid and that the within is his signature. Witness my hand and the seal of said court. 
James Elliot Clerk
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December 23, 1933

Mrs. Jessie Lyman
223 West. 9th Street
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma

BA-J/ILL
Warrent Eastabrooks
S. 10801

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the the record of Warren Eastbrooks a soldier of the Revolutionary War who drew a pension until his death in 1832.

The record given below is obtained from papers on file in Revolutionary War pension date S.20301 based upon the military service of that Warren Estabrooks or Eastabrooks in that war. His signature appears both ways.

Warren Estabrooks or Eastabrook was born in 1798 in Warren, Rhode Island.

While a resident of Warren, Rhode Island he enlisted in April 1778, and served as private at various times until the latter part of 1779, amounting in all to twenty three months under Captain  William Barton, John Kinman, Ezra Armsbury or Ormsbee, [illegible], and Colonels Benjamin Church and Thomas Gray in the Rhode Island Troops. 

He [illegible] pension on his application [illegible] August 1, 1832 while a resident of Brattleboro Windham County Vermont he had moved there in 1779. 

The soldier died June 29, 1838.

There are no data relative to the family of Warren Estabrooks or Eastabrook in the papers in this claim. 

Very truly yours, 
AD Hillier
Assistant to Administrator
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November 16, 1932.

A. Pratt
89 Bread Street
Boston
Massachusetts

[illegible] /ILL
Warren Estabrooks
S. 10301

Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the record of Warren Easterbrooks (or Estabrook) a Revolutionary War pensioner.

The record given below is obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 10301 based upon the services of Warren Eastabrook, or Estabrooks in that war. He signed both ways. 

Warren Eastabrooks was born in 1745 in Warren, Rhode Island. 

While a resident of Warren, Rhode Island he enlisted in April, 1775, and served as private at various times until the latter part of 1776 amounting in all to twenty three months, under Captains William Barton, John Kinman, Ezra Armsbury or Ormsbee, Silas  [illegible] and Colonels Benjamin Church and Thomas Gray in the Rhode Island troops. 

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 1, 1832, while a resident of Brattleboro Windham County, Vermong he had moved there in 1779. 

The soldier died June 29, 1838.

There are no data relative to his family in the papers in this claim. 

Very truly yours,
A. D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator
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December 16, 1930
Mrs. T.F. Christman
375 West Main Street
Washbash, Indiana

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
IOLL

Dear Madam,
You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S 10821, that Warren Estabrook or Estebroooke was born in 1748 in Warren, Rhode Island.
While a resident of Warren, Rhode Island, he enlisted in April, 1778, and served as a private at various times until the latter part of 1779, assisting in all to twenty three months under Captains William Barton, John Kinman, Ezra Amesbury or Ormsbee, Silas Duval, Colonels Benjamin Church and Thomas Gray in the Rhode Island troops.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 1, 1832, while a resident of Battleboro, Windham County, Vermont, having moved there in 1779.
Soldier died June 19, 1838.
There are no data on file relative to his family.
Very truly yours,
E.W. Morgan
Acting Commissioner.
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information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau

Warren Estabrook or Estabrooks J.F. 10601

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
1775

LENGTH OF SERVICE.
served at Various times in all 23 months

RANK.
Pvt

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.

CAPTAIN.
William Barton

COLONEL.
Benjamin Church

STATE.
R.I

CAPTAIN.
John Kinman

COLONEL.
Thomas Gray

CAPTAIN.
Ezra Armsbury or Ormsbee

CAPTAIN.
Silas Duval

Battles engaged in, 
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Warren R.I.
Date of application for pension, Aug. 1, 1832 His cl was al
Residence at date of application, Brattleboro, Windham Co. Vt.
Age at date of application born at Warren R.I. in 1748. died June 29. 1838*
Remarks:
*from agency bookl
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C.W. &  E. Div. F.S. W. 10601
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS, WASHINGTON, D. C., February 21, 1893.
Sirs
Replying to your communication of the 7th instant, received in this Bureau by the reference of Hon. Redfield Proctor, United States Senator, in which you request information concerning the military history of WARREN ESTABROOK, a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, I have to inform you that he was granted a pension for 23 months actual service in that war as a private with the Rhode Island troops, having enlisted at Warren, R. I., in April, 1775, and having been discharged finally in the latter part of the year 1778. He mentions the following in his declaration as officers under whom he served:
Capt. William Barton, Capt. John Kinman, Capt. Silas Duval, Col. Benjamin Church, Maj. Nathan Monroe, and Capt. Robert Carr. No mention made of any battles in which he participated.
On August 1, 1832, the date of his application for pension, he was a resident of Brattleboro, Vt., and eighty-three years of age, having been born at Warren, R. I., in the year 1748.
His name as signed to the declaration is spelled as above.
Very respectfully, Commissioner
A. Marshall, Cashier, Peoples Nat. Bk., Brattleboro, Vt.
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Chas. W. Lyman, D.D.S. 505-13 Osler Building Oklahoma City, Okla.
December 8, 1932
Director of Pensions Washington D.C.
Dear Sir
If possible will you kindly furnish me with Revolutionary War record of Warren Easterbrook, born at Warren R.I. Aug 23 1748 moved to Brattleboro Vt in 1779. He was in Revolutionary War and drew a pension while he lived. He died June 29 1838.  The spelling of the name varies Estabrook - Esterbrook - Easterbrooks, etc. I hope this information is sufficient. Thanking you I am respectfully Mrs. Jessie Lyman 229 West 9th St Oklahoma City Okla.
[circular stamp] 12pm Received Dec 13 1932 Mail Sub-Div Vet Adm Pension 3
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New Milford, Pa. April 3, 1934
Veterans Administration Washington D.C.
Dear Sir:
Please give me the war record of my great great Grandfather Warren Easterbrook who then resided at Brattleboro Vermont. He was a pensioner at the time of his death of the Revolutionary War.
Thanking you respectfully.
Nina F. Moore R.N., New Milford PA
Susq. Co.
[circular stamp] 4 pm Received April 5 1934 Mail Sub-Div Reader 8 Vets Adm.
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A. Stuart Pratt 89 Broad Street Boston
November 7 1932
Veterans' Administration Washington D.C.
Dear Sirs:
Warrent Easterbrook (or Estabrook) lived in Warren, Rhode Island, during the early years of the Revolution, and then moved to Brattleboro, Vermont, in 1779. There appears to be no doubt but what he drew a pension which continued to his death in 1838. Will you kindly send me his pension record.
Very truly yours
A. Stuart Pratt
ASP:EW
[Circular stamp] Received 2 pm Nov 9 1932 MAL SUB SW, U.S. V[illegible] 24
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Wabash, Ind.
Nov 14, 1930
Dear Sir, Will you please give me the names of the wife and children of Warren Estabrook or Esterbrook, on the pension list of Windham County, Vermont, He was born in Warren, R.I. and
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died at Brattleboro, Vt.
Thanking you in advance I am
Mrs. J. Fl Christman, 276 N. Main Str, Wabash, Ind.
[circular stamp] U.S. Pension Office Nov 17 1930
[square stamp] Finance Division Sec. W Nov 19 1930 Bureau of Pensions
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Mrs. W. B. Moore, Victor, New York
Personal request - Sept 9, 1915
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OFFICE OF CLERK OF COURT DAKOTA COUNTY, MINNESOTA. JOHN RAETZ, CLERK.
FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT
DAKOTA COUNTY, STATE OF MINNESOTA.
JUDGES. HON. F. M. CROSBY, HASTINGS.
HON. W. C. WILLISTON, RED WIND.
GENERAL TERMS. FIRST TUESDAY IN MAY.
FIRST WEDNESDAY AFTER FIRST MONDAY IN NOVEMBER
Hastings, Minn., Aug 11 1910
Commissioner of Pensions,
Dear Sir
Warren Estabrook was pensioned under the act of June 7 1832 for services in the R. I. Militia when residing in Windham County Vermont,
Will you give me a statement of his revolutionary
service and where he resided when pensioned and such other information your records may show
Yours truly
F. M. Crosby
Aug 16 1910
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JULIUS J. ESTEY, PRES. C. A. MARSHALL, CASH.
O. L. SHERMAN, VICE PRES. W. H. BRACKETT ASST CASH.
PEOPLES NATIONAL BANK. Brattleboro, VT
February 7th, 1893
Hon. Redfield Proctor,
Dear Sir: -
Some time ago, and while you were Secretary of War, I wrote you, asking for information
concerning one of my ancestors, Warren Esterbrook. At the time, you requested me to give you additional information, which I did not send, as thought perhaps I was troubling you too much in the matter.
I now address you again upon the subject, as I am very anxious to obtain certain facts, and believe that you can refer the matter to proper parties, and insure a more prompt attention to the same.
Warren Esterbrook probably enlisted from Warren, R. I. He served in the Revolutionary War and drew a pension; the latter fact I presume will greatly facilitate the investigation.
I shall feel greatly indebted to you for interesting yourself in the matter, and shall value any facts concerning the War record of Warren Esterbrook.
I remain,
Cordially yours,
[signed] C.A. Marshall
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Rev War
10601 INVALID
File No. 10,601 Warren Estabrook Pri Rev War
Act June 7th 32
Index [blank] Vol A, Page 108
[Arrangement of 1870]
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Feb 21, 93. Hist to D. A Marshall Brattleboro Vt. F.S.
May 3, 1904 Hist to Mrs. Roland P. Murdoch Wichita Kas
1910 Aug 18 Hist to Judge F. M. Crosby [illegible]
History to Mrs. W. B. Moore
30 Dec 16 - Hist to Mrs. T F Christman
[illegible] Nov 16 Hist to A. Stuart [illegible]
[illegible] Dec 23 Hist to Mrs. Jessie Lyth
[illegible] April 13 Hist to Nina [illegible] Moore Ill. [Illionois]