Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1305, for Uriah Mead, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
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Mead, Uriah Betty
W 1305 B. L. W. 1775-100
CONTENTS

10.110 Q
Connecticut.
Uriah Mead
of New Britain in the state of Connecticut who was a Sergeant in the regiment commanded by Colonel Chandler of the Connecticut line, for the term of six years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 5 th of June, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 th of April 1819 and sent to Pierpont Edwards by Bridgeport, Cont. c
  Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819. 7 ins.  72.00    Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Sept 1819  48.00     $120.00  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }

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Uriah Mead. P.S. Sij.
Col. Chandler's Connecticut Reg t
1777 - 6 years - 5 th June 1810 -
The Line should be stated in the disbanded .
The Certificate of the discharge is to record the circumstances of the Apprentice in wanting.

District of Connecticut ss. Stratford in the County of Fairfield.
I Uriah Mead of New Fairfield in said County and District do declare under oath before the Hon ble Pierpont Edward, District Judge of said District, that I am now fifty eight years of age, and was born in Milton in said County of Fairfield, and am now and ever have been a resident citizen of the United States of America, — that in the Spring of the year A. D. 1777, I think it was in the month of May of that year, I enlisted as a private soldier, to serve during the war, in the company commanded by Captain Samuel Comstock in the Regiment on the Continental establishment in the government of New commanded by Colonel Chandler, late of New-town in said County, now deceased, in the Connecticut line, upon the Continental establishment, in the late revolutionary army, which regiment was afterwards commanded by Lieut. Col. Hoyt, & Colonel Isaac Sherman, — and that I served faithfully in said company & regiment from the time I enlisted as aforesaid until the close of the war of the revolution in the year A. D. 1783, when I was regularly & honorably discharged at West-point with the rest of the army which was disbanded at that time, and received a discharge in writing, stating that I was entitled to the badge of merit for six years faithful service, which discharge sometime after the close of the said war I delivered to a person to enable him to get some military lands to which I was entitled for my services aforesaid, and have never since

seen the same, and know not how or where I can obtain it, — that I was engaged, & served, in the battles of Germantown, Monmouth &c — And that by reason of my low circumstances in life as to property, and a broken constitution, I am in need of assistance from my country for support — I therefore now make application for the benefit of the late Act of the Congress of the United States, providing for certain persons engaged in the Land and naval service of the United States, in the revolutionary war — Dated at Stratford aforesaid this 5 th day of June A. 1818. —
Uriah Mead
I Present Edwards District Judge of the Dist. of Connecticut do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that Uriah Mead who made & subscribed the declaration contained in the annexed Schedule did serve in the Revolutionary War against the common Enemy as stated in the said declaration & I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had before me in his case to the Secretary of the Department of War pursuant to an Act of Congress in such case made & provided said proceedings & testimony are contained in the annexed Schedule August 12 th 1818
Gurdon Edwards

Difficult connection to J. G. G. G. Edward D. D. D. D. D. so early that the western Union had only reached his redwood in American life, day stone in mid of the afternoon of his writing in support Edward Edward

State of Connecticut } Bridgeport in the County of Fairfield. I Salmon Hubbell of said Bridgeport do testify that in the month of May A. 1777, being then an ensign in the company commanded by Capt Samuel Comstock, in Colonel John Chandler's Regiment, in the Connecticut line, in the late Revolutionary army, I enlisted Uriah Mead, then of Wilton in said County, now of New Fairfield in said County, as a private, to serve during the war, - and that he served faithfully to my knowledge in said company & Regiment from that time, until the close of the war of the Revolution when he was honorably discharged at West-point in 1783. He was part of the time a piper & afterwards a Sergeant and was a good soldier - That his war- rant as a Sergeant has lately been sent to me to deliver to the District Judge for him to forward to the Secretary of war , and I now deliver the same ac- cordingly - That I have preserved & now have in my possession the original muster rolls of said Regiment for two years, duly certified, in which the name of said Mead appears as Sergeant & was mustered as such. - That I was born in said Wilton, & have known the said Mead from a boy, that his father was a poor man, and that I have ever understood & do believe that the said Uriah Mead to be a poor man, and in his circumstances low & reduced circumstances as to property, though a respecta- ble citizen, - and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his country for support - Witness my hand this 22 nd day of June A. 1818. -
Salmon Hubbell

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No 31 Billy Mead mo A Unah 61
act 29 July 1848 Mammal 1796 instand decd 1846 Adm.
2 years Supt 120 m am p 4 March 1848 paymen
Appointed ppr act 1939 ppr hagn. say 1787 Supt of Rep
See No 331 act 5 15 May 1828 Hon. Thomas Smith House Mems

Wreak Mead and Betty Lyon both of Reading, joined in the bands of matrimony, May first, seventeen hundred, ninety six, by Aaron Hunt, Dea n
I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the Record of the Methodist E. Church of Reading, with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the Record, in fair legible figures as follows; viz, "May 1 st - 1796"
Reading, Fairfield County, } Conn t Oct 5-1848 }
Francis A. Sanford, Recording Steward of Methodist E. Church Reading }
I, Francis A. Sanford, above named, depose and say that I hold the Office of Recording Steward, in the Church - County, Town & State aforesaid, & that the above is a true extract from the Records of said Church, with the exception above named, as certified by me
Francis A. Sanford Recording Steward of Metho- dist E. Church, Reading
State of Connecticut } County of Fairfield } ss
Personally appeared before me the undersigned day of October 1848 Francis A. Sanford who after the foregoing deposition was made solemn oath to the truth of the same and I certify that the said Francis A. Sanford is personally known to me and that he is a credible witness.
Before me Thaddeus M. Abbott Justice of the Peace
State of Connecticut } Fairfield County } ss
I Thomas Robinson Clerk of the County Court within and for the County of Fairfield aforesaid and keeper of the seal thereof and of the Commission of the Justices of the Peace for said County do hereby certify that Thaddeus M. Abbott Esq, whose name is subscribed hereunto to the foregoing is also within and for said County a Justice of the Peace

For said County duly commissioned and acting as such duly authorized by the laws of this State to administer oaths That his Commission is dated June 24th 1848 and will expire with the 19th day of June 1849 -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said County Court this 5th day of October 1848
Thomas Robinson Clerk

State of Connecticut } Fairfield County } P 1
On this 25 th day of October 1848, personally appeared before the Court of Probate within and for the District of Danbury in said County and State, the same being a Court of Record, Betty Mead a resident of New Fairfield in said District aged Seventy nine years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oaths make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the act of Congress passed July 29 th 1848.
That she is the widow of Uriah Mead late of said New Fairfield, deceased, who was a Sergeant in the army of the Revolution, and served during the Revolutionary War as a Sergeant in the 5 th Regiment of the Connecticut line under the command of the officers specified and named in the original declaration of the said Uriah Mead, now on file in the office of the Commissioner of Pensions in the War Department and for the several terms and periods of time mentioned in the said declaration - and inasmuch as she has no personal knowledge of the various particulars relative to his said

service, of the several times when his term of service commenced and ended, or the names of the officers under whom he served, of the country through which he marched, or of the battles in which he was engaged, she refers to the said original declaration for a more particular description thereof - That the said Uriah Mead was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States from the 6 th day of August 1828 to the time of his death, which said pension was granted to him for the service aforesaid - and she refers for the proof of such facts relating to his service, to the evidence accompanying his said original declaration and also on file in the office of said Commissioner of Pensions -
She further declares that she was married to the said Uriah Mead on the first day of May seventeen hundred and ninety-six - That her husband, the aforesaid Uriah Mead died on the 12 th day of December 1846 and that she has never intermarried since the death of the said Uriah - That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January

eighteen hundred, Don't at the time above stated -
Betty her  mark  to
Sworn to and subscribed on the 25 th day of October 1848 before the said Court of Probate for the District of Danbury -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Danbury in said District of Danbury this 25 th day of October 1848 -
David S. Booth Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury
I Nelson S. White of Danbury in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut Judge of the Court of Probate within and for the District of Danbury in said County of State do hereby certify that David S. Booth who hath signed and certified the foregoing affidavit is clerk of said Court of Probate, lawfully appointed therefor and that the signature above written purporting to be his is the genuine hand writing of said David S. Booth and that the seal affixed to said certificate is the seal of said Court herein under my hand at Danbury this 27 th day of October 1848 - Nelson S. White (Judge)

36 127 Rev INVALID.
File No. 36 127
Wm Mead Serg Rev 2nd
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 269
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Sept. 25/87 Mrs. Otis W. Hunza, Patterson, N.Y.

From
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 1305
Betty Mead.
Widow.
Uriah Mead,
Supt. Rev. War.
Act: July. 29. 1848.
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 211
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Act 1858 Settled at Eliza Mead.
Treasury
Cons d with Invalid file # 36. 127
Very Sincere and Obed t Serv t to the Treasury Washington

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 1820 I Uriah Mead of New Fairfield in the County of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental line of the Army of the Revolution for and during the war and served in its service until its termination: at which period I was a Sergeant in Captain Samuel Conn- stock's Company in the the that was the 5 th Regiment of the Connecticut line until the reduction of the five Connecticut regiments to three in 1783 after which reduction the declarant cannot remember the number of the Regiment in which said company was placed and I also declare that I afterwards received certifi- cates for the reward of eighty dollars: to which I was entitled under a resolve of Congress passed May 15 th 1778 And I further declare that I was not on the 15 th day of May 1820 on the pension list of the United States  should have been signed the 3 rd of March 1826 Witness my hand this 30 th day June in the year of our Lord 1820
Uriah Mead
Before me Isaac Sherman an Justice of the Peace in the County of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut person- ally appeared this day Capt n Salmon Hubbard & Mrs Ezra Gregory both of the said County who did severally make oath that Uriah Mead by whom the foregoing declar- ation was subscribed is generally reputed & believed by them known to have been a soldier in the Army of the Revolution as therein stated Witness my hand this 30 th day of June in the year 1820
Salmon Hubbard Ezra Gregory
Isaac Sherman Justice of Peace

State of Connecticut } Thomas B. Osborne Clerk of the County. Fairfield County } Court of the County of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut do hereby certify that Isaac Sherman Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit was sworn, was, at the time a Justice of the Peace within & for sd Fairfield County & duly empowered to administer oaths. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of sd County Court in Fairfield this 3 rd day of July A D 1828.
Thomas B. Osborne Clerk Fairfield County Court

The Hon. Secretary of the Treasury
Sir - The applicant requests that her money & papers are transmitted to him at New Fairfield Connecticut, ..
Your Obedient Servant Thomas B. Borne

Uriah Mead N 1775.

State of Connecticut } ss. County of Fairfield }
I, Uriah Mead _____ aged Seventy one years, do upon oath testify and declare, that about or in the year one thousand seven hundred and Seventy Seven I entered or enlisted into the service of the United States, for the term of during the war, and served in the First _____ regiment of the Connecticut line, commanded by Colonel Meigs , _____, and that I continued in the service aforesaid until the close of the war, when I was regularly discharged from the First _____ regiment of the Connecticut _____ line, under the command of Colonel Meigs _____ and when I was a Sergeant I do further declare, that I have never received a Warrant for the bounty Land promised me on the part of the United States, nor have I ever assigned or transferred my claim in any manner whatsoever:
Therefore, KNOW all men by these presents, that I, Uriah Mead — aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint Reuben Baldwin to be my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States, a warrant for the quantity of land due to me as aforesaid; and my said attorney is hereby fully authorised and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him, for the special purposes above expressed
Attest, In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand — and seal: this 22 nd day of July 1831.
This 29 th day of July - - - 1831. Yese Suer Dev Miriah Mead
I, Joseph H. Wilkinson aged seventy one years do upon oath declare that I am well acquainted with Alvah Head — who has subscribed the above declaration in my presence, and do well know him to be the indentical person he therein represents himself to be; and further I know or do believe he did perform the military service therein stated.
Attest,
Joseph Wilkinson
State of Connecticut } ss. County of Tolland }
Before me Joseph Wilkinson a Justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid, personally appeared the above named Isaac Mew — — — subscriber to the foregoing declaration, and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined, to be his free act and deed; and likewise personally appeared Joseph Wilkinson subscriber to the above certificate of identity, both to me well known to be men of respectability and truth, and made solemn oath to the truth of the depositions by them respectively subscribed. Dated this Twentieth day of
July - - - 1831. Yesse Sudder's justice of the peace
State of Connecticut } ss. County of Fairfield }
In testimony that the above written Jesse Scudder was a magistrate authorised to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c. in the state of Connecticut at the above date, and that his name there subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature, I have hereunto affixed the county seal, and subscribed my name and quality, at Hartfield this ninth day of August 183 1 . County Clerk, &c.
County Clerk, &c. Thomas B. Osborne Clerk of the County Court for said Fairfield County
County Clerk, Bro.

Newfield Hartford County
State of Connecticut
Sir I Ulrich M ead late sergeant in Capt Low his company Col Meigs Regiment in the Conn line in army of the Revolution do hereby state some two or three years after the close of the war I got a quit claim to my right and title to the bounty land from the United States to Aaron Barlow of heading of the aforesaid County & State for the consideration five dollars & that I have no knowledge of his of his obtaining a warrant for said land; Aaron Barlow deceased some time after and from the best information that I can get from his surviving son I can not learn the said Barlow ever obtained a bounty land warrant in satisfaction of my claim if this should be the case you will please to inform me agreeable to the paper here with inclosed and transmit the same to me then been Baldwin in trust for me
Very respectfully I remain your obedient servant Ulrich Mead
Hon ble Secretary of War of the United States Bounty Land Office Washington

331. 390
No of orig Pay 331 - REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
July 26. 1828
Uriah Mead, — of New Fairfield, 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 formerly the 5th Sergeant — in captain Comstock — 's company, in the 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 >
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, A. B. Alston.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
31 st July 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to Uriah Mead in the Connecticut line
It further appears that Uriah Mead — not 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.
John H. Payne
correct 146856

ISAAC SHERMAN Esq:
Lieut: COLONEL COMMANDANT Fifth
Connecticut Regiment
TO Uriah Mead
Ensign
By Virtue of the power and authority to me given, I do constitute and appoint you to be a Serjeant in the fifth Connecticut Regiment: you are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge that duty, by doing and performing all manner of things thereinunto belonging. And I DO strictly charge and require all non Commissioned Officers, and Soldiers, under your command, to be obedient to your orders, as Serjeant; and you are to observe and follow such orders and directions, from time to time, as you shall receive from me, or other your superior Officers, according to the rules and discipline of War. For which this shall be your Sufficient Warrant.
Anno Domini 1781
Isaac Sherman Lieut

VIII
To the Pension Office Washington, D. C.
My great grandfather Uriah Mead fought in the Revolutionary War and was a pensioner Please to give me all the information you possess concerning him. He was at New Fairfield

Connecticut I think when he drew the pension, and may have had a middle name I don't know whether he did or not.
Address
Mrs. Olin W. Durga Patterson Putnam Co. New York
Aug 19 th 1897.