Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16,527, Silas Winans, Continental New York

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Continutul
Wimans, Silas.
Nr. 16,527
New York
Calkins, Elizabeth
(Former Widow)
CONTENTS

10.640. New-York R
Silas Winans. of Wolcott in the State of N. York who was a private in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Lamb of the N. York line, for the term of the war -
Inscribed on the Roll of New-York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 20 th of Jany 1820 -
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th of May 1822 and sent to Applicant, to be left at the P. Office, Auburn, N.Y.
Arrears to 4th of March 1822 - 204.12 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1822. 48.00 2 yrs 1 mo \frac{16}{31} $: 252.12
Est. 156
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818, } 21 May 1820.
Seneca Co. N.Y.

Ref? See letter
New York 10.239.
825
Elizabeth Calkins, formerly Widow of Silas Winans who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 25. Sept. 1823 N.Y. of Wyoming Co. in the State of N. York who was a Private in the company, commanded by Captain regt. commanded by Lamb, the the New York line for 2 years in
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 100 Dollars Costs per annum, to commence on the 1st day of March 1836 1 st January, 1845. Pending 4 th March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 th day of April 1847 and sent to W.B. Pierce Albany, N. York.
Total amount, $ Special act of March 3, 1847 & [Acts July 7, 1838.] March 3, 1843 & June 17, 1844.
Recorded by D Brown, Clerk, Book D. Vol. 1. Page 155.

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Mr William B Pruett Albany NY

P'keepsie March 8 th 1847 Mr William B. Pease Esq Dear Sir
I have this moment rec d your welcome letter of the 6 th inst advising me of the Passage of the Bill for the relief of the Widow — Calkins my Mother. I need not say to you how much I am gratified with the news rec d by you letter. I will come to Albany at any time when you will direct to attend with you to the drawing of the money & would thank you to advise me in the letter to Sir inclosing the Power of attorney at what time you would wish me to come in haste yours Very Truly Ransom Williams

Silas Winans Schedule
answer to be sent to East Wolcott change by D. Armstrong, Esq.

District of New York Seneca County - } ss.
On this 3 d day of October 1821 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Com. Pleas and a Court of Record for Seneca County, it having a Seal and is invested with the power of imposing penalties finis imprisonment &c Silas Pinnans aged 61 years resident in the Town of Wolcott in Seneca County in said district, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows to wit. He was called into the Army and did serve on the Southern Northern & Western frontiers of the State of New York until (he thinks it was early in the fall of the year 1779) he was marched from Fort Herkimer near Fort Stanwicks on the Mohock River to Tappan where he enlisted (a short time previous to the Execution of Major Andre) into Capt Gershon Motts Comp. y in Col John Lamb's (The second) Regim. t of Artillery in the Army of the United States, said Comp. y was commanded by Capt Lieut. Ephraim Fenno, in which he served as set forth in his first declaration and affidavits until peace. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 15 th 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 so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and Naval service of the United States" passed the 18 th March 1818 and 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 interest other than what is contained in the schedule herunto annexed and by me subscribed. ~
Schedule of all the real and personal Estate of Silas Winans in October 1821. ~
Real Estate None
Personal Estate
   $ $     4 Swine. ~ 8.00 1 Flat Iron - - - 0.37   1 Plow - - - 4.00 5 old Chairs - - - 2.50   7 Drag Teth. ~ 4.50 1 Table - - - 1.00   Chains - - - 3.00 1 Chest - - - 1.25   1 old Ax. ~ 0.75 5 Knives & Forks - - 0.62   2 el d Hoes. ~ 0.75 2 Spinning Wheels - 5.00   1 5 pail Kettle - 5.25 10 74   1 Tea Kettle. ~ 1.00 29.00   1 Bake Kettle 0.50 39.74   1 1 pail Kettle 1.25   29.00  

Wolcott Seneca County October 18 th 1821 Amount of Debts now due from Silas Winans - 150.00
Wolcott Seneca County October 1821. Amount of debts now due to Silas Winans nothing The occupation of Silas Winans is a labourer at Farming, but he is ruptured and his constitution much impaired and afflicted with sickness a very considerable part of the time and has been several years last past. he has a Wife in the fifty eighth year of her age as able for business as is usual to Women of her age - he has four Children in family between the ages of eight & fifteen years, one of which is a cripple to provide for, besides a child of three years old which he is encumbered with supporting - Sworn in Open Court Silas Winans - Octr. 3 rd 1821. -
John Maynard Clerk -
I John Maynard Clerk of the Court of common Pleas in & for the county of Seneca do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is not sufficient to pay his debts. In testimony whereof, I have here- unto set my hand & affixed the Seal of the said Court on this 3 rd day of October 1821. - John Maynard Clk. Eliel Scudder Dep. Clk.

11840 Elizabeth Calkins former wife of Silas Minns Mch 29. 1845, Ms
act 7 July 1838
Rejected , husband deserted 16 March 1783
Not related as child of Silas - not a final settlement

State of New York County of Wyoming } ss. On this Third day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred forty-four. personally appeared before me the undersigned, one of the judges of the Wyoming County courts, Elizabeth Galkins a resident of the town of Perry, in the county of Wyoming, aged seventy-seven years and upwards. 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 7, 1838, entitled. An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows. That she is the widow of Joshua Galkins, and formerly the widow of Silas Winans who was a private in the Revolutionary Army of the United States; that he served under Colonel Lamb, and was an artillery-man at the battle of Yorktown in Virginia; that he was a pensioner under the act of 1818, and drew a pension of ninety-six dollars per year; that she has no documentary, or other proofs of the services of her said husband, but relies on the proofs and records now in the war department at Washington to substantiate the same.
She further declares that she was married to the said Silas Winans on the 23 rd day of December in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-four, at a place then called the "Precinct of Little Nine Partners, in the County of Dutchess in the state of New York; that her said husband the aforesaid Silas Winans died on the 25 th day of September, in the year 1823, at the town of Woolcott, in the county of Wayne in the state of New York; 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 she further declares, that since the death of her said husband, the aforesaid Silas Winans she was married to Joshua Galkins, who is also dead, and that she is now a widow.
Sworn and subscribed on the Elizabeth Galkins day and year above written
before me, Alonzo B. Rose a judge of Wyoming County New York
I Alonzo B. Rose the judge before whom the foregoing declaration of Elizabeth Galkins was taken do certify that the said Elizabeth

can not from bodily infirmity attend court, and therefore the said declaration is taken before me at her residence in the town of Ferry in the said County of Wyoming.
Alonzo B. Rose a judge of Wyoming County, County

STATE OF NEW YORK, WYOMING COUNTY,
} ss.
I, WALTER HOWARD, CLERK OF WYOMING COUNTY, do hereby certify, that Horace B. Rose
before whom the annexed Instrument in writing was proved or acknowledged, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, a Judge of Wyoming County Court in and for said County, duly authorized to take the same. And that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe that the signature to said Certificate of proof or acknowledgment is genuine.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto affixed  set my hand and affixed my official seal, at Warsaw, in said County, this 18 th day of March 18 45
Walter Howard
CLERK.

State of New York
Wyoming County ss
Joshua Calkins of the town of Perry in said county being duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say; that he is fifty four years of age, that he is well acquainted with Elizabeth Calkins former widow of Silas Winans deceased, that the said Elizabeth was married to Joshua Calkins the father of this deponent about nineteen years since, and lived with the said Joshua Calkins a number of years, that the said Joshua Calkins the father of this deponent is now dead, and that the said Elizabeth is now a widow: And this deponent further saith, that the said Elizabeth Calkins has for a number of years past resided in the house of this deponent in the said town of Perry. And further saith not.
Joshua Calkins
Subscribed and sworn this 11 th day of February 1845 before me. William Mitchell Justice of the peace.
I William Mitchell, the justice before whom the foregoing deposition of Joshua Calkins was taken, do certify that I am well acquainted with the said Joshua Calkins, that he is a man of good moral character, and that his statement is entitled to belief.
William Mitchell Justice of the peace
STATE OF NEW YORK, } ss. WYOMING COUNTY, }
I, WALTER HOWARD, CLERK OF WYOMING COUNTY, do hereby certify, that William Mitchell
before whom the annexed Instrument in writing was proved or acknowledged, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized to take the same. And that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe that the signature to said Certificate of proof or acknowledgment is genuine.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set  affixed my hand and affixed my official seal, at Warsaw, in said County, this 18 th day of March 1845 Walter Howard CLERK.

State of Michigan Washtenaw County ss
Anna Gannay of Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County in the State of Michigan being duly sworn maketh oath and saith, that she is personally acquainted with Widow Elizabeth Galkins who now resides in the Town of Perry, Wyoming County New York, and that she has been well acquainted with the said Elizabeth from the infancy of the Deponent, and she further says that she was present and saw the said Elizabeth united in Marriage to Silas Wymans, that they were married by Eldn. Gomer Bullock at Little Nine Partners in what is now known as Dutchess County, in the State of New York, at the House of Orra Ferguson that they were married according to the resolution of this Deponent in the month of January English Seventeen hundred and Eighty four, that her recollection of the marriage is very distinct, and certain, but she is unable to state the precise month in which she was married, although she feels confident that the above is correct. And this Deponent further says that the said Elizabeth at the time of her said Marriage was in the eighteenth year of her age, and this Deponent was then in the fourteenth year of her age, and is now aged Seventy four years and a half. And this Deponent saith that she was credibly informed that the said Silas Wymans died, and that the said Elizabeth afterwards married a person by the name of Galkins, and that she has seen the said Elizabeth with the said Galkins, living with him as his wife, and that the said Galkins and Elizabeth while living together, have visited this deponent at the residence of this Deponent. And she

further says that she cannot state whether the said Silas Wynans drew a Pension in his life time or not. That she is unable to state the services of the said Silas Wynans in the war of the Revolution, but says that he was reported to be a private in the Revolutionary Army. That at the time of the said marriage the said Silas Wynans resided at Great Nine partners, and the said Elizabeth at Little Nine partners, both of said place, being in Dutchess County aforesaid. That the said Elder Bullock was a Baptist Minister who lived at Great Nine Partners and further this Deponent saith not.
Subscribed and sworn to before me } Anna Garnsey This Eleventh day of December A.D. 1844 } Ann Mark Abraham Voorhies Justice of the peace
State of Michigan Washhtan County ss
I Abraham Voorhies the Magistrate before whom the foregoing affidavit was made do certify that I am personally acquainted with Anna Garnsey, the person who made said affidavit, that she is a person of good moral character, and that in my opinion full credit and confidence should be given to her statements in them set forth. Given under my hand this Eleventh day of December A.D. 1844 Abraham Voorhies Justice of the peace

State of Michigan } County of Washtenaw }
ss.
I Earle P. Gardiner clerk of said county do hereby certify that Abraham Voorhees before whom the annexed
affidavit purports to have been taken was at the date of said affidavit a Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly elected and qualified to act as such, and by Law authorized to take the same, And that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe his signature thereto is genuine -
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county at the clerks office in Ann Arbor this twenty fourth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty four -
E. P. Gardiner
By John C. Mundy Deputy
Ypsilanti Dec 24 /44
Dear Sir at your request I think I have got all the information that can be of use to you, & with as little delay as possible owing to the situation of things I went nine miles to the county seat to obtain the certificate Mother is in good health
I have had to pay out to Lawyer & other officers four dollars $4.00 my time you are welcome to Yours respectfully Glanvoty Shoveman

D. D. Wymans Esq. James Co. Cayuga H. D. West
Verne N.Y. Jan 6 th 1811 Joshua Calkins Esq. Berry

State of New York Wayne County ss } Prentice Palmer of the Town of Savannah in the said County being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is seventy four years of age, that he was acquainted with Silas Winans & Elizabeth his Wife, and further says that he lived a Neighbour to the said Winans from the year 1808 or 1809 up to the Day of his Death; says that he was acquainted with them in the Town of Wolcott Seneca County, same Town when it was set off to Cayuga County & after that set off to Seneca County; and now Butler & in Wayne County. And further says that he is acquainted with Chester Winans & Elizabeth Winengar, and knows them to be the son & Daughter of Silas Winans; according to my knowledge & belief. And further says that the Widow of the said Silas Winans Married Joshua Galkins; according to the best of my knowledge and belief - further this Deponent saith not.
Prentice Palmer
Sworn before me this 13 th Day of Dec. 1844 Onias Hopkins J.P.
I Onias Hopkins the Justice of the Peace before whom the foregoing deposition of Prentice Palmer was taken do certify that I am well acquainted with the said Prentice Palmer; and know him to be a person of good moral character; and that his statements is entitled to credit.
Onias Hopkins J.P.
State of New York
Wayne County Clerk's Office ss. I hereby certify that Onias Hopkins Esq. was at the time of taking the above affidavits a Justice of the peace in and for said County duly elected, and qualified. And that I am well acquainted with his handwriting & verily believe his signature above written to be genuine.
Witness my hand & the seal of said County this 13 th Day of December 1844
E. A. Palmer Dep Clerk of said County

122 State of New York } Elizabeth Winegar of the Wayne County ss } Town of Butler in the said } County being duly sworn according to Law doth depose and say that she is fifty seven years of age, that she is the Daughter of Silas Winans deceased, and this deponent further states that in the year 1891 she distinctly recollects of living in Benselauville Albany County with her father and Mother (Silas Winans and Elizabeth Winans). And further says that she Distinctly recollects the time that her sister Lucy was born, and at the time that Lucy was born this Deponent says that she was in her fourth year And this Deponent further states that she knows that her father and Mother raised a family of children and lived together until his Death. and further states that the said Elizabeth Calkins is the widow of the aforesaid Silas Winans her former husband - and that she is now a widow according to my best knowledge & belief, and further this Deponent saith
Elizabeth Winegar
Subscribed and sworn before me this 12 th day of Dec, 1874
Onias Hopkins J.P.
I Onias Hopkins the Justice of the Peace before whom the foregoing deposition of Elizabeth Winegar was taken do certify that I am well acquainted with the said Elizabeth Winegar and know her to be a Person of good moral character and that her state- ments is entitled to credit
Onias Hopkins J.P.

State of New York } County of Cayuga } fs:
Chester Winans of the town of Vernon in said county being duly sworn before E.W. Bateman Esquire a Justice of the Peace in and for said County depareth and saith that he is Forty five years of age and over that he is the son of Silas Winans deceased and of Elizabeth Calkins former widow of the said Silas Winans, that the said Silas Winans died on the 25 th day of September 1823 at the town of Woolstock in the County of Wayne in the State of New York, that he (this deponent) was present at his death attended his funeral and saw him buried. And this deponent further saith that that the said Silas Winans was reputed to be a soldier of the Revolution and drew a pension of Ninety six dollars per year and further saith that the said Elizabeth Calkins is the widow of the aforesaid Silas Winans her former husband and that she is now a widow and further this deponent saith not. Subscribed and sworn this 9 th day of December A.D. 1844. Before me E.W. Bateman Justice
Chester Winans
I, E.W. Bateman, the Justice of the Peace before whom the foregoing deposition of Chester Winans was taken do certify that I am well acquainted with the said Chester Winans and know him to be a person of good moral character and that his statement is entitled to credit.
E.W. Bateman Justice
State of New York } Cayuga County } fs
I, Philip Van Arsdale Clerk of the said County do hereby certify that Ezra W. Bateman Esq r before whom the above deposition was taken, was at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County duly elected and qualified. And that I am well acquainted with his handwriting and believe the foregoing to be his genuine signature. In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said County this 10 th day of December 1844.
Philip Van Arsdale, Clerk

Elizabeth Calkins
Applicant for the Pensions now granted to her by Special act of Congress.
Wm H. Lura Atty Albany N.Y.

William B Pierce Esq Pension agent Albany N.Y.

State of New York
Ontario County ss. On this 25 th day of March A D 1847 personally appeared before me, Elizabeth Calkins of the town of Phelps in said County aged 79 years who being first duly sworn according to Law deponeth & saith that her first husband Silas Winans was a soldier of the United States during the war of the Revolution, and served in the Regiment of Artillery commanded by Col John Lamb & Company of Capt Mott, which said Regiment and Company were of the line of the state of New York - and deponent further saith that some time during the winter of 1845 & 1846 she signed a petition to Congress for Pension in consideration of the Revolutionary services of said Silas Winans, this petition was drawn up by her attorney William B Pierce of Albany N.Y. and was (as deponent has been informed and believes) presented to Congress by Hon George Rathbun Member of the House of Representatives from the state of New York. Deponent has also been informed and believes that on the third day of March instant (1847) an act was passed by Congress for her benefit. She further saith that she is the identical person named in said act, and that she has authorized her said attorney William B Pierce of Albany N.Y. to receive her Pension certificate —
Subscribed and sworn this 25 th day of March A D 1847 before me —
Elizabeth Calkins
James G. Austin Justice of The peace of Phelps in said County —

I make this in Canandaigua immediately after receiving the Clerk's Certificate that it may reach you sooner than it would if I should make it in any other office you will therefore direct your letters to N. B. Clark Wayne County as usual in haste Yours Truly
Ransom Winans

State of New York Ontario County } ss:
I Alexander H. Venable Clerk of the said County do hereby certify that James G. Austin Esq. before whom the within affidavit was taken was at the time of taking said affi- davit being the 25th March 1847 a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly elected sworn and qualified to act as such Justice and to take such affidavit and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and do hereby believe the signature subscribed to the said affidavit to be genuine -
Witness my hand and official seal this twenty fifth day of March A.D. 1847 - A. H. V. Venable Clerk -

Silas Winans Declaration
Col. Lamb's N. York Reg t 1780 - War -
21. Jan y 1820 -
Deserted 16 March 1782 see Capt. Moll's Roles 1st. Jersey Regiment Admitted -
Wolcott
Penns County -

District of New York } Seneca County — ss }
On this twentieth day of January 1820, before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Com: Pleas in and for the County of Seneca and for said district, personally appeared Silas Winans of the town of Wolcott in said district aged Sixty years who being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary War." That he, the said Silas Winans enlisted for the term of During the War (subsequent to the month of April 1780 in which month of April he enlisted under Captain Williams in a Regiment of New York State troops and served on the northern and Western frontiers of the said State at Lake George and as far north as Crown Point on Lake Champlain thence up the Mohawk River to Forts Herkimer and Stanwicks thence southward to Tappan in said district) at Tappan aforesaid he enlisted as aforesaid (to wit) to serve during the War some day in the month of Dec r in the year 1780. in a Company of Artillery Commanded by Captain who was succeeded by Captain Abraham Ten Broeck Garshom Mott of the Regiment of artillery Commanded by Col Lamb in the Army of

The United States on the Continental Establish- ment that he continued to serve in the said Corps of Artillery or  the said State of New York until he enlisted in the Regiment aforesaid on Continental Establish- ment until the taking of General Cornwallis and his Army at York Town subsequent to the taking of the Army aforesaid he was in compliance with orders marched to West Point on the River Hudson in the District of New York where he remained until a few months three or four before the disbanding of the Army he was presented with a furlough by Commandt. John Stevens of said Regiment of Artillery and returned home to Amenia in the County of Dutches in the State or District of New York aforesaid where he was taken with severe sickness and under the malady with which he was scarcely mindful of the duty of a Soldier he sent for prominent Officers who recom- mended sending for M c . H. Miller the most noted Physician in that part and perhaps not much inferior to any in the said district who certified his debilitated state but before the recovery of his health or ability to communicate the intelligence aforesaid the Army was disbanded, and of

course was deprived the exquisite felicity of the afflicting sympathetic scene of receiving an honorable discharge and parting with his honorable Commanders and brethren in Arms.
That the most prominent Battles he was in were at the taking of York Town and the most distinguished at that siege was at the taking the Highland Redoubt near the Water Side where he filled the station of Gunner and carried the said redoubt. And that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said service soon to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid
Adonijah Church
Silas Winens
I Adonijah Church a Judge as aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Silas Winens did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, on the continental establishment; and

I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary of the Depart- ment of War, pursuant to the directions of the afore- mentioned act of Congress - I am also satisfied that he needs the assistance of his country for support. I also certify that he made a previous declaration on the thirteenth day of May 1818
Nebrijah Church
District of New York } Seneca County - ss - }
On this twentieth day of January 1820, before me the subscriber (one of the Commissioners for taking acknowledgments of Deeds Bails discharges of Mortgages administering Oaths taking Affidavits &c in and for the county of Seneca in the said district or State aforesaid) came John Webster Esquire residing in said district and to me personally known as a magistrate for several years and a credible witness, and being by me first sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, depose and say, that he has been personally

personally acquainted with the applicant Silas Winans and intimately acquainted with his circumstances in the years Eighteen hundred two or three to this day. That he the deponent Silas Winans was from deponents early acquaintance with him much impeded in his manual labour by a severe break an infirmity with which he continues to be scourged to which malady in a measure he imputes as the cause of a series of law suits in some of which deponent has been much embarrassed as opponent has been informed his bail and is at present, creditably and by common report which deponent verify believes to be in fact a truth that he is the owner of no real estate in fee. destitute of a team. but still embarrassed with debt in Execution. and stands in need of the assistance of his country for his support - Sworn and subscribed to the day and year aforesaid John Webster the deponent further testified he had no interest in the success of the applicant in his cause Before me William Moulton

District of New York } Seneca County ss- }
On this twentieth day of January 1820 before me the subscriber one of the Commissioners for administ- =ering Oaths taking affidavits &c in and for the county of Seneca in said district came Noah Pike to me personally known and a creditable evidence who being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath depose that he is personally acquainted with the applicant Silas Winans and with his circumstances in life that he the said Silas Winans is seized of no real estate - is destitute of a team - embarra- =ssed with debt. and by report with Execution- and further deponent believes said Silas Winans stands in present need of the assistance of his country for his support - and further the deponent testifies that he is not bribed or otherwise interested in the event of the applicants suit. Sworn and subscribed to the day and year aforesaid
Noah Pike
Before me
William Moulton

State of New York Seneca County Clerk's Office Jp: —
I certify that Adonijah Church Esq. whose hand writing I am acquainted with & whose signature appears to the certificates of the annexed declaration in his own proper hand writing as I verily believe, was, at the time of the date thereof, a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Seneca duly commissioned & sworn acting under the authority of this state. — I further certify that William Moulton Esq. whose hand writing I am acquainted with & whose signature appears to the certificates of the above & annexed affidavits in his own proper hand writing as I verily believe, was at the time of the date thereof, a commissioner duly authorised to take Affidavits to be read in any court of record within this state, commissioned sworn & acting under the authority of this state.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court of Common Pleas this 31 st day of January 1820.
J. H. Halsey Clk. V.

Wineus
Application & papers for
Pension 1 st declaration, 30. May, 1818.
Col. Lamb's reg. of Art. N. Y.
Not found on rolls
The testimony, on oath, of two or more disinterested and credible persons, certi- fied as such by the Judge, proving the Applicant's service, 9 months in conti- -nuance, on Cont. establishment, is required.
Adonijah Church, Judge.
Jose Clark, agent, Waterloo, N. Y.

District of New York
Seneca County — ss
On the twenty fourth day of Nov r in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and twenty before me the subscriber one of the Commissioners to take acknowledgment of Deeds Administer Oaths take affidavits &c in and for the County of Seneca. came William Winans of the Town of Covert in the County of Seneca in said District Farmer. and to me known to be an opulent plain and very independent Planter, of Fair Farm in the Christian church & Society to which he belongs, and a credible and disinterested evidence. He is however a brother to the applicant. and being by me first sworn according to Law, doth, on his oath depose and say, that he this deponent was a soldier in Col Samuel B Webbs Regiment & Stationed, or Tented at Tappan & that the applicant Silas Winans came from a northern town in which he had served the preceding Campaign, to Tappan in the fall of the year seventeen hundred and twenty nine a short time previous to the execution of Major Andrew and that the said Silas Winans did enlist into Col Lamb's Regim t . of Artillery and served in the same and that this deponent subsequently saw him and

while a soldier, & that Regiment to which he belonged until peace was restored. he served in and belong to when he finished his military career. and further the deponent saith not -
William L. Hinans
The above deponent has been unfortunately under the necessity of making use of my hand to write his name and guide the pen which he held also in his hand to make his mark from a paralytic infirmity under which he has laboured for several years. He the said deponent on examination further testifies that he has not been bribed nor has any corrupting means been used to interest or induce him to swear falsely in the premises.
Before me William Norton
State of New York Seneca County clerk's Office J: I certify that William Moulton Esq r whose hand writing I am acquainted with & whose signature appears to the above certificate in his own proper hand writing as I verily believe, was on the 24 th day of November 1820, a commissioner re- siding in the county of Seneca acting under the au- thority of this state & duly authorized to take the within Affidavit.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County this 10 th day of February 1821 - J. H. Halsey Clk. -

District of New York County of Dutchess
On the Fifteenth day of January Eighteen and twenty one before me the subscriber personally appeared Major General Edmond Parke of the Town of Amenia in the County of Dutchess in said district who being by me first duly sworn according to law deponeth and saith that the applicant Silas Winans has been known to him before the War of the revolution commenced. deponent was also knowing to said Winans serving a Soldier for years in the Continental Army against the British Army and some inconsiderable time before the American Army was disbanded he the said Silas Winans came home on furlough emaciated and much out of health he came to deponents house and relapsed into a state of debility which rendered him totally unable to return to the Army and by advice of this deponent said Winans took a Certificate of Doctor Burnet Miller stating the debilitated state he laboured under but before he recovered ability to return the Army was disbanded. This deponent further testifies that he has no interest in the success of the applicant

and further that there has no means been used to induce him to perjure. Sworn to and subscribed before me. Edmond Parlee
Peter Fish one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the County of Dutchess
I hereby Certify that I am personally acquainted with General Edmond Parlee the above deponent he is a distinguished Citizen for probity disinterestedness and Credibility
Peter Fish
I John Johnston Clerk of the County of Dutchess and Clerk of the Court of Common of Pleas of said County do hereby Certify that Peter Fish above named was on the first instant and has been ever since a Justice of the Peace of said County duly commissioned and sworn and I am acquainted with the hand writing of said Peter Fish and verily believe the above to be his signature. — In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this sixteenth day of January one thousand eight hundred & twenty one —
JOHN JOHNSTON, Clerk

District of New York Onondaga County 3.8 January On the third day of February Eighteen hundred and twenty one Before me the subscriber personally appeared Levi Bishop of Manlius in the County of Onondaga in said District, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, depose and say, that the applicant, is the identical Silas Winans who enlisted into Captain Gershon Mott's Company in Col John Lamb's Regiment of Artillery in the Army of the United States, at Tappan on the Neosy shore about the time Major J. Andree was executed, that this deponent belonged to said Company, and that Capt. Lieut. Fenns afterwards commanded said Company - that deponent and said Winans were together and served in said Company - at the taking of General Cornwallis at York Town the Company were half of them on duty at a time deponent was relieved and said Silas Winans was one who went against and Stormed the Highland Battery the said Regiment was afterwards marched to Burlington in Jersey and there spent the Winter. Thence we Marched to West Point. that a short

time before the Army was disbanded the said Silas Winans obtained a furlough and left the Company supposed for home - Some time after the disbanding the Army deponent saw Michael or Daniel the Colonel Paymaster with whom the Rolls of the New York Line of the Army were, who inquired of this deponent for persons who had arrearages of pay in his hands. Silas Winans the applicant was one and this deponent took a power and drew from McConnell and paid over to the said Silas the arrearage due to him. Deponent further deposeth that he has no interest in applicants cause Sworia before me Levi Bishop
This 3 Day of February 1821 Aaron C. Moore Justice of Peace
This may Certify that I am personally acquainted with the deponent Levi Bishop we are inhabitants of the same town and neighbourhood and have been for several years he Levi Bishop is a man of probity, affluence, and respectable standing in society, and a credible & sustains the character

of an impartial Witness Aaron C. Hoar
State of New York
CLERK'S OFFICE, } ss. ONONDAGA COUNTY, }
I certify, that on the day of the date of the certificate of annexed  to the date of the annexed of the annexed affidavit or deposition — Aaron C. Hoar was a Justice of the peace in and for the county of Onondaga, duly commissioned, sworn and authorised, by the laws of the state of New-York, to take the same:
I further certify that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice of the peace and verily believe that the signature of " Aaron C. Hoar " subscribed to the said certificate of  Justice to be the proper hand writing of the said Justice
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the court of common pleas of the said county of Onondaga, this third day of February eighteen hundred and Twenty one — Truman Adams Clerk.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
7616527
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Silas Winans a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Fall 1779 or Apr 1780 ✓ ✓ Williams the State Troops of N.Y.   Dec. 1780 matross Gershon Mott John Lamb's regt of   Ephraim Feno Cont. Art.   served until after the surrender of Cornwallis  
Battles engaged in, at siege of Yorktown
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Amenia Dutchess Co. N.Y.
Date of application for pension, Jan. 20, 1820. His claim was de-
Residence at date of application, Wolcott, Seneca Co. N.Y.
Age at date of application, 60 yrs. He died at Wolcott N.Y. Sept. 25, 1823.
Remarks: Sol. mar. at Little Nine Partners, Dutchess Co. N.Y. Dec. 23, 1784 Elizabeth —. She remarried Joshua Galkins who died (dates not given) and she was at pension as former wid. of Silas Winans on an ap. rec. Dec 3 1844 at which date she res. in Perry, Wyoming Co. N.Y. aged 77 yrs. Children Lucy, Silas, Ransom; Chester aged over 45 and Elizabeth Winagar aged 5-7 in 1844. dates of their births not known. Respectfully,
Commissioner.

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Lib. Pat. N o 2A page 233
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Letters Patent to Silas Winans Township of Sterling
Recorded in
Surveying Fees 46 Patent Fees 1 87
Panel of Seven Jurors
Winans Silas cont - NY W 165 27

of our said State General and Commander in Chief of all the the fourteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one Independence

of all the Militia and Admiral of the Navy of the p r inz at our City of Albany Lord one thousand eight hundred and seven and in the thirty-second year of our

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Letters Patent To Silas Winans
Recorded in Lib. pat. N o 25 puy. 391

The People of the State of New-York, by the G
come, Greeting: Know Ye , That _____ WE have given, granted and confirmed, and by these Presents, DO give
or parcel of land situate in the county of Cayuga and district of Stirling in the Military Tract which said piece or parcel east bounds of the said lot on the south by the fifty acres sole line drawn parallel to the east bounds of said lot and at such quantity intended to be hereby granted _____
Together with all and singular the rights, hereditaments and appurtenances serving to ourselves all gold and silver mines _____ and granted premises unto the said Silas Winans his _____ as a good and indefeasible estate of inheritance for ever.
In Testimony Whereof, WE have caused these our hereunto affixed: Witness our trusty and well General and Commander in Chief of all the N Sixteenth _____ day of February _____ and in the Thirty- Seventh Year of our Ind
Passed the Secretary's Office, the 17 th Day of February 1813.
Arch d Campbell Dep. Secr.
I have examined the preceding Letters Patent, and do Certify that the same are conform to the Orders and Proceedings of the Commissioners of the Land-Office, and in due form of la
Col. Van Richten

W-YORK, by the Grace of GOD, Free and Independent: To all to whom these Presents shall
Presents, DO give, grant and confirm unto Silas Winans all that certain piece uuga and distinguished as part of lot number Ninety-eight in the Township piece or parcel of land is bounded on the north and east by the north and the fifty acres sold for defraying the expence of survey and on the west by a lot and at such distance therefrom as to include fifty acres which is the
nts and appurtenances to the same belonging or in any wise appertaining Excepting and re- To Have and to Hold the above described us his heirs and assigns, ever.
have caused these our Letters to be made Patent, and the Great Seal of our said State to be our trusty and well-beloved DANIEL D. TOMPKINS, Esquire, Governor of our said State, Chief of all the Militia, and Admiral of the Navy of the same, at our City of Albany, the y of February in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirteen Year of our Independence.
Daniel D. Tompkins
uary 1813.
bell Dep. Secretary that the same are confirmable ce, and in due form of law.
Wchten Atty General

Rev WIDOW, &c.
No. 165-2 7
Elizabeth Calkins
Former Widow of
Silas Winans
Brw Brw Win
Special act Mar 3 rd 1847 Act s July 7 th 1838 & March 3 rd 43 June 17 th 1874
Index:—Vol. A , Page 119
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Aug. 8/95 H.S. Miller, 871 Maiden Lane, New York N.Y. M.E.L. 1913. Sept 26. Hist-to Ira Winans.

Elizabeth Calkins Letter to W. B. Purnell do to Secretary of War Sept 24. 1846.

11840
Elizabeth Ballou formerly widow of Silas Minns
NY
Letter to William Mitchell 1845
May 1845 Rejected
let to Mr. Franklin  July 22 1845
let to Mr. Mitchell Aug 13. 1845
act 7 July 1838

Mr. Ames-
Here is a decision picked up some days since from the Secretary's table. I think it was written on Conference between  with the Sulvans & Comm. Why it was not dispatched we know not. Probably the Com. can say whether it is all right.
Yrs S. D. Webb.

Mr. Ames
Pineoff.

ELIZABETH CALKINS.
[To accompany bill H. R. No. 509]
JULY 13, 1846.
Mr. SEAMAN, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, made the following
REPORT :
The Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Elizabeth Calkins, report :
That the petitioner was formerly the wife of Silas Winans, to whom she was married shortly after the close of the war; the marriage is satisfactorily proved. She is now a widow. The said Winans was a pensioner under the act of the 18th of March, 1818, which he continued to enjoy until the day of his death.
The petitioner asks a pension under the act of the 7th July, 1838. Her claim has been rejected by the Commissioner of Pensions, upon the ground that the name of Silas Winans is entered as a deserter upon the muster rolls of the army. To disprove this, it is alleged that Winans received a furlough to visit his family, and while at home was taken sick, and was rendered unable to return to service, and was consequently returned as a deserter. After the war he proved his sickness and inability to return to the service, received bounty land, and subsequently a pension, as stated.
Several respectable witnesses testify to his inability from sickness to return to duty; one of these (Wm. Seagrave) was his commanding officer, and afterwards a merchant in New York. T. B. Howe endorses this certificate. E. P. Lee testifies that Winans had a certificate from his physician stating his inability to return to service. Levi Bishop testifies that he received from the paymaster of Colonel Lamb's regiment the pay to which Winans was entitled for his services.
The committee do not concur with the Commissioner of Pensions in his decision in this case. It is proved by respectable witnesses that he was prevented from returning to the army by sickness; that he received pay for his services at a time when all the facts were susceptible of proof; that he received bounty lands from the State of New York at a time when many of the officers and soldiers of the Revolution were still living; and that subsequently he received a pension from the United States. All this, taken in connexion with the fact that the muster rolls became very imperfect, owing to the absence of so many soldiers on leave, who, owing to sickness and other causes, did not return merely for the purpose of being discharged, the committee think, throws much doubt over the charge that

Winans deserted, if it does not disprove it. The act of the 7th June, 1832, provides that all officers, soldiers, &c., who served two years in the army of the Revolution, shall be entitled to a pension. The committee believe that the petitioner is entitled to relief; and they accordingly report a bill, granting her a pension under the act of the 7th July, 1838, for two years' service of her said husband, to commence the 1st January, 1845.

Pension Office September 24 th 1846.
Commissaire of Pensions
Report in the case of Elizabeth Calkins.

War Office September 24 th 1846.
Sir,
I have the honor to return you Mr. Pierce's letter appealing from the decision communicated to him 17 th December last, in the case of Elizabeth Walking, and to refer you to the enclosed copy of that letter.
This is a very plain case. The Master rolls show that her first husband, Silas Mlinang, enlisted for the War, and is returned as having deserted in Spring of 1782, and never rejoined his regiment.
This is not " inference "; but a matter of record, which parol testimony may not, without a violation of the established laws of evidence, be allowed to question or controvert. It is competent for the Legislature of New York and Congress to use their own discretion in modifying the rules by which the distribution of their Bounty may be regulated; but the question before the Department is one of right, under

a particular Act, and the duties and powers of the Department, are limited to the adjudication of that right under said Act.
If a claim, which is to be computed by the pay received for service as a soldier, can be sustained when the records of the service show that the pay had been forfeited by desertion, or absence, without leave, it will constitute a new rule for adjusting rights to the Bounty, which the laws accord to the merit of an honorable discharge of a soldier's obligations.
I have the honor to be, Very respectfully, Your Ob. Servt. J. L. Edwards
Hon. W. L. Marcy, Secretary of War.

Albany Sept. 15. 1846
Wm B. Pierce
Appeals from the decision of the Comm. of Pensions in the case of Eliz Calkins widow of Silas Winans.
P884
21 Sept. 1846
Pension Bureau Report
The muster roll is a record and it is sought to impeach it by parol evidence - The evidence offered does not show that it was a mistake in entering W. as a deserter but that or in other words that he did not return to the
since on the expiration of - ing the Muster of his furlough but Roll - it is alleged.
That he had agreed excuse for not return 8. June 47.
my 005 hickness - He ought to have furnish ed that at the time - a presented such an entry on the record - I think it wants be pardonable to relax the rule in this case But it should come from Congress where it has been properly sought If it could be shown by a pay roll that he rec d back pay I should be willing to regard the pay roll as correct.

Albany N.Y. September 15. 1846.
Sir/ I have the honor to inform you that Elizabeth Watkins applied for a pension under the act of July 7 th 1838, on account of the Revolutionary services of her first husband Silas Winans, and her claim was disallowed by the Commissioner of Pensions upon grounds which I believe to be wholly insufficient. I therefore desire hereby to appeal from his decision.
Silas Winans was a private in Col Lamb's Regt of Artillery during the Revolutionary war. He enlisted at the early part of the war and served until the spring of 1782 when he was taken sick and returned home on furlough. His sickness prevented his returning to the service, and he was returned upon the rolls as a Deserter . Mr Edwards rejects the claim upon the ground that he was a Deserter , no other other evidence being allowed by him to disprove a record.
In the first place I would observe that it is a fact well known to the Department, that Soldiers were often returned as Deserters by the Inspecting officers on account of absence unexplained at the time. Such officers could not, of course, have means to ascertain the various causes of absence and therefore had no alternative but to return, deserter .
Now in the case of Silas Winans it is proved beyond all just

cause of doubt that Silas Winans was not a Deserter, but was prevented from returning to the Army by Sickness. Upon referring to the papers in this case you will please to observe that Mr Edwards grounds his objection to the claim upon inference alone . He infers that as Silas Winans did not return to the army from 15 March 1782 (the time he was first entered a Deserter) until June 1783. (the close of the war.) he must in fact be a Deserter. May we not with equal justice infer, that after Silas Winans had served during the whole war faithfully & well, until a time when rumors of peace were in every mouth, he would not have absented himself from the Army at a time, when all active service had ceased, and thus have incurred the opprobrium of desertion, and sacrificed all the benefits to result from his long & arduous service during the entire war. But mere conjecture I conclude, has nothing to do with this claim. The proof is positive, and has, as will be seen, been conclusive to every mind but that of the Commissioner, that Silas Winans was not a deserter, as had accidentally been recorded upon the Army rolls. The proofs are as follows. In Augt 1807 the Legislature of the State of New York granted Silas Winans Land in consequence of his said service (Lot N. 99 in the township of Sterling) The question of

Desertion then was agitated and fully settled by the following evidence 1 st The certificate of William Leagcraft a Lieut in Lamb's Regt that Winans was absent upon furlough, & prevented from returning to the Service by sickness. This certificate was ex- ecuted in 1804 before Mayor J. T. B. Howe, then Inspector of Customs for the Port of New York.
2 nd The affidavit of John Russell a Sergeant in the same Company of Winans (Capt Mott's com- pany) who also testifies that Winans was absent upon fur- lough.
3 rd The afft of Edmund Per Lee that Winans was ab- sent upon furlough, and obtained a certificate from his phy- sician Mathias T. B. Miller that he was unable to return to his Regiment until the close of the war owing to sickness.
4 th The affidavit of Levi T Bishop (also of Mott's company) that he returned home upon furlough & was unable to return to the Army owing to sickness. And further that he T Bishop obtained said Winans back pay from the Paymaster of Colonel Lamb's Regt.
5 th  Jacob Wilsey also of Lamb's Regiment & Mott's company, testifies that Winans was absent upon furlough.
Mary Wright testified that he was absent upon furlough & prevented from returning to the Army by sickness.
These af- fidavits, it will be observed, were all taken in 1803, '4 & '5

when means of proof were abundant & it would have been impossible to have perpetrated a fraud even if so many of his fellow soldiers and officers would have connived at it. Levi Bishop swore that he received Williams back pay from the Paymaster of Col Lamb's Regt which could not have been the case had he been a Deserter, and yet all this positive evidence is set aside by the Commissioner of Pensions, being overruled by the inference that he might have returned to the Army before June 1783 if he had not been a Deserter, as he was entered upon the rolls.
You will observe from the papers filed on the Pension Office I hence transferred to the Clerk of the House of Representatives that Silas Williams was allowed to purchase Land in 1807 & again in 1813 by the Legislature of the State of New York and that a pension was granted to him by the Congress of the United States under the act of March 18. 1818. You will also observe that at the late (the last) Session of Congress a bill was reported by the Pension Committee for the relief of his widow and Elizabeth Calhoun, and that said bill passed the Committee of the whole in the House of Representatives. Congress having thus made an expression of its views in the case notwithstanding the objection of the Commissioner of Pensions, I am desired to call your attention to the same, with the

hope and belief that the claim may be allowed without subjecting the service to the further delay incident upon the action of Congress, and the uncertainty whether in the press of more important public business the claim can be reached at all during the life time of the aged applicant,
I have the honor to remain
With Great Respect
Your Mr. Osfrownt
Thos M c rae
P.S.
The papers in the above case are, I believe now in charge of the Clerk of the House of Representatives
Hon. William L. Marcy Secretary of War.

(Copy)
Pension Office, December 17th 1845.
Sir,
In the case of Elizabeth WalKing, formerly widow of Silas WalKing, the considerations which induced the authorities of New York to allow her husband Bounty Land upon partial proof, notwithstanding the record evidence of his desertion, might have their influence with Congress to pass a special law for the case; but they can have no influence upon the Department, whose powers are administrative and limited by law. He forfeited, by his desertion (not a few weeks before) but, sixteen months before the expiration of his enlistment, all claim to pay, Bounty Land and gratuity. All of which was refused him by his Officers who omitted his name in the returns of "absent men" entitled to each. The evidence of his receiving pay and of his absence for a few weeks before disbandment, is discredited by the record. He deserted 15th March, 1782, and the

"blues men" were discharged early, in June 1783, at which time his Officers return him still a deserter, and not entitled under the laws to the bounties with which a fulfillment of his enlistment would invest him.
The only possible mode of overriding that Master roll record is the production of a pay roll showing that he received pay to June 1783, without deduction for desertion. This cannot be done as it unquestionably was not the fact.
I am, Sir, Very respectfully Your M. Servt. (Signed) J. L. Edwards
W. B. Pierce, Esq., Albany, New York.

Albany N.Y. November 17. 1845.
P.S. I have taken off a large seal from one of the sheets to avoid postage.
Mrs. Elizabeth Perkins an applicant for pension under the Act of July 7. 1838. has taken her residence in Coeymans near this city. That applied to me to conduct her claim. In your letter to Mrs. Mitchell dated the 13th August last you observe that it does not appear that her husband Silas Winant ever received Bounty Land &c. By reference to the papers now enclosed, being Winant's application for Bounty Land, Deeds &c you will perceive that he was falsely returned as a Deserter near the close of the war, having received a furlough to visit home, and being unable to return to the army by reason of sickness. Wm Leagcraft a Lieut in Col Lumb's & Mary Wright Regt & Edmund Per Lee a Matross in Mott's Company, certify of the above facts. Levi Bishop swears that he received Silas Winant wages or "Back pay" from the Paymaster of Lumb's Regt. which certainly would not have been paid, had it been ascertained that he was a Deserter. I believe that many like cases have occurred, where soldiers detained from the army by sickness have been entered as Deserters. In addition to the above facts that Silas Winant received his wages & Bounty Land notwithstanding he was entered a Deserter. It is also true that he received a pension for his services. In view of the above facts the case is Respectfully Submitted.
I am Very Respectfully Your Obedient Servant Wm Pierce
Hon J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions

July 21 1845
Recd Elizabeth Calhoun
J. L. Edwards
Home of Jenkins Washington D.C.
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Perry, New York 17 th July 1845.
J. L. Edwards Esq
Dear Sir,
In the case of Elizabeth Watkins who claims a pension by virtue of the services of her former husband Silas Winans. I am informed by you, that the rolls of Col l Samps regiment, in which he served, show that he deserted the army on the 16 th of March 1782. The widow informs me that he left the army on parol soon after the battle of Yorktown in which he was engaged, that after coming home he was taken sick, that he procured the Certificate of a Surgeon of the Army setting forth his inability to return, and that the Army was disbanded before he got well. That some years after the war he applied for his bounty land and that Maj or Col Edmond Parlee of the City of Albany and a Maj Leecraft made their affidavits stating the above facts, and upon this proof he obtained his bounty land, and subsequently a pension for full pay.
Will you please inform me whether those affidavits if found can be used in support of the widows claim. We know that he drew his land, and was a pensioner, and therefore we have no doubt of the existence of the affidavits mentioned.
He performed actual service in the Army of the Revolution six years. Please let me hear from you at your earliest convenience and much oblige
Yours very Respectfully William Mitchell
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No answer has been given to this enquiry

Department of State Washington August 14 th 1845
Sir
In reply to your letter of the 22 nd ult o , I have to say, that upon an examination of the Washington Papers, no evidence is found of the "desertion and subsequent return of Silas Winans of Colonel Lamb's Regiment." It appears, however, by a return dated 13 th Oct r 1782, that Silas Winans deserted on the 15 th March 1781. No evidence of the return of said Winans is discovered.
Very Respectfully
I am Sir &c
James Buchanan
James L Edwards Esq r Commissioner of Pensions,

HR No 509 Elizabeth Calkins widow of Silas Winans =

9245
1396
Elizabeth Calkins, for widow of Silas Winans, Albany roll, at $100 per annum, commencing 1 st January 1845, {to end 4 in ar 48, } Special act Mar 3. 1847
(Private of artillery.)
Send Certificate to
W. B. Pierce
Albany
New York.

Albany N.Y. March 29 th 1847
Hon. J. L. Edwards.
Sir.
I enclose to you the affidavit of Elizabeth Calkins, agreeably to the requirements communicated in your letter of the 17 th inst. ant. I believe that she has testified to all the facts required by you.
I requested Mr. Nathan Lake to attend to this matter before Mr. Nathan has left Washington. As he has failed to do so, and has not even written me on the subject I would request that the Pension certificate may be sent to me in accordance with the appointment of the applicant.
I am Sir.
With Great respect
Your Obedient
Wm. H. Pierce

March 18, 1847
Rec com Elizabeth Calkins (Special Agent) Mr Wilson
W. B. D. & Co. A. S. Man 15/1847 K. Sec State.
Washington D.C.
Minister of Finance
Miss Calkins Sp. Agt
W. B. D. & Co. A. S. Man March 17 '47

Albany N.Y. March 10. 1847
Dear J. S. Edwards.
Sir,
An act has just passed Congress for the benefit of Elizabeth Calkins widow of Silas Williams of New York. The petition was originally presented by Hon Geo' Nathan at my request. Please issue the necessary certificate & send the same to me. I presume that I am already recognized as Atty in the case. If not, the accompanying letter from Silas Williams son of the widow Smith whom she lives will show that I am so considered
I am very respectfully
Your Obedient servant
Wm B. Wura
PS I have already written to Mr Nathan Lake concerning this case. Not hearing from him I fear he is absent from Washington. If he has applied for the certificate please have the kindness to send it to him —

[Report No. 770.]
July 13, 1846.
Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. SEAMAN, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill:
A BILL
An act
For the relief of Elizabeth Calkins, the widow of Silas Winans.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 2 of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That 3 the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and re- 4 quired to place the name of Elizabeth Calkins on the revolu- 5 tionary pension roll, under the act of seventh July, eighteen 6 hundred and thirty-eight, for two years' service of her said hus- 7 band, to commence the first January, eighteen hundred and 8 forty-five.
Approved March 3 d 1847
Department of State March 17 th 1847
I certify that the above is a true and complete copy, carefully compared with the original Roll on file in this De- partment.
A. L. Smith Chief Clerk

Will the chair- man call on the Pension count for papers in this case G. Ratchford
In the matter of the ap- plication of Elizabeth Calkins
an applicant for pension Act of July 7. 1832.
Referred to the com- mittee on Revolu- tionary Pensions
Papers in Pension office
March 10. 1846
Referred to the com. on Revolutionary Pensions.
July 13. 1846 . Bill 509
If the service in the Army of Revolution is sufficiently proved to entitle to a pension, and if the endorsement "destined" the only en- dorsement in the way - is the mar- -riage papers - Pension office
Mr Ratchford
Rebut a Bill

To the Honorable, The Senate & House of Representatives of the United States in Congress convened.
The petition of the undersigned
Respectfully Shew-
eth, that your petitioner was formerly the wife of Si- las Winans, now deceased, who was a soldier of the United States during the War of the Revolution, and served in the Regiment of Artillery commanded by Colonel John Lamb and company of Captain Mc W for a number of years during said war, which said company & regiment belonged to, and constituted a part of, the New York Line of Continental troops.
That your pe- titioner was married to said Silas Winans, shortly after the close of said war, and is now a widow.
That your pe- titioner has applied for a pension under the Act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838, but that her claim has been dis- allowed by the Commissioner of Pensions upon the ground that the name of said Silas Winans is entered as a deserter upon the Muster Rolls of the Army.
The proof of marriage accompanying said application for pension was adjudged insufficient by said Commissioner.
Your petition- er further represents that said Silas Winans was not a

Deserter from the said Service as assumed by the Commis- sioner of Pensions from the evidences of the army rolls alone but that he left the Service in an honorable manner, and such being the fact, she, as his widow, is justly entitled to the off Pensions claimed under the Act of July 7 th 1838 as aforesaid.
In proof of this, your Petitioner respectfully refers your Honorable B. to the various documents herewith submitted from which it will clearly appear that previous to the close of said war said Silas Wi- nans received a furlough for several weeks from his said commanding officers; that while he was absent from said Service by virtue of said furlough he was taken ill of a fever, and being sick and unable to return to duty his name was entered upon the army rolls as a deserter; that after said war said Silas Wi- nans applied for and obtained pay for his Service , to- gether with his Bounty Land , notwithstanding the said record of his desertion, which had thus erroneously been made by an officer ignorant of the true facts of the case; that at the time of his thus presenting his claim for Bounty Land , he clearly proved by a number of respectable witnesses then living, that all of whom were officers or fellow soldiers with him in his said company & regiment, that he, the said Silas Wi- nans was not a Deserter, but that he was prevented

Honors
from returning to the army by desertion alone; and that in view of these facts. The Honorable. The Legislature of the State of New York awarded to him a tract of land in like manner with his fellow-soldiers of his said company & regiment, whose names had been returned upon the Army rolls as entitled thereto. It will also fully appear by reference to said documents that the Honorable. The Congress of the United States subsequently awarded to the said Silas Winans a pension under the Act of March 18. 1818 which he continued to enjoy until the day of his death. It be-
ing therefore apparent that said Silas Winans obtained pay for his service, which he could not have obtained had he been a deserter from the army; that he obtained Bounty Land from the Legislature of the State of New York. & subsequently a pension from the Congress of the United States upon a careful examination of his claim at an early day when abundant evidence was at hand to prove his desertion had he been a deserter as shown by the rolls; & that there is no proof his desertion but said army rolls alone: Your petitioner humbly prays that your Honorable Body may be pleased to allow her claim for pension under said Act of July 7. 1838 & the various acts extending said act, or to make such other appropriation for her benefit as to your Honorable Body may appear just & equitable in the premises. And your petitioner will ever pray &c.
Elizabeth C. Collins

Selection of Elizabeth Calkins
for a pension

In the matter of the application of Elizabeth Calkins an applicant for pension under the Act of July 7. 1838. &c.
This claim has been rejected by the Commissioner of Pensions upon the ground that Silas Winans , the applicant's husband, was a deserter , his name having been entered as a Deserter upon the Army Rolls 15 March 1782.
If Silas Winans had been a Deserter it is clear that he would not have been entitled to pay for his Service, nor to Bounty Land, both of which he received .
The facts of the case are as follows, all of which are abundantly established by the accompanying Proofs. viz - Silas Winans received a furlough to visit his home: while at home he was taken sick of a fever which rendered him unable to return to Service until the close of the war & the discharge of the army. The Inspecting Officer, being at the time ignorant of the fact of his sickness, returned him as a Deserter and his name was consequently omitted among those returned as entitled to Bounty Land. After the war said Silas Winans proved the fact of his sickness & consequent inability to return to Service, where upon he received both pay for his Service and Bounty Land. He subsequently received a pension from the Congress of the United States.
It will be observed that five respectable witnesses testified to Silas Winans's inability from sickness to return to duty until the close of the war. One of these witnesses Wm Leageraft , was his Commanding officer, afterwards a highly respectable merchant

of New York City whose certificate was duly endorsed by J. B. Howell Esq. late a Major in the Revolutionary army then Inspector of Customs for the Port of New York. Edmund Per Lee testifies that said Silas Williams had a certificate from his Physician setting forth his inability to return to Service. Levi Bishop testifies that he received from the Pay Master of Colonel Lamb's Regiment the pay to which Silas Williams was entitled for his service. (He would not have been entitled to any thing if a Deserter).
In view of all these facts Mr Edwards has refused a pension to the widow upon the ground that Silas Williams was a Deserter. He has inferred that because he was entered a Deserter as early as March 1782 and the was closed in June 1783 that he must have been able to have returned to Service some time between those dates. Silas Williams had served faithfully for five or six years throughout the whole of the great contest for independence, and it is a fair inference to offset that of the Commissioner, that he would not have deserted on the eve of Peace when all the dangers of Service were evidently at an end.
It is hoped however that no inference will be admitted in this case. It is clearly proved by the most intelligent & respectable witnesses, that he was prevented from returning to the Army by Dickness; that he received pay for his Service at a time when all the facts were susceptible of proof; that he received Bounty Land from the State of New York as early as 1807 when a majority of the officers & soldiers of the Revolution were still living; and that subsequently he received a pension from the Congress of the United States. At this late day when all sources of information have passed away, it

is hoped & believed that no inference will be admitted to the exclusion of such respectable & positive proofs -

Elizabeth Oalkins Applicant for pension
Set July 7. 1838 K
W. B. Pierce No. 3 North Pearl St June 22.
Agent Wm B. Pierce Albany N.Y.

State of New York Greene County } Elizabeth Calkins late of Perry Wyo- ming County, N.Y. but now of Coxsackie, in said County of Greene, aged twenty eight years, being duly sworn deposes & saith that she has late made application for a pension, through the agency of Hon William Mitchell of said village of Perry, in consideration of the revolutionary services of her first hus- band Silas Winans who was a private in Lamb's Reg- iment of Artillery during the War of the revolution & to whom she was married shortly after said war. And Decla- rant further saith that since making her said applica- tion she has discovered among her old papers, the accompa- nying deeds of Donative Land given by the State of New York to her said husband Silas Winans as referred to by her in her said original application She now employs William B. Pierce of Albany N.Y. as her Attorney to conduct her application for pension.
Subscribed & sworn this first day of October November 1845 before me & I certify that the above statement was read & approved by the said Eliza- beth Calkins before execution. Aaron Hallenbeck - J.P.
her Elizabeth Calkins mark

State of New York Greene County Clerks Office.
I William Drown Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Aaron Wallenbeck before whom the within affidavit purports to have been taken, was at the time thereof a Justice of the Peace in & for said County duly elected & sworn & that his signature to said affidavit appears to be genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my official seal this Eighth day of November 1845.
Wm Drown Clerk

I the subscriber a Lieutenant in Colonel Lamb's regiment of Artillery of the State of New York do hereby certify that Silas Winans served as a matross in the said regiment till after the surrender of Cornwallis; From his faithful services & family connections a furlough was granted to him for several weeks during which time he was taken ill of a fever and was unable to return until the said regi- ment was disbanded which was sometime in the year one thousand seven hundred & Eighty three. The said Silas Winans served in Captain Mott's company. Witness my hand & seal at the city of New York this first day of December one thousand Eight hundred and four.
In presence
W m Leaycraft (L.S.)
J. B. Howe
Note the above Silas was returned as during the war.
W m Leaycraft.
State of New York
City of New York fr: I Adrian Hegeman a public notary in and for the State of New York duly com- missioned & sworn do hereby certify that before me personally appeared Bezaleel Howe of the city of New York Inspector of the customs and late a major in the American army being by me duly sworn Did Solemnly depose & say that he is acquainted with William Leaycraft the signer of the within written certificate, and that he knows the said William Leaycraft to be a Lieutenant

in Colonel Lamb's regiment of New York Artillery
(Signed) Bezaleel Howe
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my (S.S.) hand and notarial Seal of office the first day of December one thousand Eight hundred and four. (signed) Adrian Hegeman Noty Pub.
John Russell of Salisbury in Litchfield of lawfull age testifieth and saith that he was a Sargent (in Capt Mott's company - Afterward command by Capt Ephraim Pheasant in Col. John Lamb's regiment of the State of New York) that he served in said Regiment during the late war between Great Britain and America. and that he depo- nent was well acquainted with Silas Winans who was a Soldier in the same company and regiment and was enlisted during the war. - he obtained a furlow and returned home just before the troops was disbanded, and further the deponent saith not. (signed) John Russell - Litchfield County ss: Salisbury Feby 13 th 1804
Personally appeared John Russell signer to the above deposition and made solemn oath that the same is truth and nothing but the truth, it being taken at the request of Silas Winans and to be used in support of a Petition before the Hon ble General assembly now sitting in Albany Taken by me. Samuel Lee J us P ea (Signed)

I Edmond Per Lee of America in the county of Dutchess of State of New York do hereby certify that Silas Winans served as a Mattrap in captain Gershon Mott's company & Colonel Lamb's regiment of Artillery of said State dur- ing the late revolutionary war between Great Britain and the United States of America and that just previous to the close of said war, the said Silas Winans was absent from his regiment on fur- ough in which time he was taken sick and obtained a certificate from Matthias B. Miller practitioner of Physick in said county that he was unable to return to his said Regiment until the war closed as said Miller informed me, and the regiment disbanded - all which I am personally knowing to. (Signed)
America Jan'y 7 th 1805      Edm d Per Lee State of New York
Dutchess County ss: Personally appeared before me Edmond Per Lee of said County on the tenth day of Jan'y 1805 and being duly sworn saith that the above subscribed certificate is just and true Sworn before me the day and Year as above written. (Signed) Jabez Flint. Justice Peace.
State of New York
County of Green ss: Personally appeared before me Nathaniel Scofield Esq r . one of the Justices of the peace for the said County of Green, Levi Bishop being duly sworn deposeth and saith that

he the said Levi Bishop is personally acquainted with Silas Winans and to all knows that the said Silas Winans was a soldier in one of the regiments in Capt. Gersharm Mott's company commanded by Col. John Lamb
The said Levi Bishop further saith that he was well knowing to the said Silas Winans having a furlough to go home just before the Regiment to which the said Silas Winans did belong was disbanded, the said Levi Bishop above mentioned did absolutely belong to the same company and Regiment to which the said Silas Winans did belong which makes the said Levi Bishop more fully acquainted with every situation of the business.
The said Levi Bishop saith that he the said Levi Bishop did receive the said Silas Winans wages of the paymaster for the said Silas Winans all the back pay and all due except as is excepted in his Land.
Further the deponent saith not Boysackie 28 Feb y . 1803 (Signed) Levi Bishop
Taken & acknowledged before me this twenty eighth day of February 1803.
(Signed) Nathaniel Scofield Justice of Peace Albany County ss:
Be it remembered that on the fourth day of March one thousand eight and three came Jacob Wilsey personally before me Sylvester Ford

one of the Justices of the peace of the said county & after being duly sworn deposed and said that he the said Jacob Willsey Esq r is personally acquainted with Silas Winans and will know that the said Silas Winans was a soldier or one of the Metros in Capt. Gershon Motts company commanded by Col. John Lamb.
The deponent further saith that he was well knowing to the said Silas Winans having a furlow to go home just before the Regiment to which the said Silas Winans did belong was disbanded, the deponent further saith that he did actually belong to the same com- pany and regiment to which the said Silas Winans did belong. — The deponent further saith not. (Signed) Jacob Willsey
Sworn & subscribed before me. Sylvester Ford. J. P. (Signed)
Albany County ss:
Be it remembered that on the third day of March in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and three, Mary Weight to me personally known came before me Sam l Jones Esq r one of the Justices of the peace in & for said county: & after being duly sworn deposed and said that she has been well acquainted with Silas Winans for a term of years and that he enlisted in the service of the United States in the York Line for during the late American War, and that a short time before peace, he went home on a furlow

and soon after was taken sick & remained unable to join his regiment till after the army was disbanded
Sworn & subscribed (Signed) Mary Weight before me
(Signed) Sam l Jones J. P.
State of New York
Senate Chambers: I Isaac R Elwood clerk of the Senate of the State of New York do hereby certify that on the seventh day of February in the Year one thousand eight hundred and seven, as appears from the Journals of the said Senate in the office of the said Clerk, the petition of Silas Winans praying for a grant of military bounty Lands was read, and together with the papers accompanying the same, referred to the com- mittee of claims
I do further certify that among the papers of the Year last aforesaid still remaining in the office aforesaid, I found a certain petition of the said Silas Winans, and six several papers accompanying the same, and that the foregoing is a true & correct copy of the said several papers accompanying said petition.
In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name this fifteenth day of November 1845
Isaac R Elwood

Hon. John C. Calhoun Secretary of the Navy United States
Miss Marianne Wentworth Washington City Feb. 1821
Mr. Conway
Spring February 12th

Waterloo Feb. 10. 1821
Hon. Sir Please have the goodness to cause the returns to the Duration of Silas Winans to be directed to Silas Winans
To be left at the Wolcott Post Office Seneca County Auburn N. Y. Cayuga Co. at the request of and for Silas Winans William Moulton

Rev. War Section.
September 26, 1913.
Mr. Ira Winans,
96 University Avenue,
Rochester, N. Y.
Sir:
In response to your letter dated the 18" and received the 20" instant, you are advised that in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. File No. 16,799. of Catharine and John Winans the names of his father and mother do not appear, nor is there any data on file relative to their residence or births or deaths nor is it stated whether he had any brothers.
This Bureau is unable to furnish the record of a soldier of the Revolution, unless a claim for pension or bounty land has been made on account of his services, and a careful search of the records fails to show such claims on file for Isaac, Lewis and William Winans described by you.
You are herewith furnished the history of Silas Winans, W. File No. 16,527. There is no data relative to his parents on file. In said claim his brother William Winans states that he served in Colonel Samuel B. Webb's regiment in the Revolution, and that he lived in Covert, Seneca County, New York in 1820, but gives no further information in regard to himself.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

1913 Sept. 26, Ira Winans 96 University Place 3-871 Rochester N.Y.
RECORD DIVISION Department of the Interior BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Briefed by AW
Claim No. _____
Certificate No. _____ Claimant a brother of Silas see W16527
Soldier Wm. Winans
Service _____
Additional Service Rev.
No _____ claim, State records _____, 191
No claim, combination records _____, 191
REMARKS:
No claim on file for brother of Silas see Wms aff in claim of Silas W16527

96 University Avenue, Rochester, N. Y. Sep. 18, 1913,
Hon. J. M. Saltzgaber,
Commission of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.,
Dear Sir,
Will you please furnish me with the Rev. War and pension record of Lewis Winans (or Winens) (or Winins) an Enlisted Man, Militia, Dutchess Co., N. Y. 6th Reg't, Captain George Head's Co., Col. Graham's Reg't. He married Martha Culver, on Nov. 7, 1784 in Stanford Baptist Church, Dutchess Co., N. Y. He was brother to John, William Isaac & Silas and they all were Rev. War soldiers - William perhaps an officer. I am gathering genealogical facts of the Winans Family in America and if convenient would like the Rev. War record of each of the above, but especially of Lewis.
Yours sincerely,
4 years & 3 mos service in Rev War Private, 2d & 1st Link, Capt. & Major in Genl War

H. W. JOHNS, Pres t R. H. MARTIN, Vice Pres t
C. H. PATRICK, Treas r G. P. ERHARD, Secy.
H. W. Johns Manufacturing Co.
NEW YORK, JERSEY CITY, CHICAGO, PHILADELPHIA, BOSTON, LONDON.
87 Maiden Lane,
New York, July 31st, 1898.
W part 2
LIQUID PAINTS,
FIRE PROOF PAINTS, COLORS IN OIL, VARNISHES, ETC.
ASBESTOS ROOFING,
ROOF COATINGS, CEMENTS.
ASBESTOS SHEATHING.
(FIRE & WATER PROOF.) MILL BOARD, BUILDING FELT.
ASBESTOS CEMENTS,
FOR RETORTS & FURNACES, PLASTIC STOVE LINING.
ASBESTOS COVERINGS,
FOR STEAM PIPES & BOILERS, SECTIONAL PIPE COVERINGS.
ASBESTOS SUPERATOR.
ASBESTOS FIRE-FELT.
ASBESTO-SPONGE, COVERINGS, LININGS ETC.
ASBESTOS PACKINGS.
ASBESTOS CLOTHS,
THEATRE CURTAINS, FIRE PROOF ROPE, ETC.
VULCABESTON,
INSULATING SHEETS MOULDED PIECES, ETC. FOR ELECTRICAL AND STEAM PURPOSES.
MOULDED MICA,
ELECTRIC RAILWAY INSULATIONS.
FIRE PROOFING MATERIALS.
Hon. Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:-
Will you kindly advise me whether there is, in the archives of your office, any Revolutionary War record of Silas Winans (my great-grandfather)?
I am advised by the Adjutant-General of the State of New York that the name of Silas Winans appears as a private in Captain James Talmage's company of Colonel Roswell Hopkins' Sixth Regiment (Charlotte Precinct) of Dutchess County Militia. It occurs to me that there may be a further record in your office, as he received a land bounty, in about 1821, for Revolutionary War services.
Copies of any records you may have will be appreciated. The information is wanted simply as a matter of interesting family history.
Yours very truly,
J. Miller

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Winnans, William GRADE Private LINE Connecticut
WARRANT NUMBER 6689 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Aug. 10, 1797 to not shown
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.