Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 11155, Enoch Warren, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Warren, Enoch
R 11155
CONTENTS

V o 12,763
Enoch Warren " "
5.16
P. 371.
4 May 33
James Robinson Ag t Elmira Tioga Co N. York

No 12,763
BRIEF in the case of  Enoch Warren of Chemung County  of Tioga — in the State of New York  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?
Before a Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
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3. How old is he?
68 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.     In 1780 May 3 upwards As a private Genl. Greene  Leofistd Col. Saml. B. Webb Major John Davenport  
5. In what battles was he engaged?
none stated
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
in Norwalk - Conn.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
By traditionary evidence
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
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X Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
James Odell Examining Clerk.

Enoch Warren Declaration 12.7.63.
Debut to the care of James Robinson Agent Elvira Tioga County N. York

State of New York } Niagara County ss }
Mary Warren of the Town of Cheektowaga in said County being duly sworn doth depose and say that this deponent is a sister to Enoch Warren named in the annexed Petition and that her age is sixty six years and upwards - that in the year 1780 she lived in the town of Norwalk in the County of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut - that her said Brother entered the service of the United States in the Revolutionary war in the spring of the year 1780 for the purpose, as was said at the time, in the family, of defending the sea board, and, according to the best of her recollection, he continued in the said service till the close of the war in 1783 - That she remembers it from the circumstances of her Father and Mother being very anxious about his welfare and their frequent conversations in regard to his said service -
Sworn and subscribed this 11th day of June 1833 before me -
Mary Warren
J. H. Maxwell Court Deeds Niagara Co

State of New York Troya County ss
Enoch Warren the applicant in the foregoing declaration being duly sworn doth depose and say that being required by the War Department to furnish the best evidence he can procure to sustain his said declaration says that the testimony of his sister Mercy contained in the foregoing affidavit which is the tradition and understanding of the family at the time and since is all the evidence in his power to produce to sustain his said declaration and humbly submits it to the sound discretion of the department
sworn & subscribed this 11 th June 1833 before me —
Enoch Warren
J. H. Maxwell Comr. Deeds, Troya Co
State of New York Troya County ss
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Mercy Warren & Enoch Warren who have subscribed and sworn to the foregoing affidavits and that they are credible witnesses.
J. H. Maxwell Comr Deeds Troya Co

State of New York } Tioga County ss } I, Green M. Fithill Clerk of the said County do hereby certify that Samuel H Maxwell before whom the foregoing affidavits purport to have been subscribed & sworn and by whom the foregoing certificate of Cridlebury is signed was a Commissioner in and for said County duly authorized to administer Oaths and take affidavits to be read in any Court in the State - that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and know his signature subscribed to the said affidavits & Certificate to be genuine
Witness my hand & seal of office this 12 th day of June 1833
Green M Fithill Clerk

At a Court of Common Pleas held at the Court House in the Village of Canajoharie in and for the County of Mohawk in the State of New York commencing on the fourth day of September 1832 - present - Hon. Grafton Baldwin first Judge, John A. Drake, Joseph L. Girling, Darius Bentley & Elijah Shoemaker Esqrs State of New York Judges -
Mohawk County ss - On this 4 th day of September 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Judges aforesaid being a Court of record because made so by the Consti- tution and Laws of the State having by law a Clerk and seal, Now sitting Enoch Warren a resident of the Town of Chemung in the County of Mohawk and State of New York aged sixty eight years the fifth day of July last 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 th 1832 - that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated - that in the month of May in the year 1780 he enlisted for the defense of the Sea Board for the term of during the war in the Regiment of Col. Samuel B. Webb under Capt. Gershom Safford, Lieutenant John Bigbee and Ensign Edmund Richards; Major John Davenport commanded in the same Regiment - that he continued in

the service for upwards of three years when he was discharged in the month of August 1783 - That the nature of his service was to aid in guarding the Coast upon Long Island Sound against the encroachments of the enemy who during all the time of his said service held the command of those waters and who the summer previous to his enlistment had landed and burnt the Town of Norwalk the place of his nativity and residence - Plundered New Haven, burnt East-haven, Fairfield and Greens Farms while Gen. Putnam was at his out post at Horse Neck - These destructive operations of the Enemy occasioned the establishment in the spring of 1780 of an efficient defense upon the Coast so as to prevent all intercourse between the inhabitants and the shipping of the Enemy - he was not stationed perma- nently at any particular place but was ordered to the relief of the various posts as circumstances might require - That he has no documentary evidence of his service in his possession and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his said services

And in answer to the several interrogatories put to him by the Court he says that he was born in the Town of Norwalk in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut on the fifth day of July in the year 1764: that he has in his possession a record of his birth which he took from his father's record of his age which he believes is correct - that when he entered the service aforesaid he lived in the place of his nativity that after the close of the Revolutionary war he lived at the same place till the year 1792 when he came and settled at his present residence in Chemung aforesaid where he has continued to live from that time to the present - that he entered the service as one of the volunteer militia liable to do duty and would doubtless have been drafted for that service had he not have voluntarily enlisted that in addition to the field officers already named in the foregoing he was acquainted with Gen. Putnam - That he never received any other discharge than a verbal dismission that he would refer to Henry Wells John G. McCosker, Jacob Loosman and Jacob Krapf who are his neighbors and well acquainted with his reputation for truth and veracity and who can testify to their belief in the truth of the foregoing declaration - 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 —
Sworn to & subscribed } Enoch Warren the day & year aforesaid } Green M. Tuttle clk
We Simeon R. Jones a Clergyman residing in Southport County of Tioga & State of New York and John Hendy of Elmina County & State aforesaid —
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Enoch Warren who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be sixty eight years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion —
Simeon R. Jones Sworn & subscribed — } John Hendy the day & year aforesaid } Green M. Tuttle clk

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the testimony described 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 Simon R. Jones who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman Resident in the town of Southport and that John Hardy who has also signed the same is a resident in Elmer and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit —
J. B. B. Alden First Judge
I Green M. Luthill Clerk of the Court of Com- mon Pleas aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Enoch Warren for a pension —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 8th day of Sept - 1832 —
Green M. Luthill

N o 12,763
Enoch Warren

No 12,763
BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims , of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Enoch 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?
[Handwritten flourish]
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?
Not found on the rolls - must furnish the best evidence he can procure to sustain declaration. 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?
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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?
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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?
Yes
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.”

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
†QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
‡QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

4.155 P. O. Enoch Waren ✓
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

Rev. Ait 7. June 1832
Enoch Warren
Suspended
See letter to James Robinson Elmira N. Y. 18. Oct. 1833
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