Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1,418, for Dumill Starr, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Navy
Starr, Dunill
P n 1418
Conn - Residence
CONTENTS

No. 1418. ✓
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
Received _____, 187 .
Navy. Widow & Daughter of Dumell Starr U. S. S. "Trumbull" (Revolution)

Widow, daughter of Lieut. Genl. Stark U.S. F. Trumbull Revolution
Woman's Journal
Col. 17 Jan 8 Pags

Same. Ingham for widow of Lt. D. Starr.
Ans. 10. Jany. 1838.
617 Jan 8 Rags

Washington Jan. 6. 1838
Sir
The enclosed letter relates to a naval pension - Will you cause it to be examined, and me to be informed, if the case is provided for, by the existing laws.
I have the honor to be Your O b Serv t
Samuel Ingham
The Noble Secretary of the Navy

Sir
Honorable Samuel Longhorn House of Representatives Washington
Heirs of Dummit Star J. J. Jantzen "W. S. F. Snubbell W. S. W.

New London Jan'y 8 th 1838
Dear Sir,
I have been approached to by the widow & daughter of Lieut Samuel Starr for nearly of this term deceased to know if there was not money due her & the other descendants of her father on account of his revolutionary services - I have not been able to find any law that seems to apply in this case but I am informed that several persons have received under similar circumstances.
In the year 1780 Lt. Starr was a Lieutenant in the Navy & served on board the U.S. Frigate Trumbull and was killed in an action with the B t Ship Watte on the first of June in that year leaving a widow & several children - most of them of a very tender age - his widow died about 10 or 15 years ago I believe & never received anything from the government - The facts of service & death as above stated can be proved by the Dispositions of Cap t R. Law & the Hon. Poley Talman formerly a Member of Congress from Maine both of them served on board the ship that day.
Now I am compelled to ask your attention to this case for I have been obliged to trouble Mr. Bailey so much in some other cases that I am really ashamed to apply to him for

assisted me in this. I know not how it is but if any hard cases in the Pension or Revolutionary claims are agitated in this neigh- borhood I have them. Though I am some- thing in the situation of the late Judge Marvin Waite who in his old age advertises for a "little business of the cousin kind"
Will you examine this business as soon as you can consistently with your engagements write me about it? - As I have not or cannot find the statute under which the cases above referred to were relieved I cannot know how or to what branch the application should be made so as to bring this business before the Pension Department or office - Bureau or some such thing
Very respectfully
yours -
T. L. S. Perkins
Hon. W. Ingham House of Representatives Washington