Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 22542, Daniel Waters, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Waters, Daniel
W. 22542
Watters Sarah
B.L.Wt. 27568-160-35
CONTENTS

Let Wm Valentine Oct 2/55
60361 - A.L. 3 March/55 April 11/55
Sarah Waters Daniel Waters Wm Private Punisher - New York,
568 p. 9 May 2
Revolutionary War
Ms. A. 9. 2. 28 - no 3714
W: 160 Boston May 19/56
[Handwritten signature/initials]
Wm Valentine Albany N.Y.
Vol 101. page 16

1833 Act. 26. To C. Union.
3714.
New York Albany
Sarah Waters
widow of Daniel
Mass
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Private
Reported Feb 7/49
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7. day of Feb 7/49 and sent to
Leah Perkins Albany N.Y.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 34 Vol. 4.

1982 New York
Daniel Waters
of Rensselaer in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Hannon of the 1st Regt. commanded by Col. Dury in the Connecticut line for 3 Years
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 th day of Nov. 1832 — and sent to J. Fitch
Arrears to 4th of Sep. 1832 $120 Semizant. allowance ending 4th Mo. 33 40 $160
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by C. C. Phelps Clerk, Book D Vol. 5 — Page 155
Let to M. G. V. D. Cooke (“O. C.”) Sept. 2, 1840.
Dead Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 th April 1838 from 4. Sep 1839 to 21. Jan'y 1840 Agent notified 27. Nov 1841

No 4847
New York
admitted
3 years
80 $
Ino Fitch
Hoosack Ferry

BRIEF in the case of  Daniel Waters of Hoosuck  County of Rensselaer in the State of New York  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 75
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     Spring In 1777 3 Private Gen. Capt Hammore & Phelps Col Dury, Genl Varnum Wayne & Washington  
5. In what battles was he engaged? Fort Mifflin, Monmouth, Germantown & Stony Point
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Hoboken, Hartford Co. Connecticut
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
Living & traditional
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Defective Not attached together as the regulations require.
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Jas Wilens Examining Clerk.

Water
4847.
In the matter of Daniel Waller's appli- =cation for a pension

State of New York
County of Rensselaer } ss
On this eighteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open court before Daniel Gardner Esquire Recorder of the City of Troy in the County of Rensselaer aforesaid and presiding Judge of the Court of Common Pleas called the Mayors Court in and for the City of Troy aforesaid now sitting Daniel Waters a resident of the town of Hoosick in the County of Rensselaer and State of New York aged seventy three years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. That he was born in Hebron County of Hartford and State of Connecticut in the year seventeen hundred and sixty. That he has a record of his age at home which he preserves in the family
That when he entered the service of the United States he was living in the town of Hebron aforesaid in the County and State aforesaid - That he entered the service by enlisting, and that he enlisted at a place called Windsor Paganame in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut in the Spring of the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven, the month or day he cannot recollect, That he enlisted in a company of State Troops commanded by Captain Hammond his given name he cannot recollect, the Lieutenants name was John Buel and the ensign Seth Phelps, That the Regiment to which said company belonged was commanded by Colonel Duryee, and the Brigade by General Parson the given names of the Colonel and General he does not recollect - That he enlisted as a private for three years, That he was then marched to New Haven in Connecticut and from there to White Plains in the State of New York and from there to Fishkill, and was then stationed along the lines to guard the enemy

at Dob's ferry and along above Kings bridge Ferry for some length of time and from there marched through the State of New Jersey into the State of Pennsylvania to under fort Mifflin on Mud Island and was in an engagement at Fort Mifflin at the time the fort was captured by the enemy, that the names of the officers who com= =manded at Fort Mifflin and under whom he there fought he cannot recollect That from fort Mifflin they retreated across the Delaware River and afterwards the Schuylkill Hill in the night to Valley Forge at which place they went into winter quarter, & was there inoculated for the small Pox That he was also in the battle of Germantown, and that he was also engaged in the battle of Monmouth and that in the two last engagements he fought under the officers above named excepting the general and at Monmouth he fought under general Lee and at German =town General Washington, and that he went into winter quarters at or near Morristown New Jersey one Winter, and that afterwards he was what was termed a picked man and placed in a company of Light Infantry commanded by Captain Seth Phelps and under command of General Wayne, and was stationed along the lines on the West side of Hudson River for the purpose of guarding them, and was at the taking of the fort at Stoney Point, that in that engagement he was under the command of General Wayne; and that during the remainder of the time in which he served in the American Army he was under General Wayne and was employed according to the best of his recollection in guarding the lines along the West side of the Hudson River, and that he was discharged upon Staten Island in the spring of the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty having served out the full term of three years without a furlough and that he has no discharge nor any documentary evi= =dence of his enlistment or services.

of any description he had a discharge but does not recollect by whom it was signed which has been lost or destroyed long since. That he has lived in Colchester in Hartford County in the State of Connecticut and in Elizabeth town in the State of New Jersey and at one place and an other until he came to Hoosick in the State of New York where he now resides, and has resided for more than forty years last past. That he served the said three years as a private soldier, that the names of the persons to whom he is known in his present neighborhood and who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution are Luther P Blodgett John Fitch Samuel Booth — That George Milliman whose affidavit is hereto annexed is sick confined to his bed unable to attend court He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension or an annuity, except the present and he 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 New York Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Archibald Ball Clerk
Daniel Waters
We Luther P Blodgett  Isaac Reach a clergyman, residing in the town of Hoosick in the County of Rensselaer and State of New York and Samuel Booth residing in the same place hereby certify that we are acquainted with Daniel Waters who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy three years of age; that he is reputed and believed, 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 & year aforesaid
Archibald Ball Clerk
Luther P Blodgett Samuel Booth Isaac Reach

And the said Court do hereby announce 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 Daniel Waters  Israel Root who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the town of Hoosick in the county of Rensselaer and State of New York and that Samuel Root who has also signed the same, is a resident in same place and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Archibald Bull Clerk of the court of Common Pleas called the Mayors Court in and for the city of Troy in the county of Rensselaer aforesaid do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Daniel Waters for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my seal hand and seal of office this eighth day of August 1852.
Archibald Bull Clerk

State of New York } Rensselaer County } ss. George Milliman of the Town of Hoosick in the County of Rensselaer in said State being duly sworn deposes and saith that he is personally acquainted with Daniel Waters and has been acquainted with the said Daniel more than fifty five years last past and during the American Revolution the said George well remembers and knows that the the said Daniel was a soldier in the American army during the term of three years in Cap- tain Seth Phelps company of Infantry and a part of said time a soldier in Captain Hani- mond's in Col. Durgys Regiment and in General Varnums Brigade and that this de- ponent knows that the said Daniel Waters served as a soldier three years commencing 1777- Subscribed and sworn before me this 16 th day of June 1832
Gerard Sherwood Jr Justice of the Peace J. B. [Signature]
State of New York } County of Rensselaer } ss. On this seventh  twelfth day of September  June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared before me, the above named George Milliman to me known to be the person described in and who executed the law made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed was true
Gerard Sherwood Jr Justice of the Peace

I Archibald Bull Clerk of the County of Pensylvania do hereby certify that Samuel Sherwood Jr. whose genuine signature is affixed to the within affidavit & certificate was on the day of the date of the same one of the Justices of the peace for the County of Pennsylvania In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name & affixed my Seal of Office this Eighth day of August 1832 Archibald Bull Clerk

No 1303 Sarah Waters N.Y. act 7. July 38 m 90. d 40

State of New York } County of Ulster }
3:
On the fifteenth day of July in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and forty, Personally appeared before me Levi Chanaler Ball a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Ulster, Sarah Waters a resident in the town of Neversink in said County, aged Seventy seven years the twentieth day of October last past; who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefit of the Provision made by the Act of Congress passed July seventh in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty eight entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows - That she is the widow of Daniel Waters late of the town of Neversink in said County, who was a pensioner for services rendered in the Revolutionary Army, and further declares that she was married to the said Daniel Waters in the said town of Neversink in said County by Esq. Tolick then residing in said County on the Nineteenth day of September in the year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and ninety, And that her husband Daniel Waters aforesaid died on the twenty first day of January A D One thousand Eight hundred and forty; 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 1794 /viz/ at the time above stated, and that she is now the widow of the said Daniel Waters And that she has not since been married.

as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
She further declares in order to obtain the amount of pension due her said husband Daniel Waters from the fourth day September 1839, till the twentyfirst day of January 1840, to whom a certificate of pension was issued of which the following is a true Copy.
War Department Revolutionary Claim
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7 th June 1832 Daniel Waters of the State of New York - who was a Private in the revolutionary - Army, is entitled to receive Eighty dollars per Annum, during his natural life, commencing on the first 4 th of March 1831, and payable Semi-Annually on the 4 th of March and the 4 th of September in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States this 14 th day of Novem, One Thousand Eight Hundred and thirty two.
Examined
Countersigned
J L Edwards
John P. Kirtland
actg Secretary war
The following endorsement on the back.
payments to be made at New York by First Natl. Bank Agent for paying pensions in the Agency of New York - Recorded by,

Geo. C Stiles Clerk, in Book D Vol 5. page 155.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me
Levi Chandler Ball } One of the Judges of Renss Co County }
Sarah Waters
I further Certify that the applicant cannot from bodily infirmity attend the Court - The distance being over twenty miles, and that I am acquainted with Sarah Waters, that she is a credible witness.
Levi Chandler Ball
One of the Judges of Renss. Co. County.
STATE OF NEW-YORK, Rensselaer County Clerk's Office, } ss.
of Rensselaer, do hereby Certify, that LELAND CRANDALL, Clerk of the County Levi Chandler Ball Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the annexed affidavit & certificate was, at the time the
the same bears date _____ one of the Judges of Rensselaer County Courts in and for said County: And further, that I am acquainted with the hand-writing of said Judge and verily believe the above signature to be genuine.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said County, this 22 nd day of July 1840
Leland Crandall
Clerk.

State of New York County of Rensselaer ss Col. Timothy Graves and Mathur Graves (wife of the said Timothy Graves) of the town of Hoosick in said County of Rensselaer being duly sworn depose and say that the Timothy Graves is aged Eighty six years and that the Mathur Graves is aged Eighty years that they have resided for Fifty one years last past in the Town of Hoosick in the same neighborhood near Daniel Waters and Sarah Way before their intermarriage and was present and saw them Married by Esqr. Folick (do not recollect his Christian name) a justice of the peace then residing in Hoosick who is since dead and have known them as Husband and wife since the year one thousand seven hundred and Ninety when they were Married that the said Sarah Waters is the widow of the said Daniel Waters and has not since been Married Subscribed and sworn before Timothy Graves the 15 th day of July 1840 Perry Warren Junr Justice Peace Mathur her Graves mark
I Certify that I am acquainted with the above named deponents and that they are credible witnesses, and that the said Mathur Graves signed her name by making her mark because she never learned to write
Perry Warren Junr Justice Peace

State of New York County of Rensselaer
Chauncy L. Waters of the Town of Hoosick in said County being duly sworn depose and says that he is forty one years of age and that he is the son of Daniel and Sarah Waters and has in his possession a paper purporting to be a Family record of Marriages Births and Deaths on which record is a Marriage recorded which the following is a true Copy "September 9 th AD 1790" (meaning one thousand seven hundred and ninety)
"Daniel Waters and Sarah Way his wife entered Marriage" and further that Sarah Waters is the widow of Daniel Waters late of the said town of Hoosick who died on the twenty first day of January one thousand eight hundred and forty and that my Mother Sarah Waters has not since been married
Subscribed and sworn before me except as above excepted the 15 th day of July 1840
Henry Warren Jr. Justice Peace
I hereby certify that I am acquainted with the above named deponent Chauncy L. Waters that he is a Credible witness
Henry Warren Jr. Justice Peace

STATE OF NEW-YORK, Rensselaer County Clerk's Office, } ss.
of Rensselaer, do hereby Certify, that I, LELAND CRANDALL, Clerk of the County Perry Warren Jun r Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the annexed Affidavits & Certificates was, at the time the
Same bears date one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County: And further, that I am acquainted with the hand-writing of said Justice and verily believe the above signature to be genuine.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said County, this 22 nd day of July 18 40
Leland Crandall Clerk.

Rec d Widow for Leg ee Not March 3 1855
60361
Forwarded by Mrs. Valentine of Albany N.Y.

From Wm Valentine of Albany N.Y.
DECLARATION.
REVOLUTIONARY WIDOW FOR BOUNTY LAND.
STATE OF New York } ss. COUNTY OF Rensselaer }
On this 30 day of March 1855 — before me, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, personally appeared Sarah Mattus aged Ninety Two years, a resident of Hoosick in said county, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the County Land to which she is entitled under the act of Congress, passed March 3d, 1855, that she is the widow of Daniel Waters who was Private in the Revolutionary War, and for the service of her husband aforesaid she now receives a pension at the rate of Eighty Dollars per annum, under the act of Congress, passed Feb 2 1848 — For evidence of the services of her husband aforesaid, this declarant refers the Department to the evidence on file in the Pension Office at Washington, and requests the Land Warrant forwarded to her Agent, Wm Valentine of Albany N.Y. She further declares that she is now a widow ; and that she has not received or made application for bounty land under this or any other act of Congress.
Sarah Mattus
Subscribed and Sworn to before me, this 30 day of March 1855
B Keach Justice of Peace
I certify that Sarah Mattus is the identical person above named and described. And I further certify that I have no interest whatever in the result of the matter above referred to.
B Keach Justice of Peace
STATE OF New York } ss. County of Rensselaer }
Thomas Gregan and Chauncy L Mattus of Hoosick in said county, who are credible and competent witnesses, being duly sworn, deposeth that Sarah Mattus is the identical person above named and described.
Subscribed and Sworn to before me, this 30 day of March 1855
Thos Gregan
B Keach Justice of Peace
Chauncy L Mattus
State of New York } ss. COUNTY OF Rensselaer }
I, Ambrose N Sheldon Clerk of the County aforesaid, Do hereby certify, that B Keach is and was at the within date, a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly qualified and authorized by Law to administer Oaths for general purposes, That I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said B Keach and verily believe his signature within written is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the official Seal of said County, this
thirty first day of March 1855
A N Sheldon CLERK

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section EEL
Letter brought to this section to be answered - by Miss Louise Carr.
March 26, 1930
Mary A. Hasewell 7 John Street Hoosick Falls, New York
Dear Madam:
I advise you that this bureau is unable to furnish the history of a soldier of the Revolution unless a claim for pension or bounty land has been made to the United States on account of his services.
The records fail to show such claims on file on account of the services of Adam or Oliver Waters.
You are herewith furnished the history of Daniel Waters:
From the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W.22542, it appears that Daniel Waters (the name also appears as Watters) was born in 1760, in Hebron, Connecticut.
While residing in Hebron, Connecticut, he enlisted in the spring of 1777, served as a private in Captains Harmon's and Seth Phelps' Companies, Colonel Durkee's Connecticut Regiment, was in the battles of Germantown, Fort Mifflin, Monmouth and Stony Point, and was discharged in the spring of 1780, having served three years.
After the Revolution, he lived in Colchester, Connecticut, and Elizabethtown, New Jersey, then moved to Hoosick, Rensselaer County, New York, where he had resided for nearly forty years when he was allowed pension on his application executed August 8, 1832.
He died January 21, 1840.
The soldier married September 9, 1790, in Hoosick,
Soldier said he was in Capt. Harmon's Co. but as I found no Capt. Harmon in leaf Durkee's 4th Conn. Regt. but did find Capt. Harmon's 4th Conn. I used Harmon

New York, Sarah Way, who was born October 20, 1762.
She was allowed pension on her application executed July 15, 1840, while residing in Hoosick, New York.
In 1840, son Chauncy L. Waters was aged forty-one years and resided in Hoosick, New York. There is no further reference to children.
Very truly yours
E. W. MORGAN Acting Commissioner.

7 John St. Hoosick Falls, N.Y. March 24th, 1930
Miss Mary Carr, C/o Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
My dear Miss Carr,
Our Hoosac- Walloomsac Chapter, D.A.R. are planning to mark the graves, before Memorial Day, if possible of any or all of the following named soldiers, if there is sufficient proof that they fought in the Continental Army.
Will you kindly send me the war record of the following men;
Daniel Waters, died Jan. 21, 1840, Ae. 81 Yrs. (Sarah, wife of Daniel Died Jan. 5, 1864 Ae. 101 yrs. 2mos. 16 das. Pensioned for his services, Sept. 4. 1858)
o Capt. Oliver Waters, born Dec. 28, 1746; died Aug. 10, 1821
o Capt. Adam Waters, born June 26, 1720; died June 3, 1804
The above titles and dates with the exception of the date of pension, were copies from the head stones and monument erected in Maple Grove Cemetery. The pension paper, I have seen. Daniel Waters was grandfather of the husband of Cheney Case's aunt. The bodies of these people were moved from the Old Burying Ground on the Waters farm in 1871 to the Maple Grove Cemetery. The Water's farm was what we knew as John Hobart Warren place. Perhaps you remember the old burying ground by the brook running under the road.
I called the Health Center and the nurse thought your father feeling rather better than last week, - "a little spryer".
Thanking you for early information regarding these records where possible. I remain
Yours sincerely,
Mary Carr Vasewell

Miss Mary A. Haswell, 7 John St. Hoosick Falls, New York

For Betsy Sanja Oct 11th 3 1855
60367
L. P. Waldo Esq. Court of Pensions Washington City D.C.

Samuel Beal Cohasset, Norfolk Co., Mass.
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Nov. 15, 1795
Rebecca (Wilkerson)
He served at various times from 1775 to 1780 in and about Boston and Hull, Mass.

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BOSTON, Feb. 17-98. 189
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:-
I am desirous of obtaining a certificate of the service performed in the United States Navy, during the Revolution, by Daniel Waters, of Massachusetts, who commanded the Lee and after ward the Thorn; also of the service, if any, performed by Samuel Beal  Waters , of Cohasset, Man. Ezra Pratt, of Weymouth, Man. John X Alcox, of Wolcott, Conn., Amos Bronson, of Waterbury, Conn. and Joseph May, of Boston, Mass.
Very truly yours
Albert Pratt

Albany Pension Agency - October 23 rd 1855 -
Josiah Minot Esquire - Commissioner of Pensions,
Sir. At the request of Sarah Waters, I forward her Pension Certificate for the purpose of having the date of its issue from the War Office of the United States inserted, when, please return it to this Agency
I am, Very Respectfully Your O bt . Serv t .
Isaac Vanderpoel Pension Agent by Cornelius Glen.

Sept 29/46. W. C. Cope act 1848 Miss L. Edwards Commis. of Pensions War Dept. Washington City. U.S.A.
Mr. Samuel Water
General Jenkins

Albany Sept. 26. 1845.
James L. Edwards Esq. Comm d Pension
Sir - I enclose the declaration of Mrs. Sarah Bates, for the purpose of obtaining her pension Certificate under the Act of 2 d Febry. 1845.
Very Respectfully Your obed t Serv t Samuel Jenkins.

OLD WAR & NAVY MAR 21 1898 FILES,

This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services.
Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary war and the war of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary war may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Washington, D. C. Mar 4 1898
W. & N. DIV. REVOLUTIONARY WAR.
Sir:-
In reply to your communication of a recent date, you are informed that the courtesy of furnishing information relative to Revolutionary war soldiers, on account of whose service pensions were granted, is extended by this Bureau only to their descendants, and to them only when it is desired for historical or genealogical purposes.
In view of the large number of such inquiries now being made, and of the length of time required to make a proper search of the records in each case, information will not be given to any applicant concerning more than two soldiers.
In order that the claim of the soldier concerning whom you desire information may be identified, it is requested that you furnish as much as possible of the data called for below.
Very respectfully,
Mr. F. Alcott Pratt. Boston, Mass. J. Roberts Bros.
Handwritten signature: A. B. Smith
Commissioner.
Full name of soldier, Daniel Water
Place of residence before service, Charlestown and Malden, Massachusetts
Place of residence after service, Malden, Middlesex Co., Mass.
Approximate date of death, March 26, 1816
Given name of widow, Sarah (Sigourney)
Did either the soldier or his widow receive a pension?
Additional information, He commanded State Cruiser "Lee". Was appointed Captain in U. S. Navy Mar. 15, 1777- Commanded the "Thorn" and the "Syren"
Signature, F. Alcott Pratt
Post-office address, 3 Somerset St. Boston Mass.

✓ 27.568
3 Also lump

This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services.
Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States.
L. W. M. W. 22542.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
O. W. & N. DIV.
REVOLUTIONARY.
March 25, 1898.
Sir:-
Replying to your recent communication you are advised that Daniel Waters made an application for pension on August 8, 1832, at which time he was 73 years of age and residing at Hoosick, N. Y., and his pension was allowed for two years' actual service as a private in the Conn. troops, revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt. Hammond and Col. Durkee. He enlisted at Hebron, Conn. His widow, Sarah, made application and received a pension for the service of her husband as above set forth.
Very respectfully,
Acting Commissioner.
Mr. F. Alcott Pratt,
3 Somerset St.,
Boston, Mass.

N o 7303. Sarato Waters N York Act 7 th July '38
Admitted 2 years Priv  $80 per an.
E
M c L. V. D. Cooke Esq. Raynstown N York.

State of New York County of Rensselaer ss.
On this Twenty fourth day of May, in the year One thousand eight hundred and forty three, personally appeared before the undersigned L Chandler Ball, a Judge of the Rensselaer County Courts, Sarah Waters, a resident of the Town of Hoosick, in the County of Rensselaer and State of New York, aged Eighty years, who first being duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath make the following declarative, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the acts of Congress, passed July 7 th 1838, and the 23 rd of August 1842, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Daniel Waters, who was a Private in the United States service during the revolutionary war, and was a Pensioner at the time of his death, as will fully appear by the certificate and other evidence on file in the Pension Office at Washington.
She also declares that she was married to the said Daniel Waters on the ninth day of September in the year Seventeen hundred and ninety - that her husband the aforesaid Daniel Waters died on the twenty first day of January in the year Eighteen hundred and forty - 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 and ninety four, viz: at the time above stated. She further declares that she is still a Widow. —
Sarah Waters
Sworn to, and subscribed, on the day and year above written before
L Chandler Ball. One of the Judges of Rens l Co ty Courts.

State of New York Rensselaer County
ss:
I certify that I am well acquainted with Sarah Waters, the person who made the within declaration, and she is, from bodily infirmary, unable to attend Court.
Given under my hand this 24 th day of May 1843
J Chandler Ball One of the Judges of Renss a Co. Court.
State of New York
Rensselaer County ss:
I Charles Hooper Clerk of said County Clerks office do hereby certify that J. Chandler Ball Esq. whose name is subscribed to the within Certificate of proof of the within Declaration of Sarah Waters was at the time said declaration purports to have been taken, one of the Judges of the Rensselaer County Courts, duly Commissioned & Sworn, & residing in said County. I further certify that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Judge and verily believe his signature subscribed to the said Certificate of proof is the true handwriting of the said Judge, & that his signature also subscribed to the above Certificate is genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said County this 26 th day of May 1843
Charles Hooper Clerk

Pittstown May 27 th 1843 James D. Edwards Esq.
Sir, Enclosed you have the Declaration of the widow Sarah Waters, agreeable to your instructions of the 17 th instant. Please make the certificate for her pension payable at the Pension Office City of Albany
I am Respectfully your Ob t Servant
M c Il h W m Cook

W 7303 N.Y.
Rejected
Ln let to J. V. D. Cooke
Sept. 2, 1840.
Sold to same May 17-43.
act J. July '38

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 22,542
Sarah Waters wid of Daniel Waters Prin Rev nar.
Act Feb 24 1848
Index : Vol 16 , Page 393
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Mar- 1-1897- History to Mfr- Charles E. Waters Bureau of Education, Int. Dept. (see Inv. 43.249)
Mar 25 '98 Y a Brail Proton, Mass
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No 7303 Aug 17. 1840
Apr 7.
July 7. 1838
Sarah Waters.
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Pittstown Ny Aug 13
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No 7303 Aug 17. 1840
NY
July 7. 1838
Sarah Waters
James L. Edwards Esq.
Commisceon Prison Washington City D.C.
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Pittstown Renfrew Co August 12 th 1840 James D. Edwards Esq.
Dear Sir, I herewith forward to the Pension Office papers in behalf of the widow Sarah Waters claim for a pension on account of services rendered in the war of the Revolution by by her late husband, Daniel Waters whose name is on the pension roll
About the 20 th of June last I forwarded by mail papers in regard to a claim of the widow Judith Newcomb for a pension - I should be pleased to be informed whether the papers in her case have been duly received at the Pension Office.
I am respectfully your obedient servant M ch W. G. Gother

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
November 11 th 1841.
Sir :
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," The widow of Daniel Waters, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany, N.Y. Agency, at the rate of Eighty Dollars and _____ Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept. 1839, to the 21 st January 1840.
Respectfully yours,
Edward B. Parris
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

Rayntown N.Y. April 10
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Sarah Walen N.Y. N.Y. 38
James L. Edwards Esq.
Common Pleas
City Washington
D. C.

Pittstown April 10 th 1843
Sir
Some time in 1840 I inclosed papers claiming a Pension for Mrs Sarah Waters and received the following answer:
Pension Office. September 2 d 1840
Sir
The claim of Mrs Sarah Waters has been examined and disallowed
The act of the 7 th of July 1838 provides for those only who were at the date of its passage Widows of Deceased Officers and Soldiers of the Revolution, and it appears that her late husband died within the present year signed J. L. Edwards
Sir, Please to have the goodness to inform me whether Mrs Waters is now intitled to a pension by any act which has been passed subsequent to the time above mentioned agreeable to the papers now in the Pension Office, and if so whether it will be required if intitled to a pension any additional papers in order to establish her claim for a pension:
I am Sir respectfully
your ob t servant
M rs S. W. Cook
James L Edwards Esq r . City Washington D.C.

State of New-York, } ss. County of Rensselaer }
On this fourteenth day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty- eighth , personally appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Rensselaer in the State of New York. Sarah Waters a resident of the town of Hooosick in the said county of Rensselaer aged about eighty six 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 provision made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 2d February, 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War:
That she is the widow of Daniel Waters who was a private in the Army of the Revolution, & on account of whose services, she was pensioned under the Acts of Congress of 7 July 1838, 3 d March 1843 & 17 June 1844; and the annual amount of the pension which she received under the act of 17 June 1846, was Eighty dollars—
She further Declares that she is still a widow—
Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year first above written, before me } Sarah Waters
David S. M c Namara Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above Declarant is personally known to me David S. M c Namara Justice of the Peace.
State of New-York, } ss. County of Rensselaer }
I, Andrew H. Sheldon Clerk of the said county, do hereby certify that David S. M c Namara was on the day of the date of the above Declaration, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county, duly elected and sworn, and that the signatures to the Jurat of the above Declaration and to the above Certificate, purporting to be his, are genuine.
L.S.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said county, this twenty fifth day of September 184 8 .
A. H. Sheldon Clerk

V 4621 New York ad v
Sarah Waters widow of Daniel Waters who was a private in the Count Line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the twenty third day of Jan y 1844 and sent to
John, T. Percy Troy N. Y.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. / Page 258

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Reported
Albany, New York
Sarah Waters widow of Daniel Waters
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 21. January 1840 of Rensselaer Co. in the State of N. York who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Hammond of the regt. commanded by Col. Dury in the Com't. line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 80 Dollars per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 th day of July 1843 and sent to M. S. F. D. Cook Raynertown, New York
Whole amount due . . . . . $ 400
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, Book A. Vol. 2. Page 111.

J. Water
$80 per an
John T. Percy Troy N.Y. Agent

State of New York
Wenatchee County } ss:
On this twenty fifth day of November 1843. Personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for said County, Sarah Waters a resident of the Town of Ho-sick in the County aforesaid, 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 benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the Third March 1843. granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Daniel Waters, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary Army; and served as is set forth in his original declaration on file in the office of the Commissioner of Pensions; and that the annual amount of the pension which she received under the act of July 7. 1838. was eighty dollars.
She further declares she is still a widow.
Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year above written. before the undersigned and I certify that I am well acquainted with the above declarant, & well know her to be the same person named and described in & who signed & made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration.
David S. M'Namara. Justice of the peace
Sarah Waters

STATE OF NEW-YORK,
Rensselaer County Clerk's Office,
I, Charles H. Hooper
} ss.
Clerk of the County of Rensselaer, do hereby Certify, That David S. McNamara whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of proof or acknowledgment of the annexed Instrument , deposition was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment , one of the Justices  Of the Peace of the County of Rensselaer, dwelling in said county; duly authorized to take such proof or acknowledgment . And that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe that his signature to the said Certificate of proof or acknowledgment is genuine.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my name, and affixed the Seal of said County, this of Dec A. D. 184 3
5 day Charles Hooper Clerk.