Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 17,236, Nathan Banks, Conn.

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(8--1776)
Service
Conn. [Connecticut]
Banks, Nathan
Mabel
Number
W 17.236
B.L. Nr. 26131-160-55
Contents

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J. B. Sturges
I J. B. Sturges of the Town and County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut of lawful age hereby certify that in the Records of persons married by the Rev'd W. M. Tennent who was for many years Pastor of the Presbyterian or Congregational Church and Society in the Parish of Greenfield in the Town of Fairfield in the Town of Fairfield & County & State aforesaid is found the following Seventeen hundred Eighty One April first (1781) April 1st Nathan Banks and Mabel Bradley were married.
J. B. Sturges 

I, J. B. Sturges above named depose & say that I hold the office of Pastor of the Presbyterian or Congregational Church and Society in the Parish of Greenfield in the Town and County aforesaid & that the above is a true extract from the Records of said Church with the exception of the date which is expressed on the Records in fair legible figures as follows "1781 April 1st
J. B. Sturges Pastor 
of 
The afforesaid Church

State of Connecticut 
County of Fairfield
S. S. Fairfield
On this 3rd day of April, 1847 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in & for the County and State aforesaid duly authorized by law to administer oaths personally appeared the Rev'd J. B. Sturges above named & made oath to the truth of the above certificate by him subscribed who I certify is a Clergyman in good standing whose deposition is intitled to full credit. 
Bradford Winton Jus'ce Peace

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I, Charles Wakeman of the Town & County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut of near fifty five years of age testify & say that I have been acquainted with Nathan Banks late of said Fairfield now Dec'd from my youth up to the day of his death & have for near twenty five years lived in the same neighborhood that he was Reputed a Soldier of the Revolution and was a Pensioner of the United States under the Act of Congress of June 1832 of One hundred dollars a year & on the Roll of the Connecticut Agency, or that he received his money from Hartford Agency that the said Nathan Banks died at said Fairfield on the 10th day of March 1847 leaving a widow by the name of Mabel Banks who is now a Widow & has been ever since the death of the said Nathan Banks & for whose benefit this Deposition is taken. 
Charles Wakeman

State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield
SS. Fairfield
On this 12th day of April 1847 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in & for the County and State aforesaid duly authorized by law to administer Oaths Personally appeared Charles Wakeman above named who is personally known to me to be a credible witness and made Oath to the facts contained in the above Deposition by him subscribed Before me
Bradford Winton Jus'ce Peace

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9342
Connecticut 93
Nathan Ba[nks]
of Fairfield in the State of Conn who was a pr 2 Serg't in the company comman[ded] by Captain Sharp of the Regt commanded by Col. Whiting in the Connecticut Line line for 
1 year Sergeant 60 cents
1 year private 40 cents
[below an underline] $100
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 100 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Duplicate of Pension issued the 8 day of May 1833 and sent to Tomlinson, Fairfield, Ct.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $200.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. 33 $50.00
[below an underline] $250.00
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Francis F. Francion Clerk, 
Book E. Vol 3rd Page 4

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State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield}
1st District of Fairfield April the 13th 1833 
on this 13th day of April 1833 personally appeared in open Court before the Court and Justice for the District aforesaid now sitting Nathan Banks a resident of this district and County of Fairfield aforesaid aged seventy two years the 6th day of May 1832 who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in addition to and in explanation of the declaration he made the 24th day of July 1832 and to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 - the declarant says that in all of his terms of service mentioned in his first or former declaration whether on Guard on the Coast or elsewhere the service was constant during the period of his engagement to the total exclusion of his own private concerns & employments - or in other words of his usual occupation - in the former declaration it is stated that he the Applicant enlisted in 1777 as a private in a Company of Connecticut State troops under Captain Eliphalet Thorp of Fairfield for eight months but does not state that he served eight months; he at this time served eight months and was honorably discharged - In all the periods of service mentioned in the former declaration he served in the Connecticut State troops or he was employed by the authority and was in the Service of the State of Connecticut and in all of these he served as a private soldier except the Term of Service of twelve months in 1780 when he enlisted as a Sergeant and did the duty of a Sergeant for that period. although he had no written warrant - I have procured the Testimony of the Rev'd Nathaniel Foreman

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of Werten [?] as to my general character for revolutionary services. He has been occasionally with us to [illegible] and I did not know when I made my former declaration, that he was sufficiently acquainted with my Revolutionary Character to be able to testify respecting it - I have endeavored to remove all the objections in the Brief of the pension department to my former declaration and have so far as I know presented the best evidence and explanation in my power - 
Nathan Banks
Sworn to and subscribed in the day and year aforesaid before David [illegible] Judge of the Court & [illegible] for the District aforesaid -

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State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield}
1st District of Fairfield April the 13th 1833
I Nathaniel Freeman a resident of the Town of Werten in the County aforesaid and as Clergyman hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Mr. Nathan Banks who has subscribed the foregoing declaration and believe him to be seventy two years of age and I also certify that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood when he [illegible] to have been a soldier in the revolution and I concur in the same opinion and I also believe him to be a man of truth. 
Nath'l Freeman

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year aforesaid before David Hill Judge of Probate for the District aforesaid - 

State of Connecticut 1st District of Fairfield April the 13th 1833 
I David Hill Judge of the Court of Probate for the District aforesaid do hereby certify that Nathaniel Freeman is a Clergyman who has [illegible] for some few months part in the Parish of Greenfield in Fairfield and I [illegible] also certify that Thomas B Osborn before whom some of the depositions herewith mentioned were taken is a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut. 
Daniel Hill Judge
Probate for the district afores'd

I David Hill Junior Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Fairfield aforesaid do hereby certify that David Hill before whom the foregoing declaration & the deposition of the Rev. Nathaniel Freeman were taken and who has signed the foregoing [illegible] as judge of probate for the district of Fairfield aforesaid and that several foregoing signatures of his name on his genuine signatures [illegible] whereof I have at my hand & the seal of office. April 13th 1833

David Hill Jr Clerk

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State of Connecticut County of Fairfield} District of Fairfield May the 3rd AD 1833
On this 3rd day of May 1833 personally before me appeared in open court before the Court of Probate for the district aforesaid now sitting Nathan Banks a resident of the district and State aforesaid who being first duly sworn with on his oath make the following declaration in addition to the two former declarations he has made and in explanation of the declaration he made the 24th day of July 1832 - the deponent says that he is very deaf. That it is with great difficulty that he is made to hear, and consequently to understand what people say to him - that he labours under great embarrassments and is subject to frequent mistakes in consequence of this in his [illegible] and in his communication with mankind - This evening [?] to this circumstance in all probability that the [illegible] made in his first under Capt. Ebenezer Hill that he served two months - This was a draft but it was his brother Aaron Banks elder than himself who was drafted and he the declarant took his brothers place and served as a substitute in his [illegible] - the Reason of this the declarant says was that his Brother Aaron having [illegible] married into a Tory Family hic viz hic His brother Aarons wife was so bitterly and obstinately opposed to her husbands serving with the Rebels as the Americans were then called that at the [illegible] solicitation of his brother and to preserve the peace of his brothers family. In the declarants took his brothers place and served two months as stated in his first declaration - said [illegible] & said Nathan is unable to prove that he served in 1779 as a substitute - 
Nathan Banks

Sworn to and subscribed on this day and year aforesaid before David Hill judge of this Court of Probate for the district aforesaid 

State of Connecticut - District of Fairfield May the 3rd 1833
I David Hill Judge of the Court of Probate for the district aforesaid do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Mr. Nathan Banks who has submitted the foregoing declaration that he is a man of truth that his testimony is entitled to full credit and I also know him to be so deaf as to require a very high elevation of the voice with the mouth of the speaker  placed near his ear to make him hear any communications that are to be made to him - 
David Hill Judge

State of Connecticut 1st District of Fairfield May the 3rd 1833
I David Hill Jun. Clerk of the Court of Probate for the district aforesaid do hereby certify that David Hill before whom the foregoing dhe foregoing certificate is Judge of Probate for the district of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut and that the foregoing signature of his name is his genuine signature In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office
David Hill Jr Clerk

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State of Connecticut District of Fairfield
On this 24th day of July 1832 personally appeared in open Court before David Hill Judge of the Court of Probate for the District aforesaid Nathan Banks a resident of the Town of Fairfield in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut of the District aforesaid aged seventy two years who being first duly sworn according to Law dot on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress dated June 7th 1832

I was born the 6th day of May j1760 in Greenfield parish in the town of Fairfield and State of Connecticut. I have a record of my age at home in the Bible. I have always lived in Fairfield except when occasionally absent on business & in the year 1775 I was drafted and was ordered to New York and served two months in the Connecticut Militia under Ebenezer Hill as Captain and in the Regiment of Colonel Jonathan Dinsen [?] of said Fairfield at the expiration of which time I came home to Fairfield and it was cold months when I returned - my Father having taken my place in the Company. In the summer of 1776 I was drafted for one month and served out the time  under Col Whiting of [illegible] I am first ordered to Hartford then to Greens[illegible] then to Northfield which was then in the town of Fairfield, to cut Fachines - 
In April 1777 at Fairfield I enlisted for eight months as a private in the company of Connecticut State troops commanded by Captain Eliphalet Thorp of said Fairfield and Nathan Seeley of Fairfield was Lieutenant - This company and another company commanded by Captain Stephen Thorp of Fairfield were stationed in the Town of Fairfield the latter company was stationed at Mill River and the other to which I belonged was stationed in the Village called the first society in the said Town of Fairfield bordering in the Sound  
General Gould S Silliman of the Connecticut militia frequently reviewed us Our [illegible] was to guard the coast and to repel the occasional incursions of the enemy. 
In July 1779 my brother Peter Banks was drafted as a private for one month in the Connecticut Militia in the company of [illegible] commanded by Captain H John of New Canaan. I went as his substitute and served in his place in said Company  - we were ordered to [illegible] where we were [illegible] and there I [illegible] only twenty four days which with the time in going to made the Major Ezra Han of Danbury -

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In April 1780 at Fairfield I enlisted as a Sergeant for twelve months in the Company of State troops commanded by Captain Isaac Jarvis of Fairfield and I entered as a Sergeant in said Company although I never received [crossed out  / a command  / end crossout] a written warrant - I was with the part of said Company stationed at Fairfield as the said Company stationed at the Battery - I served the whole of the twelve months - Soren Jumy [?] of said Fairfield was Lieutenant of said Company and Charmody Denn [?] was Ensign - 

In the winter of 1781 I was drafted for two months according to the best of my recollection and was just under the command of Ensign [crossout] Jehiel Sherwood of Fairfield and was ordered to a plan called Cimpo [?] in said Fairfield o the sea shore; where a guard was stationed under the command of the said Sherwood and where I served out the two months - 
 - Nathan Banks
Sworn to and subscribed in the day and date aforesaid by  me
David Hill Judge of Probate
I hereby relinquish any claim whatever to a Pension or annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State - Fairfield July the 24th - 1832
Nathan Banks

Sworn and subscribed on the day and date aforesaid before me Daniel Hill Judge of Probate

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I Samuel Banks residing in the Town of Fairfield and State of Connecticut hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Nathan Banks who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration that I believe him to be seventy two years age, that he is reported and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that I concur in the same opinion and I also know him to be a man of truth and veracity
Fairfield July the 24th 1832
Samuel Banks
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year of said [illegible]
David Hill Judge of Probate

I Thomas Wheeler residing in the Town of Fairfield and County and State of Connecticut hereby certify that Mr. Nathan Banks of said Fairfield [crossed out] was with one half of the troops of these to which he belonged in the month of July 1779 and went to Norremark [?] and served twenty four days under Captain N John of New Canaan and Major Ezra Han of Danbury who commanded the Regiment. This I know from a pay Roll on which Mr. Nathan Banks name is written which I have in my possession made out at the time. I also believe Mr. Banks to be a man of truth and veracity - Fairfield July the 24th 1832
Thomas Wheeler 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me David Hill Judge of Probate

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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations presented by the war department. that
the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that is appears to the Judge that Benjamin Banks: Benjamin Brothwell: Thomas Wheeler and Hezekiah Bron who reside in Fairfield and Joseph Denn who resides in Merten, who are common men. (there being no clergyman now
living in Greenfield or who is a acquainted with Mr. Banks revolutionary character) are credible Persons and that their statements are entitled to credit - 
David Hill Judge of Probate

I David Hill Jun'r Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District aforesaid do hereby certify tha the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the court the matter of the application of Nathan Banks of Fairfield within said District for a Pension - 

In In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of office this 24th day of July 1832 at Fairfield aforesaid  - David Hill  Jr. Clerk

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I Benjamin Banks of Fairfield in Fairfield County Connecticut being duly sworn do testify and say that in the year 1775 I was a Private in the Company of Connecticut Militia commanded by Captain Ebenezer Hill in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Jonathan Dimon and was at to New York in the army under General Washington. that Mr. Nathan Banks of Fairfield with whom l was then & have ever since been well acquainted was a private in said Company and did duty with for a period of about two months tho the particular time I cannot certainly recollect. I was in the army at New York for a period of nine months and was there when the army retreated from New York to White Plains. Some time in the winter of 1775  & 1776 the said Nathan Banks joined said Company and did duty as a private as near as I can recollect for the period two months - The Roll was called every night and morning & when I was not out on guard I saw said Nathan every day - He returned home some time before I did & before New York was taken by the enemy - I well recollect that the said Nathan’s brother came on and took his place in the Company when the said Nathan returned home. Benjamin Banks sworn to & subscribed this 17th day of July AD 1832 before me Thomas B Osborne Justice of the Peace

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I Benjamin Brothwell of Fairfield in Fairfield County Connecticut do testify and say that I knew Nathan Banks of said Fairfield in the Revolutionary war. April 1777 I enlisted for eight months at a private in the Company of Connecticut State troops commanded by Captain Eliphalet Thorp and was stationed at Fairfield, in the town. The said Nathan Banks was a private. I served in said Company for the eight months. We joined the Company at the same time and at the end of the eight mouth were discharged at said Fairfield. 
Benjamin Brothwell
Sworn to & subscribed this 17th day of July AD 1832 before me Thomas B Osborne Justice of the Peace

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We Hezekiah Burr and Joseph Downs both of Fairfield County Connecticut said Burr residing in Fairfield & said Downs in Weston being duly sworn do testify & say that we are or acquainted with Nathan Banks for Fairfield that we knew him in the Revolutionary war, that in the month of April 1780 we enlisted a the Company of Connecticut State troops commanded by Captain Isaac Jarvis and were with a part of said Company stationed as a guard at Fairfield, in the town. We enlisted for one year and served out the whole time in the guard at said Fairfield. The said Nathan Banks enlisted at the same time we did and served & acted in said Guard as a Sergeant during the whole year. 
Hezekiah Burr
Joseph Downs
Sworn to & subscribed this 19th day of July 1832 before me Thomas B Osborne Justice of the Peace

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Fairfield County Fairfield April 13 1833
I certify that Benjamin Banks, Benjamin Brothwell, Hezekiah Burr and Joseph Downs who have subscribed and sworn to the foregoing Depositions are all of them credible witnesses. Thomas B Osborne Justice of the Peace 
State of Connecticut Fairfield} l Thomas B Osborne Clerk for the County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut do hereby certify that Thomas B Osborne whose own proper signature is annexed to each of the foregoing certificates is now for more than one year last part has been a Justice of the Peace for said Fairfield County duly commissioned and sworn and duly authorized to administer oaths and take depositions in testimony whereof l have hereunto set my seal my hand and affixed the seal of said County Court in Fairfield this 13th day of April AD 1833 Thomas B Osborne Clerk of said County Court

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4519 
Connecticut 1891 
Mabel Banks Widow of Nathan Banks who died on the 10 d. March 1847 of Fairfield County State of Connecticut
Who was a private sergeant in the Company commanded by Captain Sharp of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Whiting  Connecticut in the Revolutionary War for 1 year private 1 year sergeant
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of $100 --- cents per annum, to commence on the 10th day of March, 1847, when he died. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 day of March, 1848, and sent to Bradford, Winston, Easton, Fairfield County, Connecticut
Arrears to the 4th of
Semiannual allowance ending
{Revolutionary Claim Act of July 4, 1836, Section the 3}
Recorded by H Rampkin Cle
Book 6 Vol 1 Page 7 c
Repealed 1891 May 2 CS Bradly history prior
d. June 15 1858 AB

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6935 Mabel Banks widow of Nathan Banks, Connecticut. Act 4 July 1836
Married 1781 [illegible] died 10 March 1847
[Illegible] 12 month sergeant $60 12 month private $40 / $100
[Illegible] 10 March 1847
Bradford Winston [illegible] Fairfield County Connecticut

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State of Connecticut County of Fairfield}  SS Fairfield
On this 12th day of April 1847 personally appeared before the Court of Probate within & for the Probate District of Fairfield in the County & State aforesaid Mabel Banks an inhabitant of said Town of Fairfield in the County and State aforesaid in the eighty sixth year of her age who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the third Section of the Law of Congress approved July 4th 1836 Granting half pay to Widows or orphans where their husbands and father have died of wounds received in the military services of the United States in certain cases & for other purposes. That she is the Widow of Nathan Banks late of said Fairfield who was a Soldier in the Revolutionary War served as a private & Sergeant in said War of & made proof of the same to the satisfactions of the War Department had obtained a pension certificate for said services under the Act of Congress of June 7th 1832 of One hundred dollars a year as by the records of the War Department will appear … A certificate of that amount was sent to the said Nathan Banks in his life time & is herewith surrendered he having drawn dispension money as the same became due up 4th of March 1847.
She further says that she has no documentary evidence establishing the Pension of her Deceased Husband. 
She further declares that She was married to the said Nathan Banks on the first day of April 1781 by the Reverend W. M. Tennent of the Parish of Greenfield in said Town of Fairfield, which was prior to the Renduring [?] of his last military services, that her husband the aforesaid Nathan Banks died on the Tenth day of March 1847 that She is now a Widow l has Remained a Widow

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wu since that period as will more fully appear by Reference to the proof hereto annexed 
Sworn to Subscribed on the day & year above written Before me 
Mabil +Banks her mark
William Sherwood Judge of the Court of Probate for the district of Fairfield 
State of Connecticut County of Fairfield}  I William Sherwood Clerk of the Court of Probate holden at Fairfield in & for the Probate District of Fairfield in the County & State aforesaid do certify that the foregoing contains the proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Mabel Banks for a pension. I further certify that Satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court that Nathan Banks was a pensioner of the United States under the Act of Congress of June 7th 1832 at the rate of one hundred dollars a year was a resident of said Town of Fairfield in the County & State aforesaid & died on the tenth day of March 1847 & that he has left a Wider by the name of Mabel Banks, when a girl was Mabel Bradley who has signed & made oath to the foregoing Declaration for Pension I further certify that William Sherwood Esquire is Judge of the Court of Probate for the District aforesaid & that the signature of his name to the foregoing declaration of Mabel Banks for a Pension as Judge of Probate is genuine I further certify that Bradford Winton Esquire is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid duly authorized to administer oaths& take the acknowledgement of deeds and depositions & that the signature of his name as Justice of the Peace to the Depositions of the Reverend J. B. Sturges & Charles Wakeman hereto annexed are genuine 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name of office and affixed the seal of said Court of Probate at Fairfield this 12th day of April 1847 William C Sherwood Clerk

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cir H G Faut Sept 22/ 55
Not Bd page 20.
56929} Act Mar 3 / 55 
Rec April 11 / 55
Mabel Banks widow of
Nathan Banks Private & Sergeant
Pensions
War Revolution
Connecticut July 26 - no 4519
AV: 160 Act May 17 / 56
B O [Illegible] 
44 H.G. Fant
Present

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United States of America State of Connecticut Fairfield County} SS Town of Fairfield 
On this 30th day of March 1855 personally appeared before me Bradford Winten a Notary Public in and for the State of Connecticut duly authorized by law to administer oaths Mabel Banks aged ninety for years & over a Resident of the Town and County of Fairfield State aforesaid who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Nathan Banks late of said Fairfield deceased who was a private & Seargeant in the Shore Guard in the Revolutionary War & made proof of said service to the satisfaction of the War Department & obtained a Pension for said service under the act of June 7th 1832 of One hundred dollars per annum, which he drew semiannually during life & that he died on or about the tenth of March 1847 
She would further state that in the year 1847 after her husbands death she made a declaration accompanied with proof of marriage it for a pension for the service of deceased husband the aforesaid Nathan Banks under the act of July 4th 1836 of the same amount which her deceased husband received during his life which was granted her one a pension certificate was sent her for One hundred dollars per annum which she has received semiannually to the present time. The Pension Certificate is dated March 16th AD 1848 as will appear by reference to the record in the Pension Office at Washington and numbered 4519 and that she is now in the receipt [crossed out] Declarant would further state that under the Act of March 1855 [End crossed out] of said Pension. She further says that her deceased husband was in actual service in the Revolutionary War for more than fourteen days of was honorably discharged. For further proof of service she refers to his declaration now in the Pension Office at Washington. She further states that she was married to the said Nathan Banks in said Fairfield on the first day of April AD 1781 by one Mc Tennent a Clergyman that her name before said marriage was Mabel Bradley that her said husband died at said Fairfield.

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on the 10th day of March AD 1847 and that the is now a widow
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March third 1855
Mabel Banks her + mark 
We Charles Wakeman and Pamelia Banks both residents of Fairfield Town & County State of Connecticut upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed & acknowledged by Mabel Banks by her making her cross in our presence; and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be 
Charles Wakeman 
Pamelia Banks
The foregoing declaration & affidavit were sworn to & subscribed before me on the day & year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the identical person she represents herself to be; and that I have no interest in this claim.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office in the County & State aforesaid on the day & date first before mentioned 
Bradford Winton Notary Public 
The Commission of Pensions will forward my land warrant & all communications relative thereto to Bradford Winton of Easten in Connecticut who as my agent & Attorney in the prosecution of this claim will [illegible] said warrant are transmit the same to me. 
Mabel Banks her + mark 
In person of Charles Wakeman

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I Charles Wakeman of Fairfield Town & County d State of Connecticut and near Sixty three years of age testify & say that I was well acquainted with Nathan Banhs late of said Town of Fairfield deceased that he was reputed to be a soldier in the Revolutionary War & I was knowing to his being a pensioner of the United States at the rate of One hundred dollars a year that he died on the tenth day of March 1847 and I attended his funeral, that at his death he left a widow by the name of Mabel Banks who is now a widow & has been ever since his death. I further certify that the said Mabel Banks is a pensioner of the United States at the rate of One hundred dollars per annum and now is in the receipt of said pension for the military service of her said deceased husband Nathan Banks 
Charles Wakeman 
State of Connecticut Fairfield County} SS Town of Fairfield
On this 30th day of March AD 1855 before the subscriber a Notary Public in & for the County & State aforesaid duly authorized by law to administer oaths personally appeared Charles Wakeman above named to me well known to be a credible witness who subscribed his name to the foregoing deposition & made oath to the truth of the same
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal of Office in the County & State aforesaid on the day & date last above mentioned 
Bradford Winton Notary Public

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Rev. and 1812 Wars Section AWF/cel 
April 24,1929 
Emma Ferris R.F.D. 9 Fairfield Connecticut 
Madam: I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W.17236, it appears that Nathan Banks was born, May 6, 1760, in the parish of Greenfield, Fairfield, Connecticut. 
While residing at said Fairfield, he enlisted and served with the Connecticut Troops as follows: In 1775, two months as a substitute for his brother, Aaron, in Captain Ebenezer Hill's Company, Colonel Jonathan Dimon's Regiment; in the summer of 1776, one month as private in Colonel Whiting's Regiment; from April, 1777, eight months as private in Captain Eliphalet Thorp's Company; in July, 1779, twenty-four days as substitute for his brother, Peter, in Captain St. John's Company under Major Ezra Starr; from April, 1780, one year as sergeant in Captain Isaac Jarvis' Company; in the winter of 1781, 2 two months under Ensign Jehiel Sherwood.

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He was allowed pension on his application executed July 24, 1832, at which time he was living at Fairfield, Connecticut. He died there, March 10, 1847. The soldier married, April 1, 1781, in the parish of Greenfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, Mabel Bradley. She was allowed pension on her application executed April 1st, 1847, at which time she was living in Fairfield, in the eighty-sixth year of her age. There are no data as to children. 
Respectfully, E. W. MORGAN Acting Commissioner.

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[Left hand column] 
November 16 /97 Mrs. Henry T. Bulkley, Southport Connecticut
Miss G. E. Banks, Southport, Connecticut
From December 1901 here to above
August 14 1903 Miss Caroline Betts Fairfield Connecticut CHJ
November 19 1904 History to Dr. S. W. Osborne Bridgeport Connecticut
April 22 1905 History to George F. Banks, Bridgeport Connecticut
1921 March 11 History to Mrs. Herbert B Sherwood & letterise W. F. 17459 Jos. Platt
1929 April 24 History to Emma Ferris Aug
[Right hand column] 
17236
Revolutionary War Widow etc.
File No. 17236
Mabel Banks widow of Nathan Banks Sergeant Revolutionary War
Act July 4th 1836
Index: Vol. 1, Page 36 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1933 – June 10 – List to Archibald F Bennett Atty

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Fairfield, May 3. 1833. 
Sir, Nathan Banks having made an explanatory declaration relative to his service in the year 1775, I herewith return his application in the confident expectation that his statement with the certificate of Judge Hill regarding his deafness will remove every objection to the allowance of his claim. I take leave to refer you to the suggestions in my note of the 16th ult., in relation to the [illegible] & justice of allowing him the pension of a sergeant.
With much esteem I am your obedient servant
G. Tomlinson
J. L. Edwards, Esquire

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June 27 Southport Conn June 24
James L. Edwards, Comm’r City of W
C. G. [illegible] proof Mabel Banks

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James L. Edwards Esq.
Sir 
I herewith send the comptrollers certificate which I trust will be satisfactory in establishing the claim of Widow Mabel Banks to Pension. You will readily perceive it would be impossible to procure the Comptrollers Certificate establishing the two month service on the lines so called, but that service is abundantly proved by Gershom Wakeman Esq. who was a member of the same Guard, but as regards the service there can be no doubt. You will of course have the goodness to allow the widow 20 Months services as alleged in her Declaration & send me a Pension Certificate for that am’t.  
Also I send you enclosed the Depositions of Widow Mabel Banks & Benjamin Wilson proving the ages of this the children of the said Mabel of the Deceased Eliliah which I hope will be satisfactory. 
I Am Sir yours respectfully Bradford Winton
Wester June 22nd 1839

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Nathan Banks Con. Act 7 June 1832 $100.00 /an
To what time was he last paid?
G. C. A. 
Pension Office March 13th 1843
Paid to 4th March 1849
B. L. B.
Died March 10 1847

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Nathan Banks Conn.
1775 2 mo pri as a substitute, Capt Hill, Col Dimon
1776 1 mo pri Col Whiting
1777 8 mo Private Capt Eliphalet Thorp
1779 24 days substitute Capt St John Col Starr
1780 12 mo Sergeant Capt Jarvis
1781 2 mo Sergeant Ensign Sherwood
26131 Notary

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56.929 
Mabel Banks widow Nathan Banks Connecticut
Act March 3rd 1855 For 160 acres 
Hamilton G Frant Washington City

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State of Connecticut. 
By his Excellency HENRY DUTTON Governor of said State. TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Know ye that Bradford Winton was on the 12th day of March 1855 for the term of 2 years from and after said date appointed a notary public in the said state, duly constituted and commissioned, and that to his acts and attestations as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court. [crossed out] that the within attestation is in the form and by the proper officers and that I believe the signatures of said [underlined blank in form left blank] thereunto to be genuine. [End crossed out] 
Dutton
In Testimony whereof, I have caused the public Seal of the State to be hereby affixed, this 4 day of April AD 1833, and in the seventy- [crossed out] eighth [end crossed out] ninth year of the Independence of the United States of America. By his Excellency the Governor. O. H. Perry Secretary of State

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WAR DEPARTMENT. Revolutionary Claim. 
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Nathan Banks of the State of Connecticut  who was a private and Sergeant during the Revolutionary War is entitled to receive One hundred dollars and ___ cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year. 
Given at the War Office of the United Stutes, this eighth day of May one thousand eight hundred and thirty three 
John Robb Acting Secretary of War
Examined and countersigned} --- J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions

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6935 May 7 1847 le of Mabel Banks  July 4. 1836
Easton CR May 5
James L. Edwards, Esquire Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D. C.
No. 6935

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Dear Sir 
Herewith I send you the Declaration of Mabel Banks Widow of Nathan Banks late of Fairfield Dc’d for a Pension under the Act of Congress of 1836. Mr. Banks drew his pension regularly up to the 4th of March 1847 at which time Mrs. Banks pension will commence. Mr. Banks died on the tenth of March 6 days after the drawing of his last balance The Pension Certificate of Mr. Banks is herewith surrendered supposing it to be the better course, that hers may commence at his last drawing and not make out papers for the 6 days which he survived after the 4th of March. The papers I trust are made out in strict conformity to the Regulations of the War Department & if so please send me a certificate for her as letter soon as convenient for $100 a year and direct your letter to Easten Fairfield Co. Con.
Respectfully yours Bradford Winton 
Dated at Easten May 3rd 1847 
James L. Edwards Esqr Washington City D. C.

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Sir
Your letter of Oct. 11th 1847 has been rec’d giving a further exposition of the case of Mabel Banks for a pension & although your reasons are somewhat satisfactory that further evidence should be produced Yet I can hardly see how the Department can plead in justification of their acts in this case in consequence of the purpose of business at the time of granting Nathan Banks his pension without the proper evidence. If the Department heretofore has done wrong I would not advise or request a continuation of that wrong and I would be the last person to practice or encourage it in this and all that I would ask for in this & all other cases is a fair & impartial investigation of the same without cavilling or having the same prejudged If she is fully & fairly entitled to a pension it ought to be granted, if not reject her claim. The general & prevailing opinion with all appears to be that if the husband has made out his Declaration & obtained a pension at his decease the widow if any ought to receive the same without incurring further expense, & to me such an opinion is founded in truth.
In your letter you claim that it is necessary to obtain evidence from the Comptrollers office of this State Regarding the Revolutionary services of Nathan Banks that being the best evidence. In order therefore to pursue this case in the investigation of her claim with dispatch I wish you would copy & send me his Declaration as regards the different terms of service where commenced & expired, if he has so stated, the length of time to each term of service at what places & under what officers he served & I will endeavor to investigate & satisfy you that Mrs. Banks is honestly & worthily entitled to the pension claimed I wish you to be very particular in giving the names of the officers, by doing I can the more readily refer

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to the records and will expedite the investigation
I am Sir yours respectfully
Bradford Winton
Dated at Easton on Nov. 19th 1847
J. L. Edwards Esq

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State of Connecticut Comptrollers Office Hartford 26 January 1848
I certify that an application for the evidence of service Nathan Banks in the War of the Revolution, and I have examined the do remaining in the office relating to that war, and find a “pay table” account headed “Col Samuel Whitings Battalion raised Dec 1776 for 3 months by act of Assembly convened 19th Nov. 1776, to join and serve in the Cont’l Army till 15 March …” On the 30 May he rendered an account to the amount of £2.957.15.10. This service appears to have been rendered by his Regiment at “Maroneck." There are earlier & later credits to Col. Whiting.
In "Harkells Receipts” under the head of “Expense of Coast Guards," is entered, January 21, 1778, Capt. E. Thorp, at Fairfield, £1294.16.11. Specie Value £8311.1.0 In Receipts," 
In "Harkells Receipts” under the head of  “Expense of Militia Service,” is entered "May 31, 1779. Cap. Calel H. John - Alarm at Morse Neck £48.19.2. Specie value £3.13.1” 
Also, in the same look, under the head of "Expense of Coast Guards, entered March 29, 1781 – Capt. Isaac Jarvis Coast Guard al Fairfield £1584.15.3. State money” 
And also in the same book, under the same head, is this entry “1782, April 6_ Ensign Jahiel Sherwood Coast Guard at Fairfield £76.4.11 Specie.”
These dates are supposed to be the time of rendering the acc or of settlement. No Pay Rolls of the above Companies have been discovered. 
Abejah Calting Comptroller

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James L. Edwards E.
Sir, The letter from your office signed by Gill Crump & dated Feb’y 15th 1845  in answer to mine of the 7th inst giving in part the asked for information of the services of Nathan Banks dec’d for the benefit of his Widow has been rec’d & although it differs in some respects from your others, this does not embrace all particulars sufficiently so as to [crossed out] enable [end crossed out] answer all purposes & could there have been that frankness in the Clerk To whom these papers were assigned for examination him so as to have given a full detail of all particulars regarding those services at the outset an end might have been put to this case long ago.
From the commencement I have claimed and now claim that there was a wrong in the course pursued in this case, yet I have submitted to that wrong & the widow in consequence has incurred quite a bill of expense & it is to be hoped that another case of the kind will never occur. 
if I have been correctly informed you have all of the evidence in your possession that there is in The Comptrollers Office in this State, with the addition of the original Rolls, if so I can hardly see the propriety of making this unnecessary expense & waste of time – However I have made application to the Comptroller of this State for a Certificate for the Proof of Services rendered as directed & is herewith inclosed & although there are no Rolls to refer to yet there are entries made for monies paid for services in part endorsed by different officers at different times & in some cases all are blended together & the dates only show when the amounts were settled & in others no entries or if any they are not to be found – This however may be owing to the fact that the Changes of officers in that department are so frequent that before one set of officers become acquainted with the business & records in that office a change is made and another set supply their places which are entirely unacquainted with its records and duties. This causes great embarrassment to applicants.

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Nathan Banhs has left on Record in the Pension Office his Declaration under Oath setting forth the different services by him rendered in the Revolutionary War. This I concur to be the best evidence this case will admit of although he like many others may have been mistaken in dates as I am very well satisfied he is in one of his alleged services. But this does not destroy nor make void that service but may require explanation. As regards the amount of service there can be no doubt – From your letter it appears that Nathan Banks in his declaration alleged that in July 1779 he served 24 days under Cap’t St John – This service was rendered in July 1778 instead of 1779 at Horseneck in the Town of Greenwich under Cap’t St John. Thomas Wheeler of Fairfield and Deodata Silliman of Stratford were Lieut’s. Whether this error was caused by him or the draftsman in making out his declaration I cannot say but I should think by the draftsman as said Banks was quite deaf at the time & this might have caused a misunderstanding in the year for it is evident from the Comptrollers Certificate as you will perceive on examination that the service expenses in the certificate is the service claimed in his declaration – Another circumstance which will show clearly that it was not in 1779 is that in July of that year Fairfield & Norwalk were burnt by the enemy & he was at both of those places in the Militia & assisted in defending both of those places & was under arms one week – This service was with some others was omitted in his declaration because he had alleged all the services necessary to entitle him to a full pension – This to my certain knowledge has been the case with many others making application for pensions. 24 months were all that were necessary or required for a full pension and he had alledged more than that. 
Nathan Banks in his declaration has alledged 2 months service in the militia in 1775 under Capt Eben’r Hill in Col. Dimans Regt. This service was rendered in New York & I presume that you are well aware that nearly all of the Militia from Fairfield

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So thee parts of the State were ordered to Norfolk in that year for its defense. Col. Dimon at this time was only a Capt. & Ebenezer Hill Lieut’t both afterwards promoted. One a Col & the other a Capt & in this way of designating officers by their last titles, which has often been the case, has caused some misunderstanding. 
The next tour of duty is one month under Col. Whiting in 1776. This no doubt was a draft for in that year all was commotion in the land & Capt Stephen Thorp of Fairfield had charge of the shore guard at Fairfield in part but whether this service was under said Thorp or not I cannot say, but most likely Col Whiting had the supervision.
By reference to the Comptrollers Certificate for Col. Whitings Reg’t you will perceive that rendered an amount for his Regt at Hareneck in May 1777 & that there are earlier & later certificates to Col. Whiting which no doubt covers the one month in 1776 no other construction I think can will be put one this Certificate
In 1777 he has alledged eight Months service under Capt Eliphalet Thorp - This term of service is proved beyond a doubt by the certificate 
In 1778 24 days under Capt St John is also established 
In 1780 Twelve months under Capt Isaac Jarvis as a Sergeant is also proved
In 1781 Just months under Ensign Jehiel Sherwood is also proved & established beyond a doubt by said certificate & this last named service bring, her clearly within the Law under which her declaration was made. So that I can hardly imagine what course can be adopted at this time to honestly reject any of those services and Sir taking all the circumstances of this case into consideration it does appear to me that there can be no injustice done the Nation in allowing the same amount of pension to the Widow which the husband rec’d. This I consider to be lawful & right & in accordance with justice & equity & with the constructions which have ever been put upon the Regulations issued from the Pension Office

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Under this view of the case, I cheerfully submit if for your consideration believing as I do that you will unhesitatingly grant the Widow a full pension of the same amount as was rc’d by her Husband & send me a certificate for the same as speedily as possible & make an end to this case 
and am Sir your obd’t serv’t Bradford Winton 
Easton, Fairfield Co. Ct. Feb’y 28th 1848 J. Edwards Esq Washington City

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James L. Edwards Esq
Sir
In the case of the application of Mabel Banks W’d of Nathan Banks for a pension under the Act of 1836 & forwarded to your office in the Spring of AD 1847 Your letter of May the same year takes exceptions to declaration & claims written evidence in the case although her Husband was a pensioner. In summing up the service of Nathan Banks in your letter you have given the months & years in which the service was performed but no time when commenced neither the place where the services were rendered. I wrote to you for further information regarding those services & requesting a Copy of Nathan Banks declaration - Your letter of Jan’y 6 1848 adheres to the same decision as made May 21 & refers me to that letter for a full statement of his service as taken from his declaration. And your letter of Oct 11 1847 lays great stress on the 2 months service in 81 to bring her within the Act of 1836
Now I would ask you my dear Sir whether you ever grant to any person a pension on a declaration so vague in its meaning as you claim that of Nathan Banks to be without his giving a full statement of the facts where he entered the length of service, when & where performed and under what officers, for this is of vital importance & it is impossible to procure evidence without it, neither can I as yet believe in this case that Nathan Banks was granted a pension without noting when & where the service was performed & under what officers barely on 20 his assertion, when evidence at that the time could have been so easily procured. These are of material requisitions under the law.
As regards the 2 months service in 81 in your letter you have given no time in the year when that service as performed, the place where neither of the officers under whom that service was rendered & this appears to me to be more to embarrass than for any other purpose for I consider it wholly immaterial whether her pensioner is granted under the Act

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of 1836 or that of 1838 as no doubt they will in either case be granted for life of that will not exceed a year as so. I ask then how can it be expected that records can be examined for proof of Rev’y services when we have neither date, place or officers to refer to – In my opinion it cannot be done & does appear to me to be an unreasonable request, but give us the dates & officers correctly & your request shall be complied with
Was the service in, 81 a Capt, Lieut, Ensign or Sergeants Guard & if so please give the names of the officers. I would thank you give me the necessary information asked for at as early a date as convenient after you receive this 
Dated at Easton Fairfield Co Ct. Feby 7th 1848
And Oblige Yours Bradford Winton

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Sept 13 47 Mabel Banks Wid of Nathan
James L. Edward Esq Commissioner of Pensions City of Washington D.C.

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Dear Sir
Your letter of May 21st laking exceptions to the granting of a pension to Mabel Banks wd of Nathan Banks Dec’d for services claimed to have been rendered by him in the Revolutionary War was duly rec’d and should have been answered before this but absence, sickness & other keeping business has prevented untill the present 
I now embrace the opportunity of answering your letter but am at a loss what to say or do the exceptions being so unexpected, unfair of most extraordinary 
If I understand the regulations of the Department in the case of a dec’d soldier where he has made out a declaration & drawn a pension in his lifetime the first thing to be proved is the marriage so as to identify the widow - In this case by your letter it is proved to your entire satisfaction & what earthly reason there can be for withholding from her the pension which is injustice her due I cannot conceive unless it be for the purpose of incurring additional expense & vexation 
Nathan Banks was the officer & Soldier he rendered the services, made out his declaration & made proof of the same to the satisfactions of the Department & receive a pension certificate for said service which passed your ordeal & if I mistake not, was countersigned by your Hon US Com of Pensions & the said Nathan Banks drew a pension for 16 years by virtue of that Certificate & if exceptions were ever to taken why were they not taken at the time he made out his declaration & not wait untill his decease and now that he is dead & unable to answer further for himself & no one left to answer for him or by whom prove those services, when application is made for a transfer of his pension to his Widow under the Act of 1836, which agreeable to his declaration she clearly comes within, exceptions must be taken by the same Department that had once before it & unless further evidence can be produce no pension can be obtained -  This is a very strange & most curious

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course of proceedings & does appear to me to be adverse to all former decisions of the Department & clear light & common sense. It is childrens play. I ask you then to reflect upon this case & reverse your last decision & send me a certificate for the poor & Kneedy Widow for her support during the few remaining days which she has to long her below. She is now old a quite infirm 
In the 7" Section of the Rules & Regulations of the Department signed by your Hon. as Comm. of Pensions to carry into effect the Act of July 4th 1836 it is thus expressed "In a case where the service of the Dec’d officer or soldier is clearly proved by record or documentary evidence or the affidavit of a Commissioned office showing the grade & length of service of the Dec’d the particulars in relation to the service are not required to be set forth in the claimants declaration except so far as to show that the claimant or claimants is or are the Widow or children of the Dec’d.” The regulations under the Act of 1838 the same. 
By your letter Nathan Banks did in his lifetime set forth to the satisfaction of the Department all of the services or sufficient services to [crossed out] enable [end crossed out] entitle him to a full pension if not I ask why was a Certificate granted to him & he permitted to draw for 16 years. In never saw his Declaration, neither had I any knowledge of his services performed, except from report, but from the different services specified in your letter She clearly comes within the letter and meaning of the Act under which her Declaration was made – 
You further stated in your letter that the different services which were set forth in the Declaration of Nathan Banks must be proved by record evidence in the Comptrollers office in this State before a pension could be granted to his Widow- - Why call for this evidence at this time & why not have called for it in the lifetime of the Soldier

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if it was ever to be called for that he into have confronted the exceptions & defended his own rights & suppose if you please that then never were any returns made to the Comptrollers office is she on that account at this time to be deprived of her lights in such a way as this? Surely not. Besides it is attended with extra & unnecessary expense & the regulations of the Department in my belief do not contemplate any such proceedings but were made as I have ever supposed expressly to obviate further & unnecessary expense. The Widow is poor & unable to bear it & she ought to be duly considered
As regards the 2 months service in 81 after marriage I consider it immaterial whether the service was 2 years 2 m or 2 days the law is imperative if the service was rendered it is sufficient & he has so declared in his Declaration under oath & you have once accepted it & the declaration was made out long previous The passage of the Act of 1836 so it cannot be said that there was any design or premeditation in making out the declaration of Nathan Banks to cover the Act under which his widow now claims – Your e exceptions to this term of service is entirely futile 
I ask you then to review this case in person & duly consider the same & after having so considered it you will I have no doubt fully coincide with me in opinion & if so grant the widow her pension as I am fully satisfied that she is fully & fairly entitled to one & send it to me without having her incur any additional expense & without hesitation or doubting 
I am Sir yours Respectfully Bradford Winton 
Dated Sept. 9th 1847 at Easton Fairfield Co. Ct. Sept 9th 1847
James L. Edwards Esq

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Southport, Ct. Nov. 1 1897
To Commissioner of Pensions 
Dear Sir 
Please send me - a statement of the Revolutionary Service of Nathan Banks of Fairfield Conn. who was living in 1840 at the age of eighty years, and also amount of pension, and much oblige 
Yours respectfully R. W. P. Bulkley  Mrs. Henry T. Bulkley

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9342
B Southport Ct. December 2, 1898
To the Pension Bureau Washington D.C. 
Find enclosed a stamp for which please send me information for length and date of service in the War of the Revolution of Nathan Banks of Fairfield Connecticut pension

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since under the act of 1832. 
Very sincerely, (Wire) G. E. Banks Southport Conn Box 228

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Fairfield, Conn. Aug. 11 1903
Bureau of Pensions Washington D.C. 
Will you kindly give me the Revolutionary War record of the following named persons: 1 Nathan Banks born in Fairfield Ct. May 6 1761, d. March 10, 1847. He was a pensioner under the Act of 1832.2. Caleb Church of

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Danbury Conn was in Col Roger Ewes State Regiment? June 1777. His age at the time of enlistment wanted. 
3 Benjamin Starr of Danbury Conn was a soldier in the army who died with camp fever Sept 1776 
Any information regarding these soldiers will be thankfully received by [Miss] Caroline Belts Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut

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[Illegible] Southport Conn Nov. 13 1901
The Pension Office Washington D.C. 
Will you kindly furnish me the information as to service in the War of the Revolution of Nathan Banks of Fairfield Connecticut With what company did he serve, who was his superior officer and

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where were they stationed and on what battle if any did they take part, information on any and all of these points will be gratefully received by yours truly Grace L. Banks Southport Conn

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United States Of America [emblem with eagle] Washington DC April 13  Received 1905
Pension Office A April 14 1905
The space above is reserved for post mark
Postal Card 
The space below is for the address only
U. S. Pension Office Washington D. C.

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BiFit Ct – 4 – 13 – 05
Pension Office DC
Is there a record of a pension to Nathan Banks of Fairfield Ct for the War of the Revolution. Will you please inform me. George J. Banks 190 West Ave Bridgeport Conn.

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3-871. RECORD DIVISION. Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS. Briefed by George M. Moore [Crossed out] Claim No. [End crossed out] Sept 23,1909 Certificate No. [blank] Claimant [blank] Soldier Nathan Banks Service Conn Rev Additional Service [blank] No claim [blank], State records [blank], 190 [blank]  No claim, combination records [blank], 190[blank]  
REMARKS: No O.W. Inv. Wid. or Rej. as above except O.W. Wid 17236 
0-8 Chief Division

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d 9342 OW 42
Bridgeport, Conn. Oct 08-04
Pension Department – Washington 
Dear Sir: Please send me record of services for Nathan Banks of Fairfield Conn. in War of Revolution -  + oblige. 
Respectfully yours – Dr. S. W. Osborn 88813 [illegible] Bridgeport, Conn.

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Employer E. A. CALKINS SURVEYOR AND CIVIL ENGINEER MASON, MICH. 
Mason, Michigan, Sept. 16th, 1909
Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D. C. 
Dear Sirs:- I desire the Revolutionary War record of Nathan Banks of Fairfield County, Connecticut, together with the other facts shown regarding himself and family as set forth in his application to your department and shown in the other proofs submitted.  
Very truly yours E. A. Calkins 
[Stamped] US Pension Office A Sept 20 1909

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Dear Sir:- Will you please send me the military records of Nathan Banks, in the American Revolution, from Fairfield Connecticut.  I am Great Granddaughter and will be grateful to you sending this record. to me.  
Respectfully Emma Terris Fairfield P.O. Box #9 Conn

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[handwritten note at top left] Rev. Sec CW
2 ct. stamp enclosed
[handwritten diagonally across body of letter] already answered
[begin body of letter]
Southport Mar 7 1921
Bureau of Pensions Washington DC
Will you please give me any information which you can of the war services during the Revolutionary War of Joseph Platt who enlisted probably from Danbury Conn also Nathan Banks who enlisted in Fairfiled Conn.  If you cannot look up this information for me will you please advise me who can?  It is relative to admission to D. A. R.
Yours truly
(Mrs) Clara Banks Sherwood
Regent Rd
Southport Conn

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THE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF UTAH 47 EAST SOUTH TEMPLE STREET SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH 
May 8, 1933 
Adjutant General's Office Washington, D. C. c/o Commissioner of Pensions 
Dear Sir: Will you please send us a copy of the pension record of Sergeant Nathan Banks of Connecticut listed in the D. A. R. volume 28, page 170/ as follows: Nathan Banks (1760-1841), was placed on the pension roll of Fairfield County, 1832, for service of private and sergeant in the Connecticut Continental line. He was born in Fairfield where he died. #27460. 
Thanking you for your assistance in this matter, we are Sincerely, GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF UTAH Archibald F. Bennett Secretary SW Y / a steam JUN 8 - 1933 to if and 1504 N
[With the following notes stamped or handwritten] 
Mrs Frank Int Building
[illegible]
SW Y 
[stamped] [Illegible] June 8 1933

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In reply to your request of [blank], received [blank] for a statement of the military history of Nathan Banks a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. 
[Table – in light pencil and mostly illegible] 
[Column 1] DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR OF APPOINTMENT 
Ø 1775
Sum 1776
Apl 1777
* July 1779
Apl 1780
1781
Winter
[Column 2] LENGTH OF SERVICE.
2 mos
1 mo
8 mos
24 days
1 yr
2 mos
[Column 3] RANK.
Prt.
“
“
“
Segt
“
[Column 4 & 5 Superheading] OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED
[Column 4] CAPTAIN.
Ebenezer Hill
[left blank]
St John
Isaac Jarvis
Ensign Jehiel Sherwood
[Column 5] COLONEL.
Jonathan Dimon
Whiting
[left blank]
Major Ezra Starr
“ 
“
[Column 6] STATE.
Conn
[left blank]
[left blank]
[left blank]
[left blank]
[left blank]
Battles engaged in, [left blank]
Residence of soldier at enlistment, res Fairfield Conn
Date of application for pension, July 24, 1832
Residence at date of application, Fairfield Conn.
Age at date of application, Born May 6 1765 {parish of Greenfield Fairfield Conn
Remarks, Sol mar {Parish of Greenfield Fairfield Conn Apr 1 1781 Mabel Bradley
Died March 10 1847 at Fairfield Conn
[first half of next line illegible] Apl 10 1847 while [illegible]
[entire next line illegible]
Record as sub for bro Ø Aaron * for bro Peter

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June 10, 1933 
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Nathan Banks-W 17236 BA-J/AWF 
Archibald F. Bennett, Sec. Genealogical Society of Utah 47 East South Temple Street Salt Lake City, Utah 
Dear Sir: Reference is made to your letter in which you request the zecord of the Revolutionary Wax pensioner, Nathan Banks of Connecticut. 
The data furnished herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, W.17336, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Nathan Banks. 
He was born May 6, 1760 in the parish of Greenfield, Fairfield, Connecticut. The names of his parents are not given. 
Nathan Banks, while residing at said Fairfield, enlisted and served with the Connecticut troops, as follows- 
In 1775, two months as private, as substitute for his brother, Aaron Banks, in Captain Ebenezer Hill’s company, Colonel Jonathan Dimon's regiment, after the expiration of the two months, his father served in this company and regiment, length of father's service not stated; in the summer of 1776, one month as private in Colonel Whiting's regiment; from in April 1777, eight months as private in Captain Eliphalet Thorp's company, guarding the coast; in July [year crossed out and handwritten insert] 1778 – about 24 days – rel = sub for bro Peter in Capt St John’s Co of horse under Col Ezra Starr [end handwritten insert] one year four days [next section has one line typed on top of another, but here’s what I can get] burning of Fairfield [I can’t get any more, so back to clear lines below] Banks; in Captain St John’s company of horse under Major Ezra Starr; in July 1779 about one week at the burning of Fairfield and Norwalk, no officers given; from April, 1780 one year as a sergeant in Captain

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Isaac Jarvis' company; in the winter of 1781, two months as private under Ensign Jehiel Sherwood. 
Nathan Banks was allowed pension on his application executed, July 24, 1832, then a resident of Fairfield, Connecticut. He died March 10, 1847 at said Fairfield. 
The soldier, Nathan Banks, married, April 1, 1781 at Fairfield, Connecticut, Mabel Bradley. They were married by the Reverend W. M. Tennent of the parish of Greenfield, Fairfield, Connecticut. 
The widow, Mabel Banks, was allowed pension on her application executed, April 12, 1847 then in her eighty-sixth year and living in Fairfield, Connecticut. She was still resident there in 1855. She died June 15, 1858. 
It is not stated that they had children. 
The soldier, Nathan Banks, stated in 1833 that his brother, Aaron Banks, married a Tory wife, and "to preserve the peace of his brother's family" he served as his substitute in 1775; his brother, Aaron, was deceased in 1833. Benjamin Banks a resident of Fairfield, Connecticut in 1832, stated that he served in 1775 and 1776 nine months in Captain Ebenezer Hills’s company, Colonel Jonathan Dimon's regiment, and he remembered that Nathan Banks’ father came and took his place in that company and regiment; Samuel Banks in 1832 was living in Fairfield, Connecticut; and Pamelia Banks in 1855 was a resident of Fairfield, Connecticut; no relationship to the family of to each other shown. 
Very truly yours A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator

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