Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13649, for Araunah Kilborn, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Hilborn, Arannah or Arannah
S. 13649
CONTENTS
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Kilborn Arannah Com 513649

Alice 14305 New York Savannah Ga
of Orissa with State of Pa who was a Private in the Comp by Captain Miles of the Reg by Col Canfield in the Gen  with the month of May 
issued on the Bill of  Nov 10 the rate of $10  Dollars commence on the 10th day of Nov 
in spite of Pension Fund the  10th day of  Nov 1833 and Subscribed  Camden 
witness to the 10th of Nov 1833  Signature  Camden  10/10/33 
$1 { Revolutionary War { Act Jan 
Recorded by W. B. Smith Book _____ Vol. _____ Pag _____

Annah Kilborn's Pension Papers-
— application —
8913
I found in
Please give notice of the sale of this applica- -tion to me at Cananda- igua Co. N. York -
No 5 1833
at Southworth

The Amended Declaration of Benjamin Stillborn in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 1 st 1832
State of New York } Oneida County } ss. Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace residing in the Town of Camden in the aforesaid County, Benjamin Stillborn who being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that by reason of his age and a long continued sickness and debility and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the time or year that he entered the service of the United States as a soldier in the Revolutionary War, but that at the time he enlisted he resided in the town of Colchester in the County of New London in the State of Connecticut and that he served as a private under said enlistment one year, and as near as this deponent can recollect this service was performed in the year 1779 or 80 commencing in the spring of the year according to his best recollection, — And that in the year 1781 he was hired by a club as it was called, to serve for three months and that he joined his company at Old Orchard, and there joined General Huntington's Brigade and from there went to the Highlands to winter, and that the whole time he served, as one hired by the said club, to the time he took his discharge as stated in his declaration of which this is an amendment was two months & twenty two or twenty three days [cannot state exactly which] but that at the time he so received his discharge he supposed that his services rendered were considered the same as tho' he had staid until the full expiration of

the three months, and that it was offered the same to the club, "as they informed him" by which he was hired, and it was under this impression that he called it three months service in the declaration of which this is an amendment, that he has had no other discharge except what is mentioned in the said declaration and that the same are lost and that the whole time he served is one year and two months and twenty two or twenty three days as aforesaid but that if the time for which he served for the club is called three months then he served in all fifteen months as a private, that he is quite low in health not being able to sit up for the most of the time and that his memory is consequently much impaired and that for the services aforesaid he claims a pension.
Sworn to & Subscribed
this 5 day of April 1833
William Kilborn
before me
Simon Sanford Austin
I the said Austin wrote the deponent's name on account of his inability at his request after reading the affidavit to him
Simon Sanford Austin
State of New York
Clerk's Office Oneida County
I Geo Brown Clk of the said County
do hereby certify that Simon Sanford before whom the within affidavit was sworn to before me on the day of the date of the same a justice of the peace in & for said County & that I am well acquainted with his handwriting & verily believe the signatures "Simon Sanford" above subscribed to be genuine.
Witness my hand & Seal of Office this 6 th day of April 1833
Geo Brown Clerk
Geo Brown Clerk

On this 18 th day of August 1882 Mendham County personally came before me Israel Stoddard one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Mendham State of New Jersey. Anannah Wilson a resident inhabitant of the town of Mansfield in said County aged seventy years Who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June Seventh AD 1832 viz That he entered the Army of the United States as a private in the First Connecticut Regiment of Artillery by enlistment under Captain Miles of Preston Connecticut in Colo Canfield's Regiment as this deponent best can recollect and that the name of the Lieutenant in said Company was Spence and the name of the Ensign was Webster that he enlisted in the town of Chester County of New London in the aforesaid State that the names of the other officers he hath forgotten, that he then marched to Horse Neck or near there where he lay at a tent the name of which he hath forgotten, but was not far from Stamford and that while there one of the folks espied a noted cow boy named Shubel Meritt running down towards the shore and towards a place called Morris- ania that they gave him chase and pursued him into a wood where he was shot while stand- ing on the stairs by some one in the Company & that he recollects Major Dana said how he must look out the cow boys will be revenged on us that after remaining there and in that vicinity for

for one year his Captain asked him if he did not want to take a furlough into the country, to which he replied that he did not care if he did, upon which the said Captain sat down and wrote "Aramah Kilborn has been of absence from this dale" about this time there were two prisoners, cow boys as they were called, one by the name of Bush and the other by the name of David Palmer, to be taken to Old Hartford, after receiving each 39 lashes; that he told his Captain that he would go for one to help take them along and that accordingly he went and saw the prisoners put into custody and about this time or a little previous his term of enlistment expired and from Old Hartford he returned home after serving one year as aforesaid; and that he at another time was one hired by a club as it was called, for three months to serve in the United States service in said Revolutionary War that he entered the said service & that he joined the company at Old Orchard adjoining a place called Yellow Hill a few miles below West Point that the name of the Adjutant was Libens Looney of Colchester Connecticut and the Sergeant's name was Boothe that at that place we joined Gen. Muntington's Brigade and were exercised and drilled for several days and that from thence we went into Winter Quarters at the Highlands and while there our Troops came in from taking Cornwall and

his Army and the small Pox beginning to appear among us soon after and that being quite unwell and unable to perform duty Colo Clift gave him a written discharge signed by himself that when he returned home to Col Chester he put the said discharge in a Gin Box with some other papers, belonging to Mary Hunt who not long after got married and removed from that town and as he has been in for - men did before arriving at her journey's end and that she took the Box and papers with her from Colchester and that he has not seen it since - that the whole time of service performed by this deponent amounts to fifteen months that he has had a good deal of sickness of late and that at this time he is unable to go from home and has not been for seven months past that his memory is quite a good deal impaired from age and bodily infirmity that after the War he continued to reside in Colchester for several years and that he removed from that place to Pittsfield above Great Barrington Mass: and that from that place he removed to Shaftsbury Vermont State and from thence to Rome Oneida county and about fourteen miles from where I now live in Annsville that he resided at Rome about thirty six years and has lived in Annsville nearly eleven years and that he is well known in this part of the country and that David Fannin has known him for more than

twenty years and who now lives in his present neighbor- hood and who can testify as to his Character for veracity and of his opinion and belief of his services as a revolutionary soldier. And also Eliakim Stoddard a clergyman residing in Coanden about three miles from his place of residence being the nearest clergyman to him, can also testify to his character for truth and his belief of his deponents services as a soldier of the Revolution. That he was born in Colchester aforesaid and that he knows of no record of his age but that according to his best information & according to his memory he was born in the year 1762 or not far from that time and that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or an annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on any pension Roll of any agency in any State and that he knows of no living widow to his services as above specified and as far as he can ascertain the persons are not living with whom he was best acquainted while in said service. Sworn to & subscribed before me this _____ day of _____ 18____ ____ Clerk.
Subscribed & sworn to before me the _____ day of _____ 18____ ____ Clerk. Michael G. _____ Midway N.Y. Mr. Eliakim Stoddard a clergy- -man residing in Coanden Coanden County N.Y. and David Tamm residing in Coanden in the same County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Miriamah Kilborn who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and that we believe he is of the age of seventy years as stated in his declaration and that he is

reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Revolutionary Soldier and that this has been the opinion in the neighborhood where he has resided since our acquaintance with him and that we do concur in that opinion -
Yours sincerely the day and year aforesaid before me Israel Haddad
David Garrison Ephraim Haddad
Judge of Probate Court
And I the said Judge do hereby declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant from sickness, bodily infirmity, old age and general debility which is very painful is unable to appear in open Court and will in all probability be unable so to appear at the next term thereof and that he was a Revolutionary Soldier at the State. and I the said Judge would further state that he well knows that Eliezer Haddad who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman resident in Camden aforesaid and that David Garrison who has also signed the same is a resident in Antrimville is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit and that I am personally acquainted with the said Reuben Hildreth who subscribed the above declaration and that I concur with them as to the good character and age, truth and veracity of the said applicant and the belief in his neighborhood that he has been a Soldier in the Revolution and understand the tenor therein his declaration is true and that I cheerfully concur in said opinion
Camden Aug 18th 1832
Israel Haddad
Judge of Probate Court

State of New York
Clerk's office Oneida County ss 1 George Brown Clerk of the said County do certify that Israel Stoddard Esq before whom the within proceedings were had is one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County, that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe the signatures "Israel Stoddard" to be genuine, and that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Arannah Kilborn to a Mandamus.
Witness my hand and Seal of Office this 7 th day of September 1832
Geo. Brown Clerk
Joseph B. Pease (Acting Clerk)

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File No. 13 649
Annah Billings
Phil. Pa. wa.
Act: June 7th 1832.
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 255
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Maria Lindbom
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Kilborn, Aronah Conn 513649

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Channah Fulborn of Amherst Co. N.Y. which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes III. If the applicant make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? yes VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? Yes XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? Yes XIV. †If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office? XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? No XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? 3a
 EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. 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 his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For _____ year _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____. For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
QUERE XIV.  Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI.  Mode of authentication. In every instance where a certificate of the continuing officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet or paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.