Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 27,770, Squire Fancher, New York
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(3-1776)

SERVICE 
New York

Fancher, Squire

NUMBER S.
27.770

CONTENTS
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27 770
INVALID
Revy
File No . 27.770
Squire Fancher
Pri, N.Y regt.
Act:  Invalid
Index:--Vol. 2, Page 131
[Arrangement of 1870]
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June 27 1900
Dr. J. F. Raub need Ref.

1913 Oct 6 Hist to Mrs. F. S. Batchelder MBH
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New York
Squire Fancher,
Private Co Capt Lewis's
N Y Regt
U. S. Army
Revy war
Inscribed on the roll of New York, at $5 and increased to $8 pr month, by law 24 Apr 1816.
Formal certificate issued 8 July 1824, and sent to Thaddeus Mead, Norwalk, Connecticut.
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Free

Norwalk Ct
May 8
The honorable John C. Calhoun Esq.
Secretary at war
Washington
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This is to certify that in pursuance of the Law of the State of New York entitled an act making provisions for officers Soldiers and Seamen who were disabled in the service of the United 
States passed the 22nd day of April 1786 we have examined Squire Fancher of Poundridge precinct in the County of West Chester and find that during the late war he was a soldier in Capt Saml Lewis Company in the Regiment of West Chester County Militia commanded by Col. Thaddeus Crane, that on the 18th of January 1781 he enlisted in the company aforesaid for the term of two months and one half and that on the 18th day of March in the year aforesaid being in the service of the United States on a scout with a party at North Castle they were attacked by the enemy and he received several wounds in his head and had his left arm cut off through the bone, and in the left shoulder and above and two fingers of the right hand cut off by reasons whereby he is under capable of obtaining his livelyhood [sic]  by labour [sic], and that on the 25th day of May last he was 22 years of age wherefore in pursuance of the law aforesaid we do further certify that upon the principles of the act of Congress of the seventh day of June 1785 he the said Squire Fancher is entitled to receive from the Treasurer of this State a yearly pension of sixty dollars from the 24th day of March 1784
Given under our hands this 17th day of Octr. 1786
Richard Varick
George Clinton
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State of Connecticut
Wilton May 6th 1824
Be it known that before me Matthew Marvin one of the Justices of peace in the Town of Wilton Fairfield County personally appeared Squire Fancher named in the foregoing certificate and made oath that he is the Identical Squire Fancher therein named, and that he never received a certificate of pension from the Secretary of War and that it is the request of the sd. Squire Fancher that the Honorable John C. Calhoun Esq Secretary of war at Washington forward a formal Certificate to Thaddeus Mead Esq of Wilton aforsd.
Matthew Marvin Justice of peace
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State of Connecticut
Fairfield County Ss.
I Clark Bissell a Notary Public in and for the State aforesaid do hereby certify to all whom it may concern, that Matthew Marvin Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit purports to have been taken is and at the time of taking the same, was a Justice of Peace in and for said County of Fairfield and that full faith and credit is to be given to his official acts and I further certify that the name of the said Justice  subscribed to said affidavit is the proper hand writing and signature of the said Matthew
Marvin Esq. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my notarial seal this nineteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred and twenty four
Clark Bissell Notary Public

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War of 1776

September 26, 1913

Kind Sir,
Will you kindly tell me if Squire Fancher or widow drew a pention [sic] I think he was from Conn at that time 

Yours Truly
Mrs. F. S. Batchelder (Fancher)
Alexandria Bay
NY

[postmark]
U. S.
PENSION OFFICE
OCT 2 1913
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M. B. H.
Rev. War Section.

October 6, 1913.

Mrs. F. S. Batchelder,
Alexandria Bay, N. Y.

Madam:

In response to your letter dated the 26th ultimo and received the 2d instant, you are advised that the papers in claim Sur. File No. 27,770, show that Squire Fancher enlisted
January 18, 1781, for 2 1/2 months in Captain Samuel Lewis' company, Colonel Thaddeus Crane's regiment of Westchester County Militia; that on March 16, 1781, they were attacked by the enemy at Northcastle and that his left arm was cut off and he was wounded in the head, left shoulder and elbow and right hand he received a pension for said injuries.
Soldier was 22 years of age May 25, 1786, and in October 1785, was a resident of Poundridge Precinct, Westchester Count
ty, New York.
Very respectfully,

Commissioner.