Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15682, Abel Turney, Conn. Navy

SERVICE
Conn.
Navy
Turney, Abel.
NUMBER _____
S. 15682.
Carded
CONTENTS

28.028 Connecticut.
Abel Turner - of Fairfield in the State of Conn who was a Private of the Conn comman by Captain Jarvis of the _____ comman by _____ in the line for 8 mo. 27 days Artillery Marine 7 mo _____ Conn. and Navy
Inscribed on the Roll of Conn at the rate of 60 Dollars 41 Cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of Janry 1854 and serv Heow G. Tomlinson. Senate U.S.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1834. $150 02 Semi-ann. allowance ending Mar 4. 34, 30 20 $180 22
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by E.D. Beebe Clerk. Book E Vol. 13 Page 48
R. Randolph R. Randolph July 17. 1855.

STATE OF CONNECTICUT, COUNTY OF FAIRFIELD. COUNTY COURT, CLERK'S OFFICE.
ss.
I, Mrs H. Noble Clerk.
of the County Court, within and for Fairfield County, and keeper of the Seal thereof, and of the Commission of Justices of the Peace for said County, hereby certify:—THAT,
Thomas B. Osborne Esquire, was on the 28 th day of February 1851 and now is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly appointed, commissioned and sworn, having full power and authority by the laws of this State, to take the acknowledgment of Deeds and other instruments, and to certify the same: also to administer Oaths, to take Affidavits and Depositions out of Court, and to give certificates thereof: that full faith and credit may, and ought to be given to his official acts and attestations; that the signature to the instrument hereto annexed, purporting to be his, I believe to be his genuine official signature: and that said instrument is executed, acknowledged and duly authenticated according to the laws of this State.
In Testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand, and affix the Seal of said Court, at Bridgeport in said County and State, on this 3 rd day of March A. D. 1851
M. Noble Clerk.
To be the reason he represents himself }

State of Connecticut } County of Fairfield } ss.
Be it known that before me Thomas Bloome Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly authorized by Law to administer oaths, personally appeared Andrew Turney as his heir, and as administrator or Executor of the estate of his father Abel Turney, deceased, late an invalid Pensioner - and who is now dead, That the said Abel Turney, resided in the Town, and County, of Fairfield, State of Connecticut for seventy nine years - and up to the time of his death -
That he makes this declaration, for himself as a son, to the said Abel Turney deceased, and as an administrator or Executor for the said estate - for the other heirs, in order to obtain from the United States Government, in the right of his said deceased father, all monies, and dues, under the Acts of Congress, passed 15 th May 1828, and 14 th July 1832, and 7 th June 1832, and 7 th June 1832 and 19 th Feb y 1832. and all other Acts or Resolutions, passed or that may be passed, that may be applicable to the said case -
Sworn to and subscribed, before me this 28 th day of February 1851 and I hereby certify that I believe the deponent to be the person he represents himself to be, in the above affidavit and declaration
Thomas Bloome Justice of the Peace
Andrew Turney

Fairfield Feb: 28 th A.D. 1851
I S.P.W. Zen Broock Judge of Probate for the District of Fairfield in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut hereby certify that At a Court of Probate held at Fairfield on the 16 th day of April A.D. 1841. Administration on the Estate of Abel Turney late of Fairfield Dec d was granted to Andrew Turney a son of said deceased having appeared and given a good and sufficient Bond with Albert Turney as surety as the law directs which Bond is accep- ted and ordered on file to be lodged on the files of this Court - as per Record appears.
J. S. P. Zen Broock Judge of Probate

29.160
pirate of Artillery 7 th reg t marine - 8 m th 7 days pirate of Artillery 60,41
270 33.33 3.75 23.33 60,41
see naval papers
H. G. Tomlinson
H. G. Tomlinson

State of Connecticut } ss District of Fairfield June the 25 th 1833 County of Fairfield }
on this 25 th day of June 1833 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate for the district aforesaid now sitting Abel Turney an invalid Pensioner of the United States and a resident of the said district and State aged seventy years, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 as altered and amended or partially repealed by the act of Congress passed February the 19 th 1833. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as herein stated - The declarant says that in Fairfield the aforesaid the place of his nativity and residence from his birth up to this time. He enlisted according to the best of his recollection the 1 st of March 1780 as a private soldier for one year, into a Company of State Artillery commanded by Capt. Isaac Jones of Fairfield. Aaron Turney of Fairfield was first Lieutenant, and Chauncy Durn of Fairfield was Ensign. A part of the said Company, of which number the applicant says he was one were stationed with one gun, under Ensign Durn in the center Village of the first Society of said Fairfield on the margin of Long Island Sound, where he stood and did military duty as an Artillerist until sometime in the month of December of that year, when he says he was enlisted for one year, to serve on board the continental Ship Alliance under the command of Capt. John Barry, by Lieutenant Thomas Shovod a recruiting Officer then in Fairfield once belonging to that Ship. Immediately after he enlisted this second time, the applicant says he was discharged from the Company of Guards to which he belonged and forthwith went from Fairfield to Boston, where the said Ship Alliance

then lay on board of which he immediately entered, and served as a Sailer and in time of action at the gun n o 6 on the gun deck - And he also says that the said Ship Alliance sometime in the month of January 1781 sailed in the United States service to France, and upon her return the 28 th day of May next following off Halifax, in Nova Scotia. She fell in with and had an engagement of three hours continuance with an eighteen gun Ship & a fourteen gun Brig of the enemy, both of which she captured. And he says that nine Americans were killed and twenty four wounded in this engagement. Of which last number the Applicant says he was one, having one of his legs badly broken & fractured - And upon the return of the said Ship Alliance to Boston the 5 th or 6 th of June 1781 the declarant says he was carried to the Hospital there, where he lay a considerable time confined by his wound, without getting out of his Bunk - And on the 27 th day of August 1781 immediately after he became able to hobble a little on crutches, he says he was discharged on account of his inability to do duty on board of the ship, and the probability that he would be incapacitated by his wound to do duty on board the ship for the whole remaining period of his enlistment. And he says he was seventeen days after his discharge in getting home, and that he was obliged to use crutches for nearly a year after his return home, on account of the disabled condition of his leg - From the time of his enlisting into the company of Artillery in Fairfield the 1 st of March 1780 to the time of his discharge the 27 th day of August 1781 after he came out of

The Hospital in Boston - The declarant says will be one year, five months, and twenty seven days, and including the seventeen day employed in his return home for which he thinks he ought to be allowed, there will be one year, six months, and thirteen days - during this period he did not attend to his private business or occupation  There is no person now living in this state that knows of his whereabouts or heard from him since And the applicant further says that with the exception he be already a Pensioner of the United States. The Pension he receives is for bodily disability occasioned by his wound and not for any military or naval services he may have rendered his Country in the trying times of the Revolution ; there yet remain in a great measure unenumerated - He says he was born in Fairfield the 26 th day of September 1762 and that there is a record of his age in the Town Records of the said Town of Fairfield - He also says that he is acquainted with Walter Pradley Esq. Hon. Gideon Gannison. Hon. Roger M c  Keown Sherman. Thomas B Osborn. Horatio Beman and many others who could if necessary testify respecting his character - he had written discharge sworn to and subscribed on the day but has none now in his possession a year ago since before Daniel Hill Esq. of the Court of Probate for the district of Fairfield.
I Nathaniel Freeman a clergyman residing in the district and state aforesaid do hereby certify that Abel Ferry who has subscribed and sworn to the preceding declaration is reputed and believed to have been a soldier of the Revolution and I concur in that opinion - sworn to and subscribed on the day a year ago since. before Daniel Hill Esq. of the Court of Probate for the District aforesaid  Nathl Freeman

I Walter Bradley a resident of the district of Columbia do hereby certify that I am acquainted with Abel Tenny who has submitted and sworn to the preceding declaration that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the revolution & I concur in that opinion sworn to and subscribed on the day of Walter Bradley your affiant before David Hill Judge of Probate for the district aforesaid
And the said Court hereby declares its opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories inscribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And the said Court also certifies that Nathaniel Freeman the person who has signed one of the preceding certificates is a Burgess and a resident of the district of Columbia and that Walter Bradley who has signed the other certificate is also a resident of the said district and that they are both men of truth and that their testimony is entitled to full credit - David Hill Judge of Probate
I David Hill Jr Clerk of the Court of Probate for the district of Columbia do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Abel Tenny for a Pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of Office at Fairfield in the district aforesaid this 25 th day of June 1810 David Hill Jr Clerk

I Aaron Turney of Fairfield in Fairfield County Connecticut aged seventy nine years being duly sworn do testify & say that in the year 1780, it being the year after the Town of Fairfield was burnt, my Brother Abel Turney of said Fairfield enlisted for the term of one year as a Private into the Company of Connecticut State Artillery commanded by Captain Isaac Jarvis and of which Company I was the first Lieutenant. I was stationed at Black Rock Battery in sd Town and there acted as commanding officer of the Battery. A part of sd Company with a field Piece was stationed at Fairfield in the Town. my Brother was in this part of the Company & served at sd Fairfield until cold weather when my Brother & several other members of our company enlisted for one year under Lieutenant Thomas Elwood to go on board the continental Ship Alliance com- manded by Captain John Barry & were regularly discharged from our Company. I know that my Brother went on board & served in sd Ship but how long he served at sd Fairfield or in sd Ship this Deponent cannot now recollect or state with positive certainty.
Aaron Turney
Fairfield County ss Fairfield May 2 nd AD 1833
Personally appeared Aaron Turney to me known to be a credible witness, & made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed Thomas B. Osborne Justice of Peace

I Herzekeah Burr of Fairfield in Fairfield County Connecticut aged in my seventy first year being duly sworn do testify & say that in the Spring of 1780 I enlisted as a private for the term of one year in the Company of Connecticut State Artillery commanded by Captain Isaac Jarvis - Aaron Turney was first Lieutenant. a part of said Company was stationed under Ensign Chauncey Downs at Fairfield in the Town with a field piece. I well recollect that Abel Turney then & now of Fairfield served with us in this Guard. Said Turney enlisted about the time I did in said Company & we both served together until cold weather. I cannot recollect the exact time of enlistment, but it was in the Spring & for the period of one year. Late in the Fall or beginning of the winter of the same year said Turney & some other members of our Company enlisted for one year under Lieutenant Elwood to go on board the Continental Ship Alliance. Said Turney left us some time, as I think, in December 1780 to go on board said Ship & was gone until the Fall of the year 1781 - when he returned I well recollect that he was lame & went on crutches in consequence of a wound he had received. . . .
Herzekeah Burr
Fairfield County ss Fairfield May 2 nd 1833 -
Personally appeared Herzekeah Burr to me known to be a credible witness, & made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed. Thomas B. Osborne Justice of Peace

State of Connecticut } p. 1 Thomas Bloome Clerk of Fairfield County } the County Court within and for the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that Thomas Bloome whose own signatures are annexed to the foregoing Certificates on the Depositions of Aaron Survey & Wretchia Burr is a Justice of the Peace for sd Fairfield County duly commissioned & sworn & duly authorized to administer oaths & take Depositions &c - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said County Court in Fairfield this 2 d day of May A d 1833.
Thomas Bloome Clerk said County Court

State of Connecticut } District of Fairfield December 28 th 1833 County of Fairfield } On this 28 th day of December 1833 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate for the District aforesaid. Abel Tenny an invalid Pensioner of the United States, and a resident of the said District and State aged Seventy one years last September who being duly sworn according to Law, doth on his Oath make the following declaration or relinquishment in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 as altered and amended or partially repealed by the act of Congress passed February the 19 th 1833 - The Declarant says that he hereby relinquishes every claim to a Pension except under the acts of June 7 th 1832 and February 19 th 1833 and except to his invalid Pension allowed by the latter act - Sworn to and subscribed on the _____ day of _____ 1833 Abel Tenny David Hill Judge of the Court of Probate for the District aforesaid -
And the said Court again declares its opinion after an investigation of the matter this second time, that the Tenny who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration of relinquishment, was a revolutionary Soldier & that his statements are true - David Hill Judge of Probate for the District aforesaid -

I David Hill Jr Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Falmouth aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration of admeasurement of Abel Tenny, and the certificate of the and Judge of the said Court, contains the proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the Application of Abel Tenny for a Pension. For testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of Office at Falmouth aforesaid this 28 th day of December 1883
David Hill Jr Clerk

Connecticut New York
Abel Turney Marine In the Navy of the Revolution
Inscribed on the roll of New York at $5 increased to $8 by Law of 24 April, 1876.
Cert. of pension issued 28. th July 1820 sent to M c Abel Turney at Fairfield, Connecticut.

State of Connecticut ss Fairfield November 22. 1819
I Abel Turney of said Fairfield do solemnly swear that I have never received a certificate of pension from the War department sometime in November or December in the year 1780 marine on board the United States Ship of War Liberty commanded by John Barry Esq. and was discharged therefrom in August 1781 — That I was a native of S t . Fairfield have ever lived there and it is my intention to make that place for my future residence — Abel Turney
State of Connecticut ss Fairfield November 22. 1819
Personally appeared Abel Turney who is well known to me as a person of credibility and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed my presence
Samuel Rootland Justice of the Peace

State of Connecticut Fairfield County ss
I David Burr of Fairfield, in the county of Fairfield, Clerk of the County Court or Court of Common Pleas, within and for said County — Do certify & make known, that Samuel Rowland Esq. is a Justice of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned with full power and Authority to administer Oaths, take Affidavits and do all other matters and things appertaining to the Office of a Justice of Peace in said County — And that full faith and credit, is, and ought, to be given to his Official Acts and proceedings — In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the Seal of said Court, in said Fairfield this 25 th Day of November A. 1819 —
David Burr —

Abel Turney 18 Oct 32 Ct
D. H. Adison Present

POWER OF ATTORNEY—Revolutionary Pension Claims.
Know all Men by these Presents, That I, Andrew Turney son, and Administrator on the Estate D. P. Hodgson Esq hereby constitute and appoint J. H. Pough Esq. of Washington City my true and lawful Agent and Attorney, to prosecute the Claim of Abel Turney for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or Increase of Pension, that may be due; and I hereby author- ize my said Agent to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said claim, on file in the Depart- ments at Washington City, or elsewhere; to file additional evidence or arguments; and to receive the Cer- tificate which may be issued for said Claim, which Certificate I wish made payable to Andrew Turney Administrator to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed; and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.
WITNESS my hand and Seal this 21 day October A. D., 1851.
Signed and Sealed in the presence of } J. H. Beardsley } B. A. Beardsley
Andrew Turney
STATE OF Connecticut } COUNTY OF New Haven } ss:
On this 21 st day of October A. D. 1851 before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Andrew Turney and acknowledged the foregoing Power, of Attorney to be in act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand, } the day and year aforesaid. }
J. H. Beardsley J. Peace.
I certify the name J. H. Pough Esq was as true as the name of D. P. Hodgson Esq intimated in the above before signing J. H. Beardsley

Claim of  Abel Turney Act of
STATE OF Connecticut COUNTY of New Haven } ss.
Be it known, That on this 21 st day of October A. D., eighteen hundred and fifty one , before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Chonhon Turney a resident of Fairfield  Fairfield in said County, and made oath according to law that — he is the Son, under Administration of Abel Turney and
who was a Revolutionary Pensioner
at the rate of _____ Dollars per annum; that he has been informed that the said Pension ought to be increased; that he is directly interested as a claimant in said Pension, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid, before me.
L. H. Beardsley J. Peace.
Andrew Turney
I, L. H. Beardsley a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County do hereby certify that Chonhon Turney who executed the foregoing paper is a respectable resident of this County, and is, I believe, directly interested in said claim as therein set forth.
L. H. Beardsley J. Peace.
I, Chonhon French Clerk of the Probate Court in the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that L. H. Beardsley before whom the foregoing papers were executed, was, at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized by law to administer oaths; and the name thereunto subscribed, is his signature.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official Seal, this 27 th day of A. D. 1831.
Andrew W. French Clerk.

STATE OF Connecticut } ss. COUNTY OF New Haven }
It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me Andrew French Andrew French Judge of Probate for the District of Milford that Abel Turney was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the rate of $ _____ per annum and that he died on the _____ day of _____ eighteen hundred and forty one leaving surviving him no widow - and that Andrew Turney is his administrator - and that Andrew Turney, Levi Turney, Esther Knapp Jamies Turney, Mary Waldo, Hannah Turney Wilson Turney and Emma Turney are the only surviving children of the aforesaid. Abel Turney
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 27 th day of October one thousand eight hundred and fifty. one
Andrew French Judge of Probate

State of Connecticut ss. Fairfield November 22. 1819
We the subscribers practicing Physicians do hereby certify that after a careful examination in the case of Abel Turney who is now on the pension roll of the State of New York we are of opinion that his disability does still continue being a wound he rec d in the Revolutionary War by a musket ball in the right leg between the knee & ankle and being never properly united & now laped one upon the other & rendered thereby shorter than the left leg & now beyond the possibility of relief and when moved swells and causes much pain
(And further that the degree of disability under which he labours at present is three fourths being no less than the original degree of disability for which he was placed on the pension roll
David Hull J. B. Wash
Sworn & Subscribed before me This 22. day of Dec r 1819
Samuel Rowland Justice of the peace
Connecticut ss. Fairfield Nov. 22. 1819
I certify that the deponents are credible persons
Sam d Rowland Justice of the peace

Fairfield Nov 25. Abel Turney
J. L. Edwards Esquire Pension Office War Department Washington
Relative to an Indian case.

Trumbull - Conn. November November 22. 1819
Sir
Being informed from some of my neighbours (pensioners) of the necessary steps to be taken in order to obtain a certificate of pension I have endeavoured to comply with the requirements of your letter to Capt. Elephalel Sherwood of this town dated 22 nd ult. -
Therewith enclose you my affidavit together with the certificate of two respectable physicians to my disability - My name stands on the pension books of the State of New York where I apply and receive my pension semiannually and if consistent with the laws of the United States or the rules of the War department it would be my wish to remain there otherwise my request is hereby made to be transferred to the books in Connecticut
Yours respectfully
Abel Sumner

Panama
July 26 th 1831.

To what time & at what rate was Abel Turney, Invalid, of Connecticut, last paid?
Respectfully
J. L. Edwand
Jan. 28. 1834
. Paid at $8. to 11. March 1833.
Respectfully H. Whitecraft

State of Connecticut County of Fairfield ss.
On this twenty third day of July 1831 before me, the Subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Fairfield personally appeared Abel Turney of Fairfield in said County, who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who served as a marine on board the Ship Alliance commanded by Captain John Barry, in the navy of the United States, in the Revolutionary War. That his name was placed on the Pension Roll of the State of New York. That he has for many years resided and now resides in the town of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be then payable, in future, in said State of Connecticut. That he never did reside in said State of New York and that he is advised by his agent in New York that his to make this application for a transfer.
Abel Turney
Sworn and subscribed to before me the day & year aforesaid
Thomas B Osborne Justice of Peace
Fairfield County ss. Fairfield July 23. 1831 - Personally appeared before me, Samuel Rowland Esq. of said Fairfield who on his oath testifies & says that he is well acquainted with Abel Turney of said Fairfield and that he knows that the said Abel Turney who has taken the above oath, is the same Abel Turney described in the above affidavit. That he knows that Abel Turney who has made the above affidavit is the same person & the same Abel Turney who served as a marine in the navy of the United States as is stated in the above affidavit & who has been placed on the pension Roll of the State of New York.
Sworn & subscribed to before me the day and year aforesaid - Thomas Osborne Justice of the Peace
Saml. Rowland

Fairfield County p Fairfield July 23. 1831
I hereby certify that Samuel Rowland Esquire who has subscribed & sworn to the affidavit on the other side hereof, is a person of truth & veracity and entitled to credit.
Thomas Barborne Justice of the Peace

State of Connecticut
Fairfield County ss. I Thomas Bobbome Clerk of the County Court within and for the County of Fairfield in said State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that Thomas Bobbome whose own proper signatures are annexed to the Certificates before written, is a Justice of the Peace for said Fairfield County duly commissioned and sworn and duly authorized to administer oaths & take affidavits and that full faith & credit is due to all his official acts.
I further certify that I am acquainted with Abel Turney who has made the foregoing affidavit & know him to be the person who was placed on the pension Roll of the State of New York as is described therein. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said County Court in Fairfield this 23 rd day of July A D 1831 -
Thomas Bobbome Clerk of said County Court

16. 77
James L. Edwards Esq. Com. of Pensions
Hon. J. Wm. Wilson

Mr Tomlinson respectfully asks the early attention of Mr Edwards to the enclosed application of Abel Furney which is now accompanied by the requisite affidavit.
Jan. 4. 1884.
Inverness N.S.

James L. Edwards Esq. Com. Pensioned
Adams

Washington Jan. 17. 1834.
Sir,
Allow me to request your early attention to the pension application of Abel Trowney which was some time since returned to you. I am very respectfully, Your obedt. Servt. G. Pomfret
J. L. Edwards Esq.

In immediate attention
Miss. Pen. Ark. pet. Abel. Turney
Issue a certificate under the act of Feb. 19. 1853 in lieu of the within
James J. Richards Esq. Per. of P. Smith Hon. J. Donelson

Washington Jan. 25. 1884
Sir,
Being informed that the enclosed certificate has been considered defective, by the agents of the government, at Hartford, I send it to you in order that a correct one may be issued in lieu of it & the person therein named be able to obtain his invalid pension without difficulty.
Your early attention to this matter will oblige,
Yours very respectfully,
G. P. Wilkinson
J. L. Edwards Esq.

The legal representative of Abel Turney, claims his invalid pension, which he says, was illegally deducted from his pension, under the act of June 1832. I send the papers for your examination.
Richard Randolph
J. E. Heath.

Payable on the 4th Mar & 4th September of each year, by the President of the N. Y. B: Bank, in the City of New York
Chancellor
Recorded

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Invalid Pension.
I CERTIFY, That in conformity with the Laws of the UNITED STATES,
Abel Turney late a Marine in the Navy of the United States
is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the New York Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars . . . . . cents per month, to commence on the 1st day of, March one thousand eight
hundred and twenty  from the date of application he received his last paym t
GIVEN at the WAR OFFICE of the UNITED STATES,
this first day of March one thousand eight hundred and twenty
J. B. Calhoun

A. T. Jones
R. B. Farny
War Dept. Pension Office J. S. Edwards
Mr. Abel Turney, Fairfield, Connecticut

WAR DEPARTMENT,
PENSION OFFICE,
War July 26, 1831
SIR,
In conformity with the regulations of this Department, you have this day been transferred from the Roll of New York to that of Connecticut to take effect from and after the 4 th March 1831.
I am, sir, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. Edwards
Mr. Abel Turney, U. S. Pensioner. Fairfield, Connecticut.

RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by Geo M Moore
Claim No. Nov 20, 1909
Certificate No. _____
Claimant _____
Soldier Abel Turney
Service Navy  Rev.
Additional Service _____
No. _____ claim, State records _____, 190____
No claim, combination records _____, 190____
REMARKS:
No O.W. & W or R. as above except I.F. No 15682

March 12 - 1857
Invalid Papers of Abner Tur- ney's heirs -
Richard Randolph
Present
Heath
James
Pension
Washington
[Faint, mirrored bleed-through text from the reverse side of the page]

(30 th Roll under Act of 1832)
See letter July 19. 1831 to A. Turrey.
Q 3 Before transfer- ring his name to the Con. roll, ascertain whether he has been paid since March 1829. If not, drop his name from the roll.
Transp't to Connec- ticut 26 July 1831, and notifi- cation sent to Pensioner Fair- field. low.

underwritten New York
Abel Turney
Marine
In the Navy of the Revolution Conn and Navy
Inscribed on the roll of New- York at $5-
Increased to $8- by law of 24 th April 1816.
Cert. of Pension issued 28 th Jan 1820 & sent to Mr. Abel Turney at Fairfield, Conn e
Restored to the Invalid Roll by act of 19. February 1833.
Duplicate Certificate issued 1 st Feby 1834 & sent to Hon. G. Tomlinson Sena to U.S. Book D. Vol. 3 page 24.
let to P. 29 c Feb. 7. 1834
On the roll under Act Jan 1832 Cert dated 20 th Feb 1833. P. Randolph 17. 1831.

To Connecticut from New York . Conn. Navy
Abel Turney
placed on Invalid Roll at $5 per month & increased to $8 under act 24 April 1816.
Certificate of July 28. 1820.
Transferred to Connec- ticut July 26. 1821 & notification sent to Fairfield, Conn. to the Pensioner.

Invalidity P 15682 INVALID.
File No. 15682
Abel L. Quincy
Pr. Rev War
Comm. L. & Mar.
Act: June 7" 32
Index: Vol. 1 , Page 381
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Aug 31, 1920
Mrs. S. M. Gaddis - Bridgeton Ct.
Hist.
1909 Nov. 29. Hist. to Mrs. Helen T. Sharp. & from catalogue.
1929 Dec 3. Hist. to George P. Nichols. 90 y.

John 2 cl Secretary Pension Dear Sir.
During the war of the American Revolution Wm Gurney of Fairfield Conn during a battle at sea between the British and our navy was severely wounded. He afterward received a pension.
Will you kindly inform me the name of the vessel in which he served and in what battle he was wounded, and also the names of the officers

of the vessel.
Also of the service of Aaron Gurney of Fairfield, Conn. his brother.
I am still confer a great favor by replying.
Very truly
M rs S. M. G. adick
316 State St
Bridgeport
Conn.

Rev Creekside, Fairfield, Conn. Em
November 16, 1909.
Bureau of Pensions
Department of the Interior;
Will you kindly send to me the military history of Abel Turney, of Fairfield, Connecticut, sailor on the ship " Alliance " during the revolutionary War. Please accept my thanks for your answer.
Very truly
(Mrs.) Helen Turney Sharp.

Sons of the Revolution
in the State of New York
Frances Tavern Corner Broad & Pearl Streets
New York City
Oct. 3, 1929
Pension Bureau, Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen:
May I request you to let us have the pension record of Abel Turney born in Fairfield, Conn. Sept. 25, 1762 and died in Fairfield, Conn., April 7, 1841? We should like this to substantiate the claim of an applicant for membership in this Society.
Very truly yours,
George D. Nichols Secretary.
McC

Rev.&1812 Wars Section.
ADY
December 3, 1929.
George P. Nichols, Broad & Pearl Street, New York City.
Dear Sir:
I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 15682, it appears that Abel Turney was born September 26, 1762 in Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut.
While a resident of Fairfield, Connecticut, he enlisted March 1, 1780 and served as a private in Captain Isaac Jarvis' Company of Connecticut State Artillery (his brother Aaron Turney was first lieutenant of said company) until in December 1780 when he was discharged.
He immediately enlisted in the United States Navy as a marine on board the "Alliance", Captain John Barry, sailed for France and on the return, when off Halifax, Nova Scotia, was in a severe engagement on May 28, 1781 in which his right leg was broken between the knee and ankle; he was taken to the hospital in Boston where he remained until August 27, 1781 when he was discharged on account of his wound.
He was allowed pension from January 1, 1781 on account of disability resulting from the above named wound.
He died April 7, 1841 in Fairfield, Connecticut where he had always lived.
He left no widow. The following children were living in 1851: Andrew, Levi, Samuel, Wilson and Hannah Turney, and Esther Knapp, Mary Hubbell and Eunice Turner. The name of soldier's wife is not given.
Very truly yours,
EARL D. CHURCH, Commissioner.