Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 18,278, Deliverance Warner, Conn.

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Warner, Deliverance H. 18278 Esther
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Connecticut - 3015
Esther Warner
widow of Deliverance Warner, who died on the 19 th May 1812 of Middlesex in the State of Connecticut who was a P er in the Comp y commanded by Captain Blough of the Reg t commanded by Col l  Conn. in the L ne line for 6 mos.
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 20 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 th day of Aug t . 39, and said John B. Barnes, Middletown, Conn.
Arrears to the 4 th of Mar - $160.00 Semi-annual allowance ending
10.00
$170.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the }
Recorded by R Burdin Clerk, Book A Vol. 2 Page 80.

I Herney Talcott, a resident of Chatham in the County of Middlesex & State of Connecticut, hereby certify, that in the Records of marriages solemnized in this place by the Rev. Cyprian Strong, a former Pastor of the Congregational Church & Society here, there is in its regular place in the series of entries, & in the hand writing of the said Strong as I fully believe, an entry, of which the following is a copy;
"The following were joined in Marriage A.D. Seventeen Hundred Sixty eight. (Viz.) April Fourteenth Deliverance Warner & Esther Harr."
The above is a true copy from said Record with the exception, that in the original Record the entry is in fair legible figures as follows. "A.D. 1768. April 14 th ." Herney Talcott.
I Herney Talcott depose & say, that I hold the office of Pastor of the Congregational Church & Society aforesaid, which was under the charge of the Rev. Cyprian Strong from the month of August Seventeen Hundred Sixty Seven to August Eighteen Hundred & Eleven. And the above is a true extract from said Records of the said Cyprian Strong, with the exception above named as certified by me. Herney Talcott,

Pastor of the Congregational Church Chatham Mass, Connecticut.
Dated at Chatham aforesaid this sixth day November 1838.
State of Connecticut } ss. Chatham Middlesex County }
On this Sixth day of November 1838 personal ly appeared before me, Abel Lewis, one of the Justices of the peace for said Middlesex County, Rev. Hovey Talcott, who has signed the foregoing certificate, & made solemn oaths to the truth of the same before me, & he is a credible person well known to me, & is at this time pastor of the Congregational Church & Society in said Chatham.
Attest. Abel Lewis Just Peace A.

State of Connecticut County of Middlesex ss. Chatham 22 nd November A D 1838
Personally appeared Daniel Shepard of Chatham in the County of Middlesex, made oath in due form of Law: that he is eighty four years old, that he was well acquainted with Deliverance Warner of said Chatham and that he knows the said Deliverance Warner performed a term of Military service during the Revolutionary war in the year Seventeen hundred & seventy six during two months at New York, also one & a half months at different periods in the same year at Benbury, New Haven, Killingworth, & New London State of Connecticut as a private in the Company of Militia commanded by Capt. Daniel Stewart of said Chatham and that said Company belonged to the Regiment commanded by Col. Matthew Talcott of Middletown in said State of Connecticut. And also that said Deliverance Warner served at the North during a period of four months in the year Seventeen hundred & seventy seven he being drafted from the Company of Militia in said Chatham and placed as a private in the Company commanded by Capt. Joseph Blagden of said Chatham and that said Company belonged to the Regiment commanded by Col. Cook of Wallingford in the State of Connecticut that he was present at the Capture of Burgoyne and that he the said Daniel Shepard was at that time orderly sergeant of the Company from which said Warner was drafted.
Daniel Shepard
Subscribed & sworn to before me the day and year above written. And I also certify that I am well acquainted with the above named deponent Daniel Shepard, that he is a respectable citizen in all respects a competent & credible witness - Edward A. Penfield B. Justice of the Peace

State of Connecticut } ss. Chatham, November County of Middlesex } 24 th A. D. 1838.
David Williams of said Chatham being duly sworn deposes and says that he is forty six years old, and a resident of said Chatham; that he was acquainted with Deliverance Warner late of said Chat- ham deceased, whose widow, the deponent is informed, is about to make application for a pension; and, that said Deliverance Warner died, to the knowledge of the deponent, at said Chatham in the year eighteen hundred and thirteen, the precise day not being remembered by the deponent. Dated at Chatham the 24 th day of No- vember A. D. 1838. David Williams
Subscribed and sworn to on the day and year last aforesaid before me the under- signed Justice of the Peace duly appointed and sworn dwelling in said Chatham. I

farther certify that the said deponent David Williams is a respectable and cred- ible witness.
Selden Cook Justice of the Peace C.
State of Connecticut
Middlesex County } I John Trusk Clerk of the County Court of said County of Middlesex do Certify that Abel Lewis, Edward A. Penfield & Selden Cook Esq s are Justices of the Peace within & for said County of Middlesex as per Com d on file in my Office & that the names of Abel Lewis mark A. of Edward A. Penfield mark B. & of Selden Cook mark C. submitted to the preceding Certificates are their proper Hand Writing & signatures.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand & Seal this 11 th Day of Sept r A.D. 1838. J. Trusk Clk.

State of Connecticut } Chatham District County of Middlesex } Nov. 30 th A.D. 1838
Thomas Child of said Chatham being duly sworn deposes and says that he is Seventy three years old and a resident of said Chatham, and that he is well acquainted with Esther Warner widow of Delivrance Warner late of said Chatham deceased and that she has never been married since the death of her husband the said Delivrance Warner, and that she now remains his widow, and that she is the same person who is now an applicant for a Pension under the Act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836 -
Thomas Child
Subscribed & sworn to on the day & year first above written before me the undersigned Judge of Probate for the said District of Chatham. I further certify that the deponent is a respectable & credible witness -
D.
Sam l W. Hall Judge of Probate for the District of Chatham

State of Connecticut } County of Middlesex } P. Chatham District Nov. 30 th D 1838
Eleazar Tallman of said Chatham being duly sworn, deposes and says that he is sixty four years old and a resident of said Chatham and that he is well acquainted with Esther Warner widow of Deliverance Warner late of said Chatham deceased and that she has never been married since the death of her husband the said Deliverance Warner and now remains his widow and that she is the same person who is now an applicant for a Pension under the Act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836
Eleazar Tallman
Subscribed & sworn to on the day & year first above written before me the undersigned judge of Probate for the said District of Chatham. I further certify that the deponent is a respectable & credible witness
E. W. W. B. Judge of Probate for the District of Chatham
E.

State of Connecticut } County of Middlesex } S. Chatham District Nov. 30 th A.D. 1838
Luther Whitmore of said Chatham being duly sworn deposes (and says) that he is eighty four years old and a resident of said Chatham, and that he is well acquainted with Esther Warner widow of Debra and Warner late of said Chatham deceased and that she has never been married since the death of her husband the said Debra and Warner and that she now remains his widow and that she is the same person who is now an applicant for a Pension under the Act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836 -
Luther Whitmore
Subscribed & sworn to on the day & year first above written before me the undersigned Judge of Probate for the said District of Chatham. I further certify that the deponent is a respectable & credible witness -
B. W. H. Judge of Probate for the District of Chatham
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Jonathan Barnes Middleton Low-

State of Connecticut
County of Middlesex
ss. Chatham Probate District
On this 29 th day of November A.D. 1838 before the Court of Probate for the District of Chatham in said State, the same being a Court of Record by the Laws of said State, personally appeared Esther Warner a resident of Chatham in the County of Middlesex State of Connecticut 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 4 th 1836, that she is the widow of Deliverance Warner late of said Chatham deceased, who was a private in the Militia during the Revolutionary War and performed a term of Military service during two months at New York in the year Seven hundred Seventy Six in the Company of Militia Commanded by Capt. Daniel Stewart of said Chatham and also One & a half months at New Haven & other places in the State of Connecticut in the same year and in the same Company and that said Company belonged to the Regiment Commanded by Col. Matthew Talcott of Middletown in said State of Connecticut. And also that the said Warner served at the North during a period of four months in the year Seventeen hundred Seventy Seven and that he was drafted from the Company of Militia in said Chatham & placed as a private in the Company Commanded by Capt. Joseph Mayne of said Chatham and in the Regiment Commanded by Col. Cooke (8)

of Wallingford in the State of Connecticut and that she was present at the capture of Burgoyne in said last mentioned year. She further declares that she was married to the said Deliverance Warren on the fourteenth day of April in the year Seventeen hundred & sixty eight, that her husband the aforesaid Deliverance Warren died at said Chatham on the Nineteenth day of May in the year Eighteen hundred & thirteen; and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed. — The word "appeared" on the first page interlined before signing — Esther Warren
Subscribed & sworn to on the day & year first above written before me the undersigned Judge of Probate for the said District of Chatham. I further certify that the deponent is a respectable & credible witness G. A. W. Foote Judge of Probate State of Connecticut } for the District of Chatham County of Middlesex }
I David J Child Clerk of the court of Probate for the District of Chatham hereby certify that Ezra Foote Esq is Judge of Probate for the said District of Chatham duly commissioned & sworn and that his name signed to the preceding certificate marked D. E. F. G. are his signatures in his own proper hand writing. In witness whereof I have hereto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said court This 12 th day of December A 1838
David J. Child Clk

awf From the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 18278, it appears that Deliverance Warner enlisted in 1776 and served two months as a private in Captain Daniel Stewart's Connecticut Company, and again in 1776, he served one and one half months in same company, Colonel Matthew Talcott's Connecticut Regiment.
He enlisted in 1777 and served four months in Captain Joseph Blague's Company, Colonel Cook's Connecticut Regiment, and was at the capture of Burgoyne.
He died May 19, 1813 at Chatham, Connecticut.
Soldier married April 14, 1768, Esther Harr or

Karr.
She was allowed pension on her application executed November 29, 1838, while a resident of Chatham, Connecticut. Her age is not stated.
There is no data on file relative to children.
Very truly yours,
He died May 19, 1813 at Chatham, Connecticut.
Soldier married April 16, 1808. Mother Mary or
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.
The beginning of this letter in Samuel Skinner widow Elizabeth W 22221 - addressed to Hon. G. H. Vestal

anz Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 15,278
Esther Warner
Widow of
Deliverance Warner
Pris New War
Act: July 4 th 86
Index:—Vol. M , Page 3111
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Q. 1925 Oct. 15 - Hist to Hon. G. H. Vestal M See letter - Samuel Skinner W. 2222

Oct 12 '98
Mrs Ella Warner
Gilead, Conn

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Colonel James L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.

Middletown Conn. Aug. 13. 1839. —
Sir, I inclose a certificate of Mr. Kilbourn the Comptroller in the case of Esther Warner, widow of Deliverance Warner,
Very respectfully
Your Obt. Servt.
Jonathan Barner.
Colo. Edwards.

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James L. Edwards, Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington
D.C.
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Middletown Conn. December 13, 1838.
Sir, I send the papers of Esther Warner, with her request that if a certificate is issued, it may be transmitted to me.
Very respectfully
Your Obedient Servant.
Jon a Barnes.
James L. Edwards, Esq.

M.
Aug. 24 th 1898.
U. S. Pension Office Washington D. C.
Please send me a copy of application papers, dates &c. of Esther Warner of Chatham, Conn. whose name is among the list of Rev. Pensioners in 1840.
Respectfully (Mrs.) Ella C. Warner Gilead, Conn.

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. B. W. 18278.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
O. W. & N. DIV.
REVOLUTIONARY.
October 12, 1898.
Madam:-
Replying to your recent communication you are advised that Esther, widow of Deliverance Warner, made an application for pension on November 29, 1838, at which time she was residing at Chatham, Conn., (age not stated), and her pension was allowed for the actual service of her husband as a private in the Conn. troops, Revolutionary war, for a period of six months; a part of the time he served under Capt. Stewart and Col. Talcott. He enlisted at Chatham, Conn.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Mrs. Ella C. Warner,
Gilead, Conn.

Comptroller's Office
Harford Aug 12 1839
I certify that an application for evidence of the services of Deliverance Warner, who claims pension in the Revolutionary War in the 23rd Regiment Commanded by Col. Mathew Falcott in 1776 at New York and under Col. Joseph Blague in 1777 Regiment Commanded by Col. Cook of Wallingford - that no Pay Roll of the above Officers can be found in this Office - that our Pay Table Book is the following Accounts
Col. Mathew Falcott / 23 Regiment Militia to New York 1776 ordered into service 1776 Aug 13 To Order on Treasr of his Regiment ordered to New York £ 500.0.0 1777 May 7 To Mistake in Col. Shepard's Account Paid 11.10.9 £ 511.10.9
Supra 1778 Aug 28 By his af. ordered for Bounties paid 459 men in Regiment Militia to New York at 20/- £ 459.0.0 " By Mustering New Leavies £4.4.2 each upon Treasr 48.1.9 £ 511.10.9
Col. Joseph Blague 1777 Oct 27 To Order on Treasr of his Co. detached Militia To Northern Army £ 20.0.0
Supra 1778 Aug 27 By Discount with Pay Master Kellogg £ 20.0.0
Henry Richardson Compt