Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 11153, Ahijah Warren, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Warren, Ahijah Elijah or
P 11153
CONTENTS

No. 9214 Abijah Warren
proof rec'd
5.17
30. Nov. '32
P 121.
Thos. Beals Canandaigua N.Y.

BRIEF in the case of Abijah Warren of Bristol in the State of N. York (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? in open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? Seventy Seven years  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     Spring In 1775 6 Musician Capt. Nathan Welch - Connec.   1776 X 3 Capt. Goodings Comp'y "   1777 states that, he was but in service "between two and three months" 3 Capt. Waugh's do   after the above service, states that he was served "about two months and an half" but under Lieut. Gibbs, and  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Harlem Heights  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Simsfield - Connecticut  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional evidence alone  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? the papers are correct in form and authentication 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
X Supplemental 14 mo.
W. Gordon Examining Clerk.

State of New York, } In the matter of Abijah Warren's Ontario County } 3 applications for a pension
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the Peace in and for said county Abijah Warren who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that when he made his declarations before the County Court on the 28 th day of August 1832 for a Pension, to which this is an amendment, he intended to answer the requirements of the War Department - He is now required to mention with precision the length of his service and the grade in which he served - In the year 1775 as under his first head he served no less than Six months - and under his second head in 1776 he served not less than three months, and in 1777 as under his third head not less than two months and a half, and under his 4 th head which he believes was in 1778 but is not positive as to the year he served, not less than two and a half months, in all not less than Fourteen months, as a musician, for which he claims a pension - He is required to answer the 7 interrogatories prescribed by the War Department - The four first interrogatories he has answered in his original declaration - to the 5 th interrogatory he now says that owing to the infirmities of age, he cannot give the names of the Regiments that were in the service with him - He remembers General Waterbury, and General Schuyler being at Ticonderoga, but the Regiments at New York he does not remember.
There were a great many troops, but he cannot give the names - nor can he give the names of the Regiments with which he served as under his 3 rd and 4 th heads.
In answer to the 6 th interrogatory he now says, he has no documentary evidence, and does not remember that he ever had any - The 7 th interrogatory he has answered
Sworn to and subscribed } this 26 day of February 1833 } Henry Chaplin J.P.
Abijah Warren

State of New-York, Ontario County ss. } I, Charles Crane, Clerk of said county, do hereby certify that Henry Chapin, whose name is subscribed to the within certificate of affidavit, was, at the date thereof, a Jus- tice of the peace in and for said County; And that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe the said signature to be his proper act and deed.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this eleventh day of March A.D. 1833.
Charles Crane

State of New York } Ontario County } ss.
On this twenty eighth day of August 1832 personally appeared in open court, before the Judges of the County Court now sitting. Ahijah Warren of the town of Bristol County and State aforesaid aged Seventy two  seven years who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his Oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7. 1832
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as herein stated.
1 st In the Spring of the year 1775 at Litchfield County State of Connecticut, he enlisted in Captain or Major Welch's Company of Infantry as a musician for six months, and was first ordered to the North, and was marched through Barrington, Sheffield to the Hudson River and then to Lake George and then to Ticonderoga and there joined Colonel Heilmans Regiment. part of the Company went to St Johns, but this declarant, remained at Ticonderoga under Lieut Beebe, and there done Garrison duty. Quarter Master Osborn remained, served out his time and was then discharged and went home. 2 nd The next year, about Harvest time at Litchfield as aforesaid, he was drafted into the service to go to New York in Captain Goodings Company. do not remember the Colonels name. Went to Norwalk and then in a Vessel to New York and landed there, and after about a week went to Long Island, and when the Army retreated from New York, this declarant was in the Boats all night, at the oar. After this we retreated to Kingsbridge, and on the way, had an engagement with the British at Harlem Heights. Saw General Washington Often. After this went to White Plains and soon after was discharged, and

6- 3110 3 o went home. Served three months. The next year about Harvest time was drafted in Captain Waugh's Company to go to West-Point and was then put into Captain Marsh Company and went on to Esopus a day or two after it was burned and remained on this station until after the news of General Burgoyne's surrender when he was discharged and went home. Was out on this tour between two and three months.
4 th After this, at the time the British went to New-London was drafted for the service on the Sound, and was marched to New Haven and was under Lieutenant Gibbs, and did duty there for about two and a half months, was discharged and went home.
He has no documentary evidence knows of no person who served with him.
He was born at Farmington, Connecticut on the 16 the the 16 th day of October 1755. He has no record of his age lived at Litchfield South Farms when called into the service, lived there until 1790, when he removed to Vermont and lived there about 12 years, and then to Bristol in Ontario County where he now resides and has resided for thirty years past.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State.
He knows Reuben Parmelee of Victor & Ellored Porter of Bristol
Sworn to & subscribed to the days year aforesaid in Open Court
Elijah Warner

Thomas Beals
agent
Canandaigua
N.Y.
Canandaigua,
Thomas Beals, Esq.
John

State of Connecticut Comptroller's office Hartford
13 th November 1834
On examination of the books of this office, it appears, that in April 1775 David Welch was appointed second Major, and Captain of the fourth company in the first Regiment, commanded by Major General David Wooster as Colonel - Major Welch served with his company at the Northward, the company were paid by the State on the 12 th day of April 1776. On the 2 nd day of September 1776, the pay rolls of all the troops that served in said campaign, were ordered to be delivered to Jonathan Trumbull Jun r paymaster general to the forces of the United States in the Northern department, with an order from Major General Schuyler to pay the amount to the State of Connecticut.
That on the 11 th day of August 1776, A large detachment of militia were ordered from this state to march to New York and put themselves under the command of General Washington. The State of Connecticut did not pay the wages (generally) only a very small portion and a part of the contingent expenses of said militia, and there are no pay rolls, nor any record in this office by which can be ascertained the names of the persons, or how long a time they served.
That on the 6 th August & 30 th September 1777, large detachments of the militia, ordered to Pechskill (in compliance with a requisition from General Washington) to join General Putnam

The State paid only the contingent expenses, no pay roll here, nor any record, shewing the name of Captain Waugh nor any of the privates that served with him -
Certified by
Roger Huntington Comptroller of Public Accounts

State of Connecticut Comptroller's office Hartford 13 th Nov r 1834
On examination of the Files of this office, it appears, that on the Roll of discharges from the first & fourth regiments in the year 1775. is entered the name of Elijah Warren in Major Welch's company. discharged September 2 nd by Colonel Hinman.
Certified by Roger Huntington Comptroller of Public Accounts
Office M.
Washington Center Nov 14 th 1834.
Thos. Beall Esq;
Sir Sir: Immediately after my return, your memorandum was submitted to our Comptroller, but owing partly to his absence & partly to the indefinite nature of the enquiry, I have only been able to get his answer this mornf.; The pay rolls of all these troops were forwarded to the new office, & are, now, doubtless there. Of the New-London service, no information can be given without knowing the name of the Capt or Col; - Lieut. Gibbs does not appear on the files. Regretting the delay I remain,
Sir Sir,
Respectfully your obedt Servt Thos M. Halland
Paid the comptroller one dollar. }

State of New York Ontario County
In the matter of Abijah Warren's application for a pension
On this Fifteenth day of January 1835 personally appeared before me, Jeffrey Chipman Esquire, a justice of the peace in and for said County, Abijah Warren to me well known, who being duly sworn according to Law doth depose and say, that he, in the month of August 1832 made application for a pension for services rendered the United States during the War of the Revolution, under the act of 7 June 1832, and that his original declaration is now on the files of the War Department, as he has been before informed by letters from the Pension Office to his agent Thomas Pease - That he has subsequently amended the same and sent to the department such proof as he has been able to obtain - That he has since been required to send to the state of Connecticut, for proof in the state offices - That in obedience to that order, he sent to Hartford and procured the certificate of the Comptroller, which is hereto attached - That in the Certificate his services, so far as the records will supply are certified under the name of "Elijah Warren" instead of "Abijah Warren" - He now says that he is the same person therein described - That there was no other man in Major Welsh's company by the name of "Warren" That his christian name is an uncommon one, that he has often been called and addressed as "Elijah Warren", and "Abijah Warren" - He refers to his original declaration, and says that he performed the services therein set forth, and that he is the same man named in the certificate of Dept. Comptroller herewith -
Abijah Warren
Subscribed and sworn before me the day & year first above mentioned - Jeffrey Chipman J.P.
Orange Woodruff of Canandaigua being duly sworn according to Law, doth depose and say that some time in 1833 he was called upon to testify to the Revolutionary services of the Reverend Abijah Warren, who has subscribed the foregoing, and he is now called to testify further in consequence of a certificate herein from the state office at Hartford - He now says that he has known the said Abijah Warren ever since he this deponent was a child - That he was well acquainted in the town of Litchfield, where he lived during the Revolution,

War, and after - That he did not know any other man in said town by the name of Warren, except the individual now present - That he knew Major Welsh, named in the certificate hereto attached, and knew him as captain Welsh. He believes that Abijah Warren now present is the person meant in said certificate as Elijah Warren, and he further saith, that he has often heard, from intercourse with old men, the services of said Abijah Warren spoken of in the War of the Revolution, and has never heard it questioned or doubted -
Subscribed and sworn before me the day and year first above mentioned -
Orange Jan 1835
Jeffrey Chipman J.P.
I certify that I am personally acquainted with Abijah Warren & Orange Woodruff who have respectively subscribed and sworn to the foregoing affidavit, and know them to be credible persons - and that the said Abijah Warren until prevented by infirmity, officiated as a Congregational clergyman, and as I am well informed is now in good and regular standing with that denomination of Christians.
Jeffrey Chipman J.P.
State of New-York Ontario County p.
I certify that Jeffrey Chipman whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificates is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly elected and sworn, and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and will believe the said signatures to be genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County this 15 th day of January 1835
F. B. Crane, Deputy Clerk

92 1/4 Elijah Warren
Thomas Beals Agent Canandaigua
28 1/2 10 1/2 10 1/2 10 1/2

We Reuben Parmelee a Clergyman residing in the Town of Victor in the County of State aforesaid & Moses Porter residing in the Town of Bristol in said County & State do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Elijah Warren who has Subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy  seventy years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion
Reuben Parmelee
Moses Porter
Subscribed & sworn the days & year aforesaid in open Court.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Reuben Parmelee, who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident of the town of Victor, and that Moses Porter, who has also signed the same, is a resident of the town of Bristol, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, Charles Crane, Clerk of the said Court, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Elijah Warren for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, at Canandaigua, this first day of September A. D. 1832.
Charles Crane
Passed

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Abijah Warren  which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? no. VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? yes
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? yes
XIV. †If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office?
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
XVI. ‡Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? yes
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? The Court certify that the interrogatories were put to the Applicant but not embodied
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
“Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For _____ year _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____. For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension.”

11100
P. O.
Abijah Warren
Service: _____
1-0
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

J. S. Edwards Esq Washington D.C.

Warsaw N.Y. 12 th July 1847.
Dear Sir
Abijah Warren in 1832 applied for a pension & his case was suspended & Will you please to inform me by mail of the present condition of the claim & the objection to it & also furnish copies of the correspondence in the case & oblige Yours Respectfully A. L. Lynde

New-York, } ss: Ontario }
CHARLES CRANE, Clerk of the county of Ontario, do hereby certify, that Jeffrey Chipman whose name is subscribed to the certificate of affidavit to which this certificate is an- nected, was at the date of said certificate and at the time the said affidavit purports to have been sworn & taken a Justice of the Peace in and for said county. And I further certify that I have compared the same with the hand writing of the said Jeffrey and verily believe the same to be genuine.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said county, at Canandaigua, this twelfth day of June in the year of our Lord 1834.
Charles Crane, Clerk.

State of New York Ontario County } 3
In the matter of Shijah Warren's application for a pension.
Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Notary Public in and for said County Shijah Warren who being duly sworn according to Law doth depose and say that he is informed by his agent that his application for a pension under the act of 7 th June 1832 is suspended for some proof, and that he did not state that he had used proper diligence to find some witness.
He now says that he has used proper diligence to procure testimony of some person who served with him, but has not been able to procure any. He further saith that he is well acquainted with Orange Woodruff a resident of the town of Canandaigua, now present, and that he knew him in Litchfield in Connecticut, and lived near him when he entered the service of the United States during the Revolutionary War, and besides this witness he does not know of any person whose testimony he can procure to support his declaration. He therefore prays that his case may be considered and he placed on the pension roll agreeable to the provisions of the act before referred to, for his said services during the Revolutionary War.
Sworn to and Subscribed this 21 August 1833 before me
Shijah Warren
Thomas Pratt Not. Pub.
Orange Woodruff a resident of the town of Canandaigua aged Sixty eight years who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth depose and say, that he was born in Litchfield Connecticut and lived there until the year 1783. That he well knows Shijah Warren above named and now present at the taking of this deposition. That during the War of the Revolution, but he does not remember what year, the said Shijah Warren was a fifer and he saw him often embodied with the troops, and marching with his company, but cannot now remember who were his

officer - He knows that he went away in the service at several different times, and saw him after his return -
He well remembers that he was gone to the Northward on one campaign for six months - He has heard that he was in the service in New York and on Long Island, and he has always understood and believes that the said Abijah Warren was a Soldier during the Revolutionary War, and attached to the service, and he has never heard it questioned, or doubted, but this deponent was not in the service with him, but he had three Brothers in the service at different periods of the War who were older than himself, and he had a desire to go himself, but his father was not willing to have him go -
Sworn to and Subscribed to this 21 day of August 1833 before me
Orange Woodruff
Thomas Pratt Not. Pub.
I certify that the abovenamed Orange Woodruff is a credible person -
Thomas Pratt Not. Pub.
State of New-York, } Ontario County ss } I, Charles Crane, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify that Thomas Beall, whose name is subscribed to the within and above certificates, was at the date thereof, a Notary Public in and for said county; and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe the said signatures to be his proper act and deed.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this twenty-third day of August A. D. 1833.
Charles Crane
Ontario County ss. I certify that I am acquainted with Orange Woodruff, the subscriber to the above affidavit taken before Thomas Beall Esq. on the 21st day of August 1833, and know that he is a credible person in and that on this 11th of June 1834 the said Orange Woodruff came before me, and made solemn oath that the said affidavit containing the truth, and nothing else.
Jeffrey Chipman, Justice of the Peace of the said county.
Abijah Warren
Thomas Beall Esq.

New York
Recd:
Elijah Elijah Wance 11153 Suspended
let. Thos Beals 20 July
'33 —
let. to same 29 Ap. '34
" " do 11 Sept. '34
" " do 20 " "
" " do 2 Feb'y '35
let to A. L. Lynde
August 2 nd 1847.
Act 7 June '32