Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 14,606, for Thaddeus Starr, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Starr Thaddeus
S 14,606
CONTENTS
Carded

Captain Woo company of Col Knapp's Reg t Connecticut Line for 3 years from 1777 to 1780
Ratio of disability,
Date of discharge,
Time of closing the testimony,
Cash 38 3/4 Thaddeus Starr
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
at 80 Dollars per year month, to commence on the March 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 of August 1832 and sent to Eden Sayler  Sunbury  Conn.
Arrears to 4th of March 1832  80 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept " 40
d. May 3. 1841
$120
Revolutionary Claim
Act of the 7 th June 1832
Recorded Book D vol 3 page 67

State of Connecticut County of Fairfield ss. b. b.
On this 21 st day of July 1832, personally appeared in Open Court before the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury in the said County and State, now sitting in Danbury in the County aforesaid, the same being a Court of Record. Mather Starr of Danbury aforesaid, aged seventy two years and upwards, 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 th 1832 -
That he was born in said Danbury, and has ever since resided therein; and he so resided there when he applied for and received a Pension as herein after mentioned - That on or about the 10 th day of May 1777, he enlisted for the term of during the War, in the Continental Army in the Company commanded by Captain Theodore Woodbridge, in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Kemar Swift of the Connecticut Line. Said Regiment belonged to Huntington's Brigade - That he also enlisted as a Private Soldier, and served as such in said Company and Regiment, until the month of March 1780 when having become feeble in health, he hired one Reuben Tinker to enlist in said Company as his substitute and in his stead, to serve as a Private Soldier for and during the War, he was then discharged at Springfield in the State of New Jersey, by Colonel Starr of the Connecticut Line, who com- manded the said Regiment in the absence of said Colonel Swift: and he believes, he also commanded, at that time, the whole Brigade. The discharge which he received from the said Colonel Starr, he had since lost - And he

was discharged as a service, after a faithful service of two years and ten months.
That in the year 1819 he applied for and received a Pension under the Act of Congress passed March 18 th 1818. He received a Pension certificate signed by J. L. Edwards in the absence and on behalf of the Secretary of War dated the 19 th of May 1819; and he was placed upon the Pension Roll of said State of Connecticut at the rate of eight dollars per month - and that his Pension was paid to him for the term of one year when his name was dropped from the Pension on account of a change of the regulations of the department, and on account of his property as he believes - since which time he has received nothing from the United States as a Pensioner -
His said Pension certificate is herewith annexed.

The said Thaddeus Starr 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 in open court —
Thaddeus Starr
We, Samuel B. Hall a clergyman, residing in the town of Dunbury, in Franklin County and Alfred R. Knapp residing in the same, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Thaddeus Starr — who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be about two years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood 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 in open court —
Samuel B. Hall Alfred R. Knapp
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that the Rev. Samuel B. Hall — who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the town of Dunbury aforesaid and that Alfred R. Knapp — who has also signed the same, is a resident in the town of Dunbury aforesaid and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. — And that said Thaddeus Starr is the identical Thaddeus Starr named in the original certificate hereto annexed —
Attest Edward Taylor Clerk of said Court
I, Edward Taylor — Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Dunbury in Franklin County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Thaddeus Starr — for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Office, this 21 st day of July 1832.
Attest Edward Taylor Clerk

State of Connecticut, Fairfield County ss.
Reuben Booth of Danbury in the said county Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury in the said County and State do hereby certify to all whom it may concern, that Edward Taylor Esquire who hath signed and attested the foregoing proceedings of the said Court is Clerk of the said Court of Probate and was Clerk as aforesaid, at the time of signing and attesting the same. That the said signatures above written, which purport to be the signatures of the said Edward Taylor Esquire, are in truth his hand writing and full power to act for him in all things therein contained in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in Danbury aforesaid this 21 st day of July 1832 Reuben Booth Judge of Probate for the District of Danbury

Thaddeus Stevens
Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of September next, in Middletown Conn t at the U.S. Branch Bank
Recorded

War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818,
Thaddeus Starr late a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Connecticut Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to com- mence on the Sixteenth day of February one thousand eight hundred and Nineteen
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this Nineteenth day of May one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
J. L. Edwards, in the absence and on behalf of the Secretary of War.

From the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 14606, it appears that Thaddeus Starr was born in Danbury, Connecticut, date not stated.
While residing at said Danbury, he enlisted May 10, 1777, served as a private in Captains Theodore Woodbridge and Watson's Company, Colonel Heman Swift's Connecticut Regiment and was discharged March 12, 1780.
He was allowed pension on his application executed February 16, 1819, at which time he was a resident of Danbury, Connecticut, and was in the sixtieth year of his age. He died May 3, 1841.
Respectfully,
EARL D. CHURCH Commissioner.
Somborne Data by Elias R. Hale - See his letter in Ebenezer Platt W 26323 acct

For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of the act entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution" approved on the 15 th of May 1828, I Thaddeus Starr of Drubury in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, do hereby declare that I enlisted in the continental line of the Army of the Revolution for and during the War, in the Month of May in the year 1777, and continued in its service until the 12 th day of March 1780, when I employed Nathan Stevens as my substitute, and paid the said Stevens therefor, the sum of one thousand dollars. That said Stevens in pursuance of said employment, enlisted on said 12 th day of March in the continental line of the Army of the Revolution for and during the war, and continued in its service until its termination at which time he was a Private in Capt Watson's Company in the Regiment commanded by Col. Newman Swift of the Connecticut Line. And that the said Stevens thereby became entitled to certificates for the reward of eighty dollars, under a Resolute of Congress passed the 15 th of May 1778 - but whether the said Stevens ever received the said certificates, this Declarant doth not know - and the said Stevens is now dead - and I was not  on the 15 th of May 1828, nor have I been, within five years past, on the Pension list of the United States.  Witness my hand this 6 th day of September in the year 1828 -
Thaddeus Starr

State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield S. S. Danbury
Before me Reuben Booth Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Thaddeus Starr above named, and made solemn oath that the foregoing declaration by him subscribed is true.
Witness my hand this 6 th day of September 1828-
Reuben Booth Justice of Peace.
State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield S. S. Danbury
Before me Reuben Booth Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Fairfield aforesaid personally appeared this day Nathan Wildman Esq. and Samuel C. Dibble both of said Danbury & both to me well known, and both persons of respectability and truth, who did generally make oath that Thaddeus Starr by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reported and believed to have been a soldier in the Army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated.
Witness my hand this 6 th day of September A.D. 1828-
Reuben Booth Justice of Peace.

John Holley of Danbury in the County of Fairfield, aged seventy years, being duly sworn do depose and say, that I enlisted and for during the war in the Continental Line of the Revolutionary Army, in Col. Heman Swift's Regiment in the Connecticut Line. That I continued in said Service during the whole of the war, after my enlistment which was in May, 1777. I further depose & say that at then was, and ever since have been well acquainted with Mather Starr of said Danbury. That he enlisted for during the war, in the Spring of the year 1777, and served in Captain Woodbridge's Company in the said Regiment commanded by Col. Swift, until the Spring of the year 1780. That said Starr then left the Army, by permission of his Officer, and was, at the time, discharged, and employed a his substitute in the said Service, one Reuben Stevens, who enlisted in his stead, for during the war, at the same time said Starr left the Army, and served until the termination of the war, when the said Stevens was a private in Captain Watson's Company in the said Regiment, commanded by Col. Swift. That to induce the said Stevens to enlist in his stead, as aforesaid, the said Starr paid said Stevens a large sum of money, and my belief now is, that the sum was one thousand dollars. That the said Stevens is now dead. And further this deponent saith not.
Dated at Danbury the 6 th day of September A.D. 1828.
John his Holley mark

State of Connecticut County of Fairfield ss. Danbury -
Before me Reuben Booth Justice of the Peace in & for said county of Fairfield, personally appeared John Holley the above named deponent to me personally well known, and entitled to full faith and credit, and made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed, contains the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Witness my hand this 6 th day of September 1828
Reuben Booth Justice of Peace
I Thomas B. Osborne clerk of the county court, or court of common Pleas, within and for the county of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut do hereby certify that Reuben Booth before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn to, at the time, a Justice of the Peace within and for the county aforesaid, duly appointed, commissioned and sworn, and duly empowered to administer oaths -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this 23 rd day of September A.D. 1828 -
Thomas B. Osborne Clerk of County Court

3521
Case of Thaddens Starr.
Danl B. Cooke Judge
Danbury, Conn.
Recd Mar. 23. 1819.
Danbury Ct. March 16
The Hon. John
W. L. Chaplin Clerk

I Thaddeus Starr of Danbury in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut being duly sworn upon oath and say that I served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War, in the Regiment of the Connecticut Line commanded by Col. Sherman Swift and in Captain Woodbridge's company for the term of three years commencing in March 1777 and ending 1780 - and continued on actual service during the whole of said term of three years except about one fortnight absent on furlough; I was honorably discharged but have lost my discharge not thinking of any value. to me. I am now in my ninetieth year & by reason of infirmities and loss of property am much reduced in my circumstances and stand in need of assistance from my Country for support.
Thaddeus Starr
State of Connecticut Fairfield County ss. Danbury Berkshire District on this nineteenth day of February in the year 1819 I personally appeared the above named Thaddeus Starr and made oath to truth of the above affidavit as to him subscribed in my presence by a United States Commissioner of the other contents & affidavits herewith filed I am satisfied that he regards the same as his act and deed against the common enemy & stands in need of assistance.

We John Frostbridge and John Hawley both of Danbury in the County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut being duly sworn depose and say - That we are well acquainted with the within Dependent Thaddeus Starr and know that he served for the term by him stated in the string of the United States in the Revolutionary war in Col d Newman Swifts Regiment of the Connecticut Line part of said three years in the same company with us & part of the time in a different company being comrades in the same Regiment during the whole of said three years and was honorably discharged
John Frostbridge John Hawley
State of Connecticut Fairfield County - ss Danbury Probate District - on the 16 th day of February A.D. 1819 Personally came before me Daniel R. Cook Judge of said Court of Probate the above & within named Thaddeus Starr & John Frostbridge and John Hawley and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavits by them respectively subscribed in my presence - And on the 16 th day of March A.D. 1819 Personally appeared before me the within named Sam l C. Dibble & Joseph Bickelhart and made oath to the affidavits by them subscribed in my presence being all well known to me to be the persons described in and who executed the foregoing affidavits and acknowledged that they executed the same for the purposes and consideration therein expressed and acknowledged the same before me this 16 th day of March A.D. 1819

We Samuel C Dibble and Joseph Hitchcock both of Danbury in the County of Fairfield State of Connec- cut being duly sworn, depose and say that for many years past we have been acquainted with the within named Isaacus Starr of said Danbury and that by reason of recent indispositions and infir- ties of body especially the loss of his eye sight he has become reduced in his circumstances and has numerous and dependent family and therefore in need of assistance from his Country for support Samuel C Dibble Joseph Hitchcock
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= In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office on the day and year first above named Daniel B. Cook Judge of Probate

Thaddeus Harris application

State of Connecticut } Fairfield County } At a County Court held at Danbury within and for the County of Fairfield on the 2 nd Tuesday of February 1829 - on this 14 th day of February 1829 personally appeared in open Court the same being a Court of record for the County of Fairfield, Thaddeus Hase of Danbury in said County and resident therein aged sixty nine years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18 th March 1818 & the 1 st May 1820 that he the said Thaddeus Hase enlisted for the term of during the war in the month of May and on or about the 10 th day of said month in the year 1777 in the State of Connecticut in the Company commanded by Captain Theodore Woodbridge in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Newman Swift in the line of the State of Connecticut on the continental establishment that he continued to serve in the said Corps until on or about the 10 th day of March 1780 when he being sick and unable to perform further duty procured a substitute whose name was Reuben Stevens and was discharged from the service in Springfield in the State of New Jersey - that his name has been placed on the pension list and dropped therefrom on account of his poverty; and in pursuance of the act of Congress of the 1 st May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 th 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 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 and naval service of the United States during the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18 th day of March 1818 - and that I have not nor has any person 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 and by me subscribed
Thaddaeus Starr
The following is a Schedule of all the property of Thaddaeus Starr referred to in the foregoing Declaration
   1 Looking Glass 0.75 Carpet 3.75 $4.50   9 Towels 1.12 1/2 1 Case with drawers 1.50 2.62 1/2   1 plain Chest 0.75 1 stand 0.50 1 round Table 50 - 1.75   10 Chain 2.50 1 iron pot 0.34 1 Drip kettle 0.20 - 3.04   1 Cook Stove 11.00 1 Brass kettle 1.25 12.25   14 Andirons 0.87 1/2 1 shovel & tongs 0.62 1/2 1.50   Table furniture 2.00   7 silver Tea Spoons 3.25   6 milk pans 1.10   Kitchen furniture 2.00   1 Clock & Case 5.00   2 Casks 2.50 2 barrels 1.00 3.50   2 meat barrels 1.25 1.25   4 Cows 1 horse 11 Sheep 12 yearling cattle 97.00   1 Cart 1 waggon 1 Plough 15.00   1 Dwelling house barn 1 acre of land 225.00   1 Dwelling House 1/2 acre of land } 500.00   2 Wsh thereon in New Milford in   Litchfield County 880.76 1/2  
Thaddaeus Starr
Subscribed, sworn to & declared on the 14 th day of February 1829 before the County Court or Court of Common Pleas for Fairfield County Test Thomas B. Barbour Clerk

I Thomas Bloorne Clerk of the County Court or Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said Thaddeus Hark did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding Declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months under one engagement on the continental establishment. I also certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court 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 eight hundred and eighty Dollars and 75 c / 100 . Cents. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 14 th day of February A D 1829
Thomas Bloorne Clerk of said County Court
I John D Wilson Chief Judge of the County Court within and for the County of Fairfield do hereby certify that said County Court is a Court of record, that Thomas Bloorne is the Clerk of said Court and that his attestation under the seal of said Court is genuine and in due form. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 14 th day of February 1829 John D Wilson Chief Judge

Shaddens Starr or Slurr - Com. line -
Rob-
Com-
Ex. one old Book. & Ref.
Ad. In. v. File No 14,606
{ Act 1828 Not allowed

20 Feb.
J. L. Edwards Esq. Penguin Office

J L Edwards
Sir
Please examine the copy of Thaddeus Starr and if entitled direct the certificate to me and oblige you
Yours Sincere
Washington 2 Feb 19 th 1829
O. Mearns

Free Revolutionary Claims
Hon. Richard Rush Secretary of the Treasury Washington
Danbury Ct October 7-

Dorchester October 8 th 1827
Dear Richard Rush.
Sir - Mr. Thaddeus Stevens requests me to transmit to you the enclosed, and to ask that the result may be communicated to him soon.
I am Sir your Obedt Servt
R. Brooks

Hon. Richard Rush Secretary of the Treasury Washington -

Panbury September 22 1828
Hon Richard Rush Secretary of the Treasury Sir herewith My application for the benefit of the law of Congress of the 15 th May 1828 I am not fully confident that my case falls within the letter of the Act but have no doubt I am within the Spirit of it I Sacrificed three of the best years of my life and the Service of my Country and when My health was destroyed and my Strength exhausted I freely Sacrificed my patrimony in procuring a Substitute, I once applied under the law of 1818 and was placed upon the Pension List But it was afterwards ascertained that my circumstances in life (though My estate is small not worth clear of debt more than two thousand dollars) was such as to forbid My receiving the Pension for a longer term than one year — Under these circumstances it seems to me that justice and the Spirit of the law require that my my present application should be granted

and hope such will be your decision but should your view of the law lead you to a different result I shall submit without murmuring or complaint — Upon reading the law I was fearful a strict construction of the would exclude my case and addressed a letter to Col. Aaron Ogden asking for information on the point but have never received any answer I had then no other alternative but to present the case for your decision —
Thaddeus Starr

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
3 Nov 1828.
Thaddeus Starr of Danbury in the County of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Private — in captain Watson — 's company, in Col Swift's regiment of the Connecticut line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, Nothing. He lived at the end of the war by a substitute named Reuben Stevens.
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary F. A. Dickinson.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
7 th November 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to Reuben Stephens in the Connecticut line
It further appears that Reuben Stephens — is now on the pension list of the any — — — — — agency, and has been so since the 3 d March 1826 at the rate of  dollars per month
No certificate issued to Thaddeus Starr — said Starr is not on the Pension Roll —
Richd Hagner Secy
11029

10.045
connecticut
Thaddeus Starr
of Danbury in the state of Connecticut who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Swift of the Connecticut line, for the term of Three Years
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 16 th of February 1819
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 th of May 1819 and sent to Daniel B Cooke Esqr. Danbury Connecticut
  Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1819  4.74    Semi-ann. all'ce ending Sep. 1819  48.00    13/4     28 31  $52.74  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 16th March, 1818. }

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
P.F. 14606
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Thaddeus Starr a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     May 10 1777 March 12 1780 Pvt. Theodore Woodbridge Watson Human Swift Conn.                                                   
Battles engaged in, not stated.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Danbury Conn.
Date of application for pension, Feb 16 1819 the ch. was ab.
Residence at date of application, Danbury Fairfield Co. Conn.
Age at date of application, in both gr. born in Danbury Conn.
Remarks: died May 3 1841 *
* from Agency book.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
"a numerous & dependent family" may mean any relations so I have left it out.

Rev War
14606 INVALID.
File No. 14606
Thaddeus Starr Rev War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index: — Vol. 1 , Page 361
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1816 Nov. 29 Hist. to H. H. Hallett V. L. M. Dec. 8 Hist. to Florence Avery Letter in W. 23.476 Blind Avery 1829. July 12 - Journal Data to Chas. R. Hale - See letter see Ebenezer Platt W 26.323 603

1828 papers to be filed with all owners File # 14,606

Report W. Merwin care to Reuben Boott, Danbury, Con -

See letter to Rev Booth Esq Danbury Con: 21 March 1829.
(Sept 19)

Thaddeus Starr Private 77 to 80 Swift Connecticut Regt
Admitted
on roll.

Rev Sec en 1
312 No. Curtis Ave, Alhambra, Calif.
November 7th, 1916.
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:-
I would be obliged to you, if you would furnish me with a copy of the Application for Pension, and a record of the military service of Thaddeus Starr, of Danbury, Conn. who served in the Revolutionary War under Gen'l. Washington, and Brig. Gen'l. Silliman I believe he was in Col. Beardsley's regiment.
I believe he was a Surgeon, and was one of those in the boat with Gen'l. Washington when he crossed the Delaware.
Family tradition has it that he enlisted for three year, and that he served mostly all of that time.
I will be glad to receive all the information your Department can furnish in this regard, and thanking you for your trouble in the matter, I am,
Yours truly,
A. G. Gallet