Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43974, for Noah Roberts, Connecticut

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Roberts, Noah
S. 43974
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(N o 1663)
See etc 22 June 1827 to Hon J W Sayre H.R.
New York Veah Roberts
of Saratoga in the State of New York who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Hlden of the regiment commanded by Colonel J.B. Webb in the Continental line, for the term of three years from 20 th May 1777 to 20 th May 1780
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 25 th day of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th of June 1818 and sent to Salmon Child Esqr Greenfield Saratoga N.Y. continued on Resumed the Roll on the 25 th day of July 1827 and notification sent to J.W. Taylor Esqr at Bullerton Spa New York Pension commencing on the 18 th of July 1827
Amount due on 4th of Septm 1827 } $12 67
{ Revolutionary Claim, Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820. }
Duplicate Certificate issued 7 th Dec r . 1827, and sent to Hon: J.W. Taylor 91. Esqr.

Noah Roberts
Affidavit
To
J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.
Webb County
Texas
ss
I, Clerk
of the
United States
District Court
for the
Western District of
Texas
do hereby certify that
the foregoing
is a true and correct
copy of the original
now on file in my office
and of the whole thereof
In witness whereof, I have
hereunto set my hand and

STATE OF NEW-YORK, } ss. SARATOGA COUNTY.
ON this Twenty fifth day of April 1810, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Saratoga and state of New-York, personally appears
Noah Roberts aged Sixty years, resident in the town of Saratoga in the County of Saratoga in the said state, who
being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war:" That the said Noah Roberts in May
in the year 1777 enlisted in Lebanon in the state of Connecticut
in the company commanded by Captain Judah Alden of Colonel Samuel B. Webb Regiment of the Connecticut Line
that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States until the said 3 years service was ended or until May in the year 1780 when he was discharged from
service in Morris Town (by an honorable discharge from Col. Huntington ) and state of New York that he was in the battles on Rhode Island in Sullivan's Expedition , and several skirmishes and
that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services. And the said Noah Roberts further maketh
oath that he served in the revolutionary war in opposing the common enemy three other terms of duty, one for two Months - one for three Months, and one for five Months, and that his said discharge of three years service is lost
Noah Roberts
Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid. Salmon Child
I Salmon Child Judge, &c. as aforesaid, do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Noah Roberts did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the War Department, pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid act of congress. And I further certify that I have been personally acquainted with the above named Noah Roberts for a great number of years and that he has always sustained a good & respectable character.
Grafton April 25 th 1810
Salmon Child
STATE OF NEW-YORK, } ss : In testimony that the above named Salmon Child
is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Saratoga and state of New-York, and that the above is his signature, I subscribe my name and affix the county seal, this 25 th day of April 1810
Wm. H. Wells } Clerk of the County of Saratoga.

South Robert
1d

County of Saratoga ss. On this 29 th day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty Six personally appeared in open court in the court of Common Pleas of the said County the same being a court of record for the said County proceeding accor- ding to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of an court keeping a record of its proceedings and having the power of fine and imprisonment. Which Robert West resident in said county aged sixty eight years on the twenty fourth day of January last past who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the pro- vision made by the act of congress of 10 th March 1818 and the 1 st May 1820 that he the said Robert West entitled for the term of three years or so about the twentieth day of May one thousand seven hundred and seventy Seven with the State of Connecticut in the company commanded by Captain Isaac Tabor in the regiment commanded by Colonel Samuel B. Root in the Continental Army of Connecticut in the continental establishment that he was in said service in said Company until about the twenty eighth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty which he was discharged from the service in Albany in the State of New Jersey that he hereby renounces every claim whatever for pension except the pension that his name has been has been placed on the pension list near the number of his pension certificate is 1753. and that he never before exhibited a schedule of his property because his wife who has now become feeble was formerly enabled to earn something which with the assistance of his friends and his own ser- vices gave a scanty support. And in pursuance of the act of the 1 st May 1820. I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 1 st day of March 1818 and 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 to diminish it or to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war" passed on the 1 st day of March 1818 and that I have not since that day person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due

to me, nor have I any reason other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. That is to say, he has no real or personal property except wearing clothing. That he is by profession a cooper, but unable through infirmity and sickness to labor. That he has one daughter living with him named Anna aged thirty five years that she has been sick and unable to walk for years and is unable to labor. That he married his present wife ten years ago in March last, who at the time of marriage had six sons. That before he was married he made an agreement with his wife that he was to be entitled to none of her property except a privilege to live in the house with her and that she and her six children were to have and be entitled to the same. and that since the 18th day of March 1885 the following changes have been made in my property. I then had one cow which has been killed and hide. A cow skin turned out to be a debt of one dollar. Three old butts sold as old iron for one dollar and one dollar. The above is a copy of my schedule that may have been made to M. Bland on the 18th day of March 1885. Noah Roberts.
Schedule of personal property of Noah Roberts at the time of marriage.    1 Broad ax 1 00 75   1 Drawing Knife 75   1 old scythe 18 3/4   1 chest 50   1 old table 75   1 pair of bellows 75   1 bench 25   1 hammer 25   1 old jug 50   1 shovel & tongs 75   1 swing fork 75   1 bucket 25   12 50   1 00 

Libel 1.00 1 nail plate 100.50 old chain 1.00 75.00 v. Joseph L. 500.00
State Robert 2 75 1 00 13 33 1/3
Deeds of Sale entered in open court the 27 th of August 1828. Thomas Palmer Clerk.
I Thomas Palmer Clerk of the court of Common Pleas of the County of Saratoga do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the court that the said Robert Roberts served in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months under our engagements on the continental establishment. Also certify that the foregoing bills & the schedule thereunto annexed are truly & just from the records of the said court. And I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total sum due in value of the property exhibited with this said schedule is one hundred & thirty three dollars 33 1/3.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of said court the 27 th August 1828.
Thomas Palmer Clerk

State of New York, Saratoga County ss.
Noah Roberts & Ruth his wife of Saratoga Springs in the said County & Thomas Palmer Clerk of the said County of Saratoga being duly sworn do severally depose and say and first the said Noah and Ruth say that previous and at the time of their intermarriage it was agreed between them that the said Noah should not be entitled to any of the Real or personal estate of the said Ruth but that the said Ruth should have the disposition of the same in the same manner as if she was sole and unmarried - That the said Noah afterwards entered into a Bond to the children of the said Ruth conditioned to fulfil the said Agreement. And the said Noah further says that the said Bond was left with Thomas Palmer Clerk of the said County with other documents in the month of August last with instructions to draw the pension papers of him the said Noah since which time this Deponent has not been able to ascertain where the said Bond is although he has made diligent enquiry among the children of the said Ruth and also of the said Thomas Palmer - And the said Thomas Palmer says that he recollects of having in his possession the aforesaid Bond - but this Deponent has no recollection of giving up the said Bond to any person. And this Deponent has made diligent search among his papers & cannot find the said Bond and cannot state where the same is.
Sworn & subscribed to me 18 th July 1829 before me
Noah Roberts Ruth Roberts
A. Grovesich Justice of the Peace      Thomas Palmer

State of New York Saratoga County ss. I Thomas Saltonstall clerk of the County of Saratoga do hereby certify that Stephen Goodrich whose signature appears to the several of the within affidavits was at the date of the same a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Saratoga duly commissioned and sworn.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said County the eighteenth day of July A.D. 1827.
THOMAS SALTONSTALL Clerk

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New York Roll.
(N o 1663.)
See letter to J. W. Taylor 9. June 1827.
Noah Roberts, 4
Private Sam B Webb's Regt.
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 25 th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 of June 1818, and sent to Salmon Child, Esq. Greenfield, Saratoga Co. N. York.
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818.
Sum not accounted
4 months 10/30. $34.66
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
77 Three years
Saratoga Saratoga Co.

See letter to Hon J. W. Taylor. 30 June 1827.

Rec. Dec. 24. 1827
J. L. Edwards Esq Pension office War Department

No. of Representatives Washington Dec. 24. 1827
Sir
I return the affidavit of Noah Roberts with the required certificate endorsed thereon.
Very respectfully
Your obedt servt
John W. Taylor
J. L. Edwards Esq

Noah Roberts aff. for Certificate Pension to be renewed Amun J. W. Taylor

State of New York Saratoga County ss: on this seventeenth day of November 1827 before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace of the said County of Saratoga personally appeared Noah Roberts of the Town of Saratoga Springs in the County of Saratoga who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Buckley of which John Mings was Lieutenant in the Regiment commanded by Col. Webb of which Major Ebenezer Huntington was in fact commander at the time of his discharge, in the service of the United States that his name was placed on the Pension Roll of the State of New York, that he received a certificate of that fact under the signature & seal of the Secretary of War. That he rec d last summer in answer to his application a notification from the department of War informing him that his name was continued on the Pension Roll & that his pension would draw from the 18 th of July 1827. That his original pension certificate is lost, that in preparing his papers for the court in regard to the schedule of his property he took the said pension certificate to Thomas Palmer Esq r the Clerk of the County as he verily believes. That he has no recollection of having referred it from him again, that he has made diligent search among his papers again & again, without finding it, that he has applied to the said Thomas Palmer

for it without success, Mr Palmer informing him that he has no knowledge or recollection of it that he has searched his office & among his papers for it without being able to find it, & that if it was left in his hands it is lost beyond his recovery. That this deponent is wholly unable to form an opinion what has become of the said certificate & has no hope of ever recovering the same. Sworn & subscribed to before me, the day & year aforesaid.
Noah Roberts
John W. Taylor All I do is to attest the foregoing in & for the County of Saratoga
I certify that Thomas Palmer before whom the above affidavit was made is a Justice of the peace of the County of Saratoga & was such at the date thereof & for many years previous & his name is in his own proper hand writing. Washington Dec. 24. 1827
John W. Taylor
Rec Dec 18. 1827
Rev. J. W. Taylor M. Res.
Noah Roberts for her Certificate
Noah Roberts aff. for Pension to be renewed Ames J. W. Taylor

Rec d June 29. 1827
The Honorable
James Barbour Sec y of
For the Pension Office.
FREE
Rock Hocks New York 24 May 1820 Washington City

Saratoga County Clerks Office Ballston Spa June 23 d 1827
Dear Sir
The pension papers of Noah Roberts herewith sent You, should have been delivered You previous to your departure for Washington last fall, but my clerks supposed Mr Roberts would have called and delivered them himself while he trusted, that they would have done it for him - and thus the papers have been overlooked and lain in this office
respectfully
Thomas Palmer Clerk of Saratoga County
Hon ble John W. Taylor
To the Honorable James Barbour Sec y of War. Sir
I have rec d Mr Edwards letter of the 9 th inst. informing me in answer to mine of the 4 th that it does not appear from the files of the Pension Office that Noah Roberts has ever made application for a continuance of his pension under the act of Mar 1. 1820." The above letter of Thomas Palmer Esq r states the cause cause of the delay. Agreeably to the request of Deacon Roberts I now enclose his papers. Please send an answer to me.
With regard I esteem
Your obed t serv t John W. Taylor Ballston Spa June 25. 1827

I George Peck Supervisor of the Town of Saratoga Springs in the County of Saratoga & State of New York & I William Wait one of the Assessors of the said Town do certify & make known that we have generally been well acquainted with Noah Roberts an applicant for a Pension for his services in the army of the revolution, for thirty years & upwards. That he never was in possession, nor was he reputed to be the owner, of any property real or personal to any considerable amount. He was a carpenter by trade & lived from week to week by his industry. He was always considered a sober, industrious, poor man. About Eleven years ago he married the widow Munger of the same town in which we reside. She was a widow with six children & had a right of dower in her late husband's estate. Roberts was a very poor man at this time, he worked by day's work for his living. We have this day examined & appraised the property belonging to the wife of the said Roberts. The dower consists of Twenty five acres of land. Ten acres of which is a swamp of no value. & the other 15 acres is of little value. The personal property of Mrs Roberts consists of sundry articles of house hold furniture, 2 cows, one old horse, 9 sheep & 5 lambs, 1 swine 2 pigs & a few messes of farming utensils which we have examined & appraised at their full value & altogether amount to Two hundred & forty dollars. She has a demand against Jacob Youngs for about 130 dollars, but he is very poor

& unable to pay. He burns coal for a living & is unable to do more than support his family. We consider the demand of little or no value. Mrs Roberts is in very feeble health & chiefly confined to her bed. She is about 65 years old. Mr Roberts is nearly 70 as he informs us & we believe to be true. He is an infirm broken down man. He has a daughter living with him who for seven years has been in great sickness, altogether unable to support herself. He has a son in a poor wandering deranged condition. We consider him so far as his circumstances are concerned, entitled to a pension from the United States.
Dated July 11. 1827.
George Peck William Wait
State of New York
Saratoga County ss: I certify that on the 11 th day of July 1827 George Peck Esq r Supervisor of the Town of Saratoga Springs, & William Wait Esq r one of the justices of the said Town personally came before me Dea. Palmer one of the Justices of the peace of the said County & severally made oath to the truth of the above certificate by them subscribed. They are men of great respectability & full faith & credit is due to their statement.
On this day personally appeared George Peck Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Saratoga.

Read Robert's 11 May 1882 New York for the Pension Office.
The Honorable
Sep 18
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James Barbour Pension Office. Secretary of War Washington City

Pallster Pa N.Y. July 20. 1827.
Sir
Agréably to the directions contained in your letter suspending a decision on the Pension Applications of Noah Roberts I enclose the additional evidence therein required. George Peck the Supervisor, & William Wait the Assessor of Saratoga Springs are two of the most respectable men of the town. Thomas Palmer has been many years Clerk of this County appointed under the old constitution, & twice unanimously elected under the new. Noah Roberts has been 25 years & upwards & still is a member in good standing in the Baptist church & his wife was a member long before him & still is. I mention the above facts that you may know the character of the persons whose affidavits are enclosed. Very respectfully yours &c. John W. Taylor
The Honorable James Barbour Secy of War