Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20,122, Isaac Webster, Continental Conn. Green Mt. Boys
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(3-1776)

Service: 
Continental Conn
Green Mt. Boys

Webster, Isaac
                Anna

Number:
W. 20.122

Contents:
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Vermont (B) 28.
Anna Webster
widow of Isaac Webster, deceased, Vt late pensioner
who died on the __ day of January, 1827, of Bennington, in the State of Vermont, who was a Sergeant in the _________ commanded 
by Captain _________ of the regt commanded by Col. Warner in the New Hampshire line 2 years, Sergeant.

Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont (B.) at the rate of 120 Dollars per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1830.

Certificate of Pension issued the 23rd day of August 1838 and sent to O.C. Merrill, Esq. Bennington, Vt.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1838, $240.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept, $60.00
$300.00

[missing] years pension {Revolutionary Claim, Act  July 7th, 1838, Section the 1st}

[missing] by G.T. Rhodes, Clerk
[missing] Vol 2, Page 01
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6.986

Vermont
Isaac Webster
of Bennington in the state of Vermont who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Warner of the New Hampshire line, for the term of three years.

Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 11 of January 1819

Certificate of Pension issued the 13 of Feb 1819 and sent to O.C. Merrill Esq House of Representatives W.C.
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 $14.44
$14.44
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
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Declaration of Isaac Webster for a Pension
3 yrs in Warner's regt [regiment]
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District of Vermont
Bennington County
On this 11th day of January AD 1819 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the county court for the county of Bennington and State of Vermont formally appeared Issac Webster aged sixty four years resident in Bennington  aforesaid in [illegible] District who being by me duly sworn doth on his oath testify and make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits and provisions of an act lately passed by Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval services of the United States in the Revolutionary War. That he the said Isaac Webster enlisted as a soldier with Col. Seth Warner and went with him into Canada war in the taking of St. John, Chamblee, Montreal and Sornell. after this campaign was ended and in seventy six he engaged with Col. Heman Swift and served a number of months and in March 1777 he enlisted into Col. Seth Warner's Regiment of Continental troop in Capt Wait Hopkins Company for the term of three years that he faithfully served out the whole time was in the battle of Huberston [Hubbardton] was severely wounded and had his arm broken by two musket balls which disabled him from service for several months. he by leave of his Col returned to his friends and hired a Phicision [physician] and after his arm was in some degree restored he joined his Regiment. was in the battle of Bennington and Taking of Burgoine [Burgoyne] in Saratogo [Saratoga]
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he still continued and served in the Regiment until the summer of 1779 when his Regiment was ordered to Fort George when he was taken by the Indians and carried to Canada after a few month, not being [illegible] he made his escape thru the Wilderness was 19 days before he arrived at the American settlement and six long days without any provisions. that on his return home he joined the Regiment again and served out his three years and in March 18_0 was legally discharged by Col Seth Warner in writing but time has passed and said writing is lost. That in the year of 1798 or there about, he was placed on the pension list at thirty dollars per year and by the late act of Congress he has been raised to forty eight Dollars per year which should the pension of 96 Dollars per year be granted he stands ready to relinquish according to the act of Congress.
And the said Isaac Webster says that by reason of sickness age and wounds and his reduced circumstances he really stands in need of the help of his government for support.
Isaac Webster

I Stephen Robinson assitant Judge of the Count Court within and for the county of Bennington State of Vermont do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Isaac Webster did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and I now transmit the Proceedings and Testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the department of War pursuant to the directives of the before mentioned act of Congress. 

Bennington State of Vermont 11th of January 1819
Stephen Robinson Ast. Judge C. Court
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State of Vermont

I Joel Pratt Clerk of Bennington County Court do hereby certify that Stephen Robinson Esquire the person before whom the foregoing oath was taken is an assistant Judge of our county court and that the foregoing is his signature. In testimony where I hereunto sit my hand and affix the seal of our said court at Manchester this 18 day of January AD 1819
Joel Pratt
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Isaac Webster was married to Anna Robinson in Bennington, July sixth, one thousand seven hundred and eighty [1780].

Anna Webster, daughter to Isaac Webster and Anna his wife, born March twenty second, one thousand seven hundred and eighty one [1781].

Sarah Webster, daughter to Isaac and Anna Webster, born November twenty eighth, one thousand seven hundred and eighty two [1782].

Joseph Webster, son to Isaac and Anna Webster was born July twentieth, one thousand seven hundred and eighty four [1784]. 

Persis Webster, daughter to Isaac and Anna Webster was born November eleventh, one thousand seven hundred and eighty five [1785]. 

Ruth Webster, daughter to Isaac and Anna Webster was born March twentieth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety [1790]. 

Mercy Webster, daughter to Isaac and Anna Webster was born April eighteenth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety two [1792]. 

Isaac Robinson Webster, son to Isaac and Anna Webster was born eight March one thousand seven hundred and ninety five [1795].

Harriet Webster daughter of Isaac and Anna Webster was born eighteenth January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety seven [1797].

Isaac R. Webster, son of Isaac and Anna Webster born twenty sixth June, one thousand eight hundred and one [1801].
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State of Vermont, Bennington County } Bennington May 8, 1838.

I certify the within to be a true copy of the Record Book 2, page 58, with the exception of the dates, which are expressed on the Record in fair legible figures, and in the Record of the marriage is as follows;
"Isaac Webster was maried [married] to Anna Robinson in Bennington July 6th 1780"
William Haswell, Town Clerk.

I, William Haswell, above named, depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the County, Town and State aforesaid, and that the within is a true extract from the Records of said Town, with the exceptions above named, certified by me.
William Haswell

Sworn before me
John S Robinson Justice of the Peace
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I, David Robinson of Bennington, Vermont, aged Eighty Three years depose and say, that I am the brother of Anna Webster, the widow of Isaac Webster,  late a pensioner of the United States. And I further depose and say that the said Isaac Webster died on the twenty eighth day of January, AD one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven [1827], that the said Anna has remained a widow ever since that period.
David Robinson
Sworn before me, John S Robinson Justice of the Peace
I, Henry Robinson, Clerk of the Court of Bennington County certify that John S. Robinson is a Magistrate as above and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office, and subscribed my name at Bennington this 8th day of May, 1838.
Henry Robinson
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3567 3567
Anna Webster
widow of Isaac

[illegible]

O.C. Merrill Esq.
Bennington
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State of Vermont, County of Bennington, SS. }
On this 8th day of May A.D. 1838, personally appeared before the Probate Court for the Probate District of Bennington, county of Bennington and State of Vermont. Anna Webster, a resident of Bennington, in the county of Bennington and state of Vermont, aged 78 years last October, who being first 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 acts of Congress.
That she is the widow of Isaac Webster, who was orderly sergeant in the army of the United States in the revolutionary service, in the Regiment commanded by Col. Seth Warner. That having no documentary evident in her possession, or any papers left by her late husband, in support of her claim, and from which to ascertain, the names and rank of the other field or company officers of said Regiment nor the day, month or year when her husband entered the service, and the time he left the same, nor whether he was under more than one engagement or in what portion of the country through which he marched, or did duty. She cannot state particulars. And respectfully begs leave to refer the Department, for the evidence necessary to establish her claim to official and authenticated documents now believed to be on file, or among the records or memorials of the War and Pension Department, namely the rolls of Col. Warner's Regiment. The evidence and declaration of her late husband by which he established his right to, and received in the battle of Hubbardton in Vermont, also the declaration and evidence forwarded by her late husband to obtain an increase of invalid pension, or to be transferred to the revolutionary pension rolls, forwarded as she believes, in the year 1820, or perhaps the close of 1819. That her late husband's transfer to the revolutionary pension rolls she thinks and believes was refused, for the reason that he possessed too much property, or that her late husband was stricken from said rolls on that account and which it was, she cannot distinctly remember. The enclosed letter from the Pension Office
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dated "July 12" 1820 will show to the Department that her late husband was re-instated on the roll of invalid pensioners.

She further declares, that she believes, than always understood that her late husband participated in the battles of Hubbardton and Bennington, and that altho [although] he had not fully recovered of his wound in the former, his patriotism and ardor led him to be a combatant in the latter memorable battle. She further declares that she believes, and thinks it historically true, that her late husband was, in the month of August, A.D. 1779, near Fort Edward, taken prisoner by the Indians and carried into Canada, where he, with a fellow prisoner, some months after escaped from their Indian captors and after suffering extreme hardshops, returned to their friends. She declares that she has cause diligent search to be made for papers relation to her deceased husband's services, and that none have been found, and that they are destroyed, or have been heretofore sent to the department, as she believes.

The declarant further saith that by reason of age, and otherwise bodily infirmities, and the consequent loss of memory, together with the absence of all documentary evidence, she cannot swear positively or particularly as to her husband's services, or when it was that her husband's engagements in the public service terminated, but according to her best recollection she has no doubt that it terminated at a period subsequent to her marriage with him, but how long after she can not say. In consequence of his disability, from his wounds, his Indian captivity, his memorable escape through a then wilderness, and his many days exposure to great sufferings and hardships, he was subsequently considered incapable of rendering much hard and active frontier service, and was never placed where he would be subject to be kidnapped by savage vigilance and personal enmity, aided by tory informers and of which he was apprehensive until after peace was concluded.

The declarant presumes that there is abundant evidence among the records of the department in reference to the services
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of her late husband and that all the law in relation to her application will be duly considered and administered. She therefore submits her case, and refers to the evidence in possession of the department and would call the attention of the department to the facts of her husband's being on the invalid pension rolls. of his application and proof of service for increased pension under the act, as she believes, of March 1818, or an act which required a schedule of property. of his being dropped from the invalid pension roll and refused his pension under said application on account of property, and his subsequent restoration to the invalid pension rolls. That she makes these references with a desire that these facts may be considered in respect to the question of time when her legal right of pension accrued and ought to commence.
her Anna X Webster mark
In presence of [illegible] O.C. Merrill. Sworn and subscribed the day and aforesaid before me, William Haswell, Register.

I, William Haswell, Register of the Court of Probate for the District of Bennington do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court n the matter of the application of Anna Webster for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 8th day of May, A.D. 1838
William Haswell
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O.W. and N. Division.
Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D.C., Octo,1893

Sir, 
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Isaac Webster, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will please find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension on file in this Bureau.

Dates of Enlistment | Length of Service | Rank |
{Officers under whom service was rendered}
Captain | Colonel | State.

1775 | Not Stated | Pri [Private] | Canada Campaign | Seth Warner | VT [Vermont]

1776 | Few Mos [months] | Pro [Private] | [blank] | Heman Swift | VT [Vermont]

March 1777 | 3 years | Sargt [Sergeant] | Wait Hopkins | Seth Warner | VT [Vermont]

Battles engaged in, St Johns, Canada, Hubbarton [Hubbardton], Benington [Bennington], taking of Burqoyne [Burgoyne]
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Bennington, VT
Date of application for pension, 1798 forwards received at Hubbarton [Hubbardton] Vt
Residence at date of application, Bennington, Vt
Age at date of applications, stated Jany [January] 1819 at 64 years and died Jany [January] 28, 1827
Remarks: Married July 6, 1780 to Anna Robinson who was born Oct 1759. He was captured by Indians at Fort George in 1779, carried to Canada, escaped 178- and was 19 days in the wilderness, 6 days of which without provisions.
Very respectfully,
[blank] Commissioner,
Mr. R.S. Hatcher
Lafayette
Tippecanoe County, Ind [Indiana]
7941 b-3m
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Anna Webster
Vermont
Rejected see let to O.C. Merrilll July 18.1838

[illegible] July 4, 1836
Admit act 7 July 1838
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Dead   625
Vermont
Isaac Webster
Sergeant,
late a Rev [Revolutionary] Pensioner under Law of 18th of March, 1818, and discontinued as such in consequence of the amount of his property.

Re instated on the roll of Vemt [Vermont] as an invalid under Law of the 7th May, 1820, at $4 per mo [month] commences 4th of March, 1820

Certificate issued 12 July, 1820 and sent to O.C. Merrill Esq. Bennington, Vermont

[illegible] 4 Sep 1820 $24
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Oct 20/93 [illegible]
R.S. Hatcher, Lafayette, Ind. [Indiana]

Rev
Widow, &c.
File No. 20122
Anna Webster
Widow of
Isaac Webster
Sergt [Sergeant] Rev. War [Revolutionary War]
Act July 7th 1838
Index: Vol. M Page 323
Arrangement of 1870
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73 Vt [Vermont]
Declaration of Anna Webster

In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, of the 7th July, 1838

Act. 7 July, 38
Admd 2 years Sergt [Sergeant]
120$
2 years -
No deduction

O.C. Merrill Esq.
Bennington Vt.
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State of Vermont
Bennington County

On this 25th day of July, A.D. 1838,  personally appeared before the Probate Court for the Probate District of Bennington, in the county of Bennington, and state of Vermont, Anna Webster a resident of Bennington, county of Bennington, and State of Vermont aged 78 years who being first 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 7, 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows". That she is the widow of Isaac Webster late of Bennington aforesaid, deceased, who was a sergeant in the army of the United States in the revolutionary service, in the Regiment commanded by Col. Seth Warner, according to the best of her knowledge and believe.
That she has no documentary evidence in her possession nor any papers left by her late husband and , in support of her claim, and from which to ascertain the names and rank of the other field officers, or company officers of said Regiment nor the day, month, and year when her said husband left the service, and the time when he left the same, nor whether he was under more than one engagement. That she can not state particulars, in respect to what portion of the country through which he marched and rendered service, but for the facts of this sort, and for proofs of his service, she respectfully refers to the records of the War Department, Pension office, to where she believes the proofs are to be found. That her said husband received for a series of years an invalid pension, as she believes by reason a wound he received in the battle of Hubbardton, and other disabilities incurred while in the public service. That she believes and has always understood that her late husband participated in the battles of Hubbardton and Bennington, and that although he had not fully recovered of his wound received in the former, that his patriotism, and the ardor of his feelings in the cause of
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his country, prompted him to be a combatant in the latter memorable battle. That she further believes, and thinks it historically true, that her late husband was, in the month of August, 1779 near Fort Edward N.Y. [New York] taken prisoner by the Indians, and taken by them into Canada, and that he with a fellow prisoner some months thereafter escaped from their Indian captors, and after suffering extreme hardships, returned to their friends.
She further declares that she was married to the said Isaac Webster on the 6th day of July, 1780. That her husband the aforesaid Isaac Webster, died in January A.D. 1827, and that she still remains his widow; that she was not married to him, as she is now advised, by letter from the Commissioner of Pensions, prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January 1794 viz [that is] at the time above stated.
That declarant would respectfully refer the department to the proofs she sent to the pension office, attached to her declaration made and authenticated on the 8th day of May A.D. 1838, now filed in Pension office and request that said papers and proofs may be made part and parcel of this her case embraced in this declaration.

Signed in presence of
O.C. Merrill
[Illegible]
Sworn and subscribed to, the day and year aforesaid before
William Haswell, Register

Anna [her mark] Webster
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I, William Haswell, Register of the Court of Probate for the District of Bennington do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Anna Webster for a pension. And I further certify that I have personal knowledge that Isaac Webster late of Bennington, and late an Invalid Pensioner of the United States Roll of the Vermont Agency died at Bennington on the 28th day of January, A.D. 1827 and that the said Anna Webster still remains unmarried and the widow of the said Isaac Webster.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office.
William Haswell
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Mar. 30, 1906
[illegible]
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Webster, Isaac
His name appears on a list of invalid pensioners returned by the Circuit Court for the district of Vermont, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on Dec 14, 1792 and printed in the American State Papers, class 9, page 62

Rank: Sergeant
Regt [Regiment]: Colonel Warner's
Disability: Wounded in his right arm.
Date of commencement: June 29, 1792
Monthly allowance: $1.25
Arrears due: $15.00
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Aug 28, 1906
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Webster, Isaac
His name appears on a list of claimants to be placed on the pension list returned by the Circuit Court for the District of Vermont submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on April 25, 1974 and printed in the American State Papers, class 9, pag 120

Rank: Sergeant
Regt [Regiment]: Col. Warner's
Disability: Wounded in his right arm, while in the service of the United States; likewise wounded in the wrist of the same arm which renders it somewhat useless.
When and where disabled: July 8, 1777, Hubbardston
Residence: Bennington
Monthly allowance: $1.25
Arrearages: $15.00
Remarks: This man appears to have enlisted March 1, 1777; but I cannot ascertain how long he continued in service.
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Lafeyette, Indiana
Aug 28, 93
The Honorable Commission of Pensions, Washington D.C.

Dear Sir, 
If convenient, please kindly let me know what the records of your office show, concerning Isaac Webster, of Vermont, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and if possible, his title.
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Such information would be highly prized. Yours very respectfully, R.S. Hatcher
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US Pension Office
Aug 30, 1893

Old War and Navy Files
Aug 31, 1893
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Capt Jacob Safford, Deposition
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Jacob Safford of Bennington in the County of Bennington and state of Vermont [illegible] and saith that in the year 1775 Isaac Webster [illegible] in the town of Bennington in the state of Vermont in Colonel Seth Warner's Regiment, [11 words crossed out] and went in the campaign to Canada and was at the taking of St Johns, and Montreal.  Also that he enlisted again in the same regiment in March '77 for three year's in the Continental line and served  in said regiment until he had completed the first term of his enlistment; And that he was in the retreat from Ticonderoga-and in the bloody battle at Hubbardton where he was wounded and at the close of the service of the said Isaac Webster I was  a commissioned officer in the said Regiment and in the company to which he belonged and have no doubt but that he was legally discharged from the army.
Bennington, Jan 11th, 1819 
Jacob Safford 

I hereby certify that on this 11th day of January 1819 the above named Capt Jacob Safford with whom I am personally acquainted and consider him a man of truth and veracity appeared before me and made oath to the above and foregoing Deposition by him subscribed.
Bennington Vermont District
I, Joel Pratt Clerk of Bennington County Court do hereby certify that Stephen Robinson Esq the person who has signed above is an assistant judge of our said county court acting under the authority of this state and that the above is his signature. I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of our said Court at Manchester this 18 day of January, AD 1819.
Joel Pratt
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Bennington, June 23, 1820

Sir,
I again return the pension certificate of "Isaac Webster" I ask permission to repeat that I never expected he would be inscribed on any other pension roll than the invalid rolls. I mentioned this in a short interview I had the honor to have with you, relative to his case in the winter of 1819. I considered he was not entitled under the law of the 18th March 1818. I so represented, and solicited that his pension as an invalid might be increased to the rate of 8 dollars per month and to justify the application, I requested a particular examination of his case and testimony, then exhibited. I now think by this reference it will satisfactorily appear that the "wound or wound on account of which he was originally placed on the rolls, have so far disabled him, as to authorize an augmentation of his monthly allowance". I solicit in his behalf, that his evidence may be reexamined, which I lodged in the winter of 1819, in the pension section of your Department. I think his monthly allowance as a revolutionary invalid should remain, at the late to which he had been entitled under the Rev. Pension certificate, and which I understood was intended at the time. But if contrary to my hoped and expectations, he is not considered entitled to augmentation of invalid pension, I desire he may at any rate be reinstated on the invalid pension rolls. 
I am very respectfully your obedient servant,
O.C. Merrill

Hon. J.C. Calhoun, Secretary of War.

P.S. Mr W. was a brave soldier, he is infirm and disabled. his testimony will show it. The case and such should be favorably considered. O.C.M.
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War Department,
Pension Office,
July 12th, 1820

Sir, 
There being no evidence in this office to show that Isaac Webster, whose certificate under the Law of the 18 of March, 1818, was enclosed in your letter of the 23rd [illegible] is entitled to a higher allowance as an Invalid, than that which he received previous to his being inscribed on the roll under the said Law of March, 1818, he has been reinstated on the roll of Invalid pensioners at the rate of four dollars per month, commencing on the 4th of March, 1820, as you will perceive from the enclosed certificate.

I am respectfully,
Your obedient
J.L. Edwards

O.C. Merrill, Esq.
Bennington, 
Vermont
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WAR DEPARTMENT.

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I CERTIFY That, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March 1818, Isaac Webster late a private in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Vermont Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to commence on the Eleventh day of January one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.

GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this thirteenth day of February one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.

J.C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.

(written atop the letter)
Not entitled under Law of the 28 March, 1818 re-instated as an invalid 12 July 1820 see letter from O.C. Merrill Esq, in this file.
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J.L. Edwards, Esq.
Com of Pensions
Washington City
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Bennington, VT May 10, 1838

Dear Sir, 

I herewith enclose the declaration of Mrs. Anna Webster for pension.

The evidences of the late Isaac Webster's services in the Regiment commanded by Col. Seth Warner as a sergeant, were forwarded by him to the department through me as his agent. I presume they will be found in your department among the memorials of the year 1820. His name will probably be found upon the rolls of Col Warner's Reg. Mr. Webster was on the invalid pension list for a series of years, as one of the wounded of the battle of Hubbardton, VT.

I remember much of the history of Isaac Webster's services from his own relations. I have heard him speak of the battle of Hubbardton in which he was one of the combatants, and of his wound, and of the great loss Warner's Reg sustained in this severe engagement. Of his participation in the battle of Bennington _ of his capture by a party of Indians in the environs of Fort Edward, N.Y. in the year 1779, his escape from captivity, I should think in the spring of 1780, his hardships, sufferings, and hair-breadth escapes in his way back through the wilderness. I have understood that he did little or no service after his escape but that Col. Warner considered him on his parole as a prisoner, and on furlough for an indefinite time until he should specially order him into service. I however suppose these and other facts and particulars of his services are on file with you, and that his widow will not be required to procure any traditionary testimony to substantiate the meritorious services of Isaac Webster, her late husband.
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Of the death of Isaac Webster in January 1827 - of his marriage with the applicant Anna Webster, and of the fact of her remaining his widow_it is presumed the certificate of the Probate Court , of their finding, will be sufficient.

The letter enclosed, which you sent, announcing Mr. Webster's restoration to invalid pension, will probably recall, or refer you to the fact that his application for a place on the revolutionary pension roll was refused on the ground solely of his having too much property. I apprehend that Anna Webster, if entitled to pension, is in equity entitled to pension from the period when the property restriction was removed. I name this for your consideration. Mrs. Webster is now poor, infirm, and unable to support herself without public or private aid_and my object is, to have her allowed all, and still no more than she is legally and equitably entitled to. The meritous services of her late husband during the revolutionary struggle, would seem to stand forth, in my view, as sufficient processing cause of a full measure of all she is legally entitled to.

The Hon. Hiland Hall, who will probably be applied to by some of Mrs. Webster's friends, has knowledge of the late Isaac Webster, and of the applicant Anna Webster, late wife and now widow of the late Isaac Webster. He will probably aid your enquiries, if needed.

Will you please give your attention to the case soon as convenient_and relieve the aged and infirm applicant from a state of suspense.

I am sir,
Respectfully yours, 
O.C. Merrill

J.L. Edwards, Esq.
Com. of Pensions
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P.S. Will Mr. Edwards have the goodness to notice the case of Sarah Rudd. She is very desirous to learn the result of her claim. She is importunate to be relieved from a state of suspense. If Mr. Edwards would soon communicate the result, I shall esteem it a favor.

Respectfully, 
O.C. Merrill
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Jonathan Robinson
Deposition
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I Jonathan Robinson of Bennington in the county of Bennington and state of Vermont being the age of sixty two years certify and say that I have had an intimate acquaintance with Isaac Webster of Bennington for more than forty years and was knowing to his being in the service of the United States nearly the whole of the Revolutionary War as I understood he first enlisted and went to the Northward war at the taking of St Johns Chambelee Montreal and Sorrell He afterwards enlisted with Col Seth Warner who commanded a continental Regiment in Capt Wait Hopkins company as I then understand in March 1777 that he joined his Regiment soon after and in the Retreat from Ticonderoga at the Battle of Hubberston [Hubbardton] he was wounded by two musket balls thro his arm one broke the bones of his arm from which he situated and came to Bennington and insured a surgeon of his own for which I have always been told that he paid himself between forty and fifty dollars and boarded himself. as soon as he was able to bear arms he was in the battle of Bennington at alltho not able to carry a gun he was as I understood in the Taking of Burguiorne [Burgoyne] that soon after this his Regiment was ordered to Lake George where he was taken by the Indians and carried to Canada after a few months he made his escape and came thru the Wildernyss [wilderness] as he say, 19 days in which he suffered greatly for want of Provisions. he after this joined his Regiment and as I understood from his affairs served out his three years for which he inlisted. on his return to Bennington he married an amiable but very feeble wife who for thirty five years has been very sickly. that he has a considerable large family of girls his only son on who he leaned for support in his old age he has buried he has now got to be old
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and infirm by means of age and his wounds and by his Labour I do believe is unable to support his family he has been unfortunate in being bail which has subjected considerable loss under all these circumstances. I do think it would be just for the Gov to place him on the pension List for his services this the American War. As I was well acquainted with Capt Hopkins and Col Seth Warner all living in Bennington with Mr. Webster I have not a doubt but that he was legally discharged from the service on the Expiration of his three years for which he enlisted.
Jan 11th 1819                       Jonathan Robinson

I hereby certify that the Hon. Jonathan Robinson appeared before me and made solemn oath to the truth of the above Deposition this 11th day of Jan 1819 and I further certify that I am well acquainted with him and believe him to be a man of Truth and Veracity.

Vermont District
Bennington
Stephen Robinson 1st Judge C. Court

State of Vermont
I, Joel Pratt Clerk of Bennington County Court do hereby certify that Stephen Robinson Esquire the person who has signed the above certificate is an appointed judge of the of our said county court acting under the authority of this state and that the above is his signature.

In [illegible] where of I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal for said court at Manchester this 18 day of January AD 1819

Joel Pratt
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Bennington, July 17, A.D. 1838.

J. L. Edwards, Esq.

Dear Sir,

I sometime since forwarded papers in favor of Mrs. Webster, and called you to Mrs. Rudd's case, and desired if convenient your early consideration of the cases. Since then I have heard nothing, but presume there is reason for it. These aged applicants are limited in the means of comfort, have not an abundance of the goods and riches of this world, and are anxious to know whether they are entitled to become receivers of the bounty of government, or not; their importunity has made me personally somewhat anxious for the determination of their respective cases. I pray you to excuse my importunity in again requesting you will, if convenient, pass upon these cases soon.

I think the case of Sarah Rudd a meritorious case her late husband was out more or less every year for a series of years and nearly all the time did duty as a commissioned officer. This is believed here - that his wife is entitled to something is equally undoubted - the amount is with your department. This has always been my view of the case. She cannot be many years upon the rolls in any case. And it is desirable if she has any title to a pension it may reach her and she may realize it, as the law in such cases intended. The case of  Mrs. Webster; I presume Mr. Hall our representative saw you in relation to it- will you be good enough to name to me the result of your consideration of the case?

I am with much respect and esteem,
Yours, [illegible]
O.C. Merrill
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Bennington, July 25, 1838.

J.L. Edwards, Esq.

Dear Sir, 

Your letter in respect to the case of Anna Webster, of the 18th inst. is received. I pray you, for the blank form, instructions and law, you enclosed to accept my sincere thanks. I herewith enclose a new declaration of Mrs. Webster. I believe it includes all the particulars of the services of her late husband within her knowledge, or that would be useful in the investigation of her claim. You will observe she rests her claim upon the records and files in the War Department and the Pension bureau. I have presumed also, from the facts mentioned in your letter that the necessary proofs are with you, when this her declaration is received duly authenticated.

I have by desire of the old lady to request that you will consider and decide upon her case as soon as you can make it convenient, that if she is entitled to any relief, it may be soon received to relieve her wants and minister to her comforts. It would seem to be, and indeed is, an act of humanity, provided she has legal claims, that at the fall payment, she should have what she is entitled to, to administer to her bodily infirmities, and to make her comfortable during the inclement season of the ensuing winter.

With great respect, yours, O.C. Merrill