Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 14446, for Darling Shaw, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Shaw, Darling
S 14446
carded
CONTENTS

20282  New York  Darling Shaw Newellton in the State of New York he was a private in the Comp. commanded by Captain White of the Reg. commanded by Colonel Sproat in the Cont. for 21 Mo 1000 Mass.
inscribed on the Roll of New York the rate of 11 Dollars 20 Cents per annum commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 th day of Aug. 1831 and Mittie J. Mitchell (P.S.) Worthington
Arrears to the 4th of Mar. '31  $142 40 Rem-ant. allowance ending 1st of Sep. '31  35 60  $178 00
Revolutionary Claim, } As of June 7, 1832, } recorded by G. Little Clerk Book E. Vol. 2 Page 79

4849 In the matter of — Darling Shaw application for a Pension —
on rolls of Col Sprout
Admitted Private 21 months + 10 days —
11/20

New York
Ulster Co. } ss Personally appeared  who the undersigned a justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Ulster Co., Darling Shaw , who being duly sworn, deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of each of his terms of service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the follow- ing grades. For three months I served as a private soldier in a company of State Troops commanded by Captain Joshua White - For three months I served as a private soldier in a company of Militia commanded by Captain Amos Washburn - For ten days I served as a private soldier and a volunteer not being in any regular company but under command of Major Fessenden as stated in my declaration hereby amended For nine months I served as a private soldier in a company of State Troops under command of Captain Amos Washburn or Abraham Shaw and I think that Shaw was my Captain all the time during the performance of this service as Washburn resigned about the time I commenced this last term of service that my Colonel's name was Ebenezer Sprout the father of Ebenezer Sprout Jr. a Colonel in the Continental Service, that this was not continental service but I was in
3 mos
3 mos
10 days
9 mos
9 mos
7

and performed this nine months service in a company of State Troops in the state of Rhode Island  Massachusetts and that Old Colonel Sprout who was my Colonel during the said nine months, was not in the contin- ental service at any time during the war to my knowledge - nor had at any time command of a continental regi- ment but was a Colonel who resided at the town of Middleborough in the county of Plymouth & State of Massachusetts and remained at home except the time he went with his regiment as detailed in my declaration hereby annexed - 9m For nine months I served as a private soldier in a company commanded by Captain Burbank his Christian name I cannot recollect, that my Colonel's name was Ebenezer Sprout Jun r and that this last service was in the continental army the said Ebenezer Sprout Jun r being a Colonel in the regular service. That I am confident this last service in the continental army was nine months. That Crispus Shaw a brother of mine who formerly resided in the town of Morristown in the state of Vermont but who is now dead was in company with me at the same time and in the same Brigade under General Shiner but in a regiment commanded by Colonel Grayson that he enlisted for & served the same length of time which I did and under the old law requiring nine months continued service

requiring nine months, continued during
to entitle the applicant to a pension made his declaration and as I am informed obtained his pension alleging no service but those which were performed at the same time at which my nine months last above mentioned, was performed. that there is no person living to my knowledge who was personally knowing to this last nine months service, and I must therefore be governed as to time by the rolls in the department which I think must shew a term of nine months, or my brother would not have been enabled under old law to obtain his pension for that service as I have been informed he did - and for such service above specified (excepting the last nine months, which if the rolls shew but six months, then that term of service is to be so taken) I claim a pension -
Subscribed to and sworn before } Darling Tharp me this 6 th day of May 1833 }
Henry Patterson Justice Peace

and he is
at
State of New York Rensselaer County ss. Peter Gilson of the town of Hoosick in the County of Rensselaer and State of New York being duly sworn according to law maketh oath & saith that he is 69 years of age that in the year 1780 he this deponent was engaged in the service of the United States as a Soldier of the Revolution that he enlisted and was afterwards mustered at Springfield Massachusetts and marched from there to join the main Army under command of Major Porter that they went in a body of about three hundred and marched at the time and in the manner related by Darling Shaw in his declarations hereto annexed, that this deponent was stationed in Captain Daniels company in Colonel Faxon's Regiment and in General Faxon's Brigade that the company to which he belonged was on the left of said regiment and that Colonel Ebenezer Spauldings Regiment adjoined his regiment and his company on the left and that the company in which said Shaw alleges he served was stationed on the right of said last mentioned regiment as by him stated. That this deponent was not personally acquainted with said Shaw at the time but has no doubt from circum- stances which took place while he was in service at that time which said Shaw has related to him & which he could not have known unless he had been with the army at that time, and from the marches, which were taken and the different posts at which the army was stationed and which he has also detailed to this deponent said Shaw he has no doubt he was in the service of the United States at that time as a Soldier of the Revolution and was stationed in the company & regiment by him stated That Colonel Spauldings who commanded said Regiment in which said Shaw alleges he served was a Colonel in the regular service and whose name was Ebenezer Spauldings the son of Ebenezer Spauldings a Militia Colonel who was never in the regular service to this deponents knowledge but who as this deponent always understood he since remained a Colonel at home having com- mand only of the Militia or State Troops - and further this deponent saith not
Peter Gilson

and further this deponent saith
State of New York the real estate
State of New York
Rensselaer County } On this twenty four day of May 1833 personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the said County Peter Gilson and being by me duly sworn according to law made oath that the facts contained in the foregoing by him subscribed are true as the same are therein stated and I do further certify that I am acquainted with the said Peter Gilson and that he is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to full credit Harry Patterson Justice of the Peace
State of New York
Rensselaer County } ss. I Henry A. Bristol clerk of the said County do certify that Harry Patterson Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit of Darling Shaw & Peter Gilson purport to have been sworn was at the time of the same a Justice of the Peace in & for the said County and that I am acquainted with his handwriting and verily believe his name subscribed above to the foregoing affidavit to be genuine and his proper handwriting and signature In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of the said County The twenty eighth day of May and the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three
Henry A. Bristol clerk

State of Vermont Rutland County ss Personally appeared the undersigned before me this day a person  man known to me to be the person described in and who executed the foregoing affidavit, and acknowledged that he executed the same for the purposes and consideration therein expressed. Given under my hand and the seal of said notary public this 20th day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two and of the Independence of the United States the twenty six.
Rhoda Allen Widow Sarah Bruce
Sworn to, & subscribed at Wallingford this 20th day of July A.D. 1832. And I hereby certify that the D. Rhoda Allen, & Widow Sarah Bruce are persons of unimpeached integrity & moral worth & the above deposition by them subscribed is worthy of full credence.
Not. Public Justice of the Peace

State of Vermont Rutland County ss
I Robert Peipoint, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Rutland do certify that Nathaniel Voy is a justice of the peace for said County duly commissioned and that his signature to the annexed certificate is in his proper hand writing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Rutland this 4 th day of August A.D. 1832 R Peipoint

Declaration to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed June 7 th 1832
State of New York }
County of Rensselaer } Is on this eighth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open court before Daniel Gardner Esquire Recorder of the City of Troy in the County of Rensselaer aforesaid and presiding Judge of the Court of Common Pleas called the Mayor's Court in and for the City of Troy aforesaid now sitting Darius Shaw a resident of the town of Hoosick in the County of Rensselaer and State of New York aged seventy three years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declara- tion in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 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 the town of Middleborough or Middlebrough in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts in the year seventeen hundred and fifty nine That he has a record of his age at home taken from his father's Bible - That when he entered the service of the United States he was living at Middleborough aforesaid, that he entered as a volunteer and enlisted for three months in a company of State troops, as he thinks they were called commanded by Captain Joshua White first Lieutenant John Barrows the names of the second Lieutenant and Ensign he does not recollect, Colonel Ebenezer Sprout was their Colonel, that he enlisted in the spring of the year seventeen hundred and seventy six but cannot recollect the day of the month or the month in which he enlisted, that he does not recollect any of the field officers, but the Colonel above named, that the company to which he belonged was sent to New Bedford

to take some Whale Boats to New Port, Rhode Island that the Regiment marched to New Port where the company to which he belonged again joined them that they were stationed at New Port until the three months for which he had enlisted as aforesaid had expired, that there were no Continental troops, nor officers stationed at New Port while he was there he was employed while there in keeping guard and that he faithfully served out the full time of three months for which he had enlisted as above in the service of the United States as a Soldier of the Revolution and was discharged at New Port aforesaid by his Captain had no written discharge -
That in December in the year seven-teen hundred and seventy six when the enemy took possession of Rhode Island he again turned out and went as a volunteer without enlisting that he went from Middleborough aforesaid to Howlands Ferry that the Captain he was under at that time was Amos Washburn that he took command of the company at Howlands Ferry a part of the men who had volunteered there left and returned home and some of the officers and whether his Captain staid or returned he cannot recollect and if he returned whether took command of the company as Captain he cannot recollect that the Regiment to which he belonged in Middleborough principally turned out and went down to Howlands Ferry & some went back & some staid and that he cannot recollect what other company or field officers commanded him while he was at Howlands Ferry, that there were no Continental troops or officers stationed at Howlands Ferry while he remained there, that he remained there about three months in

The service of the United States as a soldier of the Revolution, that the time he remained there as such soldier was either two or three days, once three months, or two or three days, short of three months, and which it was he cannot recollect, that he was employed in keeping guard while there, that the enemy then had possession of Rhode Island that he was there discharged received no written discharge and he cannot recollect who discharged him - he served as a state troop.
That in the spring or summer of the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven the month or day of the month he cannot recollect, but that it was the time the British burnt New Bedford he again turned out a volunteer and went to New Bedford & from there with a number of others in all about fifty in number under command of one Major Ferrin his christian name he does not recollect he took command of them & went to Fair Haven that he staid there under command of the officer above named in the service of the United States as a soldier of the Revolution ten days & in the mean time put out a number of buildings set on fire by the enemy & took fifty or sixty of the enemy prisoners while they were landing from one of the British ships of war that he was employed while there in keeping guard & at the expiration of the said ten days was discharged by Major Ferrin & went home had no written discharge he served as a state troop.
That in the same year seventeen hundred and seventy seven in the spring or early part of the summer as he thinks but the month or day he cannot recollect but subsequent

to the above ten days which he served as a volunteer as above he enlisted at Middle borough aforesaid for nine months, that he enlisted in a company commanded by Captain Amos Washburn or Abraham Shain cannot recollect which as Washburn resigned somewhere about this time and Shain assum- -ed him in command, that the company were State Troops and belonged to a Regiment com- -manded by Colonel Ebenezer Sprout, that he does not recollect the names of the rest of the field or company officers that they went to Providence and were stationed there a time went from there to South Kingston and were stationed there a number of months he was employed there in keeping guard & went from there to North Kingston & remained a while & went from there with a part of the Regiment to Point Judith where an American Ship called the Columbus was burnt by the British & had an engagement there with some of the enemy who attempted to land, returned from there to North Kings- -ton & was drafted to go to Little Nest to guard the General Assembly of Rhode Island was then commanded by Captain Abraham Washburn went & remained there until general Assembly broke up & then returned to Kingston and remained with the Regiment until his time expired for which he enlisted that while at Kingston he was employed in keeping guard that he served out the full term of nine months for which he enlisted and was marched by his Captain to Providence & there discharged that he received no written discharge. These were State Troops

That in the last of May or the first of June in the year seventeen hundred and eighty which of the two months or the day of the month he cannot recollect he enlisted at the town of Strutesbury in the county Hampshire now Franklin and State of Massachusetts for nine months, that he was enlisted by Captain Seth Pierce as State Troop to go and join the main army that he went to Springfield Massa- chusetts and was there mustered and taken command of by Major Porter as he thinks a regular officer his Christian name he does not recollect, that they marched about three hundred in number under command of the above named officer to Litchfield Connecticut and from there to Fishkill New York and from there to West Point and the company to which he there belonged was commanded by Captain Burbank his Christian name he does not recollect neither does he recollect the names of the other officers who commanded said company his Colonels name Ebenezer Sprout was a Regular officer and Arnold then commanded at West Point, from West Point they went to Fishkill where he thinks General Washington took command of them went from Fishkill to Stony Point & from there to Orange town and to Pottoway & Hacken- sack and was encamped about in New Jersey until Fall & then returned to West Point that before they returned he was present and saw Major Andre & Hays, that during the above campaign the Regiment adjoining the Regiment to which he belonged on the right was commanded by Colonel Dixon and the brigade to which he belonged was commanded by General Dixon that his company was on the right of the Regiment and that Captain Burbank was taken sick on the down way at New Jersey in Orangetown he thinks Captain Abraham Williams took command & continued Captain until his nine months was out

went into winter quarters at West Point and remained there in service until the nine months for which he enlisted had expired that he was there discharged when his time was out had a written discharge but cannot say who it was signed by his Captain brought it & gave it to him that it has long since been lost or destroyed, that he has since the Revolutionary War lived in Shutesbury aforesaid several years, & then moved to Shel- burn Town in same County where he lived seven years & then returned to Shutesbury and from there the town of Grafton in the County of Hampshire & state of New York where he lived about five years and from there removed to "Hosick" where he now resides & has resided for more than seventeen years last past, that he has no documentary evidence of his enlistment or his services as a soldier of the Revolution nor does he know of any person living who is personally knowing to his having served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War or of his enlistments excepting the persons who have signed the  and who are of full age & living at the time of signing this affidavit affidavit, hereto annexed, that the names of the persons to whom he is known in his present neighborhood and who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution are Israel Keck Abner Crandell Jonathan Eddy
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state or (if any) only that of the agency of the state of sworn to and subscribed } Darling Shaw the day & year aforesaid } Nicholas Full Park

We Israel Keach a Clergyman residing in the town of Hoosick in the county of Rensselaer and State of New York and Abner Crandell residing in the same place hereby certify that we are acquainted with Darling Shaw who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy 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
Sworn & subscribed the } day and year aforesaid } Archibald Bull Clerk
Israel Keach Abner Crandell
And the said Court hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states And the Court just certifies that it appears to them that Israel Keach who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the town of Hoosick in the county of Rensselaer and State of New York and that — Abner Crandell who has also signed the same is a resident in the same place and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit —
I Archibald Bull clerk of the Court of Common Pleas called the Mayors Court in and for the City of Troy in the county of Rensselaer aforesaid do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Darling Shaw for a Pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this eighth day of August 1832
Archibald Bull Clerk

September 18, 1934
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Darling Shaw, 14446 BAGJ/MCS
Mr. L. C. Wykoff Terminal Tower Cleveland Ohio
Dear Sir:
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S. 14446, based upon the military service of Darling Shaw.
He was born in 1759 in Middleborough, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. The names of his parents were not given.
While living in Middleborough, Massachusetts, he enlisted and served as private with the Massachusetts troops as follows: from sometime in the spring of 1776, three months in Captain Joshua White's company in Colonel Ebenezer Sprout's regiment; from December, 1776, three months in Captain Amos Washburn's company; at the time the British burnt New Bedford he served ten days under Major Ferrin; the next spring or summer he enlisted and served nine months in Captains Abraham Shaw's (not stated he was related to Darling Shaw) and Abraham Washburn's companies in Colonel Ebenezer Sprout's regiment and was in the engagement at Point Judith; he enlisted in May or June, 1780, and served nine months in Captains Burbank's and Abraham Williams' companies in the regiment of Colonel Ebenezer Sprout, Junior, and was present at the execution of Major Andre.
Darling Shaw lived in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, for several years after the Revolution. He then moved to Shelburne and after living there seven years he returned to Shutesbury. From there he moved to Grafton, Rensselaer County, New York, where he lived about five years and from there he moved to Hoosick, Rensselaer County, New York.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 8, 1832, at which time he was living in Hoosick, New York.

He referred to his brother, Crispus Shaw, who lived in Morristown, Vermont. The papers in this claim contain no data relative to wife and children of Darling Shaw.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension of Darling Shaw, the name and address of the person to whom it was paid, and possibly the date of the soldier's death, it is suggested that you address the Comptroller General, Records Division, General Accounting Office, Washington, D.C., citing the following data: Darling Shaw, Certificate 20283, issued August 13, 1833, rate $71.20 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, New York Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator
* Did not state that Crispus Shaw was dead in 1833 as his widow stated in open court 10.990, that he died in 1845.
Yours

Reproduction
14446 INVALID.
File No. 14. 446
Darling Shams
Pri New Mar.
Act: June 1 st 32
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 345
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Nov 9 '96 Recd per to Frances A. Warner Troy N.Y. SW 3
May 6-1902
Chas. R. Putnam Cleveland Ohio
1909 Dec. 10 Hist. to Abbie P. Young. V.L.M. 1910 Feb. 28 Hist. to John K. Edison V.L.M. Letter in P.F. 14602. Dwyer Stewart 1913 July 23 Hist. to Frances R. Haberman. V.L.M. 1915 Aug. 5 Hist. to Chas. R. Putnam 1918 Sept. 20 Hist. to M. Edison purchased history 1920 Jan. 14 Hist. to Mrs. Harris K. Edison 1921 Apr. 28 Photos mailed to Miss Frances A. Warner 129 6 av. north Troy N.Y. aw
1934 Sept. 18 Hist. to Mrs. L. C. Weykoff. See corrs. in Airah. in Winfield. S.4406

REVOLUTIONARY SERVICE.
O. W. & N. Div.
MEMORANDA.
Please supply as much as possible of the data called for below.
Full name of soldier:
Darling Shaw
Place of residence before service: (Town, county, and State, if possible.)
Shutesbury, Franklin Co. Mass.
Place of residence after service: (Town, county, and State, if possible.)
Shutesbury, Franklin Co. Mass.
Date of death (as near as possible):
At Hossick, Renssalaer Co. N.Y.
Christian name of widow:
Did either he or his widow receive a pension?
He did
Remarks: Was at Valley Forge during that winter with Washington. Was at West Point at the time of Arnold's treason and of the invasion that was feared.
To Major Andre -
Your name and address:
Frances Anna Harriman
22 Glyn Ave.
Loy N.Y.

N.Y. Munroville, Sept 11 — 1918 To the Secretary of the Interior — Recd at Pensions Washington D.C.
Will you please send me the Military record of Darling Shaw, a Revolutionary Soldier
Respectfully Miss J. M. Edson
This may be Julia M. Edson who was furnished a record Feb. 25: 1910, but as it cannot be proven I have sent a history in answer to this letter. V.I.K. Sept. 20, 1918.

DR. THOMAS C. YOUNG
3524 93RD. ST. S. E. OLD 1372 WOODLAND HILLS AVE.
Both phones
CLEVELAND, O. Nov. 28/09
Secretary of the U. S. Bureau of Pensions,
Dear Sir,
From your pension records of the Revolutionary War can you give me the dates of birth and death of one Darling Shaw who was in the Mass. regiment commanded by Col. Otiszer Sproat in Gen. John Howe's brigade & who was granted a pension? Also the dates of birth and death of Abraham Winfield who served in the Florida & Warwick regiment of Orange Co. N.Y. commanded by Col. John Walton. These dates will enable me to become a member of the D.A.R. and any information will be thankfully received. Hoping to hear from you soon, I am
Truly Yours
Abbie P. Young, Cleveland Ohio
3524 E. 93 rd St. S.E.

Ithaca, N. Y. July 17-13. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Pensions.
Under date of Nov. 9, 1896 I have the following from your department.
"Darling Shaw made applica- tion for pension May 6, 1833, at which time he was residing in Rensselaer Co. N. Y. and his pension was allowed for 21 months and 10 days actual service as a private in the Conn. troops Revolutionary War. a part of the time he served

under Capt. White and Col. Sprint -
The National society D.A.V. refuse my papers until I give the date of death - Can you furnish it?
Res. yours,
Frances Anna Harriner 129 Sixth Ave. North, Troy, N. Y.

This may help - In the corner of the paper is
A. W. + N. Div.
N. 22641
S. 45326 and 1446
L. W. B.
There were three records in the following order
Richard Doud
Darling Shaw
Samuel Doly

OPERATING DEPARTMENT AMERICAN STEEL & WIRE COMPANY 208 SOUTH LA SALLE STREET CHICAGO WAUKEGAN WORKS
WE WILL EXHIBIT A COMPLETE LINE OF OUR PRODUCTS AT THE PANAMA-PACIFIC EXPOSITION, SAN FRANCISCO, 1915 IN THE PALACE OF MINES AND METALLURGY
Waukegan, Illinois, July 26th, 1915.
U. S. Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:-
Will you kindly give me, from your pension records; the military record of one Darling Shaw, resident of Middleboro, Mass., who served three months in the spring of 1776 as a private in the Company of Captain Joshua White, in the Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col. Ebenezer Sproat. I think that his term of service was from 1776 until 1781, in different Companies in the Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Colonel Sproat. Latter he was granted a pension.
As the records of the War Department are far from being complete, they have referred me to you for further information. Will you furnish me with same in the way of a certificate showing what his term of service was and what the name and number of the Regiment was in which he served? This information is wanted as the means to become a member of certain patriotic societies. I am already a member of the Sons of the American Revolution.
Thanking you in advance for this information, I beg to remain
Very truly yours,
C. R. Putnam Supt.
CRP-R
C. R. Putnam, C/o American Steel & Wire Co., Waukegan, Illinois.

Rec. Sec. in
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NATIONAL PRESIDENT  LILLIAN CLARK CARY 122 BOOTH ST., DUBUQUE, IOWA
NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS.
NATIONAL TREASURER  JENNIE TROXELL 312 N. NINTH ST., ALLENTOWN, PA.  NATIONAL COUNSELOR  ROSE HOUGHTON 2231 MT. BAKER PARK BLVD., SEATTLE, WASH.  NATIONAL INSPECTOR  ANNA DE LACEY PEEL HOT SPRINGS, ARK.  NATIONAL PATRIOTIC INSTRUCTOR  MARY E. TARBOX FRYEBURG, MAINE  EDITOR BUGLE CALL  LAURA MCNEIR CULVER CITY, CAL.
OFFICE OF NATIONAL
Glen Ellyn Ills Dec 31 st 1919
Pension Bureau Washington D.C. Sirs
Kindly send me service record of Darling Shaw who was a resident of Middleboro Mass. I am ignorant of dates of birth and death but learn through relatives, who are members of the Sons of the Revolution, that he was known as Darling Shaw and not Abraham Winfield Darling Shaw , his complete name, also was granted a Pension -
Trusting to receive his service record
Respectfully
Mrs Harriet M. Hudson
Glen Ellyn Illinois

Cash $1.15 5 from cur Miss Frances A. Harriner of Troy, N.Y. For certified copies of 6 pages from Rev. War claim of Darling Shaw, Mass. Troops. S. 14446 -
Proctor Law D.W. 4/20/21
No receipt desired
No. _____ Serial 465 William F. _____ Remarks: pieces, consists Photographic c Name Darling Shaw

Date Apr. 23, 1921 Name Parling Shaw No. SIH446 Mass Troops War Res.
Photographic copies wanted of 1 pieces, consisting of 6 pages.
Remarks: W. Wilson Ext. J. H. Wood Chief Record Div.
Serial 4622  J. J. Deane Law Clerk. No. _____

BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Finance Division
April 20 1921
Chief of Pen. War Section Sir:
I have this day received from Mrs. Frances A. Warner draft No. Cash for $ 1, 15/100 requesting post-office  copy addresses as per letter herewith.
1921 Apr 28. Copies mailed and Law Div not cut
Very respectfully, W. Campbell Chief of Division.

Miss Frances A. Warrier
129 - 6 th Ave. North
Troy N.Y. -
personal inquiry of Apr. 20. 1921
wants certified copy of 6 pages from
Rev. war pension claim of Darling Shaw -
Mass Troops
S 14446 -
4/20/21
90 25 115

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. Darling Shaw Ser. File 14446
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Young 1776 3 mos. Pvt. Joshua White Ebenezer Sproat Mass.   Dec. 1776 3 mos. Amos Washburn second 3 mos.   * Young or Summer 1778 12 days Major Ferrin   next Young or Summer 1778 9 mos. Abraham Shaw Ebenezer Sproat   Abraham Washburn   Major June 1780 6 or 9 mos. Abraham Williams Ebenezer Sproat Jr.  
Battles engaged in, Engagement at Point Judith Residence of soldier at enlistment, Middleboro Mass. Date of application for pension, Jan 8. 1832. Full pension Residence at date of application, Hoback, Rensselaer Co. N.Y. Age at date of application, Middleboro Plymouth Co. Mass. in 176-9
Remarks: "He was present at evacuation of Mass. Audie"
(Brother's name Shaw)
* Birth of son Bedford was 1778 at time British were in B.
For date of last payment. ?

September 18, 1934
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BA-J/MCS Darling Shaw, S. 14446 Abraham Winfield, S. 44060
Mr. L. C. Wykoff Terminal Tower Cleveland Ohio
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your request for the Revolutionary War records of Darling Shaw and Abraham Winfield.
You are furnished herewith, the records of Darling Shaw, S. 14446, and Abraham Winfield, S. 44060, as shown by the papers on file in their respective pension claims.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator