Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 9133, for Timothy Sabin, Connecticut
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(3- 776)

SERVICE
Conn.

Sabin, Timothy

NUMBER
R 9133

CONTENTS
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✔ Proof of heirship in the claim of Timothy Sabin who died June 28 ─ 1836
[signed] Benjm H. Sabin, Esq
Administrator

Power of attorney & letter asking a reexamination filed in Pension Office
Mch 21st 1853. ─ it is requested that this be filed with the same.
[signed] W. G. Ward
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Ontario County Surrogate Court }
At a Surrogates Court held at the Surrogate's Office in said County on the 26th day of February A.D. 1853
Present
Samuel W. Salisbury Surrogate of said County.
It appearing from the records of Wills in said County, that Timothy Sabin of said County died on or about the twenty eighth (28) day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty six (1836) and that his will was duly proved on the 19th day of September 1835, and that Benjamin H. Sabin was appointed executor of the estate of the said Timothy Sabin, as also appears by the annexed affidavit of the said Benjamin H. Sabin, 
And also is appearing by the affidavit of the said Benjamin H. Sabin that the heirs of said Timothy Sabin are Nathaniel Sabin, Hannah Johnson & the said Benjamin H. Sabin of New York, Daniel Sabin Stephen Sabin & Lorenzo Sabin of Michigan and Josiah Sabin of Indiana, and that they all are children of the said Timothy and if living, over the age of twenty one years, and that the widow of the said Timothy died March 30th 1847, which to me was satisfactory proof of the truth of said statements. Therefore do I hereby give my certificate of the same under my hand & seal of office on the day & year first above written.
[Signed] Samuel W. Salisbury Surrogate of said Ontario Co.

[illegible Seal of Office affixed lower left]
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Ontario County ss: Benjamin H. Sabin of Gorham said County aged forty years being duly sworn says that Timothy Sabin died on the 28th day of June 1836 leaving a widow him surviving who died on or about 30th day of March 1847 and children also him surviving as follows Nathaniel Sabin of New York, Daniel Sabin, Stephen Sabin and Lorenzo Sabin of Michigan, Josiah Sabin of Indiana, Hannah Johnson and Benjamin H. Sabin, this deponent, of New York, all of the age of twenty one years and upwards and that the above were all the children surviving the said Timothy Sabin and further that he the said Benjamin H. Sabin was executor of the Estate of the said Timothy and the only Executor appointed under the will or otherwise who qualified as such or performed the duties.
[signed] Benj'n H Sabin

Sworn to & subscribed this 26th day February 1833 before me 
[signed] J. W. Salisbury
Surrogate of said Co. [County]
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Timothy Sabin
330.
[illegible] July 7th 1832
CW Bennet
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State of New York
County of Yates
Be it Known, that on this Twenty Sixth day of November A. D. 1852 before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared 1 Benjamin H. Sabin son of Timothy Sabin resident of 2 of Gorham in [said is crossed out] Ont County, and made oath according to law that 3 son of Timothy Sabin who was a Soldier in the war of the Revolution, and who has heretofore made application for the benefit of the Pension Act of 4 [left blank] That 5 he is directly interested as a claimant in said Pension, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.

Countermanding and revoking all Powers of Attorney and authority heretofore given, I hereby constitute and appoint C. W. BENNETT, of Washington City, my true and lawful Attorney to prosecute the claim of 6 Timothy Sabin for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or increase of Pension that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said Attorney to examine all papers or documents in relation to said claim, on file in the Department at Washington City or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive for my exclusive benefit, the certificate which may be issued for said claim, which certificate I wish made payable at the Washington City, D. C. Agency; to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed, and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises. 7 [Signed] Benjamin H. Sabin
Sworn to, Subscribed and Acknowledged before me the day and year above written, and I hereby certify that I believe the said Benj'n H. Sabin to be directly interested in said claim as set forth, and to be the identical party therein alleged.
9 [Signed] John Sayre Justice of the Peace for said County

State of New York
County of Yates ss:
It is hereby Certified, that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me, Clerk of the Court of [crossed out repeated entry: the Court} of Record in said State that 8 Benjamin H. Sabin the party who has sworn to, and acknowledged the foregoing Declaration and Power of Attorney, is the 10  Identical child of the reputed soldier aforesaid, I further certify, that 11 John Sayre Esq. before whom the preceding affidavit and Power of Attorney were made and acknowledged, was, at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, and that the signature purporting to be his, I believe to be genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this Thirtieth day of November 1852
12 A. Penney Er Dep Clerk of Yates County

1. Claimant's name or names in full. - 2. Post Office address. 3. "That he is the identical man," or "that she is the widow of the identical man," or "that he or she is the legal heir of the identical man," &c., &c.
4. Leave this line blank --5. "He is," "she is," or "they are." --6. Revolutionary soldier's full name. --7. Claimant's signature. --8. Claimant's name. --9. Magistrate's signature. 
10. "Identical," "widow of," or, "child of." --11. Magistrate's name." --12. Clerk's signature.
N. B. -- Should two or more heirs join in the foregoing, the plural should be substituted for the singular number.
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N10373
Timothy Sabin
Otsego Co
New York
Proof
Rejected
23 Congress
C. Jarvis Esq
Otsego Co
New York
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Nov.
WAR DEPARTMENT.
Pension Office,
183
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 complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your
claim.
posed
statement, shewing the service of Timothy Salem, Otsego C.
New York
Period when service was rendered
Nov 1777 to about May 28th 1780
Duration of the
claimant's service.
Years Months Days
3
7
Rank of
claimant.
Teamster
.
Names and Rank
of the Company
officers under
whom he served.
Cap D
Force
Names and Rank
and Field officers.
Col. Wadsworth -
Col Smith
Col. Hayes
Battles in which
the resident was
None
Country through
which he marched.
N York
Place of abode
when as entered
the
the service, and age
at the present period
71 years
Windham Co. Conn
Evidence by which the declaration is supported
One Witness
one Wanting
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions
Proof of this service may be had from the Comptroller
of Public acct at Hartford C.
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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 instance, 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 personally appeared (a) before A.B. a resident (b) of in the county of and State, Territory or District of aged (c) 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 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) , with and 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 on that of the 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 do hereby certify (h) 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 (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 and C. D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with , who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 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 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 it 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 alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
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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 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 the 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. If 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 is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is 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 the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period 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 bis 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 ; For mouths and days, I served as a 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, as 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 years 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 au embodied corps called into service by competent authority that lie 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 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 [j] 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.

Joseph rowan Eac Clk
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Timothy Sabin
16373

Chester Loomis
Rushville N.Y
Agent
in place of C. Servis
former agent
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State of New York
Genesee County ⎬ Be it known that before me Herman Fisher
 - a Justice of the peace in and for the County
aforesaid personally appeared Oliver Patrick
and made oath in due form of Law that he is well acquainted
with Timothy Sabin of Gotham County of Oneonta
State of New York - That sometime previous to the year
1780 this deponent became acquainted with the family
of the said Timothy Sabin and married his sister that it
was then said by the family and neighbours that the
said Timothy Sabin (together with his father) were enlisted
and on duty in the American Revolutionary Army
and this deponent further says that in the spring
the year 1780 the said Timothy Sabin come to this deponent's
residence in the town of Windsor County of Berkshire
and State of Massachusetts as he said from serving
in the American Army - That this deponent has been
acquainted with said Sabin since the year 1780 during which
time it has been believed by the neighbors of the said
Timothy Sabin that he was a Teamster in the American
Revolutionary Army - and this deponent fully believes
the said Sabin was in the army as above stated
 the word army in the eleventh line from written on an erasure before equing
Sworn and subscribed this 12th October 1857 before 
me
Herman Fisher 
●
Justice of the peace
State of New York
Genesee County ⎬
 I, Herman Fisher a Justice of the peace
in and for the County aforesaid
do certify that I am acquainted with Oliver Patrick
who signed the above affidavit and that he is a
credible witness - In witness whereof I have here
unto set my hand this 12th day of October 1833
Herman Fisher
Justice of the peace
Genesee
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State of New York
County of Genesee ⎬ I Timothy Fitch Clerk of said
County certify that Herman Fisher before
whom the within affidavit purports to
have been taken and made was at
the date of taking the same a Justice
of the Peace in and for said County, and
that I am well acquainted with the
hand writing of said Justice and
verily believe his name subscribed to
the within affidavit is genuine.
Witness my hand and seal of
Office this fourteenth day of October
A.D. 1833.
Timothy Fitch Clerk
By B. Pingle Dibble
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State of New York
Ontario County ss.
Timothy Sabin, late of Otsego
in the County of Otsego and State of New York
being duly sworn doth depose and say in addition to
his declaration hereunto annexed
that by reason of old age and 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
Two years and six months as a private, and for
such service he claims a pension. the
said deponent further saith that he resided in Otsego in the County of Otsego aforesaid, at
the time that his said declaration to which this
is an addition or amendment was made and
sent to the War Department that since that period
and in the month of March last he removed from Otsego aforesaid to the town of Gorham in
the County of Ontario in the State of New York
aforesaid and that he the said deponent is the same
identical Timothy Sabin, named in the
deposition of Oliver Butrick, Sworn and Subscribed, before Herman Fisher Esquire A Justice of the Peace of the County of Genesee in the said
State which deposition is hereunto annexed, and
further the said deponent saith not
Sworn and subscribed to
the 18th day of December 1833
⎬
Timothy Sabin
Before me Charles Loomis
A Judge of the Court of Ontario County
aforesaid
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State of New York
Ontario County SS ⎬ I Charles Crane Clerk of said
County hereby certify that Chester Loomis whose name is subscribed to the within
certificate of Affidavit was at the
date thereof a Judge of the courts in
and for the said County; and that I
am well acquainted with his hand writing and
verily believe the said signature to be his proper
act and deed
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and seal of office, this twenty second day
of February A.D. 1834-
Charles Crane, Clk
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the
Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
State of New York
Otsego County 15
-
On this 16th day of
October 1832, personally appeared in open
Court. Before the Court of Common Pleas of Otsego County now sitting in the Sabins
a resident of the said County and
State aforesaid aged 71 years who first
being 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 served
as herein stated.
---
-
that he resided in the Town of Pomphret County of
Windham, State of Connecticut  in the year 1777.
and enlisted as a teamster in the Continental
service in the quarter Master General Department
under Captain David Force the conductor of
said leagues and according to my best recollection I enlisted in the month of October or
November 1777, and was discharged in the
28th day of May 1780. the first year
we were under the command of Col. Wadsworth
of Hartford, the second her ever were under the
command of Col. Smith of Springfield
the third year we were under the command
of Col. Hays of Fishkill, when I got my
Discharge, the most of the time he was employed
in the first year, in transporting provisions for
the army from Hartford Ct. to Danbury and
Fishkill the second year in Boston to Fishkill
from Springfield to Fishkill, and providence.
the Mird year marked on west point Drawing
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the
Lime and Timber for the Fortifications, and
Drawed wood at Rinbeck & Stansbury to the
Bank of the River for the army went also to
Hawk's Point and Drawed wood to the Bank of the
river for the Army at West Point, and took
Baggage of General Poore, Brigade to the State of
Connecticut, and went back to Fishkill &
Drawed wood &c &c--
---
-
that he has no documentary evidence, and that
he knows of no person who can testify as to his
service, the he can procure, except his sister
Anna Ballard now a resident of the Town of
Georgia, Franklin, County, State of Vermont
whose affidavit is herewith sent.--
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to
a pension or annuity except the present, and
declares that his name is not on the pension
Roll of the agency of any State,
Sworn and subscribed the day and year
aforesaid in
Horace Lathrop Clerk Timothy Sabin
We John Smith
a Clergyman, residing
in the Town & County of Otsego
and residing in the same place
hereby certify, that we are well acquainted
Timothy Sabin, who has subscribed and
Sworn to the above Declination; that we believe
him to be 71 years of age; that he is reputed
and believed, in his neighbourhood where he
resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution
and that we concur in that
opinion
Subscribed
and Sworn the ⎬ John Smith
day and
year aforesaid
Horace Lathrop Clerk
Thomas Fuller
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Otsego County
I Timothy Sabin do swear that I
was born in the year 1762 at Pomphret Connecticut
State
has a Record of his age in his possession
was living in Pomphret when called into service
lived about 12 years in the County of Berkshire, State of
Massachusetts, and about 10 years in
they, Ostego County N.Y. where he now resides
that he enlisted when he entered into the service
that he received a written discharge from Captain
David Force which Discharge is lost.
further saith not
Sworn & subscribed the
day and year aforesaid
Timothy Sabin
Horace Lathrop Clerk


And the said Court do hereby declare their
opinion after the investigation of the matter and
after putting the interogatories prescribed by
by the war department, that the above named applicant
was a revolutionary soldier and served
as he states and the Court further certify that
appears to them John Smith who signed the
above affidavit is a clergyman and resides
in town of Okey and also that Thomas Fuller
who also signed the same resides in the same
place and are both credible persons and
and that the time
is entitled to full credit
J. O. Mon
S. Pages
C. Forte
Judge
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State of New York
Ostego County SS. I Horace Lathrop Clerk of the Court
of Common Pleas of said County that the foregoing
contains the original proceedings in the matter of
the application of Timothy Sabin for a Pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & official
seal this 19th day of Octr 1832 Horace Lathrop
By J. K. Cary Deputy
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State of Vermont
Franklin County
I, Anna Ballard of the Town of
Georgia, in said County, do upon oath, depose
and say that I do will remember and State, that
in the year 1777 or 1778. Timothy Sabin then was
residing in the town of Pomphret, & State of
Connecticut did enlist as a teamster in the
American Army, then opposing the British army
and I do well recollect that I did help aid and
and assist the rest of the family of my Fathers
to prepare his clothing to go and join the
Army, and do state that he did go, and was
absent about Two & half years, and hearing from
him while absent, and the history he gave of his
business and travels during his absence, I have no
doubt of his being employed in the Regular service
during the two & half years he was absent
and further this deponent saith not Anna Ballard
Sworn & subscribed Before
me this 24th day of
August
1833.
Justin a
Saml Fairbanks ⎬ Justice of the Peace
I Samuel Fairbanks the above Justice do further
certify that I am well acquainted with Anna Ballard
who appeared before me, and solemn oath
and subscribed to the above affidavit, and that she
is a person of good moral character, and is
entitled to the fullest credit for veracity
Saml Fairbanks
Justice of
the Peace
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State of Vermont
Franklin County
 August 25th 1832 I Horace
 James Clerk of the County Court in
sd County do hereby certify to all whom it may
concern that Saml Fairbanks Esq of Georgia
is a Justice of the Peace in and for said
County of Franklin duly appointed by the
Legislature of this State, and that the foregoing signatures are in his own proper hand
writing. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto signed
my name and affixed the Public seal of said Court the
day and year above
Horace James Clerk
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Comptrollers Office
See
May 30th 1833-
Yours of the 24th has been received You desire information concerning Timothy Sabin
whom you suppose served as a teamster in
the Continental army. I have examined the rolls, records & other papers in this Office and can
find no accounts regarding teamsters
They were probably employed & paid by the
the commissarial department & were  raised. I have understood by intestment. But no
papers regarding them can be found. For
these served the commissarial settled, &
charged the disbursement in their accounts of
which unfortunately were sent with most of the pay
rolls of the Connecticut troops to the war
Department, where if in existance they now.
There is much evidence to be derived
some copies of pay rolls remaining in this
office of military services
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House of Represensitives D.C.
J. L. Edwards Esqr
the
Dums, 4" 1834
Commissioner
of Pensions, Sir, on rct. of this
please send me the papers and
the same of Timothy Sabin
file in your office, mentioned
in your letter to Chester Loomis
Esq ont. County Ky. & dated
April 5th 1834, which letter or
copy this of I have, & consider this
as a request for the papers - or enclose
me on which I will execute &

Very Respectfully
yours
John Dutton
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Territory of Michigan Mason J Cotfull of the town
Washtenaw County of Upsilanti County of northern
and said Territory being duly
sworn doth depose and  say that he is now sixth eight
years of age that he this deponent was acquainted with
Timothy Sabin of the town of Windsor in County
of Berkshire and State of Massachusetts some time
about the A.D. one thousand seven hundred and
seventy seven and that soon after that time said
Sabin was absent from his Fathers family of said
Windsor more than two years during which two years
This deponent heard it commonly reported and does
verily believe that said Sabine was enlisted in
the revolutionary Army as a soldier in the
States service that once during the time last
said said Sabin return home to his fathers family
on a furlough and was sick while at home
on said return. And this deponent further saith
that said Sabin is to his knowledge a man
of undoubted truth and veracity, and that
deponent has the most undoubted confidence
of in and which he had
of said Sabin enlistry and service in the
Army as aforesaid.  And this deponent further
saith that he is informed and verily believes
that the said Sabin now lives and resides in
the town of Goshone County of Ontario
State of New York. And further this deponent
saith not.
Mason Hatfield
on this Eleventh day of November in the
year of our lord
one thousand eight
and and and thirty three personally came
or in me, the above named Mason Hatfield
personally known as a man of undoubted
truth and veracity & made oath before me
(the the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed
is true according to that of his knowledge belief
Elias M Skinner Justice of the Peace
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Territory of Michigan
Washtenaw County SS. I James A Allen Clerk of
the County aforesaid do hereby certify
that Elias M Skinner is the person
before whom the foregoing affidant
was made is and was at the time
said affidavit was was made an
acting Justice of the peace within
and for said County and that I am acquainted with
the hand writing of said Justice and believe the within signature to be his
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of
County at and on the 16th day of November
A D 1833
Jas Allen Clerk
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Sir
Washington,
Mch 21st 1853.
I enclose herewith a power
of Attorney in the claim of Timothy
Sabin an applicant for a pension
from New York, the papers are believed
to be on file at the House of Representation,
it is requested that the papers be again
brought before the commissioner of Pensions
and reexamined, as it is believed the service
formerly rejected as inadmissable at the Pension
Office an account of having been done in the
capacity of a Teamster, will now be admitted
as military service, he having been a regular
enlisted Teamster
Hon L P Waldo
Com of Pensions,
I am Respectfully
Your Obt Servt.
W. G. Wade
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Timothy Sabin
NM sus 1832
W Cole
Page 28

Sir
Washington Jun 17, 1865.
I have the honor herewith to
present the original papers and
additional testimony in the case
of Timothy Subin of N.Y. under the
Act of June 7, 1832, and claim
an allowance of his pension for full
two years service as a Continental
Teamster in the Revolutionary War
Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servt
Erving Taintor
Hon. L.P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Act 7 June 1832
New York
Timothy Sabin
Suspended
See letter to
Chester Loomis
5. April 1834
--made June 23 1853
14
1832
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Timothy Sabin
NY
-- --- 1830
--made J-- 23, 1882
Erving Tainter  20
9133
June 7 1832
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3
State of Connecticut
Comptrollers Office
Hartford Jany 5th 1855
I certify, that on application for evidence of
the service of Timothy Sabin, as a Teamster, in the war
of the Revolution, I have examined the books kept by
Nehemiah Hubbard, who was a Deputy Quarter Mastor
General in said war, and which are now deposited
in this office, and find as follows, viz
1st An entry under date of Aug. 12th 1778, Quarter Master
"Genl D. To paid David Force Cond. for wages of him
Self & 14 Teamsters from 2 March to May 30th 1778, L198.15.7
I also another entry under date of March 1st 1779 Teamster
Master Genl Dr. to sd David Force Cond. M. Pay Roll,
For the service of my Compy of Teams from Dec. 1st 1778
" Feby. 28th 1779 Inclusive, 3 months 13 men
L8. pr Month
L336.0.0
"Subsistance for the Cond. for the above team 90 days @ 4/ 18.0.0
" ditto for ditto from March 2 to June 1st 1778 89 days @ 4/ 17. 16.00
my own pay as Cond. for the above mentioned 3 months at L19 36.0.0
L407.16.00

also another under date of June 28th 1779
Quarter Master General Dr To paid David Force Cond  for
2
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"Pay Roll, for service of himself & 13 Teamsters from March
1st
to May 31st 1779 inclusive, 3 months as follows, viz
There follows a list of the names of 13 Teamsters, one of
which is that of Jim Sabin who is credited 3 months a
L.8 L. 24.

Also an entry under date of 23rd of Feby, 1780

Quarter Master General Dr. To paid David Force Cond
as per bill Rev. Among the items of the account are
the following viz,

For the advanced wages of himself, from May 11th to June 1st
'79, being of 2/3 of a month $30 P.M
L26.
For advanc'd wages of 13 teamsters, from May
11th to June 1st 1779, 2/3 of a W.aL8.pr mo for each L69.68
John Denham Comp
by Geo. Robinson Clerk
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to the President and members of Congress
Gentlemen
I your petitioner beg leave to present
my case to your consideration which is as follows I have
as a teamster in what was then called the Continental Services
enlisted in November 1777 and served until the 28 of May 1780
as the first under the command of Col Wadsworth of
Hartford our principal company was caring provision
from Hartford to Sandburg the Second year we were
 under Col Smith of Springfield our belief was from
Springfield to Fishkill our meeting was provision for the Army
we carried 12 cords of pack saddles for Gn Sullevens expedition
once to providence with ammunition when the British lay me
once to Boston for 12 loads of Clothing and landed at Fishkill
was but a little part of the labour that we did the there
year our first work was to go to Boston harbor & we took 24 hogs
hads of --- carried to Fishkill then we were placed under
John  Hays of Fishkill here we laboured for a while then we
were sent to West Point our business was drawing lime
and sand to fort pit and timber for a fort over the heights
of Land down the River to prevent the British from
landing theirs then we were sent to Pimeber and Stantsburg
where we drew fifteen standard cords of wood to the bank
of the River for the army at West point our
Company consisted of twelve in this place I never labored harder
I have loaded and unloaded my wagon from eight to ten times
in a Day and we were obliged work Seven days in a week
their was a Capt Fish or Fisher with his company to do the chopping and a Major Shendenot that commanded the party
it was said he was a Frenchman we thought him sum what
sevear in his command he require us to be on the ground by Sunup
and not to leave it till sun down and then we had to go a mile
to our quarters and a half mile further to put out our teams
from this we went to planks point where we drew five
hundred cord of wood to the bank of the River for the Army
them we took the baggage of Gn Poors Brigade and carried
to the bounds of Connecticut from thence has to fishkill
and their we were imployed in drawing wood forage
until the latter part of January by this time our teams
had got so poor that they that ware unfit for service
drove them out in to the Country where they ware
put out to rebrute and we ware ordered back to
Fishkill where we were imployed in various kinds
of labour such as oiling harnesses, making road
mending fence planting potatoes &c
our provision which was nothing but bread and peas
and the pees ware such they could not be cooked
tender which proved ingerous to our health
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thus I served until the 28th of May when I got my discharge
leaving nine months wages due which I have never received
one cent and what added to my affliction I had miss placed a small
bone in my left ancel which was very painful later and being in poor
State of health I had to leave my pack of clothes and get help to carry
me
home and was sick all summer. So as not to be able to do any thing
one my father who has bin out with me in the same Company
who had taken a furlow about three months before our time was
out and was taken sick and never returns and when I got home
I found him sick so that his life was dispared of and from this led
of sickness he never recovered so as to walk abroad short  of about
fifteen months and the family being in very low circumstances our
situation was very distresing and this sickness was not peculer to my
father and me but every one of the Company that I could here of
sick all summer after they get home this disaster I impute to have
fair-- thus Gentelmen I have stated to you the service don and sum
of the hardships I have suffered inconsequence there of
I appeared before the Court at Coopers Town Otsego County
with such credentials as I had and by what I could learn & had
the approbation of the Court then I sent the same to the secretary
who sent my papers back last sumer stating that one witness
was wanting  I then made a journey of about 150 miles for one
witness and sent to Michigan for another, I then sent my
papers back to the Secretary who sent me -- back that their was no provision made by Congress for me he states to me that those
teamsters that are entitled to a pention are such as were said
by order of Congress in the year 79 and as I inlisted in the year 77
I was not intitled to a pension now Gentelmen it appears
to me that I have as fair a clame to a pention as most others
but few families did more service than my father and family my
father and elder Brother enlisted and went the first six months campaign
in to Cambridge my Brother lost his life in the battle of Bunker
hill my father served three years and three months or nother brother
served three months and my self two years and half all making
seven years but they are all dead but my self and I a poor
old decripted man in the 74 year of my age and have felt to it to get
a comfortable living, by my enlistment I was entitled to 1 or 2
dollars per month, but our money mostley died in our hands and the same
money was called in and redeemed by paying one dollar for 7 
to that our expense to Government for our wages was but one dollar
for five months labour. now Gentelmen I presume there was but
few persons of my age and infermation that was more ambishously in aged to get clear of the Shackel of Grate Britton and gain our Independance and when we had obtained this Grate object I
held my self richly rewarded for all my have service and on
fifty years past and I never expected
any other compensation
nevertheless my good Gentelmen as you are making compensation
to others I take the encouragement to put in my claim and I can
not but take the encourage to hope I shall have on hearing
this from your most obedient humble servant
Gorham
Timothy Sabin
November 19th 1831
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9.133
---
PO
Timothy Sabin
Service:
Enlisted: REJECTED
Discharged:
Application filed:
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:

Attorney
P.O.
Recognized.

Contract.
Cert. of Dis. Searched for
Page 36

CLAIM OF
ACT OF
STATE OF New York
COUNTY OF Yates
⎬ ss.
Be it Known, That on this fourteenth
day of december A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty four
before the
undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared
Benjamin H Sabin a resident of Middlesex in said County, and made oath
according to law, that he is the son and Administrator of the
Estate of Timothy Sabin late of Gorham in the
County of Ontario and State aforesaid deceased
who was a Revolutionary War soldier and should have here
pensioned
---
at the rate of hundred and ninety two Dollars per annum; that he has been
informed that the said Pension ought to be delivered that he is directly interested as a Claimant in said Pension,
and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my Agent may use in prosecuting
said Claim.
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year
aforesaid, before me,
John Sayne Jus. Peace

I, John Sayne,  Justice of the Peace in and for said County, do hereby certify that
Benjamin H. Sabin who executed the foregoing paper, is a respectable resident
of this County, and is, I believe, directly interested in said Claim as therein set forth. And I further certify, that I
have no interest whatever in said Claim, or the prosecution thereof.
John Sayne Justice Peace

I,
Clarkson Martin Clerk of the County Court in the Yates County and State aforesaid,
do hereby certify, that John Sayne Esq
before whom the foregoing papers were
executed, was, at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized by law to
administer oaths; and the name thereunto subscribed is his signature.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and
day of
affixed my official Seal, this 15
December
A. D. 1854.
C. Martin Clerk of
Yates County
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POWER OF ATTORNEY -- Revolutionary Pension Claims.
---
know all Men by these presents, That I, Benjamin H. Sabin of
Middlesex in the County of Yates and State of
New York
hereby constitute and appoint Erving Taintor of Harford New York
my true and lawful Agent and Attorney, to prosecute the Claim of Timothy Sabin
for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or Increase of Pension, that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said
Agent to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said Claim, on file in the Departments at Washington
City, or elsewhere; to file additional evidence or arguments; and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for
said Claim, which Certificate I wish made payable to myself as Administrator
of the estate of the said Timothy Sabin deceased
to appoint one or more substitutes under
him for the purposes herein expressed; and to do all things that I might or
could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall
lawfully do in the premises.
WITNESS my hand and Seal this 14th day of December
A. D. 1854.
Signed and in the
Benjn H Sabin
John Sayne
James Palmer
⎬ ss.
STATE of New York
COUNTY OF Yates
On this fourteenth day of December
A.D. 1854
before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared
Benjamin H Sabin 
and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be in act
and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand
the day of
John Sayne
Justice Peace.
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Timothy Sabin
Application act
7th June 1832
New. York
W G Wade
Atty
Page 39

Know all men by these presents
that I Benjamin H. Sabin Son of Timothy
Sabin late a soldier of the United States
do hereby constitute and appoint empower
and authorize W.D. Gregory of Canandaigua
N. Y. my true and lawful attorney to
prosecute an investigation for the purpose
of obtaining arrears of pay or pension believe
to be due the late Timothy Sabin at his
decease
Witness my hand and seal this 26th
day of February 1853
Benjn Sabin
Signed and sealed in presence
of
Orson Benjamin
Joseph Mitchell

State of New York
Ontario County ss On this 26th day of February
1856 personally appeared before
the subscriber a Justice of Peace duly authorized
by law to administer oaths Benjamin H. Sabin
named in the foregoing power of Attorney who
acknowledged the same to be his act and deed
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my
hand the day and year above written
Orson Benjamin Justice
of the Peace of Ontario county

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Willis G. Wade Esq.
Please investigate this
claim as if you were the attorney herein
appointed; and oblige your Obt. Sevt
W.D. Gregory