Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 5788, Thomas Barnum, New York
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
New York
Barnum, Thomas
Martha
NUMBER
W. 5788
B.L.Wt. 2358-160-55.
CONTENTS
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821216
11.808
New York
Thomas Barnum
of Pompey in the State of N.York who was a Sergeant in the Compy. commanded by Captain Collins of the Regt. commanded by Col. 
Gordon in the N.York line for 6 mos & 7 days
Inscribed on the Roll of N.York at the rate of 31 Dollars 12 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of April 1833 and sent to I.W. Brewster Jamesville
Arrears to the 4th of [illegible] '33 $62.24
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4' [illegible] 15.56
$77.80
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Geo. C. Stiles Clerk,
Book E Vol. 4 Page 43
Lt. to Hon. E.D. Culver
April 1st 1846
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State of New York
Onondaga County Ss}
On this Eleventh day of September in the year of Our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open court before David Moseley Esquire Vice Chancellor of the Seventh Circuit of the State of New York at a Court of Chancery for said State now sitting at the town of Onondaga in the County of Onondaga Thomas Barnum a resident of the town of Pompey in the County of Onondaga and State of New York aforesaid aged Eighty three years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 That He entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated_
And First that he was born in Danbury_ Fairfield County & state of Connecticut the 25th day of August 1749 has no record of his age his bible in which his age was recorded was taken by the Indians and carried away at the time he was captured by the Indians as herein after stated_ That he moved from Danbury to Balstown in the County of Saratoga and State of New York in the winter of 1774 when he bought a new farm and built a log house. In the month of April 1775 He was ordered by Col James Gordon of the Militia then his near neighbor, to warn the militia to turn out to hunt Tories and he marched that day half of the Company and the next day marched (he serving as a Sergeant) about 50 men in the Company under Command of Col Gordon Scowered [scoured] the woods about a fortnight, The Captain of the Company was Tyranus Collins, after being out a fortnight was joined by about 50 Continental soldiers Early in the morning and then pursued on and took 40 Tories
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near Schroon Lake where they were encamped in the woods after making them prisoners they were put in charge of the Regular troops who conducted them to Albany and the militia returned home some time in the month of May of the same year a few days after they got home This Declarant with about half the Company under Capt Collins volunteered and pursuant to orders went to [illegible] Town a little distance from Glens Falls were [where] they staid [stayed] one month past were out upon scouts every day, went home & staid [stayed] only two days & wen [when] Called out again and went to Cherry Vally [Valley] under Captain Stephen White about 40 went from the Company to which this Declarant belonged, found a Regiment of Continentals there. don't recollect the names of the officers staid there a month and [Jalign?] Clearing the woods away around the fort [crossed out: had been away about a week when Brant with a Company of Indians & tories [illegible] took the fort by surprise & burned part of the town.] immediately or within three days after getting home the Company were again Called out and went to Fort Edward (this declarant went as Sergeant as in former services) under Captain Collins and was there some Considerable time during the [resdu?] of that summer and was out the greater part of the time Except in the winter seasons until the Capture of Burgoin [Burgoyne] which was on the 9th October 1777 It being a new Country and many Tories and Indians being now kept the Country in a Continual adgitation [agitation] and the Company were very frequently Called out and uniformly required to furnish themselves with provisions for six days That this Declarant always turned out and went at every such Call as a Sergeant and went to Fort Edward served
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times and to Johnstown to Fort Ann Fort George and about the woods up and down the Hudson & Mohawk rivers and in various places so that he did not raise his provisions but from the length of time since and the frequency of the calls and his going so frequently to the some places he cannot now recollect so as to state the length of time he was out at the several calls Captain Collins was his Captain and usually went where he did. In the summer of 1777 he went to Fort George & guarded the Baggage waggons [sic] which conveyed the Military stores from Fort George to Fort Edward while the Northern Army commanded by General Schuyler were retreating from the British army under Burgoin [Burgoyne] and assisted in taking up the bridges and Blockading the road and was present at the burning of the Barracks at Fort Ann but after Burgoin [sic] got possession of Fort Edward this Declarant was permitted to return home and his hay suffering to be cut began to mow and mowed all day when the Country was declared to be with in British lines and he was ordered to move off & he immediately moved his family to Schenectady and then returned to the army and was present and stood under arms half a day with a reserve corps waiting orders to reinforce the American army in the first engagement between General Gates and Burgoin [sic] but was not called into action. That it is impossible for him to state how long he served previous to the capture of Burgoin [sic] with precision. but from his best recollection and Judgement he believes it could not have be less that one year. That he cannot now recollect what became of his Sergeants warrants
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or wether [sic] he had any but is sure, that he served in the Capacity of a Sergeant during all the same aforesaid nor does he recollect of ever receiving a written discharge - That after the capture of Burgoins [sic] army the country was calm partially tranquil but was subject to frequent alarms and this declarant with the rest of the Militia were frequently called out and took several Tories who came down from the North. About the first of October 1780 General Carlton with a number of British and Indians came up Lake Champlain & Lake George & made an attack upon the frontiers took some our provisions in Vermont the alarm was given & this declarant volunteered & went with Captain Collins and a member of others from Ballston and got between Fort Edward and Fort George when this Declarant was taken sick with fever & again was permitted to return home & he made the best of his way back got home Saturday night, about the same time Captain Collins & others that went out got Home and reported that they went in sight of the British vessels & saw the nine get aboard and go off & then returned. But a party of a 100 Tories & 50 Indians had left the main body & come down through the woods by way of Schroon Lake and on Monday night after this declarant got home being the 17th October 1780 came upon them unawares and took this Declarant and 21 other prisoners and after burning houses & barns and killing cattle & hays and destroying whatever property they could not carry with them, they took the prisoners and plundered and marched off this Declarant although he had the fever & again was found to march and carry his own Looking Glass naked in his hand and a sack on his back so heavy that when he sat upon a log he could not raise without help
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In this way marched Eight days through Woods when they came to the Lake where the Indians had hid their boats & after getting them into the water got aboard and went down the lake to St Johns where the Indians got Liquor and got drunk many of them, & were very troublesome and wanted to kill the prisoners, but those that kept sober protected them, went about a mile from St Johns & encamped until morning. The sober Indians started on with the prisoners leaving the Drunken Indians asleep and they did not over take us until we got to Lachine [Canada] when we crossed the St Lawrence and went to the Indian town staid [sic] there two days then they took the prisoners to Montreal and sold them to General Claus who paid for them for them and in blankets and rum we were then held as prisoners of war were put into the Regal [Royal?] Church and kept them about a week & then were moved to a large stone Building in the suburbs of the town where were placed about 200 prisoners & where we suffered Exceedingly for want of wood and provisions they not allowing us fire enough to cook our provisions we were kept in this stone house about one year and were then moved to Prison Island 45 miles above Montreal when we were kept in Barracks 12 in a room about another year while some of the prisoners among whom were [Steel?] Bellnap Sprague, and about 18 or 20 more by digging under the Barracks crawled out and escaped. Some of them were however taken & brought back. Late in the fall of 1782 the British Commissary of prisoners Captain Laws came and told us we were exchanged and told us to get aboard of the Boats which we did very quick, and went down the river to Montreal & then got aboard a larger vessel and were taken to Boston where we arrived
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to the day before Thanksgiving, and were not allowed to land until the day after Thanksgiving when we were landed at [illegible] Point & this declarant was discharged without clothing except one sheet and what other clothing he had on when he was taken away from home and without money or provisions, and made the best of his way home was supported by the charity of the people on the way, and got home to Danbury Connecticut when he arrived some time in December [illegible] 1782 when he found part of his family - which had gone there after this Declarant was taken prisoner. That he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no persons whose testimony he can prove who can testify to his service except John Cokely and that since the revolutionary war he has lived in Ballstown aforesaid, Greenfield Saratoga County, German Flat Herkimer County Manlius and Pompey in Onondaga County in the State of New York in which later place he now lives that he never received any written discharge from the service. That he is known to Reverend Daniel Marsh, Ephraim Salmon, John De Puy and others in his present Neighborhood who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution and he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity Except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State 
Thomas Barnum X his mark

Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid 
D. Moseley Circuit Judge
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State of New York
Onondaga County Ss
on this Eleventh day
of September in the year 1832 personally appeared in the Court of Chancery aforesaid before Daniel Moseley aforesaid Vice Chancellor in open Court ^ Thomas Barnum [?] aged fifty nine years and being duly sworn deposeth and
saith that he resides in Pompey in the County
of Onondaga that he is a son of Thomas
Barnum who has sworn to and subscribed the
foregoing declaration and that this Deponent
although a child when the transactions related
in said Declaration took place yet he recollects many instances of his fathers being called
out and of his going to [warn?] the [?] and of his being gone into the service of the
United States previous to his being taken prisoner and he distinctly recollects the Circumstances of his being taken prisoner and of his returning to Danbury after he was exchanged
and from his own personal recollection as well as
from frequently hearing the subject
talked of by his father and others. he wholy belives [sic] the [relation?] given in said declaration is true
Sworn to and subscribed
this day and year aforesaid
D. Moseley
Thomas Barnum
Circuit Judge
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We Daniel Marsh a Clergyman residing in the
town of Pompey and Isaac N Brewster residing in the Town of Manlius in the County of Onondaga
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with
Thomas Barnum who has subscribed
and sworn to the above Declaration that we
believe him to be 83 years of age that
he is reputed and believed in the 
neighborhood where he resides to have been a
soldier of the revolution and that we concur
in that opinion and that we are also 
acquainted with Thomas Barnum Junior who has 
subscribed & sworn to the above affidavit and that his reputation for truth & veracity is good.
Daniel Marsh
Isaac W Brewster
Subscribed & sworn to this
day and year aforesaid
Daniel Moseley
Circuit Judge

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a soldier of the revolution
and served as he states and the Court further states that it appears to them that Daniel Marsh who has signed the pending certificate is a Clergyman resident in the town of
Pompey and that John DePuy who has also signed the same is a resident in the town of Manlius and is a Credible person and that their statement is intitled [sic] to credit.
Daniel Mosley
Vice Chancellor
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11,808.
Thomas Barnum
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Specific regd.
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Isaac W Brewster
Jamesville
N.Y.
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Brief in the case of Thomas Barnum
of Pompey in the State of New York
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? Eighty three years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
[Table columns:] Period. | Duration of Service. - Years / Months / Days. | Rank. As a | Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. Gen.

In 1775 apl | states various [illegible] but not the times engaged + concluded by stating the service near [illegible] one year | Sergt | Capt Collins, Col Gordon J.
1780 Oct to Dec. 1782. | He was again out Captured by the Indians Carried to Montreal + held. Imprisoned by the British for nearly two years. | -

5. In what battles was he engaged? none
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Ballotown
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Thomas Barnum proved the applicant to have been a revolutionary soldier. A Clergyman & W Brewster certify traditionary evidence. John Copley - living witness proves that the applicant was a prisoner with and in one year and longer.
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
D Kentz Examining Clerk
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State of New York
Onondaga County Ss ⎬ On this first day of February in the year of Our Lord Eighteen hundred and twenty three personally appeared in open Court before Daniel Moseley Esquire Vice Chancellor of the Seventh Circuit of said State at a Court of Chancery for said State of New York now sitting at the Town Onondaga in the County aforesaid Thomas Barnum resident of the Town of Pompey in said County & State being the same Thomas Barnum who on the Eleventh day of September last made in the said Court before the said Vice Chancellor his declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832, and
which is hereunto annexed, and who being duly sworn doth upon his oath make the following supplemental declaration to wit, -

And first that by reason of old age and the
consequent loss of memory he cannot swear
positively as to the precise length of each time
of his actual service nor the precise number of
such tours nor the whole time of such service

but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades-

One half month in April 1775 under Col. James
Gordon of Infantry in the New York militia and Captain Tryanus Collins in pursuit of Tories one
month under the same Captain at Palmertown in May and June 1775 &

One & a half months in July & August 1775 at Fort Edwards under Captain Collins

One half month in the summer of 1776 under Capt Steenburgh at Fort Edward when we were  [illegible] [?tuating?] from Canada -

One month in June 1777 under Captain Stephen White at Cherry Valley clearing away the woods and the fort little before the place
was burned as he now recollects
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Then weeks under Captain Collins at Fort Edward and Fort George Fort Ann and on the way between those places assisting the Army to retreat under General Schuyler & obstructing the march of the British under Burgoyne in the month of July 1777

Half a month he was at Johnstown under
Captain Collins cant recollect the year but thinks it was after the battle , Col Willet
was there and had the command

Half a month under Captain Collins in pursuit of the Army landed on the shores of Lake
Champlain & Lake George under the command of General Carlton, immediately previous to this declarants being taken prisoner which was on the 17th October 1780

That he was held as a prisoner of War
by the British & Indians from the 17th October
1780 when he was taken, until the 26 day
of November 1782 when he was discharged at
Boston as set forth in his aforesaid Declaration being two years one month and nine days-

That during the whole of the service aforesaid this declarant served as a Sergeant and was an acting Sergeant when he was taken prisoner as aforesaid that all his service was in the New York Militia. That in his [form?] declaration he set forth the one months service at Cherry Valley as in the year 1775 but since reflecting & making a comparison of his recollection of that service with dates in the history of certain events of the war he is induced to
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believe that service was in the year 1777 as above stated, he recollects that the place
was taken by the Indians & Tories under the command of Brant soon after he
left -

And this declarant further says that the foregoing are all the tours of his service that he can now distinctly recollect in which he can state any definite time of service, but he does recollect of being in service at other times and places besides this [illegible] and from his best recollection of the time he was in service compared with the time he was at home and the very little labor he performed for his family he verily believes that he actually served as a Sergeant in the War of the Revolution in the Militia of the State of New York previous to his being taken prisoner not less than fourteen months-

Thomas Barnum X his mark

Subscribed & Sworn the day and year aforesaid
Daniel Moseley Vice Chancellor

State of New York}
I certify that it has been made to appear before me, that Thomas Barnum Junior who has made and subscribed a deposition on the 11th Day of September last and hereto annexed, is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit.
Feby 1. 1833

Daniel Moseley V. Chancellor
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I Daniel T. Moseley Deputy Clerk of the Court of Chancery of the seventh Circuit for the state of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Thomas Barnum for a pension
And also the subsequent proceedings of the said Court on an supplementary declaration made on this first day of February 1833
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this day and year aforesaid_
Daniel T. Moseley
Deputy Clerk
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836
Martha Barnum
widow of Thomas Barnum
NY
who served in the Revolutionary war,
as a Sergeant
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
120 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 
13 day of Aug 1851
and sent to B. B. Chapman
Cleveland, O
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
July 29, 1848, Page 160 Vol A
1858 Nov'r 24 Duplicate issued
and sent to William H. Canfield
Medina Ohio
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The State of Ohio
Lorain County⎬ Ss.. On this second day of May A.D. One thousand Eight hundred and fifty one personally appeared
before me Philemon Bliss President Judge of the fourteenth Judicial Circuit in the State of Ohio Martha Barnum a resident of the township of Eaton in said Lorain County and State of Ohio aged Eighty four years the 13th day of September next who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the
provisions made by the act of Congress passed the 29th day of July 1848
granting pensions to the widows of Revolutionary soldiers, that she
is the widow of Thomas Barnum who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
and resided in the town of Pompey Onondaga County in the State of New York where he died that for proof & particulars of the time
of his death she refers to the papers on file in the Pension Office in the application of this Declarant for an increase of the Pension of the said Thomas Barnum She further declares that she was
married to the said Thomas Barnum on the__day of November in the year seventeen hundred and ninety seven in the town of Manlius in said County of Onondaga and State of New York
that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the second day of January Eighteen hundred viz at the time above stated She further swears that she is a widow now and
that she has never before made any application for a pension [sa?] as above
stated that her name when married to said Barnum was Martha Berry
  Martha Barnum
Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year above written before me
 P. Bliss  Prest Judge
I do further certify that owing to her great age and bodily infirmity the above declarant is unable to appear before a Court of Record 
P. Bliss,   Prest Judge
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The State of Ohio ⎬ Ss
Lorain County ⎬
On this second day of May A.D. 1851 before
 me Philemon Bliss President Judge of the
fourteenth Judicial Circuit in the State of Ohio Personally appeared Antonette Colton a resident of the township of Eaton in said Lorain County aged forty two years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath depose and say that she was born in the
town of Manlius in the County of Onondaga in the State of New York and has from her earliest rememberance been personally acquainted with Martha Barnum
who is now present and subscribed the foregoing declaration that said Martha is the widow of Thomas Barnum who was a 
Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States and of the time of his death resided in said County of Onondaga and State
New York where he had resided for many years that this Deponent has always understood from said Thomas & Martha
and others that they the said Thomas and Martha were married in the town of Manlius Onondaga County New York before the year Eighteen hundred that the said Martha Barnum the identical individual who applied for and received the arrears of pension due as increase on the pension of said Thomas Barnum and that she has not intermarried
but continues the widow of the said Thomas Barnum and is reported to be upwards of Eighty years of age and that her name
before her marriage to said Thomas Barnum was Martha Berry

Sworn to & subscribed before me
the day and year above written ⎬
Antinett Coulton
and I do further certify that that the above
deponent is a deponent entitled to credit
P. Bliss  Prest Judge
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19638
Act Mar 3/55
March 29/55
Martha Barnum Rev Pensioner
Widow of Thos Barnum Legion
[Capt - crossed out]  Sergt under
Col. Jacobus Van Schoonhoven,
N.Y.Mil;
End P
dischgd
Revolutionary War
Admit 160 Acres July 12 1855
Boynton
 Boynton

2308 iss [issued] July 12/55
La Sheldon
Elyria Lorain Co
Ohio

Ohio
July 48 - No 836
Vol B-2
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Application of Martha Barnum 
19638
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The State of Ohio ⎬ 
Lorain County ss ⎬ 
On this 24 day of March A.D. 1855 before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the County & State aforesaid personally appeared
Martha Barnum aged eighty seven years, a resident of Eaton Township Lorain County & State of Ohio, who being
duly sworn according to law declares that she is the Widow of Thomas Barnum deceased who was a Sergeant in the in War of the Revolution, that she cannot tell at what time or 
place he volunteered nor the time of his actual service nor the officers under whom he served -and she further declares that she is the identical Martha Barnum who draws a Pension from Government for the aforesaid services of
said Thomas Barnum-upon a certificate issued under the act of July 29th, A.D. 1848 the following is a true copy of said certificate to wit "Department of the Interior
Widows Pension, I certify that in conformity with the act of July 29th 1848 Martha Barnum widow of Thomas Barnum who was a Sergeant in the revolutionary war is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of $120 dollars per annum commencing on the 4th day of March A.D. 1848 and continuing for life, unless she should again marry in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.
Given at the Department of the Interior this 13th day of August one thousand eight hundred and fifty one
received and counter signed 
 Will A Graham Acting Secretary of the Interior
 J.E. Heath
Commissioner of Pensions"
On the back of said certificate is the following
[illegible] "Payment to be made at Cleveland by John [illegible] Esq Agent for paying Pensioners in the Agency and made payable on the 4th of September and 4th of March [illegible] in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensions [illegible] act of February 2nd 1848, Page 160 Vol A
H.E Robinson clerk
this declares that she is now the widow of said
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Thomas Barnum and that by virtue of said certificate has drawn a Pension at the rate of one hundred and twenty dollars per year up to the 4th day of March A.D. 1855. She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the
Bounty Land to which she is entitled under the act passed March 3rd 1855, never having received Bounty Land or knowing herself entitled except for the above services and she further swears that said Thomas Barnum
never received Bounty Land for the above services, nor for any other.
[signature] Matt Barnum

Sworn to before me & signed in my presence the day and year first above written and at the same time and place personally appeared Richard W. Colton and Antonette Colton,
residents of said Eaton to me well known as [illegible] they were present & saw said Martha Barnum sign her name to the above declaration & witnesses who being duly sworn according to law declare that they are well acquainted with said Martha Barnum and know
that he is the widow of said Thomas Barnum that they were acquainted with said Thomas Barnum and Martha Barnum before the decease of said Thomas & know that said Thomas
Barnum drew pension before his death as a soldier of the Revolutionary war and that said Martha Barnum draws a pension as she has alleged in her declaration above as the
widow of said Thomas Barnum and has a certificate such as is copied into the foregoing declaration and they further swear that they are disinterested in the above claim and
reside at the above named place. 
Chancy Blakesley J.P. [signature]
Richard Colton [signature]
Antionette Colton [signature]

Sworn to before me & signed in my presence by the above named witnesses the day and year first above written. And I further testify that I am acquainted with said Martha Barnum
and from her appearance have every reason to believe that she is the identical person she represents herself
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THE STATE OF OHIO.
LORAIN COUNTY, SS.
I, LANDON ROOD, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for said County,
do hereby Certify, that Chauncey Blakesley Esq before whom the foregoing affidavits
was taken, and who has thereunto subscribed his name offcially, in his own hand writing, was at the date of the said
affidavits and now is an acting Justice of the Peace
within and for said Lorain County, authorized by the laws of the State of Ohio, to take acknowledgments as aforesaid, and
duly commissioned and sworn, and to all whose official acts, full faith and credit are due and ought to be given throughout the
United States and elsewhere, and that I am acquainted with
his signature and verily believe the above to
be genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and all the Seal of said Court, at Elyria, this 26 day of March in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty five.
L Rood Clerk
By --- Deputy Clerk.
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to him and I further certify that I am not interested in the claim nor concerned in its prosecution
Chancy Blakesley Justice of the Peace
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XXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Mrs. Edna A. Skillings
Geddes
South Dakota

BA-J/ady
Thomas Barnum
W.5788

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter relative to
Thomas Barnum, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
The data contained herein were obtained from
the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, W.5788, based upon the military service of Thomas Barnum, in that war.

Thomas Barnum was born August 25, 1749 in Danbury, Fairfield County, Connecticut, the names of his parents are not shown. In the winter of 1774 he moved from Danbury, Connecticut, to Ballston, Saratoga County, New York.

While a resident of Ballston, New York, he
enlisted in April 1775 and served one half month as sergeant in Captain Tyrannis Collins' Company, Colonels James Gordon's and Jacobus Van Schoonhoven's New York
Regiment. He enlisted in May 1775 and served one month as sergeant in Captain Tyrannis Collins' New York Company. He enlisted in July 1775 and served one and one half months as sergeant under Captain Collins at Fort  Edwards. He enlisted in the summer of 1776 and served one half month under Captain Steenbergh at Fort Edwards. He enlisted in June 1777 and served one month as sergeant under Captain Stephen White at Cherry Valley. He enlisted in July 1777 and served three weeks in Captain Collins' New York Company.
He enlisted and served one half month as sergeant in Captain Collins' New York Company, date not stated. He enlisted about the first of October 1780 and served one
half month as sergeant in Captain Collins' New York Company. While at his home in Ballston he was taken prisoner by Tories and Indians on October 17, 1780, carried to Montreal, Canada, and later to Prison Island, forty-five miles above Montreal, and after two
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years he was exchanged, conveyed by water to Boston and returned home December 6, 1782.

After the Revolutionary War he lived in Greenfield, Saratoga County, New York, German Flats, Herkimer County, New York, Manlius, and Pompey, New York.

He was allowed pension on his application executed September 11, 1832, while a resident of Pompey, Onondaga County, New York, his post office address was Jamesville, Onondaga County, New York.

He died September 28, 1837 in Pompey, New York.

Soldier married in October or November 1797 in Manlius, Onondaga County, New York, Martha Berry, a widow, of Onondaga County, New York. The full name of her former husband not shown. She was born September 13, 1767, place and names of her parents not shown. Her maiden name was Nigus.

Soldier's first wife, Achsah or Axey, her maiden
name not stated, died in June of the same year of soldier's second marriage.

Soldier's widow, Martha Barnum, was allowed pension on her application executed May 2, 1851 while a resident of Eaton Township, Lorain County, Ohio. In 1846 he was living in Medina, Medina County, Ohio, with David Allen, the husband of one of her daughters. No names of her daughters shown.

In 1832 soldier's son, Thomas Barnum, Jr., was living in Pompey, and aged fifty-nine years.

In 1845 soldier's daughter Achsah or Axey Weston or Western, was living in De Witt, Onondaga County, New York. She was born in 1784 in Ballston, New York. She had a granddaughter living in 1846, her name not stated. There are no further family data.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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Hist to H.W. Van Dyke
K. St. N.W. Washington
M.E.C
1935 Jan. 11 Hist. to Mrs
Berton E. Beem, ADY
1937 Mar. 25. Hist. to Mrs Edna
A Skillings, A.D.Y

Revy WIDOW, & c.
---
File No. 5788

Martha Barnum
Wid:
Thomas Barnum
Sergt, Rev. War

Act: July 29, 48
Index: -- Vol. A
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No. 19638
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
Received March 29, 187
Martha Barnum wid of 
Thos Barnum
Col Jacob Van Schoonhoven
N.Y. Mil
Revolutionary War
Warrant No 2335-160-53
L. A. Sheldon
Elyria
Lorain Co Ohio,
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844
New York
Thomas Barnum dec[d] of Pompey
in the State of New [York]
who was a Sergeant in the Company commanded by Captain Colling of the Regt commanded by Col Gardner in the N.Y.
line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany
at the rate of 120 Dollars - Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831 and ending 28 Sep 1834 the day on which he died
Certificate of Pension issued the 19th day of May 1846 and sent to Hon E.D Culver
Hs of Reps
Arrears to the 4th of
Semi-anl. allowance ending
Increased from $31.12 per ann.
Deduct all former payments
under this act, say at the
rate of $31.12 for the same time
Revolutionary Claim,}
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Tho Lumpkin Clerk
Book E 2 Vol. 4
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Payable to his widow Martha
Barnum
Reported
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Thomas Barnum
11808
Pension Papers
Residence Pompey
Onondaga Co NY

Post Office Jamesville
Onondaga Co NY
Communications may
be addressed to Isaac
Brewster PM
not in service when completed

6 mo 7 ds Sergt
admd
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2358
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19638
[stamp] FREE
[postal mark] ELYRIA O. MAR 23
To the Commissioner of Pensions
of the United States 
Washington D.C.
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September 16 1845
Sir
I received your letter September 12th
dated September 9th. I received on information by those lines that you wished me to inform you something of the particulars of my fathers imprisonment in Canada during the Revolution and also being a pensioner and a soldier-
Now as to this; he was taken at Ballstown and
carried to Montreal, was imprisoned 2 years
When the war was over prisoners were exchanged and he returned home. Now respecting my fathers second wife: her name was Martha Nigus when
a maid but that she was the widow Berry when father married her. She moved to the town and County of Medina Ohio and lived with one of her daughters husband by the name of David Allen. We have not heard from her these 2 or 3 years.
Two men came to see me the 9th of September. I asked them
their name but but they did not give it to me
they said they was collecting for the widow Patcher
I gave them the same dimensions as I have yours.
Yours respectfully
Achsah Weston

Subscribed & Sworn to before me
this 15 day of April 1846
Cor Van Alstin
Justice of the peace

was writen [sic] at her request and directed and acknowledged to be her.
Deponent further saith that the above letter [words crossed out and illegible] in her own [illegible] and was written in reply to a letter received from Wm Valentine of Albany and
deponent further saith that the person above refered to as her father was Thomas
Barnum deceased who was a pensioner of the United States of Onondaga County
and that he died on the twenty eight day of September one thousand eight hundred
and thirty seven and at the time of his death left a widow in Martha Barnum
above named & who deponent believes is now living as aforesaid, that at the time of the death her father the said Barnum he resided in the town of Pompey county and state aforesaid
Achsah Weston  his X mark

Subscribed & Sworn to before me this 15 day of April 1846 
Cor Van Alstin
Justice of the peace
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I Cornelius Van Alstin Justice of the Peace within named hereby certify that
from General report & personal knowledge
the within deponant who subscribed by making her mark to the deposition and an other person
[illegible] grand daughter work and signed the
within both which the said Sarah Weston and
and daughter boat in each others orand

on the grand daughter reading the
said with the saw Ackrob Weston acknowled
ged it to have been done at her request and
to be her act and deed, and further
that from said personal knowledge and
General report she the said Achsah Weston his
never brand to write and therefore me
her mark and that he is respectable.
inteligent witness, and is entitled to full confidmore
and credit. Dated April 16th 1846
at Cambers Cretion
Contain Flim Justin
State of New York
Onondaga County,
Clerk's Office,
SS:
of the part
17
I certify that Cornelius Van
Alstone Esq was on the 15th & 16th day of
April instant one of the Justice of the Peace
in & for the said County, commissioned & sworn
that I am well acquainted with his hand
writing & verily believe that the foregoing signa
tures purporting to be his, are genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal
of said County, at Syracuse, this
23d day of April, 1846,
Lewis J. Gillet, Deputy
Clerk absent
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State of Ohio
Medina County }Ss  On this 24th day of February
one thousand eight hundred and forty six before one Canfield Justice of the Peace in and
for said County, personally appeared Martha
Barnum who being duly sworn according to
law doth make the following declaration for the
purpose of obtaining the increase of pension, which she has been informed and believes was due her husband Thomas Barnum deceased under the act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832. That she is the widow of Thomas Barnum deceased late resident of Onondaga County and State of New York, who was a pensioner of the United States and died on the twenty eighth day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred thirty seven - Declarant further states that she has frequently heard her said husband  the aforesaid Thomas Barnum in his lifetime, say
that during the Revolutionary War he was taken
prisoner by the enemy, carried to Canada & kept
there a prisoner upwards of two years, and also
that her said husband was a sergeant in the
war of the Revolution, and previous to his imprisonment served under Capt. Collins in the State of New York. Declarant also saith that her said husband was a pensioner of the United States at the
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rate of thirty dollars per annum until the time of his death and that he died in the County of Onondaga and State of New York on the twenty eighth day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven and declarant now makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the difference between the amount of  pension which her said husband did receive and which she has also been informed & believes is now due her from the fourth of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty one to the twenty eighth day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven the day of her said husband's death - And she hereby authorises and requests the Commissioner of  Pensions to make the said pension payable at the agency at the agency at Albany in the State of New York, and further she hereby constitutes and appoints Wm Valentine of the aforesaid city of Albany her agent and attorney in the prosecution of the aforesaid claim
  Martha Barnum
Subscribed & sworn to before me this 24th day of February AD. 1846
  Wm H Canfield   Justice of the Peace
Sd widows request to make payable at Albany
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The State of Ohio
Medina County Ss}

I Edward L. Warner clerk of the court of common pleas of Medina County & state of Ohio do hereby certify that William H. Canfield is a justice of the peace in & for said county duly commissioned & qualified that his commission was dated on the 11th day of April 1844 & will expire on the 11th day of April 1847 & that his signature to the [foregoing?] is genuine -
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand & affix the seal of said court at Medina this 24th day of January AD 1846.
Edward L. Warner clerk
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Pay Roll of Sundry Officers, Noncommissioned
Officers & Private of the Regt of Militia in the
County of Albany lately commanded by Col Jacobus Van Schoonhoven who were prisoners in Canada during the late war

Names & Rank | When Taken | When Returned
Time - Month/Day| Dollars pr mo |
Rations| Amount of Rations | Amt of Pay & Rations

James Gordon Lt. Col. | Oct 17 1780 | Nov 19 1782| 25 Mo 3 days | 60 dollars| [Rations] | - 3012 10| [Amount] 125 10| [Pay & Rations] 727..18..

Tyrannis Collins Capt.

Caleb Benedict Ensign
John Sprague Sergt.
Thomas Barnum do

State of New York
Comptrollers Office
I certify the preceding to
be a true extract from Book A. of An Act relating
to the Revolutionary period now remaining in this office
Albany March 14th 1846.
Philip Phelps  Comptr
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State of New York
County of Onondaga } Ss
Surogates [Surrogates] Court

On this 9th day of March
one thousand eight hundred and forty six, it was proved by the adduction of testimony satisfactory to said Court that Thomas
Barnum late a resident of the County and State aforesaid & a pensioner of the United States died on the twenty eighth day of September
in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven And at the time of his death left a widow Viz Martha Barnum who now resides in the State of Ohio
---
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand & affixed the official Seal of said Court at
Syracuse N.Y. the day & year first above written
David D Hillis
Surrogate
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Increase
Thomas Barnum
NY
act 7 June 1832
Please see widows request
to make payable at Albany

Pensioner - [move files?]
New York
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Onondaga County Ss
Axey Western of the Town of Dewitt
County of Onondaga & State of New York
being duly sworn deposeth and says
that she is the Daughter of Thomas
Barnum and her mother died in
the year one thousand Eight hundred
and one. he Thomas Barnum said I
was born at Ballstown in Saratoga County
in this State (N. Y) but I do not recollect of
living there I was born in the year one
thousand Seven Hundred Eighty four
first I recollect of my father living was
at Greenfield in the said Town Saratoga County
next was to [illegible] County and next
to this place in the County of Onondaga
aforesaid, he died in the year thirty seven
twenty Eight day of Sept - was married to
Martha Berry in the year one thousand Eight Hundred and one in the month of October following then. The month of June in which her Mother died her fathers age was Eighty nine years old when he died. And during his life
time I have frequently heard my
father say that he was taken prisoner in
the Revolutionary war and that a
Neighbour by the name Patshen was
taken Prisoner at the same time and
that he was prisoner when he was and
he was prisoner in Canada two years 
^ and that I was named after his wife and frequently in his (fathers)
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telling about the Revolution and
particularly when he spoke about
his being a prisonor & when he was
taken prisonor speaks about a Collins
who had something to do or say about
the time in the matter of the saw War
and Father say that they were in
prisoned in Montreal Canada and that
at the time then were about two hundred
prisonors taken there and he got released
or got back by an Exchange-

Axey Westins mark

Subscribed and
Sworn the 9th day
September 1845
before me Cor Van Alstine [illegible]

I certify that the subscriber Ary W
ter was made known to me upon
the oath of the Hon William Taylor who
Saith that he has been long acquainted with
her and that she is entitled to full confidence and my long & personal acquaintance with the said Hon Wm Taylor gives
me full justification to say that he is entitled
to full confidence & and that I should
give equal confidence now to her--

Col Van Alstine
Justice of hte Peace

Axey Westin being duly sworn
And further upon her oath
before me said that she had
now learned to write and
and had always made
her mark [illegible]
makes her mark
Cor Van Alstin
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State of New York
Onondaga County,
Clerks Office,
I certify that Cornelius Van Alstine
Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit purports to have been sworn, and whose name is subscribed to the foregoing Certificate, was at the date of the same one of the
Justices of the Peace in & for the said County, duly elected & qualified; And I further certify, that I am well acquainted with
his hand writing & verily believe that the foregoing signatures, purporting to be his, are genuine.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand, and affixed the Seal of said
County, at Syracuse, this 16th day of
March 1846.
Lewis J Gillett, Dep Clerk
Clerk about
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State of Ohio
Medina County Ss
On this 13th day of October AD 1858
before me the Subscriber a Notary Public in and
for said County personally appeared Martha
Barnum, who on her oath declares that she
is the widow of Thomas Barnum deceased
who was a Sergeant in the Army of the
Revolution (the name of his Captain & Colonel
she cannot now recollect) that she is the
identical person whose name was placed on
the Pension Roll of the State of Ohio (Agency
at Cleveland) that she received a certificate
of that fact under the signature and seal
of the Secretary of War, which certificate
on or about the 4th day of September 1858 was
lost by David Allen Jr between the Village of
Abbyville & the town of Medina, Medina County
Ohio
Martha Barnum

Sworn to and subscribed before me the
day & year above written
Daniel Ford, Notary Public

State of Ohio
Medina County
On this 13th day of October AD 1858 before me a
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State of Ohio
Medina County
On this 13th day of October AD 1858 before me a Notary Public in & for said County duly authorised to administer oaths personally appeared David Allen Jr who being duly sworn upon his oath,
declares that he well knew Martha Barnum who has subscribed the foregoing affidavit & that she is the identical person described therein; that on the 4th day of September AD 1858 he took the Pension Certificate of the said Martha Barnum at her request to carry to the town of Medina in said County
of Medina about five miles from the residence
of said Martha, for the purpose of getting the
necessary papers drafted for her to draw her semi=annual payment of her pension, that he had said Certificate in his pocket book with other papers that on his arrival at Medina he discovered that his pocket book & contents was gone from his pocket & lost, that since said time he has made diligent
Search & enquiry, but has been unable to find
said pocket book or contents or obtain any tidings of the same & that said Certificate of Pension is lost & destroyed as he believes
David, Allen, Jr
Sworn & Subscribed to before me the day & year above written-- I also further certify that the said David Allen Jr is well known to me, as a
respectable person & a person of truth & veracity
Daniel Ford, Notary Public,
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THE STATE OF OHIO,
Oscar S Codding
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, of said county do hereby certify,
that the annexed instrument is executed and acknowledged in and
form, according to the Laws of the State of Ohio. Also, that Daniel Ford
before whom the same was acknowledged, was, at the time of taking the same, a Notary Public in and for said county
duly commissioned and qualified, and authorized to take such acknowledgment. And I further certify, that I am acquainted with the handwriting of the said Daniel Ford and believe his signature above written to be genuine.
In Witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the Seal of our said County at Medina this 13 day of October A.D. 1858.

Oscar S. Codding. Clerk
By John Codding, Deputy Clerk

G. W. KIRKLAND, PRINTER, MEDINA, O.
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State of New York 
Onondaga County 
Be it known that on this 23rd day of June
A.D. One thousand Eight hundred
and fifty one personally appeared before me [illegible] a Justice of the Peace duly authorized by law to administer oaths within and for the County aforesaid John Sprague
a resident of the town of Manlius in said County of Onondaga & State of New York and now in the Seventy second year of his age who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose and say that since
he was fourteen years of age he has been a resident of said County of Onondaga & State of New York and that in the year seventeen hundred and ninety nine he took a contract for a piece of land lying in the town of
Pompey & County of Onondaga & in the same year began to improve the same and that he was then and there personally acquainted with Thomas Barnum and
his wife Martha Barnum that he continued to be intimately acquainted with said Barnum & until his death which took place in said town of Pompey about fourteen years since Said Barnum was a soldier of the Revolution and was for sometime a prisoner in Canada and John Sprague the father
of this deponant was at the same time confined as a prisoner with said Thomas Barnum and on intimacy existed between them during their lives &
which fact of their being prisioners together deponent derived from conversations often had with them upon the subject and was a particular reason why this
deponent was so early & intimately acquainted with said Thomas Barnum Deponent further says that prior to said year seventeen hundred and ninety
nine the said Thomas and Martha Barnum
were living together as husband & wife and generally reputed as such deponent himself was married
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in said town of Pompey in the year Eighteen hundred and he distinctly remembers that said Thomas and Martha Barnum were married two or three years before deponent was but he cannot say in what year although he heard of the marriage about the time it took place

John Sprague
Sworn to & subscribed before me the day & year above written and I do hereby certify that said John Sprague the above deponent
is personally known to me & that he is a person fully entitled to credit & has long been a resident of the County & I further
certify that the [illegible] of the words "by love" in the forgoing affidavit was made prior to the execution of this affidavit
Isaac N Mead, Justice Peace

I certify that I am personally acquainted with John Sprague of Manlius the person making the foregoing affidavit, and know him to be a man of high character standing & unimpeachable integrity

Horace Wheaton, Mayor
of the City of Syracuse

Syracuse June 23/57
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State of New York
Onondaga County Clerks office 
I Rufus Cossit Clerk of said County, hereby certify, that Isaac Mead Esqr whose name is subscribed to the first of the foregoing
affidavit was at the time of taking the same
a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and authorized to take the same; that I am acquainted with his hand writing and believe the signature to the first of said affidavit genuine
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal
of said County this 23d day of June
A.D. 1851
Rufus Cossit
Clerk
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State of Ohio
Medina County
On this Twenty first day of May A.D. One thousand Eight hundred and fifty one before the Court of Common
Pleas of the County and State aforesaid personally appeared David Allen
a resident of the township of Medina in said County of Medina and State of Ohio
and in the sixty third year of his age and a credible and disinterested
witness who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose
and say that from his earliest recollection he has been personally and intimately acquainted with Martha Barnum who now resides in the township
of Eaton in the County of Lorain and State of Ohio and is the widow of Thomas
Barnum who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States under the
act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 and resided in the town of Pompey in the
County of Onondaga in the State of New York where he died that said Thomas
Barnum was married to said Martha Barnum in the town of
Manlius in said County of Onondaga and State of New York in the
year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety seven, that
said Martha's name prior to her said Marriage to said Thomas Barnum
was Martha Berry and that since the death of her said husband has continued a widow and unmarried and is now upwards of Eighty years
of age. Affiant further says that the season why he then particularly remembers
the time of the marriage of the said Thomas and Martha is from the fact
that the said Martha at the time of her said marriage to said Thomas Barr
num was living in the family of this affiants father then residing in said County
of Onondaga and State of New York and affiant has been intimately acquainted with
her up to this time and knows that she is the identical individual who received
the arrears allowed as increase to the pension of the said Thomas Barnum
David Allen
Subscribed & sworn to in open Court the day & year above
written before me. And I do further certify that the above
named David Allen is a person entitled to credit
Witness Herman Canfield Clerk & the Seal of
the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Medina as meding the 21 day of May AD 1851
Herman Canfield Clerk
By By AS Codding Dept
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The State of Ohio ⎬ 
Lorain County ⎬
On this second day of May A.D. 1851 before
me Philemon Bliss President Judge of the
fourteenth Judicial Circuit in the State of Ohio personally appeared Richard W. Colton a resident of the township
of Eaton in said Lorain County & State of Ohio aged forty six years
who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose
and say that for twenty five years last past he has been personally
and for most of the time intimately acquainted with Martha
Barnum who has subscribed the foregoing declaration that there the widow of Thomas Barnum who was a Revolutionary
Pensioner of the United States and resided in the town of
Pompey Onondaga County and State of New York That the
deponent formerly resided in said town of Pompey and
County of Onondaga and was there well acquainted with
said Thomas Barnum who was then the husband of the said
Martha and deponent has understood from said Thomas
and Martha that they were married in the town of Manlius
in the said County of Onondaga and State of New York before
the year Eighteen hundred that the said Martha has not
intermarried since the death of her husband the said Thomas
but continues his widow and is the identical person who applied
for and received the arrears due for increase on the pension of
the said Thomas Barnum
Sworn to & subscribed before Richard W Colton
me the day and year above
written and I do further certify that above deponent is a person
entitled to credit
P. Bliss [illegible]
State of Ohio ⎬ 
Lorain County SS ⎬
I Myron R Keith Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within &
 for said County do hereby certify that Philemon Bliss before whom
the foregoing Declaration of Martha Barnum & affidavits of Antinette & Richard W.
Colton were made was at the date of the same President Judge of the
fourteenth Judicial Circuit in the State of Ohio and that
I am acquainted with his signatures know the above to be genuine
Witness my signature and the seal of our said Court at Elyria this
17th day of May A.D. 1851
W R Keith. Clerk
By H Wallace Deputy
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State of New York
Onondaga County

On this fifteenth day of April be Mr. [illegible] Thomas and Barnum and Ephraime E Brown and save for himself.
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State of New York
Onondaga County SS. I Charles T. Hicks Clerk of  of said county and Clerk of the court [illegible] (The same being a county of record) do hereby certify, that at a Court of [illegible] held in and for said County, before the judges thereof now sitting at the Courthouse in this village of Syracuse on this 16th day of April, 1840,[illegible] wasa proved by the adduction of testimony satisfactory of said Court, that Thomas Barnum late of this town of Pompey in said County died on the twenty eighth day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven; That at the time of his death he was a pensioner of this United States and left a widow Viz; Martha Barnum.

This Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official seal of said County this Sixteenth day of April in year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty six

Char. T. Hicks Clerk
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State of New York
Onondaga County On the seventeeth day of August 1832 personally appeared before me John Coakley of the Town of Manlius in the said county of Onondaga aged seventy six years who being first duly sworn for one according to law makes oath and [illegible] that he was a soldier during the revolutionary war under various officers and that he was taken prisoner by the British at Albany the seventh day of August in the year 1841 and that he was taken to prison inland on the river of St. Lawrence and then for the first time he found and saw Thomas Barnum who had before that time been taken prisoner and was
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State of New York
Onondaga County I Ruben & Hess Clerk
of the Court of Common Please of the County of Onon
daga aforesaid do certify that Samuel
Edwards before whom the foregoing affidavit
was sworn was at the date thereof the first Judge
of the Court of Common Pleas aforesaid and
duly empowered to administer oaths & that I
am acquainted with the hand
ting of the said Judge & believe the
signature Saml L Edwards, to said
affidavit to be his - In witness
whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed the seal of the said Con
this twenty fifth day of September
1832
R. Dore Clerk
Samuel L Edwards the Judge before whom the fore
going affidavit was sworn do hereby certify that
I am personally acquainted with John Coakley
who sworn to and subscribed said affidavit, and that
his reputation for truth and veracity is good and
from my knowledge of him & his reputation, believe
his statement in said affidavit is true-
Dated January 23-- 1833
Sam Edward
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Increase
Thomas Burname
NY
act 7 June 1832
Admr years Seal
$120th prever
4 March 1831 to
Septem 1837 the day of
his death payable to
his under Martha Barhum
, after deducting what
has been paid at the sale
of 31 persue for the same
and
Hon E.D. Culver
House of Rep
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No 76
Martha Barnum,
widow of
Thomas
O
Act 29 July 1848
Married
He died
1797
1837,
Admr yes at $120
1
per annum com
11 March 1848
Cleveland ag
B. B. Chapman
Elyria
Ohio
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of
Thomas Barnum which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? no
V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amout of pension he is entitled? No
Each tour of actual service in an embodied corps called out & commanded by Competent authority should be seperately & distinctly set forth in a supplemental declaration before a Judge embracing the period of captivity

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes

[written in margin] In supplemental Declaration
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? yes
XIII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
XIV. *If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who
administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? No
Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office? yes
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? yes
XVI. *Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? yes done
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? answered

EXPLANATORY NOTES.

*QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection
he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For ___years ____months and ___days, I served as a___.  For ___ months and ___ days, I served as  a ___; and for such service I claim a pension."
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. 
QUER XIV Proof of Service.
In a case here the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under the seal of office.
QUERE XVI Mode of authenticating papers
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
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J. L. Edwards Esq
House of Rep. 11 May
Dr. Sir Enclosed I send you the additional testimony required in the case of Martha Barnum. I also enclose your letter concerning the same. Please forward the Report to me.
I send you in March last the papers & affidavit of Charles Harrington as one of the heirs of Shelly from which I have heard nothing. Let me ask you attention in this [unclear]
Very truly Yours
E. D. Culver
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Brief in the case of Martha Barnum widow of Thomas Medina County and State of Ohio
act 4th March 1848
Claim, for duplicate certificate 
Proof exhibited, (if original)
That the original has been lost and cannot be found.
Name and residence of Agent
Wm. H. Canfield Esq
Medina
Ohio
A. G. Fowler
Examining Clerk
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Brief in the case of Martha Barnum, widow of Thomas Barnum
Lorain
County and State of Ohio
29 July 1848
Claim, (original, or for increase.)
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Husband was a pensioner under act
of 7 June 1832 at $120 per annum
Proof of marriage, evidence
of contemporaries
Name and residence of Agent.
B. B. Chapman,
Elyria
Ohio
S. Cole
Examining Clerk.
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Payment to be made
at Albany
by T.W. Olcott
Agent for paying Pensioners in the Agency of Albany
New York
Recorded in the Pension
Office, in Book E. Vol. 4 Page by 8
Tho Lumpkin,
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, Thomas Barnum, decd. late of  New York who was a Sergeant in the Rev. is entitled to receive one hundred & twenty dollars an -- cents per annum  commencing on the 4th of March, 1831 and ceasing 28th Sept. 1837 the day on which he died. The amt. due is payable to his Mrs Martha Barnum. This pension is subject to a deduction of $31.12 per annum. amt. he red. under the said act for the same time. Increased from $31.12
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 19th day of May one thousand eight hundred and forty six .  
Secretary of War
Examined and Countersigned
Commissioner of Pensions
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Pension Office
April 1st 1846

Sir,

I have the honor to inform you for increase in the case of that the application Thomas Barnum, deceased, has been examined, and the evidence of deemed sufficient to show that he was entitled to a pension at the rate of $120 per annum. But the proof now filed is
not satisfactory to identify with the requisite
certainly, Mrs. Martha Barnum who makes this  application as his widow, and before a  certificate can be issued to her, she will be required to produce the testimony of respectable and intelligent persons who, from their own personal knowledge of these parties
can swear that Thomas Barnum, State pensioner of the United States from Onondaga County, New York, was her husband.

Have the hon to be, Very respectfully,
Your Obt. Servt.
J. L. Edwards

Hon E. D Culver
House of Representatives
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Medina Medina Co. Ohio.
October 17th 1858

Hon. G. C. Whiting
Court of Pensions

At the request of Mrs. Martha Barnum, I enclose to you her application for a Duplicate Certificate of Pension, the original being lost.

Yours respectfully
Wm H. Canfield
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Hon Court of Pensions

Sir

I herewith enclose you the application of Martha Barnum [underlined name] widow of Thomas Barnum for a pension under the act passed July 29th 1848 granting pensions to the widows of Revolutionary Soldiers. You will please report to me your decision upon the same addressed to me at Elyria Lorain Co. Ohio [underlined]

June 29th 1851
B. B. Chapman
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House of Rep. 21 March
18[unclear]
J.L. Edwards Esq
Dr. Sir Enclosed are the application & papers of Martha Barnum for a Widow's pension. I believe all right
Please give them your earliest attention & communicate the result to me
Yours truly
E. D. Culver
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[unclear] E. D. Culver
J. L. Edwards Esq
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[circular stamp]
RECEIVED MAR 11 1937
MAIL [ILLEGIBLE] 

Geddes, So. Dak.
Mar 6, 1937

Veterans Administration
Washington, D. C.

Gentlemen: - 

Do you have any record of a Thomas Barnum, from Saratoga Co. N. Y. as being in the Revolutionary War?

Yours truly
Mrs. Edna A Skillings.
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WARNER PLACE
Reading, Michigan
R. F. D. No. 1

Dec. 6, 1934

Veteran's Administration
Washington, D.C

Gentlemen,

I am referred to you by the Adjutant General's Office, Washington, as a possible source of
personal or family history of one Thomas Barnum, born Aug 25 -1749 died Sept. 1837 who was a Sergeant in Van Schoonhoven's Regt. (Albany Co.) New York Militia and
who was a prisoner in Canada from Oct 1, 1780 to Dec. 6 - 1782.

If he has a pension record, will you please send me items of his history, as place of residence
place of death, family - etc. His daughter (my g-grandmother) Achsale, married my great-grandfather Dr Hezekiah Weston of Pompey township Onondaga Co. in 1797. her brother,
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WARNER PLACE
Reading, Michigan
R. F. D. No. 1

Thomas Barnum, Jr, also lived in Onondaga Co. as late as 1829.

I will greatly appreciate any help you can give me.

Sincerely,

Josephine M. Beem
(Mrs. Berton E. Beem)

[circular stamp] [illegible]
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[circular stamp]

PENSION
U S OCT 31 1895
OFFICE.
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1301 - K street, N.W.,
Washington, D.C.
October 30. 1895

The Honorable
The Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

Sir:-

I have the honor to request a certificate
from your Department, as to the pension of one Thomas Barnum, a soldier in the War of the Revolution Ballston Springs, Saratoga
Co. N. Y.

I am confident that the above named a prisoner, my assertion being supported by family tradition. Any further part A in his history would be gratefully received.


I have the honor to be, Sir,
Your obedient Servant
H.W. Van Dyke
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Supplement.
(Thomas Barnum)
He removed from Danbury, Conn., to Ballston, N. Y., in the winter of 1774, and there bought a farm and built a log house.

From April, 1775, until the surrender of Gen. Burgoyne he belonged to the militia company commanded by Capt, Tyrannus Collins, Col. James Gordon's regiment, and was frequently called out with that company to render short tours of duty whenever occasion demanded. In this manner, during the period above specified, he was in actual service at least twelve months as a Sergeant. On October 17, 1760, he was taken prisoner at his own home by a party of Tories and Indians, and taken with twenty other prisoners to Montreal, where they were sold to Gen. Claus and paid for with blankets and rum. He was detained as prisoner at Montreal and at Prison Island, forty-five miles above Montreal, for about two years, at the expiration of which time he was exchanged and conveyed by water to Boston, from which place he made his way to his old home in Danbury, Conn., and there found a part of
his family who had gone to Danbury after he had been taken prisoner.
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O. W. & N. Division.

P. S.
M. E. C.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C., November 12, 1893.

Sir:

In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of -- Thomas Barnum-
a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR,
you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
DATE OF ENLISTMENT ORAPPOINTMENT. |
LENGTH OF SERVICE. | RANK. | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. |
CAPTAIN. | COLONEL. | STATE.

see Supplemental statement.
one.

Battles engaged in, None
Residence of soldier at enlistment, 
Balllston, N. Y. 
Date of application for pension.
September 11, 1832
Residence at date of application, Pompey, N. Y.
Age at date of application,
Born, Danbury, Conn., Aug. 25, 1749.
Remarks: He married his second wife, Martha Berry, (a widow), in November, 1797, and died at Pompey, N. Y., Sept. 28, 1837.

Very respectfully,
Mr. W. H. Van Dyke,
1301 K. St, N.W.,
Washington, D.C.

Commissioner.

870blm
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Duplicate
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Duplicate letter

[handwritten note] Date of widow's death not on A.B.