Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18,633, Aaron Turney, Conn. Conn. Sea Service

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Furney Aaron
8,18,633
Conn. Sea Service
CONTENTS
✓ Carded
card must be completed by addition of data as to widow. but.
Ellen Furney, widow of the above soldier, was pensioned as the former widow of her first husband, Samuel Squires, Conn., W. 22458

6304. Connecticut.
Aaron Turney.
Resided in the State of Connecticut who was a Lieut. in the Comp y commanded Captain Tarr of the Black & White Battery. in the Conn t State line for two years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 320. Dollars 00 Cents per ann to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 th day of Feb y 1833 and sent to Hon G. Poulton Secy.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept r 32 480. Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Mar. 160. 33. 80 40.
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. H. Palmer Book D Vol. 3 Page 69
Nov. 15-1833 A B

We the subscribers being Sons of Aaron Turney of Fairfield in the County of Fairfield, Connecticut, and both residing in said Fairfield, do testify and say that our Father the said Aaron has always stated and it has been believed in the family and neighborhood that he served as a Lieutenant in the artillery at Black Rock Battery in said Fairfield in the Revolutionary War. We further testify that one of the Commissions he received as Lieutenant in a Company of artillery stationed at sd Black Rock Battery lay among the loose Papers at our Father's House for a great many years - they have frequently seen it and the Children frequently had it to play with - Defendants well recollect that sd Commission was filled out on a printed Blank shad a Seal & a print of an Eagle at the top - It was signed by Governor Trumbull & commissioned our Father as 1 st Lieutenant in the artillery at sd Black Rock Battery. We have seen said Commission frequently in Father's Desk & very frequently in the hands of the Children who were amused with the Seal & Eagle on it. It was not considered in the family to be a Paper of any particular importance & very little care was taken of it the Defendants think they have sometimes seen their Father take it from the Children & put it into the Desk. Stephen Turney Cyrus Turney

Waukegan County ss Waukegan Feb'y 4. 1853
Personally appeared Stephen Tarnay & Cyrus Tarnay who being duly sworn made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing Deposition by them subscribed before me Wm. B. Osborne Justice of Peace
I certify that Stephen Tarnay & Cyrus Tarnay the above named Deponents are both credible witnesses. Thomas B. Osborne Jus. Peace

I Mereziah Burr of Fairfield in Fairfield County Connecticut being duly sworn do testify & say, that I am well acquainted with Aaron Turney now of said Fairfield & knew him in the Revolutionary war. In the year 1779 Deponent served at the Black Rock Battery from some time in April till the September following under Capt. Isaac Jarvis. During the time I was at said Battery the said Aaron was the first Sergeant & Gunner in the Company. I left the Battery in Sept r 1779 being ordered to Fairfield Town. Said Turney remained at the Battery where he served till some time, as I should think, in the year 1782. In April 1780 Deponent enlisted for one year in the Company of State Troops under Captain Isaac Jarvis. The said Turney was at this time the 1 st Lieutenant of Company & stationed at said Black Rock Battery. Deponent was ordered to Fairfield Town in the guard under Ensign Chauncey Downs. Deponent knows that said Turney was the 1 st Lieutenant in the Company commanded by Captain Isaac Jarvis & that he continued to serve as such Lieutenant from some time in the Spring of 1780 until some time in the Spring, as nearly as I recollect, of 1782. During the whole of this time said Turney was stationed at Black Rock Battery but frequently came over to Town at Fairfield, & exercised the guard there while I was in it. Mereziah Burr sworn to & subscribed this 20 th day of July 1832 before me Thomas B. Barbour Justice of Peace

I Eleazar Bulkley of Hanfield in Hanfield County Connecticut aged sixty nine years being being duly sworn testifies & says that he is well acquainted with Aaron Turney of the Hanfield and knew said Turney in the Revolutionary war. Some time in the summer of 1779 should say the latter part of July it being a few weeks after Hanfield was burnt, Deponent was ordered from the guard at Hanfield to the Black Rock Battery in the Town. Capt. Isaac Jarvis commanded the Company at the battery at this time and the said Aaron Turney acted as second in command but what particular office the said Turney held, Deponent cannot swear, but thinks at that time he was only a Sergeant, but there was at the battery no officer between him & Capt. Jarvis. I remained at the battery till late in the fall of 1779. Deponent well recollects that in the spring of 1780 he saw Capt. Isaac Jarvis & the said Aaron Turney at Hanfield in the Town in a row dress sit were the said they had lately received Commissions. The said Turney was called Lieutenant Turney during the last years of the war & afterwards.
Deponent believes said Turney to be seventy eight years of age & never heard his character in any respect called in question.
✓ Eleazar Bulkley
Sworn to & subscribed the 24 th day of July A.D. 1832
before me Moncay Bonborne Justice of Peace

I Abel Turney of Mansfield in Mansfield County Connecticut aged in my seventieth year do testify & say that I lived in said Mansfield in the time of the Revolutionary war and was at the burning of Mansfield in the year 1779 in the Militia that turned out and also that I enlisted in the Company of Captain Isaac Jarvis in the year 1780 & was ordered on guard at Mansfield in the Town. I further testify & say that my brother Aaron Turney now of said Mansfield was first Lieutenant in the Company of State Troops under the s d Isaac Jarvis Captain in the year 1780 when I enlisted into s d Company in the Spring of 1780. I well recollect that my Brother served in s d Company as first Lieutenant from the Spring of 1780 to the latter part of the year 1781 - I know he was such Lieutenant in s d Company up to the latter part of the year 1781 & how much longer I cannot now state of my own knowledge but have always understood & believed that he served in s d Company as 1 st Lieutenant for two years - During the whole of this time he was stationed at the Rockrock Battery in s d Mansfield where the largest part of Capt. Jarvis' Company were. My Brother also served as an officer in s d Company at s d Battery in the year 1779 but I do not know exactly what office he did then hold. I was also knowing to my Brother's enlisting on board the Ship Defence under Captain Smedley & I can say that my Brother was absent from home in the service the greatest part of the time during the war. sworn to and subscribed the 1 st day of August A D 1832 before me Thomas B. Borne Justice of Peace Abel Turney

Fairfield County ss Fairfield August 1. 1832
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Herzekiah Burr, Eleazer Bulkley and Abel Turney who have severally subscribed & sworn to the foregoing Depositions before me, and that they are respectable men whose character for truth & veracity are perfectly unexceptionable. Thomas B Osborne Justice of Peace
State of Connecticut } ss. I Thomas B Osborne Clerk of the County Fairfield County } Court within & for the County of Fairfield in s d State of Connecticut do hereby certify, that John D. Wilson Esq, before whom the foregoing Declaration of Aaron Turney was taken is now, & for more than one year last past has been, Chief Judge of s d County Court duly commissioned & acting as such; and that all the signatures to the Certificate on s d Declaration purporting to be his, are genuine & in the proper handwriting of the said John D. Wilson Esq. I further certify that the s d Declaration & interlineations therein & the Certificate annexed thereto signed by Ebenezer Dunion & Samuel Rowland Esquires & the interlineations therein, are in my hand writing & were drawn up & s d interlineations made, before the same were signed & sworn to before s d John D. Wilson. I further certify that Thomas B Osborne before whom the foregoing Depositions of Herzekiah Burr, Eleazer Bulkley & Abel Turney were sworn, is now & for more than one year last past, has been a Justice of the Peace for s d Fairfield County duly commissioned & sworn & duly authorized to administer oaths & take Depositions &c. I further certify, that all the official signatures to the Certificate annexed to s d Depositions, purporting to be his, are genuine & in the proper hand writing of the said Thomas B Osborne. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County Court in Fairfield this 1 st day of August A 1832.
Thomas B Osborne Clerk of s d County Court

State of Connecticut } County of Fairfield } fs.
On this 25 th day of July A D 1832 personally appeared before me John B. Wilson Chief Judge of the County Court within & for the County of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut Aaron Turney a resident of the Town of Fairfield in the County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut aged seventy eight years who being first 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. 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. That in the month of July 1775 at said Fairfield he enlisted for the term of six months as a private in the Company of Connecticut State Troops then under the command of 1 st Lieutenant Ebenezer Hill in the Regiment commanded by Col. Charles Webb. The Company was ordered to Stamford where we remained till some time in the Fall when we were ordered to Boston & stationed between Bunker's hill & Mystic. Declarant served out his full term of enlistment and returned home to Fairfield in January 1776 and in the same month he went to New York & there enlisted as first Sergeant for the term of six months in the Company of Connecticut State Troops commanded by Captain Salomon Reed in the Regiment commanded by Col. Waterbury. He was ordered to Brooklyn & was there when the enemy landed at Flatbush. We retreated back to New York. He was in the battle at White Plains & having served out his full term of enlistment was induced to stay some months longer, the Militia not coming on. He left the Army

near White Plains some time in the Fall & returned to Fairfield.
In January 1777 he again enlisted at Fairfield, as a gunner on board the ship Defence commanded by Captain Samuel Smedley in the service of the State of Connecticut. He went on board at Boston. We cruised to the windward of the west India Islands & there captured two British Vessels, thence into South latitude & thence back to Charleston where we overhauled. We sailed from thence & captured two British Privateers which we sent into Boston where we afterwards arrived in December 1777. He then returned home to Fairfield. In the Spring of 1779 the precise date he cannot recollect he again enlisted at Fairfield for one year as a Sergeant & Gunner in the Company of Connecticut State Troops commanded by Captain Isaac Jarvis. The Company was raised for the purpose of guarding the seaboard of the Town of Fairfield. He was ordered to the Black Rock Battery in said Fairfield, where the Company was stationed. He was at said Battery when Fairfield was burnt by the enemy in July 1779. The Battery was attacked by a Row Gully & was also fired upon by the British after they landed. We returned the fire & kept possession of the Battery. He continued to serve in said Company under Captain Jarvis from the time of his enlistment until the Spring of 1780 a period of one year. During the whole of this time he was stationed at said Battery & acted as Sergeant & Gunner.
In the Spring of 1780, the precise date he cannot recollect, the

Declarant received from Jonathan Trumbull then Governor of the State of Connecticut a Commission for one year , as first Lieutenant in said Company of Connecticut State Troops under the command of Captain Davis. We were stationed at said Blackwells Battery, & the Declarant served as 1 st Lieutenant in said Company at said Battery for one year when his Commission expired he received another Commission from Governor Trumbull for one year as first Lieutenant in the same Company. He continued to serve as such Lieutenant at said Battery for another year. The latter Commission expired in the Spring of 1782 but the precise time he cannot state. During the two years he held a Commission as above stated he acted for the greater part of the time as the commanding officer at the Battery (tho' Capt. Davis was in commission), & for the whole period of two years he constantly performed all the duties pertaining to the office of Lieutenant. When the last Commission expired he left the Battery.
In July 1782 Declarant received from Governor Trumbull a Commission as 2 d Lieutenant of three armed Boats called the Shy Fox & Firebrand under Capt. Woodhull which Commission dated July 11. th 1782 is hereto annexed. He took the command of the Firebrand and cruised in Long Island Sound until peace took place.
He has no documentary evidence except the last mentioned Commission. The three Commissions he received were kept in a drawer to which the children were in the habit of going, & he thinks that the two first mentioned Commissions being considered by him as of no particular value & carelessly kept were lost or destroyed by the children as he cannot now find them. He was born at Fairfield some time in July 1754 but the precise day of the month he cannot now certainly

state but thinks it is on Record in the office of Samuel Rowland Esquire Town Clerk of Fairfield. He has no record in his own possession. He has always resided in said Fairfield where he is well known to Samuel Rowland & Ebenezer Dimes Esquires & others of the older Citizens of Fairfield stating that most of the older Inhabitants in his neighborhood can testify to their belief of his having served as a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary war. to his character & services He knew Major Tallmadge of the continental army who was stationed with a Party of light Horse for a time in said Fairfield on Greenfield Hill . He knew Colonel David Dimes, Colonel Jonathan Dimes & General Gould S. Silliman of the Connecticut Militia. There is no commissioned officer now living who served with him while he was Lieutenant at the Battery. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension Role of the agency of any State. He now claims a pension for two years services as a Lieutenant as is above stated.
Subscribed & sworn to before me at Fairfield this 25 th day of July A D 1832
John D. Wilson
Chief Judge
The Enclosure is the original of the Certificate of the foregoing signing  We Ebenezer Dimes & Samuel Rowland both residing in the Town of Fairfield Fairfield County Connecticut hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Aaron Torney who has subscribed & sworn to the above Declaration; that we believe him to be seventy eight years of age; that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have served in the war of the Revolution and to have been a Lieutenant at the Black Rock Battery during the war of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion. That said Torney was commonly called Lieutenant Torney during the latter part of & after the Revolutionary war. which title by him was acquired by him by serving as a Lieutenant at said Black Rock Battery.
Ebenezer Dimes Sam. Rowland
And the said John D. Wilson Chief Judge of said County Court does hereby declare his opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named Applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier & officer as he states. And further that it appears to him that Ebenezer Dimes & Samuel Rowland Esquires who have signed the preceding Certificate are residents in said Town of Fairfield & are credible persons & that their statement is entitled to credit. And the said John D. Wilson do further certify that said Aaron Torney the applicant is unable from bodily infirmity to attend the Court being confined to his house. I further certify that I am entirely satisfied from what I have understood & heard that the above Declaration of the applicant is true.
John D. Wilson Chief Judge

May 2, 1938
Mrs. G. E. Stephenson 20 North Balch Street Akron, Ohio
James Chapman S. 37831 Samuel Squires W. 23458 Aaron Turney S. 18633 BA-J/AWF
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letters in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Lieutenant James Chapman of Fairfield, Connecticut, of Jarvis Kellogg of Norwalk, Connecticut, and of Jonathan Cooley of Connecticut .
The Revolutionary War records of this office have been searched and no claim for pension found based on the service of either Jarvis Kellogg or Jonathan Cooley. The surnames were searched under similar spellings.
The Revolutionary War record of James Chapman, Lieutenant from Fairfield, Connecticut is furnished herein, also the records of Samuel Squires and Aaron Turney, which will be of interest to you.
James Chapman-S.37831
The data concerning James Chapman which follow were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, S. 37831, based on his service in the War of the Revolution.
The date and place of birth of James Chapman were not given, nor were the names of his parents stated.
James Chapman enlisted in 1776, served as
See her letter re James Chapman S. 37831

ensign in Captain Albert Chapman's company in Colonel Elmore's Connecticut regiment; he was appointed sometime in December, 1776, lieutenant in same company and regiment, and was commissioned, October 25, 1777, lieutenant in Captain Albert Chapman's company in Colonel Heman Swift's 7th Connecticut regiment, and was discharged September 8, 1780. During the service he was in the battles of Ridgefield, Germantown, Monmouth and many skirmishes.
James Chapman was allowed pension on his application executed April 28, 1818, at which time he was a resident of Fairfield, Connecticut.
Reference was made in 1819 to Phinehas Chapman, Abigail Chapman, and Samuel Chapman, all of Connecticut. It was not stated that they were related to the above noted James Chapman, nor was it shown that the Captain Albert Chapman under whom he served was a relative.
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Samuel Squires-W. 22458
The data relative to Samuel Squires were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, W. 22458, based on his service in the Revolutionary War.
The date and place of birth of Samuel Squires were not stated, nor were the names of his parents given.
Samuel Squires of Fairfield, Connecticut, was Commissary of Issues and Purchase, from sometime in April or May, 1775, until the month of August, 1783.
Samuel Squires married July 20, 1789 in Fair-

field, Connecticut, Miss Ellen Gold of said Fairfield,
Samuel Squires died May 27, 1801, aged at that time eighty-six years.
The widow, Ellen Squires, married January 9, 1803, James Chapman of Fairfield, Connecticut, who was a Lieutenant in the War of the Revolution, and pensioned under the Act of 1818. James Chapman died September 9, 1823, then aged seventy-two years.
The widow, Ellen Chapman, married November 9, 1829, Aaron Turney of Fairfield, Connecticut, who was a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War, and pensioned under the Act of 1832. Aaron Turney died November 15, 1833, then aged eighty-two years.
The widow, Ellen Turney, was allowed pension, on account of the service of her first husband, Samuel Squires, on her application executed October 4, 1838, at which time she was living in Fairfield, Connecticut, aged seventy-seven years, and where she was still living in 1843.
Abel Turney, brother of the above named Aaron Turney, was seventy-six years of age in 1838, then living in Fairfield, Connecticut.
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Aaron Turney-S.18633
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, S. 18633, based on the service of Aaron Turney in the Revolutionary War.
Aaron Turney was born in the month of July, 1754,

in Fairfield, Connecticut. The names of his parents were not stated.
While residing in Fairfield, Connecticut, Aaron Turney enlisted sometime in July, 1775, served six months as private in Captain Ebenezer Hill's company, Colonel Charles Webb's Connecticut regiment. He enlisted sometime in January, 1776, served as first sergeant in Captain Zalman Read's Connecticut company, was in the battle of White Plains, and continued in the service until the fall of 1776. He served from sometime in January, 1777, as a gunner on the ship "Defence", Captain Samuel Smedley, cruised to the West Indies, captured four British vessels and returned to Boston sometime in December, 1777. He enlisted in the spring of 1779, served one year as first sergeant in Captain Isaac Jarvis' Connecticut company, stationed at Black Rock Battery, to guard the sea coast, and was in a skirmish with the British. He was appointed in the spring of 1780, 1st lieutenant in Captain Isaac Jarvis' company, and served at Black Rock Battery, two years. He was commissioned July 11, 1782, second lieutenant of three armed boats, the "Spy", "Fox", and "Firebrand", under Abraham Cooper Woodhull, Master and Commander, cruised in Long Island Sound "until peace took place".
Aaron Turney was allowed pension on his application executed July 25, 1832, at which time he was living in Fairfield, Connecticut. He died November 15, 1833.
Stephen and Cyrus Turney, sons of the above named Aaron Turney, were residents of Fairfield, Connecticut, in 1833. The name of their mother was not designated.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

18633
State of Connecticut
By the Governor and Captain General Nathan Turney is appointed -
Second Lieutenant of three armed Boats, called The Spy - Fox, & Timberland Under Abraham Crocker Woodhull, Master and Commander of the same - is accordingly to act and do whatever belongeth to his Office of second Lieutenant in the three Armed Boats, or either of them as occasion doth or may require
Given under my hand and Seal at Arms at Lebanon this eleventh day of July, in the year of our Lord, One thousand, seven hundred and eighty two - in the seventh year of the Independence of the United States of America
John Trumbull

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10 5 9 1/2
10 5 9 1/2
10 5 9 1/2
Aaron Turner
10 5 9 1/2
10 5 9 1/2
Blake Burlington 14 13

No. 316 State Street, Bridgeport, Conn.
Glasgow with
RECEIVED PENSION DEPARTMENT Department of the Interior.
Bureau of Pensions
In the pension record of Conn. Aaron Turney's name appears as a pensioner in 1832 Will you be kind enough to write me for what services he was pensioned.
Very truly Mrs S. M. Garlick.

P 18633 INVALID.
Feb - 19-1900 Mrs. S. M. Garlick Bridgeport Conn
File No. 18,633
1930-may 2-H ist, to Mrs. B. J. Hegland away 1938 may 2-list to Mrs. S. S. Stepan Eur. See her letter in James Chap. msa 37831 Aug
Marion Turner Saint Peter Wm
Act: June 7" 82
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[Arrangement of 1870.]

First National Bank
Saint Ansgar Iowa
Feb. 21, 1930..A
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
I would be pleased to have you furnish me with information regarding on e Aaron Turney , who, I have every reason to believe was a lieutenant in the Revolutionary War. I would like the date of enlistment, also the date of mustering out of this man, who was born in 1750 and died on Nov. 15, 1832. He was married on Jan. 24, 1782.
I am asking for this information that I may complete my application for the D. A. R.
Thanking you in advance for your kind attention to this matter, if att all possible for you, I remain,
Yours very truly,
Mrs. B. T. Hegland, St. Ansgar, Iowa.

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section
AWF/HLM
May 2, 1930.
Mrs. B. T. Hegland Saint Ansgar Iowa.
Dear Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 18633, it appears that Aaron Turney was born July 1754 in Connecticut, Saifield
While residing in Fairfield, Connecticut, he served as follows:
From in July 1775 six months as a private in Captain Ebenezer Hill's Company, Colonel Charles Webb's Connecticut Regiment; from in January 1776 as a sergeant in Captain Zalmon Read's Connecticut Company, was in the battle of White Plains and served until the fall of 1776; from January 1777 as a gunner on the ship "Defence", Captain Samuel Smedley; they cruised toward the West Indies, captured four British vessels and returned to Boston in December 1777. from the spring of 1779 one year as sergeant in Captain Isaac Jarvis' Connecticut Company, stationed at Black Rock Battery to guard the sea coast. The battery was attacked by a Row Galley and also fired upon by the British. In the spring of 1780 he was appointed 1st lieutenant in Captain Isaac Jarvis' Company and served at Black Rock Battery for two years. He was Commissioned July 11, 1782 2nd lieutenant of three armed boats, the "Spy", "Fox", and "Firebrand" under Abraham Cooper Woodhull, Master and Commander. They cruised in Long Island Sound "until peace took place".
He was allowed pension on his application executed July 25, 1832, at which time he was living at Fairfield, Connecticut.
The soldier's sons, Stephen and Cyrus, were living in Fairfield, Connecticut, in 1833.
It also appears from the records of this bureau that Ellen
See Conn Book P 79 Capt. Zalmon Read my Col. Sibley's Comp. Reg. B or R 393

Gold married, July 20, 1789, Samuel Squires; he died May 27, 1801. She married, January 9, 1803, James Chapman, who died September 9, 1822. She married, November 9, 1829, at Fairfield, Connecticut, Lieutenant Aaron Turney.
Lieutenant Aaron Turney died November 15, 1833. )
Very truly yours,
EARL D. CHURCH Commissioner.
Taken from per. claim Samuel Squires W. 22 45-8

I Ebenezer Bulkley of Fairfield in Fairfield County Connecticut being duly sworn do testify & say, that I was born & have always lived in said Town of Fairfield and am now in my sixty seventh year. That I am well acquainted with Aaron Surney of said Fairfield and knew him well in the Revolutionary War. Said Surney was a great deal in the service in said War and for a number of years in the latter part of the war he served at the Black Rock Battery in said Fairfield. Deponent cannot say positively how long said Surney served at said Battery but should think two or three years and during the greater of that time he acted as the commanding officer of said Battery and was called Lieutenant Surney and was commissioned by the Governor of the State as deponent always understood & believed, tho' he cannot say he ever saw said Surney's Commission. Deponent served at said Battery for about three months as a substitute for his father in the year 1781 (the deponent cannot state the precise time) at which time said Surney commanded the Battery - The Deponent further says that said Surney is a man of perfect respectability & his character for truth unquestionable.
Ebenezer Bulkley
Fairfield County ss Fairfield Feb 14. 1833
Personally appeared Ebenezer Bulkley to me well known to be a credible witness who being duly sworn made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed.
before me
Thomas B. Parsons Justice of Peace

I Samuel Rowland of Fairfield County Connecticut aged sixty three years being duly sworn do testify & say that I have been acquainted with Aaron Burney of Fairfield from my early youth and that said Burney has always sustained a fair reputation for integrity and truth. I further say he has been called & known by the name of Lieutenant Burney that he has always been reputed to have been a Lieutenant at the Black Battery in the Revolutionary war. Deponent recollects that when a Boy he was at the Battery & that he there saw said Burney who was the commanding officer of the Battery at that time and called & reputed to be a Lieutenant.
Samuel Rowland
Fairfield County ss Fairfield Feby 6. 1833 Personally appeared Samuel Rowland Esquire a Gentleman of the first respectability & made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing Depositions by him subscribed.
Mrs. Abigail Austin of Peace
State of Connecticut } I Thomas Bloorne Clerk of the County Court within Fairfield County ss. } for the County of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut do hereby certify that Thomas Bloorne before whom the foregoing Depositions of Stephen & Cyrus Burney, Ebenezer Buckley & Samuel Rowland were sworn is now for more than one year last past has been a Justice of the Peace for the Fairfield County duly commissioned & duly authorized to administer oaths & take Depositions. I further certify that the Rev.
John W Hunt the Congyman of Fairfield is a young man & has resided there about three years. and that Ebenezer Dinion & Samuel Rowland Esqrs who have signed the Certificate annexed to the foregoing Declaration of Aaron Burney are among the oldest & most respectable Citizens of Fairfield whose means of knowledge of the facts stated in their Certificate are much greater than those of Mr. Hunt. Witness my hand & Seal of said County Court this 6 th day of February 1833. Thomas Bloorne Clerk

Aaron Turney's application for a Pension
Debit
100.00 100.00
for balance
Tomlinson

4862. Aaron Turney's Application for a Pension —

I, Thomas Day, Secretary of the State of Connecticut and Keeper of the Seal thereof, do hereby certify, that I have caused the records of the General Assembly of said State in my custody to be searched, from the year 1776 to the year 1782, for the appointment of Aaron Turney as Lieutenant of a company of State Artillery stationed at Black Rock Battery, but no such appointment has been found upon said records.
I further certify, that during the Revolutionary War, vacancies occurring in military offices, (especially among those in actual service) during the recess of the General Assembly, were commonly filled by appointments made by the Governor and Council of Safety, in which case, such appointments did not appear upon the records of the General Assembly, but were generally entered upon the minutes of said Governor and Council of Safety, which are preserved and deposited in the State House at Hartford. I have also caused said minutes to be searched, for the appointment of said Aaron Turney, during the period above mentioned, but without finding the same. But on examination of said minutes, I find the entries made in very general terms, in some instances such as the following:
"At a meeting of the Governor and Council of Safety, December 26 th 1776. Middletown. Several officers were appointed in the continental

service instead of others that refused; as appears by the lists and arrangements: which said "lists and arrangements" are not to be found. And again:
"At a meeting of the Governor and Council of Safety, January 15th, 1777."
The Council attended to the appointment of several officers in the Continental Army; neither names nor offices being specified.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said State, at the City of Hartford, the 30th day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.
Thomas Day.

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