Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 11,514, for Lemuel Tabor, Rhode Island

SERVICE
NUMBER
R.I.
Tabor, Lemuel
S 11514
CONTENTS
Carded

2110 New York
Semuel Gabor
Alisburgh in the State of New York who was a Sergeant in the Corps of by Captain Cook of the Regt - commanded by Col. Cook in the Rhode Island time for 14 months
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 70 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 th day of Novr 1832. — and sent to D. Woodwell
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832 $105. Pension allowance ending 4 th Mar 33 35 $140
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Geo. C. Stiles Clerk, Book D Vol. 5 Page 144

State of New York. County of Jefferson p.
On this 8 day of Octo ber eighteen hundred & thirty two personally appeared before Benjamin Wright Esq. a judge of the county court in & for said county of Jefferson Samuel Tabor a resident of the town of Ellsburyh. in said county of Jefferson & state of New York aged eighty 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 7th. 1832 That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein stated. in or about the month of December 1776 he belonged to a company of Militia in the town of Liviston, county of Windport State of Rhode Island commanded by Isaac Cook Captain, Philip Lory Lieutenant

of Philip Manchester Ensign, John Cook was colonel of the Regiment to which the company belonged for about  the first two years & Pardon Gray was colonel of the same regiment after said Cook for about one year according to the best of this deponent's recollection & belief - He further declares that he was a Sergeant of said company during the above term of three years & long after that time. That said company by arrangement & agreement of the officers non commissioned officers & privates was divided into three parts, one of which was constantly in service during the said term of three years. This Deponent further declares that every third week during said term of three years he served under the the Ensign of said company every third week as a Sergeant & was constantly on duty in the service of the United States making the term of

Service about one year from December 1776 to December 1777 or until the British Army evacuated Newport in the latter part of the year 1779 — The particular time the Defendant does not now recollect. That at the time he entered the service & during the revolutionary war & until the year 1803 he was an inhabitant of the town of Tiverton, county of Newport State of Rho. Island. That he entered the service as a Volunteer under the above arrangement.
This Defendant further states & declares that in the winter of 1776 before the British Army landed on Rho. Island he was in actual service on said Island about two months as a sergeant & as a Volunteer & that after the said Army left Rhode Island in the fall of 1779 he was in actual service on said Island as a Volunteer & as

a sergeant of said company about two one month under the command of the officers above named.
This Deponent further declares that the term of his actual service as above stated was in the whole at least one year of three  two months during the years 1776. 1777. 1778. 1779 & 1780.
He further declares that during the time which the British Army were on Rhode Island from December 1776 until the departure of said Army in 1779 he was at all times liable to be called into actual service. That he volunteered as a Minute Man to be called, & was always ready with his arms & equipments & considered himself bound to Military Service & was ready to march at a Minutes Warning . He further declares that he has no documentary evidence of such service.

And that he knows of no person living whom testimony he can procure who can testify to his services.
In answer to questions put to him by the said Judge he declares as follows.
1. He was born in Newton state of Rho. Island as aforesaid in the year 1748. 2. The Record of his age is in the town clerks office in the said town of Newton - 3. He has was living in said town of Newton when called into service, & remained there till 1803, then removed to the town of Providence county. of Santa Fe & state of New York. lived there two years & in Woodstock county of Montgomery in state of New York one year In the year 1806 removed to Ulster county of Jefferson in said state where I have since resided to now -

4 th He was a Volunteer in the Service as above stated -
5 th He has already stated the names of the officers & regiments with whom he served & the general circumstances are as above stated -
6 th To me no written discharge from the Service -
7 th The persons to whom he is known in his neighborhood &c. are amongst others, are Sardin Earl John Allen Esq. Warren Steel & Leander Colwell -
I hereby relinquish my claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the pension and declare that his name is not on the pension roll of the agencies of any state - his Lemuel Tabor Esq. Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid - Benjamin Wright one of the Judges

We Leander Cowles a clergyman residing on the town of Ulsterburg county of Jefferson & Truman Steele - of the same place hereby certify that one are well acquainted with Lemuel Tabor who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration - That we believe him to be eighty three years of age - That he is respected & believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion - Leander Cowles Truman Steele Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid. Benjamin Wright Judge of a
And the said Benjamin Wright Judge of a as aforesaid doth hereby declare his opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above affiant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states. And the said judge further certifies

That in his opinion, the said Labor on account of bodily infirmity, is not able to attend the court of Common Pleas, to make his application for a pension before that Court, he being quite feeble & unable to riding about twenty miles from where said court is held.
And the said judge further certifies, that it appears to him that Alexander Cowles who has signed the foregoing certificate is a disinterested resident in the town of Ellenburg & that Norman Steel who has also signed the same is a resident of the same place & is a credible person & that their statement is entitled to credit.
In witness whereof I the said judge have hereunto set my hand this 8th day of October, 1832. Benjamin Wright one of the Judges of Jefferson County Court.
STATE OF NEW-YORK, JEFFERSON COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE, } ss.
I, Peleg Burchard, Clerk of said county, do hereby certify that Benjamin Wright whose name is subscribed to the proof or acknow- ledgment of the annexed affidavits was at the time of taking such proof or acknowledg- ment a Judge of the County Courts in and for said county, commissioned and sworn, and duly authorized to take the same. And Further, That I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his signature to the said proof or acknowledgment subscribed, is genu- ine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said county, at Watertown, the 11 day of October
1832
P. Burchard Clerk.

August 11, 1930
Rev.& 1812 Wars Section AWF:MLB
Mrs. C. W. Hunt 61 Webster Street Meriden, Connecticut
Dear Madam:
You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 11514, that Lemuel Tabor was born in 1848 , 1748 in Tiverton, Rhode Island.
While residing at said Tiverton, he served from in December, 1776, at various times, as sergeant, in Captain Isaac Cook's Company, in Colonel John Cooke and Pardon Gray's Rhode Island Regiment. He served until in 1780, amounting in all to one year and two months.
He moved from Tiverton, Rhode Island in 1803, to Providence, Saratoga County, New York; was there two years, thence to Broadalbin, Montgomery County, New York, and in 1806 moved to Ellisburg, Jefferson County, New York, where he was living when he was allowed pension on his application executed October 8, 1832.
There are no data as to his family.
The above noted is the history of the only Lemuel Tabor or Taber found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.
Very truly yours
E. W. MORGAN Acting Commissioner

Perham
11514 INVALID.
File No. 11514
Lemuel Tabor Serg Row War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. A , Page 369
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Apr. 24-1900- Miss. Blanche E. Hine Marshalltown Iowa
Aug. 8, 1901 Miss Nellie Gane Camden, N.Y. 1930-Aug 11- H. S. Kimbro C.W. Hunt avv.

July 7- 30
Pension Bureau Washington D.C.
Sir,
Mrs. J. A. Van Cusdel, Registrar Sen. N.S.D.A.R. has advised me to write you asking if you will kindly send me a full copy of the Application and Pension grant of Lemuel Labor also his service in. Rev. War.

Such facts as I've obtained.
Birth on tombstone in town of Ellisburg, N.Y. 1739 D.A.R. Reg. gives 1748
Service given by D.A.R as ensign In Mass. soldiers & sailors Vols. 43 p. 193 } given as 1st & 2nd Vol. 16 p. 17 } Lieut. Find that Vol 13, p. 81 } ensign is an obsolete word and that 2nd Lieut. means the same. Place of Birth Triverton R.I.

Yours, (Mrs. C.W.) Nettie F. Hunt 61 Webster St., Meriden Conn.
Q.S.
This is to use in joining D.A.R.
N.F.H.

J 11, 5-14
Jefferson Co. N.Y.
Lemuel Tabor of Ellishburg Aged 83 yrs. Applied for pension Oct 8-1832
Enlisted Dec. 1776 at Tadoussac, Newport Co. R.I. Random Essay Capt Isaac Cook, Col John Cook & x
Served as Serjt. as minuteman during years, 1776-7-8-9-1800 14 mo. serv. in all.
  1832  -  11  -  8    1748  -  12  -  30       83   10   8  

O. M. A. U. S. Commissioner of Pensions Washington, D. C.
My dear Sir
The Pension Record is desired of Samuel Labor a soldier of the War of the Revolution. He is supposed to have enlisted from Free town, Mass. He was born at Liverton, R. I. Feb 30 th 1748.
Thanking you in advance
I am sincerely yours.
(Miss) Nellie Case July 31 st 1901. Camden.
Oneida Co. N. York

CHICAGO GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY
OFFICE OF TRAVELING FREIGHT AND PASSENGER AGENT.
A. C. HINE, TRAVELING FREIGHT AND PASSENGER AGENT.
WAVERLY, IA.,
April 9 th . 1900.
Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir: Kindly inform me if your records show the services of Samuel Tabor Revolutionary Providence R.I. or Bear Creek. Jefferson Co. New York. Also Zaddock Loddull of Herkimer Co. New York. Should the Pension records fail to give the names of either, will you kindly refer this letter to the Division of Revolutionary Records. War Department, and greatly oblige Blanche E Hine.
Waverly. Iowa.

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