Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37,728, Abner Bacon, Conn.

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3-1776

SERVICE
Connecticut

Bacon, Abner

NUMBER
S 37.728
B. L. Wt 2639.300 Captain.
Issued March 27, 1794 to Samuel Torrance, assigned
No papers

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3,861
Connecticut Roll

Abner Bacon, Captain
Colonel Durkee
Connecticut line
4
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of Twenty Dollars per month, to commence on the 7th of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 23rd of October 1818 and sent to Jabez Clark, Esquire, Judge
Windham

Arrears to 4th of September 1818, 4month 28/30...$98.66
Semi-annual allowance, ending 4th March 1819...$120.00
[total] $218.66

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}

From 1 January 1777 until November 1778.

Canterbury Windham County

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Continued on the Roll under the law of the 1st May 1820. Notification [illegible] 12 July 1820 to David C. Bolles, Esquire
Windham Court

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Captain Abner Bacon
Application

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Jabez Clarke, Esquire, Judge
Windham, Windham County, Connecticut.

Abner Bacon, Captain
Connecticut line,
Revolutionary Claim.

found on the rolls as supernumerary in 1778. add.
Correct as to service,

For testimony relative to the applicants' reduced circumstances, see endorsement in the case of Abel Franklin

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Captain Abner Bacon's Application to be placed on the Pension Bill. March 24, 1818.

To the Honorable Jabez Clark, Esquire, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Windham, a Court of Record in the state of Connecticut.
The memorial of Abner Bacon of Canterbury in the County aforesaid respectfully represents that privies to the first day of January 1777 he served in the revolutionary war as Lieutenant, a tour of nine months and that o the 1st day of January 1777 he was appointed and commissioned a Captain in Colonel Durkee's Regiment where he served in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, on the Continental establishment until November 1778 as may more fully appear from his said Commission and affidavit hereunto annexed. Your memorials would further represent that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, (arising from various losses while in the army) he is in need of assistance from his Country for support. Whereupon he prays your honor to receive this his application to be placed on the Pension Bill in conformity with an act of Congress of the 18th day of March 1818.
Canterbury, March 24, 1818.
Abner Bacon

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I Abner Bacon of Canterbury in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut and resident in the United States solemnly swear, that previous to the 1st day of January 1777 I engaged in Captain Asa Bacon's company in Colonel John Chesters Regiment of Connecticut line in the service of the United States
and served as a Lieutenant a tour of nine months a part of which time I was selected as one of the Rangers and served under the intrepid Lieutenant Colonel Knowlton and was in the engagement of York Island when he fell a victim to the enemy. That on the 1st day of January 1777 I was honored with a Captain's commission in Colonel John Durkee's Regiment in the Connecticut Line & in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War, of the Continental establishment when immediately after I enlisted a company and joined the Continental army where I served with fidelity in obedience to my said commission from its date until November 1778 when by the consolidation of the Regiments I was permitted to leave actual service. And I further say that during my said service in the struggles of my country for liberty, I was in one other engagement against the common enemy on York Island. I also shared in the action on Long Island at German Town, the battle of Monmouth, at Need Fort and

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several less important attacks of the Enemy. I further say that I sustained sundry losses of property while in the army in consequence of giving up my own business to serve my country and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life I am in need of assistance from my country for support.
Dated at Canterbury this 7th day of April Anno Domini 1818.
Abner Bacon
Sworn this 7th day of April AD 1818
Before me Jabez Clarke, Judge of the Court of Common Please for the County of Windham

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I Jabez Clarkse, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut do certify that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Abner Bacon did serve as a Captain in the revolutionary army, and stated the preceding declaration, and affidavit against the common enemy, and I now transmit the proceedings [illegible] taken & had before to the Secretary for Department of War, pursuant to the [illegible] of an Act of Congress passed the 18th day of March 1818.
Atest Jabez Clarke

See the other side for the seal.
JC

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I Caphton Cody of Canterbury in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut solemnly swear that I am well acquainted with the before name applicant Captain Abner Bacon and know him to be a resident citizen of the United States as stated in his affidavit and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his Country for support.
Dated at Canterbury this 7th day of April A.D. 1818,
Captor Cady

I jabbed Clarke, Judge of the Court of Common Please for the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Abner Bacon did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration and affidavit, and now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had before one to the [illegible] for the [illegible] of war, pursuant to the [illegible] of the aforementioned Act of Congress passed the 18th day of March 1818
Attest Jabez Clarke

I Samuel Gray, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Windham, do certify that Jabez Clarke, Esquire, Judge of Court, that the above signature is his own hand writing, and the seal annexed is the Seal of said Court. In testimony hereof I have hereunto set my name.
Samuel Gray
Windham
May 11, 1818

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I Jabez Clarke do now further certify that I am now fully satisfied that Captain Abner Bacon the applicant, is reduced in his circumstances and needs the assistance of his Country for his support, and that Joseph Eaton and Andrew T. Judson, Esquires, are men of respectable character, and full faith and credit ought to be given to their testimony.
Attest Jabez Clarke

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District of Connecticut, ss.
At a special Court of Common Pleas, holden at Windham within and for the County of Windham, in said district - 
Not his 27th day of June A.D. 1820, personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record for the County aforesaid, {Having the power of fine and imprisonment,} Captain Abner Bacon of Canterbury in said County aged eighty year, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, viz: That he received a Captain's commission dated January 1st 1777, signed by John Hancock, President of the Old Congress, in the regiment commanded by Colonel John Durkee in the line of the State of Connecticut on the Continental establishment: that he continued to serve in the said corps from the date of his said commission until the latter part of the year 1778 when a new arrangement took place. The number of regiments and companies and in the army being reduced and he received a furlough form General Samuel H Parsons with liberty to return home 'til further orders, with the thanks of Congress for their faithful service expressed in a general order from the Commander-in-Chief of the American Army at Peekskills in the State of New York.
That I made application for a pension to the War Department on the 7th day of April 1818 & received from said Department a pension certificate numbered 3,861. That [I] have no family but myself. Am a blacksmith by occupation, but by reason of the loss of eye sight & the infirmities attendant on old age. I am rendered unable to contribute but very little towards my support.

And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th 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 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 18th day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not, nor has 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 subscribed.
Abner Bacon
The following is a schedule of the whole estate & income of Abner Bacon aforesaid. 
1 large Bible, old = $1.25
1 old case of draws - $1.50
1 old chest - $0.75
2 trunks - $1.50 = $3.75

5 old chairs - $1.67
1 pair old hand [illegible] - $1.00
1 [illegible] thing - $0.75 = $3.42

1 tea kettle $0.75
1 dish kettle flat bottom - $0.50
1 spider $0.42 = $1.67

1 note given for $5 - worth little. $5.00 
3 glass bottles - $0.34 n= $5.34

1 table - $1.00
1 bundle [illegible] - $0.75
3 bundle sticks - $0.34 = $2.09

Amount carried over = $17.52

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Amount brought over
$17.52
2 old barrels, 34c - 2 old Pewter [illegible], 50 - 2 old Pewter platters, 1.00 = $1.84
5 old Pewter Plates, 75c - 1 looking glass, 1.00 = $1.75
a few articles of crockery such as plates, tea cups & mugs [illegible]
 = 40.75
1 tin [illegible] = $0.17
[totalling] $22.03
Abner Bacon

Captain Abner Bacon

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3861

23 October 1818

Sworn to and declared on the 27th day of June A.D. 1829, before the Court of Common Pleas, for the County of Windham, in the district of Connecticut.
Attest. David C. Bolles, Clerk.
I, David C. Bolles, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Windham, in the State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration & oath and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of the said Court; 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 twenty two Dollars, and 3 Cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Court, on this 3rd day of July A.D. 1820.
David C. Bolles, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Windham County.

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April 3, 1931.

Mrs. Fred L. Mould
Sauquoit, New York.

Rev. &n 1812 Wars Section
ILL

Dear Madam:
You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.37728, that Abner Bacon served as lieutenant in Captain Asa Bacon's Company, Colonel John Chester's Connecticut Regiment and in Lieutenant Colonel' Knowlton's "Rangers", was in the battles of Long Islandand York Island, length of service nine months. He was commissioned January 1, 1777, Captain in Colonel John DUrkee's Connecticut Regiment and served until November, 1778;p during this period he was in the battles of Germantown, Monmouth and Mead Fort and in many less important encounters with the enemy.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 7, 1818, while a resident of Canterbury, Windham County, Connecticut.
In 1820, soldier was eighty years of age.
He died September 10, 1822.
There is no family data.
Very truly yours,
E. W. Morgan,
Acting Commissioner.

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[illegible] tle - Mr'd

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37728
INVALID.
Revolutionary
File No. 37,728
Abner Bacon
Captain, Revolutionary War

Act: 18th March 1818
Index: Vol. 2, Page 29
{Arrangement of 1870.}

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April 11, 1902
Charles Kelsey - Mary

1908 October 19. History to T.E. Ryan. V.L.M.
12 November 27. History to Lena Bacon, Carleton, V.L.M.
1931 - April 3 - History to Mrs. F. L. Mould. I.L.L.

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In Congress.
The delegates of the United Colonies of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the counties of New Castle, Kent, and Sussex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to Abner Bacon, Esquire [illegible]

We reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, do by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be Captain of a Company, in a Battalion of which John Durkee, Esquire, to appointed Colonel in the Army of the United Colonies raised for the defense of American Liberty, and for repelling every hostile Invasion thereof. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of Captain by doing and performing all Manner of Things thereunto belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your Command, to be obedient to your Orders as their Captain. And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions from Time to Time, as you shall receive from this or a future Congress of the United Colonies, or Committee of Congress, for that Purpose appointed, or Commander in Chief for the Time being of the Army of the United Colonies, or any other your superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in Pursuance of the Trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue in Force until revoked by this or a future Congress. 
Dated this First Day of January A.D. 1777
By Order of the Congress,
John Hancock, President
Attest Charles Thomson, [illegible]

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I Andrew T. Judson of Canterbury in the County of Windham and State of Commecticut, of lawful age testify and say that I am well acquainted with Captain Abner Bacon of said Canterbury the only man of that name within my knowledge and from my knowledge of his circumstances say that the said Captain Abner Bacon is perfectly destitute of property and poor; so reduced in his circumstances in life that he needs the assistance of his country for support.
Windham
September 17, 1818
Andrew Thompson Judson

I Joseph Eaton of Plainfield in the County and State aforesaid, of lawful age testify and say that I am well acquainted with Captain Abner Bacon of Canterbury in said County and know him to be entirely destitute of property, poor and indigent.
So reduced in the circumstances of life that he needs the assistance of his Country for support.
Windham
September 17, 1818
Joseph Eaton

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State of Connecticut
County of Windham, ss:
Windham
September 19th, 1818.
Then Joseph Eaton &  [illegible] T. Judson, Esquire came before me, Jabez Clarke, Esquire, Justice of the Peace for the said County of Windham and made oath to the facts stated in the within depositions by them severally subscribed. And do further certify that the deponents are both known to me to be gentlemen of respectable of character, and credit and their testimony is to be relied on.
Attest Jabez Clarke, Justice of the Peace for Windham County

I Samual Gray, Clerk of the Court of Common Please in & for the County of Windham in the state of Connecticut do certify that Jabez Clarke, Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit hath been made is duly enabled as one of the Justices of the Peace in & for said Windham County, & that the above signature is his own hand writing, and full faith and credit ought to be given to his acts & deeds as such.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the public seal of said in Windham in said County this 22nd day of September A.D. 1818.
Samuel Gray

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I Andrew T Judson of Canterbury in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut being of lawful age testify and say that I am well acquainted with Captain Abner Bacon, of the same Canterbury and know him to be perfectly poor and destitute of property and so reduced that he needs the assistance of his Country for support.
Windham, September 17. 1818
Andrew Thompson Judson

I Joseph Eaton of Plainfield in the County aforesaid testify that I have been well acquainted with Captain Abner Bacon of said [illegible] for more than twenty years and know that he now is and for a long time hath been entirely destitute of property, poor and indigent, so reduced that he needs the assistance of his Country for support.
Windham, September 17, 1818
Joseph Eaton

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I David Bolls, Esquire, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Windham hereby certify and make known that Andrew T. Judson and Joseph Eaton the within named deponents are well know to me and that they are both credible persons, each of whom this day personally appeared before me and severally made solemn oath to the deposition, by them respectively signed and subscribed.
Whereupon I do further certify and make known that Captain Abner Bacon of Canterbury in the County is poor and indigent and so reduced that he needs the assistance of his Country for support.
Windham, September 17, 1818
David Bolls

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RECORD DIVISION
OCTOBER 10, 1908

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T.E. Ryan,
Attorney at Law, Notary Public.
Ryan Block, 48 West Main Street
Telephones
2014 Office
2534 Residence

St. Charles, Illinois
10/8/1908

Honorable Commissioner, Pensions
Washington, DC

Sir,
I wish to know if Abner Bacon, Lieutenant in Captain James Gordon's Company, Colonel John Douglas' Regiment [illegible] was pensioned. Also if your records show about when he died. This is Revolutionary War about 1776 or the pension stopped.
Also as to Abner Bacon a Lieutenant in Captain Asa Bacon's Company, Colonel John Chester's Regiment, he served from October 1, 1776 to December 25, 1776. Was he pensioned and about when did he die or his pension stop.
Revolutionary War 1776.
Also as to Abner Bacon Captain in Colonel John Durkee's 4th  [illegible] Regiment, whether he was pensioned or not and when he died or his pension stopped.
Revolutionary War 1776.

The object of this inquiry is [illegible] Mr C.C.

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St. Charles Illinois - 19__

Bacon of this city is a great ^great grand son of this Abner Bacon. We have no record his [illegible] as [illegible] this great, great grand father Abner Bacon died August 22, 1832 and was buried in [illegible] NY aged 74 years. We are trying to place one of the Abner Bacon's above mentioned as we are quite certain one of the above is our Abner Bacon. Mr. Bacon is working up a Revolutionary War record on him. I will greatly appreciate this kindness. We have been referred t your department by the War Department.
Very respectfully,
T.E. Ryan

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U.S. PENSION OFFICE
March 10, 1907

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C
Old War and Navy Division.
3-523.
Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D.C. February 20, 1902

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U.S. P. B.
Old War & Navy Files
March 13, 1902

Sir:
In reply to your communication of a recent date, you are informed that this Bureau is unable to furnish a history of the service of any soldier of the Revolutionary war or of the war of 1812 unless he or his widow wa a pensioner or an applicant for pension or bouty land; and that under the rules such a history is furnished only to the soldier's descendants, and to them only when it is desired for historical or genealogical purposes.
The large number of inquiries made on this subject, and the length of time required to make a proper search of the records in each case, will not permit of information being given to any applicant concerning more than two soldiers.
In order that the soldier concerning whom you desire information may be identified, you are requested to furnish as much as possible of the data called for below.
(no fee.)
Very respectfully, 
[illegible]
Commissioner.

Mr. Charles Kelsey
Judge of Probate
Marquette, Michigan

Full name of soldier, Abner Bacon
Where did he enter service? I do not know. He was at Bunker Hill and at Ticonderoga. 
Under what officers did he serve? Enlisted as private, was promoted from time to time to Captain.
Place of residence after service, Sauquoit, Oneida County, New York.
Approximate date of death, in August 21, 1832.
Given name of widow, Hannah Merriman Bacon.
Did either the soldier or his widow receive a pension? Yes
Additional Information, Mrs. Agnes KI. Hill wishes to ascertain where the Abner Bacon who receive pension at Sauquoit, Oneida County, New York in 1818 in order to obtain proof that will entitle her to election in D.A.R.
Signature. Charles Kelsey,
(Mrs. or Miss to be prefixed if a lady signs.)
Post-office address, including street and number, town, county, and State,} Judge of Probate, Marquette, Michigan

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U.S. PENSION OFFICE
November 22, 1912

Box 37
Georgetown, Massachusetts
November 20, 1912

Pension Bureau,
Washington, D.C. 
Gentlemen:
Will you please send me what information you can get from the Revolutionary War records, about Abner Bacon? He was my great great grandfather, He lived in Canterbury, Connecticut. In the History of Windham County, Connecticut under the town of Canterbury he is called Captain Abner Bacon.
I understand that he was pen-

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sioned.
I am getting information preparatory to joining the D.A.R. as a charter member if the [illegible] are successful in starting a chapter.
I shall be very grateful for all the information you can give me.
Yours truly,
(Miss) Lena Bacon Carleton.
P.S. I shall join an established chapter of the D.A.R. if the new one is not started. I have already been voted in, in an established chapter.
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U.S. PENSION OFFICE
November 22, 1912

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Sauquoit, New York
March 5, 1931

Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions.

I have been recently asked if I would write asking for the military record of Captain Abner Bacon who was born at Dedham, Massachusetts, May 3, 1758, also names of ^wife children.
I regret that I did not know of this query when I wrote asking concerning Joseph Bacon.

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Thank you for any help you may be able to give me.

Yours
Mary Marshall Mould
(Mrs. Fred L)

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information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
Abner Bacon, Sun. File 37728

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment
[check mark]
Length of Service.
9 months
Rank.
Lieutenant
Officers under whom service was rendered.
Captain Asa Bacon
Colonel John Chester
Under Lieutenant Colonel Knowlton
State
Connecticut

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment.
January 1, 1777
Length of Service.
November 1778
Rank.
Captain
Officers under whom service was rendered.
Colonel John Durkee

Battles engaged in, York Island, Long Island, Germantown, Monmouth and Meed For.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, ___
Date of application for pension, April 7, 1818, March 24, 1818, His [illegible] was [illegible]
Residence at date of application, Canterbury, Windham County, Connecticut
Age at date of application, b. 1740, died September 10, 1832.
Remarks: The above noted is the only soldier & c

Very respectfully,
from Agency book