Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44,548, Edward Annable, Mass

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(8-1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
Mass Annable, Edward S. 44,548
CONTENTS

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1987 
New York 
Edward Annable 
of Cayuga in the State of New York who was an Ensign in the company commanded by Captain Allen of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Wigglemonth in the Mass line, for the term of of [illegible] months 
from March 1779 to May 1780
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of Twenty Dollars per month, to commence on the 8 day of April 1818 
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 of July 1818 and sent to John Grover Esq Auburn New York 
Restored to the Roll on 22 day of February 1830 and notification sent to Hon G. Powers at House of Representatives  Pension commencing on the 1st of February 1830 

Amount due on 4th of March 1830 }  $9..03 Revolutionary Claim, Acts March 18, 1818, Gir May
{Revolutionary Claim,
Acts March 18, 1818
May[illegible] }
Gon

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See letter 25 May 1830
To, D. Robinson duplicate certificate issued 9 July 1830 and sent to Denison Robinson.
Port Royal, NY
Lee   Aug 7, 1830, to Deniser Robinson
Port Royal N. J.
See letter Aug 7. 1830, to D. Robinson.
Duplicate certificate sent 3 Sept 1830 & sent to Robinson Port Byron Cayuga Co. May 

Dead. See letter to Curtis Moses June 25, 1836
do to Lucas Wheaton Dec 30, 1837
same July 6, 1838. Same Oct. 24, 1838.

do to D. Robinson July 7, 1840
do to J. R. Lawrence Sept 14, 1848
Leslie [illegible] A. Felch 7 Dec 52
Edwin Lawrence Aug 2/53 
do Aug 13/53

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Edward Anables
Commission Enclosed
Correct
Grover

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State of New York
Cayuga County
Edward Annable of the town of Aurelius County of Cayuga State of New York being duly sworn deposeth and on faith, that in May or June seventeen hundred + seventy five he enlisted into the army of the United States as a private soldier in Capn Hazelton company in Col. Fellows regiment of Massachusetts troops and continued in company eight months ; and afterwards enlisted in Captain Souls company in Col. Whitcombs 13th Massachusetts regiment and continued in that regiment one year, and this deponent further says that after the expiration of the year aforesaid he enlisted in Caps Allens company in Col. Wigglesworth's 13th Massachusetts regiment; and which this deponents were in this regiment was commissioned as an Ensign in said regiment; and was afterward transferred to the 3@ Massachusets regiment commanded by Col Graton and was honorably discharged at New Windsor in [illegible] this state June 7, 1781 from the said regiment. And this deponent further says that by reason of reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance for support from his country and further saith not. 
Edward Annable
State of New York 
Cayuga County ss
Personally appeared before me John Grover Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Cayuga Edward Annable above mentioned and to me personally known. And made oath upon the  Holy Evangelests that the above affidavit is true. And I the said Judge do certify to the Hon Secretary of the war Department that I am satisfied that the facts therein contained are true John Grover Judge of Cayuga Born Pleas.
Dated April 8th 1818

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State of New York 
County of Cayuga}
I hereby certify that John Grover Esquire before whom the within affidavit appears to have been made was at the time of taking the same a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County acting under the authority of this State, that full faith & credit are due to his official acts in that capacity and that his Signature thereto subscribed is genuine - In testimony whereof I have hereto affixed the seal of said County the Eighth day of April 1818 
E. T. Throop Clk pr. J.D. Casey Dep Clk

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Edward Annable's 
Affidavit. apprisal [illegible]

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State of New York ss. Cayuga County, Edward Annable of the County of Cayuga & State of New York, being duly sworn deposeth and saith that the Inventory hereunto annexed & signed by Nathaniel Garrow and Seth Burgess Esquires contains all his real & personal property according to his best knowledge and belief: and he further saith that he this deponent now stands indebted to divers persons in a large sum of money To act, in the 1 sum of fourteen hundred & fifty six dollars according to the best computation he can make & which he verily beleaves is correct: and he further saith that the amount of debts due him this deponent or becoming due does not exceed the sum of fifteen dollars as he verily believes. And he further saith that of the aforesaid sum of fourteen hundred & fifty dollars all except six hundred dollars is now due & payable on demand also that one fourth part of said six hundred dollars falls due next March. And this deponent further saith that by reason of bodily infirmities he is unable to do & perform common labor on a farm or else where Edward Annable 
State of New York 
Cayuga County ss. Personally appeared before me John Grover Esq. one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Cayuga Edward Annable above mentioned & to me known 

Over

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& made oath upon the Holy Evangelists that the contents of the above affidavit are true, to wit this 13th day of Sept 1819 John Grover Judge of Cayuga Com pleas 

STATE OF NEW YORK, ss.
Cayuga County,  

I CERTIFY THAT John Grover --- by whom the annexed proof or acknowledgment was taken, was on the day of the date thereof, a Judge of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Cayuga, duly commissioned and sworn as such Judge --- and that full faith and credit are to be given to his acts in that capacity. I FURTHER CERTIFY, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said John Grover and verily believe the signature to the annexed certificate to be his hand writing. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, and my name subscribed this thirteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen 
James Jones Clk

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Inventory of the estate both personal and real of Edward Annable of the Town of Junius and County of Cayuga & State of New York made by us Nathaniel Gorrow and Seth Burgess impartial Freeholders of the Town of Junius and County of Cayuga, appointed for this purpose by the annexed Letter signed by Jonathan Richmond Esqr elected to represent this District in the next Congress of the United States towit, one form of 119 1/2 acres of land on Lot No 25 said Aurelines, which we appraised at $14 per acre  $1673.00 
3 Cows $40. One two year old Colt 25 dolls ----- $65.00
2 three year old Steer $30   one yearling heifer $7 ----- $37.00
3 Calves $7 twenty five sheep $25  ---- 32.00
6 store hogs $18   six pig $6 ----- 24.00
Wheat 50 Bush at 5/ ------ 31.25
Rye 60 Bush @ 4/ ----- 30.00
Corn 90 do ---  @ 3/ ------- 37.75
Oats 12 do --- @ 1/6 ----  2.25
Hay 2 1/2 tons  -- at 40/ ---- 12.50
Household Furniture ---- 40/18
                                           ----------
                                            $1984.75 
we the said Nathaniel Garrow & Seth Burgess do certify that we believe the above to be a true inventory all the said Edward Annable's estate: and we further certify that 79 acres of the 1 above mentioned form is subject to a disputed & doubtful title and that on account thereof a deduction ought to be made from the above appraised value of five hundred and fifty six dollars Dated this 13th day of September 1819 Nathaniel Carrow Tith Burges

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State of New York
Cayuga County
On the Eighteenth day of July 1829. personally appeared before me the undersigned justice of the Peace Lucas Wheaton who being duly sworn according to law, deposes & says, that he this deponent is the Son in law of Edward Anable, that the said Edward and his wife have lived with him for some lenghth of time viz, the said Edward for more than one Year, and his wife nearly one year, and that this Deponent supported the said Edward and his wife nearly all the said time they so lived with this Deponent, - And this Deponent further says that for supporting the said Edward and wife as aforesaid, he has received from said Edward about the sum of Fifty Dollars- and this Deponent also says that in the opinion and according to this knowledge of the said Edward's circumstances; he the said Edward is destitute of property- Lucas Wheten
Sworn & Subscribed
before me this day & Year 
above written 
John Grover Justice of the Peace
I certify that Lucas Wheaton the above deponent is a man of truths and veracity
John Grover

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State of New York 
CAYUGA COUNTY, CLERK'S OFFICE. } ss.
 
[Illegible Seal]

I, MICHAEL S. MYERS, Clerk of the County of Cayuga and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the said County: Do HEREBY CERTIFY, that John Grover Esquire, was on the Eighteenth day of July one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine  a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and that full faith and credit are to be given to his acts in that capacity: And that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said "John Grover" and verily believe the signature to the annexed certificate of affidavit to be his proper hand writing. 
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, and subscribed my name this twenty first day of July  A. D. 1829 
M. S. Myers

  - Lucas fidav X Wheaton A. D. 1829 ,

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State of New York Cayuga County ss 
Be it remembered that before me William Miner Esquire, a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Cayuga aforesaid personally appeared Fernando C Annable of the town of Mentz in said County and made oath in due form of law that he this deponent is the son of Edward Annable- That the said Edward in the year Eighteen hundred & Eighteen & for a long time previous owned a farm in the town of Archers in said County that in the year Eighteen hundred & twenty two or three the said Edward sold the said farm for twenty one hundred dollars to one Ranney that previous to the sale of the said farm to the said Ranney the said Edward had executed a bond & Mortgage on said farm for about four hundred dollars & interest or that was the amount then due on the mortgage to Walter Wood that out of the moneys raised from the sale of the sd farm this deponent paid to the said Wood the amount of said bond & Mortgage at the request of the said Edward. That the said Walter Wood is since deceased- That at the same time he paid the said Wood this deponent paid two hundred dollars to John Fuller of the town of Sempronius in said County at the request of the said Edward out of the avails of the said sale of said farm that the debt of two hundred dollars so paid to said John Fuller was contracted by the the said Edward as this deponent is informed & verily believes for money borrowed by the said Edward to make payments

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to extinquish the orignal purchase money then due on the farm before the sale to said Ranney and there might have been a small part of the debt of two hundred dollars so due to said Fuller for merchandize out of said Fuller Store - That the said Fuller is since deceased. That after the sale of the said farm the said Edward went to live in the  town of Pompey in the County of Onondaga and left this deponent in Aurelius as his agent to dispose of his small effects and pay up the demands then standing against the said Edward and this deponent says on amount of the multiplicity of small demand and the length of time since these payments & settlements were made he this deponent Statement count make an accurate statement of them nor can  he state all the persons settled with although at that he was fully acquainted with all the persons and the amount due to each & every person & for what it was for and at the time he this deponent was well acquainted with all the business of the said Edward and knew that the demands were justly & lawfully due to all the persons be paid And this deponent further says that in the year (as this deponent believes) Eighteen hundred & twenty three the said Edward Purchased a form of Warren Scranton in the town of Pompey aforesaid for fourteen hundred & seventy five dollars for which farm after

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selling his goods & effects & after paying off the originale purchase money for the farm in Aurelius & the money borrowed of said Fuller which went to Extinguish the original purchase money of said farm in Aurelius & after paying off all the small debts as aforesaid and after applying of the residual of the avails of the farm sold in Aurelius to the payment for the Scranton farm in Pompy as aforesaid the said Edward was indebted to the said Warren Scranton about forty dollars That at this time all that the said Edward was worth was in the Scranton farm And this deponent further says that the said Edward was owing one hundred dollars to Annar Farnam for borrowed Money besides this forty dollars to Scranton as aforesaid and these sums were all that the said Edward was at that time owing as the this deponent hereby believes because he says he this deponent had the management of the business of the said Edward and would have it been to the con tray and this left the said Edward and would have known had it been to the contrary And this left the said Edward worth thirteen hundred & thirty five dollars in the Scranton farm That in the year Eighteen hundred & twenty four or thereabout on account of the extreme age & inability of the said Edward & his wife to transact their own business and on account of a legal prosecution that had been commenced against the said Edward & his wife for words spoken by his said wife the said Edward concluded to put all his property into the hands of one John Smith as this deponent was informed & verily believe

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That the said Smith was to support the said Edward & his wife during their respective lives in consideration of this surrender of and of the said Edward giving him his property as this deponent has been informed & verily belives to be true- This deponent further says that he was from home on business when this transaction took place And this deponent verily believes that the said Edward on account of his age became so much frightened on account of the law suit he thought that this course was the only means by which the said Edward could save his property for the support of himself & wife & that he the said Edward grasped at this transaction as the last resent to secure support for himself & wife and to give this deponent who was then under the age of twenty one years are English Education which was thus the determination of the said Edward as this deponent was informed on his return home and to accomplish the aforesaid objects the said Edward & the said Smith Exchanged the Scranton farm which laid about four miles from the said Smith residence for a farm adjacent to the land of the said Smith then owned by one John Miller and thereupon a deed was given of the Scranton farm to the said John Miller and the said John Miller gave a deed of the farm laying as aforesaid adjacent to the said Smith's land to the said John Smith And the said John Miller was to pay one hundred & fifty dollars boot money between farms as this deponent [illegible] shurely belives to to be thru

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That by this transaction the said Edward became dispossessed of all his property except the one hundred & fifty dollars boot money as last stated which was to come through Smiths hands to the said Edward & the said Smith was to support the said Edward & his wife during their respective lives-
this deponent further says that the said prosecution has not been followed up against the said Edward & his wife as this deponent is informed & that it was groundless & was instituted in malice in this deponents belief and which prosecution had in its effect the tendency much to embarrass the circumstances of the said Edward the way it was managed.
That in the year eighteen hundred & twenty five the said Edward became dissatisfied with living with the said Smith on account of the detention & refused to pay the one hundred & fifty dollars last mentioned to the said Edward which this deponent verily [illegible] never was paid to the said said Edward but detained & used by the said Smith That the breach between the said Edward & the said Smith ^had become so [illegible] on account of the detention of the said one hundred & fifty dollars that it was about to [illegible] in a lawsuit to recover the said one hundred & fifty dollars And it was thought by the children of the said Edward that business had come to such a crisis that the said Edward and his wife could not live

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in any mean or comfort with the said Smith and a compromise was proposed at the chance of obtaining the said one hundred and fifty dollars was considered very doubtful in the moment that it there stood in and the difficulty to prove the facts in the case. That a compromise was made where the following terms the said Miller farm was to be sold by the said Smith for the benefit of said Edward but was made upon the condition that the said Edward was to relinquish all claims whom said smith for the support of said Edward and his wife as well as all other clams and tender this agreement the said Miller farm was sold to White Osborn for seven hundred and fifty dollars which sum was in this deponents belief as that the land was worth at that time. Upon the deed being given by the aid Smith to the said Osborn one hundred and fifty was recurred by the said Edward as this deponent is informed and hereby believed to be true and a mortgage was given by the said Osborn to said Smith for six hundred dollars the residence of the said seven hundred and fifty dollars which mortgage was immediately assigned by the said Smith to John Fuller of Sempers near in the County of Cayuga since deceased to be held by the said Fuller for the use of the said Edward and to make a credit so that the said Edward could draw upon the said Fuller for small sums

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as the necessities of the said Edward shod require- one hundred dollars of the said one hundred and fifty dollars last aforesaid mentioned was paid to Annor Farnam to take up a note for borrowed money as this deponent is informed and hereby believes to be true, and this deponent further says that is his opinion. There was sunk in the exchange of the Scranton Farm for the Miller farm five hundred and seventy five dollars partly owing to the depreciation of buildings after the exchange and the buildings were better on the Scranton farm than Miller farm but the said Smith and Edward allowed said Miller more than otherwise would have been given on account of its lying joining the land of the said Smith at his deponent hereby believed and it being in connection with said Smith's land was more valuable to Smith than any one else and when the land was sold separate the want of convenient building for husbandry must of necessity in this deponents belief reduces the value of the Miller farm. And this deponent further says after the sale of the Miller farm the said Edward rented with the cold of Pompey a house at thirty dollars a year.

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That the said Edward hired a girl to do the husbandry of the house as the said wife was not able to on account of old age to do the husbandry thereof which would in the opinion of this deponent cost not far from forty or fifty dollars a year that the said Edward had no land to cultivate nd had no other resorts that the annuls of the Miller Farm so sold as aforesaid and had to purchase the necessary prs visions to support himself and wife and hired girl. That it would cost as much as one hundred fifty dollars a year to furnish provisions clothes for the said Edward and wife and lord of the hired girl in the opinion of this deponent. That during the time he rented the said house in Pompey the said Edward and his wide went to Saratoga Springs for the benefit of their health and that when he came home the said Edward informed him that his expenses were seventy dollars which he hereby believes was a reasonable expense and further that during the time the said Edward lived in the house aforesaid after the sale of the Miller farm said Edward was such for a long time at otherwise was the wife of said Edward which must have increased his expense something for keeping

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the said mortgage in the hands of said Fuller has been fully and justly paid off to the said Edward along as his necessaries required. And further this deponent says that the said Edward travels around the country considerable and that he must of necessity have spent some money, how much no one can know- and the said Deponent further says that the said Edward is in poor and needy circumstances that he has not had any proper for a long time except for a few old farming utensils whish are now gone. Ten sheep which were let out but he has now sold them for his present needy support and one old horse worth probably about forty dollars- which horse is now all the property he has except his necessary learing apparel and the deponent says the said Edward is very old and out of health and decrepit and is so lame as to be a great part of the time conferred to the house occasioned by a very bad fever done upon one of his legs and has been so unfortunate as to have two breached unusually bad which as age advanced increase and under them almost insufferable

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and at times they required tender care and strict attention for his ease and comfort and stands in great need of support from some other source than any that he now has. And that the said Edward is now supported entirely by the charity of his children and that there are none of the children who can under their recurring circumstances well support him. And this deponent further says that previous to the time that said Edward left Pompey to reside in the county of Cayuga he was personally acquainted with the changes made in his property and since that time has had an opportunity to know what the said Edward might do with his property and he knows of no disposal to any of his children or any one else of any property or money except what he has recurred ample remuneration by way of supporting him. And this deponent herby believes that his children have taken nothing by gift or otherwise more nor news as mus as they have extended in his

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needful support and that of his wide. And further this Deponent says that he this deponent has been informed and hereby believes to be true that the said Edward has paid Peter Weatherwax one hundred dollars for board and while the said Edward and his wife lived with the said Peter. And fifty dollars to Lucas Wheaton for room and board while the said Lucas all which was paid since the said Edward left Pompey as this deponent is informed and hereby believes to be true. And further this deponent saith not. 
Sworn to and subscribed
before me this 23rd day 
of January 1830 
Fernando Annable 

State of New York
Cayuga County 
Clerk's Office}ss. 
I, Michael Myers, Clerk of the County of Cayuga and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the said County: Do hereby certify, that William Miner Esquire, was on the Twenty Third day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and that full faith and credit are to be given to his acts in that capacity: And that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said William Miner and verily believe the signature to the annexed affidavit to be his proper hand writing. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, and subscribed my name this Twenty fifth day of January A.D. 1830. 
M.S. Myers

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needful support and that of his wife. And further this deponent says that he this deponent has been informed and hereby believes to be true that the said Edward has paid Peter Weatherwax one hundred dollars for board and while the said and his wife lived with the said Peter. And fifty dollars to Lucas Wheaton for board and while the said Edward and wife lived with the said Lucas all which was paid since the said Edward left Pompey as this deponent is informed and verily believes to be true. And further this deponent saith not.
Sworn to and subscribed 
before me this 23rd day 
of January 1830} Fernando C Annable

William Miner Justice of the Peace 
Cayuga County  I William Miner a Justice of the Peace of said county before whom the above affidavit was subscribed and sworn to do hereby certify that I am acquainted with the above named Fernando C Annable and that he is a person of unquestionable veracity and that his statement may be relied on as continuing the truth and nothing else. Given under my hand at Monty in said County this 23rd day of January 1830 William Miner J. Peace

F.C. Annable
Afft.

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State of New York
Onondaga County ss
On this 18th day of May 1829 personally appeared John Smith who being first duly sworn according to law doth on oath declare according to the best of his recollection knowledge and belief that in the year 1823 Edward Annable purchased a farm of Warren Scranton in the town of Pompey for which he paid fourteen hundred and seventy dollars which sum and I understood and believe was about forty four dollars more than the consideration money that remained unexpended of his farm which he sold the year before. That in the year following the said Edward was hanged the farm so purchase of the said Warren Scranton with John Miller for another farm in Pompey and received in exchange one hundred dollars in cash and property to the amount of about twenty five dollars. That the said Edward being aged and inform requested this deponent to take his property and support him and his wife during their lives and thereupon the said John Miller conveyed the last mentioned farm to this deponent that in the winter of 1825 the said Edward became dissatisfied with the said arrangement for his support and this deponent did at the request of the said Edward convey the last mentioned farm to White Osborn, seven hundred and fifty dollars of which the said Edward received one hundred and fifty dollars in hand and a bond and mortgage given to this deponent by the said White Osborn for six hundred dollars and by the request of the said Edward assigned by this deponent to John Miller and thereupon the understanding between this deponent said Edward for his support ceased and shortly after the said Edward removed upon the last mentioned farm since which him this deponent has been unacquainted with the situation of the Edwards property

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And this deponent further saith that the said understanding for the support of the said Edward and his wife was relinquished without any consideration on the part of this deponent and that the conveyance to the said White Osborn of the last mentioned farm was bought and that no greater sum than the seven hundred and fifty dollars aforesaid was paid or agreed to be paid. 
Subscribed and sworn before 
me the day and year first 
above written
D Gott Gonder 

John Smith

I hereby certify that John smith the above named deponent is a gentleman of high respectability and unquestionable integrity and that implicit faith and confidence may placed in the above affidavit. 
I further certify that most of the  facts set forth in said deposition are by me known to be true. I having assisted in transacting most of the business mentioned therein. D Gott Gander

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State of New York 
Cayuga County Sp. On this eleventh day of June 1829 personally appeared John S. Swiss being first duly sworn according to law doth on oath declare according to his best recollection, knowledge and belief that he is the son in Langford well acquainted with Edward Annable and that the said Edward has resided with him from the first day of January, alternately, that is in the winter with the deponent and the rest of the time with his children. That said Edward has no fixed plan of residence but depends altogether upon the charity of his friends for support. That the wife of the said Edward has resided with the Deponent the last winter. And this deponent further says, that he is well acquainted with the  pecuniary circumstances of the said Edward and believed that he has not property sufficient to support himself for any length of time, and further this deponent believes that the said Edward has not distraded of any property for the future benefit of himself or family. and further that the said Edward has no property (except bedding) of the sales of one hundred dollars. And this deponent further says that he has not received any thing from said Edward for supporting him, except part of a Reformation. And further this deponent saith not. 
Sworn and subscribed
before me the day and 
year first above written
Othra Groves Justice of the Peace

John S Swiss

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State of New York
Cayuga County
Clerk's Office} ss.
I, Michael S. Myers, Clerk of Cayuga county and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the said County: Do hereby certify that John Grover Esquire, was on the 11th day of June one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and sworn, and that full faith and credit are to be given to his acts in that capacity: And that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe the signature to the annexed Affidavit to be his proper hand writing. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, and subscribed my name this Eleventh day of June A.D. 1829. 
M.S. Myers

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State of New York Onondaga County 
Marcellus June 18th 1836

J.L. Edwards Esq
Dear Sir
Edward Annable a Revolutionary Pensions of the United States under the Act of Congress of March 18th 1818 who was entitled to receive $240 per annum during his natural life died a few days since. He left no widow but eight children, two of the number residing in Michigan and the reminder in this State.
Will you please forward to me the necessary instructions for drawing his pension from the fourth day of March last up to the time of his death. 
Respectfully yours, 
Curtis Moses

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Treasury Department 
Second Comptroller's Office
August 17, 1853

Sir, 
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 28, 1842, extending the time within which pensions may receive their pensions from the Pension agents, 
Desir Swiss one of the children of Edward Annable dec. 
a Pensioner on the roll of the Albany Agency, at the rate of Twenty Dollars per month under the law of the 18 March 1818 has been paid at this Department 1/8 of his pension from the 4th of March 1819 to the 4 March 1820.
Respectfully yours, 
T Pernington 
Acting Comptroller

To the Commisioner of Pensions,
Present.

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Edward Annable- New York Wa Act March 18 1818 at $20 per month dropped and afterwards restored.
Be pleased to say to what time he was paid before his name was dropped from the roll and at what time his pension commenced and terminated, after the restoration.
Pension Office
Oct 24 1838
He was paid from the 1st Feb 1830 to the 10 June 1836 the day of his death- there is no other entry on our books. JH

Marked paid to March 4 1819
 Continued again from Feb 1, 1830
Died June 10, 1836 and paid

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Mch 3, 1896
per pension 
to abella Wheaton
Aubrun, NY
To Mrs Weatherwax
Byrne, NY

4458
Invalid
Req.
File No. 44548
Edward Annable
Ensign Rev War 
Act. 
1st May 1820 and 1st March 1823
Index: Vol. 3 Page 15
[Arrangement of 1870]
D. June 10, 1836

Date to ceased and c
Mrs. Jo

Dec 19
Abbie R
Port

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respecting apr. for restoration see letter to J. Grover Nov 24 1828
This man exhibited a schedule of property in 1819, which amounted to between 1 and $2000. Her name should therefore have been dropt from the will under the act of May 1, 1823. 
See letter to Hon. Nathl 
Garrow Auburn, NY
6th March 1829
D. 30 July 1829

New York
1987

Edward Annable, 
Ensign, 4
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War. 
Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on the 8th of April 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30th of July 1828 and sent to John Grover Esq.
Auburn, New York

Arrears to Sept. 1818
4 mo 27/30
$98.01

{Revolutionary Claim, Act 18th March, 1818}
Massachusetts line, 6 years

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O.W. $ N Div. 
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions

Washington D.C. Nov 5 1896

Respectfully returned to the writer, who is requested to furnish, for the purpose of identification, as much as possible of the information called for below. 
DJ Murphy
Commissioner

Pension Office
Us
Nov 25 1896

Full name of soldier: Edward Annable
Place of residence before service: (Town, county, and State, if possible)
Ashfield, Franklin, Mass, Ashfield
Place of residence after service: (Town, county, and State, if possible)
Aurelius, Cayuga, N.Y.
Date of death (as near as possible):
June 10th 1836
Christian name of widow:
Did either he or his widow receive a pension?
Edward Annable
Remarks:
Resided at Pompey, N.Y.
Onondaga Co. Died at
Marcellus Onondaga Co. 
Your name and address:
Abbie L. Weatherwax
Port Byron, NY
Cayuga, Co.

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Edward Annable New York Act 18 March 1818

Be pleased to say wh to what time he was last paid

Pension Office
Dec 29 1837

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County of Cayuga SS
On this twenty fifth day of September 1829 appeared personally in open Court being a Court of Record and Court of Common Pleas and General depend of the peace in and for the County of Cayuga Edward Annable resident in said County aged Seventy six years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the Acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the first of May 1820 that he the said Edward received his commissions as an ensign in Captain Allen s company and Colonel Wigglesworth Regiment in the Massachusetts line on the Continental Establishment that he continued to serve as such ensign until the month of May in the year 1780 reference being had to his discharge on the file in the Office of the War department and more fully large appears that he hereby relinquished every gain whatever to a pension except the present that his name has been placed on the pension list. That the number of his pension certificate is 1987. And that having heretofore exhibited his schedules which were sent sufficient he now produced this according to the direction of the war department. and in prevalence of the Act of the 1st May 1820. I do solemnly swear that I was a resident of the United States on the 18 day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or any other means disposed of my property or any part therewith intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself in this the provision 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" placed on the 18th March 1818. And that I have not nor had any person in true forms any property or entities, contracts, or debts due to me not had any income other than what is continued in the schedule hereto annexed by me subscribed.

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Copied from the Record of the said court. 
And the said Edward Annable further saith that in the Year 1818 he was possessed as Real estate in the town of Aurelius in the county aforesaid to the value at two thousand one hundred dollars and that he this deponent owed furthermore about eight hundred dollars and this deponent further saith that about the year 1823 for a value the consideration he sold the aforesaid Real estate to Thomas Ranna, and that in the same year last aforesaid he purchased a farm of Warren Glenn in the town of Pompey in the County of Onondaga for the sum of $1475.00. And in the years following he exchanged the said farm with one John Miller for another farm in the said town of Pompey, continuing forty eight acres and received furthermore One hundred dollars in cash and property to the amount of ten dollars. And this deponent further saith that the deed for the farm so obtained of John Miller was given by the consent of this deponent to one John Smith and that the reason of his consent is that the deed should be given to the said John Smith was that an action of slander had been commenced against him in consequence of words spoken by this deponents wife, which sent was never brought to trial, and proved to be unfounded. And this deponent further says that he reposed perfect confidence in the said John Smith being old and infirmed followed the advice of the said Smith in so deeding to him the farm aforesaid. And this deponent further says that about the year 1825, the said John Smith by the request of this deponent sold and deeded the above farm to

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White Osborn for $750.00 of which sum this deponent received $150 in cash, and took a mortgage or note for the remainder on the said last mentioned farm, which mortgage or note has since been paid. And this deponent further says that amt of the said six hundred dollars he paid the following sums. To Anna Farnhams the sum of One hundred dollars for money I had borrowed of her and for goods. 
To Peter Wetherwax, the sum of One hundred dollars as appears by his affidavit. 
To Lucas Wheaton about fifty dollars for board. To John Smith Thirty six dollars paid for going to Saratoga and preparations of about the sum of sixty dollars. And also that this deponent having been unable to labor has  spent all his property in providing for the support of him and his family. And that this deponent has no property left but the following.
One Horse worth $40.00
14 Sheep lot out 10.00
Old farming utensils 5.00

Edward J. Annable

Sworn this 26th day of September 1829
J.L. Richardson first Judge of Cayuga County 

I Michael S. Myers, Clerk of Cayuga Common Pleas do hereby certify that appears to the satisfaction of the court that the said Edward Annable did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy.
I also certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule there to annexed are truly

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copied from the Record 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 fifty five dollars. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 28th day of September AD 1829.
M.S. Myers Clerk

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Edward Annable
Pension papers

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afd for E. Annable

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State of New York
Cayuga County SS.
On this 22nd day of June 1829 personally appeared Annah Farnham who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that in the month of February or March 1825 Edward Annable of the town of Mentz in the County of Cayuga paid her one hundred dollars for money which the said Edward Annable had borrowed of her a number of years previous the exact time she is unable to state and that the said one hundred dollars was a just and bonafide demand against the said Edward Annable. 
Annar Farnham
Sworn the day and year first above written before me
H. Tifft Justice of the Peace

I certify that the above named Annar Farnham is an intelligent person and entitled to credit as a witness. 
H Tifft Justice P. 

State of New York 
Cayuga County
Clerk's Office} ss. 
I, Michael S. Myers, Clerk of the County of Cayuga and Clerk of the court of Common Pleas, in and for the said County: Do hereby certify, that Henry Tifft Esquire, was on the twenty second day of June one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and that full faith and credit are to be given to his acts in that capacity: And that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Henry Tifft and verily believe the signature to the annexed affidavit H. Tifft to be his proper hand writing. 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, and subscribed my name this twenty second day of July A.D. 1829
M.S. Myers

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State of New York 
Onondaga County 
Clerk's Office } p: I hereby certify that Daniel Gott Esquire before whom the annexed affidavit was taken was on the 14th day of January Inst. a Commissioner- duly appointed and qualified and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe the signature "D. Gott" officially subscribed in said affidavit is the proper hand writing of the said Commissioner. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the court of Common Pleas of said County this 16th day of January 1830.
R.S. Hess Clerk of
Onondaga County Court

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State of New York
Onondaga County p
On this 14th day of January eighteen hundred and thirty personally appeared John Miller of the town of Pompey in said county being first duly sworn in dur form of law doth on oath declare according to his best recollection that in the year eighteen hundred and twenty four that he exchanged a farm which laid adjacent to the land of one John Smith in the said town of Pompey with Edward Annable for a farm then owned by said Edward Annable and formerly owned by Warren Scranton and gave in addition to the first mentioned farms one hundred dollars in money and fifty dollars in personal property down. That the said Annable gave me a deed of the aforementioned farm owned by him for the aforementioned farm owned by me and I gave a deed of the aforementioned farm own by the said Edward Annable to John Smith.

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the farm adjacent this said Smith Land and the said one hundred and fifty dollars was all that this deponent ever agreed to pay for the farm so received of said Edward Annable or that he ever has paid or ever shall pay for the said land deeded to him by the said Edward Annable. That the farms were exchanged in good faith and conscience. That the said Edward Annable is of no connection with him the deponents and that the exchange was made with a view to benefit all the parties concerned and further this deponent saith not. 
Sworn and subscribed
before me this 14th day of May
1830 D Gott Comm. 

John Miller

I certify that I have been personally acquainted with the above named John Miller ten years and upwards that his reputation is unsullied. That his character for property and integrity is fair and full and may be given to his affidavit. 
D. Gott

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State of New York
Madison County p}
Be is remembered that White Osborn of the town of Hamilton in said county on the 19th day of Dec. Eighteen hundred and seventy nine came before John Foote Esq one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Madison and made oath in the form of law that sometime in the year eighteen hundred and twenty five according to this deponent best recollection and belief this deponent made a purchase of a certain piece of land, or farm situated in the town of Pompey in the County of Cayuga in said state. Said farms lay joining the farm of one John Smith and was formerly owned by John Miller as this deponent is informed and verily believes to be true. Said farm was purchased by one John Smith and this deponent say that the bargain was made with Edward Annable and this deponent understood best by the said Edward Annable on the said John smith that the said farm's purchase as aforesaid by this deponent was taken in exchange for a farm owned by said Edward Annable then dutily purchased by Edward of one Warren Scranton, that this deponent understood that the deed of the land purchase by me as aforesaid was taken from said John Miller to said John Smith. That said Annable revisited said John Smith to give the deponent a deed of the farm aforesaid named as purchased by this deponent upon which said Smith gave the deponent a good and sufficient deed of said land and upon the delivery of said deed this deponent paid said Annable one hundred and fifty dollars down and gave a bond and mortgage for six hundred dollars upon said land which bond and mortgage together

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together with one hundred and fifty dollars was the amount this deponent was to pay for said land. The bond and mortgage was immediately assigned over to John Fuller of Sempronius in the County of Cayuga for the benefit of the said Edward Annable as this deponent is informed and verily believes to be true- which bond and mortgage this deponent has fully paid and satisfied the same to its full amount. And this deponent says that the said six hundred dollars in said bond and mortgage mentioned and interest of the same and the one hundred and fifty dollars paid down was all that this deponent was agreed to pay for said land or has paid to anyone or shall pay to any person or persons. And this deponent further says that the aforesaid sum were all that the said farm was reasonably worth at the time of the sale of the said land to this deponent according to the best of this deponents knowledge and belief and that the sale of said farm to this deponent was made in good faith and conscience. And further this deponent saith not.
White Osborn

Affixed and subscribed on this 19th day of December 1829 before me John Foote Justice of the Peace New York City 

John Foote the Justice of the Peace before whom the above affidavit was taken do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted

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with White Osborn the person who saith subscribed and affirmed the aforesaid affidavit is a man of verity and that his statements are entitled to full credit given  under my hand this 19th day of Dec 1829.
John Foote 

State of New York
Madison County 
Clerks Office} ss.
I John G. Curtis Clerk of the County of Madison do certify that John Foote Esq. whose name appears to the above affidavit and certificate was a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Madison on the day of the date of the same. And further that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and the signature of "John Foote" to the same and genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this 26th day of December 1829. 
John G. Curtis Clk

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State of New York 
County of Cayuga p
On this twenty fourth day of August 1830 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for said county of Cayuga Edward Annable personally appeared who on his oath declares that he is the same person who personally belonged to the company commanded by Captain Allen in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Wigglesworth in the service of the United States. That his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of New York that he received a certificate of that fact under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War which certified on or about the years eighteen hundred and twenty six according to the resolution of this deponent at the house of this deponent in the town of Aurelius in the county of Cayuga. He lost said certificate that the last this deponent saw it was in his (this deponents) deity. That he vendor of no means of its being destroyed other than it might have got among some useful papers which were about that time written and this deponent verily believes that said certificate was consumed by fire in that way. And further this deponent says that heretofore as this deponent believes in the month of June last an affidavit was made by this deponent of the top of said certificate and was sent on to the Department of War together with an other affidavit of my identity made by Denison Robinson as this deponent has been informed and verily believes to be

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but did not receive a new certificate and this deponent has been informed by said Denison Robinson that he has not received a new certificate for me nor has he received any returned from the same other than a letter from J.L. Edwards a clerk in the pension office in answer to a letter sent by said Robinson subsequent to the sending of the said affidavits requesting information why he had not served some returns from the department of war on the subject of this deponents pension. And this letter so reissued by said Robinson from said Edwards is in substance that a new certificate was issued on the ninth of July 1832 and sent by mail to said Robinson which new certificate said Robinson inform me he has not rec'd which inform although I hereby believe to be true. 
Edward Annable
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year aforesaid 
William Miner Justice of the Peace

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State of New York
Cayuga county
On this twenty fourth day of August 1830 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Cayuga personally appeared Denison Robinson who on his oath declares that he is acquainted with Edward Annable and that he believes that the said Edward Annable described in the annexed affidavit is the same Edward Annable who has signed the same and who is therein described from the fact of personally knowing him for some length of time and from the fact that the affidavits which have been made and sent to the War Department during the last winter to procure his (the said Edward Annable) name to be reinstated upon the pension roll papers through my hands.
Further this deponent saith that some time in the month of June July last past this deponent enclosed to the Secretary of War an affidavit of Edward Annable together with an affidavit of this deponent upon which to obtain a new certificate for said Edward Annable. That this deponent received return from them exact as follows- That on or about the second day of August distant this deponent addressed a letter to the Secretary of War to ascertain the reason why returns had not been followed to me (this deponent) and have earned in answer a letter

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which the following is a copy. 
War Department 
Pension Office
August 7 1830

Sir, 
In reply to your letter of the 2nd instant I have to inform you that a new pension certificate was issued and sent to you by mail on the 9th day of last month for Edward Annable. 
I am respectfully your
Obt Servt
J.L. Edwards

Denison Robinson Esq. 
Fort Byrne
New York

And this deponent further says that no new pension certificate has been received by mail or otherwise by this deponent for Edward Annable and further this deponent says that the letter of which the above is a copy is the only letter or communication which this deponent had received from the last deponent since the said affidavit of said Edward Annable and of this deponent were sent in the month of June last
Denison Robinson

Sworn and subscribed before
me the day and year aforesaid
William Miner Justice of the Peace

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State of New York
Cayuga County
On this twenty fourth day August 1830 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Cayuga personally appeared Horace Perkins who on his oath declares that he is Post Master at Fort Byron, Cayuga County, New York. That there has not been received at the Fort Byron Post Office but one fell letter from the General Distributing Office (Albany) for the State of New York Eastward from the ninth day of July last to the twenty ninth of the same month except one which was distributed to this deponent as appeared from a case full examination of the records of the post office which records are kept by this deponent in person. Ad further this deponent says that there has not been any letter received at the Fort Byron Post Office directed to Denison Robinson from Washington either printed at the war department or otherwise since the ninth day of July last up to that time except one which was received by said Robinson on the fifteenth day of August instant which letter was shown to this deponent at the time it

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was taken out of the office by said Robinson and a copy of which is set forth in the affidavit of said Robinson hereto annexed. 
And further this deponent saith that he is well acquainted with Denison Robinson and Edward Annable and that he herby believes all that is set forth in their respective affidavits hereto annexed are true and further this deponent saith not.
Horace Perkins
Subscribed and sworn
the day and year
above set forth
William Miner Justice of the Peace 

I William Miner a Justice of the Peace of the county of Cayuga do certify that I am well acquainted with Edward Annable, Denison Robinson and Horace Perkins who have subscribed and sworn to their respective affidavits hereto annexed and that their declarations were to be fully relied upon as truth and nothing but the truth. 
William Miner Justice of the Peace

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State of New York
Cayuga County
Clerk's Office} ss
I. Michael S. Myers, Clerk of the County of Cayuga and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for said county: Do hereby certify, that William Miner Esquire, was on the twenty eight day of June one thousand eight hundred and thirty a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and that full faith and credit are to be given to his acts in that capacity; And that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe the signature to the annexed affidavits of William Miner to be his proper hand writing. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said county, and subscribed my name this first day of July A.D. 1830. 
M.S. Myers

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State of New York
County of Cayuga p
On this twenty eighth day of June eighteen hundred and thirty before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Cayuga personally appeared Edward Annable who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Colonel Wigglesworth in the service of the United Sates that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of New York that he received a certificate of that fact under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War which about the year eighteen hundred and twenty six at the house of this deponent in the town of Aurelius in the said county of Cayuga he lost said certificate that the last he saw said certificate it was in his (this deponents) desk that he knows of no means by which it was taken out or by which it was destroyed other than it might have got into a parcel of markers in the desk which were about that time burnt and this deponent hereby believes that said certificate was consumed by fire in that manner. 
Edward Annable
Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year aforesaid
William Miner Justice of the Peace

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State of New York
County of Cayuga p
On this twenty eight day of June eighteen hundred and thirty before me the subscriber a justice of the Peace for the county of Cayuga personally appeared Denison Robinson to me well known who on his oath that he is well acquainted with Edward Annable and well knows that Edward Annable who has subscribed his name to the annexed affidavit is the same Edward Annable described in said affidavit. This deponent further says in explanation of the above that if it may be inferred that this deponent is positively knowing to the facts that the said Edward Annable served in the company and Regiment as set for in his (the said Edwards) affidavit or that his name was placed upon the pension roll and received a certificate and lost it in the manner set forth. He (this deponent) adds that he has no personal knowledge of those fcts nor knows no further than what he has been informed but which he hereby believes to be true and further this deponent saith that has the best reason to believe the fact of the said Edward Annable being the identical Edward Annable he depicts himself to be from the fact that all affidavits which were sent to the Secretary of War during last winter the time the testimony closed in procuring his name to be reinstated upon the

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pension roll passed threw my hands and from these facts and the other knowledge which I have I do hereby believe that the facts set forth in the affidavit of the said Edward Annable are true and for been reported as an officer of the Revolution
Denison Robinson
Sworn and Subscribed
before me the day
and year aforesaid 
William Miner Justice of the Peace

Cayuga County p:
I William Miner a Justice of the Peace of said County before whom the above affidavit was subscribed and sworn do hereby certify that I am acquainted with the above named Denison Robinson and that he is a person of unquestionable verity and that his statements may be relied on as containing the truth and nothing else. Given under my hand at Mentz in said county this 28th day of June 1830. 
William Miner Justice of the Peace

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This indenture made the twelfth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty three Between Warren Scranton and Bitsy his wife of the town of Pompey, County of Onondaga and State of New York of the first part and Edward Annable of the town of Aurelius, County of Cayuga and State of New York of the second part. In town of Chester said parties of the first part for and in consideration of the sum of fourteen hundred and seventy five dollars of good land lawful money to them in hand paid by the said party of the second part. The receipt whereof is hereby confessed and acknowledged have granted bargaining sold varnished released aligned arrived and by these presents do grant bargain sell remiss, release, align and confirm unto the said party of the second part in his actual profession now being and to his hens and assign forever all that contain prior or parcel of land situate lying and bring in the town of Pompey, county of Onondaga and State of New York known and described by a part of lot No. forty one of the original division of said Township. Beginning at a state and stones at the south west corner of the premier now intended to be conveyed and at the northwest corner of land now recoccupied by Julius Mason formerly belonging to Gideon Mosely from there running north on the west rim of said lot twenty nine chains fifty three links to a stake and stones at the south west corner of Curtis and Mindwell Blatchlaus land then or east eighteen chains sixty three links to the center of the road then south in the center of the road twenty nine chains fifty three links to the north east corner of Julius Masons land then west eighteen chains sixty three links to the place of beginning containing fifty four acres of land by the same mower Cap. Toasther with all and singular the handitaments and appurtences thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining and the reason and reason remainder and remainders unto pen and profits thereof and all the estate right title interest claim and ormand whatsoever of the said parties of the first part either in law or equity of in and to the above bargained promises with the heritament and appurtances so hand and to hold the said above described bargained sold and conveyed promises to the said party of the second part his mils and aligns to the sold and only proper use brought and whereof the said party of the second part his him and assigns know

Recorded November the 24th 1823 at 11 o clock AM D Mosely clerk

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and the said Warren and Betsy Scranton of the town County and State aforesaid parties of the first part for themselves then his executors and administrators do consent grant bargain promise and options the about bargained promise in the quiet and peacable palpation of the said party  of the second part his and apions against all and every person or persons lawfully claiming or to claim the whole or part of the above mentioned and described promises pensions will further warrant and defend. In witness whereof the parties of these presents has hereunto interchangeably set their hands and seals the day and year first above written Warren Scranton SS, Betsy Scranton SS subscribed and directed in the presence of John Smith. Levi Chase State of New York Onondaga County Ss on this 12 day of November AD 1823 came personally before me Warren Scranton and Betsy Scranton his wife to me known to be the granters described in and who executed the within deed severally acknowledged that they executed the same and I having examined the said Betsy privately separately and apart from her husband she acknowledged that she executed the same voluntarily without any fear or compulsion from her said husband. 
Daniel Gott Commissioner of C.

Onondaga County
Clerks Office Ps
I certify the above to be a true copy of a deed duly recorded in this office witness my hand and seal of office Sept 22 1829
R.S. Hess Clerk

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This indenture made the twelfth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty four return John Miller and Sarah Miller, his wife of Pompey County of Onondaga of the first part and John Smith of the same place of the second part heretoforth that the said parties of the first party and in consideration of the sum of twelve hundred dollars to them in hand paid by the said party of the second part the receipt whereof is hereby confessed and acknowledged have granted bargained sold missed released aligned and confirmed and confirm into the said party of the second part and to his hers and assigns forever. All that certain tools or parcels of land lying and being in Pompey aforesaid on lot No. forty eight and borrowed as follows beginning fourteen chains North of the south west corner of so lot and running thence east thirty six chains and thirty six links to highway thence north in the centre of said highway to a certain causeway abide than a most thirty six chains and thirty six links to the west rim of so lot forty eight thence south on so west line of so lot to the place of beginning containing forty nine acres of land by the same more or less. Together with all and singular the heriditament and appurtence thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining and the now in and revisions remain and remainders unto and upon and profits thereof and all the staff right title interest claim and demand whatsoever of the said parties of the first part either in law or equity of in and to the above bargained promises with the said heriditaments and appurtences to have and to hold the said promises above described to the said party of the second part-his hers and assigns to the sole and only proper use benefit and behalf of the said party of the second part his hers and assigns person. And the said parties of the first part for themselves then his executors and administrators doth command grant bargain and agree to and with the said party of the second part his hers assigns that the parties of the first part are lawfully sized of the promises aforesaid and that the same are for and clear from all liens charges or incumbances whatsoever and that the above bargained promises in the quiet and peacable possession of the said party of the second part his hers and assigns against all and every person or persons lawfully claiming or to claim the whole or any part

Recorded May 23 1825 at 10 o Clock AM D Moseley Clerk

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three of they will forever warrant and defer. In witness thereof the parties of this first part have hereunto set their hand and seals the day and year first above written John Miller SS Sarah Miller SS sealed and delivered in the presence of Daniel Gott Onondaga County SS. On this 12 day of March 1824 came before me John Miller and Sarah his wife to me known to be the granters described in and who executed the within and severally acknowledge that they executed the same. I having examined the said Sarah privately separately and apart from her said husband acknowledge that she executed the same voluntarily without any fear or compulsion of her. husband. Daniel Gott Com

Onondaga County 
Clerks Office  SS I certify the above to be a true copy of a deed duly recorded in this office witness my hand and seal of office.
Apt 22 1829
RS. Hess Clerk

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Afd
In the case of Edward
Annable 

MS Myers

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State of New York 
Cayuga County } p 
On this 21st day of April 1829 personally appeared Peter Weatherwax who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare that Edward Annable now of the Town of Mentz in the County of Cayuga came to reside with this deponent in the winter of the year 1826 and continued to reside with him for the term or two years or thereabouts and during that time the said Edward Annable paid this deponent as near as he can recollect about the sum of one hundred dollars which amount was paid this deponent for board and necessaries for the said Edward Annable and his wide and that the said Edward Annable paid several small sums to his neighbours for necessaries during said term but this deponent is unable to state the exact amount. 
Sworn and Subscribed the day and year
full above written
John Grover Justice
of the Peace

Peter Weatherwax

State of New York
Cayuga County 
Clerk's office} ss
I, Michael S Myers, Clerk of the county of Cayuga and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the said County: Do hereby certify, that John Grover Esquire, was on the twenty first day of April one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and that full faith and credit are to be given to his acts in that capacity: And that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said John Grover and verily believe the signature to the annexed affidavant "John Grover" to be his proper hand writing. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, and subscribed my name this nineteenth day of June A.D. 1829. 
M.S. Myers

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Substance of the facts set for in the affidavit of Fernando C. Annable

In the year 1818 Edward Annable owned a farm in the town of Aurelius. That in the year 1822 or 23 the farm was sold for $2100 to Mr. Ranney } $2100.00

Edward Annable owed about $400 which was then due to Walter Wood and sourced by a bond and mortgage on the land for the consideration money of the farm} $400

And about $200 to John Fuller borrowed Money which was paid upon the mortgage stated and reduced it down to the above $400} $400

And was owing about sixty in dollars in small debts over and above what the goods and effects sold for in Aurelius all of which as well as the $200 to Fuller and the $400 to Wood were paid by said FC Annable for Edward Annable} $65
$665

Subtract the $665 from $2100 and leaves $1475
665.00
$1435.00

In 1833, Edward Annable bought a farm of Warren Scranton and was to pay $1475 and did pay all the balance of the farm in Aurelius 
Subtract $1435 the balance of the Aurelius farms from $1475 the amount he was to pay for the Scranton farm
$1475

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and leaves Edward Annable in debt $40 besides a debt of $100 to Anna Farnum which will be here aforementioned
$40.00

In 1824 Scranton farm was exchanged for a farm then owned by Miller and the deed of that Miller farm given to John Smith
In the exchange Edward Annable was to have $150 boot money to be paid to Smith and gave him to Annable which was not paid
$150.00

The Miller farm was then sold to White Osborn for $75 and in the sale and exchange that was lost $575
575.00
$575.00

The $150 which Smith kept from Annable and the $575 lost in the exchange of farms was $725
$725.00

Then this left to Annable $750 
Six hundred dollars in bond and mortgage on the Miller farms and assigned to John Fuller for Annable to make a credit so that he could draw small sums as he needed $150 in cash- $750.00

Out of the $150 he paid Anna Farnum $100 borrowed money. See her affidavit now on file in the war office- deduct the $100
The amount Annable was with when the last farm was sold in 1826
$100.00
$650.00

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After this Edward Annable rented a house in Pompey for $30 per year for 1 year 
$30.00
620.00

Paid a hired girl about $40 or 50 for a year deduct
45.00
575.00

The probable expense for provisions cloths and c for the family for that year was about $150 deduct
$150
$425.00
Edward Annable went to Saratoga Springs for heir healths expense- $70 deduct
355.00

Edward Annable supported FC Annable to a public school one year before he was of age probably expenses $150 or $160 
deduct
155.00
$200.00

Edward Annable paid $100 to Peter Weatherwax for boarding and services he left Pompey deduct
$100
$100
 and fifty dollars to Lucas Wheaton for the same Sec their application on file in the war department
50.00
$50.00

Then there are $50 left which has been expended for necessaries almost or quite impossible to ascertain where

The above sums have been paid by the avails of mortgage in hands of John Fuller

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Luther Fuller's affidavit shows that the bond and mortgage in the hands of John Fuller deceased has been paid an settled in small sums as his necessaries require

White Osborn's affidavit shows that sale of the land to him was made in good faith and that he paid all the Miller farms was worth and has paid up the mortgage

John Miller afft. shows that the trade for the Scranton farms was made in good faith and c.

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State of New York
Cayuga County} ss. 
Be it remembered that before me Asaph Stow Esquire a justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared Luther Fuller and made oath in due forms of Law that he this deponent is one of the Administrators of the estate of John Fuller deceased. That in the Spring of eighteen hundred and twenty six he this deponent entered upon the settlement of the aforesaid estate and this deponent further says that the administrators of said estate found in the hands of said John Fuller deceased a bond and mortgage executed by White Osborn to John Smith of a farm lying in the Town of Pompey in the County of Onondaga to secure the payment of six hundred dollars to Edward Annable as this deponent was informed and verily believes to be true. Said bond and mortgage was assigned to the said John Fuller by the said John Smith for the purpose of making a credit from which the said Edward might draw as his necessities should require as this deponent was informed and verily believed to be true. And this deponent further says that according to his best recollection knowledge and

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belief there was one hundred and eighty dollars due the said Edward when the administrators entered upon the settlement of said estate aforesaid. And this deponent further says that the administrators of the aforesaid estates had paid unto the said Edward Annable the one hundred and eighty dollars afore mentioned in small sums as his necessities required. And this deponent further says that the aforementioned sum of six hundred dollars was fully and justly paid to the said Edward Annable in part by the said John Fuller before his deceased and the remainder by the administrators to the full satisfaction of the said Edward and passed receipts accordingly. And further this deponent saith not. 
Luther Fuller

Sworn to and subscribed before me this day of January 1830
Subscribed and sworn this 20th day of January 1830 before me
Asaph Stow

State of New York
Cayuga county
Clerk's Office} ss.
I, Michael S. Myers, Clerk of the County of Cayuga and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the said County: Do hereby certify that Asaph Stow Esquire, was on the Twentieth day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and that full faith and credit are to be given to his acts in that capacity: And that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Asaph Stow and verily believe the signature to the annexed affidavit to be his proper hand writing. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, and subscribed my name this Twenty Fifth day of January A.D. 1830. 
M.S. Myers

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Oct 24
FREE
JL Edwards Esq. 
Pention Officer
Washington 
Ed Annable

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Town of Mentz Oct 15th 1838
J.L. Edwards Esq. 
Sir I am in need of the information now that I requested you to give me last summer concerning the copies of the receipts that was given for the pention of Edward Annable dec'd in your letter of 6th of July 1838 you stated that I must call on Peter Hagner Esq. I have written to him two letters requesting from him the information he has not gave it as I can learn now if you will Please to search the records and send me copys of the receipts of all the sum and sums of money that has been paid as pention money for Edward Annable and to who it was paid to and when it was paid and send me the copy and the bill of expense for your trouble. I will send you the money for so doing the reason why we need this information is some of the heirs say that our father did not draw but nine hundred dollars others say twelve hundred dollars and others say fourteen hundred dollars. Some of them say he never drew any pention money till the year 1831 if so my wife and I wish to know it for we think he drew pention ever since the year 1818. All that we have received from my father's estate is seven dollars and twenty five cents therefore we want to find who it is that got the money from government we are in need of this information as soon as we can conveniently get it in order to make a settlement before the surrogate. 
Please send your letter to Auburn County of Cayuga and State of New York and in doing so you will much oblige your humble servant. 
Lucas Wheton

SS
Hagner Esq. did send me on the first letter I sent to him the amount of what was received after the death of my father not any more information on the subject.

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Onondaga County,
Clerk's Office} ss.
I do certify, that at the date of the Certificate of acknowledgement or proof, to which this is subjoined, the said Daniel Gott Esquire was a Commissioner in and for said County, and duly authorized to take the same; and further, that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said commissioner and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate of the proof or acknowledgement to be his proper hand writing. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas in said county, this 27th day of May eighteen hundred and twenty nine. 

A. Edwards Jr. Dep. Clerk

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Ann Arbor, Mich July 4th 1853
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir, 
Sometime in April last I enclosed to you an affidavit of the identity of Desire Twiss as being one of the eight heirs of Edward Annable, a revolutionary pensioner, to whom is draw the aforesaid pension from the 4th of March 1819 to 20 being $240 deducting $60 paid to Rhoda Fuller and Abbey Haynes, two of the heirs. I also enclose a power of attorney from Mrs Twiss to myself to draw the portion belonging to her. In the former papers sent to your deponent and the proper affidavit of the members, residing at homes of the record his which I said would be sufficient without upsetting the same thing for cash heir. 
I also enclosed a note requesting this deponent for institutes of the papers over not sufficient to which I have received no answers, and have thought that the papers were not received by you, or were mislaid, to my former letter. I received an immediate answer. Will you please inform me as to this fact. 
Yours respectfully, 
E. Lawrence

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Ann Arbor Mich.
Jul 3

FREE
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

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Treasury Department, 
Second Comptroller's Office
April 7th 1853

Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, two of the eight children of Edward Annable dec. a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany Agency, at the rate of Twenty Dollars per month, under the law of the 18 March 1818 has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1819 to the 4 March 1820.
Respectfully yours, 
J.M. Broadhead
Comptroller
g.18

To the Commissioner of Pensions, 
Present.

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Washington Dec. 8, 1852

Sir,
Since I made inquiry of you yesterday relative to the pension papers of Edward Annable whose name could not then be found on the list of Revolutionary pensioners. I have received the enclosed letter giving a more full description of the service and of the pensioner. With the information contained therein, if it is possible, an effectual search may be made. May I trouble you again to have the case looked at and if found please inform me. 
The enclosed letter please return to me.
Very Respectfully
Yours, he
Alpheus Felch 

Mr. Johnson
Chf Clk
Pension Office

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J.L. Edwards 
Washington 

Restore- pen: to com:
1 Feb 1830

red'd 1 Feb 1830

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Washington July 30/30

Sir, 
I desire to solicit your particular and patient examination of the case herewith submitted. I have known Mr. Annable for many years and never heard his honesty questioned by his suspicions and that he is now miserable and poor. I am well satisfied therefore , I sincerely hope that his application may be sustained by his documents. 
Respectfully 
your obt servt
G. Powers

J.L. Edwards Esq.

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E Pension Office
28th July 1829

Revolutionary Claim

Hon John H. Eaton
Secretary of War
Washington City 

FREE
Mason

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Auburn July 11th 1829

Sir, 
We have taken the liberty of accepting you on the subject of Lieutenant Edward Annable's pension where papers are herewith transmitted we are well acquainted with his situation and feel very decisive that he could be again registered to the pension list. It appears that he served during the war with the exception of a very short period and considering his advanced age and indigent circumstances we humbly trust that the Secretary  will give his case a favorable voice as he will readily perceive that during the space of seven years it would be very difficult for an old infirm man like him to account with exceptions for the different charges in his property and as he and his wife have been very much out of health for a number of years it therefore becomes necessary for him to pay a large number of final sums during the time which would be difficult to recollect. So as to leave a regular account current of expenditures and as we are fully satisfied that he justly merits a pension we hope under all circumstances that the Secretary will feel himself justifiable in restoring him.
Very Respectfully yours, 
John Grover
N Garrow
John H. Eaton Esq.

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Edw Annable
NY M ago 
1818

Pension Department 
City of Washington
Dist Columbia

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Syracuse NY Sept 9 1840

Dr Sir, 
Edwd Annable a Lieut. in the Revolution was a pensioner at $20 per month- his pension was suspended for a time, on the supposition he had property.
He was afterwards restored in 1829 or 1830 upon proof that he had no property and as the bices understood, was to be pd during the period of suspension- he died 10th June 1836. His certif. was then returned to the P. Office. 
Judge Smith says he saw the Certif. and that it did allow him for the time he was suspended-yet it is said he has never drawn for that time- a controversy has arrived

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between the administrators and heirs and I want therefore to know how the facts are 
1st. Did the certificate his being reinstates allow pay for the period of suspension?
2d. If so was it then paid
Very Respectfully
yr obt 
James R Lawrence

L Edwards Esq. 
Rev Com

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FREE

Hon. Joel R. Poinsett
Secretary of War
Washington D.C

E Annable NY WD

0-836- Lee 20 57
Army Law Office
Pension Office

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Hon. Joel R. Poinsett Secretary of War

Sir
Edward Annable enlisted in the year 1777 into the Army of the American Revolution in the service of the State of Massachusetts for the term of during the war he served in the 3rd Regiment of Infantry commanded by Col. Wigglesworth and he continued until the Revolution of the Army and was regularly discharged from the 4th Regiment by Col. Shepherd and he has never recovered a deed for his land nor any commutation thereof. I wish for one to inform me where the land has whether sold or not and furthermore respecting his pension how much back he has been dead about 18 months and I wish to know how much of his pension he has received and if there is any money due to heirs they say some of them that he has never received but 1500 dollars but I believe he has received more. 
I wish for information concerning the officer as soon as can be. 
Direct your letter to Auburn Post Office Cayuga County New York 
Yours with respect
Lucas Wheaton 

Dec 3rd 1837

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Auburn October 18th 1828
Hon Peter B. Porter 

Sir, 
I herewith transmit the claims of John Pickard and Lieutenant Edward Annable for a pension and when acted upon it is their request that the result be communicated to me. 
Permit me to remark in the case of Lieut Annable that he is a feeble old man and from long and faithful service in the revolutionary war he perhaps more than in ordinary cases merits a pension. He has not as you will perceive mostly conformed to the regulations of the war department nor can he owning to the decayed state of his mind he is evidently destitute of the means for his support other than charity. 
Respectfully
Obs and Esteem
John Grover

His discharge is now at the war department but with his first application for a pension
JG

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Scipio September 7th 1819

Gentlemen
Mr. Edward Annable having applied to me to select two impartial freeholders to estimate his real and personal estate, agreeable to acquaint from the War Department, I do accordingly select Nathaniel Garrow and Seth Burges Esquire for the above purpose.
Yours Ser
Jonathan Richmond

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Pension Office 
2 Sep 1830

I ssuc a new cert:

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Port Byron Cay Co New York
Augt 24 1833

John H Eaton Esq
Secretary of War
Sir
I have encl. a communication from the Department of War, pension office, dated Augt 4 1830 informing me that a new pay certificate had been sent out by mail for Edward Annable on the 9th July last upon affidavits previously sent. No such pay certificate has been encl. by me. I have made out office for your consideration upon which to obtain a new pension certificate. It is of importance to Old Mr. Annable that he should have the certificate in time to dear what is due him on the 4th Sept next. I have not procured the clerk certificate that William Miner before whom the affidavits were taken is a pension of the war department of the distance to the clerks office is from Port Byron and it would necessarily cause a delay of one day at least and because it is already authenticated that Mr. Miner is a justice by the clerk certificate annexed to the affidavit sent to the war department in the month of June last to obtain a new certificate. 
I am very resply
Your obt Servt
Denison Robinson

Direct to me at Port Byron Cay Co
New York

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Port Byron 
Aug 26

FREE

John H. Eaton Esq
Secretary of War
Washington

Revolutionary Claims

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John H Eaton Esq. 
Secretary of War
Sir
Enclosed are two affidavits one made by Edward Annable and one by myself to procure a new pay certificate from the Department of War to entitle said Annable to his pension as a Lieutenant of the Revolution. It would be a matter attended with much trouble to prove by any one that the positive fact that Mr. Annable is the identical person who served in said company and regiment by general reportation it may be so proved. I believe the facts set forth in my affidavit will satisfy the instructions sent by you. If the office be not sufficient you will please point wherein . Direct to me Port Byron Cay Co New York 
I am very resply yours 
Denison Robinson
Port Byron Cay Co N York
July 8 1830

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Revolutionary Claims

Free

Honl Gersham Powers
M Congress
Washington

Auburn NY

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Port Byron Cay Co New York

Dr Sir
I here enclose you several affidavits in relation to claims of Edward Annable for a pension under the Act of Congress of May 1st 1820. Mr. Grover of Auburn has had the management for some time but on account of the distance to Auburn and the difficulty for the old man to do the business that distance he employed me to make out a post of the report. I found it difficult to make the affidavit requisite on account of the unknown situation the papers were in. Grover is not able to give a history of the business and Annable is equally unable on account of old age but I hear that a declaration is now on file in the War Department of Edward Annable and likewise the affts of Annar Farnam, Peter Weatherwax and Lucas Wheaton. Mr. Grover and Mr Annable both inform me that you have been spoken to to use the claim for Mr. Annable. It is requisite that you take the papers here with sent and examine them also examine those on file in the war office.

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and make such use of these as shall appear to you the most attenable to obtain the pension which the old man most certainly does deserve and stand in absolute need of. It is desired that you appear in person before the War Department and urge this claim. 
Should any other affidavits be wanted send immediately to me with full instructions of the affidavits necessary to obtain the person. 
You will discover among the papers hire sent an abstract of F.C. Annable affidavit showing the disposal of the Old Man state as it changed from one to another. 
It is desired that you attend to the business immediately so that the old man may have the benefit of the pension on the 4th March. 
The application was made the 15th Sept 1828. You will therefore agree that he is entitled to a pension from that time. 

Resply your
Denison Robinson 
Jan 25 1830

Gersham Powers Esq.
Washington

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P.S. Should you have any spre publ

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Auburn Jany 6 1820

My dear sir, 
Mr. Edward Annable, of Aurelius, begs you to do him the favor to attend to a matter interesting to him. 
You heretofore named Mr. Garrow and Mr. Burgess to inquire into and report their opinion of his circumstances in order to have it decided whether he was entitled to the pension, which had been granted him. The report has been made and forwarded to Washington. Mr. Annable wishes you to learn whether it has been received and what determination has been made. If you will plan to write me on this subject, you will do a favor to Mr. Annable

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I wish you a pleasant trip and a safe and happy return to your family and friends. 
Yours cordially 
J.W. Hulbert 

Hon Mr. Richmond

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Port Byron Cayuga New York 
June 29 1840 

J.R. Poinsett Esq
Sec. of War
Sir
I am requested by on of the heirs of Edwrd Annable deceased late of Marcellus Onondaga Co NY formerly of this county and late a Revolutionary Pensioner of the U.S. under the Act of 1818 to ensure whether the said Annable (who was an ensign or Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War) ever received any other pension stipend or compensation of any kind where in money or lands besides the money sent under the Act of 1818 which was a monthly pay and if so how much where and to whom paid. These inquiries do not extend further back than six years. 
I am very resply yours
Denison Robinson

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O.W.&N, Div.
I 44, 548
L. W. B.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
WASHINGTON, D, C.,

December 1, 1896.

Madam:

Replying to your request for information concerning the military record of Edward Annable, a soldier in the Revolutionary War, you are advised that he made application for pension September 13, 1819, at which time he was residing in Cayuga county, N,Y. (age not stated), and his pension was allowed for fourteen months' actual service as an ensign in the Mass. troops, Revolutionary War; a part of the time he served under Capt., Allen and Col. Wigglesworth, (place of enlistment not stated).


Very respectfully,

Commissioner,

Miss Abbie Weatherwax, 
Port Byron, N.Y.