Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19415, for Jesse Starr, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental (Conn.)
Starr, Jesse Polly
W.19415
CONTENTS

2127 New York Albany
Polly Starr widow of Jesse Starr.
Conner who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Corp! Hertz.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 1 1/2 Dollars 53
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 day of Sept. 1848 and sent to
John Mayser De Ruyter N.Y.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 186, Vol. 4
Rept

13.535
Solly Starr NY
Act 7 July 38
JB
rollup for ap. 77.3 trans. v. 90 oct 78 discharged 23 ap. 80.
Married 1784
Husband died 1799
Hn. D.B. St. John V.R.
D.B. St. John
11 Rep -

State of New York } fs: County of Madison }
On the 2 4 th day of November in the year eighteen hundred and forty seven, personally appeared before me James W. Ayer the County Judge of the County Court of Madison County. Polly Starr a resident of the town of DeRuyter in the County of Madison and State aforesaid, aged eighty six 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows"; that she is the widow of Jesse Starr who was born and resided in the town of Groton in the County of New London and State of Connecticut and there died in the month of May in the year 1799: that her said husband was a soldier and Sergeant in the Revolutionary war and served in Colonel Samuel B. Webb's Regiment. She further declares that she was married to the said Jesse Starr in the town of Stonington in the said County of New London and State of Connecticut on the 29 th day of January in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty four: that her husband the aforesaid Jesse Starr died in the month of May in the year Seventeen hundred and ninety nine but the particular day of the said month on which her said husband died she does not recollect and cannot state; that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed - that the said marriage did not take place prior to the last period of her husband's service in said war; but it took place

before the first day of January, Seventeen hundred and ninety four - She further declares that she is not able to attend personally in Court to make oath and subscribe to this declaration, by reason of bodily infirmity and disability
Sworn & Subscribed on the day and year first above written
Polly Starr
J. James W. Nye County Judge of the
County Court of Madison County.
I, James W. Nye the County Judge of the County Court of Madison County where the above declarant resides, do hereby certify that the above named Polly Starr, is from bodily infirmity and disability with which I am credibly informed she has been afflicted for the space of two years, unable to attend the Court of which I am Judge, & I do not think from present appearances that she will be able to attend the Court above named at its next session - I have therefore in pursuance of the act of Congress of the 1st of March 1823 attended at her place of abode and administered the foregoing oath.
James W. Nye County Judge of the County Court of Madison County.
J. A. Scott Sloan Clerk of the County Court of the County of Madison, certify that James W. Nye before whom the above affidavit of Polly Starr who is now from bodily infirmity and disability unable to attend personally in Court, was made

is Judge as aforesaid -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on the 26 th day of November 1847 -
FOR OUR LORD and SAVIOUR
AD Scott Sloan Clerk
State of New York } County of Madison } ss:
I Mary Mason of the town of DeRuyter in the county of Madison and state of New York, of lawful age do, on oath, testify and say that I am the wife of John Mason of the town county & state aforesaid - that I am the daughter of Jesse Starr deceased and of his surviving widow Polly Starr - that the said Polly Starr has resided in my family for the last seventeen years and that previous thereto she resided in the town of Stonington in the county of New London and state of Connecticut until the year 1830 - that she is the widow of Jesse Starr who resided in Groton in the county of state last aforesaid - that she moved from said Groton about the year 1799 to Stonington aforesaid where she remained till the summer of 1830 - and that the said Polly Starr has remained in my family ever since the last named period - I further testify and say that the annexed is a leaf taken from the ancient family Bible of the said Jesse Starr and which belonged to the said Jesse Starr late of Groton in the county of New London and state of Connecticut aforesaid, that the said

is Judge as aforesaid -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on the 26 th day of November 1847 -
A Scott Sloan Clerk
Jesse Starr and Polly Dewey was married ye 29 th of Dec r 1784 Polly Starr wife of Jesse Starr was brought to bed of a Daughter ye 2 nd Day July 1785 which Died ye 15 th of Feb y following Jesse Anson Starr was born July 16 th 1786 3 rd Clerk after David Anson Starr was born July 17 th 1786 8 th Clerk Starr Charles Starr was born Feb y 1788
I Mary Mason of the county of Madison and of full age do, on oath, testify wife of John Mason of the said - that I am the daughter and of his surviving widow Polly Starr has resided seventeen years and that previous thereto she resided in the town of Stonington in the county of New London and state of Connecticut until the year 1830 - that she is the widow of Jesse Starr who resided in Groton in the county of state last aforesaid - that she moved from said Groton about the year 1799 to Stonington aforesaid where she remained till the summer of 1830 - and that the said Polly Starr has remained in my family ever since the last named period - I further testify and say that the annexed is a leaf taken from the ancient family Bible of the said Jesse Starr and which belonged to the said Jesse Starr late of Groton in the county of New London and state of Connecticut aforesaid. that the said

family Bible and the annexed leaf therefrom have remained in the hands of Polly Starr widow of the said Jesse Starr ever since her residence in DeRuyter Madison County and State of New York in the family of John Mason & of this deponent - that the same has been known by & familiar to this deponent for the space of thirty five years last past, and that it exhibits a correct record of the date of the marriage of the said Jesse Starr and Polly Starr his surviving widow.
Sworn & Subscribed before me this 24 th day of November 1847.
Mary Mason
Willard D. Wilson Justice of the peace
I Willard D. Wilson a Justice of the peace in & for the County of Madison and State of New York, do hereby certify that the above named Mary Mason who took & subscribed the above affidavit, is well known to me - that she is a credible person, of good reputation, and her statements entitled to full credit and belief.
Dated Nov 24 th 1847 Willard D. Wilson
Justice of the peace
State of New York Madison County Clerk's office } ss: I A. Scott Sloan Clerk of the County of Madison in the State of New York hereby certify that Willard D. Wilson Esquire the Justice of the Peace before whom the annexed affidavit of Mason purports to have been made & whose name is subscribed to the Jurat thereof and also to the foregoing Certificate of Credibility was, at the date of said Jurat to said affidavit and

Certificate, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly elected and qualified and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his said signature to the said Jurat of affidavit and Certificate are each genuine -
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 26 th day of November in the year 1847 -
Scott Sloan Clerk

Ser. 9 Oct 18 Dec 23 Apr 80 - (copy 77)

Groton Oct 27 th 1785
Gentlemen
Please to give the Bearer an Order on Treasr for the Balance due to me for services in the Regiment commanded by Col Sam l B Webb for the year 1780 and oblige yours
Jesse Starr
To the Committee Pay Table Hartford
At London County ss Groton Oct 27 th 1785 This May certify that I have paid the above order on the day of our said Sift - Amer d Priestly Justice of the Peace

This May Certify that Lieut. J. Fifer Hays served three years in the Continental Army in the Regiment commanded by Col. Sam co B. Webb and was discharged in 1780 Dated in Groton August 1 st 1785
For the undersigned - J. P. Rankin With Wills
John P. Rankin To Com Pay Table Hartford Chas. Morgan Groton

New London County, G. W. ... Oct. 4. 1785 - Personally appeared M c J. Starr and made solemn oath that he served as a Col l three years in Col l Sam l . B Webb Regiment in the Connecticut Line in the Continental Army and was Discharged. 1783 before and Francis Root justifying. P. a.
Jesse Starr
Francis Root

Jose Harris Kuhn
68-15-11
Nov 22 nd 1785
Vol 3 fol 150
✓ Entered

Groton
Hartford, Nov r 22 d 1785
RECEIVED of Pay-Table Committee, their Order on the Treasurer of this State, to secure the Payment of
Eight Pound fifteen Shillings and eleven pence being the Balance due to Jesse Starr on the first Day of January 1781, as stated by the Committees of the State and of the Army.
£.8.15.11
Benjamin Bill

State of Connecticut } County of New London } ss. Groton Jan'y 12. 1848
Personally appeared before me Cap Elijah Bailey with whom I am well acquainted, and subscribed to the within deposition in my presence, and made solemn oath to the truth of the same: And I further certify that he is a very respectable and credible person.
Eph Cheshireough Justice of the peace
State of Connecticut } County and Probate District of New London } ss.
I Hiram Willey Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of New London said Court being a Court of Record having a Clerk & Seal, do certify and make known, that Ephraim Cheshireough whose name is attached to the above Certificate, is a Justice of the Peace for the County of New London duly appointed and sworn and authorized and empowered to administer oaths, take depositions &c and that his signature affixed to said Certificate is genuine. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court of Probate at New London this twelfth day of January Anno Domini One Thousand Eight hundred and forty eight. Hiram Willey Clerk 1848.
Hon. Stephen 1852

I, Elijah Bailey of the town of Grafton in the County of New London and State of Connecticut, aged eighty nine years, do on oath testify and say
That I was well and intimately acquainted with Jesse Starr, who resided in Grafton during the Revolutionary war; and I distinctly recollect of his having served in the Connecticut line of the Continental service as a corporal and sergeant for the term of two or three years; and that afterwards he and I were two or three voyages together privateering, during said War.
The said Jesse Starr died in the said town of Grafton, as near as I now recollect about the year Seventeen hundred and ninety nine. I also recollect that said Jesse Starr married Polly Dewey then residing in Stonington in said New London County about the year seventeen hundred and eighty four, and that he lived with the said Polly as his lawful wife, in the said town of Grafton, up to the time of his death as above stated. I also recollect and know the fact that the said Polly Starr, widow of the said Jesse removed from the town of Grafton aforesaid several years ago for the State of New York, and from credible information she is now residing with her daughter, Mary Mason, in the town of De Ruyter, Madison County, State of New York.
And further the deponent saith not
Elijah Bailey

Sir agreeable to direction I send you the Declaration of Mrs. Starn a con- nected Cousin of John Maxon
Wor J. L. Edwards
Perrin Common Deperu Sept 7 th 1848

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of 2 d February 1848 entitled "An act making further provision for surviving Widows & Soldiers of the Revolution"
State of New York } County of Madison } ss:
On this 5 th day of September 1848 personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the said County, Polly Starr to me well and personally known, a resident of the town of De Ruyter in the said County of Madison aged Eighty Six, years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 1 st day of February 1848 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War - That she is the widow of Jesse Starr deceased who was a Sergeant or Corporal in the Regiment of Colonel Webb of the Connecticut Militia in which Regiment he served, and that the annual amount of the pension which she received under the act of the 17 th of June 1844 was One Hundred and Twelve Dollars -
She further declares that she is still a widow - Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written Polly Starr before me.
Willard D. Wilcox } Justice Peace

Affidavit
Clerk's Office
Madison County ss: 3 I A Scott Sloan Clerk of the said County do hereby certify that Willard D. Wilcox whose name is subscribed to the first of the within declaration on oath, was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the Peace in & for said County, duly elected & qualified by the laws of said State & authorized to take the same - And that I am well acquainted with him and do hereby verily believe that the signature of the said justice to the first wherein of said declaration is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto at my hand & affixed the seal of said County this 7th day of September 1848
A. Scott Sloan Clerk
Yrs Wm A Holmes Sup (Clerk absent)

New Bedford Mass Aug 24
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Rev. J. L. Edwards Pension Agent Washington D.C.
Rev. J. L. Edwards Pension Agent Washington D.C.
[Faint, mirrored text from the reverse side of the page, likely bleed-through from the original letter.]

DeKnyper August 24 th 1878
Sir Inclosed is the application of the widow Polly Starr, widow of Jesse Starr a Revolutionary Soldier, You will, please direct her Certificate the case of John Maynor DeKnyper Madam Co. state of N.Y. Respectfully yours, Maynor

Polly Starr New York Let to Hon. C. B. St John Jan'y 3. 1848.
act 7th July 1838

ad 43 9023 N 13535
Polly Starr mo of Jesse NY
act 7 May 1838
Adm'd
18 mo 12 days Sept $92.00
5 " 18 " Apr 20.53
$112.53
Mar 4 March 1836
Adm'd acts 3 March 1843
and 17 May 44
$112.53 per Am
Hon. D. B. S t John House of Reps

10.4 06
Report
New York.
Sally Starr Widow of Jesse Starr
who was a pensioner under the Act of — and who died on the in May, 1799 at Addison in the State of New York who was a Capt & in the Comp y commanded by Captain — of the Reg t commanded by Col. W. L. in the Revolution line for 18 Mos 2 Ds Sugs 3 " 18 Ds Cfs
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 112 Dollars 53 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of Feb. 1848 and paid to 16 th D. B. St. John
Worth of Rep t Total amount, $362.65
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by H. R. Rynkies Clerk. Book P Vol. 1. Page 195

8321. New York City.
Polly Starr widow of Jesse Starr who was a Capt & Serjt in the Revolution Her husband died May 1799.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 1 1/2 Dollars 53
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of Feb. 1848 and sent to
Wm. D. P. St John Wm of Reps
[Acts of March 3, 1843, and June 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book 6 Vol. 2 Page 86
Report to Secy of War Nov 30, 48

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 19415-
Polly Starr
Widow of
Jesse Starr
Sergt New Mex
Act: Feb 28 48
Index:—Vol. M , Page 247
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 19415-
Polly Starr widow of Jesse Starr Sergt Rev War
Act: Feb 28 48
Index:—Vol. M , Page 247
[Arrangement of 1870.]