Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 25896, Abner Warriner, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Warriner, Abner Elizabeth
NUMBER
W. 25896
CONTENTS

Warriner, Homer Mass. W 25896
325 1 May 1918
[Faint handwritten text, possibly "Dear Sir" or "To the Honorable"]
Feb 31

COMMONWEALTH OF
MASSACHUSETTS.
COUNTY of Hampshire
ss.
ON this 10th day of July 182 1 , personally appeared, in open court, before the same being a Court of Record and so established by a Statute of said Commonwealth, said Court being now in session at Northampton within and for said county of Hampshire who being aged 75 years, resident in Williamsburg first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows:
And I do solemnly declare 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, been so resident citizen, nor do I now intend to become so resident citizen as to bring myself within the provisions of the act entitled "An act to provide for a pension to such persons as were resident citizens of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818, and are now residing within the United States, and who have been honorably discharged from the service of the United States, and are unable to earn a farthing by reason of age or physical infirmity." But I have not been so resident citizen since that time, nor do I now intend to become so resident citizen as to bring myself within the provisions of said act.
by gift, sale, or in any Congress entitled "An act to provide for a pension to such persons as were resident citizens of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818, and are now residing within the United States, and who have been honorably discharged from the service of the United States, and are unable to earn a farthing by reason of age or physical infirmity."

Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States during the Revolutionary War, passed March 3, 1831, contains the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
SCHEDULE.
[Faint handwritten text, likely bleed-through from the reverse side of the page, containing names and dates such as "John Ingersoll" and "1831".]
Sworn to and declared on the fourth day of July before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas attest John Ingersoll Clerk
Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the County aforesaid do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is _____ Dollars and _____ Cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, on this Nineteenth day of July 182 8 John Ingersoll Clerk of the Courts for the County of _____

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Connecticut. Elizabeth Warren, widow of Almer Warren,
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a First Corporal,
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of Fifty three Dollars Sixty-five Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st day of March, '49, and sent to
all of Pensioners under act 8, Page 190 Vol. II.
Sam. Warren, Nov 16/60 Sam Jan 15/61.

325 Disbanded Massachusetts
Olner * Warriner
Private 4 Massachusetts line 77-9 months In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 13 th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 st of May 1818 and sent to the Pensioner, care of John Hooker Esq. Judge, Hampshire County, Mass. etc.
Arrearages to 4 Sept r 1818. 14. 23/31 mo. ————— $ 37.93
{ Revolutionary claims, { Act 18th March, 1818, }
Continued * Supposed to have deserted see letter to J. Ingersoll, S t Agent of May 1821 —
Abraham Hampshire
Subscription paid July 31 st 1820 to John Ingersoll Esq. Springfield, Mass. etc. Extrah from Rev. Sam l 10 th 1823 sent to J. Easton Esq. Frank. Mass. his letter

INDEX
Of the Names and Order of all the Books of the OLD TESTAMENT....APOCRYPHA; and, NEW TESTAMENT, with the Number of their Chapters, and the Pages where they may be found.
Books of the Old Testament.
   No. of Chap. Page. No. of Chap. Page. No. of Chap. Page.     Genesis 50 5 II. Chronicles 36 371 Daniel 12 683   Exodus 40 50 Ezra 10 402 Hosea 14 699   Leviticus 27 88 Nehemiah 13 411 Joel 3 705   Numbers 36 116 Esther 10 424 Amos 9 708   Deuteronomy 34 156 Job 42 431 Obadiah 1 713   Joshua 24 189 Psalms 150 454 Jonah 4 714   Judges 21 212 Proverbs 31 514 Micah 7 717   Ruth 4 234 Ecclesiastes 12 534 Nahum 3 721   I. Samuel 31 237 Song of Solomon 8 540 Habakkuk 3 723   II. Samuel 24 266 Isaiah 66 544 Zephaniah 3 724   I. Kings 22 291 Jeremiah 52 588 Haggai 2 726   II. Kings 25 319 Lamentations 5 637 Zechariah 14 728   I. Chronicles 29 245 Ezekiel 48 641 Malachi 4 735  
Books called Apocrypha.
   No. of Chap. Page. No. of Chap. Page. No. of Chap. Page.     I. Esdras 9 739 Ecclesiasticus 51 817 Story of Susanna 852   II. Esdras 16 753 Baruch, with the E- } 6 853 Bel and the dragon 864   Tobit 14 778 pistle of Jeremiah Prayer of Manasses 865   Judith 16 785 Song of the three } 860 I. Maccabees 16 866   The rest of Esther 6 800 Children II. Maccabees 15 894   Wisdom of Solomon 19 893  
Books of the New Testament.
   No. of Chap. Page. No. of Chap. Page. No. of Chap. Page.     Matthew 9 917 Ephesians 6 1083 To the Hebrews 13 1104   Mark 16 946 Philippians 4 1087 Epistle of James 5 1113   Luke 24 964 Colossians 4 1090 I. Peter 5 1116   John 21 956 I. Thessalonians 5 1093 II. Peter 3 1119   The Acts 28 1019 II. Thessalonians 3 1095 I. John 5 1122   Epistle to Romans 16 1048 I. Timothy 6 1097 II. John 1 1125   I. Corinthians 16 1060 II. Timothy 4 1100 III. John 1 ibid   II. Corinthians 13 1072 Titus 3 1102 Jude 1 1126   Galatians 6 1079 Philemon 1 1104 Revelations 22 1127  

Abner Warner Born Dec 7 th 1752
Elizabeth Wright Born April 27 th 1739
Abner Warner Married to Elizabeth Wright Oct 27 th 1778

11794
Re Maria 22, 1845. Elizabeth Warren Con.
act 7. July 38
m 78.
husband died 16 April 1827

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston;
March 10. 1845.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Abner Warriner of Wilbraham, is borne as a sifer upon a Muster Roll of Capt. Paul Langdon's Minute Comp y . marched April 20, 1775, enlisted April 29 under the same Capt n . in Col. Timothy Danielson's Reg t . into the 8 months' service of that year, and is borne upon a Return of the same, dated Roxbury Camp , Oct r . 6 th , & further upon the Coat Roll, dated Roxbury Camp, Dec r . 25. 1775; — his name is also borne as a Corporal, upon a pay Roll of Capt n . Daniel Cadwell, Col. Timothy Robinson, for service at Ticonderoga from Dec r . 25. 1776 to April 2 d . 1777, inclusive, 99 days & 180 miles travel; — said Roll is dated Springfield, May 27 th . 1777. The preceding is all the evidence of service, and there is no other person of the same name upon any of the records
100 days
8 mo
3. 9 corp
3. 9 corp

1001
And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Sawyer, Secretary of the Commonwealth. X 2

In the Sec y of State for the 2 d Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Enfield Conn t . Jun y 1845
I am a Native of the town of Witbrdham in the County of Hamden and State of Massachusetts and My husband Abner Warriner also resided in Said town during the Revolutionary War and was also reported to have been a Soldier in Said War and died in the year 1827 April 16 th
I am Now wishing to obtain a pension for My Said husbands Service, and am Not able to State what year he served in, Nor what officers he served under, and would respectfully ask of you to examine the Revolutionary Records in your Dept t for the Name and Services of the Said Abner Warriner, and if proof can be found, that you would issue your certificate Showing Said Service and forward it to Benjamin Colton of Hartford Connecticut and he will pay all expenses attending the Same
Elizabeth Warriner
State of Connecticut 2 d County of Hartford
Enfield Jun y 1845
Personally appeared before me Elizabeth Warriner Now a resident of the aforesaid town and signed the above and acknowledged the Same to be her free act & deed Before me Jon a Hase Justice of Peace

State of Connecticut } County of Hartford } Enfield March 18 th 1845
On this 18 th day of March in the year One Thousand eight hundred and forty five personally appeared before the Court of Probate for the district of Enfield Elizabeth Warriner a resident of the town of Enfield in the County of Hartford and State aforesaid aged 86 years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows. That She is the widow Abner Warriner who was a Soldier in the War of the Revolution and that he formerly resided in the town of Wilbraham in the County of Hampden and State of Massachusetts where the declarant was born and for many years resided —
She further declares that She was married to the said Abner Warriner on the 27 th day of October in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy eight that her husband the aforesaid Abner Warriner died on the 16 th day of April in the year 1827 —

That she was Not Married to him prior to his leaving the Service but the Marriage took place previous to the first day of January Seventeen hundred and Ninety four viz, at the time above stated —
Elizabeth her X Warriner Mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above mentioned and I certify that the declarant is personally known to me and is reputed and by me believed to be the widow of Abner Warriner who formerly resided in the town of Wilbraham in the county of Hampden & State of Massachusetts and is undoubtedly the same person named in a certificate from the Secretary of the commonwealth of Massachusetts dated March 10 th A.D. 1845 and the declarant is reputed to be a woman of respectability and creditability
Nathaniel Johnson Judge of Probate for the District of Enfield
The above and foregoing are the proceedings of the Court of Probate for the District of Enfield in the matter of the declaration of Elizabeth Warriner & also of the deposition of Elizabeth Hulbert hereto annexed
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the court this 18 th day of March A.D. 1845 And I hereby certify that the above signature of the Judge is genuine
Wm. E. Dixon Clerk of Probate

I Elizabeth Hurlbut of the town of Enfield in the County of Hartford & State of Conn. aged forty eight years do hereby Depose and say that I am the wife of Obadiah Hurlbut of the aforesaid town County and State and am also the Daughter of Abner and Elizabeth Warriner formerly a resident of the town of Milbrum in the County of Hampden and State of Massachusetts That I was born in the said town of Milbrum and resided there until the age of twenty two and have resided in the aforesaid town of Enfield about twenty two years and that my Mother the said Elizabeth Warriner has resided in my family permanently for four or five years and is still residing with me I further Depose and say that the annexed is a leaf cut from the family Bible of my father and Mother the said Abner & Elizabeth and shows correctly the date and exact time of their marriage.
Elizabeth Hurlbut
State of Connecticut } ss Enfield March 1 st  the 1845 County of Hartford } ss me Elizabeth Warriner Hurlbut Personally appeared before me Elizabeth Hurlbut with whom I am personally acquainted and subscribed to the above true and correct copy to the truth of the same & I further certify that she is reputed to be a very respectable & credible person. Nathaniel Johnson Judge of Probate for the District of Enfield

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Hampden
SS. B EIT REMEMBERED, That on the thirteenth day of April A. D. 1818, came before me, JOHN HOOKER,
Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Western Circuit in said State, and including the said county of Hampden — the above named Abner Warren the Applicant & Henry Wright his  severally
made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavits, by respectively him subscribed, and hereto annexed. I do thereupon hereby declare, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said
Abner Warren the applicant did serve in the revolutionary war, against the common enemy, for more than nine months, on the continental establishment, as set forth in his affidavit aforesaid, and that he is yet a resident citizen of the United States, is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of assistance from his country for support. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand, and caused the seal of the said Circuit Court for the said county of Hampden to be affixed hereto, this thirteenth day of April 1818
I do therefore hereby certify the above & annexed as the testimony & proceedings had before me on the application of Abner Warren & Henry Wright the several  severally  the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States. John Hooker

Abner Warner Private Col. l Greater's Regt May 11 th Line
13 Ap. l 1818
Wilbraham, Hampden Co care of John Hoakler Esq V o V o
Admitted
Abner Warner

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampden County ss
On this thirteenth day of April A.D. 1818 personally appeared before John Hooker Esquire Chief Justice of the circuit court of common Pleas for the Western Circuit in said Commonwealth including said County of Hampden Abner Warriner a citizen of the United States & resident in the town of Wilbraham in said County who being duly sworn deposes & saith that in February or March 1777 he enlisted into the regular service of the United States as a private soldier for the term of three years in Capt Charles Colton's company & Col Gration's Regiment and Genl Nixon's brigade that he continued to serve faithfully in said capacity until the month of November 1777 when he was obliged by sickness to leave the army which he did on furlough & was not able afterwards to join the army on account of ill health procured me nothing like to serve in my stead for the remainder of my term & this Deponent further saith that in April 1775 he enlisted into Capt Langdon's company & Col Shepherd's regiment for eight months service at Roxbury in said County and continued the whole time in said service & was regularly dismissed at the expiration of said term that some time afterwards in the fall of 1776 he enlisted for the term of three months into the United States service under Capt Daniel Cady into Col Robertson's regiment for what was called the Canada expedition he was regularly dis honorably discharged at the expiration of said term but that discharge is now lost & this Deponent further saith that he is in reduced circumstances in life & by reason thereof stands in need of assistance from his country for support
April 13
Abner Warriner

I Henry Wright Inc of W Abrahams Maf ts do depone & say That I know of the above named Abner Warren serving in the Camp of Capt o G h Bolton as above stated - That he enlisted at the same time with me & that he continued in said Camp & Regiment until after the capture of Genl l Burgoyne when he was taken sick & went home on furlough and afterwards received a furlough to take his place for two years -
Henry Wright Inc

Elizabeth Warriner aged 86. Wd. of Abner Warriner. married 27. Oct. '78. died on 16 April 1827.
Family record  to prove marriage [
Elizabeth Hartburt aged 48 - Daughter of declarant - accom- panying record is a leaf from her father's fam. Bible, and the statement thereon written she swears is true
Sec y of State of Mass. Certif.
John Father Mother Sister Brother
John Father
WARRINE

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampden County } ss
On this thirty first day of December A. D. 1838 personally appeared before Oliver B. Morris Esq. Judge of the Probate Court for said County of Hampden Elizabeth Harriner a resident of Milbraham in said County aged seventy nine years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed July 7. 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" That she is the widow of Abner Harriner dec d who served as a private soldier in the American Army at Roxbury very early in the Revolutionary war for a period of eight months. The precise period of his entering & leaving the service at that term - the nature of the service performed and the names of his officers were never known to or have been forgotten by said Elizabeth. Said Abner afterwards been enlisted and served in the Massachusetts of line of the American Army, as stated in the declaration of said Abner made under the Act of March 18. 1818, by which he obtained a pension - To said declaration the said Elizabeth refers for a statement of proof of said Abner's services, except, perhaps, the tour first mentioned - She has been informed that said Abner was a Sergeant during his last tour of service, but is not positive of the fact.
She further declares that she was married to said Abner at Brattleborough Vermont on the twenty seventh day of October, according to her recollection, in the year Seventeen hundred & seventy seven, by Rev Mr Beecher, while she & said Abner were on a visit at that place. She knows of no record of their marriage at Brattleborough or elsewhere & has reason to believe that none exists -

She further declares that her said husband Abner Warner died on the sixteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred & twenty seven. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred & ninety four, viz at the time above stated.
Witness H. Morris
Elizabeth her  Warner mark
Hampden ss known to and subscribed the day and year first above written before me and I certify that the said Elizabeth Warner being unable to write her name made her mark in my presence and that by reason of bodily infirmity she is unable to attend the court
Wm Morris Judge of the court of Probate for said County
And now I the said Judge, after duly investigating the matter, do declare my opinion that the said Abner War- ner was a soldier of the Revolution, as stated in the foregoing declaration, that on the twenty seventh day of October seven- teen hundred & seventy seven he was married to the said Elizabeth, that he died on the sixteenth day of April eighteen hundred & twenty seven, leaving the said Elizabeth his widow and that she has not again been married. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & caused the seal of the Probate Court of the County of Hampden to be affixed this third day of January A. D. 1839. Wm Morris Judge of said court

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampden ss
I Justin Willard Clerk of the Probate Court within & for said County do hereby certify that the Hon: Oliver B. Morris before whom the foregoing declaration of Elizabeth Warner was subscribed & sworn to, is the Judge of Probate for said County and that his signature subscribed to the foregoing certificate usually, is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Springfield this third day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine
Justin Willard

"Abner, Son of Abner Harnier and Elizabeth his Wife, was born August thirtieth seventeen hundred and seventy nine
Noah Harnier, Town Clerk "
The above is a true copy of the record with the excep- tion of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows "30 th 1779"
Luther Brewer } Town Clerk of Wilbraham
I Luther Brewer, above named, depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk of Wilbraham in the County of Hampden & Commonwealth of Massachusetts and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town with the exception above named, as certified by me.
Luther Brewer
Wilbraham November 7 th 1838 Then personally appeared the above named Luther Brewer and made oath to the truth of the above deposi- tion by him subscribed before me
Jesse W Rice justice of the peace

Abner Warner died April sixteenth one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven Ebenezer Brown, Pastor
The above is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows 16 th 1827 John Bowers, Pastor
I John Bowers above named depose and say that I am Pastor of the Congregational Church and society in North Wilbraham in the County of Hampden and Commonwealth of Massachusetts and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Church with the excep- tion above named, as certified by me John Bowers
Wilbraham November 7 th 1838 Then personally appeared the above named John Bowers and made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed, before me Jesse W Rice justice of the peace.

I Henry Wright of Milbraham in the County of Hampden & Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged eighty years depose & say that I am the brother of Elizabeth Harriner widow of Abner Harriner dec d . That I am a pensioner of the United States under the Act of March 18. 1818. for services rendered during the Revolutionary War. — that on my return to my home at Milbraham after the expiration of the three years service in the Army (for the date of which I must refer to my declaration on the files of the Pension Office,) I found my sister the said Elizabeth living with Abner Harriner as his wife and understood then, as I had before heard while in the Army, that she had been married to him sometime previous at Brattleborough Vermont while on a visit at that place. That, according to my impression, but of this I am not positive, their eldest child was born before my return from the Army. That my said sister has always been respected in the neighborhood where she has lived & have been the lawful wife of said Abner Harriner, although no record of her marriage has been found, notwithstanding search for one has been made.
I further testify & say that in seventeen hundred & seventy five (the said Abner left his home at Milbraham to go to Roxbury as a soldier in the Company of Capt Paul Langdon (as I think but am not certain). He was absent from home on this tour eight months. I lived within one hundred rods of his home at that time. Henry Wright
Hampden ss Oct 2. 1838. Then personally appeared Henry Wright signer of the foregoing affidavit, who is known to me to be a credible witness & made oaths to the foregoing affidavit, before me.
Jesse W. Rice justice of the peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Hampden 88 I Justin Willard Clerk of the Court of Probate within & for said County do hereby certify that Jesse W. Rice Esq. before whom the foregoing & annexed depositions of Henry Wright, John Bowers & Luther Brewer were severally subscribed & sworn to as a justice of the Peace within & for said County & has been so for the past & that his signature subscribed to the several certificates of the captions of said depositions is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Probate Court at Springfield this third day of Dec January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine
Justin Willard
Stricken from Roll in 1823 and dated April 16. 1827.
4337 Elizabeth Warren of Abner Massachusetts
4337

Reg WIDOW, &c.
File No. 25,896
Elizabeth Warriner Wid of Abner Warriner Coast Rev. Wa
Act Feb 2nd 1828
Index : Vol W , Page 314
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Aug 10 - 900 P. H. Humboldt (Ft - Am.)

Steel Wamine
Sept 23 1852
Same Mar 29 1853
Same Sep 29 1853
Same July 17 1856-
Same Dec 8 1856-
Same Dec 18 1856-
Same Jan 21 1857

Elizabeth Warner
Elizabeth Warner Mrs
Custom Office Washington D.C.
Ms FREE

Rev Surv. J. 17. 749
Jesse Harrin Conn.

11794.
cl.
Elizabeth Warren
let.
act.
Oct. 7. 1838
see let. to Benj. Bolton, May 31. 45

9601.
Connecticut.
Elizabeth Warriner,
widow of Abner Warriner,
who was a pensioner under the Act of
and who died on the 16th: April, 1827,
of Hartford in the State of Connecticut
who was a priv: Horse in the company: —
commanded by Captain Langdon — of the
Regt: — commanded by Col: Danielson in
the Massachussetts line for 8 mo: 10 days
3 — 9 — Co.
Inscribed on the Roll of Hartford, —
at the rate of 53 — Dollars 65 —
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day
of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6th: — day of September 1845, and sent to Hon. Jos: H. Niles, Hartford, Connecticut. —
Total amount, $ 268 .25
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by W. Stewart Clerk, Book — Vol. 1 — Page 99.
Missy Con 53: 65
many

7275 Connecticut.
Elizabeth Warriner, widow of Abner Warriner, who was a Fifer and Corporal, in the Massachusetts line. —
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of $3 Dollars 65
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6th day of September, 1845, and sent to Hon. Jno. M. Niles, Hartford, Connecticut.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
17th: June, 1844.
Recorded in Book Vol. 2 Page 58 —

Elizabeth Harriner Abner - con - at 27 1/2 43
4129 - act L 43
con
FREE
James Harriner Washington

FREE
Department of the Interior Washington D.C.
Am

Elizabeth Warriner
Abner Bon a 24th
Union Office Washington 16
FREE

Elizabeth Warriner
wid. Newber - Con
ad. 2-18-429
Androsson Springton
Deacon Colbeck
C
FREE

Same business Washington
Pension Office Washington FREE

Elizabeth Hamner New Bedford - 4/29 Com - 10/29

Samuel Warriner, August 11/60 Same left 25/60

No. 4129 - 4129
Elizabeth Warren No. 4129
L.S. Bransbury Mch 6/60
Elizabeth Warren Alner - Con. at
Letter Samuel Warren
May 3/59
Same May 17/59
Same June 23/59
Same Sept 28/59
Ad. 2 o Feb. 1848 (oon)

4.337
Elizabeth Warriner Widow of Abner Glasf.
[Rejected.. Husband de- serted.]
H. Morris April 24 1839- Sam l Warriner July 26 1853- do Sept r 28 1855-
Act July 7 1838

Elizabeth Warriner Massachusetts
Rejected
See let. 24 April 1839 N. Morris.
Saml. Warriner July 26/53
husband deserted,
Act 7 July 1838

No 11794
Elizabeth Warner
Widow of Abner
Conn.
act 7 July, 1838
Adm
8 Mo 10 Ds fifer - $ 30.55
3.1. 9 - Cape 23.10
$ 53.65
Adm Act March 1843
and 17 June 1844
$ 53.65 per ann.
How John M. Niles
Walters
Conn.

Conn Elizabeth Harriner wid. of Almed - Conn. Nov. 2 nd 1878
Pension City of

Shamington Feb 23. 1857
Dear Sir why is it that the same law or act that gives the Soldier a pension does not if he does not get it give it to the heir there is not eney thing said in the act against the heir having it I think Sir if you should name it to Congress that they would do for me why not try it & help a poor fellow being to live & help live if I had that 28 hundred dollars it would get me a convenient farm of which I could do for my self and help the United States and help live the affairs of Uncle Sam real yankee born in the center of yankee land do help & I will do the same
I want to vote
Yours Respectfully
Samuel Warren

Harrington Jan the 20, 1857
Dear Sir It is with much regret that I take my pen to state the facts over and over with regard to my father's pension but I cannot give it up that he has been paid for that 8 years & half that he lived after the act was passed how can it be he certainly did not draw every thing after the 80 months that he received in the onset and my mother's pension was a separate thing the widows pay an extra act which Congress meant to do more for their Country and why not send me that which belonged to my father, they tell me that he was entitled to one hundred & twenty dollars a year he was fifer & Corporal so the Secretary of the State of Massachusetts says all this is true as the bible is and that no doubt is true I know a great part of it to be so I have seen it fulfilled I hope you will send me that money with interest!
Yours Respectfully Samuel Warren
I expect he will have to be resigned to his fate, A. H. D.

Pension Office March 29 th 1853
Sir
The act of 1818 was a personal act intended only for the benefit of the soldier who performed the service . No claim under that act descended to his children. The first act under which they could claim was the act of June 7, 1832. He died in 1827, before that act was passed. But if your father Samuel Warner, had survived that act, his widow would be entitled to what would be due him, and not his children.
I am Respectfully Your ob t Servt S. Cale
Sam s Warner Esq, Acting Commissioner of Pensions Samuel Warner Esq, Hartford Ct

War Department Washington, March 9. 1852.
Sir.
By direction of the Secretary of War, I have to inform you, that your letter of 6 inst. upon the subject of a pension on account of the services of your father, has been referred to the Department of the Interior, where it should have been addressed.
Very respectfully
Your obedt Servant
John P. H. S.
Chf Clerk War Dept.
Mr. Samuel Warner Hartford Conn.

Fanning ton March 4 th 1857
Sir If my father had a rite to any thing from G t and did not get it then the heir ought to have it and it is not just nor right to withhold it from them and eight & twenty hundred dollars belongs to me as much as a note of hand against any good man for my father was wronged out of his honest due by "government Officer" and it is asking no more than honest and just that they should pay it to me If I had belonged to England and applied for such a right I should have got it before now
Yours S c
Samuel Warriner

Pension Office, September 29 th 1853.
Sir:
On the 29 th of March last, I endeavored to explain to you why I could not grant you a pension from 1818 to 1827, for your father's services. I did hope that letter would be satisfactory, and that you would not complain of a failure, on my part, to do what I have no legal right to do.
I hope you will reconsider your determination to vote no more.
I am, respectfully, Your Att. Svt, J. M. W. Commissioner.
Samuel Warriner, Esq. New Britain, Conn.

I am Certainly no enemy to Government nor have I withheld my help to make Officers to Rule over me I have helped get in Several Presidents all of which have done honor to their Country and I have as much good feeling and respect for my Country as any man but have no means to do for it as I should if Government would condescend to pay me that twenty Eight hundred dollars which I think is honestly due my father Almer Warriner I have no resources to do any things though the Pension law did not make provision that the heir claim could claim any back pay it did not make any against it do help me so as I can help back in return I want to do good as I am my hands are tied if I had that money I know I should help the United States as much in a few years if my health is spared me
March 12 th 1857 Respectfully Yours Samuel Warriner
Harrington C.I.

J. L. Edwards Esq. Com m te of Pensions Washington

West Hartford Connecticut
March 19 th 1845
Sir
I send you herewith the claim of Elizabeth Warriner for a pension under the act of 1838 and hope you will give your early attention to it —
As you have in some instances issued a certificate under the act of 1843 at the same time you have issued one under the act of 1838 without going through the formalities required by the rules under the act of 1843 I would respectfully ask of you (as a favor to prevent unnecessary expense & delay) to send me a certificate under both acts of 1838 and 1843 —
I am very respectfully Your ob t . humble Servt. Berry N. Colton
J. L. Edwards Comm ee of Pensions Washington

Conne Farmington Decr 10 1856
Sir I do not see how that you can get along with your statement that no heirs can receive the pay that was due their father for his service in the revolutionary war for I know of more than one instance of the heir receiving the averages of the wages that Government owed their father and the service of their father was no more honest than mine that is they did not desert neither did mine now Sir it was a cruel and wrong thing that my father was kept out of his I don't Cast the on became you Sir but the Senator from Westspringfield Lathrop he destroyed the writings and recorded him a deserter, but it is not true my father was not a deserter and the pay was his honestly belongs to me and his pay up to 27 amounted to ten hundred & Eighty dollars, and it is no more than right and just that I should have it with simple interest which in all amounts to two thousand five hundred and Twenty dollars I had rather it had been paid to my father when he was living but it is not too late to do good now I am as poor as he was and more so for I have no means to help myself and not well
Yours Respectfuly & Wishfuly Samuel Warriner
I hope you will send me the money for I am needey

Pension Office September 28. 1855
Sir:
For the reason assigned to you on the 26 th of July 1853, no pension can be allowed for the alleged services of your father, Abner Harriner.
I am Respectfully Your obedt Servt G. Smith Commissioner
Samuel Harriner, Esq New Britain Conn.

Washington City Feb 14 1860
Hon. Geo. L. Whiting Commr of Pensions
Sir.
Sam l Waniner has written to me several times relative to recovering the alleged pensions due to in right of his father and mother, who were pensioners - the father on the Massachusetts (Hampden Co) pension roll. On examining the papers in the case, I find that Abner Waniner the father, was pensioned under the Act of 1818, claiming 3 terms of service. 1 st Enlisted in April 1775 in Co. Capt Langdon, Regt. Col. Shephard for 8 mos & served full time. 2 d Enlisted in fall of 1776 in Co. Capt Daniel Caldwell, Col. Robertson's Regt and served full time of 3 months. - 3 d Enlisted in Feb or March 1777 for 3 years, all in Mass. line - and was pensioned at $95. per year.
He alleged in his declaration that in November (1777) he was obliged to leave on account of sickness, but furnished a substitute named Nathan Sikes, to whom he gave ninety six pounds in money, and an outfit of military equipments. He was dropped, under the Act of 1820, and restored again. He proved his sickness and the employment of Sikes as a substitute, by 3 witnesses, soldiers and neighbors.
He died 15 April 1827
His widow Elizabeth, was pensioned under the Act of 7 July 1838 at the rate of $53.05 per year
She died Sept 5. 1849

L. Edwards Esq.

No. of Rep! O. Dec. 1821
J. Edwards Esq.
Sir
I enclose you same papers delivered to me by Abner Warriner, in relation to his pension —
Respectfully
Yr obed Servt
Sam l L. Phelps

J. L. Edwards Esq.
War Dept.
Washington

No. of Reps 24. Dec 1872
S. L. Edwards Esq. Sir,
Abner Warriner's application for a pension was formerly made to your office, & as I was informed, his case was suspended for further consideration - I am now reminded, that additional documents were furnished during the last session of Congress, & that the decision has not been communicated - Will you have the goodness to inform me of the result of his application, that I may notify him - He lives in Wilbraham, Mass?
I am respectfully your obedient Sam Hattuck
I wish you would also send me a copy of the forms necessary to be complied with in an application for a pension on account of wounds received during the revolutionary war - Yours & S. Hattuck

Marries 1850
Marriage Certificate

War Department, No 325,
PENSION OFFICE,
31 July — 1828.
SIR,
You are hereby informed that the schedule of your property has been examined ; and the Secretary of War has directed your name to be continued on the Pension Roll.
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. Edwards
To Mr. Abner Warren,
Wilbraham, Mass.

Abner Warren
Payable on the 4 th March & 4 th Sept. in each year by the Agent or, Branch Bank, U. S. Boston, Massachusetts.
Recorded

WAR DEPARTMENT,
I CERTIFY, That in conformity with the law of the UNITED STATES,
of the 18 th March 1818.
Abner Warriner late a Private in the Army of the Revolution
is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency at the rate of Eight dollars cents per month, to commence on the thirteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Given at the WAR OFFICE of the UNITED STATES,
this 30 th day of April
one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War

Referred to the Commission of Pensions for answer
Dept Int. Oct 13/52
Rec d Oct. 13. 1852.

Hartford Oct r 11. 1852 Dear Sir
Yours of the 23 of September I have received Stating that my Mother is in receipt of a pension for the Services of my father I do not know how it is for the papers were turned in to the pension office in Hartford when my mother died 3 years ago this Sept r
All that I claimed was the 9 years back pay that my father inured about so much before he died that was from 1818 to 1827 he died in 27 I supposed that my mothers pension was a seperate concern as there was an act passed for the widow after the husbands decease I did not know but that I might be entitled to that which belonged to my father. I want nothing but what is wright
Please excuse a poor man for troubling your honor
Yours with respect Samuel Harriner

Farmington Ct - Oct 29 th 1856
Dear Sir
I am very sorry to say so much on the subject of my father's honest dues from Government, but I am bound by the law of truth and righteousness to keep it in remembrance that he was kept out of his pension wrongfully if he is recorded a deserter that is wrong for he was not a deserter My father Abner Warriner of Wilbraham Massachussetts never deserted the Army I care not if every Senator that ever went to Congress says so it is not true, and his heir is as honestly entitled to that 9 years pay as any one is to a note of hand it honestly belongs to me 10 hundred & Eighty dollars
Yours SC — Samuel Warriner
My Mother drew her pension how in the name of truth could she get her pension if father was a deserter he did not desert

Pension Agency Hartford July 22 1852
Elizabeth Wariner Widow of Abner Wariner was a pensioner on the roll of this Agency at the rate of $53 65 100 dollars per annum under the Act of July 7. 1838
Henry Fowler Pensioner

Truly I am poor my in a state of Starvation!

New Britain Sept r 16 th 1855
Sir
I would once more ask if my Father Abner Warriner had no title to pay for Service in the Continental war he served 9 months and never received his pay was fifer & Corporal he died in the year 27 making 9 years pay due him I suppose he is entitled to 120 dollars a year why not pay it to me I am the heir
Samuel Warriner
Yours Respectfully

New Britain Feb 11 th 1861
Sir If the Pension department has no Authority to settle pension Claims what is the use of such an office my Claim is an honest one and you Sir know it and I know it and god knows it but you can Cheat me out of it and I cannot help it I should not say as much as I have if my father had not been wronged out of his honest due for he proved by 3 living witnesses to the satisfaction of the Secretary of war that he did not desert & the Secretary restored him to the pension rolls but the P ost office did not pay him his pension now Sir I am the heir and I have the rite to demand it & yours. brick

pay with interest on it 33 years 960 dollars Principle
Yours Respectfully Samuel Harriner

OWN ✓
# 62 Hawthorne St.
Hartford Conn.
July 30. 1900
Bureau of Pensions,
Will you kindly give me what information you can regarding Henry Wright of Wilbraham Mass. Either he or his wife was a Rev. pensioner. I wish to know his terms of service, and would like to know his wife's name if it appears on your records.
Yours truly,
F. H. Hurlbut Prants.
(over)

Would also like to know if Abner Harriner of Milbraham Mass. was a pensioner, and what was his service.
F. H. Hurlbut,

You know every thing about that Claim you owe me of Ebenezer Warriner it is now 33 hundred dollars I think it is time it was settled, I hope you will Send what there is my honest due and that is the sum above named
Yours Respectfully Samuel Warriner
New Britain Conn

251 896
Abner Worrinary
Apl. 13 - 1878 - 65
Wilbraham Mass.
Mar. 77
Capt Chas Cotton
Cal Greaton
9 m
Apl. 75 - Roxbury Mass
Capt Langdon
Cal Shephard
8 m.
Feb 76
Capt Sam Cudworth
Cal Robertson
3 m
Wife Elizabeth Wright
Aged 59
Marr'd Elizabeth Wright at Brattleboro Vt Oct. 27, 1777 Died Apl 16 1827
No Bal

Illegible handwritten text at the top of the page.

enjoyed to day and to morrow I have my shop all done but I can't do it but putting on the skin could you start that on form me when any time before Saturday

Washington City Jan. 26. 1860
Mr. Samuel Wariner
Dear Sir.
At the request of Senator Dixon, I have examined the pension cases of your father and mother again. The papers are very voluminous, but I extract from them the following facts:
Abner Wariner claimed a pension, under the Act of 1818 which required 9 months service "on the Continental establishment". He alleged 3 tours: 1 st Enlisted in Feb or March 1777 for 3 years, and continued in service until Nov 1777 when he was obliged by sickness to leave the service, was employed one Nathan Sikes to serve in his place. 2 nd Enlisted in Capt Langdon's Co. in April 1775 for 8 mos & served full time. 3 rd Enlisted in fall of 1776 for 3 mos under Capt Daniel Caldwell, Col. Robertson Regt, for what was called "the Canada Expedition".
In allowing the pension under the Act of 1818, the Pension Office computed the time thus: 8 mos 10 days. fifer 3 mos 9 days Corporal.
Under the Act of 1820 he was dropped from the rolls, until he furnished a schedule of his property, showing to the satisfaction of the Sec. of War, that he was in indigent circumstances. The schedule was furnished, and on the 31 July 1820 the Com te of Pensions informed him, that his schedule being satisfactory, the Secretary had ordered his name to be restored to the Pension roll at the rate of $9.00 per month.

At this point the difficulty begins. He is advised that he appears as a deserter, on the rolls, and unless he satisfies the Sec. that he was did not desert, his pension will cease. He furnishes the testimony of 3 witnesses, who state that he came home sick, and hired one Nathan Sikes, to serve in his place and gave him seventy odd pounds in money, his arms &c, and that no one ever intimated that Abner had deserted. I suppose the office referred to the 3 years enlistment. No action seems to have been had on this evidence. In the printed record it is marked "Dropped from Pension Roll. Did not serve 9 months on Continental Establishment". From this I judge, the 9 months service in the 3 years tour was excluded by reason of the alleged "desertion"; and the 3 months and 9 days service in the "Canada Expedition" not counted as "on the Continental Establishment".
When the Widow applied, she was allowed $53.05 per year, and yet on one of the envelopes is enclosed, "Rejected, having deserted". If all the alleged service had been allowed, she would have been entitled to $80 per year.
The act of 1818 fixed the amount of the pension-officers at $20 per month and privates at $8 per month. Subsequent Pension Acts varied the rates, but in no case under the general Pension Act of 1832 was a private allowed more than $80 per year - and to get this amount he must have served 2 years; and for less than 5 months service he got nothing.
Abner Mariner died before any other Pension Act was passed, and the only claim which his heirs can make on his account is for the arrear, or unpaid portion of his pension up to the date

of his death, under the Act of 1818. To overthrow the decision of the Pension Office, and recover the arrears, we must establish either disprove the alleged desertion, or establish the fact that his tour of 3 months 19 days in what is called the "Canada Expedition" was really a service "on the Continental Establishment." Without one of these tours of service, we cannot make out more than 8 mos and 10 days service, and the Act of 1818 requires at least 9 months service.
There may be some arrears due on the widows pension, but I cannot tell the amount without the date of the last payment to her. These cases, from the great lapse of time, and the recent decisions of the Attorney General, are rendered difficult and laborious. I will undertake their recovery, and do the best I can to succeed, for a contingent compensation of one third the amount that can be recovered, and nothing if we fail.
If these terms are accepted, advise me of the date of the last payment to your mother, and I will draw up the papers necessary to proceed, and send them with instructions to you.
Very Respectfully &c &c L. G. Brattlebury

Sir I would never have said or cared some- -top about my fathers Pension if there had not been so much wrong in the case Lathrop used him most scoundrously by getting him recorded a deserter which he knew was a lie if he did not others that knew my father and was in the service with him said. he was not a deserter were they alive I could send their names but there is none living. I hope you will be ready and willing to it up to me for I am real poor in purse I have a family that must starve unless I get help so hundred & eighty dollars is but a trifle for government to pay to the needy too and an honest debt besides
Yours Respectfully Samuel Warriner
You say Sir it will Eventuate in no good to me to keep up the correspondence I think it is all wrong that my father was recorded a deserter, and I know he was foolish for employing the one he did for he was bitter against the Soldier having a pension that was Esqr Lathrop of West Springfield he no doubt destroyed the Credentials the old scoundrel no doubt got my father recorded but he lied I and every other one that knew

my father knew he would not lie for anything but he was poor and and for that and his learning poor old Lathrop destroyed his writings he got his pension then destroyed it I hope he has gone to heaven but don't believe it but that is none of my business I have a good claim upon Government as any one ever had and I will get it off do not under your administration I will some other way July 17. 1856
Sir:
I regret that it is impossible for your explanations to alter the state of the Record in relation to your Father's Service -
A further correspondence in this matter cannot result in any good to you.
I must refer you to the previous letters of this Office for the facts in the case.
I am Respectfully against Comm.
Samuel Warrington Esq. Farmington Maine.

New Britain Nov 8 th 1860
Dear Sir
It seems by the tenor of your letter of the 29 th Oct 1860 that you wish for an explanation of my father's services. I can state facts so far as I know he enlisted under Captain Daniel Cadwell in Milbrum Mass he was fifer & Corporal he was through the siege at Roxbury and was at the taking of burgoyne at Saratoga he blew the fife till he became sick & unable to do any thing he had a little time to serve and he hired one Nathan Sikes to serve it out and paid him a hundred pounds in money a good horse & his equipment when the pension act of 1818 was passed he was enrolled and drew it one year then was cut off he was alleged as a deserter but proved himself clear of that by 3 witnesses and the Secretary at war ordered him to be restored to the pension roles but he never drew any pension after that he died in April 27 and that makes 8 years he ought to have drawn and his pay 10 dollars per month with interest 33 years and I have a right to claim it
  53  65  Yours Respectfully Samuel Wariner    26  35    95  40  

Treasury Department Third Auditor's Office October 1. 1860.
Sir;
In reply to your letter of the 27 th ult o I have to state that any arrears of pension that may be due your Mother Elizabeth Wariner, from Sept. 4. 1849 to the date of her death, at $53. 65 / 100 per annum, are payable, thro' this office, upon vouchers duly executed agreeably to the enclosed forms.
Any claim the heirs may have for an increase of her pension to $80. = per annum should be addressed to the Comm te of Pensions.
Very Respectfully Your H on . Serv t !
A. J. Moore Auditor
Samuel Wariner Esq New Britain Conn t !

New Britain May 5 th 1862 Dear Sir
My mother has had all her pension my father did not get his honest due from 1818 to 1827 his he died in 27 and his pension was ten dollars per month 100 dollars per year with it 33 years which over three thousand dollars
Please send it to me
Send it by Adams
Express
Yours very Respectfully
Samuel Warner

Pension Officer
Oct 29. 1860
Sir
In reply to your letter of 24 th inst you are informed that you must explain what the claim of Abner Warner was which you assert as his heir - Was it a pension which had been allowed to him - if so - then if you can, in what state he resided at the time, for what service in what war - If for an injury while in service, state it. Some facts of this kind are necessary to find the case & to identify him as . As soon as this is received you will be furnished with the information you seek as to your claim.
Resp y Yours W. A. D. Loring
Samuel Warner Esq New Britain Conn
Comp d
mpy. MP
(vol. 2 p. 14)

City of Hartford Oct. 8 th 1863 Dear Sir
This Communication States that an Explanation of my Claim is necessary I can state to you the facts in the case my father Oliver Warner was pensioned in 1818 he drew it one year then was dropped from the rolls it was alleged that he was a deserter and the Secretary of War ordered him himself clear of desertion which he did by three living witnesses then the Secretary ordered him restored to the pension rolls again with more pay but it appears that the Commissioner was careless for he did not restore him and I have a right to that eight years pay which is honest ten dollars per month is $80 that he should have drawn he was a musician and Corporal during the amount with interest 36 years the Capital is 960,00 dollars
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Yours Respectfully Samuel Warner

New Britain Sept. 14 th 1860
Dear Sir the last information I was that I could recover the balance due my Mother at her death which would be $26.35 per year for 5 years her last payment was Sept. 1849 her pension was $53.65 which should have been 80.00 dollars Sir it is the business of the pension department to adjust this Claim and I am entitled to it will you Sir be good enough to Send it to me $131.75 I am poor & needy or I would not say so much as I have although it is a just Claim.
Yours Respectfully,
Samuel Harriman

Farmington November 17 th 1856
Sir. I have not received the honest dues of my father yet. I did hope that I should get it without further trouble how Government can refuse to pay me is more than I or any one that knows the circumstances can make out as my father was not a deserter and my mother has had her pension since my father's death if my father Hiner Warriner was a deserter or was recalcitrant it is a gross mistake and I know how it came to be so Ely Lathrop of West Springfield was then a Senator to Congress and my father employed him to get his pension he was opposed to the Soldiers having a pension and took that way to cut father off for father went to him to see about it and he did not give him any correct answer.

now Sir it is as true as that you are a Commissioner of pensions that my father was not a deserter and that ten hundred & Eighty dollars is his honest due and he is gone why not pay it to me I am as poor as he was, I hope you will open your hearts and send me the money
Yours Respectfully
Samuel Warriner

Hartford Conn April 13 th - 1861
Sir I have not been as yet rightley informed with regard to my fathers pension will you be good enough to looke and see if I have a wright to Claim I have Consulted a number of those who are posted on the pension laws they say that I have a right to my fathers back pay which was from the year 1818 to 1827 which is 9 years at 120 dollars pr year and interest on it 33 years you will please send me 3000 dollars and that will be as it should be
Yours Respectfully
Samuel Warriner

New Britain Sept. 19. 1859
Dear Sir If there is a time to take any course of proceeding by petitioning to Congress for that Claim of Oliver Harriner I would be very much obliged to you for the requisite information how to proceed but I think it is in the hands of the Pension department to settle this Claim so plain & honest and with all the evidence and proof before you, it is ten dollars per month instead of 8 as was on parole, my father was Piper & Corporal I have it from the Secretary of the State of Massachusetts where he enlisted, and they say I have a right to Claim I am the heir and I am needy will you please to send me the 9 years pay that is claimed and oblige your humble Servant
Samuel Harriner
Yours Respectfully

New Britain May 11 th 1859
Dear Sir
I have been with the explanation of the pension law time and again but there is in the case of my father a mistake on the part of Government for they have unjustly withheld his pay making him a deserter which he was not true he was taken sick and his brother took him from the Hospital & carried him home and he hired a substitute to serve out his time paid him a hundred pounds in money a horse & all his military fittings all the effects he had in the world and the Substitute was accepted by the officer he was understood Sir the Pensions that I set up is a righteous one as he was kept out of it as the heir have a right to claim and my father instead of being put on the rolls as a soldier for a month ought to have

been ten he was fifer & captain and the 9 years pay I ought to have if not interest and Government knows that it is a just demand and why withhold it other peers have drawn their fathers back pay
Yours Respectfully Samuel Harriner

Elizabeth Mariner, widow of Abner - Connecticut.
Papers wanted Lib Brandenburg
Com - or C.E. - sent photo of Abner - July 16-57

Warrington Dec r 19 1856
Dear Sir
I would like to be informed how my father has received pay for his services in the army he drew six months pay then Luthrope destroyed his writings. my father applied to him to know what it meant that he should be cut off in that way he never told him nor gave him any reason but I know that he did it to injure him I knew the man but never knew any good of him. If I understand the pension acts the act for the widows was passed because government had not done enough for the Soldier and well they did for they suffered greatly to achieve our Independence my father was piper and a none Commissioned officer I have heard him tell the trials he passed through the year he was in the Service he was at the taking of Burgoin he was entitled to one hundred & twenty dollars per year pension but never drew it and now I do not see why I am not entitled to it which will amount to over two thousand dollars ading simple interest if I do not get it I must and my family Starve for I have no resources I hope that you will Conclude to help me
Yours Respectfully Samuel Warriner

Pension Office, July 26 th 1853.
Sir:
No pension can be granted for the services of Abner Warriner, of Massachusetts, as the service rendered was vitiated by his desertion !
I am, respectfully, Your Obt. Svt, Samuel Commissioner.
Samuel Warriner, Esqr. New Britain, Conn.

Farmington Jan 7 th 1857
Sir I should like to have you if it is not too much explain to me how the act of 1818 and the widows act were as I understand them the soldiers act and the widows act were two different things: the widows was an act that Congress mint as extra pay for the reason that they did not do enough for their Country and it was right that they did then allowing it to be so Government honestly owes that 8 years and six months pension that my father did not get and he was entitled to one hundred and twenty dollars per year for he was a none Commissioned officer & fifer and why not pay to me those arrears it will never do Government any hurt and will help a poor fellow mortal out of great tribulation and distress it will be okay showing that you may reap for I am a true born Yankee and real needy if I do not get help soon I must become a town charge for I have nothing to help myself with I would not have ever written so much but I driven to it
Yours SC
Samuel Harriner

Providence April 23. 1853 Your Honorable Dear Sir
I have written to the department of which you have the honor of being appointed Commissioner for the back pay of a pension which my father Abner Warriner of Wilbraham Massachusetts did not receive which he was entitled to, if it is necessary I can send the proof of his services by the Secretary of State of Massachusetts I am the poor and why not let me have it I am poor always voted the right way that is democratic My father Abner Warriner lived and died in Wilbraham he drew once in 1818 then through some mismanagement lost his credentials and did not try again he lived till 1827 making 9 years back pay why not help the poor I need it if it is just please send it to me
To the Honorable Loren P. Waldo, Esqr Commissioner of Pensions Samuel Warriner
Please Send Some answer

James L. Edwards Esq. Commr of Pensions Washington D.C.

Springfield Mass Jan 5. 1839
Mr
Herewith I forward you the restoration of Widow Elizabeth Farnier.
Respectfully Yours
Hanny Morris
J. L. Edwards Esq

Pension Office Washington D. C.

C New Britain June 28 th 1853
Sir
I have received yours of March 29 th 1853 It appears that as the law is according to your Statement that the heir can't get every thing that belonged to the Soldier that served I would like to know who it belongs to if not to the heir My father Abner Warriner of Wilbraham Massach- ussetts did serve in the revolution and was fifer & Corporal and did not receive his pension which he was entitled to 9 years back pay honestly belonged to him and why not pay to the heir I am the heir and am poor or would not say a word but he my father was a man that did not look out so much for his temporal interest as for his spiritual, I hope to look for both
I am yours Respectfully
Samuel Warriner

Farmington Conn
Sir I have not received any answer from my last that I wrote respecting my fathers desertion as I stated the particulars respecting his leaving the army in my last I need not repeat it again but would earnestly and humbly entreat your Honor to send me that 9 years pay that honestly belonged to my father Abner Warriner
I am poor and need help Yours Respectfully Samuel Warriner

Pension Office June 21, 1852,
Sir, It will be impossible for this Dept. to determine whether you are entitled to a pension, prior to filing a Declaration Stating and proving your Father's services. There do not appear to be any papers in this Office shewing that either your Father or mother ever drew a pension from the United States.
Very Respectfully, Your Ob't Servt. W. Calhoun for Comt. of Pensions
Saml. Warriner Esq Hartford Conn

New Britain Conn r April 2 d 1857
Sir had I the tact & talent of some of your clerks and worth a fortune the claim I have made would long ere this been forth coming for every one that knows how it is knows my father was wronged out of it, and if there was the least spark of benevolence in the pension department they would sent me the 28 hundred dollars long ago which is less by five or six hundred than his honest due with simple interest I hope you will conclude to send me the 28 hundred and encourage me to do good
Yours Respectfully
Samuel Harriner

May 5, 1857
No answer - I have written too many letters to him al- ready -

Robritain April 22 1857
Dear Sir
It is a Curious Idea that the heir has no claim to his fathers estate why have other heirs received from Government their fathers dues which they have to my knowledge Sir that 28 hundred and 56 dollars which honestly belongs to me is kept back from me because my father has been belied. I know how it is if he has been recorded a deserter it is a palpable falsehood I care not who did it. of the men that served with him were alive I would prove it to a demonstration that he was no deserter I am pained to think my father has been so abused an honester and more upright man ever lived I think you will send me that 28.56 dollars
Yours Respectfully Samuel Wariner

Farmington Dec r 1856
Sir I have had line upon line from one and another Commissioner and neither of them come to the point if my father was a pensioner why did Government withhold his pay from 1818 till 27 he entrusted his business in the hands of a United States Senator why did he not get it I know because he was not a man that suited his honor he destroyed the writings or withheld them from my Father Sir that 8 years & half pay honestly belongs to him and he never had it what belonged to my father and he did not get now belongs to me and I mad it it is but honest and right that Government should pay it to me $28056.00 dollars two thousand Eight hundred & fifty five dollars I am sorry to have to call so often the act of 1818 you say was a personal act for the soldier that served the Independent all that is right and it was for life my father lived 9 years after that act was passed and did not draw any pay now who does that belong to if not to the heir I think and always shall that it is wrong that Government dont pay it to me and think right to
Yours S c
Samuel Harriner

Warriner decl
NEW Conn Samuel Warriner
Elizabeth Warriner
Wolfson Conn 48
August 25
Oct 2
6
Washington
Office
FREE
Pension
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New Britain Augt 1 st 1853
Dear Sir
I received yours of the 20 th Two things which are stated in the answers I have had are a wonder to me how my father was a deserter & never was taken and tried and the officers knew he was taken off the ground sick he blew the pipe till he was so sick they thought he would not survive it but he hired a substitute and it cost him all the property that he had for he had some then but never since he died a poor man but perfectly honest I wish I could say it of myself as well as many of my neighbors, but Sir I would like to know how it comes about that my Mother received her pension if my father was a deserter I do not expect to get favors from government but Sir my father was no deserter, my mother received her pension in forty five I think and drew fifty three dollars & 50 cts per mo, annuity till 3 years since and the nine years that my father lived and and did not draw is honestly due him
Yours with Proper respect
Samuel Warriner

Pension Office, May 31. 1845.
Sir,
The papers in the case of Mrs Elizabeth War- riner have been examined and filed.
There is nothing in the testimony to identify her hus- band, Abner Warrier, as the person who lived and enlisted in Wilbraham, as certified to by the Secretary of State of Massachusetts. It will be necessary to prove that he lived at the place mentioned in 1775-1776, or that he actually served during the time stated, by some intelligent person or persons, knowing themselves, the fact.
The proof of the marriage is not satisfactory. The paper purporting to be a family register does not bear that appearance of antiquity which would make it evidence in this case. It was usual to keep a Town record in Massachusetts, of the marriages and births, and a certificate of the Town Clerk of the ex- istence or non-existence of any evidence to prove this marriage prior to January, 1794, from such records will be required, before parol testimony can be re- ceived. In the event of their being none, the testimony of credible and intelligent persons who knew them in the

the relation of husband and wife, prior to January 1794, will be taken as a proof of the facts.
Respectfully,
Your abt. servant.
J L Edwards
Benjamin Colton, Esq. West-Hartford Connecticut.

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Augt 2 nd 1852
Rept to case of Aug 2/52 Elizabeth Wariner dec d widow of Sam l & Abner.
Kirby Samuel Wariner Hartford Conn t
✓ Referred to the Commission of Pensions for answer kept in file July 31/52
C Rec d 30 Aug 1852.

Hartford City July 23 rd 1852
Dear Sir on , I received a line from you after enclosing my last stating there were no documents to show that my mother ever drew a pension or that my father drew after she was a widow but my father did not draw his after 1818. Some enemy he thought destroyed the writings and never tried to get it after that, he lived till 27 that would make 8 or nine years if necessary I can get from the Secretary of State of Massachusetts to send the enlistment but this is or ought to be enough to satisfy Government that I am honest father my father was piper and corporal he was at Saratoga to the taking of Burgoyne and lay at Redbury on the cold ground this is as true as enemy history on record, but enough of this. I would not say everything in regard to the subject if I was not really needy. Therefore beg of the United States to pay for me as well as others perhaps less needy & less entitled. I have secured the those that know about my father and mother's title to the pension. I send their testimony here inclosed.
Yours Respectfully
Samuel Warriner My father's name was Abner Warriner of Wilbraham Mass

Hartford July 30. '45
Dear Sir;
I send you herewith the the additional testimony in the case of Elizabeth Wariner widow of Abner Wariner referred to in the enclosed Letter to Benjamin Cotton It has occasioned considerable trouble & expense to collect the evidence from a distance & it is hoped that it will be deemed satisfactory and that a certificate will be forwarded to me on behalf of the widow as soon as you can give your attention to the subject. I am truly Yours J. L. Edwards Esq. John D. Slee Counsel Plaintiff

Mr Samuel by Harriner
Hartford
Conn

Springfield Aug. 26 July 1852
W Samuel Harrina
Sir
In reply to yours of the 25 th inst., all I can say is that Abner Harrina of Milbraham did receive a pension from the U States, as I understood, for service in the Army of the Revolution, and that I had some agency in obtaining it for him some 20 or 30 years since. Your request would lead one to suppose that you had applied to me for the same information before - but I have never received a letter from you before that of the 25 th mentioned above
I remain
Yours &
Solomon Hatch

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Recd & Ref'd to the Comm. of Pensions Dear of Int. } C. C. W. Aug. 21. 1852. }

Hartford July 19 th . 1852
Dear Sir
I hope to be pardoned for so often addressi ng you after on the subject of my fathers Pension, but I do think that the hard service that my father Abner Warriner rendered to gain our independence, ought to be made up by government if not to him to his heirs I have 3 brothers but they are at a great distance from me and are well off, and I am poor and need help I hope Sir you will take it into consideration and Send me ten hundred and Eighty dollars for nine years back pay and do good to a poor man you will have your reward for so doing
Yours respectfully
Samuel Warriner
Please write if no more

Farmington Sept 23 1856 Conn
Dear Sir
The last you wrote me you said that keeping up a correspondence would do me no good. I am aware that it will not unless Government does right by me what honestly belongs to me that was my father's. What I have stated heretofore respecting my father's desertion is true. The man he employed to get his pension was bitterly opposed to the soldiers having a pension. So if my father was recorded a deserter he did it for it was not known till after the pension act was passed. My father was not a deserter. This is the truth. I write no more on this subject.
Yours &c Samuel Warriner

New Britain August 26 th 1853
Dear Sir
I do not like to give up the Idea of not getting that which belonged to my father 9 years back pay which I think as well as others was his honest due why not pay to the heir I am the heir
Samuel Warriner
One thing if I donot get it I cast no vote again

Farmington July 26 th 1856
Sir I should not have kept up the correspondence nor have opened it if I did not know that my fathers Claim was right that he was no deserter, why is it that Government gave my Mother her pension no Sir if there is the name of Elmer Wariner on record as a deserter it is some other one or it has been done out of malice for it never has been known untill of late or since the act for pensions was passed that he was a deserter the facts in the case are that my father was not a deserter and that Government honestly owe the Claim ten hundred & eighty dollars which now rightly belongs to me Samuel Wariner
Yours Respectfully

New Britain Jan 23 d 1855
Dear Sir
I would make one more application and State more particular the Case of my father's Service you said he was a deserter now it looks rather strange how he could desert when the officers knew he was taken home Sick and unable to perform the duty and besides that he hired a man to take his place and Government accepted of it and my father paid the Substitute and it cost him what little he possessed, no Sir if he had been a deserter they would have had him in those times and Strung him up now I appeal to your goodnes Sir to try the Government and see if there is a chance for one who is poor and needs help. I think you will get it it is an honest demand my father did the hard Service lost all got nothing why not let the heir have it what ever it is. from 18 to 27 is the time he ought to have had his pension
Yours Respectfully
Samuel Warriner
J. P. Waldo Esqr
Com d of Pensions

Farmington Decr 23 1850
Sir I am fully aware of the pension acts of 1818 and the widows act but you will admit that my father was entitled to pay while he lived then why did Government not pay him the last 9 years of his life nor my father are not accountable for the wrongs Government officers commit he entrusted his pension course in the hands of Ezra Lathrop of West Springfield he was Senator to Congress then my father supposed he was honest I would not ever said a word on the subject but I cannot help thinking how wrong it was my father mourned about it a great many times Sir if my father did not receive that pay which he did not who does it belong to it honestly belongs to me it is two thousand Eight hundred & fifty five dollars and if Government does not pay it to me I will never lift a hand to help another man to office
Yours &c Samuel Harriner

Pension Office, December 18. 1856
Sir: I am obliged to express the hope that the correspondence in relation to the cases of Abner & Elizabeth Warriner may not be further protracted. You have been again and again informed that you had no claim. Upon the most charitable construction - that your father continued in service agreeably to his enlistment - nothing is due. Admit that he was unjustly deprived of his pension and nothing is due, because he died before the passage of any act of Congress under which his children can assert a claim - The Act of 1818 was purely a personal act, intended for the benefit alone of indigent soldiers , and gave no rights to their children - Your mother received during her life all she was entitled to.
I am respectfully, Your obedt Servt, Geo. V. Mung Commissioner.
Samuel Warriner Esq. Farmington, Conn.

New Britain Nov 2 th 1860
Dear Sir Yours of the 16 th I have received and it is very different from a former letter you wrote me, you say that no department can settle any revolutionary war Claim but Congress alone you have written me in another letter that you settled all Claims you found due, now I have as much a right to Claim that 8 years that he did not get as any other one that have been paid and it belongs to the pension department to settle it my father proved to the satisfaction of the Secretary of war by 3 living witnesses that he did not desert and the Secretary told the Commissioner of pensions to restore him to the pension rolls whether he did place him on the rolls or not is more than I can say but he never received his pension after that it was 8 years he lived and that 8 years pay belongs to me I am the heir it is 10 dollars per month with 33 years Interest

Sir if you are willing to do it you can the Services of my father in the revolutionary war are sufficiently proved to entitle him to the 8 years pay he did not get it and I now am entitled to it my father did not desert the honest truth is enough
Yours very Respectfully Samuel Warner
G. B. Whiting Esqr Commissioner

Dear Sir,
The Question is was my father a deserter if he was when did it happen nothing laid about it till 1815 there is no record of it till there a fine time to record a man a deserter forty years after the war no Sir he my father Oliver Wariner was no deserter some enemy to him has done this if he was recorded a deserter I think it must be the man he hired as a substitute his name was Sikes he very likely did it thinking to get the pension himself my father was taken off of the ground sick and killed this Sikes took his place and it cost him all he had but he paid Sikes to his satisfaction my father was through the line of taking bread from his mouth the life till he could blow no longer he has told it to me time and again and all that knew him if they were alive would say that he never told a lie to their knowledge but let that be as it may may he is justly entitled to that back pay which is ten hundred & eighty dollars and government will pay it and save cost from the heir I know that heirs have received back pay that ever go to their fathers.
Yours Respectfully Samuel Wariner

Dear Sir
It is a long time since I have heard from you I hope that the honest claim that belongs to me has not escaped your notice if you cheat me out of my honor right I shall stick for the Union let what will come I hope you will send me the pay that belonged to my father Oliver Warner 8 years pension honestly belong to him and I have a right to claim it and 33 years interest on it. the principle is $120 dollars per year he was entitled to ten dollars per month was musician
Please send me the money Direct to Broad Brook Do help me Conn

I am in real necessity not a dollar to help myself my wife in one place & boy in another and in another all broke up
Respectfully Yours
Samuel Harriner
to help you I am in real necessity not a dollar to help myself my wife in one place & boy in another and in another all broke up Respectfully Yours Samuel Harriner Feb 18 1848 New York

James Stebbins declared therefore he was from the town of Melksham to the Salisbury Assembly of Manners before 1794

I James Stobbins Now a resident of the town of Longmeadow in the County of Hampden and State of Massachusetts a Revolutionary pensioner aged eighty five years do on Oath testify and say that I was born and resided in the town of Wilbraham in said County and State during the Revolutionary war, and that I was intimately acquainted with Abner Warren who was also born in said Wilbraham County and State, and that I distinctly recollect of the said Abner enlisting & serving in a company commanded by Capt. Paul Landon and served at Roxbury as a sifer for a number of months I also recollect of his serving at an other period and at various times; but the exact length of time of his service I cannot from age and infirmity Now recollect
I further depose and say that I distinctly recollect of the said Abner marrying Elizabeth Wright both then residing in said Wilbraham and that they went on a visit to the State of Vermont and were there married and that it was two years previous to my marriage which was in the year Seventeen hundred & eighty two The eldest child of the said Abner and Elizabeth Warren (by the name of Abner) is Now at the age of Sixty three or four years and the youngest (by the name of Elizabeth Hurdbert) is at the age of about fifty years

I can with confidence and certainty depose & say that the said Ebner and Elizabeth was married before  and lived together as husband and wife long before the first day of Jan y Seventeen hundred & thirty four
I further depose and say that the said Elizabeth the widow of the said Ebner Warrier is Now about the age of eighty five years and is residing with her Daughter Elizabeth Warrier Hurlburt in the town of Enfield in the State of Connecticut and is in poor and destitute circumstances.
I further say that the said Ebner Warrier died about Nineteen or twenty years since in the said town of Wilbraham.
James Stebbins
State of Massachusetts
County of Hampden
3 rd Long-meadow July 1 th 1845
Personally appeared before me James Stebbins, with whom I am personally and intimately acquainted and subscribed to the above and foregoing and made solemn oath to the truth of the same and I further certify that he is a very credible and respectable person and his memory is remarkably good for one of his age. The interlineation of the Name of Wright was made before the execution of the above.
John H. Crosby } Justices of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
HAMPDEN, ss.
I, RICHARD BLISS, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth, for the County of Hampden, do certify, that John F. Brooks , Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the certificate on the paper hereto annexed, was at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned, and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth; and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the hand-writing of the said John F. Brooks , and believe his signature to said certificate is genuine.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said Commonwealth, this sixteenth day of July , in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty five
Richd Bliss Clerk.

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of 2 nd February 1848, entitled an act making further provision for surviving Widows of Soldiers of the Revolution.
State of Connecticut
County of Hertford, & Is. Enfield,
On the seventeenth day of October 1848 personally appeared Elizabeth Warriner of said Enfield before me the subscribing authority, & one of the Justices of the Peace for said County, duly authorized by the Laws of said State to administer oaths; the said Elizabeth Warriner, being of the age of Eighty seven years; who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on her oath, make the following Declaration, That she is the Widow of Abner Warriner formerly of Millbraham, in the County of Hampshire & State of Massachusetts: who was a Musician in the army of the Revolution, & was pensioned for his services. And that she is the identical person who drew a pension under the act of June 17 th 1844, at the rate Fifty three dollars and sixty six cents per annum; and that she still remains, his Widow, & has never again married. That she now resides in said Enfield, & has resided there for the space of seven years, & that previous thereto, she resided in Millbraham, before named. her
Sworn to and subscribed before me, on the day & year above written; and I further certify, that the declarant is personally known to me, & that she is the identical person who heretofore drew a pension as she has stated.
Mehmet Johnson Institute of Peace

State of Connecticut.
I, JOHN B. ROBERTSON, Secretary of the State of Connecticut, and Keeper of the Seal thereof, do hereby certify and make known to whom it doth or may concern: That Aholiab Johnson is, and since the 20th day of June last past hath been a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Hartford in said State, duly appointed and commissioned,==having full power and authority by the laws of said State to take the Acknowledgment of Deeds and to certify the same; also to administer Oaths, to take Affidavits and Depositions out of Court, and to give Certificates thereof; and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to his official acts and attestations.
And I further certify, That I believe the foregoing signature of the said Aholiab Johnson to be genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of said State, at Hartford, this 26 th day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.
John B. Robertson Secretary of State.

on roll Col Agts Col Colton Sgt.
1 Apr 1777 3 yrs, desert
1 Feb 78, joined 1 May 78
discharged 1 May 78, hussars.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampden ss. Springfield Nov. 24. 1821 Whereas Abner Warmer of Milbraham in this State made due Application under the laws of the United States for a pension - & Whereas by a letter from the Pension office, dated July 31. 1820 he was informed that the Secretary of War had directed the said Abner's name to be struck from the pension list - & Whereas by a letter from the War Department, Pension Office dated May 9. 1821 directed to J. Ingersoll Esq r of said Springfield, it appears that the cause of striking the name of the said Abner from the pension roll, was that he "deserted the year after he enlisted although he engaged to serve for three years" - & Whereas by said letter the said Abner is informed "that unless due proof be made of his having been honorably discharged his name will be stricken from the pension list - all which documents before named are herewith transmitted to the Pension Office -
The said Abner Warmer herewith offers to the Secretary of War the Affidavits of Samuel J. Kenrick Esquire - Stephen Cadwell & Henry Wright - relative to his discharge from the service & prays the Honorable the Secretary of War that after duly weighing the evidence aforesaid he would be pleased to order a restoration of his name to the Pension roll, that he may receive the pension by law provided, for those who served in the Revolutionary War - & as a duty, bound will ever be -
Abner Warmer -

I Samuel F. Merrick of Wilbraham in the County of Hampden & Commonwealth of Massachusetts Esquire, of lawful age do testify, depose & declare - that sometime in the year 1777 in November according to my best recollection, Abner Warren the petitioner herein named being a neighbour of mine from childhood, returned from serving in the Continental Army of the United States - that he appeared openly at home & was sick when he returned & during the winter following - that I never heard a suggestion of his having left the service dishonorably - In the Spring following he hired one Nathan Sikes, who is now in the western country, but who at that time was a neighbour of mine, to take his place in the service; I personally know that said Sikes went on as a substitute for said Abner - & that said Abner delivered said Sikes a horse in full payment for his services in his stead - I further saith not
Sam l F. Merrick
Hampden ss. Springfield Nov 24 1821. Then personally appeared Samuel F. Merrick Esquire above named & made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed. Before me -
Mary H. Dey. Just. of the Peace
I Stephen Cadwell, of Wilbraham in the County of Hampden & Commonwealth aforesaid - of lawful age do depose, testify & say that I am personally knowing to the facts sworn to by Samuel F. Merrick Esquire, in his deposition above written & that the same are true; I further depose & say that I personally knew that said Abner Warren agreed with said Nathan Sikes, to take his, the said Abner's, place, therein for two years & that he gave him, in consideration thereof the sum of ninety pounds - together with his, the said Abner's, accoutrements & armaments of war - I further saith not
Stephen Cadwell
Hampden ss. Springfield. Nov 24. 1821 Personally appeared Stephen Cadwell above named & made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed, before me -
Mary H. Dey Just. of the Peace

I Henry Wright, of Wilbraham, in the County of Hampden & Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age do testify I say - that in the Fall of the year 1777 - some days after the capture of Burgoyne, I was at what was called the Hero City a few miles above Albany - at the Hospital there situated I then Abner Warner the petitioner before named was there sick - That I personally knew that Moses Warner an older brother of said Abner came to the said hospital I took the said Abner & carried him home sick - That I served in the same company with said Abner in Capt Charles Cotton's company 2nd Col Grayton's Regiment until he was taken sick & that in the Spring following Nathan Gleece, named in the foregoing affidavit, came into the service as a substitute & in the stead of Abner Warner - That said Gleece, was a faithful soldier I served faithfully for nearly two years, when I left the service (my enlistment having expired) I left said Gleece in the service - And further saith not  Henry Wright
Hampden ss - Springfield Nov 24, 1821 - Personally appeared Henry Wright above named & made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed before me  Henry Day Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampden ss. I, John Ingersoll, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth aforesaid for the County of Hampden do certify that Benjamin Day Esquire, whose name is above written is a Justice of the Peace within & for said County of Hampden, duly commissioned & qualified. I that full faith & credit are due to his official acts in that capacity - In that the above signature is in his own proper handwriting in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said County this twenty sixth day of November A. D. 1821.  John Ingersoll