Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35749, Joseph Worden, Conn. Continental

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Conn. _____ Continental
Worden, Joseph
S 35-749
CONTENTS

19.265 R
Connecticut
Joseph Worden
of Litchfield in the state of Conn who was a Private in the Compy commanded by Captain Brown of the regiment commanded by Colonel Dyer in the Conn line, for the term of one year. 1776-
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 19. of April 1824
Certificate of Pension issued the 28. of May 1824 and sent to David S. Boardman, New Milford. Conn
Arrears to 4th of Part 4 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1824 $ 36,26 32, 4.26 36.26
{ Revolutionary claim, Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820. }
March 1. 1825
Died Nov. 6 - 1833 - A B J H R

State of Connecticut, County of Litchfield, ss.
At a County Court, or Court of Common Pleas, held at Litchfield, within & for said County, on the first Tuesday of April 1824, personally appeared in open court, (the same being a Court of Record) Joseph Worden, aged seventy years, resident in New Canaan in said County, & being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on such his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by a late act of Congress entitled an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War, passed the 18 th of March 1818, as the same is altered & amended by the Act of Congress of the first of May 1820, that the said Joseph Worden enlisted in the Town of Trent in said State, where he then resided, into the Company commanded by Capt. Brown, in the Regiment commanded by Col. Dyer of the Connecticut Line, sometime in the month of March 1776, & served therein until some time in the month of January following, being a period of ten months, & as such he was regularly discharged therefrom at Newtown in the State of New Jersey; that he was in the battle at Flatbush, on Long Island, that he is in reduced circumstances, & has need of assistance from his Country for support. The Deponent further saith that he has lost his discharge & has no other evidence of his services now in his power than is herewith transmitted. that he made a former declaration on the 30 th day of August 1819, before Daniel S. Boardman, Esq. then a Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of New Milford, in which District he then & still resides, which Declaration was then subscribed & sworn to by the Deponent before said Judge. & is herewith transmitted; that Ebenezer Dyer, whose affidavit was annexed to said former Declaration, was then the only Witness whose testimony he was able to obtain. that he was then advised that further proof would be necessary in support of his application, & for that reason it was not forwarded until he could obtain the additional testimony of Abel Root (whose affidavit is annexed) the only other surviving

Witness within the knowledge of the Deponent. & this from the remote situation of the Witness, the age, infirmity and extreme poverty of the Deponent he was never until lately able to obtain. that the said Ebenezer Dike since the making of his aforesaid affidavit has died. —
And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 th of March, 1818, & that I have not since that time, by gift, sale or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval services of the United States in the Revolution and War, passed the 18 th of March 1818. — & that I have not, nor has any per- son in trust for me any property or securities, Contracts or Debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, & by me subscribed. —
And I do further declare that I am very infirm, & am incapable by labour of earning a living without aid from others. that I was by occupation a labourer in husbandry that I have no relation by law bound to support me, nor ability to do it. that the only family that I have residing with me is a Niece, Elizabeth Worden, aged about fifty nine years, of feeble health & capable of but little labour.
Joseph Worden.
List of all the property of Joseph Worden of New Bedford, (including bedding & clothing excepted) made out the 13 th day of April 1824.
1. Heifer & Calf — $11.00 — one pig $1.00 The use of 3 Acres of Land and an old House, five Dollars per annum old table 25 Cents — one hair bed & ticks one Dollar, one old Shovel 12 Cents — one old An 25 Cents, one Teakettle 12 Cts 4 old Chairs 30 Cents, one Shaving knife 12 Cents, one broken pot 8 Cents. one old Shovel 8 Cts, one old tin pail 10 Cts, one wood ax 50 Cts, 10 Cts, 1 brass pan 25 Cts.

1 old pan shears 6 Cts, one old broken Auger 8 Cts, one old spade 10 Cts, 5 white plates 20 Cts, 4 pewter plates 40 Cts, one iron wedge 10 Cts, 1 old cedar barrel 10 Cts - one broken keg 4 Cts, 2 cups & saucers 8 Cts, 1 old chest. no lid - 25 Cts, 200 lb. poor hay 50 Cts, 2 bushel potatoes 25 Cts - one fork handle & 30 lb. fork $1.50 -
Total — $23.40
The foregoing is a true inventory of my property. — Joseph Worden.
Heads in or county fr. State of New York.
Abel Priest, of the Town of Paspébiac, being duly sworn, deposes & saith, that he was a soldier in the company com- -manded by Capt. Brown, in the year 1776 & that Joseph Worden served in the same company from the first of March 1776 until the latter part of December 1776. -lessing, or the first of January 1777, I understood that said Worden had served previous to his joining said company as a soldier in the service of the United States & was honorably discharged on the west side of Delaware river - opposite to Trenton - and further this deponent saith not.
Abel Priest.
State of New York Herkimer County
On the 18th day of November 1823 - before me Edmund
Farney, one of the judges of Herkimer Common Pleas, personally came Abel Priest, the subscriber to the foregoing affidavit, and being duly sworn declared on his oath that the facts specified in said affidavit is true, & that the said Abel Priest is to the best of his knowledge a man of truth & veracity. —
Edmund Farney Judge
State of New York
Herkimer County Clerk's Office.
{ L. S. }
I Sabez For, Clerk of Herkimer County aforesaid, do hereby certify, that Edmund

Fanny, whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of the annexed affidavit, was a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, & duly qualified to act as such at the time of taking the affidavit thereto annexed. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of my said Office this 1 st of January 1824. Jabez Fox.
State of Connecticut, District of New Milford.
On the 30 th day of August 1819, before me the subscriber, Judge of the Court of Probate for said District, (the same being a Court of Record) personally appeared Joseph Warden, aged sixty five years & upwards, resident in New Milford, in said District, & being by me duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by a late Act of Congress entitled "an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War." that he the said Joseph Warden enlisted in the town of Kent, in said District, where he then being called into the company of Continental Troops, commanded by Capt. Brown, in the Regt. commanded by Col. Decker, of the Connecticut Line, sometime in the month of March 1776, for the period of ten months, & served therein until some time in the month of January following, and until the full expiration of said period of enlistment, & was honorably discharged from said service at Newtown in the State of New Jersey, the latter part of January 1777 - that he was in the Battle at Flatbush on Long Island - that he is in reduced circumstances in need of assistance from his Country for support, and that there is no other evidence of his services, in his power, than what is herewith transmitted. - Joseph Warden.
Sworn & subscribed the day & year first above

written before me
David S. Providence , Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of New Milford,
State of Connecticut, District of New Milford.
On the 30 th day of August 1819, before me the subscriber, Judge of the Court of Probate for said District, personally appeared Ebenezer Peck , of Kent in said District, & being by me duly sworn, saith, that he served in the Regiment of Continental Troops commanded by Col. Dunklee of the Connecticut Line, & in the Company commanded by Capt. Brown , during the campaign of the year 1776, which said Regt. was enlisted for one year - that this Deponent well knows Joseph Worden , whose name is subscribed to the foregoing Depo- -sition, that he well remembers him the said Worden to have joined the said Company & Regt. some time near the latter part of March 1776, & to have served therein until some time near the latter part of January 1777, when he was discharged in the State of New Jersey. & further the Deponent saith not.
Ebenezer Peck Sworn & subscribed before me
David S. Providence
Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of New Milford.

Sworn to & declared by the said Joseph Warden on the thirteenth day of April 1824, before the said County Court. -
Certified by Frederick Wolcott, Clerk.
I Frederick Wolcott, Clerk of the County Court or Court of Common Pleas in the County of Litchfield & State of Connecticut, (a Court of Record, having authority to fine & imprison) do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath & the schedules thereto annexed, have been admitted to the record of said Court, and that the same have been truly copied therefrom - And I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is twenty three dollars forty Cents -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, & have affixed the Seal of said Court this 19th day of April A.D. 1824.
Frederick Wolcott, Clerk of said Court. -

August 27, 1932.
Clark S. Judd P. O. Box 343 Watertown Connecticut.
BA-J/ILL Joseph Worden S. 35749
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information relative to three soldiers of the Revolutionary War, Benjamin Northrop, Isaac Waterbury and Joseph Warden or Worden.
Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims made to the United States for pension and bounty land based upon the military service of soldiers in that war.
A search of the records has been made in your behalf and no records found of such claims having been made on account of the service of Benjamin Northrop and Isaac Waterbury, similar spellings of both surnames searched.
The data furnished herein relative to Joseph Worden are obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 35749, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
Joseph Worden, while a resident of Kent, Connecticut, enlisted March 1, 1776, served as private in Captain Brown's Company, Colonel Durkee's Connecticut Regiment, was in the battle of Flatbush on Long Island and was discharged late in January, 1777. It was stated also that he served previously, no officers names or dates given.
He was pensioned from April 19, 1824, at which time he resided in New Milford, Litchfield, County, Connecticut; he was then seventy years of age, the date of his birth and names of his parents are not stated.

The soldier's wife, Elizabeth, was about fifty-nine years of age in 1824; the date and place of her birth are not shown. There is no reference to children.
Joseph Worden died November 6, 1833.
The above record is that of the only soldier named Joseph Worden, under any spelling of that surname, found on the Revolutionary War records of this office.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER, Assistant to Administrator.

Watertown, Conn.
Aug. 9, 1932.
The Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir;
Please inform me whether there is any record of Revolutionary War pension claims in the names of the following three persons, and if so, what data as to age, family, and war service appears therein.
O BENJAMIN NORTHROP of Ridgefield, Ct. (later of New Milford, Ct.) Rockwell's History of Ridgefield lists his name as an American soldier in the Battle of Ridgefield where he was taken prisoner by the British.
O ISAAC WATERBURY of North Stamford Ct. (possibly Poundridge, N.Y.) The same authority lists him as an American soldier at the Battle of Ridgefield where he was taken prisoner by the British. Family tradition is positive to the effect that he died as a British prisoner in the Sugar House, New York. He was a brother of Gen. David Waterbury of the Connecticut troops.
JOSEPH WARDEN or WORDEN of Bull's Bridge, Kent, Ct. Cothren's History of Woodbury, Ct. includes his name among those enlisting as an American soldier at Woodbury, Ct.
Clark S. Judd
Yours very Truly,
Clark S. Judd
P. O. Box 343
343
Watertown, Conn.

1932-Aug. 27 - Hist. to Clark S. Giddings. J.L.L.
35749
INVALID.
Reog
File No. 35749
Joseph Worden Rev. Rev. Dad
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index: — Vol. 2 , Page 464
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Recd.
19344
Joseph Woodruff, Ditchfield Co. Conn.
David S. Brandman New Milford, Conn.
Recd. 27 Apr 1824
Shurton + ap. 1
The Rev. Mr. John D. Dyer
Mr. Dyer

New Milford 24. Apr. 1824
Sir
It is the request of the person whose application is herewith transmitted, that the answer to the same may be addressed to me at this place
I am with great respect your obedt.
servt David L. Boardman
Copy to Hon. J. C. Calhoun