Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19620, Zadock Wheeler, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
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Wheeler, Zadock Martha
W. 19620
CONTENTS

3568.
New York Roll.
Zadock Wheeler, H
Private. Connecticut line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York.
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 10 th of April 1818-
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 th of October 1818. and sent to Simon G. L. Ford - Herkimer N York
Arrears to 4th of September 1818 L s  \frac{25}{30} 30:66:
Semi-ann. all ee ending 4 th March 1819 - 48: -
$ 86:66
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18 th March, 1818. }
✓ 3 years 1776 Fairfield. Herkimer
Fairfield. Herkimer Co. Continued
Dead. See letter 60. agt. Aug. 29. 1835-
Application sent to Gen. Stackpole Esq r 26 th Feb. 1820. Herkimer New York

J. Wheeler
Ex. Found Cor- rec'd New York
Correct
Sued certificate to S. H. Ford Hutchinson - N. York

I, Zadock Wheeler of the Town of Fairfield in the County of on  Huskins State of New York, do, according to the act of the Congress of the United States of America, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons, engaged in the Land & Naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War" make the following declaration under oath, That is to say, I do solemnly declare, That I am a resident citizen of the United States, now in the Town County of State aforesaid, & that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life, I am in need of assistance from my Country for support - I do further declare, That I was a private Soldier in the war of the Revolution, and that I served as such in the said war of the Revolution, against the Common Enemy for the term of three years on the Continental establishment - That I enlisted in a company commanded by Captain Amos Walbridge of the Second Connecticut Regiment of Infantry, which Regiment was at the time of my enlistment commanded by Col. Charles Webb - That I enlisted in said company in the latter part of the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy six - That I was discharged from the service on the eighteenth day of January one thousand seven hundred & eighty in consequence of the expiration of my term of enlistment - That Col. Isaac Sherman commanded the aforesaid Regiment at the

time when I left the same - That at the time of my leaving the service as aforesaid I received from the officers of the Connecticut Line the Certificates hereto annexed which are all the documents now in my poss- ession or which I at that time received from my officers. And I do further declare that I hereby relinquish all claim to every and any pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, or of any individual State. I do further declare that I am now of the age of Sixty five years - Witness my hand this tenth day of April over thousand Eight hundred & fifty four -
Witness -
J. L. D. L. D. L.
Isaac Wheeler
Sworn to April 10. 1854 before me. } David H. O. } a Judge of the Superior Court Common Pleas
State of New York } St. Lawrence County } I, William D. Gray being duly sworn saith that he has been acquainted with Isaac Wheeler named in the aforesaid Declaration for more than six years last past, and has during all that

time been a Skipton to the said Zadock. That the said Zadock is not possessed of any property on which he can rely for support, but depends entirely upon his own labor for the same - and that he this deponent truly believes the foregoing declaration of the said Zadock to be true -
Wm D Gray
Sworn to me April 10. 1818 before me } David Holt a Judge of Herkimer Common Pleas
State of New York } } Be it remembered, That on the tenth Herkimer County } day of April one thousand eight hundred fifteen at Herkimer in the County of Herkimer before me David Holt Esquire, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Herk- imer (the said Court being one of the Courts of Record of the said State) personally appeared the before named Za- dock Wheeler, and William D. Gray, the said William being well known to me and the said Zadock being made known to me by the oath of the said William, and in my presence made oath to the foregoing declaration of affidavit - and it appearing to my satisfac- tion, as well from the said declaration and oath as from

The testimony of the said William D. Gray and the documents hereto annexed, that the said Zebadiah Wheeler served in the Revolutionary War as aforesaid against the Common Enemy, and that the declaration of service under Oath of the said Applicant is in all other respects true, I do therefore certify & transmit the testimony in the form and the pro- ceeding here thereon, to the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War, according to the require- sitions of the act of Congress, in that particular Given under my hand & seal at the City of St. Albany of Albany in the State of New York the day & year first above written -
David Holt
State of New York } Albany County } I, J. Walter Fish, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in & for the County of Albany State of New York, do hereby certify further known, that David Holt Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the foregoing affidavits and Certificate is one of the Judges of the said Court, duly commissioned qualified & sworn, and his signature to the said Affidavits & Certificate are in his own proper hand writing & that the said Court is one of the Courts of Record of the State of New York. Given under my hand & the seal of the said Court at Albany this: tenth day of

April one thousand Eight hundred Eighty Walter Fish Clerk

Zadock Wheeler Certificate of Emplification
No 26  \frac{3}{4}
12 October
Con 188
3568
Herkimer County
Mar 19

Schedule
State of New York Steuben County ss On this fourth day of July 1820 personally appeared in Open Court to wit the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County. Said Court being by the Laws of the State of New York constituted a court of record - Badock Wheeler aged Sixty Sixty Seven years resident in the town of Fairfield in said County who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows to wit that I Enlisted in Stafford Connecticut in the year 1777 in Capt Walbridge's company in Col. Shermans regiment in the Connecticut line and served in the same company and regiment until January 1780 when I was Honorably discharged at Morristown N. Jersey . The date of My Original declaration agreeable to My pension Certificate is April 10th 1818 and the num- ber of My said Certificate is 3,568 and I do solemnly swear 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 by Gift sale or in any manner disposed of My property or any part thereof, with intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress Entitled an "act to provide for certain persons en- gaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the revolu- tionary war passed on the 18th day of March 1818" and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or Debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is con- tained in the Schedule herunto annexed and by me subscribed To wit Real Estate I have none, personal property one cow worth $15.00 3 Sheep & 2 lambs $9.00 2 Swine $6.00 1 Calf $1.50 an Old yoke the D. D. age D. D. ha D. pitchfork in all $2.00 2 augur 3 baskets 2 Meat Barrels 2 Old Salt Barrels in all $3.50 5 tubs $1.50 1 chest 2 tables 7 or 8 chairs in all $4.50 a 5 pail Iron Kettle & hor pot 2 D. Small Kettles 1 Tea Kettle 1 Skillet 2 said Irons in all $8.00 Stone ware $2.00 knives & forks $1.00 Spoons & Glass ware $1.00 1 Great wheel $2.00 one small Do $2.00 5 pewter plates $3.00 one wash tub & one pail $0.75- by occupation I am a husbandman My family is composed of myself my wife Patty 62 years old My Daughter Polly aged 28 and My Daughter Dolly 20 My wife and my self are both infirm but able to labour most of

the time and My Daughters are both able bodied -
Zadock Wheeler Sworn to and Declared on this 4 th day of July 1820 before David Holt a Judge of Herkimer County Court of Common Pleas -
The opinion of the Court is that the Value of the property mentioned in the foregoing Schedule is fifty Six Dollars
David Holt
W. Willoughby
Judges
John J. Brendegar
State of New York
Clerk Office
Herkimer County
I, Walter Fish Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid do certify the foregoing Coats and the Schedule thereto annexed are true copies 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 fifty Six Dollars as In testimony whereof I have hereunto set My hand and affixed the seal of the said Court On this 13 th day of July 1820
Walter Fish Clerk of the Court for the County of Herkimer

Rev. Capt. Albany. Martha Wheeler. Widow of Zaddock Wheeler,
who served in the Revolutionary War, as a private
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 23 day of June 1848 and sent to
Hon Geo. Petrie Hof R
Date of widow's death not on roll.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 240 Vol. 4

Patrick Wheeler & Martha Cooper were married March 20-27th - April 8th - Patrick's father was a son of Catherine, daughter of William Wheeler -

In the matter of Martha Wheeler for a pension under Act of Congress passed July 7. 1838
Declaration & proofs

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows —"
State of New York } County of Herkimer } ss; On this fifteenth day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight Martha Wheeler a resident of the Town of Little Falls in the County of Herkimer aforesaid aged eighty years on the seventeenth day of May last past personally appeared before me Richard Herendeen one of the judges of the County Courts of the County of Herkimer in said State the same being Courts of Record under the Constitution and laws of said State, and she the said Martha Wheeler being first duly sworn by me the said judge 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 Isaac K Wheeler deceased and that he died on the twenty fourth day of December in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty four at said Town of Little Falls and that he was at the time of his death a revolutionary pensioner of the United States and as she believes the declaration and proof of his revolutionary services on which the said pension was granted to him are now on file in the office of the Secretary of War of the United States at the City of Washington and she prays leave to refer to the same in proof of his revolutionary services — and she would respectfully represent that her said husband used frequently in his

lifetime to speak of his services in the war of the revolution and sometimes relate the particulars of such service but she cannot now from want of recollection give a full & particular account of the same; she can state generally and as she believes to the best of her knowledge that her said husband Ladock Wheeler enlisted at Stafford in the County of Hartford at that time and now the County of Tolland in the State of Connecticut sometime in the Spring of the year 1775 into a Company commanded according to her last recollection by a Capt Robinson and he was marched and stationed at Roxbury near Boston in General Spencer's Regiment at the time General Gage issued his proclamation of rebellion with threats of severe punishment of the American patriots whom he called rebels and he served out his enlistment of seven months according to her last recollection and was then discharged and she further states that he enlisted as she believes either in 1776 or 1777 but what month she cannot state at Stafford aforesaid into a Company commanded by a Captain whose name she cannot remember for three years in the Continental service and served in the Regiment commanded by Col Sherman and served during said three years in New Jersey but she cannot state the particulars of such service and as she believes he served out his said enlistment of three years and was then discharged at Morristown in New Jersey and she further states that he served in the revolutionary war until peace was announced as she always understood him

and believes the true; She further declares that she was married to the said Zadock Wheeler on the twentieth day of March in the year One thousand seven hundred and eighty eight, in the Town of Stafford aforesaid and that she and her said husband lived together as becoming husband & wife until his death and that her said husband Zadock Wheeler died as above stated on the twenty fourth day of December 1834 at Little Falls aforesaid; 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 — And I the said Richard Harendan Judge of the said Courts above mentioned do hereby certify that the said Martha Wheeler cannot by reason bodily infirmary attend Court to make her said declaration —
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me,
Richard Harendan Judge of Herkimer County Courts
Martha Wheeler

State of New York County of Herkimer ss: Polly Johnson of the Town of Little Falls in said County aged one seventy years and upwards being justly sworn according to law doth depose and say that Martha Wheeler widow of Zadock Wheeler late of said Town Herkimer County deceased is the sister of this deponent and this deponent further says that she was present at the marriage of the said Zadock Wheeler and the said Martha Wheeler now his widow and that she saw them the said Zadock Wheeler & Martha Wheeler married and that they were married at Stafford in the County of Tolland now in the State of Connecticut in the year Seven teen hundred and eighty eight and she believes in the month of March in that year and there was sleeping at the time and this deponent further says that they always lived together as husband and wife until his death and that he died at Little Falls aforesaid on the twenty fourth day of December eighteen hundred and thirty four and this deponent further saith that the said Martha Wheeler has never since the death of her said husband intermarried and this deponent would add that the said Zadock Wheeler & Martha Wheeler his wife had born to them six children and further says not —
Sworn to and subscribed Polly Johnson this 15 th day of October 1838 before me
Richard Hernden Judge of Herkimer County Court

I certify that I am acquainted with Polly Johnson the deponent within named and that she is a person of truth and veracity and her said affidavit is entitled to full faith and credit — Richard Hovenden Judge of Herkimer County Courts
State of New York
Herkimer County ss I John Dyar Clerk of said County do certify that Richard Hovenden Esq before whom the annexed several affidavits purport to have been taken was at their dates one of the Judges of County Courts duly appointed and qualified and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Judge and rightly believe that the several signatures are genuine
In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the Seal of said County This 16 November A.D 1835
J Dyar Clerk

Substantia of Martha Whalen widow of Robert Whalen died
Declaration of proof for pension
Hon. A. Loomis H.R.
Send Certificate of Married to H. Walton Little Falls Frank Co. N.Y.
Pension Office
V 34357
3480 Martha Whalen Act July 7. 1838
Manner 10 March 1838
Husband died 24. Dec 1834
Admitted Private 2 years
Hon. A. Loomis H. Walton Esq. H.R. Little Falls N.Y.

State of New York County of Herkimer ss. Ernest Hall of the Town of Little Falls in said County aged sixty three years and upwards being first duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that Martha Wheeler widow of Ladock Wheeler deceased is the sister of this deponent and this deponent says that they the said Ladock Wheeler & Martha Wheeler his widow for always lived together as husband & wife until his death and that they had born to them six children and that he died on the twenty fourth day of November in eighteen hundred and thirty four at Little Falls aforesaid and this deponent further says that the the said Martha Wheeler has never married since the death of her said husband — Ernest Hall
Sworn to and subscribed this 15 th day of October 1838 before me
J. Richard Hunsdun Judge of Herkimer County Courts
I certify that I am acquainted with Ernest Hall the above named deponent is a person of truth and veracity and that his said affidavit is entitled to full faith and credit — Richard Hunsdun Judge of Herkimer County Courts

I, ROYAL B. HINMAN, 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 Isaac Piny Esq rs a Justice of the Peace for the County of Tolland on the 20 th day of March 1788 —
and for more than
last past,
has
Justice of the Peace within and for the County of
in said State, duly appointed, commissioned and qualified, 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 witnesses and to take Affidavits and Depositions out of Court, and to give certifi- cates thereof; as in art and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to the official acts and attestations of the said Piny
in Court and Country.
In testimony whereof, I have, in my capacity of Secretary as aforesaid, hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of said State, at the City of Hartford, in said State, the 9 th day of May in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and 39
And I certify that the signature of said
hereunto annexed genuine
Royal B. Hinman
Secretary.
Isaac Piny

State of New York County of Herkimer
I Polly Johnson of the Town of Little Falls in said County being duly sworn says that Martha Wheeler widow of Zadock Wheeler late of said Town & County deceased is the sister of this deponent and this deponent further says that she made an affidavit proving that this deponent was present when she the said Martha Wheeler was married to the said Zadock Wheeler to her used in the application of the said Martha Wheeler for a pension from the United States and this deponent says that she saw the said Martha Wheeler marry the said Zadock Wheeler and that Ebenezer Farnsey Esquire a justice of the Peace then residing in the Town of Stafford in the County of Tolland in the State of Connecticut Solemnised the said marriage in the presence of this deponent; and this deponent says she then understood that every record was made of said marriage unless the said justice kept a memorandum of it and whether he kept a memorandum of said marriage this deponent does not know nor is she informed and further this deponent says that the said justice has been dead about thirty years upwards Subscribed and sworn to this 1 st day of March 1839 before me
Polly Johnson
Ebenezer Johnson commr of deeds

State of New York County of Herkimer ss: Martha Wheeler Widow of Zadock
Wheeler being duly sworn says that that her maiden name was Martha Cooper and that she was married to Zadock Wheeler now deceased on the twentieth day of March 1788 by Isaac Pinney Esquire then being a Justice of the Peace of the Town of Stafford in the County of Hartford now County of Tolland in the State of Connecticut and that said Justice of the Peace has been dead as many as thirty years and she did not understand that any record was made of her marriage & she further states that her said husband made a record of their marriage near the time of said marriage in a book in which he kept an account of the important events of his life and other matters which was always kept by him & by him deposited after his death that the following is the original record of said marriage made in the hand writing of her said husband & torn out of said book & forwarded to the Hon. the Commissioners of Pensions under hereto as follows
and further says not sworn to this 1st day of March 1879 before me Mittie M. Wheeler Leah Johnson Commissioner of Deeds

State of New York
Herkimer County Clerk's Office
I hereby certify that before me the annexed Affidavit purports to have been taken. Was at its date a Commissioner of Deeds in and for said County and duly authorized to take the same and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Commissioner and firmly believe
that the signature is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County the 2 nd March 1839 John Dypnt Clerk

State of New York County of Herkimer
ss: John Wheeler of the Town of German Flatts in said County of State laid forty nine years and upward, being duly sworn, says that he is the son of Sadock Wheeler now deceased; that Martha Wheeler, mother of this deponent is the widow of the said deceased her surviving; that she the said Martha has never intermarried since the death of the said husband; and this deponent further says that even since his deceased father Sadock Wheeler & Martha Wheeler always lived together as husband and wife until his death; and this deponent further says that the said Sadock Wheeler kept a blank book in which made memorandums of various transactions & events in his life; and this deponent further says that the piece of paper attached to the affidavit of Martha Wheeler hereto annexed contains a memorandum in the proper handwriting of the said Sadock Wheeler in the words & figures following viz:
"Sadock Wheeler and Martha Coopa were married March 20 - 1788" and this deponent recalls of seeing the same identical paper with said memorandum of said marriage written thereon as the same now appears more than thirty years ago; this deponent says he recalls of seeing the same when a small boy and he should say when he was not older than fifteen or sixteen years; that the said memorandum was always kept & understood to be a record of the marriage of the said Sadock Wheeler & Martha Wheeler and the same was kept and preserved as a record of said marriage by said Sadock Wheeler; and this deponent says that he is well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Sadock Wheeler & saw him write often in his lifetime and that he believes & has no doubt but that said record of said marriage is the genuine handwriting of

of the said Isaac John Wheeler and the deponent further says that the said Isaac Wheeler said in his deposition that the said memorandum was a record of his marriage with the said Martha Wheeler that he made said memorandum to be kept as a record thereof -
Subscribed & sworn to this 14 th day of May 1839 before me
John Wheeler
Solomon Petrie Commissioner of Pends
Hickman County ss I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with John Wheeler the deponent in the foregoing affidavit that he is a person of unimpeachable character for truth and veracity & that his affidavit aforesaid is entitled to full credit & belief -
May 14 th 1839
Solomon Petrie Commissioner of Pends
Hickman County ss:
I certify that Solomon Petrie Esq. was on the day of the date the above affidavit of John Wheeler purports to have been sworn as a Comm. justice of courts in & for said County duly app. ointed & qualified. And that I am well acquaint- ed with his handwriting & truly believe the above signatures purporting to be his are genuine - Witness my hand & seal of said County May 15 1839 -
E. A. Harrison Deputy for John Bryant Clerk

August 5, 1932
BA-J/MLB
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ZADOCK WHEELER
W. 19620
Mrs. R. E. Farrell 1418 Louisiana Street Little Rock, Arkansas
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter relative to Zadock Wheeler, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, W. 19620, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Zadock Wheeler. The date and place of his birth are not shown in the claim.
He enlisted in the spring of 1775 at Stafford, Hartford (which was later Tolland) County, Connecticut, as a private in Captain Robinson's company, Colonel Spencer's Connecticut regiment, and served seven months stationed at Roxbury near Boston. He enlisted, served as private in Captain Amos Walbridge's company, Colonels Charles Webb's and Isaac Sherman's 2 nd Connecticut Regiment, and was discharged January 18, 1780, by J. Hait, Lieutenant Colonel Commandant of the 2 nd Connecticut Regiment, having served three years.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 10, 1818, at which time he was aged sixty-five years and a resident of Fairfield, Herkimer County, New York.
He died December 24, 1834, in Little Falls, Herkimer County, New York.
Zadock Wheeler married March 20, 1788, in Stafford, Connecticut, Martha or Patty Cooper or Coopper (her maiden name), who was born May 17, 1758.
She was allowed pension on her application executed October 15, 1838, at which time she was residing in Little Falls, New York, where she was still living in 1848.

Zadock Wheeler and his wife, Martha, had six children but the following were the only names given:
Polly, aged 28 years in 1820
Dolly, " 20 years in 1820
John, " "49 years and upwards" in 1839 and residing in German Flats, Herkimer County, New York.
The name Dilley or Dilby Wheeler appears on family record, no relationship stated.
In 1838, Polly Johnson, sister of soldier's wife, Martha, was aged about seventy-one years and living in Little Falls, New York
In 1839, the widow's brother, Erastus Hall , was aged about sixty-three years and living in Little Falls, New York.
In 1839, Cephas Johnson was commissioner of deeds in Herkimer County, New York; relationship to Polly Johnson not stated.
There are no further family data in the claim.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator

Zadock Wheeler, N. F. 19620 Conn.

Ladock Wheeler, a Soldier in the 2 Connecticut Regiment, having served three years, which was the Term he engaged for, with Reputation, is hereby Discharged, the Service of the United States ————— of Herib ty St Cat o Crim ty of the 2 d Connec t . King d Camp Morris Town Jan y 18, 1780.

4 Oct 6 1904. His to Anna L. Harlow Buffalo N.Y.
1905 Dec. 20 History To Mrs Martha Eggleston.
1908 Mar. 10. Hist. to Miss Eleanor E. Duff. M.B.H.
1932 Aug. 5. Hist. to Mrs. R.E. Garroll - W.L.R.
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 19620
Martha Wheeler
Wid of
Gadock Wheeler
Brn Rev. War
Act: Feb. 2 nd  1/48
Index:—Vol. M Page 332
[Arrangement of 1870.]