Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37,917, Samuel Fayerweather, Conn.

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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Conn.

Fayerweather, Samuel
or Fairweather

NUMBER
S.33,917

CONTENTS

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Conn.  Fayerweather, Samuel  S37917

or Fairweather

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Sam Fayerweather
[illegible]

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District of Connecticut Ss
On this 23rd day of March AD 1818 Samuel Fayerweather of Weston in said district under oath declares before Pierpont Edwards Esqr District Judge of the United States for said District in which District the declarant was resides & even hath resided since the termination of the war of the Revolution that on the first day of March AD 1777 he entered the service of the United States by enlistment as a private soldier in to the army thereof in Captain Samuel Comstocks company in a regiment commanded by Colonel John Chandler in the Connecticut Line to serve during the war and that he was on the first day of August AD 1780 appointed a corporal in the Light company of the first Connecticuts Regiment in the service of the United States of America and that the declarant continued in the service of the United States on the continental establishment from the time of his enlistment as above said until the 7th day of June AD 1783, then he was honourably discharged by his Excellency General Washington by a discharge

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given at Head Quarters on that day last above said under his hand counter signed by J Trumbull [illegible] and Requested by the books of the regiment by Zebb. Loomis Adjutant which said discharge the declarant now exhibits said Judge together with him certificate of a badge of merit for six [illegible] faithful service signed by Zebn. Butler Colo and also the muster rolls of the said Captain Comstocks Company for Feby 1782 and the pay roll for said company for the year 1781 on both of which is the name of the said declarant
And the said Declarant further maketh oath that he is a citizen of the United States born in the said District of Connecticutt where he has always resided excepting when as sent therefore in the service of the United States as aforesaid
and that he now is a [illegible] the United States
[signed] Samuel Fayerweather
and I furthermore [illegible] of my reduced circumstances unable I need the assistance of my country for support.
[signed] Samuel Fayerweather

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District of Connecticut Ss March 23rd 1818
the aforenamed Samuel Fayerweather came before me & in my presence subscribed the aforesaid declaration & made oath that the same is true
[signed] Pierpont Edwards
District Judge of sd District

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District of Connecticut
 On this 20th day of March 1818 before one
Pierpont Edwards District Judge of the United States for the District of Connecticut came Colonel James Winston of [Stratford?] in said District a respectable citizen thereof and now [commandant?] of a [illegible]
in the militia of the State of Connecticut who being duty sworn doth depose and say that he is well acquainted with Samuel Fayerweather the aforementioned declarant and is of the opinion that his circumstances in life are so reduced that he is in need of his countrys [illegible] for his support [illegible]  James Winston

Also at the same time came Salmon Hubbel a respectable citizen of Newport in said District who being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is acquainted with said Samuel Fayerweather and agrees in opinion with Colonel Winston unto his need of [aportance?] Salmon Hubbell

March 23rd 1818 sworn before me Pierpont Edwards District Judge of the District of Connecticut

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Fayerweather, Samuel
or Fairweather S32197

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Service   Number
Conn. Fayerweather, Samuel  S33917
or Fairweather

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At a County Court held in and for the County of Fairfield in the District of the State of Connecticut on the 21st day of November 1821 the same being a Court of record sharing a seal by virtue of the laws of said State,  personally appeared in open court Samuel Fayerweather a resident of the town of Weston in said County and State and exhibited and subscribed the following schedule, and made solemn oath that the same is a true and perfect schedule of all of his income & property, necessary clothing & bedding excepted,
Viz.-one iron pot - $1.00
2 iron kettles-1.00
1 iron tea kettle-.50
1 brass kettle- 1.50
6 pewter plates- .83
2 tin milk pans-.17
3 earthen-ditto-.17
1 set earthen teacups- .12
6 earthen plates-.15
2 old pewter platters-.50
1 earthen bowl-.06
3 earthen platters-.17
1 set of knives & forks-.25
1 small looking glass- .20
2 iron spoons-.06
1 block-tin teapot-.17
1 chest with draws-1.75
1 chest-.75
2 tables-1.50
6 chairs-1.00
2 glass tumblers-.06
1 hoe-.25
1 axe-.50
1 hammer-.17
1 pick axe-.40
2 pails- .25
1 two barred cask-.50
1 hogshead-1.00
1 stand-.17
_________________________
15.41

2 candlesticks-$0.16
1 plow- .34
1 cartridge box [brot] with me from the}- .34 Revolutionary army in 1783
2 trammels-.60
1 fire shovel & tongs-.75
1 pair andirons-1.00
1 bread tray-.17
1 small tray-.12
1 desk-1.00
1 half bushel measure-.12
2 flat irons-.25
1 broken [spider?]-.25
1 shaving knife-.17
1 bible-.25
1 psalm book-.17
2 other old books-.25
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5.94          
Amount [brot] from 1st column 15.41
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21.35

Life estate in four acres of rough land owned by my wife}- 25.00
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Dollars  46.35
Sworn to & subscribed in open Court as aforesaid

Sam e Fayerweather

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District and State of Connecticut Js.
Be it remembered that in the County Court held at Danbury in & for the County of Fairfield in the District and State aforesaid, on this 21st day of November 1821, the same being a Court of record and having a seal and jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount by virtue of the Statute laws of said State, personally came & appeared in open Court, Samuel Fayerweather, aged sixty one years, resident in the town of Weston in the County of Fairfield in said State, and being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows.
I enlisted as a private on the 1st of March 1777 in the company commanded by Capt. Samuel Comstock, in Col. John Chamber's Regiment in the Connecticut line upon the continental establishment to serve during the war and served faithfully there until the 1st of June 1783 when I was regularly & honorably discharged.  I was in the battles of Germantown, Monmouth, Mudfort and Stony-point, and in other engagements with the ending, for a more particular description of which reference may be had to my original declaration for a pension in 1818, and my [illegible] in the office of the Secretary of war; - that the original declaration made by me for the purpose of obtaining a pension under the act of Congress of March 18th 1818 was dated the 23rd day of March 1818, and in performance thereof I was entered in the list of pensioners and received a pension certificate No. 4270.  And I do further solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby do to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & navel service of the United States in the revolutionary war" passed on the 18th of March 1818, and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule herein annexed & by me subscribed - And I do further declare that my occupation is that of a day labourer but in consequence of an injury to my health received in the battle of Monmouth and the rheumatitis, I am not able to do more than half a day's work in a day and many days none at all - I have no family residing with me except my wife Charity aged sixty one years, who can work

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but very little by reason of the rheumatism and we live in the house of one of my sons named David B. Fayerweather all which is subscribed by me the day & year aforesaid.
Sam Fayerweather
Sworn to and declared in the Court aforesaid.  Whereupon said Court is on Satisfactory proof exhibited in Court of opinion that the total amount in value of the property contained in the aforesaid schedule is forty six dollars and thirty five cents, and doth order these proceedings to be entered in the records of said Court.
Attest David Murr [illegible]
The state of Connecticut Js; I David Murr (clerk of the County County Court, for the County of Fairfield, in the said State, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath & Schedule hereto annexed are truly copied from the records of said Court, and I do further certify that it is the Opinion of the Js. Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is Forty Six dollars and thirty five cents - In Testimony whereof, I have here unto set my hand & affixed the Seal of the said Court, at Fairfield this 31st day of December 1821.
David Murr Clerk of the County Court, for [illegible] Fairfield County District & State of Connecticut Js;
I Robert Fairchild Chief Judge of the County Court, for the County of Fairfield, in said State do certify that David Murr Esq is the Clerk of said Court, duly appointed & sworn, And that the said Court, in a Court of Record, made so by the Statute Laws of said State; that it proceeds according to the course of the common Law has a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, with the power of Fines & Imprisonment, and keeps a record of its proceedings.
Robert Fairchild

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Service         Number

Com.
Fayerweather, Samuel 
or Fairweather
S37917

Contents

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The soldier was allowed pension on his application executed March 23,1818, at which time he was a resident of Weston, District of Connecticut, where he had resided ever since he left the war.
In 1821 Samuel Fayerweather was still residing in Weston, Fairfield County, Connecticut, age sixty-one years, and referred to his wife Charity, also age sixty-ones years, with whom he was living in the home of his son, Daniel B. Fayerweather, whose age was not given. No other reference was made to children.
In order to obtain date of last payment of pension, the name and address of the person paid and possibly the date of death of Samuel Fayerweather, you should apply to The Controller Gerneral, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D.C., and cite the following data:

Samuel Fayerweather
Certificate #4270
Issued November 10, 1818
Rate, $8 per month
Commenced March 25, 1818
Act March 18, 1818
Connecticut Agency.

Very Truly yours

A.D. Miller
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator

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O.W.N. 
ECL

February 3, 1900

Commissioner of pensions; 
John Fayerweather 
married Abigail Curtis
of Trumbull, February 14, 1760
and settled in Heaton, 
near Easton. He was 
killed in the Revolutionary War.  
Can you give me any 
information, as to where and why he
was killed, when and where 
(?), when buried.

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I would like any information that you may have 
His [son] Samuel Fayerweather served through the war

Address 10 Chapel Place
Danbury, CT
and obliged

Jm. J. Moore

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37917
INVALID
File No. 37,917
Samuel Fayerweather
or Fairweather
Corp Rev War

Act: 18th March [18]
Index: -- Vol. D, Page 132

Arrangement of 1870

Feby- 14- 1900
M.J. Moore- Danbury Conn
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Much. 10, 1905 Hist. to Mrs- Noyes E. Calling, Bridgeport, Conn. letter of inquiry in S. File 11,454 Thomas Squire
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1936, Aug. 5-Hist. to Hollister [Bager] HB

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Head-Quarters, June 7th 1783.
THE within CERTIFICATE shall not avail the Bearer as a Discharge, until the Ratification of the definitive Treaty of Peace; previous to which Time, and until Proclamation thereof shall be made, He is to be considered as being on Furlough.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

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Samuel Fairweather

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By his excellency
George Washington, Esq; 
General and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the United States of America.
These are to certify that the Bearer hereof Corporal Samuel Fairweather in the 7th Connecticut Regiment, having faithfully served the United States from March 7th 1777 and being inlifted for the War only, is hereby DISCHARGED from the American Army, 
GIVEN at Head-Quarters the 7th June 1783
G. Washington

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By His Excellency's Command,
J Trumbull [illegible]

Registered in the Books of the Regiment,
Libb Loomis Adjutant

The above Corporal Samuel Fairweather has been honored with the BADGE of MERIT for six Years faithful Service.  Zeb n Butler [Co?]

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North Woodbury Jul 27 8 AM 1936 Conn.
US Postal Card
One Cent Jefferson
This side of card is for address
veterans administration,
Washington, D.C. 
Received Jul 28 1936
Mail Sub-div.
Vets. Adm.
Reader No. 3

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Veterans Administration, North Woodbury, Conn., 7/25/36
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sirs:
only one and 15.0
Can you tell me if a Capt. Samuel Fayerweather, commanding a Connecticut regiment in American Revolution, and dying
in action early in 1781 is recorded? Also if his son of the same name and title succeeded him in command, and afterward returned to Conn, where he spent a long life? They belonged in
Blanket Meadow, which was a small hamlet near the border line of Newtown, Easton and Monroe.
Also if there was a colored soldier by the name of Caesar or Pompey Bristol, who died in the same little engagement with the British in which Fayerweather died?
Also have you a list of the soldiers who died on the British prison ship Jersey, anchored in the Hudson River? If so, were there two by the name of Sage -- brothers -- and can
you give their first names? Yours, Hollister Sage.

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Samuel Fayerweather, 
or Fairweather,
Corporal,
Connecticut line,
23rd, March, 1818.
Admitted
Pierpont Edwards, Esq,
Judge,
Bridgeport, Fairfield Co
Connecticut.
Recd. 27. May, 1818.

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Sam Fayerwether
The Honorable John C. Calhoun,
Secretary of the Department of War
Washington

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I Peerpont Edwards District Judge of the District of Connecticut do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that Samuel Fayerwether who made & subscribed the declaration contained in the annexed Schedule did serve in the Revolutionary war against the common Enemy as stated in his said declaration & I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken I had before me in his case to the Secretary of the department of war pursuant to an Act of Congress in such case made & provided said proceedings & testimony are contained in the annexed schedule
May 20th 1818
Peerpont Edward