Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20285, for Abel Osborne, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Osborne, Abel Annah
W 20285
CONTENTS

227 Connecticut
Hannah Osborne
of Hartford Co in the State of Ct
who was a lieut. in the commanded
by Captain of the  commanded
by in the
time for widow of Abel Osborne deceased a private in the Revolution.
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 30 - Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 day of Nov. 1836 and sent to Mrs. Abraham East Windsor Ct
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1836 $115.00 Pens-ant. allowance ending April 37 15.00 $180.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1836. }
Recorded by N. H. Adkins Clerk, Book 1 Vol. 1 Page 85

Abel Osbornes
Widow
No 471
3. Sec.
Annah Osbornes
Con!
9 mo's Con Miller $30 pr ann comm d March 4. 1831
Joseph Charlton Earl Mindasa Connt

State of Connecticut Hartford County Ss. First Windsor.
On this 26 day of October A 1836, personally appeared before the Court of Probate for the District of East Windsor in said Hartford County Widow Annah Osborne, a resident of said East Windsor aged 84 years & five months a credible person who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on oath Declare, That she is the widow of Abel Osborne, formerly of said town of East Windsor who was a private soldier in the army of the revolution. That he entered the said Army the latter part of May 1776 in a Company commanded by Capt Simon Wolcott of East Windsor & which Company she understood her husband went to New York she has heard him relate that he was in the Battle on Long Island and came very near being taken, he was gone till the last of December a term of Seven Months.
Again he entered the American Army, of the revolution in a Company commanded by Capt Coone of Bolton, in Connecticut, in the year 1778 They went to Fairfield from there to Rhode Island and were gone from July to October of that year Three months or more

She further declares, that she was lawfully married to the said Abel Osborne at said East Windsor on the 4 th day of March 1776 by Esq Collins of Enfield who came to her father's house & married them in D. East Windsor Her said husband died at said East Windsor on the 11 th day of May A D 1813 And she still remains his widow and has never again married. All which, will more fully appear by the proof annexed to this declaration.
Animals here mark Osborne x
In presence of Charles B. Kingsley John Arthur D. ascou
And the said Court hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the prescribed interrogatories so far as they are adapted to this case That the aforesaid Abel Osborne was a revolutionary soldier, and served as his widow has stated & that the said Annah Osborne is the surviving widow of the said Abel Osborne, married to him before the expiration of his last period of service in the said revolutionary army, That the said Abel Osborne has deceased, and that his said widow, Annah Osborne, has never again married.
Henry S. Hinsley Clerk of the court of Probate for the district of East Windsor in Hartford County and State of Connecticut hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Widow Sarah Osborne of said East Windsor for a Pension

and I further certify, that James Moore is Town Clerk, and Register, of the said Town of East Windsor & that the certificate by him subscribed is genuine & bears his true signature well known to me
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said probate Court this 26 th day of October A 1836
Attest. Henry S. Kinsley Clerk

Annah Osbornes Application

State of Massachusetts County of Hampshire } ss
On this nineteenth day of October 1836
Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the said County of Hampshire Ebenezer Arborn a resident of Enfield in the County and State before mentioned aged eighty two years a creditable person who being first duly sworn according to law doth on oath declare that he was well acquainted with Abel Osborne formerly of the town of East Windsor in Hartford County and State of Connecticut. That he served with him in the army of the revolution. That on or about the first of May 1776 - as he believes or the next year after the battle of Bunker Hill he was with him in a company commanded by Capt Simon Walcott and Solomon Gilworth Lieutenant. And General Houghton was Colonel who at that time resided in Windsor. They marched from what is now East Windsor. Went on board a vessel and sailed to New York. The said Abel Osborne was with him at that time and in the same company. They went from New York to Long Island and was on said Island at the time of the action on said Island. And that he and the said Abel were appointed to ferry off the troops from the Island and worked all night. He also remembers him in New York and as he believes he left him there at the time of his return to East Windsor which was a little time before the term of service was out. The said term of service being six months. And before he the said deponent left the said service on account of ill health. He further testifies that he the said deponent is a pensioner and now receives his pension from the United States. Attest Ephraim Clark
David Osborne
Levi Lee of 60172
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Before Me Ephraim Clark Justice of the Peace who saw him in his retreat from the

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Solomon Stoddard Clerk of the Judicial Courts the Commonwealth for the County of Hampshire do certify that Ephraim Clark Esquire whose signature is fixed to the within Certificate, was at the date thereof one of the Justices of the peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned, and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth - and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity - and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Ephraim Clark and believe this signature within to be genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said Commonwealth this twentieth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty six
S Stoddard Clerk
Lebedee Osbornes Certificate

State of Connecticut Hartford County } ss East Windsor
In this 26 day of October A 1886 Personally appeared before
Jonathan Pease Esq a revolutionary Soldier & pensioner Aged 76 years a credible person, well known to this Court who being first duly sworn according to law doth on Oath declare, That he was well acquainted with Abel Osborn formerly a res- ident of said East Windsor more than seventy years ago That lived a near neigh- bor to him from the close of the revolution- ary War to the time of the death of the said Osborn That he served with him in the army in the year 1778 in a company Command- ed by Capt Coles of Bolton in Tolland County, in Connecticut, we marched from home about midsummer cannot tell the day in the year 1778 say the forepart of July according to his best recollection marched first thro Hartford & New Haven to Fairfield in Connecticut staid at Fairfield about three Weeks There was a British Ship Ship of War standing off in the sound against sd Fairfield & there was apprehension of a visit from her but after she went off we were ordered to march to Rhode Island we then left Fairfield marched back to New Haven & from there to Hartford & thro East Hartford Bolton Nor- wich & Plainfield to Providence in Rhode Island Gen Sullivan had the chief command of the American forces here deponent was with Sullivan in his retreat from the

lower part of the Island & at the Stand made at Quaker hill
The said Abel Osborne was with Deponent throughout this tour & came near being taken, he was stationed as a Serjeant's guard on the South East corner of the Island & in the retreat the officers forgot to direct this guard to retire & the enemy had got half a mile in advance of this guard & but & between the guard & our main body & while the enemy were following the highway Osborne & his party by keeping close to the water & hidden by the bank near the River fortunately made their escape
The whole body of the American troops then crossed a floating bridge erected for the occasion over Howland's ferry & there made an encampment & staid a few days to watch the enemy & then we marched up to Providence where we were honorably dismissed, according to the best of my recollection toward the latter part of October making a period of service of three months or more
Jonathan Paine
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year before mentioned viz on the 26 day of October 1836
Attest Henry S. Winsley Clerk
In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand & affix the Seal of said Court of Probate this 26 day of October 1836 Attest

State of Connecticut Hartford County } ss East Windsor
In this 12 th day of October A 1836 personally appeared before the court of probate for the District of East Windsor in sd Hart- ford County Widow Tryphena Lord a resident of said East Windsor aged 75 years a credible person who being first duly sworn according to law doth on oath declare she was acquainted with Mrs Annah Osborne as early as the year 1776 or seven. Deponent married her Brother Jeremiah Lord in the month of Feb 1777 and removed from Enfield in Connecticut to East Windsor adjoining it at that time the said Annah Osborne was married & keeping house, and about a month after this period, that is, after the deponent was married, the said Annah Osborne had her first child, The circumstance of my marrying her brother, & removing into the house where she lived, & still lives, imprinted these things on my mind; so that I do not forget the time & circumstances. She is now a Widow: her husband died, several years since, and the said Annah still remains the widow of the said Abel Osborne and she had never again inter- married.
Chauncy B. Phelps } Josiah Ellsworth } witnesses Tryphena Lord her mark
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid before said probate court
Attest Henry S. Winsley Clerk

In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said probate court this 13 th day of October 1836
Attest Henry S. Winsley Clerk
Nicholas Lord for Nicholas Osborne

State of Connecticut } ss Ellington Tolland County }
On this 10 th day of October A 1836 Personally appeared before the Court of Probate for the district of Ellington in said Tolland County, Widow Elizabeth Skinner a resident of Vernon in the County of Tolland & State aforesaid aged 78 e years at last March credible person who being first duly sworn according to law doth on Oath declare That for sixty years.
She lived a near neighbor to Mrs Annah Osborn of the town of East Windsor That they were intimates in their youth and she well remembers that the said Annah Osborne, then Annah Lord, was married one month before the deponent to the said Abel Osborne, viz in the month of March 1776: And I was married in April 1776, and there was but one month difference between the age of our first children I lived near Mr Abel Osborne & his wife at the time of his death & until about five years ago; I have never heard of her at the said widow marrying again.
Elizabeth Skinner
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Before said probate court & I certify that the alteration of 80 to 78 & the interlining, "last March" were done before signing Attest
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand & affix the Seal of said Court of Probate this 17 th day of October 1836.
Attest Albert Pinney Clerk

State of Connecticut Hartford County S. E. Ol
Widow Skinner for. Widow Osborn

Registrar's Office - East Windsor, October 8 th A. D. 1836.
I James Albee, Clerk and Registrar of the Town of East Windsor hereby certify that on examining the town records of Marriages in this office, I do not find the marriage of Abel Osborne and Sarah Lord, recorded under any date.
And I further certify that the entries of marriages on said records previous to the law of 1820, were so irregular and so few in proportion to the whole number returned that it ought not to create a prejudice against the claim of any parties that they were married at a given time, that it is not found in said records. In proof of their deficiency I may state that but one marriage is entered under either of the letters E. H. I. or L in 50 years.
Attest, James Albee, Town Clerk.
son of ... in Connecticut, in the year 1778. They went to Fairfield from there to Rhode Island and were gone from July to October of that year. Three months or more.

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 20285
Annah Osbome
Widow of
Abel Osbome
Br New York
Act:
June 7th 36
Index:—Vol. M , Page 104
[Arrangement of 1870.]