Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11,986, Bristo Zibbere, Connecticut Residence
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Zibbere, Bristo. R 11.986
Silvia

Connecticut Evidence
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Translations

Diligently Compared and Revised
By His Majesty's special Command.
Appointed to be Read in Church
Edinburgh
Alexander Kincaid, His Majesty's Printer
MDCCLXXI.
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Bristo Silvia
Was Married May
24th Day of the year
1784
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The Honest of the Northern
the Generals which wave three
at ye Northend in Number 6

Lieutnt Genl Burgoyne Mayor
Gnl Phillips and Reidtel Brigdear
Hamilton Spog and A
Northen German whose Name
I Do not Recollect, Generals and
Six, Members of Parliment Six
the Hole in Number 13
Brittish officers and Solders By

Capitulation __2442
Foreigners by Ditto __ 2198
Canadians Forces and Sent to
Canaday __1100
Sick__598
Wounded __528
Prisoners of War Before ye
Capitulation__400
Deserters ABout__300
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Lost at Bennington__[illegible]22[illegible]
[illegible]Between ye 17th Septm and ye 18th
of october ABout__600
Tacenat Ticonderoga__415
[illegible] at Gnl Harkermans Battel
and at Fort Shuyler__300
Total Amounts to __10,111

Brass Cannon royals, Morters 37
with impleness to and stoves
Complete
Stands of arms___5000
Sets of Hernesses___400
Six Field Pieces [illegible] at Beninton 6
at Forth Scuyler L Field peeces
[illegible] wave___L
Royal Morters___4

(A)
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Return of the Killed and Wounded of
the Tacon of the British Army in America
1775

Kild | Wound | [illegible]

Lexington Kild {?}43 | 70
Bunder Hill 746 | 1150
Ticonderoga St Toms Qubec 61 | 110 | 35
The Lake B{illegible} 53 | 64 |
Sullivans island 191 | 260
the Ceaders 60 | 70
Norfolk (Virginia) 229 | 175 | 40
On Long island (04) [illegible]
H{illegible} and Hell Gate 236 | 175 | 49
Fust Landing at New york 57 | 100 
Whole Plains 450 | 470 | [illegible]
Fort Washington 900 | [illegible]
Fort Lee 20 | 35
Trenton 35 | 60 | 948
Princetown 74 | 100
Boston Rea By Capt Ha[illegible] 52 | 20 | 
73
in Different Transport (0) | (0) | 390
Danbury 269 | 350 
[illegible] Hill {illegible} 59 | 88
Brandywine 800 | 1170
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Killed | Wounded | Jack

Redding Road [illegible] 40 |69
Hattenstown by [illegible] 94 | 150 | 278
Bennington 900 | 1300 | 300
Forte Montgomery By Gnl Clinton 500 | 700
Fort Miflin 390 | 53 | 84
Gnl Burgoynes Arme 2000 | 1126 | 5572

From the year 1775 
to the year 1780 8900 | 11008 | 9776

Bristo Zibbere
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(A)

City of Albany ss

Silvia Zibbre of the City of Albany
being duly Sworn deposeth and Saith that She is
the widow of Bristo Zibbere a Revolutionary
Soldier who died at Pennsylvania in the
County of Albany on the 11th of April 1843
in the 60th year of his age. And this deposition
further Saith that She was lawfully married 
to the Said Bristo Zibbere by the [illegible] Mr
Benjamin Lord the Settler minister in
Norwich State of Connecticut on the 24 day
of May 1781. And that She was never married
before the aforesaid marriage and that
She has remained a widow ever Since the
death of her Said Husband. And this
deponent further Saith that in the year
1776 the Said Bristo Zibbere Enlisted
as a Soldier in the Revolutionary war
and remained in the war during the Continuum
of the war. That they were born and brought
up together in Norwich aforesaid that the
Said Zibbere Continued in the war untill
the year 1781 when he was permited to
return home on a furlow when they were
married as stated above and when his Said
furlowe was out he returned to his company
and the following year he was permited to remain 
about home nearby all the time and untill
the Close of the war. but he was in the revolutionary 
Service as a Soldier untill the
Close of the war when he was honorably
discharged. And this deponent further
Saith that her late husband aforesaid often
did before and after their marriage provided himself
with Clothing and provisions at his own Expense
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which he was in the Revolutionary War
And this deponent often deprived herself of
the Comforts and necessaries of life to provide for
her Said husband while he was in the Service
of his Country, And this deponent further
Saith that her Said husband was at  the taking
of Burgoin and in many battles during the Said
war as this deponent has often heard him
relate and which She warily believes true

And this deponent further Says that
the lines of an old memorandum book
hereunto attached are a part of a book
her late husband carried in the war with
him and that the writing thereon is his own 
hand writing and written while he was in
the war that the book was as thick or
thicker than two [illegible] of paper and had many
memorandums in it Concerning the war
but Since the death of her husband it has
got torn to pieces and lost. but he in his lifetime
Kept it Chain together with his discharge
which he got when the war was ended
which discharge this deponent has often seen
and read but [illegible] the death of her husband it has
got lost. This deponent [illegible] States what
officer Signed the Said discharge or what officers
her Said husband Served under but
She believes She has heard him Say he
Served under Several, and this deponent
Says that the piece of a leaf of their bible
which is hereunto attached is a piece of a
leaf of their family bible [illegible] they never married and the writing on it
was written by her Said husband the very day
of their marriage, the bible having been torn to
pieces and lost the Said part is all that is left of it
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And this deponent further Saith that She is
in the Seventy Sixth year of her age that
She was in the 18th year of her age when She
was married to the Said Bristo Zibbere

Silvia Zibbere

City of Albany [illegible] Personally appeared befor the
Albany Justices Court Silvia Zibbere and
Signed and Sworn to the above officiant in open
Court who to us is Known to be the same person
mentioned Dec. 10r. 1839 Witness the seal
of the said Court 

J.G. Wasson Clk
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City of Albany ss

Angus Mc Duffie of the City
of Albany being Sworn Says that he is well
acquainted with Mrs. Silvia Zibbere who
made the foregoing affidavit that She is the
widow of the late Mr Bristo Zibbere who
who died in Rensselarville 11th April 1813 and
and who was reputed to be a Revolutionary
Soldier. And the deponent further Smith
his Said widower Mrs Silvia Zibbere has been a 
resident of this City for above twenty years and
has an irreproachable character and was for truth
and veracity is above Suspicion of a person on
whose [illegible] the greatest confidence and reliance
can at all times be placed and that She is Still
living and a resident of this City Angus McDuffie

City of Albany ss
Personally appeared before the
Albany Justice Court
Angus Mc Duffie late high Sheriff of this County
and to this Court well known who in open
court Signed and Sworn to the above affidavit
this 10th Dec 1829 witness the seal of that
Said Court 

J.S. Wasson Clk
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City of Albany ss

Hazeal kane of the City of
Albany being duly Sworn deposeth and Saith
her is acquainted with Mrs Silvia
Zibbere wife of Bristo Zibbere and that her
has been acquainted with her for about
twenty years lost that her mind
Character is gone and that She is entitled
to full Credit in any Statements She makes
whither under oath or otherwise that
during his whole acquaintance with her
he never heard any person Say ought
against her And this deponent agrees
with Sheriff Angus Mc Duffie in other respects
as So forth in his affidavit hereunto annexed

Hazael Kane

Personally appeared before the Albany
Justices Court Hazael Kane Esqr Palin
Justin of the City of Albany who Signed and 
Sworn to the above affidavit in open court and who to us is 
personally known Dec 10' 1839
Witness the seal of the said court

J.G. Wasson Clk
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City of Albany ss
Bade Briggs of the City of Albany
being Sworn Says that he was well acquainted
with Mrs Silvia Zibbere and her husband in his
lifetimes that he was reputed to be a Revolutionary
soldier and died in Rensselersvill this County the 11th
April 1813 that he had been acquainted with his
widow Mrs Silvia Zibbere who made the foregoing affidavits ever Since the Death of 
her Said husband and that he fully agrees with Esq.
Kane and Sheriff Mc Duffie who made the foregoing
affidavits as to the Character of the Said widow
Zibbere that no person is entitled to more Credit for
truth and veracity than the aforesaid widow Zibbere
that She is Still living and a resident of this City is the 
person who made the foregoing affidavit Isaac B Briggs

Personally appeared before the Albany Justice Court
[illegible] Briggs to this Court well [illegible] who Subscribed
and Swore to the afore affidavit in open court Dex 11. 1839
Writing the seal of the said Court

J.G. Wasson Clk
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5024
Silvia Zibbere
Ext. 1836

12 1/2

Mr. A. Fanning
Albany
N.Y.

[rubber stamp:
Norwich
Town 
April 13.
Con]
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City of Albany ss:
Ellis Sampson of the City of Schenectady
being duly sworn, deposeth and and saith, that
the affidavit hereunto annexed marked (A.)
signed by Mrs Sylvia Zibbere was signed by
the widow Zibbere wife of Bristo Zibbere who
died in the town of Rensselaerville, Albany County
on the thirteenth day of April, one thousand, eight
hundred and thirteen, as named in the foregoing
affidavit, that she is the same person named
in all the foregoing affidavit and this deponent
further Saith that in 1791 this deponent 
went to live in the family of the Said Bristo
Zibbere, and lived in the Said family 22 years,
and until the death of the Said Bristo Zibberes
and this deponent is now 54 years of age, and
knows that the Said Zibbere was represented to
be a Revolutionary Soldier, and that on the
days of the Celebration of Inidependance, and other
public days of celebration the Said Bristo
Zibbere was always used and treated like other
Revolutionary Soldiers, on such occasions.
And this deponent further Saith that
the leaves of a Memorandum hereunto annexed
are the Memorandums of the Said Bristo
Zibbere as mentioned by the Said Sylvia Zibbere
in her affidavit, and this deponent will
remembers the book that the Said leaves were
torn from, that the Said book was full of
memorandum was about the war, and all in the Said Bristo Zibbere's hand writing, and that the
part of a leaf of a bible hereunto annexed belonged
to the family bible of the Said Bristo Zibbere
and that the writing on it is the writing of the Said
Bristo Zibbere, and this deponent has often heard
the Said Bristo Zibbere say in his life time, that
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he wrote the same on the day he was married
to the said Sylvia; and this deponent has often
seen the discharge spoken of in the affidavit
of the said Sylvia Zibbere, and was told by
the said Bristo Zibbere in his lifetime, that
he obtained the said discharge from his
officers when the said war ended, and he was
discharged from the Army; but this deponent
does not remember who the said officer was
who gave the said discharge, but was told by
the said Bristo Zibbere that it was one of the
Revolutionary Officers. And this deponent
further says, that the said Sylvia Zibbere has
remained a Widow ever since the death of 
her said Husband and still remains a widow, 
and is a resident of the City of Albany.
And this deponent further saith that the writing on
the two leaves hereunto annexed marked (A.) is in
the own writing of the said Bristo Zibbere
and further this deponent saith not

Ellis Sampson

Personally appeared before this Albany
Justice Court Ellis Sampson who Signed
and Swore to the above affidavit in open court Dec 14. 1839
witness the seal of the said court

J. G. Wasson CLK

City of Albany ss
Hazael Kane Esq Police Justice of the
City of Albany who being duly Sworn doth depose and says that he is
well acquainted with Ellis Sampson who made the foregoing
affidavit and that the moral Character of the Said Sampson is
good on whose word or oath Strict reliance can be placed
on all occasions and further saith not
Hazael Kane
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City of Albany ss
Personally appeared before the Albany
Justices Court Hazael Kane Esqr Police Justice
of the City of Albany to us known who Signed
Sworn to the above affidavit in open court Dec. 14. 1839
Witness the seal of this [illegible] and court

J. G. Wasson CLK
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City of Albany ss

Henry Mott of the town of
Rensselaerville County of Albany being
Sworn deposeth and Saith that he is a resd
out of the town of Rensselaerville aforesaid
when Bristo Zibbere (mentioned in the 
foregoing affidavits) died and that he was
well acquainted with him and his wife who
made the foregoing affidavit and that they
were respectable inhabitants of that place
and were residents of the said place for a great number of years and that this Character
for honesty and integrity, truth and veracity were
of the first order. that for worth and respectability
none stood higher in the Society than they and her 
further says that he was well acquainted
with the hand writing of the Said Bristo
Zibbere and that he has seen and examined the
hand writing of the memorandums
hereunto annexed marked (A.) he has
not doubt but it is the hand writing of the
Said Bristo Zibbere and that he was reported  
to have been a Revolutionary soldier by his
acquaintances and neighbors and was treated as such
and further saith not

Henry Mott

City of Albany ss personally appeared before the Albany Justices
Court Mr Henry Mott to this Court and Known who Subscribed
and Sworn to the above affidavit in open courts Dec 26th 1839
Witness the seal of the Court -
J. G. Wasson CLK
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I Othniel Gager Jun, do on this 4th day of April
A.D. 1840 despose and say that I hold the office of
Town Clerk of the town of Norwich in the county of 
New London and state of Connecticut, and that I have carefully
examined the Records of marriages and that the marriage
of Bristo Zibbere and Silvia Hyde is not on the records
of said town

Othniel Gager Jr.
Town Clerk

State of Connecticut
New London County } ss Norwich April 6th 1840.
Personally appeared before me as Justice of the Peace
in and for said county, the above named Othniel Gager Jun,
well known to me as a respectable person and a witness of 
credibility and made oath to the truth of the foregoing
certificate by him subscribed.
Before me John Hyde
Justice of the Peace

I Hiram P. Arms, do, on this 13th day of April 1840,
depose and say that I hold the office of Pastor of the first
congregational church in the town of Norwich in 
the county of New London and state of Connecticut, of
which church the Rev. Benjamin Lord D.D. was
formerly Pastor, and that I have never found any
records of marriages prior to the year 1786, and 
that the marriage of of Bristo Zibbere and Silvia Hyde
in not on said records, that the said Benjamin
Lord's records of marriages the deponent has not
seen and there are no records of marriages on the said
church Records but since the death of said Dost,
Lord ______ Hiram P. Arms. Pastor
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State of Connecticut
New London County} ss. Norwich

On this 13th day of April 1840. personally appeared the Rev.
Hiram P. Arms within named, well known to me as a person of
resptability and a witness of credibility, and made oath to the truth
of the within certificate by him subscribed.
Before me
John Hyde
Justice of the Peace

I William E. Tracy, Clerk of the court of Probate
for the District of Norwich in the county or New London and
state of Connecticut, do hereby certify that John Hyde Esq.
before whom the within and foregoing depositions of Othniel
Gager Jun. and Hiram P. Arms are sworn to, is a Justice
of the Peace in and for said county and that the within
and foregoing signatures purporting to be his, were made
by him and are genuine

In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set me hand and affixed
the seal of said court this 13th
day of April Anno Domini 1840.
William E. Tracy 
Clerk
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Norwich April 13th 1840.

Mr. A. Fanning, Sir I herein send you the evidence that
there is no record to be obtained, either church or town, of the
marriage of Bristo Zibbere, most of the old people who
would have known of marriage of Bristo and Sylvia are
dead, I have found two witnesses who knew them as
husband and wife, but neither were able to testify as to
time until they should have time to examine their
papers and at home but as soon after when they
should come in Norwich again they would call on 
me and give their deposition, one lives in Lebanon, vir,
David Pitcher and the other Elijah Pitcher in the remote
part of this town, if you think it will be of advantage 
to you I will procure it and forward it.
Yours respectfully
John Hyde
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Deposition of
Phillip Prince
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State of Connecticut to wit
New London County town
of Preston ss

Phillip Prince of the town of Preston
you said being Sworn Says that he was a neighbor and
acquainted with Bristo Zibbere before the Revolutionary
war - That if Said Bristo Zibbere Enlisted
in the Revolutionary War as [illegible] as this deponent
can now recollect of the Commencement
of the war. This deponent was in the
Said war for three years but never happened
to be in the Same Regiment with the Said Bristo
Zibbere [illegible] as this deponent understood was for
the most part of the time out of this State [illegible]
the north he has Seen him a part of [illegible] time
with the army in this State but Cannot tell
what officers he Served under that when the
war was [illegible] Said Bristo Zibbere returned
home and was Settled in Norwich that he married
a Girl by the name of Silvia

And that after a few years he moved
to the State of New York and Settle in Rensselaerville 
in Albany county where he died as this
deponent had been informed and believes true.
This deponent further Saith that he has Seen the Said
Bristo when he was on a furlowe home and when he
was in the [illegible] in this state with his
uniform on and that he has repeatedly [illegible] him of
circumstances which took - [illegible] which he was in
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in the war both in this State and which he was [illegible]
and this deponent has no doubt that the Said Bristo
Zibbere Served in the said war during the whole of the war

his
Philip Prince
X
Mark

State of Connecticut New London Court ss:
Norwich October 15. 1840 -

[illegible] personally appeared Philip Prince who
has subscribed the above definition by affixing his mark thereto
in my presence and made solemn oath to the truthy the facts
therein stated - said deponent is known to me by reputation to
be a man of truth and veracity and his statement is entitled
to full faith and credit -

Attest
La Fayette S. Foster
Justice of the Peace
for New London Court

State of Connecticut
New London County}
ss I John DeWitt
clerk of the County Court in and for said
New London County do hereby Certify that
La Fayette. S. Foster [illegible] before [illegible]
the above deposition by Philip Prince
was taken and Sworn was on said 15th day
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of October 1840 a Justice of the peace in and
for said New London County and that his
signature thereto affixed is genuine. In
testimony whereof I have hereunto
[illegible] hand and affixed the 
Seal of said County this 15th
day of October AD 1840
John DeWitt Clerk
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11.986

P.O. Silvia Zibbere
Service: Zibbere
Widow Bristo Zibbere

Enlisted: {RUBBER STAMP: REJECTED}
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N. York
L Silvia Zibbere
Cet. to A. Fanning, Esqr. 12 June 1860
to same 29. Oct. 1840
same Dec 23rd 1841

11986
Act July 1836
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5024
Apl. 18. 1840
NY
4 July 1836

134
To The Secretary of War
City of Washington D.C.
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Albany 16th April 1840
Dear Sir I Send you the
papers affidavits are in the [illegible] of Silvia
Zibbere applying for a pension -

Will you have the goodness to look
at them and if they will warrant the granting of a pension please enform me

The papers would have been Sent before
but for the delay acensioned in getting
the Certificates from Norwich Conn
which Came to hand this day

Your Obt Servt.
A. Fanning

Report to A. Fanning
Albany, N.Y.
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Oct 26 40

NY

B. Zibbere

Secretary of War
City of Washington

{rubber stamp:
Albany
Oct 22}
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Dear Sir
Enclosed I Send you the affidavits of
two persons who know that Bristo Zibbere
Served in the revolutionary war persons who
Knew him in his lifetime me almost all
Dead but the two soldiers of the Revolution who
made the Said affidavits are Still living and are
pensioners is Sir 's the best evidence the
nature of [illegible] will admit - [illegible] of [illegible]
last mentioned Something about the affidavits of
the persons mentioned by Mr Hyde in his letters
to one I Sir do not recollect the Contents of
that letter or what the affidavits your [illegible] of
Should be - if they Should be neighbors and your will
be So you as to Send me a Copy of the letter of Mr Hyde
that I may know to what you refer I will I Can
get the Said affidavits. It would be very kindly
accepted by the widow if her claim could be Examined
soon if if could with Consistency with
other incumbent duties of your office as she is
in destitute circumstances and confined to her house
by her infirmities of age

Respectfully yours
A. Fanning

Albany 22d Oct 1840
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F 104  
3
[illegible] June
10 [illeible] 1840

Pension Office.
The Commiss
to answer the wither

[written perpendicular to above:
to the Secretary of War
City of Washington D.C
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Albany 7th June 1840

Sir some two months ago
I Sent on papers in the matter of Silvia Zibbere
a widow of Bristo Zibbere which she was in hopes
were Sufficient to warrant the granting to her a pension
but as no information has as yet been received
respecting the Same I will trouble you with a
request to enform me of the result of the Same
application

Your Obt Servt
A Fanning
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Albany 16th Dcembr 1841

Dr Sir the claims of Silva Zibbere for a pension on
account of the Services of her Husband Bristo Zibbere
has lain undisturbed for Something more than a year
in Consequence of the very Changes of the heads of our
National department. If Sir there is any thing done
for the old woman who is very infirm and has been
for two or three years lost part. and is not able to do any
labor at at all. and is very much in want. She is confined
to her house and has been for about two years
Will the war department look into her Claims and
decide upon it as if her Claim Could be allowed
She might better give it up for She is not able to Carry
it on any longer for the want of means. It is thought
that She is well deserving the attention and Care of our
Government in the decline of her life
There is one thing I neglected to [illegible] 
it being the Second time in my life that I ever attempted
to assist a person to obtain a pension. Prefer to
my neglect in obtaining a Certified from our Albany
Justice Court which I have Since understood has been the 
practice by most of the affidavit in this Case would
be well able to judge in the matter they being well acquainted
with about all those who have affidavits in this Case
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It is quite difficult to get the testimony in this case that would
be as Satisfactory as Could have been obtained 10 or 12 years ago the most
of the inhabitants of this plan where Bristo Zibbere was born and
brought up having Died. there are but a very few persons
now living in the town of Preston and New London who were
born before our Independence and not one that I could find that
was in Company with him while he was in the Service. but 
old inhabitance all knew him and knew by Reputation that
a Soldier in the Revolutionary war. his [illegible] any
records of the Army Kept at Harford Ct that can be found
nor on any at any of the Plans at New London or Preston as
for as Can be found, but the Old inhabitants all Say that there
is [underlined]: "no doubt at all" that he was in the army as it is notor[illegible]
fact that he was away from home in the army during the
war and Come home occasionally with his Regimentals 
and that they know often heard him state Circumstances
which took place while he was from home in the army
with [illegible] with [illegible] if there is Sufficient [illegible]
to warrant you in granting her anything and if not what 
else is necessary to prove under the Circumstances of
this Case. Please write me in this Subject - Soon
often receiving this

Your Obt Servt
A. Fanning

[written perpendicular to the above:
Albany
16th Dec. '41
A. Fanning
______
enquires into
claim of Zilva
Zibbere, widow of
Bristo Zibbere. and
deserves to be informed
of further testimony is
requisite.
[illegible] Rec. Dec. 22 '41

Pension office]
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State of Connecticut to wit
New London County town of
Preston}

I Ceaser Maison of the town aforesaid
being duly Sworn do depose and Say that I was well acquainted 
with Bristo Zibbere of Norwich in the County aforesaid
[illegible] and during the Revolutionary war. I know that
he was a Soldier in the Revolutionary war that he Served
in the Said war from the Commencement to the end
of it But whither he Enlisted for or during the war
when he first Enlisted I am not able to State. 
But he was a Soldier in and during the whole of the war
I am Confident although I did not Serve with him 
but I lived a neighbor to him before and after the
war and I have often Seen him when he come
home on a furlow with his uniform and when
he went away from home with it on. I am Sure
he Served a part of the time around home in
this State for I have Seen him with the Soldiers
with his uniform on. And often that he Started
with a detachment for the north or Northwest
army Under General Gates. That towards the last 
part of the war he Served and was about the [illegible]
of this place and married a Girl by the name of Silvia
And after the war was
ended he lived in this place a Spell and then moved
to Rensselaerville in Albany County in the State of
New York when I understand he died
I have lived in this County
ever Since the war and am now Eighty Six years old
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I am not able to State what officers the Said
Bristo Zibbere Served under Except General
Gates and I was not with him then but know he
Stated for that purpose and have often heard
him Say he did and State Circumstances which
happened then and have heard other persons
who were there with him State that he did
Serve under General Gates but they are now
dead

his
X
Mark
Cesar Mason

State of Connecticut -
New London County ss: Norwich October 15th 1840
Then and there personally appeared before me the subscribed
Mr. [illegible] the Justice of the Peace for New London Court
aforesaid Cesar Mason after subscribing the above deposition
by affixing his mark thereto in my presence made
solemn oath to the truth of the same in due [illegible]
of [illegible] - The reason of his making his mark to said deposition and was in consequence of inability to write
occasioned by the infirmity of age - The said deponent
is well known to me by reputation and his
testimony is entitled to full faith and credit -

Attest

La Fayette S. Foster
Justice of the Peace

State of Connecticut
New London County } ss G. John DeWitt
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Clerk of the County Court in and for said
New London County do hereby Certify that
La Fayette S. Foster Esq before whom the
above deposition by Cesar Mason was taken
and sworn was on said 15th day of October
1840 a Justice of the peace for said New
New London County, and that his Signature
thereto affixed is genuine - In testimony
whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the Seal of 
Said County this 15th day of 
October AD 1840
John De Witt Clerk