Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 14886, Billings Worden, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Worden, Billings
S. 14886
carded
CONTENTS

1263
New York
Yes to J. Katherway 8 Augst 32
Billings Warden of Vienna in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Miles — of the Regt. commanded by Col Canfield in the Connecticut line for One year —
Inscribed on the Roll of New York — at the rate of — 40 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 day of October 1832 — and sent to B.P. Johnson
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832, $ 60 00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Mar. 33 20 00
$ 80.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Geo. C. Stiles Clerk Vol. 5. Page 453
 Dec 22 nd to E Ann Ely Aug 19 1833 " " P. M. June 8 th " " " " Feb. 1833 Apr 8 " " " " Jany Hathaway Oct. 8 " " 

No. 10354
Billings Warden
admitted
Utica
B P Johnson
Home
New York

No 11394
BRIEF in the case of Billings Woodson of Tienna  County of Tiendas in the State of New York  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Before a Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? Sixty three years. 63  4. State his service as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     Enlisted In 1782, 1 st Sept until Spring of 1783 1 - - private Gen. Col Samuel Hanfield, regt of Connecticut State troops, Capt Charles Miles compy  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Not arg  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? at Colchester Conn 
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? By a living witness as regards his service, & by two neighbors as to his tradition, the character and credibility of the former verified by a marriage state & the latter by the County
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? no objections   63 3 141173 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Ph. S. Nixon Examining Clerk.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
August 10, 1857.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the Pension agents,
the only child of Billings Worden, dec a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany Agency, at the rate of Forty Dollars and  Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832 has been paid at this Department, from the 1 st of Sept. 1857 to the 29 th Dec. 1857.
Respectfully, yours,
T. Pennington Acting Comptroller.
1263 acc-1/32
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.

Attorney's Name N.Y. P.O. Act 32.
Columbian July 14/83
W. G. Wade 3 @ 100
Ship of Council of Mr. J. Simons

State of New York County of Onida
Be it Known, that on this 11 th day of July A. D. 185 3 before me, the under-
signed, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Mary Covell of Vernon (daughter & only heir of Billings Warden , late resident of Vernon ) in said County, and made oath according to law that Billings Warden was the identical Billings Warden whose name, under Act of 7 th of June 1832 has been placed on the Revolutionary Pension Roll at the rate of forty Dollars per annum. (He died 29 th December 1851 )
That She is credibly informed that the said Pension may and ought to be increased from its commencement and during its continuance; that She is directly interested as a claimant in said increase, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence as my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
Countermanding and revoking all Powers of Attorney and authority heretofore given, I hereby constitute and appoint Willis G. Wade of Washington City , my true and lawful Attorney to prosecute the claim of said Billings Warden for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or INCREASE OF PENSION that may be due; and for the purpose of establishing additional service by the soldier for whose military duty in the Revolution the aforesaid Pension was granted, I hereby authorize my said Attorney to apply for and obtain from State archives or other sources, certified proofs of such service. To examine all papers or documents in relation to said service, on file in the Departments at Washington City or elsewhere; to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive for my benefit the Certificate for INCREASE which may be issued in satisfaction of said claim, which certificate I wish made payable at the Pension Agency of this State; to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed, and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Agent and Attorney shall lawfully do in the premises.
Mary Covell
Sworn to, Subscribed and Acknowledged before me the day and year above written, and I hereby certify that I believe the said
Mary Covell to be directly interested in said claim as set forth, and to be the identical party therein alleged, in whose claim I am in no wise interested. Name " Willis G. Wade " interlined above, Willis G. Wade
State of _____ County of _____

information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
Billings Wardner S.F. 14886
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Apr. 1. 1782 1 year Pvt. Charles Miles Samuel Canfield Conn.                                                   
Battles engaged in, 1
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Colchester Conn.
Date of application for pension, Sept. 11. 1832 His d. was al.
Residence at date of application, Vienna Oneida Co. N.Y.
Age at date of application, June 26. 1769 at Stonington Conn.
Remarks: died Dec. 29. 1851
In 1833 Mary Coovell of Vienna N.Y. was his only child, no other family data.

STATE OF NEW YORK, } ss. Oneida County, }
On this 11 th of Sept day of September 1832 personally appeared in open court now sitting, Billingz Morden in the court of Common Pleas of Oneida Co state, aged Sixty three years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated: That he was born at Stonington Conn. 26. June 1769 - Has no record of his age - Lived at Colchester Conn. when he entered service - Since was at Spencerville - N.Y., Milford N.Y. and now Vienna, Oneida Co. N.Y. That he enlisted about first 1782 in Capt Charles Miles Co. Col. Samuel Canfield's Regt for One Year and served until Spring of 1783 when he was discharged from service at Stamford having fully served his term - Service performed at Stamford and in that region. refers to annuities of present, &c Does not recollect any continental officers.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Joseph B Read Dep Clk
Billingz Morden
We, residing in and hereby certify that we are well acquainted with who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration: that we believe him to be years of age: that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogato- ries prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier as he states: And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that John Parker who has signed the preceding certificate, is a resident in Vienna Oneida Co and that Linus Parker who has also signed the same, is a resident in said Vienna and an credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
From distance of witnesses from court it would occasion too much expense to require a personal attendance. By the Court E. Haysden, first judge
I, George Brown Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Oneida Co., do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Billingz Morden for a pension.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this 11 th day of Sept 1832 , And I further certify that Benjamin P. Dohms was a Commissioned & Jonathan Remsen a Justice on the days the within affidavits, purport to have been taken, and that the signatures to be in their proper hands. Geo Brown Clerk Joseph B. Read Dep Clk

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Yale Chamber of Pensions
Washington

Claim for arrears of Pension, due deceased Pensioner.

M a Gifford after

State of New York } ss: Onondaga County
Before me Benjamin P. Johnson Sup: Court Comr in said county, came Jeremiah Gifford, to me known a Revolutionary prisoner of the U.S., who being duly sworn, doth on his oath say, that he is now & has been for a great many years well acquainted, with Billings Worden now of Amboy in said State, that he belonged to Capt. Miles Company of Col. Canfield's Regiment men, & was on Actual Service at Stamford & Newneck, after enlistment until peace was declared - that he was very large of his age remarkably strong & robust, & was very nearly the size of the Soldiers generally, & able & actually did all the duty required of any Soldier in the line during the whole of his enlistment, without being Sick, & without a furlough, & that he was wounded by the cowboys, receiving a musket shot in the calf of his leg, the scar of which, he has this day seen, - that he was as true & faithful a Soldier as was in the regiment, and had the praise of it by both officers & men - & actually knows that he was accepted by his officers as a regular Soldier of the line, & was honorably discharged at the close of the war, & believes him to have been at that time in his fifteenth year.
Jeremiah Gifford
Subscribed & sworn to before me this 4 th day of November 1835, and I hereby certify that said Jeremiah Gifford is a credible Witness.
B. P. Johnson Sup Court Comr

To what time was Billings Murdered pri. 40$ pr. an m paid at the New York agency under act of 1832?
G. H. C.
Mr. Whetcroft.
Sept 8. 1835
paid at Utica New York to the 1 st March 1835.
G. W. Linnup Esq.
H. Whetcroft
Sept 8. 1835

No. 394 Pittsfield
Oneida Co. N.Y.
1782. Capt Charles Miles Co. Col Sam Canfield Regt. One Year
7312 Johnson Agent Rome N.Y.
Payable at N.Y.B. Bank. Ulster N.Y.

Onondaga County ss We John Parker Farmer and Linus Parker Tavern Keeper of Onondaga in said County do hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with Pillsbury Warden of said Town - and that we believe him to be about sixty three years of age - That he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution - and that we concur in that opinion - and that he is a man of truth and veracity.
Linus Parker John Parker
Onondaga County ss Personally appeared before me this 13 th day of July 1832 the above named John & Linus Parker Esqrs to me well known as men of credibility truth and veracity and made oath to the above and I further Certify that both of the above named persons have been members of the Legislature of the state of New York.
Jonathan Trumbull Justice of the Peace.

State of New York Onondaga County B } Jeremiah Gifford of Vienna in said County aged 71 years being duly sworn deposes and says that he is well acquainted with Billings Worden (now present) of said Vienna and was acquainted with him in the Revolutionary War - That the said Billings Worden was a Soldier in Capt Charles Mites Company, Col. Samuel Canfields Regt Connieticut Troops in the Revolutionary war - That the said Billings Worden and this deponent, served one year in said Company and Regt. from about the first of April 1782 to the first of April 1783, when we were discharged at Stamford Conn, - having been stationed there during the year - That the said Billings Worden was very young and that this deponent should think he was then not exceed thirteen or fourteen years old - being some years younger than this deponent Jeremiah Gifford
Onondaga County B } Personary appeared before me Jeremiah Gifford above named to me well known as a man of truth and veracity and made oath to the above affidavit, this 11th day of July 1832 J. B. Watson, Comm Duds

My. North Billings Woodson
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Mrs. J. R. Edwards Com. P. Res Washington

Wm Lloyd Edwards
Am. Secy
Mr Billings Warden
the U.S. press? Suspended by your direction on acct of his lack of years at the time his service was performed, came out (40 miles) last week to inquire of me on the subject. When here he accidentally met an old comrad (when off duty in Ireland) who has known him from the time of his enlistment, & lived many years his neighbor, who told me of his own accord that "if Warden was cut off, it was most unjust, as there was no man in the regiment more ardent in the cause or who better deserved a pension" - They are both from my own knowledge excellent & exemplary men - & the offer of a township would have no weight to induce them to speak corruptly. - If the fact of his age is fatal in yr. view of the case, the papers will be asked for to lay before congress. -
your reply will oblige yours obedt. Servt Jas. H. Northway
Rome Nov 10 '35

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NY
1268
Billings Montana
J. S. Edwards Esq. Com. Pension Washington

J. K. Edward Esq. Coun. Rev.
Sir
At the instance of Pillsbury Warden Rev. Rev. of this county, I have to ask the reason why payment of his pension is ordered to be suspended at the Albany pension agency. —
Very respectfully your obedt.
Jay Wathena. Albany Sep. 24. H.S. N.Y.

EDWARD C. WORDEN.
ANALYTICAL AND CONSULTING CHEMIST.
THE CHEMICAL AND MICROSCOPICAL EXAMINATION OF COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS,
MILBURN, NEW JERSEY
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Sept. 2nd 1913.
Dear Sir --
I understand Billings Worden, Thomas Worden and Benjamin Worden, brothers of Sait Worden, applied for pension as veterans of the Revolutionary War, probably enlisting from Conn. If your archives disclose the first three names written above, will you be so kind as to send me what information you have on these.
Thanking you for your courtesy in this matter, I am,
Very respectfully,
A handwritten signature in cursive script, reading "Edward C. Worden". The signature is written in dark ink and features a large, stylized "E" and "W". Two long, thick, diagonal lines are drawn through the signature, one from the upper left to the lower right, and another from the lower left to the upper right, crossing the first line.

RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by a. m. d. 28/10/10
Claim No. _____
Certificate No. _____
Claimant _____
Soldier Billings Worden
Service _____
Additional Service Rev.
No. _____ claim, State records _____, 191_____
No claim, combination records _____, 191_____
REMARKS:
Inv. 7. 14, 886 (Conn.) no other Inv. of any sort Wid. or Ref. " " "

OCT 28 1910
Camden N.York. Oct 25 1910. U.S Commissioner of Pensions. Rm 505 Washington D.C.
My dear Sir
Can you give me any information of the Rev d military service of one Billings Worden. He died Feb 9. 1851 aged 94 years & 6 months.
He is buried in the town of Vienna N.York. The Camden N.York Chapter S.A.R. wish to mark this mass grave with a bronze marker if authentic proof can be ob- tained that he was a soldier of the Rev d . His descendants cannot be found.
Thanking you in advance
I am very respectfully yours (Mrs) Elizabeth S. Pike.
Registrar Camden Chapter S.A.R. Camden. N.York.

Rev. Mary
14.886 INVALID.
1910 Nov. 2 Hist. Soc. Mrs. Elizabeth T. Pike V.P.M. 1913 Sept. 10. Heir to Edw. C. Worden. M.B.H.
File No. 14.886 Billings Worden Rev. Mary
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 46
[Arrangement of 1870.]