Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3,684, John O Waterman, Conn.
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service
Loann
Waterman, John O.
Faster, faith
Former Widow
number
R.3684
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3684
P.O. ________________
Faith Foster
Service: ________________

Enlisted: ____________, 18
Discharged: ____________, 18
REJECTED

Application filed: _____________, 18

Alleges: _____________________
Re-enlisted: ________________

Attorney: ______________
P.O. __________________
_________ Recognized. ___________Contra
_____________Cert. of Dis.   Searched for _____, 18
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No 15229
Faith Foster formerly widow of John. O. Waterman
NY
F. E. Hapler Nov 21 1854

3684
July 7 1838
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by Acts of Congress, passed July 7th 1838, 3rd March 1843, 17 June 1844, 22 February 1848



State of New York
County of Essex

....this fourth day of March 1852, before the subscriber a justice of the peace in and for said County duly authorized by law to administer oaths personally appeared Faith Foster of said County aged 87 years the 13th of September 1857 who first being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the acts above named that she was formerly the widow of John O. Waterman who was at the time of the Revolutionary war a resident of Old Norwich Connecticut and who was engaged in the service of the United States in the War of the Revolution as a Captain, Conductor, or Master of a certain number of Teams, Engaged in transporting military Stores, provisions and baggage belonging to the Army. That he received his commission she believes from General Wadsworth at least he was under his command, that from the best of her recollection he was engaged in the service three years, that he received a regular discharge which together with his commission under which he acted as Captain or Master of Teams were preserved for many year after the close of the war-
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and until about the year 1810- that she was married to said John O. Waterman on or about the 30th day of December 1781 in the Town of Lebanon, New Hampshire by the Rev. Isaiah Potter minister of the Congugationed Church that her said husband John O. Waterman died in July 1814 and she was again married to Jacob Foster in 1829 who also died in 1842 and that she still remains his widow, that she made an effort to obtain the necessary proof to establish her said husbands service several years since having failed to find any persons who were in the service with him then living no declaration was made, that she makes this declaration before a Justice of the Peace it being some thirty miles to the residence of a Judge which distance she is entirely unable to travel, that she has no documentary evidence of his services or of her marriage to him but she well knows that she was married to said Waterman before she was Eighteen years of age and that it was the year or the year or two before in which the War of the Revolution terminated.- 
That she has seen the commission under which her husband served many times; and is positive to his having served as a Conductor or Captain of Teams under his command. 
Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year above written.
J. Collins Dicker, Justice of the Peace
I certify that Faith Foster for want of practice is unable to write and that she is a creditable person. J. Collins Wicker

{Her Mark} Faith Foster
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Sate of New York
County of Essex

Mary Phelps a resident of said County being first duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that she was born on the 26th day of April (1810) one thousand eight hundred and ten that she is a child of Faith Foster whose declaration is hereunto annexed and her former husband John O. Waterman that she has always understood from her said mother from her earlier recollection that her said father John O. Waterman had served as a Captain of a Company of Teams in the service of the United States in the Army of the Revolution under General Wadsworth and done service for some three years for which he received a regular discharge which together with his commission was preserved for many years after deponents parents marriage, that her said parents had eight children older than this deponent, all own brothers and sisters of this deponent and all own children of said John O. Waterman and Faith Waterman now Faith Foster, and that the eldest if now living would be 69 years of age the 29th of November 1851, having been some 28 years older than this deponent, that she has understood from her mother that she had been married to said John O. Waterman some eleven months when the birth of their first child occured (occurred)- above refered (referred) to- and that they were married by Rev. Isaiah Potter in Lebanon New Hampshire, that this deponent has at the request and in behalf of her said mother been making efforts for near ten years past to find the necessary proof of her said fathers service, to entitle her mother to a pension, several years since papers were prepared which were entrusted to the care of an agent but which she thinks never was presented to the Pension Office. She further
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saith that her said father died about the year 1814- her mother was again married to Jacob Foster in the year 1829 who died in 1842 and that her mother is now a widow. 

Mary Phelps

Sworn and subscribed before me this fourth day of March 1852
J. Collins Wicker Justice of the Peace

I certify that the above named Mary Phelps is a creditable person. 
J. Collins Wicker Justice of the Peache
Wm A G Arthur J. Peace
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original
Revolutionary
Faith Foster
formerly widow
J. Olney Waterman

originnal

Oct 30 1834
F. E Hassler

Cole
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State of New York,} SS. 
Essex County,}

I, M. F. NICHOLSON, Dep Clerk of said County, Do Certify that J. Collins Wicker Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the Certificates & formats of the annexed Affidavit was, on the day of the date of the said Certificates & formats a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, dwelling therein, duly qualified and authorized by law to take the Proof and Acknowledgment of Deeds, &c, & administer oaths. And that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said J. Collins Wicker and verily believe the signature to said Certificate to be genuine. 

In Testimony Whereof, I have subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said County, this 4th day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty two
M F Nicholson Dep Clerk