Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 48697 And R. 10752, Enoch Turner, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Conn.
Turner Enoch Sylvia
S. 48697 and R. 10752
CONTENTS

32,251.
Enoch Turner
Coast
June 7 1832 & 1833
Act of June 1832.

State of Connecticut County of Fairfield } ss Bridgeport
On this 7 th day of April A.D. 1846
Personally appeared in open court before the Court of Probate within & for the District of Bridgeport in said County and State now sitting Silvia Turner a resident of the Town of Sherman in said County and State aged 65 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 Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 & Act of Congress passed February 19 th 1833.
That she is the widow of Enoch Turner jun r who was a private Soldier in the Revolutionary War and who served as such as Deponent testifies that according to her best knowledge and belief her said husband first entered said Service in Capt. Smiths Company of Infantry in Col Cookes Regiment. & served in said Company one Month and during said service was Wounded at the taking of Gen l Burgoyne in the fall of 1777. & was carried to Albany - Also one Month in Capt Jesse Goodyear Company of Infantry under Col. Ledyard at New London Con cannot say what year Also one Month at Horse Neck in Con. in a company of Cavalry, Colonel Hazleton was an officer in said Company and said Turner was Wounded the second time as I believe while performing this months service -
Also one Month under Capt Mansfield & one Month under Capt Ford. cannot say what year, what Co. or regiment. or what kind of service said Enoch performed during said two months service
Also in 1780 Eight months in Capt. Moultons Company in Major Shipmans Reg t at said Horse Neck under Genl. Waterbury - Infantry Troops as I believe
Also in 1780 Eight Months under Capt Converse in Col Israel Converse Wells Regiment Infantry troops as I believe at said Horse Neck -

Also I remember to have heard said Enoch say that he was taken prisoner while in service as I believe in the as aforesaid Caroling tree he said there was two others taken with him together with their horses at Wormsley and was carried prisoner to the City of New York and was in the prison called the Old Sugar House at the time and Cornwallis was taken in October 1782 and as I always understood that said Enoch was enlisted in said service in 1781 for eight months and was confined 3 months in New York by the enemy after his term of service  as aforesaid in 1780 had expired. — also that he enlisted for 8 months  8 months That said Enoch was born as I believe in New Haven Conn. on the 24 th day of Sept. 1763 has no Record he was living at the time he entered said service at said New Haven & lived in said Town of Sherman at the time of his death. cannot say how he was called into service or with what officers he served any further than she has stated at the first time he went into said service he went for his father Enoch Turner always volunteered after that. thinks he had discharges which are lost. — Also she states that a paper hereto attached giving some account of said Enoch's service was written down by my daughter Soly Hall and was dictated by said Enoch the summer before he died and dictated by him to be an account of his services in the Revolutionary Army —
Also said Enoch left among his papers at his death the paper hereto annexed dated Sept 15 th 1806. to which she refers. Also refers to the certificate of the Compt. of Connecticut hereto annexed and to said Soly Deposition hereto annexed and all other proof that may be relied on in support of said claim. —
That said Enoch Turner J. was an Invalid Pensioner of the United States on the Roll of the Connecticut agency at the rate of 8 Dollars per month at the time of his death — and that said Enoch died in said

Town of Sherman on the 21 st day of January A.D. 1839, and that he had never as I believe relinquished his Invalid Pension to take any other pension that I am his widow and as such claim to be allowed a pension or arrearage of Pension for the services of said Enoch from the 4 th day of March A.D. 1831. to the 21 st day of January A.D. 1839. That said Enoch was a resident of said Town of Sherman about 36 years previous to his decease — and that said Enoch as I believe was taken prisoner as aforesaid in Sept 1782 and was confined in Prison in New York until March following —
Sworn to & Subscribed before me Silvia her Turner Mark said Court the day & year before mentioned —
State of Connecticut Hartford County } ss. I do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the matter of the application of the widow of Enoch Turner for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & said Court seal this 7 th day of April A.D. 1846
George Sterling Clerk

State of Connecticut County of Fairfield } ss. P'ceps I George Sterling, Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Bridgeport, in said County & State do hereby certify that Satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court that Enoch Turner Jr. was an invalid pensioner of the United States at the rate of Eight Dollars per month; was a resident of the Town of Sherman in said County & State and died at said Sherman in the Year Eighteen hundred and thirty nine on the twenty first day of January — That he left a widow by the name of Silvia Turner In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 7 th day of April A D 1846 And I further certify that Isaac Sherman is a justice of the peace in and for said County of Fairfield and that his signature to the Deposition of Loly Hall hereto attached is genuine.
George Sterling Clerk

Comptrollers Office
Hartford, Connecticut
7 March 1838.
On application for evidence of the service of Mr. Enoch Turner (then Junior) in the war of the Revolution, I have examined the documents remaining in this office relating thereto, and find as follows:—
In a "Pay Table" Journal at the date of 22 nd March 1782 is this entry "War Dr. To amt. Cap. Charles Smiths acct. Pay Roll Waterbury's Brigade 2/6 tax £1675.5.10½
"To d o Cap. William Moultons d o £1567.2.½" on same day Cap. W m Moulton is credited "By Am t acct. rund o specie £1567.2.½"
In a Pay Table Journal at date of 2 nd January 1786 is this entry:—"War Dr. To Am t Maj t Edward Shipmans Acct. Field & Staff his Reg t State Troops in 1781 £1449.5.5"—and he is credited on the same day with the same sum.
And in a Pay Table Ledger is an acct. with Col o Levi Wells the commencement of which was April 1780, and on 2 June 1780 he is credited £307.927:13:3 and several large sums subsequently. And in a Journal under date of Dec. 21. 1781, is this entry: "Col o Levi Wells Cr. "By acct. rund o for Pay Roll of Cash advanced his Captains exclusive of what is credited, State me £2056.17.7." And immediately following, at same date sundry Captains are charged with money "at sundry times for Col o Wells", and among other entries is this:—"Cap. Israel Converse Dr. To Cash at sundry times for Col o Wells £145.6.5." I certify the foregoing to be true extracts from the books above mentioned.
Y r Field Comptroller

State of Connecticut ss County of New Haven Sept 15th 1806 Enoch Turner Just came before me one of the parties of the Plea for D o County in the State of Conn te and made oath that he is the same Enoch Turner Just whom the Congress of the United States at the first
Session of the Second Congress placed on the pension list That the President in virtue of the act was taken by B. H. D. & C. Comm te for the benefit of the United States in the District of Columbia
an act of Congress passed at the Second Session of the Second Congress entitled an act to regulate the claims to pensions that he served in Col o Thaddeus
Cook's Regiment of Militia at the time he was disabled so that he now resides in the Town of Sherman in the County of Fairfield in D o State and hath resided there about four years previous to which he resided in Poughkeepsie Town in Dutches County State of New York
Sworn before me George Beach Just Peace
I Enoch Turner of Sherman in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut do hereby constitute & appoint Francis Webb of Cheshire in the County of New Haven my Just Attorney to receive in my behalf of William Trumbull Esq r Commissioners of Loans for the State of Connecticut the of the Second moiety of my annual pension as an Invalid of the United States from the fourth day of March 1806 to the fourth day of September 1806
in Testimony of which I have hereunto set my hand & Seal this 15th day of Sept r 1806
signed sealed and delivered in presence of Beach Andrew Hall
Enoch Turner
Know all men by these presents that I Enoch Turner of Sherman in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut do hereby certify that the foregoing instrument was acknowledged the day and year first above written before me George Beach Just Peace

Some account given by Enoch Turner Junr. of his services the Revolutionary Army
One month under Capt d Lord at Derby — — —
One month under Capt d  Staff Mansfield — — —
One month under Capt d Smith in the Reg t com d by Col l Cook at the North at the taking of Burgoyne after receiving his wounds was supported by Government nearly one year. This service was rendered in 1777
One month under Rev Dodge at New London the chief com d was Col l Ledyard
One month under Colonel Hazleton at Stratford Horshneck
In 1780 Eight months under Capt d Conners at Horshneck in Col l Wells Reg t
In 1781 Eight months un d Capt d Newton at Horshneck in May  the Sherman's Regiment under Gen l Waterbury — in which time he was taken Prisoner and confined in New York three months after his time expired

32,251.
Enoch Turner
Coast
June 7 1832 & 1833
Act of June 1832.

I Loly Hall of the Town of New Town in The County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut aged 48 years do depose and say that. I am a daughter of the widow Silvia Turner who is applying for a pension for the services of Enoch Turner Jr. or arrears of Pension and that I wrote down the facts stated in a paper annexed to her declaration as dictated by said Enoch Turner the summer before he died. which he stated to me as I wrote it down that it was an account of his said Enoch services in the Revolutionary War. — —
That I was present at the death of said Enoch in the Town of Sherman when he died on the 21 st day of January A.D. 1839. — and that my mother is the widow of said Enoch. whose name is Silvia Turner. & who has this day signed a declaration to obtain said arrears of Pension —
Loly Hall
State of Connecticut } Fairfield County } ss. Mayor April 7 th . 1846. personally appeared Loly Hall before me who subscribed & made oath to the truth of the above Deposition — and I certify that she is a credible Witness.
Isaac Sherman Justice of Peace

Enoch Turner
© St. Joseph P. Smith

AFFIDAVIT AND POWER OF ATTORNEY,
STATE OF Connecticut } ss. COUNTY OF New Haven. }
Be it remembered, That, on this 10th day of December A. D. 1852, I, Alvah Turner, of North Haven, said State, do make known and declare that I am the nephew, and heir-at-law to Enoch Turner, who was the wife of a Revolutionary soldier, who served years, under the command of Connecticut and that he and his said wife were married about the month of A. D. that he died about the month of A. D. and that his said wife also died about the month of A. D. and that a pension of dollars a year was drawn by said on account of said services, and so continued until the year A. D. 18, since which time nothing has been received by either, or the heirs of either of said parties. No pension, to deponents knowledge, was ever received by said soldier, or his heirs.
And that claimant is now 34 years of age; and it is understood and believed that there are arrearages of Pension, and other claims due for said services : Now, THEREFORE, the true intent of all this is to qualify and irrevocably appoint and empower ALFRED J. WORKS, of New Haven City and County, State of Connecticut,
as my Attorney, with power of substitution, to investigate, substantiate, demand, and receive the avails of, said claim or claims, and to say and do all things relative thereto, as amply as I might do : hereby ratifying every thing said or done by my said Attorney, or his substitute, in virtue hereof ; ALSO, revoking all Powers of Attorney, or other authority previously given for any such purposes.
Attest, James H. Conklin Burton Kendrick
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, day and date first above named.
Alvah Turner
Subscribed, sworn to, and acknowledged before me, the day and year first above indicated.
Wm Goodwin Notary Public

Then certify that Enoch Turner Jr. late of New Haven in New Haven County now of Torrington in Litchfield County who appeared before us as commissioners in & for the County of New Haven to give Testimony in behalf of Claimants to British pensions, and who was afterwards placed as Invalids upon the List of the United States is a person of short stature - thickset - has grey hair & eyes, and a scar on the left side of his face his left leg is very crooked, bowing out and is very much scarified - he hath a Scar on the joint of his right thumb, - his hands and on the Scar on the right side of his upper lip - Two front teeth of his upper jaw are missing - and at present
his bushy Hair is short - and he has a large Scar on the upper side of the joint of the elbow of his right arm - witness our hands New- Haven Feby 13. 1797
Sam a Bishop Henry Daggett Elizer Goodrich
Examined & approved O. Wm. Johnson

February 9, 1940
BA-J/AWF am Enoch Turner R. 10752
Mrs. William H. Lewin 36 Evsett Street New Britain, Connecticut
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to Enoch Turner, soldier of the Revolutionary War from Connecticut, whose widow, Sylvia Turner, was living in 1846.
The data which follow were obtained from pension claim, R. 10752, based upon disability of Enoch Turner incurred while in the service in the Revolutionary War.
Enoch Turner was born September 24, 1763 in New Haven, Connecticut. He was the son of Enoch Turner, name of his mother not given.
While residing in New Haven, Connecticut, Enoch Turner, Jr., served in 1777, in Captain Smith's company, Colonel Thaddeus Cook's Connecticut regiment, was in the battle of Bemus Heights, where wounded by a musket ball, which fractured the bones of his left leg.
He was allowed pension from March 4, 1792, on account of disability resulting from the above noted wound, then a resident of Fairfield County, Connecticut.
He was living in 1797 in Torrington, Con-
Mrs. Trinkle decided letter not pay anything about service given by widow to Lily Hall as nothing was given on account of service sent

necticut, after which he lived in Paulus, Dutchess County, New York, and about 1824, moved to Sherman, Connecticut.
Enoch Turner, Jr., died January 21, 1839, in Sherman, Connecticut.
His widow, Sylvia Turner, was living in 1846 in Sherman, Connecticut, then aged about sixty-five years. The date and place of birth of Sylvia Turner, names of her parents, and date and place of marriage of Enoch Turner, and Sylvia were not given.
Loly Hall, daughter of the widow Sylvia Turner, was forty-eight years old in 1846, and a resident of Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut.
Alvah Turner, nephew of the soldier Enoch Turner, was in 1852, a resident of New Haven, Connecticut.
The papers on file in this claim contain no further discernible data in regard to family.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

1929. Jan. 2. Tombstone Data to chas. R. Hale aug. 1931- July 7. Wish to F. Inez Baldwin aug. 1940. Feb 7. " " Mrs. Wm. H
107029  P. O. _____  Enoch Turner  Service: See admitted to an Invalid Pension in 1897.  F 48.697 REJECTED  Enlisted: _____, 18  Discharged: _____, 18  Application filed: _____, 18  Alleges: _____  Re-enlisted: _____

EW
Aug. 3, 1906 N.Y.C.

Turner, Enoch
His name appears on a list of claimants to be placed on the pension list returned by the Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on April 25, 1794, and printed in the American State Papers, class 9, page 113.
Rank: Private
Regt: Col. T. Hook's
Disability: Wounded with a musket ball below his knee.
When disabled: September 19, 1779.
Residence: New Haven.
Monthly allowance: $2.22
Arrearages: $100.00
Remarks: There are no militia rolls in this office.
Allowed. See 1835 list

Mar. 28, 1906
and 1907

Turner, Enoch
His name appears on a list of invalid pensioners returned by the Circuit Court for the district of Connecticut, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on Dec. 14, 1792, and printed in the American State Papers, class 9, page 61.
Rank: Private
Regt.: Colonel D. Cook
Disability: Wounded with a musket ball below his knee, 19 th September, 1779.
Date of commencement: May 31 1792
Monthly allowance: $2.22
Arrears due: $100.00

Nov 2 1906 aw

Furner, Enoch Jrn.
His name appears on a list of applicants for invalid pension returned by the District Court for the District of Connecticut, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on Feb'y 21, 1795 and printed in the American State Papers, class 9, page 153.
Rank; Private
Regt; Colonel Cook's Connecticut militia.
Disability; Wounded by a musket ball, which fractured the bones of his left leg.
When and where disabled; September 19, 1777
Belarus's Rights
Residence; New Haven
So what pension entitled; Two-thirds.
Remarks; Militia.
Evidence complete.

William Pustow served in New Hampshire line. He drew a pension for many years at a rate of $96 annually.
Mary Pustow is now receiving as his widow $125 per year pay.
Dupr. L.M.

Enoch Turner born 1832 husband
Got out for born

This case to be next - announced & reported to Hon. O. S. Seymour
H. R.
J. M. Wulso
Jan'y 14, 1806

Bridgeport May 5 th 1846
J. D. Edwards Esq.
Sir I send you the declaration of the Widow Silvea Turner.
I present this claim on the ground that Enoch Turner her husband was entitled to his Pension as an Invalid & for service as he never relinquished his Invalid Pension. and therefore his widow is entitled to pay for his services from March 4 th 1831. to the time of his death which happened according to the testimony on the 21 st day of January 1839.
I have not been able to find any person living to prove his service - but I send you all the papers & testimony that I have obtained in the case, believing it to be an honest claim, and hoping that you may have some further proof of his service at the time his Invalid Pension was granted, and I would respectfully request your attention to the application of Isaac Cowley - for an invalid Pension, also the case of Lois Smith widow of David Smith, & the heirs of Abraham Morhouse du. for arrears of Pensions.
Yours Respectfully
Isaac Sherman

Middle town April 9 th 1824
Sir
I here with transmit to the War Department an application for a formal certificate of pension, in favor of Enock Turner Jr of Sherman allowance to request that the formal certificate be directed to me at this place -
With very high respect
I am Sir Yr obed Servant
Daniel A. Parsons
N. L. Edwards Esq.

Hon. O. S. Seymour Jan 16/54

Pension Office
May 16 1854
Sir
The case of Enoch Turner dec d of Pennk. has been re examined, at your request, and I have the honor to inform you that there is no evidence on file, in this Office, to show that he served as much as six months in the War of the Revolution, He was placed on the Invalid Roll of pensioners, on account of wounds received, but the length of his service has not been shown. It is possible that the Comptroller of Connecticut may be in possession of some evidence in his favor. Though in 1838, he could only discover some payments made to some of the officers under whom it is asserted that he served,
Hon O. S. Seymour H. G. R

Isaac Sherman
July 14 th . 1826.

Pension office July 14, 1846
Sir,
The papers in the case of Enoch Turner have been examined and filed. As he did not make the claim in his lifetime, when there were great facilities of proving his Revolutionary services by his then surviving companions, the presumption is that he must have known that he could not sustain it by proper evidence. There are no rolls in the  filed office at to prove the two terms of 8 months' service in 1780 and 1781, though they correspond with the information of this office. They cannot be allowed without some further proof showing that Turner served in each for the whole time, or a portion of it over six months for which a pro rata pension must be computed.
Isaac Sherman Esq. Bridgeport, Conn

old War Connecticut 48 697
Incho Turner Junr. Conn troops Rev. War. Rev. Private.
Captain Smith's company Col Cook's regt in service 1813 Inscribed on the roll of the Connecticut Agency at the rate of $5 per mo on the 13 February 1797 and his name is now on the roll of the same Agency at the rate of $8 per mo. Pensions 24 April 1816.
Annual Certificate opened 22 April 1824 and sent to Samuel H Parsons Esq
Middletown Connecticut 10752

An Application for a formal certificate of pension -
State of Connecticut } ss. Middletown County of Middlesex }
On this 9 th day of April 1824 personally appeared the subscriber a Notary Public duly appointed and sworn residing in said Middletown personally appeared Enoch Turner Jr. of Sherman in the County of Franklin and State aforesaid who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Smith in the Regiment com- manded by Colonel Thaddeus Cook in the service of the United States; That his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Connecticut, but he has never rec d a formal certificate from the Hon ble . Secretary of War knows not how he lost the same Enoch Turner Jr.
Subscribed to me this day a year ago before me the day & year above written - Witness my signature and seal of office
Matthew S. Russell - Notary Public

No 32.251.
Enoch Turner. Conn.
Wapa Church July 14. 1848.
Here Elisha Moore July 16 1852.
10752
Act 7th June 1832

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July 7, 1931
Rev.& 1812 Wars Section AWF
F. Inez Baldwin 167 East 5th Street Oswego, New York.
Dear Madam:
You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 48697, that Enoch Turner, the son of Enoch Turner, was born September 24, 1763 in New Haven, Connecticut.
While residing in said New Haven, he served in Captain Smith's Company, Colonel Thaddeus Cook's Connecticut Regiment, was in the battle of Bemus Heights, September 19, 1777, where wounded by a musket ball, which fractured the bones of his left leg.
He was allowed pension from March 4, 1792, on account of the disability resulting from the above noted wound, at which time he was living in Fairfield County, Connecticut.
He died January 21, 1839 in Sherman, Connecticut.
In 1846, the soldier's widow, Silvia, was residing in Sherman, Connecticut and was aged sixty-five years. The data of marriage and her maiden are not shown.
Her daughter, Loly Hall, in 1846 was forty-eight years old and a resident of Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator

From the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 48697, it appears that Enoch Turner, (son of Enoch Turner) was born September 24, 1763 at New Haven Connecticut.
While residing at said New Haven, he served in Captain Smith's Company, Colonel Thaddeus Cook's Connecticut Regiment, was at the battle of Bemus Heights, September 19,
1777, where wounded by a musket ball which fractured the bones of his left leg.
He was allowed pension from March 4, 1792 on account of the disability resulting from the above mentioned wound, at which time he was living in Fairfield County, Connecticut. He died January 21, 1839 at Sherman, Connecticut.
should be this way etc.
He was an only son and was rejected as an invalid and no pension was allowed to his widow. He was allowed a pension of $10 per month.

Mrs. William H. Lewin
36 Everett Street New Britain, Connecticut
May 24, 1939
Hon. Sec. of Interior, Pension Bureau, Rev. War Widows File, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:-
Please let me know what it will cost for a Photostat of all documents in your office, in case of Sylvia Turner , Widow of Enoch Turner, used to have been living in 1846. I will remit at once, as I need the information said to be in it, to prepare an Application for a Line for DAR.
Thanking you for past favors,
Sincerely yours,
Mrs Wm. H. Lewin
DAR #175499.
Turners of Conn.
one only on file

167 East 5 th St., Oswayo, N.Y., May 28, 1931.
Pension Bureau, Washington, D. C.
Was Gordon Turner who served in the Rev. from Conn. a pensioner or did any of his family draw a pension because of his service. Was he given any land because of service?
Was there an Abraham or an fully Enoch Turner in the Rev. from Conn.?
Have you any record of any more John Turner in the Rev.?
Very truly yours, F. Inez Baldwin.

Rev. 4-18-12  HEADQUARTERS COMMANDERY-IN-CHIEF  SONS OF UNION VETERANS OF THE CIVIL WAR COMMITTEE ON MARKING GRAVES CHARLES R. HALE, CHAIRMAN 33 CAPITOL AVENUE HARTFORD, CONN.
Dec 15-1928
Chief Clerk Pension Dept. Washington, D.C. Dear Sir:
Please send me Revolutionary War Record of Enock Turner who was number 179 on the Pension list June 1-1813 We wish to get a headstone for this Veteran Yours very Truly Chas. R. Hale