Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 11735, Anthony Waring, Conn. Continental
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Service: Conn. Continental
Waring, 	Anthony
, 	Mahittable
Number: W. 11735
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8364
New-York
Anthony Waring,
South East, in the state of New-York, [--o] was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Knox, of the [Arty?] Sappers & Miners for the term of three years.
[illegible] on the Roll of New-York, ––
At the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 6th of April, 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued 27. Of March, 1819, and sent to Jonathan Morehouse, judge, South East, Putnam Co. N.Y
Arrears to 4th of March, 1819. ... 	87.70.
Semi-anl.all’ce ending 4. Sept. 1819	  48. “
	10 mo |25 / 30	
4/31
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.
Dead Continued [Handwritten]
Alt page handwritten, “Notification sent et al 11th 1820 to Rowland Bailey, Peekskill [NY?—illegible] 
159
New York
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159
New York
Mahittable Waring widow
of Anthony Waring
of Putnam Co in the State of New York
Who was a private in the company commande_
By Captain Bushnelle of the regt command_
By Col. [illegible] in the Connecticut
Line for three years from 1780
[Illegible handwriting]
Inscribed on the Roll of New York
At the rate of 80 Dollars   (---) Cents per annum,
To commence the 4th day of March, 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the [3rd?] day of Nov.
1836 – and sent to [Hon. A Wade? Illegible] Mt. Pleasant
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1836 			$440-
Semi-anl. Allowance ending 4 March 37 		40 _
$480 –
Revolutionary Claim, Act  [June  illegible 1832 lined out] 4 July 1836
Recorded by Wm [Allison??] Clerk, 
Book	Vol. 1	Page 141
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Anthony Warings
affidavit
April 6 – 1818 – private
.Do(?) Three Years
Major-Gen Knox’s brigade
Bushwell Captn
Want__? Judge’s certificate
of the (presented?) circumstan
Ces of the applicant(s).
Knox’s regt
Jonathan Morehouse Esq
[Danbury crossed out]
South East, Putnam
Co. N.Y. [Con crossed out]
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[Handwritten document]
Anthony Waring of the town of Southeast in the County of Putnam and State of New York being duly sworn doth testify and say that in January in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and eighty he enlisted in the American service under a Captain Comstock in Danbury in Connecticut he went with the said Comstock to the highlands in the state of New York.  That after one month he was drafted into the corps of sappers and miners that the remaining part of the time he served in said corps under D Bushnell, Captain that her served three years in the American service and that from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his country for support
Dated Southeast April 6th 1818
Signed in presence of 	
Hezekiah Sanford Junior					     His				
Jonathan Morehouse				Anthony      X	Waring
State of New York					   Mark 
Putnam County
Southeast April 6th 1818 
Personally appeared before me Jonathan Morehouse one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Putnam Anthony Waring and made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit to which he had subscribed contained the truth and nothing but the truth
	Jonathan Morehouse [handwritten signature]
In addition to the above affidavit I transmit his discharge, of which I have no doubt of its correctness and of the affidavit	
		Jonathan Morehouse [handwritten signature]

Judge as aforesaid
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[Handwritten document]

Putnam County
Clerks Office
	I James Townsend Jr. Clerk of the County of Putnam do hereby certify that Jonathan Morehouse  Esq before whom the within affidavit appears to have been taken is an acting judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County & to whose [judicial??] acts full faith and credit ought to be given and whose signature appears to be genuine I witness whereof I subscribe my name and affix the seal of said court – 
May 30th 1818		James Townsend Jr. Clerk [handwritten signature]

State of New York Putnam County, South East March 12th 1819, Jonathan Morehouse one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County as aforesaid do hereby certify that I do know that Anthony Waring the person whose affidavit is hereto affixed is really in reduced circumstances and doth stand in need of assistance from his country for support.
		Jonathan Morehouse [handwritten signature]
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[Handwritten document]

No. 474
Widow M. Waring’s
Pension application
[__ Sec.? – illegible]
Died July 1821
Admitted [P? – illegible]
$80

W? Ward [handwritten name]
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[Handwritten document]
State of New York
County of Putnam
I, Jonathan Morehouse clerk of the said county and clerk of the courts of record of the said county do certify that Ebenezer Foster Esquire before whom the within affidavits purports to have been taken and sworn was at the dates of them severally and at the times therein specified one of the Judges of the county courts aforesaid of, in and for the said county of Putnam; And that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the several affidavits & certificates hereunto annexed to be his proper hand writing & signature
Witness my hand and seal of office this 26th day of October AD 1836
				J. Morehouse Clerk [handwritten signature]
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[Handwritten document]
State of New York 
County of Putnam 

On the 24th day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred & thirty six personally came before me Ebenezer Foster one of the judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Putnam & State of New York – Jane Huchinson, a resident of the said Town of Southeast who being duly sworn according to Law doth depose and say that she is Forty seven years of age and that she is the daughter of Anthony Waring & Mahettable Waring and knew from her childhood that her parents lived together as man & wife cohabitating together from her earliest recollection until the decease of her father Anthony Waring which was on the 15th day of July in the year 1821 – the deponent further says that her parents were untaught not either of them could read or write & that she has taken much pains to acertain a record of their marriage which she has not been able to obtain and believes there is not any record of their marriage in existence and the deponent further says that she has now living one sister aged 56 years and had two other sisters older than herself which are now dead & had also two brothers who are dead – the deponent further says that her mother Mahettable Waring lived with her father Anthony Waring when she was a child and continued to do until his death – and that her mother was left destitute & poor & has lived with her in her family since the decease of her father – and is now his widow – the deponent further says that she does not know that her father had any paper but his discharge from the army during his life time and does not know that he left any papers of any description except his pension certificate The deponent further says that she knows that her father had a pension & that she often was with him when he recd his pension money – over
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[Handwritten document]

Sworn & subscribed this the 24th day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred & thirty six

Jane Huchinton [handwritten signature]

And I do certify that I am acquainted with Jane Huchison the above & within named witness & certify that she is entitled to full credit & belief.

Ebenezer Foster [handwritten signature]
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[Handwritten Document]

State of New York 
Putnam County 

On the 14th day of October in the year 1836 before me Ebenezer Foster one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Putnam came Isaac Paddock a resident of the Town of Southeast in the said County of Putnam aged seventy five years who first being duly sworn according to the law doth on his oath make the following declarations that he has lived during his whole life in the Town of Southeast and was well acquainted with Anthony Waring late of said Southeast deceased – and also with Mahettable his wife and knew them as man and wife that is reputed to be so and also knew of them living together as man & wife cohabitating together as early as in the year 1777 – knew at the time they came to Southeast as was said from Long Island, which was in the time of the revolution and was knowing of his being a soldier in the revolutionary war & that his wife Mahettable went with him for a short span of time & returned to Southeast & at the close of the war the said Anthony returned to Southeast & to his family & continued so to live with the said Mahettable until his decease – as man and wife & had several children & brought them up & believe there are two of their said children now living the deponent further says that he often saw the said Anthonys discharge from the army & was often informed & very believes that the said Anthony obtained a pension – the deponenet further says that the said Mahettable is now living the widow of the said Anthony & has not to his knowledge ever heard a question but what they were married to each other. '

Sworn & subscribed before me Isaac Paddock [Handwritten signature]

Ebenezer Foster [Handwritten signature]

I do certify that I am well acquainted with the above named witness Isaac Paddock & certify that he is entitled to full credit & belief.
E. Foster
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[Handwritten Document]

State of New York 
Putnam County 

Mary Waring of the Town of Southeast in said County being duly sworn says that she is eighty four years of age that she has resided in said Town for the span of sixty years last past that the deponent was well acquainted with Anthony Waring late of said Southeast deceased and also with Mahettable his wife now his widdow – that she has been well acquainted with them for the span of forty years last past they lived together as man and wife and brought up a family of children she said Mahettable was always called the wife of the said Anthony Waring & no doubt was ever entertained and no suspicion was indulged that they were not married so far as come to the knowedge of the deponent and the deponent further says that she was well knowing to the said Anthony Waring being in the service of the revolutionary war and that the said Mahettable Waring is now living in the same neighborhood of the deponent & is still the widdow of the said Anthony Waring. 

Sworn & subscribed to                        Mary Waring [Handwritten signature]
before me Ebenezer Foster, a Judge of County Courts, Southeast, October thirteenth, A.D. 1836 

I certify that I am well acquainted with the above named witness and certify that she is entitled to full credit and belief. E. Foster [Handwritten signature]
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[Handwritten Document]

State of New York 
Putnam County SS. 

Jonathan Morehouse of the town of Carmel County & State aforesaid being duly sowrn doth depose & say that in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen he assisted Anthony Waring then living in the town of Southeast & county aforesaid in getting a pension for him according to the provisions of the Act of Congress passed March eighteenth in the year one thousand eight hundred & eighteen that in forwarding the necessary documents for the purpose of obtaining such pension this deponent sent among other papers an ancient looking paper purporting to be signed by Major General Knox in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty three purporting to be the said Anthony Warings discharge from the Army according to this deponents best knowledge & belief that in consequence of such papers being forwarded to the war office said Anthony Waring was put on the pension list according to the provisions of the aforesaid act in or about the month of March one thousand eight hundred and nineteen as a private soldier of the Massachusetts line at an allowance of ninety six dollars per annum – that this deponent continued to be the agent of the said Anthony Waring until the said Waring death which took place in the month of July in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty one – this deponent further says that according to his best knowledge and belief after the death of said Anthony Waring this deponent caused the said Anthony Warings pension certificate to be conveyed to the pension agency in the City of New York for the purpose of obtaining the remainder of the pension due to the said soldier that the said Anthony Waring left surviving him a woman with whom he had until his death been living as husband & wife that her name is Mahetable Waring and that she is still living as this deponent has been informed and verily believes – 
Sworn & subscribed Jonathan Morehouse [Handwritten signature] 
Before me this thirteenth day 
Of October AD 1836 
Ebenezer Foster – A Judge of County Courts
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[Handwritten Document]

State of New York 
Putnam County SS. 

On the 24th day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred & thirty six personally appeared before me the undersigned Ebenezer Foster one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Putnam Mahettable Waring a resident of the Town of Southeast in the said County of Putnam & State of New York aged ninety seven years or there about who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4, 1836 That she is the widdow of Anthony Waring dec’d who was a private in the regular or Continental army of the United States the Massachusetts Line in the war of the revolution and that he was honorably discharged from said service as this deponent has often been informed by her said husband and others and (very?) believes in the year 1783 – that his discharge was signed by Maj. General Knox that this deponent does not know the company or Reg’t? that he was attached to nor the precise length of time he served but this deponent believes he served upwards of three years that he was entered on the pension roll on or about the month of March 1819 – she the deponent further declares that she was married to the said Anthony Waring before the commencement of the revolutionary war as she believes about two or three years on or about the year 1773 or 4 as she fully believes the deponent further says that she and Anthony were married on Long Island in the Town of Smith Town by a minister of the peace (Mr?) Smith of Long Island and that she does not know of any record of their marriage & has no record of her age that she knows of the deponent further says that her husband Anthony Waring died about (over) 

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[Handwritten document continued]

Fifteen years ago the date she cannot tell nor the exact time and that she has remained his widdow ever since that period and this deponent further says that she has had six children all by her said husband Anthony Waring and brought them up to full age. 
Sworn & subscribed Mahettable Waring her X mark [X is mark]

the date above and I do certify that I am well acquainted with the above named witness Mahettable Waring & believe that she is wholly unable to attend in open court by reason of old age & bodily infirmity & do further certify that she is a woman entitled to credit & belief. 

Ebenezer Foster [Handwritten signature]
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[Handwritten Document]

Putnam County
State of New York

Certified Copy of the
Declaration of Anthony Waring
No 8364
27 March (1849?)
Already on Pension Roll
(Con??)
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[Handwritten document]

State of New York Putnam County (symbol??) On the tenth day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty personally appeared in the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Putnam in open Court the same being a Court of Record proceeding according to the Course of the Common Law with unlimited jurisdiction as to account keeping a record of its proceedings, Anthony Waring aged eighty four years, a man of colour & resident in the town of Southeast in the said county of Putnam who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows, towit, that he enlisted at Danbury in the State of Connecticut in Captain Comstocks Company, Colonels name not recollected in the Connecticut Line as a private soldier, the precise time of enlistment he does not recollect but it was several years previous to the close of the war, in about one month after enlistment he was transferred to Captain David Bushnell’s company of Pioneers (Grovian?) Colonel, and served under Captain Bushnell for the period of three years till he was discharged at the close of the war at West Point by General Knox, assisted at the Capture of General Cornwallis and was engaged in cutting away the pickets at the storming one of the redoubts near Little York, that the date of his original declaration for a pension was the sixth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. That he received a certificate for a pension of eight dollars per month to commence on that day and that the number of the said certificate is 8364
and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or [page end and continues]
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[Handwritten document]
any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled “an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War” passed on the eighteenth day of March 1818, and that I have not nor had any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me described, that my only occupation for many years had been that of a broom and basket maker from which I have gained a
J. McLaughlin Cassidy Research 2.20.23 - Anthony Waring Pension Records, Southeast, Putnam Co, NY
scarsity subsistence; that through old age and a lameness arising from having the (sinews?) of my leg burst by carrying heavy burthens during the war, and partial deafness, I am utterly unable to earn my subsistence by Labor, that my family counts only of myself and my wife Hetty aged seventy six years unable to support herself through old age.

Anthony Waring (His X mark)

Sworn to and declared in open court before the Judges of the same this tenth day of October 1820 Attest Rowland Bailey Clerk

Schedule of Property

Real Estate, None

Personal Estate; One old table four chairs, one chest, one cupboard, one stand, one looking glass five plates, one platter, one tea pot, three tea cups and saucers, three bowls, three spoons, two (carthorn?) pots, one (jug?), four bottles, one pitcher, three spoons, three knives and forks, one skimmer, one (tunnerl?) one tin pail, one fire shovel & tongs one pair old (andirons?), two (desk?) kettles, one frying pan, one old (meat?)
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[Handwritten document]
tub, one old (lantkoen? Cantkorn?), four baskets, one dog, one cat, one pail, one (spider?) for cooking, two hens

Sworn to and declared in open court
before the Judges of the same this 10th day of October AD 1820
Anthony Waring (His X mark)

Attest
Rowland Bailey Clerk ------------



State of New York
Putnam County ss     Rowland Bailey Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in aforesaid County do herby Certify that the foregoing declaration and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Courts; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is ten dollars.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this eighteenth day of October A.D. 1820.

Rowland Bailey Clerk
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[Printed document with handwritten notes]

By the Honourable
Major General KNOX
Comman… American Forces on Hudson’s River.
Anthony Waring Soldier in The Corps of Sappers & Miners Regiment
Being inslisted for Three Years, is hereby honourably discharged from
the service of the United States.
Given in the>>>>
The >>> Day of 
1783
By the General’s Command, [hand signed Knox MGenl]
Registered in the Book of the Regiment,
[hand signed … Bushnell Capt]
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Anthony Waring N. Yorks. Act March 18, 1818
to what time last paid?
Pension Office
Nov 3.

Died 15 July 1821 paid 
to that person 

(handwritten initials illegible)
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REv WIDOW, &c.
File No. 11735
Mahittable Waring
wife of
Anthony Waring
Private Conn. Line.

Act: July 4, 1836

Index: __ Vol. 311 (?, handwritten), Page 308

[Arrangement of 1870.