Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26,971, for Isaac Pinney, Connecticut
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SERVICE   Conn. 
Continental
Vt.
Pinney, Isaac
Mary
NUMBER  W. 26.971
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Aug 28 1834 (Error in this corrected)  See letter to P. Agt [pension agent] 30 Apl 1835
[unreadable]
Signatures don’t agree.  That in the [unreadable] appears to have been entered by the magistrate.
Vermont 9637   
Isaac Pinney of Royalton in the State of Vermont who was a Serg in the Company commanded by Captain Walbridge of the Reg commanded by Col Webb line in the Connecticut * line for two years  
Increased from $115.10 to $120
* Conn and Continental Records completed Febr 20 / 05
Inscribed on the Roll of  Vermont at the rate of 120 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 day of July 1834 and sent to Oel Billings [unreadable]
[unreadable] of March 1834 360  
[unreadable]       4 Sept 1834 60
$420.00
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}  
[unreadable]  Henry H Sylvester Clerk 
Vol 3 page 85
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May 11 1800 
Pension Office
VT [unreadable] free  
[unreadable]
Hon Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
Washington D.C.
60
115
115360    120
4.17           83
114.78      119.17
Adjutant
Corporal  5 days 5 
Sergeant 23 months 25 days
2 years
60
To be dropped from the
25
12
300
1828
128.60
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Royalton May 6th 1833
Hon L. Cass Sec. of War 
Sir 
In answer to my letter of Nov 9th 1832 requesting to be dropped from the Revolutionary Pension Roll under the act of 1818 & inscribed on the list of Pensioner under the act of 1832, as a Sergeant I recd on the 4th inst, a communication from the Pension Department informing me that the evidence in the office shews, my "right to the allowance which I claim, and that the application should have been subscribed with my own hand agreeable to the regulations of the Department instead of my Atty for me.”  My hand trembles so much it is almost impossible to write my name intelligibly.  I served as a Sergeant in the army of the Revolution more than two years in Genl Waynes Brigade, under Col J Meigs, Lieut. Col Sherman & Capt Amos Walbridge.   I now reside in Royalton County of Windsor & State of Vermont and am in the receipt of a Pension the certificate of which is herewith inclosed. 
I am very respectfully your obt. Servt, 
Isaac Pinney
Signed in presence of A.C. Noble Atty 
Nath Sprague  Justice of the Peace   
N. B. You will please direct any communications on this subject to Alden C Noble Atty for said Isaac Pinney
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42 Isaac Pinney 
12965. 
Not entitled 
17th Schedule
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STATE OF VERMONT,  
WINDSOR COUNTY. ss} At a special term of the Supreme Court of Judicature, begun and holden at  Woodstock in the County of Windsor, on the last Monday in July Anno Domini eighteen hundred and twenty. 
On this First day of August 1820, being the second day of said term, personally appeared in open Court, (the same Court being a Court of record agreeably to the laws of this State, having the power of fine and imprisonment, &c. ) Isaac Pinney aged sixty one years, resident in Royalton in said County of Windsor, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the revolutionary war, as follows:   to wit    in 1775 I served in Capt. Charles Ellsworth’s Company, Col. Jedediah Huntington’s Regiment,  in 1776 I enlisted for one year, Capt Amos Walbridge’s Company, Col. Joseph Reads Regt at the close of said Term I received a discharge at the Peekskill 1 January 1777,  then in the same compy and Col. Charles Webb’s Regiment, in enlisted for three years in the Connecticut line, inlistment bearing date Jany 25, 1777, discharged at Morristown N.J. January 7th 1780.  
that he made his original declaration on the Seventh day of April 1818 has received a pension Certificate, No. 12965.  And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War,” passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property of securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed, to wit 
98 acres of Land.      700
1 pair of oxen             88
1 mare & colt             55
1 horse wagon            25
5 cows                        75
3 two year olds           21
4 one year olds           13
4 calves                        2
23 sheep & 16 lambs  25
4 Swine                       18
Eatery & Tin ware        2
1 old sleigh                 12   
                                1036
1 old sled .50 1 harrow .50 1.00
3 Tables 3, 13 old chairs 6.50  9.50
1 old case of drawers   1
Crockery ware             3.50
4 Pail 1, 2 wash tubs 3 4-
1 churn .25; 1 clock 35 35.25                
3 cyder barrels             1.50
4 cider hogsheads         4.
2 pair slice & tongs      2.
3 old scythes 2 1 plow 2.15  4.15
3 hoes 1, 3 axes 2.50   3.50
                                   75.40
3 pr fire dogs 2, 10 T. spoons 2 3.00
6 silver tea spoons       3.50
2 old looking glasses   0.50
2 brass kettle 2; 2 trowels 3; 5.00
3 tea pots 2; 1 dish kettle .50; 2.50
1 spicer .40; 1 [unreadable] .40;  0.80
2 skillets .67; 1 toast pan .50; 1.17
1 grill pan .50; 1 shovel .50; 1.00
1 old chain & pieces         1.50
3 pitch forks .50; 3 rakes .17;  0.67
1 grind stone                      1.50
                                          21.14
                                          75.40
                                      1036.
                                    $1132.54
I am indebted to the amount of Three Hundred & Twenty Dollars 59 Cents to J. A. Dinison, Curtis & Cutter, Throop & Orvis, and others.
And I further swear that I am by occupation a Farmer and my health is such that I am almost wholly unable to Labour at all, and cannot pursue the business of Farming in the least.  I was deafened at the taking of Stoney Point, which greatly effects me now.  My family consists of myself & the following persons, to wit, my wife aged 56 years, infirm being able to do but little; a daughter aged 24 years, who has been sick between four & five years, during a quarter of the time has been under the direction of a Physician; one son aged 16 years in good health and almost able to support
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I am almost wholly unable to Labour at all, and cannot pursue the business of of Farming in the least.  I was Deafened at the taking of Stoney Point, which greatly effects me now: my family consists of myself & the following persons, to wit, my wife aged 58 years infirm being able to do but little; a Daughter aged 24 years, who has been sick between four & five years, during a quarter of which time has been under the direction of the physician;  one son aged 16 years in good health almost able to support himself;  my oldest son aged 34 years with his wife & four children in my family, all in good health.   I further depose on oath, that this last mentioned Son 13 years since came to live with me, under the following conditions engagement, I had Five son or daughters younger than him, and told him that I would give him one undivided half of my farm if he would come & work with me, to support & bring up my family, and support my sons thru their apprenticeships, and fit out my Daughter, He should have the whole of my property; I was then in debt, which he was to help pay, on this understanding he came, and has resided with me during the last Thirteen years, during that time my sons all but to have been carried through their time as apprentices, my three oldest Daughter married & fitted out, I and my family have during the last ten years been severely afflicted with sickness and during all this time I have been almost wholly supported by the Labor and exertions of my son, my property in the Schedule above, was therefore in justice, and agreeably to my contract with my son become his, but as I have yet executed to him no Deed, I have inserted all in the Schedule, and all the property by him acquired, being in possession in common is inserted also.   I further State, that my said son Isaac Penney Jun’r since he resided with me as aforesaid, has bound hand & faithfully, and has himself & family enjoyed good health, and in all respects been prudent & economical, but such has been our family expenses, and such my own ill health, and that of my wife & other children, that our property is gently diminished since he came to reside with me, that the whole property is not enough to pay him what he ought to receive as the just value of his services, over & above the the support of himself, wife & children.
Isaac Pinney 
Sworn to and declared on the First day of August 1820, before said Court. 
Attest Benj Swan Clerk 
STATE OF VERMONT. 
WINDSOR COUNTY. ss} I Benj Swan Clerk of the Supreme Court for the county of Windsor, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court.  And I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Nothing. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, at Woodstock, this Fifth day of August 1820. 
Benj Swan   Clerk of the Supreme Court for Windsor County.
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T. P. Russell’s Certificate
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Isaac Pinney Born March 18, 1758
Mary Parkhurst Born Novr. 14, 1764
Married  Novr 21st 1782
Susannah  born Day November 23, 1783
Isaac         born  September 10, 1786
Mary         born May 22, 1788
[unreadable] born June 23, 1790
[unreadable] born March 27, 1792
Dan           born April 3, 1794
Betsey       born March 22, 1796
Jabez         born January 26, 1798
Columbus born June 7, 1800
[unreadable] born June 5, 1804
I certify that the leaf hereunto attached  took from the family Bible of Isaac Pinney late of Royalton  deceased 
Thos P. Russell Judge
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T. P. Russell Certificate 
THE NEW TESTAMENT Of our LORD and SAVIOUR 
JESUS CHRIST 
Newly translated out of the ORIGINAL GREEK; And with the former TRANSLATION Diligently Compared and Revised By His MAJESTY’S Special Command
 Appointed to be Read in Church
EDINBURGH. 
By the Designs of ALEXANDER KINCARD I do his Majesty’s Praise
MDCCLXXXIV
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192
Vermont  Montpelier 
Mary Pinney 
widow of Isaac Pinney who served in the Revolutionary War as a  Sergeant *  
* Conn and Continental Record Completed Febr 20/16 
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 120 Dollars  - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848 
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 day of June 1848 and sent to Oel Billings Woodstock Vermont 
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 79 Vol 3 
Reported
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5.650 
Declaration of Mary Penney widow of Isaac Penny 
Vt.
 Act 4 July 38 
m [married] 82 d [died] 42
admd [admitted]
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Deposition of Isaac Pinney
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I Isaac Pinney of Royalton County of Windsor & State of Vermont of lawful age depose testify & say that I am the second child of Isaac & Mary Pinney and am fifty six years old the tenth day of Sept next.  I have lived in Royalton ever since I was born. I have often heard it said that the records of the town were destroyed about sixty years ago and further the deponent saith not.   
Isaac Pinney 
The foregoing deposition was taken by me and Sworn to before me Oramel Sawyer Justice Peace 
Royalton August 8th 1842
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State of Vermont 
Windsor County 
Hartford District } Ss On this 4th day of August A.D. 1842 personally appeared before the Probate Court of the District of in the County and State aforesaid Mary Pinney a resident of Royalton in said District in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont of the age of seventy seven years who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4th 1836. That she is the widow of Isaac Pinney who was a soldier in the revolutionary army of the United States, that when he entered the continental service he resided in the State of Connecticut that he continued in said service about six years and held the rank of Sargeant.  The name of the regiment and officers under whom he served is not remembered by the said Mary. She further declares that she was married to the said Isaac Pinney on 21st day of Nov 1782.  That her husband the aforesaid Isaac Pinney died on the 15th day of February 1842 and that she has remained a widow since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed. 
Mary Pinney 
Sworn to and subscribed on the on the day and year above written before 
Thos P. Russell Judge 
State of Vermont 
Hartford District } I Oel Billings Register of the Court of Probate of the District of Hartford, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Court in the matter of the application of Mary Pinney for a Pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 4th day of August AD 1842 
Oel Billings Register
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Rev. &1812 Wars Section. 
AWF 
November 11, 1929.
Mrs. Edna Thompson Bice, 
450 East Madison Street, 
Franklin, Indiana, 
Dear Madam: 
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 26971, it appears that Isaac Pinney was born December 18, 1758, place not stated. 
While residing in Stafford, Connecticut, he enlisted and served with the Connecticut Troops as follows: 
From in August 1775, as a private in Captain Charles Ellsworth's Company, Colonel Jedediah Huntington's Regiment and was discharged January 1, 1776; from in January 1776, as a private in Captain Amos Walbridge's Company, Colonel Joseph Reed's Regiment and was discharged January 1, 1777, from January 25, 1777, as corporal in Captain Amos Walbridge's Company, Colonel Charles Webb's Regiment; he was promoted sergeant in December 1777, and transferred in the summer of 1778, to Lieutenant Robertson's Company in the same regiment; he was again transferred in the spring of 1779, to Captain Henry Ten Eyck's Company, Colonel Meigs' Regiment, was in the battle of Stony Point, was promoted September 6, 1779, second sergeant and was discharged January 7, 1780. 
After which he moved to Vermont, and it is stated that he served in the Vermont Militia as sergeant major, quartermaster and adjutant. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 7, 1818, at which time he was a resident of Royalton, Windsor County, Vermont. He died February 15, 1842. 
The soldier married November 21, 1782 in Royalton, Vermont, Mary Parkhurst. She was born November 14, 1764.
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Rev. &1812 Wars Section. 
AWF 
November 11, 1929.
Mrs. Edna Thompson Bice, 
450 East Madison Street, 
Franklin, Indiana, 
Dear Madam: 
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 26971, it appears that Isaac Pinney was born December 18, 1758, place not stated. 
While residing in Stafford, Connecticut, he enlisted and served with the Connecticut Troops as follows: 
From in August 1775, as a private in Captain Charles Ellsworth's Company, Colonel Jedediah Huntington's Regiment and was discharged January 1, 1776; from in January 1776, as a private in Captain Amos Walbridge's Company, Colonel Joseph Reed's Regiment and was discharged January 1, 1777, from January 25, 1777, as corporal in Captain Amos Walbridge's Company, Colonel Charles Webb's Regiment; he was promoted sergeant in December 1777, and transferred in the summer of 1778, to Lieutenant Robertson's Company in the same regiment; he was again transferred in the spring of 1779, to Captain Henry Ten Eyck's Company, Colonel Meigs' Regiment, was in the battle of Stony Point, was promoted September 6, 1779, second sergeant and was discharged January 7, 1780. 
After which he moved to Vermont, and it is stated that he served in the Vermont Militia as sergeant major, quartermaster and adjutant. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 7, 1818, at which time he was a resident of Royalton, Windsor County, Vermont. He died February 15, 1842. 
The soldier married November 21, 1782 in Royalton, Vermont, Mary Parkhurst. She was born November 14, 1764.

She was allowed pension on her application executed August 4, 1842, at which time she was living in Royalton, Vermont. 
Their children were:
Susannah        born November 23, 1783.
Isaac               born September 10, 1786
Mary               born           May 22, 1788
---ley (torn)     born          June 23, 1790
---ah (torn)      born       March 27, 1792
Dan                 born        April     3.1794
Betsey             born       March 22, 1796
Jabez               born     January 26, 1798
Columbus       born          June   7, 1800
-ebee A. or F. (torn) born June   5,1804
In 1820, son Isaac is referred to as having a wife and four children, their names are not given.
Very truly yours,
EARL D. CHURCH
Commissioner
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12.965 R.
Vermont  
Isaac Pinney of Royalton in the State of Vermont who was a Sergeant in the regiment commanded by Colonel Webb of the Connecticut line, for the term of three years. 
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 8- Dollars per month, to commence on the 7th of April 1818 
Certificate of Pension issued the 7th of July 1819 and sent to Dudley Chase Esqr Randolph Orange Co Vt. 
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 $87.43 
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sep 1819 48.00
10mo 23/30 4/31    $135.43 
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.} 
not entitled 
Conn and Continental * Records completed. Febr. 20 / 05  
Notification sent October 23d 1820 to Benjamin Swan Windsor, Vermont
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Case of Isaac Pinney for retoration
1st Schedule - 92 acres of land 700.00
Personal Property                     432.54
$ 1132.54
2d Schedule personal property only $107.94
sold ½ of his farm to Dan & Jabez Pinney for $400, who have entered into bond, to indemnify claimant, against certain debts 
The other half of said land, and half of his personal is of right the property of his son Isaac, in consideration of 13 years labor has transferred his son his share of the personal property and has given him the seal, but as yet made no deed for it. 
The deed to Dan and Jabez is exhibited, but no other evidence, except two unauthenticated paper presented, containing nothing material to the points in issue, see paper | C | 
[unreadable]
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Wanted 
The bond (or copy) of indemnity, given by Dan and Jabez
The affidavits of the creditors to prove the existance of the debts referred to 
Evidence of a tract between the claimant, and his son Isaac for alleged services, executed prior to the performance of said services.
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X 5657.
VT
 Rejected 
Let to Jabez Pinney Aug 30 ‘42 
act 4 July 36
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State of Vermont
Windsor County ss}   Royalton Town Clerk's office August 2d 1842 I hereby certify that I have searched the records marriages in this office and can find no record of marriage of Isaac Pinney or of any other one for back them 1784 
Attest Calvin Skinner 2d Town Clerk 
I hereby certify that Calvin Skinner 2nd is Town Clerk of the town of Royalton, Thos P. Russell Judge
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See letter 18 Jan 1827 to Hon. D. Chase Sept  de. H Hon. D. Cho 9  Apl 1830
Vermont. 
Isaac Pinney, aged 64 yrs
Bad health, Wife, 58 yrs old feeble, Daughter, 26 yrs old tolerable health.
Served 3 yrs from 1777 - -
1st Sched. (1st Augt 1820) exhibits 98 acres of land, valued at $700 
Personal property $432.54.
Indebted to J. A. Denison, Curtis & Cutler, Throop & Orvis “2 others”, $320.59
States what his son Isaac has lived with & worked for him for the last 13 years and that in consideration of such Labor, he promised to said all the property contained in this schedule.  Said son also promised to pay applicants debts.  No deed given to said son for any part of his property.  The court certifies the amount of applicant’s property to be “nothing”.  
Off, 23d October 1823, Application for restoration, as per 2d Schedule 17 Sept 1823
2d Schedule (dated as last above)  
exhibits 1 old mare, $25; 1 colt, $20;  [unreadable] $14; 1 heifer $5; 1 calf [unreadable]; $11.66; 1 sow & 3 pigs, $6 [unreadable]
whole amount of this last sched. $107.94 & so certified by the court. Sold ½ of his farm on 2d Sept 1823 to Dan & Jabez Pinney for $351 and received from them, as the consideration, a bond indemnifying him against the payment of a certain specified debts, amounting together to the said sum of $351.  A copy of the deed dted on the said 2d of Septr 1823 is within.
Sold a horse in market for $45, paid the money in debts due to [unreadable] & W. Morse.  Throop & Orvis, John Francis, states that the personal property exhibited in 1st Schedule belonged in common between him & his son Isaac, “by contract some years ago” – No deed yet for the remaining ½ of said farm has been executed to his said son, Isaac.
Sold to Curtis & Cutler in Novr 1820 & Novr 1821, 1 Cow & 4 young cattle for $65.  The amount credited on Note which they held against him.  See letter to B. Logan April 20 1824
Since 1st Sched, he states that he & his son have divided the pers property & that applicant has only [unreadable] for him in this last sched.  [unreadable] Esq Windsor Vt.
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Vermont- 7419- 
Mary Pinney 
widow of Isaac Pinney who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832. and who died on the 15th February, 1842  of Windsor Co in the State of Vermont who was a Sergeant in the company commanded by Regt: Captain Woodruff of the Regt commanded by Col. Webb in the Connecticut line for 2 years 
Inscribed on the Roll of Montpelier at the rate of 120 - Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 13th day of July, 1843 and sent to W.S. Allison Present 
Whole amount due $600.00 
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by N. K. Stewart  Clerk  
Book A  Vol. 2 Page 52 
Conn and * Continental Records completed Febr 20 / 05.
Repd 14 July
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Vermont- 3505 
Mary Pinney 
widow of Isaac Pinney who was a Sergeant in the Continental Line *
Conn and * Continental Records completed Feb 20 / 05 R.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 120  Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of Decr, 1843 and sent to W.S. Allison Present 
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded Book A  Vol. 1 Page 29 
Instructions under the Act of 1844 sent to Oel Billings Woodstock VT July 15’ 44
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Vermont- 3505 
Mary Pinney 
widow of Isaac Pinney who was a Sergeant in the Continental Line *
Conn and * Continental Records completed Feb 20 / 05 R.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 120  Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of Decr, 1843 and sent to W.S. Allison Present 
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded Book A  Vol. 1 Page 29 
Instructions under the Act of 1844 sent to Oel Billings Woodstock VT July 15’ 44
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See letter to A C Noble 3 April 1833 – 
Corpl [corporal] 5 days
Sergt 23 mo 25 days
C Pension office 
12965
Vermont  
Isaac Pinney of Royalton, in the State of Vermont who was a Sergeant in the company commanded by Captain Walbridge of the regt commanded by Colonel Webb in the Connecticut line, for the term of three years 1777 to 1780 
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 7 day of April 1818 and 
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 of July 1819 and sent to Dudley Chase Esq Randolph Vt
Restored to the Roll on 23 day of August 1820 and notification sent to Jacob Collams at Royalton,  
Pension commencing on the 1st of January  1828. 
Amount due on 4th of Sept 1830 } $ 257.03  
Feby 1 - 78 
25 Jany ‘80
{Revolutionary Claim, 31 May 1830} 
Let
Conn. and * Continental Records completed Febr 20/ 05
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STATE OF VERMONT, 
Hartford District } On this 28th day of June A. D. 1844 personally appeared before the Hon’l the Probate Court of the District of Hartford aforesaid Mary Pinney  a resident of Royalton  in said District aged 79 years, who being first sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the acts of Congress passed on the 3d of March, 1843, and the act in addition thereto, passed June 17th, 1844, reviving and extending said act of March 3d, 1843, for and during four years from and after the 4th of March, 1844. 
That she is the widow of Isaac Pinney late of said Royalton deceased who was Sargent in the army of the Revolution, and served as set forth in his declaration under the act of June 7 A.D. 1832, and that she was pensioned under the acts of July 7th, 1838, and of March 3d, 1843, and drew a pension of $120.00 per annum  and she now claims a further pension of four years on the 4th of March 1844, pursuant to said additional act.  
She further declares that she is still a widow, 
Mary Pinney
Witness Oel Billings
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written  
Before George E. Wales, Judge 
I Oel Billings Register of the Court of Probate of the District of Hartford aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Mary Pinney for a pension; and I further certify that she is the identical widow and drew a pension as she has above stated. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Woodstock this 28th day of June AD 1844 
Oel Billings Register.
Return to O. Billings Woodstock Vt
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Admd
Admitted
Oel Billings
Woodstock
Vert
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STATE OF VERMONT. 
Windsor County ss. } 
On this 29th day of May A.D. 1848 personally appeared before Oel Billings a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Windsor and State of Vermont, Mary Pinney a resident of Royalton in said County of Windsor aged  83 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 2d February, 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war; that she is the widow of Isaac Pinney late of said Royalton deceased who was a Sargeant in the Army of the Revolution and drew a pension in his life time of one hundred and twenty dollars per annum and that she made her declaration under the act of July 7 1838 and drew a pension under that and the subsequent act of March 3, 1843 & June 17. 1844 of $120. per annum and she now makes this application to obtain a continuance of her pension during her natural life.   
She further declares that she is still a widow. 
Witness } Isaac Pinney Dorcus Pinney Mary Penney her mark  
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written 
Before Oel Billings Justice of the Peace 
I certify that the above named applicant is personally known to me and that she is the same individual who drew a pension as stated by her in the foregoing declaration  
Oel Billings Justice of the Peace.
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STATE OF VERMONT, 
Windsor County SS}  I, Norman Williams, Clerk of the County Court of the County of Windsor in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify that 
Oel Billings
is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the 30th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty and will expire the thirtieth day of November next, and that his signatures to the certificate foregoing are genuine. 
Given under my hand and the seal of said County Court, at Woodstock, in said County of Windsor, this 11th day of November A.D. 1848 
Norman Williams Clerk
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[unreadable]
To Lucius Manchester DB
Chas D. Martin
[unreadable] Col.
Feby 26, 1904 Hon Winifred E. Wheden Winterset Iowa
1906 June 15 Hist to Hon Rockwood Hoar
1906 Aug 11 – Data to Miss Winifred E. Whedon
1907 Sept 17 – hist to Mrs Martha A. E. Bronson c
1922 Jan 16 hist to Mrs. Edward Howlett EN
1929 Oct 25 hist to Mrs R. B. Pinney AWF
1929 Nov 11 hist to Mrs Edna J. Bice AWF
Revy WIDOW, &c. 
File No. 26.971 
Mary Pinney 
Wid of Isaac Pinney 
Sergt Rev War 
Act Feby. 24, 1848 
Index:-Vol. Page
[Arrangement of 1870.] 
Apr 30 Pinney, I 
Conn
Aug 24, 91
Histy to
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Aug 11, 1906. 
L.M.H.
Mrs. Martha A. E. Bronson 
Northfield, Minn 
Madam, In reply to your letter dated the 7” and received on the 10" inst, you are advised that from the papers in claim Wid. File 26971 that Isaac Pinney was born Dec. 18, 1758 (place not stated), and resided 
sided at Stafford, Connecticut when he enlisted in August 1775, as private in Captain Char Ellsworth's company, Colonel Jedediah Huntington's regiment in the Connecticut line and was discharged January 1, 1775; Enlisted in January 1776, as private in Captain Amos Walbridge's company, Colonel Joseph Read's regiment 13th Continental line, discharged at Peekskill, January 1, 1777; Enlisted January 25, 1777, as Corporal in Captain Amos Walbridge's company, Colonel Charles Webb's regiment of Connecticut line, promoted Sergeant in December 1777 and transferred as such in the summer of 1778 to Lieutenant Robertson's company, same regiment, from which he was again transferred in the spring of 1779, as Sergeant to Captain Henry Ten Eyck's Co. of Light Infantry, Colonel Meigs' regiment, General Wayne's brigade
2” Sgt Sept 6 ‘79
was in the battle of Stony Point, and was discharged January 7, 1780, at Morristown, New Jersey. 
1789 moved to VT & served in VT mil. [militia] as Sgt Maj., QM & Adj
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Aug 11, 1906. 
L.M.H.
Hon Rockwood Hoar
House of Representatives
Washington D. C.
My dear Mr. Hoar:- 
In reply to your letter dated July 26 and received the same day, relative to the military history of major Isaac Pinney, of Royalton, Vermont, I have the honor to advise you that it appears from the papers in claim Widows File No.  26971  that Isaac Pinney was born Dec. 18, 1758 (place not stated), and resided at Stafford, Connecticut when he enlisted in August 1775, as private in Captain Char Ellsworth's company, Colonel Jedediah Huntington's regiment in the Connecticut line and was discharged January 1, 1775; Enlisted in January 1776, as private in Captain Amos Walbridge's company, Colonel Joseph Read's regiment (13th Continental line,) discharged at Peekskill, January 1, 1777; Enlisted January 25, 1777, as Corporal in Captain Amos Walbridge's company, Colonel Charles Webb's regiment of Connecticut line, promoted Sergeant in December 1777 and transferred as such in the summer of 1778 to Lieutenant Robertson's company, same regiment, from which he was again transferred in the spring of 1779, as Sergeant to Captain Henry Ten Eyck's Co. of Light Infantry, Colonel Meigs' regiment, General Wayne's brigade
2” Sgt Sept 6 ‘79
was in the battle of Stony Point, and was discharged January 7, 1780, at Morristown, New Jersey. 
1789 moved to VT & served in VT mil. [militia] as Sgt Maj., QM & Adj
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He was allowed pension on an application executed April 7, 1818 at which time he was a resident of Royalston, Windsor Co. Vermont. 
Soldier married November 21, 1782, Mary Parkhurst born November 14, 1764, and he died February 15, 1842, and his widow was allowed a pension on an application executed August 4, 1842, while resident of Royalton, aforesaid.
Their children were:
Susannah        born November 23, 1783.
Isaac               born September 10, 1786
Mary               born           May 22, 1788
---ley (torn)     born          June 23, 1790
---ah (torn)      born       March 27, 1792
Dan                 born        April     3.1794
Betsey             born       March 22, 1796
Jabez               born     January 26, 1798
Columbus       born          June   7, 1800
-ebee A. or F. (torn) born June   5,1804
In 1820, Isaac, oldest son,  is referred to as having a wife and four children.
Very Respectfully
Commissioner
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R
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Merced Calif Aug 8 1903 
To Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington D.C. 
Sir: Will you kindly furnish me with the Revolutionary War (1776) record of my great Grand Father Lieut Issac Pinney.
His name appears I am told in the list of census of U. S. pensions page 1840
Thanking you in advance for early reply 
I am respectfully 
Chas D Martin 
12965
26971
[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE C AUG 14 1903
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Department of the Interior 
Bureau  of Pensions  
Washington D.C. 
[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE JUL 28 1906
Dear Sir.
Can you furnish me the birth-place Isaac Pinney soldier of the Revolutionary War. He enlisted
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from Stafford Conn date of application for pension was April 7. 1818.  I am sorry to bother you but my grand father has told me any member of times but are forgotten now. 
If you can furnish me this, I will be greatly obliged and I there is any other expense I will forward the amount immediately
[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE JUL 28 1906
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I remain Sincerely yours  
Miss Winfred E. Whedon 
Winterset Iowa July 26, 1906
[stamp] O.W.&N. DIV. FILES JUL 30 1906
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[stamp] U.S.P.B. OLD WAR & NAVY FILES FEB 6 1904
No. 1403
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF WINTERSET, IOWA 
CAPITAL, $50,000. SURPLUS, $20,000 
C. D. BEVINGTON, PRESIDENT 
W. S. WHEDON, CASHIER 
Winterset Iowa
Feby. 2 - 1904  
The Honorable Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington D.C. 
Will you kindly furnish me with the war record of Isaac Pinney, who was engaged in the War of the Revolution.   I am almost certain that he enlisted from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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No. 1403
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF WINTERSET, IOWA 
CAPITAL, $50,000. SURPLUS, $20,000 
C. D. BEVINGTON, PRESIDENT 
W. S. WHEDON, CASHIER 
He drew a pension for his services in that war and after his death his widow received a pension.  The only fact I know about his pension is, that twenty or thirty years after the close of the war he received several thousand dollars for his service.   
Thanking you in advance for your favor
Yours respectfully 
Miss Winifred E. Whedon
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FIFTY - NINTH CONGRESS. 
MARLIN E. OLMSTED, PA. CHAIRMAN 
JAMES M. MILLER, KANS 
ARTHUR P. MURPHY, Mo. 
CAPELL L. WEEMS, OHIO 
JOSHUA F.C. TALBOTT, MD. 
ROCKWOOD HOAR, MASS. 
ADAM M. BYRD, Miss. 
JAMES F. BURKE, PA. 
MOUNCE G. BUTLER, TENN.  
HARRY C. HOUTZ, CLERK.  
COMMITTEE ON ELECTIONS NO2. 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES U.S. 
WASHINGTON, D.C. June 13, 1906. 1906, 
[stamp] O.W.&N. DIV FILES JUN 14 1096
19/111
My dear Mr. Davenport: - 
Can you tell me what your pension record shows with regard to the military service or other duty of Major Isaac Pinney, whose descendant writes me that the Major's name appears on the list of pensioners published by the Census Department in 1841, and who then lived in Royalton,  Windsor County, Vt. 
I am faithfully yours, 
Rockwood Hoar
James L. Davenport, Esq., 
Deputy Commissioner, 
Pension Bureau, 
Washington, D. C. 
[stamp] FIRST DEPUTY COMMISSIONER JUN 12 1906 U. S. PENSION OFFICE. 
Attention and reply through desk. 
J. L. Davenport 
First Deputy [unreadable]
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JMD
[stamp] RECORD DIVISION SEP 11 1908
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W. 26971  
Northfield Minn 
U. S. Pen. Comm Sept 7. 
Will you please send me the Pension record of Isaac Pinney a Rev. Soldier who enlisted from Conn but who according Conn Rolle was a pensioner from Vermont. 
Very Respectfully Mrs. Martha A. E. Bronson 
Northfield 
at request of Mrs. C. A. Bierman Northfield, Minn
[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE A SEP 10 1908
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JWD
[stamp] RECORD DIVISION SEP 11 1908
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Northfield Minn 
Sept 27 1908
U.S. Pensions 
Sir the I enclose or request for the Pension Record of Isaac Pinney & Rencid House and have written in the names of the ladies whose name appears as I am looking up D.A.R. matters for them but please send the record or reply to them.
Respectfully Chas. A. Bierman 
[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE A SEPT 10 1908
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FEW
[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE DEC 31 1921
Commr of Pensions 
War Dept. 
Washington D.C 
Dear Sir: 
I desire all information on record relating to one Isaac Pinney, Revolutionary soldier on record in “Connecticut men in the Revolution" as a Connecticut Pensioner residing in Vermont and under "Act of 1818”.  The man I refer to I believe lived at Royalton Windsor Co. Vt. after the war, had wife. Mary Parkhurst and several children. 
Thanking you I am Respectfully 
Mrs Edw. Howlett 
385 W. Huron St. 
Pontiac Mich
12-28-1921
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Crawford Nebr 
Aug. 21, 1929 
Pension Bureau 
Washington D.C 
Dear Sir 
Please send me Revolutionary service of Isaac Pinney born Feb. 18, 1758. Died Feb 1842. Stafford Conn for D.A.R. records. 
Yours Truly 
Mrs R. B. Pinney
[stamp] U.S.PENSION OFFICE AUG 27 1929
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MJ
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MRS. EDNA THOMPSON BICE 
450 EAST MADISON STREET 
FRANKLIN, IND.
Sept 14th /29 
Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington D. C 
Dear Sir 
Do you have a record of the services of Isaac Pinney who was Pensioned as Sergeant in 1818 while residing in Vermont.   If so will you please send and oblige. 
Mrs Edna T. Bice
#450 E. Madison St.
Franklin Ind
[stamp]  U.S. PENSION OFFICE SEP 16 1929
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Isaac Pinney 
Private,  placed on the to roll of Vermont July 7. 1819 - dropt Oct. 23. 1820.
Respecting ap’n for restoration - see letters within mentioned - also letter Feb. 5. 1828 to Hon. D Chase, Senate U.S 
Feb Septr 1819
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Susp’d [suspended] removed. See letter 27 Oct 1835 to W. Weston acting for P. Agt [pension agent] 
to Jabez Pinney Augt 30 ‘42 
to J. Pinney and W.S. Allison May 19 1843
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P
So Manchester Conn Apr 22. 1896 
To the U.S. Pension Bureau 
Washington D.C. 
Will you please give me name of town in Vermont where Sgt. Isaac Pinney resided who drew pension as a Connecticut Revolutionary Soldier under Act of 1818.   
I would like also to know if this Isaac Pinney was the one who enlisted from Stafford Conn in Capt Walbridge Co. or was he the Isaac Pinney who enlisted in Windsor Ct. 
Yours respectfully
Lucius Pinney
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Apl 8 1843
VT
Mary Pinney
[unreadable]
Apr 10
Hon. J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D. C.
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Greensboro Ver’t April 10th 1843 
Hon. J. L. Edwards 
Dear Sir in August 1842 sent to you the testimony of Mary Pinney of Royalton Vt showing that was the widow of Isaac Pinney a Revolutionary Pensioner, I now see by the last acts of Congress & the construction put upon them at the War Department that Mary Prinney is intitled to Pension.  I wish you to examine the papers I sent you and if they are sufficient place the old Lady on the roll, and forward me the necessary papers for her to obtain it.
Yours Respectfully 
Jabez Pinney 
J. L. Edwards
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Oct 27 
Isaac Pinney
Vt roll
9637
FREE
James L. Edwards Esqr  
Commissioner of Pensions  
Washington D.C.
[stamp] BURLINGTON VT OCT 21
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Bank of Burlington October 20th 1835 
Sir
I enclose the affidavits of Isaac Pinney and Oel Billings  explaining the discrepancy in the signatures of Isaac Pinney to his vouchers for pension heretofore paid, and forwarded to the Treasury Department. 
The pension of said Pinney has been suspended (probably in consequence of his vouchers having been signed in a different hand writing from his own), and he wishes that the agent may be instructed to pay the amt due him on the production of proper vouchers. 
I am, and for several years have been personally acquainted with said Pinney and said Billings and believe them to be men of integrity and credibility.
Very respectfully Your Obt Svt 
Wm. Weston Pension Clerk Burlington Vt.
Jas L. Edwards Esq Commr of Pensions
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Oel Billings Vermont 
Royalton Vt 
June 2 
Admit as Sergeant 
2 years $120.00 
free
Vt
Hon J.L. Edwards 
Comr of Pensions 
Washington City D. C. 
[unreadable] 
June 10 th 1824
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Royalton Vermont June 2d 1834 
Hon J. L. Edwards
Sir
I am directed by Isaac Pinney of Royalton afsd to write you, for the purpose of having his last pension certificate arrested. It will be remembered that he drew under the act of March 18. 1818, but when that of June 7, 1832 was passed he gave up his first certificate and applied under the last act and received a certificate to draw $115.60 per annum. He still insists that he ought to draw $120, instead of $115.60 which he now draws, having served more than two years as Sargeant and to convince you of which I here relate his service, which by examination he says, will be found to be correct to wit 
Jany 25. 1777 he enlisted for 3 years at Stafford Co. in the continental Army in the company of Capt Amos Walbridge in Col Charles Webb 2d Ct. Regiment as corporal, and served as such untill the last of December 1777 when he was appointed Sargent and continued in said Walbridge Company as Sergeant, untill the summer of 1778 he was transferred as Sargent into Col. Isaac Shermans Company commanded by Capt. Lewis Robinson where he served untill the spring of 1779 as sergeant, when the ninth Light Infantry Company was formed. He was then taken out of said last company and put into Capt Henry Tynick [Ten Eyck} Company in Col Meiggs Regiment & Genl Waynes Brigade where he served untill the 7th of January 1780 where he was discharged as sergeant.  His discharge and warrant was forwarded to the war department at the time of his first application under act of 1818 as will be
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found. It will be proved by the foregoing statement that he served as sergeant from the latter part of December 1777 to the 7th of January 1780 over two years, and therefore he ought to draw $120 per annum. He now prays that you will take his case again under consideration and give him that relief which he seeks for. An old Soldier is never to blame for standing for his right, as he says. will you give me an early answer and of his certificate can be corrected I will forward it immediately. In the mean time I remain your obt Servant. Oel Billings
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Isaac Pinney
[stamp] BURLINGTON VERMONT SEP 18
Vt.
No. 9637
7 June
9637
Suspended Decd – see letter p. agt [pension agent] 28th Augt ‘34
FREE
James L. Edwards Esqr  
Commissioner of Pensions  
Washington
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Office Bank Burlington Sept 1. 1834 
Sir
The error at the Branch Bank respecting the former payment of Isaac Pinneys pension under the act of June 7, 1832 has been corrected -  and the balance due him this day has therefore been this day paid.   
Very respectfully 
Your Obt Sert 
E. T.  Englesby Pres
J L. Edwards Esqr  
Commissioner of Pensions
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J L. Edwards Esqr  
Commissioner of Pensions  
Washington D.C.
FREE
Sept 8
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Office Bank U.S.  
Burlington 2 Sep. 1834 
Sir
By further examination in the case of Isaac Pinney, referred to in my letter of the 2 ultimo, I find that the mistake arose, by to deducting the payment ($48) from the 4 of Sep. 1832 to the 4 of March 1833, under the act of 3 of March from the amt due to him, under the act of the 7 of June 1832, and have notified the Bank of Burlington conformably to your instruction of the 20. Ultimo.  
We therefore claim the repayment of the above mentioned sum of $48. before the Pensioner shall be entitled to receive his pension due on the 4th instant. 
I am respectfully, 
Your obt servant. 
Heman Allen Prest 
agent for paying U.S. Pensioners
J. L. Edwards Esqr  Commissioner of Pensions
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FREE 
J. L. Edwards Esqr  
Commissioner of Pensions  
Washington
[stamp] BURLINGTON VERMONTH AUG 23
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Office Bank U.S. 
Burlington 22 August 1834. 
Sir
The accounting officers of the Treasury. having seen fit to suspend the allowance of $48 in the case of Isaac Pinney, in the settlement of my account for the last quarter, because it was by mistake included in the voucher, under the act of the 7 of June 1832, instead of the act of the 18 of March 1818, and the Pensioner having declined executing a new voucher for that sum under the act last mentioned, I beg to suggest the propriety of suspending his pension until the mistake can be ratified, and am respectfully, 
Your obt Servant 
Heman Allen Prest 
& agent for paying U.S. Pensioners. 
J. L. Edwards Esq. 
Commissioner of Pensions
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Payments to be made at Burlington by the Presd. U.S. Br. Bank Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of Vermont 
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book E. Vol. Page 83 by Wm Miller Clerk
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WAR DEPARTMENT 
Revolutionary Claim. 
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Isaac Pinney of the State of Vermont who was a corporal and Sergeant in the war of the revolution is entitled to receive one hundred & fifteen dollars and Sixty - cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year. 
Given at the War Office of the United States this 3rd day of June one thousand eight hundred and thirty three 
John Robb Acting L Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. 
J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions.
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last evidence rec’d see letter to Dudley Chase (Hon) - 22d January 1828 
Edwards
Clerk
Pension office
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Jas. L. Edwards
Chief Clerk
Pension office
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Washington Jany 21. 1825 
Sir
The papers relating to Isaac Pinney claim for a pension are in your office and have been hitherto considered sufficient to establish his claim. Enclosed are the Deposition of Elias Stevens, Daniel Rix and Isaac Skinner, and also copies of a deed a mortgage deed from Isaac Penney the former to Dan & Jabez Pinney and the letter to Parkhurst & Aldens. 
It is believed that these papers in connection with such as are already in your possession will perfectly establish the requisite proof of the claimants poverty.  
Please have the goodness to examine  the case & inform me of your decision thereon 
Your Obt Svt 
Dudley Chase
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Captain Amos Walbridge
Colonel Sherman 
Isaac Pinney 
Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of September next in Burlington Vt by Heman Allen Esqr Agent for paying U.S. Pensioners
Recorded
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War Department 
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM. 
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818,
Isaac Pinney. late Sergeant in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Vermont Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to commence on the Seventh day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen 
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this Seventh day of July one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
J. C. Calhoun 
Secretary of War.
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[unreadable]
AWF/cel
October 25, 1929 
Mrs. R. B. Pinney 
Crawford Nebraska 
Dear Madam: I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W.26971, it appears that Isaac Pinney was born December 18, 1758, place not stated. 
While residing in Stafford, Connecticut, he enlisted and served with the Connecticut Troops as follows: 
From in August, 1775, as a private in Captain Charles Ellsworth's Company, Colonel Jedediah Huntington's Regiment and was discharged January 1, 1776; from in January, 1776, as a private in Captain Amos Walbridge's Company, Colonel Joseph Reed's Regiment and was discharged January 1, 1777, from January 25, 1777, as corporal in Captain Amos Walbridge's Company, Colonel Charles Webb's regiment ; he was promoted sergeant in December, 1777, and transferred in the summer of 1778, to Lieutenant Robertson's company in the same regiment; he was again transferred in the spring of 1779, to Captain Henry Ten Eyck's Company, Colonel Meigs' Regiment, was in the battle of
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Stony Point, was promoted September 6, 1779, second sergeant and was discharged January 7, 1780. 
After which he moved to Vermont, and it is stated that he served in the Vermont Militia as sergeant major, quartermaster and adjutant. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 7, 1818, at which time he was a resident of Royalton, Windsor County, Vermont. He died February 15, 1842. 
The soldier married November 21, 1782, in Royalton, Vermont, Mary Parkhurst. She was born November 14, 1764. 
She was allowed pension on her application executed August 4, 1842, at which time she was living at Royalton, Vermont. Their children were: 
Susannah        born November 23, 1783.
Isaac               born September 10, 1786
Mary               born           May 22, 1788
---ley (torn)     born          June 23, 1790
---ah (torn)      born       March 27, 1792
Dan                 born        April     3.1794
Betsey             born       March 22, 1796
Jabez               born     January 26, 1798
Columbus       born          June   7, 1800
-ebee A. or F. (torn) born June   5,1804
In 1820, son Isaac is referred to as having a wife and four children, their names are not given. 
Very truly yours,
EARL D. CHURCH
Commissioner
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Know all men by these presents, that I, Mary Pinney of Royalton, in the County of Windsor, and State of Vermont, have made, constituted and appointed, and by these presents do make, constitute and appoint, William S. Allison, of the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name, to prosecute at the War Department of the United States, my claim for a pension from the United States, for, and on account of the Revolutionary services of Isaac Pinney, my late husband, And to do all lawful acts and things whatsoever concerning the premises, as fully in every respect, as I myself might or could do, if I were personally present; hereby ratifying allowing and confirming all and whatsoever my said attorney shall in my name lawfully do, or cause to be done, in and about the premises, by virtue of these presents. 
Witness my hand and seal, this 30th day of March, Anno Domini 1843. 
Mary Pinney
Signed and sealed in presence of 
David W. Wills 
Elisha Rix 
State of Vermont  
Windsor County ss} Royalton, March 30th 1843. Personally appeared Mary Pinney, signer and sealer of the above power of attorney, and acknowledged the same to be her act and deed. Before me 
Elisha Rix Justice of the Peace.
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State of Vermont 
Windsor County ss }  I Norman Williams Clerk of the County Court of the County of Windsor in the State Vermont do hereby certify that Elisha Rix is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the ninth day of November AD 1842 and will expire on the first day of December next, and that his signature to the certificate at the bottom of the foregoing page is genuine 
Given under my hand and the seal of said County Court, at Woodstock in said March, AD. 1843. 
N. Williams, Clerk 
Mary Pinny
Vermont
Act ’36 [unreadable]
W. S. Allison
Prest
Apl. 15 1843
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Greensboro Vt
Augt 24
Free
29 Aug 1842
D. C. 
5651
James L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions  Washington City D.C.
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Greensboro August 23rd 1842 
J. L. Edwards, Esq 
Dear Sir I herein inclose the declaration of Mary Pinney Widow of Isaac Pinney of Royalton in the State of Vermont whome as you will see was at the time of his decease a revolutionary Pensioner, also such testimony as I thought would be necessary to intitle her to a Widows Pension,  you will therefore (if sufficient) place her on the Pension List and send me as soon as convenient, the papers necessary for her to make a draft. 
Yours Respectfully  
Jabez Pinney
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O. Billings
Affidavit
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I Oel Billings of Royalton in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont depose and say that in making out the papers for obtaining the semiannual Dividend of Pension due Isaac Pinney of said Royalton March the 4th 1834. I signed the said Pinney's name thereto myself at his request his hand trembling so that he could not write legibly. George Francis was was the attorney for obtaining the money and was the magistrate who administered the oaths and took the acknowledgement of of the power of attorney. 
Oel Billings 
Woodstock September 24th 1835 
Personally appeared Oel Billings and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is just and true, before me 
Walter Palmer Just Peace
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I Joseph A. Denison of Royalton, County of Windsor & State of Vermont of lawfull age testify & say that that I have been for many years acquainted with Isaac Pinney of this town & have for 20 years or more as the Family physician-- & that in 1812 he Isaac had a severe sickness, & has not since fully recovered his health, has ever since been affected with tremor of his hands & of the nerves generally, which renders him unable to perform his accustomed Labour & which disease is & has been in every year increasing, & at this time he can do but very little. In his Family also there has been much more sickness than any other of the neighbouring families.  One Daughter in Hamilton has been in a state of debility & decease for 8 or 12 years.  2 or 3 of his sons have  severe & long [unreadable] of fever followed by a long & slow convalescene. His wife also has had for a year two a discase in both eyes which at times renders her almost blind & is very painfull & distressing almost all the time.  I think the expense of his own & his family's sicknesses for the last 10 or 12 years must have been very great.
Jo. A. Denison
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State of Vermont
Windsor County ss}  Royalton Jan 4. 1827 
Personally appeared Joseph A Denison and made solemn Oath to the truth of the within deposition by him subscribed before me.
Oel Billings Justice of the Peace
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Pension Office
Augt 28 1830
(act May 31, 1830)
Restore:
Pen to com: January 1 1828
$8 per mo.
Free
Secretary of War
Washington
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Royalton Vt.
Aug 17 
free
Secretary of War-
Washington City 
Restore pen to com: January 1 1828
$8 per mo.
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Royalton Aug 17 1830 
Sir
Agreeable to your instructions I enclose you the affidavit of Isaac Pinney proving his identity as the person provided for in the act of May 31 1830.   It will be a great relief to a worthy poor man, if you would immediately forward his certificate that he may received his pay the 4th of Sept.
Respectfully yours 
Jacob Collamer 
Hon. J.H. Eaton  
Sec War-
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I Isaac Skinner of Royalton in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont of lawfull age depose and say that I first came to Royalton 1782 & became acquainted with Isaac Pinney.   In 1784, I settled in Royalton and have been ever since intimately acquainted with Mr. Pinney and his circumstances. I have examined the deposition of this date signed by Elias Stevens and have been well knowing to the circumstances therein stated, which have happened since 1784 and would confirm his statement and I am of the same opinion that the farm of Mr. Pinney is suffered to remain in his hands by the levity and sufferance of his son and creditors, the Pinney is really worth nothing/  
Isaac Skinner December 7. 1827
State of Vermont 
Windsor County ss}  At a County Court begun & holden at Woodstock within & for the County of Windsor on the first Tuesday in December in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred twenty seven said Court, being a Court of Record having the power of fine & imprisonment &c. 
On the fourth day of the Term of said Court, being the seventh day of said December Isaac Skinner of Royalton in said County, personally appeared in open Court, and made Solemn Oath, that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed, contains the truth & nothing but the truth.  
Attest Benj Swan Clerk 
In Testimony whereof I the said Benjamin Sween Clerk of said County Court, have hereto affixed the seal of said County Court, and subscribed my name this seventh day of December in the year of our Lord 1827 
Benj Swan
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 1 March 1823
Isaac Pinney
Vt.
Hon Dudley Chase
Sen U.S.
Recd 15 Jan 1827
Mr. Calhoun
Pension Office
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Washington Jany 15. 1827
Sir
Please have goodness to examine the enclosed papers in connection with the 1st and 2nd Schedule of  Isaac Pinney of Royalton, Vermont and as soon as convenient, inform me of decision thereon.   
I hope sir, you will have the patience to examine also the obsevation by J. Callamer Esqr who submitted same remarks by way of explaining the schedule and the dispositions made of the property of Pinney. Isaac Pinney was reputed a good & faithful solder & ever has sustained the character of an honest man good citizen and is now well known to be very poor & needy. 
Your obt sevt
Dudley Chase
Mr J. L. Edwards Pension Office
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I Elias Stevens of Royalton in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont of lawfull age depose and say that I settled in Royalton in 1771, at the first commencement of the settlement of the Town and have ever since remained here. In the spring of the year 1780 Isaac Pinney came to Royalton where he has ever since resided. He was then a young man recently from the army.  The county was new and he bought two thirds of three hundred acres of land making 66 acres & two thirds, this he exchanged for the farm he now lives on.  It is almost wholly unplowed  of  ordinary quality and is the farm on which he has ever since resided. He was poor and paid for his land in his own personal labor.  After he had made a small beginning on his land he was married in 1782.  I will recollect that at the time of the incursion of indians into Royalton they killed Pinney's two oxen, which were his only cattle. 
Pinney was at first an able bodied athletic young man of tried courage and experience in the army and was highly usefall to our infant settlement. Being then a frontier settlement we were under the necessity of keeping up, for over three years, a military patrol and scouts, in all which Pinney and with others, without pay with alacrity and faithfulness and skill.  As the country settled and the organization of a Militia became necessary Pinney was found extremely useful.   His experience in the army had acquainted him with the skill & he for many years contributed to exertions & expended much of his time and earnings, which he was not well able to spare, in the organization & discipline of our infant militia, and served with much approbation, for several years in the militia
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as Sargeant Major, Quarter Master and Adjutant.  He has ever been in moderate circumstances but has respectably raised up a family of ten children who are good members of Society He has ever cheerfully contributed his proportion in establishing and supporting of our ministry, our schools, roads, bridges and all those institution necessary to the prosperity of rising community; and I feel a pleasure bearing testimony to the uniform public spirited conduct of Mr. Pinney. 
When Mr. Pinney's eldest son Isaac became of age, his assistance was much needed by his father and by an agreement between them he went to live with his father & has ever since resided there, and labored on the farm.  Isaac Pinney is now over 40 years old.  Of their contract I know nothing but as I at that time and ever since have understood it from Mr. Pinney and his family, I ever understood that Isaac Pinney Jr. was to reside with his father and labor on the farm & to be the owner of one undivided half of it. Isaac Pinney Junr has ever since lived and labored there agreeable to such a contract, and the other members of the family have been brought up, and have all gone away except the youngest daughter.  Within the last ten or twelve years past Mr. Pinneys family have been much afflicted with long and expensive sickness.  His wife is has been for many years, sick and infirm; his daughter has also been much expense to him by her sickness and other numbers of the family have had expensive fits of sickness and Mr. Pinney has himself become infirm and decrepit and many years has been unable to do any labor to profit and been dependant on his sons labor on the form for support. The income of the farm being limited & his expenses being great he has been [unreadable] involved
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in debt and been compelled to borrow money & mortgage his farm and from my intimate acquaintance with Mr. Penney, his misfortunes of his affairs I have no doubt his sons claim for service under the contract aforesaid and the debts due by Mr. Pinney are such that it is verily by the unity sufferance the fee of his farm remains in him.   
Isaac Pinney Junr is poor and Embarrassed.
Elias Stevens
December 7, 1827 
State of Vermont 
Windsor County ss}
At a County Court begun & holden at Woodstock within & for the County of Windsor on the first Tuesday in December in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred twenty seven, said Court being a Court of Record, having the power of Fine & Imprisonment &c
On the fourth day of the term of the said Court being the seventh day of said December. Elias Stevens of Royalton in said County, personally appeared in open Court, and made Solemn Oath, that the foregoing Affidavit by him subscribed, contains the truth nothing but the truth. 
Attest Benj. Swan Clerk 
In Testimony whereof I the said Benjamin Swan Clerk of said County Court, have hereto affixed the Seal of said County Court and subscribe my name this seventh day of December in the year of our Lord 1827 
Benj. Swan
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Phinehas Parkhurst 
affidavit
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I Phinehas Parkhurst of Lebanon in the County of Grafton State of New Hampshire Physicion of Lawful age depose and say that I have been acquainted with Isaac Pinney of Royalton  in the State of Vermont for more than forty years. I also know that he was an active Soldier in the service of the United States during the revolutionary war.  In the year 1812 he had a violent fit of sickness for which he has not as yet recovered his former State of health, but has been ever since, in a low State of health and effected with tremors in his hands and feet and limbs, together with a constant deafness ever since that time. His digestive faculties have been been very much impaired, so that he has been under necessity to change his diet to light food in order to enjoy any satisfaction or benefit from his diet.  Shortly after the close of the revolutionary war, he informed me that at the attack & capture of Stony Point where he was a soldier and engaged, a deafness was brought upon him in consequence of the engagement at that place which continued for sometime and  since his sickness in 1812 his deafness has returned and continued to this day.
He is now in consequence of age and his feeble State of health unable to perform but very little Labour and his bodily infirmities increase upon him very fast from year to year.   I have been his Physician more or less ever since his sickness to this time.  He has a sickly, unhealthy and almost blind wife together with a large family of Sons and daughters.  One of his daughters has been an a low state of health for ten or twelve years last past and a constant bill of expense to him, the  whole of that time, two or three of his sons have had yearly fits of sickness within the last eight years and have not as yet recovered a good state of health, and I must say that it is my opinion if his had not been kind and afforded him relief,  he could not have supported his family and kept them together. I further say that said Pinney, when in good health was very active Laborous and prudent man
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I further say that I have heard others beside the said Pinney Speak of his being present at the engagement of Stony Point, and of the deafness brought upon him in consequence of that engagement.  
Lebanon Novr 28th 1826 Phinchas Parkhurst 
State of New Hampshire 
Grafton SS – Lebanon November 28th 1826 
Then personally appeared Phinehas Parkhurst and made solemn oath that the foregoing statement by him subscribed is true before me 
Samuel Tilden Justice of Peace
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Copy of Isaac Pinney's Schedule made August 2, 1820 
“92 acres land –    700.00
1 Pr Oxen              88.00
I Mare & colt        55.00
1 Horse Waggon   25.00
5 Cows                  75.00
3 two year olds      21.00
4 one year olds      13.00
23 Sheep & 16 lambs  25.00
4 Swine                  18.00
Earthen & tin ware  2.00
1 old Sleigh             0.50
1 Harrow                 0.50
3 Tables                   3.00
13 old chairs            6.50
1 old bureau             6.00
1 case drawers          1.00
Crockery ware          3.50
4 pails                       1.00
2 work tables              3.00
1 churn                       0.25
4 Cider Hhds              4.00
3 barrels                      1.50
1 brass clock             35.00
1 pr. shovel & tongs    2.00
3 Old Scythes              2.00
1 old plow                   2.15
3 Hoes                        1.00
3 Axes                        2.50
1 pr Fire dogs             2.00
10 old table spoons    1.00
6 Silver tea spoons     3.50
2 old looking glasses  0.50
1 brass kettle              2.00
2 iron kettles              3.00
3 iron pots                  2.00
1 Dish kettle               0.50
1 spider                       0.40
1 iron baker                0.40
2 Skillets                    0.67
1 toast iron                 0.50
1 gridiron                   0.50
1 old chair                 1.50
1 shovel                     0.50
3 pitch forks              0.50
3 old rakes                 0.17
1 grind stone             1.50
Amounting in the whole to $1132.54 
I am indebted to the amount of $320.59 to J.A. Denison, Curtis & Catter, Throop & Orvis & others.  
I further swear that I am by occupation a farmer and my health is such that I am almost wholly unable to labor at all and cannot pursue the business of farming in the least. 
I was deafened at the taking of Stoney Point which greatly effects an now. My family consists of myself and the following persons, to wit, my wife aged 56, infirm being able to do but little; A daughter aged 24 years who of has been sick between four and five years, during a quarter of which time she has been under the direction of a Physician;  one son aged 16 years of good health, almost able to support himself. My oldest son aged 34 years with his wife and four children in my family all in good health. 
I further depose on oath that the last mentioned Son 13 years since came to live with me under the following conditions and engagements. I had five sons & four daughters younger than him, and told him I would to give him one undivided half of my farm if he would come and work with me to support and bring up my family and support my other sons through their apprenticeships & fit out my daughters, he should hand the whole of property.  I was then in debt which he was to help pay. On his understanding he came and has resided with me during the last thirteen years. During that time my sons, all but two have been carried through their apprenticeships, my three eldest daughters married & fitted off, I and my family have during  the last ten years been severely afflicted with sickness, and during all this life I have been almost wholly supported by the late  exertions of my son. My property in the schedule above has therefore in justice and agreeable to my contract with my Son become his, -  but as I have not executed no deed I have inserted all in the Schedule and all this property by him acquired being in possession in common is inserted also.”
Isaac Pinney
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Copy of Isaac Pinney's 2d Schedule made 3 Monday of Sept 1823 
“ 1 old Mare        $25.00
1 Colt                    20.00
1 Cow                   14.00
1 Heifer                  5.00
1 Colt                     3.00
11 Sheep               11.66
1 sow & 3 pigs       6.00
1 old chain             1.50
1 pitch fork            1.20
2 Axes                    1.00
1 Hoe                     0.42
2 Tables                 1.50
4 Chairs                 1.00
1 case drawers       1.00
Crockery & glassware 1.00
4 earthen mil pans  0.34
1 Wheel                  0.50
1 Loom                   0.75
1 Flat iron                0.25
1 Tin pan                 0.50
1 pail                       0.12
1 cheese tub            1.00
1 churn                    0.12
2 sleds                     1.00
1 barrel                   0.50
Part of clock           6.00
1 pair tongs & shovel 0.83
10 pr fire dogs        0.25
2 spoons                 0.12
1 looking glass       0.25
1 brass kettle          1.50
Iron ware                1.00
Knives & forks       0.84
1 candle stick          0.12
1 tea kettle              0.25
Total $107.94.  
My family consists of my wife Mary aged fifty eight years, one daughter Betsey, aged 26 years. My wife is frail and unable to take care of herself; my daughter is now in tolerable health. I am by occupation a farmer, my health is so bad that I am unable to labor. I am also quite deaf, occasioned by being stationed under the mouths of the Cannon which we turned on the enemy’s  Shipping the next day after taking Stoney Point, That since the exhibiting my first schedule the following changes have been made in my property. 
Sold to Dan & Jabez Pinney one half of my farm $351.00 Sept 1st 1823 
I received of said Dan & Jabez a bond to indemnify me from the following debts which I had previously contracted for necessaries of life, and which I could in us other way pay to wit 
Isaac Tolman              $100.00 
Oel Billings                     8.70 
Isaiah Bacon.                 10.81 
Curtis & Cutler in Ext    25.54 
Curtis & Cutler on acct. 11.59 
Oel Billings, Note            2.00 
J. A. Denison..                57.75 
Jon’n Marsh -                40.00 
Jacob Fox -                    10.00 
Isaac Skinner                   5. 16 
Sold in Market at Boston
1 horse                            $45.00 Nov 1821 
Rec’d money and paid it out on debts to D. Rex, W. Morse, Throop & Orvis, John Francis
I mare & colt which belonged to my son Isaac and in my first schedule, this with the following articles were included & I then stated were held our property in common and we have since divided and he has taken his own, being this mare and colt and 1 horse wagon,  cow yearling, 1  Calf, 11 Sheep, 2 Swine, 1 Sleigh, 1 Sled,  3 old Scythes,  1 Plow,  2 Hoes,  2 axes,  1 Harrow,  2 Tables,  4 chairs,  1 Bureau, 2  Pails,  1 Tub,  1 Churn, 2 Hhds,  Part of Clock, 10 pr Tongs & Shovel,
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“ 10 pr fire dogs,  6 Spoons, 1 Looking Glass, 1 Tea Kittle, 2 Pots, 1 Iron Basin,  part of Iron ware,  3 Pitch forks, 3 Rakes, 1 Grind Stone.  
I delivered to Betsey Pinney one cow which was put into my first schedule by mistake.   
Sold to Curtis & Cutler 
1 cow & 4 young Cattle $65.00, Nov 1. 1820 & Nov 3, 1821 Indorsed on Note which they previously held against me 
Sold to Oel Billings, 15 [unreadable] Sheep $40.00,  Nov 1820, Nov 1821, Credited to and in account I being indebted to him for more, for necessaries of life. 
These our some of my old sheep & some of their lambs.  
It is to be recollected that one half of my farm belongs to my son Isaac by contract to since as I stated in my first Schedule. other articles mentioned in my former schedule and used up and gone.   
Isaac Pinney 
I here send you copies of all that part of Mr. Pinney’s two schedules which relate to his property. Both of these have been sent to the Secretary & unfavorable answers returned. I beg they may be carefully read through, not merely the list of property but the statement which accompanies and materially qualifies them.   
I am unapprised of what may be the rules of adjudication at the pension department or what is the degree of depression, poverty and misery which forms the standard of Relief,  Presuming however that applicants are are not to be presumed perjured & treated accordingly, but that they and their applications to be fairly and faithfully considered.  I sincerely hope this as may not be shuffled by.  With these views you will permit one to make some brief suggestions presented by the Schedule before you.   Now I would first remark the schedule are to be treated as evidence of every material fact they contain, for if they are doubted Mr. Pinney should not be turned off with a laconic epistle stating, "they are unsatisfactory,”  but should be told wherein their insufficiency consists.  Untill, therefore the Secretary suggests what further he wants I shall treat the schedule as true; more especially in this case, where the integrity of the applicant is known to be.  
What then is the case which the schedules present a revolutionary pensioner, where services were arduous and undoubted, is in 1840 called on for a schedule of his property, “to the last penny”. The finds this to be his situation
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some 13 years before this with a small farm, a large family and in Neble health he had agreed with his eldest son Isaac to live with him and immediately to become the owner of half the farm to assist in bringing up the younger children. This son comes there to work,  the old mans health soon fails entirely the son supports the family together with his own,  earns some property and carries it there in common, brings up the family and endures all the expenses. What is now old Mr. Pinney's?  He can hardly call any thing, his own. He consults his friends what course to take; and you, Sir, among the rest. Scrupulously conscientiously he would make no new disposition of his affairs: and assuming that all things would be duly weighed by the Secty, in pursuance of truth and the advice of friends proceed to set down in his first Schedule the whole farm, stock, furniture farming utensils &c owned both by himself and his son Isaac; and accompanies it with a statement of part of his debts hastily computed, and also a statement of his situation in relation to his son. On the receipt of this schedule he is struck off the pension list.  
Three years more, supported by the servitude of his son, deeply in debt, are passed by the old man in old age, sickness & poverty. He has now sold some things, used up some, contracted new debts to pay old ones and added some necessarily to the amount of his debts conscious that his country owed him & sensible that they were not fully aware of his situation & unwilling to be wholly a burthen to his son,  he again presents his case in a new form.  He sells his part of the farm to Dan & Jabez Pinney and deed it to them and they give bond to pay certain of his debts to the full value of his part. the their ascertain that of the personal property Isaac had purchased with his own earnings and brought there and what of the furniture Isaacs wife had of her father, Sanford Richardson, and deliver this to Isaac and all he has left is what is contained in his second schedule, "a beggarly account of empty boxes, to the fatty amount of $107. 94” and this is really more than he is worth. 
Now is there any thing in all this extraordinary or inexplicable the first schedule, with the statement accompanying it attentively read through, shows Mr. Penney worth nothing, and most  fully prepares the mind for the second Schedule.   It is rather a libel on the discernment of a man of [unreadable] to suppose he needs any assistance from and to explain & reconcile the two Schedules of Mr. Pinney with each other and with truth.  
The papers are at Washington and your immediate attention to this case is most earnestly desired; and justice be done to Mr. Pinney by having him placed on the list as at the time of his application.  If any further testimony is wanted, let us know as soon as possible.
Yours Respectfully 
Jacob Collamer Royalton clk January 1, 1827
Hon. Dudley Chace
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Sept 4 1843
Mary Pinney
Vermont
Act 3d March 1843
3398
$120
3805
Vt.
W. S. Allison
Prest
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State of Vermont, 
Windsor County SS.}  On this 25th day of August, 1843, personally appeared before me, Elisha Rix, a Justice of the peace within and for the County aforesaid, Mary Pinney, a resident of Royalton, in the County of Windson, aged seventy nine years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress of March 3, 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolution any war.   That she is the widow of Isaac Pinney, who was a Sergeant, and who received a pension of one hundred and twenty dollars per annum under act 7th June, 1832. She further declares that she is still a widow. 
Mary Pinney
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written. } 
Before Elisha Rix Justice of the Peace 
I further certify that the above named Mary Pinney is personally known to me 
Elisha Rix Justice of the Peace 
STATE OF VERMONT, } I Norman Williams, Clerk of the County Court of the County of Windsor in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify that 
Elisha Rix
is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the ninth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty two and will expire the thirtieth day of November next, and that his signature above written is genuine. 
Given under my hand and the seal of said County Court, this August 26 A. D. 1843 
N. Williams, Clerk
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10,005
Mary Pinney
Vermont
Act 7 July 1838
M. [married] 82 d [died] 42 – Vermont
Admd [admitted]
2 yrs Sergt.
120$
W. D. Allison
May 22d 43 Prest
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State of Vermont, 
Windsor County SS.} Personally appeared before me, a Justice of the peace  for said County on this 4th day of May 1843, Mary Pinney, widow of Isaac Pinney, deceased, who being first duly sworn states that she made an application for a pension under act 4th July 1836 which was rejected because she was not married until after the termination of her husband’s service, that she now applies for a pension under act of 7th July 1838, and refers to the proof on file in the Pension Office and to such other proof as shall hereafter be exhibited.
Mary Pinney
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written. } Before Elisha Rix Justice of the Peace 
STATE OF VERMONT, 
Windsor County ss}  I Norman Williams, Clerk of the County Court of the County of Windsor in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify that Elisha Rix is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the ninth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty two and will expire the thirtieth day of November next, and that his signature above written is genuine.
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State of Vermont, 
Windsor County SS.} Personally appeared before me, a Justice of the peace  for said County on this 4th day of May 1843, Mary Pinney, widow of Isaac Pinney, deceased, who being first duly sworn states that she made an application for a pension under act 4th July 1836 which was rejected because she was not married until after the termination of her husband’s service, that she now applies for a pension under act of 7th July 1838, and refers to the proof on file in the Pension Office and to such other proof as shall hereafter be exhibited.
Mary Pinney
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written. } Before Elisha Rix Justice of the Peace 
STATE OF VERMONT, 
Windsor County ss}  I Norman Williams, Clerk of the County Court of the County of Windsor in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify that Elisha Rix is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the ninth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty two and will expire the thirtieth day of November next, and that his signature above written is genuine. 
Given under my hand and the seal of said County Court, this 17th day of May A.D. 1843,
N. Williams Clerk
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I Daniel Rix of Royalton in County of Windsor and State of Vermont of lawfull age depose and say that I came with my father to reside in Royalton when a lad about nearly fifty years since and I have long and for more than thirty years intimately acquainted with Isaac Pinney of Royalton his family and affairs. I have examined the deposition of Elias Stevens this day made and confirm his statement of all which has transpired, within the thirty years past. The terms with which Isaac Pinney Jr has lived with his father I have ever understood from him and his father as E. Stevens relates in his deposition. With the sickness of Mr. Pinney's family I have been well acquainted, of his being deeply embarrassed in debt and also his son Isaac I have been well knowing, and I agree in the  opinion expressed by E. Stevens in his deposition that Mr. Pinney is suffered by the ever kindness of his creditors in retaining nominally the fee & possession of his farm 
December 7. 1827 
Daniel Rix
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State of Vermont 
Windsor County ss}  At a County Court begun & holden at Woodstock Windsor County within & for the County of Windsor on the first Tuesday in December in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred twenty seven, said Court being a Court of Record, having the power of Fine & Imprisonment &c 
On the Fourth day of the Term of said Court, being the seventh day of said December, Daniel Rix of Royalton in said County, personally appeared in open Court, and made Solemn Oath, that the within affidavit by him subscribed contains the truth nothing but the truth.  
Attest Benj Swan Clerk 
In Testimony whereof I the said Benjamin Swan Clerk of said County Court, have hereto affixed the Seal of said County Court, and subscribe my name this seventh day of December in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred twenty seven – 
Benj Swan
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Isaac Pinneys Decl’n 
of Royalton Windsor Co Vermont. 
Isaac Penney Sergt 
Col Webbs Regt Connecticut line 1777-3 years 
April 7th 1818 
on the Rolls
Admd [admitted]
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State of Vermont
Orange County ss }
On the 7th day of April AD 1818 before me the subscriber Chief Judge of the Supr. Ct of the State of Vermont personally appeared Isaac Pinney aged 59 years Resident in Royalton Windsor Co & State of Vermont who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make
the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled “an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War.”  That he the said Isaac Pinney when the revolutionary War commenced resided in Stafford, Connecticut & turned out as a private soldier & marched to the vicinity of Boston, where he arrived in August 1775 & joined the Army of the United States & served there till the 1 of January 1776 when he was dismissed with the company to which he
belonged; That he returned home & immediately enlisted into said Army for one year & served the whole of that term in Capt. Amos Walbridges company in Col Joseph Reeds Regiment Massachussetts Line, that he was discharged at Peekskill 1st of January AD 1777; that he served the year last aforesaid a private soldier; That on the 25th of January AD 1777 he enlisted for three years into the Army aforesaid as a private soldier, served the whole of his said last mentioned term in the Company commanded by Capt. Amos Walbridge, in Col. Charles
Webbs Regiment Connecticut Line & in the company commanded by Lieutenant Robinson in same Regt & in Capt. Ten Eycks company of Light Infantry in the 2d Regt Connecticut Line commanded by Col. Meigs; that he was honourably discharged January 7th AD 1780 at Morristown; that he was a non commissioned officer for most part of his last three years service; that he intends his Sergeants warrant & his last aforesaid discharge to accompany this declaration; that he served as aforesaid in the War of the Revolution & on the Continental Establishment; that he is a resident Citizen of the United States; That he is in reduced circumstances stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; that he has no other evidence of his sd services.
Sworn to & declared before me the 7th day of April AD 1818
Dudley Chase Chf Judge Sup Court
I Dudley Chase Chf Judge of the Supr Ct. of the State of Vermont do certify that it
appears to my satisfaction that the said Isaac Pinney did serve in the Revolutionary War
as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months & more on the Continental establishment & I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid mentioned act of Congress
Dudley Chase Chf Judge Sup Court
I hereby certify that Isaac Pinney above named is in reduced circumstances stands & stands in
need of the assistance of his country for support
Dudley Chase Chf Judge Sup. Court. Vermont
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Isaac Pinney
Application to be restored 2 papers
B
2nd Schedule
Sept 1819
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State of Vermont 
Windsor County ss}  At a County Court begun & holden at Woodstock within & for the County of Windsor on the third Monday in September Anno Domini 1823. On this 17th day of September AD 1823 personally appeared in open Court the same being a Court of record, having the power of the imprisonment &c Isaac Pinney aged sixty four years, resident in Royalton in said County of Windsor, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following the lowing declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the Act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818, the first of May 1820, and the first March 1823 that he the said Isaac Pinney in 1776 served in Capt. Charles Ellsworth Company, Col. Jedediah Huntington’s Regiment, in 1778, he enlisted for one year in Capt Amos Walbridge’s Company, Col. Joseph Reads Regiment, at the close of which year he was discharge at Peekskill January 1. 1777,  that he then in the same company, and Col. Charles Webbs Regiment enlisted for three years in the Connecticut line, continental establishment bearing date January 9th 1777, and discharged at Morristown January 7 1780.  That his name has been placed on the pension list  and dropt therefrom on account of his property; and in pursuance of the act of the first of May 1820, I do Solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War " passed on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities contracts or Debts due to me, nor have I any income other that what is contained in schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed 
viz, 1 old Mare, $25;  1 Colt 20;  1 cow $14;  1 Heifer $5 --  64- 
1 Calf 3;  11 Sheep 11.66;  1 sow & 3 pigs 6; 1 old chain 1.50 – 22.16 
1 Pitchfork 12;  2 axes 1;  1 Hoe 0.42;  2 Tables 1.50;  4 chairs 1 --  4.04 
1 case of Drawers 1;  Crockery & Glass Ware 1;  Earth Milk Pans 0.34 -- 2.34 
1 Wheel 0.50;  1 Loom 0.75;  1 Flat Iron 0.25;  1 Fire pan 0.50 -- 2 – 
1 Pail 12;  1 Cheese tub 1; 1 Churn 0.12;  2 Hogsheads 1 -- 2.24 
1 Barrel 0.50;  part of a clock 6; 1 pair Shovel & tongs 0.83 -- 7.33 
1 pair fire Dogs 0.25; 2 spoons 0.12;  1 looking Glass 0.25;  iron ware 1 – 1.62
1 brass Kettle 1.50; knives & forks 0.34; 1 Candlestick 0.12; Tea Kettle 0.25 --  2.21 
$107.94
Isaac Pinney
His family consists of his wife Mary, aged fifty eight years, and daughter Betsey aged 26 years, my wife is feeble unable to take care of herself, my Daughter is now in tolerable health, I am by occupation a Farmer, my health is so bad, that I am unable to Labour
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I am also quite deaf occasioned being stationed under the mouth of the Cannon which we turned on the Enemy shipping the next day after taking Stoney Point.  That since the exhibiting my first schedule the following changes have been made in my property 
Sold to Dan & Jabez Pinney one half of Farm September 2 1823. for the sum of $351 – 
I received of said Dan & Jabez in return a Bond to Indemnify me from the following debts which I had previously contracted for necessaries of life, and which I could in no other way pay, to wit, To Isaac Johnson $100 
Oel Billings ---                8.70 
Isaiah Bacon ---             10.81 
Curtis & Cutler in Execution. 25.54 
Curtis & Cutler on acct. 11.59 
Oel Billings on Note      82  
J. A. Denison                  57.75
Jon’n Marsh                    75 40 
Jacob Fox                        10  
Isaac Skinner                     5.18 
251.55
Sold in Market in Massachusetts November 1821 
1 Horse for forty five Dollars for which I Received money and paid at or in Debts to O. Rix. W. Morse, Throop & Orvis, John Francis 
1 Mare Colt which belonged to my son Isaac, and in my First Schedule, there with the following articles were included, and I then stated we held our property in common, and we have since divided, and he has taken his own, being this mare colt and 1 Horse Waggon, 1 Cow, 1 yearling, 1 Calf, 1 Sheep,  2 Swine, 1 sleigh, 3 old scythes, 1 Plow, 2 Hoes, 2 axes, 1 Harrow, 2 Tables, 9 Chairs, 1 Bureau, 2 pails, 1 Tubb, 1 Churn, 2 Hogshead,  Part of Clock, 1 pair Shovel & tongs, 1 pair fire Dogs, 6 spoons, 1 Looking Glass, 1 iron Kettle, 2 Pots, pots iron ware, 3 Pitchforks, 3 rakes, 1 Grind Stone.
To Betsey Pinney 1 cow, which was put into my first Schedule by mistake 
sold to Curtis & Cutler - Novr 1820 & Nov 1821, 
1 Cow & 4 [unreadable] Cattle for $65, In service on Note which they previously held against me
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sold to Oel Billings 10 sheep & 15 lambs for $40, Novr 1820 & Novr 1821, Credited to me in acct of  being indebted to him for necessaries of life, there were some of my old  Sheep & lambs
It is to be recollected that one half of my farm belong to Son Isaac by contract made sixteen years since in my first Schedule. The other articles mentioned my former schedule are used and gone
Isaac Pinney
Sworn to, and declared, on the Seventeenth day of AD 1823 before said Court  
Attest Benj Swan Clerk
State of Vermont  
Windsor County I Benjamin Swan Clerk of the County Court and for the County of Windsor, Do hereby certify it appears to the satisfaction of the court, that the said Isaac Pinney did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy, for the term of nine months under one engagement on the continental establishment.   I do further certify that the foregoing oath as the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of said Court - and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the account in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is One hundred and seven dollars and ninety four cents.   
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and at the Seal of the said Court on this 27th day of September AD 1823 – 
Benj. Swan Clerk
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Copy from Record of Deed Isaac Pinney to Dan and Jabez Pinney
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Know all men by these presents that I Isaac Pinney of Royalton in Windsor County and State of Vermont for the consideration of four hundred dollars received to my full satisfaction of Dan Pinney and Jabez Pinney of Greensboro in the County of Orleans and State of Vermont have remised released and forever quit claimed unto the said Dan and Jabez all right and title which I the said Isaac or my heirs have in and to the following land in the township of Royalton aforesaid to wit one undivided half or part of lot thirty four in the large allotments in said Royalton being one equal and undivided half of the farm house and possess in Royalton. 
To have and to hold all my right and title in and to the said remised released and quit-claimed premises with the appurtenances thereof to them the said Dan and Jabez their heirs and assigns forever to their own proper use and behoof. And furthermore I the said Isaac do for myself my heirs Executors and Administrators Covenant with the said Dan and Jabez their heirs and assigns that from and after the ensealing of these presents I the said Isaac will have and claim no right in or to the above remised released and quit-claimed premises.   
In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal this first day of September Anno Domini 1823 in presence of  
Geo. W. Collamer 
Isaac Penney 
J Collamer 
State of Vermont 
Windsor County }  Royalton September 9th 1823 Isaac Pinney  personally appeared and acknowledged this instrument by him sealed and subscribed to be his free act and deed before me 
Moses Cutler Justice of Peace 
Recorded September 10th 1823 
Examined 
Attest Jacob Safford Town Clerk 
State of Vermont 
Windsor County ss} Royalton Town Clerks office January 4th 1828 
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy from the Record of deeds in this office Examined Jacob Safford Town Clerk
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Copy of a Deed
Isaac Pinney
Dan & Jabez Pinney
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Know all men by these presents that Isaac Penney of Royston in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont for the consideration of four hundred dollars received to my full satisfaction of Dan Pinney and Jabez Penney of Greensboro, in the County of Orleans and State of Vermont have remised released and forever quit claimed unto the said Dan and Taber all right title which I the said Isaac or my heirs have in and to the following land in the Township of Royalton aforesaid towit one undivided half or part of lot number four in large allotment in said Royalton being one equal and undivided half of the farm I now use and possess in Royalton To have and to hold all my right and title in and to the said remised released and quit claimed premises with the appurtenances thereof to them the said Dan and Taber their heirs and assigns forever to their own proper use and behoof And furthermore I the said Isaac do for myself my heirs Exceutors and Administrators covenant with the said Dan and Jabez. their heirs and assigns that from and after the ensealing of these presents I the said Isaac will have and claim no right in or to the above remised released and quit claimed premises. 
Witness my hand and seal this first day of September 1828 
In presence of 
G. W. Collamer 
Isaac Pinney 
R Collamer 
State of Vermont 
Windsor County} Royalton September 9th 1823- 
Isaac Pinney Personally appeared and acknowledged before this instrument by him sealed and subscribed to be his free act and deed 
Moses Cutler Justice of Peace  
Royalton Town Clerks office Sept 10th 1823 }  I hereby certify the foregoing a true copy of a deed this day lodged in this office for Record.
Examined attest Jacob Safford Town Clerk
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State of Vermont  
Windsor County ss}  Woodstock County Clerks Office Septemr 29th 1823 
This certifies that Jacob Safford in the Town Clerk for the Town of Royalton in said County of Windsor, and that the within signature is his 
In Testimony whereof I Benj Swan Clerk of the County Court within & for said County, have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court, and subscribe my name the day & year  above
Benj Swan Clerk
Copy of a Deed Isaac Pinney Dan & Jabez Pinney
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State of Vermont 
Windsor County } Royalton August 16. 1830 
Be it known, that before me Oel Billings a Justice of the Peace in for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Isaac Pinney of Royalton in said County and made oath in due form of law that he is the identical Isaac Pinney of Royalton named in an act of Congress passed on the 31st day of May A D 1830 in and by which the Secretary of War was directed to restore the name of Isaac Pinney to the roll of revolutionary pensioners, and to cause him to be paid at the rate of Eight Dollars per month from and after the first day of  January 1828 - and that he is entitled to a pension of Eight dollars per month on account of services rendered the United States the revolutionary war, that in the year 1775 he served in Capt Ellsworth’s Company in Col. Huntington’s regiment in the Connecticut line five months;  in the year 1776 in Captain Walbridge’s Company regiment in Col Reed’s Regiment in the Massachusetts line one year; in 1777 he enlisted Capt Walbridge’s Company in Webb’s regiment in the Connecticut line and served out three years and during said time was transferred twice, once to Col Sherman's company in a line in which he served about five months, and then Capt. H. Ten Eyck’s company & Col. Meigs regiment of light infantry, from which he was discharged as a sergeant in January 1780 & my discharge is now in the office of the Secretary of War.  That he now resides at Royalton in the County of Windsor in the State of Vermont and has resided there for the Space of fifty years past and that previous thereto he resided in Stafford in the State of Connecticut. 
Isaac Pinney 
Sworn and subscribed this 16th day of August AD 1830 before me}
Oel Billings Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont 
Windsor County } Woodstock County Clerks Office August 17th 1850. 
I Benjamin Swan Clerk of the County Court for the County of Windsor, do hereby certify that Oel Billings is one of the Justice of the Peace within & for said County and that the within is his signature.- 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court, and subscribe my hand the day year above Benj. Swan
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Copy from record of 
Deed
Isaac Pinney for
Parkhurst and Alden
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Know all men by these presents that Isaac Pinney of Royalton in the County of Windsor in the State of Vermont for and in consideration of the sum of two hundred dollars to me in hand before the delivery hereof well and truly paid by Phinehas Parkhurst and Lelia Alden both of Lebanon in the County of Grafton State of Newhampshire the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge have given granted bargained and sold, and by these presents do give grant bargain sell alien convey and confirm unto the said Parkhurst and Alden their heirs and assigns forever one Monty or undivided half of the following piece of land situated in Royalton the County of Windsor and State of Vermont described as follows to wit, being the farm on which I now live in said Royalton containing by estimation one hundred acres of land and bounded on the north by White Ewen on the east by land of the widow Day on the south by land of the widow Waldow and west by land of Ebenezer Day.  
To have and to hold the said granted premises with all the privileges and appurtenances to the same belonging to them the said Parkhurst and Alden and their heirs and assigns to them and their only proper use and benefit forever. And the said Isaac Pinney for myself and my heirs Executors and administrator is hereby covenant grant and agree to and with the said Parkhurst and Alden and their heirs and assigns that until the delivery hereof I am the lawful owner of the said premises and am seized and possessed thereof in my own right in fee simple and have full power and lawful authority to grant and convey the same in manner aforesaid and that the said premises are free and clear of all and every incumbrance whatsoever; And that I and my heirs Executors and administrators shall and will warrant the same to the said Parkhurst and Alden and their heirs and assigns against the lawful claims and demand of any person or persons whatsoever. 
Nevertheless it is to be understood and the condition of the foregoing deed is such that if the said Isaac Pinney his heirs executors and Administrators shall well and truly pay unto the said Parker and Alden their heirs and assigns the sum of two hundred and twelve dollars in one year from the date of these presents then this deed to be void and of no effect otherwise to remain in full force and virtue.  In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 23rd day February Anno Domini 1827. 
Isaac Pinney [seal]
Signed sealed and delivered Isaac Pinney in presence of us 
Howard B. Benton 
Samuel Selden
State of Newhampshire 
Grafton County ss} Lebanon February 23 1827. Isaac Pinney the above named Personally appearing acknowledged the foregoing instrument to be his voluntary act and deed before Samuel Selden Justice of Peace 
Recorded January 2nd 1828 
Examined 
Attest Jacob Safford Town Clerk 
State of Vermont
Windsor County ss}  Royalton Town Clerks office January Windsor County 4th 1828. I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy from the Record of deeds in this office 
Examined Attest Jacob Safford Town Clerk
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I Pinney's affidavit
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Isaac Pinney of Royalton in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont depose and say, that in making out the papers to get my semiannual Dividend 4th of March 1834 I requested Oel Billings Esq. who was the justice of the Peace in that those to sign my name for my arm shakes so bad that I cannot write and suppose he signed it  
Attest Oramel Sawyer 
Isaac Pinney his mark 
Royalton September 21. 1835 Personally appeared Isaac Pinney and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is just and true before me 
Oramel Sawyer Justice of Peace
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Deposition of Eben Parkhurst
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I Ebenezer Parkhurst of Royalton County of Windsor and State of Vermont of lawful age depose testify and say that I was at the wedding of Isaac Pinney & Mary Parkhurst, I should think in December 1781 or 82 they were married by Comfort Lever Esq. in the aforesaid town of Royalton.  I was then about fifteen years old at that time and have lived in Royalton ever since that time.  I have often heard it said that the records as of the town were destroyed about sixty years aga and further your deponent saith not.   
The foregoing deposition was taken by me and Sworn to before me 
Oramel Sawyer Justice Peace 
Royalton August 8th 1842
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Isaac Pinney a Sergt of Capt Ten Eycks Company of the Light Infantry in 2nd Connecticut  Regiment has served three years in the Continental Army with Reputation is the full Term for which he Inlisted is Discharged from the service of the United States – 
Morristown Jan 7th 1780
Order Lt. Col Wait Commdr 2nd Conn Brigade 
T Woodbridge MB
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W. File 26971
Isaac Pinney
[stamp]  THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE
UNITED STATES
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Conn
W. File 26971
Isaac Pinney
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To Isaac Penney of the 2d Connecticut Regiment 
In the service of the United States of America 
Greeting 
Reposing Especial trust and confidence in your prudence and good conduct, I do By these presents, Appoint you Second Sergeant to the Ninth Company from the 20th Day Decr ‘78 
In the service of the United States, you are therefore, carefully and dilligently to discarge The duty of a Sergeant by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging and I do strictly charge and require all non commissioned officers and Soldiers under your command, to obedient to year orders, as Sergeant, and you are to observe and follow such orders and directions, from time to time, as you shall receive from me or any of your superior officers, according to the rules and discipline of War, in persuance of the trust reposed in you for which this shall be your sufficient Warrant.
Given under my hand at [unreadable] day of September [unreadable]  in the fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America.
Isaac Sherman Lieut col. 
2nd Connct Regt