Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11001, Thaddeus Waight, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Waight, Thaddeus or Waite,
R. 11001
Sally
CONTENTS

Fanny Wright 7841 Widow of Thaddeus Wright NY July 1 1838
No 7841.
11001
Hon. D. P. Brewster NY

State of New York } County of Oswego }
On this 23 day of January 1841 personally appeared before me Elias Brewster one of the judges of the County Courts of Oswego County, State of New York, Sally Wright a Resident of the town of Richland in the said County of Oswego, aged Eighty one 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 provisions made by the Act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836 & the Act explanatory of said Act passed March 3 d 1837, and an Act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows, passed July 7 th 1838: That she was married to Thaddeus Wright, who belonged to the Militia of the State of Massachusetts & served in the Army of the United States during the Revolutionary war the greater part of two years, particularly one tour of five months in the year 1776 in the Regiment of Col. James Millewor Bellen according to the best of her recollections - That he the said Wright was at White Plains, Westpoint and other places near the Hudson River & that he engaged in one or more

Battles or Skirmishes during this tour and also a tour of nine months in the regiment of Col. Bullard as she thinks that the name of the Lieutenant of the Company in which she said Wright served was Cutting - that he the said Wright in this tour, was at Stillwater & half moon, according to her recollection. - That in the latter part of August in the said year of 1777, he was in a battle or skirmish in which the said Lieutenant Cutting was killed & that the said Wright was ordered by his Captain to take his platoon and do the duty of the said Lieutenant - that the said Wright received several ball holes through his clothes had some portion of his hair shot off - that she has seen the hat which he wore with sundry bullet holes through it - that during this tour he was out on a scout of sixty days with Col. Brown & Major Wright - that with several others the said Wright broke into the house of Keene at Keenesboro & took provision & clothing therefrom & found the servants of Keene making preparation to inform the British that the said Scout was encamped there for the night - The foregoing declaration of the services of the said Wright by the said Sally are what she has heard the

Said Wright declare he had performed, The said Sally has personal knowledge of the haler as before described - and whether the said Wright served as a Coleman or substitute or was draughted the said Sally does not know And the said Sally doth farther declare & say that she is the widow of the said Wright - that she was married to the said Wright on the 13 th day of November 1780 at Westbury or Westborough, Worcester County, Massachusetts by the Rev. Ebenezer Parkman of said Westbury at his house - that there were present at her marriage to the said Wright Elijah Brigham formerly a member of Congress from the State of Massachusetts and who died on the 22 nd day of February 1816 & the wife of the said Brigham & Beriah Ware all of whom whom are dead and that there is not at this according to her knowledge or belief any person living who was present at her marriage - - That her late husband the said Wright died at the said town of Richland on the 3 rd day of April 1823 of an inflammation of the Brain Sally his Wright Mark
Subscribed & sworn before me
Elias Brewster Judge Or. Co. Court

Power of attorney can of Wright Thaddeus Waite New York
Filed 26 th Sept
J E Hassler Present

State of New York
County of Oswego ss. Be it known that before me John B. Watson a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Sophia Waite, aged sixty years, and Sarah Wood, aged sixty six years, who being duly cautioned, and then severally sworn in due form of law, state and each for herself states, that she resides in the town of Richland in the County and State aforesaid, and is the daughter of, up Thaddeus Waite deceased, who was a Revolutionary Soldier in the State of Massachusetts, and that he died, on the 3 rd day of April A.D. 1828, and that her mother named Sally Waite died on the 14 th day of December A.D. 1846. And that her said father and mother were married prior to the first day of January A.D. 1800, (but at what par- ticular time, she is ignorant and cannot state,) in and were residents of New Fane in the State of Vermont, that they resided there about twenty years, and subsequently removed into the town of Richland Oswego County, New York, where they resided until the time of their death, above mentioned. And further more these deponents, by their presents, constitute and appoint and fully empower and authorise irrevocably, and with power of substitution F. E. Hassler of Washington City D. C. as their and each of their true and lawful Attorney for them and each of them and in their and each of their names and stead to examine into, to prosecute, to demand, and to receive, from the U. S. Government

and state officers, their and each of their rights in all and in any manner of claim for increase or arrear of Pension or Salary, that may be due to them and either of them as Children and heirs of the said Thaddeus Waite and Sally Waite, who since leaving the same unknown, as in right of law they may and either of them may be entitled.
In Witness Whereof. The said, Sophia Waite and Sarah Wood have on this twentieth day of, September 1852. hereunto, signed their names and affixed their seals.
Witness John Wood Witness J. B. Watson
S. Sophia Waite
Sarah Wood
Signed Sealed acknowledged and sworn to before me. And I further certify that the above named Sophia Waite and Sarah Wood have always by the community been known as the daugh- ters of Thaddeus & Sally Waite.
Dated on this 20 th day of September 1852
John B. Watson
Justice of the Peace

State of New York Onwego County } ss.
Luke Waight of Richland in said county being duly sworn saith that he is son of Thadeus Waight and Sally Waight of said town of Richland - the said Sally being now a Widow and having been for about twenty years last past, at which time her husband, the said Thadeus died. That he is nearly forty five years of age, and from his own personal observation knows that the said Thadeus & Sally lived together as husband and wife from the year 1803 to 1823, and has always understood and believed, and still believes that they so lived together from and after November 1780, at which time they were married, as appeared from a record of their marriage in an old family Bible very much worn at the time of the death of said Thadeus. That said Sally's maiden name was "Sally Morse" as he has always understood not only from said record but from the family & friends of said Sally, and that in the year 1827 or 1828, he copied, with his own hand, from said "old family Bible," into a new Bible then recently purchased the record of said marriage, which can now be seen in the words & figures following, under the head of Marriage to wit: "Thadeus Waight and Sally Morse (married) November 15 th 1780:" - and that said old family Bible has for many years been lost or destroyed, and that from his last knowledge of it he does not believe that it has been for several years past in existence.
And the said Luke further testifies that during the life time of said Thadeus he often heard him speak of being a soldier in the Revolutionary Army, and particularly of his being present as such at the capture of Gen. Burgoyne at Saratoga, and also

of his being stationed for a time at White Plains.
He also further testifies that Silas Waight, whose name was mentioned in the Declaration of Sally Waight for a Pension, as being one of the persons present at the marriage ceremony of herself and the said Thaddeus, died about thirty years since , as he the said Luke at the time understood and has ever since understood and believes to be true.
Sworn & subscribed July 1 st 1843,
before me -
Hiram Hubbell Justice of the Peace
Luke Waight
I further certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Luke Waight and that he is a credible person. - July 1, 1843.
Hiram Hubbell J.P.
State of New York. Orange County, } ss. Clerk's Office }
I, Andrew Z. McCarty, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify that Hiram Hubbell, whose name is subscribed to the two certificates above written was on the day of the date of said Certificates a Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly appointed and qualified as such, and further that I am acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and verily believe the signatures "Hiram Hubbell" above subscribed are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office this 3 d day of July 1843.
A. Z. McCarty clk by D. C. McCarty Dep clk (clk absent)

In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Thaddeus Waight or Waite a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. R. F. 11,001.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     1776 5 mos. Pvt. ✓ James Mellen Mass   1777 9 ✓ Bullard        
Battles engaged in, 2 battle of Stillwater. Residence of soldier at enlistment, not stated. Date of application for pension, Jan 23, 1841. Residence at date of application, Richland, Oswego Co. N.Y. Age at date of application, 81 yrs.
Remarks: Soldier was Nov. 15, 1780, at Westborough, bar-  cestre Co. Mass. Nov. 15, 1780. Sally Morse. He died April 3,  1828 at Richland, N.Y., where she also died Dec. 14, 1846. Children: Sarah Wood, aged 67 in 1852, Sophia, 60 in 1852 and Luke, 45 in 1843. The widow's claim for pension was not allowed for lack of sufficient proof of marriage.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
1913, June 18. History to Mrs. H. D. Martin. F.W.
REJECTED.
11,001.
P. O. _____
Sally Waight
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

F. F. C. Triplett Apl 3. 1854
Sally Waight widow of Thaddeus Waight
See letter to Hon D. P.
Princeton, H. R., June 3. 1844
Same person 8 th Sep 1841
Set to H. Hubbell Sep 4 1843
" " Hon O. Robinson May 1. 44
" H. Hubbell Oct: 25. 44
Same May 7. 1845
act 7. July 1838

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Sally Wright m 1780 Nov 15-
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Please examine the papers in the Revolutionary Pension claim of Dolly Waite - or Waighte widow Thaddeus. whose case was suspended from application of from NY state
J. E. Hassler

Notes of Reps June 1 st 1841
Dr. Sir
The enclosed papers for a petition have been forwarded to me with a request that I would lay them before you for adjudication.
Very Respectfully Yours
D. W. D. Munster
J. S. Edwards, Esq. Comr. of Pensions }

Richland N.Y. July 27, 1814
Hon J. L. Edwards
Sir
I have heretofore written to you respecting the application of Sally Waight, Widow of Thaddeus Waight, for a Pension. You gave me to understand that the evidence in relation to her marriage to said Thaddeus was not satisfactory, altho we showed that there was no record of their marriage to be found
In reply to inquiries made by the Hon. D. Robinson M. C. from this County, I am informed that you stated, that if they were married at the time stated by the widow, proof of their cohabitation as man and wife previous to 1794 could probably be produced. I therefore sent to the Co. of Onondaga in this state and procured the accompanying Affidavit. I supposed that I forwarded it to you about the first of June, being the time I rec d it, but I have now accidentally laid my hand upon it where I had laid it by.
I hope you will consider this further testimony in the case sufficient to justify giving a Pension, and forward a certificate accordingly to me.
Very respectfully Your Obt. Servt. "Hiram Hubbell"

Onondaga County ss
Mrs Lydia Huntington of the town of Onondaga being duly sworn deposes th and saith that she is now in the sixty third year of her age that she was well acquainted with Sally Wright, in the year One thousand seven hun- dred and ninety (1790) The said Sally was at that time the reputed wife of Thaddeus Wright, that she was living with him as such at that time in the state of Vermont, that she this deponent, resided in the family of said, Thaddeus & Sally in the year 1790 and continued, to reside with them the greater part of the time between that year and the year seven hundred and ninety four, and that during all said term of time the said Thaddeus & Sally lived together and cohabited as man and wife, and she always understood and still believes that they were such. The said Thaddeus & Sally removed to Fitchland in the state of New York about the year 1817 where the said Thaddeus died, as she was at the time informed and be- lieves, about the year 1823. Said Sally Wright, still resides in Fitchland a Widow
Subscribed and sworn this 24 of May 1844 before me —
Rufus Lofit Justice of the Peace
Lydia Huntington

Onondaga County ss: I hereby certify that I am acquainted with Mrs Lydia Huntington, who has this day sworn to the within affidavit, and that she is a woman of good reputation, and that her character for truth is good. May 24 th 1844 -
Rufus Lapsit Justice of the Peace
State of New York Onondaga County Clerk's Office
ss I certify that Rufus Lapsit Esq. whose signature appears to the within affidavit, and the above certificate, was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly elected and qualified that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily be- lieve that his signature to the within affidavit, and the above Certificate is genuine. Witness my hand
and seal office at Syracuse May 25. 1844.
Chas. T. Hicks Clerk

Dr Sir,
The inclosed additional proof in the case of Mr Wait for a pension was forwarded to my address Washington expecting to reach me there, I had left before I enclose the same to you and refer you to the accompanying letter for state further evidence.
Owego Augt 30 1841
Truly Respectfully Yours &c A. P. Brewster
Jas L Edwards Esq Comr of Pensions }

Sally Waight
NY Feb 38
L.P. Balser Carpenter

Washington, Feb 28. 1884
Sir:
The series of Thaddeus Smith, in the case of Sally Wright, N. Y. Act '38, have been admitted by the Office, but her marriage disputed. The deposition on file I hold to be amply sufficient to prove marriage before 1794. Please have the case examined and reported to
Very truly,
R. H. C. Tuttle

August 1
Washington, July 6. 1883
Sir:
Sally Brooks  Wright , widow of Thaddeus Wright, applied for a pension on account of the following services of her husband:
5 months in 1876 in Col. McLean's Regt. during which time he was at White Plains, West Point &c.
9 months in 1877 under Lt. Muting, Col. Bullard, during which time Muting was killed.
Will you please furnish such documentary evidence as your rolls contain?
Very Respectfully
Yours &c.
J. E. Hassler
Quartermaster
July 6. 1883
J. E. Hassler is the duly appointed agent in the above case. J. P. Waldo Commissioner

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston:
Aug. 11. 1853.
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 Shadwellus Wate is borne on pay roll of Capt. Joseph Winch's Comp. Col. Samuel Bullock's Regt. from Aug 16, to Nov. 29. 1777. 220 miles, 3 months 23 days Also on pay roll of Capt. Francis Stetson's Comp. Col. David Morse's Regt. raised to support Government at Springfield & Northampton, from June 16. to the 20 th  1782 4 days and forty miles travel.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
W. M. D. Wright Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Richland N.Y. July 3 d 1843
Hon. J. L. Edwards.
Sir - Enclosed I hand you some further papers in relation to the application of Widow Sally Waight for a Pension. She knows of no further testimony that can be offered to prove her marriage with her late husband, Thaddeus Waight. I was myself personally acquainted with them while living together as husband and wife for several years previous to the husband's death. There can be no question but what they were lawfully married unless it be a legal one under the rules of your Department.
Please inform me if any thing further must be shown to entitle the Widow to the Pension for which she has applied, and much oblige
Your Obedt. Servt.
Hiram H. Hubbell

The affidavit of Dearly Fairbank of Wadsworth in the county of Windham and State of Vermont of the age of seventy nine years who testifies and says that he was first acquainted with Shaddeus Wright when living in Holliston Mass that afterwards and about the year seventeen hundred and eighty he was by common report married to Dearly Morse and that they soon after removed to Roxbury in the State of Vermont and afterwards to Wadsworth in the same State where they lived together as man and wife for several years and had a family of children and that from his personal knowledge he has no doubt they were lawfully married
Dearly Fairbank
Sworn and subscribed this 26 th day of July 1841.
Before me Emery Wheelock Justice Peace
I hereby certify that Dearly Fairbank the above named deponent is a man of undoubted truth and veracity
Emery Wheelock Justice Peace

State of Vermont Windham County Court Clerks Office New Fane July 31 st A.D. 1841
I Marshall Miller, Clerk of said Court, certify, that Emory Wheelock is a Justice of the Peace, within and for said County, duly Commissioned and qualified, and that his signatures within written are genuine
In testimony whereof I have set my hand, and affix the Seal of said Court, the day and year above written
Attest Marshall Miller, Clerk

11.635.
Hannah Baldwin
NY
Act July 7 th 38
Dec r made Jan 9 th 45 & filed Jan 31 st 45.
L. d. May 10 th 44.
Mar ch 17 85
Rejected.

Hon. J. L. Edwards.
Richland N. Y. January 25, 1845.
Sir
In relation to the application of Sally Wright for a Pension - You wrote under date of Oct. 25 th "That when parole evidence in regard to the date of a marriage is received it must be of the most clear and explicit kind!" &c. —
M rs Wright is aged, infirm and needy, and has not the ability to go, or the means to send others to distant counties to see and converse with the very few who are living that know of her marriage at the time, and to ascertain from them whether any and what facts are within their knowledge that would go to fix precisely the year when she was married. For these reasons no efforts have been made to search for further testimony. Perhaps, Sir, that at the time you wrote the letter referred to you did not have in mind all the testimony that had been furnished by the applicant. I may be mistaken in relation to it, but it appears to me that when taken together it amounts to the proof required in such cases.
M rs Wright is a credible person and was sound in mind at the time her Declaration was made and sworn to by her. The Aff. of the Town Clerk of Worcester Mass. shows that Sally Morse & Thaddeus Wright were published for marriage in 1780 and that there were no more records for two years thereafter.
The Aff. of M c Fairbanks, states that he knew the said Sally & Thaddeus when married, altho' he did not see them married.
Further proof of no record - And, Aff. of Luke Wait shows that an old Bible that was nearly to pieces in 1826 & which contained the family of record of said Thaddeus was copied, (said record) by him in that year into a new Bible, and a copy of that record sent to you - the old Bible having been destroyed many years previous. Then follows the Aff. of M rs Huntington, daughter of the applicant, whose knowledge

of her own age and that of her brothers and sisters would in most cases be considered clear and explicit .
I have referred to this testimony from memory and it may not in every particular be precisely correct.
Please inform me what, if any further testimony must be sought for in order to obtain the Pension.
Affidavits of persons can be procured who knew the family of children about the year 1794.
Respectfully Your Obedt. Servt. Hiram Hubbell

Union Square N.Y. Aug 21st.
free
Hon. D. P. Brewster Member of Congress Oswego Washington City N.Y.

State of New York Dutchess County
Luke Wright of said County being duly sworn doth depose & say that he is the son of Haselden Wright late of said County deceased & that he has frequently heard his father say that he was at the Surrender of Burgoyne - was out with Colonel Mellen several months about this period in the State of Massachusetts - That he has heard his father say he was on a scout of sixty days with Col. Brown and has often heard him relate anecdotes and adventures of his tour with Col. Mellen & has from his earliest remembrance heard his father relate of stories and occurrences of his Northern expedition during the Revolution
Luke Wright
Sworn and subscribed This 20th day of August 1841 before me
Oliver Brewster Judge of N. Co. Court

Hon. D. P. Brewster,
De Sir,
I forward you an affidavit relating to Mrs. Wrights pension which I wish you to hand to proper office - The widow Wright the late band of the pension claiming the pension forwarded to Washington papers and affidavits soon after the passing of the law allowing pensions to the Revolutionary soldiers who were indigent or but as his service did come within the provision of that law a pension was not allowed him - perhaps referance to these papers will throw some light on the subject of pensions - Your attention to this subject will much oblige the old lady Mrs. Wright & her friends and
Your Friend Elias Brewster
Wadsworth August 20th 1841
- It is doubtful if any further proof of Mrs. Wrights service can be had unless from the papers mentioned above - that the lady is entitled to a pension is with doubt, we therefore wish the papers examined if they can be found

Sylvia de Grasse Alexandria Bay, N. Y.
J. L. Davenport. Commissioner of Pensions Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir,
I beg to thank you for the very satisfactory record of William Young sent me on June 7 th and would like to ask one more favor. Is there a pension record of Thaddeus Waite. Service as a private in Capt Joseph Bruck's Regt Mass Troops. Enlisted from Framingham Mass. 8/16/1777. Wife's name Sally Moss. Also Jeremiah Collins of Lambton Mass. Service in Volunteers for the Battle of Bunkerhill and in border alarms as a minute man. Any data as to the above names will be much appreciated.
June 9 th 1913.
Yours Truly
(mroHD) Bertha M. Martin Request Sylvade Irene Chase