Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 26888, Nathan Webster, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Webster, Nathan
S. 26888
CONTENTS

+ New York 11:30. R. up. R. + Ohio Pittsburgh Ky  New York
Nathan Webster Private
Captain Walbridge's company of the Regt. commanded by Col. Chas. Webb. Conn. regt.
Ratio of disability, Total
Date of discharge (closing testimony Feb 11. 1825)
scribed on the roll of NEW YORK at 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 11 th February 1825
Certificate of pension issued the 14 th of April 1825 and Martha James Mullett Junr. By (Tadousia. Mullett)
Arrears to 4th March 1825. $6. 17
Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1825 $48.
  5. 14  $54:17    1. 3    $60 17  
{ 10 th April 1806 4. Feb 1822 }
See cir. Tra 14: Apr 1835 To New York from 4: Sep 1834 April 30: 1835: -
Notification sent to the Pensions of the Co. of Infan. Ohio May 17. 33

50
Nathaniel Webster
transfer

County of Erie ss-
On this fifteenth day of December 1834 before me the Subscriber a Justice of the peace for the said County of Erie personally appeared Nathan Webster who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Captain Walbridge, in the Regiment commanded by Colonel C. Webb in the service of the United States that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of New York, from whence he removed to the State of Ohio, and he was transferred to the Ohio (Pittsburgh Agency) on the 17 th day of August 1833, to take effect from & after the 4 th March 1833. from whence he has lately removed. That he now resides in the State of New York, where he intends to remain and wishes his pension to be there payable in future - and that his reasons for removing to the State of New York are that he was seized with the fever and Ague in Ohio, was unable to support himself there, and has returned to the State of New York to live with his children.
Sworn and subscribed to before Nathan W. H.
me the day and year aforesaid
Horace Clark Justice Peace
County of Erie ss
On this 15 th day of December 1834 before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace for the said County of Erie personally appeared Parley Crosby who on his oath declares that he well knows Nathan Webster the person who made the above affidavit to be the same person described in the above affidavit.
Sworn and subscribed before Parley Crosby
me the day and year aforesaid
Horace Clark Justice Peace
Erie County ss-
I certify that the above named deponent is a person of truth and veracity.
Horace Clark Justice Peace

STATE OF NEW-YORK, ) I, Noah P. Sprague Clerk of ERIE COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE, ss. ) the County of Erie, do hereby certify, that Horace Clark Esq., whose name is subscribed to the annexed instrument herein  three times was at the time of executing the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly elected and sworn and acting as such. And further, that I am acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and verily believe the signature " Horace Clark thus subscribed " to be his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, this Sixteenth day of December A. D. 1834.
Noah P. Sprague, Clerk

State of New York Chautauqua County ss
Be it remembered that on the Sixth day of January in the year eighteen hundred and twenty five Nathan Webster of Fredonia in the county of Chautauqua aforesaid, a person to me well known, personally appeared before me Isaac Harmon one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas held in and for the county of Chautauqua, and to entitle himself to be placed on the pension list of the United States, pursuant to the several acts of Congress to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the revolutionary war, made the following declaration under oath, to wit, The said Nathan Webster being duly sworn saith that at Stafford in the State of Connecticut in April in the year 1777, and when he the said Webster was about 17 years old he enlisted into the service of the United States under Capt. Amos Walbridge of Col. Charles Webb's Regiment and Gen. Huntington's Brigade - That immediately after his said enlistment he joined the said Company and served in it till about the 7th of December 1777, When at the battle at White Marsh near Schuylkill, in Pennsylvania, in which he was engaged, he was wounded in the left arm by a musket ball which passed through his arm at the elbow joint and shattered the bone in such a manner that he has never yet recovered the use of his arm - That he stayed with the said Army in a wounded and almost helpless condition till the 25th of the said December when he with a number of others whose terms of service were expired on the last of the said December were discharged by the Officers & Sent home. That he returned to his father at Stafford in Connecticut aforesaid with whom he resided till he was about twenty four years old, That during that time he was able to render his father, who was a shoemaker, some assistance in his shop, and could, by fastening the wrist of his wounded arm to his left thigh and using the strength of his thigh to pull the thread do some light work himself. When he was about twenty four years old he married and removed to Pittsford in the State of Vermont where

he kept a small loom in a new country about four years which enabled him to support his family during that time - He then formed a connection with a brother of his in a small country store and after carrying on that business about three years they both failed and became poor - He then went to St. Johns in Lower Canada and kept a loom about eleven months and then returned to Vermont and resided at Waitsburg supporting himself by coarse shoe making and cobbler till 1809. He then went to Pultney where he resided about six months and removed to Granville and after residing there about two years went to Madison in the State of New York where he resided about four years during which time he supported himself and family by cobbler and doing such other servile work as his poverty and crippled condition compelled him to perform for a living - after residing in Madison about four years he removed to Phelps town in the County of Ontario where he stayed about 4 years and then came to Fredonia where he now resides has resided about five years, and where he still resides - and where his poverty, lameness and misfortunes have followed him -
And the said Nathan Webster further saith that in the year 1810, he made application to the Hon. Jonas Fish, then a Member of Congress from the State of Vermont as he understood, to procure a pension for him from the United States and procured and made all the papers according to the said Fish's directions, but the application failed for some reason unknown to this deponent, as he has never seen or heard from the said Fish or the papers since - That he then desisted of getting a pension till the late act of Congress providing for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war was passed - Soon after the passing of that act, to wit, in 1821, he made application for a pension

under the last mentioned act, which application was rejected because he had served only eight months - Since that time he has made application for a Pension under the acts to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the Revolution any war through the Rev. S. Swift of Vermont but his application was rejected on account of the informality of the papers, as appears by a letter from the War Department And the said Nathan Webster further saith that the said Samuel Dike soon after this deponent made application to him as above stated, left Vermont and went to Boston - known to the him and that he does not now know where the said Dike resides or that he is alive living - And further the said Nathan Webster saith that he is not on the pension list of any State nor has ever he received, nor does he receive, any pension on account of his services in the revolution, nor on account of his said wound -
Subscribed and sworn to before me Jan'y. 6 th 1825
Patience Webster
Isaac Darnon One of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas held in and for the County of Chautauqua and State of New York -
State of New York Chautauqua County
Squire White and Samuel Snow practising Physicians & Surgeons of Fredonia in the County of Chautauqua aforesaid, being duly sworn say, and each for himself says, that he has this day carefully examined Nathan Webster of Fredonia in the annexed papers named, and that he appears to have been wounded by a Musket ball passing through the elbow joint of his left arm, which has produced a shortening of the os humeri and a partial ankylosis of the joint

which has rendered his arm useless for the common purposes of life. — And further these deponents say, and each for himself says, that he is well acquainted with the said Nathan Webster, and from such knowledge and acquaintance with him, they all, and each of them is, of opinion that the degree in which the said Ward prevents the said Webster from obtaining his subsistence is total — Squire White / Samuel Snow
I do hereby certify that on the 26 th day of January 1835, the above named Squire White and Samuel Snow, persons to me well known, personally appeared before me and subscribed and made oath to the above affidavit. And I do further certify that the said Squire White & Samuel Snow are both Practising Physicians & Surgeons & respectable in their profession and that they are both credible witnesses —
Isaac Harrison One of the Judges of the court of Common Pleas held in and for the county of Chautauque and State of New York —
State of New York Chautauque County ss. Elijah Webster of Paoletta in the county of Chautauque of course, being duly sworn, saith, that he is the son of Nathan Webster in the annexed paper named, was about forty years of age, and for twenty years past has a family of his own, and no pecuniary connection with his father. That he has examined the annexed declaration of his father respecting his disability and his mode of life and employment since he left the service of the United States, and the places where he has since resided and his present place of residence, and knows the larger part of them to be true  and all of them which came within his recollection to be true. He recollects living at St. Johns in Lewis County with his said father, he came to Vermont with him, and while his father resided at Vergennes in this department was on a frequent basis in the same neighborhood. He has seen his father at his several places of residence in the State of New York and for the last five

years has lived a neighbor to him in the village of Fredonia, where he now resides - And this deponent further saith that ever since his recollection his father has been poor and has generally pursued coarse shoemaking and cobbling for his support and subsistence - Elijah Webster
I do hereby certify that on the 26th day of January 1825, the above named Elijah Webster a person to me well known, and who is in my opinion a credible witness, personally appeared before me and subscribed and made oath to the above affidavit - Isaac Harmon
one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas held in and for the County of Chautauqua & State of New York -
State of New York Chautauqua County
I John Dexter Clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas held in and for the County of Chautauqua in the State of New York, do hereby Certify, that Isaac Harmon of Fredonia in said County was on the twenty sixth day of January instant, and still is, one of the Judges of the said Court duly commissioned and sworn, And I do further certify that the name of the said Isaac Harmon subscribed to the three preceding certificates, to wit, to the certificate attesting the oath of Nathan Webster at the foot of his Annexed Statement, and to the certificates under the two preceding affidavits of Isaac White & Samuel Snow, and Elijah Webster is his the said Harmon's genuine signature. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my name & affixed the seal of the said Court at Mayville this tenth day of January Eighteen hundred and twenty five -
John Dexter, Clerk.

State of Vermont } Nathanid Addison County } Nathan Bushman of Hancock in the County of Addison and State of Vermont being duly sworn deponeth and saith, that he was a soldier in the American army in the Revolutionary war. That in the summer and fall of the year 1777 he belonged to Capt. Amos Walbridge's company, Col. Charles Webb's Regiment and General Huntington's Brigade of the Connecticut line. That he then was and still is well acquainted with Nathan Webster in the annexed paper named. That the said Nathan Webster was also a soldier of the Revolution and in the summer and fall of 1777, belonged to the same company, Regiment and Brigade with this deponent. And this deponent further saith that the said Nathan Webster and himself were both in the engagement at White Marsh near the Schuylkill and Chestnut hills in Pennsylvania which, according to the best recol- lection of this deponent was fought on the seventh day of December, 1777 and that he knows and well recollects that the said Webster during the said battle and which en- gaged in it on the American side and with the company to which he belonged received a wound from a Musket ball in his left elbow which shattered the bones & deprived him of the use of his arm, which he has not yet recovered. And this deponent further saith that after the said battle the said Webster remained with his said company in a wounded and crippled condition till about the twenty- fifth of December, 1777 when he with a number of others whose terms of service would have expired on the last day of the said December were discharged by the officers and sent home. And this deponent further saith that he was acquainted with the said Nathan Webster while he resided at Vergennes in Vermont and afterwards and knows his statement respecting his manner of life and employment there subsequent as set forth in his annexed declaration which this deponent has now before him to be true, and this deponent further saith that in the fall or winter of 1810, one Isaac Pinney of Poygan in the

County of Windsor and State of Vermont and himself at the request of the said Nathan Webber and, as this deponent understood to enable him to procure a pension from the United States on account of the said wound, made their affidavits of the above facts respecting the service and wound of the said Webber before the Hon. James Dish of Barre in the State of Vermont. And this deponent further saith the said Webber soon afterwards went to the State of New York as he this deponent understood, and the said Dish went to parts unknown to this deponent -
Dated January February 1825-
I do hereby certify that on the 14 th day of February A.D. 1825 the above named Nathaniel Cushman a person to me well known, personally appeared before me and subscribed and made oath to the above affidavit and I do further certify, that the said Nathaniel Cushman is a credible witness
Before me Dorastus Wooster Chief Judge of Addison County Court
State of Vermont } I Samuel Swift Clerk of the County Court for the Addison County } said County of Addison do hereby certify that the above named Dorastus Wooster is Chief Judge of the County Court for said County of Addison, and his name above written is his own signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court at Mid- dlebury this 14 th day of February 1825
Samuel Swift Clerk

State of Vermont Windsor County ss. Isaac Pinney of Royalton in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont being duly sworn saith that he was a soldier in the American army in the Revolutionary war, that in the summer and autumn of the year 1777, he belonged to Capt. Amos Walbridge's Company of Col. Charles Webb's Regiment and Gen. Huntington's Brigade of the Connecticut line. That he then was and still is well acquainted with Nathan Webster in the annexed paper named. That the said Nathan Webster was also a soldier of the Revolutionary in the summer & fall of 1777, belonged to the same Company, Regiment & Brigade with this deponent.
And this deponent further saith that the said Nathan Webster and himself were both in the battle of White- Marsh near the Schuylkill river in the State of Pennsylvania which according to the best recollection of this deponent was fought on the seventh day of December, 1777, and that he knows and well recollects that the said Webster during the said battle and while engaged in it on the American side and with the company to which he belonged received a wound from a musket ball in his left elbow joint which shattered the bones and deprived him of the use of his arm, which he has not yet recovered.
And this deponent further saith that in the fall of 1810, one Nathan Cashman then of Hancock in the County of Addison and State of Vermont and himself at the request of the said Nathan Webster and, as this deponent understood, to enable him to procure a pension from the United States on account of the said wound, made their affidavits of the above facts respecting the service and wound of the said Webster, before the Hon. James Dish of Brattleboro in the State of Vermont aforesaid. Dated Jan. 1825
February 16, 1825
Isaac Pinney
State of Vermont ss. I, Isaac Pinney of the 16th 1825 Windsor County ss. then personally appeared the a- bove named Isaac Pinney who is many appraised a legitimate witness and made affidavit to the above affidavit by him subscribed the fore one John Brown, first assistant judge of Windsor County Court

State of Vermont Windsor County ss
Woodstock County Clerk's Office February the 11 th A 1825 —
I Benjamin Swan Clerk of the County Court within & for the County of Windsor, Do hereby certify that John Bridge is First Assistant Judge of the County Court within & for said County, at that the within is his Signature —
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto af- fixed the Seal of said County Court and Subscribe my name the day & year above
Benj o Swan
State of New York
Chautauqua County ss I Isaac Hannon the Judge within named do certify that the testimony taken before me was taken on the 6 th day of January, the day on which the affidavit was filed —
Isaac Hannon

February 19, 1935
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Mrs. Leo Sheehan 131 Chestnut Street Battle Creek, Michigan
NATHAN WEBSTER S. 26888 BA-J/MLB
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Nathan Webster, born in 1758, in Stafford, Connecticut, served in the Revolutionary War from Connecticut or Vermont and married Sarah Russell.
You are furnished herein the record of Nathan Webster as obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 26888, based upon disability incurred during service in the Revolutionary War.
The date and place of soldier's birth and names of his parents are not given.
Nathan Webster, when about seventeen years of age and residing with his father in Stafford, Connecticut, enlisted in April, 1777, served as private in Captain Amos Walbridge's company, Colonel Charles Webb's Connecticut regiment, was in the battle of Whitemarsh in which he received a musket ball wound in his left elbow joint, disabling him for further military service, and was discharged December 25, 1777, after which he returned to his father's home in Stafford, Connecticut, where he continued to live until about twenty-four years of age.
On account of disability resulting from the above-noted injury, Nathan Webster was pensioned from February 11, 1825, at which time he was residing in Fredonia, Chautauqua County, New York, where he had lived about five years.
Nathan Webster married at the age of about twenty-four years; the date and place of marriage and name of his wife were not stated.

After the marriage of Nathan Webster, he and his wife moved to Pittsford, Vermont, where they remained about seven years, then moved to Saint Johns, Lower Canada, where he lived about eleven months, then moved back to the State of Vermont where he resided at Vergennes until 1809, when he moved to Poultney where he lived about six months; from that place moved to Granville, same state, and after living there about two years, moved to Madison, New York, lived there about four years, thence to Phelpstown, Ontario County, New York, where he remained about four years, then to Fredonia, Chautauqua County, same state. In 1833, he had moved to Ohio, his post office address given then as Milan, Huron County, Ohio, in care of Standart, Hamilton & Company. In December, 1834, he had returned to New York State to live with his children, and in Erie County, New York, requested before the Justice of the Peace that his name be replaced on the New York pension roll. In 1835, his post office address was Sardinia, Erie County, New York.
The only child of the soldier whose name was designated was Elijah Webster, who in 1825 was aged forty years, residing in Fredonia, New York, and stated then that he had had a family of his own for twenty years, but did not give the name of his wife nor that of any of his children.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of the person paid and possibly the date of soldier's death, you should write to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data:
Nathan Webster Certificate 1130 Issued April 14, 1825 Rate $8 per month Commenced February 11, 1825 New York Agency Transferred to Ohio (Pittsburgh Agency) Transferred again to New York Agency.
Could not find name of this sol. on 1835 List Old Inv. Bk. or Agency Bk. Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

Ladonia
Chautauqua County New York
Feby. 21 st 1835 -
The Hon. The Secretary of the Department War of the United States -
Dr Sir, Enclosed are the Declaration affidavits &c of Nathan Webster, an applicant for a pension on account wounds received in the Revolutionary war. &c
The old Gent. is poor in aid & has been to Vermont to get evidence a distance of 400. Miles - Please to send his certificate if one be granted to the directed to this place -
James Mullett Jr

Aug 6. 1837 Pension office
Transfer
Milan O July 31
Hon. Lewis Cass
Secretary of War Washington D.C.

County of Huron State of Ohio ss.
On this 22 nd day of July 1833 before the
Subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Huron personally appeared Nathan Webster who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Captain Amos Walbridge, in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Webb, in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the Pension Roll of the State of New York, from whence he has lately removed, that he now resides in the State of Ohio where he intends to remain, and wishes his Pension to be there payable in future, and that his reasons for removing to the State of Ohio, were to gain a more comfortable home and support. Nathan Webster {L.S.}
Sworn and subscribed to before me the day and year aforesaid
John Smith Justice of Peace
State of Ohio, Huron County ss.
I Miles Barber of the State and County
aforesaid do certify that I have been acquainted with the above named Nathan Webster Pensioner of the United States for the space of five years past, and do well know him to be the same person described in the above affidavit. Miles Barber {L.S.}
Sworn and subscribed to the day and year aforesaid before me
John Smith Justice of Peace
State of Ohio, Huron County ss.
I John Smith a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Huron aforesaid do certify that I am well acquainted with the above named deponent Miles Barber and do certify that he is a person of veracity. John Smith Justice of Peace
I also certify that the interlineation of the words, "his Pension," was done before the signing of the deponent. John Smith Justice of Peace

State of Ohio } Warren County } I David Gibbs Clerk of the court of Common Pleas in said county do certify that John Smith Esq. is a lawfull magistrate as above & the signatures within purporting to be his are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of said Court at Portsmouth this 30 th day of July A D 1833. D. Gibbs Clerk N. C. P.

Hon Lewis C. Camp
Dear Sir
We herewith send you Nathan Webster's application for a transfer of his name from the New York Agency where he has heretofore drawn his Pension to the Ohio (Pittsburgh) Agency so that he may be enabled to draw at Pittsburgh in future, as it is attended with some delay and inconvenience and delay for Ohio Pensioners to draw in New York, as particular instructions have been sent to that Office not to pay any Pensions out of the State, so we have been in by the Agent there, Can it be done in time to enable him to draw at Pittsburgh the 4 th September next Please address Nathan Webster Care of Standart Hamilton Co Ohio
Very Respectfully
Your Obedient Servants
Standart, Hamilton Co
Milan Huron Co Ohio July 30 1833.

Sardinia Dec. 18 th 1834
Dear Sir
Enclosed is an application for the transfer of the payment of a pension certificate. If you will see it is done - return the certificate to me at Buffalo you will confer a favor on me, I wish to have the pension paid in the City of New York - No news -
Yours Respectfully
Horace Clark
Hon. Mr. Fillmore
House of Rep. Jan'y. 1. 1835.
J. L. Edwards Esq.
I enclose you the affidavit of Nathan Webster which I send with the above letter from Horace Clark Esq.
Will you please to comply with the request and transmit the certificate to "Horace Clark Esq. Sardinia N.Y." or to me
I am &c
M. Fillmore

(copy)
War Department, Pension Office
July 10, 1821
Hon. A. H. Tracy Buffalo, New York
Sir:
In answer to your letter of the 30th ultimo, I have to acquaint you, that it appears from our rolls of Revolutionary officers and soldiers, that Nathan Webster, who was a private in Walbridge's company in Webb's regiment, enlisted for eight months only, on the 21 st of April, 1777, and was discharged on the 1 st of January, 1778. As the Act of Congress of the 18 th of March, 1818, under which he claimed a pension, requires the claimant to have served nine months, the claim was rejected. The same reason must now be given for not granting the pension to him. Agreeably to our regulations, the declaration you transmitted has been filed among other documents of a similar nature, in this office.
I am, etc.,
I.L.E.

Apr. 14 # W. Brumme
War Department Pension Office Washington D.C.
(to Ohio)

Copy of Pension Certificate
War Department
Invalid Pension
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 4th of February 1822 Nathan Webster late a private in Captain Wallbridge's Company of the Regiment commanded by Col. C. Webb is inscribed on the pension list roll of the NEW YORK agency at the Rate of Eight dollars per month to commence on the Eleventh day of February one thousand eight hundred and twenty five
Given at the War Office of the United States this 14 day of April one thousand eight hundred and twenty five
Signed James Parton
secretary of War
A copy of the Transfer from the NEW York to the Ohio Pittsburgh Agency
War Department
Pension Office August 17th 1833
Sir,
In conformity with the regulations of this department you have this day been transferred from the roll of the New York to that of Ohio (Pittsburgh Agency) to take effect from and after the 4 March 1833
I am, Sir, respectfully your Obedient servant J. L. Edwards
M c Nathan Webster M c S Pensioner Land of Stewart Hamilton & Co. Milan Huron County Ohio

Sir it appears from a statement from your Office dated March 14th 1855 addressed to Horace Clark Esq. that no record of my transfer from the New York to the Ohio (Pittsburgh agency) can be found in the War Department Pension Office.
I herewith send a copy of the Pension Certificate and also a copy of my transfer from the New York to the Ohio (Pittsburgh agency) above mentioned and humbly request information as to what further measures are necessary to be taken to obtain a transfer back to the New York agency.
I am Sir your Obedient Servant
Sardinia Erie Co. New York April 2 nd 1855
Nathan W. Foster

BATTLE CREEK CHAPTER DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN
Feb 4, 1935
Pension Dept Washington, D.C.
Dear Sirs:—
Please give me the 29th Revolutionary War Service of Nathan Webster who was born in Stafford Conn in 1768? married Sarah Russell. May have fought from either Connecticut or Vermont . Would like the dates of birth and death if possible.
Faithfully, Mrs Leo Sheehan 131 Chestnut St Battle Creek Michigan

1935, Feb. 19-Stat. to Mr. Leod Sheehan
26888 INVALID.
Rev
File No. 26,888
Nathan Webster
Dis. Com d regt
Act: April 10 th 1860 Feb. 22 nd
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 448
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