Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2132, for Thomas W Larkin, Rhode Island

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439
A.
New York
Mary Larkin
widow of Thomas W. Larkin
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Private
R I Line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 th day of Dec r 1847 and sent to
Hon. W. A. Sackett
House of Reps
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 167 Vol. 1
July
Q.
J.

3627
New York
Thomas W. Larkin
of Albany in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain P. Gardine of the Regt. commanded by Potter — in the R.R. Alliance line for 2 Years — — — — —
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 80 Dollars — — — — — per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 nd day of Decr. 1832 — — — — — and sent to W. Larabee Albany
Arrears to 4th of Sep. 1832 $120 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 th Mo '33 40
$160
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
M. Cromwell
Recorded by Book D.
Vol. 5. Clerk Page 109

11531
Thos. W. Larkin 
W. Larrabee Agt Almond Allegany Co N. York 

V o 11531
BRIEF in the case of Thomas W. Sartin of Andover County of Allegany — in the State of New York —  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?
Before a Judge — — —
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
yes —
3. How old is he?
70 years —
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     In 1778 more about 8 th Aug st 20 private — Capt. P. Gardiner — Col. Th. Potter —   1779 March 1 st 9 " Same Officers as above   1779 Dec. 6. st 3 " Same Officers as above  
Says, the whole period of Service during the war was 3 years & 9 months
5. In what battles was he engaged? { and a half month — under same Officers as before mentioned. —
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
at South Kingston — Rh. Island. —
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
1 living Witness — # 1 Witness & traditional evidence — 1 parole Witness —
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
James Od —
Examining Clerk.

130 State of New York County of Allegany { ss Billings Popple, whom I certify is a respectable person, after being duly sworn according to law deposes and says that he is sixty five years of age, that when a boy in Rhode Island, he was personally acquainted with Thomas W Larkin late a prisoner, and with his present widow Marcy Larkin within named, an applicant for a pension, that this deponent was at the wedding of the said parties in the winter of 1795 when this deponent was twelve years of age, that this deponent was himself married in 1808 thirteen years after the marriage of the above named parties, that this deponent knows the date of the marriage of the said parties, from this date, that is from his own age, as their marriage took place when this deponent was twelve years of age, which was as above stated in 1795 that he has known the parties ever since that date; that the said Thomas W Larkin died Dec 4th 1840 leaving his widow the present applicant, and who still remains a widow Subscribed and sworn before me, Billings Popple this 9 th day of December 1848 Joseph Leonard Justice of the peace of Allegany County NY
State of New York, County of Allegany { ss Billings Popple, whom I certify is a respectable person, after being duly sworn according to law deposes and says that from a child, and at least for thirty years, he has been personally acquainted with Thomas W Larkin late a prisoner, and with his present widow Marcy Larkin within named, that she is the identical person & widow of the said Thomas W Larkin late a prisoner, and that she is still a widow Subscribed and sworn before me, Billings Popple this 9 th day of December 1848 Joseph Leonard Justice of the peace of Allegany County NY
State of New York Allegany County { ss Clerk's office { Martin Butts Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Joseph Leonard is a justice of the peace in and for said county duly commissioned and qualified and that his signature subscribed to the above affidavits is his genuine signature. My hand and seal of said county this 15th day of Jan y 1849 Martin Butts Clerk

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 29 th July 1848 State of New York,
County of Ulster ss On this 9 th day of January 1849 personally appeared before the Subscriber County Judge of said County, Marcy Larkin of said county aged eighty three years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath, make the following decla- -ration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 29 th 1848, extending the date of the marriage to 1800; That she is the widow of Thomas W Larkin who was a prisoner of the United States - She further declares that she was married to the said Thomas W Larkin on the 28 th day of January 1795 in Hopkinton, Washington Co Rhode Island by Abraham Weeks, that her name before mar- -riage was Marcy Palmer, that her husband the aforesaid Thomas W Larkin died on the 4 th December 1840, and that she has remained a widow since that period, and is still a widow sworn to, and subscribed on the, Marcy Larkin day and date above written ( name W. G. Mergel County Judge of Ulster Co.
I certify that the above named Marcy Larkin is a respectable person, that from bodily infirmity, she cannot attend the court to make her declaration And I further certify that by reason of bodily infirmity she is not able to write her and I also certify that the above declaration was distinctly read to her before the  the  the and understood by her before she signed the same
W. G. Mergel County Judge

In the matter of Thomas W. Larkin for a pension under act of Con- gress passed June 7 — 1832 —
W. Larrabee
11531
admitted
2 years
80 $

State of New York.
Allegany County ss: On this 19th day of September 1832, personally appeared Thomas M. Larkin of Andover in the county of Allegany and State of New York at the dwelling House of Sheldon Brewster in said town before Asa S. Allen a judge of the court of Common Pleas of Allegany County aforesaid aged 70 years, who first being 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 - 1832 -
That he entered the service of the United States in the War of the Revolution on or about the 8th day of August 1778, in the town of South Kingston in the State of Rhode Island where he then resided at the age of 15 years as a substitute for Joseph Morse in the Militia of the State of Rhode Island under the following named officers and served as herein stated - to wit: Captain David Gardner, Lieutenant Parson Pitt and Colonel Thomas Patten - marched immediately to Lower Hill, from to Bristol and from thence to Silvertown where volunteers were called for to go with one Sergeant Babcock to Stony Hill and this applicant and several other volunteers and on arriving at Stony Hill were fired upon by the British and we returned the fire three times and then retreated to Quaker Hill and from thence to Silvertown - this was in what was called the

Sullivan's expedition on the Island of New Port - and the services were in training and disciplining and preparing for an engagement which was expected and which took place; but this applicant was not in the general engagement before Sullivan's retreat from the Island - that on or about the first day of September 1778, this applicant was dismissed at Tiverton - making a service of 20 days as a substitute aforesaid according to the best recollection of this applicant -
That he again entered the service of the United States in the War of the Revolution at the town of South Kingston in the State of Rhode Island where he then resided as a volunteer in the Militia of the State of Rhode Island for the term of nine months on or about the first day of March 1779 under the following named officers Captain Paris Gardner, Lieutenant Elisha Potter and Colonel Thomas Potter and marched immediately to Up Likerstown and remained there several weeks in exercising and disciplining ourselves to successfully meet the enemy if the occasion required - marched from thence to the Island of New Port and pitched our tents near Loring Hill and continued here several weeks in repairing the trenches and forts and marched from thence to Branton's Point and remained there several weeks in drilling, exercising, and in the performance of common camp duty and from thence we marched to the shore at Franklin's ferry and remained there in guarding the shore until the expiration of the time.

ding the shore until the expiration of the time.
Months for which he volunteered and then was dismissed - Making a term of service of three  then on or about the 1st. day of December 1779 Making a term of service of Six months according to his best recollection -
That he entered the service of the United States again at South Kingston in the State of Rhode Island where he then resided as a volunteer for the term of Three Months in the Militia of the State of Rhode Island, on or about the 6th. day of December 1779 - under the following named officers - Captain Paris Gardner, Lieutenant Pardon Tift and Colonel Thomas Potter and marched immediately to Point Judith and remained here several days in guarding the shores and protecting property from the thefts of the British and Tories and then marched to Franklins ferry and there remained in guarding the shore and the common duties of the camp until the expiration of the Three Months for which he volunteered and was then dismissed on or about the 6th. day of March 1780 Making a term of service of Three months according to the best recollection of this applicant -
That as South Kingston in the State of Rhode Island was almost as it were in the mouth of the enemy, this applicant from the last above mentioned date was with the

Sullivan's Expedition on the Island of New Port.
Exceptiön of a few short intervals continually under arms either as a volunteer or on alarms until the close of the War and the main part of the time under Captain Paris Gardner, Lieutenant Pardon Lift and Colonel Thomas Potter and from the length of time since the Revolutionary War he cannot now state the times and length of each term of service after the last above mentioned date but recollects that at the close of the Revolutionary War he made out what time he had served in the War of the Revolution and it amounted to Three years and Nine Months and a Half Month according as he had kept the account - that Marlborough Light Corps was in service part of the time. This applicant was in the service at the several places before mentioned on the Island of New Port - that this applicant knew in his services aforesaid General Sullivan, General Green, and General Lafayette and Colonel Barton - that he has no Documentary evidence nor no written discharge of any of his services aforesaid and that he knows of no person living, excepting Nathaniel Perkins, a clergyman of the town of Independence in the said county of Allegany who can testify to his services aforesaid that the said Nathaniel Perkins can testify to all

or nearly all of his services as aforesaid as the said Nathaniel Perkins was orderly sergeant in the same service and in the same company and regiment the whole or greater part of the time this applicant was - that Joseph Baker, Sheldon Brewster esquire a coroner of Allegany County, and Thaddeus Baker esquire reside in his present neighborhood and can testify to his veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution -
That he was born in South Kingston in the State of Rhode Island on 28th day of November 1762 - that he has no record of his age that he has lived since the Revolutionary in Argyle, Whitestown, Phelps town, Franklin and now in Andover aforesaid all in the State of New York
That he hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity whatever except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State -
Thomas D. Lawrence
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid -
State of New York.
Allegany County ss - We Jacob Spicer a clergyman of Andover and Joseph Baker, Sheldon Brewster esquire a coroner of Allegany County and Thaddeus Baker esquire of the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas W. Larkin who has subscribed & sworn to the above of said town and that
was called Larkin.

We believe him to be 70 years of age and that he is a man of veracity and is reputed in his present neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion -
Jabez Spicer Sheldon B. Easton Shaddacus Baker Joseph Baker
Sworn to and subscribed before me the year and day aforesaid -
State of New York.
Albany County ss - And the said judge hereby declares that it is his 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 serves as he states - And the said judge further certifies, that he is well acquainted with the Reverend Jabez Spicer a clergyman residing in the town of Andover, and Sheldon Brewster, Shaddacus Baker, and Joseph Baker who have signed the preceding certificate residing in the same place, and knows them to be credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to full credit and confidence - And further that the above named applicant is unable to attend court from bodily infirmity -
State of New York.
Albany County ss - Clerks office ss -
Isaac D. Van Rensselaer of Albany County
Judson W. Sherman Clerk of
Albany County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said judge, in the matter of the appli-

Allegany county ss Clerks office ss
Attest the records of court of common pleas of Allegany county
Judson W. Sherman Clerk of
Allegany county do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said judge, in the matter of the application of Thomas W. Larkin for a pension. And that on the day of the date thereof Asa S. Allen was a judge of the court of common pleas of Allegany county duly commissioned and authorized to act as such judge and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Asa S. Allen and verily believe the signature thereto purporting to be his signature as such judge is his own proper hand writing —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county this 22 d day of September 1832 —
Judson W. Sherman

State of New-York.
Allegany County ss - Nathaniel Perkins a clergyman of the town of Independence in the county of Allegany and State of New-York, being duly sworn doth on his oath say that he knows that Thomas W. Larkin served in the War of the Revolution as a substitute and volunteer in the Militia of the State of Rhode Island to wit; as a substitute under Captain Paris Gardner and Colonel Thomas Potter 20 days from the 8th. of August 1778 until the 1st. day of September 1778 - as a volunteer under Captain Paris Gardner and Colonel Thomas Potter 9 months from the 1st. day of March 1779 until the 1st. day of December 1779 - as a volunteer under Captain Paris Gardner and Colonel Thomas Potter 3 Months from the 6th. day of December 1779 until the 6th. day of March 1780 and from that time almost continually until the close of the war in 1783 as a volunteer and out upon alarms - This deponent serving at the several periods above mentioned in the same company and Regiment with the said Thomas W. Larkin and being also first sergeant of the company and verily believes that the said Thomas W. Larkin served in the War of the Revolution with this deponent in all more than Three years and that he has this day seen the said Thomas W. Larkin and knows him to be the

very indentical Thomas W. Larkin who served as aforesaid and is about to apply for a pension under act of Congress passed June 7-1832- Nathaniel Perkins
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 20th day of September 1832 — Isaac Allen Judge of Common Pleas of Albany County
State of New-York.
Albany County ss. I Judson W. Sherman Clerk of Office ss. Clerk of Albany county do hereby certify that on the day of the date of the foregoing affidavit Asa S. Allen was a Judge of the court of Common Pleas of Albany County duly Commissioned and authorized to act as such and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Asa S. Allen and verily believe the signature to the same purporting to be his as such Judge is his own proper hand writing —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county this 22nd day of September 1832 —
Judson W. Sherman
State of New-York. Albany County ss. Hazard P. Clark of the town of Albany in the county of Albany and

State of New York-
Albany County ss. Hazard P. Clark of the town of Hudson in the county of Albany and State of New York being duly sworn deposes and says that he is personally acquainted with Thomas W. Larkin of the said town of Hudson and that this deponent's father Stephen Clark and the said Thomas W. Larkin were neighbors in the state of Rhode Island and that this deponent has frequently heard his said father Stephen Clark say previous to his death that he was a soldier of the Revolution and served in several campaigns and that in speaking of the said Thomas W. Larkin his said father was always said that the said Thomas W. Larkin was a soldier of the Revolution and that this deponent has no doubt in his own mind from all that he has heard that the said Thomas W. Larkin was a soldier of the Revolution and served as he has stated in his declaration hereto attached -
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 19th day of September 1832
Hazard P. Clark
Asse Illue Judge of Com mon Pleas, Albany County
State of New York.
Albany County ss. ) Clerk's office ss. )
Judson W. Sherman Clerk of Albany County do hereby

certify that Asa S. Allen was a judge of the court of common pleas of Alleghany county on the day of the date of the foregoing affidavit duly commissioned and authorized to act as such and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Asa S. Allen and verily believe the signature thereto purporting to be his as such judge is his own proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county this 22d. day of September 1832.
Judson W. Sherman,

From Leonard P. Mc Whitney Valley N.Y.
He
P.O. Book Exp. Block of Stanton Co.
Bath N.Y.
Hornellsville June 25th 1

State of New York, Robert Robertson whom I hereby certify is a respectable person after being duly sworn according to law deposes & saith that Thomas W. Sartin late a pensioner died at his house on the 4 th day of December 1840 and that he purchased his grave clothes of Smith & Huddleston Merchants of the town of Hornellsville on the said 4 th day of December 1840 and did also on the same day purchase a coffin for the said Thomas W. Sartin late a pensioner of Samuel Brady that on referring to the books of of the said Smith & Huddleston he finds the date of the charge for the said grave clothes to be done on the 4 th day of December 1840 (leaving his widow Mary Sartin who still remains a widow applying for a pension was entered and sworn) before me this 24 th day of January 1849. } Robert Hallock
A. Thomas Justice
State of New York, S l . County of Steuben, I Paul C. Cook Clerk of the said County do certify that A Morris before whom the preceding affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper hand writing and signature. Witness my hand and seal of office this 26 th day of January 1849 P. C. Cook Clerk

Dear Sir
I want you should certify at the bottom of the affidavit & fix to it the seal of your office & Return it to me as soon as you can by the Return of Mail You see I herein transmit to you To oblige
Jan 24 th 1821
Joseph Leonard P.M. Whitney Valley Albany Co NY
Dear Sir
Yours of the 29 th Jan y . has this day been Rec d & I will write to Rhode Island as you requested. Robert Robinson the individual who made the foregoing affidavit was present when & saw Larkin & his wife Marree
Yours &c Leonard P.M.
To Mr. Larkin Esq

From Leonard P. W. Whitney's Valley Feb 3 rd Trades for info via
Joseph Leonard Esq. Postmaster Whitney's Valley Michigan Co. Pa.

Thomas W Larkin Allegany, N.Y. act of June 32 $80 00
To what time was he last paid? Pension Office } G.C.A. March 30. 1849 } Died 4 th Dec 1840 p. in full. W.S.

Mary Larkin of New York, under law 29. July 1848.
Report the within to me W. A. Schutt M. C. Niagara Falls N.Y.

In yours of the 10 th of March, in the case of Mary Larkin - I have just inclosed a letter from the Town Clerk, certified by a Member of Congress, that he is Town Clerk; this no doubt will remove the objection to the acceptance of the proof now on file in her case, if so then the case not clearly made out

No 130
Marcy Larkin wid of Thomas LL LLV. NY
act 29 May 1828 Married before 1800 Husband died 1840 advised $80 per per 4 March 48
Dear Mr. A. Sackett Dause Valley

No 130
Mary Larkin
NY
Hon E. Blackmar March 10, 49
Let to same on 17-49 " Hon W. A. Sackett 18 th Feb y 1849
act 29 July 1848

Reuben
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 2 132
Mary Larkin,
Widow Thomas W. Larkin,
Deo. Rev. Ware
Act: July 29, 1848.
Index:—Vol. A , Page 416
[Arrangement of 1870.]
So New York on R 2 Nov 28 2 after war to NY (at Allegany) m a R 2 Mary Palmer

No marriage on record

Hopkinton (R. I.) Feby 26th 1849 — Mr. J. Leonard —
Sir I Received a communication from you dated Feb 9th 1849 — wishing me to search the Records respecting the marriage of Thomas W Larkin & Marcy Palmer — In compliance with said request — I have made diligent search of the Records of this Town, and can find no Records of such marriage, and feel a confidence, that there is no such Marriage on Record in this Town — You mentioned that some one had written me on the same subject but had received no answer. I had a letter dated Quicks N.Y. Oct 24th 1848 — on the same subject but as it happened, that letter was not signed by any persons Name. This, I think will for there being no answer —
I will say, (and it may be of use to you) that I am confident that the name of the person who married them is wrong, both in the letter from you, and the same in the other letter in both written "Abram Peckin Esq" — I have been inquired of by one or more before you, and I was told they were married by Abram Coon Esq whom I personally know very well, and he was a Magistrate, the other Name I never have known in this Town — Yours &c —
Christopher C. Lewis
Town clerk of Hopkinton

Hopkinton R.I. Free Mar 1
J. Leonard P. M. Whitney's Valley Allegany County N.Y.
Hopkinton R.I. March 27 th 1849. I hereby certify that this letter was written by Christopher C. Lewis and is his signature and that the said Lewis is Town Clerk of Hopkinton and has been for the last twenty years R.R. Thurston
No marriage on record

his name Subscribed thereto is his genuine Signature
Witness my hand and the Seal of Said County this 30th day of October A.D. 1849
Martin Butts Clerk of Allegany County
State of New York } Billings. People whom I certify County of Allegany } to be a respectable person after being duly sworn according to law deposes and says that he was a resident of Hopkinton Rhode Island when a child was born November 1783 that this deponent resided with his Grand Father Lawton Palmer in said Hopkinton till he was thirteen years of age that is till 1796 that during all of this time Mary Larkin (then a girl) widow of Thomas W. Larkin himself an applicant for a pension from the state of New York resided with her Father the said Lawton Palmer under the same roof with this deponent in Hopkinton and that prior to 1796 and during the time of the residence of this deponent with his said Grand Father Lawton Palmer his said daughter Mary married to Thomas W. Larkin who was when he died a pensioner of the United States that the said Thomas W. and Mary Larkin after their marriage resided on the farm of the said Marys Father the said Lawton Palmer all of which took place when this deponent was also a resident upon the same farm, and it was when this deponent was but thirteen years of age, which was in 1796 as a further data by which

this deponent is sure that he is in the date of the marriage of the parties, is that their marriage took place in the death of General Washington at the time of his death in 1799 at the did not reside in the said Linton Palmer he resided in upon his farm, 2 years before the death of General Washington but at that Thomas W Larkin and his wife did reside on the farm of Linton Palmer as husband and wife years before the death of General Washington, and that this de- ponent, cannot be mistaken, when he states, that they were married, several years before 1799 this deponent further states that he well recollects that the said parties Thomas W Larkin and his wife Mary removed from the State of Rhode Island prior to 1799 and before the death of General Washington as a further data this deponent knows that in 1803 he this deponent took a sea voyage that the said Thomas W Larkin and his wife Mary had then been absent from the State of Rhode Island, four or five years and that they had been married seven years or upwards when this deponent took his sea voyage in 1803, and that the present applicant for a pension Mary Larkin is the identical person and is still the widow of Thomas W Larkin late a pensioner
Sworn and Before me) Subscribed
October 27 th 1849
Joseph Leonard Justice of The peace of Allegany Co NY
State of New York ss. I certify that Joseph Leonard Esq. Allegany county before whom the above affidavit was taken was at the date of the same a justice of the Peace in & for said county duly elected & sworn that I am well acquainted with his hand writing & verily believe