Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 11132, Ichabod Warden, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Warden, Ichabod Warden or
R 11132
Margaret
CONTENTS

Abt to Mr. Chapin Mar 28 '45
Ichaboa Warder - Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Webb of the Connecticut Line, for the term of Three Years.
13.170 1/2 48.775 New York
Ichaboa Warder
of Jefferson County in the state of New York who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Webb of the Connecticut Line, for the term of Three Years
scribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 10 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 of July 1819 and lent to Aaron Palmer of Champion New York
  Arrears to 4th of  Mar. 1819.  85.03    emi-anl. all'ce ending  4 Sep 1819.  48.00    18 Mo \frac{15}{30}  \frac{4}{51}   $133.03  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued

I Warden
13.170
13 July 1919.

STATE OF NEW YORK, JEFFERSON COUNTY, ss.
July — 1820
On this 5 th day of July 1820 personally appeared in open court, being a court of record by a law of said state for the said county Jehabod Coorlen aged fifty eight years, resident in the Town of Waddington in said county, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows:
As a Private in Capt. Stephens company of Infantry, 2 nd Regt. Com mand ed by Col. D. D. Webb , Connecticut line — the date of his Original declaration Ap. 14 th 1818 — the number of his Pension Certificate 10,170 — He also subscribed and sworn to the following —
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby 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, in the Revolutionary War, passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
Schedule
Jehabod Coorlen
And Cow — one plough one harrow one old axe and one old Hoe —
He further states that his occupation is a farmer and has been in ill health for thirty seven years and is now unable to labor sufficiently for his maintenance his wife Margaret fifty four years old resides with his son Steph Coorlen
Sworn to and declared before Geo. Andrews C. Clerk on the 5 th day of July 1820 —
I Geo Andrews Clerk of the county of Jefferson, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is Thirty four dollars, and Seventy five cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court, on this 5 th day of
July 1820 Geo. Andrews Clerk of the Court for Jefferson County

Ichabod Warden Private Col. Webb's Conn. Regt 3 years
Ichabod Warden, Private, Jefferson County, N.Y. Col. Samuel B. Webb's reg't Conn. line 1781 to 1783.
16. April, 1818.
Not found on rolls.
Aaron Palmer, judge, Champion, N.Y. Admitted
Ichabod Warden - enlistment

State of New-York, } Town of Chisholm -  Jefferson County, } ss. in said County April 16 th
On this Sixteenth day of April - 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County personally appears Isaac Borden aged 56 - years, resident in the said district, 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 Isaac Borden enlisted in Sturges town in the state of Connecticut in the company commanded by Captain Hopkins of the 3 d Regiment Connecticut Light Artillery that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States until the 19 th of June , when he was discharged from service in city of New York state of New York that he was in the battles of Red Bank, Red Bank, Red Bank, Red Bank, Red Bank  1777 - He was  enlisted in service  1777 - He was  honorably discharged  by order of General Howe - 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 services. Being personally examined with the said Borden Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.
Horatio Nelson one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Jefferson
I, Horatio Nelson Judge, &c. as aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Isaac Borden - did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. Witness my hand & the said Court
B. Mennet Clerk - Horatio Nelson  of Jefferson County N York
W. H. ...

I certify that Ichabod Horton stands in kind of assistance from his country for his support. Aaron Palmer Judge Champlain July 10 th 1819
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State of New York
Onondaga County
ss: Humphrey Brown of Camillus in said County being duly sworn says, that he has a sister Margaret who was married to Ichabod Worden in February 1781. That deponent was present at their marriage at Stonington in Connecticut and saw the ceremony performed by Charles Phelps Esq who was then a Justice of the peace. That said Ichabod Worden was a soldier in the army of the Revolution at the time of his said marriage, and received a pension from the United States the last few years of his life as deponent was informed and believes - That said Ichabod Worden and his wife were living at Brighton in the State of New York and the said Ichabod is reported to have died there in November last, and from information deponent believes that Margaret Worden, the widow of said Ichabod and the sister of deponent, resides there at the present time.
Humphrey Brown
State of New York
County of Onondaga
ss: Be it known that on the 19 th day of April 1845 before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County, personally appeared the above named Humphrey Brown and made oath that the facts are true as stated in his preceding affidavit; and I certify that the said Humphrey is a credible witness on whom full reliance may be placed.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year last above mentioned before me.
E. Rockwell Justice of the Peace

State of New York } County of Oneida }
State of New York County of Oneida } I Delos Dewolf Clerk of the said County of Oneida do hereby certify that C Rockwell Esq., before whom the preceding affidavit of Humphrey Brown purports to have been taken, was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said County, and that I am acquaint- ed with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said jurat of affidavit to be his proper hand writing, and signature.
Witness my hand and day of May 1845.
Witness my hand and seal of office, this Eighth day of May 1845. Delos Dewolf Clerk for James Edgar Dyer

6548,
Margaret Ward widow of Ichabod NY
Re Jng 25, 1845,
act 4 Jny 1836

State of New York County of Monroe } ss:
On this 20 th day of June 1845 personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas, held at the City of Rochester, in and for said County of Monroe, Margaret Worden, a resident of Brighton in the said County of Monroe aged Eighty one years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the acts of congress passed July 4 th 1836, and the acts supplementary to, or amending the same:— That she is the widow of Ichabod Worden who was a Private in the Army of the Revolution, that in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty one the said Ichabod Worden voluntarily enlisted for during the war— that he obtained his discharge at the close of the war— that said Ichabod Worden obtained a certificate for a pension as a revolutionary soldier, dated July 3, 1819 marked No 13170 and continued to draw such pension until his death in November last— that his services were particularly set forth in his declaration on file at the pension office, made when he applied for a pension, to which she refers.— That she has no documentary evidence to support her claim,
She further declares that she was married to the said Ichabod Worden on the seventh day of February in the year 1781— that her husband the aforesaid Ichabod Worden died on the first day of November 1844, that she was married to him prior to his leaving the service, and that she is now the widow of said Ichabod Worden, and has been the widow of him ever since that period, as will appear by the annexed affidavit of Gideon Cobb.
Sworn to and subscribed on

The day and year above written in open court before the Judge thereof
her Margaret X Worden mark
P. G. Beckham First Judge
State of New York } Monroe, Court of Common Pleas June 20 th 1845 County of Monroe } p: Gideon Cobb of Brighton in said State being sworn in open court before the Judges of the court of common pleas in and for said County deposes and says - that for the twenty years last past he has intimately known Ichabod Worden and Margaret Worden his wife - that the said Ichabod drew a pension as a revolutionary soldier during the latter part of his life and died on the first day of November last at his residence in said town of Brighton - that said Margaret (the same person who made the preceding declaration,) was left as the widow of said Ichabod and has remained his widow ever since his death to the present time.
Subscribed and sworn in open court on the day and year above written before the Judges of said Court by Gideon Cobb a credible witness,
Gideon Cobb
P. G. Beckham First Judge
I Charles J. Hill, Clerk of the court of common pleas in and for the county of

Monroe, State of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the mat- ter of the application of Margaret Woodson for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have here- unto set my hand and seal of office this twentieth day of June 1845.
M. Hill Clerk of Monroe County

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Schubert Warden or Wardlaw a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Jan 1781 to Dec 7, 1780 Priv. Hopkins Samuel B. Webb Conn.          
Battles engaged in, _____
Residence of soldier at enlistment, set at Stonington Conn.
Date of application for pension, Apr 16, 1818. His ch. was al.
Residence at date of application, Champlain Jefferson Co. N.Y.
Age at date of application, 56. Recd. Nov. 1, 1844 at Brighton Monroe Co. N.Y.
Remarks: del. Mar. Feb. 11, 1781 at Stonington Conn. Margaret Brown Sheld. Aug. 12, 1824 ae 81 . They had a large family, only names stated being son Russel and dau. Mrs. Sarah Thayer born about 1804.
Respectfully,
Office note No use to mention that widow claim was Commissioner. 6-2856 not allowed, she died before furnishing proof of marriage that is all.

Benton Harbor Michigan 563 Broadway Feb. 18-1920.
Rev. Sec. aw
Com. of Pensions Washington D.C.
Dear Sir! -
Have you a war record of "Ichabod Wooden" from Com. did he or his wife receive a pension, enclose addressed envelope for reply. Thank You.
Respectfully Yours Marina Wooden. Gaimack.

Ex. ad Div. Rev. War Section
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 8, 1920
The attached letter is respectfully returned with the information that the data furnished is not sufficient to enable this Bureau to make intelligent answer to the queries therein contained.
Please fill out such of the blank spaces below as the information in your possession will permit, and return to this Bureau.
Name of widow  Margaret Brown
Name of soldier Ichabod Woodruff
Revolutionary Soldier
no address of claimant, at enlistment
Company Capt Riley's 1781-1783-
Regiment Connecticut Line Artillery 1777
State where enlisted Unable to find out.
Capt Williams Co. 1779
If unable to furnish company and regiment give names of commanding officers.
Born Jan. 24 - 1761 - Westerly R.I.
approximate dates of birth & death
Return attached letter with reply.
J. M. [unclear] Commissioner.

REJECTED
11.132.
P. O.
Margaret Warden
Service:
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleged:
The printed list of 1852 gives 'Cause of Suspension'
Re-enlisted:
as follows.
"Suspended for proof of marriage"
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18
1900 Mar. 29. Recit. to M. M. Gammache. see

Schabes Meadow Penn. N.Y. March 6. 1867 13,170 - Oct 18, N.Y.
your most Excellency President of the United States Sir I having heard much of your good- ness of heart and willingness to do right by all of your subject, I take the liberty to ask one favour my father Dehatode Worden was a Revolutionary soldier five years his discharge was sent to Washington from which he received his pension but not in hand it is this I trouble you he was a poor man of a large family of whom most of them have gone to their rest my father died in the year 1842 my mother in 43 and now there is three surviving children I am the youngest and very poor. There was an agent in that district a lawyer who undertook to get it for me after getting four or five dollars from me has not wrote to me since that was in the year 1854 I can send you his last letter if you desire desire now what I wish to

interest you in my behalf in getting this land for me as I am very nearly as I believe this letter will be of some service to you & will send it if you & will be so kind to answer this letter it will oblige me very much please to direct to Mrs Sarah Maye Rochester in care of J. Cott
P.S. This is the last letter I have received

Byron
(Large decorative flourish or signature)
Dept Int
Apr 12/65
Respectfully referred to the.
Comm Pensions
Mr. Whitney
Actg Secy

Washington City March 29 th 1854.
Sawson Thayer, Esq. Brighton Mass. I hear Sir.
In reply to your favor of the 20 th inst relative to the claim of Richard Warden, deceased. I beg to inform you that I am progressing with his case as fast as the present ar- rear of business at the Pension Office will admit of, and as the multiplicity of business heretofore existing at the Department is now nearly disposed of I hope at no very distant day to write you as to the result of my efforts, on which you may confidently rely in the interim.
You may rest assured that I will do all in my power to advance the interests of the heirs.
Very Respectfully Yours Off. Secy. L. M. Wright

M. Chapin 1 Sept. 1845

Pension Office 13 Sept. 1. August 1845
Sir,
In the case of Margaret Ward who is applying for a pension under the act of 4 July 1836 as the widow of Ichabod Ward, the service of her husband is satisfactory. But the act of the marriage must be established by the certificate of the Town Clerk or by the register of the church in Stonington, or by some other record or documentary evidence public or private, of attainable. It must be shown that proof of the above grade does not exist before the testimony of Inducement can be received. The only proof in this present case is the affidavit of claimant's brother H. Brown which is not at all satisfactory.
Wm. Chapin Esq. Rochester New York

M. Chapin
22 Sep. 1845

337 Pension Office September 22. 1845
Sir,
It is exceedingly difficult to answer all the enquiries which correspondents submit to this Office; for one answer to a question frequently elicits many more questions. In the case of Margaret Warden, it will be proper that efforts should be made to obtain proof of the marriage from the Town Clerk and all of the Churches in the Town where she was married, if she cannot recollect the denomination to which the clergyman belonged who married her. If she knows that any member of her family, or any of her relatives or connections, possess a family register containing a record of her marriage, she must obtain a copy of that register, sworn to by some one who has had it in his or her possession; and if no such register exists within her knowledge, she must swear to that fact.
I
Moses Chapin Esq Rochester, N. York
6548 N-York act '36

Rochester N.Y. March 22. 1845
J. L. Edwards Esq Com d a Dear
Schabed Worden a pensioner died last November. His widow Margaret Worden was married to him in February 1781. He continued in service some years after their marriage, and was here and there as duty called him. I conclude she is entitled to a pension. May she rely on his declaration filed in your office on which a pension was granted to him as conclusion of his service , or must she prepare a statement of facts? Her state of memory is such that if she ever knew, she could not now state the time, place and incidents of his service. If she is required only to prove her marriage, his death &c she can proceed with hope - if she is also required to prove the detail of his service she may as well stop without attempt- ing it.
Yours very truly
Moses Chapin

Hon J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D. C.
Major Woodruff
721

Rochester N.Y. Sept 16. 1845
J. L. Edwards Esq Com r of Pensions
Sir
From yours of 1 st inst I learn that the proof is not sufficient to sustain the application of Margaret Worden for a pension.
I have your circular of directions dated July 9. 1836 to carry into effect the pension act of July 4. 1836. This contains the only rules I have ever seen under that act. In rule 3 it is said "The legality of the marriage may be ascertained by the certificate of the clergyman who joined them in wedlock, or the testimony of respectable persons having knowledge of the fact."
In rule 6 it is said "Claimants under the third section of the law . . . must show when they were legally married" &c.
Mrs Worden in her declaration sets forth that she has no documentary evidence to support her claim - that she was married to Ichabod Worden February 11. 1781. The witness Humphrey Brown swears that he was present at her marriage in February 1781. This is all the testimony which Mrs Worden could procure, and we supposed it met

the requirement of your rules:
In yours of the 1 st inst you say - "the date of the marriage must be established by the certificate of the Town Clerk, or by the Register of the church in Stonington, or by some other record or documentary evidence public or private if attainable. It must be shown that proof of the above grade does not exist , before the testimony of individuals can be received."
It seems to us that your requirements often go beyond your printed rules. As a matter of fact we are satisfied that no record or documentary evidence public or private exists or is attainable. But our difficulty is how to show this. There is of course but one town clerk, we can get his certificate. But there are churches of different denominations in Stonington. I would respectfully ask for information whether we should get a certificate from the register or keeper of the records of each church? There may be various private records, such as family records in distant branches of the family - how are we required to show that such do not exist?
Pardon these inquiries, which I know cause trouble to your office, but it is better that with previous knowledge of requirements a poor pensioner should know that proof cannot be reached, than to spend money in useless

and unswerving efforts.
Very respectfully yours
Moses Chapin

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4548
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Margaret Marden NY
Letter to Moses Chapin 1. Sept. 1845
do. to same Sept. 22. 1845
Mrs. S. Thayer, Apl. 21 st 1865, B.S. cannot find Miss Marden
11132
act 4 July 1836

Senah Thair for Ichabod Worden Margaret Worden N. York Oct. 1836.
May have been allies =
NY

POWER OF ATTORNEY
For ascertaining whether any increase or arrears of Pension are due the Widow or heirs of Revolutionary Pensioners, &c.*
State of New York }
County of Morris }
Be it known that before me
Delos Wentworth a Justice of the Peace personally appeared Martha Thayer aged 48 years, who being duly cautioned and then sworn in due form of law, states that she is the Daughter of  Isaac Wentworth who was a Revolutionary Soldier, or Pensioner  presently of the State of Connecticut and that he died on the 1st day of November 184 4 and that her mother named Margaret Wentworth died on the 12th day of August 184 5 and that they were married on the 20th day of August in the year 178 0 and that they were residents of Stonington in the State of Connecticut and that they resided there eleven years and that she resides in Brighton, Morris Co. and that furthermore she BY THESE PRESENTS, constitutes, appoints and fully empowers and authorizes irrevocably and with powers of substitution— F. E. Hassler, of Washington City, D. C., as her true and lawful Attorney for her and in her name and stead, to examine into, to prosecute, to demand, and to receive from the U. S. Government Officers her rights in all and in any manner of claim for increase or arrears of Pension or Land, that may be due her as Daughter of  Isaac Wentworth who died leaving, the same undrawn, as in right of law, custom, or equity she is or may be entitled, as for his services by small bequest to one half of all the money and land collected by him IN WITNESS WHEREOF she has on this 18th day of June 185 6 hereunto signed her name and affixed her seal.
Martha Thayer (L. S.)
Witness: H. S. Adams }
Witness: M. L. H. Ranford }
Signed, sealed, acknowledged and sworn to before me, on this Tuesday second day of June 185 6
Delos Wentworth J. P. (L. S.)
At the same time personally appeared before me Henry J. Adams  Delos Wentworth a Justice of the Peace two credible and disinterested witnesses named Adams and Hannah Briggs residents of the aforesaid County and State, who having been by me cautioned and then duly sworn according to law, do depose and say each for himself, that he has always heard it said and it is generally believed by the community that Isaac Wentworth was a Revolutionary Soldier, and that Martha Thayer was by him always treated as and is by the witnesses believed to be the Daughter of the said Revolutionary Soldier.
Henry J. Adams (L. S.)
Hannah Briggs
Sworn to before me the day and year first above written.
Delos Wentworth J. P. (L. S.)
State of New York } to wit: County of Morris }
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That Delos Wentworth Esq., before whom the foregoing affidavits and acknowledgment were made, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature above written is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of etc. County Court, this 23rd day of June one thousand eight hundred and fifty six .
John Lacey Clerk.
* If a Widow applies state "the date of marriage, and date of death of her husband."

BY THE HONOURABLE MAJOR-GENERAL K N O X,
Commanding the AMERICAN FORCES on Hudson's River.
Ichabod Warden Soldier in Company of Connecticut Troops
being enlisted for Three Years, is hereby honourably DISCHARGED from the Service of the United States.
Given in the State of New-York,
the fourteenth Day of Decem-
ber 1789 —
By the General's Command
Henry Myn
in Deputy Adjt Genl
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,

Rochester N.Y. July 23 1845
Hon. of Pensions
Sir
I enclose papers on the application of Margaret Worden for a pension. Please send return to me and at your earliest convenience.
I went a journey and left the papers with my clerk. On coming home I find that they remain unsent.
Yours truly
Moses Chapin