Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 17473, for Timothy Powers, Connecticut

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Powers, Timothy Elizabeth
W 17473
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7-9d-75
Hon. G. H. Lansing
Declaration of Independence 6 th of September 1832

State of New York } City & County Albany } ss
On this sixth day of September 1832, Personally appeared in open court, before the judges of the Mayors Court of the City of Albany, now sitting, Timothy Powers, a resident of the City and County of Albany, and State of New York, aged eighty two years, who 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 7th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. In the year 1775 he the said Timothy, was a resident of the City of Middletown, County of Middlesex, and State of Connecticut, was a member of and enrolled as first serjeant in a Light Infantry Company organized in said City of Middletown commanded by Return J. Mings, Ebenezer Sumner Lieut, and Robert Warner Ensign, that in the spring of the year 1775, an alarm was given of the British having landed at Boston, that immediately himself, and the most of the said Light Infantry Company, volunteered their services in the Army, that the Company equip themselves with the necessary equipments at their own expence, and immediately marched for Boston, he thinks in the month of May

That before the company arrived they received orders to return and enlist, the said company accordingly returned to Middletown, and then enlisted the most of them himself included, he thinks in the State Troops, for six months service, that immediately the company (being equiped as before) proceeded again for Boston, under the command of capt Ebenezer Sumner, Robert Harner Lieut, and Mr Savage Ensign, Capt Meigs being promoted and afterwards engaged in a very important expedition against Duber, he thinks the company was attached to a Regiment commanded by Col Chester, they arrived in the vicinity of Boston early in June, was present at the celebrated battle of Bunker Hill, and the burning of Charlestown on the 17th, he well recollects being under the command of Gen Lord Putnam as general Officer, the company with himself continued in this campaign and in the vicinity of Boston and Cambridge until December following, when having served out the full time of enlistment were permitted to return home.
This deponent further saith, that after having spent the winter with his family, that on the opening of the Spring following, he found the calls of his country so great, that he once more resolved to enter in the defence of its rights, accordingly again entered the Army some time in the Spring of 1776, but cannot say definitely in what line, neither in the State Troops or Militia but thinks the latter never does he recollect who were his officers, neither his former or new ones, or whether he remained in the same company or entered another never can he say for how long time he remained.

but is positive of entering the Army again, as before stated, and of being ordered to New York, and immediately proceeding thither, by water, was stationed on Long Island some time previous to the British landing on Long Island which was on the 22 d of August he distinctly recollects the time of evacuating the Island and crossing over to New York, under a heavy annoyance from the British cannon, but with safety to the whole detachment excepting one man as was reported to be killed, which was about the first of September. It was soon found necessary for the Troops to retire out of the City, and was accordingly ordered out as far as Harlem Heights, while in the vicinity of the City some skirmishing was had with some detached parties of the enemy, and some very important as to their results to our army, in one of those parties his Brother Edmund, who was a fellow soldier with him, was captured and made a prisoner. The army was again ordered further up the country and accordingly retired as far as White Plains, at this place another very considerable and important battle with the enemy was had, to the no dishonour of the Americans. As general officer he recollects the presence of the Commander in Chief, the Illustrious Washington, assisted by Generals, Lee, Greene, & Putnam, at this place particularly so, from the circumstance of himself being tented within a very short distance of Washington's Marker, which gave him the frequent opportunity of seeing the General, and presenting him with his usual civilities, soon after the battle at this place, the British retreated back

to New York, and Washington with the rest of the Army withdrew and passed down into New Jersey, he this department continued with a detachment that remained for the protection of ports in the High- lands, and continued until after the capture of Burgoyne at Saratoga Oct 17th 1777, the news of which excited our detachment into extreme ecstasy and joy, manifested by sheets of Huzars after sheets, and the sending of their Huts, and caps, up into the air, although they risked Heaven, with its celestial inhabitants, to witness their joy and gratitude. This event giving a favourable change and prospect to our cause, and he having served the full time of engagement, or more, was soon thereafter permitted to return home, he was soon appointed, and entrusted with the charge of inspec- tant scouting parties, and was offered a commission if he would join the regular Army, but from the consideration of his having a young and growing family, where only dependence and hope was on his health and prosperity, and himself a mecha- nic and poor, and under a sense of paramount duty to his family, declined the offer during the true campaigns in which he served, he has no recollection of drawing any supplies, of clothing, blankets, or from the army stores, but furnished them himself, by draw- -ing on his family, nor has he any recollection of being allowed or paid for the same, or his services, but he presumes he was for his services, and if so, in is a depreciated currency of but little worth, the time spent in the two terms of services must have

two years, the first six months or more, and the latter, eighteen months or more, He extremely regrets not being able to set forth more minutely, every circumstance connected with his service, for the latter satisfaction of the War, and Pension departments such has been the effects of time, and failing nature that these events have almost passed from his memory, and now appear before him as but a dream still he trusts he has been able to set forth, and sustain the most material points, if so and should he be honored at this late day with a participation of the forces restored to his fellow soldiers, he will forever feel grateful, he has no documentary evidence. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension, or annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency of any state
Timothy Power)
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid John Townsend Mayor of Albany
We William Le Gibson a clergyman residing in the city of Albany, and William Stead residing in the same place, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Timothy Power who has subscribed and sworn to the within declaration, that we believe him to be eightytwo years of age, that he is reported and

believed, in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that he concurs in that opinion
William L. Gilson William Stead
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid John Townsend Mayor of Albany
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the within named ap- plicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that William L. Gilson who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in this city, and that William Stead, who has also signed the same is likewise a resident of the same, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
John Townsend Mayor of Albany
A board of review of the revolutionary pension applicants at Albany do hereby certify that

John Townsend Mayor of Albany
A broad at the  city of  Albany  the  city of  Albany  the  city of  Albany
Personally appeared before me the undersigned Mayor of the city of Albany Timothy P. Doremus the declarant who signed and made oath to the preceding declaration. Who being duly sworn deposes and saith that he was born in the city of Middletown and state of Connecticut on the 16th day of January in the year of our Lord 1780 as appears from a family record now in his possession. And 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. In the State Troops of Connecticut from May to December in the year 1775 in a company of Infantry commanded by Ebenezer Warner Robert Warner Lieut and Morgan Morgan as a Sergeant for a term not less than six months was stationed in the vicinity of Boston. And from April 1876 until December 1877 not less than eighteen months as nearly as he recollects under the same command and grade as the former term was stationed on Long Island New York White Plains and at posts in the Highlands as set forth in the former part of this my declaration. And during the above aforesaid service he the declarant was not employed in any civil pursuits. And for such services he claims a pension.
Sincerely Yours
H
Sworn to and subscribed this 20th day of May in the year of our Lord 1838 before me
H. Bloodgood Mayor of the City of Albany

I Bernard A Hendyck Clerk of the Mayors Court and of the City & County of Albany do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Timothy Rowles for a pension. And that John Townsend was Mayor of the City of Albany at the time administering the oaths and the taking of the several depositions embodied in the within declaration to which his name is subscribed and that the same is his genuine hand and signature And that Francis Bloodgood is the present Mayor of said City and that his signature to the foregoing deposition is his genuine signature —
In testimony whereof I have set my hand and seal of office this 20 th day of May 1833
B A Hendyck Clerk
Hon. G. W. Lansing
Declaration of Timothy Rowles 6 th of September 1832
7-94-75

Reported in Papers Little Page, Apr 5. 1843.
3847 Albany, New York
Elizabeth Powers widow of Timothy Powers
who died on the 2. April 1841 of Rensselaer Co. in the State of New York who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain _____ of the regt. commanded by _____ in the line for 2 years Conn.
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 80 Dollars _____ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13. day of March 1843 and sent to Lieut. M. B. Whiting, U. S. Navy, Present.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1843. $960:00
Semi-annual allowance ending 1 Sept. " 40:00
$1000:00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3. March 1843. }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk. Book C. Vol. 1 Page 125.

Lansingburgh N Yk. Augt. 15 th 1839
The deposition of Elizabeth Powers being taken, she being duly sworn, saith, I am eighty six years old - I married Timothy Powers in the year 1772; my husband first volunteered to join the American Army in 1775 - He then resided in Middletown, Conn. There were many other persons who also volunteered in the same company which was called the Middletown Light Infantry Company, commanded by Return Jonathan Meigs Esq. afterwards Col. Meigs. The Company, my husband being with them, march'd from home in April 1775, but return'd about the first of the next month, May, having been order'd home, my Husband inform'd me, to make out a regular enlistment which was done and immediately afterwards my Husband march'd again with the company for Boston. This was in the fore part of the month of May 1775. He did not come back until the latter part of December in the same year. Early in the Spring following he was order'd to join the Army in New York and repair'd to that place. I know that he equip'd himself at his own expense. I furnish'd him myself with blankets and other articles necessary for the campaign; He was absent about eight months and return'd to Middletown in December 1776. He remain'd at home three or four weeks, and in January 1777 he joined the militia which was called out, and again repair'd to the State of New York. She further saith that her recollection of this event is impress'd on account of her being left with an infant child which was born during his absence in the campaign of 1776 - In this last absence, he remain'd from home until some time after the surrender of Genl. Burgoyne - This she distinctly

members from the circumstance of the public rejoicing at that event, as the cannon that were fired in Middle town on the occasion, were drawn up on a green nearly in front of her house, and at that time she had no one but her children then young with her. She saith further that her husband did not return home until late in the Autumn of 1877 - That she always understood that during his absence in 1876 and 1877 he was engaged on military service in the Army, and that she never had the slightest reason to doubt that such was the fact.
Elizabeth Powers
State of New York Rensselaer County
ss: On the 15 th day of August 1889, Elizabeth Powers to me known to be the same person who subscribed the foregoing deposition, personally appeared before me, and made oath to the truth of the same. And I certify that said Elizabeth Powers, is a credible person.
M. L. Filley Justice Peace

STATE OF NEW-YORK, Rensselaer County Clerk's Office, } ss. of Rensselaer, do hereby Certify, that
I, LELAND CRANDALL, Clerk of the County Marcus L. Filley Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the annexed deposition of Elizabeth Powers was, at the time the
of taking the same one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County; And further, that I am acquainted with the hand-writing of said Justice and verily believe the above signature to be genuine.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said County, this 26 th day of August 1839
Leland Crandall, Clerk.
before me, and made oath to the truth of the same! And I certify that said Elizabeth Powers , is a credible person
M. L. Filley Justice Peace
39. same appeared

State of New York, Rensselaer County ss:
Daniel Powers of the City of Albany being du- ly sworn deposes and saith, that he is the son of Timothy Powers now deceased, x of Elizabeth Powers, widow and relict of the said Timothy, whose application for the claim of a pension for military services of the said Timothy during the war of the Revolution is now pending before Congress. And this deponent further saith, that the said Timothy Powers died at the house of this deponent on the second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty one, and was interred on the fourth day of the same month at the said City of Albany, and further this deponent saith not.
Sworn before me this 23 d December 1842
Daniel Powers
Richard L. M c Donald Justice Peace
State of New York, County of Rensselaer ss.
Daniel Whiting of the Village of Lansingburgh of the County aforesaid being duly sworn deposes and saith, that he is the son- in-law of the above named Timothy Pow- ers deceased, and that he attended the funeral of the said Timothy Powers in the City of Albany where he was interred on the fourth day of April 1841.
Sworn before me this 23 d December 1842
Daniel Whiting
Richard L. M c Donald Justice Peace

information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. Timothy Powers wid. file 17473
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     May 9, 1775- Dec 18, 1775- Sgt. Meigs Ebenezer Sumner Joseph Spencer Conn   Apr. 15, 1776 Nov. 1777 Robert Warner Chester M. Talcott                                     
Battles engaged in, Bunker Hill . Skirmishes near N.Y. in one of which his brother Edward was taken prisoner. Residence of soldier at enlistment, Middletown, Middlesex Co. Conn. Date of application for pension, Sept. 6, 1832 . The claim was allowed. Residence at date of application, Albany N.Y. Age at date of application, b. at Middletown Conn. Jan'y 16, 1750
Remarks: Soldier married in 1775 Elizabeth Gilbert. died in Albany N.Y. Apr. 2, 1841. children referred to no names but Daniel, who lived at 103 Green St. Albany N.Y. in 1841. Grand son William B. Whiting was a resident of Lansingburgh N.Y. in 1835. Daniel Whiting soldier's son-in-law also lived at 103 Lansingburgh

Rev WIDOW, &c.
1910 for. 10 Hist. To Mrs. G. E. Grant V.I.M.
File No. 17473
Elizabeth Powers
Wid. of
Timothy Powers
Priv. Rev. War
Act: March 3, 1843
Index:—Vol. M , Page 137
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Timy Powers Revoy.
New York
suspended
See letter to Hon at G. W. Lansing Apr 3 rd '34
See let to Hon G. W. Lansing Apr 16 '34
let to same Feb. 2 nd '35 " " Same Aug 11. 1835 Letter to Hon S. Prentiss 9 April 1835.
act 7. June '32

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
8416
P. O. Timothy Pours
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

N. York
10,239
Timothy Powers
let. to W. B. Whiting 29. Nov. 1839
same Mar 15. 1840. do to H. M.
a. C. Hand Mar 25. 1840.
Act June 1832

ELIZABETH POWERS.
[To accompany bill H. R. No. 666.]
JANUARY 10, 1843.
Mr. MATHIOT, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, submitted the following
REPORT :
The Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Elizabeth Powers, beg leave to report :
That Timothy Powers, the husband of the petitioner, shortly after the passage of the law of the 7th of June, 1832, filed his declaration in the War Department, in order to obtain the benefit of that act. He claimed to have served for more than two years as a soldier in the revolutionary war, which services are clearly set forth in his declaration, made in conformity to the rules and regulations of the War Department. The Commissioner of Pensions, not deeming the proof of service sufficient, required additional testimony, which was from time to time obtained ; and, on the 29th of November, 1839, the Department decided that said Powers was entitled to a pension for seven months and ten days' service as a corporal, and proposed to issue a pension certificate to him for that term if he would accept it, which he refused to do, and immediately afterwards filed his petition to Congress, praying the passage of a special act granting him a pension for the whole term which he claimed to have served. His petition was referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions ; but, before any report was made upon his case, he died, at the advanced age of ninety-one years, leaving the petitioner his widow, who now prays Congress to pass an act granting her the pension which her husband was entitled to.
From the investigation which your committee have given this case, they can find no testimony which will justify them in reporting an allowance to the petitioner for any higher grade of service performed by her husband than that of a private ; but, from the whole case, they cannot resist the conclusion that he served in that capacity at least two years during the revolutionary war.
The marriage of the petitioner to the said Timothy Powers is proved to have taken place in the year 1772, before the commencement of the Revolution ; and he died in the city of Albany on the 2d day of April, 1841, and, in consideration of his revolutionary services, he was buried with the honors of war. The petitioner is herself very aged, and is now, and has been for many years, entirely dependent on her friends for support. Your committee, therefore, report a bill granting her a pension, during her natural life, at the rate of eighty dollars per annum, commencing on the 4th day of March, 1831, according to the provisions of the act of July 4, 1836.

NOV 5 1910
To the Commissioner of Pensions Washington
Dear Sir,
Can you tell me if your office gives any record of Revolutionary services of Isaac Van Scuy or Scail - Probably L. I. Timothy Powers Caleb Prowtie Zebulon Baker I think the three latter were from New York State, and that Isaac Van Scuy moved from Sag Harbor, L. I. to Plattsburgh, N. Y.

I will greatly appreciate any help you can give me, or can put me in the way of obtaining in regard to these men.
Yours very truly
Mrs. J. E. Lamb
Port Henry New York
Dec. 3 d 1910.
10.18.75

W. N. B.
RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by A. Mac D. 7/11/10
Claim No. _____
Certificate No. _____
Claimant _____
Soldier Timothy Powers
Service N. Y.
Additional Service Rev.
No _____ claim, State records _____, 191_____
No claim, combination records _____, 191_____
REMARKS:
No Fm. of any service Wid. F. 17,473 } Conn } N.Y. No other Wid. of any service Ref. 8416 is consolidated with Wid. F. 17473 Ref. 8416 (N.Y.) No other Ref. at all.

Letter of J. L. Edwards

(copy)
War Department
Pension Office
29. Nov: 1839.
Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 26 th September last, relative to the claim of Timothy Powers, under the act of June 7 th 1832, I have to state, that the papers accompanying your letter of the 15 th August last were received.
The claim to service, alleged to have been rendered in 17 th /5 as a Sergeant, is involved in some obscurity. The records in the office of the Comptroller, and the claimants declaration in relation thereto, do not agree. But the amount of his pay shews that he was a corporal, & for the term, viz, 7 months and ten days in that grade he is allowed.
Of the service in 17 th /6-7, viz 18 months, there is no satisfactory evidence. In June 17 th /6 the State of Connecticut authorized the raising of six Battalions to continue in service until 25 th December following, unless sooner discharged. Col. Chester had command

of one of the Regiments, and it appears from documentary evidence, as well as from the statements of numerous claimants, engaged in that description of service, that most of them were discharged immediately after the battle of White Plains, viz; 28 th October. - If the claimant was in the service under Col. Chester and re-enlisted under other officers, he will specify the time of his enlistment, and the names of his officers in a supplemental affidavit. - All he can be allowed, upon the proof on file, is the tower in 1 st / 5 th . If it be decided to accept a pension for that term, a certificate will be issued accordingly.
I am, Very Respectfully
Your Obt. Servt:
(signed) J. L. Edwards. -
Wm B. Whiting Esq. Lansingburgh New York. -

Letter to Mr. B. Whiting, Esq. } 7 Feb. 1838 }

ap 5-163.
Ans
Eliz. Paven 36 Alton Ill
James L. Edwards Esq. Committee of Pensions War Dept Washington City.

Albany Pension Agency. March 31. 1843.
James L. Edwards Esquire Commis n . of Pensions, Sir,
By your letter of the 13 th inst. we were instructed to inscribe on our Books the name of Elizabeth Powers, at $80 per annum, under a special act of Congress, & to pay her from the 4 th of March 1841 - It appears by her pension Certificate that she is entitled to be paid, from 4 th March 1831. Will you please inform me which is correct?
Very respectfully
Your obed t Serv t
Thos. W. Olcott Pres t Pens n . agent for Genl. Pensions.

Comptrollers Office December 12 th 1834.
I Roger Huntington Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Connecticut do certify that it appears by an authenticated copy of a pay roll of the 4 th Co. 2 nd Regt. of Connecticut Troops raised by order of the General Assembly of the Colony of Connecticut May 1775 that Timothy Powers served therein from the 9 th day of May to the 18 th day of December 1775 being seven months & nine days - wages £16, 1. 2. By amount of his wages, & the position of his name it is obvious he served either as Clerk or Corporal. Upon this roll, after the names of the commissioned officers & sergeants, the names of John Cook & Timothy Starr as Corporals are inserted; next follows the name of Butler Gilbert as Clerk, & then the name of Timothy Powers without any addition, & then the names of the drummers & fifers & privates. This regiment was commanded by Gen. Joseph Spencer, & the company by

Major Meigs, Pioneer Sammie Captain Majah Meigs Lieutenant, & Robert Warner Ensign.
Certified by Roger Huntington Comptroller of Public Accounts

R. Huntington off?
... ..

Hartford Jan. 14 th 1835
I hereby certify that it appears by the books in the Comptroller Office that in January 1776 there were raised, the following regiments to serve in the revolutionary war for the term of one year, viz. one commanded by Col. Charles Barral, one, by Col. Samuel Wyllys, one, by Col. Parsons & afterwards by Col. Tyler, one, by Col. Jedediah Huntington, & one by Col. Charles Webb, & one by Col. John Durkee; and that no roll of those regiments, list of the composing officers, or rolls of the companies composing said regiments, or either of them have been found, or other evidence showing how long they or either of them served.
Roger Huntington Comptroller of Public Accounts

Synopsis of The Terms of Military Service
of Timothy Powers
in The Revolutionary war, and a list of The papers on file necessary to refer to , To substan- tiate The prayer of The Petitioner

Terms of the (Military) Service of Timothy Powers, in the Revolutionary War, in the years 1775, 1776, and 1777 for which he prays a pension — to wit: —
In the year 1775 from May 9 th to Dec r 18 th vide the certificate of the State Comptroller of Connecticut, and the Supplementary declaration of the Petitioner, declaring that those services were military and not civil — — — — — 7 mos 9 days
In the year 1776, from the latter part of April or 1 st of May, to the end of December — — 8 mos vide: the depositions of Jonathan Gilbert, Isaac Hubbard, and Elizabeth Powers.
In the year 1777, from January to some period subsequent to the capture of Burgoyne Oct 17 th 1777 making at the time of that event a term of — 9 mos. vide: declaration of Petitioner and deposition of Elizabeth Powers.
{ Service subsequent to the capture of Burgoyne } { not specified. }
24 mos 9 ds
Papers necessary to refer to said papers, being all in the Office of the Commissioner of Pensions, on file
Certificate of State Comptroller of Connecticut Supplementary declaration of Petitioner
Deposition of Jonathan Gilbert — July 2 d 1835 Do. of Isaac Hubbard — July 2 d 1835 Do of Elizabeth Powers — Aug t 15 th 1839
Declaration of Petitioner

Depositions of - Jonathan Gilbert July 2 d 1835
Isaac Hubbard July 2 d 1835
Elisabeth Powers Augt. 15 th 1839

Certificates of Roger Huntington Comp- troller of Public Accounts for the State of Conn.
Dated. Dec. 12 th 1834.
Jany 14 - 1835
and
Supplementary declaration of Timothy Powers. relative thereto, dated
Dec. 15 th 1837
{ see also deposition of } William Sumner }

Jan 26
My Mother Peggy
James L Edwards
Comm d of Pennsylv near Dept. Washington D.C.
G. W. Lawley

Hor James L Edwards Sir
House of Reps 24 Jan y 1835.
The records were received this morning. The case of Mr Power was presented some time since and suspended I think for further testimony - I was waited upon during the last summer by the old man and received a very favorable impression of his case - At your convenience you will please to communicate the result of your further consideration -
I am very resp y Your ob d serv t G e Manning

Timothy Powers

Be it Enacted &c.
That the Secretary of be and is hereby directed to issue a pen- sion to Timothy Powers, a resident of Albany in the State of New York, and formerly a soldier of the Revolutionary War, under the Act of Congress entitled "an act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution", approved June 7 th 1832, and that said Timothy Powers be entitled to all the privileges of said act, for services perform'd in the Revolutionary War during the term of two years, viz: as Serjeant or other non Commission'd Officer drawing pay as set forth in the Certificate of the State Comptroller of Connecticut for seven months and nine days, and as Private during the remaining part of the two years.

de Whilings officemil

District Columbia Washington County } So lit
On this twenty second day of December in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty two, personally appeared before the subscriber, a justice of the peace in and for the said County, William B. Whiting, Lieut. U. States Navy, who being duly sworn on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God, deposeth and saith, that I am the grandson of Timothy Powers. I know that said Timothy Powers died in the City of Albany, in the State of New York, on or about the thirty first day of March, in the year eighteen hundred and forty one, and that the said Timothy Powers, at the time of his death, and for some time previous, was an applicant to Congress for a pension as a Revolutionary Soldier: and I know that Elizabeth Powers, whose petition was presented to Congress by the Hon. D. L. Barnard, during the last session, is the widow of the said Timothy Powers.
William B. Whiting Lieut. U. S. Navy
Sworn before me
Oliver T. Coote.
Justice Peace.

State of New York Albany City & County ss.
John F. Strain of the City of Albany in the State of New York Keeper of the New York State Arsenal located in the City of Albany being by me duly cautioned and sworn did depose & say that on the fourth day of April AD 1841. Timothy Powers of Albany dec d was buried at the City of Albany with Military Honor & that the Albany Republican Artillery a uniform military Company then under the Command of respondent as Captain attended at the funeral of said Timothy Powers deceased on the day aforesaid & said Military Company formed the Military Escort on that occasion that said funeral was from the Residence of Daniel Powers. No 133 Green Street in the City of Albany - the said Daniel Powers being the adopted son of the said Timothy Powers deceased - and that said Timothy Powers deceased was buried with military honors as aforesaid under the belief by respondent & the members of said Military Company that said Timothy Powers deceased had been in the Military service during the Revolutionary War
John F. Strain
Taken subscribed & sworn to before me in due form of law by John F. Strain of Albany N.Y.
who is to me known to be a credible witness This 27 th day of December A.D. 1842 William M. Judson Albany County Court Commissioner

State of New York
County of Albany ss: I Henry B. Haswell Clerk of the said County do hereby certify that Robert J. Hitterow before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn was on the day of the date of the jurat thereto a Judge of Albany County Courts and legally authorized to administer oaths and take affidavits. That I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge and verily believe that his name subscribed to the said jurat is his proper hand writing & signature —
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the Seal of the said County this 27. th day of December 1842. H. B. Haswell Clerk
J. H. Shain, att.

WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
March 13, 1843.
Sir:
Be pleased to inscribe on your roll the name of Elizabeth Powers, widow of Timothy Powers who was a Private at the rate of Eighty dollars and _____ cents per annum; commencing on the 4th March, 1834, under the 3d section of the act of 3 d March 1843,  July 4, 1836, and pay her pension up to the time of the last semi-annual payment, if she should be still living and un- married; and, if not, you will pay the money due up to the day of her death, or her marriage, as the case may be.
Pensions under the above act are to be paid immediately on the production of the proper vouchers. The pension to be continued until
I am, respectfully, her marriage or death
Your obedient servant,
Commissioner of Pensions.
To the Agent for paying Pensions at Albany New York,

Washington D. C. March 11 th 1843
Sir
I respectfully request that the certificate of Pension for Elizabeth Powers in accordance with the act passed by Congress at its late Session for her relief. May when issued be delivered to me.
I remain Respectfully &c Your Obedt. Servt.
William B. Whiting
Lieut. U. S. Navy
Agent for Elizabeth Powers.
Hon. Mr. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department

Revolutionary Pensions
Adverse report on the petition of Elizabeth Powers. ~
July 21-1842 Read & laid upon the table
J. Mather

The Committee on Revolutionary Pensions to whom was referred the petition of Elizabeth Powers report ~
That the services of Timothy Powers are made out by the testimony, but the only proof of the marriage is the affidavit of the Petitioner herself, and this the Committee deem insufficient
There is no evidence of the death of Timothy Powers ~
The Committee therefore ask to be discharged from the further consideration of this case ~

District Columbia Washington County } To wit.
On this twenty second day of december in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty two, personally appeared before the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace, in and for the county aforesaid, William B Whiting, Sen d . U States Navy, who being duly sworn on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God, deposeth and saith: that in the spring of the present year, 1842, he received from Daniel Whiting Esq r of Lansingburgh, by the hand of the Hon ble George B Rodney a certificate of Marriage between Timothy Powers and Elizabeth Gilbert, signed by the clergyman who solemnized said Marriage, stating said marriage to have been performed by him according to Law. I do not recollect the name of the clergyman, or the date of the certificate, or the exact date stated therein of the said Marriage, but I do recollect that the date of said Marriage as stated therein, was prior to the commencement of the Revolutionary War, I think in the year seventeen hundred and seventy two. I also received, at the same time, and by the same means, an affidavit of one or two persons, whose names I do not recollect, stating that they were present, and witnessed the solemnization of Matrimony between the said Timothy Powers and Elizabeth Gilbert, on the same day as was stated in said Marriage Certificate: this affidavit was either on the same piece of paper with the certificate of Marriage, or was attached thereto, by seal or otherwise.

Said certificate of Marriage, and said Affidavit, or affidavits, I gave into the hands of the Hon d Sanford W. Andrews, M.C. from Kentucky, then, and now, member of the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions of the House of Representatives, to be by him laid before said Committee.
William B. Whiting Lieut. U.S. Navy
Sworn before me
Olent. J. Boote.
Justin Pease
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Oct 2.
Inah
Powers Ct.
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
near Department
Washington City
D.C.
J. L.
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U. S. Coast Survey-
New London Conn.
Sept 26 th 1839
Sir
On the 16 th of Aug. o last, I had the honor to write you, enclosing documents relative to the claim of Timothy Powers, a soldier of the Revolution for a pension. Will you oblige me Sir by writing me at this place and informing me if any such papers have been received.
I have the honor to be
Sir Very Respectfully.
Your Obed. t Serv. t
W B Whiting,
U. S. Navy
Hon J. L. Edwards
Com. r of Pensions
Washington D. C.

Mar 11. 1840
Miss: Bowen
Hon. J. L. Edwards Commissioner Pensions Washington D. C.
Ms. A. 9. 2. 16 Whiting E Ms. A. 9. 2. 16

Washington D. C. March 10 th 1840
Sir
Since my arrival here a few weeks ago I received a letter from Mr. G. W. Crump Acting Com. of Pensions, dated Nov 29 th 1839 which owing to my absence in Kentucky did not reach me before. That letter informs me, that the claim of Timothy Powers for a Pension will be allowed for the term of seven months and ten days in the year 1775 - that and that "if it be decided to accept a pension for that term, a certificate will be issued accordingly". Before I received this letter the applicant had laid his case before Congress by Petition, for the purpose of obtaining a special law in his favor. I am requested by him to enquire of you Sir, whether under these circumstances, a certificate of Pension can be issued as stated in the letter of Mr. Crump for the term of service in 1775, leaving the claim for the remaining terms in 1776 and 1777 to be decided by Congress.
I am Sir
Very Respectfully
Your Obed t Serv t
William B. Whiting
U. S. Navy
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
Washington D.C.

Lansingburgh N Yk
Augt 15 th 1839
Sir
I have the honor to transmit to you the enclosed papers relative to the claim of Timothy Powers for a Pension for services in the Revolutionary war, most of which papers were originally transmitted to the War Department, and subsequently call'd for from the Pension Office by the Committee on Pensions in the U.S. Senate, and return'd, upon application, to the Declarant, by that Committee at the close of the Session, the Committee having had time no time to act upon them or give them examination.
Believing that the evidence which the Declarant has been able to procure, will make his case now so clear as to render the action of Congress upon it, by a Bill of Relief unnecessary, I beg leave once more to present them for your consideration together with the additional document containing the evidence deposition of Elizabeth Powers.
I take the liberty, in order to simplify the Examination of the papers, to present you a synopsis

of the terms of Military Service in the Revolution performed by the Declarant Timothy Powers, for which he claims pension, and also of the evidence by which his claims for each term are sustain'd, - viz.
In the year 1775. from May 9 th to Dec. 18 th vide. the Certificate of the State Comptroller of Connecticut, and the Supplementary Declaration of the Claimant, declaring that those services were Military and not civil 7 mos. 9 days
In the year 1776 from the month of April to the month of December vide: Depositions of Jonathan Gibbert, Isaac Hubbard and Elizabeth Powers. 8 months
In the Year 1777. from the month of Jany to some period subsequent to the capture of Genl. Burgoyne Oct 17. 1777. making at that date - 9 months vide: Declaration of Claimant & Deposition of Elizabeth Powers.
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Making in all twenty four months, the and upwards, the period beyond, being non essential, not specified.

Trusting that the papers now transmitted to the Department to are sufficiently clear to establish fully this long protracted claim, and that the Dept may be enabled thereby to come to a speedy decision before death deprives the declarant from all advantage to be derived from it -
I have the Honor to be Sir Very Respectfully
Your Most Ob d Serv t
I have the Honor to request that } M c D Whiting any communication from the } U.S. Navy War Dept upon the subject may be addressed to me "Lansingburgh N Yk."
Hon. J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions War Department Washington D.C.

H. R. 666.
Rev 75
( Rep. No. 39. )
JANUARY 10, 1843.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. MATHIOT, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill:
A BILL
Act
For the relief of Elizabeth Powers.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 2 of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, 3 the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place 4 the name of Elizabeth Powers, widow of Timothy Powers, de- 5 ceased, on the roll of revolutionary pensioners, and that she be 6 paid, during her natural life, at the rate of eighty dollars per 7 annum, commencing on the fourth day of March, A. D. one 8 thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.
Approved, March 3rd, 1843.
A true Copy from the Roll this Office.
S. of State, } March 9th, 1843. }
W. L. Webster Ch. Clk

H. R. 666.
( Rep. No. 39. )
JANUARY 10, 1843.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. MATHIOT, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill:
A BILL
An Act
For the relief of Elizabeth Powers.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 2 of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, 3 the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place 4 the name of Elizabeth Powers, widow of Timothy Powers, de- 5 ceased, on the roll of revolutionary pensioners, and that she be 6 paid, during her natural life, at the rate of eighty dollars per 7 annum, commencing on the fourth day of March, A. D. one 8 thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.
Approved, March 3rd, 1843.
A true Copy from the Roll in this Office.
Dept. of State, } March 9th, 1843. }
Abel Stearns Ch. Clk

Aug 10.
Dear Sir,
Timothy Davis
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions War Department

James L Edwards Esq Commr of Pensions War Dept D.C.

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Sir
The papers in the application of Timothy Powers for a pension have been again shown to me, and will be forwarded to you for consideration. On a further acquaintance with Mr. Powers my first impressions have been confirmed. He is a respectable and respected Old Gentleman - Let me recommend him to your favorable consideration -
I am very resp y Yours &c
W. L. Gannett
Albany 5 Augt 1855.

HR. 666.
Elizabeth Powers
5775
Elizabeth Powers, widow of Timothy Powers, Albany roll, Act March 3. 1843, $80 per annum, to commence on the 4 March 1831. (inserted in roll act July 4. 1836) Send Cert. to.
Lieut W. B. Whiting U.S. Navy, Present.
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Remarks on the case of the Petition of Elizabeth Powers widow of Timothy Powers
William B. Whiting Lieut U.S.N.
Ms. A. 9. 2. 11 v. 11, p. 11

Remarks in the case of the Petition of Elizabeth Powers in behalf of services of her late husband Timothy Powers in the Revolutionary War.
The original claimant, Timothy Powers, was well known to me to be a man of strict probity (reference can also be had to the letter of the Hon. John D. Dickinson, transmitted to the War Department about the time of making his first application for a pension) He was also for Forty years previous to his decease, an unexceptionable member of the Church. On account of his extreme age and several attacks of epilepsy, he had, even at the time of first making his application for a pension, lost nearly all his memory, so as to be unable to recall distinctly the several dates and terms of his military service, or the names of his officers. Previous to his death, his mind had become so impaired, as, at times, to render him totally unable to remember even the names or persons of his own children. The certificate of Roger Huntington Esq. State Comptroller of Connecticut, and the corroborative evidence of Mr. William Sumner, together with his own declaration, it is supposed, is sufficient evidence to establish his service in the year 1775. The position of the name of Timothy Powers on the roll mentioned in the certificate of Roger Huntington Esq. can be explained on the following supposition which circumstances render probable. Major R. G. Meigs (afterwards Col. Meigs and subsequently, he or his son, Governor of Ohio) who commanded the company in which said Powers served in 1775, was, as I believe and have frequently heard said Powers and his wife assert, an intimate friend of said Powers, and frequently urged him to accept a commission in the Continental Army, promising to procure him a commission that would be acceptable in point of rank. This said Powers refused, because the situation of his family made him unwilling to subject himself to an indefinite absence. Being the intimate friend of Major Meigs, it is therefore probable that he was received into the company as a volunteer without any particular rank being assigned him; This is rendered probable from

The circumstance that his name on the roll stands by itself, immediately after the names of the Officers of the Company and before the names of the Privates, while attached to his name is the pay of a noncommissioned officer. He himself deposes on oath, in his Supplementary declaration, and I have frequently heard him assert, that his services in that Company were military and not civil, and that he always commanded and directed the men in their exercises of arms on parade; this undoubtedly created the impression with him, in after years, that his rank in that Company was First or drill Sergeant.
The depositions of Jonathan Gilbert, Isaac Hubbard, and Elizabeth Powers, set forth an additional service of eight months in 1776 - and it is hoped satisfactorily; An additional certificate of Roger Huntington, State Comptroller of Connecticut, states that in January 1776 there were raised in Connecticut, six Regiments to serve for one year, but that no rolls or lists of the names of the officers or men composing said Regiments can be found.
The deposition of Elizabeth Powers further states, that upon said Powers' return home in December 1776, he remained at home but three or four weeks, probably on furlough, this is rendered the more likely from the fact that he, said the said Powers, did not recollect his return at all, but remembered distinctly being in camp somewhere in the Highlands in New York at the time of receiving the news of the capture of Genl. Burgoyne which circumstance made so strong an impression on his mind, that the recollection of it remain'd vivid when nearly all other recollections of that time had become as indistinct and confused, with the failure of his mental and physical faculties. and his children and grandchildren have heard him frequently recount those events, particularly the joy of the troops at receiving the news of Burgoyne's defeat, before his mind and other faculties had begun to decay. His wife also testifies to his absence at that period. The surrender of Burgoyne took place Oct. 17 th 1777, the delay and difficulty of transmitting

information at that time, on account of the imperfect means of conveyance and the distracted state of the country, render it probable that it must have been nearly or quite the 1 st of November before the news of that event reach'd Connecticut, at which time, and for a considerable time afterward, his wife testifies that he was still absent in the Army, having left, according to her testimony, in the preceding January, making ten months in that year, which with the 7 months and 9 days in 1775, and 8 months in 1776, makes a total exceeding 25 months, the terms of service in 1775 and 1776 alone making 15 months and 9 days.
The first application of Timothy Powers for a pension was made to the Commissioner of Pensions in 1832, and rejected for want of evidence. In December 1834 the Certificate of Roger Huntington Comptroller of Public Accounts of Connecticut was obtained and transmitted to the Pension Office. In reply the Commissioner of Pensions suggested whether the Timothy Powers refer'd to in said Certificate might not have been some other person of the same name, this was clearly beyond all human ability thus requir- name, thus requiring from the applicant not only positive but proof, but negative proof that no other person served of the same name; and the old man actually shed tears when this communication from the Commissioner, questioning his identity, was received. The Commissioner subsequently withdrew this objection but still rejected the claim for the remaining service of eighteen months, for want of evidence; requiring said Timothy Powers to name particularly the officers under whom he served; This his loss of memory render'd him unable to do, and Mr. Roger Huntington in his certificate states that all record of the names of the officers or men in service in 1776 has been lost or destroyed. In 1835 the depositions of Jonathan Gilbert and Isaac Hubbard were transmitted to the Pension Office, but deem'd insufficient. The Commissioner subsequently offer'd to allow a pension for the service in 1775 as certified by the State Comptroller of Connecticut, provided

that the applicant would first relinquish all claim to for a pension for the remainder of the service claimed. This he was unwilling to do, and appealed to Congress. Before that appeal was acted upon he was laid in the grave, and his widow now renews it as his representative. As her husband was never on the Pension list, though for nine years an applicant, she believes that she has no hope of obtaining any portion of the relief claim'd by her husband, except through the agency of Congress, and requests that if Congress will not allow the entire service claim'd by her husband, which she hopes it will, that it will specify what portion shall be allowed.
William B. Whiting
Lieut. U. S. Navy

The deposition of Jonathan Gilbert
I Jonathan Gilbert of lawful age depore and say that I am eighty seven years of age, and was born and lived in Middletown Connecticut until the year 1818 when I removed to Ashtabula Ohio where I now reside. I am well acquainted with Timothy Powers formerly of Middletown Connecticut, but now residing in Albany New York. In the year 1776 I know that a company was enlisted in said Middletown of which Jonathan Johnson was Captain, and the regiment was commanded by Col. Eno whose given name I do not now recollect. I was knowing to Timothy Powers' enlisting in said company, for the term of eight months, that is, I heard said Powers frequently say that he had enlisted, and knew he was about about eight months in the Spring, Summer and Fall of 1776 and returned sometime during the following Winter. I was not then  then with him but I understood that he was stationed at, or in the vicinity of Horn Brook New York. I have no doubt but that he served eight months, as I remember seeing him on parade with his company before it left Middletown, in the Spring and he called at my house on his return in the winter following, and it was generally reported and believed at the time that he was in the army during his absence. and further this deponent saith not.
Jonathan Gilbert
The State of Ohio / Ashtabula County ss Before me this second day of July A.D. 1835 personally appeared Jonathan Gilbert signor of the above deposition and made oath that the matters and things as therein stated are true, I further certify that the above deposition was reduced to writing by me in the presence of the said Gilbert — Omanuel H. Fitch Justice of the Peace

The deposition of Isaac Hubbard I Isaac Hubbard having been duly sworn on my said oath before and say that I am eighty six years of age and reside in Middletown Connecticut during the Revolutionary War was well acquainted with Timothy Powers who then resided in Middletown, and have frequently heard, and do believe that in the spring of 1776 he enlisted for the term of eight months in the company commanded by Jonathan Lohera, in which my brother David Hubbard was orderly sergeant. I understood the company was stationed at Ansonia. I know that said Powers was absent about eight months that season. And have frequently heard my brother David (now deceased) say that said Powers served with him as a private in said company, it was the common report at the time and I never heard it disputed. And further this deponent saith not  Isaac Hubbard
The State of Ohio } Ashtabula County } Before me Oramel H. Fitch a justice of the peace within and for said county, this second day of July A.D. 1835 personally appeared Isaac Hubbard signer of the above deposition as written by me in his presence, and made oath that the matters and things therein stated are true.  Oramel H. Fitch Justice of the Peace
The State of Ohio } Ashtabula County } ss I Saml Hendry Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby certify that Oramel H. Fitch Esquire, whose name appears subscribed above in his own proper hand writing which is to me well known is (and was at the time of his subscribing the same) a Justice of the peace of said County duly commissioned (and sworn agreeably to the laws of the State of Ohio) In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Jefferson the 8th day of July A.D. 1835. Saml Hendry Clerk

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Timothy Powers.
Declaration March 4 th 1832 with deposition of W m Sumner and certificates of Hon. John D. Dickinson and Hon. Ezekiel Gilbert - Ex. Mems. Cong.
Archives

State of New York } City Albany of Albany } fs
On this fourth day of March 1834, Personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Mayors Court of the City of Albany, now sitting, Timothy Powers a resident of the City and County of Albany and State of New York, aged eighty four years; who 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 7th 1832.
That he was born in the City of Middletown, County of Middlesex and State of Connecticut, on the 16th day of January in the year of our Lord 1750, as appears from a parishly record now in his possession; and that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. In the year 1775, he the said Timothy was a resident of the said City of Middletown, was a member of and enrolled as first sergeant in a Light Infantry Company in said City of Middletown, commanded by Return J. Meigs, Ebenezer Sumner Lieut, and Robert Warner Ensign; that in the spring of the year 1775, an alarm was given of the British having landed at Boston, that immediately himself and the most of the said Light Infantry Company volunteered their services in the Army, that

the said company equip themselves with the necessary equipments at their own expence, and immediately marched for Boston in the month of May, that before the company arrived they recived orders to return and enlist: the said company accordingly returned to Middletown, and then enlisted the most of them himself included in the State Troops, for six months, and that immediately the company (being equiped as before) - proceeded again for Boston under the command of Capt Ebenezer Sumner, Robert Warner Lieut, and Mr Savage Ensign; Capt Miess being premature and afterwards engaged in a very important expedition against Rube: the company was attached to a Regiment commanded by Col Chester; they arrived in the vicinity of Boston early in June, was present at the celebrated Battle of Bunker's Hill and the burning of Charlestown, on the 17 th , was under the command of Gen Lee & Putnam as general officers. The company with himself continued in their campaign and in the vicinity of Boston and Cambridge until December following, when having served out the full time on mere of enlistment, where discharged. This deponent further saith, that after having spent the Winter with his family, that on the opening of the Spring following he found the calls of his country so great that he once more resolved to enter again into its service, and defence of its Rights, that in April say the 15 th 1776 he again entered the Army in the Connecticut State Troops with many of his former fellow soldiers, and near command

in 1775, was in the Connecticut State Troop with many of his former fellow soldiers, and near the command
by Capt Robert Warner, Lieut Alijah Savage, and Ensign Herzekiah Hubbard, was attached to the Regiment commanded by Col Chester or Talcott; he again equipped himself at considerable expense in clothing and stores, was soon ordered to New York he believes in May; and proceeded thither by water, was stationed on Gun Island, and remained there until compelled to evacuate that garrison by the British and cross over to New York, under a heavy annoyance from the enemys cannon but with safety to our whole party excepting one man as was reported to have been killed; which man about the first of September 1776: It was soon found necessary for the troops to remove out of the City, and was accordingly ordered out as far as Harlem Heights; while in the vicinity of New York some skirmishing was had with some detached parties of the enemy, and some very important as to their results to our army, in one of these skirmishes his brother Edmund who was a fellow soldier with him was captured and made a prisoner: The Army was again ordered further up the Country, and accordingly retired as far as White Plains; at this place another very considerable and important battle was had with the enemy, to the honour of our army: some of these retreats being so precipitate that he lost all of his clothing and equipments, except his arms, and compelled to draw on his family for a new supply. As General officers the commander

in chief. The Illustrious Washington was in command, assisted by Generals Greene, Lee, and Putnam; soon after the battle at this place the British retreated back to New York, and Washington with the most of the Army withdrew and passed down into New Jersey, he this detachment continued with a detachment that remained for the protection of Ports on the Hudson River, and continued until after the surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga, October 17th 1777, at which time our detach- ment was on the march up the River, and had arrived near Esopus when the news of Burgoyne's sur- render reached us, and which excited our detachment into extreme ecstasy and joy, manifested by shouts of Huzars after shouts, and the sending of their Hats & caps up into the air as though they wished Heaven with its celestial inhabitants to witness their joy and gratitude for so signal a victory. This event giving a favourable change and prospect to our cause, and he this detachment having as he supposed served out the full time of his engagement or more, was in the month of November following. discharged. He was often appointed and entrusted with the charge of important securing parties, and was offered a commission if he would continue with the army; but from the consid- eration of his having a young and helpless family, whose only dependence and hope was his health and prosperity, and himself a mechanic and poor, and under a sense of paramount duty to his family declin- ed the offer. This detachment further says, that he has never been called on paid for the expense of furnish- ing his own equipments, nor was he at any time

never been allowed or paid for the expense of furnishing his own equipments, nor was he at any time
during his alleged services employed in any civil pursuit; he has no documentary evidence in his case, nor can he produce any other positive excepting the one herunto attached: He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension, or an annuity excepting the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency of any state. The time spent in the alleged services of this department, must of accorded two years; the first from May to December in the year 1775 in the State Troops of Connecticut seven months or more, and the latter term from April 1776 to December 1777 in the Connecticut State Troops eighteen or nineteen months, in all at least two full years or more; And the expense he incurred in the two campaigns, in clothing stores and camp equipage, at least one hundred and fifty dollars; for which he has never been remunerated one cent: And is now become very infirm by extreme old age, as well as his Wife now living, and a person aged Eightyone years, and have both been dependent on their children for their maintenance for the last twenty years. Sincerely Power
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open Court before me
J. Amy McKardon Recorder of the City of Albany

The Court propounded the interrogatories as dictated by the War Department and the following are the answers of the Declarant
1 st In the city of Middletown State of Connecticut
2 d In my Family record entered in my Bible
3 d In the city of Middletown until the last fifteen years since until the present time in the city of Albany State of New York
4 th Inserted into the Connecticut State Treasrs
5 th Generals Lee and Patnam mean his General officers Colonel Chester the Commander of
6 th his Regiment also Mathew Talcott No recollection of receiving a discharge but presume he received one but is now not to be found
7 th Elias Vanderlip and Richard M. Meigs
We, Elias Vanderlip, a clergyman residing in the city of Albany, and Richard M. Meigs, residing in the same place, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Timothy Pomeroy, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declarations; the former about fifteen years, and the latter more than forty as a resident of the cities of Middletown and Albany; that we believe him to be eighty-four years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.

Elias Vanderlip R. M. Meigs
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open Court before me James McHorn Recorder of the City of Albany
And the said Court do hereby declare their 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 served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Elias Vanderlip, who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the City of Albany, and Richard M. Meigs, who has also signed the same is a resident in the same place is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, Conrad A. Ten Eyck the Clerk of the Mayor's Court of the City and County of Albany State of New York, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Timothy Powers, for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 4 th day of March 1834
C. A. Ten Eyck Clk for Jonas Wickes Deputy

I, William Sumner of Middletown in the County of Middlesex and State of Connecticut, being 75 years of age, depose and say, that in the year 1775, I think in the month of June, I enlisted into the State Troops of the State of Connecticut, for the term of six months, in the Company under the command of my uncle Capt. Ebenezer Sumner, then of said Middletown, since deceased. Robert Warner and Abijah Savage, both of said Middletown, now dead, were officers in said Company; one a Lieutenant the other an Ensign. The company was attached to the Regiment under the command of Col. Chester, or Col. Willis, I think it was Col. Chester. Timothy Powers, now of the City and County of Albany and State of New York, then of said Middletown, enlisted into said company, for the same term of time, and I think served in the Company as a corporal. Early in the month of June abovenamed we arrived in the neighborhood of Boston and were stationed at Roxbury. We were in arms, by the Roxbury meeting House, when the battle of Bunker Hill took place, expecting the enemy would endeavor to take possession of

Roxbury neck, being ready to oppose them, and we saw Charlestown in flames. Generals Lee and Putnam, were our General Officers. We served the campaign in the vicinity of Boston and Cambridge, and in the month of December of the same year, being the expiration of the six months' service, we were discharged and permitted to return home. Timothy Powers, abovenamed, was with us during the whole period of time, and was dis- charged with the rest of the company.
And further the deponent saith not. Said at Middletown, Connecticut, this thirteenth day of September A.D. 1832.
William Sumner
State of Connecticut, } ss. Middletown, 13 th Sept. 1832. County of Middlesex, }
Then and there personally appeared William Sumner, subscriber of the foregoing Deposition, known to me to be a person of truth and veracity, and made solemn oath that the aforesaid Deposition is correct and true, before me,
Stillman K. Wightman,
Judge of Probate for the District of Middletown.

State of Connecticut } I John Dill Clerk of the Middlesex County } County Court of Probate Middletown Prob. Dist. } for the District of Middlesex Probate for the District of Middletown do hereby certify that Stillman Wightman Esq. is Judge of Probate for the District of Middletown & that his name subscribed to the preceding Certificate is his proper Hand writing & signature In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my Hand & affix the seal of said County Court this 13 th day of Sept. A.D. 1832 Jno Dill Clerk

I certify that I have known Timothy Powers late of Mid- dleton state of Connecticut now a resident of the City of Albany from my early youth to this time; Middleton being my native place, that he has at all times as I believe furnished a fair moral char- acter and that I should place full reliance upon his testimony on any occasion
May 18 th March 1834
And D. Dickinson
I hereby certify that I have been acquainted with the said Timothy Powers mentioned in the above certificate of Mr. Dickinson from early life and fully concur with him on his character and moral character and believe the state- ment set forth in his declaration in the Mayor's Court of the City of Albany on the 14 th inst to be correct Hudson March 21 st 1834
E. Gilbert

M. B. Whiting St. P. Minn
In - at -
NY.
Simons Powers
out of 1832

State of New York City & County of Albany } ss.
Timothy Ponders being duly sworn and supplementary to his declaration made on oath bearing date the 6 th day of September 1832 in support of his application and claim for revolutionary services as her- etofore presented to the War Department now further deposes and saith that the servi- ces performed by him in the year 1775 in the fourth Company of the second regiment of Connecticut troops commanded by Gen- eral Joseph Spencer as set forth in the certi- ficate of Roger Huntington late Comptroller of the State of Connecticut bearing date the 12 th day of December 1834 were military services and not rendered in the commissary or civil department - That he this deponent considered himself as acting in the capacity of a sergeant or non commissioned officer in rank with a sergeant in the said Company And that the circumstances which confirm him in the belief of these facts are that he distinct- ly recollects his acting as fughleman to the com- pany when performing manual exercise -

And that frequently when sent on important and hazardous scouting parties the company was put under his charge. And from the fact also of his being allowed what he considered full pay of a Sergeant.
Jeremy Bowers
Sworn and subscribed before me this 15 th day of Decem- ber, 1837
J. W. Cole
Justice of the Peace

Petition of Timothy Powers }
Aged 84 - Praying for Pension as under Act of 1832. for Rev. Services - tho' unable to recollect names of his Officers -
5 5 m 5
Barnard 209 Rev Pen
Timothy Powers
Feb 5 1840
Ref to the Committee on Rev. Pensions
April 11 1842
Ref to the Committee on Revolu. Pensions
May 24 1842
Report no. to be printed no. 784
July 21 1842
Report bound to be - not printed
Dec. 19. 1842
Ref to Committee on Rev. Pensions
Jan. 10 1843 - File 666
L W Andrews 19
Barnard

To the Honorable the Senators and House of Representatives of the United States, in Congress assembled, the prayer and petition of Timothy Powers, a soldier of the Revolution, respectfully showeth:
That this Petitioner is now eighty nine years of age. That he served against the British in the War of the Revolution for a period of two years and more, and that he made application to the War Department in the month of September in the year 1832 for a pension under the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 on account of those services as set forth in the declaration of said Petitioner, dated Sept 6 th 1832, and also in his declaration, dated March 4 th 1834, and his supplementary declaration, dated Dec. 15 th 1837, now on file in the Pension Office, which application was disallowed for want of sufficient corroborative testimony; That said application was subsequently renewed from time to time, and such further evidence transmitted to the Dept. as this Petitioner was able to procure, viz: the Certificate of the State Comptroller of Connecticut, and the Depositions of William Sumner, Jonathan Gilbert, Isaac Hubbard, and Elizabeth Powers which are now on file at the Pension Office, but that his claims have been and continue to be disallowed.
And this Petitioner would further respectfully represent, that owing to his advanced age and extreme infirmity his memory has become so impaired that he cannot now recollect the names of the officers under whom he served as required by the rules of the Department and he thinks that it is too severe a requisition to exact of an old man, and in contemplating the almost unbounded prosperity which this Country has now for more than half a century continued to enjoy, and feeling, as he cannot but feel, that it has been owing in a great measure to the exertions of those who periled their lives and fortunes in the struggle for Independence, and reflecting also how soon the small remnant of that band of Patriots must drop into eternity, and the Country cease to be troubled with their importunities, he feels grieved, sorely grieved, that that Country should be so backward and scrupulous in admitting their claims.
In presenting his claim for your Honorable consideration this Petitioner begs leave here to recapitulate the terms of his

eternity, and the Country cease to be troubled with their im- pertinencies, he feels grieved, sorely grieved, that that Country should be so backward and scrupulous in admitting their claims.
In presenting his claim for your Honorable Consideration this Petitioner begs leave here to recapitulate the terms of his service, which were as follows. — In the year 1775 according to the Certificate of the State Comptroller of Connecticut, 7 months and 9 days — in the year 1776, according to the depositions of Jonathan Gilbert, Isaac Hubbard, and Elizabeth Powers eight months; and in the year 1777 from January till some time, subsequent to the Capture of Genl. Burgoyne Oct 17 th 1777 making at that date upwards of nine months, and of entire service during the three years, previous to that time, upwards of twenty four months; He would further state that he remained in the Army, some time after the Capture of Burgoyne though how long he does not now recollect.
And he therefore humbly prays that Congress will please to order that he be excused from procuring farther testimony, and that his name be entered on the list of Revolutionary Pensioners under the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832, and that he be entitled to all the privileges of said act, and that his claims as a Pensioner be allowed for services as above stated of two years, viz: as Sergeant or other noncommissioned Officer drawing pay as set forth in the Certificate of the State Comptroller of Connecticut, for Connecticut, for the term of seven months and nine days, and as Private for the remaining part of the two years. And in this your Petitioner begs relief.
And Your Petitioner as in duty bound will ever pray.
Timothy Powers
State of New York } Albany County } ss:
On this 20 th day of December 1839 personally appeared before me the above named Timothy Powers, and being by me duly sworn according to law, made oath that the matters set forth in the above petition are true, said Petition being subscribed in my presence
Gerrit S. Doolittle
Justice of the Peace

The Petition of Elizabeth Powers widow of Timothy Powers
Praying that the Peti- tion & papers of her deceased husband. re- ferred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions at the Congress of 1839 be again referred to the same Committee
To go with Papers on file to Committee on Rev. Pensions.
Barnard

To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, in Congress assembled
The prayer and petition of Elizabeth Powers the Widow of Timothy Powers, respectfully sheweth
That her husband was for nine years before his death, an applicant for a pension in consideration of military services rendered the United States during the Revolu- tionary War. That in Jan y . 1838 he laid his claim by petition before Congress; That he again renewed that petition at the com- mencement of the 26 th Congress in 1839. but that as your petitioner has been inform- ed on good authority and believes to be true, no report was ever made upon his peti- tion nor any examination had into his claim. but that the papers relative thereto are still in the possession of your Honorable body — And your petitioner further states that her husband, the said Timothy Powers, departed this life on the 2 nd day of April last aged 91 years; That his rep- utation as a Revolutionary Soldier was so well established in public estimation that the uniform Militia Companies of the City of Albany, where he had long been a resident, — volunteer'd their attendance at his funeral, unsolicited and unprompted by any other motive than their own es- timation of his character — followed his re- mains, in military order to the grave, and inter'd them in their final resting place with military honors.
Your Petitioner is now eighty eight years old — a Widow — and without property or income of any kind. — And she humbly prays that the petition and papers of her deceased husband, presented to Congress in December 1839, and still in the possession of your Honorable body, be taken from the files of the last Congress, and again re- ferred to some appropriate Committee, in order that some action may be had upon them, to the end that your Petitioner may receive in her husband's behalf what- ever is due to her from your Honorable body.

deceased husband, presented to Congress in December 1839, and still in the possession of Your Honorab le body, be taken from the files of the last Congress, and again referred to some appropriate Committee, in order that some action may be had upon them, to the end that your Petitioner may receive in her husband's behalf whatever in the opinion of your Honorab le body, you may decide was due him at the time of his death, for military services rendered during the Revolutionary War, as prayed for in his petition. And also grant to your Petitioner in addition thereto whatever she may be entitled to, as the Widow and Relict of the said Timothy Powers. Your Petitioner being persuaded that your Honorab le body upon examination of his papers will be fully convinced of the justice of his claim.
And your Petitioner as in duty bound will ever pray.
Elizabeth Powers
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 23 rd day of December 1841. The signer being well known to me and a credible person
Marcus L. Gilley Justice Peace Rensselaer County N.Y.
STATE OF NEW-YORK, Rensselaer County Clerk's Office, } ss.
I, LELAND CRANDALL, Clerk of the County of Rensselaer, do hereby Certify, that Marcus L. Gilley Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the annexed Deposition
was, at the time the same was dated
one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County: And further, that I am acquainted with the hand-writing of said Justice and verily believe the above signature to be genuine.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said County, this Twenty third day of December 18 41
Leland Crandall Clerk.

J. L. Edwards Esq r Commissioner of Pensions Pension Department City of Washington D o

Albany March 25 th 1834
J. L. Edwards Esq r
Sir, I once more forward the application of My Father for a pension, you will recollect that his documents have been before you several times, and returned as exceptionable, and from the several amendments it having undergone it became considerably mutilated, I deemed it proper to make out an entire new declaration, as is now presented, embracing in substance all of the former together with such requirements as your returned instructions rendered necessary, with some further particulars connected with his service, and hope they may be found satisfactory; It may be expected from the extreme age of the declarant and the consequent broken intellect and loss of memory that some errors or defects may be found in the investigation of his claim, but from his simple narrative there can be no doubt but that he served in the Army in all at least two full years, and it may be said that he is justly entitled to a pension, and ought to be awarded accordingly. You will perceive that I have annexed to the declaration the certificates of the Hon John D Dickingson of Troy and the Hon Ezekiel Gilbert of Hudson the gentlemen well known at Washington and the highly distinguished to recognize the solemnity of an oath to give additional weight to their testimony. I have requested the Hon. Garnet A Lanning, a Representative in Congress from this City, to render you any aid or explanation of My Father's claim that the same may require and which he may be able to give —
Yours very Respectfully
Daniel Pomeroy

Saukeepsburgh N. Y. July 30. 1895.
To J. L. Edwards Esq.
Sir
I respectfully present for your consideration once more the claim of Timothy Powers for a pension under the act passed June 7 th 1832 on account of services rendered during the Revolutionary War. The claimant, of whom I have the honor to be the grandson, is well known by me to be a man of strict probity reference can also be had to the letter of the Hon. Mrs. D. Dickens - son in the possession of the Department. The claimant has also been for more than forty years an unexceptionable member of the church, but on account of his extreme age and several attacks of epilepsy has lost nearly all his memory, so as to be unable to recall distinctly the dates and terms of his military service, or the names of his officers. His original application is now in the possession of the Department at Washington, together with the corroborative evidence of Mr. William Sumner, and the letter of the Comptroller of Public Accounts at Hartford Conn. stating that the name of Timothy Powers was found on the pay rolls of the Army for the year 1775 as having served for the term of seven months and nine days, from the 9 th of May to the 18 th December for which his pay was estimated at 18 £. 1 s. 2 d. or twenty five cents per day. I have now the Honor to transmit to you Sir, the further evidence of Mr. Jonathan Gilbert and Mr. Isaac Hubbard establishing his service for eight additional months and also the deposition of Mrs. Elizabeth Powers by which it appears that the claimant returned home in the winter of 1776-77 after the expiration of those eight months, only for a short time probably upon furlough, and did not eventually leave the Army until after the surrender of Burgoyne. This is further established by the deposition of the claimant himself who does not even remember returning home from the time of leaving Middletown in the Spring of 1776 until after the capture of Burgoyne Oct. 17. 1777. at which time he was with a detachment of the Army up the Hudson River near Esopus, and distinctly recollects the exultation with which the news of that occurrence was received by the troops. Of this there can be no kind of doubt, as the events of that day made an impression on his mind that remains vivid although nearly all other recollections of that time have become indistinct and confused with the failure of his physical and mental faculties. and his children and grandchildren have frequently heard him recount those events before those faculties had begun to decay.
The military service of the claimant as set forth, and we hope satisfactorily, by the evidence submitted to the Department

Comprises a term of between twenty three and twenty five months and to any advantage arising therefrom I believe the claimant to be as well entitled in consideration of the whole term as in consideration of any part thereof, and I respectfully solicit for his suit the favorable consideration of the Department
I have the Honor to be Sir.
Very Respectfully
Your Most Obedient Servt
W.B. Whiting
U. S. Navy
Dear Sir
Albany Augt. 4 th 1835
I have the honor to add to the above communications of Mr. Whiting, that the additional documents here presented, in the case of my Father Timothy Powers application for a pension for services rendered the United States in the Revolutionary War, contains such further evidence as I hope will place his claim beyond all doubt; It now appears that the alleged term of service of 18 months or a part thereof in the years 1776 & 77 was in a company commanded by Capt Jonathan Johnson and the Reg't by Col Eno; it also appears from these additional documents, that he returned home some time in the winter of 1776 & 77, and that his stay was short, being soon ordered to repair to the line of the Hudson River where he again joined the Army and remained in it until after the surrender of Burgoyne Oct 17 th 1777 as per his own statement and the testimony of his Wife. In reviewing the documents in his case I think you will readily admit that his claim is very clearly and fully sustained especially considering the great lapse of time and the consequent difficulties attending making it out at this late day. In answer to your observations of Feb. 2 d 1835 addressed to the Hon. G. A. Lansing wherein you express some doubts whether the said Timothy Powers is the individual described in Mr. Hemingway's certificate, from the circumstance that he appears not to be returned on the pay roll as a sergeant as set forth by Powers in his declaration I would suggest that it is not improbable but that an error was made in that return, as the pay allowed him was the pay of a sergeant and whatever rank he bore was equal to a sergeant's and is not material as the pay allowed him will be the governing amount of pension had there been another person bearing the same name found in that return it would evidently have been so certified. It is not impossible but that mistakes may yet exist as respects the names of officers as the evidence is from persons of extreme old age who of all others are most subject to forgetfulness and

errors but the evidence clearly shows the performance of the full amount of services as set forth in the declaration and whether those services were under one officer or another has cannot be material and ought not to prejudice the claim The only question to be settled is, have the services been rendered? if so a pension must follow. After the consideration you will have the goodness to transmit to me as formerly the result and which we confidently hope will be favourable.
I have the honor to be
Respectfully
your obedt Servt
Daniel Burnside
J Le Edwards Esq r

Hon. Gerrit Y Lansing Rept in Congress Washington D C
sent intently

Albany Jan. 20th 1835
Dear Sir.
I have at length obtained from the Comptroller of the State of Connecticut all the evidence that can be found in the case of my Father's Revolutionary Pension claim. and herewith inclose the same to you. It appears from the Comptroller's first certificate Dec 12th 1834 that my Father served in the Revolutionary Army in the year 1775 7 months & 9 days which is one month more than he set forth in his declaration. it also appears by the Comptroller's 2 d certificate of Jan 11th 1835 that there was raised several regiments in January 1776 and that no roll or list of the names of the company Officers or privates can be found of course we are deprived of the benefit of such testimony. there can be no doubt but that my Father served in one of those Regiments most probably in the one commanded by Wyllys or Parsons as they were Middlesex Officers. I know of no further testimony that can be obtained of course we can offer nothing more we must rely on the simple narrative and affidavit of my Father with respect to his last term of 18 months service the length of which there can be no doubt from the probability that he entered one of those regiments as above stated and that he continued in the service until after the surrender of Burgoyne at 19th 1777 this period of my Father's service he speaks of with positive certainty the extreme joy excited in the detachment of the army to which he belonged on the receipt of such glorious news being calculated to make

a lasting impression on his memory appears yet fresh in his recollection although other circumstances of more importance to his claim are entirely forgotten. My Father is now passed his 85th year and great allowance ought to be made for the infirmities of age and consequent loss of memory and near it not for the circumstances of the great laps of time and the consequent deaths of all of his fellow companions and self shattered remains with the loss of public records we should have been able clearly to prove all that would be necessary and required in the case. You will now have the goodness to present these documents to the Commissioner of Pensions and call his attention once more to my Father's case and urge his claim as favorably as you consistently can and if possible obtain a successful result. I think there can no longer be any heretofore against allowing the full services as is set forth in his Declaration. Your Father will be held in great and remembrance by your ardent friends —
Daniel D. Dewees
Wm Gerrit A. Lansing

Schedule of a bill of Relief Prayed for by Elizabeth Powers widow of Timothy Powers

Be it enacted &c. That the Secretary of War be and hereby is directed to issue under the act of March 2. 1829. (A) to Elizabeth Powers the widow of Timothy Powers, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, the arrears of pension to which said Timothy Powers would have been entitled at the time of his death under the act passed June 7. 1832 for services rendered during the Revolutionary War for the term of two years viz: as Sergeant or other non commissioned officer, drawing pay as set forth in the certificate of the State Comptroller of Connecticut for 7 months and 9 days, and as private for the remaining term of the two years.
And be it further enacted that the Secy of War be and hereby is directed to issue to the said Elizabeth Powers, a pension, under the act of July 4. (B) 1836, for services rendered by her husband as aforesaid, to commence from the date of her husband's death.
(A) Extract from the act of March 2. 1829. Section 2. Chap 189
"And be it further enacted, that whenever any Revolutionary pensioner shall die, the Secy. of War shall cause to be paid the arrears of pension due to the said pensioner at the time of his death, and all payments under this act, shall be made to the widow of the deceased pensioner, or to her Attorney, or if he left no widow, or she be dead, to the children of the pensioner, or to their guardian or his Attorney, and if no child or children then to the legal representative of the deceased.
Approved March 2. 1829
(B) extract from the act of July 4. th 1836 Chap 752. Section 3.
"And be it further enacted that if any person who served in the war of the Revolution, in the manner specified in the act passed June the 7 th day of June 1832 entitled (de) have died, leaving a widow whose marriage took place before the expiration of the last period of his service, such widow shall be entitled to receive, during the time she may remain unmarried, the annuity or pension which might have been allowed to her husband by virtue of the act aforesaid, if living at the time it was passed.
Approved July 4. th 1836
The act of July 4. th 1836 appears alone sufficient to entitle the widow to receive the arrears of pension due her or which might have been due her husband.

10239
Timothy Pown
u c
Daniel Pown
Albany N.Y.

WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
Aug. 10 July 20 1833
Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: { ). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
A Statement,  showing the Service of Timothy Powers
   Period when the service was rendered. Duration of the claimant's service. Rank of the claimant. Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served. Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service. Proof by which the declaration is supported.   Years. Months. Days.              
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS, Commissioner of Pensions.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
 1. The Regular Troops.  2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.  3. Persons employed in the Naval Service.  4. Indian Spies. 
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of } ss. County of } On this _____ day of _____ personally appeared (a) before A. B. a resident (b) of _____ in the county of _____ and State, Territory or District of _____ aged (c) _____ 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 provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) _____, with _____ and served in the _____ (e) regiment of the _____ line, under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of _____
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
A. B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I _____ of the Court of _____ do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of _____ for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this _____ day of _____ &c.
If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the _____ and C. D. residing in (the same) _____ hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with _____, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be _____ years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their 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 served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the _____ and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the _____ and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, _____ Clerk of the Court of _____ do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of _____ for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this _____ day of _____ &c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his
The Regulations of the Department require that each form in this case is in its present shape wholly inadmissible

alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
 1. Where and in what year were you born?  2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?  3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?  4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?  5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.  6. { To a Soldier. { Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it? { To an Officer. { Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?  7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution. 
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration; and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons—one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
The traditional evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the inquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, 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. 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:
"I personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposes 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 each 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. (Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
[j] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends 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.
Proof of Service.
[j] 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 claimant's 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.
[k] The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note [j] applies to continental troops only.
[l] This traditional evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[t] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
Service be Specifically set forth — The 18 months term