Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10,766, Thomas Turner, Conn.

SERVICE
Y. Turner, Y. Thomas
NUMBER _____
R. 10.766.
CONTENTS

6025 In the Matter of Thomas Turner on his application for a Pension under the Act of Congress passed June 7. 1832
N o 6025.
N York
On roles
Ent d 5 July 1781 6 mrs
Col 16 Oct 52
Sam d a Ready
admitted 20602

State of New York County of Rensselaer ss.
On this Eighth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas called the Mayor Court held in and for the City of Troy in the County of Rensselaer and State of New York now sitting Thomas Turner a resident of the Town of Lansingburgh in the County of Rensselaer and State of New York Aged sixty nine years the Eighth day of November last who being first duly sworn according to Law oaths on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 —
That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as herein stated namely that he was born in the Town of Watertown in the State of Connecticut on the 8th day of November 1762. He enlisted into the States Service some time in the month of March 1777 at which time he served in Watertown aforesaid into the Company commanded by Capt. John Beekman and Amos Hildreth Lieutenants belonging to the Connecticut State Troops for the term of twelve months raised for the purpose of guarding the Sea Shore he marched with the Company from Watertown  to New Haven to New Haven from thence to West Haven and then to Oyster Creek where they were stationed most of the time during that Summer in the fall or the beginning of the following Winter they returned to New Haven where they were employed to guard the Coast until the expiration of the said twelve months the term for which he enlisted when he was discharged and then returned home to Watertown —
That some time in the month of April or May 1778 which month he does not distinctly recollect he enlisted as a private soldier into Colonel Benjamin Richards Regiment of the Connecticut State Troops for the term of three months that immediately on his enlistment Col. Richards took him into his Service as a writer where he served as such during the said three months for which he enlisted and therefore was not in a situation to know any of the Officers of the said Regiment except the Adjutant whose name was Richards during the term of Service he marched with the Regiment to New London where they remained a few weeks and from thence
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they marched to Poughkeepsie and from there to Haverburg where they remained until the expiration of the said three months when he was discharged and then returned home to Watertown aforesaid -
3m That in the month of June in the year 1779 or 1780 which he is not able to state he entered into the Whale Boat Service in and Captain Sabry Fitch and Lieutenant Hull of the Town of Stamford in the State of Connecticut for the term of three months that during this term of Service he was employed on board of the said Boats on Long Island Sound to guard the said Sound and the adjoining shores at the expiration of the said three months he was discharged and returned home to Watertown his place of residence or aforesaid -
9m That in the month of March 1781 he enlisted at the aforesaid Town of Watertown into the United States Service for the term of nine months into the Company of Captain Constock Lieutenant Sheblee and Ensign Keeler in Colonel Isaac Sherman's Regiment of Infantry in the Connecticut Line David Smith was first Major and Joseph Seward Major and Lieutenant Colonel the said Regiment belonged to General Israel Putnam's Brigade, he joined the said Regiment at White Plains in the State of New York that immediately after his enlistment joined the Regiment they marched up the North River to Peekskill where they were stationed during the Summer, he served as an Artificer and in the following fall he was ordered up to the Highlands where he was employed the remaining part of the said nine months for which he enlisted in building and repairing Barracks for Winter quarters for the Army at the expiration of the said term for which he enlisted he was discharged and then returned home to Watertown in Connecticut aforesaid that he remained there a short time and then moved to Lansingburgh in the State of New York which he plan and in Troy the adjoining town he has resided ever since and still continues to reside in said Lansingburgh, he has no documentary evidence nor does he know of any person whose testimony he can procure to prove his services - The hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension or annuity

except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension roll of the Agency of any State or (if any) only on that of the Agency of the State of Connecticut — Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Archibald Ball Clerk
Thos. Turner
State of New York County of Rensselaer } ss. We David Butler a blacksmith residing in the City of Troy in the County of Rensselaer and State of New York and Samuel Kendrick residing in the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas Turner who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be sixty years of age that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion — Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Archibald Ball Clerk
David Butler Samuel Kendrick
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary Soldier and served as he states, and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that David Butler who has signed the preceding certificate is a blacksmith residing in the City of Troy in the County of Rensselaer and State of New York and that Samuel Kendrick who has also signed the same is a resident in the same place and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I Archibald Ball Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas @all the Mayors Courts in and for the City of Troy, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Thomas Turner for a pension -
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this - 8 th day of August 1832
Archibald Ball Clerk

New York Rev.
Thomas Turner Suspended
let. Sam: Kendrick 25 Nov. 1833
Let T. H. Fisher Nov. 7/51 Hon D. L. Seymour, Ap. 13/52. " Wm Murray, May 19/52.
10766 Act. 7 June 32

REJECTED
10166
P. O.
Thomas Lucas
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

Revolutionary
Authority to examine the papers in case of heirs of Thomas Turner
N. York Suspended 1832.
as a power of attorney N.Y. 1832 = Suspended
F. E. Hassler Washington
Anderson June 16/53

Lansingburgh
June 10. 1853
F. G. Nassau Esq. Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir,
I have this day rec'd from Washington the letter I have enclosed. We have thought for a long time of applying to the Department of War for the Pension due to Thos. Turner for services rendered in the Revolutionary War, but as yet have taken no active steps in the matter. It would be obliged to you if you would make enquiry and if there is a prospect of success I will send you a power of attorney to act for the heirs of Thos. Turner in the matter. You will please attend to it at your earliest convenience. I am recommended by Hon. Dr. S. Seymour M.C. to apply to you in the transaction of the business. In either case please advise me, and direct to.
Yours Respectfully
Thos H Fisher Lansingburgh Rens Co., N.Y.

opened by Com of Pub Ad
PAID 37 3/4
To the Commission of Pensioners - Washington City

Lansingburg August 15 th 1857
Sir
Being one of the Heirs of Thomas Turner deceased, I wish to be informed how the case of the said deceased stands. He made application for a Pension as I am informed under the Act of 1818 or might have been under the Act of 1832 I think it must have been made about the year 1832. He was a resident of Rensselaer County State of New York I wish to be informed in what shape his case stands as regards his proof of service, and of its rejection.
I am Yours
Respectfully, Thomas B. Fisher
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Affidavit to be attached to Thomas Furness Declaration for a pension

State of New York } Chautauqua County } Asa Turner of the town of Ellery in the County & State aforesaid being duly sworn saith that he is a brother of Thomas Turner who is an applicant for a pension under the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 That this deponent well recollects that the said Thomas Turner was a soldier in the revolutionary war that he entered the service in the year 1778 but how long he served & at what time his service ended ended this deponent can not tell.
Sworn & subscribed the 24th day of November 1832
Asa Turner
before me
H. Potter hand of proof Justice Peace
State of New York } Chautauqua County } I James B. Dorr Clerk of Clerk's Office p. } the said County do hereby Certify that Anselm Potter Esq. before whom the foregoing Affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the time of taking the same one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the said County, and that I am well acquain- -ted with his handwriting and verily believe his signa- -ture subscribed to the Certificate of said Affidavit to be his proper handwriting and signature Witness my hand and seal of Office this 24th day of November 1832 James B. Dorr Clerk

House of Reps.
Jan 28. 1852
Dear Sir,
You will oblige me, by giving the information desired by Mr. M c Ewen in the inclosure, and return his letter to me with your answer —
I am Sir,
Yours very respect ly W m Murray
Hon: J. C. Heath
Comm ee Pensions
Washington

Washington June 31. 1852
To the Com ee of Pensions Sir
Mr. Thomas Turner formerly of Lansingburgh N.Y. is supposed by his children now living in that vicinity in my district to have , some when about the year 1832 or a few years subsequent thereto, to have had a pension granted him for services in the war of the revolution whether the pension was so ordered to him they do not know but have been in formed that it was, nor do they know if it was grant- ed whether he ever recd his pension Certificate - He

seems soon after to have gone to the West & died - & his children now living near Troy N. Y. suppose that there is some thing due to them on this account They propound the following inquiries - 1- Was a pension granted to the Certificate issued & to whom was it sent - 2 If so - for how much & is any thing due to his legal rep residents thereon 3- If no certificate was so issued was he from his papers on file in the Department entitled to one - & on his heirs now entitled to any thing either in money or land by reason of his services.
An early answer will much oblige both the then heirs very much Yours resp ly David L. Seymour

Washington
Jan y 3. 1857
To Hon. Mr. Commissioner of Pensions
Sir. The enclosed letter is sent me by a very respectable gentleman one of my constituents. The in- quiry he makes seems to be simply whether. A pension was ever granted to Thos Turner formerly of Troy N.Y. & if so whether the papers were opened - & when & to whom. If the pension was not granted to him - he being now dead - are his heirs entitled to any thing by reason of his services? I enclose

the letter of some of the heirs requesting that it may be returned with your reply paper The letter enclosed contains all the information I have on the subject
Yours resp ly D. C. Seymour